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TWELFTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1894.
WEEKLY fO. W6.I
8EMI-WEEKLY NO. 269.1
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SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE.
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BY
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Heppuer, Oregon.
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except Sunday
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Vice-i' resident , Ad ai S'evt-nnoi
Becetary ot tttnte Walter Q (iroeham
beciPtary of Treasury., ,i Jobn li. (iariish
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Attoruey-Geuenil ' Kioiutnl H- Olue.
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State of Oregon.
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oint Senator W. Gown-
KHpresentative J B. Bj ithb,
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OPPOSED TO ALL PROGRESS.
Chlueae Aversion to Kallromds Manifested
til Curious U'ayff. -
Engineering enterprise in China,
particularly in so far as regards rail
road binlclinfr, has had, and is Mill
liavin, a good deal to contend with -in
the way of native prejudicu, cupidity
and superstition, says Casell's Majra
r.ine, and the tales are many that have
been told of the peculiar difficulties
encountered in that country hy
European engineers and engineering
syndicates in the course of tiieir opera
tions. When, for example, the tirst
railroad was built, a number of years
ago, the necessary land, it was sta ted,
was bought from several hundred
different proprietors, all of whom
wanted additional bounties for the
disturbances of ancestral graves,
which, as may be known, abound in
what the "foreign devil" y.'ould be apt
to consider rather unusual localities.
One proprietor claimed to have buriod
on his strip of land no less than five
mothers-in-law, for whom lie hud to
be paid. Satisfying him naturally re
sulted in a marvelous multiplication
of dead mothers-in-law. who thus soon
became the chief item in the cost of
the land. Another curious example of
the difficulties of railroad construc
tion in the celestial empire has more
recently been mentioned, and has been
afforded by the conduct of the Tartar
general of Moukden, the capital of
Manchuria, In connection with the
surveying work of the railroad from
Kirin, another large Manchurian town,
to Newchwang, the seaport of the
province. According to current re
port it was proposed to make a junc
tion of this line for Moukden at a
place a short distance outside the city,
but the general got a number of
geomancers to investigate the effect
of this selection upon Moukden. These
sages reported that the vertebra) of the
dragon which encircles the holy city
of Moukden would be broken by driv
ing the long spikes of the railroad
ties into them, and accordingly the
general vetoed the decision of the
engineers and directed them to carry
the railroad in a straight line from
Kirin to Newchwang, without ap
proaching Moukden at all. This,
while a shorter route, would compel
the crossing of a low and marshy
tract of land, liable to floods and only
sparsely populated.
FATALIST, BUT CAUTIOUS.
Be Believed In Predestination, But Wanted
to Be at a Safe instance.
It was once said by some humorist
that the chances were if a man intent
upon committing suicide should meet
an angry bull in a field he would run
to save his life.- - .
And so it goes, the New York Herald
moralizes. Most men who profess a
belief in destiny and an indifference to
fate when brought face to face with a
danger or placed in a desperate situa
tion seek to avoid rather than embrace
the inevitable result of the event re
garding which they have held such
philosophical opinions.
A case in point is related by a trav
W returnin? from the south, and
hinges upon tlie experience of a minis
ter of the foreordination school of be
lief on a Mississippi steamer in the
good old-fashioned days of river rac
ing, when a negro sat on the safety
valve and the furniture and woodwork
of the boat fed the fire.
The captain Boeing a rival boat half
a mile ahead began to curse in true
old-time style, and ordered tar pine
knots, naval stores, bacon, etc., to be
thrown in to kindle the fire as hot as
possible. As the steam got higher and
higher and the old Ijat trembled and
groaned under the pressure, the
preacher drew nearer and nearer to
the stern.
Noticing this and never losing an op
portunity to crack a joke, the bluff
captain tapped the fatalist on the
shoulder and said: "Hello, lirother
Ulank, what s ailing you? I thought
you was one of them fellows what be
lieves what is to happen will happen
nohow."
"So I do,-' replied the clergyman
drawing himself up. "So I do, but 1
want to be as near the stern as possi
ble when it does happen."
Queen Victoria hau sent specimens
of her own art work to the Chicago
fair. She has three landscapes, mount
ed in plain frames, representing scenes
near Balmoral. A fourth is a view of
Aix-les-lSains, taken from the spot
where the queen intended to build a
villa.
IN SIGNS AND AOS.
The first a3vertisements known in
England were small bills fixed to the
doors of St. Paul's church.
An enterprising business man in
Georgetown, .Mil., has this sign on his
store: "Fresh salt water oysters for
sale by the pint, qwort orgalun."
TnE Beggar's Journal, of Pari, pub
lishes lists of baptisms, weddings and
funerals, and the arrivals and depar
tures of wealthy and charitable people.
A wondehful herb doctor has his
shingle on a residence in Georgetown,
Md. It declares that he was "born
with a brain within a brain," and that
he "can cure any kind of misery in a
shot time, with only the best erba."
I " Quit for a Tear.
"Cave a cigar?" said one Wall Btreet
broker to another in a down-town res
taurant the other day.
"Thank you, no. I have quit smok
ing," was the brisk reply. "I have quit
for a year."
"Indeed," queried the first speaker.
"How is that?"
"Well, it stands me a clean one thou
sand dollars, besides what I have by
not buying any cigars. Theold gentle
man offered to give me one thousand
dollars in cash if I would not smoke
for a year, and I took hirn up. He is
dead set against the tobacco habit"
"What are you going to do at the end
of the year?"
"Eh, well, I don't know, but I can
strike dad for two thousand dollar for
another year's abstinence.' Koaton
Globe.
COXES FOR EVERYTHING.
Tha Great Number of Uses to
Which Cardboard la Fut
Some Interesting Information Regard
ing; tile Beginning- and Growth
of an Important In
dustry. In the multiplicity of modern con
veniences the paper box holds a front
place. Half a century ago the dry
goods dealer would present an empty
box to the little daughter of his regu
lar customer as a mark of t-.pecial favor.
Boxes were then used only by the
wholesale houses to send out their
poods in, and the retailer kept them to
show his wares in. Now tlie customer
insists upon his purchase being placed
in a neat box. Not only is this so in
the dry goods business, but in every
other business. The oyster fry in a
box as a peacemaker was a popular
jolte half a dozen years ago; now they
put ice-cream in boxes, and all sorts of
things. Candy used to bo sold in pa
per bags; the smallest purchase has to
be put in a box. The saucy confection
er might hand a paper ba,T to a woman
who had made a small purchase, but
never to a man. The man is probably
more particular about his parcel than
a woman. lie hates to be seen cann
ing parcels, anyway, and those he does
earry must be thoroughly well dis
guised. If he buys a bottle of whisky
he must have it in a box. so that his
friends may mistake it for a pair of
-.hoes.
It is not surprising, therefore, says
the New York Advertiser, that paper
box making should have grown into an
important industry. In this city alone
no loss than five thousand girls are
employed in it. It is a comparatively
clean, healthy business, is regular and
is well paid, the wages averaging be
tween seven and ten dollars a week.
There are in thiscity seventy-five firms
'.'iigaged in the business, but three
fourths of it is done by ten large firms,
who-c individual output will run from
one hundred thousand to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year. As
the average cost of a paper box is five
cents, you can form some idea from
this of the enormous number that are
used. One candy maker alone during
the month of December last used ten
thousand dollars' worth of boxes.
Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago
are also prominent in this industry,
and the workmen and girls employed
by the firms of those cities cannot be
much less than twenty thousand.
The first paper box maker was
George W. Plumly, who started in the
business at Philadelphia iB 1840. He
and his partner cut out the boxes, their
only tools being a straight edge, com
passes, shoe knife and scissors. They
employed five girls to paste, and for
six or seven years had a monopoly of
the business. Then Charles W. Jencks
started in the business in Providence,
and introduced a rough scoring ma
chine to cut partly through the card
board where it is folded to make the
box. At that time it was a struTirle to
obtain proper materials. 1 ncre were
few paper mills in the country and the
straw board used was very poor stuff,
not two sheets coming out of the mill
of the same size. It was made by
hand of straw, meadow hay, refuse
straw from stables, dried in the open
air on the ground, and consequently
was often filled with sand, which made
it interesting for the cutters. The
best quality of mill board was all im
ported, j
In those early days the young wom
en, in the paper box factories made
Ijoxes'as their mothers made pies, "one
at a time and that' one well." A girl
who could make pies quickly and well
Could niake boxes in a similar style.
The operations were somewhat simi
lar. Thera was the same manner of
cutting out material, the same caress
ing way of patting down and smooth
ing out the box coverings as the pie
crust and the same way of trimming
off surplus material. Now everything
is done by machinery in paper box
muking, and the girls have nothing to
do but feed the material to the ma
cniheS. "
Oeorg A. liiokermnn, of Boston,
started in the business in IRAS in Bos
ton, and about 1870 a Frenchman
named Rouyon introduced the business
in this city. The old-fashioned way
of scoring the pasteboard with a rule
and a cobbler's knife continued until
1871, when the first machine was intro
duced. This was the invention of Mr.
Bigelow, of New Haven. This scoring
machine was such a success that a
number of firms sprang up. Six years
after a man named Marshall, of Bos
ton, made a lighter and easier running
machine, and in lSbl John T. Robinson
& Co. invented the present scoring ma
chine. The trouble with the former
machines was in the time it took to ad
just the knives to a new size or pattern
of box; in the Robinson scorer there
are two sets of knives, so that one can
be adjusted while the other is being
used.
Nowadays the whole of the material
is made in this country, and it is a sat
isfaction to know that the scoring ma
chines and the box making machines
are all the result of i ankee ingenuity.
Paper boxes arc used all over the
world now, and all the world has to
get its machines from this country. In
Franco paper boxes are still made by
hand by many firms, but the machine
have been introduced there and it will
not be long before Yankee inventions
will be at work in all their factories.
The box maker now receives two dol
lars for the same work he received five
dollars for twenty-one years ago, yet
he makes a larger profit and is able to
pay higher wages. The machines are
uncomplicated and not expensive. The
business gives steady employment, as
there is practically no particular sea
son, and when not working on orders
the machines are running on stock, of
which a large supply has always to be
kept on hand.
Such is the rapid growth of the paper
box industry, which now has three
good trade papers to represent its interests.
RAILROADS IN JAPAN.
No Conductor Ev,r Enters the Cars, and
the Newiibor la Prohibited.
The railroads of Japan are solidly
constructed and carefully run, says the
Philadelphia Telegraph. The gauge is
three feet six inches, and the cars are
generally eighteen feet long. There
are first, second and third classes, and
the fares are for several classes one,
two and three sen (cents) a mile. The
Japanese are great travelers, and more
than nine-tenths of the travel is of
second and third class. The rate of
speed is uniformly about twenty miles
an Hour. 1 he trains are run on what
is known as the "staff" system, and a
train is not allowed to leave the sta
tion where it meets another until the
conductor has received from tho con
ductor of the other train a symbol
' called a "staff," which is his evidence
that he is entitled to leave.
In the first-class carriage, which is
either one room, like our drawing"
room cars, or in three compartments.
like the English, one finds cushion
seats, wash hand bowls and water
closets, and generally a teapot and
cups, the former occasionally replen
ished with hot water. If this' is lack
ing, the passenger can buy on the plat
form at any station a teapot full of tea
and a cup for two and one-half cents.
The teapot is pretty enough to bring a
quarter in this country, and the cup
would be cheap at ten cents. You buy
the whole "outfit" and could carry it
away if you pleased. As a rule, the
pot and cup are left in the car and
about sixty per cent, of them are te
covcred by the vender.
The railroads in Japan are partly
owned by the government and partly
by private stockholders, but the rates
and rules of the government roads
govern the others also. At all the sta
tions are overhead bridges, and cross
ing the track at grade is prohibited, as
in England. The stations are roomy
and neat, the platforms ample, and at
both ends of the platform the name of
the station is conspicuously posted.
The passenger shows his tiaket on go
ing through the gate to his train, and
surrenders it at the gate on leaving.
No conductor enters the cars. We
also miss the familiar visits of the en
terprising young man who sells news
papers and popular books, and who
loads our seats at home with lozenges,
photograph albums, comic periodicals,
vegetable ivory, matches, chewing
gum and other merchandise.
LASSIES GRABBED LADDIES.
The Curious Orlcln or Woman's Itlght to
PropoHO In Leap Year.
Some one asked me the other dav
the origin of the privilege being ac
corded to women to propose during
leap year, says a writer iu an English
paper. Not being au fait with the
subject, I handed the question on to an
energetic friend, who undertook to
look the matter up and let me know
the result. This is what she discov
ered: It appears that in the year 1288 a
statute was published by the Scotch
parliament, ordaining that during the
reign of "Her Maist Blessit Majestie
Margaret" every maiden and lady of
high and low estate should have lib
erty to speak to the man she liked. If
he refused to take her to be his wife
she should have the privilege of fining
him one hundred pounds, or less, ac
cording to his estate, unless he could
make it appear that he was betrothed
to another woman, in which ease he
would be free to refuse. After the
death of Margaret the women of Scot
land became clamorous for their priv
ileges, and to appease them another
act of parliament allowed them to pro
pose every fourth year.
The rcplv to tlie onerv as to why the
limit Is now restricted to seven years
comes not so trippingly to the tongue,
but doubtless some other energetic
soul can furnish the key to this little
puzzle.
BROKE UP THE "MEETING.
Devout Wish for Ktrawberrr Time De
moralizes a Cunrrh Hervlce.
The atmosphere of the vestry was
characteristically frigid, and the few
worshipers stopped around the stove
as they came in. Among them, says
the Biddeford Journal, was one man,
now deceased, a well-known character
in his day, who came from the north
of Ireland and had a rich brogue and
sonorous voice. He was very deaf,
and when ho spoke it was in a tone to
correspond with his defective hearing.
He sat face to the stove, and did not
hear that the service had commenced,
apparently meditating on the se
verity of the weather, while one of his
brethren was offering prayer in a
weak, piping voice. One other sat be
side him at the stove, and to him he
suddenly remarked with all the vol
iiiuu of his voice and his rich brogue:
"I shall be glad when it comes time
for strawberry festivals, shan't you?"
Ilis observation drowned the, prayer
and temporarily broke up the meeting,
as the most devout worshiper could but
laugh ut the mistake, tho relation of
which comes so timely, this week of
ungentle February, '01.
Plants for Damp Gronnda
People who are unfortunate enough
to live In damp houses, particularly
near undrained land, are apt to think
that there is no help for them save in
removal. They are mistaken. Suc
cessful experiments have shown that
it is quite possible to materially im
prove the atmosphere in such neigh
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flower, The laurel gives off an abun
dance of ozone, while the "soulful
eyed" sunflower is potent in destroy
ing the malarial condition. These
two, if planted on the most restricted
scale in a garden close to the house,
will be found to speedily increase the
dryness and salubrity of the atmos
phere, and rhituniati.mii, if it does not
entirely become a memory of tlie past,
will be largely ulleviiiled.
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KEEPS HIS POLITICS A SECRET.
The Prince of Wales Treats AH Classes
with the Same Tact.
Of all tactful royal personages there
is no one that seines more brilliantly
In this particular than the prince of
Wales, whose unquestioned power aud
predominant influence in English so
ciety and over Engl sh life are entirely
owing to the delicate tact with which
- they are exercised. How exquisite Is
this tact may be gathered, says a writ
er in the New York Tribune, from the
circumstance that, although the prince
' is approaching his sixtieth year and
has been the most conspicuous public
figure in English life for the past four
decades always in full glare of tho
prying gaze of the people, and without
scarcely a day's privacyyet up to the
present moment no one, not even
among his dearest friends, possesses
any inkling as to the true character of
his political sympathies, lie Is equally
courteous and gracious to Lord Salis
bury and to Mr. Gladstone, lie has
. both tory and liberal statesmen to
stay with him in the country at Sand-
ringham; ho has even shown marked
vivoity 10 insu tioiue ruicrs, so mucn
so, indeed that, there are some people
on both sides of the Atlantic who
fondly imagine that the prince is al
most a feniau. Noone, however, knoivs
anything on the subject "for sure;"
and hence, when the prince comes to
the throne, he may be expected to fig
ure as a model of all constitutional
monarchs, holding an im nriial bal
ance between the two great political
parties, and being absolutely free from
any suspicion of inclining more to the
one thau to the other. And were the
prince to die before succeeding to the
throne he will be remembered both in
England aud on the continent as the
man of the present era who was dis
tinguished among all his contempor
aries for possessing In the highest de
gree that most indispensable of all vir
tues, namely, tact.
USEFUL ALLIGATORS.
They Are Valuable as Destroyers of Troub
lesomn Korltmts.
The bayous of Louisiana were form
erly the homes of alligators without
number. They did no particular harm,
except by catching stray a pig or dog
now and then; nor were they known
to be of any particular use. The peo
ple, for the most part, let them alone.
Then there sprang up at the north a
demand for alligator skins for the
making of satchels, pocketbooks and
the like, and the natural result fol
lowed. The alligators were killed in
great numbers, till presently they were
almost destroyed.
No hunn was done, people thought:
but by and by it began to be noticed
thai certain mischievous quadrupeds
were multiplying. In the rice fields,
according to a Louisiana exchange, the
musknits increased in such numbers
that it became hard work to keep up
the back levees, which had been built to
keep the water on the rice during the
growing "Reason. What perhaps was
more serious, the same burrowing ro
dents Infested the front levees, and
nothing but constant watchfulness
averted disastrous consequences.
Then market gardeners began to
complain of an alarming increase in
the number of rabbits, raccoons and
other animals which preyed upon the
cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce and simi
lar vegetables. Some of the gardeners
were compelled to inclose their gar
dens with close wire fences, or else
abandon the cultivation of some of
their most profitable crops.
The alligators had not been useless,
and the people had learned anew that
It is dangerous to go too fast and too
far in disturbing the order of nature.
Ahizoma. is coming into line in these
days of the turf and raceB. A strong
Jockey club is being formed in Tucson,
and it is probable an Arizona racing
circuit will soon be established.
Dakikl Kennkdv, eighty-four yeurs
of age, of Knox, Me., is a hale and
hearty hunter. Ho was camping this
fall on tho Passugussawakeag, where
ho sustained his reputation asittranner
and hunter.
RocKFOiin, the chess player, could
play twelve games simultaneously, but
no more, not lieing able even to bcinn
the thirteenth. After death an exam
ination of his brain showed that Its
molecules were arranged in squares
iiie mat or a chessboard.
GEM3 OF TrioUGHT. .
A BUKKit is the stiletto of conversa
tion. Kind words are the music of the
world.
Giieat minds have wills; feeble ones
have wishes.
The manner of giving shows tho
character of the giver moro than the
gift itself.
Si.nckritv, deep, great, genuine sin
cerity, is the first characteristic of all
men in any way heroic.
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POLAR EXPLORATION.
Admiral MTcCII'itock Thinks Prans Josef
Lntul Nearly Approaches the Polo.
The veteran Arctic explorer, Admiral
Sir Leopold McClintoek, has written a
letter in which he upholds strongly the
advantages of tho Franz Josef Land
route for polar exploration. He says:
"Franz Josef Land does almost certain
ly approach more nearly to the pole
than any other land yet discovered.
Therefore I think it is the only route
which offers a possibility of success to
a North Pole attempt, and this because
the Polar Rack has been found to be so
rugged as to render all attempts to
sledge over its surface extremely slow
and laborious. To explore the north
ern s'i'ireT F"'" Tosef Lmd none
ivuuki constitute a success, unuoueot no
ordinary interest. . The explorer would
in all probability be enabled to ap
proach nearer to the pole than has hith
erto been accomplished. A study of
the currents and of the positions of the
drift-wood from Siberian rivers upon
the shores of Spitzbcrgen would throw
light upon the supposed expansion
northward of Franz Josef Land. My
impression is that a vast deal of that
drift-wood must have reached its desti
nation by passing northward and west
ward to Franz Josef Land; if this is bo,
it seems improbable that itextendsvery
much farther northward than is at
present known. But all geographical
speculation Is extremely unreliable. An
expedition wintering at Franz Josef
Land, with well-prepared sledging
equipments, would, in my opinion, be
iu the very best position for adding to
our stock of geographical knowledge in
as high a latitude as has ever yet been
reached, and with the possibility of a
still farther northern advance."
EARLY SANITATION.
During the Days of Klna; Richard It,
lleory VII. and Charles II.
As far back as the reign of Richard
II., says the London Spectator, we find
an act for "the punishment of them
which cause corruption near a city or
great town to corrupt the air" (13 Rich.
II., c. 13, A.'D. 11188), the preamble of
which notes that so much filth "be
east and put in ditches and other
waters, mill also within many other
places, that the air there is
greatly corrupt and infect, and many
maladies and other diseases do daily
happen." This is essentially sanitary
legislation.
A century later we find an act under
the heading: "Butchers shall kill no
beasts within anv walled town or Cam
bridge" (4 Henry VII., c. 3, A. D. 1487).
The preamble of this speaks of the
"corruptions engendered by
reason of the slaughter of beasts and
scalding of swine," the "unclean, cor
rupt and putrifled waters," and goes on
to the remarkable statement that "in
few noble cities and towns, or none
within Christendom, the com
mon slaughter house of beasts should
be kept within the walls of
the same, lest It might engender sick
ness, unto the destruction of the peo
ple." Under Charles II. the "act for re
building the city of London" (19
Charles II. c. 3, A. I). 101)7) provides for
the "cleansing and scouring of vaults,
sinks and common sewers," and a few
years later again we find "an act for
the better paving and cleansing the
streets and sewers in and about the
city of London" (SM and Si3 Charles II.
c. 17, A. I). 1070).
We must be just to our ancestors,
though they undoubtedly had not much
science (and did not use long words
ending in "ation"), the idea of health
as a matter of public concernment was
not foreign to their minds. The dif
ference is that what were sanitary in
stincts in them have developed Into
sanitary methods with us.
A I'erslstcut Counsel.
Mr. Oswald has the reputation of be
ing the "hardest fighter" at the bar.
Various stories Illustrative of his per
sistency have recently appeared In the
papers, but I have not seen the follow
ing, which is, perhaps, the best; Mr.
Oswald was arguing a case in the court
of uppeal at great length. Already
the court had Intimated pretty clearly
that it had heard enough, but Mr. Os
wald had treated these intimations In
his usual manner, and went on raising
point after point
"Really," at last one of the lord jus
tices remonstrated "really, Mr. Os
wald. If ynu intended to rely on these
points you shoul have raised them in
the court below."
"So I did, my lord," replied Mr. Os
wald, "but their lordships stopped
me. "
"They stopped you, did they?" In
quired Lord Esher, eagerly. "How did
they do it?" -London Truth
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