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VOL. II.
LEBANON, OREGON, F1UDAY, MARCH J, 1881).
No
I'ROM- WASHINGTON.
NEWS MISCELLANY.
FOR THE FARM hi..
Pi
CANADA'S PARLIAMENT TO BB A
GUE8T OF UNCLE) SAM.
A RUSSIAN PRINCE INCARCERATED
FOR GRAND LARCENY.
PREPARATION OF THE SOIL FOR THE
RECEPTION OF SEED.
THE
LjEJB
0
liJtrj M ii x. -v
Having purchased tliis'woll known store and added largely to
the stock carry an immense lino
STOVES .'. AND .". &EWERAL
Early Breakfast" and Jewel Cooking Stoves !
SOCIETY NOTICES.
LBBAJtOX LorxiK. SO. 44, A. F, ft A- M : Mr
at lhir n hall in Ma-vmic Block. tn SAluntay
vvwiiac. ott or before Uw full nnwn-
J WASSOX. W. M.
UtB A NOW LOPtlF, NO. 47. I. t. P.; Mt Ht
uriy etenini of it-h wwl, at tMd tvllow Hull,
Mala ttml: visitm Wrthrrn eor.lial! lnvitr.1 to
attend. J. J. 1'HAKLIVN. H. U.
HONOIl I.OiV'.X NO, , A. O. lr W , Lrhanon,
Oivk Mnt? every tint and thinl Thursday nm
inn intta month. F. H KuSCOE. M. V.
BEUdlOCS NOTICES.
M. K. CHIHTR.
Walton Pkipwilh, tator Service each Pan
day at 11 a. M. and 7 r. . Snmlnjr School at 10
A. M. earh Suudfl)'.
PRESBYTERIAN CHl'ltCH.
6. W. Oohany, pastor Services each Sunday
at 11 A. M. finiulay s-hol 10 a. .
CWBr.KI.ASt I-RKSBYTEtttAS tBtBI'lI.
J. R. KlrktM,rl-k. It'r Pf-rvli-- thp 2ml
ni 4ih tiunils.n at 11 . . anil rr. s. Mtmtay
richooi each SunJay at 10 a. a.
H.J.JONES,
PEALER IN
Boolcs, Stationery,
' Musical MercMfliss
AND
School Supplies.
ALBANY, ORECON.
- SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED
For All tho Leading Maga
zines and Newspapers.
G. T- COTTOIM,
DEALER IS
Groceries and Provisions,
TOBACCO & C1CARS,
SMOKERS ARTICLES,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
CONFECTIONERY
(aeaaware aad Iasware,
Limp aad Lamp Fixtares.
Mala Lebsaas, Oreffoa.
LEBANON
Planing Mill
Klepper, Son & Ambler,
PROPRIETORS.
MAKE XO OKOKtt
Moulding Sash, Doors
and Blinds.
Dry and Dressed Lumber
FOB ALL PI UPOSES,
Have on Hand a Supply of
Seasoned Florinj
(Hltt'KHSOKH TO W.T TWERIIAi.K.t
INOLUDlNtf THE CELKUHATKD
Parlor and Heating Stoves and all kinds
of Kitchen Utensils.
Also a Complete Asaortment of
FuriiMTH' and G iiwliieis .Toolfi,
BUILDERS' HARDWARE, PUMPS, HOSE, COPPERWARE,
Tinware ana riambrn' Uaoda a Mpeelalty. rrleea Uaaraateea te he Mat
lnrnrtory. The rablle In 1 Ited te VnU aa laapeet Oar Mtaek.
on i:(aO
Land Company
R. F. ASH3Y and CEO. DICKINSON.
General Agents for
Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon.
Hiij inir ami St liio
Real - Estate - on-Commission.
Aait IXtiaK a eneral neat Ktate
lla.laraa.
4TLiud Solicited for Sale.
ASHBY & DICKERSON
SAW MILL
FOR SALE.
A Double Circular Water Power
Saw Mill,
iVotti Ioliiiioii, Or.
; Capacity about 5001 feet per day. Also, 4J
; acres of land on which the aatrmill
i is located.
PRICK, !j?2,000
Also ave a large stock of
FIRST QUALITY" LUMBER
At lowest market rates for cash.
i. IV. 1VHKRLF.K, Lrbaaen, Or.
.T13 WlLE V
IIKOnSVII.I.E, ... OltCGOK
BURKHART & BILYEU,
Proprietors of the
Livery, Sale anfl Feefl Staiiles
LF.B10, OR,
Southeast Corner of Main and Sherman.
Fine Buggies, Hacks.Har
ness and
j
iCOOD REUABLE HORSES
For parties going lo Brownsville, Wa
terloo, Sweet Home, Scio, and all
parts of Linn County.
All kinds of Teaming
DONE AT
REASONABLE RATES.
BURKHART & BLLYEU", ,
..
HARDWARE
OREGON.
W. L. CULBERT80N,
NOTA11Y PUULIC
Collrolioiiw-Convryniiciiif;
MOF.V I,OANK.
All klniU of lrral )ar-ra drawn arenrately
and nratly. Any work lntrHMml to my carr
will rvn-tve promitt and pan-fnl attention,
t'oll.f tlom aprt-iauy. Mela, Llaa t'aaa
t. Ilrriia.
COURTSHIP IM ALASKA, v
Clrramitanm Thkt romblnad to Mak4)
Mr. Warnkm'4 Marrlac a Fall are.
John AVarnken Is a bold mariner
and fisherman who, during the past
seven mo nth a, has b?en engned at a
fishing station in Alaska, but is now on
the briny ocean as a coasting seaman.
There L a heavy burden on John's
heart and mind, and it will require a
great deal of patience before he re
lieves himself of the weight. This
burden is no less than a separation
from his lady love in far-off Alaska.
Fortwo years past AVarnken, or, as he
is termed, "Mokel-plated Johnny."
has been hopelessly smitten with the
charms of the young daughter of an
old half-breed Aleut rejoicing In the
r.amo of SlelekotT. Nightly he would
venture on a frail boat across the
raging waters of the river to visit his
lady-love, but beyond the signs that the
lovers are to greet their inamoratas
with, neither he nor she were able to
converse with one another unless by
the aid of an interpreter.
Matters, however, culminated in a
proposal of marriage during August
last. The proposition was accepted,
and it was arranged that the wedding
should take place when the Russian
priest visited the village. The eccle
siastic arrived, but Johnny co-laborers
were grievously disappointed, and
Johnny himself saw his visions of bliss
fading when the priest refused to marry
him until he could procure some docu
mentary evidence to prove that he had
no wife living. His hopes thus dashed
to the ground, he moped and pondered
so seriously that his condition, both
mentally and physically became alarm
ing. When Bishop Validmir visited
Alaska, Warnken applied to him for
permission to marry his dear Marc la,
but again he met with a refusal. With
a determination worthy of a better
cause, he resolved to endeavor to marry
his lady-love under the laws of the
United States. He stated to the father
that by getting her to Kadjak he
thought to enlist the services of the
school teacher, who Is an ordained min
ister and also acts under a dispensa
tion from trovernor Swineiord. as a
justice of the peace. With many em
braces and vows of eternal lovo ex
changed In a pantomimic manner,
Johnny and his fair Marcia bid adieu.
When the vessel returned to the fish
ery a letter was received from the fickle
mariner stating that "as he could not
obtain work in Kadjak for the winter
his dear Marcia must wait for him till
next year. Meanwhile he would save
his money and work hard this winter
so as to marry her in the coming sum'
mer. This letter was written in Rus
sian to the girl's father and evoked
considerable wrath on the head of the
departed swain. When tho last vessel
left the fishing station there were ra
mors that the fair Marcia had trans
ferred her affections to a friend of
Johnny's, who remains at tho station
during the present winter. It may be
tated that the Russian priests and
Bishop Vladimir view with great dis
like the marriage of any Aleut or Creole
woman to an American. Cor. Chi
cago Herald.
George Kennan, the journalist and
author, lives in a quaint and modest
little house in Washington, D. C. Ha
is forty-three years old, and has a long,
thin face; his mouth is concealed by a
heavy mustache; his eyes are larga
and dark, and his figure is spare.
Mr. Kennan keeps himself in cV edi
tion by a daily spin of ten miles on his
bicycle.
M. Victorien Sardou, the eminent
French novelist and dramatist, from a
letter he has just written to the Gau-
lols is evidently a believer la atl such
phenomena as come under the name of
magnetism, hypnotism, second Bight
and the rest phenomena which, he
says, he has watched with cariosity
lor over forty years, but which were
in his youth ridiculed by men of sci
ence. me nve great continental powers
of Europe now have 12,000,000 men
under arms, not to mention the naval
armaments, almost double in size the
whole sea fighting lore of the world
t treaty years ago. I
... s
An Agreement Reached on the Direct
Tax Blll-A System of Farmers' In.
slltutes to Be Established
Army Appropriations.
The lreHlJent lms stnod the Nicara
un bill.
The hill in establish a port of entry at
Tort Angi'li'H hits jttiswl the St-nutt'.
The Pwrvtary of 8ttite says tliut a
trvaty of attiity tuul coiuint-rco will mum
In- nittilo with Jitan.
Tito two Dnkotiis will Ixi ndiltnl to Jus
tit Miller's rimiit, niul Washington and
Montana to J ant he Field's.
(iencral HsrriMoit and family art busily
eniwl In lmrkinir up preparatory to
their removal to Washington.
The West Virginia legislature after a
long and hotly contested tljjht, has elect
ed rVnator Keitna to the Heiuite.
A committer front the Canned floods
HHrMM-iation will visit Washington with the
view of having the duty on tin removed.
The hearing of the case of Chae Chang
Ting ticfore the U. H. Supreme Court,
which was act for March 11, has Ix-t-ti
postjioned for two weeks.
The court of claims has given a judg
ment for l,tsi,517, in favor of tho Cen
tral I'at'itto Railway com pan r, in its suit
against the United Rates for will held
dividends.
Senator Rockhridgo, has presented two
mammoth etitions in favor of a Sunday
rest law. It required tho combined
strength of two pages to carry them to
the clerk's des.
The Nevada legislature lias meinnral
lied Ch'.igress for a tieiisioii of the
suits against mining Tnoration and in
dividual miners for cutting timber from
government land.
Senators IMph ftnd Mitehell have pre
sented in the Setiute another n titiou of
the cittKentA of Whitman county, W. T.,
remonstrating against the proposed di
vision of the county.
Representative IfTixn has rejiorted a
bill providing for the creation in the war
department of a bureau of harlairs and
waterways, to undertake all river ami
harlxw improvements.
The House committee on pensions lias
agrwd to report favorably the 'bill intro
duced bv Representative Hermann to
grant Col. Win. S. Martin, of Oregon, a
lensionof $23 a month.
The Senate committee on public lands
has decided to rcxrt the bill providing
that the lands now subject to private
entry shall, in future, 1 diHNMKil of only
under the provisions of the homesteatl
law.
Senator Cullom has introduced an
amendment to the army appropriation
bill providing the numlier of paymasters '
in the army, with the. rank of major, shall !
lie forfv, and that the army shall le paid
monthly.
Senator Mitchell has presented in the
Senate a ietttion front the citizens of
Waitsburg, W. T., proving for the pro-
Iiosal of a constitutional amendment pro
tibiting the manufacture or sale of all in
toxicating litpiors.
The amendment appropriating ItO.tVK)
each for statues of tteii. Sheridan and
tien. Logan, in Washington, was atrreed
to in tho Senate, and Senator Ihiniel
gave notice that he would otter a similar
amendment for a statue of Ocn. Hancock.
The (iermon government is willing to
accept the prowsal of the Cnited States
in the settlement of tne Samoan ques
tion ; namely, tho establishment of joint
German, American and English control
over the Samoan government through the
consuls of the three countries.
The conferees on the direct tax bill
in Congress have agreed uion Senator
Hams' proiosttion, that whenever the
United States has tought lands and re
sold them at a profit, the amount of the
profit so reeeivoil is to lie given to the
owner or the legal heirs of the lands.
A bill has lieen intnxluced in Congress
by Senator Spooner providing that a svs
tem of fanners' institutes shall le main
tained as part of the agricultural depart
ment, the annual cost of which shall not
exceed f."00,000, exclusive of permanent
salaries and printing reiorts ol the insti
tute ineetiugs.
The committee on merchant marine
has loon instructed to rejwirt favorably
an amendment reducing from twenty to
ten vears the term of lease of seal iish-
erieSj and authorizing any person to
bring suit against the lessees to recover
4100 for everv seal taken in excess of
that fixed bv law.
The cruiser Charleston, it Is learned at
the Navv department, will not lie ready
for trial liofore Airil. Her builders have
hojed to have her trial take place liefore
the expiration of Secretary Whitney's
term of office. No moro vessels can lie
tried liefore the next Seeretarv of the
Navy goes into office.
Representative Crain has offered a sul-
stitute for the Cowles bill, with the free
list of the Senate bill, lie estimates that
it would thus reduce the revenue
,?0,0tl0,000 on tobacco, and $t,000,000 on
the free list. The Senate could not go
lack on its own free list, and could not.
therefore, afford to opjwse the roieal of
the tolweco tax.
The House committee on agriculture
lias decided to retiort adversely the bills
introduced last session to punish d-
ings in futures in agricultural prod'
and to prohibit fictitious and gam'
transactions in the prices ol article
duced bv American farm industr
the ground that Congress luis no
diction over the matter.
In a special report Conimissioi
Wright, of the department of lulwr, re
tive of marriage and divorce in the UniU
States, savs: fumler of uivorees be
tween 18o8 and 1886, 338,716; Maine, j
Connecticut and Vermont are the only
States that show a decrease in the last
five vears. Dakota shows the largest in
crease. Desertion is the cause of the great-1
est numlier of divorces.
Representative Butterworth has intro
duced for reference a joint resolution au
thorizing the Jresident to invite the
members of the Canadian parliament antl
the premiers and cabinets of the provinces
to visit the United States on May 1, and
lie the miests and partake of the hospi
tality of the people of the United States ;
also authorizing the appropriation oi
$150,000 to carry out the provisions of
the resolution.
The conferees' report on the admission
bills fixes the names of the two Dakotas
as North Dakota and South Dakota ; the
people of South Dakota to vote upon the
Sioux Falls constitution May 14, and the
location of the capital is to be settled by
an election the same date. The residents
of North Dakota, Washington and Mon
tana may vote for the election of dele
gates to constitutional conventions and
for a full list of State officers.
COAST . NEWS NOTES.
! ;
A NpVEL ESCAPE- FROM THE CUB
TOMS AUTHORITIES.
A Convict's Confession In Favor of the
Election of TJ. 8. Senators by the
People Tacoma Merchants
Asala Victimised.
It is now high license in Oregon.
Tho Sacramento gambling houses have
lieeit closed.
Spokane Falls is to have a mid fire
department.
San Bernardino's citrus fair was a
grand success.
James C. Flood, of California, died at
Heidyllterg, (lermany, Thursday. ,
TU' office of Chinese Interpreter in tho
Vancouver custom-house is to lie aliol
ialred. The defective tiallots cast at the reitent
election in Nevada will be counted.
John (1. Crawford, a life prisoner at
Pan tjuentin, committed suicide Tuesihiy
by hanging.
The Ixslies of three unidentified men
were taken from the San Francisco lmy
Thurrdlay morning.
A franchise for a motor road from
Fresno to the San Joaquin river, eleven
miles, has U-en granted.
The rase of Judge Wickersham. charged
with seduction, lias excited no little in
terest in Washington Territory.
Andrew Obscense struck a fat pocket
in the. Francis mine, Mariposa 4tunty,
Cal, recently, and panned out f.'M),U00.
Tho California legislature has adopted
a resolution in favor of the election of
Unih-d States Senators by the people.
It is lielicvcd that Tug Wilson, who is
charged with murdering a man near
Walla Walla, recently, is innocent of the
crime.
A system of railroads covering much of
Oregon ami Washington TerriUwy is ex-
Ix-cted to co-pierate with the Canadian
aeitle.
Leading railroad people declare there
is no truth in the rumor of a consolida
tion of the Southern l'acific and Santa
Fe roads.
Tho Chinatown s.piad of jxilice or Sah
Francisco, have been imiictiil and ar
rested for taking bribes from Chinese
gamblers.
The white miners in the Union mine
at Cotiihx, IV C, haw quit work, owing
to the fact that the comiany are employ
ing Chines'.
A cnmjiany baa lieen formed at Pomo
na which is' planting 8H1 sen's of navel
oranges. The orchard will Ix; the largest
in the world.
Fully ten thousand xople witnessed
the start of the six-day-go-as-vou-please
race in the Mechanics' pavilion at San
Francisco, Thursday.
There is unfeigned satisfaction ex
pressed bv the Hiiple over the prosjiect
of the ailmission of Washington Terri
tory into the Union.
On the preliminary examination of
Tug Wilson at Walla Walla, charged
with the murder of Tout Davis, the ac
cused was discharged.
II. L. Andrews, memlxTof the packing
firm of Andrews A Covkeinlall, San Josa,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heal Mom lay.
The Monongnhcta steamed out of the
harbor at Vallejo Thursday, Ixiiuid for
Samoa. She is heavily lailen with sm-
plies for the fleet at that txMiit.
D. H. IHive, of Pomona, aged 62, while
sliding a taxi-pound Imx down the wagon
on skids, fell, the heavy Iwix falling upon
ins head and crushing it into a jelly.
lrosjx're Castara and his w ife, French
Canadians, were arrested at Port Town
send last week with sixteen imunds of
opium concealed in the woman' sbustle.
A bill has passed the California Senate
to reimburse the O. It. ami N. company
for merchandise lost in the liav of San
Francisco by falling through a rotten
wharf.
Emma Bennett, employed as a sales
woman in a San Francisco store, shot
Emanuel iHivis twice and then commit
ted suicide by shooting herself through
the head.
Tho jurv were unable to agree in the
case of MVs. Ixmise Hagenow, charged
with the murder of Annie lairreis, the
16-year-old girl who died at her female
hospital at San Francisco, last July.
The argument in the case of long
Long Dick, ended Thursiluy morning at
Portland, and in a short time thereafter
the jury returned a verdict of murder in
the second degree. He will get a life
sentence.
Ben I.undy, who was held in Seattle on
the charge "of smuggling Chinese and
opium, broke jail Wednesday, and Bcret
ing himself in a large dry goods box was
put alxtard a steamer and safely landed
at Victoria.
Special Agent Saunders was in Pendle
ton last week investigating t"' '
of Agent Coffey, in his
the reservation. It '
charges will 1x3 pr
but his friends '
vidieate himt--
Scot
at I
V
mu
dus
into , 1
pretc
real ee
v
Jamei.
co, emplv
companyys,
gomery Btnv
quent shootA
Coast of late
little comment
ample is made f.
ter it will be for
Mrs. Kate Mai
Kate," closed up
Bessemer, Wyo., 11
cated the gamblers"
" busted " tin-homg
the light of the burn?
she had set on fire, start?
lourney for othe. fields.
money equally among those
hands who had been victimi:
gamblers.
... . v.
Naptha the Latest Female Vlce-IUlclt
Dlstllli rles Discovered in Chicago
Insanity of Con lets in the
New York Prisons,
King Otto, of Bavaria, has lieen nd
jttdged insane.
Do Freyetnet has liinlt-rtjiKcii to form
tlie new French cabinet.
The Herman In Samoa are furious over
tire 4cuH of Kli-iri from Samoa.
An effort will Ik? made in Boston to
suppress prize lighting altogether.
,A famine prevails in the southern txir-
tion of Con a.a!id many jpluire stam.j
The IT. p. war ship Hartford has lieen
ordered to Hayti, and the Vandaltato Sa
moa. fiovernor I-aralx-e, of Iowa. lias Ixi'ti
indieb-d by the grand jury of Polk county
for li Im-I.
Prize-fighting In Montana is now re
git nle I as one of the Territory's leading
industries.
It is again rumored in Paris that Stan
ley has !x-en murdered by natives near
Maugnmhia.
A bronze statue of PtonewallJa'-kson,
to cost :ti,(K:)l will stnin le unveiled at
Lexington, Va.
O'Brien has IxK-n sentenced to impris
onment with bard labor for six mouths
under the crimes act.
The rumors concrrnins the uprising of
the Indian in the Flathead country,
Montana, are grossly exaggerated.
A diftru'-tivr, cyclone passed over a
xirtion of Alabama and Ueorgia, Satnr
lay, killing and wounding many jieopW.
A bill has jwissed the Colorado legisla
ture to punish lawyers who advertise
their ability to olrtain " aecret divorces."
The courts of London have rendered a
decision upholding the eleHric light
patents of Edison and Swan against other
xtteuts.
The completion of the submarine cable
(ii1! miles in length, Ix-tween Coatzaeval
cos, Mexico, anil tialveeton, Texas, is
announced.
lr. Tanner projxise to take npon him
self a trance state and in this condition
1h buried for four weeks. The idea is a
good one.
A scandal of huge pmortions is an
nounced from the Bonteutown, N. J.,
female college. All the students but
three have left for home.
The Indiana legislature is Again in
volved in trouble. The Republican sen
ators threaten to resign, thereby leaving
that lxly w ithout a quorum.
The re venue officers of Chicago are on
the si-ent of illicit whiskey manufactur
ing, said to le in the heart of the city and
engaged in by prominent men.
It is said that the English parliament
will vote t'Miil.lKKMnM) for the construc
tion of twenty men-of-war, fifty cruisers
and for increasing her torpedo service.
Three rabbit hunters near Cheyenne,
were pursued by a herd of cattle last Sat
urilay and two of the numlxr were
trampled into an unrecognizable mass.
By the explosion of a Ixiiler in a Hart
ford, Conn., hotel last week, the building
was set on fire and lx'tween twenty-five
and fifty jxHiple were burned to death.
A silly rumor has gained currency that
lYesidetit Cleveland is a firm lxlicver in
the dix-trine of spiritualism. The New
York " Sun " is the author of the canard.
Six convicts have lx-come insane in the
Clinton, N. Y., prison. Iist week four
others were adjudged insane and sent to
the asylum, llieir insanity is attributed
to idleness.
Sam D. Ford, recently arrested on the
train at Tucson for forgery committed at
Kankakee, 111., was married in jail last
Sumlay to the woman with whom he had
IxK-n traveling.
An unstvccessful attempt was made
last week to wreck a Louisville and Nash
ville jMissenger train. A car-load of sil
ver was proliably the inducement for the
dastardly crime.
An investigation of the sensational re-jx-irts
from the Wisconsin pineries con
cerning dance houses and cruel treatment
of the women inmates, has shoitjMie
stories to be highly exagge'-''
After an unjii-''
Minneaixilis, T
Ixfn sentene
March for
street-car
While
recent!
of tip
mule
drill w
The
the r
quart
out
A Varied Bill of Fare for Chicken Dls
posit on of Swine tp Pile Up In Cold
Weather-Whole Corn or
Meal the Best for Pigs.
Three-fifths of the cotton crop is now
produced by while lulxr.
A'ld a little boiling wafer to the hog
swill so as to tajte the chill tiff.
The weather throughout the North has
ls-en extremely trying to stock.
A calf Ixirn in fall or winter is worth
two Ixirn in the spring for profit.
, Tlie largcht x;u li orchard in California
is near Marysville. It contains 4'.'0 jtcrt.
. .s. ' 11111 - - -' -;
Iant year 2i,0;X) irsimmon trees were
exixirted from Jajian to the 1'liitedjStates.
.More jiniiiils of pork can l prodtic!
from the same food than Ix'ef. The pig
utilizes a larger per centage of frxxl than
the lef animal or Hum sheep.
Tho warmer and more comfortable the
ll of pis the more rapidly will they
grow and fatten, while less food will be
consumed.
The propagation of game should lie
taken up seruiuslv, and Ix-come a braneh
to I fostered and encouragel in the same
manner as methods of the fishculturist.
Tarred iijr makes an excellent cov
ering and protection for cold frames at
night. Old bugging serves well, hut the
er is a lx-tter non-conductor of heat.
Io not worry because you have no
bloodied stock till you improve what yon
have. Breed only from thoroughbred
sires; and soon you will be able to go up
higher.
Ground gympsum or farmers' plaster
spread ujxiu the stable flr will add to
the value of the manure, while it pre
vents the waste und nuisance of escaping
ammonia.
Every farmer is interested in good roads.
None but exjx-rienced road overseers
should be s le-tel, and the Uix required
hrr rijad retrair, if projx'rfy applieri, is
money well invested. Good roads save
valuable horses.
Every farmer should exiiriment, in
order to learn by practical exjx-rieiice, the
kind of crops and uitxle of cultivation
tx-st adapted for his farm. Soils vary,
and the exx-ricrice of one farmer is not
always a guide for another.
The disjx.wition of swine is to pile up in
cold weather, and the warmer we can
keep it underneath them the less liable
they are to do this, and unless they ean
lie prevented from doing it to a great ex
tent disease is much more liable to break
out among them.
It amounts to grave neglect, not to
plant trees a 'tout the home grounds, road
side, cemetery and school ground. First,
after a tieatuiful site lias lxeu selected
for the home, the very next considera
tion should lx the beautifying and em
Ix'llishmeiit of the grounds by planting
of trees.
When a horse comes in with snow in
his shoes, knock it out with a hammer
Ix fore putting him up, and rub the hair
dry around his heels and ankles. In or
der to do this easily, it is well to shear
off some of the long hair. Cracks in the
ankle, called scratches, often result from
inattention to this.
Farly plowing exposes the soil to the
action of the rain, frost and sun, and the
earlier the work is -lone the finer will
the jiartk-lesof earth and the moreav
able the plant food. Oolite a numb"
insects will also lx exsed to the '
while the loosening of the soil,
mils the ground to become wanr
There are men in every
who sell their hog crop to f
and with more or less loss
notably, when a man selh
months old, weighing li
are healthy and have good
there is abundance of gix
farm, that must tx fed or sk
tune follows such nuuiagemeij
Most every farmer is aware the
a sheep must Ixj fat to make the bev
ton, I Kit few conceive the idea tTTS
proiterlv and well-fed sheep product.
more and Ix-ttcr wool than one jxjorly fers-
and cared for. Wool is a product "from I
feeding, just the same as fat or flesh, and
the tlwk should lx fed and managed with
a view to wool growth, and tliat of fifle
quality.
The pigs should never lx"
" ''..close pen; they rr
'.. , .,.1
The Markei
Preferring v
ter Flgurt.
In Free.
Country orders are c-
this season than usual. :
ket remains dull anilijf
European atl vices
an early improveme:
whole, however, th tM
grxxl for the seasoc
OKOCKRIES,
Pugars, fiolilen C 5'a'c,
cnU, vriixhnl ajid
Java irJio 2(k:, Arht
24'4c.
raovisio!'
Oregon ham 12'l
eon Lie, sides 1 1 sc, stu
fjistern ham l:?'"t l.TV
breakfast tuicon
1010' jc, shoulders 10(
aile.
rm iTs.
Navel oranges 4.fio(34 , .rers!!f
.'i.25?3.50, apple fl.lfl, tuons cf
Ixix. . '
VEOETABI.ES.
Potatoes 30(35c, onions 7525.V'.
pkieij ratixs.
Afiiiles fiiaOt;, sliced aprii'pfs 13.
14c, fiea'hes 8r210c, pears fVr, Oregon
prunes. Italian, !c, silver 8c, fiennan 6.!
(t7c, plums bCi7c. Raisins $2 per
California figs 8c, Syrna 15c.
PAIST PKODCCC.
Butter, Oregon fancy 25c, iniidlam 20c,
Eastern 1!', California 22c.
EO5.
F'ggs 18c.
rovvrnf. - - ' "
Cliickens $0(35.50, ducks 7.o0 per
dox., geese 1012, turkeys 15e per .
WOOL.
Valley 18c, Fiistern Oregon ftf115c.
BOPS.
Hops 814c.
OBAfX.
Wieat, Valley 1.30, Eastern $1.27c.
OatsXk-.
rioca.
Ptandanl $4.50, other brands $4(24.10.
PEED.
Hav $13(314 per ton, bran $10, shorts
18, barley chop $234, mill chop $18.
FHKSII MEATS.
Beef, live, 5e, dresel 8c, mutton, live,
4e, dressed 8', lambs $2.60 each, h'jgs Ik-,
dressed 78c, veal 6a8c.
tOUNQ LADIES' LETTERS.
A Olaae at One of the Wrltra ta All tha
Agony of Composition.
It is generally admitted that women
are better letter-writers than men.
Writing a letter is thought to cost
them very little trouble; they are sup
posed to drop Into a chair before a
desk, dip a pen in the ink-stand, and
scribble off any number of bright,
chatty pages almost as readily as they
could relate the same news by word of
mouth.
In many cases this is no doubt true.
A young lady writing'to he? intimata
friend seldom exSjinces any difficulty
in composition She hastily dates her
- . " " -ethiugth," or simply,
' " m., just be--
. ..-
velopv
Her
ing a fo