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Advertising In to business what steam pow
er is to machinery the grand motive power.
Macaclat.
, There U but one way of obtaining business I
'publicity; bnt one way of obtaining public
ity advertuinj;. Sn-CKWOOD.
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VOLUME 7.
BILIOUSNESS
Who has not suffered tioa misery
caused by bile in the stomach
which an inactive or sluggish .
liver failed to carry off
THE PREVENTION AND CURE IS ,
v
liquid
or powder, which givea
quick
action to the liver and
carries off the bile by a mild move
ment of the bowels. It is no pur
gative or griping' medicine, but
purely vegetable. Many-people
take pills more take Simmons
Liver Regulator. - . -.
"I have been a victim to Biliousness for
years, and after trying various remedies
my only success was in the use of Sim
mons Liver Regulator, which never failed
to relieve me. I speak not of myself,
alone, but my whole family." J. M. FllA
KAN, Helma, Ala.
-KVERY PACKAGE-
Has onr Z Stamp in real on wrapper.
9. H. ZEUJLN k CO, Philadelphia, P.
The Malls.
Mail closes for Pendleton, Portland, and all
points east, except the Pijiotas, Minnesota
and Wisconsin, at 6:50 p. m
For Walla Walla, Spokane and North Paci
fic points fit 7 5 . , . . .
Mail arrives from Pendleton, Portland and
the east at 7:45 a. m.
From Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pa
cific points at 6:5 p.m.
Office hours General delivery open from 8
. m. to g p. m. Sundays, 8 to 11 a. m. Money
Drder window open from Oa m. to 4 p. m.
Oko. Hanskll, Postmaster.
lODCR D1KGCTOKY
AF. & A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE
. First and Third Saturday Kvenings
sf each month. Visiting bretheren cor
dially invited to visit the lodge.
10. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY
, Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows
in good standing always welcome.
A
0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE
Second' and Fourth Saturdays of
month. , h. A. Githens, ,
." , , : . , Recorder.
PYTHIAN, NO. 29,
Thursday Night.
MEETS ,' EVERY
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
S, SHAHP, '
Physician and Surgeon
tKTniU nromntlv answered.' Office on Third
"JSUvyt, Athena, uregon.
DR. JOSEPII J. BILL,
Graduate M. E. c. V. 8. London, England
VETERNIARY : SURGEON.
Office at Froome's Stable, Athena,
Oregon. ".'.-. ,r , . '
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VTHENA,
OREGON,
W. & C. R. Ry. Co.
in connection with ' "(
NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R.
Forms the- '
QUICKEST AND BEST ROUTE
Between Eastern Oregon arid ashington
ana Fuget souna Joints, as wen as tne
- Popular and direct Line to all
Points East & Southeast
Pullman Sleeping Cars.
Sunerb'Dinnine Cars.
Free 2d-Qass Sleepers.
BOUGH TO CHICAGO VIA THIS LINE
Passenger trains of tills Company are run
ning regularly between
Dayton, Waitsburg, Walla Walla, Wash,
and Pendleton, Oregon.
Making close connections at Hunt's Junction
with Northern Pacitic trains for Tacoma,
Seattle, Victoria, B. C, Ellensburgh, North
Yakima, Pasco. Hpi-ague, Cheney, Daven
port, Spoksne, Butte, Helena, St. Paul and
Minneapolis. . - -
' AND ALL POINTS EAST.
TOURSSTS-SLEEPIKC-CARS.
For Accomodation of Second-Class
Passenger Attached to Ex
press Trains.
. w. F. WAMSLEY,
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W. D. TYLFR, -
Pres. and Gea'l Manager.
J. A MU1RHEAD.
Agent Athena, Oregon.
SOMETHING NEW!
Prof. Lane, the artist, has leased
rooms t over the First National
Bank which he has converted into
a
STUDIO
and ia now prepared to instruct a
Ct J
large number of BtudeDts.f4-,-r;
"raintingand free hr L I ' c 7" puPennIe?ne ia sewchof him and
.nsuLi and teat hers of the etatg m gelter.
' r.E rrAV2$. ' fa meet ,a Portland which hould he Lile the note
ea accepted as above state?
ONE HUflDllED DOLLARS.
How
Mrs. Vranklin Secured Her
New Clothes.
When Saturday waa over and Mr. and
Mrs, Vranklin were alone by themselves
in tho clean kitchen, sitting- beside the
stove, Mrs. Vranklin rose, went into her
bedroom and brought out a bundle ot
clothes. ;
"I want you to look at these things,
Jeremiah," she said, mildly.
"What are they?" said he,
She spread them out on the floor.
"That is my best dress," she 6aid.
"Those are my best shoes. That is the
only bonnet I've got in the world but
my calico sun-bonnet, and that is my
Sunday shawl."
. She uttered the words quietly, and
waited.
"Well?" said Mr. Vranklin, still smokes'-
.
' "Well?" she answered..
. He said nothing. She gathered up the
garments with a look of disdain, and
piled them on a chair. -
"You're a rich man," she said.
"Rich, for a farmer. ' You are sixty and
1 fifty years old. Our boys are married.
I haven't had any money to spend for
five years. I'm a sight to behold. If I
were a servant 1 should get wages and
not have to beg. ' No, I don't beg,
Jeremiah. Since you don't offer it
yourself, I'm going to tell you that I
want money. I want a hundred dol
lars to buy me some new clothes, to
feel decent and comfortable in, I'm
really destitute. Why, I'm out of flan
nel! My calico gowns are patched at
the elbow. My shoe heels are twisted.
I can't co to church any more, for I've
turned my black silk twice, and the
back breadths upside - down. I've
washed my bonnet ribbons. I've done
all I could rather than ask for what
you didn't offer; and there's no need..
You're well: to-do. I want to be de
cent and take a little comfort while I
can. I must. There, now! It's my
right!"
She had. spoken her mind, and Mr.
Vranklin felt that a climax had ar
rived. Ue had "laid by" a large sum.
He was growing old and had no need
to pinch, but the awful demand for a
hundred dollars all in a lump was too
much for him. He had become used to
Ea Maria's quiet way of mending her
old clothes and asking for no money,
and it had never oocurred to him that
she would some time come down upon
him like this.
; He stared Bilently, and puffed across
the stove the smoke of the cheap to
bacco he burnt in a common corn-cob
pipe. The old rag carpet was clean..
The old chairs were mended with car
pet bottoms. It was all tidy, bnt noth
ing was new. ' Nothing pretty but the
scarlet geraniums in their big pots on
the window-sill, ne had given his
wife very little in their thirty years of
married life; for all the furniture was
his mother's. She had helped him make
his fortune, selling butter and eggs and
pot-cheese and flower roots, feeding the
hands cheaply and well, weeding vege
tables and even riding the mowing ma
chine, now and then though not very
lately. Conscience told him that he
ought to pull from his vest pocket the
crisp hundred dollar note ho had re
ceived that morning for some hay at
the landing and sayi "Here, Eva M aria,
why didn't you speak ' before?" But
when greed takes possession of the
heart of man, it holds on like a leech.'
All he said, after the silence had re
mained unbroken for some minutes,
was:
"Well, Eva Maria, I'll think it over."
To some women there is , no , agony
like asking a husband for money.
They want a love-gift, hot alms.
Generally they have to ask at last. ,
Eva Maria had nerved herself at last
in the misery of her shabbiness to make
the speech above recorded, ' but it
seemed a fearful thing to da She lit
tle guessed that she had frightened
Jeremiah almost out of his senses.
"A hundred dollars!" he said to him
self. "She must know what I've got
about me. She must mean to have it
Fifty, now, I'd give. But .a- hundred!
I'll get the money changed, and give
her fifty."
He opened the door of .the passage,
crossed it and went into the parlor. It
was a cold, neat place, kept sacred for
great occasions. It had a grate in it,
but it was doubtful if a fire would be
lighted there that winter. It had been
inconvenient to take it down that sum
mer, so fringed pink paper had been ar
ranged between the polished bars and
the rug drawn across the hearth.
Photographs of several members of the
family hung by red cords.from the wall,
dotted muslin curtains with neatly
fluted ruffles covered the green paper
blinds, A dish of wax fruit, covered
by a glass shade, ornamented the center-table,
and -the horsehair furniture
had been so little used in two genera
tions that it looked almost new. The
vases on the mantle were old-fashioned
blue ware, for which a china-worshiper
would have paid a great price.
Eva Maria should have fifty dollars,
but 6he had said she had a right to a
hundred. If he gave her the bill in his
pocket she would spend it. It was Sat
urday evening; he could not get it
changed that night no, not until Mon
day.. If he locked It up,' she would
know, and take it out, perhaps, and do
as she pleased with it. She had de
clared her "right" to it Eva Maria,
humblest of the humble, meekest of
the meek, had spoken so! Could it be?
"This comes of these here strong
minded meetin's," said Mr. Vranklin.
This was not logical, for Mrs. Vrank
lin had not attended one of them. ,
- "Women used to be biddable. They
are kicking over the traces now. No
body0 soliloquized Mr. VrankUn,
growing more and more nngrammat
ical with his wrath "nobody ain't
goin to ride over me, 'specially a wife
of mine. I must hide the money until
I can change it She might loci into
my pockets. She said she '.iad a right
to it, and she looked determined."
If Atthis moment 'arii a. rrmvpnnpnt
! ' 13 - Je believed it to be his
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON,
there? " No: there were suusoineasiei-s
in the garden, and Eva Maria might nil
the vases with bouquets, as she some
times did on Sunday afternoons, setting
them for the nonce on the kitchen man
teL No, the vases would not do. The
ingrain carpet was tacked down tijht,
the surely there was a step in the
passage! The grate! There, under the
fringed paper, it might lie safely all
night .
He drew his pocket-book from bis
bosom and stuffed it between two loose
bricks at the. back of this grate. The
pink fringes, of the papep concealed iL
All was safe. Ue creaked across'the
passage into the kitchen with a con
sciousness of great meanness in ? his
heart. Mrs.. Vranklin, having executed
her terrible intention, had taken flight
to her bedroom, where she sat in the
cold with a little shawl over her
shoulders, trembling. lie said some
thing aloud about seeing Jones about
those pigs, and fled tho house, and the
two held no mora conversation until
breakfast time. Then Mr. Vranklin,
with unusual piety, went to church,
while his wife stayed at home to cook
dinner, no one else being at hand to do
it. .
Just as the beef was so far done that
she could open the oven doors there
came a knock upon the door, and c
ing it she sa w upon the porch her C ' -in
l3rown and the minister. Chureli
was out, and Cousin Brown had brous: hi
the reverend gentleman to his friends'
to dine. Mrs. Vranklin received both
hospitably, and hastened to usher them
into the parlor. The yellow artemis
ias shone bravely in the big bltio vases.
Mr. Vranklin had been wise not to hide
his money there; but it was cold very
cold.
u. "It won't take a minute. It's the
first fire of the season, or I'd have tho
grate fixed." ' -
She tucked the paper down into the
grate, the easiest way to be rid of it
piled on wood and placed the scuttle
ready. As she struck the match she
gave a little cry, but repressed it in
stantly. The flames blazed up merrily
and roared behind tho blower.
When Mr. Vranklin returned the
blower was down and the two men
were warming their feet at a compact
mass of red coal.
Ho looked at his Eva Maria. Her cold,
composed New England face, with its
high nose and close-cut mouth, betrayed
no emotion.
"She don't know what she has done!"
he said to himself; but he did. ,
The ghost of that hundred dollars
stared at him from the embers. He
could not talk; ho could not compose
himself. Cousin Brown opined he was
not welL ' The minister remarked that
"in the midst of life we are in death, '
and seemed to prophesy his funeral. It
was not a gay dinner, but then it was
Sunday.
That night Mrs. Vranklin missed her
spouse from his bed. She went to look
for him, and found him poking in the
ashes of tho dead fire with the tongs.
He looked up with a very red face.
"I don't think these here coals kin be
good," he said, confusedly.
, "Did you get up in the night to look
at them?" she asked. -
He made no answer and returned to
bed. ';: ' - ;
Next morning his wife again attacked
:him. ' " . ' . ' ' -j
; "Have you thought that matter over?" j
she asked. , ,.' '
Indeed he had, and it had occurred to
him that Providence had prepared a
special judgment for him in destroy
ing that money. He felt that his wife
had spoken the truth. She had a right
to decent clothes she who had served
him so weH for so many years.
f "I've thought it over, Eva Maria," he
said, and arose and went to his desk, a
queer, old-fashioned one built in the
house wall When he returned, he
brought with him a blank check.
"Get what you like, tny dear," he
said, "and get it nice. Fill the check
up just as you please." :
. He had not called her "my dear" for
years. She smiled up at him very gen
tly; tears were near his eyes. '
However, she, used the check to dress
herself comfortably. ' It was the first
time for many years that she had in
dulged in the luxury of shopping freely.
At night he met her at the depot,
loaded with parcels, tired but smiling.
He had not seen her so bright for many
a day.
After tea that night they sat together
beside the stove as before,, and she
looked at him in a peculiar way.
"You didn't seem to ifeel -cheerful
Sunday afternoon, Jeremiah," she re
marked. "What ailed you?"
"I don't want to tell you," he an
swered. "But I'll tell you," she said. "You
thought I burned the pocketbook you
hid in the grate. I didn't" .
She put her hand Into her work-bas
ket and drew it out. intact, with the
money in it
"I was just in time," she said. "But
I understood at once when 1 saw it
sticking between the bricks. If you
hadn't given me the check, I should
have spent the money. There's a con
fession for you, Jeremiah!"
He looked at her, half angry, half as
tonished. .She arose and came tq him,
and put her hands on his shoulders?
"But I should never have enjoyed
wearing them," she said. - "I should
have hated them, 1 think. These that
I bought to-day, with your free gift, I
shall love while there's a rag of them
left"
The man looked at her with a feeling
that a strange revelation of feminine
human flature had been made to him,
but all he said was:
"Why, ?"ra Maria, I want to know!"
and he d-ew her down upon his knee
and kissed her. N. Y. Ledger.
Customer (in book store) "I would
like to get some good book on faith."
Clerk "Sorry, air, but our rule is to sell
nothing to strangers except for cash."
When Queen Elizabeth, of Austria,
entered Paris in 1751 she dragged after
her a train seventy feet in length. It
was borne by thirty-five pages.
GKEATKST- OF LIGHTS.
Tha Mighty Searcher Now In Use
at ChioaffO.
The Reflected Beam C't'&f the Mam-'
moth Lantern Equal 'to Millions
Cpon Millions ot
Candles.
To America belongs the honor of con
structing the largest and most power
ful electric search light in the world,
now being set up at the world's fair.
It stands about ten feet six inches high
to the upper side of the ventilator on
the top of the drum, and the total
weight is about 6,000 pounds, but so
perfectly is it mounted and balanced
that a child can move it in any di
rection. '
The reflecting lens mirror used in
this projector is 150 centimeters, or 60
inches in diameter. It is a concave
spherical mirror of tho Mangin type,
free from spherical aberration, reflect
inff a sensibly parallel beam of light.
It was manufactured especially for this
'. A. -v a v
projector in .rarjsj; ranee, anu us
most perfect specimen or optical worK,
three and one-fourth incites thick at
the edges and one-sixteenth of an inch
thick at the center, and weighs about
800 pounds. "
The metal ring in which it is mount
ed weighs about 750 pounds, and the
total lens, ring and cover weigh about
1,600 pounds. This great mirror is
mounted at one end of the big drum,
the outer end of which is furnished
with a door consisting of a metal rim
in which are fixed a number of plate
glass' strips five-Sixteenths of en inch
thick by six inches wide. Inside this
drum and sliding upon ways arranged
on the bottom is placed the electrio
lamp, the source of the light which ia
reflected by the mu-ror.
It is entirely automatic in its action,
is six feet high and weighs about 400
pounds.- The carbons used are also
made especially for it. Tho upper or
positive carbon is one and one-half
inches in diameter and twenty-two
and one-half inches ,long, with a five
sixteenth of an inch core of soft carbon
running from end to end through its
center. The lower or negative carbon
is one and one-fourth inches in diame
ter,, is fifteen inches long and also has
a core of soft carbon running through
its center. In addition its oujr sur
face is heavily coated with copper.
The positive carbon is set a little in
front of the negative, and thus almost
all the intense light of the incandes
cent crater is cast upon the reflector.
The maximum current at which this
lamp operates is 200 amperes, and at
this current the lamp has a luminous
intensity of about 90,000 to.100,000 can
dles, the reflected beam a total lumin
ous intensity of about 875,000,000 can
dles, an intensity which the eye cannot
appreciate. In looking at the side of
the beam the spectator only distin
guishes a stream of light of compara
tively low intensity, but in lo.oking at
the beam directly its brilliancy is ful
ly seen and ' the 'effect is absolutely
blinding. Ventilators at the top and
sides allow a constant current of air
to pass through the drums and dissi
pate the heat generated by the arc
lamp, and they are so arranged that
no light oan escape through- them.
All the connections for adjusting tho
positions of the carbons and the lamp
are brought through the drum to the
outside, and are arranged in 'close
prnximity to one another at one side,
so that all may be manipulated by the
operator without moving frpm his po
sition. Through openings in the drum
covered by densely colored glass the
operation of tho lamp may be watched
and its adjustments verified-.
- It was observed that the space with
in the beam was violently agitated,
and closer observation revealed the
fact that millions of moths and minute
insects were hovering in it, attracted
by the brilliancy of the light. Next
morning bushels of dead moths, beetles,
other insects and some small birds
were swept up ' from the roof on
which the projector stood. They had
been killed by the intensity of the
light. ;
How far the powerful beam of light
of this instrument can be seen is dif
ficult to state. The search light set up
on Mount Washington, in the White
mountains, has a diameter of only
thirty inches, and a reflected light
from the mirror of about 100,000 candle
power, yet the newspaper can be read
in its beam ten miles away, and the
light can be seen from points 100 miles
away. How much farther then could this
375,000,000 candle power light be seen
in a clear atmosphere, free from
moisture, if the projector could be,
mounted upon an eminence sufficiently
high to clear all obstacles.
Tailors' Dummies.
Wax figures are slowly disappearing
as advertising agencies. The cheap
tailors use figures of wire with heads
of plaster and papier mache, and the
cheap dentists have taken in some of
their horrible heads with staring eyes
and -teeth that were gnashed by ma
chinery. The effect of summer sun on
a few of the wax figures., that are still
used in shop windows Is ghastly.
There is one figure of a woman whows
arm is drooping into a half-circle, and
there is a tailor's dummy whose fore
head is, falling into his eyes, giving
him a verv malum expression. - In a
certain farce comedy a loud laugh is
raised at an incident in a tailor b shop.
A comedian undertakes to sing "White
Wings," when one of the dummies that
has been standing stiffly against the
wall . moves .forward with clasped
hands, makes a gesture of agonized en
treaty, and walks off like an autom
aton. The singer stops. " ( i
A iIiuttlyi'riDce.
The princes of 'Wales is very kind
to her poor neigbors at Sandringham.
A writer in the Idler says that often
t he may be seen picking rp the dusty
little dots of children from the roads,
placing them in her own carriage until
it is completely packed, and then duly
delivering each at it own home to
boast of having enjoyed a ride with
her.
NOVEMBER . 17 1893.
FAST YOUNvi INDIA.
B Loves English Society Because of the
Loaves and Fishes.
The Hindoo of Calcutta does not rep
resent an ancient tradition, for he is
but a thing of yesterday, called into
being by the foreigner, and he repre
sents an altogether novel phase of
thought, which is gradually making it
self felt,' and is the chief characteristic
of whay has been dubbed Young India.
Young India is the more or less Eu
ropeanized Hindoo, says Harper's
Weekly. The supple mind of the
Bengalese could not long remain im
pervious to the influence of daily con
tact with'the European cast of thought,
and all Hindoos are more or less af
fected by that contact. A European
education, the study of the classics and
of contemporaneous literature', of an
cient and modern ' history and of the
natural sciences, could not fail to have
results on every stratum of society,
and culture has filtered down from tho
university to every class, awaking as
pirations and ambitions previously un
known. A new society has sprung up, of
what, may be termed Anglicized In
dians, which society, , alas! is not al
ways recruited from the elite of the
native population; the higher castes,
who cling to their traditions and re
tain their pride of race, are generally
faithful to the culture of the past. Tho
masses who make up Young India are
not attached to European civilization
by any sense of its superiority or by
intellectual curiosity, but in search
of remunerative appointments. . To get
one of the inferior situations Under the
government which are open to native
baboos it is necessary to be able to
speak and write English, and everyone
anxious to secure thirty rupees a month
in some office rushes to the universities
and public schools.
Three hundred candidates for a place
worth some three pounds ten a month!
And what becomes of the two hun
dred and ninety-nine who fail and can
no longer live the simple natural life
of their forefathers? They must die of
hunger or swell the ranks of poli
ticians, and they choose the latter al
ternative. Proud of the superficial
knowledge they have acquired and
primed with European catchwords, the
meaning of which have long since faded
away, they form a huge unclassed
mass uncommonly like ' the lower
middle classes of Europe as noisy, as
unreasonable, as narrow-minded, and,
in some rare instances, as disinterest
ed as those with whom we are all fa
miliar", with - the difference that the
formulas they are so proud of are bor
rowed from the traditions 6f an exotic
civilization, and that for them there is
a wider gulf than ever be.tween the
letter and the spirit. .What they aim
at is, in truth, neither national inde
pendence nor local automony under
the English protectorate; it is simply
access to the higher administrative
functions and political , domination
over other castes, with, the English
army at their backs..
NEWSPAPERS APPRECIATED.
A New Hampshire Man Who Believes in
: the Periodical for the Library.
There is a man in New Hampshire
named William C. Todd, who holds to
the theory that he is benefiting his fel
low creatures when he puts abundant
supplies of newspapers vithin their
reach. He lately .provided for anjexpend-
iture of two thousand dollars a year for
newspapers for the Boston public li
brary, ,says Harper's Weekly, and it
has since , been discovered that he re
cently made a similar provision for the
public .library of , Newburyport. He
belives in the value :of newspapers,
and yet it seems that he is not a patent-medicine,
man as one might sup
pose, but a retired schoolmaster, who
has been a great traveler, and now
pursues a life of studious retirement
in a village. In extenuation of his ac
tion he declares that the press has be
come the great agency by which in
formation is diffused and the people
are educated, and that free reading
rooms are likely to be more in demand
in the future than free libraries. .It is in
teresting to notice that he seems not to
have suffered from the newspaper pub
licity about which there is so much com
plaint, and that even his neighbors in
Atkinson, where he lives, were found
to possess scarcely any reliable infor
mation about, his past career or tho
size of his fortune. They knew Mm
to be frugal in his personal habits and
generous in his benefactions, but that
was all..
.The Chinese Tea Trade.
Alarmed by the rapid exteni
the juf t-"' '
the'cf
fort!
ties :
agai
sign
"liej
out
coni
to V
tea!
thu
toi
any
leu-1
infrtuKxuf-nfnre"ofaefne will ue pun
ished by transportation for life a pen
alty which will be extended also to the
seller and to the buyer, as well as to
all others who have taken any part Jn
the placing of adulterated tea upon
the market.
A Reformatory Example.
There is a story of a benevolent gen
tleman who visited a certain reforma
tory institution near Boston, and while
going over, the place engaged one and
another of the inmates in conversa
tion. The good man was quite un
mindful of the fact, known to all who
have seen much of that phase of life,
that people in such places do not enjoy
being questioned as to their personal
history. At last he came to a very demure-looking
youngster, and his heart
went out toward the unfortunate waif.
"Well, my little man," he said, "and
what are you in here for?"
"Please, sir," said the little fellow,
instantly, ' I'm here to set the other
i boys a good example."
"GUlTJAU'S L'O.NES.
The Beat Burial Place of President
Garfield's Assassin.
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Not in a Medlcl Muieam Bat Beneath,
the Floor of the Trlson la Which
the Murderer Was
CoDflncd.
Deputy Warden Russ of the district
jail made a statement that the skele
ton of Uuiteau, the assassin of Presi
dent Garfield, is not on exhibition at
the medical museum, as has been gen
erally supposed.
It will be remembered that for a long
time prior to the execution strenuous ef
forts, were made to ascertain where Uui
teau was to be buried. Persons acting
in the interest of resurrectionists, both
those who wanted the body for dissec
tion and several enterprising proprie
tors who much desired to secure it for
exhibition purposes, industriously ques
tioned every one whom they thought
possessed the slightest knowledge.
Great precautions were taiien to pre
vent the grave from being robbed.
The following mode of procedure was
agreed upon to prevent the body from
being stolen. In orderto obviate, what
ever legal difficulties might arise and
to forestall any claim tho sister or
brother of the murderer might make,
it was decided that he should make a
will bequeathing his body to Dr. Hicks,
and it will probably be remembered
that the will when published created
some curiosity by its wording, giving
as it did the body to be disposed of as
the beneficiary saw fit.
"After going over the whole mat
ter," said Warden Russ, "and realizing
that it would be impossible to properly
protect the corpse, it was decided to
bury it in the jail the night of the
hanging. After the autopsy the body
remained in a cheap coffin in , the
chapel of the jail. Upon my arrival at
the jail early on Saturday morning folJ
lowing the execution, I secured a
couple of trusties and taking them
with me proceeded to the laundry
room. It is a little room just to the
east of the engine-room, dimly lighted
by a small barred grating, and it made
almost an ideal tomb.
"Two amateur grave diggers went
to work, and, quickly removing the
flooring, dug a grave sufficiently deep
by the time the body was brought
down from the chapel.
"There was only a small party that
stood about that open grave and lis
tened to the solemn reading of the
burial service. Gen. Crocker, who was
the warden, was present, and I believe
Charley Reed, the lawyer who assisted
in Guiteau's defense, besides several
guards and the two prisoners who dug
the grave. It was a weird scene, and
one. I shall never forget. The burial
in such a somber place was particular
ly nerve-trying, and I think wo all felt
relieved when Dr. IlickS concluded and
the darkles began to cover up the cof
fin. This did not consume much time,
and it was not long before the grave
was filled up and the flooring restored
to its normal position. , ' . ..
"There was no particular compact as
to secrecy among us, but it seemed to
be generally understood that we would
maintain silence, ' especially as there
was considerable excitement at the
time. Tho story that the body had
been secretly removed to the medical
mUseum was permitted to go uncon-
tradicted, just as I state, because we
did not believe it concerned anyone. '
"What became of th brains and
'other organs of the assassin which
were removed at the autopsy held im
mediately after the execution I do not
know, except the 6pleen, which is on
exhibition at the museum. Whatever
else was left of the man who murdered
President Garfield lies beneath the
floor of the laundrj'-ro;.n of the jail."
; BETTER THAN A CLUB. ,
Mew York Policemen Have Adopted a
Novel Plan for Arousing Drunks. .
Ever since the New York police com
missioners issued : the edict against
members of "the finest" carrying their
locusts during tiie day the patrolmen
John Gumming,
WESTON, OREGON,
has the Largest
and- Best Selected Stock
nnnTTrn i t i mr Art i iTTMntx. tut mt-m nATTii TmTT
w Goods
for '
ill Trade,
rriving
aily. ' . .
PJlXJGJL rult' Sugar,
Extra C Sugar,
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
Choice Oregon Cured Bacon, Hlioulders, 12c. Hides, 10Jc, Hams, I6o per lb.
flitt Quality Lard, in 10 tb cans, 81.75
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
Comforts . i.a5aaoh and upward. Ulankcta, fl.50 perpnlrand upward. Men's wool
socks, 30e per pair. Ladles wool hose, 25c per pair, men's wool undershirts and draw
era, f 1.00 each, , - .
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
AND EVERYTHING ELSE AT PROPORTIONATELY LOW
PRICES. COME, SEE FOR YOURSELVES. .
JOHN CUMMING,
NUMBER 1
in the downtown precincts have been
trying to find something to take
the place of the club when it was
found necessary to ' recall sleeping
"drunks" from the land of dreams to
the .stern " realities of existence.
Formerly, says the Evening World, a
free application of the club to the soles
of a sleeper's feet had the desired ef
fect. Denied that method of arousing
the dormant powers of locomotion in
the sodden gentry it was often neces
sary to spend the greater part of an
hour, persuading an individual to hie
himself away. Hut it was not long be
fore the inventive genius of an Oak
street station patrolman made the way
all smooth and beautiful once more.
Now a five-cent rubber ball . has
taken tho place of the eighteen-inch
stick. Apparently harmless as this
little toy looks to the uninitiated, its
efficacy as a "bum" accelerator far
exceeds a whole bundle of night
sticks. It isn't the rubber ball, but its
contents that does the business. Every
patrolman in the fourth ward now fills
a rubber hall with household ammonia
when he starts out in the morning. A
gentle pressure of the thumb and fin-'
"ger projects a fine stream ot, fluid
lightning from the small hole in the
hollow sphere a distance of several
feet. This tiny stream brought to bear
upon a "sleeper's" mustache has never
yet failed to bring about an immediate
revivifying of the subject, no matter
how inert the bundle of "bum" ap
peared to be a moment previous.
The Uses of a Maw.
"Every well-regulated family," said
Mrs. Hilltops, "ought to have a saw.
We've had a hammer as long as I can .
remember, and why we haven't had a
saw I don't know. They are so handy
to have in the house; to saw off curtain
poles with; to saw off tho legs of chairs
if you want to shorten them; to make
things out of boxes, window seats and
things like that; to saw old boxes into
kindling wood, if one is economical, ,'
and for lots of other things. I must
get Mr. BilHops to buy a saw to-morrow."
Journalism In Statu.
Siamese journalism deserves a gold
medal, says the Journalist. In July a
French fleet practically invested the
capital, Bangkok, and a military force
took possession of a valuable island,
defeating the Siamese garrison-with
heavy loss. Ten days afterward the ;
leading Bangkok , newspaper an
nounced: -We are . informed that several
French warships have been seen in the
neighborhood, and that on account of
the ; unheal thfulness of Blanketty
Blank island it is feared that none of
the troops stationed there will ever re
turn with their lives." ... -Such
a country ought to be gobbled
by the first European power that comes
along. -. ' ' '
Mourning; Etiquette In England.
In England the period of moprning '
for a lather -in-law is twelve nibn-ths-v '
ten months black,, twfr iwonths.-half .
mourning,. Crape js seldom worn,' at-
.though the crnpn j"r1'vl "IJtrJ";.''1.v '
'six months. For a parent the period
is the same as above. Te , longest ,
period for a- brother is six .months-"
five months black, , one month .half r
: mourning, The crape period was for
merly three months. , It is now almost
discarded. The shortest period is four
months black, no half mourning. The
. period of mourning for a father-in-law
is often shortened to six months when
relatives reside at a considerable dis
tance from each other.
A Live Toad In a Hailstone.
A hailstorm, visited Pawtucket, R. I.,
the other evening, such as has not vis
ited this vicinity for years, if within
the , memory of man. One woman
picked up a large hailstone and allowed
it to melt in her hand. She thought
something was inside the little piece
of frozen rain, but was surprised to
find when all had melted a little live
toad or frog in her hand. , There is a
quite general belief that a great many
pebbles came down with the hail.
r And they will be sold
at fher very lowest figures.
' FOIIOWINC ARE SAMPLE PRICES:
If! PER CENT. DISCOUNT
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12 pound for 81.00
13 ii - i. n
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7,00
per sock.,
per sack'.
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