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♦ SCIO. OREGON, NOVEMBER 29, 1890. VOL. 2. L. H. MONTANYE, A ttorney at L aw , THE PACIFIC COAST. EASTERN ITEMS. FOREIGN NEWS. Albany, Oregon. A Conglomeration of Occidental Monument to be Erected in Memory Emperor William Bent on Railway Office in Strahan building. Happenings. of Jefferson Davis. Reform. J. K. WEATHERFORD, A ttorney at L aw , An Effort Being Made to Suppress the The Speakership of the Next House of The Statute Providing for the Admission of Albany, Oregon. Alaska Liquor Traffic—Seamen Representatives Said to be Between Office in Finn block, over First National bank. Out of Employment. Crisp, Mills and Springer. DR. E. 0, HYDE, - of Women to Medical Degrees at : Oxford Carried. About Long Distance Telegraphy. “I have read those stories about the marvelous feat of an operator sitting in his office in Vancouver, B. C., and send ing a message clear through on a straight line to New South Wales, but there is not a word of truth in it. It has never been done and never will be with our present system of telegraphing.” The speaker was Chief Operator Will iam Lloyd, of the main office of the Western Union in this city. Mr. Lloyd went on to explain why a message could not be sent such a long distance on a continuous line. "Land telegraphing and sea telegraph ing are totally different,” said Mr. Lloyd, "and that is where the hitch comes in. If I want to send a message to Bombay, for instance, it first goes to New York, then to Torbay, Newfoundland. It is taken down there and is.sent by another system to Queenstown, Ireland. It is re ceived there, not by sound, but by reflec tion. The operator sits in a dark room and the spark from the wire is shown in a looking glass. This is reflected on the wall, and is read in that way, From this point it goes to London by the ordinary method. From there it is sent to the African cable line leading across the Channel, down the Mediterranean and the Red sea to .the Indian ocean, there it takes to Bombay. Probably fifteen oper ators handle the message before It reaches its destination, and to say that a message can be sent through without a stop is nonsense. The work is done very quickly, though, and a message to Cal cutta or Bombay would go through in two hours, perhaps three, according to the way the wires are working. They have been sent in less time. ”—Chicago Mail. NO. 27. “NERVOUS" MODERN CIVILIZATION. The Subject as Viewed by a Writer in Far Gathay—No Rest. It is a very significant aspect of mod ern civilization which is expressed in the word “nervous. ” Its original meaning is ‘‘possessing nerve; sinewy, strong, vigorous. ” One of its derivative mean ings, and the ©ne which we by far most frequently meet, is “having the nerves weak or diseased; subject to, or suffer ing from undue excitement of the nerves; easily excited; weakly.” The varied and complex phraseology by . which the peculiar phases of nervous diseases are expressed has become by this time fa miliar in our eáfs as household words. There is no doubt that civilization, as exhibited in its modern form, tends to undue nervous excitement, and that ner vous diseases are relatively more common than they were a century ago. But what we have now to say does not con cern those who are specially subject to nervous diseases, but to the general mass of Occidentals, who, while not in any specific condition of ill health, are yet continually reminded, in a great variety of ways, that their nervous systems are a most conspicuous part of their.«organ- ization. We allude, in short, to people who aré nervous, and we understand this term to include all our readers, and, in general, all the people who live in the lands from which we have come. To the Anglo-Saxon race at least it seems a matter of course that those who live in an age of steam and of electricity must necessarily be in a different condition as to their nerves from those who lived in the old, slow days of sailing packets and of mail coaches. Ours is an age of extreme activity. It is an age of rush. There is no leisure, •o much as to eat, and the nerves are kept in a state of constant tension, with results which áre sufficiently well known. Business inen in our time have an eager, restless air—-at least thoso who do their business in occidental lands—as if they were in momentary expectation of a telegram—as they often are—the con tents of which may affect their destiny in some fateful way. We betray this unconscious state of mind in a multitude of acts. We cannot sit still, but we must fidget. We finger our pencils white we are talking, as if we ought, at this particular instant, to be rapidly in diting something ere it be forever too late. We rub our bands together, as if preparing for some serious task which is about to absorb all our energies. Wé twirl our thumbs, we turn our heads with the swift motion of the wild ani mal which seems to fear that something dangerous may have been left unseen. We have a sense that there is something which we ought to be doing now, and into which we shall proceed at once to plunge as soon as we shall have dis patched six other affairs of even more pressing importance. The effect of overworking our nerves shows itself, not mainly in such affec tions as “fiddler’scramp,” “telegrapher’s cramp/’ “writer’s cramp,” and the like, but in a general tension. We do not sleep as we once did, either as regards length of time or soundness of rest. We are awakened by slight causes, and often by those which are exasperatingly triv ial, such as the twitter of a bird in a tree, a chance ray of light straggling into our darkened rooms, the motion of a shutter in the breeze, the sound of a voice, and, when sleep is once inter rupted, it is banished. We have taken out daily life to rest with us, and the re sult is that we have no real rest. In an age when it has become a kind of apho rism that a bank never succeeds until it has a president win takes it to bed with him, it is easy to understand that, while the shareholders reap the advantage, it is bad for the president.—North China News. The wool crop of New Mexico this Foreigners have bought sixty of the s Salvador and Guatemala have signed season is 15,000,000 pounds. 3,600 breweries in the United States. the treaty of peace. Physician and Surgeon, Arizona has 701 miles of irrigatifig Kansas is receiving quite a large in A persecution of Roman Catholics is canals that furnish water to 300,000 crease in population from Kentucky. said to be going on in Russia. acres. Soio, O regon . Senator Quay will resign from the Na Hereafter buildings in London must A company of Iowa capitalists intend tional Committee and answer his ac ■ not exceed a height of ninety feet. to start a barrel factory at Salt Lake City cusers. The statement that wholesale arrests that will turn out 500 a day. Boston is to have an institute where ! had taken place of Russian Socialists is 1 Andrew Marro and Jules Rodgers have consumptive patients can be cured by officially denied. been placed under lock and key at Port Dr. Koch’s treatment. Glasgow has the biggest savings bank A lbany , O regon . land for securing money on forged checks. It is said that the Russian mission va ■ in Scotland, with four and a half milj- It is reported that the Denver and Rio cated by Charles Emory Smith is to be * ions of deposits. Grande is making arrangements to ex offered to Major McKinley. EARL RACE, Proprietor. The Bank of Dulabury, Russia, has tend its New Mexico division to Albu There is a report that the Louisiana , been robbed of money and valuables to querque during the coming season. Lottery Company is about to wind up i the amount of 130,009 rubles. Governor Pennoyer has reappointed its affairs and retire from business. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh gets Dr. W. T. Williamson, formerly of Wes monument to Jefferson Davis is to an honorarium of £5JO, and it is pro- ton, as first assistant physician at the be A erected Pensacola by the Ladies’ posed to increase the amount. Insane Asylum at Salem for the term of Confederate at Monument Association. four years. The Roumanian government is allot Governor Steele of Oklahoma has ve ting a vast quantity of State lands in Bradstreet’s mercantile agency reports toed the bill locating the capital at free farms to peasant families. failures in Pacific Coast States George W. Morrow, Proprietor. fourteen and Territories for the past week, as Kingfisher. This leaves it at Guthrie. The concentration of Russian troops compared with fourteen for thé previous The western part of Kansas is suffer on the Armenian frontier is causing First-class accommodations. Tables supplisti week and five for the corresponding ing greatly for want of rain, and the new much uneasiness at Erzeroum. How Amputation Is Performed. with he best the market affords* * week of 1889. Alliarce Legislature will not-meet until The layman is often surprised to note During October twenty-three vessels January. The new electric motor line between were launched from Scotch ship-building how slight are the external manifesta Tacoma and Steilacoom is b ing built Minnie Palmer says she left her hus yards, representing 27,686 tons. Board From $1 to $2 Per Day. tions of serious diseases which sometimes very rapidly, and it will be in running band because he attacked her with a call for radical surgical treatment. Dr. The papers of Buda-Pesth are asking order soon after the new year opens. carving k nife and cut her slightly in sev aid for Kossuth, who has lost his entire Warren brought in before the medical Headquarters for Commercial Men. This work appears to have had a very eral places. class at the Massachusetts general hos fortune in railway Speculations. beneficial effect on the Asylum city. pital not long ago an old man upon whose Chicago is becoming Uneasy over the The Russian Minister of Finance is Wellington Stewart, who was sen story that five of her largest packing now in Paris arranging to float a new right hand there appeared to be a small sore spot, not at all malignant or painful tenced to fourteen years in the peniten house firms will remove their plants to loan for Russia with the Rothchilds. tiary for a criminal assault on young Hammond, Ind. in its appearance; It was situated di girls in San Diego, has been released on The question of establishing in Turkey rectly upon the back of the hand, and Robert Ray Hamilton ’ s will gives his his own recognizance. The Supreme narrow-gauge railroads is receiving the seemed to be no more than a trifling daughter, Beatrice Ray, an an attention Court had granted a new trial in the adopted of the Turkish government. local sore that could be easily healecj. nuity of $1,200. The will does not men case. tion Eva Hamilton’s name. A fire? which has defied all efforts to The patient was a man of more that 86 SCIO, OREGON, A valuable vein of iron ore is reported it, has broken out in the coal years. Dr. Warren explained that the It is reported that Secretary Windom extinguish to have been found about fifteen miles recommends workings at Breux, Northern Bohemia. trouble was of a cancerous nature; that his forthcoming report it had manifested itself in no other part southwest of Tacoma, near the mouth of the funding of in the indebtedness A plot to steal the British army exam of the body, and that amputation seemed the Nesqually river. In sinking a well of the government bonded at 2% per cent. ination papers before the time for the to be the only safe • course to resort to. a few days ago a rancher struck a vein of has been discovered The He 'accordingly proposed to take off the black-iron sand twenty-eight feet in An iron steamship was launched at examination depth. Baltimore last week, which it is claimed Secretary of War has offered a reward. hand just above , the wrist before the Emperor William is now bent on rail malignant' disease had a chance to An Eastern company, with a large is fire-proof and unsinkable and will make a speed of thirty-five miles an way reform. He wants to introduce the spread. amount of capital, is negotiating for the hour. zone tariff throughout Germany, as the The usual application of rubber band purchase of the military road lands now Dye Stuffs, Hair and Tooth Brushes, belonging system has been so successful in Hun age and tight rubber cord above the to the Oregon and California A new and novel trust has just been gary. point of amputation was made, and the Land Company and lying along the line consummated by the Standard Oil Com of the road east of Eugene City, Or,, and pany. which includes all the bulk oil The agitation continues in favor of a surgeon made rapid work of the case. A Toilet Articles, Perfumery, settlers will be brought from the East. carrying craft' plying between Philadel two-year term of service in the German single sweep of the knife just over.the army despite the dismissal of its most wrist severed the skin and a little deeper. Sponges and All Varieties of Drug The cases ag linst the Chinese at San phia and Europe. prominent advocate. General Verdy du The tissues were then dissected upward Rafael, Cal., for catching small fish with A. Cheyenne special to the Denver Vernois. gists’ Sundries. for nearly an inch toward the elbow to bag nets have been postponed until next News says: The commandant of Fort March, owing to the exhaustion of the Russell lias received orders to have seven The London correspondent of the Free the point where the bone was to be cut in obtaining a jury. The defend companies of infantry ready to move at man’s Journal declares that Parnell has in order to make a flap. The flesh was Wall Paper in All the Latest Styles, venire ants are conducting an enormous shrimp a moment’s notice. not the clighte-t intention of resigning quickly cut to the bones, and a few fishing business at Point San Pedro in either leadership of his party or .his strokes of the saw severed them. The The Methodist Missionary Conference duties the wound was antiseptically treated and SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY. Marin county, and should the case be in Parliament. sewed up, and in ten or fifteen minutes decided against them it will throw about has adopted a resolution calling on the The statute providing for the admis from the time he was brought in the old 300 Chinese out of employment at ' that church to give the committee $250,000 as the least sum with which it can meet the sion of women to the medical degrees man was picked up by a strong attend Pictures Framed to Order. place. demands of the year 1891. came before the congregation at* Oxford ant and carried back to his cot in the other day, when it was carried by surgical ward.—New York Sun. At Tacoma the jury in the case of A new method of storing grain is be the young Karasek for the murder of the lad ing introduced. Steel tanks are filled the narrow majority of one. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Moore returned a verdict of not guilty with grain, and by a suction pump the Bismarck’s Magnificent Physique. Cremation is more extensively prac after deliberating thirty minutes. The air is partly exhausted and a quantity of ticed in Italy than in any other ebunti'y. The appearance of Bismarck, who is boy stood cross-examination by the at carbonic acid gas admitted. The first crematory was estab'ished in not only a famous man, a prince, and a torney for the State of over an hour and in 1876, and there are now fifty in general, but who is chancellor of the em The guarantee fund of 400,000 francs Milan a half without flinching or shaking his operation in Ital ian territory. pire as well, makes the populace gasp. honest, straightforward story in any required to secure the right and author Reports from Vienna state that Dr. I venture to assert that nowhere in the way. The verdict wa^_greete<l with ap ity, to excavate and explore the ruins of Delphi has bfeen secured by the Archaeo Ceesar de Pape, the founder of Socialism world can a man of 73 years be found plause. logical Institute of America. in Belgium, is dying with consumption who compares with this magnificent The contract for the construction of a at Cannes, his health having been broken looking leader. The perfect command coast-line battle ship entered into be JayYJooke’ii estate has. beerr'settTed- down un3er~lus’ardubtfsJabors. that he exercises over himself in addition tween the government and the Union satisfactorily to his creditors, who have I 10-pHHiBg-the nosesand patting the backs There is a rumor that it is in contenP" of the nations^wa-J^WP last winter Iron Works of San Francisco has been held on to their securities since his fail Tlie Drying of Mosses. ure, in 1873 for $11,000,000, and its final plation to make the Governorship of Si I I signed by the company and forwarded to dividend was declared last week. erra Leone, like that of Malta and Gi when the Iron Chancellor reducecHtiS- —-JThe power of the mosses to endure re Washington. Work on the war ship weight thirty-five pounds ,by a course of will be commenced within a few months. Thirty-four cotton-manufacturing cor braltar, a military post in the future on training that would have staggered a peated "desiccation has recently been ex- perimentanytPeSt^^S^ihlod^who Two large cylinders of the Monterey’s porations at Fall River, Mass., with a account of the growing importance of collegian. engine have been completed, and the capital of $18,958,000, during the past the place as a coaling station. obtained the interesting result thatTSkrrry- "The full significance of this feat,” of these plants cannot only resist months Monterey will be ready for her trial trip year have paid to stockholders $1,387,- ED GOINS, Proprietor. According to the London correspond one of the prince’s physicians said to me of dryness without any harm, but also within a few months. 770, or an average of about 7 per cent. ent of the Freeman’s Journal, a not too the other day, “will not strike you till that they do not perish even under the Charles H. Easton, for five years past In the United States District Court nt a trusted employe of the wealthy tobacco friendly authority, the Irish light-rail you call all the conditions into view. It strongest desiccatioh carried on in a drier San Francisco Charles F. Ammerman, house of John H. T. Mayo. New York, is ways scheme will give work to a large shows after all that three score years and with the aid of sulphuric acid. Plants arrested some weeks ago for opening a a fugitive from justice. He has left vic number of laborers in excess of those ten is by no means a goal to be dreaded. of Barbula muralis, which were exposed letter addressed to a party in that city tims inNew Yorkto whom he owed $40,- resident in the districts to be traversed. A man’s age is what he makes it, accord for eighteen’ months in the drier, after a ing to Prince Bismarck. Still when a while acting as'a box clerk in the post- 000. The decisions of the'Russian Tariff man is in his 73d year it looks like fool few wettings resumed growth in all their office, pleaded guilty to the second count parts. Other species of barbula behaved Committee have so increased the re President Baker of the Chicago Board strictions on commerce as to threaten to hardiness to suddenly reverse all old and similarly. of the indictment, which charged with of Trade and a member of the Local methodical habits, take ice cold baths at the delivery of a letter. Judge THE BEST BRANDS delaying isolate the Russian trade from the rest A curious experiment was performed Hoffman sentenced the prisoner to pay a Board of Directors of the World’s Fair of the world. Even farming machinery daybreak, have cold' meat and cold tea with Grimmia pulvinata, in which a says he believes the National Commis- 1 fine of $500 and serve one year’s impris for breakfast, let wines and beer drop —OF— sion has hindered rather than helped the is subject to a high tariff. onment in the Alameda county jail. out of existence, and do an amount of stock which had been cultivated for some work. It is officially announced that arrange violent exercise that would wear out -a time in a moist atmosphere under a bell glass was suddenly'exposed to a warm C. B. Grant, Secretary of Seattle Lodge for continuing the business of the 30-year-old laborer. ” j The contest for the Speakership of the ments and perfectly dry-current of air. It be No. 4, I. O. 0. F., is reported to have Barings is concluded. A limited com The hard physical work which the came next House will be between Crisp, Mills : so dry in a short time that it could fled the town, taking funds of the lodge pany has been formed, with a subscribed chancellor has passed through _ in order and Springer. Crisp will represent the with him and leaving his wife behind in capital exceeding ,£1,000,000. Thomas to get his weight down lias left him a be pulverized. Then it lay in a drier for Southeastern section, Mills the South- destitute circumstances. He was form ninety-five weeks. But the quickening Baring, M. P., becomes chairman of the CONSTANTLY ON HAND. erly in the real-estate business, and was west and Springer, the Northern Central company, and devotes the whole of his picture of erect and sturdy manhood. moisture was still competent to awaken group of States. He gives the lie even to the most com for a time Deputy City Clerk. He was fortune to the firm’s credit. to renewed life. The most rapid dry plimentary of his portraits. All his life it dissolute' in habits, and left the town The Secretary of State has been in ing which could be performed in the he has been an athlete, and now he reaps once before under similar circumstances. formed that Moussa Bey, whose reported The Italian government s digging for laboratory could not destroy the plant. Officers of the lodge say they do not outrages on American missionaries in treasure 1 in the citadel of Ancona. An the reward.—Blakely Hall’s Berlin Let It even showed greater power of resist Highest Market Price Paid for Grain. know ter. the amount of money taken by Turkey are a matter of note, has at ex-employe i of the Pontifical government ance than would correspond with its real Grant. length been summarily banished to the has 1 stated that in 1860 during the siege necessities, for so speedy and complete “Beating** the Machine. interior of Arabia. < General Lamoriciere buried the treasure The schemes whereby the knowing a’drying out as was effected in the ex < of his army, consisting of ten barrels of In view of the fact that the liquor periments never counts in nature.—Popu . Farmers will find it to their interest to call Referring to a statement in the New gold j coin, in the citadel before he sur ones nowadays beat the "drop-a-niekel" lar Science Monthly. traffic is assuming gigantic proporti' ns and see us. j machine are so numerous that the busi the place to Cialdini. in Alaska. Captain Knowles, President York Herald that, there would be a de- rendered ness is threatened with ruin. The man and manager of the Pacific Steam Whal ficiency at the end of the current fiscal Letters 4.000 Years Old. A functionary in the Russian army, ner in which the weighing machine is ing Company, has issued peremptory in year of $31,000,000, Secretary- Windom said there will certainly be a surplus ; i who has come into considerable promi swindled is thus told by one who has A remarkable discovery has been made structions to all the company’s Captains not to c ill at Honolulu. Once leave port but, of course, he cannot say how much, i nence lately, is a Jew named Baronok, tried it on: "Just place the sole of your in Egypt of tablets or letters, which com whose duty it is to spv upon corrupt of boot against the edge of the upper plat pose a literary correspondence of 3,500 whalers are to proceed direct on the The Fewfoundlanders are much excited ficers and ferret out their stealings. He form, push hard and sudden and then to 4,i000 years ago, carried on between Capital Stock $20,COD whaling cruise, and are to stop at no point where a stock of liquor could he over the damage suit of James Baird, is known as a very intelligent, honorable jump quickly on the platform; that big Egyptians and . Asiatics. The tablets laid in. The steam whaling company whose lobster factory on St. George’s and impartial iffan. Lately he convicted hand of fate will tell you your weight now -in Vienna represent letters and OFFICERS. ha= always been opposed to the liquor bay was seized by a British naval officer General Tomanowsky, a favorite of the just as surely and correctly as if you had dispatches sent to Egypt by the gov President......... ........................................ J. H. M o BB ■ for an infringement of French rights. Czar. acted ‘straight’ on the machine and paid ernors and kings of Palestine, Syria, Vice-President .................................J eff M yibs tr flic, and the management is deter Cashier............. ............................................. O... S. M ay mined to do everything in its power to So far the rulings are against the New Three survivors of the Serpent have your lonely nickel. Some fellows have Babylonia and other countries of West foundlander, and the people threaten to arrived at Plymouth, England. Burton, been dropping lead slugs, just the weight ern Asia. The find is remarkable every stop it. Directors. place Lord Salisbury on record against one of the men, said he believed the sea of a nickel, into the slit; so, from all ap way, and opens the people of that age to J. 8. M orris . E. G oins . J ohn G ainis . Several hundred sailors who have been H. B ryant . p . O. S mith . himself. quenched the vessel’s fires, as volumes pearances, I think the day of the ‘drop- us with (freshness and familiarity. It is serving lately in the Arctic whaling fleet dust and ashes were thrown up, cov a-niekel’ schemes is in the past. ’’—Chi clear .that the literary spirit is very ’ are now out of employment at San Fran Professor Henry W. Elliott, special of Does a sreneral banking and exchange busi- cisco, and find it extremely difficult to agent of the Treasury Department to ering the crew. The officers of her Maj cago Tribune. ancient, .and Professor Sayce surmises n -as. Sight drafts issued on Albany, Portland esty’s ship Tyne are convinced, however, ,we shall yet find libraries of clay books. get good berths. The United States visit and report upon the condition of from statements made by the men dur and San Francisco • Bismarck's Famous Sentence. One town .in Judah was called “Book naval rendezvous of that city has re the seals there, has returned to Wash ing the voyage and from the mutilated ceived a large number of applicants to ington. He confirms the statements condition of a number of corpses that! It is proposed to use the famous sen Town,” or “(Library Town.” The mo tence of Prince Bismarck, "We Germans mentum of this discovery will be marked. enlist from this class of men since the heretofore made by other parties, aiid fear God, but nothing else, ” as the na Rich men should hesitate no longer to whalers began to return to port a month says that not more than 20,000 animals the Serpent’s boilers burst. tional German motto. A number of stu aid in unearthing the vast treasures of ago. Although they are skillful seamen, were captured during the past season. Frank P. Slavin announces that W. A.. Scio, O regon . the recruiting officer was ob'iged to re He believes they are on the verge of ex Brady of New York has offered him $500' dents have been hunting for the origin the Orient.—Globe-Democrat. ject almost all of the applicants on se termination. per week to act in “After Dark” at of that expression ever since, to prove count of the men not coming up to ttle The suit at Chicago of Mary M. Ryan American theaters, opening in New that there is nothing new under the sun. Hiring Wedding Outfits. FRED 0. HYDE, Prop., physical standard prescribed by the against the Inter-Ocean promises to be York at the Fourteenth-street theater.. One finds it in Racine’s "Athalie,” as the I Among the oddest developments of Navy Department. In many cases the sensational. The paper is charged with Brady also offers to get Slavin backing: saying of the high priest. Joash, and an (Successor to Richardson & Bit eu.) York’s haberdashery is that shop applicants, although young men for the characterizing her as a blackmailer and from $1,000 to $25,000 to fight Sullivan. other has discovered a passage almost New most part, seemed debilitated. The na adventuress and stating that she pur Slavin wishes to say in reply that he will I. identical in Carlyle’s eloquent description where underlinen may be hired for trous seaux purposes, and where the finest of Choice Beef, Mutton and Po^k can always be val surgeon on duty at the rendezvous sued with the relentlessness of a tiger not accept the terms offered. He would: | of Abbot Samson (“Past and Present,’’ found on the block. gives as a reason for this the meager ra some of the wealthiest and most promi require $1,000 per week, with substantial^ book II, chapter 17). These scholars garments may be had for the honeymoon tions of the men. during the whaling nent of Chicago’s citizens, bleeding them guarantee. So far as Sullivan is con- would destroy all the patriotism in Ger- only, if the intending wearer will lay season. Owing to the rigid physical ex of large sums of money. Oyer sixty wit cerned, Slavin says he can get the fig- 3 ynany if they had their way.—-Chicago down cold cash sufficient to buy out FRESH FISH right a moderate outfit. — New York nvna named nnmnd in in T London, .Aiv/ilnTi minor in rtnllavG —. eraij_ . . * • amination an applicant for a place as nesses have been summoned by the ures either in dollars! 1. s ■ jj Commercial Advertiser. ____ ____ ; ____ ____ some of the or pounds, whenever Sullivan wants tali among them Received every Thursday direct from Yaqulna seaman in the navy must undergo, but Inter-Ocean, few men have been accepted in that city.1 most prominent supposed sufferers. fight. || bay. ST. CHARLES HOTEL, SCIO HOTEL J. S. MORRIS, Drugs,. Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Capacity, 75 Barrels Per Day. FLOUR AND FEED BANK OF SCIO. MEAT MARKET, Haunts of the White Goats. White goats have been known to hunt ers ever since l^wis and Clarke crossed the continent, but they have always ranked as the very rarest and most diffi cult to get of all American game. This reputation they owe to the nature of their haunts, rather than to their own wariness, for they have been so little disturbed that they are less shy than either deer or sheep. They are found here and there on the highest, most inaccessible moun tain’ peaks down even to Arizona and New Mexico; but being fitted for cold climates, they are extremely scarce every where south of Montana and northern Idaho, and the great majority even of the most experienced huntershave hardly so much as heard of their existence. In Washington territory, northern Idaho and northwestern Montana they are not uncommon, and are plentiful in parts of the mountain ranges of British America and Alaska. Their preference for the highest peaks is due mainly to their dis like of warmth, and in the north—even south of the Canadian line—they are found much lower down the mountains than is the case farther south. They are very conspicuous animals, with their snow white coats and polished black horns, buttheir pursuit necessitates so much toil and hardship that not one in ten pf the professional hunters has ever killed one; and I know of but one or two eastern sportsmen who can boast a goat’s head as a trophy But this will soon cease to be the case, for the Canadian Pacific railway has opened the haunts of where the goats are most plentiful, and any moderately adventurous and hardy rifleman can be sure of getting one by taking a little, time, and that, too, whether he is a skilled hunter or not, since at present the game is not difficult to approach. The white goat will be common long after the elk has vanished, and it has already outlasted the buffalo. —Theodore Roosevelt in The Century. A Beetle in Harness. Not long since many newspaper para graphs were current about a pretty beetle which the southern ladies were in the habit of wearing on the corsage, where it crawled at will, held by a tiny gold chain. This beetle, is the maqueche. It is perfectly inoffensive, has no odor and does not deface or stain the most delicate fiber. The adjusting of. the golden har ness is a nice operation, the metal being soldered onit. The harness consists of a girdle about the insect’s waist— between the thorax and the abdomen—to which above and below is joined a slender band passing over the posterior portion of the body, longitudinally, while a small chain is attached to this harness by a little staple, which chain terminates in a hook or pin to fasten in the bodice. By many Mexicans the insect is re garded as an amulet or mascot, and is usually highly prized by foreigners When obtainable. Parties who have owned in-; sects of this kind have often attempted to maintain them on sugar and water, but the beetles always perished in a short time. But if fed on decayed wood, which is their natural food, they may be kept alive and thriving for more than a year. : The wing covers or shell of the beetle is exceedingly hard. Its color is a light chocolate shade, and when full grown it is about an inch and a half long. It has been stated that this beetle can cut through soft metal, and this fact is one of the most interesting about it. When placed in a glass jar covered by a thin pewter lid it has been known after a few hours of chipping and cutting to make a hole sufficiently large to allow it to pass through. Specimens of this insect and the cut metal were shown at a recent meeting of the Microscopical society.— New York Evening Sun. Indians and Spanish Friars The aborigines never showed any zeal ous faith in Christianity. Unlike the negroes in the southern states, they took no delight in singing hymns amongthem- selves; unlike the Polynesian Christians, ,£hey never went out to con vert the neigh- hnrinyhen. When they. escaped from the missions/as~rilgY_££eciuently did, they always left their new refcriog them. In the course of three-quarters of a century thousands of such fugitives fled to the San Joaquin and Sacramento val leys, and to the Sierra Nevada, and mingled with the wild tribes, without leaving the least trace there of permanent Christian influence. The friars did not teach the abori gines to be great mechanics. Among its Spanish settlers, the territory did not possess one blacksmith, carpenter, wheel wright, shipwright, or turner competent to take a respectable position among his fellow craftsmen at the time in London, Paris or New York. No good plow, good wagon, good boat or good rifle was ever made in a mission workshop. The Indians did not have an opportunity to learn thoroughly any mechanical trade, or any of the finer branches of -horti culture. There was no skillful nursery man among them.—John S. Hittel in Overland Monthly, Where Eels Are Caught. Very early in the spring men go out with spears in the swampy meadows that border the little creeks and tread about with bare feet until they come upon a place where thè mud is soft. In such a spot there is likely to be a spring of fresh water, and the spears thrust down through the ooze bring up at every stroke between their prongs writhing eels. It is nothing unusual to get three or four bucketfuls out of one hole. Most of the eels mar keted, however—and vast quantities of them are brought here—are taken by the familiar process known as . “bobbing. ” In other] words, they are fished for at night with bunches of worms done up in loops at the end of a string. Many are caught in traps known as “eel pots,” from which the poor victim is unable to make his escape, having once strayed in after the food set as a bait. Eel skins are worth $3 a hundred for flails. They are [also used as bluefish bait, and by rheumatic patients to tie around the limb affected.—Boston Cor. New Orleans Pica yune. How to Drill Glass. In drilling glass, stick a piece of stiff clay or putty on’the part where you wish to make the hole. Make a hole in the putty the size you want the hole, reach ing to the glass, of course. Into this hole pour1 a little molten lead, when, un less it is very thick glass, the piece will immediately drop out,—Tradesman.