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IlEPl'NER. MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1894.
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OrPIOIiX BIBEOTOET.
I'nited States OHeials.
Piesident Cirover Cleveland
Vice-Hresldont Ad ai Stevenson
Seu'Otary of Htate Walter Q Ureaham
Smiretary of Treasury John U. Carlisle
Secretary of Interior HokeHmitli
Secretary of War Daniel H. Laniont
Secretary of Navy Hilary A. Herbert
l'ostinaster-Goneral Wilsfn H. Hissell
Attoriulclonond Iticlmrd H. Oloey
Beiiretaryof Agriculture J. HtoiHug Norton
State of Oregon.
(iovr-mor
Secretary of State
Tr"H8nr-ir
oupt. Public Instruction, .
Heiiators
tlon.'irurtsioou
Printer
inurmne Judges
. H. Pennoyer
...U. W. McHride
...Phil. Metsrliiin
....K. )1. MeKlroy
J J. II. MitrflHl
(J. N. Doliili
I Hinger Hermann
j W. K. Kllis
..Uranali. Baker
I r . A . Moore
. W. P. Jjord
11. S. Bonn
Seventh Judicial District.
Circuit Judge W. I. Bradsh&w
I'roswiuintf Attorney A. A. Jtivne
Morrow Comity Otticiale.
loim. Senator A. W. (towau
Itapresmutive J- B- Uonlliby
. 11 nlv J uilge J ulius Keith ly
' Commissioners J. 11. Howard
J. M. Uaker.
" Clerk F. W. Morrow
" Hheriif G. W. Harrington
" 'I'reasnrer Frank Oillmm
tnessor J. Willis
" Surveyor eleo. Lord
School Sup't Anna lialsiger
i Coroner T. W. Ayers, Jr
nEPFNKft TOWN OFFIOKBS.
1k,o P. O. Horg
Couucilineu O. E. Farnsworth, M,
Liohtenthal, Otis Patterson, Julius Keithly,
W. A. Johnston, J. L. Yoager.
Kocorder V. J. llallock
Treasure! A.M. Gnnu
Alarshal
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Justice of the Peace E. L. Freeland
Constable N. B. Whetstone
United States Land Officers.
THE DALLES, OB.
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of t)ic United States lying east of the
Mississippi river and its popula
tion nve times as great as
tiie present population of this
whole country. Great Jiritain may
not he able to acquire much more
of India. Indeed there is likely to be
liiibeiilt in retainiiip what she has,
with native di.-is&tisiiivtiuii and the
'5at.:tfUTi?i oi hci j.?graTating
umv on the north, who in the last
forty years h.- morl his l.ioundaries
o-er miu- 'i-:zr-'i:: of latitude,
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covered by the rails the space left bc
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WOOD SONGS.
Ask me not why I only know
It were thy loss If I could show
Thee cause as for a lesser thin?.
Remember how we searched the spring.
But found no source so clear the sky
Within its earth bound depths did lis.
Give to thy Joy Its wings.
Unto thy heart its song, nor try
With questionings
The throbbing throat that sings,
For In thy dear and steadfast eyes
Thine own self wonder deepest lies,
Nor any words that lips can teach
Are sweeter than their wonder speech!
And when thou glvest them to me
Through dawns of tenderness I see.
As in the water sky
The sun of certainty appear.
So ask me why,
For then thou knowest, dear.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy In Scribner's.
A Valuable Autograph.
An autograph fiend from New York
was recently visiting a friend in Detroit,
and naturally ha brought bis album
along, and he also talked much on auto
graphs, their rarity, value, etc.
"Well," said the Detroit man one day,
after a list of high priced autographs had
been shown him, "your figures ara
not in it with one I saw here some years
ago."
"Whose was it?" asked the friend with
much interest.
"A gentleman's living hern at tb
time, but now dead."
"What did it bring?"
"Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars," "Aw, coma off. I know autographs,
and I know one never sold for such sum.'
"Just the game I tell you this on
did."
"Who paid for it?"
"One of the banks in the city. It was
on a check, and the same autograph
would have brought a million, net, if
the gentleman had happened to want
that much for it."
After that the fiend put his album in
his trunk and left it thero.-Detroit Frea
Press.
Two Remarkable Kpltnplis.
Tho two most remarkable epitaphs in
the United States are those of Daniel
Barrow, formerly of Sacramento, and
that of Hank Monk, Horace Greeley's
stage driver. The former reads as fol
lows: "Here is laid Daniel Barrow, who
was born in Sorrow and Borrowed little
from nature except his name, and his
love to mankind, and his hatred for red
skins. Who was nevertheless a gentle
man and a dead shot, who through a
long life never killed his man except in
self defense or by accident, and who,
when he at last went under beneath the
bullets of his cowardly enemies in Jeff
Morris' saloon, did so in the sure and
certain hope of a glorious and everlast
ing morrow."
Hank Monk's epitaph reads thus: "Sa
cred to the memory of Hank Monk, the
whitest, biggest hearted and best known
stage driver of the west, who was kind
to all and thought ill of none. He lived
in a strange era and was a hero, and the
wheels of his coach are now ringing on
the golden streets." St. Louis Republic
Demoralising the Busy ilee.
As the magpie is notorious for stealing
glittering objects, so we find the parallel
among savages who have been known to
help themselves on shipboard to all the
movables, being fascinated by mirrors,
cutlery and jewelry. Sometimes bees,
in order to save trouble, attack in
crowds well furnished hives and carry
off the provisions; they gradually ac
quire a taste for this and form compa
nies and colonies of brigands. If bees
are given a mixture of honey and brandy,
they can acquire a taste for it and be
come irritable under its influence, drink
and cease to work, and like men fall
from one vice into another. Current
Literature
The Small "l-lfe" of a Oreat Man.
The New York state library has in its
possession one of the smallest book? in
existence. It contains 14 pages, each of
which measures li inches. On the fly
leaf are the words: "Life and Service of
General Pierce. Respectfully dedicated
to General Lewis Cass. Concord Press,
1852." From its text it would seem that
the little book was a vest pocket cam
paign document, issued during the
Pierce campaign. St. Louis Republic.
How Fast Does Thoujrht Travel?
Professor Donders of Utrecht has made
cane interesting experiments in regard
to the rapidity of thought. By means
of two instruments, which he calls the
"neomatachograph" and (lie "nofrna
tachometer," ho obtained wmio impor
tant results. His experimoiil.i show that
it takes the brain -07 of u second to
elaborate a single idea. Writi.ig in re
gard to this Professor bonders says:
"Doubtless the time required for the
brain to act is not the same in all indi
viduals. I believe, however, that my
instruments may be perfected until we
will be able to determine the mental
caliber of our friends without our friends
knowing that we are testing their apt
ness." The professor further says: "For
the eye to receive an impression roquires
.077 of asecoud, and for the ear to appre
ciate a sound .049 of a second is neces
sary. These curious experiments have
established one fact at least viz, that
the eye acts with nearly double the
rapidity of the ear." Philadelphia Ires'
A True Goldfish story.
At the New York hospital they relate
a curious occurrence bearing on the hi
bernation of fishes. In the conservatory
in the upper part of the building they
had several glass jai's in which were
goldfish, which is a species of carp. One
morning the caretaker found a jar broken
and the water frozen through and
through, the fish of course being a rigid
as Ice. The lump was taken away mJ
thrown Into an cM riaVblsb. barrel, wher
it remained several weeks.
One March day the sun was unusually
strong, and it split the cylinder of ice,
bnt what was the astonishment of the
caretaker to see the tail of a fish wrig
gling out of a part of the broken block.
The actual freezing Had not killed the
ash, which ww removed to another tank,
whr it swims about as if nothing had
bef alien it. Our AcUual Fnanda.
CAPONIZING TOOLS.
The Old Chinese Instruments Versus thc
Various Modern Ones.
There are a number of different pat
terns of caponizing tools on the market.
Instrument makers and others have en
deavored to improve upon the old Chi
nese instruments. Samuel Cushmau,
poultry manager of the Rhode- Island
experiment station, who has made an
extensive study of caponizing instru
ments of every description as well as
practical tests, gives the preference to
the best Chinese tools.
A set of these consists of a knife or
scalpel for making the incision, a whale
bone with hooks at each end to stretch
the ribs apart or hold the wound open, a
hook to tear the thin, fllmnke mem-
CHINESE INSTRUMENTS.
brane lining the abdominal cavity, for
ceps to pick up and help tear the thin
membrane covering the testicle, an eleva
tor or spoonlike probe to draw the lower
testicle into view, to assist in passing
the hair over the glands, and to scoop
out blood, feathers or particles that
should bo removed from the cavity, and
a tube or canula to hold and direct the
horsehair loop by which the testicle is
torn off. To save picking up so many
different tools the knife and forceps are
usually combined in one, also the spoon
and hook.
The first cut will be understood by
means of the following: A, knife aud
forceps combined. B, whalebone spread
er. C, cords for fastening birds, fur
nished with most sets, but not used at
the station, D, hook for tearing the
thin skin. E, spoon or elevator. F,
canula or tube, showing horsehair loop
which is passed over the testicle project
ing from the point and the part grasped
by the fingers projecting from the square
top or butt, by which the tube is held.
G, special form of spoon and hook.
Mr. Cushman criticises the Chinese
tools in some particulars. He thinks the
forceps have too much curve at the
point. The Jaws should be thin and nar
row at the point and fit each other per
fectly and be about 5 inches in length
from the blade. One should be able to
catch with them the thin outer skin of
the back of the hand and stretch it quite
a distance or tear it off without their lot
ting go. The excellence of this tool is rs
important as anything connected with
the set. The whalebone spreader Mr.
Cushman pronounces far superior to all
the wire spreaders seen and tried. If
i properly made, it stays in position until
j removed without being held. In the one
I shown in the cut the whalebone is in
two pieces fastened together at one end.
The sliding ring is used to increase or
decrease the tension. In all the spread
ers of this sort that he has seen as they
come from the makers the whalebone is
so weak or lifeless that it is unsatisfac-
! inrv
The spoon in all sets on the market
that he has seen he thinks not just suited
to its purpose. His idea of the best form
of Chinese caponizing spoon and hook
may be seen at G in the first cut. The
bowl should be widest near the tip and
the stem rough that it may not slip in
the hand. The tip of the canula shown
in the cut is not quite right either, as it
should be slightly flattened and wider,
with holes in the extreme corners, like
A in second cut.
MOIlKIW INSTW'MF.NTS.
Among the many modern instruments
an attempt to do away with tho horse
hair gives the one jnst referred to. A
Bteol spring keeps the steel wire loop
back within the tnbe. By pressing on
the rod at the top tho loop is pushed out
ready to be placed in position. By re
moving the pressure tho spring draws up
the loop and the attachments are firmly
held. B is a wire spreader of a style as
satisfactory as any Mr. Cushman has
ever tried. C is the separate hook, und
D the knife furnished with the sets gen
rally sold.
A Belief That Trnvsa Troublesome.
A recently returned eastern missionary
says that a small, but persistent, vexa
tion in household affairs is the firm be
lief in the transmigration of souls among
one's Buddhist servantB and its often
ludicrous consequences. For instance,
once on shipboard the sailors were dt
reeled to kill the cockroaches with which
the vessel wan infested. This they dared
not do, fearing that some ancestor's spirit
might be imprisoned in that most un
likely form. They approached the ver
min gently, lifted them up on sheets of
paper and dropped tbcia overbourd iu a
manner almost tender and qait defer
snUal Ons yuai.g wbveu vlu to Uu uvwly
made friend during her last illness with
the constant cry that she feared, when
the end should come, that the old belief
would be too strong for her, it pressed
so hard upon her that the soul was des
tined for further earthly life. It was a
cause for great rejoicing at tho miseion
station that dissolution came in sleep
and unattended by thii horror. Nw
York Timua.
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POULTRY SHOWS.
Lessons Learned at These Exhibitions In
cubators Different Breeds.
An increased and widespread interest
in well bred poultry is attested by the
frequency and importance of the poultry
Bhows north, south, east and west. For
merly poultry was grudgingly allotted
restricted space at the agricultural fairs
and regarded as a second rate sideshow.
The last New York show, according to
one estimate, was attended by 11,000 per
sons; the aggregate sales amounted to
f 10,000 and the premiums to 2, 122 in
general prizes and $1 ,500 in special prizes.
These poultry exhibitions are decidedly
instructive to an observant attendant,
for here are congregated the finest types
of the standard breeds, as well as rare
and curious birds that delight the fancier.
Here, too, is ample opportunity for not
ing the comparative merits of incubators
and brooders and learning many nice
points in the successful management of
the same. Incubators, by the way, may
now be selected just as one would choose
sewing machine or any other imple
ment the usefulness of which has gained
universal recognition. The incubators
manufactured by trustworthy makers
and handled by well known firms are all
good. It remains for each buyer after
comparing the mechanical construction,
etc., to decide which is best from his
standpoint.
The different breeds exhibited at the
poultry shows during the past season af
ford food for reflection. Some breeds
show improvement, while others show
deterioration. Here is a Biiminary of the
subject as presented by The Fanciers'
Journal:
Probably the greatest disappointment
to a true fancier is the poor quality and
small entries of white faced black Span
ish seen at our shows. The breed is one
of the oldest, handsomest and best in the
poultry world and desorves better sup
port. The beautiful race of Polish fowls
is being neglected. Rarely do we see
full entries at the winter shows, lhe
golden penciled Hamburgs, probably the
handsomest of all domestic fowls, are be
ing carelessly handled and show signs of
deteriorating.
Leghorns have held their own, espe
cially the brown variety. The white
Leghorns are equally fine in points, but
It seems to us that a little more size
would be desirable. The buff Leghorns
have improved wonderfully and now
rank among our standard fowls.
Silver Wyandottes have improved
golden need looking after; white are as
good as ever, while the buff Wyandottes
promise to lead the entire family in pop
ularity, being a handsome and practical
fowl. Plymouth Rocks are Btill extreme
ly popular. The white variety is well
preserved. The new buff Plymouth
Rocks promise well.
Buff Cochins show wonderful improve
ment, and the magnificent entry of 240
birds at New York will long be remem
bered, Indian games need attention.
Breeders are drifting away from the
original type and paying too much atten
tion to color in males instead of seeking
true form or shape.
Of the French breeds the good and use
ful old Houdan is again looming up. The
La Fleche is still confined to too few
breeders. It is one of the best of table
fowls, also a prolific layer of large white
eggs. Crevecceurs are occasionally seen,
but not as often as their merit deserves.
Dorkings barely hold their own, while
Red Caps seem to have dropped almost
entirely. Both are breeds of surpassing
excellence from a practical standpoint,
The Java fowl will soon become extinct,
nnless more attention is paid to its good
points. Games are again becoming pop
ular. This Is due to the efforts of the
Game club and fanciers.
The Future of Greece.
It is impossible to have intercourse
with modern Greeks without being
touched with some degree of the entliu
siasm which inspires them In discussing
the future of their country, or without
sharing the confidence with which they
approach it. It may be true that the
people are of hybrid race, that little of
the old Hellenio blood flows in their
veins, but few European nations of note.
our own perhaps least of all, can boast
nnmixed descent. There is that in the
air this people breathe, in the language
they speak, the land they live in, which
is of the very spirit of liberty.
One meeting a countryman on the road
nccostujihii as "patriote," a term of more
significance, or larger meaning man
"citizen." But they are a people deeply
democratic and require gentle handling
to steer liberty clear of the shoals of li
cense. Mtimiurings against the growth
of taxation are already heard, and the
extraordinary activity of the press in
sures the publicity of every unpopular
act of the administration. Blackwood
magazine.
Fur Towing a few Hundred Miles.
In April, 18B8, the engines of the
steamship California, from Hamburg for
New York, broke down when the vessel
was aljout fifty-six miles southeast of
Nantucket shoals and &00 miles east of
this city. She was towed to this port by
the freighter Chateau Margaux, bound
from Nw York to Bordeaux. The lat
ter was awarded f 15,000 salvage. New
York Evening Run.
A Rniltten Conscience.
Dr. Fourthly I believo my sermon on
ilneority this morning sunk deep into
.oine hearts and did good.
Parishioner Yes, a Foley aud his wifo
rr.t home he explained to people on the
rtreet car that his wife's buir and ttb
ers fnUe.'-Life.
Latest U. S. Gov't Report
DANGERS OF EMOTION.
The Part That Pear Plays In Renderlnsj
People Liable to Disease.
Many violent maladies have been
supposed to have been produced under
the operat ion of moral influences. Sen
uert believed that fear was capable of
provoking erysipelas. Hoffman also
made fear aud the adrnamv resulting1
from it play an important part as the
predisposing cause of contagious dis
eases. Dr. H. Tnlte believed, in par
ticular, iu the influence of fear upon
the contagion of rabies. The break
ing out of rabies has been sometimes
observed after psychic emotion, says
Popular Science Monthly, liouley
cites the case of a dog which went mad
after having been immersed in water.
Gamleia cites a similar ease in a man,
and another in a woman who was
frightened by a drunken man. In
order to avoid the influence of fear,
Desgenettes concealed the name and
the nature of the plague; and it is to
be remarked further that the Turks
died less rapidly of it than the Chris
tians. Cullen supposed that sad emo
tions favor contagious diseases, and
particularly the plugue.
1 his disposition to contagion after
violent emotions which determine dis
charge of the secretions may be partly
explained by the fact that the con
ditions that diminish the proportion of
the liquids of the blood favor absorp
tion. It, however, seems at least prob
able that the nervous discharge is ac
companied by alterations of the blood
and modifications of the interior me
dium which justify the popular expres
sions concerning having bad blood and
turning the blood.
EVOLUTION AND PARTRIDGES.
Singular Changes in These Birds In the
Canary Islands.
A striking example of the effects of
environment, and changed conditions
of life upon tiie forms of animals is
furnished by a species of partridge liv
ing in the Canary islands. About four
hundred years ago the Spaniards intro
duced the red-legged partridge from.. r.
Europe) into these lslunds, and the
bird has continued to flourish there; v -
but, as recent examination proves, it i
has undergone modifications clearly
brought about by the conditions under
which it lives.
Its back has turned from russet color
to gray. This looks like a case of pro
tective coloration, since the bird passes
its life amid gray volcanic rocks.
Then its beak has become one-fourth
longer and thicker than that of its an
cestors and of its European relatives,
and its legs ulso have increased in
length and grown stouter.
These changes arc exactly such as
were needed to suit it to the life th.it
it is now compelled to lend amid the
rocks and on the mountain sides of the
islands, where a more vigorous physic
al development is required than was
needed upon the plains of England and
France.
As has been remarked, If such
changes can be wrought by nature in
the animal form in four hundred years,
what might not have been accom
plished in four hundred centuries?
WETGrTtF""BEES.
Some Interest luff Kesearehes Concerning
a Itatlier Peculiar Nuliject.
An interest ing note about the weight
of bees appears in an American jour
nal devoted to ugriculture, says Dr.
Andrew Wilson. It seems tiiat an or
dinary bee, not carrying any load of
pollen, weighs the one five-thousandth
of a pound. Five thousand bees thus
make up a pound weight. When, how- ,
ever, the bee is carrying his load of
pollen or honey, as he returns from for
aging amid the flowers, his weight is
increased nearly three times, He car
ries thus about twice his own weight,
a result not surprising to those who
nave studied the m sculur powers and
ways of insects at large. When bees
are loaded it requires only eighteen
hundred of them to make up the pound.
Details are also given regarding the
number of bees which may exist in a
hive. From four-pound to five-pound
weight of bees are found in an ordinary
colony. Th is means in figures of pop
ulation some twenty thousand to twenty-five
thousand individuals. A big
swarm, it is said, will often double this
estimate.
Talking of bees, If any of my readers
wish to Indulge in a very curious and
fascinating bit of zoological study they
should read the story of what is called
"parthenogenesis" in bees and other
insects, such as the aphides or green
flies of the roses and other plants. For
such eggs of the queen bee as aro fer
tilized when laid turn out workers (or
neuters) or queens, while those which
aro not fertilized at all develop Into
males or drones. TMb is very singu
lar, because fertilization of an egg or
I seed is regarded ordinarily as neces
sary for its due development. I know
of nothing more extraordinary than
the story biology hat to tell regarding
this curious by-way of animal develop
ment. Tin man who expects to outrun a lie
had better not start with lame ft
Cam's Horn.
Tin man who sets out to be a re
former will never get to rest a minute,
nam's Horn.
Jon was, I admit, a fairly patient
man, but he never tackled the task of
putting up stove pi(s. Endeavor
Herald.
Des Cartes' famous remark: "I
think, therefore I am." I supplement
ed by Phillip-. Mrooks' "Wh.t. TK.it,
Uul I Wum "'h.'.,,