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.
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September 14-19, 1903
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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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Timber Land, Act June .7, ls'71?
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
TTNITKD STATES LAND OFFICE, LA
u niraucie, uregon. .liny 1.. I'.Nj.i.
Notice is hereby g veir tirat irr compliance
with the provisions of the net of Cnugren of
June 3. 1S7H, entitled "An act for the sale of
timber lands irr the stat.-s of Hlifo jiia. 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.