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LEBANON E ...- '-ITT..... i r , i Tl it He Who thinks to please the world is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. jl VOL. IV NO. 17 LKHAXON, OREGON, Fit ID AY, JULY, 4, 185)0. 82.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. GENERAL NEWS Rev. Sam Jones Opinion Year 1SS0.- of the THE POPE DEVOTES FIVE I'Ol US TO NEWSPAPER 'REA1HNU. t'jrus W. Fields Beginning in Life. John W. Markay and his Wealth. Representatives Henderson of Iowa. Stern of Kentucky, ami Botthman of Ohio have only three legs in the party. Terrence V. Powderly. General Master Workman of the " Knights of l.ator, is enthusiastically in favor of ballot-reform. W. C. Shaw of Cincinnati, assistant auditor of the C II. & D. railroad, has become insane, his hobby toing that he - is the celebrated Dau McGinty. The Pope has changed his habits, lie. now devotes the time between half past 5 and 10 at night for the anient perusal of newspapers of all nations. Edward Atkinson declares that the annual production of eggs in this country equals in money value the country's annual total production of iron. Speaker Reed is not a great smoker, but in the seclusion of his home pull's a pije at intervals. He hates the odor of a cigarette and considers chewing bad fonu. President Camot, of France, is a close student of English, but is better V c . .i r . , ! and Shakspeare than with the modern j tongue. Empress Angtista left 7,000.000 marks. Her jewels and ornaments are bequeathed to personal f rieuds as keep- sakes. One valuable jewel is left to the ) Empress Victoria. t Mr. T. S. Perry, the writer who j3 i ...), f ,,...,.i v,-t- 5 and the great-grandson of Franklin is j in Europ. anTis bnsy on his "History j of "breek Literature." " Marshal MeMahon, of France, it is j understood, has completed his "Mem-I oirs," but they are to be printed for J private circulation only, and only a few copies in all will be issued. ' Richard von Volckmann, the great ' surgeon, contributed on his deathbed i 159 marks to the fund for the erection i of a monument of the Emperor Fred-j crick on the battlefield at Worth. j The Rev. Sam Jones declares that he ; is not an alarmist; but he adds, orai- nously, T know the vear 1890 is going to be an'epochal vear, and somethings ; . - . .. V. . have gone just as far as they can go." The Duke of Westminster is believed to be the anonymous donor of half a million dollars for a convalescent hos- pital in London. The Duke's income j is $5,000 per day, chiefly from rents in lielgravia. I Cyrus W. Field is now three score anil ten years old, but still in active I business life. His first employment j was as errand boy for A. T. Stewart at j $2 a week. His duties required him to , open and sweep out the store. j Judge Kelly told a friend of his some time previous to his death that the trouble with his jaw grew out of a habit j he had of going to bed with a quid of j tobacco in his cheek a practice which j he had kept up from his boyhood. Joseph Howe, one of 'he GOO who I made the famous eharge at Balaklava, lives in Hartford, and is prostrated by I the prevailing epidemic He says he had rather go through a dozen Bala- ' klava experiences than have the grip. There is a vast deal of public discus sion at Allegheny, Pa., as to the organ ization and management of the library which Mr. Carnegie is founding, which is very pleasing to Mr. Carnegie, who looks for wisdom to proceed from such counsels. Gen. Jackson, according to a New Orleans antiquarian, appeared on the battlefield at Chalmette togged out in queer style. He wore a iuil suit of regimentals save and excepting the chapeau bras. Instead of that he wore a silk hat of the stovepipe'51 or chimney-pot'' style. Prince Louis Nepoleon is advertising freely his reasons for leaving the Italian army and entering the Russian army. One of bis Freuch organs says: 'Prince Louis Napoleou told a promi nent statesman that Crispi was prepar ing to light Erance. This was the reason why the Prince resigned the Italian army." The late Henrv W. Grady was a great raconteur. He was a master of dialect, and was never afraid of giving a good story plenty of coloring. It was considered a remarkable thing in the oflice of the Atlanta Constitution if a week went by without a new yarn from Grady. "His stories were always witty but never vulgar. The town of Abbot, Me., claims one of the best marksmen in the State in the person of Mrs. George Brown. Not long ago she saw a fox crossing the field a short distance from the house Taking her husband's rifle and raising the window she drew a bead on Master Reynard, planting the ball fairly in the neck. The distance was twenty-two rods. The Rev. Dr. Collier tells this story of the elder Dumas: He was invited to bring his daughter to a reception given by a Parisian woman who was a little way off the strict line of society. He went, but he did not take Mile. Duinas. The hostess asked him why the young lady was not present, "There are two good reasons." answered Dumas "the second of which is that she has a bad cold." John Mount of Covington. Ky., is said to be the oldest criminal in the United States. He is nearly 90 years of age, and fifty-six years of his life liave been spent in the various peni tentiaries in the United Stales. He has committed almost every crime except that of murder. He is liv ing a secluded life at present, and seldom goes on the The Empress Eugenie has just pre sented to the fathers who have the keep ing of the mortuary chapel at Farn borough, where the remains of Na poleon III. and the Prince Imperial are TDtered, a magnificent alter cloth, made - from her wedding gown. The cloth has been made by the Empress her nelf. It is tt'unmed with the lace and embroidery Vrhich ornamented the - dress. . -Iaj. Serpa PLntoNjvhose name occurs fpequenXlrQ dispatches conr-ected with African affairs, a native of Portugal and about 40 yeai. old. He joined the Portuguese army tni8G3, Aose prettv ,1.- .1 t. VI ) . . . I to tne Ktng in 1S80. He was in the I Zambesi war in lS'ji). and commanded the African native troops. During ' 1877-'79 he crossed Africa from Ben- j guela to Durban. j John W. Mackay, whose wealth has j not made him so famous as his wife's j extravagance in spending it, is 55 years .' old. He has a hard face, whose features have not a single redeeming ! virtue. Mrs. Mackay, who has known j much poverty in her'life, lias a strong- ly developed genius for spending j money in a loud and luxurious way. ) Mr. Mackay lives three-fourths of the vear in California, where he enjoys a; freedom from restraint and etiquette : j which makes his elegant residence in I j London a bore. J To show how abject is the worship 1 j of royaly in India the following ex- tracts from a poem written in Bombay i ; to welcome Prince Albert Victor of ' j Wales are pertinent: "A Prince inde- j pendent in diguity, high in beauty and j j grace, as lovely as the nor.tt, the world : boasts of the abilities of him descended ! from a royal line most exalted. Born ; j of an heir-apparent to whose feet the i highest heavens do reverence, to whom , ; the world far and wide pays homage, j j the confronting enemy yields readily I ! to his sword," etc j i What queer preparations some ; ; actors make tor their roles! A mem- j her of the Amtorg troupe says that I Herr Possart, before stepping on the stage bends his body forward" nutil it j forms a right angle with his legs, j shakes his head vigorously, and then ; stands up straight again. "He has thus ; thrown off his own individuality and 1 taken on that of the character "which I he is to play. It is no longer Possart who stands before yon. but Fabrieius, Shvlock. Behrends, Bernick. or what ever his role for the evening may be. The Neglect of the Tosemlte Valley. "A competent judge has character ized the announced policy of an -active member of the Yosemite Valley Com mission to vut down every tree (in the valley) that has sprou'eil within the last thirtv vears as a poiicv which, if it weie carried out, would eventually result m an irreparable calamitv a calamity to the civilized "'rr ,3,. represented world.' This aring as dec j that his policy has the support of the commission: it remains to be seen whether his associates ill follow such, fatuous leadership. But the history of the Yosemite makes it only too proba ble that a crisis in its management is near at hand. The American people are probably not aware of their proprietorship in the Yosemite. In 1864. by act of Congress, the valley and the grounds iu the vicinity of the Big Trees of Mariposa were granted to the State of California with the stipulation nevertheless that the said State shall accept this grant upon the express conditions that the vi; premises shall be held lor pnlilie use. i resort, and recreation; shall lie inalien I able forall time,' etc. Thus is recognized i bv law the moral claim of all humanity to an interest in the preservation of the wonders of the world. A citizen of New York is as much one of the owners of the Yosemite as a citizen of California, and his right to be heard in suggestion or protest is as undoubted. There are, unfortunately, few resident Cali fornians who are well acquainted with the valley. An actual count has indi cated that one-half of the visitors are foreigners, chiefly Englishmen, while one-fourth are from the Eastern States. The opinion of these 'outsiders' miht be supposed to have a special value, being disconnected with the local dis sensions which have gathered about the valley. ... -It was unfortunate that the first public presentation of the subject and the resultant investigation by the legis- . lature of California were complicated ! by personal, political, and commercial j considerations to such an extent as to j obscure the important point Has the treatment of the Yosemite landscape i been intrusted to skillful hands? We have before us the report of this inves- j gation, together with a large number; of photographs showing the conditions j of portions of the valley ln-fore and j after the employment of the ax and the ; plow. ithout going luto the detaus of - the alleged abuses, monopolies. lines, and persecutions, it is easv to j see in the above testimony and photo graphs abundant confirmation of ! those who hold that the valley has not j had the benefit of expert supervision. ; In saying this we are not impugning j the good faith of the past or present ; commissions or commissioners, ap- j pointed for other reasons than their j skillfulness in the treatment of land- i scape. They are certainly to be ac- quitted of any intention to injure the j valley: that " would be unbelievable. It is no reproach to them that they are trained foresters. -Their responsibility. however, does not end there; it is, in fact, there that it begins; for, in the absence of knowledge of a professional nature, it should be their first aim to obtain the very best man or men avail aide to do this work.'' Vcnlury Topics of Ike Times. She Was Vigilant. A county treasurer in Nebraska went away from home leaving f3,"0 iu the house. He told his wife to look out for robbers. She borrowed a gun, sat up until midnight, aud then shot a mau who was try ing a window. After her shot she heard her husband call out, and then found he was the chap she drew a toad on. He is trying to make it all clear to the papers, but his wife) carries a look of surprise aud says nothing. iM troil Free 1'res.i. Winter ori The Farm. There are many home enjoyments to he had iu a family which are an agree able change after the hurried lators of the growing season, but eating pop corn and apples, and warming the feet and reading the rural papers will satis fy a more limited ambition than a good farmer should have. The isolated fanner should realize that to his wife and children the home and surround ings he provides for them constitute the world. Because you are interested in one book or subject you must not expect all to to. Consult taste and ages, and provide a variety'. We know some good honest men "who on account of early training conscientiously think it would be setting a bad example and violating their duty to their families to play a game of cards, yet these same meli will go to the country posl-ofiices every night and sit in an air blue with tobacco moke, and listen to vulgar and profane stories by the hour, aud feel that their toys are all right if they are only with them. i Go out evenings and visit your neigh bors. It is unpleasant to come home to a cold house, but it is not as bad as 9. scattered and dissatisfied family or a clouded life, and lasts but a few min utes before the iis started. Mai SPORTING NOTES. California's Salvator I lit Kin;; of the Turf. JOHN I.. St'LLlVAN'S MISSISSIPPI TR0U1LR ENDED. (real Raring Events. A Milliter's A Stop to Sunday Rail Plaj ing. Joe MrAulitfe is in Iteland. nub. Kd. Haitian and meet iu a rare. O'Connor will soon The Taeoma rare meeting promises to in' an interesting one. A new frame has been introduced in the east named water lo. Senildine is toginning to show up in front at the Shccphead track. Two one armed men fought a pri.e fight to a finish in Kentucky. A colored oarsman, named J. I. itunt, of New Yoili, is cming to tlie front. Several Fasten) States are attempting to stop base-ball playing on Sunday. Dr. W. F. Carver, the famous shot, has gone to Russia on an exhibition tour. Australians, it is claimed, will tot their lat cent on Jackson against Sulli-1 van. ; Bcbester. X. Y., baseball Hubs have l)?en indicted for playing ball on Sun d: y. Pierre I-orillard thinks nothing of In-t-i ting f lO.OTO on one of bis homes in a rare. Together with Sullivan. Muldoon was ; fined $"-'."V, and Cleary and Donovan f 10 ! each. Walter C. Iwdim, the fat sprinter, re cently ran a quarter of a mile in 4(1 2 .i seconds. The result of -John I.. flirt with the Mississippi line of fSOO. Sullivan's con authorities is a New England farming lands are In-ing ' bought up anl convened into vast bunt-; ing and fishing ground. Rtldd IV' le recently paid $15,! 00 for ; Lady Hullion. This is the larger price ever paid for a Michigan trotter. i Captain Sorcho, the rival of Captain Roynton, will sim from St. Paul to ! New Orleans during the summer. Uncle Pob. Scroggins' horse, won the! Derby nice at Chicago the 21st inst. ; Baldwin's Santiago came iu second. Duncan C. Rot has leen twh-e de feated by Professor Miller in a :eiT I'oman wrestling match in Australia. A newpaer nine defeated a team of ' policemen at MinneaMlirt rvrentlv in a ' game of IuisHkUI. The score stood 'U to .'4. i Eastern Sporting men are anxious to ; m itch Jim Cortolt against Sullivan, ; ' now that lie is out of bis Mississippi ; trouble. Meredith Stanley, the world's ebam- pion bridge jumper, made a siircesfnl : jdive from the I'incinnati sus-nsion i budge June 17th. ! i ! The California Athl.dir Club, of San j : Francisco, have determined to light the j f action taken by the iovernor to Miiress ' prize ticiiting in the State. I Owing to a dispute over Monthly's ra-e, in which O'Connor was defeated by j Stansbnrv, at Sydney, Australia, the : j two oarsmen will row again. A El Paso, Tex , Herald, of St. Paul, whipix-d tl-.e terror of tin Southwest, ; : Tom Standard, a colored man, in just ' one round tor a purse of $ 2.V(. ; A troup of lady swimmers with Willie' j I'.erkwuh, the champion swimmer of ; England, will visit this country in the; near future, giving erforinances. St. Julien, 2:ll,o. is now 23 vears old. ! His earnings on the turf have been 4',0.- OK). He will live his remaining life in ease, with the same care as was tostow ed on old Dexter. Recently at ihe Terre Haute track! there were shown together Axtel, 2:12; : Sunol, Adonis, 2:14; Kov ; Wilkes, 2:P'4 ; Johnston, 2:Mi'4 ; Palo ! Alto, 2:12'4 ; an.l Houri, 2:17. What a i galaxy of sjeed ! j Kilrain was present at the trial of Sul- livan in Mississippi, and at the close of i the trial challenged Sullivan to tight to a i finish with either bare knuckles, or light . j-loves, London prize ring rules, the ; tight to come off' in Fort Worth, Tex. From the time of the inauguration of; the Derby rare in iHSo, the following five f fleet-footed flyers fiom Pacific Coact ' farms have won : olaiite, in the first: year. Silver Cloud in 'Ml, C. 11. Todd in '87. Emperor of Norfolk in ami Sk- j kane in 'S!l. j In the match race tot ween Salvator,: winner of the Suburban, and Ten- j ny, the California horse, Salvator came i in a half bead in the lead, making the! mile and a piaiter in the remarkable! time of 2 :(r, the fastest time beietofore ; made being 2 aHi 2 A match has been made for a race l e , tween Salvator and Tenny, lor f.,000a- j side. The Coney Island Jockey Club of- : fers 2,5(M1 in addition if the record oft 2:06'. is broken. The Brighton Beach j Association oll'ei-s $10,000 additional to j have the race on their track. El Hanlan, having expressed bis in-1 tent ion to challenge O'Connor iminedi-1 ately upon bis return from Australia, ' .Mr. Joseph Rogers has authorized the j Toronto Empire to state that Hanlan j need not wait for O'Connor's return to -: agree upon the terms of a match, as be i is w illing to ost a forfeit at once and! sign articles for a race to take place j within the mouth following O'Connor's arrival for anything from $1,00.) up and ! over any distance. "Gene" Maeadier, the champion long distance swimmer of St. luis, for the second time swam across the East, river at New York, June 22nd. This time he was bound with a roe from bis ankles to bis shoulders, his feet were tied to gether and bis bands were fastened at. his side. In each hand be carried a two tound dumbbell, cither of which would have sunk an ordinary swimmer. In the rooms of the Golden Star Social Club of Brooklyn, N Y., recently, while two amateur pugilists were contesting for honors, the mother of one of the boys rushed into the room armed with a heavy Hub, and succeeded in laying out a half dozen spectators and putting, the rest to flight. A Bit of History. ! Ex-Sergeant Ilenrv P. M. Horn. of tha Third New York Cavalry In the Union f(irfiifin i Army, now residing at'2646 Emerald "ul,,,,m street, told how the editor of the New berry (S. C.) Herald and Jefferson f ' Davis came into the Union prisoners! ; j camp at that plaee anl gave them the news of the murder of Abraham Liu- ; coin. j They halted at Newberry, S. C, the ! prisoners being encamped in a woods j ; near the town. They had been there ; 1 two days, when one "afternoon Jeffer- J I son Davis, accompanied b? a tall old j . man with long gray leari, came into 1 camp. The prisoners were assembled around their visitors, and the tall man i ! auilressed them, saying: ! "Men, I have some very sad news to i impart to you. I am the editor and proprietor of the Newberry JIcrahL. ) You see yonder a Confederate flag dis- idayed it half-mast over the JJi-rnld inilding. That is because Abraham ! Lincoln is dead. He has been mur i dered bv a dastardly assassin. 1 have i received the news "by telegraph and i have it printed in the Herald, of which i I will give you each a copy." i He then narrated in graphic lan- : guage the story of the murder so far as j j it had been received. Then resuming ! ! he said: "I am very sorry that such a j tern hie event has oecurreu. it is ' dreadful to think that such a lire-eater as Andrew Johnson should now be- come President of the United States, for it is idle to deny that the South i must capitulate; that he should occupy ! the chair of a Washington." Jeiierson Davis then sunt: "I am sorry Lincoln was not spared to serve his second term. It would have lccn better lor tne nuiui. as ne wxs a lenient man, and the accession of Mr. Johnson is a great disaster to both North and South." After some other remarks the editor repeated. lt would have been far better for the South if Lincoln had lived." Mr. Horn gives the language as he rememlers it of each of the men who imparted the news of the assassination, and it made a deep impression Uxu him. The prisoners wept when they heard the mournful intelligence. FhilatUlphia I'ress. Ventilation. We have now come to the time of year when we shall sit with our win dows closed and our doors also, says the LadU-i" World, and shall conse quently feel the loss of that pure air which we have hitherto admitted through open doors and windows. Not onlv shall we suffer this loss, but we shall have to endure the untold evils that accompany the warmth of stoves I and furnaces. i We can do much, however, to niiti ' gate these evils by judicious veutila : tion of the houses, but it will reuuire i some management and a little study to accomplish this. The simplest method of veutilatiug a room is by opening the ' windows from the top and putliug it up from the bottom, allowing the foul warm air to escape, and pure air to en : ter. At open fireplace helps greatly ' to keep the air pure. If the bedroom ; windows are guarded by shades and ; blinds one at least mav remain, open all night, provided it cloes not subject i the sleeper to a draught, and the effect ' will be highly beneficial. They should most certainly be done in any apart ment heated by a stove or furnace, as carbonic-oxides escape from either as ordinarily mauufactured- Air is sure to become unwholesome whenever it stagnates long, so that the best thing one can do is to make it cir culate, or at least to set it in motion outward from the room, aud this can j to done, as we have said, by opening' the windows at the top aud bottom. If windows aud doors are opposite each other, open both, if it is ouly for sixty seconds, and let a strong rush of cold air come iu; and this will drive the heated foul air out. On coming into the room after this ventilation, no oue with auy sensibility can fail to discover the healthful differ ence between foulness and puritv. This simple act of veutilatiou should be per- formed in every sleeping chamber where lamps have been lighted and people silting before retiriug. This thorough air cleansing will be needed in addition to opening the sashes aud leaving them thus with bliuds closed aud shades drawn down. THE LUSCIOUS PERSIMMONS- A Rich Autumn Fruit Now to lie Seen the Markets. Persimmons are now at their height, says the Philadelphia Times, and may be" seen in the streets for sale, particu larly by the Enterprising colored wo men from New Jersey. The persim mon, when fully ripe and touched by early frosts, is a delicious fruit, with a peculiar, agreeable flavor; but when green, or even half-ripe, there is noth ing in the world worse for puckering up the mouth, sometimes to an extent positively painful. The persimmon is at its best when it "squashes" up into jelly in handling or eating. Tho per simmon is about the size of an apricot or plum, generally gloto-shaped. al though sometimes elongated like a plum. When ripe the fruit has a transparent, purplish bloom on the out side, while within it is of a rich flame color, deeper than orange. It grows on a large, handsome tree, scientifi cally known as the diospyros Virgin iana. There is only one species known in this country, and stands as the sole representative here of the ebony fam ily. Like the ebony, it has hard, black wood. As is so often the case with a single species in the United States, its near est relative is found in Japan. The Japanese persimmon is a smaller tree, with larger fruit than the American. A specimen of the Japanese may be seen in Horticulture hall, in the west park. The name diospyros literally means "pear of the gods." A tree of the order of persimmon was known to the ancients. It is believed that the lotus eaters fed upon the fruit of such a tree, differing, however, from the com- mon persimmons in having narcotic properties, ihe lotus. However, was something quite distinct. It was, iu fact, the nymphalia, allied to the well known water lily, i The name, persimmon, is probably of Indian origin. In some sections of I the country tlie fruit is known us the j' date-plum in fact, it does taste a lit tle like dates, it ever the persimmon was largely used in domestic economy the fact is scarcely known to-day. The tree is hardly common enough to be depended upon for any abundant sup plies. Accordiug to the old nursery rhyme, however, it might seem that persimmons had a place in the festivi ties of the winter season. The rhyme is as follows: Punkln pie, 'slmmon beer, CUriatunui comes but y$J a year." EASTERN NEWS. Properly lo caieu. e Conlis- AN AIR SHIP TO (10 OVER THE NIAiiRA FALLS. fliirago's Railroads Tied Ip. Onsus Frauds. English Sy ml h airs at Work. Forest fiies are doing a great deal of i damage iu Colorado. j The Pennsylvania Colliery at Mt. Car i mel, the latest in that reion, is on ; tire. It is reported (hat ten cow-!xyx have j leen murdered by In. bans near Setoie, ; Texas. j The lalKirinp men's strike, which lias I Iwenjn forre at leiiver for Home time, is j virtually at an end. New York is importim, ire from ei)in ports, where lalwr is so cIumu the cot of harvesting it is small. for th.it j Galveston has a'colored IMtlZl' st vie w.ith mid as .Ml,t 0.). lives in elegant i house servants employes none but white, j ! Mrs. Harriet A. Ketehum Won thi'; j prize for the lest design for a soldier's j ' monument offered bv the state vi Iowa. A bill has leen introduced in Congress making it a misdemeanor to use the : United States flag as an advertising pla- ; cant. Indications are now that every road tunning into Chicago will le tied Up. Any amount of jK-rishable freight is l-e-ing lost. Major Isaac iMughty, a retired naval, officer, dietl at IVkeepsie, N. Y., at the ageoflU. He served the t ioverntnent over 'oitv vears. Paw Paw, an Illinois village, was vis- ited bv a terribly fatal cyclone, June j 20th, leaving a score of the inhabitants! dead and dying. Three deserate men lassoed a Kansas I lty capitalist in Iowa, dragged him from his buggy, and released him iijton i his signing a check for $1.0iX). j Rangor, Me , is thoroughly tired of ' prohibition. Republicans ami Pe.no- crats have joined hands and started the j toil to rolling for a license campaign. ! A coach load of fifteen seminarv girls i rolled down a twenty-foot embankment a Fredricksburg, Pa., June lUtb. Srv ' eral were seriouslv injured, but none fa- tally. The Western Union Telegraph Com j pany are using every effort to defeat the proposit ion of Postmaster-General Wan j ainaker to establis.li a Hstal telegraph I svstem. The Order of Railway Telegraphers of: of New Yotk have added an amendment to their by-laws providing for the expul- sion of any member using bis iiitluen-.-e j in creating strikes. Professor Cam pbell will in the near; futnte make a trip over the Niagara Kails i in his air ship. The balloon that is to ! float the ship will to tilled with gas from j a natural well near there. j Two little children, while asleep on a Georgia railroad track, were run over by , i a train. The entire train passed over the younger without injuring it, but cut I off the leg of the o'der one. Rev. .1. C. A. tirumbine, the tost known Unitarian clergvman in Missouri. is advocating the indulgence in Sundav sports, lie claims that they tend to keep jieople from the saloons. An eminent physician of Philadelphia claims that the wi-Je-upread discussion atout the I'l-evalei-ce and treatment of hydrophobia has bad an effect to pro mote the symptoms of the disease. Millionaire Mackev has brought suit ' against Cassius H. Keed ami Edward S. i Stokes for the sum of f:.:i2,.r)!i7, money I loaned them to furnish the world-famed; barroom of the Hoffman I louse, N. . Major A. T. Sears of Portland, Or., has j organized an Ei glish syndicate with a ; capital of a quarter million dollais, that! will at once begin ttie project ol putting 5UO.0O-J acres of land under irrigation in , Peru. A showman raised, among others, a Confeilei ate flag, in the town of New Cumberland, W. Va. A riot was pre- ! vented onlv bv the decisive action ot the authorities iu having the flag taken down. The Ohio Prohibition State Conven tion adopted, June ISHh, a platform de manding Congress to pass a prohibition law, an arbitration law to settle lahor disputes, a tariff for revenue only- ami a free coinage of silver. j Big census frauds are coming to the I surface in Minneapolis. Seven enumer ators were arrested on the 17th, charged with swelling the totals. An ambition to onWount their rival city, St. Paul, caused the crooked work. A trio of Italians, including one man and two women, who arrived in New York June 17th, were soon after arrest ed, for exchanging bogus Italian notes for our money. They belong to a noto rious counterfeiting gang. The Edmunds Confiscation bill passed the Senate June 2lst. It calls for the confiscation of the property of the Polyg amist t'burch, the same to to devoted to the use ami tonefit of the common schools of Utah Territory. While a work train on the Milwaukee roail had been deserted at a railroad boarding house, a tramp entered the cab of the locomotive, opened the throttle and pulled out. An engine was sent in pursuit, finding the train seven miles distant, abandoned. At Greensburg, Ta , Dr. W. J. Han mer, a popular dentist, had a dispute with bis wife. She called in her father i as licace-maker, when the doctor knocked him down with a cane. Mrs. Hanmer j se zed a levolver ami shot her husband, inflicting a fatal wound. The wife of Rateliffe, the wounded Texas-Pacific train robtor, who died June 22 ml, has furnished the authorities a full statement of tlie recent sensational robtoiy. She states that, persons now in jail, Detective Williams, Napoleon Mc Daniel aud John Browley, with b r hus band, committed the robbery. McDan iel went thtough the express'car, while Browley and Williams stood guard. Rateliffe did the shooting which disabled the express agent with- Williams' Win chester, and McDaniel shot Rateliffe through mistake, supjiosing in the dark ness that the trainmen bad armed them, selves and were determined to resist Tbe woman did not in any way counte nance or eneourage the robtory but was forced to silence. 4 - v j ABRAM'S METEMPSYCHOSIS. Changed by a Sad Accident From B Pant'er Into a Man. Among the negroes of sonthern Ar kansas there is a belief in the transmi gration of the soul, writes Opie P. Read in the Arkansaw Traveler. Their be lief, however, is different from the metempsychosis of more enlightened men, for 'instead of believing that the j soul of man after death enters the body j of an animal or bird, they believe that the soul of an animal or bird after I death enters the body of a man in short, every man represents some I I animal, reptile or bird that lived years j 1 ago. s ! Abram Carter, a verr old negro, who j , lives on the Sanders plantation, when asked why he believed so absurd a the- ory thus answered: ! Recaze it's de truth, sah. It ain't j no veresav wid me, caze I knows it to : 1 1 ..I...'.. f....l. C . ..: .. ..!! er mall e - dog. Why? Caze he acks ) : like el dog. Why do he ack like er i i d'ig? Caze he's trot de soul o er dog; i datmout. a lived er hunuud years : ergo." I ; "1)op a man ever know to what j ! animal his soul belonged in the past?"' j 'Oh, yas. sah. 'specially dem wbuti : halt got er powerful rieolleektion. I knowd er man jiowerfu! smart man s he wins, too dat ricollecks might well : when he wu er owL flyiu' 'bout de I neighborhood." j "Do you remember w hat you were?" "Jest ez well ez ef it wuz vistidr, ; salt." "What were yon?" "I wuz er pant'er, sah." "A panther!" "Yas. dat's whut I wuz. It wa'n't fur from yere, down in de river bot toms yatider. I ricolleck play in' wid my mammy, one o' de tinei'-lookin' pant'ers dat dar wuz in de whole conn try. I hail two brurs and one sister. We lived in de holler o' er gre't big cottonwood tree, an' I reckon we wuz erbout ez hannv ez anr fam'lr o pant'ers in de curmonity till grief eome j ter us. Uneday mammy she tole ns dat. as times wnz putty hard, she would hatter go out an' git suthin' fur os all ter eat. She tole us dat er awful monster called mau had jest come round, an' dai we must be keerfnl ter stay in the holler tree lessen de man would kill us. Wall, after mammy went erway my oldist brur he gnnter talk. Tell you whnt le's do,' he says, 'le's go off down yander by de branch an' play wharde sun is so' bright. Den sister she say No. we nius' stay yere. You ricolleck whut mammy said.' Dat's all right. my brur 'lowed. Wea been play in roun' vere fur er mightv Ifimr tilt n fltar in li I 1. m.....,l long time an dar am' uothiu' happened Jit-' "Wall,' the old roan continued, after a slight pause, "we went down by de branch an' "gunter plav in de sun. De day wuz beautiful an tie dogwood was iu bloom an' de wild plum bushes blowed a bref o sweetness. All at once sister she say: 'Look yander. Whut'sdatr I looked an' I know'd it nius' to er man, "caze I netor seed nuthiu 4ike it befo'. Dar he come with suthin on his shoulder. Oh, look at him,' said brur. "He aiu't so awful, is he? Why, he couldn't hurt us ef he wanted ter. He ain't got but two legs an' I knows he couldn't ketch ns ef he wanted ter. Mammy is awful sluttish to get skeer'd o' sich er thing. I'm gwine up an' take er good Uok at him. Me au" sister an' my udder brurs tried to 'suade him not ter. but on he went an we crouched down an' watched de outcome. It wan't long iu comin'. De man he sorter jumped when he seed my brur au' snatched de thing otlen his shoulder, hil' it out au' den dar come er awful noise wid smoke. De smoke c Pared erway.w'i-e we crouched down closer an" closer, an' den we seed our briidder tnnibliri' over an' over on de leaves au' blood spin tin' outen his ! Superintendent Geddes of the Pendle head. Den sister mighty tender j ton school, while giving his boys a batli hearted she wuz, too juinjied up au' i in t,,e river- was compelled to jump in, run ter brur. au' all at once de man he!clo,hes aTul a,l in ordr to save one snatched suthin outeu his belt dida' I fro,n dro nim?- kuow whut er toll wuz den au' den j A charge of mnrder in tto first degree dar come ei uulder noise aliuos er iias l(et.n brongbt against Herbert G. loud ez de fust one. De smoke cl'ared ! Redmond and John W. Iavis for the erway an' dar laid sister dead. 1 1 killing of Wm. Clark on the 25th inst., veari'l er noise I think I veard it but ! at Hot Springs. den dar' wnz wuz nothin. "It 'iiearcd ter me dat I t tuck er long nap," the old negro continued, after a pause. "It "peared ter me dat fur er long time somebody wuz tryin' ter wake me, but dat I wuz drowsy an' couldn' be woke. Den er light gunter glimmer, sorter. All 'round me wuz er awful dark night, an' I hil' out my han's toward de light. It growed brighter an' brighter, an all at once I lay on er bed. I yered er song.I yered er" banjo, an de light come iu at de winder. Er 'oman gethered me close up ter her, au' she sung er tune an' I dozed off ter sleep. "I woke au' den I was rnnnin' ronn de yard wid nothin' on but er shirt. De hens roun de barn wuz er cacklin' an' I noticed dat de red birds wuz buildin' dar nests. Er man lifted roe up in his arms an' er woman tole him ter look lout, an' all at once I went ter sleep ergain. When I woke de hens wuz singiu' an' de men wuz pitchin' liav otlen de wagon. 1 thought an thought, an' den I knowd dat 1 wuz er boy. an' would be er man. Dat's de truth," the old man added. "I uster be er animal, but now I's or pusson, an' when I quits to in' er pusson, de lawd ouly kuows whut l's gwine tei be." J 6 The Horse-Hatred 'Snake. The "horse-hair" snake is a common source of error. The creature that is usually called by that name origin ates and has a life history as follows: A small flesh-colored mile is in water. It changes to a purplish lead color and comes to the top of the water, where it sports for a time, and when looking across water of a still evening.especial lv if looking toward the setting sun. one can see masses of these tiny creat ures that look like smoke on the water. When they reach this stage of develop ment they leave the water and get out on the leaves and grass. Here, as op portunity offers, they attach them selves to the feet of " large insects especially of grasshoppers, katydids, etc. The legs of these insects being hollow thev crawl up them, where they grow till they fill the legs and some times the cavities of the bodies of these large insects. 1 his accounts for the fat, clumsy condition of many of these insects. After a rain in which the insects drown the full-fledged "horse-hair snakes" come forth to delight the small boy aud to interest the student of nature, after which they lay eggs in the water, if it does uot dry up too soon, and curl around them for a time, and about the time the eggs hatch into the little flesh-eolored mites first described the 'snakes'' die. Sou;h African farmers are greatly annoyed by baboons. The auimals kill their sheep, rob their bee-hives, aud i tear dowu fruit trees. COAST NEWS. Pacific Coast Frnit-Growm' portunity. Op- Mrf 0MB IN THE WALLA WALLA PEN ITENTIARY. iSta; e Robbers at Work ii California. Pardons Granted. f nines vs. Japanese. Oakland, Cal., carpenters are again ; out on a strike. North Yakima is to have electric lights I and motor lines. Sy.n Francisco's census taking lias been i V"" Non-union moulders are toingr roughly handled by union men at Seattle. . While the water permits lively boat ing is toing done on the Upper Willam ette. The discovery of a rich silver-bearing ledge is refwirted near North Yakima, Vah. Salem, Or., is confident that bv sink ing wells natural gas ran to obtained in t abundance Portland promises this year to eclipse all past attempts at celebrating the Fourth of Joly. California and Oregon fruit-growers will reap a rich harvest, according to re ports, for the Eastern markets. P. J. Hunstock, postmaster of Cracker City, Baker county, dropped dead from beat t disease, June 22nd. Census Enumerator Kelly, of Portland, is anxious to resign, but the bureau in sists that he finishes his work. Charles H. Bawden has been convict ed of murder in the first degree, for kill ing Lillie M. Price at Eureka, Cal. California is taking tho lead of all other States in the matter of making a grand display at the coming world's fair. A boat was capsized the night of the 21 st off West Point Lighthouse, Pnget Sound, and three men were drowned. Pacific Coast fruits will have no com petition in the East, as crops are almost a total failure from New York to Florida. William Roberts, of Klamath County, and J. A. Monra of Grant County, have been pardoned from the Salem peniten tiarv. J. Sloate Fassett, Secretary "of tto Republican National Committee, has been making a general tour of the North west. By July 1st, the postoflice force ot Se attle wi'f to increased, thereby saving the residents of that city a great deal of annoyance. The San Francisco pool-sellers bave lost thousands of dollars by tto tapping of the telegraph wires. Two men were caught in the act. A 13-year-old19 boy's biography, por trait and history as a criminal occupied over a column's sjiace of the San Fran cisco Examiner, June 20th. Frank E . Vaughn, ai rested some time snce for taking a registered letter from the Enterprise post office, was acquitted June 25th by a jury in Portland. A young Swede committed suicide at .Missoula, Mont., last week. Homesick ness drove hi in to the act, as he was here alone, bis relatives all toing in Sweden. The Mexican Government is deter mined to secure redress for the attempt of the English company, assisted by cer tain citizens of the United States, to sieze Ix)wer California. The Raker County Irrigation Com pany has a capital stock of $350,000. They will take water from the Powder river, and build a large canal to irrigate farms throughout that valley. A Victoria B. C, dispatch of June 24th, says: A pitched battle occurred between Chinese and Japanese, at a tnv zer River cannery, in which the Japs proved themselves the best hghters Two men entered'a Chinese garden at Alameda, Cal., recently, and upon toing remonstrated with for destroying the vegetables, deliberately clubbed a China man to death. Both are under arrest. Edward H. McAllister, of Albany, won the fiist prize of $150 for the best oration at the commencement exercises of tlie ! State University at Eugene, Or., and Miss Agnes Green, of Seattle, the second of fliH). A party of four vonng men left San Francisco last week on a sealing expedi tion down the coast. When near the coast off Santa Cruz, a small boat, con taining three of the party, capsized and two were drowned. The captain of the American bark, Menu on, from Australia, discharging at San Diego, was set upon after dark by five men, and fatally beaten, and as tlie mate has disappeared, it is 'nought he has been kidnapped. When McComb, the robber of the Se attle Relief fund, landed at the Walla Walla penitentiary, he wa so fleshy that the prison tailor was compelled to make a suit of an extra size to accommodate the gentleman with stripes. The stage running from Harbin Springs to Calistoga, Cal., was robbed by highwaymen June 25th. They se cured $250 and two gold watches from the iassenger8. In their excitement the robbers dropped $150 in greenbacks, which was picked up by a following e amster. To get even with the farmers in the vicinity of Albany, Or., for placing tres pass notices on their farms, the boys have placed trespass notices on the ball ground, fronting the court house where the farmers have been in the habit of bitching their teams. On June 23d, three boys wandered from their home into tlie mountains in New Mexico, where they .were attacked by bears and two of then killed and eat en by the brutes. The other made his escape, and made his way home. A posse of men started in pursuit, and re covered the bonea of one of the lads. Buying a Corner Jjot. ' Pittsburg is enjoying a boom in real estate just now. and the competition, for choice lots runs high. ? Mr. Bilgus owned a lot on the cor ner of Fifth avenne and Madison a week or two ago. but be does not own it now. This is how he happened to part with it: Two men walked into his office one afternoon and one of them said: "Mr. Bilgnsi I believe?" 'Yes, sir." "I understand yon want to sell that lot on the corner "of Fifth avenne and Madison. What will yon take for it?" "I don't know that I am anxious to sell that lot," said Bilgus: "still I might, if I conld get what it is worth." "Well, what is your price?" "That propertv'is worth every cent of 30.000. and f don't know but what I ought to ask f3i,000. Do joa want to luy?" "Oh, no." replied Bilgus's Tisitor. I taking a memorandum book out of bis j pocket and putting down some figures, j "My name is Gerrish; I'm the new as ; sessor for that district, and I merelr wanted to get at the .value of your property." V Bilgus smiled a sickly sort of smile. I was 04? in fun," he said, present ly. "I don t suppose I could get more than $18,000 for the lot if I had to sell it, and tne man who would oner me , j' otl!1 makf; 'H !m,H fl fKMI snnlH 1 : .. U 1 he assessor smiled just a little, but went on making memoranda. "Sav," exclaimed Bilgus, jumping np, "oou't put that lot down at more than $18,000. I'll take that for it, pon my honor. I will." ""Very well," said the assessor, "111 take it for that. Here's a certified check for $500 to bind the bargain." Bilgus was speechless now. "I thought yon were the assessor," he gasped presently. "Well, can't an assessor buy proper ty?"' " Bilgus kicked like a dozen mules, but It was no go. Mr. Gerrish bad bis witness to prove that Bilgus had of fered the lot for $18,000, and rather than defend against a threatened law suit the unhappy man made out the deed. The real estate was worth $25,000 easily; but I am sorry to say that Mr. Gerrish told an untruth when he said be was the new assessor. - Children That Tease. It is a misfortune to a child to sup pose that teasing is essential to his ' gaining a point that he ought to gain. A resntt of such a view in bis mind is that be looks not to bis parents wisdom and judgment, but to his own positive ness and persistency as the guide of his action in any mooted case of personal conduct; not to principles which are disclosed to him by one who is in au thority, but to impulses which are whol ly in his own bosom. Such a view is inimical to all wise methods of thinking and doing on a child's part. And it is even more of a misfortune to the parent than to the child for a child to have the idea that the parent's decision is a result of tbe child's teasing, rather than that of the parent's understanding of what is right and best in a given case. No parent can have the truest re spect of a child while the child knows that he can tease that parent into com pliance with the child's request con trary to the parent's real or supposed conviction. For the child's sake. there fore, and also for the parent's, every child ought to be trained not to tease, and not to expect any possible advant age from teasing. Sunday School Times. Ostriches in America. ' There are certain old traditions about the ostrich which. I have been told by the owner of the California ranch, are fallacious. He says the ostrich does not bury his head in the sand and im agine he is unobserved by his enemies. On the contrary, he is a very pugna cious bird and always ready for a fight. Nor does the female ostrich lay her eggs in the sand for the sun to batch them. To do them justice, they are quite domestic, and deserve a bet ter reputation. Nor is the ostrich ever used for riding, as he has an excep tionally weak back; any person might break It with a blow from an ordinary cane. His strength lies in his great breast and his feet. He has one great claw, and a very small one. and with a terri-,. ble precision he can bring down the large claw with a cruel force that will tear open anything not made of sheet iron. Savage birds at best, they are dan gerously so during breeding time. The twenty-two birds brought to our California ranch trusted to their in stinct and laid their eggs during the California winter, which corresponded to their summer south of the Equator. It being the rainy season, their nests were tilled with water and the eggs were chilled; so the first season of their American sojourn was a failure. The ostrich makes it nest by rolling in the sand and scooping ont a bole some six feet in diameter, and. except ing an incubator-house, the California ranch requires no buildings for the nse of the birds, though the land is divided off into pens fenced in, each about an acre in extent, for the use of the breed ing birds, every pair occupying one auch inclosnre. The ostriches live upon alfalfa and corn. Alfalfa is a grass cultivated all over the ranch; it resembles our clover, and grows to a crop some six times a year. Anna EicAberg King, in SL Hicholas. He Only -Wanted Molly. Can I I have a word with yon in private?" stammered the young man, as he stood at the door of the private office. "Come in!" replied the head of the firm. "Now, what is it?" Yon you are aware of the fact that I" "That yoti have been with this house for four years. Yes. sir, I am aware of the fact. Want to leave?" Oh. no." "Didn't know but you had had abet ter offer. If so, you'ean go." That's not it, sir." Oh, it isn't. Want an increase salary, do you? Well, you won't get it. W'e are now paying ycu all you are worth and a little more." "It isn't that, sir." 'It isn't! Then what are you driv ing at?" "I want your daughter Molly." "Humph! That's different. Go and take her and be-hanged to you! I thought yon were fishing for a raise ei alary 1" Detroit 1'ree Jrcss. A Plague of Monkey, A plague of monkeys afflicts Tan jore, in southern India. The creatures do so much mischief that an official monkey-catcher receives a rupe each monkey captured. -"V. ' - ' -CiM, iiud-de-canip.