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HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1894.
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affectation.
Evkrv man believes he carries the
heavy end of the log".
Tni; empty vessel makes the raORt
noise, but it has nothing1 in it.
Thkhk are t ao obstacles in the way
of the self-conceited man. What you
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.- i l';c J'irtii tf I'rirce IJluceher
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tl;e a iiM-ii- re'i marshal. When, after
Water;' '. i.e v ent tit England with the
Wiw: i.i !' Ms:-i;i and the czar he had the
title of I I,. P. unf rred on him by Ox
ford ai'd i.i il ndir.. imiversitieh. lie
wi:s every. ie welcomed with the
hi:rh( ut hnp r nnf! entlnihiasm. and (n
one occ-a: lun was carried to his lodg
ing's by tie crowd, who hissed his
hands and knees. In answer to some
ladies v bo betfjfeti him for a lock of
hi.-, hair hci :,aiu, with a smile, wnnting
to IrJd patrtti i regret th&t I am so
.'o m that respect." Jiut he could
not cit..at Uk.-w till he bai t!jyj(!ti
SEVEN CENTURIES OLD.
A Cedar Plank Remarkable fnr tto
Longevity.
For Fire Hundrrd Yearn tli. l.oj V. lin
prlsoued Under tb Root! of a Mam
moth Tre A Surprise to
scientist.
Science and research have many times
been directed toward computing the
longevity ol natural wood, but there
are as many obstacles in the way of a
satisfactory conclusion as there arc
species of wood. The action of climate,
water, minerals, acids, contact with
vegetable and animal matter, atmos
pheric changes, unnatural influences,
all have their effect. Fragments of
Sl'IlUCE TREK GttOWINQ OVKB A CEDAK
LOG.
vessels which have been beneath the
waves for hundreds of years have shown
the timbers to be as firm and solid an
when placed in position, yet this state
of preservation is due to the action of
the briny substances with which the
wood has been saturated offsetting the
destroying influences.
But the life of a wood, cut off by
storm or the act of man or beast from
the nutriment of the earth, when that
life and resistance to decay is extended
into centuries, proves wonderful to the
most conservative scientists. Instances
are rare where the wood, dead as far as
connection with the vital force of roots
and earth is concerned, and left ex
posed to the action of climate and vege
table and animal matter, has failed to
succumb to decay within a century.
In the office of the 1'acific Coast Lum
ber company in Chicago is a specimen
of wood remarkable for its longevity
snd presenting a valuable lesson in
natural history. It iff a small slab of
fragrant cedar, compact and unseamed,
presenting the appearance of a care
fully seasoned piece of wood. It is cer
tainly well seasoned, for it has formed
part of a, piece of timber that has lain
at the mercy of wind and storm for a
period extending over at least 700 years.
There is nothing remarkable in timber
being taken from trees known to have
lived thousands of years, but this little
slab is taken from a log that has been
dejtd, according to expect calculation,
at least 7io years.
Near the town of Kairlmven, Wash.,
and a few roiled from the Fairhaven &
Southern railroad is a spruce and cedar
forest, for years the. inhabitants and
visitors have viewed with interest a
peculiar natural formation. tnd it be
came one of the sights of that section.
It was a huge spruce tree, towering
high in the air and far above many of
its sturdy neighbors, healthy and
sound, although its feeders were ex
posed in many directions. Down among
its roots, yet above the surface of the
ground, was a good-sizeo cedar log, and
about this log grew the roots of the
tree. Firmly secured was it, only to
be removed by the hand of man
through the destruction of its pro
tector. The woodsman, scientist and mathe
mnt.i"ian have decided that the spruce
tree was at least five hundred years old,
and from the size of the log it must
have taken in the neighborhood of two
hundred .years to attain its growth.
The ends and major portion of the
lKidy of the log had been exposed
all these years, and last fall, anxious to
gain some idea of the longevity of
Washington cedar, some responsible
men cut the roots away and liberated
the well-seasoned prisoner. The log
was milled, being cut into small slabs,
and the result was a surprise to the
most sanguine. Not a weak spot ex
isted, and the slabs presented '.he ap
pearance of carefully nurtured and
cured wood. The fiber is firm and solid,
the grain is nlmost artistic in its per
fection, the color is rich and dark, and
the fragrant odor of cedarstill remains.
In its perfection i'. has proven a sur
prise and gives the palm for everlasting
life to Washington cedar.
Potatoes sold well this season in
England, at If 100 to SI as per acre. One
farmer sold his crop of fifty acres in the
ground for S.V000.
Kxi'Khimkms are hi ing made by the
French department of agriculture to
transform tree twigs and leaves into
food for horses and cattle.
The French war office now accepts
contracts for oats, barley and hay for
the cavalry, on the basis of the
nutritive value of the grain and
forage.
MUtmkon.
Modesty as well as ambition should
oome into the field when a young man
or woman is choosing a profession.
A pretentious youth who would have
done better to stay in the hay field,
where he seemed to be in his proper
sphere, told his father that he was
about to leave, in order to "preach the
gospel to every creature."
"That's all very well," said the old
gentleman, "but Hcriptur' don't say
every creatur' shall preach the gospel.''
A good old laxly once said to her
nephew, a poor preacher whom nobody
wanted to hear: "James, why did yot
enter the ministry?"
"Because I was called," he answered.
"James." aid the old lady, anslpusly,
M she looked up roi) feigtog ber speo
Ucltt, ('lr yu '! 'it Wasn't some
UMt, !re yu te jt wasn't some
Pf Mft9':7YfiW!l
RIGHTS OF ANIMALS.
Horses in Germany Must Not Be
Insulted.
lOKfl In Belgium Mast Have Seat In
Trains Pampered Life of the German
Student's Corps-ioc Bettwr
Treated Thau Children.
While it is unfortunately true that
child life is infinitely happier in the
semi-barbaric orient and even in the
wilds of Africa than in the most highly
civilized portions of Europe and Ameri
ca, writes "Ex-Attache" in the New
York Tribune, yet the enlightenment
and progress of the west, while they
seem to carry in their train fresh in
genuity of infant torture, lead on the
other hand to a very marked improve
ment in the treatment of animals.
These are subjected by orientals to
much the same horrible cruelty as the
children of the white races so often
suffer at the hands of their parents,
relatives and seniors in general. But
in Europe and America domestic ani
mals are gradually acquiring an im
portance and a consideration undream
ed of save in those olden times when
they were worshiped as gods or adored
as saints.
On some future occasion I hope to be
permitted to draw a contrast in these
columns between child life in orient
and child life in the Occident, and to
demonstrate from personal experience
the superiority of barbarism to civili
sation in that one particular. But for
the present I will content myself in
dealing with the vast improvement in
the treatment of our dumb friends,
whom strangers might often be
tempted to believe enjoy the prefer
ence over our children.
No one has ever heard of a man be
ing imprisoned for apostrophizing a
child with some coarse, contemptuous
or insulting epithet, yet only a short
time ago the Berlin press contained the
record of a sentence of three weeks'
imprisonment imposed on a stableman
employed in the imperial mews of Pots
dam, for having addressed an insulting
epithet to a favorite mare belonging to
the kaiser. Although this is the first
instance known of a man being actual
ly sentenced in a regular judicial way
to imprisonment for the use of insult
ing language to a horse belonging to
the state, yet I have often seen troop
ers iu crack cavalry regiments of Eu
ropean armies taken severely to task
and threatened with punishment for
talking roughly to their mounts, the
welfare of which is a subject of infi
nitely greater solicitude to the officers
than that of the men. For the horse is
worth so much to the national treasury
iu cold cash, which the trooper is not,
at any rate in the countries where mil
itary service is obligatory; and, more
over, the advancement and promotion
of the commanding officer depends, as
a rule, far more upon the physical con
dition of the horses of his regiment
than of its men.
This being the case, no one need be
astonished to hear of one of the lead
ing Austrian sportsmen, Count Paul
Festetlcs, bringing legal proceedings
against a Viennese sporting paper for
having referred in a slightiug manner
to his race-horse Thalany, the insult
consisting in a remark to the effect
that though tlie mare hud won certain
stakes she did not deserve to take
them, owing to the fact that her com
petitors had run so badly as to deprive
the victory of every atom of glory or
merit. This is hardly a grave insult,
but the count thought otherwise and
demanded a printed apology on behalf
of his mare, failing which, he has insti
tuted the legal proceedings referred to.
It remains to be seen whether he will
obtain a decision in his favor, and no
one need be astonished if during the
course of the proceedings the mare her
self is subpumaed as a witness.
In Belgium the government, which
owns and controls the entire railroad
system of the country, has just issued
a decree which, as far as railroad trav
el is concerned, places the dog on ex
actly the same level as a grown-up
man or woman, and infinitely higher
than a child. For whereas the latter is
entitled to half a place if under twelve
years of age, a dog has now a right to
a full seat, providing he has his ticket.
That Is to say in compartments 1 ir
censed to hold ten travelers, if there
are eight adult human beings and two
dogs in the compartment, the latter is
regarded as "complete," and no other
passengers are admitted, and if the
train happens to be full partly with
dogs and partly with human beings,
any additional passengers will have to
Ik; left behind rather than that the dogs
should be forced to yield up their seats.
The government decree, however, son
tains no intimation as to the manner
in which the canine travelers are "x
pocted to conform to the regulations
which prohibit passengers from putting
their feet on the cushions; and it must
be admitted that the seats of railroad
carriages as at present constructed are
not suited to the dog's style of repose.
Inasmuch, however, as the govern
ment has already given him the prefer
ence over children by according to him
an entire seat, instead of merely half
of one, it is quite within the bounds of
possibility that it may in course of
time be brought to modify the cars in
such a manner as to add to the comfort
of the canine passenger at the expense
of the human traveler.
Floating- Cltlet.
The modern American man-of-war is
a little world in itself, or perhaps more
properly a floating city, with its in
habitants of many trades and profes-
ions. Not only is there a doctor to
dosc'you and a chaplain to care for
your spiritual welfare, but many cooks,
s-veral earjenters, skilled machinists,
electricians, tailors, musicians and
barbers. There is at least one clever
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which office corresponds closely to the
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GOETHE AND REVOLUTIONS.
A Weil-Known and Very flmracterlstlo
Anecdote of the Grout Author.
Goethe's wide grasp of the physical
researches of the day and his intense
interest in scientific progress were kept
up to the hist. The weight of four
score years hud not the effect of nar
rowing his outlook. There is a well
known and very characteristic anec
dote of him in the evening of his life
which may be recalled as illustrating
in a few lines what he was and what
he was not. says Temple Uur.
It wnsthe lstof Augustas:','.). The news
of the French revolution had reached
Weiuuir that morning and all was
in commotion. On entering (ioetlie's
room his secretary, M. Soret, was ac
costed with the exclamation: "Now,
what (lovou think of this great .event?"
"A frightful story," answered Soret,
"but with such a ministry what was to
be expected bnt the exnulsion of the
royal family?" "We do not appear to
understand each other," said Goethe,
ever indillY'i'ent to politics, even when
boiling up into revolution; "I am speak
ing of I he contest so important for
science between Cnvicr and Geoffrey
St. llihiirc, which has come to an open
rupture in the academy."
Goethe, it must be remembered, con
sidered the question lit issue as a mat
ter of tlie greatest importance to the
future of science, lie was greatly re
joiced over the fact that the youthful
physicist. Kl. Ililaiie, had shown him
self so powerful an ally of his own fixed
idea of the synthetic manner of look
ing at nature. It was a line burst of
enthusiasm of Goethe's, when, during
this same Interview with his secretory,
he exclaimed:
"What is all intercourse with nature,
if we merely occupy ourselves with in
dividual material parts, and do iiot feel
the breath of the spirit which pre
scribes to every part its direction, and
orders or sanctions every deviation by
means of nn inherent law! I have ex
erted myself in this great question for
fifty years. At first I was alone, then
I found support, and now at last, to my
great joy, I ain supassed by congenial
minds."
ANTS IN FLORIDA.
Th Vsit DaniitK Whlrh Thole Ktietales
, . ,f of thQ Furmor Can lo.
There are more ants to the square
mile in Florida t han in any other coun
try in the world, says the Savannah
News. There lire ants which will
measure more than half an inch in
length, and then there are ants so
small that they can hardly be seen to
move with the unaided eye. There are
red ants and black ants and trouble
some ants. But as bad as they are, I
have never heard of them eating out
the sent of a man's trousers, as a mis
sionary. Rev. Mr. ilson, once told tlie
writer he saw the army ants do in
India while the man was sitting on the
earth for a few minutes beside, him.
Hut the Florida ants will take out
the lettuce and other minute seeds
from the soil in which they are planted
and actually destroy the beds. They
will suck the life out of acres of young
cucumbers and melon plants, uproot
strawberry plants or cover the buds
with earth to such an extent as to kill
them. They will get into pie, pickle,
sauce, sirup, sugar; on meat, in hash;
will riddle a cake or till a loaf of
baker's bread till it is worthless. All
remedies failing, I took to baiting them
near their nests with slices of meat,
bones, apple and pear parings, aud
when I had from fifty to one hundred
thousand out 1 would turn a kettle of
boiling water ou them. J have killed
during the past week over a million in
the space of a quarter acre lot, and I
have almost wiped them out. I had to
do this to secure any lettuce plants,
and many unobservant farmers com
plu.il of seedsmen when they should at
tribute their troubles to insects.
Danger In Perfumery.
Women who are fond of indulging in
strong perfumes should remember that
I hey are decidedly injurious to the
ense of smell, liy their frequent use
he secretory glands of the nose and
hmat are overtaxed and weakened.
Ine day a person notices that the
'raring is less active thun usual anil
'he sense of smell seems defective.
This is, of course, put down to a cold,
and hut little is thought of it. After
a time the entire head heeomcsiilTectcd
and there art; throat and lung compli
cations which are likely to end in
chronic, if not fatal illness. Smelling
salts are a prolilic cause of deafness.
All strong and pungent odors, particu
larly those which act upon the secre
tory processes, should be avoided as
far as possible.
Wilmington, Del., is to have a social
club to which both men and women
will be admitted.
Cotton thread is generally used to
sew kid gloves, as it does not so readily
cut the kid as silk thread.
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T 5iiy l'ure Crnj .f Tartar Jjvilc -j. V A'n
LWrl J Uill'i.Hn nf Yfotnv' , lt-rt' thl Sf'jnrjnrT1,
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A SHANGHAI FARM.
Not a Plaoe for Breedinn Poultry,
as Its Name Might Imply.
A Ketreat lu California Where Men Are
Abdueted and Shipped as Sailors
While Under the Influence
of Drink.
A few people here will no doubt be
greatly interested in knowing that
there is a "shanghai farm" within a
few hundred miles of them, says the
Pakland (Cal.) Times. Very few people
have any idea of the manner in which
a man is abducted and put on board a
vessel in the stream, and fewer still
have any idea that a great deal of such
work is done from the Oakland side, be
cause there is no water front patrol
here.
The manner of shanglming is very
simple. When a captain requires a
crew the law demands that he shall
sign them before a proper officer. This
is done, and each man is asked if he is
satisfied with the manner in which his
account has been settled by the board
ing master. The answer is invariably
in the affirmative, and the captain
leaves the shipping office. He knows
that if he has signed twelve men twelve
men will be put on board his ship when
he is on the eve of sailing, but he also
knows by experience that if he gets
one-half of the actual men he engaged
he will get more than the average. The
other half are partners of the board
ing master, who have probably been
before the same shipping master twice
in the one week. It is these dummies
who arc substituted by men who are
shanghaied, the Utter being, in many
instances, so unlike sailors that it is
considered advisable to keep them out
of sight. It is quite a common occur
rence for three or four of the crew,
after they recover from their stupor, to
have to go to the mate and find out the
name under which they are sailing.
Additional light has been thrown on
the matter by the publication of a story
in a Santa Kosa journal of the exist
ence of a "shanghai farm" located near
that town. "There is one industry," it
says, "located near Santa Rosa of
which most people have no knowledge.
It is a 'shanghai farm.' A clever mor
tal of San Francisco, who has various
interests in water-front boarding
houses and is under contract to furnish
sailors to shipmasters, is the proprietor
of this industry.
'The retreat is located in the hills
over in Itlnoon valley, about five miles
from town. There is plenty of whisky
kept on tap, and all who enter therein
are invited to drink to their heart's con
tent. In most every town between
here and San Francisco the 'shanghai
farm' is in collusion with some beer
joint proprietor. This is the way the
scheme is conducted: The victim has
been at work, and on Saturday night
comes to town with his earnings. He
is in for a good time, and joins convivial
crowds wherever he finds them. He
finaHy gets into the spider's web. His
money is all gone, but still he is given
drink, lie is told of the joys and com
forts of a mountain home near by,
owned by a philanthropic friend of the
barucepcr, wnere tlie weary may rest
from their labors and drink good
whisky. He is fascinated, lie is kept in
a naty reeking drunk all night. Next
morning he wants to sober up on
whisky. He is half dazed. He is in
vited to take a ride in a buckboard by
a friend who appears on the scene, and
gratefully accepts the offer. They
drive to the shanghai retreat. A big
barrel of whisky stands sparkling iu
the cellar. A half dozen vagabonds
are lying around. The victim gets
thoroughly drunk, and so remains until
a new vessel arrives at the San Fran
cisco port, when the proprietor comes up
and escorts the bevy and places them
alsiard the vessel. When the victim
realizes his whereabouts he is sailing
over the bounding main."
RESIDE IN WASHINGTON.
Senatok Ai.i.kn'h speech contained
75,000 words.
Nknatok Wolcott, of Colorado, it Is
said, more nearly approaches the ideal
orator than any man now in the senate.
Nknatok Siieuman's real estate hold
ings in Washington are rated on this
year's tax list at 8400,000. He is about
the heaviest individual taxpayer at the
capital.
Attounky Genkhat. Oi.nkv's sole ex
ercise in Washington is tennis. For
an hour or two every summer after
noon he may be seen playing a game
that would do credit to the skill and
agility of a much younger man. His
courts are said to be the smoothest and
best kept in the city.
The most capacious wine cask in the
world is the celebrated tun of Konig
stein, constructed under an edict issued
by Frederick Augustus, kingof Poland,
In 17.. This greatest of all tuns holds
I.WI'U:M nlr,t.
Ilouurn, World's Fair.
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