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Circuit Judge W. L. Bradshaw t'.-oseoiiung Attorney A. A. Jajue Morrow County OfliciaK ...in, Ranntnr i W. G.isvan Representative ''ouxtyJudge.... ' Ooinraiftsinnora. . . . J. M. Baker. " Clerk..: " Sheriff " Treasnror ' Assessor " Snrveyor.....; " School Blip's..... ... J.H. Bontlibj ..Julius Keillriy ... J.B. Howard ,T. W. Morrow G. W.- Harrington ... Frank Gilliam J. tf. Willis Geo. Lord ....Anna Balsifc-er ....T.W.Ayurs, Jr llnrouer, .. hupphiB TOWS OWIOluWi .-' 'Momm . i.T. P.'O. Born Coimoilmeii O. K. Farnswnrth, M, liiohtent.hal, Otis Pattaraon, Julias Keithly, W. A. JohnBton, J. Jj. Yeager. (teoorder ,...F. J. Jlallook Treaenrer A. M. Gnnu alarshal Precinct Ofllcerp. J nrtice of the Peace E. L. Freeland (instable N. B. Whetstone United States Land Officers. THE DALLES, OB. J. P. Moore Register A. 8. Biggs Receiver LA OBANDX, OB. B. F, Wilson Register J.H. Bobbins Receiver SECRET SOCIETIES. 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One line day his majosty expressed a wish to enjoy a cruise in the flagship. The admiral accordingly set sail, and all went well until a sudden tempest broke, to the great discomfort of the imperial party. The emperor entreated the admiral to put back, but the wind was con trary and the admiral could attempt nothing of the sort. The emperor then succumbed utterly to seasickness, and peremptorily ordered a return. "I acknowledge that his majesty is ruler of all the Kussias, said the ad miral, "but I am master on board. You inaytell his majesty that his commands cannot be oboj'ed." The ship was actually driven within sitfht "f the Asiatic coast, but only when the storm abated could -his auto cratic majesty's orders be obeyed, (tit finding himself f-afc on land, tl czar bejrs.'ed the admiral's pardon foi his impatience, and presented himwilh the usual gold snnlr-box, bet with dia monds and suitably inscribed. l'eraonal Freaks ns to Coffins. The late earl of Essex was buried in a coffin of oak designed twelve years ago by the deceased iiobh man himself, who was a prominent member of the Funeral Reform association, says the Philadelphia Bulletin. It hud what is called opeu trellis work" around itand was filled with choice herbs and ever greens. There have been many people in recent yrars, some of tlx-m prominent in other ways, who had their cufiius made to order long before the approach of death. Maybe the originator of the fashion was Lord Nelson, who used to keep standing upright in the cabin of the Victory a coffin that an admirer had present1 to him one pr'Viay fttiot ViWft fl Iti !-!ev,t;iii ItiA t"fiil!p' rVws'.nf' ! ! put t. ttil ID k i v hLUJi! i siwcr vs.,11 ri-ii'ir f - i THE EARTH'S INTERIOR. A rrench Scientist's New Theory on a Mnch-Dlscussed Subject. The question which is at present more seriously exercising; physicists and causing the most.marked divisions of opinion among them is that of the constitution of the earth's interior, savs an exchnnpfe. Hv some we are told that within the crust is raging a liquid fire of gases; by others that the fire is not gaseous, but merely incan descent solid matter, while a third sec tion contends that the center of the earth is not in a molten state at all, that what little heat still exists is being rapidly radiated, and that ere long the earth will be a solid rock throughout. The most recent contribution on the subject is that made by Jf. Lateau to the French academy of sciences. In his judgment the phenomena of the earth's crust are explained by regard ing its interior as molten, but he as sumes that a layer of gaseous matter separates it from a portion of the crust I'ormiug the continents, whereas the . ea beds sink. This theory, M. Lateau thinks, explains why volcanoes have Mieeessively receded inland where the sea has encroached, though it scarcely supplies an explanation for the exist ing marine volcanoes. The gradual escape of gases imprisoned under high pressure will, we are told, excel in time the production of new supplies, and when the pressure diminishes the continents will fall in and a more or less crateriform configuration of the earth's surface will be the result. This is the condition of the moon's surface at the present time, and M. Lateau be lieves its appearance is due to action similar to thatwhich he supposes to be in progress in the interior of this planet. The phyf ical essentials of this theory assume the crust of the globe to be eighteen and one-half miles thick, the pressure of gases six hundred ami fifty atmosphere.-, their temperature nine hundred degrees centigrade ami their density nearly emml to that of water. Whatever ntny be ihouglitof this view, as a reasonable explanation it has the merit of combining, j 1 v. a measure, the two most prominent, theories on the subject. VOLCHlHUtb hi MUoriA, More Than Two Score of Them Have Been Active In the Present Century. Recently 1 read an account of a bona fide advertisement in a Scandinavian paper of si upsndtivs v,oi .'anoes ft r sale for about lour hundred Hollars, says a writer in the Christian Advocate. They are located in Iceland. . Alaska might glut, tne mantev. In Tirls"it..4injUu article if it were to put. all its stoek on sale. The number which have been active within one hundred years is va riously estimated by the authorities I have consulted as all the way from forty-five to . sixty-one. More than twelve have been active within twen ty years and five at least within four years.' Among the most larkable is itogorlof, one hundred miles west of Unalaska. This, about six hundred feet high, together with the part of the island from which it rises, has come up out of the sea within a few years, and constantly sends out steam and smoke. Makushin, on Unalaska, though snow-covered, pours out im mense volumes of steam and milk white smoke, visible on a clear day nearly sixty miles at. sea. Akutan acts like a geyser, pufliugat intervals of a few seconds. Kliislmldiu. on ('unimak island, a perfect cone 8.7M feet above the sea, snow-covered, but washed by the ocean at its base, striped down its sidds with ashes a nil condensed smoke, was still smoking. Ic has no foot hills, and its precipi tous slopes fail into the great Pacific ocean on the. south and Jlering sea on the north, liiliott says: "It is wholly safe to say that Shishaldin is the most beautiful peak of vast altitude upon the North American continent." 1'avlof, on the Alaska peninsula, sends out from the side huge clouds of pitch black smoke hot enough to melt two feet of snowfall in a few minutes. It puffs at intervals like a locomotive. Ilnamna. on the shore of Cook's inlet, is l'.:.0ii6 feet i)i;,'h, and constantly Rends out ashes nttd smoke of brim stone. In iw Mount St. Augustine, 150 miles north of Kadiak island, was active, and. according to the i.flicial re port of (rov. Km:ip, "covered the decks of ships hundreds of miles at. sea with nslies." In !'! fa jt. Letimin was sent, to 'he i-!midiif the I-'our Mountains, v.e-t of ( rntitik. to explore a cave said to e.-mtaiti mummies (of which he broiiiflii sevemoeti bodies, now in different museums). While tm this trip he discovered on Kagamil island a vul-jauie in jimtaiii of low altitude, from which issued jets of sulphurous steum, smoke and noxious gases of such horrible stench as to compel him to stand off from shore. Mount St. Klias sent out smoke and vapor in 1830, and in 147, when "the earthquake occurred which shook the whole Sitka region, flame and ashes came from its summit." FRANK CONFESSION. Sir Waller Scott's Waverlev Novels of Vacation fleertlng. Robert Chambers, publisher, one night appeared at his club, after a short absence, and there delighted at least one member .1. C. Jeaffreson by a delieiously frank expression of opinion, says Youth's Companion. Jeaffreson began the conversation by asking: "What hare you been doing since I saw you last'.'" "I have joost beeu spending the time in Scotland with my aiu people, and for iny diversion I have b.-eu leading yet again Scott's novels. I v. tut de liberately through the whole lot o' them. What do you think of a mon o' ray years spending the greater part of the long holidays in sic a way?" "It was in that way that I first made acquaintance with the Waverley nov els," was the enthusiastic reply, "in a broiling ),it summ&r and autumn. Uow you miisi have enjoyed yuureoti'." W;-!. ,v ,!. I ni.tin shv," rAturnci . ;- 4l . . ''' : T "t-.' rvez i.f ! ! do . it i,ic room to make sure of not be ing heard by any brother Scotsman, and continued: "I caunu say I enjoyed the buiks so much as 1 did in my younger time. I would not say it aloud in Adinbro, but weel you believe me when I say that Sir Walter isn't what be used to be to me? To tale yon the truth," he added, lowering his voice almost to a whisper, "to tale you the truth, I found him rather prosy! Ay, but dinna be laugh ing, or the lads there will be asking what I said to you. 1 1 is the truth that I tale you; I moost confacu I fund him at times a leetle nrnsvi'1 VISITORS AT WASHINGTON. Bow Strangers Tour Into the National Capital rrom Everywhere. The national capital is the Mecca of sight-seers and they flock in hundreds to this city at all times of the year, says a writer in the llrooklyn Eagle. They come singly, in couples and squads of from a dozen to a hundred. They are from all sections of the coun try and represent all classes of socie ty. The spoony newly married couple, the well-to-do farmer who has harvested his crops and is enjoying the fruits of his summer's labor, and ex cursionists from different parts of the country journey to Washington with the convening of each congress. They take in the old historical houses, gov ernment buildings and monuments and visit the home of Washington and the Arlington cemetery. But by far the most interesting object to them if, the capital building. Here they de vote the most of their tifne and atten tion and roam at will through the ro tunda, statuary hall and into the gal leries of the house and senate. Their chief delight, however, is to go upon the floor of the senate and sit in the seats that were occupied by the illus trious Clay, Webster, lienton and oth er renowned orators long since num bered among the great majority, and to recline for a moment of bliss in the vice president's chair. A majority of these visitors soem possessed with a mania for collecting souvenirs, and are ever on the lookout for something to carry away as a memento. Not an ob ject that is portable escapes their dep redating hands; they clip tassels from the costly damask portieres; chip bits of marble from tho walls and pillars: take knobs from doors, and one fiend a short time ago had the audacity to cut a piece as large as the crown of 8 hat from the center of the twelve hun dred-dollar Smyrna rug that covers the floor of the marble room of the sen ate. Anything in the way of pens. nencils and even inkstands that is regarded as common property and as such are appropriated by the rapacious relic hunters. MASCULINE AFFECTATIONS. The Idiotic Stare, the Walking: Stick, Kven-lnft- Tie and Nonchalance. It is said on excellent authority that the idiotic stare is still in favor among the exotic youth of swelldom, and any fashionable young man who cannot learn how to abstract every atom of expression from the countenanco and look on vacancy with an expression of imbecility, cannot belong to the select coterie or hold rank in the inner cir cles. There are other important matters which must be carefully committed if one desires to be in the van of fashion. The first of these relates to tho walk ing stick, and this involves perhaps the most serious responsibility. For the stick must be left at home when going to business, to church, or to make calls. The reason of the latter by-law is that in the language of the stick, to call upon a young lady while carrying a cane, Implies that the caller is on sunicicntly intimate terms to look in on her casually any time. What finer subtlety than this is to be found in the intricacies of feminine etiquette! Then there is a fixed and immutable law governing the carrying of the cane. The correct style is to hold it at an angle of forty-five degrees, with the ferrule uppermost and forward. Of course, this is the sort of thing no man could possibly discover for himself, for tile unsophisticated would naturally carry his slick with the point to the ground and in so doing stand revealed as unitiated in the supreme refinement of etiquette. No man with a particle of self-re spect would wear a made-up evening tie, atid as some men find it quite im possible to learn to tie the bow them selves there has sprung up a new in dustry for women. A young woman in Loudon has taken up the unique call ing of going from house to house tying the neckgenr of distraught bachelors who cannot do it for themselves. The custom will probably be introduced on this side along with the other Knglish quirks. Let no man in his conceit as sume that when l'&ndora opened her casket women monopolized all the vanity. liesides it isn't good form to be so critical. A nonchalant benevolence, superior and patronizing, is the latest mode, and it is not good form tu be caustic or pessimistic any more. 'TWAS M tiOOD STORY. That la When It Was Applied to Some Other Fellow. The Texas congressman usually has a shrewd perception of humor, re marks the Washington I'06t. The del egation has a corner on half the good stories going, and can lay claim to sev eral which have got away. A corre snondent backed the dean of the dele gation up in a corner the other day and told the following tale: "A friend of mine," said the corre spondcnl, "caine up from Tenas wheu the session opened, and as he expected to be here some time he looked around for a moderate-priced room, which he located in a nice neighborhood. A motherly old Vady showed him the room, which pleased him very much As he was about (o leave the room she asked him where he was from. " 'From Texas, madam,' " 'iVe.U, l"t inn show you how this lfl wwiifc. V-'i turn It Mil , slid put 1894. Highest of all in Leavening Power. mm 11 C7 ABSOLUTELY PURE a match to it, so; when you get through turn it off, so.' " 'Hut I understand all about gas. We have it at home.' " 'Yes, but I have had a good deal of trouble with Texans about gas, and it doesn't do any harm to show you Turn it on so, and turn it oft this way. Don't try to blow it out.' 'Hut, madam, protested my friend, 'you needn't go to all that trouble. If it will relievo your mind any, I lived in Chicago for six months before coming here.' 'You did, eh? Well, I want you to understand that this is a respectable house, and I won't have any poker playing or drinking and carousing up here.' " "Haw, haw!" laughed tho congress man, "that is one of the best stories I ever heard," and his sides shook with laughter. "liut," said the correspondent, "the boys are. sending that story out to-night and saying that you are the Texan." "The deuce you say. Well, that is a pretty low-down sort of a yarn to spin on anybody," grnmbled the congress, man. AN ANCIENT PEOPLE. ltelles of a Prehistoric Usee Found In Kusalan Kxc vat lone. The Hermitage is a famous building in St. Petersburg, in which the relics of I'eter the (treat are preserved. In it there is also kept what is called the Kerteh collection., Six centuries before Christ, the Greeds founded colonies on the shores of the Hlack sea. They united with the native Scythians, and Scythian rulers were generally placed over the colonies. Outside the gates of the modern town of Kertch there are rows of tombs and mounds. In the year 1880, the Russian government began to care fully examine these tombs, the objects found there remains of the ancient colonies being taken to St. Peters burg and placed in the hermitage. Iu 1831, a mound was openea cancel by i the Tartars "The Hillock of the Ilrave," and in a room of hewn stone the remains of a Scythian king were found, together with those of his wife, his war horse and servant. Ins gold en crown and ornaments were there untouched. Even the sarcophagus of carved cy press wood, in which his body was laid, emams undecayod, and the carving and gilt figures upon It are still sharp and beautiful. It seems incredible that a substance so frail should have endured for more than two thousand years uninjured. The gold bars of his shield, the sil vcr staves of his heralds, the collar of twisted gold wire, are to be seen, be sides many other articles found in his tomb, although a large number wcro stolen Bt the time of the discovery. Hut still more interesting and beau tiful were the contents of a tomb dis covered in 1WM1, of a priestess of Ceres, with all her rich ornaments, and theso were all preserved. Most exquisite they are. the gold chains, buttons, bracelets, necklaces, equal the best workmanship of Venice or Florence at the present day. the golden plates from her headdress are of respousse work of perfect beauty, AN ODD TIMEPIECE. Chariot Clock of the China. Emperor of One of the most wonderful time keepers known to the horologtst was made in London about one nunnrca years ago and sent by the president of the East India company as a gift to the emperor of China. The case, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, was made in the form of a chariot, in which was seated the figure of a worn an. This figure was of pure Ivory and gold and sat with her right hand rest ing upon a tiny clock fastened to tn side of the vehicle. A part of th wheels which kept track of the fligh of time were hidden in the body of a tiny bird, which had seemingly jus alighted upon the lady's finger. Above was a canopy so arranged as to conceal a silver bell. This bell was fitted with a miniature hammer of the same metal and, although it appeared to have no connection with the clock, regularl struck the hours, and could be mad to repeat by touching a diamond but ton on tiie ladv's bodice. In the char iot at the ivory lady's feet there was golden figure of a dog, and above and in front were two birds, apparently Hying before the chariot. This beau ti ful ornament was made almost en tirely of gold and was elaborately decorated with precious stones. A Qneer Chinese Superstition. The Chinese have a remarkable su perstition about the Chu river, which is the local name on the border for the Chiating, A considerable trade in drugs which is borne along this river, for a special class of boats, coin- posed of very light boards fastened with wooden nails, is built. Hie na tives say that the magnetic attraction of the bed of the river is so strong that were ordinary boats used the Irou nails would be pulled out. Along the river batik ll 4U It untied iu piiuiltive fash ion, tai from th g;slogloal avldanca it is believed that the ore is very rich. v-fcUi .'! l.lS The niale quail, or "Hob White," de serves honorable mention among galli naceous birds because he Is particular ly good to hi'j wif! He always helps s-r to httt'-b hei -,-.ja, grid if anything (', !ii i !'-:') 1 tit'u tb wh'da. ''tj oil Sei. Thu It-(('! ' ida i-li mt.i. r !.. t- 'i I rr ,(,i-.te.l I,. WEEKLY WO. 60S. I SEMI-WEEKLY NO. 277.1 Latest U. S. Gov't Report 'endire in his. "Life Histories of North meriean Birds." He says: "In.lune, .o'8tf, w hile I was on a visit to Dr. J. M. Pickett, of Cedarville, Ala., he informed me of having seen a male Hob White incubating. He had visited the nest at various times on different days, and ways found the male bird on the nest. lslimg to be an eye-witness ot so interesting a sight, I rode several mihs with the doctor to the nest. There we found Hob White faithfully warming his treasures, out not into life; the eggs were never hatched. Dr. iekett frequently went to the nest until long after the period of incuba tion had elapsed, and linding that the eggs would not hatch, he destroyed them, to prevent the useless occupa- lon of the nest by the male. 1 he fe male had probably been deatl some hours before the male found the nest serted; hence the eggs cooled and would not hutch," FROM FtftM TO BARROOM. Tne Joerney sod Gradual Increase In Price of a Bushel or Corn. Illinois is the great corn state and Teoria is the center of its most prolific belt. Peoria is a great grain market and especially for corn. Vast quanti ties of the golden grain are shipped uato that city for general distribution and loaded into its mammoth eleva tors by the hundreds of thousands of bushels. A great deal of corn is shipped from Peoria, but a vast quantity is used there. There is more corn used in Peoria than in any three cities in the union, even though theso cities bo New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. The reason Is obvious, says the Peoria Herald. Peoria is not only the center of the great distilling interests, but there are located two of the greatest sugar houses in the country. Down the capacious maws of the great dis tilleries are poured every day 20,000 bushels of corn. The sugar houses use from 5,000 to 10,000 bushels more each day in the year. To supply the constant demand the product of 1,000 ouies of rich oovu lands is aany snipped into Peoria for home consumption. Aside from these there are fully 5,000 bushels used daily for other purposes. So that it is safe to estimate that fully 9,000,000 bushels of corn are used in that city annually for manufacturing and other purposes. The greater part of this is manufactured luto spirits. It is wonderful to consider the changes made by a bushel of corn in its transition from the owner s crib to the glass of the consumer. Jhese changes are various and far-reaching. They are other than financial. Hut consider simply the mere element of value. Corn was sold the other day in Peoria for 85 cents per bushel. It camo all the way from Nebraska, perhaps, where it brought but 25 cents, in transit two dealers received a commis sion of 1 cent each. The railroad com pany received 8 cents for its freight and other charges. The distiller paid 85 cents. lie took and converted it into four and a half gallons of finished spirits and fed one of his steers on the refuse. The distiller sold the spirits to local dealer for $5.13, of which Lncle Sam received 84.05 as a tax on the spir its, leaving a balance to the distiller of 72 cents after he had paid 85 cents for his corn. The spirits, after being well watered and compounded, are sold at a profit by the compounder and rectilier to the dealer, who sells out at 15 cents a drink. The four and one-half gal lons have swelled to nine, and before it gets through it swells many a head and also the revenue of the city where its lines may be cast. So that, in its travels from the Nebraska crib to the Chicago saloon, that bushel of corn has increased in value from 25 cents to many dollars, and with its constant running mates has furnished employ ment to at least to fifty men or morn and has contributed to both the nation al and municipal revenues. Such magic there is iu the juice of the golden corn. Of the juice of that one bushel of corn, at least 100 persons have im bibed, from the pious old lady who took it for "la grippe" to the jolly old toper who hjok tt lor "tne ttgnt. To resume, that bushel of corn was thus scattered on tho highways of busi ness and pleasure: Farmer, 25 cents; railroads, Hs cents; commission men, 2 cents; distillers, 72 cents, 72 cents; feeder, 10 cents; L'nele Sam, $4.05; compounder and rectifier, 25 cents; re tail dealer, $10; city, 88. The con sumer got whatever was left in the spirits, each according to his strength or weakness What Women Have Gnlned. Mrs. Lucy Stone, in enumerating at a woman's club the gains she had herself seen accomplished, mentioned the right to free speech, the right to education, the rin-ht to all occupations and profes sions and a very great amelioration in the lawB. She contrasted the old time, when an irate man at a Massachusetts town meeting had said: "lhe public money to educate shes! Never!" with the present when the great universities of Chicago, Yale and Johns Uopkins are opened to women, besides their owu school!. lid fulh-ve A s.F.EB is the stiletto of conversa tion. Kisd words are the music of the world. . Great minds have wills; feeble ones have wishes. Tub manner of giving shows the character of tho giver rae.ro than tho gift itself. Siscebitt, deep, greii. eenuiufi sin cerity, is the fl.istcha.fi-' - '' ' f all njen in any wn' hero;,- Baking Poivdes