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'j . k i tlv 1 A V IIWK ,.. U Mh L...... c Mouth . i lyable in advance.) TERMS OF ADVERTISING (Legal) On 'putii, first lumtlon i . r, aauutonal insertion (LOCAL.) L.. l souces, K-r liu. -."iiAr dvrtumtaU Inserted upon liir&l terms. .15 centA "s SOCIETY NOTICES 1KB A So LonCK. STO. 4. A. V A. M : Mt t ti.eir nw ball iu Mawnita Bloet oa Saturday tuius, oa or before the fuU moon, f . J WASSdN, W. M. ur.B vos iowsk, no. - i. o. o. mu st- I'.rU vjr evening or oh w-k; t Odd a H&U, '.i!ii street: vUitiux rthra cordially lsrlt4 W atuud. . . J. J. UHARLl'OK, H. O. HON"fK LOIX5K VO. 38, AL O. XT. W., ltaa. Oregon: Meets s stj first. and thtrd Thursday er. tags to ths month. . V. H. RU8C0&. ML. W. A. R. CYRUS COn ' ' ' - ; ! Heal Estate. Insuranca & Loan Agsnt. -; Gfaerml lollcctlon and XatwrrPaklla linlarts Pranaptly Attende to. H. J. JONES DEALER IX- i ,- "on T Sr-MOI, it Unslcal 118 ASD School Supplies. ALBANY, OREGON. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED Tor All the Leading Maga zines and Newspapers. s FOR SALE. A Double Circular "Water Power : " Saw Mill, Near Lebanon, Or. Capacity about 6001 feet pr day. Also, acres of land on which the aawmill is located. I'HICE, 83,000 Also t ave a targe stock of FIRST QUALITY LUMBER At lowest market rates for cash. . W. WHEELER, IhiBSB. r. G. T. COTTON, 1 DEALER IS Groceries and .Provisions, TOBACCO & CICAR8, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY, (eaaware and Glassware. Lamps antl L,assf Fixtures. Mala St, Lefcaaen, Oregea. OREGON Land Company R. F. ASH BY and CEO. DICKINSON, General Agents for Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon. Bajing and Selling Real - Estate - on - Commission. Aa Delag a Creaeral Real Estate Bastaess. CTLand Solicited for Sale. ASHBY & DICKERSON BURKHART & 6ILYEU, Proprietors of the . Livery, Sale anil Feeil Staliles LEBAKOK, OR, ' Southeast Corner of Main and Shsrmaa. Fine 8uggi8S, Hacks,Har ; ness and COOD RELIABLE HORSES For'paiitirH goinj? 1o- Brownsville, W terlot.. Sweet Axjtam, Seio, and all v .; j yartu of Linu pounty. All j kinds of Teaming I DOSTE AT ' aASONADLP RATES. J3ILTEU fa nPTtTTTV T inn ID A "TTTTVT T7iTnTn,TT7i.? v . - ." VOL. II. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS THE TERRITORIES READY TO ENTER THE GALAXY OP STATES. The Conditions on Which Montana Will Enter Pension Legislation Ore gon's Militia Bill Becomes a Law The Inaugural. The nomination of Walter L. Brayg to succeed himself as interstate com missioner, has been favorably reported in tbe Senate. The Atlanta left New York Saturday morning for Hayti. It is thought that the vessel s presence is necessary to preserve peace. Secretary Whitney says the State department has done all it can in the Samoan matter. It now rests with Congress, which alone has power to declare war. . . . The pension department has grant ed pensions to Henry F. Phillips, of Seattle, and John B. Wencmy, alias J. Smith, of Lewiston, Idaho, a sur viver of the Mexican war. Vice President-elect Morton was in Washington last week, looking about the city for a desirable residence, but failed to find a suitable one. He does not desire to build or buy a hme at the capital. The Dakota delegation now in Washington feel confident that a bill will now be passed for the admission of South Dakota into the Union ; also the passage of an enabling act for the early admission of North Dakota, The President has approved the act to provide arms, ammunition, etc., for the militia of Oregon ; the act to pro vide stores for tbe militia of Montana, and the act amending the postal laws in regard to the special delivery of letters. General Swaim will be placed on the retired list, notwithstanding the fact that many members of the retir ing board are said t j be of the opinion that his present disabiliiies are not serious eneugh to incapacitate him from further active serviee. Representative Hermann's bill pro viding for an increase of pension for Colonel James Waters, of D mglas county, Or., a veteran of the war of lBlz and of the Oregon Indian wars, who is now ninety-four years old and band, was reported favorably to the House last week. Among the bills recently intro duced in the House are the following : Granting ught-of-way for a railroad across the Fort Pima IudUn reserva- lion in Arizona ; granting the Big Horn Southern railroad right-of-way across a part of the Crow Indian res ervation in Montana. Governor Swineford, of Alaska, es timates the annual resources of the territory at about 19,000,000; min erals, f 2,000,000 ; all other resources, $3,000,000. He urges the develop ment of the territory's mines, espec ially that of coal, which he claims ex ists there in large quantities. The Senate sub-committee on finance has occupied much time in hearing opposing claims of the wool growers and wool manufacturers on changes in the tariff on wool. The impression prevails that the commit tee will atk for a reduction on the common grades of wool from eleven to ten cents. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, chief marshal of the inauguration pro cession, has issued an order calling on all organizations desiring to partici-: pate to notify him at headquarters before February 20th. Civic orders of It es than fifty in number will not ; be permitted in line, or with improper costume or equipment. The board of Indian commissioners, at their recent annual meeting,; adopted resolutions deprecating the practice of changing Indian officials for partisan reasons and urging the extension of the civil service system to the Indian service; also opposing the removal of the tribes from their j reservations where they are settled and are making progress toward civ- i ilization. The President has returned to the Senate without his approval the bill to pay f 3800 to William D. Wheaton and Charles H. Chamberlain, for many years prior to 1879 register and receiver of the land office at San Fran cisco. These two officers were re quired by an order, issued July, 1877, to turn thereafter into the treas ury certain fees to which they were entitled by law. A movement is on foot to secure a pension for Postmaster Lsuia Purdy, of Yorktown, Westchester county, New York, who is ninety-three years old, and who enjoys the distinction ol being the oldest postmaster in the country, having vott-d for President elect Harrison and his grandfather before him. Purdy was appointed postmaster of Shrub Oak by W. H. Hairison in 1841, and lias discharged the duties of his office ever since. The omnibus bill, which has passed the House, in so far as it relates to Montana, authorizes the people to choose delegates, to form a conven tion, in each district. The whole num ber of delegates to be seventy-for, and are to meet on July 4, 1889. They are authorized to form a State gov ernment and constitution, provided, that at the time of election of dele gates the constitution adopted by the constitutional convention held at Hel ena in 1888 shall be submitted to the people for ratification. Land sections 16 and 36 will be granted to the State for the support of common schools, and 90,000 acres of land are granted for the support of agricultural col leges. Five per cent of the proceeds of sales of public lands is also granted for common school purposes. The examination of Sewall, consul general at Samoa by the Senate com mittee on foreign relations, has been concluded, but he is held here to await the printing of his testimony. He is deeply interested in the Samoan situation, and is anxious to return to bia post, but is still more anxious that the people of the United States should arouse themselves to an intligent ap preciation of the importance of main taining the independence of the islands, in order that the government may properly maintain its interests there. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS THE CRUSHED AND KILLED IN THE PENNSYLVANIA STORM. A Youthful Bank Robber Comes to Grief at Kansas City New Mex ican Cable Line A Judge Arrested Other News. Heavy snow storms are reported from Dakota. Ex-Congressman Singleton, of Mis sissippi, is dead. The Cincinnati shoemakers con template striking. General Rosecrans will soon be placed on the retired list. An offer of S30.000 has been refused for the trotter Ambassador. Massachusettes Republicans have renominated Senator Hoar. Senator Mandeson, of Nebraska, has been relected to the Senate. The Colorado river will be investi gated by government officials. The white caps " are creating ter ror in many places in the East. Governor Fifer, of Illinois, opposes organized detective companies. An effort is to be made to annex Lower California to Ihe United States. Boys in the employ of the Chesa peake oyster pirates are tieated as slaves. A Sioux City, Iowa, lawyer has been ordered by the "white caps" to leave the place. An earthquake was felt in New New York last week in the Adiron dack section. The crew that abandoned the ship Christina at sea have arrired at Charleston, 8. C. Axworthy, the defaulting city treas urer of Cleveland, Ohio, will take up his residence in Toronto. Diplomatic circles in Europe cen sure tbe United States for the con tinued fighting in Sdtnoa. The libel suits instituted by the Chicago police against the Times of that city have been dismissed. J. J. Patterson, ex-United Slates Senator from South Carolina, has been sued for breach of promise. The belief is growing that the rela tions between the United States and Germany are becoming strained. The police of Knoxville, Tenn., re cently raided a private car and ar rested the occupants for gambling. It is again rumored that Charles Francis Adams will soon retire from the presidency of the Union Pacific. Jennie Stuirt, the daughter of a New York stock broker, ran away with her father's coachman last week. Jane Suffert, who has been keeping a baby farm in a room sixteen feet square at St. Louis, has been arrested. The fishing steamer Novelty, which left Boston recently, is said to be loaded with arms and men for Hayti. Henry Kruse, who shot Ward Mc- Manus, a prominent St. Louis capi talist, last week, killed himself Satur day. Chief Byrd has been recognized by Secretary Vilas as Governor of the Chickasaw nation in Indian Terri tory. Tbe fastest time ever made across the Atlantic was that of tbe Umbria last week 6 days, 2 hours and 45 ininules. The Dostal authorities will soon in vestigate the free deliver? pvatem of California, Oregon and Washington Territory. At Rihway, New Jersey, incendiary fires are started eo that the boys can turn with the engine and have a good carousal afterward. Powderly claims that the men who are trying to start an opposition order to the Knights of Labor offered to sell out to him for f 100. Miss H. O. Woodard, of Charlotte- ville, Va., ran away last week and was married. Tbe young lady is a cousin of General Harrison. Herr Most, of New York, the arch anarchist, has applied for police pro tection. He claims that his life is in danger from his former associates. The New York World has made ar rangements for an exploring expedi tion to Africa to discover the where abouts of Stanley and Emin Pasha. The towns ofCimarron and In galls, in Kansas, are engagnd in a county seat war. So far two men have been killed and great excitement prevails. Col. Frank Posey has been nomi nated for the unexpired terin in Con gress occasioned by the resignation of Congressman Hovey, now Governor of Indiana. In the camp of a gang of thieves in Indian Territory was found, recently, a diary detailing a murder in Ohie in 1863, which the owner of the diary committed with an axe and secured $1000. The Mexican Telegraph company has arranged for the laying of a new cable across the gulf to Galveston, the present one being found inadequate to transact the Mexican and Central American business now handled. Judge Lvman Follett, who left Grand Rapids, Mich, two years ago and went to Honduras, leaving a large amount of trust funds unac counted for. was arrested in Helena, Montana, and will be takan back to Michigan. Forty saloon-keepers, who are to be tried for contempt in violatingtem porary injunctions issued under a pro hibition law at Canton, 111., have agreed to abandon their places and leave the state on condition that the cases be dismissed. The dead of Reading, Pennsylvania, who were crushed in the debris of the collapsed silk mill, number eighteen, and fivo persons in the paint shop were burned to death. The injured are about ninety. At Pittsburg sev enteen were killed by the falling Ger- mania bank building walla. Over fifty were injured. The Nevada legislature has ap pointed a committee to visit the legis lature of California to confer with that body in reference to acquiring terri tory east of the summit of the Sierras. LEBANON, OREGON, PACIFIC COAST NOTES. NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTH. WESTERN MINING DISTRICT. A Los Angeles Detective Shoots Hlmseir, Prospectors Find a Watery Grave In the Colorado River-Nevada's Miner's Home. The Snta Monica hotel was burned last week. Charles Dudley Warner will winter in Pomona. Anaheim, Cal., contemplates start ing a beet factory. 8tockton, Cal., has organized a na tural gas company. Lvdia Thompson ia ill at Lo An geles with pneumonia. Additional murders of Arizona shepherds arc reported. W. D. Baals, of Red Bluff, CaL, has failed. Labilities, 121,000. Washouts on the Southern Pacific are reported west of Ynma. The late small-pox scare at Meraed, Cal., cost the county $3000. 8am Jones, the revivalist, is hold ing meeting at Los Angeles. Santa Rosa orchar Jiats have planted 100,000 trees the present season. Cattle and sheep, caught in the snow in New Mexico, are starving. Parties inNephi, Idaho, propose shipping rabbit carcasses by the car load The saloon license of $150 has been repealed by the supervisors of Marin county. Wild hoes are plentiful in the tules along the Humboldt, near Battle Mountain. Watsonville, Cal is making efforts to secure the location of a 11 4 x mill at that place. It ia said that Fort Canby. at the mouth of the Columbia, will again be garrisoned. The Indians of 8aline Valley. Cali fornia, are raising fine fig. apple, pear and peach trees. A bill has been introduced in the Nevada legislature to provide a home for indigent miners. A Portugese sheepman was acci dentally killed by his brother in Fies- no county, last week. Charles Gordon, who was to have been hanged last week at Fort Ben ton, Montana, was respited. Ai tides of incorporation have been filed by The Dalles Portage company, with a capital stock of $500,000. Mrs. Sarah Snivcr. of Glendale. W.! T., was burned to death recently by tne explosion oi a coal oil lamp. A car-load of lobsters has been shipped to Puget Sound. Scow bay has been chosen for lobster raising. E. H. Dunn escaped from the Napa asylum last week and was found shortly afterward hanging to a tree. Detective A. B. Lawson at Los An geles shot himself while taking a re volver trom nis desk recently. He will recover. The Portland water-works want to issue $1,500,000 mere bonds to enable it to supply 20,000,000 gallons of wa ter a day. Mi VoIKk ri,. - i " - . living jitrati vv Inn. fAlifi-trniA w u a (amklv .f.ktu last week by an unknown man, who maue nis escape. J. R. Mrwnfv.nl f!rl tried to kill his wife a short time ago, has been sentenced to four rmn in the penitentiary. It is reported that Senator Hearst. of California, has purchased the now famous Ilarqua Hala mines, in Ari zona, for $250,000. . There is good reason to believe that the Klamath Indian leservation in northern California, will soon be open to settlement. A pension has been granted to J. H. Eaton, of Portland, a Mexican sur vivor, and an increase to Garrison Datson, of Grant's Pass, CaL Stephen T. Morse, a prominent fruit grower of Sacramento county, Cal., while loading hay from a scaffolding last v.eek, fell and broke his neck. The man employed by the San Ber nardino county grand jury to expert the county treasurer's books has since gone to jail for petty larceny. A warrant was recently issued for the arrest of John Hall, a prominent aichitect of Los Angeles, on a charge of perjury in a timber culture claim. San Diego has received an order from Colima, Mexico, for twelve miles of rails, twenty-four cars and other necessary equipments for a horse-car line. Engineers are now at work on the proposed peninsular railroad leading out of San Diego. The line will be completed to Yuma, Ariz., in very short time. V; . While several prospectors were en route to the new gold fields in Ari zona their boat Was capsized in the Cororado river, below The Needles, and all were drowned. Louis Wanderer, a boy, was found not guilty of stealing Mrs. Scmidlin's chickens at San Jose, ' and his guar dian has brought a suit for $5000 against Mrs. Schmidlin. The legislature of Montana has adopted a resolution, almost unani mously, protesting against the admis sion of Utah Territory as a State on the grounds of polygamy. Owen Brown, a son of old John Brown of Kansas, died recently near Pasadena, Cal. He was Beventy-four years old, and is said to be the last survivor of the Harper's Ferry affair. Isadore Lewis, a tobacco and cigar dealer in San Diego, has commenced suit for $10,000 damages against the Bradstreet Mercantile agency. The agency had declared he had made an assignment. A bill has been introduced in Con gress authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Joseph Pennig, of Linkville, Or., the sum of $10,000 for injuries received at the hands of the Indians in the Modoc Indian war. F1UDAY, JANUARY THE AGRICULTURALIST SOME ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OP SUCCESSFUL FARMING. Cheap Lands Not Always the Most Prof 1 table-The Value of Hay Lies in Feeding It to Your Own Cattle-Well-Kept Farms. To a pint of warm boiled hominy add a pint of milk or water and a pint of flour. Beat two or three eggs and stir into tbe batter with a little salt. Fry as any other griddle cake. The farmer who thinks that to make money he mint go where land is cheaper, Bhould consider well if he would not make more money by mak ing the land he has deeper and richer. The elements of the fundamental principles of farming are: Soil, heat, moisture, muscle and brain power. The commingling of these five ele ments produce the key to successful farming. Pumpkins for cows have best effect when fed before very cold weather, for there i less absorption of animal heat to warm the mass forty or fifty pounds that a cow will take into her stomach. JA neat and well-kept farm indi cates that the owner is thrifty. The manure heap ia the most important thing now. If the heap is sheltered so as to preveat loss, and so managed that everything that can be added to it can be decomposed, it will effect a saving and prevent filth in the barn yard, We do not produce potatoes enough for home consumption if the fact that such products are imported are taken into consideration. If foreigners can ship their products 3000 miles to reach us we can, with our improved machinery on our cheaper lands, pro duce more than may be required in this country. Sheep manure contains from 90 to 9 per cent of the plant food con tained in the rations consumed by the f heep. It is. therefore, a very rich fertilizer, as experience has shown. It is especially rich in nitrogen in an available form, and for that reason is excellent for use as a starter in the hill for corn and potatoes. j AH smutty corn or husks should he burnt. It is better to take precaution for next year than to attempt to pre vent smut by some remedy. It would have ben best to destroy the a fleeted stalks when growing, but even now no traces of smut should be allowed to exist. Seed should never be selected from a field containing smutty year oi corn. When grain and hay crops are sold ! off the land they carry away the fer-! tihty of the farm, but when such crops are fed to stock not only is a portion of the crop left over as ma nure, but a higher price ia received for such 'crops in the shape of beef, po-k, mutton or milk, which enables tl'.e farmer to restore any loss of fer tility by the increased receipts conse quent upon the keeping of stock. The improper keeping of cream, and allowiug it to become soar while waiting for more, and the failure to keep the milk and cream in some place of even temperature, is the cause of nearly all poor butter. The quality of the cream should be uni form, and no mixing of different ages can be clone safely. No amount of working the butter can compensate for the injur done before churning, and every portion of the work should be done speedily and not be made de pendent on something that is to fol low A correspondent in the Southern Live Stock Journal gives the following as a remedy for thumps in hogs: Give one tablespoonful of vaseline, petroleum jelly (not carbonized). Re peat every twenty-four hours as long as necessary. The great advantage of the remedy, aside from it? efficacy, is tbe ease with which it is given. It is a job to drench a hog, but this vas eline slips down so easily lhat there is no time for strangulation. In ex treme cases it is best to blister under neck and between front legs with cn tharidal collodion. If the milk is too cold for the but ter to come, or the temperature is too high (as sometimes happens in sum mer), it may be brought to the de sired temperature by the adJition ef cold or warm water, a the require ments may be, until the proper tem perature is obtained. The use of a thermometer will greatly r-ssist in the work of churning. Some prefer to raise the temperature by placing the churn in a tub of warm water. Any mode that will raise the tempe.ature will answer. Rectangular churns, which dash the butter from side to side, are now largely in use, the but termilk being drawn off as soon as the butter assumes the granular stage. After the buttermilk is off, if preferred, a strong solution made by dissolving salt in water, may be poured into the churn and the butter washed by again revolving the churn. This carries off the buttermilk and partially salts the butter. Although no definite rule can be laid down to be followed in covering seeds, it is safe to say the larger the seed the deeper the covering should be. The old rule of covering seeds to a depth equal to four times the diam eter of the seed, will not answer in all cases. The writer's experience would lead him to advocate a greater depth of sowing as a general rule. A depth equal to six times the diameter of the seed would be more suitable for the majority of seeds. Potato seed cut in the usual way will give pieces varying in thickness from half an inch to an inch in thickness. According to our rule, this seed would call for a cover ing of four and one-half inches a depth which hae been practically demonstrated to be most advantageous on well-drained soils. The same rule may be applied to most other seeds with equally satisfactory results, but at the same time it is not held up as an infallible guide under all circum stances and conditions. Drainage, amount of moisture, depth of soil, and many other conditions must be considered by the intelligent cultiva tor in deciding this Question for him ir - , sen. 2o, 1889. PORTLANOIMARKET REPORl GriOCERlES-Sugars have fallen Je sine our last report, we quote U fje, extra C BJc, dry granulated 6jc, cube, cruithed and powdered 7gc. Cones firm, Guatemala 18i21 c Conta Rica 18i!fe21c o'Mbic, SaJvadorlKsOc, Arbuckle's roasiea z.sjc. PROVISIONS Oregon hams are anofc ed at 13 141c breakfast bacon 13lffcl4kc. Kantern meat iaqnoted as fololws: Hams j va i.i.a, -Mnciairti 14 aide, Uregon break fast bacon 13J& 14c, Eastern 13&13 c. FRUITS Green frutt recelnta 1239 bin. Hard fruit la scarce, and the supply of ap ples not equal to the demand. A pptes 0664 h5 per bx, Mexico oranges $1, lemons oo.o.oo per dx, bananas fa.to4.ao. quinces 40 ooc. VPGETABLE3 Market well suoD'ied. Cabbage ale per lb, carrots and turnip "5c per sack, red pepper 3c per tb, potatoes OMOtVie per acK, sweet lJtJic per n. DRIED FRUITS Receipts 91 pkges. Sun-dried apnles f'6c per lb, factory slic d 8c, factory plums 7 9c, Oregon pruue7 ' 9c, pearsDclOc, peacbe 810c. ral-ins 2't.25 per box, Call ornla ngs oc, Smyrna isc per in. DAIRY PRODUCE Oregon creamery ana rnoice a airy iuc, raeoium . iwauc Cal ifornia fancy 30c, choice dairy 274c, eastern SSfoSOe. EGGS Receipts 293 eases. Oregon 25c. POULTRY Chickens S5rir5.25, for larpe young and f 4 i 75 for old, turkeys ia isc per in, aucas per aozen. WOOL Valley 18130c Eastern Oregon IV C IOC. HOPS-Choice 814c. GRAIN Valley 11.33, Eastern Oregon tl.:v Oat 33S3.TC F. OUR-Standard $4.50, otner brands tf.i5, Dayton and Cascade f 4.10, Giaham $3.25, rye flour 6, do Graham $5 0. FRESH MEATS Beef, live, 3f33c drewted 7r, mutton, live. 3ff3 c, dressed 7r, lambs 92 60 each, hog, live, Si'aoe, dressed 7&71, veal os Sc. The unseemly discussion which a a certain class of newspapers have been making a conspicuous feature in their columns of late of the question, "Is marriage a failure?" is simply a fresh breaking out of the old and nau seous social malady of "free love. It Is amazing that any editor who has either any regard for the reputability of his journal or any respect for the welfare of society should countenance the dis cussion of so grave a theme in the reckless and flippant style and manner in which it is treated by the class of shallow and inconoclastic writers who. in their anxiety to air their immoral sophistications, delight to exhibit their contempt for those things and institu tions which reasonable and good men deem too sacred to be assailable. The man or woman who seriously asks the question "Is marriage a fail ure?"' is ohviously disqualified, by a lack of either virtuous or proper ex perience, or of intelligent or thought ful conviction, from answering or even discussing the question at all, the very asking of it being almost proof posi tive that the one asking it Is of the affirmative way of thinking, and that he or she is of that way of thinking because of experiences, observations or theories that are at least superficial, but more probably the resultants of the individual folly or viciousness of a depraved nature. A married life that has proved a failure because the parties to the contract have had neither sense enough, mutual forbearance enough nor morality enough to be faithful to its obligations is not a just sample of the marital institution, is not a fair illustration of modern domesticity, is not an exponent of the aver age family condition of civilized society. It is exceptional and abnormal. A true man and a true woman, entering into the relations of man and wife with rational delibera tion, with genuine affection, and with high and pure motives, do not find marriage a failure. They know what they are about before they enter into the intimate and sacred partnership. It is on their part not a matter of im pulse, of emotion, of money, nor of passion, but of mutual and reciprocal affection, guided and consummated by the dictates of reason and of a thought ful anticipation of all the possibilities and all the contingencies that are in volved in the solemn compact. Such matches are made in heaven, are heav enly in their lifelong continuance, and extend beyond this life into heaven itself. Marriage is a failure only when the man or the woman is a failure in his manhood or in her womanhood. It is never a failure when Ihe man and the woman are true to themselves and to each other. It is never a failure where the feeling and the motive and the purpose are right. It ia never a fail ure where true love and honor are the links of unity. It is never a failure where good sense and good principle lead to and control the relationship. It is very rarely a failure, in any event, where children are its fruitage and the family altar is the center of its daily sanctification. Those who sneer and mock at mar riage are not God's people; they are not of those who are the best develop ment of modern civilization; they are not illustrations either of social mor ality or of Bound sense. They are the froth and scum that float and bubble upon the surface of social life. They are people of unbridled passions, sen sual and selfish instincts or shallow minds. They are not the many, but the wild and reckless few. As a rule, marriage is not a failure, but quite the reverse. When it proves a failure, it is an exception to the rule, just as idiots, cranks, lunatics and moral lep ers are exceptional developments of human evolution. Oiicago Journal. Miles W. Standlsh, of Waldoboro, Mo., is a direct descendant of Captain Miles Standish, who came over in the Mayflower in 1C20, and h has a son named Miles. There is a Massachusetts maiden so modest that she would not look at a salad dressing. Rochester Express. Customer "What yo' charge for gittinfotografstookP Photographer "Imperials, $6 per dozen; tluplates, $3 per dozen." Customer "Vall, I guess Pie jes hab haf dozen duplicates tooken." -Harper's Weekly. Sharp "What ia the strongest day of the week, KetchumPP" Ketchum (who is not on the eve of bankruptcy) "Friday, 1 simppose." Sharp "No, Sunday; all the others are week days. See?" Detroit Free Press! NO. 46. INCH AND OUNCE. The Deriratlo of Tbaae Two Btaadarda of MeanaramenC As the Jews had a mystical rever ence for seven, and the ancient Welsh and Celts for three, and the Greeks a perfect philosophy constructed out of the harmonies of all sorts of numbers, so the Romans fell back upon a scale of or. more properly, upon a scale with a base of six. Accordingly, as they divided the pound Into twelve ounces, so they also divided the foot, which was the standard of lineal measure. Into twelve sections, and they called these sections unche, too. But how did they get the inch orig inally? it may be asked. Rather, how did they get the pound? for that, and not the inch, is the unit. There seems to be no precise information .-on this point. They would divide any unit Into twelfths, and a prevailing notion was at one time the linear uncia was really the original, and was then transferred as a name to a weight. This, though plausible, ia hardly the case. Sometimes, especially in old books, written when philology was not what it is now. it was the fashion to derive unclse from the same word in the Greek, because, after the revival of letters in Europe, the admiration of the Greek became so great that when ever similar words were found in it and some other language it was al ways said that the other language bor rowed them from the Greek. This is very far from being always so, and in the present instance the very reverse appears to have occurred. The ounce Is literally the twelfth, and thus we see at once the sense of speaking of an ounce of land and an inch of milk, just as of an inch of a man's will or an inch of interest for money on a loan. It was always the twelfth of a unit; twelfth of an hour; twelfth of a jugerum, that half-acre which the two oxen plowed in a day; twelfth of a sextarius, or equivalent to our pint; twelfth . of the entire hereditis; twelfth of tbe principal lent on time when it was money at usury that is, over eight per cent It is. accordingly, as much of a mis take to say that the primary meaning of the word is a linear, which is to say that it comes straight from the" Greek Into the Latin and thence on to us- The riddle is plain enough when we get to the true origin of the word a twelfth. Once, indeed, it used to be said that the true origin was that the word meant a thumb breadth, because its equivalent, pollex. in linear measure, was often used in its place. But this is not the case. Some of the old Latins themselves, moreover, thought it meant literally the unit; but even this will not hold beside the proper signifi cation of the twelfth. The pound weight really never di vided by inches or ounces, it was di vided by twelfths, by halves, by thirds, by fourths and by sixths. And here, again, we see what a convenient base a system of twelfths is for. division compared with a system of tenths, which could only be divided evenly in two ways by two and five. For seven ounces they use the literal seven twelfths; for eight ounces they said two parts that is, two thirds; for nine, wanting a fourth, which with us reads like a roundabout way of expressing three-quarters; for ten, wanting a sixth; for eleven, wanting a twelfth. Boston Herald. BEATING A LAWYER. It la ln by Farmer Who BeUeves In Treating- City Fo'k Fairly. You newspaper fellows," said a Taylor township farmer to a reporter the other day, "have had so many guys and gas at cider that the majority of people believe we add half water in every case." Don't you?" innocently inquired the scribe. No! you blame numbskull, we don't!" But I I" "Oh. of. course, you thought so, but you fellers ain't ex pec tod to be too smart in the top-story. However. I was going to tell you about a lawyer in town He wanted a barrel of cider, but he was terribly afraid of being cheated. He engaged me to bring in the juice, and in order to keep me straight he said: ' "Now, then, when the cider comes I shall test it with a lackadaisiaL and if there is any water ia it I'll make you sweat for swindling." . " Did he say lackadaisial?" asked the reporter. " Something like that It made me a bit mad, and so I planned "to fix him. I brought ia a cask holding forty -eight gallons. Thirty - gallons were well watered and the rest cider. I left it at his house, and to-day. I called at his office to get my money. And he went for you?" - - Hardly. He gave me half a dollar extra, and said it was the first barrel of genuine cider he had had in ten yeara" Detroit Free Press. Which Man Felt the Worse? "You look depressed," said one club member to another. "I am depressed," was the reply. "I went home last night slightly under the influence and my dear little wife would not say a word to me this morning. I feel pret ty badly, I can tell you." "Crickety!" commented the other, "I wish my wife would do likewise. But when I go home tired and troubled' you bet I catch it. Why. she'll almost talk my head off and she'll follow me all over the house lecturing. Not talk to me! Why, that is just what I want her to do. You are the luckiest chap I know." Denver News. She Was Not a Cook. He (with evident agitation) M Miss Grimes, do you sing? She A little. Hgr-And play? Sue Yes. ''' He (sighing) Paint, too, I suppose? She Some. He Recite any? SheccOnce in a great while. He Do you cook? She No! He Thank Heaven! Miss Grimes, will yjytJMk my wife? Burlington Fre JOB PRINTING - "- - If7 deaaiiiiMoa" at - Joi Printing te cn L1I::, Legal Blanks, Business Cards. Latter Heads, Bin Heads, Circulars, Posters, Etc. Kxaratad la food Mylcaad at bmat Bt1b PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Chaussier dried a man in a kiln and there resulted only twelve pounds of solid matter. An experiment recently made in Scotland proves that the tortoise can walk a mile in four hours. Telephones are great convenience, and yet people are all the time talking against them. Tonkers Statesman. A traveling man remarks that any fellow who makes love to a widow is literally courting danger. Merchant Traveler. "I wish I could sell all I write." remarked a certain author to a lady. "There are - those," replied his com panion, sweetly, "who say you can't write all you selL" Life.. : "Mrs. - Barkley," are yon familiar with 'Son-js without Words?" "O, yes, quite. Mr. Barkley frequently sings them when he . comes home ia the morning." Ttrre Baxile Express. ; A Brooklyn man intends to start a goat farm, which he thinks will bring him $10.80 per day; He will stock it with seventy-five goats, and as the or dinary goat will give three "pints of milk a day, he calculates upon-niaety quarts per day at twelve to fifteen cents aquart. One of the leading American col leges has resolved to dispense with "class yell" next year. An institution of learning that will thui aim a deadly blow at the higher education of our youth doesn't deserve the patronage of the American people. Football may go next. Nbrristonm Herald. ' ' ' "You should have counted on the expense " of married life" before yon entered upon it," said,. the young hus band's friend; "it was only a question of common sense and reason that yon should . have exercised-'.' Common sense and reason?" echoed the youth ful benedict; "why, I was in love! Chicago Globe. Railroad Superintendent Any of the passenger cars need repairing?" Head Examiner "Yes, sir; No. 806 is in very bad shape; ought to go to the shop at once." "What's the matter?" "Two of the windows are so loose that any ordinary man can raise them, sir." Time.' - . - Two vagrants called ori a kind lady in the suburbs of New York. "To which of you two shall I give this nickel?" she asked.. First tramp "Give it to him, madam. He has pur chased the route from me, and I am just taking him around to introduce him to the customers.' Texas Si flings. Not Used to Traveling. Stranger (at hotel tar)--"Best whisky, please.' Bartender (severely) "This is a pro hibition town, sir." Stranger "Ah, excuse me." (moving away.) Bar tender (excitedly) '" Great; Scott, stranger, haven't you sense enough to get sick?" Drake's Magazine. Editor Society Journal (to repor ter) "Mr. Jinks, the directors have ordered me to raise your salary. You bring m more society scandal than all the other reporters put together." Jinks "Thank you. The advance will be handed over to my wife. It is hers by right." Editor "How so?" Jinks "She is the secretary of the ladies anti-gossip club." Cartoon. , A gentleman who has recently aken up French, and wno loses no op portunity of airing the little knowledge he has thus far acquired of that lan guage by translating and pronouncing 6uch words and phrases as his friends might encounter in his presence, was thus addressed by an acquaintance: "If you only knew as much English as you do French, what a success you would boV Texas Siftings. - CLUMSY DIRECTNESS. The Moat Common Way ef Giving Offease la an ITaeoBSeiovs Way. Some people are perpetually giving offense, in tne most unconscious way. "Now,, do let me propose you as a member," says Smith. "But suppose they blackball me?" replies Brown. Pooh! Absurd! Why, my dear fel low, there's not a man in the elub that knows you even!" A lady very de sirous of concealing the awful fact that she is the same age as her husband, observed to a visitor: "My husband is forty; there are just five years between ns." Vis it passible ?" was the unguard ed reply of her friend. "I give you nay word, you look as young as he does." As unexpected must have been the re ply of the husband whose wiie said: You have never taken me to the cemetery." "No, dear," he answered ; that is a pleasure I have yet in antici pation. It is related of a portrait painter that, having recently painted the portrait of a lady, a critic who had Just dropped in to see what was going on in" the studio, exclaimed: "It is very nicely painted; but why do you take such an ugly model?" "It is my mother," calmly replied the artist. "O, pardon, a thousand times!" from the critic in great confusion. "I ought to have perceived it. She resembles you completely." On a similar occasion, a facetious friend, inspecting a portrait, said to the artist: "And this ia Tom Smith, ia it? Dear, dear! And I re member him, such a handsome, jolly looking chap a month ago. Dea, dear! From the following, it would seem that the ceremonious Orientals are not above marring their politeness by an occasional speech apropos of the sub ject in hand. Some European ladies, passing through Constantinople, paid a visit to a certain high Turkish function ary. The host offered them refreshments including a variety of sweetmeats, al ways taking care to give one of the ladies double the quantity he gave to the others. Flattered by this marked attention, she put the question, through the interpreter: "Why do you serve me more liberally than the rest?" "Because you have a larger mouth, was the straightforward reply-- Two men in Seattle, W. T., evi dently do not believe in compromise. They bought adjacent pieces of land. A house stood upon one lot, and one hundred dollars worth of the building projected onto the other lot. The one hundred dollar man employed carpen ters to cut off his end of the house. The plan of stupefying birds with whisky, so that their capture can be more easily accomplished, was success fully tried on quail by an enterprising fellowat Santa Cruz, CaL Quail abound "there, and large catches were mjulia , ".V