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VOL.-II.
LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1880.
NO. 41).
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AGRICULTURAL.
HE
ON
EXPRESS
in
Having purchased this well known store
stoves :. ai ;. general
Early Breakfast and Jewel Cooking Stoves!
SOCIETY HOnCES.
LEBAJfOX LODGE, SO. 44, A. F A. M : Mcfta I
at their new hall in Masonie Block, on Saturday j
Tansnc, on or before the full moon. '
J W ASSOX. W. M. j
tEBAWS LODOK, KO. 47. I. O. O. F.r M-rt. Rat- i
unu; ewnmg of r -h wwR, at (Mil Ft-lliw s Hail.
MiUa Btrect; vis tine brethren eorilialSy ioTited W
attend. J. J. CHARLTON, S. O.
HOX H HWS NO. S3, A. O. r. W , Lrif.n.
T-.n: .M,vW er first and third Thumiay eren- ,
iiis in the month.
ith. F. H. ROSCOE. M. W.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
x. e. cnritcH.
Walton Skipwith. paMor SVrvlwi each Pun
day at 11 a. m. and 7 r. M. Sunday School at 10
a. M. each Sunday.
rRESBYTEalAX CHrKCH.
G. W. Gohany, pator Service each Sunday
at 11 A. M. Sunday School 10 A. .
crBEKLAM PBESHYTER1AK CHCKCH.
J. R. Kirkpatrlck, pastor Services the 2nd t
and 4th Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7 r. M. Sunday j
School each Sunday at 10 A. M. -" !
H. J. JONES,
DEALER IX
Books, Stationery,
Musical MiIsb
AND
School Supplies,
ALBANY, ORECON.
SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED
For All the Leading Maga
zines and Newspapers.
C. T-COTTON,
DEALER IN
Groceries and Provisions,
TOBACCO & CIGARS,
SMOKERS' ARTICLES,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
CONFECTIONERY
ttatwar and Glassware,
LampK sad JLamp Fixtures.
Mala t Lekaiti, Orecaa.
LEBANON
Planing Mill
Klepper, Son & Ambler,
PROPRIETORS.
MAKE TO ORDER
Moulding', Sash, Doors
and Blinds.
Dry and Dressed Lumber
3?. FOR ALL PURPOSES,
Have on Hand a Supply of
Seasoned Flooring.
(SICTESSORS TO W.T'. TWEKIIALR.)
the stock carry an immense line
INCLUDING THE CELEBRATED
VTVI RANGES,
Parlor and Heating Stoves and all kinds
of Kitchen Utensils.
Also a Complete Assortment of
UYii'iiiei mid Ganlcnors' Tools,
BUILDERS' HARDWARE, PUMPS, HOSE, COPPERWARE,
TI.wbk ad rinmbrrt' V.odn a Mpr laity. Price. Vuraatred We Hat
larartory. Tke Public 1. laTlted Call and laapeet Oar HCwk.
TAVEEDALE'S 1 JIJIL.13IISO,
Land Company
R. F. ASHBY and CEO. DICKINSON.
General Agents for
Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon.
Buying and S-.-liing
Real-Eslalpn-Commission.
And 11bk a Vrarral Real Estate
Baslaest,
rrLand Solicited for Sale.
ASHBY & DICKERSON
SAW MILL
FOR SALE.
A Double Circular Water Power
Saw Mill.
Xeai- Ielmiioii, Or.
Capacity abnut 5001 feet per day. Also, 4J
acres of land on which the sawmill
is located.
PRICE, $3,000
Also tare large stock of
FIRST QUALITY LUMBER
At lowest market rates for cash.
U. M. WHEELER, Lebanon. Or.
T. t. PILLS 1 i 1 J 1 1, Y ,
.ti:wi:li:v,
BROWXKril.LE, ... OK;OS
BURKHART & BILYEU,
Proprietors of the
Livery, Sals anfl Feed Staples
LERAXOX, OR.
Southeast Corner of Main and Sherman.
Fine Buggies, Hacks.Har
ness and
COOD RELIABLE HORSES
j For parties going to Brownsville, Wa
terloo, Sweet Home, Scio, and Jill
parts of Linn County.
All kinds of Teaming:
DOME AT
REASONABLE RATES,
BURKHART & BILYEU ,.
k
and added largely to
:. hahdwar
Tl
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LI,
OREGOX
GAMBLERS' METHODS.
Bow Thrjr Rob and Ruin Their I'Biupwt
in a; Victims.
A celebrated gambler told me a few
years ago that he had gone out of the
gambling- business because of the con
fidence games mixed up with it. Said
he:
In almost every community of this
country where there is any money
there will be a few men who like to
play a game of chance like faro.
These were more or less reliable cus
tomers for gamblers, because they
sometimes won and sometimes lost,
and were always kept on the string.
But suddenly there would appear in
the town a traveling gambler and his
associates, who take a room and open
a game, or perhaps play it in a hotel
where he had got good quarters, and
only the regular players of the town
become acquainted with the fact.
Having played a straight game for
one evening the next morning the
principal in the game or the player
whom he is supposed to hire, will ap
proach the most solvent of the village
players and say: I would like to ar
range with you to deal you a game.
If you will come up to-night and bet
strong I will manipulate the box and
make you a winner to a high figure.
Of course you will divide with me. I
am going to leave that man, and I
want a stake."
So the village victim will take of his
bank or stock a large portion of his
money and go to the private place,
where nobody imagines any gambling
exists, or especially that he, the busi
ness man, the coal operator, the bank
teller, is risking any thing in that
outlawed way. The player will have
his eye on the victim, and he will
bet according to arrangement, and for
a little while the cards will waver,
and finally the man will have lost
more than ever before. He will leave
the room a wondering, sick creature.
But the fellow who was to deal to
him the game will manage to see him
during the evening or the next morn
ings and say: "I couldn't deal you
thafr game last night because old
Smith was watching me. To-night I
am going to get rid of him. and I will
fix it for you all right; so come at me
again." The man will go the second
night and lose the remainder of all
his means. His first step to ruin is
consenting to be a partner in the
Bwindle, even upon a gambler. The
whole game in coming to that town
was to get his particular money, and
in that game were dealer, boss, gam
bler and every body. Oath, in Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
. One of the nicest contrivances for
keeping knives, forks and tablespoons
In is a pocket tacked on the pantry
door. Make this of enamel cloth, and
line with red canton flannel, stitching
small divisions to fit each article. The
canton flannel will absorb all moisture
that may be left on these articles.
Creamed Fish. Pick to pieces any
Scraps of cold fish, mix in one quart of
crea, two tablespoonfuls of flour, one
onion and half a pound of butter. Set
on the fire and stir until thick. Then
put a layer of the mixture in a deep
pan, over it spread crackers and butter,
alternately with the fish, until the dish
is full. Bake brown.
Essence of peppermint is a pleasant,
warm, aromatic, comfortable to most
stomachs, not quite so strong as cloves
or ginger, good for colic and sick stom
ach. Dose, ten drops for a grown per
son: For infant, one-half to two drops
in a teaspoon ful of water. Add one
drop to two teaspoonfuls of water, and
give one teaspoonful of this.
Sage tea is a perfect harmless
medicine, and beside this negative
worth, it has a great many positive and
Invaluable virtues. It will cure a cold
II taken in time, it will break a fever
In its earlier stages, and it will induce
sleep in the sleepless. It is good in
eruptive diseases; in short, whenever
any ordinary disorder troubles the
n.
Mock Fruit Cake. One cup sour
milk, one cup brown sugar, one-half
cup molasses, one-half cup of butter,
one cup raisins, three cups sifted flour,
one egg, one teaspoon soda. 4.lbny
Journal.
Twenty young men in a Pennsjl
vania town formed a football club. Ia
three months fourteen of them had
broken bones, three were crippled for
life, and one druggist sold them $18
worth of ointment.
CONGRESSMAN BRECKENRIDQE IS
REQUESTED TO RESIGN.
Additional Appropriations In the Naval
Blll-A Constitutional Govern
ment for Samoa Sewell to
be Relieved as Consul.
The House public lands committee
have recommended higher rates of pay
to surveyors in txceptional instances.
Senator Mitchell has introduced a
bill to establish a port of entry at
Blaine, W. T.
Senator Stewort, of Virginia, has
presented a petition lor the restora
tion of silver to its place as a co tqual
measure of vali.e with gold.
The Liberal members of Parlia
ment at Ottawa, Canada, hava decided
to continue the present policy, which
favors unrestricted leciprocity with
the United States.
The President has made the fol
lowing nominations : C. D. Wright, ej
Massachusetts, commissioner of labor;
Thomas M. Vance, of North Carolina,
receiver of public monej s, at North
Yakima, V. T.
The Senate committee on woman
suffrage has repotted favorably on the
joint resolution proposing a constitu
tional amendment to prohibit the de
nial of the right to vote by the United
States, or any State, on account of sex.
The survey of the lands in the Um
atilla Indian reservation is to be made
before they are effered for sale. The
secretary of the interior holds thtt
they must first be inspected, aud an
order to this effect has already 'been
issued.
A Congressional committee ba
been examining the construction of
the Washington aqueduct tunnel, and
have concluded to order the eutire
lining of the tunnel replaced at the
expense of the contractors, nearlv
1500,000.
Secretary Bayard mggesta a very
good scheme of eonstitutional govern
ment for Samoa, with a native legis
lature, securing its independence and
autonomy, ii eluding the acknowledge
ment of Malietoa as king and Ta ma
st se as vice king.
A bill has been favorably reported
in loth Houses of Congress to pi ce
G'-n. W. S. Kosecr.ins on the retired
list of the army. He is at preset! reg
ister of the treasury. If the bill be
come a law he will receive retired pay
at the rale of f 4000 per annum.
There is an outspoken sentiment
among the Republic in Senators and
Republicans in the House, that a com
phte change be made in the civil
aervice commianion, and the commis
sion for the District of Columbia.
Tkere in net a Republican on either
board. '
The Senate committee c,n military
affairs has ordered a favorable reort
upon the proposition to pretent M-
Irene Rucker Sheridan with f 50, 0,
in token of the country's appreciation
of the services rendered by her hus
band, Gen. Phil 11. Sheridan. Thi is
urged in lieu of a pension.
In view of the insufficient evidence
produced to support the charges made
by Representative Steel, of Indiana,
against Judge Bond, of Ar iom, as a
baeis for impeachment proceedings,
the House committee on judiciary
has decliued to enter upon considera
tion of the case at present.
There is a very loud call for Con
gressman Breckinridge, of Arkansas,
to retign his eat in the next Con
grces aud ask for a new election, on
account of Clayton' assassination;
and many of his friends are advising
him to do eo. They insist that this is
the only way that he can clear him
self from the suspicion of sharing in
the results of the assassination.
Secretary Whitney has issued an
important order regarding the naval
records of the war of the rebellion. It
has been found on examining the pa
peis on file in the navy department,
that almost the ouly ones there, are
those addressed directly to the depart
ment. He desires certified copies of
all orders to officers and war memo
randa to be forwarded to the war de
partment. Superintendent Thorn, of the coast
and geodetic survey, has submitted
an estimate for an additional appro
priation of $3630, which he says is
necessary to make the repiirs on the
United Stat?s coaet and geodetic sur
vey steamer McArthur, now at San
Francisco, to put it in condition for
the work off the coast of Washingtou
Territory and Oregon the coming sea
son. It is announced that the recall of
American ConBul Oener.il Sewell from
Samoa, has created an excellent feel
ing in Berlin. The German papers
urge the necessity for the recall of the
English consul alio, alleging that he
contributed largely to the trouble.
The three powers might then ie rep
resented by other trustworthy agents,
who would assist in bringing about a
friendly settlement.
Heavy additions have been made to
the naval bill. The construction of
two steel gun-boa's, or cruisers, is pro
vided for, to be f from 8000 to 12.000
tons displacement, and to cost not
more than $700,000; also, one steel
cruder of 2C00 ton8 displacement, to
cost $7G0,000. An appropriation is
also made for one ram for harbor de
fense, in accordance with the plans
prepared by the naval advisory board
of 1881. In order that the vessels
nay be speedily built, the appropria
tion for steel machinery is increased
by $1,500,00, and that for armament
by $1,400,000. All the new vessels
are to be lighted by electrity, and $60,
000 is appropriated for that purpose.
When the small boy stands in
front of a store, meditatively gazing
on a sign which reads, "Slippers
Cheap," his puerile mind instinctively
grasps the scope and purport of a boy
cott. Puck.
Bartender "Seems to me you are
pouring out a pretty big drink for that
dime." Tramp "I drink, sir, be
cause the weather is cold. I want to
get warm, and you know it is a well
ascertained scientifio fact that one
swallow does not make a summer."
K. T. Weekly.
OP
Clever Sneak Thieves at Work In San
Francisco A Five and a Quar
ter Million Mortgage The
Quake In California.
Sacramento is overrun with thieves.
In Ventura, Cal., flowers are bloom
ing prematurely
Herring are ciught in large num
bers in Humboldt bay.
The Gurney cab system has been
introduced into San Dieg i.
Sim Jo ties has completed his revi
val meetings at Lot Angeles.
The lumber mills of Olympiaare
pushed to their utmost capacity.
It is now unlawful to sell intoxicat
ing liquors to a woman in Nevada.
Eighty-two boxes cf opium were
eizsi at Sin Luis Obisi), recently.
No immediate trouble is appre
hended with the Indians near Bridge
port, Mono county.
It U believed that the voters of Ne
vada will defeat the lottery amend
ment to the constitution.
A scarlet geranium leaf in Tulare
county, Cal., nieasDred forty-seven
iuches in circumference.
The assessment roll of Vancouver
for 18S9 shows an increase of 90 per
cent over that of last year.
The cold weather at Los Angeles has
injured the ostrich-farm eggs that
were intended lor hatching.
Since electric lights wera intro lues d
at Willows, Cal., not a wild gooie has
been seen to fly over the town.
George Hopper, of Los Angeles, a
well known mining man, is the latest
victim of the gold brick swindle.
Several earthquake fhocka are re
portf'd to have occurred at San Ber
nardino, Co t)n an 1 Ln Angeles.
Th postoffl3e authorities are nego
tiating for the purpose of dispatching
the mad by the Golden GU special.
The deposit of slickens in the Spo
kane river has alarmed the people of
Spokane Falls as to their future water
supply.
A S in Diego man his planted ten
acres in mulberry trees, preparatory
to going into the business of raising
silk-worms.
At Rincon.Cul., a thif had thirteen
bullets put into bis body while run
ning from a party ef cotv-biys who
were after him.
Petaluma has memoraliied the leg
islature of California to pass a law
making it unlawful to kill larks, rob
ins or blackbirds.
The bill introduced into the Neva
da legislature restr'cing the wearing
of high hats, ia theaters, has been de
feated in the upper house. .
J. F. Glennon, the San FraneiftO
policeman who at' em pled to murder
Willie Burke, has been found guilty
of assault to commit murder.
It is reported that the O. R. and N.
will commence construction in the
spring on a line Irom La Urande to
Joseph, in the Wallowa valley.
The young and djshing-looking
Spaniard, who has been swindling a
number of San Fraucisco firms by
means of bogus bank check", haa been
arrested.
The people of Santa Fe are indig
nant that a petition should have gone
to Washington from Albuquerque ask'
ing that New Mexico should not be
admitted into the Union.
Hardin Yager, treasurer of San
Bernardino county since 1865, was
found dead recently. He was known
as "honest old Hardin." and was be
loved by all who knew him.
The parents of Alexander Golden
son, the slayer of Mamie Kelly, have
instituted suit for the possession of 101
pictures painted by him during his
confinement in the San Francisco jail.
A first mortgage for $5,250,000 has
been filed in San Diego by represent
atives ol the Mercantile Trust com
pany of New York on the rights, fran
chises and property of the Stn Dego,
Cucamonga and Eastern railroad.
At Grass Valley, last Thursday, as
Superintendent Skewe?, of the North
Banner mine, was goiug to to vn he
was stepped on the road by two
masked men aud relieved of three
thousand dollars' worth of bullion.
On the 31st of January, E. A. Har-
Ksmii art nlit Anrl lilirlilv u tr i ti if
Will) V . ' . ' J .K2'VW,.. 1 . .
KCU UI wi., nn. lucububij milieu
by t ie top breaking out of a dead
spruce and str king him on the head.
Sam Poster was also struck and hie
recovery is doubtful.
Two unknown men entered the of.
fice of F. Rtichling, at San Francisco,
Friday last, and while one engaged
the attention of the clerk, the other
succeeding in gaining possession of a
bir of gold bullion, valued at $1000.
The theft was not discovered for two
hours after they bad disappe ired.
It is reported that while excavating
recently north of Penawawa, a work
man unearthed a cannon and a lot of
ammunition which had been buried
in boxes; also a lot of silver coin, in
rotten buck-skin sacks. Tradition al
leges that Steptoe, on his retreat from
the Palousa country in 1854, buried
the material at that place.
A clever pieee of burglary was exe
cuted in a shoe store last Thursday,
at San Francisco, 'by thre small boys.
The eldest of the trio pretended to
purchase a pair of slippers, while the
youngest engaged in a romp with the
cat until he got near the safe, which
stood partially ajar, when slipping his
hand through he grasped a sack con
taing $240 in gold aud the three cool
ly walked away.
"I'm a traveling man, and away
from home a good deal of the time,
and I tell you I appreciate the com
forts of home when I strike them on
the road," he said to the hotel pro
prietor. "If you will step back with
me I'll take great pleasure in intro
ducing you to my wife and her mother.
My wife wants a seal-skin sacque, the
house papered, a new set of furs for
her mother and a pug dog," was the
response. " Ah, thLs is a country of
happy homes," he replied, aa he fol
lowed the hotel man. Judg
WORKMAN'S DISCOVERT
RICH TREA8UHB TROVE.
remarkable: bills INTRODUCED
INTO STATE LEGISLATURES.
The Eccentric Will of a New York Ped
agogueThe Ghastly Crime of a
Philadelphia 8 treet-c.r Em
ployee Cold Wave.
An 'exodus of negro laborers from
South Carolina is now in progress.
President Cleveland will practice
law in New York city after March 4.
The "new union depot at Pneblo,
Col, will cofct between $200,000 and
$300,000.
The Kansas legislature haa passed
a bill restricting the ownership of land
in that state
Wisconsin lumbermen are up in
arms at an order forbidding logging
in certain districts.
The Dakota legislature haa passed
a law taxing railroad property the
same as other property.
The bill to provide for inflicting the
death sentence by electricity has
passed the Ohio senate.
Four Chinamen were scalded to
death by a Geyser at Canyou City,
near Yellowstone Park, last week.
The post-mortem medical report in
the case of Crown Prince Rudolph,
seta at rest the rumors of his murder.
Major Stewart, of Austin,' Texas, is
in New York in the interest of a na
tional home for tx- Confederate sol
diers. Dr. E. A. Kelley, superintendent of
the State Insane asylum at Norfolk,
Neb., has bean arrested on a charge of
murder.
Ohio and Kentucky tobacco grow
ers have agreed to raise twenty-five
er ;ent less tobacco next season than
the last.
It is said that Secretary Bayard has
accepted Bismsrck's proposition for a
conference at Berlin on the Samoan
question.
A very largo meteor fell in Chicago
last week. It buret into many pieces
and specimens, have been picked up
for analysis.
Canada ia making an effort to se
cure independence of all lines of traf
fic paseing through any portion of the
United States.
The Trades'assembly at Chicago at
a mass-meeting has demanded the re
moval of Police Inspector Bonfield and
Captain Schaak,
The cold wave andblixxard through
out Canada is intense, the thrraone
ter registering in many places forty
degrees below xenr
The supreme court at Washington
has lately decided the law constitu
tional which prohibits ranchmen from
fencing any of the public domain.
At Marion, Indiana, an outbreak
wis prevented among tobacco strip
'p'iVi Jtnd stemmers owing to the im
portation tn Bgrof to do the work.
Some of the Canadians UCkjonly
want annexation for their own coun
try to the United States, but want to
have Mex o j annexed en the sonth.
The Arkansas legislature has of
fered a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the thieves who
stole the ballot-box and poll-book last
November.
The wolves, it is said, are making
things deadly lively in some districts
in Montana, killing colts and steers,
aud in some instances pursuing hu
man beings.
A bill his passed the Indiana Sen
ale declarikg unlawful all trusts,
pools, agreements and combinations,
in restraint of trade, production, man
ufacture or sale. The House will also
pacs the bill.
Inspector B nfieM, Captain Schaak
and Detective Lowenetein, prominent
in the trial at Chictgo of the anarch
ists, have beer, ind. finitely suspeuded
from the police force pending charges
of corruption.
The report that General Boulanger
was to have been arrested at the insti
gation of the government ministers on
the night of his election from the de
partment of the S4ue, proves to be
unfounded.
Otto Kaiser, a married street -car
conductor at Philadelphia, shot Anna
Klaus, a young girl who believed him
single. He then returned to his home,
cut his wife's throat and ended his
own life at the approach of officers.
A bill has been introduced in
the Pennsylvania legislature prohibit
ing treating, and making it a penal
offense, punir-htble by a fine of not
less than 550 or over $100, for any
one to treat another to intoxicating
liquors.
Twenty-four persons, mostly " all
children, h ive died, recently, in Web
ster county, Kentucky, "of a disease
with which the doctors appear to be
unable to cope. The deaths usually
occur from six to twelve hours after
the attack.
M. W. Merriam, an eccentric Suf
folk county, N. Y., school-master, has
willed his property in bulk to the Unit
ed States government. One of his rea
sons was the government was rich
and could fight his sister if she at
tempted to contest the wilL He was
worth $100,000.
It is proposed by the people of Mon
tana to elect two Senators, to go to
Washington in the interest of the
Territory, and to urge its immediate
admission into the Union.
Mr. and Mrs. James Olsen, with
their three children, were drowned in
the Missouri river at Bismark recently
when the ice broke. The horss,
wagon and its occupants were all lost.
President (debating dub) Well,
we have had some stirring speeches
on the negative side of the question of
the evening: " Is Marriage a Fail
ure?" but none of the gentlemen ap
pointed to speak on the affirmative
side have responded.
Secretary (whispering) Their
wives are here.
The president (loudly) Owing to
the lateness of the hour further de
bate is postponed. Adjourned PAila
de.lohii Record. - - - - " "
1 . "i-irv,
STRAW AS A MATERIAL FOR SUB
STANTIAL STOCK SHELTERS.
A Good Idea for a Hoist for a Barn The
Treatment that Should be Given
to Fowls Raceipt for De
stroying' ths Weevil. .
The longer turnips and cabbages
can remain out without actually
freezing, the better they are for eat
ing purposes and the better thpy will
keep through the winter.
Economy is certainly wealth in the
feeding of farm horses, and yet it does
not necessarily mean stinting or cut
ting off of rations. Give this matter
a thorough investigation, and see if
there is not more ia it than a saper
ficial glance would indicate. -
Cera meal in small quantities, lin
seed meal in email quantities, and a
liberal quantity of good bran meal
with the roughness, will make an ad
mirable winter feed for milch cows,
and if given liberally, with good shel
ter, it is possible to secure a good flow
of milk during the winter; provided,
of courfe, that you have a good breed
of cows, that thia feed can be given to
iiuring the winter.
By pouring boiling water over sny
kind of grain, and allowing tha grain
to remain twenty-four hours, it will
swell and prove an acceptable change
to the fowls. The soaked grain un
dergoes a partial chemical change,
contains a slightly larger portion of
sugar, and ia really more digestible.
Nothing is added to the grain by soak
ing it, bat it will be more readily
eaten for some time than dry grain,
though the birds will return t dry
grain as a preference if fed too long
on that which is soaked.
A correspondent of the New Eng
land Farmer gives the following direc
tions for destroying the potato weevil :
Take an ordinary manure hod, one
that is broad and light is to be pre
ferred, and grasping it by the hole
for the left hand near the mouth of
the bod, with a broad and limber
broom carried wfth the right hand,
proceed through the field, placing the
hod against tun infested with grabs
and gently beating or sweeping them
over the edge of the hod and into it
with the broom. In this way a great
majerity of all the grubs in a email
potato patch may be gathered in a
short time and destroyed. This may
be of service, especially in eates where
there are objections to thi use of pois
ons offered in the markets. A little
practice will enable a person to do ex
ecution with the above implements
with considerable dispatch.
Straw as a material for stock shel
ters have favorable qualities: It is a
very poor conductor of heat, hence it
makes a warm shelter. It costs little,
being produced in ahaudance on a
large majority of farms ; and its em
ployment for this purp-je does not
require special skill beyond the farm
er. Bat it ii not ss etonjiuical as
faanv suppose. It a as necessary
that the top- : the shelter be water
light as that the sideie-ii!djjgfct
evn more important. A straw
can be kept lain and enow proal only
by frequent repairing, fi r.w is not
a durable material and a straw shelter
is not loug-lived. In many cai;
where straw shelters are now use ''
proper computation wouTd shq" "
ber to be more economical v -
is usually cheaper to p.v
than not to do so, the cb'
ter would be a neat, subC
e I one.
.
One of my neighbers hai
of fowls ; had h id them cout
email, uaiK House, witu no
tached, and I suppose all t
tney couui eat, as tney were ver
when I nurrha-ip.t lh(-m Mv nei?k
bor said he was sick and tired of them
no demand for eggs and no eggs;
could never make a living raising ian
cy fowls. I was not suitably fixed for
taking another breed, but aa I get
them for $1 each, about one-tenth
their value, I bought them and took
them home, intending to do the best
possible by them, considering the con
veniences at hand. Took two orders
for eggs before driving home. I placed
them in a small hou-e with a 16x16
foot ran. As I said before they were
very fat. My first move was to see
that they had plenty of exercise, and
thereby reduce them in flesh. I di
vided a portion of their run off and
put in about one f )ot of straw, and
they bad to scrateh for a living. It
was not very long until they were
shelling out eggs to their full capacity.
Poultry Keeper.
A good idea for a hoist for a barn
is to erect two upright posts six inches
square and firmly fastened in the up
per part of the building, one on either
side of the hatchway. Strong iron or
wooden boxes attached to these posts
support the journal of a round shaft
one foot in diameter, upon which is a
wooden wheel four to t?ix feet in diam
eter. . The larger site gives increased
power, but for ordinary lifting four
feet is large enough. .The wheel is
made of eight sagments cut from two
inch plank, each one being a quarter
of a circle. They are put together
with spikes or bolts ia a manner to
"break joints." Bafore being fastened
together the segments are notched to
receive the enda of the four arms,
which are also made , of two-inch
plank, halved together at the center
of the wheeL The short end of the
shaft, as far as the wheel goes on, is
shaped to fit the square hole in the
center of the wheel. Long iron
spikes are driven and a groove turned
in the outer periphery of the wheel to
keep the rope from slipping off. , The
hoist rope is firmly attached to the
shaft upon which it is coiled by the
revolution of the wheel.
Aunt " It seams yi?u visit rtve
only when yon want money. " Kfe9flew
But, my dear aunt, I surely
couldn't call more frequently."
Our rudder is broken, sir," said
the first mate to the captain. ' Non
sense! That's only - imagination!1'
Beg your pardon, sir, but it's stern
reality." (- -
Cleveland's private secretary is
named Daniels and Harrison's was
christened .Elijah. There appears to !
be m0re.r l&ss prophet in tH -n....-"
ry busi "
PORTLAND. M.
GROCERIES-Si
C 6$c, extra C Eie . .
dry ;Kraru!nle! t'S -
powdf red 7c. Coif
Arbuekle' roastec
PROVfSION'S
ed at live Vi'X,
Eastern mat Isf
12K13, Sinciai ;
fast b con 13c, Ki
FRUITS A p
oransrea g 'J t.
f3.0i4.50,
VEGETA E i
eelery S'Jta.tj--'
and turnip "$
potatoe3 t&i'lt
DRIED FBI
slic d fHc, Or
Calif -trail;
10c peara 81
$1.75 at ii per b
DAIRV p;
and choice
Ifornia fancy..
EGGS Orefcc
POULTRY C.
gesse 10, turkeys ..
WOOL Valley 13.
8(ai5c
BOPS-Cboice8 31l
GRAIX-Vslley ft
Oregon fl.221-a 1.5. O.
FOUB -Standard ti
t. f,
FRFSH MEATS t
dressed 7c, mutton, lifts.
7c, lambs $2.EQ es"fc, ho
dreteied 7?4, veal ti 3c
s lire, C'ibc,
ELECTRICAL L'GHT.
How It AfTwt Flowrr, Vegetable
an
From time to tirr.e, of la'.j year?, ex-- .
periments hive been in&le of thd e.T cl"
of the electrical light m ,o;v:tb ar.J
plants, with results seemingly th
same, to wit, feeble efTorta of some .
plants to prolong1 their perioda ol :
bloom into the nig-ht and then pre-
mature decay. Oce has only to staS t
their actions, as observed, to conclui' i
that even plants need rest, or, to bo
more precise, they seem to thrive best
under the conditions which nature has
imposed the period of darkness ani ;
the period of the ligfit, which Is '
heat as well; or elsa thatte
family of plants, as now they are,
sprung from these exaet con
ditions, and will not thrive without
them. It ia the nature of some Sowers,
as everyone knows, to open at onei
period of light and close at another; of
others to open only at night and close
before or at the moment when the orb
of day tops the horizon. So strictly
do some of these follow their unwritieat
laws that floral clocks have been con
structed, so that one may step out into i ?
his garden, of a bright day or clear -night,
and learn the time by the con-'-,
dition of bloom on the floral diaL - '
Trot. Wollney, of Munich, satisfied j
by experiment that electrical light wiil
not advance or improve plant growth," ?
recently tried the effect upon them of j
the current itself. We quote the fc.'-.-.;
lowing, being the means employed axti;" :
its result: i.
He 'took patches of ground twelve 3
or thirteen feet square, separated hy
boards penetrating the earth to tha
depth of afoot. - l.Ts-t?eJS,-sj
plied two earths"
five earth cells;
a r
V
0
st. . -
tmndredV
adopting shorthar-
In Berlin heavy wa
allowed on certain stret
any carload of rattling i
be fastened till it can't r
The telegraph line1
central station at Lcf
derground. It appe.
wonderful when it ,
1,700 different lines.
Princess Eufrena
sacrificed her famil
hospital for cripples up
Jles upos.
the coast.
The Queen - incurred
her jubilee as well as t
the cost to her having b '
and the largest. payTaen-"
department - of the , ma. 0,
horse. .. ' ,-""i
Paris receives lOQ.QCK) frant
the will of a citizen who wasrua V
and killed in that city. He bejaesti
the money to erect bridges ovt? t
streets at the most dangerous pdf?
The old Town Hall at Leicesta.
curious wooden building, ia wh
Shakespeare is said to I ave acted
now. occupied aa a ache?
A pulley still shows who"
curtain was. ..f
Emperor William of
still carrying on his ejwjwle
things not Teutonic Ho has
the " iffieera of hti . array to
point d Eoglish'ooots and 'wide ci '
trousers. He has also made a eh.
in the royal crown, whicli he eoi
ered too high for his style if bea
- A man was firv
New York court
liar, andjatth;
tel"YThe truth.-
3"he lrg
haa been w
nati . Exp?
quaes '
yes. MA.
Vancouve
often, sir;
Mr. Yancd '
"'Oh, ya'aa
Hyof whorp
ijeve
4itno. v
T was,
me a pi
paper,"