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1 inv hcu t's lie.irt 1 rnthrone lliee,
':!i nin' with tliee I i:i w,
M . I i "l lit-rs. in- la y, will weaken,
iViok h'-avi nwanl with a start,
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'Will fall ni'on Uiy li'-art.
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,s -a:-is i- a new
iJea, starteil in
liabilities") has
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Tie ne.niui'iit to Greeley oieaht to
a:i im ; "-.iii j, .-tone.
T;.r l-'vi-iiiirz lleiahl. of I'hilaih ljhia
nii' ia il.iti-s a tialloon aseent ion.
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l:l.!l.
Pilot, you neeiln't wait any loivier:
i' si ii ii lit o t lie -il.' "Yes, luu we
a lit -oiii' t hat way."
A !'.. i I o-jMi. t mini-if'M- uses .-4al
r-.l- to i ii v lie ile! i i il 'lit eh'.ireh mclti-,.-,-
to jiiaver liii-eliii;.
T,r A'nora.oi-ratl ot'the 1 1 1 i ti ;is S! ai e
Ai:i.-i.i!ii.-.;l 'olleu--. :-;eak of faticn
ii.'. s as ""iisjeiili ;;ie.
A .li i-s -y pa;er ileser'o -e a mail as It--i
; i: .is - ft ' 1- - ;is a I .at eh i f rain i iiiaies
t a i w s iajoi e eleeitoll."
iio it strong wl oti von adveitise.
'. ,i-i:ii'.-s is liK.- aiehileeilM-e its l.et
a i-iiii'i-ai e in l u hi us.
A pliloeli:
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of lyiiii. r-aiil he i--i il
iiiiiio.i-. iiii.''alilv.
ll p i. ilit v." -ays a French writer,
.tii toesire to lie eipial in your sti
tifi i 'iCjoi 1 Mipcrior to your eipi iV
Tie Mhi'.i'-ipolis Times asks: "Shall
tie- eil V in- ilolo.Mlls ,-,! !'.; the want oi
Mam.-, s and reser oil s?" iive Uu;.
,n ,.l i lelv from 11. ennui y , w il h
nie.ii i i ied dauzntcrs. weni into
An aisln. ... the other da iitmiing
t..i l he I'.t irons i.f Ii ii-.i.un ' I V.
Tin- ItMiluirv Xe.es sivs: "The iw
m' toi.aeeo is' a ii i -.-it-ling h.u i
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ken-, l lie .' i-anie. u-Utiui
. and w.iat is far a n."e,
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The M lysville, K v..!hdleliii annoiin
in. la -choui picnic, ami --litily
..us tiiat for nil;-,' nlir ciiizens Will
a .etiieir revoHci iul bowie knivi s
h.:!il'-."
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w I )i leans j
; ry man was asked
rer read t he papers.
v u r itonor : ! nt i f
time, I '1 1 never i!n
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; .1 iiil;e H ll" e
plie.l: "Yes.
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an town w; s recent ly visitei 1
m man for the first time in its
m.l the hospitable inhabitants
I g,-t . ing u, a horse-race tor his
; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .
-Ii l'i'liiiis did not know that his
iiiu were' good enough to print, nn
was forty-live years old. before
t iftji lie w is ii-i-e -I !iy in inv of his
..vss "an old citss."
he 1'iiea Herald savs men never
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wli.it effect it would have had on
lo'i i-' eleven Mule girls had called mi
tu n. one alter another, and tried In sell
lii. ii S, mi. lay school picnic tickets.
1 f ve. ii don't w ant the snot d oil' t go
ui'liie chiiniiev," was the reply nf a
ile.rto respectable" parties who re-
I u -s(..,l him nut to ii lent inn the fact t hat
Hi- v h.nl been ariaigiied in the police
i-oiirt.
" Yes, take her and welcome." res-l"'iih-.l
an Illinois farmer, when a
veaiii: man aske-i fnr his blushing
iiiaj.hier. "She's run away with an
s'li-ii'l-master. whipoeil her iimlher.
an l i in- sooner ynu take her the lielter."
" .Madam, whv we ynu nnt here be-foi-,.-;'-
- could not eoiiu'. sir." "Were
vnii imt'.iibMi'iiaed. liiadain?" " Yes
r: hut I was sick." "What was the
mailer, madam?" "I had an awful
i."'il.sir." "1'pon your houoiinadaiii?"
"No, sir, upon my arm."
A jaragraph is going die rounds of
lii.- jness in the ell'eec tiiat at Lafayette,
bid., i he pa pci s nrc com j da ing in i ight
low ii earnest lK'eause troops nl iiirls gn
in s 1 1 j in j n- jn condpieiioiis places in
the river. It is a device of newsaK'i s
1" draw the atlentio nf i t st-seekers tn
the eliarins nf I.ai"aeUe as a watering
l-!ae,..
Sr.tuE PkoI'ektv. The manager
of a Paris theatre luis recently sold
some of his stage property. Among
the articles offered for sale were the
following: A ser., consisting of
twelve wave waves, the tenth, which
is greater than the others,being a
littie damaged; halt a dozen black
el'ed clouds in good condition; a
soi.-k-span new rainbow; a superior
"iiovv storm, consisting of Hakes of
" paper, two other snow-storms of
iaf-Tinr quality; three bottles with
h-htning flashes; one setting sun of
"t nm.-h account; anew moon; an
fd-p'n:uit. a crocidile, and three
-4re."..ns; several v'nls of alcohol,
""l f"r apparition and the produe
cbon of bine flames; lastlv, some en
tuvly new-thunder. "
'Hyft; 1. i
TV l i x u vuu Know,
that that horrid Mr. Rinks de-
,1,' ,V- Xh!$ .VOil hav1 taken to hard
""Hiiin?-'' T'.,i .
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"I- ir vrenrire nor.
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UilIIc or Mitchell Which?
Our artist gives vorv clear and
striking portraits of Senator Mitch
ell ami his former wife. The story
of this couple does not read well.
They married young. A rear slin-
lcil sweetly ainl swil'tlv
over their
pledge of
heails, lu-incriiijr them
lv i" pretty little ilaugnter. lint !
- John .Mitchell Hippie seems to have
tireil of his wife. He hau talent
an.l anil it ion, ami felt that she was
sonietliing of an encumbrance. He
was a lawyer, ami wanted a wife to
shine in society ami help him into
notice ami favor l.y her attractions.
How he cuahVU under the matrimo
nial yoke, ami how uncomfortable
ami finally, unendurable his do
mestic relations became, can better
be surmised than described. Ihit
Mr. Hippie was a brave man. He
endured till end urance ceased to be
agreeable, and then he heroically se
ceded from the matrimonial union,
left- his law partner to adjust his ac
counts as best he could, and was
next heard from as John 11. Mitchell,
V. S. Senator elect from Oregon.
He seems to have had il lit of emo
tional insanity, caused entirely by
the treatment lie had given his wife,
and while the paroxyisni was on him
tie got his name mixed to-gether,
whereas he was Mitchell Hippie
when the attack came on, he was
Hippie. Mitchell when it passed
away. It was odd, but then this
sort of attack often operates in tltat
way out West, and though it strikes
a man like lightning, or paralysis,
or a suit for debt, it does not seem
to hurt him much. It has often
been remarked that about the first
act of a man w ho shnlries of' or runs
away from one wife is to marry an
other, and Mr. Hippie Mitchell was
no exception to the rule. It was his
way of complementing the. matrimo
nial institution, but it is said that
he treated his first w ife honorably,
leaving her all the property lie had
in Pennsylvania, w hich consisted for
the most part of debts. She found
herself minus a husband and minus
the means of support; and without
shedding tears over her lost Hippie,
or rushing into print a column ol'
hysterics, she got a situation in a
good family, and went to .work to
support herself and child. This
shows what an unroinant i , low-born
creature she was. and hw entirely
unsuited to be the wife of such a
hero as she had been married to.
Alas, the common plough-horse so
often gets harnessed to the hypogrif
in this bad world, and when she
would draw he would llv, and there
is ii. thing but puuiiii
till the s trail breaks
;;lnl kicking
It ail conies
of there being so many hvpogri i's ;n
these latter days. Our ambitious
Sena-or finds the ghost of Mitchell
il ipple and ids deserted wife ris-tig
up l;l his path to plague him when
he least looked for such company,
aiid iiiey refuse to "down" at his
bidding or dissole into gas at his
explanation. His fate is a warning
which- it would be well for man
another to heed in season; and the
moral of the story is. don't marry
until you ti.id oiir mate, and, when
you are married, remember what he
fell poor John Hippie, and don't run
away.---.V. V. f nrji'ir.
Madam Duiii'.vay n the - Sitiu! inn."
Rut there was one man who prov
ed himself no rat to desert Ids ship
because it seemed for a season to be
stranded on the sands of popular
prejudice. This man was Hiram
Smith of Linn. After one man, and
then another, and still another, had
declined the Congressional titdiit,
he alone of all the wailing ones, had
courage to accept tiie will of the ma
jority of his party. Xoiihic-.-t.
Foolish man, that Hiram Smith.
The X.jrlJ'ircst goes on to say:
We are taking no sides in this
fight. We are simply stating iAi-i.
Neither party having given us a
s Hitter to hang a pretext or hope
upon.
That's right, madam; we don't
wonder at your neutrality, inasmuch
as your un h mh-'ul ihiU'ir friend
didn't take you to Albany and let
you endorse a deserter of women, etc.
Rut the madam further says:
AVe are disgusted with the Repub
lican party. Its sins of omissiou,
an- as bad as its sins of commission,
and, did we not know that in Hiram
Smith the Y oman movement w ill
have a friend in Congress, w e should
incline to favor an independent can
didate.
We are indeed sorry for you. You
will find that the Republican party
and Hiram and J. H. have dun-i-way
with that foolish idea of giving wo
men the ballot. Ry all means go it
alone; have a party of o"r onn, you
and John and Hiram can't float in
the same boat.
Aside from the resolution declar
ing in favor of. polygamy, deceit and
political corruption, the platform
adopted by the Albany Convention
is quite up to the average of such
performances. The liberal and pro
gressive, political, principles that
have made the Republican party the
hope and stay of the country are re
freshing after the effete, meaningless
buncombe w hich constitutes most of
the Democratic platform. If the
friends of Senator Hippie had not
been deteamined to abandon all mor
al principles and sacrifice the party
to save him from the consequences
of his crimes, the candidate might
reasonably hope to he elected by a
handsome majority. He will he
overwhelmingly beaten, -with his
plank under him, no matter how
hard work is done for him. Orego-ntau.
An Arbitrary Act.
A petty piece of meanness was ex
hibited by the President of the rail
road last Friday evening, which', to
say the least, is censurable as an out
rage perpetrated upon the public
merely to gratify a pride that is verv
smali in itself without a redeeming
virtue. On the evening in ipieslioii
the President's car arrived at the de'
pot, and was there halted. The
gravel train, now being used to repair
the southern end of the road follow
ed after the President's car and took
up the line in its rear. This was
prior to the arrival of the regular
train. When this train came it was
stopped about two hundred yards
from the depot, and there the pas
sengers were compelled to disem
bark. Not satisfied with this arbi
trary act, Mr. Holiaday then ordered
the detention of the overland stage,
keeping it ncai'ly two hours waitin"
his pkusure, and 'then he declared
that coach must be reserved for the
exclusive use of himself and two ser
vants, though the stage company is
a common carrier and compelled to
carry passengers to the full canacity
of the coach. Tim result of this
was several passengers en route
south were compelled to remain
ver until the next evening, among
whom was Col. ltucker, Paymaster
U. S. A. This gentleman was under
orders to repair to Jacksonville with
out delay, and though this was
known to Mr. Holiaday, it availed
the Col. nothing. This was a small
piece of meanness, as we have said
before, and it was a strange proceed
ing, even though it occurred here in
one coiner of the State and the
State itself is supposed to
help compose a por! ion of a st i jet 1 v
democratic government. Such ac
tion on the part of a titled lord in
the Kingdom of Prussia would be
considered as an undue exercise of
authority, and perhaps, more than
this; and yet, in enlightened Amer
ica, in the " land of the free ami the
home of the brave " monopoly sits
crowned monarch of all it surveys,
bidding defiance to the people whose
rights and privileges it never fails to
trample upon when they conflict
witli its convenience, and perpetrates
wrong after wrong . without rebuke
unless we find it in the niurmuriiigs
of an outraged and oppressed people
who must soon come to understand
there is no deliverance for them from
their present troubles without they
work it themselves. The more time
lo-t in inactivity the more severe and
pro! ; a ted will be the straggles; and
tin1 re is danger of thepe ple remain
ing siieut too long and lose what lit
tle freedom they now enjov. l'!ni,t-
In an article cemmenting upon the
profuse extaavagance with which the
public moneys have been squandered
for useless purposes under the Ad
ministration of President Cranf, the
Cincin nat i Coimfi'-iul, after enumer
ating a long list of unwise, if not il
legitimate appropriations, says:
"Then comes that chronic beggar at
the doors of Congress, the Agricul
tural Department, which consumes
nearly S2(0.(i0() a year, besid.es a
heavy printing account not included;
and the Rureau of Education which
takes .:!, iS.'d for the diffusion of
weak commonplaces and worthless
statistics concerning the value of ed
ucation. And then there is the Con
gressional Rotanical ( iarden, a sweet
litile exotic, which has grown up
from nothing a year to a cost of Sot
lilli at the last annual appropriation,
and the sole discoverable utility of
which is to afford magnanimous Con
gressmen a slight taste of the aesthet
ic in an annual box of flower seeds
and cuttings, and a supply of nose
gays and boquets for themselves and
their feminine friends. Pity that
this ridiculous perquisite could not
have been loppe.. off with mileage
and stationary and the franking priv
ilege, when salaries were made large
enough to pay for boquets in open
market."
Thi: Rich am the Pooh. What
is wealth? Wealth is whatever men
can realise from nature lor their sus
tenance and enjoyment. Rubor is
what realizes it. Prudence saves
from it, and the savings become cap
ital, w hich helps to extend ami mult
iply the operations of labor, and thus
creates more capital. The wealthy
are composed of those who have in
herited property from others, those;
who have acquired it accidentally,
and those w ho have realized it for
themselves. The poor in like man
ner, are composed of those who have
inherited poverty from others, those
who have become poor through ac
cident, and those who have brought
poverty upon themselves. The most
familiar mode of producing poverty
is by idleness. If a man w ill not work
he realizes no wealth; he is of course
poor. Or he squanders in some ab
surd manner the earnings which he
does realize, and thus remains equal
ly poor as if h did not w ork. The
poverty arising from idleness will
oulv be curable, as it has ever been
since the beginning of the world, by
industry. That which comes from
wastefulness will only be cured by
economy.
Smakt Little Chap. A youth
stepped into a bookstore and asked,
"What kind of pens do you sell
here, mister?" ' All kinds." answer
ed one of the clerks. "Do you?"
said the little chap; " then give me
ten cents' w orth of pig pens. '
Hesitated. A Milwaukee woman
who bnd only fifty cents, hesitated a
moment w hether to take a dog out
of the pound or get some medicine
for a sick child, but when she saw
the iovfnl e-ambols of the dog she
wondred why she hesitated so long
as she did.
to the Die-
"And mark the prediction," savs
the Portland HU t;,t, "If a fight 'is
lnaid against him (Mr. Mitchell) he
will be sustained by the llepublican
party of Oregon thro" its State Con
vention." This Hatnlent boast, com
ing as it does from those who have
not, either through shame or discre
tion, offered one. word on the Mitchell
subject, would indicate that a new
hope has been born all of a sudden;
that tin- llrjuibliciiH party has struck
a tune for its State Convention to
sing, with full confidence in the
singers; or in other words it Inn Jl
pulficiiti party) thinks it has every
thing all "fixed up" for the State
Convention. With that said party
such a prediction as the one named
may be verified. With the masses
of ltepnblidan voters it will fail as
sure as the world stands. "We have no
disposition to harp upon the Mitch
el! scandal; had dropped it as an ob
solete subject long iigo. and -whatever
we now say is invited by Mr.
Mitchell's own friends. The most
that ever could be done in favor of !
the painlul subject was to remain.
ipiiet upon it: and to have it brought
out so squarely, with the prediction
(il !! might be more appropriate)
that the Jlepublicaii party shall sus
tain its iniquities, is doing an insult
to the party and heaping a burden
upon it which no partv could live
under a great while. We want the
llepublican party to succeed, but not
under that banner. If we must ac
cept a course which is void of all
ideas of honor or respect for those
who would like to be honorable just
for the sake of being called a lle
publican, then good bye old name;
I i . . ' - i i'l : :. i ...
we Clioosc, instead, mc pinicipies
of Republicanism, which are far re
moved from all such chicanery.
Yiimhill llcitorlrr
The above is from the llrKirler of
August "ist h, two weeks before the
Albany Convention met and passed
the Mitchell resolutio. The ll(rt-r,
the only Republican paper i i Yam
hill county, now refuses to support
the Mitchell-Scott-Holladay nomi
nee. A Constant I'imknk. The peoples
of Eastern Oregon have reason to be
gratified with the action of the demo
cratic convention in nominating J.
W. Nesmith to represent the Stale in
Congress. In early days it was the
constant practice to ignore the coun
try east nf the mountains, and it was
n.r until Mr. Mesmith to.k his seat
in the Senate that we were able to
obtain a recognition of our just
claims. The eaily pioneers will
recollect that f r years we were left
without any mail facilities whatever,
and the writer remembers on one oc
casion when this .'a t was bn.ug it to
the attention of the then representa
tive in Congress, the reply come
backquiek and sharp, that "the coun
try was inhabited principally ly
horse thieves and gamblers, and they
were a class who hail little occasion
to use the mails." As late as lNo'.i
and lM'.O, the. mails for the Dalles
were brought through bv the O. S.
X. Company free of charge, and from
that point were distributed by spe
cial messengers, the whole country
being destitute of a single mail car
rier. Thus matters remained down
to the time Mr. Xesmitii took his
seat in th. Senate, when he at once
exerted himself to have the country
provided with suitable mail facili
ties. In this, as in many other mat
ters, he was an early and constant
friend of Eastern Oregon, and it will
now be for the people to show they
appreciate these favors. IF. IF.
A Romantic Stoky. Quite a ro
mantic story is told of the model of
Power's Greek Slave. It appears
there was an American gentleman of
great wealth who had a beautiful
daughter, beautiful in form as in
feautere, and character; but not con
tent with his treasure he added to
his household a second wife. About
thirty years ago his wife ran away
and took with her her husband's
nionev. Father and daughter in
their distress, took up a temporary
residence in Florence and there met
Hiram Powers. Out of love for the
lestilue father, whose sufferings she
had no means to relieve, the daughter
'. t -l f
consented to become the model mr
1 lie Greek Slave. Friends and rela
tions recognized the likeness m the
beautiful statue of the orignal. The
lady is still living and is the the
mother of charming daughters. The
original Greek Slave became the
property of V. W. Corcoran and has
been given, together with his private
gallery of paintings, to the Corco
ran art gallery of Washington, D. C.
Another of Power's masterpieces,
which, would perpetuate his fame
should all his other works perish, is
the bust of Proserpine, owned by
and now the chief ornament in the
parlor of R. Ten Rroeck of Hurst
bourne, near Louisville, Ky.
Two Goon Roys. Hon S. L. Lin.
of Walla Walla county, living on the
Touchet, near Mullen's bridge, has
two sons, aged respectively 10 and
12 years. During the last ten
months these bovs attended school
five months, and the remaining time
was devoted to work on the farm,
In this period they did the plowing,
harrowing and rolling on land that
h is yielded 3,00 bushels of grain.
Thev also put in ten acres of rye, six
acres of flaxseed, ami broke twelve
acres of fallow land twice. They
further cultivated a large garden,
and did all the chores about the
farm. The onlv assistance their
father rendered them was in sowing
the grain. All this we are told by a
Washington Territory exchange. 5.
F. Examiner.
Will not Tamely Submit
tator.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
I -mir r-rt nil T-PACMT A
Mrs. Kate Chase Snraguc.
Writing to the Courier-Journal, a
New York correspondent gives this
sketch of Mrs. Chase Sprague and
her summer resort at Xarragansett:
' The house contains eighty rooms
and is magnificently furnished, and
is. of course, filled with choice works
of art. Mrs. Sprague has all which
ought, to make life desirable wealth I
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beauty, grace and accomplishments
yet I doubt not the May morning
on which her father was found un
conscious in his room, w ith no hope
of his recovery possible, has darken
her life forever, and though time
may alleviate her grief at the loss of
her father to whom she was devoted
yet nothing can ever cure the pain
from the mortal wound her ambition
has received. Mrs. Sprague is thor
oughly ambitious. It lias not been
because of mere personal vanity that
she perfected herself as a woman of
the world and a queen of society.
It was not the desire to fascinate and
delight merely for the sake of the
homage that it brought that induced
her to study every graceful poise,
and school herself in courtly lan
guage and brilliant repartee. She
for years prepared herself, using all
the ad vantages of wealth to cultivate
her really reinakable talents for a
social ruler in the fond expectation
of being one day the presiding lady
at the White House. Mr. Chase w:.s
credited with an overwhelming de
sire to be the Chief Magistrate; yet
I believe that this was less due to his
own ambition than to his elder
daughter's. A gentleman who acted
as one of Mr. Chase's agents during
the campaign prior to the nomina
tion of Seymour in iSbs, has told
how thoughtful Mrs. Sprague was
taken into consultation, how high
were her hopes, and how constantly
her father spoke of her in connec- j
tiou with his success or failure.
i When he thought success certain, as
lie did until me very day meymour
j received the nomination, he rejoiced
j most of all for the joy it would give
Mrs. Sprague, and when the certain-
ty of failure was made known to him.
j his first words were: "Does Mrs.
i Sprague know?" When told she did,
"And how does she. bear it V" lie lll-
quired. He seemed mole relieved
I to find the bad news did not over
whelm her. V hen Airs. "Sprague
was told, she manifested self-control
but evidently the blow was severe.
! She said little, but that little, albeit
! it was calndv spoken, showed the
violence of the shock she had re
ceived. With her father Mrs.
Sprague's ambition to be the lady of
the White Houe must necessarily
have died. She cannot hope to have
her husband place her there. Not
even her powerful personal influence,
and talent for diplomacy, added to
his unbounded wealth, can procure
the Presidency for Senator Sj r igue.
I doubt if Mrs. Sprague passes much
time in Washington hereafter. For
nearly three years after the disap
pointment wrought by Seymour's
nomination, she was there but sel
dom; and t veil w hen the days for
mourning for her father's death are
over, it is scarcely probable she will
care to resume her old life in the
citv where she had hoped to be the
chief lady. She is a wonderful wo
man. There are few women of whom
history tells, who united with so
much 'beautv and grace, have had so
powerful a mind and so m
inch genius
tor ruling.
Ue Goes the Taiufi". The peo
ple of 1 )onglas county, says the Rose
burg PhUaU-ali'r, can now begin to
realize to what extent they are in the
power and at the control ol the rail
road monopoly. Heretofore, until
the past three or four weeks, the
freight tariff on wheat shipped from
this city to Portland was Son per
ton. Then the rates were increased
to ft) per ton. Now it is stated that
on the loth f H"' present month
there will still be a further increase
of .s"2 per ton. and from that time on
the people of this county will pay
.si.") per ton an all grains shipped to
Portland. It would seem that the
managers of the Oregon and Califor
nia railroad are d. term md that our
farmers shall make only so much
money, and in proportion to the in
crease in the market price of wheat
they propose to elevate the tariff on
transportation. This is the case in
this instance, at least. And while
we are w illing to accord to the rail
road all the benefit that lias resulted
from it to our people, we are free to
confess that we entertain no admira
tion for the shortsightedness of its
managers, w ho show by their actions
that their judgement is so poor it
would lead them to kill the hen that
laid the golden egg, or, in other
words, retard the growth of a coun
try the rapid advancement in wealth
of which signifies a proportionate in
crease in the value of the road.
"Tiie Heathen Chinee." The
Cariboo S';,rl concludes an able
leading article on the subject thus:
"The Chinese question will doubt
less be brought before the attention
of the Legislature at its next session.
The opinions of the honorable mem-
1 ember from Xanaimo on the sub
ject have been before expressed in
the Rouse, and his able jien has been
again lately directed in the Colonist
to pointing out and warning the peo
ple of the danger of the absorption
of their industries and wealth by an
inferior race, almost incapable, it
would appear, of receiving a higher
civilization. 'Insuperable constitu
tional obstacles' are supposed to
stand in the way of the special leg
islation needed, but, with the Colon
ist, the people will say,' they must
be removed.' "
The Japanese Government has re
called GOO students in the various
colleges of England. Others will be
sent out in their stead after a com
petitive examination.
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Contagious anil Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Symes Thompson, a well
known English physician, lectured
on the above topic "in London, and
from his discourse we glean the fol
lowing: It is considered a settled
fact that diseases of a contagious
nature are caused and spread by in
fluences largely within the sphere of
human government and control.
Every form of infectious fever has
its idosyncracy. Enteric fever and
cholera tend chiefly, to disseminate
themselves through water, passing
into the wells ami fountains of daily
supply and at times traveling from
house to house in the milk cans of
easy conscieneed dairymen. Scarlet
U-ver hibernates in a .irsnvor, and,
alter long months, comes forth with
some old cast-aside garment, to be
thrown with it around the throat or
neaa oi some
iiew
victim, and so
start theitc
Upon a
ri If 1 i v 'll . Ul
xv puns lever crawls sluggishly from j
hand to hand and mouth to 'mouth '
and is immensely sociable in its spir
it, langmshingavvay when condemned
to solitary confinement. Tvphoid
fever generates itself where filth
overcrowding and impure habits of
lite prevail: and relapsing fever
glides in the track of privation and
misery. Th-; means now known of
controlling these evil niinist rants are,
in the main, careful isolation of the
sick, the preservation of the water
from which daily supplies are de
rived in uncontained purity, the un
interrupted ventillation alike, of
hospitals and dwelling houses, the
immediate removal from the vicinity
, i .. ..
of active numan me ot ail execra
tions of the sick and the destruction
ot their morbile influence by mixing
them with antiseptic and disinfect
ing agents (such as carbolic acid
sulphuric acid, chlorides of lime
and zinc, permanganate of potash.
and charcoal,) temperate living
avoidance of any kind of excess, ai.d
above all the cultivation of an intel
ligent familiarity with natural laws
In regard to the antesptics and dis
infectants. Dr. Thompson states that
it should be understood that agents
of carbolic acid are properly antesep
tics, and operate mainly by arresting
the process of fermentation and de
composition, while agents of the na
ture ot Condy s fluid, permanganate
otqiotash, o.i r de ol lime, and espe
eially charcoal, are disinfectants, and
act by absorbing the obnoxious pro
ducts of decomposition. This he
showed by experiment, a few drops
i -i - -i j
I oi caroonc acid causing a cessation
in the evolution of gas bubbles from
a fermenting solution of sugar; and
violet color of Condy 's fluid was in
stantly discharged when combined
with waul" in which was a trace of
sulphuretted hydrogen. The lec
turer also exhibited the remains of a
rat which had been placed in a jar of
charcoal six years ago. Only the
bones and a few hairs were to be
seen; although the jar had been cov
ered with but a -piece of paper,
throughout the lengthened period of
decomposition, no trace of disagree
able smell was at any time emitted.
Annual Conference, 31.
S.iuih.
S'. Church
The Columbia Conference of the
M. E. Ciiuch South, met at Rrowns
ville, Oregon, September .'5, and ad
journed September , lM.'h
Rishop Doggett presided to the
satisfaction of all.
There was an advance in all the
interests of the church: never were
the prospects so good.
Following are the appointments:
WILLAMETTE D1STHKT T. Jl. WHITE,
P. E.
Salem E. J. Dawne.
Coravllis R. R. Raster.
Dallas Dr. Goucher.
Lafayette F. W. D. Mays.
Oregon City H. C. Jolly.
All iany Jos. Emery.
Lebanon D. C. McFnrland.
Eugene City E. S. Michael.
Rrownsville J. W. Craig.
JACKSONVILLE P I STliTCT J . W. STAHL,
1. V..
RosEisna; R. E. Oglesby.
Oakland Mission to be supplied.
Jacksonville J. W. Stahl.
VM ATI LEA OlSTIMCT It. V. JOHNSON,
P. E.
Grande Rondo C. H. E. Xewton.
Powder River to be supplied.
LaGrande to be supplied.
Walla Walla R. R. Johnson.
The polygama candidate did not
accompany Mr. Xesmithto this place.
He is something like the old man's
boy that tradition mentions. He
was foolish, and one day his father,
expecting several gentlemen to din
ner, told the bov to sav nothing, and
the visitors would not discover his
-want of intelligence. Dinner came,
and with it the gentlemen expected.
During the progress of the meal one
ill i
oi me parry adurcsseu several ques
tions to the" boy, and, as a matter of
course, received no answer. Final
ly, becoming disgusted, he remarked
to a iriemi, i believe this bov is a
fool," This started the boy. With
hands raised and eye-balls protrud
ing from their sockets, he shouted
out, " Daddy, daddy, it's no use
they've found me out, anyhow.'
Smith is doubtless thinking to plav
the " silent" game; but it is evident
the people will " find him out " be
fore the canvass is over. Husrfatry
1 laimlenltr.
nam -urs. .lenKins, on her wav
1 - 1 . r -w " 1 v V
nome irom cnurcii: " hen l see
the shawls of those Johnsons and
think of what I have to wear, if it
wasn't for the consolations of relig
ion I don't know what I would do."
Unkind. In a recent article on a
Fair in his locality, the editor of a
Western paper says a brother editor
took a valuable premium, but an up
kind policeman made him put it
right back where he took it from.
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The course of the wool market for
the iast few years has been juieh as
to impress upon all classes of deal
ers in that staple the importance to
their interests nf more cautious op
erating, and of the utter avoidance
of speculation. The time has passed
when the wool markets of this coun
try could be easily controlled in the
interests ot speculators. The mag
nitude of our wool dip might inter
pose no serious obstacle, perhaps, as
a concert of action between the grow
ers and dealers whose interests as
against those of the manufacturer
are identical might easily be ar
ranged. There is, however, in the
foreign wool clip a lever with which
the manufacturers can so far control
the course of our markets as to pro
tect themselves from any combina
tion seeking to affect anything more
than a legitimate advance sympathiz
ing with improved values abroad
Within the past few years American
manufacturers have learned the val
ue to them of the power which they
thus control, and to wield it has be
come a matter of little difficulty, in
view of the closeness of commercial
relations with Europe. Experience
thus far has proved that it is, in the
long run. to the best interests of our
manufacturers to avoid, as far as
possible, heavy operations on their
own account, either in the wool pro
ducing markets of our own or other
countries. If conducted independ
ently of speculation, trade is more
satisfactorily when the supplies of
manufacturers are drawn chiefly
through the regular channels. To
the few who are able to contract for
their full year's supply of domestic
at the beginning of the season, buy
ing direct from the farmer may be
an advantage. Rut the purchases of
manufacturers in the interior are al
most invariably made at a higher
figure than Eastern dealers f.an af
ford to pay, and a range of prices in
the country, based upon the figures
paid by consumers, is always of dis
advantage, and almost invariably a
break has to follow before the wool
moves freely into the Eastern mar
kets, or the1 dealers here who pur
chase at prices manufacturers can
afford to pay have to suffer a loss lie
fore their stocks are worked up.
The experience of 1K71 had the ef
sect of keeping manufacturers at
home last year, and as a rule their
purchases in the interior have been
unimportant thus far this year. A
few, chiefly, the buyers of delaine
wools, have gone into the country
for their supplies, but the buyers for
Eastern houses have not suffered
much from competition with consu
mers and although there has been
an occasional refractory feeling, the
clips taken up have generally been
at prices which dealers were willing
to pay. Allowing for commission,
interest, freight, shrinking, Arc, and
ten cents per pound is only a fair
margin between the purchasing
2rice in the country and the sellings
rate here. This leaves the dealer
barely a profit; and as -isi to 51 cents
is the best range that can be quoted
upon the average clips in this mar
ket, it is evident that buyers cannot
afford to pay more than 40 cents in
the country for clips as they run.
The range quoted on actual sales in
Ohio ami Michigan is 40 to 44 cents,
with few transactions exce2it of very
choice? lots above 42 or 43 cents. Old
X and XX Ohio fleeces are worth
here to-day 50 to 5:2 , cents, and al
lowing these figures to be maintain
ed upon the new wools when the
upply of old has run out, there will
be no more than a fair margin for
lealers. X. Y. tin I let in.
Texas Dem katic Convention.
The Democratic State Convention
ulopted a platform, very long and
liunse, reaffirming the principles of
the Democratic party, favoring in
ternal improvements in the State.
uid encouragement of the same by
lberal charters and grants of land.
under proper restrictions, and deny
ing that the State contemplates any
repudiation of her just debts. The
lollowing was also adopted:
Jlesolml, That we deprecate the
action of the Democratic Memlers of
Congress in co-operating with the
Republican niajorky aifd President
Grant in the passage of the back-pay
bill.
The following is the ticket nom
inated: Governor. Richard Coke:
Lieutenant Governor, R. Hubbard;
Controller, Stephen H. Darden;
lreasurer, A. J. Dorn; Commission
er ot the. JUiml Office. J.J. Grass;
Superintendent of Education, O. X.
Hoi lings worth.
A D iso vst ed Enoch Akdex. An
Enoch Arden appeared in Connecti
cut, the other day. As soon as he
mace himself known the latest hus
band walked up to him, shook his
hand cordially, and said: " I'm
mighty glad you've got back, old
fellow. AVe thought you were dead.
Rut I resign the lovely partner of
your youthful love without a mur
mur. Take her to your arms and be
happy with her." Xo, you don't,'
said Enoch. " I wouldn't have come
if I hadn't thought that the old gal
was dead. I wouldn't bo the man
to interfere with your connubial
happiness. I'm off from where I
came from." And he went away,
leaving a disconsolate Phillip Ray
in that town.
A droll incident is related concern
ing Tad Lincoln, which occurred
w hen he w as a lad of nine or ten
years. One member of the Cabinet
o Mr. Lincoln was strongly disliked
by Tad. When Lincoln was ill with
tlie varioloid the offensive Secretary
sent his card in and asked for an in
terview. Tad was present and heard
his father decline the request, send
ing the message that he was ill.
" Papa," said Tad, protesting, ?.
no, let him come in and catch it.
The Wool Business.
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