The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, October 17, 1890, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textx 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. VOL. IV. LEI J ANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1890. NO. 32. 4:00 EAST AND SOUTH -V1A- --. t a Smi til 0111 PflOlllC KOUlC. TUG MOUNT SHASTA ROTK. MP&ErS TRAINS LEAVE POVTI.ASP DAILY : P. . 1 P. .i A. . I.V Portland Ar : A. M Lv Albany Ar6:H A. x. Ar Eau Frauclsoo Lv 9 .-00 p. M Above trains stop only At the followirr station y,:r'H Knvhllrl! Eaat Fordatld. OreEOtt t'itr. Hnl-r, Harrishurs. Junction CI. jr. Irrlng and Eugene. RoMburt Mall Dally. 8:00 A. M. Lv Portland Ar I 1oO P. M. IS :i p. v. 1 Lv Albany Ar 1 11 0 x. 6:00 P. X. Ar Roaeburg Lvj 6:00 A. X. Albany Local Dally (Kxeept bntiday.) S 0 P. X. 1 Lv ." Portland Ar 1 9 H A. X. P. X. 1 Ar Albany Lt:00 A. X Local Fassenfer Train Dal y Except Sunday. 5-5) P. X. I Lv Albany Art 9M A. xl S 84 P. X. 1 Ar Lebanon Lv 8 40 A. X. lAlt. 1. I Lv Albany Ari:rfP. X. S:3 A. X. Ar Lebanon Lv 1 S-.40 P. x. PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Sleeping Cars For acoomnvdatlon of Second Class Fassensera. WEST SIDK DITISIOX. BETWEEN rORTLASU AND CORVALLIS. Mall Tram Dally tExcept Sunday.) ? :S0 A. X 11:10 P. X. Lv Ar Portland Oorvallls Ar Lv I 8 :80 P. X. ! HtfSP At Albany and Oorvallls connect with trains rt Oregon Paotnc Kaiiroaa. (Express Train Dally Except Sanday.) 4 0 P. X. I 7 P. X. l.v Ar P .rt land fccMinnvlUe Ar Lv 8 :20 A- X. 8:15 A. X. T3.i-hw.niF iir-kttratn all DOtnta East and South luT tlvkets and roll lnroiinau..n regarding rates, maps. etc.. call on Co's agt-nt at Xeunad. uoTriTl.kM- K. Ktt.tKl. Manager. Asst Gr. F. At P. Agt. DR. C. H. E N DUCKETT, T I S T D LEBANON, OKEGOX. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT -LAW. Office-over First National Bank. ALBANS. . . OREGON. VV. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW, ALBANY. OREGON. . G. t. COTTON, Dealer In Groceries and Provisions. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles, j Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp r uiures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Mala Street. . , Lebanon, Oregon R. L. McCLllUE - ffneeessor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon. Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting and Shampoo In o- in the latest and best style. Spec ial attention, oaid to dressing Ladies hair. Your patronage respectfully so licited. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON. Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a beneral Banking Business. ,rl,T ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. v am or, tuild on New York, San Francisco, Portland and Albany, Org. Collections made on favorable terms . LEBANON I. I. r , Meat Market ED. miLNBERGER, Prop. rDtcn salted Beef. Pork, Mct- ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. MCQJi AXD LAED ALWAYS OS HAND f 1 E a Or. Olntcral Binus. The election in the canton o Switzerland, on Monday, Oct. 6, The election In the canton ot Tlclno, r8UItHl olutlonlats. 11.92s votes being cast for the revision of Hie constitution to 11,833 aguinsj, it. Eighty-two straw-paoer mills have formed a tru9t to control the market west ot the Alleghanles. Four Mormon elders were taken fiom a meeting at bherburne, .ngiana, wi. , and flogged and tarred and feathered. Henrv T. Leonard, a New York law yer, not Louis Strunel. an Arizona miner, out of an insan asylum a few years ago nd Strunel haa lust died ana lert nun $250,000. Two men were killed by on explosion of gas in a coal mino at Ptitston, Fa., Oet. 4. The Etllson electric company has $12 000.000 caplUl. At Davton. Tenn.. 1200 m'ners have struck against a reduction. Slxtv eouare miles of timber in South Dakota has been burned over. The :iew lottery law excludes from the mails all raners containing lottery ad vertlsements or lists of drawings and all l-tters. e rculara or other matter known to contain lottery business. It is being: strictly enforced. One o the stipulations in the treaty ot peace between Salvador and Guatemala was an exchange or nnsoners. uusw mala butchered her prisoners and there- lore cannot produce tnem lor exeuauge, ana there is trouble brewing. The French have made peace with Da homey. Kiln an.l Ren HnlHt and Charles Wee- lev Hastinirs were arrested In the act of turnlne- out counterfeit doll rs of 1879 at Lansing, Mich., the other day. The London gas eoninanv's union em nliivea dmnni1(Ht the i1t harre of all noil union men. The com nan V refused and built long sheds and put ln hundreds of beds, and 8tt0 soldiers at unatnain were rut in marchlnar order to Been the peace, men tne men wunarew ineir uemnuus. A thousand men struck at Armstrong's s .Ipyard, Lisbon, Oct. 3. Five vessels foundered in a terrific gale on the Jsortli sea Oct. 3. A hurricane raised the Neva seven feet and flooded St, Petersburg Oct. 3. Dr. McGonUral. the gray-haired New York abortionist, haa been convicted of manslaughter , in the case ot Anme uoou- win. A t000,000 tin-plate factory Is to be established at aitimore ami the same company will put $2,000,000 Into Ameri can tin mines, a. un-maie nun costiun $1,500,000 and employing ftOO men is also to be built at Duquesne. Two masked men robbed an express car or several tnousand uoliai-s near Wes-- Liberty, O.. Oct. 2. The bonded debt of the United States was reduced $2,3i8,24J in September. Buenos Arres accepts th" plan for an International railway commission. A movement started Is New York Is soreadlng over America to jalse funds to neip trie jews expeuea iroin uussia vo settle in raiestine. The New York Central railroad com nanv has triven notice that it wishes to employ no nmgnie or iaoor. Robert Tramoas of Tansboro. N. J thrashed Methodist Pa'-son Joseph Botts within an inch ot his life, breaking his Jaw and knocking three teeth down his taroat, ana taen eiopea witn airs, ajoiis. Kev. Mr. Roberta, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church, Scrantou, l'a.. tas been feuea ror oreacn or promise oi marriige by Miss Annie Husaboew. He recently married a respected young lady ot Scrauton. Annie got a verdict tor $3000. Cuban ctgarmakers want reciprocity witn the L uited states. Four officers of General Oourko's com maud in the Russian army have been arrested for a conspiracy against the government. The government was successful in the elections at Ooa, Portuguese India, where there was bo much bloodshed. The boundary between French and Dutch Oilana is to be settled by the czar. The Australian dock laborers' strike la petering out. The McEinley tariff bill has become a law. Christ church Birmingham, England, is connected by telepn ne lth the houses ot some of Its patrons, who hear the services at home. Cholera is dying out in Spain. The United Brethren at Ogden. Mich are so far from united that they carry guns and bayonets to church and the faction arriving last worships in some neighboring house. Burchell. who ' Induced the wealthy young Englishman Benwell to come over witn $2500 to invest in rarming in tJan ada and then murdered him. has been convicted at Woodstock, Ont- and sen tenced to be hanged Nov. 14. Mrs. Jane Cody, a widow, was mur dered by White Caps ln Calhoun county, AU because she ran when they went to nog her. Benjamin Franklin's will is being con tested ny his heirs. Frederick Billings is dead. There is active agitation in Yohohama for the withdrawal ot the privilege ac corded to foreigners accused of crime to be tried before a court composed of for eigners. A majority of the Ironworkers In Scot land are out on a etnite. The captain and crew of the pearl fish ing ecnooner lsaoel or Hartlepool. Litg have been massacred by natives on .New Uumea. To get rid of Jewish refugees from Roumania Russia is about to inaugurate th denottatlon to Siberia of all foreign' era whoe governments refuse to recog nize tnem. The German anti-socialist law has ex piied by limitation and many exiles are returning. IJSJSS have been refused a landing under the contract labor law. An iceberg three miles in circumfer ence and 600 feet high was encountered Sept. 21 300 miles east-northeast of cape Race. Thomas Kearney, a Boston policeman. murdered 11-year-old John Davenport because the boy ran when the policeman ordered mm to stop ept. uj. The secretary of the interior has pro hibited the taking abroad of Indians to participate in shows ot the " Wild West" order. A fire destroyed $7,500,000 worth of Droocrty in Sydney Oct. 5. A storm did great damage in northern Germany Oct. 2 and at Hamburg five persons were arownea ana tne lower ; part of the city was flooded. The shearers' strike in Australia, after a weeK or inoinereni success, was rorm- ally declared off. Psesldent Hirst of the University of the Pacific at San Jose endeavored to force the freshmen to restore the soph omores canes, wnicn tney nao stolen. All the students rebelled and were sus tained by the faculty. Wayne Wheeling of Lancaster, Los Angeles country, had to have an armed guard to protect him from the citizens ou his way from the depot home on his return alter serving a sentence or one y ar for killing William Tweedy. Civil war Is feared in Guatemala. Canada is discussing the subsidizing of steamer lines to carry her products to foreign countries 11 ene Tails to secure reciprocity with the United buates. Colombia has appointed commissioners to the international railway congress. The London Times denies the reports that famine la loiuUnsnt ln Ireland. (Coast Bcius. BnkerHfield has a new bank. SIsson voted not to Incorporate. V. P. L. Wlnham of Salinas ia dead. GT-uer d'Aleno had a $03,000 fire Oct. . The Salinas gas well is down over 1000 feet. San Jose Is fully lighted with elec tricity. The new Barton opera-house at Fresno la open. Eugene, Or., has granled a street -car franchise. Eleven miles rf the Oakdale ditch is completed. The San Jacinto tin company has dis incorporated. The Fresno bricklayers struck the first week m uctober. Twice as much fruit was dried at Napa this j ear as last. Counterfeit dollars and $5 pieces are plenty at Tucson. The strike of the miners at Sand Cou lee, Mout, was a failure. Work has bogu.i on the $300,000 federal building at Sacramento. The Humboldt reduction works at Wiuneniucea have been burned. A vigilance committee has rid Onkes- dale, Wn, of tough. characters. Portland builders are unable to get cars to bring in lumber fast enough. Good gas has been found at Sacra mento 64 feet from the surface. J. C. Weiss has been acquitted at Y're- ka of the murder of Charles Ingram. Grasa Yalley has a second time voted $20,000 bonds for a new school house. Lee Hooner. aged 19. and Alia Swelt- xer, 14, have eloped from "Wheatland. Medler Wells' Hverr stable at Roh- nervlile haa been burned, with two herues ln it. Mary McDonald of Colfax. Wash.. Is said to have fed her three children to hogs. W. C. Morton of Philadelphia has been arrested for assaulting Maggie Boei-s at Pomona. Two more miners have' been tnunlered bv Apaches In the Black mountains, In New Mexico. Percy Williams of Stockton waa killed by Jack Smith ln a gamblers' quarrel at tresno Oct. 3. Thomas Caspar has been arrested at Fresno for burning his own shoe shop for the Insurance. The governniei-t has formally accepted the cruiser Bn Francisco, built by the Union Iron works. WlUlam Robinson fell on a rotary saw at Seattle bept. 29 and it split his back, exposing his vitals. A runaway team threw Patrick MuUloon through a barbed-wire fence at Temple- ton and killed him. C. S. CooDer. a Gold 11111 (N. M.) miner, ended a ten-day spree by blowing his brains out Sept. 30. Six of the striking Wellington miners have been convicted ot Intimidating the men who are at work Miss Olsen. a Salt Lake dressmaker, on Sept. 29 killed a gambler named Hall wno nad ruined ner. ThA sloop Augusta capelwni In a squall oft Dungeness Oct. 2 and her captain, O. Anderson, was drowned. Edward Robinson fell from a load ot grain near Madrone, Santa Clara county, and was run over and killed. - Judge Armstrong of the Sacramento superior court has decided that vagrants are entitled to jury trial. Petal urn a has imposed a license fee of $100 a quarter on liquor sellers and they will fight it in the courts. Joseph Merritt has been arrested at Tulare for the train robbery which oc curred at Plxley two years ago. The Union iron works of San Fran cisco has the contract to build one of the three new 10,000-ton battle chips.- j Louis H. Day. tried for bun.lng his house at Turlock for $1500 Insurance, was acquitted on the ground ot insanity. Pearl Cash sued J. T. Mitchell of VI- saiia, who is 70 years old, for breach of promise and got 8 verdict lor sia.uw. Tacoma has two "longshoremen s un ions and Michael Shanahan was killed in a street fight -between them Bept. 29. Dave Wroton played with a revolver while drunk at Astoria and put a bullet thtough bis abdomen wltfi fatal effect. Miss Mary E. Seal Jumped from a win dow of the- fourth story of the Oregon insane asylum, at Salem and was killed. W. J. Lee has been sent to the peni tentiary for stealing $12, Jonas A. Lee's penbion money, rroui rne rortiatitt post- ofllce. Robert Watts, a r ripple, and John Burns got drunk at Sacramento aud Burns cut Watts fatally with a pocket- knife. Peter Troudella has been convicted ot aron. He comeseed burning iw corns of wood for the Colorado smelter at Butte, Mont. Curlv-headed Joe." a Mexican, at tacked another Mexican named Arms at Princeton, Mariposa county, with a knife and Arros shot bim dead. Domnlco CVella, who murdered his ei ployer, John JJeletls, at fort lowns end, for his money, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. Four-year-old Eddie Barrett tried to on climb on a moving lumber truck Howard street, San Francisco, Sept. but fell and was run over and killed. 3, James Herrlngton, a land lawyer, was tarred and feathered a few days ago at Kakers field, where he was accused of Btirrlug up needless litigation over titles. Rains throughout California the closing days of September gave ralBlu-growers and others a good scare but stopped just short of doing any serious damage. Henrv Ellis, a gambler and swindler. well known In Ban Francisco, robbed J. C. Hoefer, a rancher, of $170 at Spokane Falls Oct. l and lioerer snot nun ueaa. The stage from Lonipoc to Los Alamos was robbed ssept. 24 ana ue next aay John H. Conway, a San Francisco insur ance man. arrested Henry West, who confessed the crime. James Flamant, 20-year-old son of the noUd ollvo grower, and Lee Hoirell have been been arrested for burning several buildings ln Napa during the past two years, just for sport. Tho First Congregational church of San Franclsoo-ha- exonerated Its late pastor. Rev. C. 1. Barrows, of the charges of immorality which were made against him after he went east. . George Frankell, a Shingletown bach elor, 70 years old, married a Kansas girl of 60, to whom he had been engaged thirty-five y ars, and fter two weeks of married bliss he committed suicide Oct. 1. Angus McDonald, a conductor on the Puget Sound and Gray's Harbor railroad, fell between the cars near Kamilche Sept. 33 and his head was cut off and rolled down the bank on one side end his legs on the other. George Martin, book keeper and cash ier, and James Dunn, collector, for the Santa Fe railroad company at Los An geles, spent $3,000 of the company's money ln fast living and disappeared, leaving tneir Don smen to pay it. The press censorship in San Salvador has been suspended and the telegraph line to Honduras reopened. Jack the Ripper has notified the Lon don police that he ia about to kill an other woman. Edward Brown supported hts family ln elegant style in a brownstone mansion in New York by begging from door to door until Sept. S3, when he was sent to prison as a professional beggar. New York proposes to absorb Brook lyn, Long Island City, Jamaica, Flush ing, Newtown, New Utrecht, Gravesund, Flatbush, part of Staten island and all of Westchester county and become a city of 440 square miles and 8,000,000 popula'uon. CSutrcnf Bcnm. 1HK Ml KllER OF HARHINDIA. Ilia rlent Give Their irlenri Give Their Verxloii of ths A flair. " It appears from the reports carried by Dr. Bengochea. son-in-law of General Bnrrundla, to President Harrison, that Barrundla was murdered on the Paciflo Mall steamer Acapulco ln the port ot San Jose, Guatemala, while dressing to go with his murderers, who had come on board ostensibly to arreafc him on what Missed for a warrant. According to Bengochen's documents Barrundla asked the Paciflo Mall captain, Pitts, It he would be safe from arrest at Guateniilnn ports if he took passage on tuo Aeapuleo and was assured that he would. Captain Pitts and the company's local agent guaranteeing him immunity from arrest it he would go through to Panama and not slop at any Central American port. He agreed. Escobar, brother-in-law of Barillas, the dictator of Guatemala, waa at Acapulco at the time and offered Pitts money to deliver Bar rundla to the Guatemalan authorities, but It was refused. " Barrundla's daughter, Bengochoa's wife, learning tuat her father's murder had been planned, visited American Minister Mlzner four times and begged htm to I seo that her father was not delivered to Barillas' men, and each time was assured that he would not be. Nevertheless he ad vised Captain Pitta that be must surren der his passenger if demanded on a for mal warrant. When the Guatemalans went on board at San Jose Barrundia's companions on the voyage. Captain Arnulfo Sangarman ot me Aiexican army ana ioionci uaruas, were sent below, that there might be no witnesses except friends ot Barillas. Barrundla, in res-Kinsn to a rap on his stateroom door, appeared, clad only In an undershirt, and the warrant was read to him. ne asked permission to put on his clothes, and while in the act was shot through the cabin window and slightly wounded. He seized two revolvers and opened the door. Before he could fire a shot rive of the arresting party fired and he fell dead. , Th Pacific Mall steamship company's version of the affair is that Captain Pitts asked advice of Mlzner and Mizoer replied that it the ship was within three miles of the shore he must give him up. When the party demanded Barrundia's surrender he asked time to dress but was refused, whereupon he seized a brace ot pistols and began firing. Blaine, it Is said, is disinclined to ad mit the right of the Guatemalans to make the arrest, and Bayard, whose decision when he was secretary of state that one Gomez must be surrendered by an American captain on demand has been quoted as justifying the surrender of Barrundla, declares that the two cases were not parallel at all. Manuel Montular has been sent to Washington by Guatemala to try to ex plain the Barrundla affair. President Harrison informed congress that the correspondence regarding tbe matter is In such a state that he does not feel : up titled ln transmitting it to that body at present. Venetnelan Commotion. Venezuela has an unsettled boundary t question with British Guiana. It has just been discovered that S. Casaflas, the sec retary ot state for foreign affairs, some time ago secretly sent Dr. Palldo to England to negotiate m settlement ot the matter, but the British government re fused to recognize him. A storm of In dignation has arisen and the people are clamoring for the resignation of asaflas and for an extra session of congrtss in December. The special session will prob ably be called, and ln the meantime President Palaxlo is taking steps to pre vent an outbreak of rebellion, which is feared. The Venezuelan min'ster to the United States, Nlcanor Bolet Peraza, publishes paper In New York in which recently appeared a map ot Venezuela that gave the disputed territory to British Guiana and his recall has been demanded of the president, who intimates that he will put Ylllavlcenclo, the present consul at New York, In Peraza's place. The foregoing report comes from pri vate sources. Peraza says it is without foundation so far his rase Is concerned. DavlH's -barges. ' Michael Davlit charges ln his new pa per, the Labor World, that the world- famous dynamite outrages, for which Daly, Dalton and others are serving sen tenees, were planned ln Dublin castle by the government, that he can prove that the dynamite found on Daly's person was put there by men hired by the gov ernment to put it there, and that the at tempts to blow up London bridge, the parliament house and other structures were ma e by paid agents of the Brit ish government, the object being to alienate public sympathy from the Irish cause and Justify stringent coercion. William Lane Booker Is alleged to have actively helped the conspiracy on in the United States. The Spokane Exposition. The merchants, bankers, bualn ess and non-union carpenters finished the Spokane Falls exposition building in time and the great fair opened Oct. 1, not withstanding the strike against a loaH of lumber from a boycotted mill. The la dles banqueted the non-union carpenters and formed themselves into a committee to get the whole city to turn out and 12,000 people were present on tho open ing day. The exposition was open to Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and British Columbia and was a great success. A Family Burned to Death. At Dubuque, Iowa, early in the morn ing of Oct. 5 John McBee was awakened by a sense of suffocation and found his house on fire. He aroused his wife and they groped their way to the window and he leaped or fell out. The wife was close behind htm, but must have remem bered the three children, aged 5, 10 and 12, and gone back after them, for she perished with them. Forest Fires. A fl re broke out ln the redwood-cov ered mountains northeast of Sonoma on the morning ot Oc. 4. and spread with great rapidity. Before night it had trav eled ten - miles, and fears were enter tained that & number of ranchers and weodchoppers had been surrounded and destroyed with their homes. From So noma on the south. Fetal uma on the west and Napa on the east the sight presented was one of awful grandeur: He Got 111) Overcoat. n 188:1, Charles B. Davidson, the on of Lvinnu Davidsou, a rather prom inent citizen of Adrian, Mich., left that place, accompanied by a sister, and lo cated in wettcrn Missouri, their mother having1 previously died. Shortly after their niTival at their Western home, young Davidson enlisted in the Union annv, and in 18C4 visited his father at Adrian on a furlough. He reached this city in the nipht, and the next morning repaired to tho Lako Shore car shops, wijere lie knew his father was employ ed. The old man greeted hiui affec tionately, ami after they had enjoyed a short conversation, the son said sud denly: "llcre, father, take inv overcoat; I'll be back in a minute." But the voung man did not return. He learned", how ever, through other members of his regiment, that his boy had relumed to the army and that he served, with hon or and safety to the end of the war, but although he wrote re peatedly, there never eafue a line of explanation from the youth. After the war all trace of him was lost. Once, thirteeu years ago, the father saw an account 'in a newspaper of the drowniug of Charles Davidson in tho Pacitio ereek, and doubted not that the ungrateful boy had thus met his punishment in the form of a violent end. The other day, however, a traveling man dropped from a train at Ann Ar bor and accidentally ran across a resl- I dent mere wno called niniseir inaries l. L'avidson, nnti oeen in rne nrmy, aud had spent his boyhood in Adrian. 4,Mr father's name was Lvmnn," said he. . "And he is still alire. I know hhn,n said the drmiiuier. Whatr was the exclamation of the Ann Arborite. "Mr father alivef Vhv. I wrote him more than a hun dred letters w hen I was in the army and never et an answer. I thought he must be dead. Oh, there can't Ie auv mistake about it. He's verv old, but still there." The sou still had some doubts, but his visit to Adrian last Suuday assured hirn that the drummer bad been the bearer of truthful tidings, for the fath er and son met once more after their separation of twentv-four vears. Mr. Uavidson, the vounger, is fore . . . . . - - . man in the Ann Arbor Courier office and superintendent of the Citv Electric Lijrht Works, and -n excellent and respected gentleman. is now 47 years old, and his father is 82. They had lived in adjoining: counties for many years, and but for thedrummer' chance conversation with the son. would still be unknown to each other. Here's vour overcoat,'' said the old man, at their recent jovful meeting. after they had lalked steadily for sev eral hoars. '-Whr didn't tou come back for it?" Whv, I received a telegram com ruaudiiijr me to return to mv regiment at once and go to the front. 1 had onl v time to catch mr train, aud. althotili 1 tried to send word, to vou. I knew so few people that I could not do it. had to go without sayiug good-bve to vou. but comforted invself with the recollection l could write, tnt vou aid not get mv letters." fit. Lntu'a Ulobe- Democntt. Celling Walking. There are to-dav at least fifteen per- eons who perform tne novel ieat oi ... . . . . walking- head down along the full length of a ere.it board and who are known as ceiling walkers, says the Cin cinnati Erqutrer. There are lady ana gentleman performers, their perform ances being confined almost entirely to the variety stase. The effect is startling as one of them moves along nnderneath the "board, far above the floor of the stasre. their full formes tending downward. Until recently the manner of performing the feat was guarded secret. While there Is a gen eral difference as to details tl.e princi ple involved In keeping the walker suspended is practically the same. It is tbe secret of the ability of the fly to walk over a ceiling. The Njard used is heavy plank about fifteen feet long and three feet wide. This is rendered almost perfectly smooth by being rubbed down with pumice stone. Near each end of the board Is suspended a trapeze, to which the performer bangs, dead down, as ne presses his feet to the board above bim when starting upon his walk. Under neath is stretched a large net. An or dinary pair of stage shoes will answer the purpose, lo tbe bottom oi tuese are fastened circular arrangements of gum, a sort of bowl-shaped shoes. about six ana one-nan incnes in di ameter, and it is these, pressed agninst the board above, that hold the walker suspended. The material of which these bowl- shaped shoes is made is of the same thickness and appearance as that used in fireman's heav hose. Inthecenter, on the concave side of these shoes, is a thick piece of steel, circular in form. To this plate is riveted on the concave side of the shoe a small iron frame work. From this framework extends two iron rods, shaped like the handles of the instrument used in toasting or broiling. By the framework the bowl shaped shoes are fastened to the regu lar walking shoes, ine roasreierrea to extend toward tho toe. A pressure exerted upon that portion of the foot will press out the rods and permit the air to rusn into tne concave gum snoes just at the center. Jiiverytning in readiness, tne per former sits upon the trapeze and ad justs the concave arrangements to his shoes. Then be swings arouna, ueaa down, holding on to the trapeze, and presses the bowl-shaped arrangements on his shoes to the board above. As ho Eresses the air is driven out of the owl. A. vacuum is created as the gum is pressed all the tighter against the board, becoming flattened out. The atmospheric pressure on each of the shoes used will exert a power or carry a weight of about fifteen pounds to the sauare inch. Then the trapeze is let go of. The performer hangs suspend ed. A pressure upon the ball of the left foot operates the iron which opens a small arrangement at tne convex cen ter of the concave shoes. Air rushes In ! and the shoe becomes loosened. Hanging by the right foot, the one loosened is thrown further along on the board. Tightly it is pressed to the board until it fastens, men tne leit is oDorated in the same manner, and so it continues until the stage is crossed. Although there is an old saving that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, au old walnut tree near Baltimore. Md., has been struck five times. The first time it was struck ten sparrows that were taking shelter in it from the storm were killed. In the tree was a nest of three crows, and they were saved only because their nest was blown out just before the tree was struck. NOVEL METHOD OF FISHING. How Northwestern Indians C'atrh T and Salmon by Diving. Tho two Indians were going lo show us their method of catching trout nnd salmon. The stream ruus between stcen mountains, is very rocky and the currrent swift. Ihe water was ice cold, and as clear as crystal. It was alive willi small trout nnd thebigholvs w ere w ell lillcd with salmon or salmon trout, ranging from five to twelve pounds. How I did nclic for my Fiilit aniboo. which 1 hud foolishly left- down lr Iho vallt-y. These fish, from the smallest to the largest, would take the 11 y or auy kind of bait readily. Stciffer proved this by losing fly !iooks to two big fellows, but he cap tured a pice !rt of the smaller ones, ranging from half a pound down. He stopped when he had enough, but I verily believe fiOOcoidd be easily taken in a dav bv the industrious and un scrupulous trout hog. The Indians were lisuing for themselves, nnd of course we could not prevent them from us'-ng their regular methods of taking all thu lish in their power, which they salt and fry for future use. While not sportsmanlike, it was decidedly inter est in j. Thev first select a suitable hole with Esli euoujrh to beau object. i this ease it was about 200 yards long, thirty feet w lite, and varymz' In depth to ten feet. At the bottom lazily swimming around were a number of biir rish. From a sack Johnny produced two light gill uets, which were stretched across the stream about forty yards apart. 1 hen he produced the tips of a spear, which were bound to a strong willow pole, .lhesetips, wheu thmst into a fish, come off the pole, but are held bv buckskin strips. .uw we are readv for business. Rocks are thrown into the water and the startled lish dart about, a fl in a moment the floats of a net are jerked violently under the water. The lish writhes and twists. tausrlinu himself up hopelessly, and is toou tnkcu out br his duskv captors. Sometimes a heavy fish would break the net and escape, but not often. Af ter a number had been causrbt this wav. the frightened nVh hid under the rocts and skulked. Jiten the spear came into plav, several r-inff taken. On re- eeivinir the barbs thev would struggle Tiolentlv. and, being hauled out bv main strength and awkwardness, would make a gnf nrht. Moet of the biff li.li had uuw taken rt-fuge under larjre rocks iu the deepest part; and were elearout of sight. J hen one of the Indians stripped off, and with a small net eighteen Inches ia di ameter, in the mouth of which was bent a willow pole, making it resem ble the ordinary landing net, he slipped quietly into the almost freezing cold w atcr aud disappeared under a large rock. 1 held mv breath in amaze ment, and after he had been under neath nearly a minute I concluded he had drowned. But no: away down dark mass came slowly out and quickly rose to surface. With a snort his head popped up. while in the net under his arm a twelve-pound fish was struggling. He crawled out shivering, and after sun bath was ready for another plunge. Along the bank for thirty, feet was shelving rock under which several fish had taken refuge. Propelling himself along frog fashion, the Indian cleared It out at one dive, catching one fish and driving out the rest- Thus thev kept at work, until, after about three hours work, not a fish was left in the hole that would weigh as much as a pound. They caught about 4J0 pounds of fresh fish on this trip. jjunng tne ueignt, oi me usuing sea son the Indians from the reservation visit this stream bv tribes, and for miles entirely clear the river of fish. They are also quite expert with hook and line, using venison for bait. Mr. Steiger preseuted one of them with number of handsome fly hooks. He Kked at them in a comical wav, then took out his knife and deliberately trimmed the fir off, saying that he "didn't care foranvof those new fixin's venison was good enough for him for that." Forest and Stream. Suggestion on Wall Papering. Papers with sniall-figured designs are ! the best for the novice to experiment with. They are more easily matched on the wall and slight uiisiits are not so noticeable. A bonier, of course, adds finish, and trovers not a few short comings. The colors in the border should be somewhat in keeping with the colors in the paper. A high-ceil-Ingcd room will admit of a broad bor der; a low-ceil inged room should have a narrow border. It must lie trimmed, Is mostensily handled in short lengths, and is pasted on after the main paper ing is finished. Sometimes a paper will have a pattern that can be cut in to narrow strips and used as a border. T l n .1 uq one occasion we or o i uimuouit patterned paper iu this way by cutting the pattern for the border bias way of the length. The first thing to be done is to cut off one of the white margins of the wall-paper; which you cut off must de pend whether vou "determine to work to the right or to the left. If you work toward the right, you must cut off the left margin, and vice vena. ion can measure the hight of the room with a 6trip of the margin you have cut off. See that the end of your paper is per fectly straight; then cutoff the length required from the top to the wainscot of the room. measure siiDsequeni lengths by tho first one, being careful to match the pattern. The short lengllis can be used over doors, win dows, and mantel-pieces, spread pa per, face downward, on a long, smooth table. If the table is not long enough let the piece hang downward at the top end; then, with a large, clean white wash brush, paste the wrong sideof the paper, working from tho lower end up ward. hen about half of the length has been pasted, lift up , the end erst done and turn itun ugainstthe remain der of the pasted part, thus making more than three-fourths of a yard dou ble; then proceed to paste the remain der. Lift the tou end of the paper careful ly by each corner, mount the step-ladder, hold the pasted side close to the wall, but not touching it, and then oress it against the. wall at the top, be inc careful to have it straight with the ceding, yet not overlapping it. . Take an ordinary, new, clean banister brush and brush the paper right down the center (as lav. as the loidea piecei against the wall. This done, brush the sides to the wall, aud then unloose the folded part, with the thumb and finger at each corner, aud draw it gradually down. Brush the center down to the wainscot, as vou did the top part; then the sides, first cutting away any margin at the bottom. cOood Hottsekeejnng. The experiment of raising some Cu ban food products is being tried in Orange county, Florida, A Garden Scene, atioll about the Burden where the etinbeam klfta the fiow'r. Wbero liloxsoms bathe In sunlight In tbe gold en mid-day botirs. AJow n the slope my lady comes as fair as dawn In Pnrinir: The rows liluiti to welcome her, and chimes of lilies ring. Ko lily In tbe parSt-u with her bands pure whiteness vies; Tbe purple punsk-s alo beside tbe azure ot nt-r eyes. Ebe knows and lores the flowers, and she smiles on ev'rv one. Tbe tnarignl'l Hie marigold Is nodding In the sun. . Tbe da'xtl and tbe daffodils within tht, mead ows there Look lontringljr afar to her, and sigh in faint decpa ir. Bo small arc they: no far away, their love they must Mrpiore: And jet for Tery hopelessness they lore her ail tuo more. Their pllpht It mine; for proud my lady is, as proud as talr: While iwxjr am I. 1 ak ber tiatne tbe flow! she loves moat there. Bbe answers not; her longing eyes loo! tbouidirfull awav: But '"Marry a-oW: ay, marry told," f what they seem to say. America. WHERE THE CROWS ROOST. Scenes at a Rookery HaWts of tho Sa ble-coated Bird Night Time. The first of these two rookeries is situated about two miles east of Syra cuse, xi. i., in a woods known as Tamarack Swamp," and lying be tween the Central and nest Shore tracks. The second is situated in Ar- j lington Cemetery at Washington. Both rookeries are nearly equal in size, the one at Syracuse covering about fifteen acres and that at Arlington from ten to twelve. A -visit to these roosts in the day time is interesting In the extreme, while another paid at dusk when the birds are coming in is even more so. Shortly after daybreak tbe vast throng of black bestirs itself; first a loud clamor betokens that the birds are awake; then with a mighty shake or two they launch forth in quest of the morning s breakfast. .Leaving singly, in pairs, by dozens, and in flocks of hundreds, "each group wings its war to where the previous day s meals were secured, or starts in search of new feeding grounds. After they have gone the roost Is a sight indeed, ua every hand the trees and ground be neath are literally coverea with the excreta of the birds, having much the appearance of having been plentifully bespattered with whitewash. The air is foul with the odor mingled with that of the putrefying bodies of the dead ones that here and there dot the snow, while among tbe branches as well as on the ground are numbers of indivi duals too weak, emaciated, or other wise disabled to participate in tbe flight. These are readily approached, and are often to l-e caoght ia the hands. A drive through the surrounding country will now give a glimpse of their daily life during winter. Any where and everywhere they may be seen, each in search of that which alone sustains life, but with the usual frozen condition of the ground this, as a rule. is difficult to obtain. Up to about 3 o'clock the birds are bnsy feeding, and the average person would hardly be lieve that within an hour or even less these same birds will be miles away. and in company with tens of thousand of the same species. Having traced them in their dail wanderings, it is in order to visit the roost again at night fall and watch them come in. At the hour above mentioned they begin to arrive either singly or ic flocks, tar rying at times at some near-at-hand feeding grounds, but soon seeking the viciuitv of the roost. Strangely enough, instead of repairing at once to their night's resting place, they gather in immense multitudes on the sur rounding hills; coming as they do from all quarters of the country, the numbers increase until the fields, the trees, and the fences are coTered with them. Iong after the sun had set they continued to arrive. The noise is deafening, and when at times they rise and circle about in the air it seems as if the heavens themselves were about tofalL As darkness begins to settle, : first a few of the bolder ones enter the roost. These are followed by small bunches of fifty or so, and these in tnrn by other companies interspersed with stragglers. Suddenly, with a noise as ol a hurricane, a vast host arises and makes a dive for the roost. These are closelv followed bv another, and still another, until finally the numbers, on the hillsides begin to show some signs of thinning out. As the darkness deepens they come in anyway; down they come pen men. brushing past the face, almost Hying against one, alighting on the first branch they strike against (for they are now almost unable to see, ana it is amusing to see hundreds flopping about waiting for luck to throw a branch in their way), often within arm's reach. Every tree and branch seems packed with them, and sun tney continue to pour down, finding a roosting place somewhere, and adding, clamor to the deafening babel already existing. Finally all appear to have arrived, and are busy settling tnemseives lor tne night. Utter now but so much as a syllable, and tne entire army wuu re newed cries, and in tne airest conin sion, take wing and seek another part of the woods, only to renew the per formance should the operation be re peated. I have never as yet remained in a roost long enough to ascertain whether or not the birds became ab solutely o,uiet. Scientific American. Caoght at Last. "It must he very lonesome sitting ill by yourself in your office balancing your books at night, John," said an af fectionate wife. "It is my darling." . "I have been thinking about it for some time, and now I have got a de lightful surprise for you. A delightful surprise?" "Yea, my dear. I sent for my mother yesterday, and I expect her every miunte. 1 mean to have ber stay with us quite a while. She will take care of the house at night and look after the children and I can go down-town and sit in your office with you while you work." "The dev that is to say, I could nH think of your going down-town " "It is my duty, dear John. I ought to hare thought of it before, but it never came to my mind till yesteiday. O, John, forgive me! Forgive me for not thinking of your comfort soon er. But I will go- with tou to-night." "To-night? Why, I 1 the fact is, J got through mv books last night." ."O, vou did! "How delightful! And you can now stay at noma every eve- nings A m so iriaai erl And the delighted wife ran off to make preparation for the reception of her mother, while her husband with sombre brow sat staring at the coals In the grate, in which he could seo the picture of a mother-in-law's reproving face and a poker-party - with a T&caut chair. Boston Courierl Ttnssia'a Petroleum Geysers. Statistics of tbe oil business in Russia have just reached this country, and American oil men are studying them with a great deal of anxiety. - I hey throw a new light oar, the business ia Russia, and show too plainly that the Baku districts are a most dangerous rival of the American fields. The out put of many of the Russian wells is prodigious, and far eclipse anything ever heard of in this country. Amen- -can oil producers have claimed to have no fears of Russian competition, but with the new information on the in dustry in that country they are taking another view of it. There is no better way to bring this fact ' to them than by a few com parisons. Take a well at Baku calied the "Wet Nurse." It has been yitld ig oil for twelve years, and in that time has averaged 32,000 gallons aday. These figures are amazing to aa Ameri can oil producer. They mean that the well has produced 140,000.000 gal lons of oil, or over 8,000.000 barrels. These figures are startling to the peo ple of this section wheU they turn to the statistics of their own industry apd find this one well has produced thfJe" times as much as Pitbolein a year of its wonderful business. It lacks less than 400,000 barrels of producing as much as the famous Oil Creek district pro duced in 1379, its most proline year. The Washington district, among the richest ever discovered in America, ia 1887, its bs-ner year, produced but 8.- 600,000 barrels. This is but 600,000 barrels more than the output of this one well in Russia. The wonder ful Thorn Creek pool, in Butler county produced in its best twelve months out 268,000 barrels more than ais one Russian gusher. - - Such astounding facts as these bring the danger of Russian competition home to the people of the Pennsylvania fields. This well does not stand alone in this enormous production. The yearly output is given of a number of wells, manv of them nearly as large as this one. The -Mirzoeff So. 5," also at Baku, has for six years produced 40,000 gallons a day. Thi3 is above 2,000 barrels, ana the production of Cogley, Tarkill, and Red Valley, three prolific Yenago county pools, pro duced but l,Si&5,000 barrels in I486. their best year. I be record is given of a well dnilea by the Nobel Brothers, called the Drooiba welL" It cost f 7,700 to drill. The record of the well is thus stated: "This well spouted for 115 days, the vield being 3,400 tons a day for forty- tnree aays, tons lor rainy, buu ow. tons for eleven days, lne wen was then plugged, nnd the supply kept under gronna for further warn. . j. u$ total amount of oil spouted by this well, according to the highest estimate, 600,000 tons, or 125,000,000 gallons. The spray from one of these geysers was blown through the air for eight miles. With these figures before them, coming as they do from official sources, American oil men realize that Russian petroleum deposits are too great for computation. Five hundred wells have been sunk in the Baku districts, 200 of which, irrespective of the enormous fountains, are now pro4acipg500UO,--000 gallons of oil e tv year. Iris the opinion of American operators now la that field that this flow "conld be in creased tenfold." A very significant fact to oil men is the interest which the Rothschilds have taken ia the Russian field, controlling, as they do. a large percentage of the producing and ? Democrat. . " I One of Jack. Splan's Latest. Few men can tell a better story than Splan when he is in the humor. The following, which appeared in the Cleveland Plairulealer last week, is one of the best: " , "The funniest thing I ever heard in connection with a fixed race happened ) in Philadelphia Tears ago. A race baa been fixed, the boys had their money ' in. and everything had an easy look. One of the boys wasold Jack Bachelor - of Mattie Graham and Red Cross fame, now with the runners, poor fellow! Heats were being donated here and there, the money rolled in, and the programme was being strictly adhered to. One man, who stood to lose $750 at the best of it, kicked an awful kick. Batch was under it, and he said onto the man who didn't like jobs: 'What's i the matter with you? If it is a job go out and guess tie right one. It's & guessing match, anyhow! Then the meeting adjourned. Some time later on the race adjonrn?d. too. Ia 'thsa.'-x evening a few of the cutest of the cast up accounts ao t foand to then .i - J i :.t fi tueru was iuul c mo urjr iuu i3 im .-..H.Q " - ...... and so it was arranged. in the morning, while Batch was still absent, the rate was finished and plans for the faturs discussed. Pres ently Batch droppe 1 in. When he saw the board and who had won he 'beef ed' a beef. the lii e of which I had never heard in tin eastern country. Then he caught,'' a nd fell to cussing. Daring a lull in his discourse some one asked what was wr ng. 'Nothing, he said, in a calm amd correct despair, as he removed his ten cent chip hat and wiped his wrinkled brow with a ffva cent bandanna, for the sua was h. -and his conversation had been hott stilL "Nothing!... I am not kicking or what I've lost, or about the new dei some one hai told bim how the pi gramme came to be changed. 'But am objecting to such deals being ma wnne nonest msa re asieep. i w . remember, who, while dealing faro i Chicago, was asked by a f reshy: Wha" is the limit?' 'Limit?' quoth Batch j who didn t like tremies 'wepiayfroi! the green earth to the bine sky, and if that isa t enoutrh too climb on, and l will turn for tite whole outfit,' Th young man didn't play." 'According to M. BlaTier's theory, the great earthquake disturbances of 1755, 1834 and l!s7 are to be associated witii the abnormal accumulations of ice about the north pole. He suppose? such accumulations to have caused from Europe, producing great dif changes and a slight di.stuvbar equilibrium in the sea, hot U p 1 Oj H l-'y-wIUlC ii-H ill HUCfcaiC UUj Hi3 line of least resistance. , - . a. .None of Mrs. Francis Hodgsor nat's stones has been sosncc . her ..Litte Lord Frauntler-- Uo ;.r thousands royalties. It still kef " larity and is now n& . -;' ? sand in America.; -- v copies of it ha' i Aa Italian t . been puh'V i - I nswsp ;