A SLIP OF THE TONGUE. It Soandrfsd Strange, IIn ( oikld eri Jf th Situation There Wa Noth liilt' HnirUnllf About It. A matron of Mount rieasant, through tin need of a lead pencil, furnished no end of embarrassment to herself and jrreat amusement to Ihe passengers of a FourtecntV.street ear oik- morning lately, says the Washington I'ost. She evidently had i'ome down town, as her attire would indicate, for the express purpose ot sh.)i;j)ii,tr. and the conspicuous bag w : '.. r'.f carried was plainly in tended to play an important part m the lour, expressing, as it were, the ina I ron's independence of the pleas ure of the delivery wagons. As the car neared the business part of town it became somewhat crowded, and the conductor's re :picst to "bit closer, plea.se," had rendered every one's discomfort plainly apparent. Particularly true was it to the tall, stately, weil groomed man who sat nxt to the re.-ident. of Mount Pleasant, all of v,hnh seemed to be her cue to begin funii-l'iig around in the deep bag. and finally extracting the inevitable shop ping iist which was carefully exam ined and again placed in the dark re ctus es of the bag. Then the matron suddenly thought of something, so again the list saw the light of day. No, the article was not there, and from her attitude it must have been important and not to be f( rgotten, so the sea-rh for the lead pencil began, (luring whuvi t:m; the dignified gentleman had ery much more than his share of johing, which oftener than once in ttrriip. t d his review of the morning paper. However he was very goo. I r.atun'd about it, and every time the little wi man said "bee ihtiIimi" hi., j hand e:e! polite minted. a v :iil to reach Hi hat ami nod assured her that it win Put the lead p' Heil euih' l.ot be found. Pag ami n ekei book had been turned inside out. still it was nowhere to be seen. Withal sin was a modest little woman and seemed to hesitate about askin; tin i conductor or some one near her for a pencil. Put with a ipiiek resolve she gently touched her neihor's ;irm. "Peg pardon," she said, 'may 1 borrow your shoestrings?" Of course there was a general titter throughout the car. "Yiy shoestrings, madam?" said the nriM ocratie looking man. "Oh. did I say sdioest rings ! " ex claimed the little woman. "I meant your lead oei.eil; shoe strings is what I want to add to my shopping list." The little woman soon returned the j: m i! an. id blushes and thanks, and settled back in her seat determined to remain quiet until her destination was reached. Then the Willard was in .sight and the stately gentleman prepared to leave the car, the con ductor in the meanwhile having en tered it. "(iood morninj?, ienator," said the conductor, as his passenger passed out. Everybody, of course., looked at the little woman from Mount Pleasant, who had heard, too. HATS MADE OF RICE STRAW. New Indaatry About to Be Datab llabed bjr Japanese In the Southern States. According to Col. S. F. P. Morse, gen eral trallie manager of the Southern Pacific railroad, the Japanese colony at Port Lavaca will establish a plant for the manufacture of matting and hats from rice straw, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Japan ese are the pioneer rice growers of the world, and cultivate the staple on a more scientific basis than the Ameri can farmer. In Japan every product ;f the rice crop is utilized to some pur pose, while in the United States the ' planter relies entirely upon the rice pr; per for his home. " The Japanese of Port Lavaca," said f'o, Morse, "will soon begin the manu facture of Japanese matting and the finest of hats f ruin rice straw, and it is nly a question of time till our own rice planters in Texas and Louisiana will take up this industry, thus making 1 he sou? h the cent er of supply for mat ting and straw hats of the finest tex ture and manufacture. The best mat lir tjs in the world are made in .Japan, while the high, grades of the rice straw hats are known the world over. There arc several kinds of grass growing Jponir the trulf. so the Japanese tell me. li. at can be utilized for making mat tinsr f.f a good grade. They tell nie it is identical with that used in Japan for this purpose, and there is no reason why th. -hould not become a paying industry in Louisiana and Texas." STOLEN CAMERA LENSES. Kew Branch of Trade That Comes to the Pawnbroker In Whlcsh There la Great 1'ront. "The sale of camera lenses is a com paratively new branch of the pawn broker's trade," said a dealer in pho tographic supplies, according to the N.-.v York 'I in.es, "but a large number from thr.t source come to t he t rade to i- refitted with shutters and Hanges. A good lens costs any w here from $S0 to $150, and is as easy to raise money on as a good watch. Put you will no tice that lenses you see in raunbrok ers' windows are witl.ei IN roes. That is a sure sign the; been stolen. Very few sneak : w Miough 1o lift out the ! all, 'but they can get the N ; i f 'i way with it by a simph ' wrist. If a man who o i ra were to take his naked lei, w n- shop and say he owned il : not be believed, and would have i eCon tent with 1he extremely : II loan isually made upon a Mi 'in lens. Pawnbrokers are willinir to take .'hances with them, because the risk if detection is almost nil Mid the profits greater when they n ake a sale. Amateur photographers who know their business can pick up a good many bargains in the New York pawnshops." AUSTRALIAN TEA BK IK KIRS. DrlnU the- rtrew All Day Lmnitc and at a Strength That Would Seem to lie I'olionuni, In the interior of Australia all the men drink tea. They drink it all day long, and in quantities and at a strength that would seem to be poisonous. On Sunday morning the teamaker starts with a clean pot ami a clean record. The pot is hung over the fire with a sufficiency of water in it for the day's brew, and when this has been boiled he pours into it enough of the fragrant herb to pro duce a "deep, coffee-colored liquid. On Monday, without removing yes terday's tea leaves, he repeats the process; on Tuesday da capo and on Wednesday da capo, and so on through the week. Toward the close of it the great pot is filled with an acrid mash of tea leaves, out of which the liquid is squeezed by the pressure oV a tin cup. Py this time the tea is of the color of rusty iron, incredibly bitter and disagreeable to the uneducated pal ate. The native calls it "real good old post and rails." the simile being obviously drawn from a stiff and dangerous jump, and regards it as having been brought to perfection. SINGERS AND CROAKERS. An Indiana Farmer Who Conld Sup ply 11ms Sinner by the IHisen. The extent to which the agricultural portions of the middle west are now supplied with modern conveniences may be inferred from the story which follows: There came a ring at the tel- i ephone in a farmhouse m northern In diana one day last summer, and the farmer himself responded, relates Youth's Companion. "Hello!" he said. "Hello!" said the voice at the other end of the wire. "Can you furnish me a bass singer for to-morrow night?" "A bass singer? Why, yes, I reckon so," answered the farmer, laughing. "What do you want one for?" "Peeause the one we've had up to now is sick. What would he your terms?" "Well, I usually furnish 'em by the dozen. I won't charge you anything for one. How do you want him sent?" "What are you talking about?" "Who do you think you're talkin' to?" "Isn't this the Indianapolis opera house?" "No. Thi is the Bar-atari frog farm." Can't Stop Tontcuea. A man in Cincinnati applied to the courts for an injunction to restrain the tongues of the gossips of the neighborhood. He learned from judi cial sources that there are some things beyond the control of the hignest hu man power. ROBINS EARN THEIR CHERRIES Deatroy Insect I'eata and Save Far More Fralt Than They Can Poulbly luniam. An orchardist at Fulton makes com plaint against the robins or "Jack rol ins" as he calls them. He ways they are nipping all the blossoms off his cherry trees. They just strip the trees, and the ground beneath them is tv hite with blossoms. He says the wicked birds tear the hearts out of the blos soms and then, bite the stems in two and let them fall, and fears that his sherry crop will be ruined, says the Portland Oregonian. A member of the John Purroughs society win ' as been applied to for information on this sub ject says the orchardist is mistaken; if. the robins do cut off any bloossoms it is only defective ones, or such as have insects in them, and that the birds are doing good instead of harm. He says he puts up nests of boxes among his trees to enable birds of any kind, even sparrows, to make their homes on his grounds. He say s that bird help themselves to a few cherries when ripe, but they are welcome to them, as they have earned them by destroying insect pests. It is hoped that this in formation will satisfy the orchardist. Lit is doubtless correct, for if robins were as destructive as he imagines there would long ago hat.e ceased to be any cherries in Oregon, while the fa t is that the cherry crop is large almost every year, ar.d of great value. The birds must not be condemned on false or mistaken testimony. War auie Hi France. Paris, Sept . 7. The grand Autumn maneuvers of the French army began t .day in the Central and Southwestern lepartments, w ith Clermont-Ferrand, Montelmar, Kpital, Dijon and Hethel as i1h chief strategic points of the opera ions, in which four armv corps, com prising more than 120,000 men, are par- 1 ci pating. The past few days liaye ben employed in the preliminary operations, the mimic . .. i fare beuintuug dav in the vicinitv i O'ange. wI'-m- the bulk of one of 'be , noes is concentrated, and it Monle u, ,i . where a e.i' al'V action lias D-en in l: 'S.'re-S. In spite of n min, which lias greatlv marred the operations, the troopB are eported to have suffered much from the i'eat, and many cases of sunstroke have occurred, as mtny as Go so'diers in one eminent havintr been taken to the hop. nital. Several fatal cases of sunstroke recurred today. War Minister Andre today gava a eception to the f rign officers and military attaches to the embassies and legations here, who will attend the maneuvers. The United States is repre- sented by Capt ni L. P. Mott, military utt-.wliH in tlio Parin embassy. The foreign officers will leave Paris tomorrow jir Orange, which they will make their headquarters during the maneuvers, be- ing taken in autotnobiies to the scene of the dys operations, where they will be provided with horses by the Ministry of vNar. They will be entertained at luncheon one day by General Metzinger, who is in charge of the maneuvers, and one o' her day bv President Loubet at Montelmar. BUILDING IDEAS FROM JAPAN. Quick Work hy Manual Lnboren la VLtne v-ri b an Aiucird catn L'ontiMvctur. After an expenditure of several thousand dollars and four months of time in order to win a wager of $L'U from his friend, Charles W. (lindele that he couid not stay away from Chi cago long enough for a trip to tne orient, even if he were not afraid t cross the Pacific, Contractor Jostph Downey is home again, uncertain still as to whether he may not have (ricked uji an men or two in Vokaharna thai would oe applicable to nuildiny in Chicago, reports the Inter Ocean. '1 never saw anything more inter esting in the contracting line than in an excavation of about i'.O.OOO yards of earth in Yokohama," he says. "At a first glance at the work there are endless miles of laborers, moving in slow lines, each man with a pole over his shoulders to the ends of which are slung two small baskets. The diggers at work in the pit shovel three spades full of dirt into each of these baskets, and with this 'brad' the man moves on after those filing away in front, dumping his baskets finally a full quarter of a mile away. "Talk about machine labor. In Nagasaki harbor I saw long lines of women and girls, using Oaskets, pass l,4l) tons of coal into the hold of our steamer in less than seven hours. "The novelty of this was the woman and girl labor. The men did the shoveling of the coal into the baskets. These baskets were rounded on the bottom and without handles. As soon as one of them was filled it was picked up by a woman and passed in a twinkling to the next woman in line, and so on, till up the steep steps of the deck the baske would reach th' hole in the side of the steamer, through which the coal would be dumped into the hold. It was an example of the humanizing of the elevator system anil there was not a break in the chain in those seven hours of loading. I don't know what the time is tor such work as this in Chicago, but this looked like fast enough work for any place on the map." CiMldled Oyatrra. Put a small tablesponnful of butter in a .aueepan; when melted pour in enough tomato catsup to nicely covet the number of oysters to be used; when it begins to bubble add the oysters and cook for two minutes; pour on slices of toast and serve t once. Detroit Free Press. There Are Others. An English countess has found out that the lord she married is bogus. This looks, says the Chicago Record-Herald, like a pretty strong vindication of A lot of American girls. StiKKeat 'on 'or r,v 'oplely. A hall-h aded men's, club has been formed in ( lev. land. Isn't i ;it,oiit tiim . asks the ( I.icago Kecord-Ib raid, for the p- pic who w 1 ar glass ey es to get togethtr? Sun Worse Thau Mullet. Corbetha, Saxony, Sept. 7. Eighty thousand men in full war uniform, with the heat 120 degrees in the sun are tak . . . ing part in the Autumn maneuvers here. The ambulances are nearly as busy as - in real war, picking up stricken soldiers ... instead of wounded men. Two Saxon army corps are engaged against to Prussian corps, in the valley of the Saale, the field of strategy em- bracing Leutezen, wherein 1813 Gus- tavus Adolphus of Sweden defeated the Austrians and lost his life; Rossbach, where Fredrick the Great in 1757 de feated the French under Marshal Soubise, and Gross-Goerschen, where the Rus sians and Prussians fought the French. Fredrick William alluded, in talking to t,ie general today, to historic battles, and the distinguished characteristics of each The Saxons rose earlier than the Prus- sians this morning, and the Saxon cav- a-rv swam the Saale at three points be fore G o'clock, surprising the Prussians, who were on the left bank, ina thick fog, ann forcing them to retreat until they fell back on the main body. The Emperor will bivoukc with the troops tonight, and will lead an army to- ItlOrrOW The O. K. & N. steamer Indra velli, left Portland for China, Wed nesday, with 58,000 barrels of flour on board. OREGON'S BLUE RIBBON State Fair SALEM, September 14-19, 1903 The greatest Exposition and Live Stock Show on the Pacific Coast. High Class llncing Every Afternoon 12,000.00 CASH llti:ll 'TIS on live stock and farm products. All Exhibits Hauled Free over the Southern l'acific. Reduced transportation rates on all lines I.IVI: . STOCK . AIX'TIOM . S LI held in connection with fair. Fine camping ground free and reduced rates on campers' tickets. Come and bring your families. For fur ther information, write IH. I. WISDOM, si: III. TAK V, Portland, Oregon. Red Front Livery & Feed StaDles Stewart & Kirk, Props FIRST-CLASS LIVERY RIGS Kept constantly on hand ami can be furnishes on short notice to parties wishing to drive into the interior. First class : : HaGks and Bugyies CALL AROUND AND SEE US. WE CATER TO THE : : : : : COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS AND CAN FURNISH RIGS AND DRIVER ON SHORT NOTICE : : : Heppner. Oregon Notice. Notice is hereby given that in com pliance with City ordinance No 70, of the City of Beppner, Oregon, I have on the 9th day of September, A. D., 19('3, taken np a id impounded the following described animals to wit: One blaci; yearling colt, blaze in face. branded blotch W on right stifle. One b'ack horse, star in forehead, 12 year" old no brands visible. The above described animals will by virtue of said City Ordinance be sold to the highest bidder for cash in hand on Saturday the 19 dav of September at the City Pound, in Ileppner, Oregon, at the hour of 2 o'clock p.m., unless the owner thereof prove the property and py the impounding expenses thereof. Dated September 10, 1903. n. C. GUUDANE, City Marshal of Heppner, Oregon. 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Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory," us extended to all the Public Land .States bv act of August 4, lV.rj, Peter Hung, of Heppner, rounty of Morrow, state of Ore gon, Iras this day tiled in this office his sworn etateiirent No. Jii77, for the lurchase of the lot 4, Bird se1 svv'4 of sec SI. Tp :t S. R 'i K, W M.and will oiler proof to show that the land sought is more valuable for its timber or stoirt than fo.- agricultural purposes, and to establish his claim to said lard efore Vawter CrHwf d. Count. Clerk at Henntrer. Oroeoir. oil Fjidav. the 1Mb dH- of September, 1 ):;.' lie names as witnesses: 1'aul Hisler. Kri Iay, A.idv Cook a:id John Birsick. all of Heppner, Oretron Any and all persons claiming adversely the above rieser.tted lands are requested to tile thfir clnims ia this otlice on or before said lMh day of Septjinlajr, l.HU 46 ii E. V. Bartlktt, R oister.