x 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.
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rDtcn salted Beef. Pork, Mct-
ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham.
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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 ;