PATENTS! NOTICE TO INVENTORS. Tbere ws never a time in the history of our country when the demBnd for mventiooB and improvements in the nits BUd Bciences generally was so great as now The conveniences of tni-Jkiod id. the faotory and workshop, the household aud on the farm, m well m in ofliewl Hie require continual accessions to the BnPurtenance and .mpliments of each b order to save labor, time and expense. The political change in the dmimrtrii tion of government does not afteot the progress of the American inventor, who bemgonthe alert, and ready to per ceive the eting deBoieneieB, does not permit the affairs of government to lie tor bim from quickly conceiving the remedy to overcome existing discrepan cies. Too great care cannot be exer oed in choosing a competent and skil ful attorney to prepare and prosecute i;(;nn for oatent. Valuable ln- l Helmut."" terests have been lost and destroyed in innumerable instances by the employ meut of incompetent counsel, and es pecially ii this advice applicable to those who adopt the "No patent, no Dy" system. Inventors who entrust their business to this class of attorneys do so at imminent risk, as the breadth and strength of the patent is never con sidered in view of a quick endeavor to et an allowance and obtain the fee. THE MU5BS CLAIMS COMPANY, John Weduerburn, General Manager 618 ' street, N. W. .Washington, 1. C, representing a large number of .mpor tant daily and weekly papers, and gen ...i n,inrliealfi of the eountry, was in stituted to oroteot its natrons from the ...( mMlindH heretofore employed uunniu - . . , ; n.i. lin of business. The said Con .... : tr tiike charge of all pauy is yioy...-- tnt business entrusted to it for re sonable tees, and prepare and prosecute .nnlinntious generally, including me nh-nieal inventions, design patents, trade-marks, labels, copyrights, interfer ences, infringements, validity reports, and gives especial atteniou to rejected cases. It is also prepared to entor into competition with any Dim in securing foreign patents. Write for instructions and advice. John Wbdderbuhn. 618 F Street, p. 0. Box 385. Washington, D. 0. GOOD ADVICE. Every patriotic citizen should give his personal effort and influence to increase the circulation of his home paper which teaches the American policy of Protec tion. It Is his duty to aid in this respect in evury way possible. After the home paper is taken care of, why not sub scribo for the Ameeican Economist, published by the American Protective Tariff League? On of its correspon dents says i "No true American can get along without It I consider it the greatest and truest political teacher in the United States." 6end postal card request for free sample copy. Addiwn Wilbur F.Wake, man, General Secretary. 35 West 23d St, New York. Saved Her Life. Mrs. C. J. Woor.nitiDOB, of Wortham, Texas, saved the life of hnr child by the use of Ayer's Cherry I'ectoral. o "One of my children had Croup. The case was attended nv our physician, and was supposed to he well under control. One night I was startled liv the child's hard breadline, and on going to it found it stran gling. It had nearly ceased to breathe. Realizing that the child's alarming condition had become possible in spile of the medicines given, I reasoned that such remedies would be of no avail. Having part of a bottle ot Ayer's Cherry Pectoral In the house, I gave the child three doses, at short intervals, and anxiously waited results. From the moment the Pectoral was given, the child's breathing grew easier, and. in a short time, she was sleeping ciiiielly and breathing naturally. The child is alive and well t-day, and I do not hesitate to say that Ayer' Cherry ree toral saved her life." AVER'S Cherry Pectoral Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer k Co., Lowell, MaM. Prompt to act, sure to euro THB QLD DOCTOR'S LADIES' FAVORITE. .ALWAYS RELIABLE nnd perfectly SAFE. TJ United SUtoi, In the 3LD EOCTOHS .rlvote mall praotloe, (or 38 yean, and not a .Inula bad rasult, Money returned if not as represented, bend . Cent', (Htamps) for aoalod particulars. 05. WAED INSTITUTE, 120 H. Hintb St., Bt. Louis. Ua BUPTILTO .CURED! 25Ynrs' Kuperiinco In treating all varl ties ot Itupturo enables us to guarantee a positive cure, (iuestlon Blank; and Hoot tree. Uall or write. VDLTA-MEDICO APPLIANCE CO., j THE ONLY FEMININE MASON. ' Sho W the Grand Junior Warden aa I I'lll.ir of Beauty. ' "Was t'Asre over a woman meson?" "Yes. one. nnil only one. It was found that i lie couldn't keep a sr-cret. And so it has been ever since that a womsn has nothing to tic to' to make her elitfioli: to masonry." This was the reply ot ltobert alton, of Kugby, 'ienn., who is a member of Alhan'ibra, Temple in Chattanooga, says the Cincinnati Star. "This woman, then, was a member of the first lodtfe?" "She was. She was the grand junior warden and pillar of beauty. With the worshipful master she resided in a beatiful garden, that has come down in history as the most beautiful spot in which human beings ever lived and loved. With the worshipful master she was warmly interested in building up an ideal lodge of Free Masonry, liut in an evil hour one appeared at the outer wicket. He was a fallen ma son. One who had fallen into the uttermost depth, and was forever dis graced, liut he was most cunning of speech, and he prevailed upon the beautiful grand junior warden and pillar of beauty to let him in. She did so. The world knows the rest of the story. The first woman had broken her vow, and let in one who of all creatures was the last to expect recog nition and favors because of his fallen estate. And so the first lodge was cor rupted because of a woman, and woman has never since been received as a member in masonry. The first lodge was thus broken up, and the worship ful master and the fair grand junior warden and pillar of beauty were ex pelled from their beautiful paradise, lint thouu-h woman has never been ad mitted since, she has redeemed herself as a helpmeet to masons of all times and decrees, and has come to be recog nized as his peer in all the virtues and activities of life, and men worship at her shrine of purity and beauty. Ood bless woman, and, though we cannot have her in our lodges, what would we do without her?" J23 l'lne Street, ST. LOUIS, MO iV3D FOLKS Reduced Ifi to 2.1 pounrtl per month. No bml remits, no natinrom ilt;sti and iincny coca OiientJOTl Ml -nit aim iiwr ir. -'" " , ' Dlt. U. ii. UUT'fS, flW l'uio btreet,bt.Juii, MO. dentlfcl. UUCBIJOTl nrimi"i' 4 f i- i in ir Wafe T rnl lB Otlvely oared. 38 year The worrt foimi poll, MaViuci'eiiftil jiractirn. Trtrutment confidential, lurei liv inftll or at offti.e. Termalow, Qucition Blank am Ifoukirn. Call or write. DR. WARD INSTITUTE, FREE trial I 1 1 lm mm and toit vital A package of our treat meutfuE weakness and decay, nervous debility vitality ut free for 12 uentl )R. WARD INSTUTUTE, 120 N. 9th St. ST. LOCIS, MO. I R E E f00 wiili of lovely Music lor Forty 1 1 1 - . Cents, consisting of paes - etirert In one PAINT, BH treatment, it lout knife. r' low or nine from biiBint'ttR, Fitula, Ulceri, .i.n niirerl -ati vcsri1 ex. Queitlon Blank and Uook free. Cnll or write. 1K. 11. IS. BUTTS. 822 Pine Street.. St. Louis, Mo. PILES s itlon Blank 1 Pine Stro fANCERt iDUmimCIIKKU without AND OTB RH tliauan oi 'knile Uueiition Klankanu ikiok tree, van rue itn. tx. j' 8!2PinoSL wuu, mo. (bee ypw. 1te cause o Oivnerxcan. Are you willing to work for the cause of Protection in placing reliable lnlor ination in the hands of your acquaintances? If you are, you should be Identified with THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE TARIFF LEAGUE, 135 W. 230 ST., NEW YORK. Cut tl.l. notice out wid .end U to the Lea'ie, .lalhiK your pol!ton, nd We helping hand. mr or io full sii! Sheet Aluslc oi latest, brlchtest, liveliest and must popular selections, both vocal anil Instrumental.; potten un in the most eletrant manner. 111 i cliRllnii four Iare;o size Portraits. CAHMENGITA, fio Spanish Dancer, J PAUtHtwtiKl, tne ureal riamsi, ADELIHA PATTI and v MINNIE 8ELIGMAN CUTTINO. Innntll ALL QHDEH TO $ THE NEW YORK MUSICALECH0 CO.r STZ Bromlway Theatre HI Jg., New Yorlt City. J JS CANVASSERS WANTED. ...r2 RAILROADS IN THE TROPICS. It In llnl to Keep the Growing Foliage from BeeomliiB an Obstruction. Apropos of the projected Pan-American railway, it is to be noted that not only is the first cost of railway con struction in tropical countries very heavy, but the annual maintenance of way is expensive to a degree which cannot be appreciated by those who have no experience in this connection. The Antioquia railroad in Colombia, says Charles P. Yeatman in the Engi neerinK' Magazine, cost in a singie year, for repairs of track and bridges, J$'J,atiB per mile. The Cauca railroad, in the same year, cost J8.837 per mile. These two roads are in Colombia and are sometimes mentioned either as future feeders of the Pan-American rn.ilrnn.il. or narts of its mam line. On the Antioquia road, if the undergrowth were cut at the beginning of the rainy season, less than two months' rain was sufficient to form anarch of green trees thirty feet high leaning over the track so as to shade it completely. The constant change f rom dryness in the day to soaking moisture at night, even in the dry season, would soon ruin the best of timber, but nature fur nishes a still quicker means of getting rid of it, in the shape of an ant or wood-louse, which is careful not to mar the outside of his domicile, but will natientlv honeycomb the inside, until what looks like a solid 12x12 stick is but a shell from to X inch thick, tilled with dust and ants. The native timber suffered so much from the in roads of these pests that, upon hear ing that yellow pine was used in Pan ama to avoid them, a trial of it was made on the Antioquia road. Georgia pine had to be shipped by way of New York, at a cost of nearly $100 per 1,000 feet, board measure, when put in place. When I left there the first of my yel low pine trestle was being replaced. It bad been built less than four years. GREEK WOMEN GROW FAT. Too Much Uidoor Eil.tpnce and Generally Sedentary Life Beponslble. An English or an American visiting Greece for the first time is struck, sooner or later, by a certain dullness in the street life of its towns, which it may take him some little time to define and trace to its real cause. At length, and suddenly, the fact comes home to him that there are few, if any, women visible among the foot passengers. No wonder, he reflects, that the streets should appear dull to him, shorn as they are of all the variety that woman's presence and dress ever lends to the thoroughfares of countries lanner west. In tlreece, according to the Pall Mall Budget, it isonly toward evening. and then for but a briet period, mar, the fair sex take an outing, unless the pressure of some urgent business should compel them to flit rapidly through the throng of men who at other times monopolize the streets. Nor will a foreigner meet with them serving in the shops, the restaur ants or the cafes; they will still be conspicuous by their absence. In fact, unless he visit them in the priva cy of their homes he will scarcely do more than catch an occasional glimpse of them at the upper windows of some private dwelling-house or shop, where, when the weather in seasonable, they will sit reading and sewing, and cran ing their necks out to watch the passers-by below. The effects of this seden tary life, so antagonistic to our Eng lish faith in open air and exercise, are very marked on the lair forms of the Grecian women. An embonpoint, but not to designate it by the more vulgar term, corpulence, is the most apparent result of this in door existence; but this tendency to gross flesh is an attraction to the mod ern Greek, who, like the Turk, finds in superfluous fat an additional beauty. To everv country its standard of fe male loveliness. For Greece the typical woman may be roughly sketched thus: She is short, broad and stout, of a pale, creamy complexion, with dark hair, beautiful eyes and features fairly reg ular, but not classical. The prevailing impression that she leaves upon the Englishman is that she has (whisper the words) a squat figure. liut to quit the towns, where it will be seen that women play but a small part in public life, and to turn to the rural districts of Greece. Here woman takes a more active part in everyday life. She it is who draws the water, brings in the wood thut.the men have felled in thu forest, or who pluckily earns her wages as a day laborer in the maize or com field. In the burn ing summer, in the icy winter, she is ever to the tore, working, working, with her veil hanging loosely over her head, ready to be folded across her mouth should a strange man approach. It is matter for thought how widespread even now among the country districts is this old custom of veiling the lower part of the face at the approach of an unknown member of the opposite sex. It is one. sign among many that it is not so very long since the Turks were masters of tins "purple lunci, wuere law secures not life.' GAMINS IN ROME, Their Tae?ie In extracting Coins from Foreigners. A correspondent of the New York Tribune savs that the street boys of Ptome hsve' all the curiosity, shrewd ness and impudence of street boys in "eneral, together with some traits pe culiar to themselves. They have a sharp eye for foreigners, and have de veloped no little skill in extracting coins from them. The Tribune's letter writer says: I got into a dispute with a cabman because lie demanded a tip in ndilit ion to his regular fare. While we were talking a little fellow of six or seven ven rs stepped up and said, in a nat.ernal. nssuriiuf tone: sivt.v centimes is enough, sir. The rascal is very impudent. Don't give him any more." In the same breath he asked me for a soldo for the service rendered. I handed him a. coin, laughing at his grand airs, and he received it with a condescending gesture. Then, as the driver reached for his whip, the boy made off. saying: "I'll see you later." 1 walked on, ami presently another urchin was at my side. 'Yes, signer, you are quite right; this i the mad to the Vatican. Give me a soldo." I drove him oil, but in a few minutes another came bounding up. "lv lord! my lord! you are losing your handkerchief." That was another soldo. Next a bootblack, hardly more than five years old, caught sight of the for eigner. "Your boots, sir! your boots!" he f tried to ignore him. He appealed $5 WEEK. eVnlr, Ii.' to my self-respect. "liut. my lord, such boots!" he ex it, as he trotted along at my side. 'clears 3 (longP SKIN I J LIFE MENTALl y I STRONG I ENERGYfySfMERVESj AVER'S Sarsaparilla M. Hammerly, a well-known business man of Hillsboro, Va sends this testimony to the merits of Ayer's sarsaparilla: "Several years ago, I hurt my leg.tlie injury leayins! asorewTiicliled to erysipelas. My sufferings were extreme, my leg. from the knee to the anlde, being a solid sore, which began to ex tend to other parts of the body. Afiei trying various remedies, I began taking Ayer a Sarsaparilla, and, before hail linisheu t he llrst bottle, I experienced great relief: the second bottle elfeeted a complete cure." Aver's sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. J.O. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mou. Cures others,will cure you WANTED. ANY I.ADY, employed or unemployed , tlnsior U It'w noun wuni eta 'l'.8f';'Lr.v''S""i,";uD,Te'7,,r t clainit "OU oraio! W liat nasty uoots: u oaiuu ft ft , f)U fl 7T ,? Madre di Dio! What boots! I really pity Df. ftjSlrS BgltS 0t RpJ1 -if son. s r. Indeed: sucn uoois: m iaLo. I am sorry for you." -sa All this was uttered in a tone of pro found moral conviction, as if he cher ished for me the ' most disinterested fooilno-of reirrnt and svmoathv. isut when the anneal failed, he dropped De- hind me a few steps and changed his tune. J ust look at that American! One can An clertro-f'iil ' ii SitsS bodied Ir.to f ""&$1VA bodied Ir.to -ill.-, :JU. llim!sm Bett, Sum. Y&&$Srim ,ml Apl'Uai. e..., .. --. J-,iiiJS tnnl Suppoi-tws, Vests, ef&WW SraSiKHI Drawurs, Ollico Caps, alwavstellan American by his dirty .33 Pine Street, boots That was too much for me. Rather than bring disgrace upon my native land I gave the little imp the job;;;he was after. COULDN'T STAND IT, Indoles, etc, Ultimo Ttliemnritism. J.iver and Kidney Jomplaints, Dyspepsia, Errors of Youth, .nt. ivf nnliooil. Nervousness, Hexual WeaK. cH all Trnnhlos ill Male or 1'eillAle. jiiestiou lilauk and Book tree. Call or 7J1-1I.U, ... n Volta-Medica Appliance to SC. LOUIS. MO. The Miserable End ot Two Unfortunate Hawaiian Ladles. The delicate flowers of true woman IF YOU WANT IWlOHMftTION ABOUT 0HN WEDUERUUKN, ManaalnQ Attorney. WASHINGTON, O.O. SOLDIERS, WS CHILDREN, PARENTS. Alio, for Solitlem slid Sullnrs illMi'lr" i" "'" Mrttier nuB No cliargo tor tdvlcn. Koloo Only in lie " ftw , is4 i nnd L...l.,....nu ,,r ,., un v tlu-lr iil.towmiiow entitled. Old an.l rolf HnHril V. 1 IH!UBtt!"l ""." " . etnl fur new lawn. VIIKimiE 15 STRICTURE With ill iai!conqHtut,lttn(tuty, ion at nerrf), mrvuu e itmnt, iirvou dftiUlty, unnatural ditthntHM. loit mttinooa, utpomwiu-y, Bi'lito rttiTTT, ttng wv ot th orvt, wrtilnlv nd fapiilly furod hv and y im'thdi. Curoi poitlljr (WkDtctid. (juvatiuu HUuk ud Hook fre. Call or writ. DR. WARD INSTITUTE. 120 N. Ninth St.. ST. LOUIS. M0. The Only Tune Harrison l.lkel. During the darkest days of the war, when military tunes and Duliaiis were I sungeverywiicre till people were about sick of them, there was piayeu i" m-w York, says the I Toss tt tnat wii, oldier's march which was lmmeiuaieiy popular all over the country. it yas the late I liaries i.ounou a j.ic..... diers' t'horus," from "Faust," and after a year or so America got as tired of it as it recently di.l of "Annie ivoouey. Kx-ITosident llarnsou Urst nearu it played by one of the army nanus in Sherman's iirni.y. It is the only air he ever liked. In the case of most tunes he diil not know one tune irom tne ,,n,,. mid he is nrolmlily the only per son in tne i linen .-iLinvn l..-.....v hears the "Soldiers' Chorus" played ami feels inspirited by it. PUNISHMENTS FOR CRIME. Ok the 1 .400 prisoners in the Illinois slate prison at Juliet, one-third are reported to be snlYering from consump tion. Tun Salic law had in all Sl-'t penal articles: loll relating to robbery, 74 of which referred to the stealing of ani mals; I HI relating to crimes against the person. Tut: nick, thumbscrew and other modes of torture were used by Kuro peim courts until 1M0, not only as a punishment, but also as a means of ob taining evidence. Somk tribes of North American In dians punished matricides by hanging them by their hands to the limbs of a tree at a height just surlieient to per mit the wolves to reach them from the ground. They were left to be eaten alive. HUMMING TELEGRAPH WIRES. The Noise Not Uue to the Wind But to Atmospheric Conditions. You have all heard the humming and singing of telegraph and telephone wires as you passed the poles along the streets. No doubt you have concluded that this is caused by the action of wind on the wires and given it no fur ther thought, liut it is not true, says the Huston Journal of Commerce, that the singing is caused by the wind, and if you are at all observing you will no tice that often the humming sound is to be heard on cold winter mornings when the smoke from chimneys goes straight up until it is lost in the clouds and when the f ftist on the wires is as fuzzy and thick as a roll of chenille fringe. The wind has nothing to do with the sound, ami, according to an Austrian scientist, the vibrations are due to the changes of atmospheric temperature, and especially through the action of cold, as a lowering of temperature in duces a shortening of the wiresextend ing over the whole of the conductor. A considerable amount or irieiiou is pro duced on the supporting bells, thus in ducing sounds both in the wires and the poles. When this humming has been going on birds have mistaken the sound for insects inside the poles and have been seen to peck with their bills on the out side as they do upon the apple and other trees. The story is told of a bear that mistook the humming noise as coming from a nest of bees and clawed at the pole and tore away the stones at its base in the hope of finding the much-coveted honey. MOORISH WOMEN. Something Concerning the Veiled Beauties of Northern Africa. There is something continually in teresting in the muffled figures of Moorish women, says a writer in Harper's Weekly. They make you almost ashamed of the uncovered faces of the American women in the town; and, in the lack of any evidence to the contrary, you begin to believe every Moorish woman or girl you meet is as beautiful as her eyes would make it appear that she is. Those of the Moor ish girls whose faces I saw were dis tinctly handsome; they were the wom en Benjamin Constant paints in his nicturcs of Algiers, and about whom Pierre Lotti goes into ecstasies in his honk on Tantrier. Their robe or cloak, or whatever the thing is that they affect, covers the head like a hood, and with one hand they hold one of its folds in front of the face as high as their eyes. The only times that I ever saw the face of any of them was when I occasionally eluded Ma hamed and ran oil with a little guide called Isaac, the especial protector oi two American women, who farmed him out to me when they preferred to remain in the hotel. lie is a particu larly beautiful youth, and I noticed that whenever he was with me the cloaks of the women had a fashion of coming undone, and they would lower them for an instant and look at isaac, and then replace them severely upon the bridge of the nose. Then Isaac would turn toward me with a shy conscious Foot prints on the Path to Healtli. Everyone needing a doctor's ndvioe ah.nilil rend one of Dr. note's dime Damshlets on "Old Eyes," ''Group, ,'Eupture," T uiuiorip, " uriooeeie, of men. Disease of Women, una ' , j Liu., loom the hest means of seli-euie. Itl uness may ne overgrown. iiM.(K. 129 East 28th St.. New v..w . -c Vnrlr j: ..... .u.... ...m mtt, ruvncinn. I liabioii, jicL. Liicjr vtiiii 1 armear in 'oure and undimmed beauty. It was in the far-away tropic isle of Hawaii and the sun was shining brightly, The scene was one of native grandeur. Great trees towered aloft to the sky. Boa constrictors and ostriches gam boled over the landscape, adding an element of animation. It was amid Buch surroundings that two savage la dies wandered aimlessly, says the Cin- cinnati Commercial Gazette. Pretty warm day," observed the one who wore a brass ring in her nose, "Awfully hot," nccpiiosced her com panion, whose arms were uauoeu delicate olive green. Thus beguiling the time m conversa tion, they loitered until a lion, with big, bristling side , whiskers, came in sight. 'We," the female witn tne ring (rasped, feebly, "are lost. No! no!" exclaimed sne oi tne green arms. II we say notning we are saie. It was a desperate alternative. It was a test ot endurance irom wincn even the tried hearts of the forest daughters shrank in fear. Two min utes elapsed. The lion sauntered witn a deliberation that froze their blood. Three minutes of silence and anguish had slitmed into the past. The sus pense was dreadful. The lion stopped and wagged his tail meditatively. The strain was too great. "1 must tne woman with a ring in her nose ecstat ically seized the green arm of her sis ter of the jungle "tell you about that paint sale!' Oh, do!" STOCK BS1ANDS. wi.ilfl von kfiRD your subscription paid up ycu CHnkeep your brund in free of charge. Alum 'IV .1 . lonr.. Or. Homis HI on left shouidp'r; cattle nama on loft hip, rjndci-bit on rnrht enr, unn upper d on nio ren; rwi&o, ju,r row county. A-marron... J. 0.. Alpine. Or. T with bar un der n on loft shoulder of horses; cattle same l left hip. Amn n TV. tfiihr Mile. Or. Cattle brand. 0 1) on left hip anil horses same brand on ritfbt shoulder, liange, kUtdit Milo. Ailkins, J. J., Heppner, Or. Horses. JA con noted on lelt tlaiiK: cattle, sameon iHltinp. Hartholamew, A. G.. Alpine, Or. Horses branded 1 IS n either shoulder, liauuo in Bloi- row oountv Tlleakman. Geo., Hardmfln, Or. Horses, a nag oiiloft shoulder: cattle same oti right shoulder. hanniBter, J . w., riaroman, vr. vbllib uiiuiu ed B on left hip and thigh: split in each oar. Brenner, feter, i-rooeeoerry vrepou norses branded P U on left shoulder. Cattle same on "llnrke,8M St C, hong Creek, Or On cattle, MAY connected on left hip, oiop off left ear, nn- n. h, f imi) ill ritr'ir. nurses, same oranu un letft Bhoulder. Range in Grant aed Morrow tonnty. n , llrosman, jerry, ..ena, ui.-uuiwd u,,,m.m. . a right Bhoulder; cattle H on the left side. Left oar half crop hnd right ear upper slope. Barton, Win., lirppner, ur. -norses, d n on right thigh, cattle, same on right hip; split in Brown. lea. Lexington, Or. Horses IB on the right stifle; cattle same on right hip; range, Mor row county. Brown, J. U., Heppner, ur. nursus, cirLue D with dot. in eel ter on left hip; oattle. same. Brown, v, . j ., i.ena, oreou. noista ... urn over it, on the left shoulder, cattle Biune on lelt "i(- . .. t. Bover. W. cf., tieppner, ur. norsMs, rjux brand on righ hip cattle, same, with split in eaBorg,rp. O., Heppner, Or. HorBes, P B on left shoulder; caltle. eame on left hip. Bruwnlee, W. J l''oJt,Or-Cattle, JH connected on left aide: crop on loft ear aed two splits and middle piece cut out on ngnc ear; on nurses same -Y D on horses on left stifle grown and hidden by the briars ot ig- p Wjtr,' quarter circle over it, on left shoulder norance and degradation, will, upon occasion, appear dimmed beautv. un- WITH THE ELECTRICIANS. Ohio has a law to compel electric smile and blush violently. Isaac says t,.ll whether or not a trirl is pretty by roads to protect the motorman with a t her feet. It is true that their feet are bare, but it struck me as . each year. screen from November 1 to April 1 of OI.IC IN HORSES. OUARANTEtD. i:vv owner ot n lutr.- !,uuM ll( II on'lifcud. It 111. ve llie 111., ul I vkhmtile animal Oiiti iirt, kK wll. cut.' .-i.il1 lo C1,,vi l'"''' 'l lltt S-iil l. niitli u t-ni'1-.-M. Oil! Ai rdtotl lUHik. w k'ti coiiulm hir.lt j,,i.. k.-L-iiim. mulid lo-i di, iaiuii, n U. i being a somewhat reckless test lor se lecting a bride. TO TEST MEN'S Give A Mini SOCIALISM. Iii,-h and The Old Reliable mum Kstabllihed :w yar . Treats mix le or .eui 1 1-, married or tingle, m cu. or l'""' ". ", nlniies. excesses or impropnutleH. skill flUAKANTKKli. Board und aiwrtuientj lurilsied wl..n desired. guoUou Blank juid Book fro. Call or write. PERSONAL MENTION. TilKY say Kipling gets not less than five hundred dollars for each ballad he writes. tlK.x. Van Ai.kx, father of our Italian minister, is described as "one of the warmest-hearted, bhitYest and alto gether delightful Americans of a gen eration ago. Missks Kuith M. Kkixsto.n and Car rie I., llodson, who arrived in lioston a few days ago, are newspaper women who spent the summer riding through the Hritish isles on bicycles. Henhy Kaiufax. of Loudoun county, Is the richest member of the Virginia senate. He is a brother-iu-law of Capt. Charles II. Ayres, U. t. A., now in charge of the recruitiug oflice at Lynch burg. K. N. IIvhbako, of Middletown, Conn., has the finest collection of liv ing birds in New Knglaud. it includes speeies from almost every country in the worUl and is worth thousands of dollars. A Dent Mute Club. r Paris has a number of very pcvuliar clubs at the present time, more per haps than any other city. Its deaf mute club has been frequently sHiken of by tourists. It is exactly what it professes to be, un association of deaf and dumb men. all of them compara tively wealthy. It is usual for a man thus attHeted and who is in a position to retain a stutV of domestics, to retain these as interpreters, but in this club there is no pandering to modern ideas, and no servant is eivTa.red unless he or she has lost the power to either speak or hear. As a result the establishment is as silent as the tomb and is an ex ceedingly unpleasant place for an or dinary human being to wander into. To get over the apparent dilHculty of communication between different parts of the house, a series of electric ap paratus is used to call domestics, but instead of the usual bell there is an ar rangement whereby the party called gem a slight shock. Chance to Get Watch Him. "The best way to test a man's faith i in socialism," said a traveler to a rep resentative of the St. Louis Globe Domoerat, "is to watch what he does when he accumulates or is presented with a little property. I have a trusted employe who is a tirst-elass man in every respect, except for his determina tion to talk and argue a little too much. For years he has been an ex treme socialist ami has been arguing about the crime of wealth. Not very long ago he refused to continue the discussions and seemed very anxious to forget all he had ever said in favor of an equitable division of all the good things in the world among all the people living in it. I laughed at him a gool deal, but without success, and finally ascertained the cause. "lie had for years been buying the house he lived in by small install ments, and not being a very good ac countant had lost track of the flight of time, and was very much surprised oue fine morning to find that he owned his house free from incumbrance. The ground had Increased in value about two hundred per cent while he was navimr for it, and he is now worth ihree thousand or four thousand dol lars. "I forgot how much he had been ar guing was the maximum amount each American should be allowed to own, but it was a very small percentage of his present earthly possessions, and hence his abandonment of the desire for dividing up. The building associa tions scattered over the country in so many thousands are the best anti socialist advocates that ean well be imagined." T-ris said that the Edison Klectric Light company of Philadelphia pro poses to spend $5,000,000 in laying con duits and underground conductors. Capitalists are figuring on connect ing Pittsburgh and Cleveland by an electric railroad over country roads in an almost air-line and twenty miles shorter than the most direct steam road. The electrical weeklies are just now teeming with illustrations of elec tric, effects at the world's fair. Accord ing to these, the old nursery stories of fairyland are actually eclipsed by the realities of to-day. The telephone company of New Haven, Conn., has a railroad bicycle so arranged that two men can place the bicycle on the railroad track and quickly reach any point on the line where their services are needed. v, r, fl.o aFt fliii.li, Rnnffn in Fox vallev. Of course, they were both eaten. But UraI,t county, that is neither here nor there The .a'S-TWe? tTttMHa contention is that the ttelicate flowers rifillt rji-m nr(ip )U,a H,in jn each ear. Range iu frii wnmiin linesa mav be over- urant aua morrow uiiuiilwb. yet they and on loft stitie un all colts under T years; on mil BflOUlUOI WUiJ "ii an iiwi odd o.oi j u Clark, Wm. H., hevR, Or. Horaef. WHO con nected, on left fchouliJer: cuttle same on right hip. Htinge Morrow and Umatilla counties. Oate, t'lias. li YiiiMn or Lena, Or. Horses H C on right shoulder; cattle Bame on right hip, Hange Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cecil. Wm., Douglas. Or.; horses JO on left shoulder; cuttle Bume on left hip, waddles on each jaw ami two bitu in the right ear. Curl, T. U., John Day, Or. Double cross on each hip on cattle, b wallow fork and under bit in right ear, spilt m left enr. Itange m Wrant county. On ehet-p, inverted A"ud spear point on Bhoulder. Ear markou ewes, crop on left ear punched upper bit in right. WetherB, crop iu right ami under halt crop in left ear. All range in GrHtit countv. , Cook, A. J.,Lena,Or. Horses, fiOon right ohoal der. Cattle, sumeon right hip: ear mark square crop oil loft and split in right. Currin.il. Cnrrin6Til;e, Or. -Horaos. on Co? Ed. S., HarUinan, Or. Cattle, C with in center: homes. C1l on left iip. Cochran, ii. E Monument, Wrant Co, Or. Hortes branded circie with bar beneath, on left shoulder; cuttle same brund on both hips, mark under slope both ears and dewlap. ChapiH, H.. Hardman, Or. Horees branded on rifcht hip. Cattle brauded the same. Alio brands CI on horses right ihigh: ca-t-ie SH;e brand on ngtii thoulder, and cut on end oi 8ht ?"" .-.,. a.,a :u .I, iJlCb't'ilS, F.aiu iiuipcti uku ti'irHi fork on left stitie. Cat lie sa-ne on left side, 'Douglass. W. M , (iallowny. Or. Cattle, H Don right side, swalow-fork in each ear; horses, R D on left hip. Douglas, O. T., Douglas, Or Horfces TD on n, ,.i,r ctiHu' out.tlrt Hume on riirht hio. Ely J. b. A Sons. Douglas, Or. Horwjs brand ed Eh on left shoulder, cattle same on left hip. hole ir right ear. Elliott. Wash.. Heppner, Or. Diamond on right shoulder. Emery, C. 8., Hardman, Or. Horses branded reversed C with tail on left shoulder; cat tle same un rifiht hip. Mange in .Morrow county. Eleok. Jackson, Heppner, Or. Horees. IF connected on right shoulder; oattle same on right hip. Earmark, hole in right and crop Vlorence, L. A., Heppner. Or. Cattle, LF on right hip; horses V with bar under on right shoulder. Florence, 8. P. Heppner, Or Horses, K on right ehoixhie: ; cattle. I; on right hip or thigh. rreneh, George. Heppner. Or. Cattle branded VF, with bar over it, on left side; crop off left ear." Hurt, same brand on left hip. (lay, Btmry, Heppner, Or.-tlAY on left shoulder. Oilman-French, Land and Live Mock I o., Fos sil Or. Horses anchor Son left shoulder; vent, same on left siitle. Cattle, same on who ujim MISSING LINKS. Sovth Americans get brandy from watermelon juice. There never was such a person as Pope Joan, the so-called female pon tiff. Tub worth of a ton of diamonds at the present day is estimated at $35,-000.000. The mountaineers of West Virginia have a superstition Unit to see a milk white deer is the unfailing sign of a speedy death. Chkhai.18 countv, Wash., has S0.0OO,- 000 feet of standing timber, the largest amount of any county in that heavily timbered state. In the ptxrhoue of Cass county, Mich,, a man was received the other day. lie was given a bath and said it had been his Urst ia thirty years. Central pat.k, New York, contains 8tV! acres: Fhtvnix park. Dublin, 1,760 acres; ilvdo park. London, 40O acres; Yellowstone national park, 3,230,000 acres. ewr marks, crop off right ear anduuderbit in left Range in (iiUiam, Urant, Crook and Morrow otmnties Gentry, Elmer, Echo, Or. Horses brsnded H. 8 with a quarter circle over it, on left stifle. Range in Morrow and Umatillcoonties. Hayes, tieo.. lna. Or, Brand J H connected with quarter cirei over it, on left shoulder. Hiait A. H., ltidge, Or.-Cattle. round-top K with quarter circle under it on the right hip. Ilaitite in Morrow and U matilla counties. Hinton A Jenks, Hamilton. Or Cattle, two bais on either hip; crop in right ear and split in left. Horses, J on right thigh. Kange ui bnut county Hughe. Samuel. Wagner, Or- (T F L coiiHected) on right shoulder on horws: on cattle, on right hip and on left side, swallow fork in right ear and slit in left. Range in Haystack diairiot, Morrow oonnty. Halo, Milton, Wagner, (tr. Howw 6rnndHl O- (oircle with !-:irallel (ails) on left Pitoulor CntMoaauw on h-ft hip aio U-.n-.f cii-cl np ,ofl side. .... Hall. Edwin. John iv.y.Or. Cam; i, i; on rigr.r hip; horses same mi nrit ebonlu t- i nnRiu Grant connty. Howard, J L, aUowny, Or. Horwp -. "-ofs with bar above it) on rii'lit shoul'.ur: -'Otle -:ilili'iin left side- Unnge in Morrow Mid Umn tilhi counties. llnghe. flint, Heppner, Or. Hornen, stitided heart un the left shoulder, ICautrn Morrow Co. HuiiHuker, Jt , Wagner. Or. Horses, V on left hould4r;caitn, t on U4t hip. Hardisty, Alhert, Nje, (Ireaon IIown.A II conuecUl. on lefl ehouhler; ( a ale on the Uit't hip, crop off left ear, Humphrey. J ftl- Haidi'ian, Or, Itorcnii. H on lef' tiank Hayes, J. M., H:ppiier. t)r. Hornntt, wmcgljieB on left shoulder cattle, same on right hip. Huston, Luther, Eight Mile. Or. Horwi H on the left shoiilderaud het;rt on the left etille ( 'at. tie HHine on lft. hip. Range in Morrow nounty. Ivy, Alfred, Ioug Creek, Or t 'at (1b J I) uu right hip, crop oft' I eft ear and bit in right, Horses eame brand on loft Bhouhlur. Itange n liratit countv Jones, Harry, HeppnT, Or Hornet branded FT J on the left shoulder: cattle bannded J i right hip, also undor bit in left ear. Uiinge in Morrow comity. Junkm, b. m .. Heppner, Ur Horses, noise. shoe J on ltsf t shoulder. Cattle, the name. Range on I'.ight Mile. JoiuiBon, Jfeiix, Lena, ur, norses, circje I on left stitie; cattle, same on right hip, under half crop iii right and split in left eiir Jpr.kuiB. U V..Mt. Vernon, ur, .1 onnorseson left shoulder; on oattle, J on left hip and two smooth cropB on both ears. Range in 'ox and Hear vaileya Kenny, Mike, Heppner, Or. Horses branded KNY on left hip, cattle Bame and crop off left .r: under slope on the riglir Kirk. J. T.. Heooner. Or. Horses o on loft shoulder; cattle, titt on left hip. Kirk. J 0, Heppner. Or. Horses, 17 on either Hank:caitlH 17 on right side. h irk. Jesse. Heoouer. Or.: horses 11 on left ehouider; oattle same on light side, underbit on right ear. Kiimberland.W. Q.. Mount Vernon, Or. I Jj on cattle on right and left Bides, swallow fork in l ft ear and under ciop in ngnt ear. Morses same brand on loft shoulder. Range in Grant county. Loften, Stephen, fox, Or. 8 Ii on left hip on cattle, crop and split on right ear. Horses same brand on left shoulder. Range Grant countv. Lienallen, John W., Ler-Or. Horses branded half-ciicle JL connected on left shoul der. Cattle. Haute on left hio. Range, near Ijoj. ington Leuhej', J. W. Heppner Or. Horses branded L ana A on left shoulder; cettle same on left hip, wattle over right eye, three slits in right ear. Lord, George, Heppner, Or. Horses branded double H coi.iiccft Sometimes called a swing H, on lett shoulder. ftlarkham, A. M., Heppner, Or. Cattle large M on left side both ems cropped, and split m boih. Horses HI ou left hiu. Ranae, Clark's canyon. Minor, Oscar, rieppner. Or. Cattle, M D on right hip; horse. Mon left shoulder. Morgan, 8. N Heppner, Or, Horses, M ) on left shonldei cattle same on left hip. MoCumber, Jas A, Kcho, Or. Horses, M with bar over on right shoulder. Morgan. Thus,, Heppner, Or. How on, circie T on luff shoulder and left thigh; cattle. '6 nu right thigh. Mitchell. Oscar, lune, or. norses. 77 on nuht hip; cattle, 77 on right side. McClarou, 1). (i., Hrownsville, Or, Horses, Figure fon each shoulder; cattle, M2on hip McCarty. iavid 11. Koho Or. Horses brandud DM oonnectet', on the left shoulder; cfcttlo same un hip and side. Mcliirr, Frank, Fox Valley, Or. Mule shoe with toe-cork on cattle on ribs and under in each ear; horees same brand on left stifle. McHaley, . ., ntuim-cn. Or. un riorsee. with half circle under on left shouldi)i ;on cattle, four bars connected on top ou the right side Uango in Grant County. Meal. Andrew. Lone Rock,Or, Horses A N con nected on left shoulder; cattle same on both hips, Nordyke, lil., Hilvarton, Or. Horses, circle 7 ou left thigh; cattle, same on left hip. Oliver, Joseph, Canyon City, Or. A 3 on cattle on left hip; on horses, same ou left thigh, Range in Grant county. Oiler, Perry, Lexington, Or. I' O on Lift shouidei. Olp, Herman, Prairie City, Or. On cattle, 0 LP connected on left hip; horses on left stills and wart le on none. Range in Grant county, Pearson, Olave, Kight Mile, Or, Horses, quar ter circle shield on left shoulder and 2l on loft hip. Cattle, fork in left ear, right cropped. H4 tjn left hip. Range on Uignt Mile. Parker A Gleawon, R ardman,Oi Horses IP on left niiouider. Piper, Kruet, Lexington. Or.--Hor'OH brand e 1j (L E connected) oi, left shoulder; cattle s me on right hip. Range, Morrow couuta-. I'jper.J.H., Lexington, Or. - Horses, JK con nected onleft shoulder; cattle, same on left hip. under bit in each ear. l'ettys, A. C, lone, Or.; horses diamond P on shoulder; cattle, J H J connected, on the left hip, upper slope in left ear and sliy in the right. Powell, Jonn T., Dayville, Or Horees, JP con nected on left shoulder. Cattle OK connected on left hip, two under half crops, one on each ear, wattle under throat. Rai.gem Grant county. Rood, Andrew, Hardman, Or. Horses, square oroat- with quarter-circle over it on lett stifle. Reniuger, Chris, Heppner, Or. Horses, C R on left shoulder. Rice, Oan, Hardman, Or.; horses, three panel worm fence on left shoulder; cattle, HAW on right shoulder. Range near Hardman, lioyse, Aaron, Heppner, Or Horses, plain V on left shoulder; cattle, same brand reversed on right hip and crop oil right ear. Range in Mor row county. Rush tiros., Heppner, Or. -Horses branded 3( on the right shoulder; cattle, IX ou the left hip, crop oft left ear and dewlap on nock. Range id Morrow und adjoining counties. Rust, William, Ridge, Or. Homes R oa lefl shoulder; cattle, R on left hip, crop ofl right ear, underbit on left ear. blieop, R on weathers, round crop off righ ear. Range Umu tilla and Morrow c aunties. Reauey, Andrew, Lexington, Or. Horsoi branded A R on right shoulder, vent quartei circle over brand; cattle same on right hip. Range Morrow county. Royse, Wm. H, Dairyville, Or HR connoctet with quarter circle over top on cattle on right hip and crop oft right ear and split in left. Horses same brand on left shoulder. Range in Morrow Grant and Gilliam counties. Rector. J. W., Heppnei, Or. Horses, JO ot left Bhoulder. Cattle, O on right hip. X Spickuall, J. W., Gooseberry, Or. Homo branded HI on left shoulder; iange in Moh' county. bailing, C 0 Heppner, Or Horses branded on loft shoulder; cattle same on left hip. bwaggart, R. b, Lexington, Or. Horses with dash under it on left stitie; cattle H with dash under it on right hip, crop otf right ear and waddled on right hind leg. Range in Morrow, Gilliam and Umatilla counties. bwaggart. A, L.,Athena. Or. Horses branded 2 on left shoulder; cettle same on left hip. Crop on ear, wattle on left hind leg. Straight W. E., Heppner, Or, Horses shaded J b on let i stitie; cattle J 8 on left hip, swallow fork in right ear, underbit in left. bapp, Thos., Heppner, Or. Horses, b A P on left hip; cattle same on loft hip. bhner.John, Fox, Or. NO connected on horees on right hip; cattle, same on right hip, crop oft right ear and under bit in left ear. Range in iirant county. bmith .Bros., bUBnvilie, Or, Horees, branded H. Z. on shoulder; cattle, -anie on left shoulder. bquires, James, Arlington, Or,; horees branded Jb on left Bhoulder; cattle the same, also nose waddle. Range in Morrow and Gilliam counties. Stephens, V. A., Hardman, Or-; norses bHoo right stitie; cattle horizontal L on the right side Stevenson, Mrs A. J., Heppner, Or. Cattle, b on right hq ; swallow-fork in left ear. bwaggart. G. W.. Heppner, Or. Horses, 44 on left snouldei ; cattle, 44 ou left hip. bperry, E. G.. Heppner, Or. Cuttle W (' on lett hip, crop off right and underbit in lett year, dewlap; horses W C on loft shoulder. Thompson, J. A., Heppner, Or. Horses, g on Left should t-r; cattle, ' on left shoulder. Tippets.b.T.,Enterprise.Or. Horses. C-on left ehouider. Turner R. W., Heppner, Or. Small capital T left shoulder, horses; cattle same on left hip with Bpht in both ears. Thornton, U. M., lone, Or. Horses branded HT connected on left stitie; sheen eame brand. Vanderpool, H. T, Lena, Or; Horses HV oon. nected on right shoulder;cattle, same on ntit hip Walbridge, Wm.. Heppner. Or. Horses, U, L. on the left bhoulder; cuttle same ou right hip. crop oft left ear and right ear lopped. Wilson, Jonn Q,, Salem or Heppner, Or. Horses branded J y on the left shoulder. Raug Morrow county. Warren, W B. Caleb, Or Cattle W with quartor circle over it, on left side, split in right nar. Horses same brad ou left shoulder. Range in Grant county. Wright, Silas A . Heppner, Or. Cattle branded S W on the right hip. square crop oa right ear and split in left. Wade, Henry, Heppner, Or. Horsoe biauded ae of spale on leit shoulder and left hio Cattle brauded tsanie ou left side and left hip. Welts, A. S., Heppner, Or. Horses, 0wo on let shoulder- catt e saiun Woliinger, John, John Day City, Or On horses three parallel oars on lett suouiur; 7 on heop, bit in both ears. Range in Grant and Maihuer counties. Woodward, John, Heppner, Or. Horees, CP connected on left shoulder. Watkins, Liahe, Heppner, Or. Horses branded TJE connected on left stitie. Wallace, Charles, Portland, Or. Cattle, W on right thifeii, hole in left ear; horses, -W on right Bhoolaer some same on left shoulder. Whittier bros., nuniingion, Baker Co.. Or -Horses branded W B connected on left Bhoulder Williams, Vasco, Hamilton, Or. Quarter cir cle over three bars on left hip, both cattle and horses. Range Grant county. Williams. J O. Long Creek. Or Horse, qoar ter circle over three bare on left hip; cattle sains and slit in each ear. Ranee in Grant connty Wren, A, A., Heppner, Or. Horses rnnningA A on shoulder; Cattle, same on niht hio. Walker Elizabeth & Sons, Hardman Or. Cattle branded (E W connected) EW on left side, horses same ou right shoulder. J. W Walker's cattle, same on left hip, horses fame on left shoulder. All range la Morrow county Young, J. 8,, Gooseberry, Or. Hnrem bran dad T8 on Um rioht atumki- 4