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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1890)
BR. C. H. BUCKETT, ID I NT 1ST Ol 1'lCJt: Between G. T. Cotton and Fetei-sou & Wallace. Lebanon, Oregon J. K. WEATHERFORD, A.tto r ne y -at- Law. Office over First National Rank, i ALBANY, - - ORRCON. I J. M. KEENE, D. D. S." Dental -:-Parlors.; Office: Breytnan Bros., Building, ' SALEM, OREGON. T"Hours from 8 A. M. to 5 T. M. W. R. EILYEU, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, ALBANY. OREGOK, E. J. M'CAUSTLAND, CIYIL ENGINEER v SURYEYOR. Draughting and Blue Prints. Office with Oregon Land Co., Albany. Sewerage System and Water Supplies ; a Specialty. Estates Snbdiv-ded. Maps made or copied on short notice. . L McGLRUE, (Successor to C H. Hahmos ) Barber : and : llaiifeer, LEBANON, OREGON. Sn.WING. HAIR CUTTING AND Shampooing in the latest and best Style. Special attention paid to dressing Ladies' hair. Your patronage respect fully solicited. LEBANON Heat ED. KELLENBERCrER, P TISTITI 1 Liii Fresh & Salted Beef, Tork, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna, and Ham. Baeoij and Card Always or? and ilain Street, Lebanon, Or. . S. PIIiLSBUKY, JEWELRY, RB JlVMSViLH, ORECON irnyaiKr says he nas tfae XV. X.. rtoniriae Shoes without name and price ntHnipea oi -! L. DOUGLAS SHOE CENTLEMEN. $3 Hest in the world. Tlxamine Ms SS.OO (iEM INK HAND-SKWhB SROF. 4.(IO HAMI-SKIVKI) WKI.T SKOK, S.3.AO POLICK AI F4RM KKV KHOE. ;.r.O FXTKA VA1.1JK CAM' StlOU. SViS WORKINGMAN'S SHOK. fej.ooaiHi si. 7-. Kins' si Hiior, shoes. An uiaafc iu tr.onirress Kutum Mini I.ae. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE ladTes. Beet lVTaterial. Beat Stvle. Beat Fitl inc. it not solii ly ynur rttaler, write W. 1 DOl'GLAS, KHIK'RTOX, MASH "Examine W. L. Doug-las $2 Shoe or Gentlemen and Ladies.' for Satf hy C. C II A CK J. F. HA V. Opposed to Experiments. Doctor (to Kentnckian) Y-es,von're ' a pretty sick man, but there is" hope ' for yon yet. You want to try a water i cote. ! Bluegrass Patient (feebly) "Never, j I tfmt want to take anv of these new- fangleJSpatent medicines. The remedies 1 -T natiwe are good enough for me I, !itkV or e-ive me de"."- Market trie nnaai, put mm aown as a irai MUCH THE NEWEST, NOBBIEST AND tAROEST STOCK OF I-af7 in the County, is now to be Seen on the Counters of Iv. K. BLAIN ALBANY, - E5Vhen you want to "dress up," we would be glad to show you through and make the right price. MERCHANT TAILORING A SPECIALTY. Mr. E. A. Schkffler, is an expert, and has charge of this tie- partment. We guarantee satisfaction. MY SPRING STOCK - OF DRY GOODS. BRESS GOODS Ladies' and Children's Shoes, Has arrived. I have also received my Spring Stock of MEN'S, YOUTHS' & BOYS' CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, ETC., Of which we carry a Full and Complete Line, and will not he un dersold. Come and see us, ami we will treat you well. ALBANY, THE YAQUIHA ROUTE. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD. Oregon Deyelopmsat Compau's SteamsiiD Line. ; 225 Shorter, 20 Hours Less Time i Than by any other Route. I FIRST-CLASS THROUGH PASSENGER AND FREICHT LINE From Portland and H points in the Willamette Valley to and from San Francisco, Cat. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD. TIME SCF.DVIK. (F.xcept Sundays ) Albany i:oop. ra. Corvallis iuo p. m. Vaquiua 5:50 p.m. T.v Lv Ar Yaquina 65 a. m Cor-alIis 10:55 a. m. Albanv 11:10 a tn. O. & C. trains connect at Alban and Corvallis The above trains connect at Yaquina with the Orrjon Development Company line of Steam ships between aquiua ani id rin hrancisco. SA1I.IXO DATES. Steamer. Fm. S. F. Ate-ira;r. Fm. Va j'na Farallon 7.' .Slav jTwilamette V"y . May 4 Willamette Val y May 9 Farallon May 9 Farallon . .'.Mav'it Willamette V'y May 14 Willamette V'v May jo Farallon . Mv-" This company reserve the right to cnanifi sail ing dates without notice. Passenger from Portland anii all Willamette Valley points can make close connection with the trains of the Yaquina route at Alhany or Corval lis, and if destined to San Francisco should ar range to arrive at Yaquina the evening before the date of sailing. Passenger and Freight Always the Lowest- Rates F"or particulars apply to C H HASWEI.I.. f C. C. HlW'.I K. ilen'l Ft & Pass. Agt. j Act'g ',en. F. 8c P. Agt. Oregon Ievel pm'nt Co . o, P. K. k. K. Co., 304 Montgomery St. j Corvallis. San Francisco, "Cal. i Oregon. NORTH BOUND. Leave CorvaUis Monday, Wednesday, Frida, 6 a. m. Leave Albany 9:30 a. m. Arrive Salem, Monday. Wednesday. Friday, 5 p m. Leave Salem, Tuesday, Thursday, Satur day, Sam. Arrive Portlasal.jTuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 3:30 p. m VTH HOVND Leave Portland Monday, Wednesday. Friday. 6 a. m. Arrive Salem. Monday, Wednesday. Friday, 7:15 p. m. Leave Salem, Tuesday. Thursday, Satur day. 6a. m. Leave Albany, 1:30 p m. Arrive Corvallis Tuesday, Thursdav, Saturdav. 3:30 p. m. J. L- COWAN. J. M. RALSTON. Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON. OREGON. Transacts a General BaniiM Easiness. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT CHECK. TO Exchange sold on New York, San Francisco. Portland and Albany, Oregon. Collections made on favorable terms. G.T. COTTON, : DEALKR IN : Groceries agu ProvislDiia. TOBACCO and CIGARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES. Foreign ani Domestic Traits, Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Tamps and . Lamp Fixtures. Peye Cash for lEgce;. Main Street, Lbnon, Oregon. H I H G 5 OREGON. - W. SIMPSON, OREGON. THE WITCHCRAFT INDUSTRY. Pop! Who Prey I'pon the Superstitions of 1'oor Colored Women. The old colored woman in the vellow shawl and bandana turban stopped at the third frate on the rhrht of the alley and pave three knocks, says the Wash ington Star. When the" portal was opened a crack by a thin and nervous female of mulatto complexion the visi tor inserted her foot unobtrusively into the gap, so as to effectively pi event tlie shuttinp: of the door, if it had been at tempted, and said: 'Honey, didn't some myster'ous sigrn tell you lat a stranger would come vi.itin' you to-day?" D:ir was sum pin' queer-lookin' in tie coffee grounds dis moruin"; but I done thought de long row of blackbirds meant nuflin' but de funeral on de nex' square,'' replied the woman inside tlie gate. "No. honey; dem blackbirds was mis fortunes comin . 1 on se had a deal er trouble in vo' life; vou can't keep it hid from nie. ca's l's a witch an' knows ebotfrvting. A deal er trouble vou'se had."" "Yes, indeedy, tlat's a fac" al mitteil the other, somewhat awestruck. What a wise woman vou is, to be j sho" I "l'se awful wise, honey; and lots mo' j troubles and misfortunes am comin" on. I Y'ou'se got an enemy." "Me?" ! "Yes. an awful bad one. You nebber j saw her. but she's got a spite against i vou 'cause her grandpa was hoodooed by an aunt oh yourn on time, so dat de ole man's wool "all came out an' he swole up like a balloon. Don't you hab misery in de j'ints off an' on?" "My Lawd, yes!" "J iinowM you had. Once in awhile I ax you a queshun. so's to see if you tell me de trufe. Now Til tell you de reason for dem pains. Dis enemy of yourn is lierry wicked; she is berry tall, an' has pop eyes an' freckles. Once in a while when she's bakiu', maybe, she makes a leelle image out oh de dough an' bakes it in tie oven, not berry crus- 1 tv 1 la liiiTioY is von. An" when rIia has time, she takes de image and sticks pins into it; den, ob course, you feel pains and aches." "Sakes alive! What's a po' critter like me to do?" "Dat's what I came to tell you. Didn't I say I was a witch, honey? I'll show yon how to tix yo" enemy, so's she can't do you no hurt no mo", but it'll cost you sumpin." "Tse only got RO cents." "Well, dat'll do. tiive it to me, chile. Y'ou'se sho' it's a good silver piece? Now listen: When you are bakin' next take a bit ob dough an' make an image ol de wicked w oman. Just make it long an' thin an' it'll do. Den set it to raise wid de udder bread, after tyin' a piece ob thread round its neck "pretty tight. , When it's done raised de thread will hab de neck mos' cut in two; bake it careful 'dat way, berry crusty, an' put it away ou de pantry shelf in a tin lx. De wick ed woman will be so choked dat she can't do you any hurt for a year; den 3-011 can make anuddcr image in tie sani wav." "Is dat all?" "No; dero's sumpin1 else awful ser ious; but it costs more money to know it." "But I ain't got no mo'. ' Not two bits? Deso are hard times ' iu do witchery business." "Not a nickel." j "Well, Til come again. Dere's a pnsson I know of dat's laid sum pin ' down 'gainst you, an', if I don't tell 3 011 how to tix it, it'll bring all sorts er ' bad luck. Good day, honey; and if you kin git an3' ole clo'es from yo' missus, ' dey'll go a leng way will inn, 'stead er ; money." A person who knows about such i things told a Slar reporter that there i' were a good many shrewd negro wo j men in Washington who made an cx ! cellent living b- preying in this way 1 upon the superstitious fears of the low j er class among the colored population. j A Few Still Icft. Since the war closed it is probable that 60,1X10 men 'who were shot iu the j leg and the surgeons said it would have i to come off, but were prevented from j call ing out their wish," have passed over tho river, but it one is to credit the little stories still floating about at least 50,000 others are IviL-Detrvf Jf'rte iVww. s. White Chrysanthemums. nicy prow by the mite, in Hi" amlwir days Soft jiiowk of the Hiitumn weather Ami they I loomed In the red October haze. With lis wine if sunshine and crimson blaze, And we watched them there together, Vou leaned ou my heart, and I, whispering-, Willi White the shiulowslrnfrtlir-nrsl around us. How the Rial's Htolo out of their purple bed. And the liliwiomH crept tin to j our feet in stead, An.l lifted each fnnrnint. dew kissed head To listen to nil the words 1 wild. When- tin; tilht ami tlio white moon found US. They bimjr on the trull, the iroldcn-cyed, A lid low 'mid the hrowu leu vex liwr; Too sweet for sorrow, too pule for pride; I.Ike sisters of mercy, true and tiled, They were dead, mid still jet dylnir. Oh! 1 took your hrind, and I softly tuid Hut vour fnee hidden f lorn tiie. How the nliiht winds rocked the pines o'er hetid. Tlien paused to listen, and onward sped! Ah! you trembled thou, and you would have MeH: Hut love had conquered, and passion shed Her drcaiulul madness ou me. ' They Hva'ed the white of yimr lnwnm. There j l v o u fund lia ds had plm-cd them: Aud fell tu a shower from your jjold-brown hair To kiss the snow of your shoulder, w here The slmttowv moonliuht traced them. Oh! I told you" then. 1 fiercely said i As 1 closed on the put li before us. -Ala! how Hie flush trom your Hp Bed! ;' There wus dew ou your brow and sun-crow ucd ! And the flowers at my feet lay e Id and dead j Killed by the wools onr lover said , Aud the morning stars rose o'er us. , nenu Ave. dead at my fed ! Thcr were lylnfr where In the pathway's curve we purled Cold, pule and rushed and withering there, j With nwee eyechwel, like a s-alnt In prayer, j Kieh breatheil and gc!ihu h'Hrt-d. 1 streicheil out my hum!; they seemed to erlne, , j And adesoKte wind Mew round me": Thev had lost their fiiiutly turn-kissed tlnire, ! Their curling edir-s and snow-whl'e fringe; ' They were bruised, and broken, and browning where j I 1 ad clutched them In mad dcpn!r! j Oh ! 1 elncd them close, and 1 kissed them j there The flow-rs that fell from your breast and hair: That tell that night In the nt ill. nwect air. Kre the cruel daylight f und me. New Orleans plea rune. WAS SHE HAUNTED. I had been sent for in great haste, and had fancied that I was needed in au extremely critical case, for the hour was nine in the evening and the uight a stormy one. Whaf then was my surprise, when I nail ik'i Si had been ushered into a Handsome in one of the best hotels, to tind. in a largo? armchair and with no irance of ill-health about her, a verv lieantitul woman whom 1 Knew to be an actress of position, and had often admired upon the stage. Jslie was dressed in tho most liecotn- i ing fashion, and arose with a smile up- ; oh my entrance. 'Von look surprised, doctor." the ; lady began, motioning me to a seat. ; "Ton will be more so before you leave i me. I am not ill. and I can fee that j yon know that at a glance." j "Yon rertainlv are looking very well, madanie," said i. I am feeling well," said she. '"The question that I desire to ask ton. as a : man who has made the brain, in some degree, a pjwialty, is, am 1 mad? I ; want you to give me your opinion. Do j you think me insane?'' "That is a very difficult question. !: madame,' said I. "A doubt of your rationality never would have occurred to me. Besides, insane people seldom guess their condition. However, you ;, must have some reason for asking the ! question?' ' "A very grave one. she answered. "Hither 1 am out of my mind r there i are such things as ghosts." j "There are optical illusions, madame" j Said I. j "Hut illusion of the senses of sight j and touch and hearing all nt once. ! Would that not be madness? "Not if yon were aware illusions," 1 answered. they were Hut they s-eni real to me."" said the lad, "oh. so real. 1 snpjmse you read the r-tnfics about me in the p:icrs? You have heard of the man who killed himself for love of me? "' "The Frenchman?"' I asked. "To tell the truth I have read it." "Thev said 1 was cruel lo him." said the lady, growing somewhat excited. "I was not. I was kind at tirst: but he dogged mr footsteps and threatened I n.v "fe- Not at tirst. of course, but after I had accorded him an interview, and refused him as gently as a woman ! claring that eating is the chief necessi could refuse a man. He wanted me tc ty of life, and that there are honors for marry him. He was rich, of good 1 the caterer as well as for the author aud family; he was honorable and very, j statesman. However, the hero of the Verv much iu love. Hut I. how ! New Y'ork mountains lacked the latest could I love a stranger? And he was uglv. a great, savage-looking creatu1 e. After that he tried to kill me He shot j at me. I had him arrested. sml he 1 " She committed suicide in prisou." paused and shuddered. "It is he w ho j comes," she added. "Naturally." said I. "you have loon greatly shocked. You dream of him, aud your dreams are so vi id that you fancy them actual occurences." "I knew you would say that." she sighed, "but I have verv- vivid dreams, for in them friends who have been dead for years come to me. They speak and move and touch me. But when I awake I know I have been dreaming. This is different. My ghost--or my madness conies to me upon the stage!" 'UKjn the stage?" I repeated. "Yes," she answered. "He says I shall not act again. I was playing a week ago when he came, lie often conies, "hut never before did he touch me. This time he laid his hand upon my arm. and whispered: '"I tell you you must retire from the stage! 1 exact this penalty of you. The next time you tread the boards I will kill vou! " "Well?" said I. "1 fainted," said the lady, "and for tunately it was the correct thing to do at that moment. Only mv fellow actors guessed the swoon to be a real one. But the next dav-1 cancelled my engagement. I declared myself il', The trui h is I was very much frightened. 1 had grown used to his staring and pointing, to his throat, but when it came to touching me and speaking " She paused, shuddering violently. "Yours is a case of disordered nerves, madame," said I. T advise you to take a holiday." "I don't dare to g on acting!" she gasped. 'Don't you see that? Whv, 1 really believe you do know why I ain so troubled! In the very prime of life, with everything I value at my hand, I must sink into obscurity retire on n small sum of money, when I might make an immense fortune give up the applause I live for, the art I adore ami all because a ghost will have it so!" The tears rose to her beautiful eves. ! s,,e wil,ul ll,c,u aw.v alul "'ced a laugh. "Oh, 3ou know I had rather think myself a little out of my mind than to i believe in my ghost!" said she. j "So should I," said I. "If 3 011 will j take my advice, j-ou will give yourself j a holiday, surround yourself ; witn j friends and forget your halluci ation j it is one. You are just a little upset, 1 and it will pass." 1 wrote, a prescription. ' "Take this at night." I said "I assure you that science has distinctly proven the fact that ghosts do not ap pear to anyone." The next day I read in the papers that Madame had. taken her phy sician's advice aud would spend a twelvemonth abroad. 1 ' It was more than a j'ear, however, before I saw upon the w'alls of the city the announcement of Madam F3 re appearance. She was to plaifc her favorite role, and the papers we if. full of paragraphs concerning her. I As I had 1113' fortune j'et to nfike I felt that I was somewhat cxtralagant to attend on the first night, butI did so, nevertheless. v The house was full of t ho most ele gant people in town. J ho curtain rose upon tho unini- portant eluti aiders who always usher in : a play, and finally th door at the back of the stage was tiling open by a ser- j vant and Madame entered. A : roar of applause greeted lier. She was j hatnlsoniei- than trier. Her rol was ! one lo tall forth all her ail. She did uor. fail. I As the play proceeded I noticed, how- ! ever, that, she occasionally glanced in 1 t the direction of one of tlie side-scenes j in a way 1 did not like. And as the j j curtain rose upon the last act there j i Beemcd to me a longer wait than usual , ! at the time when she should have j j entered; however she came. ' ; She advanced to the footlights. The i I part she plated placed Iter in that, scene j I in the midst of a howling mob who ! threatened her. j She turned and faced them. Thev i flourished weapons in the air. She ad ; dressed them, her tall form drawn to ! i its full height. ! My memory of the play was that nt ! ' this moment succor arrived, hut it ; occurreu lo me that the scene was fli:iti "I'M. From the midst of the mob j aiiange wiui liure ruslieil fori h. 1 S.IW it litlt for a moment. It threw! b.u.k u,e t.(,.u. of Q(ya an(l .uj,,,! i?l gash across its throat, and flung out its hand toward her. I satr it hut for a moment, wondering what con nection it had with the play, then I saw Madame fall forward "on her face. The curtain fell. The house was in an uproar of excitemuut. A moment after a ca'l was made for a doctor. I was the tirst to answer it. A little group of physicians gathered about the beautiful form that they had lifted to a sofa: but we saw at a glance that we looked upon a dead woman. For 111 v part a horror Ih-voikI that which sudden death inspires possessed nie. "Did von notice the moment at i which she fell?"' I asked a prominent j physician who stood near me, and : whom I knew well. J "Yes." said he, "as he sioke the , last words of her defiance. Her frieuds j were about to appear." j "I fancied one of the populace the i one who touched her, who hail blood I upon him frightened her." i said, j Oh, uo one touched her, my dear ' fellow," he said. ' There is not hing of ; the sort in the play. She awed them . by her manner, vou know. G od : heavens, what a sad thing this is!" 1 "It is horrible!"' I answered. I think so si ill. No one but myself j had seen the man with the blood upon : his throat unless she did. and unless all ; that I am bound as a medical man to dislielieve is true there are such things as ghosts. FOOD AND FORTUNE. The Relative Importance of Author, ami I'alltlriana. Conks, George T. Downing, the keeper of the congressional restaurant for many tears, and a man of considerable j wealth, was an orator of no mean abil- ity. says the .-tmrrirati Analyst. Many'.s : the lecture he delivered, for each of ; which he got a round f2tK). That he should have devoted the major ortioit of his time to providing f i khI for men's i stomachs when he was well lilted to : dispense intellectual pabulum excited J much comment among his friends, one ! of whom asked him jxiintedly w hy he j did not renounce the kitchen for the ' library. "I seek the dollar, and there j is more money in the restaurant than I in the field "of literature." was the i answer of this cultured African. And I then he added that men of all degrees I .tf niilliira null id tliMd t.k,.t'itir it j a;t0;rether. entertain higher opinions of their eooks than of their law-makers. "Every man is a gourmaud in degree. Mr po'pnlaritv is due solely to the fact I that I can prepare and serve palatable dishes. 1 he world is full of litterateurs and orators, but good cooks are not easv to be found." Adirondack Murray, the versatile Boston preacher who in the palmy days, of his pulpit sway was termed the 'lieecher of the Hub" after his retreat south went to Montreal aud engaged in the same business as Downing, being ' in no sense ashamed of his calling, de- requisite for the management of a tirst class cuisine. At Washington there lived for many years, and finally died, a book-seller named Taylor. "Mr. Taylor Iiad a son iu the army aud another in the uavy, both of high rank and most estimable gentlemen. The book-seller, a man of high literary tastes, placed eating at its proper estimate, rightly declariug that the good eater is the happy man. He wrote a book, his only published writing, in which he recited all he knew of table anecdotes. The volume, now very scarce, alioiiuds iu charming little stories of great men's table weak uesses. All will recall the hoe expressed by Mr. Pickwick's friend that the jury iu the liardcll breacli-of-proiuise suit had bad a good breakfasL One of the most successful lobbyists who ever lived said, after twenty t ears of contact with senators and representatives at Wash ington, that he never - talked with a hungry man. 'I take them at dinner or immediately afterward. Y'our hun gry man is savage and little disposed to grant a favor." No Time Cor Home Duties. "Mary, J'ottr dress is torn again this morning. Now step up here aud I will HxTt for you." A pin was placed in the offensive dress and the child stepped back into a row of scholars, who, books in hand, stood in ;t semicircle around the kind teacher who had fixed the dress. "Now. Mary," said the latter, as the pupil took her place in the class, "I told you yesterday to ask your mother to mend your dress. WI13' didn't you do as I told you?" The child "hesitated a moment, then meekl3" said: "Please, teacher, moth er goes to church every evening aud says that she has got uo time, to tix things for me." The teacher blushed 3-es, blushed for the mother who parades her re ligion and ueglects her home but said not a word. This s or3 is an actual fact, says the Minneapolis Tribune. The incident occurred in one of the public schools of this city recently. Are there many mothers "like this in the city, -that boasts of her scholarly preachers, her churches and schools? Freaks of the St. Lawrence Klver. "The St. Lawrence river," said a Clayton member of the Cogburn club last evening, "is a most erratic as well as beautiful body of water. You have probably noticed several items in the newspaK'rs of vessels sailing on it running aground because of low water. Just think of it low water with the 1 almost continuous rains we have had the last spring, summer, and fall! But such is tho fact. And iu some other generally dr3' seasons the St. Lawrence has been unusually high. It is said that the grand old river has one of those low spells siuking lits, so to speak ever seven years, but I can't vouch for the truth of that. The fact remains, however that it is unlike any other body of water I know of, and when other streams and neighboring lakes are high the St. Lawrence is apt tomaVe a contrary showing, " Utica Observer. 1 , T-;., j FARM NOTES. Hogs need salt as much as other ani mals, and should receive it at regular intervals Tho best plant food for tho rose is a compost of well-rotted turf and cow manure in equal parts. Of all grasses for lawns, blno grass (sometimes called June grass) isdoubt lcss tho best. It is most persistent, too, and easily raised. The way to win a battle is to plan your campaign. Tho way to have a good garden is to think tlie matter over and lay your plans during the Winter. The man w ho makes just what the market wauls will come a good deal nearer making handsome prolits than will the man who does not know what the market wants. Experience has taught an Eastern farmer that timber taken from near the top of cedar, white oak or chestnut will last much longer than if cut from tho butt or near it. Wick's Magazine echoes the old fact that there are too many fences, as they are excusive, ugly and harbor weeds. How to lessen ami Improve them is an interesting question for every country neiirhlxirhood. F'or sheep-killing dogs, it is recom mended to build a rail pen tifteeti rails high, slanting inward. Put the dead carcass of a sheep inside. The dogs can climb up and jump in from the outside, but when in can not get out. Whi-n we fail of success in dairying t ie fault is often our own. Alwavs better ce whether it is or not. for when failures can if traced to ourselves the trouble is easily remedied, barring, of course, the natural dillieulty of over coming our own weaknesses. The rich black liquid that flows off the barn yard contains the wealth ot the farm. L'se absorbent niatej'ial and save it. The loss of liquid manure is great, and if saved would not ouly add fertilizing matter to the farm but in crease the value of solids. There is no prolit in rearing or keei- ing cattle, except through good feeding ! in all seasons of the year. No argu- I ment is required to prove the truth of ; this awrtioii. for even slightest rellec- ! tioit shows that prolit comes clearly 1 only through Utilization of food beyond '. the necessity for mainteinaltce. f The !ejfcr A;jrirulnri.t says that ' llnl-tciii-Frii hius niilnuiiilx'red all the ! other breeds of cattle at leading cm State Fairs last fall. This We.st- shows the increasing interest in dairy pro duction. The -strong point with the lied Polled ami Swiss cattle is that they are jrood dairy cattle as well as gr. In-ef animals, and tlie Itest milking families of the Short-horns are increas ing in (Hipularity in this count ry and KiiroN'. Still, the licef-produccr will ignore milk as of little consequence. Meanwhile the dairy cattle are in creasing in Mtpularity the world over. Pre-ideiit Chamberlain, of Iowa, in the Ohio 1'iinntr: "Clniuge brings ex-jM-nse and loss in all things, especially 1U farming, and should never lx; made without clear proof of a net advantage to l? gained. It will cost a thrifty farmer far more than fl.iM t to move to another Slate and get started as well again, and another fl, in 0 to learn new met hods for soil and climate. Will it Hiv to change? Take the two Slates of Ohio and Iowa grand Stales. Mv ad- v ice to nearly all the farmers in liolh Slates would In? to stay right where they are and do the best thev can there." A good road is always to le desired and is a source of comfort and con venience to every traveler. Good roads attract opulation. as well as good schools and churches. Good roads im prove t!:e value of the property, so that is said a farm lying live miles from market, connected by a bad road, is of less value than an equally good farm Iving ten miles away from the -market, connected by a good road. A larger had can be drawn hy one horse over a good road than by two over a bad one. Good roads encourage the greater exchange of products and com modities lietween one section and an other. The wool industry, the Department of Agriculture thinks probably repre senis $;K iti.oi m.i Mi per anuum.'aud the native woo! product is four times as large as iu l-Hljil, while the average fleece weighs as much as two of that ; date. Prior to that time there was a slow increase of numbers aud small ad vances iu quality- or weight. Large classes of goods w hich could not lw produced in this country, as was claimed by importers aud half believed bv consumers. are now p:oluced here iu nearly full supply of the home - demand. Their manufacture was ren dered jHissihle tirst by the effect of the war premium on gold and afterward ; by the influence of the tariff of 1&67. Professor Sanborn says that English rye grass, w hich in Great Britain is the backlxine of their hay crop, has the i distinction of lieing the only grass methodically improved by selection. To the English farmer it is what ; timothy is to us. He says iu Western ; j sourer: "I have grown it for six j years. No grass springs up so quickly I after sow ing and grows so rapidly in : the early Spring. Where a lawn is to j Imj quickly made this grass is sown j for this purjose, other lawn grasses be I ing sown with it. On our soil it yields j well and comes well up lo timothy for j the First year, but it tloes not stand at . all when sown alone, with rye. lodging I almost as flat as though rolled. It will j not Winter as well as the aliove named 1 grasses." A new method of dressing chickens for market is given b- a correspondent of tin? Massachusetts I'lnughman. The chicken is either lieheaded or knifed in the throat in the ordinary wav-, and is instantly immersed in a tub of cold water a ud held ther until he has ceased lo kick, when he is immediately taken out ami the feathers will come out bv the handful, as e.isily as if scalded. Care must be taken to hold the chicken long enough, but not too long iu tho water and remove the feathers immediately-. The skin is not torn or dis figured in an3' way, and the dressed bird presents a particularly attractive appearance. This wits done with spring chickens of about four pounds' weight. It required not over live minutes to kill and dress a bird in this wa3. Au Easter exchange says that the twigs ou man' tipple and pear trees ve showing the result of the tire blight and they demand attention at once. The leaves commence dying and the ends of the twigs dry up The warning is given and it should be speedily heed ed. for every where tho tree shows its leaves of mourning there is death, and if the dead is not takeu away from the living the blight will spread until the entire tree is gone. As yet no cure has been found for the disease, but it makes its exisLetice know n immediate ly and cau be checked by cutting off the limbs as rapidly as they are seen to bo affected and destroying them completely by burning. Iu this way the trees may perhaps be saved. The matter cau not afford to wait, however, for some convenient season. Secretary Husk has received a report from the Agricultural Experiment Station in Southwest Kansas, near Gar den Citv- announcing that it had lieen demonstrated that the arid lauds of the West can be made productive without the aid of irrigation. Experiment at the station named have proved that the desert land unirrigated will produce plentiful supplicated grasses ami forage plants, including sorghum, aud it u Ji-MsMkisMtai STMlDp-fcD STOCK BOOK. DON'T DELAY IN SECURING TERRITORY. Finest Book on Earth for the Farmer, Stockman and Blacksmith LARGEST PROFITS! For I'liUdinjitrt mat AprtU' Tma apply tn .G L. PERBLEE, 307 Sanscme 5t., San Franeiseo, Sal. fje lie ved that wheat, corn, and potatoes will grow equally :is well. Only two things were necessary lo accomplish these results: First, the ground was pulverized deeply to make a :-pa!!e of holding the water that falls in rain; second, the planted surface was covered after the sowing of the tirst crop w ith matted straw to keep the loan from blowing awa,y and with it tin; st-ed. Subsequent crops wil! require no straw S for the reason tnal the matted roots will keel the dry earth from be blow it awav bv tiie high wiuds. Snider, t he Tireless Walker. " 'Do von reniemlx-r Snider, the walk' Jng phenomenon?" asked a dim museum manager of a St. Paul Pionesr l'rex man. --Used to walk night and day iu various museums, couldn't stop, would die if he was o!T the track fifteen minutes, drew immense crowds, proved the best freak card ever played in this country. Well, let me give you some inside figures on the Sni; e " fake. "Along about three mouths liefore Snider was ppnmg on a guileless public I fount! mvscif every day running up against something in the papers about the wonderful Snider down in Tennes see, a man w ho couldn't stop walking long enough to eat his meals, and who had worn a path around his cottage six inches deep with his eretu-t! itinerancy. Every day and every week I saw these stories in the papers. It caught all the exchange editors in the country, and their shears couldn't dig into a paper fast enough to rip out something new alxoit Snider, how lie was st a tid ill!? it. how his irait was in- j creasing, how he had refused. thousands j of dollars to go to dime museums, how lie promised to tlie on the track, how badly his wife and family felt, and all that sort of rot. you know. Well, at the end of three months the museum got Snider. Ail this previous adver tising hadn't cost anything, because of the kindness ef the exchange editors. See? You know how Stiider drew, of course, but do you know how the snap was worked? "No? Thought not. Tes f.md a dreamy look crept into the lumiuotts orbs of the museum man, half senti mental, half sH-culativeJ ; yes, there were two Sniders twin brothers, looked just alike, dressed just alike. Whiie one was taking his'qiiiet snooze iu the little cottrvge, vou remember, be side the track, inacosibie to any in the ! audience, bis brother was spinning ' around the laps as if he were cbucd ' I bv bloodhounds. This is. truly, a wicked, wicked world.'' A Hot Hay In India. The hot winds set in early like a consuming fire, says a writer in the j Contemporary II-rife. The large double windows stood open all night, and were shut tip tight in the early j morning, the heavy Venetian doors pun- j side the glass doing their best to her- i metically seal the interior from the ' glare and heat. We had to start for our gallop by 5 o'clock or not get it at ( all except at the risk of a sunstroke.: The courts and public ofuces oened at 7. and closed for the day Itefore 1100:1. Then each man drove swiftly through j the furnace of shimmering "air to iiis ! darkened and silent homel A linger- ing bath and a languid breakfast J brought the hot hours to 1 o'clock. The" slow combustion of the suffocating afternoon was endured somehow under ; the punka, with the help of the endless bundles of papers in one's office Iiox, i read by chance rays which tiercel v j forced au entrance through every chink : in the double win-lows of slass and wikhi. .-vooiii o we an met ar. me raequet court, whose, high wall at that time cast a sufficient shadow". A couple of four-handed games (the doctor was grown too stout to play) left us steam ing at every pore and marking at eacft step a damp fiMitprint through our tennis shoes on the fi.-ivement. Then the delicious plunge in the swimming bath in the judge's garden, the one mo ment of freshness looked forward to throughout the long, exhausting day. A cheroot and an iced drink as we lay fanned bv the servauts ou long chairs at the top of the mount and presently. almost 111 a minute, tho sun iiad once more hidden his malignant face, and the blinding glare of day had given place to the stifling stillness of night. Liberality Pays. On he death of the elder Krnpp one of the tirst lets of his son anil s,u.Pes sor was to give to tho town of Essen ' the sum of JL"l.',0t.H) for public, improve- ( ments. which he followed by anothel donation of JLoO.OOO for the creation of a fund for the Itenetit of ' his sick, dis abled, or infirm workmen. The inter est in the welfare of the employes which was shown in this and similar ways has Ix-en verv beneficial to the firm's interests. The Krupp gun works has the pick of the labor market at the ordinary wages and during the recent strikes 111 western Germany they were in no wav affected. While "100,000 workmen from the majority of the large establishments in the neighborhood were on strike, caus ing an entire suspension of work, Krupp's works never had to suspend ojierations for an hour, though the total numler of persons employed ex ceeds twcntv-live thousand. Olasyow MaiL Look at Your Xose. A somewhat singular fact has been observed with reference to the shape of the nos-, or rather the setting of it in the face, so to speak. To be strictly correct, from the artist's oint of view", the nose should lie exactly in the mid die of the face, and at right angles with a line from the pupil ot" one eve to that of the olher. As a matter of fact, it is rarely or never found thus placed: it is almost invariably a little out of "the square," and rUe fact of it being so is often that winc-li leads-a peculiar ex pression and piquancy to the face. A medical writvr points out that t!-re are anatomical reasons why a slight deviation from the true central line may lie e.jected. and th:it tho io.se. which is found to lie "centrally lo cated" and accurately straight between the two eyes ma-, after all. be consnl ered an abnormal one; the only abso lutely true and correct organ .being, in fact, that which deviates a little either to the riirht or left. French Civil Service. The French civil service costs more now than it did twenty- years ago. In the budget of 1S71 the amount demand ed under this head was Jt'10, 1 20.000. Iu the budget of lSiX) the same estimate figures for within a trille of 17,000, J0. Aud there is said to lie uotlvtg whatever to show for the iucrcasod ex Oeudiliu'4. ' r .... -J. K? ' -- EXPERIENCED C0DHTY CANYASERS To make a success when tfcey have nnder taken the sale of CUT THIS OUT and re turn lo us with M cents and receive ten samples that w ill make you more money in a week than anything ever offered. Somethiiui-- new, durable and profitable. Jrd at once to NoitTHWKsimx ti ri.y Co., Jio: .''.5 F'irst street, Portland, Oregon. mi! COMPOSITION CO, Manufacturers 01 .: Fillers' Honors, -:- and -:- , Roller composnioa PADDING CEMENT ETC. Roller Casting a Specialty. 1 107 Fourth St,, East Portland, Or. FOOT-READING. Telling a lfanua't Character by the Ap pmraaefl of Her Pedal Extremities. "Madge" of London Truth' lias re ceived the following letter from a friend in New Y'ork: The newest idea here is to tell one's charcterfrom one's fooL I've had mine done, of course. Corns are translated into bad temper. Small feet mean that .their owners are quick, energetie,and given to flirtation. A lou foot indicates aesthetic tenden cies and a reserved disposition. The foot-reading woman gave me a Iiad character. She says I am a dangerous flirt, that my temper is hastv, and that I am too fond of candy. 1 asked ber if she could not throw in some allevia tion in the shape of a small good qual ity or so. Giving my best corn an extra tweak that 111r.de me feel sick she said she thought my eurves indicated a latent susceptibility to soft influences. "Y'oo mean that I might make a fool ; of myself some day. Tnere's not much balm in Gilead ia that suggestion, any way." "The angles about your heel prove that your common sense will al ways be in excess of "our emotions," was the reply. It's a comfort any way, to know that my head is stronger thau my heart, for I should so despise my self if ever I married a poor man for no lietter reason than that I liked him. The proper thing to jdo is to have a pla-ster cast taken of your right foot, and then get a professor of chiropody to tell you all about yourself. Large, weil-formed, symmetrical feet indi cate breadth of mind and lirmness of purpose. Broad-soled, fiat-heeled feet show a grasping disposition. The New York girl's fiot is pink, and white, and beautiful, but really strongs though it looks delicate The foot of a southern girl has a small ankle, high instep, etirved like a bow, and has a delicate tracery of veins all over the surface. Spanish and Cuban women have the most perfect feet- Sly stery of a Photograph. A well-known photogmplier will vouch for the following facts as told in the London TaUtet. lie was called in one day to take the photograph of a young girl of aliout twenty, who had died a few days iiefore. The corpse was laid out upon a bed with the bands clasped over the breast. Death bad come very gently to her. and, except lor the stillness, she lav there as 11 tn ! sleep. Some flowers had been strewn over the body, and on the floor by the side of the bed. and standing out in black relief against it. was the coffin. The photographer silently adjusted liis lens and took the photograph. During the ten minutes needed for the exjios tire the photographer paced ui and down in the long corridor outside the room where the dead girl lay. When he returned he saw on the lid of the coffin a flower, which was not there before. How did that flower vme there? No oue had entered the room, the windows were closed, and there was not a breath of air stirring. Whv ; w;s the flower now lying on the eoflin. when a few minutes Itefore it was on the bed letween the hands of the i corpse? The photographer listened. 1 but he could hear no sound except the i lieating of his own heart. Ia a few I niiitite-5 hm-rpp Iia li.fi-ivii.i. I tsv j dismiss the Question from his mind and , 1 . h;miif -;tt, v;n hi in. strument. Then he ;-; - t -""jr "r lhen lie paused possibly j me failing nower haa left a trace on ! the negative, or, as the day was j gloomy, the photograph might "not be ! quite successful. He would try again. I A second photograph was taken and I the artist returned home. That night, j sitting up late in his studio. he deveiop 1 ed the two negatives. The position of the corpse was not the same in the two negatives. Thn photographer strained his ev es, half disbelieving the evidence of his own senses, but there were the two. negatives before him, telling him in their silent, unmistakable truthful ness that lietween the taking of the two photographs the arm of the dead girl Iiad distinctly moved. The mystery of the flower on the eoflin was solvedbut it was succeeded by a mystery mora terrible still. Kasy Sleight of Hand. Take a pack of cards--having ar ranged the nine of cl's, the ten dia monds, and IU- ace of hearts in the middle of -the pack; then present the pack lo your audience, -inducing . or forcing." as it is called, one to draw the nine of clubs, one the ten of dia monds, and a third the ace of hearts, which, having insMcted. thev return to the pacsk. which is then shuillett. An assistant next produces a sword, the. blade of which has lieen thrust through three similar cards which are attached to an elastic cord fastened to tho Hii)t of the sword and the card are draw n down to the hilt. In-hind which I hey are concealed, while the tension of ihe elastic is held taut by l " ng fastened at the same place. Tli operator then throws the pack of carif into ihe . air and thrusts the sivoi" through them, at the same instant A Uts'uig the elastic cord, with the r. sun ihui uie inree canto-are i In :i iMWition o?e tlie iwili- ' - 'at . --- , .. . , ia..,. blade, tnus -rivm;! tho lmpres they were pierced by . passing X- the flying pack. f A Springfield (O.) Lairga"' ' roughly jostled ait elderly """ and bade him get out o- "A The elderly man was the av " ' ent of the road, and whe, arouud tiie baggage-man ,. hi ud a trunk aud kicked.--' r