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Jewelers and Watchmakers.
Jewelry Valolif, ami Clocks
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Fresh, Young and Tender,
WHOLESALE AND KEl'AtL-.
AT
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Poultry Market.
FERD FERRELL'S
New Barber Shop
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Magnus G. Crosby
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us and iFittlngs, Stova
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HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Sheet Lead. Strip Lead, Sheet Iron.
Tin and 0pinr.
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WINGATE & STONE, Astoria,
WOODS AU WATER.
An Interesting Trip to a Wasling-
ton Logging Camp.
X.1FJ2 IX THE FOUEST SHADES.
The little steamboat had been
brought up from the mud of the river
bottom ouly a few days before, and
this was Iter first trip since her acci
dent, a sort of a renaissance of the In
dian Chief -which lent a sense of fes
tivity to the occasion. She puffed out
from the waives of the busy crude
town, -with its Tari-colored frame build
ings standing up out of the tide flats
on stilts, so many square dry goods
boxe3, with painted roofs, tho fresh
sawdust of the newly filled-in streets
shining out in strong tawny lines of
color. Amid the bright crudity of the
many small buildings, tho old saw-mill
stretched a somewhat impressive
length of unpainted timbers agaist
the sky, its long gray chute stretch
ing down to meet the gray water be
low. On all sides the freshly cut,
glowing boards in such a variety of
yellows and salmons and pinks that
the mill is made to look moro thau
ever a shadowy ghost of lifeless wood.
A sort of pathetic premature old
age seems to settle on all things not of
this year or laBt in these bean-stalk
towns of Washington. This gray and
venerable mill is one of tho first com
mercial settlers, the grandfather of
the flock of young industries clamor
ing about his knees, and yet still lacks
some months to round its sixth year.
For a long way below the mill tho logs
in the rough lie in the water, kept
within bounds by the chained booni
sticks, and showing no signs on their
dull sides of tho hearts of gold to be
laid bare by the teeth of the saw. The
last glimpse of the town shows the
mill and close beside it the mammoth
skeleton of tho half-built schooner,
whose orange ribs yawn against the
sky, and creeping through her sides
tho lilliputian builders slowly fill and
round her gauntness into grace.
There is something so full of con
tradiction here in nature that one feels
that it is all some huge niisGt The
soft gray mistiness of a south Eng
land climate and the stern, monoton
ous evergreen forest of a harsh Nor
wegian winter. Nature is always
dressed for the winter that never
comes. The soft Chinook wind stirs
the sombre evergreens, and one shud
ders to think should this benign Japan
current be turned off what rigors
would ensue. The forest, as wo see it
from the river, is depressing enough;
the dark, even border of dull-colored
trees piercing the gray sky with its
saw-edge outline repels a closer ap
proach. The up-heaved trees that
have fallen into the river and drifted
with tho tide add a distinct touch of
desolation; their gray roots, that have
struck so shallowly into tho damp
soil of life, now lift impotent,
clutching fingers above the water, the
roots always seaward and the trunks
of the trees pointing to the river's
source.
The broadening river merges itself
into Gray's harbor, but our little
steamer leaves the wide reaches of
water to turn into the mouth of one
of tho small rivers. Everywhere the
dense dark green of the firs and
spruce. The water is alive with the
strong reflection, but along tho low
banks a line of vivid green, the green
of spring grass, shines out, and hero
and there tho early mist of spring
leaves feather the cottonwoods. "We
eastern people, with our forests of
birch and maple, sycamore and beech,
do not know the beauty of tho spring
renewal; we are surfeited with it: bnt
here it is like the throb of finding the
firbt violet, when the great majestic
warriors of tho forest, drawn up in
sombro file with their foliage draped
upon them fold on fold, open ranks,
ana down by the water's edge springs
the graceful white-skinned cotton
wood. "What a gracious girlish vision
of spring! Her lithe-limbed form
gleaming through tho mist of her gar
ment, she bends far over tho water's
edge, and in its olive depth wavers her
elherealized image.
Now and then, at long intervals, wo
pass the farm house of some ranch
that has not yet been platted into a
townsite, and about it the white
and pink of the budding fruit trees
throw a transient charm. The hen
yard is gaily animated, and each de
tail of occupation comes to us by vir
tue of tho odd faculty chickens havo of
looking as largo as sheep in a land
scape. We have not seen any life for
some time, when our attention is at
tracted to a small black canoe. It is
a Siwash canoe, with slender upturned
ends, like a gondola. In it, Lo the
poor Indian! A woman and a small
boy aro making tho boat fast and
climbing out on the bank. She is evi
dently a very swell Siwash. She wears
a dress cut in the approved fashion of
1890, and her broad brimmed wad
dling feet aro compressed in French
kid shoes. She climbs out into the
wilderness. The absurd incongruity
of place and race have no power to
shako her stolid Indian gravity.
Our stream has been fed by many
smaller streams in which tho hewn
logs lie so thickly that at time3 one
HOLLADAY
This Choice Property
property on
could walk half a mile up stream over
the-oackof logs, scarcely seeing the
water in which they float At last the
Indian Chief slows up at tuo moutn
of one of these streams, the gang
plank is thrown across to tho bank,
and all for the logging camp, our
selves and three loggers climb out.
and bemn looking for tho trail ol
which the captain has told us. It
uroves to bo a slight muday patn
.through tho long grass along tho bank
ot tne slougn, as tue stream ot nviug
water is unrighteously called. Tne
trail carries us over very uninteresting
country at first, land that has been
burnt over and cut over until only
scarred gray strees stand, totter and
fall in tho barren solitude. We cross
gullies over which a fallen tree forms
tho bridge, but we cannot miss the
trail here for the logs are pricked full
of holes under tho tread of tho log
gers' calked boots. Always keeping
close to the slough, we push on; a
small sprinkling of green trees begin
to show among the great dead major
ity aud at last we come again into the
land oi tuo living, xne ior
est deepens and darkens; tower
ing over us, the great straight firs
draped in down-drooping green.
There is something unreal and dra
matic about tho woods now, as if it were
the setting of some mighty tragedy.
One stands and waits. The silence is
intense. The little sunlight that
works through the density of tho ever
greens flashes a response from the
small pale, green leaves of the under
growth. Tho ground is covered with
glossy dark-green ferns and moss so
beautiful aud deep that it is a well of
color to the eyes. Heavy green moss,
with ferns growing in it, lodge on the
limbs of the firs, so high abovo you
that you doubt your eyes, and ju3t
there at your feet a flash of purest
white, aud knee-deep in moss, stands
the lily of Washington, expanding her
uiree-pomtea, pure wmte petals. Ana
deepening, as tho forest grows denser,
is that sense of mystery and unreality
so unlike the sunlight beauty of all
other forests. Tho imagination stirs
and strives under its strange stimulus,
and sinks back into a world to be peo
pled by mastodons or giants. The ele
mental passion of the earth's young
life, in which we havo no part, thrills
a half recognition from us.
Looking down into tho slough, now
far below us, wo see evidences of the
neighborhood of tho logging camp; a
dam runs across and freshly hewn logs
lie about in the water; then comes to
our ears the far away ring of an ax
and tho long drawn reverberation.
We strike a road now in which the
hoof marks of recent travel have scar
red tho soft ground deeply. The road
passes over a rough bridge thrown
across a slight ravine, at whoso baso
runs a stream of slow smooth water.
Tho banks are lined with great masses
of fern; many fallen logs span tho
gulch, covered with richest moss; and
crossing to the other side, a stream of
gay spring passengeis, ferns and lilies,
balance on their bridge.
Tho ring of the ax becomes stronger
as wo push on; tho voices of men
shouting the strango language ot tho
ox reach our ears. Suddenly, with no
warning, just ahead of us, comes a
terriblo deafening sound, the crash
and tearing of a falling tree; tho last
snapping fibres yield; it rocks, then
pluugcs; the air is filled with a cloud
of dust from its shaken branches, and
all the lesser trees about it quako and
totter on the jarred earth. A few mo
ments later, when we come on the log
gers where they are dismembering
the still quivering giant, tho in
congruity of their pigmy propor
tions gives one a new conception
of tho infinite audacity of man.
The men look so insignificant in tho
great forest, that even to tho search
ing eye they emerge slowly from its
obscurity. The groups of yoked oxen,
with bowed heads and slowly swinging
tasseled tails, are much more impres
sive. There is quite a party of men,
however, over twenty. Tho long-
legged captain of tho gang gives us a
half dubious welcome, and. tho work
goes on. Climbing to tho top of ono
of the logs, we get a view of tho
work in all its stages. Near us two
men aro swinging their axes with a
light certainty of stroke, notching op
K)3ite bides of a fir about four feet
from the ground. Tho tree must
measure eight feet in diameter and 200
feet in height, but they attack it as
blithely as if it were a eappling. The
notches cnt, tho end of a board is ad
justed in each crevice, and each log
ger, climbing to his improvised plat
form, ax in hand, begins to cut the tree
some seven feet above the point where
it leaves the ground, in order to avoid
the extra work of cutting the tree
where it spreads near the base. The
axes lift and fall with rythmic regu
larity, and tho great length of
tho jarred tree rings with each
impact They only cut it a
little way in with the ax, for the
cross-cut saw is to do the real work.
The saw begins on tho opposite side
from the ax, for the chopping is done
to relievo the last heavy work of tho
deeply imbedded saw. At first the
sawing motion is slow and jerky, but
as tho teeth catch, a longer, steadier
stroke follows. Back and forth, back
and forth, go the red shirted arms of
the toy men, and deeper and deeper
sinks tho blade of tho saw
into tho great tree. Tho tree once
felled is sawed into equal lengths and
the bark roughly chipped. Ono group
of oxen are jerked and yelled into po
sition, the driver's goad of more than
regulation length, being freely used
ONL7 FIVE
Blocks 200x200, $300 to $400.
is now on the market, and is the Finest Summer Resort on the Coast. It joins the Seaside Hotel
the south, and has one-half of river frontage, on the JTecanicum river with fine boating and fishing.
meanwhile; a long chain, with a steel
hook attached, jangles as. they stub
bornly half yield before the driver's
persuasions, as tne uook is gougeu
iuto the log's side, a lithe logger runs
up with a distorted ax, springs on the
log, and as it begins to move, gives it
a vicious blow, like tho stroke of an
angry bird; the twisted blade of the
ax leaves a neat S and the branded log,
turning and Jeikingunder the powerful
pull of the oxen, swings on to
the "skid" formed ot greased logs laid
crosswise, sloping towards the slough
where tho log is to be shot into tho
water. We run on trying to keep
ahead and seo what becomes of the
log, but the inertia of tho oxen once
overcome they plunge rapidly down
tho skid road to avoid tho blow of tho
sliding log, and we aro distjuiced; iu
a moment tho splash of Ihe log
reaches us, and tho fine, broadly
horned heads of the returning team
meet us. Following the road a few
yards farther, it descends rapidly to
the slough, but another short road
forks off from it here; just at the
poinl of bifurcation a powerful young
tree had been left standing. We
leave tho skids and climbing a ferny .
bank at the foot of tho short road
await developments. Many logs lie
in tho slough beneath whero tho last
comer still swims about uneasily.
We hear the faint jangle of the chaiu
jerking behind tho retreating team;
the twitter of small birds reaches us,
and far off somo consumptive
wood creature coughs hackingly;
a festive little golden-brown
chipmunk flashes along a log uoar by.
We have just begun to tasto the soli
tude when the heads of another team
of oxen como in sight; they plunge di
rectly towards us, taking tho forked
road, and we shrink back before the
curving bras3-tippcd horns; the loj
keeps on in tho skid road, rushes
down the embankment and plunges
deeply into tho wjuer of the slough.
The oxen are turned and it is all over
so quicKiy tuat it is lmpossioie to see
how it is done. The mystery is how
the wrist of any mortal man can jerk
tho hook out of tho rushing log to
shoot it into tho river and free the
oxen, wo wait for tno next log.
climbing higher on the bank to detect
tho slight of hand. Again the swing
ing heads, tho great eyes and curly
forelocks, the flash of horns, and the
team plunges toward us; but our eye3
are on the chain. It is stretched out
as tho oxen toko the forked road, crash
it goes against tho young tree stand
ing stoutly just at tho point of bifur
cation; this jerks tho hook loose, and
down the log rushes on the greased
incline. Tho oxen are turning so near
us that wo could almost touch them;
ior au msiant tne au is inn ot tuat ou
colic milking time odor, and theu they
swing about, and tho great flanks aro
straining up the road.
As we, too, take the road, the long
drawn toot of tho dinner horn comes
to us. The signal is promptly obeyed,
man and beast turn head toward
camp. We saunter up slowly, and
reach a cluster ot sheds and wooden
shanties. Tho men are washing out
side of one, a low bench with tiu ba
sins serving for wash stand. In one
of the sheds, very loosely put together,
we see tho heads of the oxen; and
looking in through an opening we see
them chewing something more sub
stantial than cud. The shed is a long,
low affair, and each end is snpported
by the immense stump of a felled tree;
the central supports are also tall
stumps sawed off at an equal length so
tli9 slight roof sits on rooted supports.
Near this, is a primitive blacksmithy
which is roofed over, but with open
sides, the stump of a tree hollowed ont
for a chimney, an anvil, and on a moss
grown stump a vise is clamped. This
utilization of the trees seems to fcike
us back to the infancy of the nice. As
we stand in the little smithy sudden
ly the reason for the sense of familiar
ity with tho situation that all through
the forest has been a haunting illu
sion, is revealed. This is tho perfect
setting for Wagners great opcm,
Siegfried;' here wo havo the deep
forest ot the Scandinavian Sega, tho
sense of mystery aud dramatic poten
tiality; and now wo havo come to tho
anvil, where Siegfried welds his brok-
en sword, the likeness is overpower -
ing. It is almost a pity to know that
m truth hero the logging tools are re-
paired, and no drama, except that of
human labor, has been daily enacted
Northwest.
Relic of n. Pat Age.
It is reported from Maine that,
buried among tho clam shells at
Cundy's harbor, the Pcjepscott His
torical society recently found "some
rare and suggestive reminders of pre
historic times. Bones of the deer,
porpoise, beaver, fox, woodchuck aud
somo smaller carniverons animals,
birds ot several kinds, including a
well-preserved specimen of the wing
bone ot tho great auk, now wholly ex
tinct, were picked up. Fragments of
potter' were numerous, as well as
chip3 of stone broken off in tho manu
facture of stone implements. Of im
plements, half a dozen perfect and
some broken ones were discovered.
Only one piece of worked bone occur
red, a broken awl."
ADVICE TO 20TIIEBS.
M:w. Win'slow's Soothlno Svuui
should always he uvd for children
teething. 1L soothes tin- child, toftens
the gums, allays all rain, cures windj
cholic, and is the best remedy for diar-
rhoea.Twenty-five cents a bottle. '
MINUTES' T8TALK.
Oregon,
AS GOOD AS GOLD.
The Ei-ap-elist Recognized th
Signature
on the lllne Chlji.
In a crowd of a half dozen men
standing in front of a well known sa
loon yesterday was a man known to
the fraternity as a "lucky one'' in the
sporting class. He had in former
years raked in many a jack pot in this
city, and was one of the few who be
came rich by gambling. Sneaking of
the city beforo gambling was broken
up, tho man recently returned, said:
'Let me tell you a good story ol
(you all know who 1 mean).
Well, for nine years we Avere partners
Every trick that he turned I was in
with, and if I made a winning he
shared it I never could tell what
broke our combination, bnt one nioni
iug after we had counted S900, after
an all-night play, he said: 'I have
played my last card and turned my
last card. Suckers are plenty aud
money comes easy. 1 havo a few dol
lars and with it I am going to lead a
new life.' I was shocked and thought
1 was being guyed, bnt not so. He
meant just what he said aud reformed.
but bafonJ wo parted my partaer saui
to me: 'Wo may both livo many years
and I will never forget the good times
we have had together. I am going to
quit gambling; you are not, but wheth
er you do or not, if you ever play a
stack of blues think of me, and if j on
win bury half of them to live on.
'That was nearly livo year-; ago.
Now, then, comes my story. -Only a
short time ago I heard of my former
partner conducting a religions meet
ing in the town where I was, and
quit a good game just to go and see
him. He did not know that I wa3 in a
thousand miles ot him. Before going
to the church I took a blue chip and
marked not only his initials but mine
osi it I went to church and was seated
about half way down the aisle. There
was singing and several short speeches,
bnt I began to feel that I was in the
wrong pew, because I did
not see my former partner. The
choir sang" 'Hold the Fort,' and
just as I was about to leave my
former partner appeared and made a
few remarks, and then a3kcd the con
gregation to contribute as the choir
saug. Two men whom I knew very
well, and have beaten out of many a
dollar, passed the baskets. When one
came to me I threw in my blue check.
and smiled in my sleevo when I
thought of what my former partner
would think when ho saw it I will
never go again where he is, for when
the money was poured out on the
table ho stepped to the edge of the
pulpit and said:
"'I hold m my hand a blue chip.
It's worth 20. " It's .is good as gold,
for the man who put it in has endorsed
it with his name. I've held many a
one with him, and he has owed me
large sums of money, and I know that
this check will bo " redeemed.' That
was all he said. I took my hat and
went to tho door .and found an usher.
I gave hiin two -tens and a five for
good measure aud told him to give my
kind regards to my friend and former
partner. I don't play any more jokes
on reformed gamblers."
'J lie Sensitivenej-s of Youth.
Boys, especially, shrink from any
approach to ridicule on the part of
their-elders. Only yesterday a wise
and amiable philosopher confessed to
me that his disapproval of a certain
person of note arose from nothing
more serious than an unlucky ques
tion put to him in his boyhood by the
celebrity wo were discussing. The
man, meaning to be jocose, in the
presence of others, had asked the boy
what he thought of matters and
things in general. The fitting repar
tee is not apparent at once even to a
mature mind, and the poor victim had
remained confused and silent, re
calling his painful position ever after
wards at sight of his tormentor until
displeasure, thriving upon itself,
grew into resentment We may be so
unfortunate as to encounter antipa
thetic creatures at all seasons of our
lives, but surely tho antipathies most
deeply rooted havo their seed sown
' early, as this ono did. Bewaro of
youth! It i3 lo bo dreaded, not de-
j spised. The callow fledgling whom
we laugh at mav burst into soug one
day. Worse thau that, he may im
pale us for our shortcomings with a
shaft c satire, as the poet of tho
ages did poor justice Shallow. We,
through him, may live eternally in
glorious, while he reads his history in
all nations' C3'cs.
What Tliey Arc Good For.
liKANTMtETifs 1'ili.s are the best
medicine known.
First They are purely vegetable, in
fact a medicated food.
Second Tim same dose alwajs pro
duces the same effect other purgatives
roiuiro Increased dossand finally cease
acting.
Third They purify the blood.
Fourth They invigorate tho digestion
and cleanse the stomach and bowels.
Fifth They stimulate the liver and
carry off vitiated bilo and other depraved
secretions.
Tho first two or Ihreo doso3 tell the
story. The skin becomes clear, tno ejo
bright, tho mind active, digontion i- re
stored, costiveness cored, tho animal
vioor is recruited nnd nil decnv arrested.
Bp.ANnKETii'sPii.T.s are sold in overv
drug and medicine store, cither plain or
sugar coated.
All the Choicest Delicacies, made by
only first-class men at the Seaside
.Bakery.
FROM TEE OCEA1T BEJLCH.
Lots 50x100 to
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Lord Tennyson is now in better
health than he has had for years.
Little Marshall Boberts, when he
becomes a man, will have an income
of 200,000 a year. Ho is now a child
of ten years.
Tho recent dangerous illness of
count Kalnoky was induced by his
reckless eating and drinking of rich
food and iced champagne.
Miss Grace King, the Louisiana
novelist, is a woman of stately figure
and striking features. Her hair and
cye3 are brown and she is 27 vears
old.
Rudyard Lipling, the new English
literary comet, is a short, square built
man, who has a pale skin, thin, brown
hair and near-sighted eyes. He wears
spectacles.
Young Mr. Thurmau, son of Allen
G. Thnrman, is gray haired and has
but ono arm. He lost the other in an
accident many years ago. Ho is a
prominent attorney at Columbus,
Ohio.
Edward Booth is passing the sum
mer at Newport with his daughtor,
Mrs. Grossman, and her children. The
great tragedian is said to look very
much worn and is not the same
Booth of five years ago.
Justice Miller, of tho supreme conrt
of tho United States, has been on the
bench 2S years. His commission was
signed by president Lincoln, and dates
back further than any other member
of tho court.
Mrs. Edison, the great electrician's
wife, is a woman of 2i, whose grace
ful figure is a trifle abovo the average
height. She has brown hair, hazel
eyes, a clear olive complexion and is
an unusually attractive woman.
Mine. Patti's new theater at Craig-y-Nos
O.istle is still in the hands of
workingmen, but it is expected to be
ready for occupation toward the end of
August. Mrs. Irving has advised the
diva concerning all the decorations.
Mrs. Garfield is rich, besides having
S5,000 a year as the widow of a presi
dent Her daughter, Airs, btanley
Urowii, has purchased a nne lot m a
Washington suburb, upon which she
will build a honse, where, it is be
lieved, Mrs. Garfield will take up her
residenco with her.
William Groesbeck of Cincinnati.
who looks like the picturo o Julius
Cresar, is at Saratoga. Ho defended
president Andrew Johnson in his im
peachment trial and was Tilden's
choice as a Democratic candidate for
president Mr. Groesbeck is well ad
vanced in years, very wealthy and he
has said that he would not give up tho
pleasures of his home for presidential
honors.
El Li "Wheeler "Wilcox IJeliirion.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's religions
views arc hero given: '"I beleivo that
tho universe was created and is ruled
by a great intelligence, which is the
spirit of love commonly called God.
This intelligence desires all created
things to live in harmony, industry
gratitude, cleanliness and unselfish
ness. Whoever departs one iota from
any ono of these laws must suffei" and
cause suffering. I believe in pro
gressive immortality and in a succes
sion of lives here or on other planets.
I believe the spirit lives forever and
cannot decay or die. I believe that
after tho death of the body those who
have wandered from the laws of the
Creator will be obliged to occupy a
low placo in the next world, and sep
arated from those who lived true to
principle, that they must begin the
dreary labor of reformation alone
with their awakened consciences."
To the "Wrons Place.
An editor died, and slowly wending
his way down to whero ho supposed a
warm reception awaited him, Old Boy
met him and said: "For many years
thou hast borne the blame for the er
rors the printers havo made in the pa-
f per. The paper has gono for 2, but
tho 2 has failed to come. The print
ers havo bedeviled thee for wages on
Saturday night, and thou hadst not a
cent to tuy name. Men have taken
tho paper without paying for it. and
curbed thee for not getting np a better
paper. Thou hast been called a dead
beat and a fraud by men who are
both. All these things thou hast
borno in silence. Thon canst not
come in here." And he fired him.
Aud as ho did so he murmured to
himself, ''Heaven is his home." Ex.
Hlerit Wiux.
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Dr. King's New Life Pills, lluklen's Ar
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priee, if satisfactory results do not fol
low their Use. These remedies have
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their merits. .1. "V. Conn, DruggW.
All the patent medicines advert ieu
in this paper, together with the choicest
perfumery, and toilet artich srtc i-an
he bought at the lowest prices at J. V.
Conn's drug store, opposite Occident
hotel, Astoria.
Delicious Ice Cream
Served daily at the Columbia bakery.
Go to the Columbia bakery for all
kinds of oakes.
350 feet, $40 to
M5 Austin House, Seaside,
JACK TAR AT WORK.
Jn-t What & Sailor Uzs to Do Each Dajr on
Ship-Hoard.
The mate of a square-rigged mer
chantman thus described the life of
an able-bodied seaman on a long voy
age to a Now York Times reporter.
A sailor may he said to begin his day's
work with the '"morning watch" at
four o'clock, when he must turn ont of
his narrow bunk in the "fo'castle" and
tumble np on deck prepared to scrub
and wash down decks, which are
always more or less badly stained
with tho salt water and iron rust
Plenty of water for cleaning purposes
is always near at hand, and. with the
aid of buckets and ordinary brooms,
brushes or "squegees" Jack usually
succeeds in making things tolerably
clean.
But if the ship is coming into port
and the captain wishes the decks to
look particularly white, Jack must
go down on his hands and knees and
scour the decks with all tho vigor ot
charwoman with certain articles
called "holystones." Now, holvstones
are not treasured f rajnneuts of some
classical shrine, bnt common looking
pieces of sandstono about the size of a
brick, and it is not too much to say
that poetry abandons the nautical
mind when tho holystoning process
becomes necessary. The operation is
always long and laborious, and the
only "respite Jack has from this odious
task i3 in polishing tarnished brass
work or being ordered aloft to attend
to some troublesomo sail or bit of run
ning gear. Consequently by eight
o'clock, when ho is relieved by the
"forenoon" watch he has had sufficient
exercise to get up an appetite for
breakfast such as is rarely equalled or
surpassed by anything human.
This meal, year in and out, consists
of a liberal supply of a hot, black bev
erago called coffee, which is stewed to
distraction, and sweetened, if at all,
with molasses. Then, there is a ship's
bread, porridge, or "burgoo," and a
species of hash called "lobscourse,"
which nobody but a hungry sailor was
ever known to successfully digest
Jack, however, is providentially no ep
icure, but a gastronomic genius who
dispatches everything to satisfy an
organic craving with goatlike facility
and relish, lie then fills his pipe,
spms yarns, or returns to his nn
ambrosial bunk for a nap, while his
shipmates, the "forenoon watch," are
busy making things snug on deck and
aloft Indeed, it would be difficult to
say what tho "forenoon watch" will
not find to do, for much depends upon
the state of the weather.
But yard3 must be constantly
trimmed, according to the direction
of the wind, sails furled and running
gear looked after, and, in addition to
a season's regular duties of setting
and shortening sail, there is always
plenty of sail-mending, rope-splicing,
spar- scraping, oiling, varnishing and
painting to do, to say nothing of the
dirty work of tarring tho standing
rigging and ropes occasionally. Then
every man must take his turn or
" trick" at tho wheel, which is always
a monotonous and extremely danger
ous duty in bad weather.
Well, at 11:30 the men who com
posed the 'Tnorning watch" aro called
to a dinner of hot pea soup, boiled
pork and a baneful piece of meat that
no argument will ever convinco Jack
is anything but army mule or horse,
which has died a natural death. "Salt
horse" is, therefore, the name bestowed
by him, on this tough pickled sub
stance, and he thinks himself lucky
when it is followed by plnmduff or
"stickjaw pudding." This sumptuous
repast is then washed down with co
pious draughts ot coffee, and after fill
ing and smoking the inevitable pipe
once more, Jack feels invigorated and
happy, and goes on deck as one of tho
"afternoon watch," which relieves tho
"forenoon watch" at twelve.
Tho "afternoon watch," wo will sup
pose, for brevety's sake, is employed
on deck with duties of the same na
ture as engaged the "forenoon watch,"
and at four o'clock this watch is
again changed. So you see that, gen
erally speakiug, tho men have four
hours on duty and four hours off.
Bnt if this took place with nndeviat-
mg regularity, it is evident that ono
set of men would always be on duty
during the best part ot the night an
arrangement that would be manifestly
unfair. In order, therefore, that ono
watch should not have the long
night's duty there are what we sailors
call the "dog watches." These witches
are the hours between four o'clock in
the afternoon and eight o'clock in the
evening. Tho "afternoon watch" ac
cordingly go below at four o'clock and
come on deck at six, when they have
two hours' dog watch. At eight
o'clock they go below agaiu, aud thus
by mean3 of thee dog watches the
crew of a ship get alternate nights of
duty on deck.
Jack lives on a floating house of
business, which is continually carry
ing him into unexpected labors. How
ever, in moderate weather everything
is usually made snug aloft between
six and eight o'clock in the evening,
when Jack's work is finished for the
day. He may then smoke his pipe
and sing a song or " shanty" to his
heart's content Bnt if, during the
next few hours or in tho course of the
night, tho barometer goes down and
the weather looks ominous of a gale
to windward, he has to turn out -of
his snug corner in the forecastle at a
moment's notice wheu he hears the
boatswain sheut: "All hands shorten
Seaside
$100.
Jtr jCxXvJuSl
safll" Now, this is one of the worst
features of Jack's life, for nin
chances out of ten it is blowing trreat
guns when he gropes his wayup on - '
deck and crawls np the shrouds, and .
you can form no idea of tho perilous
momentum of a vessel's pitch until--'
you have been on her upper yards or
jibboom, trying to reef or furl sails
in a heavy sea.
THE COMING OCEAX STEAMER.
To
JIaVc the Trip la Thlrtr-SIx
Hem
From Land to Land.
Here is a clever picture from the
Pall Hall Gazette: She will be over
a quarter of a mile in length, and will
do the passage from Sandy Hook to
Liverpool in thirty six hours, being
one night out She will be driven by
electricity aud in such a fashion as to
keep railway time despite storm or
fog.
Passage can be secured by flash
photo Edison's patent and the
ticket will include an opera stall or a
concert ticket or a seat in a church,
pew, the opera house, concert hall
and church being all on board. A
covered ring for horse exercise will
bo provided and a racing track for
fast horses. A base ball trronnd ani
tennis court will also form a "Dortion
of the attractions. For business men
a stock exchange will bo operated, the
quotations being posted from the
tickers every two minutes, on the
vibration system. The leading papers
of all countries will be reprinted each
morning by the electric reflection -system.
A spacious conservatory-, containing
the choicest flowers of all climates.
will afford an aggreeable lounging
place, and bouquets will be provided
gratis. As at Monaco and Monte
Carlo, a suite of apartments will be
laid ouj for play, to be kept open all
night a sumptuous supper with the
costliest wines free. English tailors
and shoemakers will be in attendance,
and clothes will be made and finished
during tho passage.
The millinery department will con
tain the French fashions of the previ
ous day, and costumes will be confec
tioned while the ship is en route and
delivered complete on arrival at dock.
Accommodations will be furnished for
10,000 passengers.
A Modern Problem.
"Little Bhody" has made fairly good
progress in the last ten years, as the
census returns so far as made np
show. The population of the state
has increased about 25 per cent dur
ing the decade, but the growth, is
practically confined to the cities.
Eight cities and large towns, in faotr,
contain two-thirds of the inhabitants.
In the agricultural districts the re
turns generally show a falling off in
stead of a gain. In other states the
tendency of the people to mass them
selves together in cities will doubtless
receive many illustrations when the
census is completed- The fact in
volved therein leads up to one of the
important problems of modern civili
zation. Ncio York Tribune.
Curions Lhrhtuinir Stroke.
During a recent storm at Playford,
Suffolk, a poplar tree, 300 yards away
from the church, was struck by light
ning, and the bark was completely
stripped from top to bottom, the
southern half of the body being riven
into match wood. One piece, 5
pounds in weight, was picked np 12b
yards from tho tree, and the debris
covered about two acres of land.
The discharge left the tree at the foot,
following the direction of a fence for
about 15 or 20 feet, threw np a sod
about a foot square and went to earth.
Electrician.
Wouldn't Chord.
George That is a beautiful piece,
Laura, and yon havo played it most
soulfully. But what is that rumbling
noise I have been hearing all the time
since I came in?
Laura It must be tho wind. Ex
cuse me a moment (Goes into the
kitchen.) Mother, can't you take that
washtub into the back basement? It
doesn't chord with the piano.
Police.
GOD'a BLESSING TO HUMANITY
bo bavs an Oregon Pioneer Ninety
.' irs O'f.i.
Fokest Gkove. Or., March 191
have used the OREGON KIDNEY
TEA and obtained immediate relief.
It is God s blessing to bunvinity. I take
pli-aiitie in reco i mending it to the
afflicted. I am now nearly ninety years
o.d, came to Or. gon in 1842 in the em
ploy ot the linden's Uay Company,
mtl Miiee I began using the OKEGON
KIDNEY 'LEA I i-nio- good hea th.
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