AT A MAORI FEAST.
An Odd Welcome and a Slip on the
Part of tbe Cook.
Telling of hra experience at a Maori
feast, the New Zealand correspondent
of London Public Opinion Bays:
Tbe Maori girls did a pretty welcom
ing dance, singing and dancing slowly
backward all the way till we got to
the inclosure around the meeting house
(whare purie), where the speeches were
to be made. Then the older people cut
amazing capers, shouted themselves
hoarse and made the most repulsive
faces you ever saw by way of welcome
to their chief. Chairs were put for ua
On the veranda of the whare, which
was prettily decorated with beautiful
palms.
After some time of this and the pres
entation of mats, etc., we were Invited
Into the whare to lunch. It was laid
most correctly on big tables with
cloths, but the menu consisted of roast
duck, chicken, beef and sucking pig
and, so It is said, potatoes, peas and
knemaros (sweet potatoes), cooked In a
Maori oven. I chose cold duck, with
peas and potatoes. The duck arrived
quickly, but the Maori girl who brought
It said, with broad smiles, "The pota
toes aren't cooked yet!" So my lunch
consisted of duck, bread and two
oranges. Just as I finished the potatoes
arrived in pretty plaited green flax
baskets.
OUR IGNORANCE.
That It Is Very Real the Things We
Don't Know Prove.
After all are we not still ignorant
of much which we feel we ought to
understand? Apart from the great
laws of electricity, light and heat,
about which we know something, but
certainly not all, are we not almost
hopelessly Ignorant of some of the laws
which govern the lives of animals? Do
we know, for Instance, what is the law
which makes it possible for a bee car
ried five or six miles from her home,
blind in a dark box, to find her way
back to the hive? What is the sense
exercised by the antennae of the vir
gin moth which, set out in a muslin
box on a lawn, attrrfcts suitors from
woodlands scattered away in all the
country round? What is the attraction
felt or choice decided upon by the
tendril of the climbing plant which
turns aside from the smooth wall to
catch at and wrap round the nail or
the ledge or the projection which Is to
help it upward? All that is unknown,
hardly even guessed at, and if there is
so great an ignorance of what can be
seen, is It logically to be argued that
there is not a greater ignorance of
what is unseen? One thing at least is
certain the reality of that ignorance.
London Spectator.
THE CENTO.
What the Word Strictly Means and
What It Menu In Poetry.
A cento is strictly a coat made of
patches. In pot'try it is a piece wholly
composed of verses or passages taken
from different authors and so placed
together as to form a new poem with a
fresh meaning of its own.
According to the rules laid down by
Ausonlus, author of the famous "Nup
tial Cento," the piece may be taken
from one poet or from several. The
Empress Eudoxia wrote a life of Christ
In centos taken from Homer, and Al
exander Ross used Virgil for the same
purpose.
The following are modern Instances:
I only knew she came and went (Lowell)
Like troutlets In a pool (Hood).
She was a phantom of delight (Words
worth), And I was like a tool (Eastman).
"One kiss, dear maid," I said anS filched
(Colerldsje),
"Out of thoso Hps unshorn" (Longfel
low). She shook her ringlets round her head
(Stoddard)
And laughed in merry f-orn (Tennyson).
.M-;v itntn
Open Itiver Cuiir .''lore Transpor
tation Competition.
Competition with both th O. K. A N
and the Northern Paci'ij in Kastern
Washington and floating the freight it
thus secures down the Columbia, by
w.ybfthe Portage Railroad, to Port
land; shutting out Puget .Sound and
insuring the business ot a large newly
developed area to this city, the Spokane
it Columbia River Railway .'Navigation
Company is the first important indepen
dent line to result from the open river
just secured, says the Telegram.
The promoters of the project have
P'oceeded cautiously in planning for
this coup against the Northern tines,
for while the line will tap entirely new
territory, it will be virtnally in the zone
from which theO. R. & N. draws heavily.
In the incorporation articles it is set
forth that the road will be built south
west from Spokane through the counties
of Spokane, Whitman. Adams and
Franklin. The capital stock is placed
st $4,000,000 and the incorparators
named are Edward W. Swanson and
W. S. Kyle, of Spokane, and Willard S.
Foster, of Cheney, the headquarters to
be located at Spokane.
Special advice had from Spokane by
the Telegram are to the effect that tll
preparations have been made to com
mence grading from Council this week.
The chief engineer and his corps, to
gether with the contractors, are now on
tbe ground and the line will be pushed
to Fletcher, a distance oi about 35
miles, so that it will be fully equipped
and in operation within 90 days. The
backers of the enterprise display re
ticence with reference to their future
movements admitting only as much of
their intentions as are outlined in the
articles filed witn the secretary of state.
Even with the first 35 miles the road
will tap one of the richest sections in
the state, that confined within Adams
county in the Rattlesnake Flat district.
This locality is a new, but famed wheat
locality, which is being rapidly settled
and where land has risen from as low as
$2.50 to $35 an acre in nine years.
Ratt'snake Flat lies west of Cow creek,
and its grain is shipped to tidewater by
way of Washtucna, Lind and Ritzyile.
That immediate neighborhood is not
touched by transportation though a
line has been projected through it for
years. Both tbe Northern Pacific and
O. K. & N. draw big revenues from thin
vicinity and theBe are gradually being
enlarged. Just where the road will
come out ou the bank oi the Columbia
river is problematical, but as the out
let will be in Franklin county, and it is
not practicable to build through White
Biuffj, it will probably come out op
posite Buckworth Island, above Pasco,
From such point steamers can easily
be operated the entire year through to
the portage, and light draft vessels of
the character to be used can be con
structed for 850,000 each.
Must llp All Idaho Slieep.
For tbe purpose of eradication scab
and other infectious diseases among
sheep last legislature passed a law em
powering the state veterinarian to caute
all clean sheep, whether ranch or range,
to be dipped once, and all diseased
sheep twice, under state or federal su
pervision. The range flockmattters have complied
witu this without a single exception but
many of the farmers do no; eeom to un
derstand thut the law applies to them,
and heuoe many small bunches through
out the valleys are yet undipped.
The yete. in u ian announces that ail
owners oi sheep must see to it thai
their flocks are properly dipped by Julv
1, otherwise the state will take their
sheep in charge and dip tbem at the
owner's expense.- -Boise States i an.
1'onlniid Leadi in Lumber.
Si.-ce the firBt of Jaurary, this year,
Portland has shipped close to 1,000,000
feet of lumber by water, I he exact fig
ures beiug 97,713,778. This is a re
markable st. owing wnen it is considered
hat although business was fairly goo J,
the cargo shipments during the entire
year of 1904 only reached a grand total
of 1:12,497 (101 feet. The value of the
shipments for the first tix months is
placed at $J,00O,0J0. April leads with
he largest fhipmeiits, June coming
tlii.d witti 1(,(51 1,449 fee'. List year
Portland was the greatest lurnbe- flip
ping p-jrt in the world; this ye.tr it is
expected to be far in the lead.
Arm)' lacki Patriotism.
Berlin, July 1. German newspapers
discusring the happenings at Odessa and
Libau, take an extremely dark view of
the situation in Russia. While preced
ing events were classified as a revolu
tionary movement, these latest inci
dents, it is said, constitute real revolu
tion. Colonel Gaedke, the military ex
pert of tbe Tageblatt, and formerly its
correspondent with the Russian army at
the front, writing, says:
"It would be complete misjudgment
of the actual conditions of Russia today
to regard tbe mutiny on the Kniaz Po-
temkine as an individual occurrence
without great significance. On the con
trary it is a flashlight revealing to the
dullest eye the true situation in the in
terior of that wide empire and the dan
gerous disintegration of political order."
Colonel Gaedke, after stating that St.
Petersburg cannot longer rely implicitly
on the army, draws on his personal ex
periences with the army in Manchuria
to show the dangerous possibilities in
volved in widespread and profound dis
content among the officers and soldiers.
He says he never once after the terrible
defeats suffered by tbe Manchurlan
army witnessed among the offioers the
slightest trace of spontaneous patroitism
They showed no wounded sense of mili
tary honor and no thirst for vengeance.
The officers with whom be talked felt
neither humiliation nor pain, while
many showed undisguised satisfaction
at tbe defeats which they said only
served the government and bureaucracy
right. The officers openly discussed
their hopes that these defeats would re
sult in the improvement of political con
ditions at home.
Colonel Gaedke says he found among
educated Russians a very general con
viction that the army could not be're
lied upon permanently to oppose the
general national movement.
Cost of Telegraph.
In order to keep the 30,000 miles of
telegraph lines in order in Great Britain
aa expenditure of about $25,000 a year
is neoessary. In order to keep tbe
stomaob strong and the liver active it is
only neoessary to take a few doses of
Qostetter'a Stomach Bitters. It is the
beet health maker and preserver in tbe
world and has the hearty endorsement
of physicians everywhere. It will re-
Domestic Peace
in the family is not to be ex
pected where a poor cook stove
is used. That is only natural.
Secure
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by furnishing your home with
one of those magnificent
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oenori
4
STOVES OR RANGES
Economical in Fuel, Satis
factory in Results, and as cheap
and good as a good grade of
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FOR SALE ONLY BY
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LEADING DEALERS IN
Stoves and Kitchen Outfits
PLUMBING A SPECIALTY
GIILLIAM & BIsBEE
store the HinmtHi to ifs normal condi
tion, stimntHtfl the flow of digestive
juices hi. 1 prev. nt ih,- bowls from be
ooniing olngged. Then yon'll not be
bothered with siob beHdaebPR, dizziness,
heartburn, indipesMon, dyspepsia,
nervonsnens, cramps, insomnia or liver
troubles. We n-ge you to give it a fair
trial. The (jenuiDe mast have onr
private stamp over the neck of tbe
bottle.
flood Brings Ills; Snakes.
New York. June 30. The recent in
undation of the Riyer Parana has had
strange consequences, cables the
herald's correspondent at Buenos Ay res.
By the great extension of the River
Piatt, the docks of Bunos Ayres and the
harbor have been invaded by floating
islands of land torn from the banks of
the Parana. These have brought hosts
of tropioal animals, hundreds of big
Berpents, and many crocodiles. Even
a tiger cub has been captured within
the harbor.
Terrific Race With Death
"Death was fast approaohing," writes
Ralph F. FernanJaz, of Tampa, Fin.,
describing bis fearful race with death,
"as a result of liver trouble and heart
disease, which bad robbed me of sleep
and of all interest in life. I bad tried
many different doctors end several
medioinep, bat got no benefit, nntil I
began to use Electric Bitters. So won
derful was their effect, that in three
days I felt like a new man, and today I
am oured of all my troubles." Guaran
teed at Slooum Drug Co.'s drug store;
! prioe 50o.
The editorial pace of tbe Weekly Ore-
gonlan gives a broad treatment to a wide
rang-e of subject.
Majestic
Cleared for Action.
When tbe body is cleared for action,
by Dr. King's New Life Pills, you can
tell it by the bloom of t-ea'th on the
cheeks; the briKhtnej.s . f the tyen; the
firmness of th flem and muec es; the
buoyancy of the mind. Try them. At
Slocnm Drug Co.'s drnj store, 25 cents-
Before You Oi ilpr
Tombstones, Marble
or Granite Work
You will do well to see
Monterastelli Brothers
and get prices. Thej have
a fine stock on hand.
MAIN STREET, HKPPNER, ORE.
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Onlv Line EAST via
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TWO TRAINS DAILY-
Daily X1ME SCHEDULES
Dkpabts . Arrives
u Heppner, Or.
Fast Mail For
9:00 a.m. East and West
Fast MallFrom
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Express For
9:00 a.m. East and West
Express From
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STEAMER LINES.
8ak Francisco Portland Routr. 8team
sails from Portland 8 p. m. every 5 days.
Boat service between Portland, Astorl,,
OroRon City, Dayton, Salem, Independence,
Corvallis and all Columbia and Willamette
River points.
SNAKE RIVER ROUTE.
Steamers between Rlparia and Lewlpton leave
Riparia daily at 10:40 a. m. except Saturday,
returning leave LewiBton daily at 7 a. m. exesptt
Friday.
J. B. HUDDLESON, Agent, Heppner,
A. L. CRAIG,
MATLOCK & RASMUS
Fresh and Salted Meats.
Fish on Fridays
Highest market price
paid for fat stock
HEPPNEli, OREGON
Red Front Livery &
Feed Stables
Stewart &. Kirk, Props
FIRST-CLASS"
LIVERY REGS
Kept constantly en i::irl
anil can bo. fui nit lies on
ehort notice to parties
wishing to drive into tl;e
interior. First clasa : :
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