TRAPPINGS A RHINOCtKuS.
Bport Ttint llrqatret mm I'nlltntted
A woo nl of CaotawH aad Courage.
A traveler with three Dutch huDtert
had soma exciting adventure in the
TransTital country, a few mouths apo,
ia attempting to capture a rhinoceros.
They came upon a big two-horned fel
low sudJonly one morning:, and had to
"climb a tree" to escape his horns.
The animal made for the tent of
the party, a short distance away, but
a ysUtm of simple defense, of wire
brush, foiled him. and he made off.
A pit was dug in the swamp, and a
nice, fat native, which ia calculated to
make almost any rhiuoceros hungry,
sent out to decoy the prey. Soon after
they heard the shrill noted of the so
called rhinoceros bird, which is inva
riably found in the company of the
beast
It is asserted that tbe bird consti
tutes himsolf the sentinel of the lum
bering behemoth, and that its cries
are uttered to warn him that danger is
near.
Tbe native came through the clear
In; with tho old fellow in tow. The
native had ubout thirty feet the start,
and when they passed our mound he
had lost five, feet of that, although run
tine like as express train.
The rhinoceros was a big- ono, un
usually "black, and he ran with his
snout down and his tail erect We
cheered the native to encourage him,
and away ths two went up the trail wa
had tampered with.
Had the race been ten yards longer,
the native would have had to leave the
rata to avoid death. As be neared the
pit he ran along the riht-hand edse
c it while the rhinoceros thundered
iloug the cor.ter.
lie was within twelve f-et of tbe
els of the runner, when his feet let
i of solid earth and plunged him
3ad-rt into the pit We heard him
.runt from heir ve Ktnod. and it was
plain that hU tumble had knocked tbe
breath out of him.
As he s trues he roiled over on his
right side, and when we reached the
pit he was heipless.
When he got it through his thick
head that he had been fooled, he was
the maddest beast in all Africa, but
It was too late for action. .
We had come prepared for just such
a job as we cow had on hand. The
hue animal must be got aboard the
barge, but we were in no hurry to bo
ffin. We pot our ropes and chains achore,
drove stout stakes where they would
be wanted, and moved the barge to
the lower end of the bluff. By this
time It was dark, and we tied tbe old
fellows hind legs together ar.d left
him.
After breakfast next morning we
Erst hobbled our prisoner, and then
hoisted him out of the pit The first
-Jing he did was to make a rush, but
- it was a failure.
We got purchase tackles on him,
and led them away to trees and sta
ples, and by thee means we checked
him up or warped him along as willed.
All we had to do was to keep clear of
his wicked horns.
By noon we bad him safe aboard the
barge, one-half of which was givn
him. We had managed his capture
without inflicting an injury.
He was landed in Hamburg without
a piece of skin rubbed off. and is no
doubt alive at this writing. His age
was estimated at thirty years when
""captured, and he was considered good
for fifty or sixty years more. Golden
Days.
THE PITT DIAMOND.
, It Wae OrlgiMlly Baraffht for an Amnaat
Kumrakmt to aiaa.ao.
) Titt heard of a prodigious stone
weighing 420 carats, and the price
asked for it was equally prodigious,
being no less than 200.000 papodas (a
pagoda equals about 10s). The offer
evidently bad its attraction for Pitt,
and he transmitted a mooVl of the
stone, with a description of it to his
English agent Sir Stephen Evance.
Hut the tnugnitude of the proposed pur
chase alarmed Evance. "Wee are
now," he writes in reply, "gott in a
warr. The French King has his hand
and heart full, soe he can t buy such a
can buy itt oe wuld advice you not to
meddle with it But Pitt still kept
up negotiations with the o m;r. Jaur
chund. who came in person iv Port St
tforge to tempt the ernor. The
price asked, boa ever, was s excessive
hat Pitt despaired of ' beevmiug pos
sessed of the prize, and more in wan
tonness than with any intention of
making a serious bid, he offered 30,000
pagodas for it This broke off the ne
gotiations for the time; but with that
Tjcrnifitenco with which Easterns al-
-9
ways show in money transactions,
Jaurchutid, after an interval of some
weeks, returned to the charge. This
time he professed himself willing to
lake 100, (XiO fmjroOHa. and at a sulmo
ijviTit mwtliig, after much haggliiig.
Pitt Uuit him down to 5,000. Jlut
f-pca this was more by 10,000 pugodas
than Pitt had determined to give, and
(;'i!n JaurehtiLd took his leave not
ior lo'..':, however, for ia au hour L
sfui-iu woru to say tnat be would takt
50,000. Upon this 11 tt offered to split
the difference. But though an Orient
al will submit to be beaten down in
his price time after time, he likes, at
the close of the bargain, to thiuk that
the yielding has not been altogether
on his side. Pitt offered 47,500. No,
said Jaurchund nothing would Induce
him to take less than 48.000. Knowing
his man and the ways of Eastern trad
ers, Pitt gave in to this demand, and
became possessed of the largest known
diamond in the world for a sum which
was about equivalent to 24,000.
Blackwood's Magazine,
People wno are in a hurry to go to
law are frequently in twice as much of
a hurry to get away from it Mer
chant Traveler.
Of all the gifts that nature can
give us, the faculty of remaiuinir si
lent, or of answering apropos, is per
haps the most useful. Mme. Campan.
A great man is happiest when he
can sit down and write his memoirs
and forget all the mean things he
knows about himself. Boston Tran
script It is well for philosophical medita
tions to include the fact that in all or
ganic existence the largest amount of
win produces the heaviest swells.
Baltimore American.
Nothing is so great an instance of
ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter
all the company you please none; if
you flatter only one or two you affront
the rest Swift
It is a great piece of folly for a
man to be always ready to meet trouble
half way. If he would put all the
journey on trouble he might never
meet it Scranton Truth.
The avaricious mun is like the bar
ren, sandy ground of the desert, which
sucks in all the rain and dews with
greediness, but yields no fruitful horlx
or plants for the benefit of others.
Zeno.
What is truth for one may not be
tbe truth for another. You don't know
what you muy da You may put a
straw across a trickle which will turn
a river another way. Mrs. Whitney.
ROSE FROM THE RANKS.
Railroad Marnatn M ho Start aa Brafce
aaen, Optra tor or Bod-Xn.
Among the officers of nearly every
railroad in the country are to be found
men who have risen from the very low
est round. A. M. Tucker, who is
division superintendent on the Erie,
under Murphy, started in as truck
laborer, and bis first promotion was to
the position of rod-man in the engineer
corps. John X. Abbott of the Western
I States Pasnger Association, ued to
I be a freight clerk on the Erie. C W.
Bradley, general superintendent of tbe
West Shore. iihh1 to be a brukeinari
and condueter on the sjy.ne road. Gen
eral Superintendent Bancroft of the
Donver & Rio Grande leartitKi the Morse
alphabet in one of the small stations
on the Erie, and counted himself lucky
when he obtained a ssitioii as tele
graph operator on the West Shore.
Presideut ('aid w ell of the Nickel-Plate
was on a clerk on the Pennsylvania.
F. K. Ha; n. general nutnuger of the
New York elevated roads, began his
career in nis scventeenui year as a
machinist's apprentice on the Philadel
phia & Heading road at Pottsvitle.
The officers of the great Pennsyl
vania system, from the president
down, have all come up from the bot
tom. President Roberts entered the
service of the road in 18.12 as rod man
in the engineer corps. Later he had
charge of the construction of small
branch lines, and finally win made as
sistant to the president in IHS'2. lie
has been president of the road for
eight years. A- J. Cassatt formerly
vice-president of the company, also be
gan as rodman. Second Vice-President
Thomson used to be a machinist
in the shops at Altoona. He invented
the block-signal interlocking switch.
General Manager Pugli commuiiood as
brakeman, and General Passengrer
Agent Carpenter was once messenger
boy in the Philadelphia office of the
company. General Agent Geer used
to be receiving clerk in the freight de
partment James MeOrea. general manager of
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burgh, like President Roberta, began
as rod-man at $40 a month. He now
draws a salary of $15,000 a year, and
is still under forty. Robert Pitcairn.
superintendent of the Pittsburgh di
vision of the Pennsylvania and gen
en! agent for the company, was once
a caeesenger boy in the old Atlantic &
Ohio telegraph ofiice in Pittsburgh.
Among the other messengers em
ployed at that time was Anson Stager,
afterward general superintendent of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany; W. 0. HugHrt, now president
of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Rail
road Company; Andrew Carnegio, who
a few years later laid the foundations
of his wonderfully successful career a
private secretary to Colonel Tom Scott,
and David MeCargo, now general
superintendent of the Allegheny Val
ley railroad. Philadelphia News.
B. L Mil
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'Hnroessor to C. H. IUrnon.)
BARBER & HAIRDRESSER
LKaMXOX. ORKVOK.
Shaving, hair crrrisa and sham
pooiDg in the Ufcut and bn mjle. Hpwial
attention paid to dmmitic ljulieV lialr. Your
patronage rrspectfullj noliointl.
T. H. lll!SUUltVo
JEWELUV,
BBonrxHTii.t.E. ... oitrfcos
0re0fliaa Eailwa? Co. ILiiniteai Line.
! C. M. SCOTT, Kseiver.
i To Take V.trrt 4mm S3. IWtl.
j 1 0 lo-k. p. bb.
i Between Portland and Coburff 123 Miles.
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12:10 p.m
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tal at itatlnu liaviiiK airruta.
Cunnmtttn at lt. Adri-1 with tap.' for and
Imm tt llhnlt Mineral Pi.rillCT.
I lickatf fiirnuy puiut uu tai liur for Mir at
(he Luiti-d rrif and llaxcatfr Trufir
I t'ompanr'a ofljee. eroud and I'lur atrwpta, and
i r.iV, v. r.
'CHAH. N. Bl'OTr. Umiver O. lyr. I'o. (U.)
i Una. Forliand. Oruron.
HKNKT W. OOIMIAKO. SuptO. II y. Co. (U.I
' tine. Dundne Jiuictioo.
; Genaral OIH. N. W. Corner Find and Pine
, Btrwi. )orUand. (rvon.
;THE YAQUINA ROUTE,
OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD.
! or!iE IHysbpm! Coipisr'. stsBsfiip Line.
j tii Mkortrr. Uoaro l-ao Tiwr
; I'l.oi, i any tur h.mlr.
I Firat Uiaaa Tlirour Pato-tiar aud
Freight IJtte
From I'ltrtlatid and all pitinU in Mi.- Yk :l!nin-lt-
U-jr to and (mm hau o. t al.
OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD.
J IMK ot llEIiri K. 'Kt.Mrpl rtnmtavi.)
S 1.T Atliaiijr 1;0 p.m. I I. Vanuta i, 4., n.iu
Lr arvalin h p.m. I i.v ;,iraiu in a in.
Ar Yaaulna ) p.m. I Ar Aaut ll .Hi.m.
O. k train miiurrt at Albanv and ;irvli.
Tli a)M,r Iralm niiinw-tat Ya'iuinii with llir
Orraou Iii.iini-Mt vtnpaui a linr lif Mi-am
r.t tn'ta-ci:u Vaiuina and hall i-'-li::i:o.
SAII.ISO DATES r
Willamette Yalley
Willamette Valley
VFllUunette Valley
July 11,
Jalr 21.
Joly 31.
I July 16,
July 2
"Allgiutfi.
Thl iwiinpaiiy nwfru the Hghl t flmngf
ta'itiii! italp a lthiiut ttiKli-.
I'awKinrnrn Iruui HiirtlaiH1. ami all W illamntte
Tai.ry fwiiiiu i-au nmkF r.itmts i-onnftion with
tlu tiain "f tlx- Vaiiiiua mutral AUianynr
i ortJlt. uJ It Uvmiurd In halt h'uin-lw:o
I ihuuiil arranye l rriv-r at Vaiuliia Hi(-i-ve
OiH( lt l'iir Um. Hull- ! Mtilnx
CtMrnirr d freight Katea
A !' the Uivteat.
for infnrnialion apply to
C. II. NAKWKI.U I C. JI'K.I K,
Ctaa I Fr't tt !'. Ai't.
Oraeau Iiovrl'i.ui lit Co
M Mi'iiUtmnt-ryiil .
ban I 'rau:ieu, Cal.
Act g .-n. . A V. AiU.
U.V. K K. K.t).,
Corvalliii.
Oli'RoP.
Kemember the OrKon Pacific popular mini
air eicuraiotm to Yanuina. Imw rate tiukela
re now on aale. KOod every Wednttadry and
i Saturday from Albany, Corvallm and J'hilo
j math.
MUHTII BUC.Vf..
Iav- Cnrvallln Moiiddy, Wwlin'l, Ki'.ilay,
6 a. in.; l-av Ailjany J ! . m.
Arrtvf rxtii'in.- Monday, Utdnwlay. Friday, S
p. in.; )ar ralem, 'Jni.!uv, Jliurmluy, katnr
uny, a. in.
Arrlrt I'nrtiwid, Tn!)'. ThMMiiay, Sator
dny, 3 i i. in.
Soi'TH tuivnu.
U-an- Pfirtinnd. Monday, Wedueailay, Friday,
a. in.
Arrive Kalem. Motidav, Wedurnriay, Fritlay,
":li p. in.; h-av 8alui, 'f U'-mlay, 'iiimtdny. Rat
arday.Ca. m. lav(?llMo l:no p. m.
Arrive Corvailu'l atiflaj , Taurmlay, baturday
HUGH THE NEWEST,
Nobbiest and Largest Stock of
CLOTHING!
In the County, is now to be Seen on th u rui (1
.L E - BLAlMn. .
Of Albany, Oregon.
When you want to "dress up," we would be glad to ahow you
through and make the right price.
Merchant Tailoring a fpecialty. Mr. K. A. SriiEFFi.tru is an exprl, and
has charge of this department. We guarantw Katisfaction.
TOXSOKIAL 1'AltLOK.
nm a
MCE II-VIK CUT
aso a
CLEAN SHAVE,
Call at my Shop on Main Street.
I aUo hone razors. I hae la couuwtk n 1
w ith iny hi op, a Due
1IATII HOO.M, !
Where you caa get a Bath at any time. ;
Ticket, good for One Sbave earh, right
tot f 1. !
I. R. BORUM,
Slala Mtrret. Irbaooa Ores".
E. J. M'CAUSTLAND,
cim mmi and surveyor,
UraacbtlBK ta Hlne friata.
Office llii Orcim lnd Companr, Albati).
.seraii:r Kfateni and Water Hiiipnlle a r-c-
' ialt)'. Jvwata autxinided. Map uiadi- or
copied on anort nou-r
C. T. COTTON,
DEALKK IS
Groceries and Provisions,
TOBACCO & CICARS,
SMOKERS' ARTICLES,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
CONFECTIONERY
((eeaanare aad 4vlaMtare.
Lam p o4 Ijiaia Fltlarm.
PA VM CAHH t oil '....
Kola att Irf-liaoou. Oregoa.
LEBANON
Meat Market,
Ed Kellenberger, Prcpr.
Freehand Salted Beef and Pork
MUTTON.
porkausace, '
BOLCCNA
and HAM.
Bacon and Lard Always on Hand
Mala Ktreet, Lbauon, Or.
iraay-ojrr aaya ka kaatka W. t DMCloa
Him oukoot um ood iiiioa tXmmmm mm
Ut trXUaui. out him aa trood.
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE CENTLCMEM.
Beat In the world, riamlno bla
a.iMi i.km im: Htnn-nwin nmow,
4Ai H AM-M WU M P I T KHOK.
' mM I OI l K Al FAKMFMM' aHOE.
i.M FtTIU A I IK Al v Mioa.
mi.xn aoKKiNGMN'ii mot
a.oo and mi.; a tuna m uoof. shoes.
Ail made lu fcunrrne, tlull.ii aad Laaa.
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE
FOR
LADIES.
Boat Malorlal. Bnrt fltyle. Boat rlUiag.
It al !! by yur rtau-r. oritr
W. L- IM1 GLAM. HKOCKTOM, MA1
"K&aaalwe . I.. Ilooxlaa Ptkora
for xrollranew aad ln4irm."
For Sale by C. C. Hackleman.
J. M. Keene, D. D. S.
Dental Parlors
Office: Breyman Bros. BuilcliEg,
Hours from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M.
OREGON
Land Company.
R. r. ASHBY and CEO DtCKINSOft,
CKNKKAI. aUKNTfl UK
Albany, Lynn Co., Oregon.
Real Estate n Goiissi.
And Horn a Wnera.1 Ileal Katate
LAND SOLICITED FOR SALE
ASHBY & IdCKINSON-
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