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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1903)
AH a widow's coolness Is ou the out fide. Married couples have to quarrel Just to leant not to. The best thing for a girl's complex Ion Is for n man to catch her climbing an apple tree. Some people seetu to think that Just because a man Is a bachelor he Is deaf, dumb and Idlnd. Nearly always you can tell when a roan Is married by the way he acts as If he weren't when he Is away from home. It Is Just like a woman when she It talking to a roan over the telephone to whisper to him so "Central" can't hear. It Is the fdrl that slips through n roan's lingers Just when he thinks lit has caught her that he keeps on want ing to catch. Uy the time an afternoon tea party has got through with a good woman's reputation It looks as If It belonged In n problem play. Women arc so conscientious that when they arc In a bath tub and a servant tells them that some man has called to sec them they blush. A woman has an idea that It Is bet ter for her not to balance her check hook monthly no the cashier won't know how little money she has. A girl always thinks a man Is Im pressed with the beauty of her face when he turns around to take another look to see how In the world she keepi her bat on. The skeleton that every man thinks he keeps safely bidden In the closet at home walks along the street behind him. grinning over his shoulder at all his friends. New York Press. A man can always make a woman . bellev he loves her If he remembers. -when he writes he is coming to see her, to ask her to wear a certain dress that she knows she looks pretty In. THE PIONEER WOMAN NURSE ON A BATTLETIEID Florence Nightingale, the "grand old woman of England." at 83 Is feeble and spends roost of her time In n sin gle room nt her pretty London home, attended only by a devoted nurse. She was the pioneer woman nurse on it battle field and is the mother of train ed nurses. After years given to nursing during the Crimean War, she returned to En gland and with the $270,000 testlmo- nonxxc xioutuoai.c. nlal given her by the nation, founded the Florence Nightingale school for trained nurses. Aud the American Bed Cross Society was Inspired by her work Miss Barton giving her the credit. Miss Nightingale came from a well known aristocratic English family, whose name was not originally Night ingale. She was born in Italy aud owes her name to Florence, her birth place. Since the Crimean War Miss Night ingale has been a partial Invalid through overwork at that time. Her mind, however, Is clear and she spends part of each day reading and writing. She has always been espe cially fond of birds and ut her home she has a multitude of cages tilled wltli her cheerful little friends. A Distorted View. "Times ain't what they used to be," Bald Farmer Corntossel. "In the days gone by it used to he a disgrace to be arrested." "Isn't It now?" "I dunno. 'Pears to me like It's the only way to get your name in tho pa per along with the millionaires that own fast horses and big automobiles." Washington Star. One oT Them in Hard Luok. Jones This talk about Friday being unlucky Is all nonsense. My wife ac cepted me on a Friday, Smith But bow about your irle? Judge. WSSfJSm WSm THE OLD-FASHIONED TRAIN BOYS AUE NOW IN THE LIST OF "HAS BEENS." Tim tralnboy Is passing Into tho realm of the "Ims boons." Ills tiny of, fliiauclnl glory arc go no and the news companies llnd it a html proposition to employ boys who cau sell newspapers, magnr.lnes, books, fruit and whnt not ou tho railroad trains. The reason Is that tho boys do not cam tho money that they did In other days. The faded glory of the train boy Is nttrlbutcd to n multitude of causes, but the paramount cause may be plnceil at tho door of tho hustling young chaps who sell newspaper on the station platforms. Passengers buy news papers before they get on tho trains. Then there Is the street fruit stand. If n traveler wants fruit he Is going to buy It at n fruit stand, whero ho cau get two oranges for a nickel. Tho tralnboy must get, a nickel for one. News papers must also bring the tralnboy a nickel. Tho platform boy sells It for two cents. There arc but few of the old train "boys" left. They began business back in tho days when tho train boy was called the "peanut." That was when the train boys sold peanuts on the train at flvo cent a glass. For a nlnkel oho cau get four glasses of peanuts to-day. Between fifteen and twenty years ago the railroads declared against tho sale of ilirtl penuuts In trains and tho "peanut" lost his title. Aftr that, sonic one Ke htm tho tnMe vt "butcher." Nobody knows whero the name came from, but It's stuck Jut tho same. Hut to-day he Is "his majesty, the train hoy." "Tho good old days are gone," mused one of the veteran "boys," as he, wiped a cinder from the comer of his eye. "It won't be many years now until the news agents on tho trains will bo a forgotten fancy. Wo barely make a living now. In the old days we made money so fast wo didn't appre ciate It. Ten dollars clear profit was not an unusual day's work with us. I have made a fortune In my time, but I spent It, too. I'll tnako good during the St.- Louis exposition, however." "Do you make big money during tho expositions?' "Do wo? A man with a good exposition train has got a cinch. Von see, tho exposition trains lay In tho sidetracks and the passengers have to be amused. 80 they eat and read and we get tho money. I'll enjoy the St. Louis show, I am sure." The modern train boy Is not "up to snuff." Few of the boys that enter the employment of tho news companies "make good." They cither lack energy, or aro Inclined to let their goods stand Idle, whllo they seo tho sights along ths line. Tho company requires each boy to give security for the goods he takes away and be Is fined If ho neglects to care properly for his stock. The companies requlro that the boy must be over 18 years old; ho roust be ft feet, or over. In height, and, nbovo all, tnuit not be a clgarottq runoker. He Is also required to sign a release, which exempts tho railroad aud news companies from paying damages If ho Is Injured. Tho twentieth century train boy Is uusally a flippant youngster, who has an Idea that tho world belongs to him because be rides a train and wears a uniform. That Is ouo of the worries of the news company. Hut, good or bad, the train boy Is passing Into the realm of "has-been," and ho will soon be seen no more on the trains. Indianapolis News. 0RITI8H WARSHIP FOUNOER& Scorpion, Once Confederate Monitor, Sink. Almost Knculflnir Craw. The Itritlsh tug Powerful, Captain Russell, put Into Boston rcceutly, while on a passage from Bermuda for St. John, N. n., having lost the Brit Ish monitor Scorpion, formerly a Con federate craft, which she was towing eighty mites off George's shoal. The Scorpion foundered and her crew of fifteen men was rescued by the crew Kg? itb SkJ " 1 " !" ' ' - L. ' " ' 1' T ' Lii-Jr.1 fwXlWJu! flJBl'JLLL 1' i 5uilfV sWl TV V KK. -WHBBSK. -- - Miu:!-. m- AJ -fc'VyS.l I Ill HI II iissssM !' asllli 1 MCfx-i-ias. zPWips4t ' fJrrL. imiTISII MONITOIl SCORPION. of the Powerful with considerable dif ficulty. The Scorpion was built In England. Sho carried four powerf il guns In her two turrets and It was V..v hope of the Confederacy that sho would wipe the Northern navy from the seas and then bombard Philadelphia, New Yrk and Boston. She arrived In Ilermudn In the latter part of ISrW to take coal prior to beginning operations, but she was seized by the Itritlsh government. The vessel had been, lylug off Bermuda ever since, or until nhout thrco years ago, when she was sunk utt Forf Ham ilton. IN THE SPIRIT OF MRS. WIQQ3. A Negro Ktudeitt'a Work for Horn In Indianapolis' ' Dumps." As a benefactor of the weak and downtrodden, Mrs. Wlggs, of the "Cabbage Patch," Is not possessed of a monopoly. Loulsrllle's famous ub urb has a rival In Indlanupolls' less famous "Dumps." James I Jackson, a oue-legged col ored Teunexscejn, who Is studying for the ministry In the African Metho dlst Episcopal church, has the spirit of the adored Mrs. Wlggs. Her cretd Is his to try to make tho sun shine 011 both sides of everybody's fence. With that end In his heart, Jackson has decided to build 11 home 011 tho "Dumps" ulong Full Creek. The home Ik to be called "The Christian Home of Rescue," and will 'be about two blocks north of the city botpltal ou tho west side of the creek. A number of small cabins surround Jackson's proposed home. He has It already under way, and most of the work bu has done himself. He hns the knack of a carpenter and applies his spare moments In putting on shingles, weatherboardlng or celling plank. Jackson started the building on money earned as a bootblack. He has run out of funds and Is now soliciting subscriptions from the be nevolent folk of Indianapolis. Money Is coming slowly, very slowly for Jack son, but he has hopes of finishing tho home. It is Jacksou's purpose to provide the homo with an Industrial feature, and he will find work for tho men. women and children Hint enter hW home. lie Is considering opciilng a restaurant to Increase bis funds. When It Is finished he will seek for sinners who want to quit ths world for a time and live In peace and a religious en vironment. It Is Jackson who has as a protege the notorious "Sparktra" Hlscr. "Sparkles" Is a little dculien of lower Indiana avenue and was called a terror by the t-w wvmmtawtsstimffi. 'A I "Mb. " S'J2fflK5K police. He has been arrested time and again. Recently be appeared be fore Judge Htubbs In the Juvenile Court and Jackson was the prosecut ing witness. After Judge Stuhlm had made up his mind to send "ttiwrkles" to the reform school at Plalntleid JnckKon, bis acouser, arose In court and pleaded to have the little colored boy given Into his keeping. Jnciisou wild he would make a minister of him. Judge Htubbs heard the plea, iwd to day ".Sparkles" Is under the eye of the mun that prosecuted him, Hlscr Is working, but be reports dally to his benefactor. Indlanupolls News. YOUNQ AND WEALTHY. ThL Kocksfsllcr Rlou Find Ilia Oreateit I'ltaaura in Hard Work. If there Is a person in tho United States who could live in idleness It Is Percy Avery Rockefeller, the son of William Rockefel ler, but, strange to say, that young man delights In la bor and works for the sheer lovo of working. He Is scurcely 27 years of nge, but has much wealth In his own right and Is likely to Inherit r, a. nocKKrn.j.Kit vast Hums, not only from his father's estate and his fa ther Is the second in tho Stundnrd Oil Company but through the Stlllman futility on his wife's sldo. Mrs. Itock. efeller was Miss Isnbel Goodrich Still- mnn, a distinguished beauty and a member of the famous and wealthy Stlllman family. Preserving lUilroad Ties. Tlo-oreservliiL' nlants nre now mowd on cars to whero tho ties are delivered to the railway. In retorts holding COO ties each, the sap l forced, from tho pores In the ties and salt solution put In Its stead, Whnt has become of the old fashllioed Iwy who said to the gentleman: "Yen, mam (yes, sir.)" happenings here in Oregon 111(1 I'KOI'ITS IN I'AKrilNO. Willamette Valley Handlers Will Do Well This Yoar. WJlhwuottu vnlloy fnrmera tiro w Jolclng over tlio prospect for good prottts In ntinnst every thing they luivo to noil this year. Not only nro prices good, hut yields are largo and ns n consequence tliero will bo muro money In tho valley this year than tlioro tins buun for mora than n do codo before. Wheat nt Rnlom Is quoted at 70 cents, with tho mills paying n 2-cont premium, In ordinary years nil ahovo BO cents would bo clear profit, hut bo caiiHO of tho high wages pnld to farm help thin season It will tnko from C2 to f5 cents to pny tho cost of produc tion. Tho average yield, so far ns can he learned, will ho about SO bush els to ttio ncro or more. This means n cloar profit of from $3 to $3.60 nn ncro ou wheat, nftor allowing for all labor and expenses, Oats have turn ed out hotter In proportion than wheat, and the largo ylntil. with a prlco of about 25 cents por bushel, will lenvo a good profit on that rrop. The Hcason has been very favornbls for hay, and yields hnvo boon good. The prices quoted nt present aro from $7 to $H n ton In the local market for loaso liny. Farmers Hay that about half of this prlco la profit. Yields run from two to three tons por ncro, (link ing this crop a bettor paying ono thnn wheat. Hops promise a price ranging from 15 cents upward, and It Is generally (Inured that all nbovo 8 cents Is profit, though growers who hire all their work done and give tholr ynrds a good spraying say that tho cost of produc tion Is 10 cents n pound. At nny rate, thcro seems to bo an excellent profit this year The prune crop In large, and though tho domestic market hns not opened, has been making sales nt Its own price, n 2-cent basis, which prlco leaves tho grower n "lienor man lair margin, All throutrli tho year dairy products havo brought an extraordinary price, and oven country butter has found a readr market nt paying figures. Woolgrowcra sold their fleeces this year at a high price, and sheep hnvo been In doroand all through the year. CATTLI1MUN RllPUSH TO SELL. Doplte Scarcity of Pd Thty Mold for Better Figures. Novcr In tho history of tho country round Dalo has tho cattln market been as unsettled ns It Is nt tho pres ent tlmo. Prices offered by eiport buyers nro extremely low, and tho cattle- raisers nro refusing to sell. Crowding on top of this, there is ft scarcity of liny as compared with last yoar, and prices nro running moun tain high. Hay Is soiling In the flold nt $10 pee ton. which Is St higher than It wan last fall. Cattln-ralsern who have not a sufficient supply nre trying to contract for all they can so cure, hut tho farmer will not soil. Again there nro more eattlo on tho rango this year than last, without suf ficient feed for them. Notwithstand ing tho discouraging stnto of affairs which confront tho cattleman, he Is willing to wnlt for further develop ments. Tho export cattle-buyers who have boon In tho country have had to go to other parts because they could not so euro the eattlo hore. Tho buyers give Portland quotations hero at 12.70 per hundred for cows and 13.35 for steers. Tho nvernim Is $3.75, nnd evon better prices than tlutt wero re ceived Inst yenr. If both tho buyer and tho seller continue to hold out, It Is believed thnt there will bo a num ber of forced sales on tho part of th stockmen, nnd thnt they will sell nt a loss to themselves. No Orn to Plght Over. There Is no rango war In tho Upper Deschutes valloy. On tho contrary, thcro Is tho peaco of desolation. Tho rango was overstocked nnd caton out nnd no graBB worth making war over remains, Whoro neat eattlo and horses onro thrnvo by tho thousands thcro Is now nono too much feed for a fow hundreds. Twenty years ugo thoro wus no finer grazing region In tho United Stntea. Men who now rldo nil day In n cloud of dust toll of tho tlmo whon tho grass wus up to their kneon as they bestrode their horses, nnd eattlo fairly wallowed In tho feed that covered tho 30 miles of present desort between Bond nnd Prlnovlllo, To Have n rand New School Home, Canyon City Ih to hnvo a new nnd up-to-date, school building that will bo n credit to tho town. Tho school nu thorltlcs nro advertising for bids for Its coiiHtrurtlon. Tho building will bo two stories high nnd will havo four class nnd recitation rooms. Its cost will bo about $3000. President Smith Inspecting Farms, K. L. Smith, of Hood Itlvor. presi dent of tho Stnto Board of Horticul ture, Is In Cooh county on a tour of Inspection. Whllo tlioro Mr, Smith will visit most of tho principal farms In tho county, Planing Mill Burned at Haines. Tho Haines Lumbor Company'!) planing mill, nt Hnlnco, wns burned last weak, Tho loss Ih $5000. Tho plant wan owned by James MJtcholl, of Bnkor City, who carried no Iniiur nnco. MAY llll I'OUIIST KIISIIKVU. Commissioner Hlchards (lives Messons for Withholding Large Tract. Register Dresser, of tho Oregon City land olllce, has reculved fiom Commissioner W. A. ltlchurds, of tho United States land olllco, n letter re latlvn to tho telegram of recent date withdrawing curtain public lands In thnt district from nuttlumont. Tho letter directs tho withdrnwnl, tem porarily, of all vacant unappropriated lamlH In townships 5 to 13 south, both Inclusive, range 4 oust, from soldo intuit, entry, sale or other disposal, under tho public land laws, pending the determination ns to tho ndvls nblllty of Including snld area within tho Cascade range forest reserve. Regarding tho rights of settlers who have nlready located on lands In cluded In the specified nrcn, Commis sioner Richards says: "Neither this temporary withdraw al, nor the pormnnont resorvn of the lands which may follow, will n fleet any bonn fide settlement or tilaltn properly Initiated upon tho lands prior to tho date hereof, provided that the settler or claimants continue to comply with the law under which their settlement or claims were Inl tinted, nnd place tholr claims duly on record within the prescribed stat utory period. Tho withdrawal oper ates to defeat all settlement claims or other claims Initiated subsequent to this date, regardless of tho dale upon which you receive tho telegram." DAILY ATT11NIMNCI! SMALI.P.R. Though Oregon's School Population Has (Ircatly Increased. Slltierlntenilent nt I'nlilln Imimn. tlon J 11. Ackerman has just finished compiling inn nnnuai school stalls tics ns gathered from thn reports re Centlv fllrit In hla nfTIm tiv Mm . n county superintendents. As thn re ports for Inst year covered a period of HI months, there Is no basis for comparisons except in a row partic ulars. Tho school census for the year end Ing In Juno, 1003. shows that thorn are In thn stnto 143,757 persons be tween thn ages of 4 nnd 20 years. At thn same tlmo last year tho school' population was 138.4CC, o that an In crease of 8231 Is shown. Tho nvorago dally attendance tn all tho public schools of tho stato during tho preceding year has boon 154.210, while for the preceding year It was 66.77P, or n decrease of 2SG0. A de crease In the nvorago dally attend ance nt tho snmn time that there Is nn Inrrontio In the school population In probably duo to tho scarcity of labor and the high wnges, which, to rrthnr. tnkn tnnnv of ilw l,ii. l. out of school during tho greater part or me yenr. Protest Against Withdrawal,. A special meeting of tliu Rosolmrg bonrd of trade and citizens generally has been called to protest attains! the withdrawal of nny more ril:ie lands from entry In thnt portion of thw stnto. Othor commercial bodies In the western part of Oregon will bo Invited to cooperate In protesting to tho officials In Washington, D. C. and to our senators nnd representatives In congress against the further o tension of our already Immense for est reserves. Such recently proposed extensions will work serious Irani ships on mnny bona fldn settlors now locnted on somo of thoso lands, PORTLAND MARKCTS. Wheat Walla Walla, 70WBrs bluo stem, 78Hlc; valloy, 700800. Flour Vsllov. l.1.()0rfi3.HS Mr !. rel; hard wheat ttrslgtits, ia.n0C43.RK: naru wneat, patents, f4.104.ftO graham, $3.3(A3.76, whnlo wheat, $.1.55(34.00 rye wheat, f 1,00. Barley Feed. 120 nor ton liruln $21 j rolled, $21(1521.60. Oats No. 1 whllo, $1.07& gray, $1 OB per rental. Mlllllllffs Hran. I2.'l nor tan ml I- tilings, $27; rhnrit, $23; chop, if 18; linseed dairy foot, $1H, Hay Timothy, old, $20 per tonr now, $H(316;clov'r, nominal; grain, i-i curai, nominal. Huttor Fancv ortstnr. 9fv,')oi. , per pound; dairy, nominal; store, 111 17c. Chooso Full cream, twins, lie; Young Amorlca, Mo; foctory prices, lftDfic loss. Poultry Chickens, mixed, 11 MHa nor nound: unrlnir injii7L'. lions, l'.'Ctl'Jkot brollnrn. fOaq 1 dozen; turkeys, live, 10Qt2o per pound; dretrod, I415c; ducks, $4ft ivr inixoiii gootw, inwo.OU. Kggs uregon ranch, 1020o. Potatoes Old Rtirhanka 7n7K .. . . -- or oarit, growers- prices; now pota toes, OroKon, 80flH per uaok'; Cali fornia, lo per pound, Wheat Backs In lots of 100, 6tfo. t 1Jo0'."7.!!'!x BtH)"' 87o94.25; dressed, 0K7o per pound. Veal 80 por pound, Mntton Gross, $3; drossod, filtf Co; lambs, gross. $3.50; ilroneod, 7c. IIoj-s-OrosB, $5.506.76 dressed, Ce Hops-1002 crop, I691O0 por pound. Tallow Prime, nor pound, -igeo; No. 2 nnd grsaso, 2ima. n W001 TX?lUy 17"0( Kaslorn Oregon, 12Q16o; mohair, 3B37Jtfc. 1 i 4