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I1EPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1894.
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United States Officials.
President Qrover Cleveland
Vice-President Adiai Stevenson
tJeorstary of State Walter Q. Qresliam
Secretary of Treasury John Q. Carlisle
Secretary of Interior Hoke Smith
Secretary of War Daniel 8. Laniont
Secretary of Navy Hilary A. Herbert
Posttnaster-General Wilson S. Bissell
Attorney-tteneral Hiohard 8. Olney
Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton
j State of Oregon.
Governor B. Pennoyer
Secretary of State G. W. MoBnde
Treasurer.... Phil. Hetechan
Supt. Publio Instruction E. B. McKlroy
u ( J. H. Hitchel
Senator!.... , j j. N.Dolph
j Blnger Hermann
Congressmen w ft. Ellis
Printer...,...., i Frank G.Baker
I F. A.Moore
tupreme Judges W. P. Lord
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Seventh Jndlelal District.
Ctrcnit Judge.' W. h. Bradshaw
l'roseouting Attorney A. A. Jayne
; Morrow County Officials.
.(oint Senator A, W. Gowan
Representative... J. 8. Booth by
i bounty Judge... Julius Keithl;
' Commissioners J.K.Howard
J. M. Baker.
v Clerk, t J.W.Morrow
Sheriff G. W. Harrington
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Awao,.. Willis
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M 1 1 IVI l
THE ISLAND OF IIAYT1.
Desolation of a Once Wealthy and
Powerful Republic
A Nation That Is Incapable of golf-Oov-rDmemt
The Kuters Are Bloodthtrstr
TraDts and the feople Hate
White Men.
Not the least Interesting feature of
the pluoe is the barracks, where is
quartered & portion of Hippolyte's val
iant army, stvys a Hayti correspondent
of the Providence Journal. The only
attempt at uniform is a suit of blue
overalls, generally in the last stage of
dilapidation, and a cap ornamented
with red, yellow or blue braid, accord
ing to the fancy of the wearer. Some
few have shoes or straw slippers, but
the majority are barefooted.
They are armed, however, with fairly
good muskets, and many of them carry
ugly looking knives. I saw large num
bers of the "soldiers" on the plaza or
public square, some playing at dice or
cards, some talking, others sleeping
arid all lazy, dirty and ragged. This
plaza, which was originally well laid
out and which actually boasted an an
cient fountain in the center, was lit
tered with refuse, rooted up by hogs,
and filthy with house offal and dung.
The ancient paved walks which origin
ally traversed it were badly broken
and the loose stones were wildly scat
tered by the hogs.
Outside of the town and as far as the
eye can reach extends a hilly country
covered with forest. In a long tramp
through this country we saw no cul
tivated land. And yet this land is said to
be extremely fertile and to yield large
ly any tropical product that is planted
upon it. From an examination of
an outcropping ledge of rock 1 decided
that the soil was underlaid with lime
stone, and such a soil is nearly always
rich. Hut the richness of this island is
wasted. For even theold plantations,
which were well set with coffee,
oranges and eocoanuts, are grown up
to tropical forest and yield next to
nothing.
Right in the midst of a jungle of
wild trees and bushes I found traces
of an old orange and mango grove, in
dicated by the remains of straight
rows in which these trees were origi
nally planted. And with the decline
and ruin of the plantations has de
clined everything in connection with
them. Even the old carriage roads
which originally traversed the island
and formed a channel for conveying
the produce to the ports are now only
bridle paths, being completely over
grown with forest and bushes. And
this is Hayti, the Uispaniola of Colum
bus, the pride and glory of the great
admiral! For it will be remembered
that, after examining the other large
islands of the West Indies, Columbus
decided that this one was the richest
and best. And later, when under
French rule, it was one of the fairest
and wealthiest spots in the civilized
world.
The whole republic, in fact, is
a gigantic farce. No nation has
ever shown itself more utter
ly incapable of self-government
than the black republic. In some
eighty years of Haytian independence
there have been more than ninety
revolutions. The children, with a few
exceptions, grow up in absolute igno
rance, and with a deep, inborn hatred
of the white man. The rulers are
bloodthirsty tyrants and the country
has degenerated into a tropical wilder
ness. WOMEN WHO SHOOT.
Feaolnlae Sportsmen In F.iiB-land Are Ns
meroua and NtvlLh.
A sport which has become popular
with Knglish women has not yet been
taken up by the American women of
society, says the New York Tribune.
Anglomaniac though she may be she
does not shoot. She does not feel the
attractions of the pretty tweed cos
tume which is to be found among the
possessions of the young Knglihh wom
an of title the shortish skirt, the trim
coat, the knickerbockers, the small,
soft hat; she sees as yet no harm in the
little rifle, which, small as it is, car
ries an effectual quietus for game
birds.
Not a few American girls are accom
plished anglers, but there they pause
in the career of sport. In Kngland and
on the continent nowadays feminine
shooting has become a matterof course,
and even the Field records the "heavi
est bags" of the season made by the
fair pursuers of pheasant and wood
cock. An authority on firearms, by the
way, says that timid women in lux
urious country houses onht to know
how to shoot in ease of the advent of
burglars, and that for them the. small,
short "lady's rifle-' is a min-h better
weapon than a pistol. It can be
handled with as much cBse and quick
ness as a pistol, and it is much more
easily steadied for good aim by iu pos
sessor. a Chinese samson.
W underfill Feat ol a Ihlnamau at a Mill
ll Kxainlimtloli.
A Hankow corrtMM.iileiit gives an
account of the discovery of a young
Samson at the militia examinations.
There were about nine hundred can
didates, of whom sixty-three gained
the degree if promoted men. They
are tried in archery, lifting, sword and
spear exercise, etc., also in writing.
The' senior wrangler was a voting man,
only twenty-two years of age. from
K'inhua. His particular siicecs was in
lifting, und his stre.'i'th is estimated
at eight hundred cutties (the cattle is
about on - and one-haif pounds),
thouifh. rl!v they sy it (3 puj.y '
hundred catties. This is tested by
lifting a square stone of three hundred
catties weight as high ns the breast.
This man not only lifted it to that
height, but gave it a little toss up and
caught it as it caine down.
The governor was astonished and
asked him to repeat the feat. The
young man supposing that he wus sus
pected of having some secret help,
threw oft' his cout. exposing his bare
body, and repeated the feat to the en
tire satisfaction of the judges.
Though in archery and other practices
his skill was not conspicuous, he was I
awarded the tirst place on the list of
successful candidates, and the gov
ernor did him the honor of asking who
had been his teacher and trainer. He
replied that it was his father, who was
himself a military officer and had
served at Nlngpo and elsewhere.
INEXPENSIVE PLEASURES.
They Are the nest In 1. 1 re, Say the l-hll-ttKophef
s.
The comparatively cheap pleasures
seem to be the best in life generally,
stl.vs Harper's Weekly. There Is so
very little that the very rich can buy
for themselves that need stir envy in
people who are just comfortably off.
Warmth is such a delightful thing in
winter, but you and I can get as much
as we want of it, and a millionaire can
have no more. And there are so many
cheap, ordinary things to eat that are
just as good or better than the expen
sive things. An epicure Who lives
in the western part of this1 state was
saying the other day that, having a
particular dinner in view, he sent to a
judicious man in New York for the
best fish that the market offered
They sent him a fresh coil, and he ad
mitted that no fish could be better and
moralized (those are his remarks
above) on the comparative cheapness
of the fleshly gratifications that wre
really best, such as potatoesand chick
ens and fresh air, ami tea nnd water
(warm and cold) and soap and sleep.
When one considers how good a. big
five-cent sandwich tastes when he is
really hungry, and how little differ
ence there is between good wine and
'good water when it has once passed
one's gullet, and how much of that
difference is iu favor of the water, it
really lends a dangerous charm to
economy and simple living, and makes
one wonder that thrift is not. more
catching and that the delights of ava
rice should be so generally monopolized
by the aged.
One of the cases where a cheap arti
cle is often at least as good as a dear
one is in the matter of sons-in-law.
How often it happens that the plain,
cheap son-ill law who exacts no bonus
and even ill some cases contributes to
his wife's support, turns out ill the
end tt) be ve.lly more valuable and sat
isfactory than the bankrupt loafer
prince who costs a million or two nt
the start and all that he can lay his
hands on afterward!
SHE FLOGS YOUNG WOMEN.
The llrutal Method One London Female
Has for Making a I,lvlujr.
Henry Labouchere, of the 'London
Truth, has been investigating the
methods of the professional "doggers"
in and near London. One of them a
woman iu an interview frankly told
him about her methods. She goes
about London flogging girls and boys.
She uses a birch, which she makes up
herself, e'he has a "tawse" for use if
desired, but prefers the birch as being
more efficacious. She is described as a
middle-aged female, short, but strong
ly built, and of unprepossessing fea
tures. Her correspondence and speech
show her to be illiterate. Her manners
are ooarse. She says her father was
the rector of Cranbrook.
Flogging is her prescription for all
moral and mental ills. She always,
however, commences the operation by
"spanking" with her hand. The Inter
viewer having expressed skepticism
about the efficacy of "spanking," she
invited him to hold out his hand and
try it, and gave him a blow which left
no desire for another. Anxious to
complete his knowledge he next held
out his hand for a taste of the birch,
and received two blows from the
shoulder. "I pity," he says, "the girl
who gets one such blow.'' One, how
ever, is out of the question. Mrs.
Peirce's minimum allowance is eight
or ten "spanks," followed by sixteen
strokes with a birch, which would b
increased to eighteen, twenty, or five
and twenty at discretion. She stated
that she had recently flogged one girl
twenty years of age five times in a fort
night. If girls began to scream un
der the operation she forced Into their
mouths a woolen pad covered with
silk.
"After the whipping," she said, "I
give them a good lecture and read
them a chapter of the Hible. I always
carry my Hible with me for this pur
pose." Here, it will be seen, the
"clergyman's daughter" comes in. Of
her own accord, however, she proceed
ed to inform her interviewer that she
was in the habit of birching not only
boys and girls, but grown men.
OnrchophaKV.
M. lierillon, a French doctor, who
has been directing his attention for
Rome time past U the study of nail bit
ing, or, as he calls it, onychophagy,
finds that habit or disease extremely
common. In a public school in Paris,
hays the London Times, out of tiii-S pn
pils examined during the month of
April last, sixty-three, that is to say,
nearly one-fourth, were addicted to
biting their finger nails. Curiously
enough, results vary greatly jn differ
ent districts and iu different schools in
the same districts. It seems that girls
are more given to the habit than bovs.
In one gills' school in the department
' of Vonne eleven out of ttventy-one
were confirmed nail biters. Iu anoth
' kt girls' school the proportion was
I aixty-one out of 207 pupils, and of those
j sixty-one fifteen were found to be in
the habit of biting the nails of both
hands, and the others of biting only
those of one hand. M. lierillon recog
nizes that nervousness has much to do
i with tha habit, and t proposen to euro
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From Present Indications It Will
Be a Oreat Sucoeas.
Immenee Crowds Visit the Kspnaltloo
Dally Magulflcent Displays of
. Frnlt and Many ovet
F.ihiltlta.
The latest reports, from the C'ali
fornia Midwinter fair state that near
ly two hundred thousand people passed
the turnstiles during the first two
weeks of its existence. This fact es
tablishes the sure success of the expo
sition from the standpoint of atten
dance, and the verdict of the thousands
who make up this grand total has been
unanimous in favor of the success of
the exposition from every point of
view.
Since the opening day, January 87,
no special effort has been made to
draw the crowds. It has been the aim
of the exposition management to let
the many features of the exposition
speak for themselves, nnd exclamations
of surprise and satisfaction have been
heard on every hand. The exhibits are
now practically all in position. There
are no holes in the flour, so to speak,
and it is noticeable by those who visit
ed the great Columbian exposition that
even the exhibits- which were seen
there appear to have, taken on new
form in San Francisco, and the
exhibitors have undoubtedly profited
by the .experience gained on the shore
of Lake .Michigan. The largest spaces
in the center of the great floor of the
manufactures and liberal arts build
ing are occupied by France, (iermany,
Russia and Italy. Kach of these coun
tries is represented by a display of ar
tistic and useful manufactures which
has never before been seen outside of
the great Columbian exposition, and in
most instances the displays brought
from there have been augmented by
new supplies brought across the At
lantic anil across the continent espe
cially for this display.
Hut in the midst of all this that is
not new to evervbodv. tlwre isso much
in the Midwinter exposition that -Ik uni
versally unique and novel that there is
nothing of the "old story about it.
This American section is particularly
prolific in novelty, anil it occupies the
largest space assigned to any one coun
try, so that the international character
of the exposition by no means shuts
out the glorification of home industries
ill the beautiful industrial fair.
The Palace of Fine Arts has already
proved to be a revelation. .Such a dis
play of pictures lias never before been
seen in this part of the world. This de
partment ilk! not depend on Chicago for
Its pictures, though it got a great, many
of the best that were shown there. Ou
the walls of this building lire hang
later pictures by well-known American,
French and (iermnn artists.and promi
nent among them are something like a
hundred of the works of t he best artists
of the l'a.dtlc coast. Connoisseurs say
that the Midwinter Art I'alace is the
best arranged picture gallery that the
world has ever seen, and it eertainlv is
well adapted for the purpose- to which
it is put.
In the eyes of eastern visitors the
citrus display naturally attracts the
most attention. It seems to be good
for eastern eyes to encounter a pear as
big 11 s a baby's head and peaches al
most as large, to say nothing of so
many oranges in heaps and piles and
buildings that, there is a great gleam
of yellow before them all the while.
The rivalry between the northern and
the southern citrus fairs, both of which
are held in the exposition grounds,' has
been happily productive of the best
displays in this line that, have ever
been imiilc. even in California. The
buildings devoted to this class of (lis-,
plays are proving quite as popular as
some of the main exposition buildings,
and California citrus fruits are getting
the best advertisement they have ever
had.
CIPHER CODES WELL GUARDED.
Nevrllilra an . li.iml Leak Develop
In llliiiiatlr Coerospoiidenre.
There visited New York recently an
emissary from the state department
whose mission was the investigation
of what is diplomatically called a leak.
The dispatches received by the gov
ernment are, as is well known, sent In
cipher. This cipher is guarded with a
secrecy meant to be awful, but it was
suspected that some unauthorizco per
son hail obtained a clew to it. This
suspicion was sulllcieiit to start a rigid
investigation, and the trail led to New
York. All fads bearing on these mat
ters are ciirefullv hidden, nnd the up
shift of the New York visitor's trip
was that there, did exist a suspicion,
but no certainty. When he got back
to Washington there was a chnnge in
one of the codes. So quietly was tho
business managed that not a soul in tho
state department, with three excep
tions, knew what was afoot. This in
cident, related by the Washington
Post, illustrates how wary the depart
ment is with its codes. One of them
is styled the "sphinx ' it Is so guard
ed. The slightest reason to believe
that a code clerk may be responsible
for a leak results in his suspension.
However, our govi-rnmeut has been
far more successful than some foreign
ones in protecting its ciphers. The
"sphinx" was lb-vised by a New Yorker
now in the state department, and It is
as sii' i-cptibh- to changes as the com
bination lock of a safe. Hundreds of
messages have been sent in it, and it
hat never leaked. The Hawaiian oor
respnHilunco wll W!l ! carried on
entirely in this cipher, and it is never
employed except upon urgent occa
sions, while those intrusted with the
mysteries of it must be absolutely
above suspicion: yet even should there
be a leak, the alteration of a key let
ter would destroy every clew to an
outsider. The ltrazilian correspond
ence is not written in this mysterious
code. Indeed, it is doubtful if the ad
ministration would consent to its tise
on an extensive scale, as the most ex
pert in its mysteries must spend an
hour or more in the deciphering of a
single paragraph.
SHE TENDED STILL.
What a Revenue DrHver Discovered Iu the
North Carolina Mountalus. '
For. many years Eph Honeyoutt, of
Mission, Stanley county, has conducted
a brandy distillery, and had a reputa
tion throughout that country for mak
ing the best brandy to be had, says the
Charlotte News. The distillery was
always conducted in an orderly way,
which is not the case with all of them.
The other day a revenue officer went
down to tho still to mark up the bran
dy, and lo, and behold! a woman was
attending to things. The officer in
quired of the woman as to Honeyeutt'a
Whereabouts.
"He's not here; does not stay here,"
replied the woman.
"Well, who runs the still?"
"Why,' 1 do, of course. I have been
attending, to it for. these many days,
and can make just as good brandy as
Kph lloneycutt can."
"Well, who are you, and who does
this distillery belong to?" asked the
officer in astonishment.
"The whole thing, including myself,
belongs to Kph Honeycutt, for I am his
wife. I attend to, things for him, be
cause he has the farm and other mat
ters to look after."
And then she went around to
"chunk" up the fire and squeezed the
flannel strainer in the "doubling keg"
to see if the "singlings" were strong
enough. . .
MICROBES CARRIED BY BULLETS
Taken from Infprtsil Flannel Thrnuajra
Wlil. h the I'r... Ur Was Fired.
Some interesting experiments were
lately made by Dr. M earner, says tho
London News, by way of solving the
quest ion whether or not rifle bullets
are liable to carry infection with them
in their course of entry into the body.
He made his trial with bullets which
had been infected with germs of a
particular kind, and the Infected bul
lets were shot into tin boxes from dis
tances varying from two hundred and
twenty-five to two hundred and fifty
meters a meter being nearly three
feet three and three-quarter inches.
Inside the boxes was placed gelatine
peptone in a sterilized or gerniless con
dition, so that whatever germ develop
ments were found in the peptone
(which is a great growing medium for
microbes) would be presumed to have
come from the bullets. The tracks of
the bullets thrmurh t.lin r,.lntlrw ..-aw. .
duly scrutinized, with the result that
in each ease germ growth took place
corresponding to the particular mi
crobes with which the bullets had been
respectively infected. Jn another sc
ries of investigations the bullets were
made to pass through infected flannel
before penetrating the gelatine, the
bullets being of the ordinary kind.
Here, again, microbic growths ap
peared in the gelatine, showing that
the flannel had yielded up its microbes
to the bullets as they traversed It. If
noninfected and ord inarv bullets were
used tho gelutine developed only the
ordinary germ life, such as the air con
tains. The bullet is, therefore, a germ
carrier of a very decided kind, and it is
also clear that if clothing is penetrated
by a bullet prior to its entrance into the
tissues the missile will be liable to
carry Into the wound it makes the bac
teria resident on the clothes.
ELEPHANTINE LIFE.
Spa te lie Taken lo I'reveut Its Wanton
Destruetlon.
One of the pressing questions of the
day in Africa relates to the preserva
tion of the elephant, which will be
come extinct there at no distant date
unless means are taken to stop the in
discriminate slaughter now going on.
There has been a prevalent notion that
the African elephant is inferior to his
Indian cousin in intcllignce and docil
ity, but it docs not seem to be founded
on solid observation. It is now pointed
out that the Romans and Carthaginians
used the African beast to good purpose,
and Mr. I'. L. Selater, of the London
Zoological society, declares that they
have, had African elephants in their
gardens for more than twenty years
and have found them quite, as intelli
gent, as those of the Asiatic species,
although perhaps not quite as docile.
I A young male African now about four
, teen years of age is daily engaged dur
ing the summer months in carrying the
children and other visitors about the
garden and there has never been an
accident with him. Mr. Selater ex
presses the opinion that the African
elephant should be preserved as the
proper beast of burden to open up the
trade routes in the interior of the Afri
can continent, and suggests' that a
kheddah of Indian elephants and their
attendants be transported to the east
African coast and that the Indian ele
phants be set to work to capture and
tame their African brethren. It is
noted, moreover, that den. Gordon,
just before the fall of Khartoum, wrote
a letter in which be strongly advocated
the dorausticftUop and n of the. frl.
can elephtut. . ,