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s to business what !ena povr llifre 1 but one ,ivi,iUi i ' .., li , , pttLIUU , but OltV . v tf uf'n ; i J i ' dnery the grand mutlve power. 4 M acacia y. ity Mfoivsmjj. 'R 6. ATHENA, UMATILDA COtiNTYrOREGONr OCTOBER 27 1893.- NUMBER 50 f 1 v . M ' r; ir- 1 ht. j - r j i 4 I 1 , ft otter t com .'know ape its CORE IS Hany people take pills, which grips and purge, "weakening the . EMyStake Simmons Liver, &! " or powder, be .aae m, . JL- to take, does not grip,. .a mild laxative, that also tObtfS up-the system. The relief is quick. It is Nature's own remedy, purely vegetables 'I never found anything to do me any good until I lined Himmons Liver lloguia lor. It has been three years since I first used It and I have not had Sick Headache since. 1 seutmy sister (who had from one to two attacks or Hick. Headache every week) one-half of a package, and she haa not bad it Bluce."-C S. iloKBia, lirowns vllle, W.Va,,,.., r, .;,.. , v., i '4aEVEBT'; PACKAGE-fa ; Has onr Z Stanm In red an wrapper. 4. II, itEUJLK & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. The Malls. . Mall closes for Pendleton, Portland, and all poihts east, except the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, at 5:30 p. m. For Walla Walla, Spokane and North Paci fic points at 7 8 Mall arrive from Pendleton, Portland and the east at 7:45 ft. m. From Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pa cific points at 8 :5 p. in. Offloe hours General delivery open from 8 a. in. to 8 p. m. Bundays, 8 to 11 a. in. Money order window open from 9 a ra. to 4 p. m. Geo. Hansf.ll, Postmaster. . f - A F. ft A.-M. NO. 80 MEETS THE . First and Third Saturday Kvenlngs of each months : Visitiug bretherett cor dially invited to visit the lodge. ': 1 ' ''y" ' ' 10. 0. f no. 73, meets eveey .Friday night. 'Visiting Oddfellows in good slanding always welcome, 0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays of ach month. L. A. Oithens, . ; . .... '. . Recorder. PYTHIAN, NO. 29, .Thursday Night. MEETS .EVERY ; pRorx. V 8, SHAEP, ' , .Physician and Surgeon -. Calls promptly answered. Ottlce on Third felyeet, AtUenti,. Oregon, ' "' .'., L ,, Vr-' f ' f r M : ' r;i'SICIAN & S1JRG3E0N---1 - Calls promi..al.tenH:(r tot dftt 'fat liieht. oiric ; iroel, Athena, Or. ,--r4L. RICHroSON, OI'EBA'f 'VK rRSTHETIC D F-.NTI ST. OREGON Ry.;Co. in onncetion wlti NORTftRN-' PACIFIQ-R. R. Forms the . Cu:c::est akd; best route Between Eoxtern Oregon and ashington ana riigei souna rotiits. as wen as me i'opninr niul -mrivl, itne to all Points East & Southeast Pullman Sleeping Cars. Superb Dinning Cars. ' Tree 2d-Class Sleepers. Til ROUGH TO cnil'AOO VIA THIS LINE Pahsenger trains of this Company are run , , nlng regularly between " .-;: "-"--;' -rr uyton, Wattsburg, Walla Walla Wash, and Pendleton, Oregon. ' . ...... v'.'-, ,T. "' i, Mltin?ckwecomifv.tl(-iiialr Hunt's Junction with iSorllicrn parnlo trains firr Tncrm, S'-tt!, i' i,H. ('., Elhnsbnroh, Noritk Yakima, Piio. -ormn, Jhtnf. f.nun- wort, hpokttne, butie. Itvleua, SH. Paul and M in til n 'Wilis. AND ALL POINTS EAST HirttioTi ui Second-'Glass a i " 1 . I S Auarnea to JiiX-. pres." Trains, j,-' w. ! O en'l Fr't and Puss. A W.I MLET, ' el., wyllla 'al&Wash if . , V W. P. TVI.FK, Pres. and !C1 Manager. ' J J. A MVlUHEAD. , JJBT7! Prof. Lane, tie artisf, has leased ro'". -.3 over the i Fir.-1 , National .F.a-k whifli he ha? rMi verted into fjdio ia instruct a 'v,tj in oil r tiscil '"!raw: cf su es harsi :j-3 r- I'm A HISTORIC 1IARKET. OLD CLOTHES IN LONDON ALL DRIFT TO A FAMOUS PLACE. Old CUtlief Start In Heandsditeh Attracts Hundreds of Thousand! of People Who Want to Wear Expensive Apparel, bat Can't Pay Very Much For It. Down In the unsavory and ill favored quarter of Houndsditch. behind the area cf the city where countless gold is made and turned over, there is an inclosed epace; part of the bo called Phil's build ings, which goes by the descriptive name of the Old Clothes Mart. - Admission to it 's obtained on payment of a penny as entrance fee, collected by a man stand ing at the barrier that divides tho street from the emporiums beyond. The gen eral aspect is far from inviting, and a hrst cursory glance seems i reveal only ; a collection of rarrcd,decTer-irn(je Ta floor is nothing. Xe'tliaE-iyiavenvent. The roof is the eky, and in rain sun- fdtirtA tliA hpnnq nf lnthfa nro t-vrvacJ trirtmit iirntertinn tr. thn rhanrma f VhJ capricious London climate. On slushy days they present a lamentable appear ance.', r;. j ''.'" There are no benohes or stalls, as in other markets, only lines of wooden rail ing running along the inclosure marked out in. lengths and apportioned to the different vendors. The goods are packed in sacks or , bundles '.deposited o5 the flags, and at the open month or top of each is displayed a sample of its con tents, which is also temptingly laid across the rail, whence depend the legs of trousers, the sleeves of dresses, the frills of petticoats, the soles df-boots or the handles of sticks and umbrellas. The goods vary considerably in quality and aspect Some are moldy, tattered oi colorless; others are in fairly good con dition,' clean and serviceable. ;' ' Old Clothes Mart is victualled by hawk ers who haunt certain suburban districts to purchase the cast off garments of the more modest inhabitants those who do not hesitate to discuss the conditions of the -business in person at tueif front doors, t The dealings are not carried on in casnt' Ufa L&wkors, with astute knowl edge of human nature, offer in eXchaiige crockery, plaster figures or even flowers in pots, experience having successfully proved that a bust, a pair of vases or a water bottle worth sixpence is infinitely more tempting than a shilling, and the buyer has the satisfaction of emptying the barrow laden with flashy, worthless Mticles af a profit of EO per cent. - - When his original stock in trade is re placed by wearing' .apparel,1 the hawker adjourns to the - neighborhood of. the mart, where he finds a group of men calling themselves commission buyers who bid against each ether for the whole lot The successful corp-gtitor forth with distributes his bargains among the holders of the railed off compartments vsjde, who endeavor to retail them to the Yustomera who have pam the en trancet.ee. The best of these customers are alwajs Irish buyers. They carry off wholesale canities ten uUfast, Dublin, Cork and oth JpclitiA .yyond- the channel, Taldngintocoll.i, 'ion the nature and general appearance of iie consignments,, it, 'starring! to learn on good authji iiy that ocaasionally 30 and even40 have .been pt.i4 down isf cash f cbne lot. Credit is never given, and payment precedes the delivery of the goods. - Hats, which, si a rule, are the most de plorable objects, fetch but little, yet are eagerly bought whatever their state. They are sent to Paris for the sake of the silk on them and there manufactured into new ones. Coats vary more in price than any other article; some go for a penny, some for sixpence and npward to 5. There was a legend on the mart that one coat was actually sold for 'a tenner." Clothes that have been worn by the highest and richest in the land have found their downward way to Hounds- ditch, not excepting those once i belong" intrta the Prince of Wales, not uo Die owners are a party to tue desecra tion, but because the valets whose per quisites they become know of this way of realizing money for them. The bargains are advantageous to1 all parties. Some of the shabbydisreputable and poverty stricken looking railing holders at the mart, the men who haggle desperately over a sixpence, are veil to do capital ists. .'.One of, them is the proprietor of several bouses in a good quarter of Lon don., Others have a large balance at the bank, and ethers still own considerable property in stocks and shares. - They turn over thousands of 'pounds' in the course of a year, which Is not surprising, aa the mart is opened every day and vis ited by 600 or 700 people on week days and by 4,000 or 5,000 on Sundays. A not able particularity is that while on week days the stalls are free and a charge is taade for the admittance of the public on Sundays the stallholders pay a small fee and the customers enter gratuitously, I Th"eTiisrti5en from 11 to 6,, It is a favorite lpnnge Ir the dwellers in the district, while tho on business intent flock to it from great d; stances. The old clothes mart o, Honnsditch is not comprised in the list of the 100 mar kets mentioned in the report of thd coin- fmittee of public control, and it may therefore continue to exist with impuni ty. It has jbeen in working order for about 60 years and la an important one in its line. Its trade extends to Spain and the Cape, whither go the renovated costumes and repaired goods. France and Scotland receive their consignments in their nnregenerate state and treat them according to their own require ments. London Cor. 2-Tow York San. Curious People la Buk "The Christa" are a curious sect in Rossis. They worship each other! The chief ceremonies are a crazy spscies of dancing, yelling as loudly as possible ais-l pem: l.v stores with sticks. TLs "j',lriry$'' LvIIwe ia sulf inati l&ticn, bit will not rl-:tlt to S'xy ntatioa er tLcv :, it wot.1 1 sits 1..-.'. LIVe V e "Cbrlsts," ttey &mm and yell for h Inuaatl Taste I Baa Franc! mo. - A San' Francisco audience will be much more amused by tha manner in which V the professor breaks down Mrs.! Brooklyn Bridge's ceiling than it will over the splendid merriment of Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Agnecheek and Mal volio. It is like tha French audience, which is infinitely more amused by wit than by humor. . - : ' - But comedy Is not held in gieat favor here. The San Franciscans being the most pleasure loving of people, prefer tragedy, A good, old fashioned, blood spilling tragedy, : where every one is killed in the last act, is highly approved Cf, If Edwin Forrest were alive today, he would count his most frantic admir ers in the city by the Golden Gate. Tragedy as he must have understood it tragedy played with all the force of the lnngs tragedy where the murdered victim and the despairing suicide took balf an hour to die and died acrobat' ically from the footlights to the door at tiie back of the stage would meet with tha heartiest approval here. The ele ment in the theaters which loved and worshiped Forrest and his enorgetto hods is larger in San Francisco than in most cities of it3 size. , It is not that the audiences here do not conUin in dividual spectators of the highest artis tic insight and cultivation, it is that the majority of tho audience is formed of spectators whose taste in the drama is very much on the same lines as the taste in the drama of the gods in the gallery. The spectators of insignificant education and uncultivated taste are more numer ous than the spectators of cultured mind and trained powers of appreciation, and the majority rules. San Francisco Ar gonaut. - -.' ' . - ' "Toad Bone" Was a Wonder. I All early writers attribute wonderful qualities to toads and frogs and the va rious parts of their bodies. jPliny be lieved, for instance, that if a toad was brought into the midst of a mob or other . large and nnruly concourse of people "silence would instantly prevail." , A small bone found in the right side of toads "of the proper age" was also be lieved to have powers over the various elements. "By throwing this bone into a vessel of boiling water,", says Pliny, vvill ijr-nvjdiately cool it, the water, refusing to bo:l again until tha ben? ha been removed.' To find this bone, ex pose tho dead toad on an ant hill. - When the ants have eaten her ail away-exrept the bones, take each bone separately and. drop it into boiling water.; Thus may the wondrous toad bono be discovered.! This antiboil bone of course had its op I posite. , ;'.'.::" "'.:,-! ' ; In another portion of his work Pliny says; "On the other hand, again, in the left side of this reptile there is another bone which when thrown into water has all the appearance of making it boil. The name given this bone is 'apocynon,' which signifies 'dog averting,' because it has the power and property of assuaging the fury of the fiercest dogs." .It was also; a sovereign remedy ! or . love . and other trouble, would conciliate es tranged friends, and if water in which a "toad bone" had been steeped be used mixed with lamb's tallow as an ointment the person using the same might with out the least effort see ghosts and divers spirits both by the day and by the night." St; Louis Republic, j ' ,1 , Blaming the Dentists. i "Talk about ttie exports of gold upset ting our financial' system," said the eco nomic reformer as he bit a crescent out of a doughnut in a Park row lunch ba zaar. "It isn't the exporting that is driv ing our gold out of the treasury. No, air. ' The trouble is with the pluggers the high toned tooth pluggers. They are ramming a cool 1, 000,000 worth of gold away into the back teeth of. the Ameri can people every year, That means just so much of the yellow metal lost to trade and commerce every 13 months lost completely and Irretrievably. This must be stopped. Let congress pass a law pro hibiting the nse of gold in filling teeth, and the monetary nresBure will bcirin to earn up , iu uu uuio. r utu vuc ,iu is drawn away frem us by. business trans actions with foreign nations, we can: get it back in due time through the natural processes Of trade, but when it is plugged away in the cavernous molars of our !mrse proud dudes and millionaires it is ocked tip so tight that a writ of foreign attachment couldn't reach it. This busi ness must stop, or the government will slump before the next shad season opens. Eew York Herald. , , ' A New Car Fare Befcijter. . ., In a new fare register tho main regis tering train ia returned, to zero at the end of each trip by pulling out a knob and turning it once around, when it springs back into position. The number and the direction of the trip are changed at the same time. The register is said to be absolutely accurate in action, mak ing it impossible to ring without regis tering or register without ringing. It has a . locking device, which prevents fares from being rung up during the ab sence of passengers, and a 4-tumbler lock with special key. The register , is thoroughly tested at 185 fares before leav ing the factory New York Telegram. Iasuralea Against Accident. . The usual odds laid by an accident company are 1,000 to 4 that you do not die from an accident in a year. Sup posing that the whole population of the country were insured against accidents in one office, each person paying 4 and being guaranteed 1,000 in case of death by mishap the prsminma would reach the figure of 149,740,868, and the sum to be paid for deaths would amount to 14,908,000, leaving, after the deduction of a few millions for working expenses, the very respectable profit of 130,000, 000. London Tit-Bits. - ; Effect of Heat and Cold on Bodies. - The body of Prince Mensehikoff, a favorite of Peter the Great, on luring ex hcml after Di years' burial in the frozen soil tf northern Siberia was found to tsve'trnderrjona haru'y any chanere. r ir.u it t X be-.. I In hot ;- dorivtide 3W EinBuaiikd.- WV THE GOSPEL OF WORK EMILE , ZOLA'S STIRRING ADVICE TO FRENCH STUDENTS. Extracts from a Masterly Speech Dellv red Before a Body of Voung Men In Paris The Relation " Between Science ' and Happiness Explained. Emile Zola, the famous novelist, pre sided at a dinner given by the Students' association of Paris. In the course of the evening he f poke as follows; Did science ever promise happiness? I do not think so. Science promised the truth, and it is questionable if happiness can be made out of facts. To be con tent with them even for a day one must possess a stoicism, an absolute unselfish ness, a serenity of intelligence possible only to the highest minds. Therefore a despairing cry goes np from suffering humanity. How,, it aske, can we live without delusions and illusions? If there is not somewhere a world where justice reigns, where the wicked are punished and the good rewarded, how endure the abominations of human existence? Na ture is unjust and cruel. Science ends in the monstrous law of the survival of the strongest. " Reasoning thus, recoiling from realities as yet ill explained, they seek a dream, put confidence in the out of sight and hope to satisfy in the be yond their yearning for fraternity and justice. '-- , This despairing appeal for happiness, rising on every side, moves me infinitely. Already music has responded to- it, lit erature is trying to satisfy the new thirst, and art is changing to show its' sympa thy. It is the reaction against natural ism, which is, they say, dead and buried At any rate the movement is undeniable. It is felt in all the manifestations of mind, and unless it is taken into ac count, studied and explained the out look for the morrow is hopeless. 5 . I, being an old and rugged- positivist, see in all this only a halt in the march ahead, i Indeed it is not even rot our libraries, laboratories, amphithea ters and schools are not deserted. What reassures me most is the fact that the social ground is unchanged. , For a new. art to flourish, for a new belief to give humanity a new direction, there must be a ii5W soil for them to germinate and grow; in. Ours is still the dcuiooratjc soil whence the century rose. ' Faiths , are not resuscitated, and' only a uaythol ogycan be made of a dead religion. The next century will affirm this one. What I will concede is that in literature we brought the horizon too near, and per sonally I regret having endeavored to limit art to proved verities. The new men, by re-extending the horizon, have regained possession of the unknown and the mysterious, and they have done well. : Between the truths ac quired through science, which are not to be shaken, and the truths to 'be con quered tomorrow from' the'nnkhOwn; which in their turn will become immov abla, there is a land of donbt and inquiry: This land belongs as much to literature as to science. Into it we can go as pio neers, doing the work of precursors and j interpreting, according to our talents, its unknown forces. - The ideal is only the unexplained. It is well enough to invent solutions for the unknown, but we have no right to pnt in question and so deny. facts already verified. As sci ence advances the ideal retreats, and it seems to me that this slow conquest, though we have the melancholy certi tude Of never knowing all, gives life its only reason, its only joy. ; In these troublous days youth is told to believe, but nobody tells it exactly what to believe. Believe, they say, for the sake of the happiness that comes from believing, and most especially be lieve in order that you may learn to be lieve. The advice is not bad in itself. . It is certainly a great joy to reposetipon the assurance given by any faith, no mat ter what. The difficulty is that one can not believe by being willing to do so. Faith is a wind that blows where it list eth, and there only. - , --r , . In conclusion let me offer you a breed the creed of Work. Young men, work! I am aware that no counsel could be more banal. In every school at the end of every term it is given to every boy, and every boy hears it with indifference. But let me, who have never been any thing except a worker, tell you the re ward I have gained from the long toil whose effort has filled my life. The world was harsh to me at first. I have known poverty and despair. Later my existence was a battle, and even now the fight goes on and my work is questioned, contradicted, insulted. Through it all my support has been incessant work, regular, daily, for an end never forgot ten. How often have I seated myself at my table, tortured by some great pain, physical or moral! And each time, after the first minutes of agony, my task has proved a solace, has given me strength to cokiUnu4 the struggle and await the morrow. Work is the law of the world the guide that leads organized matter to its unknown goal. Life has no other reason for being, and each of us is here only to perform his task and disappear. - Calm comes to the most tortured if they will accept and complete the task they find tinder their hands. This, to be sure, is only an empirical way to live an honest and almost tranquil life, but is it nothing to acquire moral health and by solving through work the question of how to secure on earth the greatest happiness thus escape from the danger of the dream?-. ..'. I have always distrusted chimeras. Illusion is bad for a man or a people; it puts an end to effort, it blinds, it is the vanity or the weak. J o remain among legends, to contemn realities, to believe that dreaming of strength gives force we have all stn to what disasters these things lead. ' - : The Only strong men are the men who work. Work alone gives courage and faith; it alone is tho pacificator and the ITborator? " When ret tsikea from the mines, opals are so tender &d fiiall t".i"t thf-y tnsy I ';'' to rie:'j vr.3 th 0- t J. .ENGLISH TRAVEL EXPENSIVE. Why Batea- by Itail Cor Passengers and ! Freight Are So High. , The eminent English railway author ity, Mr, William M. Acworth,"Toints out many causes for the differences between railways in this country and the United States. The higher rate of charges on English roads are thus explained! The very large capital outlay of Eng lish railways is of course one main rea son of the high standard of rates and lares in England. Exactly how high that standard is we have no means of knowing, for our railway statistics, made up in a form that was laid down by an act Of parliament about 80 years back, carefully suppress the information that iWs most necessary for us to have. Ton miles and passenger miles are not here recorded. We know that each ton of goods carried pays the railways on tbje average abont 60 cents. If wa guess that the average distance is abont 35 miles, we arrive at an average rate of 2.40 cents per ton mile, which is not very far from three times the average rate in tha United States. So in the case of passen gers we may guess that the average fare is about 1.75 per mile, which though lower than the American average, is higher than in any European country; Such a result seems very far from satis factory. High cost of construction might have justified a high range of rates and fares at the outset, but year by year the per mile of line open increases in den sity, and yet the goods rates hardly come down at all in the last year or two their tendency has been all the other way while the passenger fares only cpme down very slowly. , . - ; And yet the explanation is not far to seek. Our services have always been ex pensive to work. They are becoming more expensive year by year. In Amer ica trainloads are mainly limited by the capacity of tho engines ours by the weight of goods or number of passengers that have had time to accumulate in the very short interval between one train and anpther. Lot me illustrate: If a man is sailing from New York to, Eu rope, he will choose his favorite line or his favorite boat, regardless of the time of day or day of the week at which it starts. On the other hand, if the Man hattan elevated were to try to run Its trains only pnee in 10 minutes in the slack hours of the day the street cars . otud ton it of the hulk of its pasaen 'gem -.: .'" 'jt ?:" f'. "r' " Now, in England onr lousiness is all between places which in America would be regarded as close together. We call Manchester "the north of England," yet Manchester is only 4T hours from . Lon don. Consequently there must be trains between the two points at all hours of the day, to suit the convenience of pas sengers wanting to go at any time. Con sequently, too, each train runs with very much less than a trainloadof passen gers. Then these trains must be rori at high speeds, for though a few minutes more or less are of little importance in a journey of hundreds ox miles, a quarter of an hour, out of four hours ia a.very considerable percentage. ! High speeds mean few stops, and few stops mean ad ditional trains to serve the second class stations. Then high speeds and frequent expresses for passengers mean high speeds and short trains for good that is, half loaded engines, for an engine loaded to its full capacity moves so slowly occupies the line, that is, for so long a period that it is impossible to find room for it. . , ,, But it .would not be true to say that the goods are worked at high speed sim ply for the convenience of the railway management. On the contrary, the de mand for speed in the case of merchan dise traffic is fully abreast of that in the case of passengers. Broadly, it maybe said that the English goods ' service is based on the supposition that, between important towns at least, whatever is handed to the railway company at thi forwarding station over night will be def livered to the consignee the first thing next morning. Now, a service such as this, in the nature of things, can never be a cheap one. Engineering Magazine. i ' -"; ' ,'. Two Hundred aht ef rUlrtiaU. , Cherra Punji, irjj the Khasi hills, As sam, British India, is the "pole of the greatest known rainfall," In other words, it is the wettest region on the face of the earth. Mr. Blandford, at a meeting of the London Meteorological society, read a paper entitled "Bainf all at Cherr Punji," in which he presented incontestable proof of .the extreme moisture of the country in question. The records go back for nearly 65 years, but prior to 1873 are rather incomplete, there being several whole years in which no record was kept. Carefully compiled data from these weather journals, however incomplete as they are, prove that quite frequently during the summer, say from May to September, the rainfall for a single month ranges from 100 to 212 inches. Think of it! , Nearly 18 feet of precipitation in 80 days. Colonel Sir Henry Yule's register for the year 1841 shows that there were 2G4 inches of rainfall during the month of August. That was something phenom enal even for Assam, however, and is not taken into account in the deductions made above. St. Louis Republic. 1 What Froebel Discovered. : i' .! Little Teddy, who is most regular in his attendance at the kindergarten, was very much interested in the approaching celebration of Froebel's birthday, f The day before the event he came roshing into the house crying, "Mamma, mamma, I must have some flowers to take to kin dergarten tomorrow!" "Certainly, my son, but why do yon want them?" "Why, don't yon know? , 'Tomorrow is the anni versary of the day that Froebel discov ered the first kindergarten r New York Tribune. ' ' - ; ' An Experienced Attendant. First Waif (at the mission) Why did yer ask the preacher to i ell us a story wid er moral? Second Waif 'Cause them's always th moe' interest in ones. They pick out the gA cue to make th" morals go down eny, an we're near 'norli to Va' doer t '.!? ovt 'fore th mrti tt,s. Good KoW'i. - . , '. :.! ',. -' '' jaappiucsa auiX ('oVoriy. It is amusing to read tha answers in a late newspaper letter to tho- question. How. can one be happy, though poor? Noah Brooks, Dr. O. W. Holmes and ex Senator John J. lngalls declare that happiness is a matter of temperament and dependent neither on poverty nor riches: Mx. Ingalls concludes with the classic quotation: , More true Joy Marcello exiVd feels Titan Cnsar with a senate at his heals. All the same, however, Marcellus Would not probably have refused to come back into the senate house again and take another whack at Casar. Mrs. Henry Ward "Beecher believes that true happiness is to be found in true love, whether one is rich or poor, which is a credit to her. good heart. Dr. John Hall thinks that the practice of godliness makes a man happy. Ills to be observed, though, that in this world the godly people seem to be about as unhappy as anybody else. "'Cardinal Gibbons affirms that the best instruc tion on how to be happy, though poor, is furnished in the sermon on the mount. That blessed man, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, says that if one sleeps nine hours out of 24, spends two or three hours ev ery day in the open air and works on steadily on the Bide of the divine will ha will be sure to have a good time. "As to happiness," writes Dr. Hale, "or be ing happy, that is something that 'hap pens.' The minute a man seeks for it he loses it." Hamlin Garland is not far out of the way when he says that happiness depends , on good health first and work next.: ' : ; :... Ella Wheeler Wilcox thinks happiness consists in being useful to others. : That is a truly noble sentiment. ''Happiness is immensely a matter of the will," writes George W. Cable, and he, too, hits the nail on the head. "I believe in the. superiority of mind over matter," says Bishop Newman of tho Methodist church.. John Burroughs, Rhea and Fanny Davenport recommend work as a cure fpr.'uahappiness work and a good breakfast, Miss . Davenport says. But most of all, the answers of T, V, Pow- derly and Dr. William A. Hammond will commend themselves tO the average erring mortal mind. ."I know of no way in which a poor man may remain hap py," says Powdorly.v"I dol not believe in the possibility of happiness with pov erty unless the person concerned is weak- minded," replies Dr. Hammond. t ' '. For 8ouio time rubber tiros have bean employed on tho wheels of hunsom cabs in London to reduce the sound. The re sult was satisfactory, but now comes another trouble, The noiseless cabs, so grateful to weary nerves, are vomplained of because they run over heedless pedes trians who do not hear their approach. It is to bo hoped the rubber tire will not be abolished. ; Let the walkers learn to look out for themselves. It is better to knock over a stupid, careless person once in awhile than to kill half a hundred by slow torture from the constant thunder- j tag, grinding noise.' Anything that tends to lessen the roar of a great city should be welcomed. A number of American inventors are now experimenting with pneumatio tires such as are used on bicycles, hoping to adapt them to light ' road wagons. An extra rubber tire has been placed outside the pneumatic , one by one inventor to pre vent the cutting of the air tube by a stone or sharp knock. ' A New York bi cycle manufacturer thinks he has suc ceeded in making a pneumatic tire that will work admirably on light road wagons. If so, it will add much to the comfort of Carriage riding. But if the attachment can be applied to light wagons why not to heavier ones? The gain to the city part of the human race if the roar of beer and milk wagons alone con Id be abolished would be incalculable. ; . John "Gumming,;- - .WESTON, OREGON,; . has the Largest . - ' . and Best Selected Stock ?r GENERAL MERCHANDISE" IN THE COUNTY. NeW GOOdS V " ; And they will be soU for ' t a the'very lowest figures. - a '" Fall Trade, Arriving Daily. . ..... j .:,'. . . ;y.;. try granulated Sugar, Etxtra g Sugar, 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH. Choloe Oregon Cured Bcori.Hhoulders, l2Jc, Rides, lHc, Hams, IfiJc per lh, Jicst Quantity Lard, in 10 cans, I1.7S . , ' , I.. , 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH. Comforta, 11-25 atf'h and upward. . IJIankcts, 1j0 each and upward. Men's wool lioctsTMcper pair. Ladies wool hose, 20c per pair, men's wool undershirts und dmw ' ers, 11.00 each. . . " r - 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH. AND EVERYTHING ELSE AT PROPORTIONATr.l,V PRICES. COME, BEE FOR YOURSELVES. JOHN CUJIMING, Four Sad Sauuuer Deaths. Four of Biy friend3 during tho ter! i heat of last July died1 ia Lome wht-w every convenience was possible, biufr u which women were absent itli ir families scattered in tho country those men were forced to remain "in 'the city. In each case the thousand and cn '.,'Ue attentions that a man's homo receives at the hands of woman were cegleotr i Yy the servants. Meals were. irntf .l.rly served and more irregularly eaten; t v 9 were ventilated just as theaorvan it tnembered or forgot them. That U -i- ble week of incessant heat, which wt 'i remember, came and exhausted thc-c j men. V Dysentery and kindred' summer ills . are not far behind a man when he is r.m down by sleepless Rights, harassed by business, living in a cheerless, disman tled, ttneared for homeundertorrid days .. and stifling nights. In one instance it was a young man in theflnsh of. sue- Cess, who came home one evening only -to die during the night, too weak even to ring for 'assistance. In ' another c -j a man of millions, with hti family away at one of the fashionable resorts, suc cumbed to the heat and was found d-.'.id the following afteraoou. In the other two cases the blow came not so sudden ly, but yet within a week. And in each instance the families, knew not that the mainspring of their support were ill tin- . til they were dead. Perhaps' tho prc5- ence of mother, wife o? daughter might not have staid the hand of death, but who will deny the efSoiemey of womanly care in sickness? E. W. Bok in Ladies' Homo Journal. . I ,tr, . . 1 j Much fun has , been poked at the weather reports on account of their oc- oasional bad breaks, bnt after all they J. are accurate enough to furnish a guide to advertisers. . If the signal service pre dicts raging hot temperature,' thou tho shrewd dry goods man announces in dis- -play type that he has on hand a groat . assortment of pajamas,- paliakaf ftu;i and lawn shirt .waists, and the erate ment comes exactly in time to meat the'' requirements of perspiring weather. If, on the contrary, the report says a cold ' Wave is coming down from the north' pole, then next day appears the news ' that the iherohant will open an nnsur-, f passed stock of latest style overcoats and sealskin capes, -and ho hits the demand ' tnuoh of tener than he misses. ' - iA . Canadian ha invented a combina tion cable boat slti. for the lumber dis- tricts thatraayTe recommended to sum- -mer-" campers. In water it is a fcuat containing an' engine of 22-hor3tpower ', and propelled by side wheels forward or . backward, at, the rate of six mi!eaa , hour, On land it is a sled with steel shod runners and containing a dmm wound with five-eighths of a mile of steel cable, after the manner of a street car' motor. The cable ia fastened h a Uto ' or other stationary object half n mile in ' front, and then the steam engine winds up the cable, drawing the sled forward. ' , ; SNAP SHOTS. For photographing winter light is not es good a the light of warm weather, for the sun is farther away, requiring longer ex posure of the plates. It would be difficult to make a positive statement as to why films are not as good aa glass plates. The fact would seem to be that it is not an available medium for re ceiving the emulsion. - The application of photography to as tronomy has been productive of especially noteworthy results In the discovery of the small bodies which move in orbits bctweea those of Mars and Jupiter. ,, , A "photo corrector" has been Invented and is in practical use by an English artist by which the dimensions of any photo graph can be altered "and the whole made harmonious."' A person 6 feet in he!bt can be made to look B feet high or 6 feet high,-as desired, and hands, feet or any other part can be similarly corrected. WHITE CITY WAIFS. t Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is on tha pro gtamtns of the World's fair for uo less than 18 nanera and addresses. - FOHOWIKQ ARE SAMPLE PRICES:, i n PER CENT. DISCOUHT I U FOR CASH PURCHASES! 12 pounds fur 81.00 13 H n , J7.75 per kai'Ic, . per suck LOW On A