I I I mi M'tll ll'M HI M I ll lt 1 1 Kl 1 1 til 1 1 M l 1 1 1 I I'M I N l Z 1 - I The persistent wooing lover Is the one who gets the maid ; And the constant advertiser Gets the cream of all the trade. z : s lwWftMH.1 .rMiii.44 LM 1 1 Mil H I I MiM I MM. IIIM. HIM la PAPER MlilltHIHJIIillM'MIII'lll.llltllf'lJMIIIIIttlirKlill.ia i Tlie man who tries U advertise With printer's ink consistent, f I One word must learn nor from it turn, I And that one word's persistent. OFFICIAL i S M.IJlli.1 VI 1 1 1 M 1 1 llMi TKI' I M1 Vtf Ml 1 1 1 I IIW.IM. TWELFTH YEAR HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1894. WEEKLY rfO. 6!1.( SEMI-WEEKLY NO. 2S5. SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE. Tuesdays and Fridays BY TOE PATTERSON PUBLISHING COMPANl V $.5 per year, $1.25 for aix months, 75 ots. .or three inmitns. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. 'the "BA.CH.E," of Long Creek, Grant (Jounty, Oregon, is published by the same com pany every Friday morning. Subscription price, T'2 per year. For advertising rates, address ORXair Xj. PATTEKSOiT, Editor ftlid Mm-tiger, IiOnf? Creek, Oregon, or "Gazette," Hppuer, Oregon. rpinHPAPKKiskept on tile t E. C. Pake's I AdvertisiDR Atfenoy, H4 and B5 iVlflrohiuite Kxchangs, San Francisco, California, where co.i rueut for advertising can be made for it. Union Paofio Railway-Local card. No, to, mixed leaves Heppner 9:45 p. m. daily exoept Sunday li), " ar. at Willows Jc. p.m. tt, ' leaves a. m. " It, ' ar. at Ueppner 5:00 a. m, daily Accept Monday. Knst bound, main line ar. at Arlington 1 :26 t. m Wnt " " " leaves ' 1:1 a. m, Wst bound loial frich' leaves Arlington 8H5 a. in,, arrivea at The DilleB l:ir p. ru. Local pasmmgHr leaves TV Dalles at 3:00 p. in. arrives at Portland at 7:00 p m. Hutted Btates Officials, I'lM-iident Gntver Cleveland Vio-l'rw.detit Ad ai 8tevHisin fc(Wory of .State Walter Q (iron ham S.-'-rntary of Treasury John G. ('iirlisli Herniary of iuterior Hoke Smith iSnrelarp of War Daniel 8. Laniont H-vro'ary of Navy Hilary A. Herbert hwi maer-General Wilson H. ltitwll Attorney-General. Richard 8. Olney Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton State of Oregon. Governor 8. Pennoyer Secretary of State G. W. Muflnde iVeaar-rtr Phil. MptBhan B'ipfc. Public Instruction K. B. McKlroy t J. H. Hiiohel mto"i j N.Holuh (V.nireeamen j w mi9 Printer. Frank i . Maker )V. A. Moore W. P. uord it. 8. Hoan S-vfiltl .luduial I MM riot. P. it nit -indire W. L, Brudnhtiw F'ro'rttJutiDj.' Attorney A. A. Jayuo Morrow Comity Officiate. (.tint Heaator...-. A, W. Gowan Uopreaentutive.... J- 8. Bonrhby i,uut Judge Julius Keithly Oommissioileri J. B. ttoward J. M. Baker. " Clerk i W. Morrow " Sheriff G. W. Harrington ' Triwsorer Prank Gilliam AfHessor J. '. Willi " Surveyor Geo. Lord fltubool Sup't Anna Halsiger kroner T. W. Ayeru, Jr HUPFNKR TOWN OFFI0BI18. Mnvut P. O. Bor V'.nmcilmoH O. E. Farntworth, Mi Li:htenthal. Otis Patterson, Julius Keithly, - W, A. Tohnbton, J. L. Yeager. Hecorder F. 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President EoDEiotrEZ of Costa Eka has been unsucoeb&ful in his attempt to borrow if l .ooo. 000. He will meet with wide sj'ujp'Athy. Paii. dk Cassaoxac is nearly fifty years old, but does not look his ape. 'Some twenty-odd duels have left no trace on the tall, squarely bjiit atmre and dark imperious face." But tUeu those vrm French duels. 2T eili, WVTwmui oays Massizr-JCM; mm HLIi!l!.,::lrfr ABOUT CONSUMPTION. It la Declared to Be a Contagious Disease, An Annlent Theory KeTtvett Through Scientific InTestlBatlon No Prorl alona Against (Joutaglou Can Be Made. The Philadelphia County Medical so ciety has petitioned the board of health of that city to put consumption of the lungs on the list of contagious diseases, says the Baltimore Sun. The request has awakened interest in the old question of the contagiousness of consumption and incidentally on the general subject of infection and con tagion. Some of the diseases which flesh is heir to are contagious in every sense of the word. A contact so slight that it does not even reach skiu contact, but merely with the air which smallpox patients breathe, is sufficient to cause smallpox in man. So, too, mediato contact that is to say, the handling by the well of material touched by the sick has been proved to be the cause of many diseases, of which erysipelas and scarlet fever may be cited as examples. The products of certain other diseases typhoid fever, for example require to be taken into the economy to become maleficent. Still others, such as glanders, must be introduced into the blood current itself before they are dangerous. These facts have been proved by long ob servation and are not to be disputed. A horseman treats a case of glanders with perfect security, provided his skin is whole or is protected. A nurse or a doctor stays for hours in the room of the typhoid patient and suffers no hurt. The older doctors, therefore, set these diseases to one side as in fectious, but not contagious, for it was equally evident that they were carried from patient to patient, not through the air, but through other, and to them unknown, means. The discoveries in bacteriology have settled many questions, but have un settled many others which were sup posed to have been fixed forever. Among other things it has broken down the barriers between contagious and infectious diseases. All tlte dis eases which have been mentioned are now believed to be caused by germs of vegetal origin, some of which are known, others of which are only sus pected. The explanation of the bac teriologist as to tlie di.Herenefl in Helf eiiect ou tne human organism is aim ply that of the Bible. Some gcvms fall on good ground and multiply, others on stony ground and fail to grow, or wither at once. When a typhoid germ is breathed into the lungs it perishes just as do the myriad of other germs which we daily breathe. It is far other wise if it is swallowed with the food or drink, and ilnds after running the 'rauntlet of the juices of the stomach a suitable place for growth in the intes tines. The germ grows and multiplies, and the ordinary phenomena of the disease result. This will give a gen eral idea of the simple and apparently complete answer to many of the vexed tuestions which puzzled the older doc tors. Unfortunately the practical diffi culties are not entirely removed by the theoretical explanation, and espe cially is this true of consumption. Even if it is granted that the disease al ways originates from a germ, and that this germ came from some previous case of the disease, tlie fact that so many escape where almost all are ex posed shows that there must be other factors than the germ alone which cause the disease, or at least aid in its propagation. So far these other fao tors are almost unknown. That consumption was contagious was an old theory, and the Spaniards centuries ago were in the habit of de stroying the bedding and belongings of consumptives, and in some cases even the houses in which they lived, for fear of the spreading of the plague. That it is not very actively contagious is proved sufficiently by the fact that the dwellers in cities are alive at all, for statistic:, prove that from one-tenth to one-fifth of all the deaths in large cities are due directly or indirectly to the disease, and that consequently a number of sufferers from the disease must be present in every large gather ing of p( jple. Except in the later stages the patient is not confined to his bed. He iniugles in all the social and industrial avocations of life. Not infrequently he is "the life of the party" or the '"hardest worker of the office. " In the present slate of society, at least, such men cannot be con demned to a leper camp nor sent against their wills to a sanitarium, however excellent. The general fact that consumption is a disease which, under certain circum stances, may become contagious or in fectious, should be admitted. A suf ficient number of cases are known where the carrying of the dibcase from t he ill to the weU is clearly proved to demonstrate the general truth that consumption is sometimes contagious. This should lead to the most scrup ulous care on the part not only of tha physician but of the intelligent pa tient to prevent the spread of the dis ease. But any attempt to prevent such infection by quarantine regulation must almost necessarily prove abor tive. Dried Fruit YVelichts. The reason for the variation in the weight of dried fruits when packed in large or small packages ia the subject of an article in the London Orocer. CurraDts, being semi-dried, gain some- ' what in weight when in bulk, but! when packed in small cartons the ten- j dency is for them to lose weight. Sul-1 tana raisins are cured in boiling oii and gain weight when in small packages, i Valencia raisins are cured by being ; dipped into lye and diminish in weight both in large and small packages. Of course the apartment where the fruits j are kept has something to do with it, j and the paper constituting the wrap- j per may gain in weight, one grocer at i the MKtfeid reporting that bia "pound" I packugua weighed neventeen ounces. WAS PREPARED TO DIE. But Wueu the Time Came Ills Vision Failed to Come True. Some time since, says the New York Telegram, a certain farmer in the mid dle of this state, an eccentric old fel low the neighbors said, had a vision. Somebody appeared to him, a spirit, a hobgoblin or what not, and informed him that he had only a few months to live. The date fixed was in Novem ber. The farmer took the matter very seriously, but he had no fears, lie told his friends that he was about to depart, and began to get ready. He paid all his debts, which is more than even death can induce every one to do, and offered his farm utensils and his stock for sale. He wanted to clean things up handsomely, as every hon est man should do, and leave no en tanglements behind him. Among oth er things to be disposed of were two cows, but as he wanted to live com fortably while he did live he concluded to hold on to those cows until the last moment Oddly enough, now that the time of his exit is close at hard, he has had an otker vision. A new set of ghosts or hobgoblins have appeared to him and informed him that arrangements have been made to allow him to stay in this wicked world a little longer. He was rather relieved at the postponement of his funeral, but still felt a degree of einbarrassment.for pretty nearly every thing he had, wagons, horses and har nesses, rakes, hoes, axes, some cords of wood behind the house, had all been got rid of, and the farm looked as though it had just been abandoned. The old fellow is a bit riled, how ever. "This vision business," he said the other day, "has cost me dear," and he has been heard to use some rather strong expressions about hobgoblins in general and this particular hobgob lin that seems to have been playing a practical joke on him. He is specially glad that he didn't sell those cows. They are about all he has left, but they will serve as a nu cleus for the things he will have to buy in order to run the farm. When a Btranger comes along nowadays and says he would like to take a peep at those cows with a view to purchase them, the farmer comes as close to pro fanity as a country church deacon ever gets, lie thinks the swear words, but bites his tongue and remarks that he hasn't any eows for sale, but is thinking of buying a herd and goin(j into the dairy business. The moral of this is that hobgoblin are very useful creatures in their way! that when they tell you to pay your debts you had better follow their ad vice, but if they tell you you are going to die you had better take camomile tea and send for the doctor. At afy rate, don't part with your cows. FAMILY TRADITION COUNTS. A Domlnaut Force In the Politics anal So ciety of L,lttle Delaware. No resident of a great state can easi ly guess the feeling of local loyalty and of almost clannish pride common throughout the ennvnonwealth of Del aware, says the New York Sun. When Wilmington is left out of account the remainderof the state is peopled chief ly by a rural community, native to the soil and descended from ancestors often settled for two centuries within the bounds of the state. There are many families still holding lands under seventeenth century patents, lauds that have descended from father to son all those years without tke passage of title deeds. It is only a few years since a Delawarean about to remove to the west sold a piece of land that his ancestors had purchased from an In dian chief as tlie representative of his tribe. Long descent in Delawane is confined to no self-constituted upper class, but is the boast of all sorts of people. There are many ancient churches in Delaware, and probably every one includes within its congre gation some families descended from those that took part in organizing the church. Rural communities through out the state are curiously immobile. Surnames are few, and the region from which a man comes is easily guessed from his name. family traditions are jealously treas ured, and family traits reappear gen eration after generation. There is a numerous family in the northern coun ty famous from the fact that nearly all its male members have red heads and heavy red beards. The character is said to belong even to distant branches of the family in the west. Long de scent, though so common, is highly prized, and even where a family has sunk into disrepute the fact of a re spectable ancestry is held to make its members a little better than just every day newcomers whose conduct is no worse. Neighbors in Delaware have tenacious memories, and old family scandals are whispered about for gen erations. An old gentleman of blame' less life and excellent name never dared to become a candidate for public office because it was recalled that hp had been born out of wedlock. Geneal ogies are carried in the heads of hun dreds and old ladies often know the intricate family relationships of half the community. According to tradi tion, the Du Ponts, who have been making powder for a century, used to remember with satisfaction that an L-arly Bayard had been a hatter. Every community has local traditions of this sort and every man lives with the 'tnowledge that his family history is cnown to all who have good memo ries. Tattooing Ctlllro.L A French physician, who has found that the majority of deaths upon the battlefield arise from the bleeding to death of the wounded while waiting for the surgeon, proposes that each sol dier in the French army shall be taught where the orteries of his body are and how to arrest hemorrhages from them. In doing this he has found a use for that most useless of arts tattooing; a small figure of some kind bcLng tattooed over each artery, so that tlie soldier can at once see where to armlv the licature. Highest of U in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Absolutely pure "A MIGHTY MOOR. Appe&ranoe and Characteristics of the Sultan of Moroooo. The Every-Day Life of Mnley llasnan Who la at Present Engaged In a War fare with Spanish Colonists. Although Muley Hassan, the sul tan or chief of Morocco, wields but a nominal authority over the Riff tribes men now at war with the Spanish colonial settlement at Melilla, on the northern Mediterranean coast of Af rica, he is nevertheless the sovereign of that region, and he will be held by Spain responsible for the consequences of the present warfare. Muley Hassan is fifty -five years old. His demeanor is grave and majestic, as becomes a man knowing the impor tance of his double character, as em peror and pontiff, and a successor to the prophet, of whom he is a descend ant. His dark eyes arc large and ex pressive. His Moorish physiognomy, adorned with a flowing black beard, in which are seen some white hairs, re veals that in his veins runs the blood of the negro race united to that of the Arabs. He shows at the same time in his physical traits the evidence of an extraordinary firmness, mixed with a certain shadow of melancholy and las situde. He receives foreign ministers and shows himself in public with fastidious solemnity, says the Now York Trib une. One of the emperor's serv ants holds over his head a large para sol to screen him from the rays rjf the sun. Others are busy fanning him, in order to chase away the Hies so abun dant in that hot cliirmte( and all look at their lord as if he were a god rather than their sovereign." Edmunde Arai cis, who saw Muley Hassan during a reception of the Italian embassy, de scribes him as follows: "A vestment as white as the snow covers him from head to foot; the tur ban is covered by a high hood; the feet are bare and inclosed in yellow slippers. His horse is of high stature and very white, with green reins and gold stirrups. All this whitenesB and the wide, floating vestments gave him a sacerdotal appearance, a royal grace fulness and amiable majesty, in accord with the very gentle expression of his physiognomy." On account of the intolerance pre vailing in the Moorish empire, the function of a religious chief is the most important of those which belong to the sultan. If he did not show ab solute respect for the Mussulman or thodoxy of the doctrines of Mohammed, a revolution would soon turn him from the throne or gravely compromise his sovereignty. Muley Hassan observes, therefore, rigorously all religious prac ticesof the Moslem liturgy. Like all members of his court, he gets up at three o'clock a. m., in winter as well as In summer, to make the first prayers. After that his chaplain reads him some pages in the books of Bokhari, the famous Mussulman theologian, who is, in the opinion of all Moors, the best religious authority after Mohammed. The sultan and his ministers give audiences between five and six o'clock a. m., and it is at suah a matlnal hour that he receives Europeans. The mid dle of the day is given to rest and sleep, business being resumed ouly at four or five o'clock p. m., to stop at the hour of the evening prayer. When the sultan gets up in the morn ing and when he has slept during the "siesta" in the middle of the day his women help him to dress. Their num ber is very considerable. Home people affirm that there are two thousand of them in each of the three capitals of the empire, which are Fez, Mequinez and Morocco. But among all these wives the one who is really the favorite and the first in the heart of the emperor is a Circassian of marvelous and fascinat ing beauty, who is thirty years old and who has succeeded in dominating Muley Hassan, thanks to her talents, smartness and high culture. She has a EuroK'an education, speaks French and Spanish, and aspires to make her son Abdelazis the successor of theprea ent emperor. SCHOOL SYSTEM OF FRANCE. The Hrmmetry anil Working Are Hold to He Next Thing to Perfection. "Every child in Kranceat this hour,' says the complacent minister in the well-known story, "is studying the same lesson," and, according to the Fortnightly Review, it is practically the same for every undergraduate still. Uniform knowledge and uni form precision, with uniform justice for every young citizen, are thus se cured, and what are commonly reck oned the "essential qualities of the French mind" are unquestionably de veloped. Not only the symmetry, but tlie working of the fystcm is perfect; the grand armcc is gone, even the code has its uncertainties, new govern ment and principles come and go: but the University of France has sat as it was set, abovo the reach of time or politics, as beseems the mighty spir itual organization It is. Tliu body of the nation is in its outer court, its gov ernment classes are in the second and third. We recognize in England how largely the public schoolboy is fatherof the mini, but we must deepen this im pression tenfold to realize the national importance of the l.yctcu and his bac calaureate. One might write a good aecount of modern Fran in trmc of him alone the lyceen fullblown as literateur and critic, as artist and en gineer, as journalist and politician, as soldier and colonizer, and so on. In all such occupations, however, he has too much to do with the outer court; it is in the inner one, that of the doc torate, the aggregation, the diploma of the Ecole Normale Snperieure, that he fully blossoms, unspotted from the world. He becomes a professor or other functionary, for above all things the ambition of the conventionally well-educated Frenchman is to belong to some bureau or other. The profane call this inner court (with some ap proach to descriptive accuracy, it must be confessed) that of the "manda rinat," Its more erudite and authorita tive personages becoming "manda rins," and its humbler Levites "ronds de cuir," i. c., civil servants, viewed Ideologically as coverings for stools. So upon every mind in France there ia laid the dead hand of the great law giver. A VALUABLE RELIC. How the Mount Yrrmm Ladles' Associa tion Secured h VMliliijrtin Coach. In connection with the restoration of the old conch-house, which was entire ly rebuilt by Michigan during the past year, there is an interesting story of the search for one of Washington's old coaches to replace in the old quarters. Though a search was instituted a year ago in New York and Philadelphia for the lost coach, says the New York Postf there were no traces of it up to the date of the completion of the coach house in May. At that time Mr. Dodge, the superintendent at Mount Vernon, ascertained that a Washington coach had been sold from au auction room in Philadelphia to Forepaugh's Circus company for fifty dollars, and also that the Pennsylvania commituuoners had tried unsuccessfully to get it from the company last summer for the Colum bian exposition. Mr. Dodge immedi ately corresponded with Forepaugh's, and Barnnm & Bailey's circus com panies, and also with Mr. lirownlield, chairman of the Pennsylvania commis sioners. Mr. ltrowntleld used the large opportunities at his command in get ting on tlie track of the coach, and in June a letter was received from hiin to the elTect that the coach had been traced to the wreck of a circus train "in the west," and was probably a ruin. But the end was not yet. Sus pecting that he might have been mis led, Mr. Hrowulield renewed the hunt, which ultimately resulted in finding the coach safely stored away. Mr. Dodge at once opened negotiations for its purchase, but further proceedings were arrested by Mr. Brownfleld's re serving for himself the privilege of pre senting the coaeh to the Mount Vernon Lai1''"!' nssooiation. MACHINuo rOR BUSINESS. An Office Containing Appliances for Rapid Communication. "The desk of a business man nowa days Is quite a muss of machinery," said the manager for a commercial firm to a Washington Star writer. "Ob serve this one of mine for example "To begin with, here is a phono graph, into which I dictate all my let ters. Afterward a young woman who acts as my amanuensis takes the cylinders and copies them off. For communication otherwise than by writing, I have at my hand a small stand which supports a telephone. It is ornamental and movable. I put it out of the way or set it In front of me, according to my convenience. "With this little instrument I can talk from my desk with all the world. It is a long distance telephone, and with it I can call up Boston as easily as Baltimore. Besides, I hure at my other elbow a similar contrivance for communicating with the various rooms under my superintendence in this building. At a moment's notice I can make connection with any ono of them bv sticking the phi? into the proper place In this circuit board. "My desk is a center to which ever so many wires run for a score of dif ferent purposes. Some of them fur nish me with electric lights. Others give power to my electric fan. Over head you will notice a clock, which at noon every day is corrected by elec tricity from the naval observatory. My office is a nest of machines and wires, the latter reaching out to the utter most ends of the earth. For, by means of this telegraph sounder at my left hand, I can transmit intelligence to Europe, to India, to New Zealand, or to Hong Kong. It is not without rea son that this is called the age of me chanical civilization." Krulu rke a lilde. The engineer on a western New York train picked up a queer piibsenger re cently. Oue evening he saw something I come from the bushes at one side of the railroad, step upon the track and stand still between the rails. At first he thought it was a man, but when the rays of the headlight fell on the object he saw that it was a bear. The train was moving very fust and the engineer blew the whistle loudly, but the bear held his place calmly until almost run down and then stepped oil. This rash bear must have enjoyed its experience, for three times during the following week it ropuated the performance. Hut when it came out for the fifth time it had grown careless and tho cow catcher knocked it up In the air. Then the train was stopped and the train men searched for the bcur. But bruin had crawled away somehow Into a laurel swamp aud ik there yet, proba bly, but whether deo4 or alive uo one knows.