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W A S H IN G T O N > f *«m [GH BORING COUNTY without peroeptibly reducing the squir rel population." The Bellingham Bay Improvement 5RESS AND DO IN GS OF THE Coumpauy, oi New Whatcom, is put U SEFUL INFORM ATION C O N C E R N ting in new boilers and making other PACIFIC NORTH W EST. ING FARM WORK. improvements with the view to extend ing its cargo capacity. A large timber planer may be added. Ig e t of ORCHARD AND FARM l u t e r a n t iu g am i .Spicy F r o m A l l t h e C it ie s a n d T o w n s th e C o a s t —T h r i f t and Iu d u s tr y E v e r y Q u a r t e r —O r e g o u . - ^ ^ ■ CrOP- ppner correspondent of the East an says that there is now in ts of Heppner at least $150,000 ■ to be offered for sheep at last prices, which were $1 for year- and $1.60 for 2 -year-olds, en do not feel inclined to sell prioes. It is estimated that pner sheep market at the pres- e consists o f nearly 150,000 Prospects for the ooming wool wheat crop and the sale of Morrow county oauae antici- ^f the good old times. i W M h ln flo n . kgements are being made to take p census of W alla W alla, kner of Whatcom county has a b has brought nim four heifer pn five days short of eleven ■a from Taooma and Everett k to Cook's inlet to establish a ■ at one of the principal m ining Ibn the inlet. ations have been filed w ith d 1 directors at Centralia for an i of warrants for bonds under sions of the new M ilroy law. Barer Leader says that there are m county 150,000 acres of land 1,500,000, held for state pur- I it wants a portion of it ap- road building Dg of the squirrel bounty in ounty. the Davenport Times |Lmooln i nuty tried it one squandered over $$0,000, I PORTLAND MARKETS. A fu ll supply o f early C a lifo rn ia pro duce came in on the last steamer. A THERE IS NO NATIONAL HOLIDAY. N o t E v e u th e L a b o r D ay A c t C r e a te * One, Hay th e L a w y e r * . There would seem to be no snch thing in this country us a national holiday. Lawyers assert that eveu Labor day, which was set apart by act of congress hi 1894 in such manner as to lead the confiding layman to suppose it ut least to be a national holiday, is not such outside of the District of Columbia un less by state enactment. The creation and regulation of holiday« have been left entirely to the legislatures of the W h e a t M a rk et. individual states. The local m arket ia dull, w ith no The act of congress concerning Labor business passing, and quotations are day was approved Jnne 38, 1894. It pro nom inal as follow s: W a lla W alla , vides "th at the first Monday of Septem 80c; V a lle y , 62 to 68 o per bushel. ber in each year, being the day cele From Au gust 1,1895, to March 1, 1896, brated and known as Labor day, ia shipments o f w heat from Portlan d hereby made a legal holiday, to all in amounted to 4,622,358 bushels, worth tents and purposes, in the same manner $2,404,384. as Christmas, Jan. 1 , Feb. 22, May 30 P ro d u c e M a rk et« and Jnly 4 are now made by law public F lodh — Portland. Salem, Cascadia and holidays. ” Dayton, are quoted at 43.15 per barrel; Clearly the proper construction of Golddrop, $2.96; Snowflake. $3.20: Ben this statute can be arrived at only by ton county, $3.16: graham, $2.90; super reference to the provisions bearing upon fine, $2.25. the other holidays named. The act mak O ats — Good white are Quoted weak, at ing holidays of Jan. 1, Jnly 4, Christ 27c; m illing, 28®30c; gray, 22®23c. R olled oats are quoted as follow s: Bags mas and “ any day appointed or recom $4.26®6.25; barrels, $4.50®7.00; cases, mended by the president of the United I States as u day of public fast or thanki- $3.76. H a t — T im oth y, $9.00 per to n ; cheat, I g ivin g ” was passed in June, 1870, and $0.00; clover, $ 6 ® 7 ; oat, $6®6.60; wheat, was restricted in its effect to the Dis $5.50® 6.50. trict of Colombia. These days are holi B a u l k v— Feed barley, $14.00 per to n ; days in the various states only as they brewing, nominal. are made so by the various state legis- MiLLsTUinrs — bran, $13.00; shorts, $14; middlings, $18®20.00; rye, 86®87< j latures. The act of Jan. 31, 1879, makes Feb. per cental. B cttkh — Fancy creamery is quoted at 22 a legal holiday, and the act of Aug. 65c; fancy dairy, 46c; fair to good, ! 31, 1888, does the same for May 30, and both are restricted in their applica 36c; common, 17>jC per roll. P otato * « — N ew Oregon, 25@30c pei tion to the District of Columbia. The sack; seeets, common, 334«; Merced. uct referring to Labor day says nothing 33s per pound. i about the District of Columbia, bnt it O m o n s — Oregon, 00®90c per sack. does say that the first Monday of Sep P o o ltu y — C hickens, hens, $3.60 pei tember shall be a !«$al holiday, “ to all dozen; mixed. $2.60®3.00 per dozen; , intents and purposes, iu the same man ducks, $3®4 60; geese, $0.00; turkeys, ner us Christmas, Jan. 1, Feb. 22 , May live, 8 ® Ho per pound; dressed 11c. ! 30 and Jnly 4 are now made by law E o o s —Oregon, 9c per dozen. C ukkb * — Oregon full cream, 14®16)*c public holidays. ” per pound; halt cream , 93tc; skim, 4® The intents and purposes for which 6 c ; Young Am erica, 1 0 ® llc . and the manuer in which those days are T ropical F bdit — California lemons, made holidays are expressly lim ited to $3.00®3.60; choice. $2.60®3.00; Bicily, the District of Colombia, and so, by $0.50; bananas, $1.76®2.60 per buucu; necessary inference, is the act referring California navels. $2.60®3.00 per b o x ; to Labor day. pineapples. $4®5.00 per dozen. The misleading langnageof the Labor O regon V eg etables — Cabbage, 13ai per lb ; garlic, new, 7 ® sc per p ou rd ; day act has led to a prevalent statement artichokes, 70c per dozen; spiouts. 6 c that 1 he first Monday of September is a per pound; cauliflower, $2.75 per crate, hold, y throughout the United States 90 c b -$1 per dozen; hothouse lettuce, 40c by co.: ¿ressional enactment. — N ew York per dozen. Tri bune. carload o f bananas from N e w Or.eans haa arrived this week. R eceipts o f eggs have been large, but quotations have changed but litt le from those of The Chelan Leader learns from J. T h e C o w O u g h t t o H e K e p t F o r P r o t i t last week. T h e butter m arket ia not —P r o p u g a t i u g -S tr a w b e rr ie s b y K u n - so firm, and arrivals o f C a lifo rn ia but A. Green that a week or two ago Alan ter w ill probably brin g about a decline. Koyoe saw a deer swimming across the n « r i - K f f c c t o f S a l t o n M i l k —H o r s e Groceries, provisions, etc ., are un lake near his place, about fifteen miles M e a t as l i e u F o o d —N o te s . changed. up the north shore, and, getting into gray eagles were killed last iu Curry oouuty, near Wedder- a boat, he gave chase. A fter a while by heading it one way and then an thermometer registered 18 de- other, he managed to get alongside of elow zero at Joseph, iu W allowa it, and finally to get it by the tail, and then it towed him toward the shore ou March 1. faster than he could have rowed. He rut Oshuru, of Beuton county, was met by Mr. Green in a boat with over to the county treasurer, a rille, who killed the deer. It was a |.7U taxes collected. fine, large buok. double-decked carloads of hogs The Pullman oar Cinnabar was seized the Elgin stookyards were at Spokane one day last Week by Coun last week to Chicago, ty Treasurer Mudgett, for alleged de i enrollment in the public schools linquent taxes amounting to $161.62. ppner for the current year is 266, The taxes were assessed against the tie average daily attendance 226. Pullman oompany in 1894. rich strike is reported to have The Fidalgo cannery has completed lade in Quartz Gulch, near Rob- one building and a second is w ell ad fillo, by Albert Stearns, who vanced. The Anacortes cannery has five years for it. finished one building and work is be grand jury of Lane county is apt ing pushed on a second. Machinery, r 6 one of the most expensive that net material, etc., are beginning to ar « o n l y has had for many years because rive. [B n Siuslaw fishermen’s strike last The LeR oi M ining & Smelting Com fall. pany, of Spokane, has declared a d iv i I Pendleton W ool Scouring Com dend of 5 cents a share, or a total of ^as declared a 10 per cent divi- $35,000, the second for $60,000, and It is thought that it w ill take the present one of $25,000, making a almost a year to scour and pack this total of $ 100,000 paid within the past few months. Elberton wants to be an incorporated J. | AOuugements are being made to ship A petition with sixty-seven ' ° llJ,D 'topper from Grant's Pass to Baltimore, town. lrt k p y rail. It w ill be hauled in from the names of leading citizens has been pre- 1lWaldo mines in mattes, and the copper sentd to the county commissioners, ask and n f j i g j extracted when it has reached ing them to grant incorporation and saumus ^B Lgtinutiou. order an election, and the petition has been favorably acted upon. siutrat n P P > >r-v 18 being made in Pendleton . ^ for ogttle and fat mutton sheep. There The steel wire-nail works of Port i^h m J » % v " r:' 1 b u -v e r M in Pendleton and TownBend, after being dosed eighteen vioinlty, and the market seems to be months has resmued work. The ma aboul ready to open in fu ll blast. Fat chinery w ill be operated day and muttons are most in demand, and a night, and the output w ill be 800 kegs ‘ Jiuyewquoted 2 3 » cents per pound for a of nails daily. Manager Lively now ^ ^ T fc u a lity . has orders for 100,000 kegs of nails. The Koseburg Plaindealer says that The hotel at Machias, Snohomish Isiugli and his two partners were oounty, was set on fire by some incen I $15,000 for their copper mine. diary. There being no fire apparatus Laugh refused to sell at that fig or means for flghitng fire in the village, ging that he wanted $25,000 for the structure was a complete ruin in a treat in a mine that assays from very short time, the inmates barely es Dial rock $06 in gold per ton and caping being burned. Nothing was to 70 per cent copper, saved A shipment of flax grown on Black manager of the Pendleton Scour- packing Company is in Boise, river was made by the chamber of com inking arrangements for the es- merce of Seattle to Lisburn, Ireland. neut of a scouring plant there, This is the first return from the flax the Boise hot water would ma- seed received from Ireland last year for The new product lesseu the oost of scouring, experimentation. rge percentage of soda renders w ill be thoroughly tested on its arrival tier peculiarly adaptable to at Lisburn. Ig purposes. iderable progress was made in An original pension has been issued Igin g work at the cascades dur- to Charles H. Seekins, of Idaho City. tbe latter part of last week, and ith favorable weather for a few days The Star mail servioe between Fraser channel leading to the upper end of and Leyburn has been ordered discon ______ jal w ill be open. A fte r that tinued. ^V^rork ** the dredger w ill lik ely Special m ail servioe from Sonthwiok ratten through the locks and put to to Crescent in Latah county has been he_HPPr>ork rem oving the lower bulkhead. ordered discontinued March 31 next. I. 70 »¡> The weather observer at Pendleton The mines closed down by the recent 14.— ays (bat the general opinion among resuming aoruil;«« fru it men of that section iB that freeze-up are gradually esolitx arty fru it was injured, in some local- work. They w ill be running in full laim oi ®ea ruined for this year, while some blast again shortly. second ¡lin k the trees were killed in mauy of BooaahafdN by the recent cold snap. Late ;ter. 1 ruit probably has not been greatly ectioa aSfciaged, and comparatively few late e foe rutt Sees were killed, i the I T B S tsom met with quite an aoci- i - im k while en route to his ranch ou In- ek, in Grant oouuty, last week, kd on the grade was quite our- icy, and, in attempting to go I his wagon slid otf the grade, [his team along, falling a dis- ! about forty fee* into the creek Neither Mr. Letsom nor his Bre seroiusly injured. Llbany creamery received dur- ruary, with its 29 days, 89,000 of m ilk— over 3,000 pounds u The receipts from the butter Bom it were $1,060. The net > the patrons was 25 oeuts per Had they made their own but- ould not have been half that The receipts for December 40.60, showng a big increase, amery is in splendid hands, | business is a matter of local HATCHET A speoial election is ordered for A p ril 7 in Wallaoe, the same day as the regular city election, on a proposi tion to issue $76,000 in bonds to put in a sewage system. There is consider able opposition to the scheme. Superintendent F. F. Church, of the Boise assay office, has completed and forwarded to the director of the mint his report of the mineral output of Idaho for 1895. The total output was $¡0,110,485, an increase of $316,405 over the previous year. A petition is to be circulated in the Coeur d ’ Alenes asking the Oregon R a il way & Navigation to run Sunday pas senger and m ail trains. There is no complaint about the present manage ment of train service, exoept that it is only for six days a week. The Coeur d ’ Alene country has a populaiton of about 8,000 direotly affectedd by the desired change, and they advance the argument that it w ill be a paying prop osition. The matter w ill be laid be fore Receiver M cN eill at an early day. M o n ta n a . The poorest tool on the face of the earth is a poor oow. It is not only that she is no profit, it ia worse than that she runs you in debt Still worse ia the case if the poor cow be one of a herd, and for this reason: I f a person keeps but one oow he very soon knows if she be good or bad, but if he keeps a good many, the worthless cow is not so readily detected. She may be a smooth looking animal, and may even give a fair flow of m ilk, and yet she may not only fa ll short of paying for her keep, but be eating up all the profit made by her neighbor, and so the farmer has not a cent of gain on the pair. And the useless oow ia not only deteriorating as years go by, but ia per petuating her worthless kind, to the loss of her owner and to the detriment of all the country around. The form and features of a good dairy cow have been so often described that only a brief mention ia needed here, but some points are so essential that they can hardly be too strongly impressed. A good oow must be long, level, loose- jointed, with a capacious body, short, fine legs, long, light neck, clean out and intelligent head, thin withers, deep flank, thin, flat thighs, and rich, soft, mellow skin, showing a deep or ange color under any white markings, and inside of ear. As viewed from the side, she must present a perfect wedge shape, exceedingly deep behind and very light in front, and, as viewed from behind, she must show ample room to carry a large, fu ll udder with ease and without chafing. N o cow can do this that is of a beefy conform ation and that has not a good "a rc h .” P r o p a g a t i n g ¡S tr a w b e r r ie s . The varieties of strawberries mainly cultivated in this country are propa gated from the runners. The first pro duced are usually the strongest and best for early planting, but those that are formed later in the season are equally as good when they arrive at the same age or size. A few theorists have maintained that the first plants formed near the parent stool were the only ones that should be used, and that they were far superior to the oth ers and would always be more prolific. This assertion is not supported by facts; consequently is not worthy of a moment’s thought. To insure the rooting of runners, the surfaoe of the soil should be kept loose and open, and if the weather is very dry at the time they are forming, it is w ell to go over the beds and cover the new roots as they are produced. When only a few very large and strong plants are want ed it is w e ll to pinch off the runner just beyond the first plant, and this may beoome stong and vigorous. K t t e c t o f H a lt o n M i l k . Salt given to oows has some effect on the quality of milk. This is neces sarily so as salt aids very much in the digestion of the food, and it is the quantity of the food digested that regu lates the quantity and quality of the milk. Salt is indispensable to the health of any animal that feeds on vegetable matter, and the m ilk is affected greatly by the health or oppo site oondition of a oow. When salt is given to exoess, it is injurious and causes an intense thirst, bnt this does not necessarily make the milk more watery than usual. I f the cow drinks more water than is customary there is no reason to believe that this excess of water dilutes the milk. The m ilk is not made in any such way as would make this possible. It is produced by the breaking down of the glandular tissue of the udder and this never con tains more than a normal quantity of water. The kidneys are charged with the removal of any excess of water from the blood, and this drain or onltet, if in good working condition, w ill a l ways attend to its own business, and if it does not or oannot, for any reason, the milk glands oannot perform this function, but the cow becomes diseased at onoe. But this is a question that the careful farmer w ill never have to consider, because he w ill always take care that snch a supposed mistake w ill never happen, says a writer upon the subject. It is only the careless farmer who runs risks of g ivin g his oows, or permitting them to get, too much salt. F rksh F bd it — P ears. W in ter Nellis, $1.60 per b o x : cranberries, $9 per barrel: fancy apples, $1®1.75; common, 50®75c per box. D b ik u F ruits — Apples, evaporated, bleached, 4®4>gc; sun-dried, 3)4 ® 4 c; pears, sun and evaporated. 6 ® 0 c plums, pitless, 3 ® 4c; prunes, 3® 6 per pound. W ool — Valiev. 10c, per pound ; East ern Uregon, 6®8)4c. H ops — Choice, Oregon 4®6c per pound; medium, neglected. N uts — Almonds, soft shell, 9 ® llc per pound; paper shell, 10 ® 12 >*c; new crop California walnuts, soft Bhell, li® 1 2 )* c ; standard walnuts, 12® 13c; Italian chesnuts, 12)s@14c; pecans, 13® 16c; Brazils, 12) r ®13 c ; filberts, 14® 16c; peanuts, raw, fancy, 6®7c; roasted, 19c; hickory nuts, 8 ® 10c; co- coanuts, 90c per dozen. P rovisions — Eastern hams, medium, H 3 k ® 13c pur pound; hams, picnic, 73-yc; breakfast bacon 103s@10) 4 c; short clear sides, 8 ) 4 ® 9c; dry salt sides, 7 ) 4 ® 8 c ; dried beef hams, 12 ® 1 3 c; lard, compound, in tins, 7 \ ; lard, pure, in tins, 9 3*® 10c; pigs’ feet, 80s, $3.60; pigs’ feet, 40s, $3.26; kits, $1.26. Oregon smoked hams, 103$c per pound; pickled hams, 8 ) 40 ; boneiess hams, 7 )*c ; bacon, 1034®; dry salt sides, 6 $ 4 c ;lard, 6 -pound pails, 7 )$ c ; 10 s, 7 )4 c ; 60 s, 734 c ; tierces, 7c. Country meats sell at prices according to grade. H ides . — Dry hideSj butcher, sound, per pound, l l ® 12 c ; dry kip and calf skin, 10® 11c; culls, 3c lees; salted, 60 lbs and over, 6 c ; 50 to 60 lbs, 4 ® 4)4 c; 40 and 60, 4c; kip and veal skins, 10 to 30 lbs, 4c; calfskin, Bound, 3 to 10 lbs, 6 c ; green, unsalted, lc less; culls, l- 2 c less; sheepskins, shear lings, 10 ® 15c; short wool, 20®30c; medium, 30®40c; long wool, 60®70c. M e r c h a n d is e M a r k e t . B a l m o n — Columbia, river No. 1. tails, $1.26® 1.60; No. 2. tabs, $2.25®2.60; fancy, No. 1, flats. $1.76®1.86; Alaska No. 1, tails, $1.20® 1.30; No. 2, tails, $1.9< @2.25. B r a n s — Small white. No. 1, 2V4c per pound; butter, 3c; bayou, 13*c ; Lima, 4c. C obdagb — M anilla rope, 134-inch, it quoted at 8 j 4 c, and Hisal, 634 c per pound. S ug ar — Gulden C, 6c; extra (J, 6)4c; dry granulated, 6?4 c ; cube crushed arm powdered, 634 c per p ou n d; 34 c per ponnd discount on ail grades tor prompt cash ; half barrels, 34c more than b a rre ls ; maple sugar, 16® 16c per pound. O o rrx R —Costa Rica, 22®2334c; R io, 2(1 ® 22c; Salvador, 21 ® 22c; Mocha, 29®31c; Padang Java, 30c; Palembang Java, 26®28c; I « h a t Java, 23® 26c; Ar- buckle's Mokaska and Lion, $21.80 pel 10U-pound case; Colum bia, $21.30 per 100-pound case. Krca— Island, $4®4.50 per sack; Ja pan. $4.00@4.60. C o a l — S tead y; domestic, $6.00@7.60 per to n ; foreign, $8.60® 11.00. PRANKS OF SCOTTISH FAIRIES. A F ir m lfe lie f In th * “ F a ir Folk** S t ill Linear*. There still lingers a widespread belief in the north of Scotland that the “ fair folk, ” or “ gweedneebors,” as the fairies are called, still live in the hills, and during the first days of convalescence ■ mother must be zealously guarded lest onp of the “ wee people” come and rob the child of its nourishment. Some times they succeed in carrying off the mother. Here is -me of the superstitions legends: A north country fisher had a fine child. One evening u beggar woman entered the bnt and went up to the cradle to gaze into the eyes of the babe. From that time good health left it, and a strange look came into its face, and the mother was tronbled. An old man begging for food passed that way. When he caught sight of the child, he cried : “ That's nae a bairn. I t ’s an image, anrl the gweed folk has stonn bis speerit. ” Thereupon ho set to work to recall the fisher’s bairn. A peat fire was heaped high on the hearth and a black hen held over it at such a distance that it was singed and not killed. A fter some strug gling the hen escaped up the Inm. A few moments elapsed, and then the par ents were gladdened by the sight of a happy expression once more on the child’s face. It throve from that day forward.— Scottish Review. A D o g P o rn e S n a tch er. Pointer dogs can always be trained to steal. Many of them are natural thieves withont training, and any of the species can be taught. There is a dog of this kiud in northwest Washington. He w ill pick up anything he can find around a yard or ontside of a store, bnt his spe cialty is ladies' pocketbooks and hand bags. When he sees one of these, be grabs it and runs, always succeeding in getting out of sight before he can be captured or followed. N o owner has ever been seen, hence no complaints have been made at police headquarters, bet there is but little doubt, if it were possible to follow the animal, that is would be found that he has been care fu lly trained as a purse snatcher and that he takes his booty home to his master. He seems to be aware that hn is doing wrong, jumping fences and dodg ing around houses when running away. — Washington Star. A BRITON’S LUGGAGE. — ATTEMPTS OF AMERICAN IMITATORS TO INTRODUCE IT HERE. — P o n d ero u * B r it is h H at Boxes, 1‘ o r tm a e - teau s and H o ld A l l * —T h e B a g g a g e o n * H tea m sh ip W h a r f Is a S tu d y— T h e T r a v e le r and H is B a th tu b . As the traveling Briton is known in this country by his luggage, so the American woman was once hated ia Europe because of her Saratoga trunk. The world has escaped the general adoption of the Saratoga trnnk, bnt a worse thing seems possible, as British luggage threatens to become interna tional. Even now yon may bay in this town all the impedimenta with which the traveling Briton cumbers himself and bedevils the rest of mankind. A | Broadway trnnkmaker has for some years past undertaken to fix the thral dom of these things npon his fellow country men and women, and mauy traveling Americans, especially tbe wealthy and fashionable, are to be reo- ognized by the multiplicity of British impedimenta that they carry to and fre in their freqnent journeyings between the old world and the new. More curi- ous still, those clever and im itative Jap anese have began to prodace British luggage identical with the original ia the minutest details, evendown to hand sewed straps on leather trunks, port manteaus and the like; bnt, drolly enough, the whole outfit is merely a pa per counterfeit of the real thing. American imitators of things British, lacking the fine hnmor of the Japanese, have made no substitution of light ma terial for heavy, but have taken on tbe fa ll burden of ponderous British hat- boxes, portmanteaus, nigs, bags, bold alls and even bathtubs. It was a travel ing Amerioan who gave to the world am account of a refreshing scene on board a Mediterranean steamer bound to Tan gier or some snch Mohammedan port a t north Africa. A British passenger with his bathtnb had nearly pestered the life ont of a meek, coffee colored Moham medan, who accepted the Briton'scoraea without a sign of reproach, bnt when in the course of getting tbe Inggage ashore the precious bathtnb fe ll over board and sunk like lead, the harmless follower of the prophet was seen te pause in his work and danoe gleefully npon the deck, exclaiming in trinmph, “ Oh, Mr. Goddam, Mr. Goddam I” I t is since that incident that traveled Americans in tbeir aping of British ways have accepted even the harden of the bathtnb. A study of baggage at a steamship wharf or even at a large railway station iu N ew York is an instructive lesson as to the cosmopolitan character of the oity. There is one article of British Inggage that seldom survives more than one journey within the limits of the United States and sometimes gets no farther inland than the New York hotel at which the traveler makes his find stop. This article is the little trnnk or box of japanned tin mnch used by trav elers in Great Britain. The flimsy trifle hardly survives the first encounter with tbe American baggage handler, and after the first journey of 600 miles in - this country is battered ont of all re semblance to its original rectilinear self. It is an article of Inggage not snitable to the exigencies of American traveL A patbetio feature of the baggage at the railway stations that are doorways to the west is the immigrant's luggage. Sometimes it is a mattress from the steerage wrapped abont tiie few belong ings of tbe new made American. Again it is tbe corded box of the Irish, English or Scotch immigrant. It w ill be recalled- how important a preliminary to Char lotte Bronte's jonrneyings ont into tbe great world from her Yorkshire home was the cording of her box. The corded box ia as rare among the Inggage o f an American traveler as tbe old hair trunk, though both are occasionally seen. Tbe seaman’s locker, rectilinear for a stable stowage and strong against accidents, figures in the Inggage at steamship wbarves. One knows instinctively i t » contents of old clothes, prntographs, curios, tobaooo and long treasured let ters from home and the array of pic tures from the illustrated papers {lasted on the inside of the lid. The elaborate dressing cases that some Americans and all well to da Englishmen nsed to travel with are go ing ont of fashion. It is almost a neces sity that the traveler with this pretty piece of Inggage take along a valet, for the thing weighs like so mnch lead and ia too precious to be trusted to the ten der mercies of tbe baggage department. The traveling desk also has nearly dis appeared, tbongh some ingenious trunk- makers now produce tranks that open so as to form desks. Tbe Inncheua hamper that nsed to accompany every traveler across this continent in the days before dining cars came into use has almost entirely disappeared. The California millionaires of early trane continental travel carried enormous and richly laden hampers and dispensed o f ten a princely hospitality to their fellow trsvolers. The dinner hour on board » transcontinental train was a picturesque incident of travel In those days. Tbe traveling Briton in Enrope still some times carries his luncheon hamper, and it is often one of the nuisances of Euro pean travel. .Some of the English theatrical com panies have become ao nssd to traveling in America that they have adopted our methods with baggage. They accept with grace the great American trunk, dispense with the hatbox, the bathtub, the rugs, shawl straps end tbs rest and calmly see their belongings csrted off by a stranger, who leaves behind as e v i dence only a bit of braes bearing a few letters and numbers.— New York Bun. The largest popular nonpolitical con vention ever held in the state has closed its labors in Helena. It was the immigration and m ining conven tion, called for the purpose of effecting H o rn e M e a t an H e n F o o d . a permanent orgamzaiton that shall Hundreds of barrels of oooked horse work for the development of Montana by securing the immigration of desir meat are sold every winter to poultry able farmers and the enlistment of raisers, according to the Agriculturist. A a O ld C o lo n ia l B lo ck h o u s e. capital in mining enterprises. Every The horse flesh is cooked in tight tanks Among the attractions of the town of county was represented. For two under a steam pressure of forty-five Bourne, Mass., are two historic cellars. days there was a series of papers by pounds. This penetrates every par M e a t M a rk e t. One was dng by the Plymouth colony ticle of the meat, purifying and cook specialists from all over the state.setting B e s t — Gross, top steers, $3.26, cows, and the other by the Dntch traders. forth the resources of their respective ing it thoroughly. In this form the $2.26(1x2.60; dressed beef, 4@63tC per These cellars lie side by side, and the sections Never was there such a re meat w ill keep from one to four weeks, ponnd. »tractores built over them were filled sume of the advantages of Montana according to the weather. There is M utton — G ross, beet sheep, wethers, with good« so necessary for the comfort prepared. Emphasis was laid ou the no practical way of preserving horse « 2 . 16 ; ewes, $1.60®2.26; dressed mat- o f the early pilgrims as w ell as the fact that there are thousands of acres meat for any length of time. Where it ton, 43*c per pound. Dntch. The pilgrims needed mannfao- of tillable land in the state. A very cannot be oooked by steam it should be V eal — tiroes, small, 6@6c; large, 3 tured goods such aa the Hollander had large percentage of the farm products boiled. The meat might be salted the ®4c per ponnd. for aale and the Dutch required prod H o g s — Grose, choice, heavy, $3.26® and supplies used in the larger cities same as beef, but it would have to be ucts such as the oolony could supply. are imported from other states. The freshened before being used, and it ia a 3.60; ligh t and feeders, $2.60®2 75; Governor Bradford, in his diary, states dressed. 3 ( 4 ® 4c per pound. oity of Butte alone sends outside $800,- question whether it would then be a that thia block honse was built as early 000 annually for butter, eggs and flour. safe feed for hens. It is a good food as 1627, only seven years after the land SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS Scarcely 10 per oent of the pork pro for egg production. One o f the most ing of the Mayflower.— St. Lonis Globe- ducts consumed in the state are pro popular brands o f poultry meat on the Democrat. ! duced at home. Fi/>ra— Net cask price«: Family ex- Resolutions were market is made from carefully pre traa, $4.00®4.10 per barrel; bakers’ ex A b o u t G irls . adopted declaring that no more invit- I pared and w ell oooked borne flesh. tras, $3.80®3.99; superfine. $2.86®3 10. “ G irls,” remarked the small boy in ing field for immigration exists than \ B a r l e y — Feed, fair to good, 70c; | N o t««. bis composition npon the subject, “ is of Montana. The state had an abund Hens are very fond of mang-ls and choice, 7134c; brewing, 86 ( 40 . ance of the finest grazing lands and a W h « at — Shipping, No. I, $1.10; several thousand kinds, trad sometimes T h e W a r W h e a l. great number o f rich valleys, which they are good for them. choice, $1.1234; mil ing, $1.70®1.2734. one girl can behave like several thou Wheeler— ADd don't yon think the w ill produce crops in abundance. Be- i Freah raw meat and clover are good O n — Milling, 76®80c; surprise, sand girls. Borne kinds of girls is better aifea, the state is rich in precious egg prodnoers. Bnt feed meat only 90'a96; fancy feed. 773%@80; good to than some other kinds, but they ain’t bicycle w ill ever be nsefnl in warfare? choice. 70®76c; poor to fair, 60® any of them up to beys. Thia ia all I Walker— No. I doubt If It w ill ever metals. A permanent bureau w ill be two or three times a week. 66 c ; gray. 75@8234c. know about girls, and father says the get farther than its present rtatns aa • organized for the preparation of au Eggs should be gathered every day H or«— < 4 notable at 3®6c per pound. less I know about 'em the better. mere instrument for assault and bat- thoritative statements and the dis in order to be of a first-el« •«• quality, P otatoes — Hweeta, $1.76@2.2o; Bur- New York Advertiser. 'ery.— Indianapolis Journal. semination o f information and litera and none should be sent L market nu- ! 1 «Sinks. Oregon, 45®70 . ture among farmers and c , . ...i, .ih . leas perfectly clean. I toga— 60 @ 60 c per sack.