A Marvelous Aerial Globe.
One of the attractions planned for the
St. Loulfl World's Fair will be an serial
globe, 700 feet high. Some idea of it
magnitude ohd be obtained Bfter com
paring it with the popular Ferris
wheel, whioh is considered a crude affair
beside it. This statement is also appro
priate, after comparing the celebrated
Hostetter'e Stomaoh Bitters with the
other stomach remedies. Its 50 years'
record of cores ptite it so far in the lead
as a family medicine that the others are
considered crude affairs end hardly
worth a trial. Then don't delay longer,
as delay is always dangerous, especially
in cases of indigestion, dyspepsia, con
stipation, biliousness, insomnia, chills,
colds or malaria, fever and ague. The
Bitters positively OTires these ailments
as thousands have voluntarily testified.
Try it and see for yourself.
Three spiritualists who have
bsen Lo'ding "table rocking" pe
ances in Corvallis, have been or
dered out of the city by a com
mittee of citizens who fear a repe
tition of the "Holy Roller" craze.
The large tannery which has
been operating at Eugene, for sev
eral years, has been forced to seek
another location on account of the
scarcity of tan bark there, and al
so because of the exorbitant
freight rates out of that point.
Escaped an Awful Fate.
Mr. H. Haggins of Melbonrne, Fla.,
writes, "My doctor told me I had con
sumption and nothing could be done for
me. I was given up to die. The offer of
a free bottle of Dr. King's New Discov
ery for Consumption, induced me to try
it Results were startling. I am now
on the road to recovery and owe all to
Dr. King's New Disoovery. It surely
saved my life." This great care is guar
anteed for all throat and lung diseases
by Slooum Drug Co. Price 50o and $1.00
Trial bottles free.
An nntn vn man, without Any
menns of identification upon him,
committed suicide at Woodburn,
"Wednesd ty, hy taking laudanum.
He had failed to t-ecure work and
was deipo jdent.
Better Than Gold.
"I was troubled for several years with
chronio indigestion and nervous debil
ity," writes F. J. Green, of Lancaster,
N. H. "No remedy helped me until I
began using .Uleotrio Eitters, which did
me more good than all the medioine I
ever used. They have also kept my
wife in excellent health for years. She
says Electric Bitters are just splendid
for female troubles; that they are h
grand tonio and invigorator for weak,
run down women. No other medioine
can take its Dlace in our family." Tr
them. Oo!y50o. Satisfaction guaranteed
by Slooum Drug Co.
The Washington Home Com
pany, of Spokane, similar to the
Fraternal Ilomebuyers, is also un
der the ban of the postoffice de
partment and cannot send its ad
vertisements through the mail.
Nearly Forfeits His Life.
A runaway almost ending fatally,
started a horrible ulcer on the le of J.
B. Orner, Franklin Grove, III. For four
years It defied all doctors and all reme
dies. Bat Eocklen'a Arnica Salve had
no trouble to cure him. Equally good
for burns, brnises, skio eruptions and
piles. 25o at Slooum Drug Co.
The Knights of Maccabees will
build a two story building at
Rosebarg this season to cost 815,
000. Ethel Crusan,an 18. year-old girl,
whe eloped from her home at Eu
gene, last week with a worthless
vagrant, has been found in Port
land and returned to her home.
Mysterious Circumstance.
One was pale and sallow sod the other
freeh and rosy. Whence the difference?
She who ia blushing with health uses
Dr. King's New Life Pills to maintain
it. By gently aroaaing the lazy organs
they compel good digestion and bead off
constipation. Try tbem. Only 25c at
Hlooam's drag store.
The board of United States gen
eral appraisers has decided that
duty cannot be charged on pulp
wood from the province of New
Brunswick.
ODD SECRET SOCIETY.
Indiana Women Have a Secret and
Won't Tall It.
Hen' of the Town Have Been Trying
for Twentr-Twu Years to Learn,
the Meaning of S. T. J. 31
But In Vain.
A peculiar society, which for 20 years
has been a standing contradiction of the
old libel that a woman cannot keep a
secret, exists at Westfleld, Hamilton
county, and bids fair to prosper for an
other 20 years, despite the shafts of ridi
cule which from time to time have been
hurled against it, reports the New York
Sun.
Twenty-two years ago a number of
the men of the village formed a literary
society.' Just for fun they decreed that
no yoman should ever become a mem
ber. A clubhouse was built, meetings
were regularly held and the leading
periodicals were read and discussed.
The organization limited its member
ship to the intelligent class and soon be
gan to exercise a decided influence.
After the first year some of the wom
en in the community applied for mem
bership, but none was ever admitted. It
was always explained that it took a
unanimous vote to elect a new member,
and that there "was just one dissenting
voice" when the name of the woman ap
plicant was presented.
Two years later a company of ladies
met and formed the S. T. J. M., and they
decreed that the meaning of these let
ters should never become public. Each
member was solemnly pledged not to
reveal the secret, and for 20 years the
S. T. J. M. has been in existence, and
there is not a man in Westfleld who has
any idea what the four letters mean.
From time to time the membership
has changed as the women married and
moved away and other members have
been added, but no one yet found, be she
mother, wife, daughter or sweetheart,
has revealed the meaning of the mystic
symbols.
When Mrs. Sarah Jackson applied for
a divorce, charging neglect, and thehus
band contested the suit, alleging among
other things that she had concealed from
him the meaning of the letters S. T. J. M
and had spent too much time at the
meetings of the society, it was thought
that the mystery would certainly be
solved at the trial. But Mrs. Jackson
refused to state what the letters stood
for and the court ruled that the name of
the society was not material to the tes
timony.
Mrs. Jackson got a divorce and ali
mony, and her ex-husband declared that
the letters stood for the "Society of Tat
tling, Jabbering Matrons." But thia
definition was not accepted by any but
the soreheads of the community.
Several years ago a young man named
Crawford went to Westfleld and was em
ployed in one of the stores. He invested
his earnings in a horse and buggy and
was the envy of many of the other young
men because they could not afford such
a luxury and the newcomer could com
mand the company of any young lady
or a Sunday afternoon drive. But when
Myrtle Taylor turned away from him
and married John Winrrate, a farmhand
near the village, the other boys taunted
him by asking him how he liked the So
ciety of Thankless, Jilting Maidens.
For years this was the acceptetd name
of the society among the younger class.
Every initial in the name has been tor
tured Into something derogatory to the
society, according to individual taste.
"J" has bpen made to stand for Jealous,
Jaunty, Jilting, Jabbering. Jaundiced;
"T" for treacherous, tattling, teasing,
troublesome, tiresome, and "M" for
mothers, matrons, maidens, misan
thropes, makeshifts, martyr, match
makers and the like.
But the name is still a secret, and no
amount of coaxing or threatening has
sufficed to induce a member to reveal it.
MOSQUITO IN WINTER.
Juut Sleeps Awhile and Cor. a. Oat
Fresh for Hmalne.a la Warm
"Weather.
A fresh contribution to mosquito lit
;rature is a pamphlet issued by the
board of health of Belmont, Mass., for
the instruction of the people of that
town in dealing with the nuisance. It
is written by William Lyman Under
wood, lecturer in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The pamphlet
advises the use of kerosene on all wa
ter where the mosquitoes may breed
and of pyrethrum powder in the house
to kill or stupefy the adult mosquito.
Prof. Underwood says:
"It is very generally believed that
mosquitoes bite but once and then die.
rhis is sometimes so; but unless they
are killed in the act of bitingthey usual
ly live to bite again. The female mos
quito (for it is only the female that
attacks human beings) bites many times.
It Is owing to this fact that they are
able to convey the germs of malarial
fever from person to person.
"The vast majority of mosquitoes
never get human blood for food. In Its
absence they live upon the bloods of
birds and other animals, and, when they
are not to be found, upon the Juices of
young and tender plants.
"It it not known Just how long mos
quitoes can live, but their average life
is much longer than ia ordinarily sup-
posed. Thousands of them live through.
the winter hibrn ntlng or asleep in dark
places in bun.: r house
sparsely settle' illties.
cannot (i: t r 'es for
live throtu r. i-
in caves c .. t dor up
and even ; , . ten
cellars. In
wlure they
r, they
re os,
rc is;
r ; ure may
fall far br.iow lru
Lig they are not whi
ter killed, but oi. iae approach of warm
weather become act he again. AJosqui
: toes are frequently seen tlying about in
I the woods before the snow has wholly
left the ground."
Hrotin Working In Dellrlnm.
Medical records in the various hos
: pitals show that though quite forget-
ful of recent happenings, aged persons
recall lone-oast events in correct or
der, and even live again amid scenes
passed utterly out of recollection be
fore the disease of senility appeared.
A woman of 70. delirious from pleuro
pneumonia, repeated poetry in Hin
dustani. It developed later on that
up to the age of four she : new only
that language, but afterward had for
gotten even that she ever spoke it.
Another peculiar case on record is
that of an illiterate maid servant who,
while in the delirium of fever, recited
Greek and Hebrew for hours, although
when in health she knew no word of
either language, her ravings being due
to the brain impressions left by th
readings heard many years before of
a learned rabbi whose servant she had
been.
Convincing.
Thespis When did the star stoF
complaining that the scenery and
stage property were not realistic
enough?
Foyer When he accidentally fell
through the trap-door. Judge.
Sugar in Franc.
The price of sugar in France has re
cently been reduced by less than half,
and the consumption has been nearly
doubled. Formerly sugar was a luxury
which rarely reached the homes of
many workingmen, but now Its use Is
much more common.
WHO FIRED FIRST SHOT?
Gunpowder Hm Dean In Uae for Cen-tnritt-Known
to Hindoo De
lor Birth of Chrlat.
There is abundant evidence that the
origin of gunpowder and artillery goes
far back into the dim. ages of the past.
The Hindoo code, compiled long bp
fore the Christian era, says Stray Sto
ries, prohibited the making of war with
cannon and guns or any kind of fire
arms. Quietus Curtius met with fire
weapons in Asia, and Philostratus says
that Alexander's conquests were ar
rested by the use. of gunpowder.
It is also written that those wise men
who lived in the cities of the Ganges
"overthrew their enemies with tem
pests and thunderbolts shot from the
walls." Julius Africanus mentions
shooting-powder in the year 275. It was
used in the siege of Constantinople in
6C8, by the Arabs in 690, at Thessalonica
in 904, at the siege of Belgrade in 1073,
by the Greeks in naval battle in 1008,
by the Arabs against the Iberians in
1147, and at Toulouse in 1218.
It appears to have been generally
known throughout civilized Europe in
1300, and soon thereafter it made its way
into England, where It was manufac
tured during the reign of Elizabeth; and
we learn that few arms were possessed
by the English in 1310, and that they
were used at the battle 6f Crecy in 1346.
MAY DESERT LONELY ISLAND.
Inhabitant, of St. Kllda, of Hebrides
Oronp, Said to De Planning Mi
lt rat ion to South Africa.
That lonely island, St. Kllda, one of the
loneliest of the Hebrides, is likely to be
left lonelier still in the near future. Its
inhabitants, it is reported, propose de
erting the Island and emigrating to
South Africa. This is not much to bo
wondered at, for St. Kilda is one of the
most inaccessible islands in the world
only four times a year, once a month
in June, July, August and September,
does a steamer call from Glasgow. For
the rest of the year the inhabitants are
entirely cut off from the outer world.
Their special mail is in a tin box, into
which they put letters, toss it Into the
sea and trust to Providence and favor
able winds to carry it to the shores of
the outer Hebrides. The population of
the island has gradually dwindled to li.
The last time.there was a great exodus
was when 36 islanders left In a search
for gold in Australia.
XnKr and Coffee (or Soldiers.
The British government has decided
to be more liberal with Its soldiers and
I sailors in giving them sugar and coffee.
Among the experts in such matters the
belief has bpen gaining ground for years
that moderate allowances of sweet
stuff and of the Arabian berry are ben
eficial to strong, healthy men who are
called upon to perform heavy tasks and
endure hardships, while the entire med
leal profession appears to be inclined to
the theory that weak and feeble men.
women and children should, as a rule,
refuse such Indulgences.
Dountjr for White Labor.
In the interest of making Australia
"a white man's country," a government
bounty Is paid for sugar grown by white
labor. Of the last year's sugar crop of
100,000 tons seven-tenths was produced
by Kanaka black labor.
c
8
The Kind You Have Always
in use for over 30 years,
and
Sas sona supervision since its infancy.
''CCcCJtZ XtvMwt niitt frk rl aoai'va vnn in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
7
Bears the
The KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THC CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MURRAY STREET, NEW VORR CITY.
Eighteen carloads of China silk,
weighing 1000 tons and valued at
$2,000,000, has just arrived in New
York over the Cannd t ine i via
Vane uv?r.
Now it is deuied tb.it-; Russia is
trying t- rniso money by fc reign
loans, or tliHt she has tried to, and
it is claimed I t-r dome-tic re
sources aie ample.
CARR & COX
CONTRACTORS
and BUILDERS
Plans and Specifications
Furnished
Housemovlng a Specialty.
HEPPNER, OREGON
TICKETS
TO AND FROM ALL
POINTS EAST
VIA
GREAT
NORTHERN
RAILWAY
SHORT
TO
LINE
ST. PAUL, DCLOre, MINNEAPOLIS, CHICAGO
And Points East.
Through Palace and Tourist Sleepers,
Dining and Buffet Smoking Library Care
Daily Trains;
Fast Tirre; Service and Scen
ery Unequaled.
For Rates, Folders ant. Full information re
gardin tickets, routes, etc call on or address
J. W. Phalon, T. P. A, H. Dickson, C. T. A
122 THIRD ST. PORTLAND.
A. B. C. DENNIS! ON. O. W. P. A.,
612 First Avenue, .... Seattle, Wash
Johnson & Nilson
Conti actor
and Builder
Estimates Furnished
on Application.
HEPPNER, - ORE.
Bought, and which has been
has borne the signatnre of
has been made under his per-
Signature of
Oregon
Shoreline
and Union Pacific
Onlv Lino KAST via.
SfILT LIKE anil DENVER
TWO TRAINS DAILY.
Daily
Departs
TIME SCHEDULES
Hkppnkk, Or.
Dally
Arrives
Fast Mail For
East and West
Fast Mail From
Ertfit and West
Express Kor
East and West
Express From
East and Wen
8:15 a. m.
5:15 p. m,.
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STEAMER 'JNES
HAN Francisco roR-.liAND RoT
sails from Portland 8 m every 5
k. steam
days.
Boat service between Portland, Astoria,
urogon city Dayton Kalem, Independence,
d?T r- all Columbia and Willamette
River poi ftl8i
SNAKE RIVER ROUTE.
Stwimers between Kiparia and Lewiston leave
Riparia daily at 4:40 a. m., returning leave
Lewiston daily, except Monday, at 8:30 a.ru,
FRED HART, ARent, Heppner.
A. L. CRAIG,
General Passenger Agent, Portland
Genuine
Comfort
is assured in the luxurious
Library-Buffet-Club Cars and
the roomy compartment sleep
ing cars on the :::::::
North
Western Limited
"The Train for Com fo t"
every night between Minneapolis,
St. Paul and Chicago via
Before starting on a trip no matter
where write lor Interesting Informa
tion about comfortable traveling.
- H. L. SISLER,
132 Third Street, Portland, Oregon.
T.BW. TEASDALC,
General Passenger Agent. St. Pal. Minna-