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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1895)
tie1 llllil:M4Millil.illilttlKlii!ii:IMitl'i:Mt OFFICIAL PAPER iii:!)PIiiiiii i in i in i i.i 1 1 1:1 1 i niiriwii iri-i i in i mil iinr The persistent wooing lover Is the one who gets the maid ; And the constant advertiser Gets the cream of all the trade. The man who tries to advertise i 1 With printer's ink consistent, ' I I One word must learn nor from it tarn, f And that one word's persistent ! I . . - . 1 III I III 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M in 1 1 iimi.i1 THIRTEENTH YEAR HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1895. WEEKLY NO. 6?6. SEMI-WEEKLY NO. 315.1 lieMttff SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE. fCBUBHID Tuesdays and Fridays BT W PATTERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY. At fa.50 per rear, $1.25 for six months, 75 cte. lot three moncna. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application The BJLGHjE, " of Long Creek, Grant County, Oregon, is published by the same com pany every Friday morning. Subscription price. 12 per year. For ad vertlslng rates, address JRST Xj. PATTEBSMT, Editor and Manager, Long Creek, Oregon, or "Gazette," Heppner, Oregon, THIB PAPER is kept on file at . C. Duke's Advertising Agenoy, M and 85 Merchants Exchange, Ban Franoisoo, California, where cou . racta for advertising can be made for it. Union Pacfic Railway-Local card. No, 10, mixed leaves Heppner 9:45 p. m. daily xoept Sunday io, " ar. at Willows Jo. p.m. 9, " leaves " a. m. ' g, " ar. at Heppner 5:00 a. m, daily except Monday. East bound, main line ar. at Arlington 1 :26 a. m. West " " "leaves " MM a. m. West bound local freight leaves Arlington 8:85 a. m., arrives at The Dalles 1:15 p. m. Local passenger leave The Dalles at 2:00 p. m. arrives at Portland at 7:00 p. m. omCIAL EISEOTOBT. United States Officials. President Grovor Cleveland Vice-President Ad ai Stevenion Beoretary of Htate Walter Q. Gresham Heoratary of Treasury John G. Carlisle Secretary of Interior Hoke Smith Meoretary of War Daniel 8. Lamont Secretary of Navy Hilary A. Herbert Postmaster-General.. Wilson 8. Bissell Attorney-General Richard 8. Olney Secretary of Agrionlture J. Sterling Morton State of Oregon. Governor S. Pennoyer Secretary of State ,...G. W. McBride Treasurer Phil. Metschan Bnpt. Publio Instruction E. B. McElroy . ( J. H. Mitchel Senators JJ. N.Dolph , j Blnger Hermann Congressmen.... J w ft. e1Ub Printer I'rank C. Baker IF. A. Moore Bapreme Judges W. P. Lord ( B. 8. Bean Seventh Jadlcial District. Circuit Judge W. L. Bradshaw Prosecuting Attorney A. A. Jayne Morrow County Officials. Joint Senator A. W. Gowan Representative. J. 8. Bootbby knnty Judge Julius Keithly ' Commissioners J.R.Howard J. M. Baker. ro w " Clerk , J. W. Morrow " Sheriff .... G. W. Harnnirton Treasurer.... . Frauk Gilliam ; Assessor.... J. Willie Hnrveyor , Geo. Lord " School Sup't. .- Anna Balsiger Coroner ,ACf , T.W.Ayers, Jr BKFPNEB ' ' ' ' "SfFIOBBS. Mayor T0WN. P. O. Borg Councilmen ( K- Frnsworth. M LichUnthal, Otis-- .vJon, Julius Keithly. W. A. Johnston, S. Pwrwer. Uecorder F. J. 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Jaksbkn's life was made miserable by an extravagant wife, and his last years were passed in extreme want. JiAjf Cousin was originally a glass stainer, who left that business to be come the first historical painter of France. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Thkbb are three times aa many wid ows as widowers. Lettuce and onions, eaten just before retiring, cause sleep. Boilino tar, applied to masonry, makes it impervious to water. Seven thousand insects are required to make one pound of cochineal. Geoboe Bunbabt, a Dublin short hand writer, can record 250 words in a minute. Fully 4,000,000 people in this country are sustained by the wages earned by railroad employes. The redwood forests of California have become almost depleted by the de mand for railroad ties. Photographs have been taken of the bottom of the sea, fully five hundred feet below the surface. The apple grows wild in the Sand wich islands. There are forests of them, most of them neglected. Seventeen transatlantic cables have been laid, but only seven are in use. The others have given out. A catebpillab is so greedy that in one month it usually devours six thou aand times its own weight in food. NOT A MERE: FIGUREHEAD. Tleterla Said to Take aa Active and Bea efleeat Fart la Public Affairs. a corner oi ti.e veil whiun screens the inner life of royalty from the com mon gaze was raised the other day by Mr. Rentoul, M. P., at a meeting of la dies in support of the women's suffrage movement, says the Westminster Ga zette. Mr. Rentoul said his idea had always been that the queen was a merely ornamental sort of personage, who signed such documents as were submitted by her ministers, .and was restrained from doing any harm by constitutional safeguards. He had, however, recently made the acquaint ance of two lords in waiting, who have been in attendance on her majesty for many years, and the information he had obtained from this source had com pletely altered his views as to the in fluence exercised by the queen in mat ters of domestic and foreign policy, lie had learned that she is proficient in eleven European languages, and that she has during the last four or five years completely mastered Hindus tanee, in which she converses with great correctness and fluency with any of her Indian subjects who are pre sented at court. Her majesty frequent ly writes to every important sovereign in Europe, and her influence on the side of peace is said to have been very beneficial, her knowledge of foreign af fairs being most intimate and accurate. At several critical stages in the rela tions between European nations the queen's personal influence has been suc cessfully exerted to prevent war. It is even alleged in court circles that her majesty would have been able to pre vent the . Franco-Prussian war . if Emperor Louis Napoleon had not pre cipitated hostilities on the Rhine be fore any opportunity was afforded for mediation. ' t ' PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPY. Institution for the Training of Jewish Youth at Hanover. A novelty in practical philanthropy is described by V. C. Fox, formerly consul to UrunRwiclt, Germany, who has just returned to Washington. "During my visit to Hanover," said Mr. Fox in the course of a recent conver sation with a St. Louis Globe-Democrat correspondent, "I examined an insti tution for the training of Jewish youth. The institution is something entirely new. It has been established by Alexander Moritz Simon. Mr. Simon is the American vice consul at Hanover, where he is also a prominent banker. Those who have knowledge of the situation in Russia and Germany to-day fully understand that one of the chief causes of the anti-Semitic move ments in those countries is that the Jews are solely dealers and traders. This is because children naturally ac quire a taste for and follow the occu pation of their parents and other rela tives. "Mr. Simon told me," continued Mr. Fox, "that in his visits to the United States in 1882 and 1S90, he remarked the distressing conditions of the Jew ish immigrants, arising mainly from the fact that they were unable to per form such work as they could obtain from labor. Knowing no mechanical trade, they were of necessity driven ta peddling. Mr. Simon, some time ago, became convinced that if many of tha Jewish youth in Russia and Eastern Persia were properly taught trade, it would be the best answer to the chief argument of the anti-Semitic agitators. Actuated by this belief, he founded this institution. He has purchased aome seventy acres of land near the city of Hanover. The necessary build ing have been erected so that sixty boys can be accommodated. The prime object is to teach agriculture, garden ing and fruit culture in all their branches. Carpentering, locksmithing, shoemaking, baking and other trades will be taught. The movement and the institution have already received the hearty indorsement and assistance of prominent Israelites in Europe. There is every evidence that the ex periment will prove successful and pio neer the way for similar institutions in other parts of Europe." , ENGLISH SHEEP BHtEDERS. The Way In Which They Care for and Manage Their Moc'ci. Sheep farmers in England do not all follow the same methods of care and management of their tlooUw, cays John Jackson, of Ontario. In some auctions where they have shaded permanent pastures the sheep are allowed to roam at large for a portion of the season. In other parts of the country they are folded in hurdles summer and winter. , In some cases they are folded on grass land, and moved every day; in others they are kept in folds, the grass being cut and fed in racks in this case they are moved at regular intervals, so that in either case by this system the land is regularly and evenly manured. And again, in other cases, the laud is sown with vetches; the sheep are then folded on this land, the vetches being cut forward of the fold, and also fed in the racks. Another thing the flock masters are very particular about is to use nothing but a first-class ram, even in the flocks that are only kept for wool and mutton. They attend the ram sales and buy the best they can get. I know of a breeder that sold last year at the Cirencester ram sale forty rams that brought enough money to pay the rent on a good farm of eight hundred acres, and the most of these rams would be bought for crossing. But to determine just how far we can follow the English practice of management in our flocks we must first consider the different circum stances in which we are placed our hotter climate in cummer, the more in tense cold in winter, the smallncss of our flocks, cost of labor, value of the product, etc. Yet in many ways, to a certain extent at least, we would do well to follow their example in the care and management of their flocks. And, while the hot sun and severe frost may be against us to some extent, our climate as a whole is ahead of the English climate for the health and growth of sheep. SPENT MUCH MONEY. The Children of a Vienna Banker Who Had Money to Burn and Burned It. Princess Ypsilanti, who died in Vi enna a few days ago, belonged to one of the oldest families in Austria and was born in Vienna March 12, 1845. Her father was the late Baron Simon Sina von Ilodos und Kizdia, and her mother a member of the famous Rou manian family of Ghika. Baron Sina was the son of George Sina. the wealthiest banker in Vienna. Baron Sina received on his father's death 90,000,000 florins, or $45,000,000. This immense sum was divided on the death of Baron Sina between his three daugh ters, each receiving nearly $15,000,000. One of the daughters married George Mavrocordato, a member of one of the noblest families of Greece. The second married the spendthrift Due de Cas tries, a relative of the late Marshal Mc Mahon, of France. The third daughter, Ilelene, Novem ber 23, 1862, when she was but 17 years old, married Prince Gregory Ypsilanti, a native of Epirus and son of Deme trius Ypsilanti, whose valorous deeds during the Greek revolution made the name of Ypsilanti famous throughout the world. During the siege of the city of Nauplia, Demetrius, with a small body of Greeks, one night sailed forth and attacked the enemy, creating such terror among the Turks that they raised the sally the next day. Prince Gregory Ypsilanti was the Greek envoy in Vienna for many years. He was n man of independent means, aside from the great fortune brought to hiiu by his wife, and served his coun try for h . Her alone, refusing all com pensatii.r. for his duties as its diplo matic rcf w-'entatlve in Austria. Pri ici; . iv j'ury Ypsilanti died in Paris on February 20, 188(3, and was succeeded as head oi his family by his eldest son. Prince Emmanuel, who is now a lad of 10. Three weeks after his death the bankruptcy of the princess was an nounced, to the amazement of the aris tocratic circles of Vienna and Athens. Prince Gregory had been a man of ap parently quiet and retiring disposition, but he and his wife had managed to get rid of $25,000,000 in ten years, and the widowed princes found herself 4,000,000 in debt. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Personnel and Towers of Great Britain's Unpopnlnr Legislative Branch. The English hou;;e of lords (or peers) consists of the whole peerage of Eng land and of certain representatives of the peerages of Scotland an 1 Ireland; but, according to the St. Louis I'ost Dispatch, many of these last have also English titles which give them seats in the house. As, for instance, the duke of Buccleuch. a Scotch peer, sits as earl of Doncaster, and the duke of Leinster, an Irish peer, as Y'seount Leinster. According to the late J oliieial list, ex clusive of twelve minors and one baron, whose claim is not established, the present house of lords is composed as follows: Five princes of the blood, two archbishops, twenty-one dukes, twenty-two marquises, one hundred and fifteen earls, twenty-five viscounts, twenty-four bishops, three hun dred and four barons, sixteen Scot tish representativo peers elected for each parliament, and twenty-eight Irish representative peer elected for life. In all, five hnndrnd and sixty. All peerages are now hereiitary, but until 1S5'1 there were occasional crea- I tions of 1 if peerages. In that year. ; however, it was decided that such peers ! could not sit in the house, and since then none havj be .-a naile. Peerages are lost by attainder for high treason, rd an a'Uiut pecrag can only be Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE restored by act of parliament not by the crown. The house of lords may originate legislation of all kinds ex cept money bills, which must come from the house of commons. The for mer has also a veto power upon the legislation of the latter, and can throw out any bill from the lower house, no matter how large a majority it has re ceived there. It is this veto power which, more than any and everything else, makes the house of lords unpopu lar with the great mass of voters. AHEAD OF THE COWCATCHER. How the Klectrlo Headlight la Now TJsed on Numerous Railroads. The electric headlight is now used on many railroads, and W. B. Sparks, who is interested in a Fsuthern road, re cently told a writer for the Pittsburgh Dispatch that his company had found it a very profitable investment. The lights cost about three hundred and seventy-five dollars each, fixed on the locomotive, and they cost no more than the oil light to maintain. The old headlight would not throw its light on a very dark night more than one hundred and fifty feet, and it is impossible for an engineer to slow up his train in that distance, even with the emergency brake. Quite an item in the expense of the road used to be claims for cattle killed. During the rainy season the lands along the line of the road become very wet in places they are entirely covered with water and the cattle come upon the track seeking some dry spot on which to sleep. When the old headlight was in use as many as thirteen cows have been killed at one time and the damage claims have sometimes amounted to over one thousand dollars per month. Now the electric light throws its rays from half to three-quarters of a mile in front of the engine. Obstructions can be easily seen at that distance and some of the engineers insist that a switch disk can be more easily made out by it at night than in the daytime. The lights, moreover, do away with switch lights, which is quite a saving to roads that use them to any great extent. Mr. Sparks says that the en gines using the electric headlights on his road have never killed a cow, and he is confident that the saving in stock claims alone will more than pay for all the headlights on the road within two years. SAVING TIMBER IN MISSISSIPPI. Stringent State Laws for the Preservation of Forests from Extinction. Timber depredations, according to the New York Evening Post, have been stopped practically in Mississippi by a law which punishes offenders severely There are large areas of forest land there belonging either to the United States government or to the state, and the temptation to settlers in remote regions to enter upon them and help themselves to wood was often too strong to be resisted. When drivers from federal land by deputy United States marshals, the timber thieves found refuge in the state forests, which were not so well policed, and by moving from the one territory to the other they contrived to escape arrest. The federal officers finally became so vigilant that timber stealing proved a dangerous business, and the thieves transferred all their operations to the state lands. The legislature thereupon passed the law referred to, and it has improved the morals of the people so much that some districts which former ly were the scene of wholesale depre dations are now almost free from the raids of poaching woodmen. The stat ute imposes a fine of two dollars per acre for each acre in every forty-acre sub-division of land upon which any trespass is committed. For the pro tection of private owners it also pro vides that for every tree cut down without their consent a fine of five dol lars shall be paid. WHAT A FLIRT IS. A Word Which Has a Queer English Derivation. I remember a long time ago hearing a singular definition of a term very well understood by most of us, given by an old Scotchman, who spoke with a strong accent. "What's a flirt?" said he. "A man who proposes and is re fused." How he came to be in such a sate of benighted ignorance is more than I can say, but so it was, and I am reminded of the story by seeing in a book that the verb "to flirt" means "to more to and fro with a pert motion, as, i A AAA ftTESii&alaLLiUl- f .-,-, av A Jn BEWARE f In I tat Inn trad is the , whole story about Kl AW HAFfER SOPA 4 S f3rfr"inrC 08ts M more thaa other pwlcaee soda never spoils W a 111 pdviyuvdi flour uinversaUyacsuiowledged purest In the world, p 4 Hifls only ty CEURCH k CO.. flew Write for Arm and Bammer n to flirt a fan." The fan being used for coquetting, those who coquetted were called "fan flirts." Lady Frances Shel ley introduced the word. While on this subject, says a writer in the New York Journal, I should like to mention, as the result of observa tioa, that flirts are born, not made, and that unless the faculty comes by nature, it is not very much use to try and acquire it, because not only does the effort recall sometimes the at tempted gambols of a cow, which only draw attention to the natural heavi ness and solemnity of the animal, but it is as likely as not that in putting on a manner and "ways" that are not con sonant with one's temperament, one may make hideous mistakes, just as when a very shy person tries to be cool and assured in bearing it happens often that the coolness seems like rudeness, and the assurance like inso lence. I don't believe we can really alter our natural selves even external ly, any more than we can change our physical appearance much without its being found out. It is the "ass in the lion's skin," after all. Very Falatahle. The Mexicans have a way of making a kind of hot bread, called tortillas, that is quite appetizing to a hungry man. The cooking utensils used in the making of it are simple in the ex treme, consisting merely of a smooth, flat stone about two feet long and a thin plate of iron. On the stone is placed a mass of corn that has been thoroughly soaked in alkali. This is mashed until it becomes a smooth paste. It is then taken up in small handfuls, patted into thin cakes and seasoned with cayenne pepper, after which each cake is wrapped in a leaf of corn and placed on the hot iron plate to bake over a hot fire. ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. The Quter Effect of Photographing Upon Some Slberlana. "I have witnessed a good many amusing incidents in the course of my career," said a New York photographer, the other day, "but I think the one that struck me as the most ludicrous occurred while I was in Siberia a few years ago. I had my camera with me, and spent considerable time in taking pictures of the people and-surrounding country. I had engaged the services of two native servants, and one day, having nothing better to do, I induced one of them to sit for his photograph. The fellow had never seen a mirror in his life, and I dare say had no concep tion of the degree of ugliness exhibited upon his countenance. At any rate he manifested no delight at seeing his picture, though his companion ap peared very much elated, and could not rest until I had taken his picture also. When the latter saw his picture he also seemed depressed. The portraits appeared to have brought to the minds of both strange revelations, and they retired to their tent in a thoughtful mood, each trying to smooth down the bushy locks which crowned their heads. Presently one of them came to me and borrowed a pair of scissors, and shortly after they re turned with scarcely a vestige of hair remaining on their heads and implored me to take their pictures again. The fruit of the camera was to them like the fruit of the tree of knowledge." What He Wanted. At the hospital the other morning, says Life, one of the patients was just recovering from an attack of delirium tremens, and, as is usual in such cases, desired to dress and go home more than anything else. It happened that one of the young ladies connected with the flower mission saw him, and, approach ing, said: "I have some beautiful roses here. Wouldn't you like some?" No response. Again she said: "Wouldn't you like to have some of these roses?" Slowly his head turned, and, slightly opening his bleary eyes, he said, much to the embarrassment of the young woman: "I'd a blamed sight rather have my punts." It is said by experts that practical, even-tempered' men usually write a plain, round hand, in which every let ter is legible, and that more ambitious men write hastily and carelessly. "Justice," remarked Jupiter, after he had read the morning papers, "you seem to be falling down pretty often these days." "Yes," replied the god dess addressed, regretfully, "I keep losing my balance." Detroit Tribune. York. Sold by grocers everywhere, f Book of raltmble J2cclpe-FET. . I v re I. i ft :