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$ it LEBANON ij: i i i. EXPRESS 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. , LEBANON, OttEGON, FItlUAY, OCTOBER 24, 1890. ... NO. 33. EAST AND SOUTH -VIA- Southern Pacific Route.! THK HOIXT SHASTA BOBIE. UrB&S LEAVE rOUTLASD .UIA : 4:00 P. M. 1 I.V 9 :28 V. M. I Lv 7 :iS a. M. I Ar Portland Arl9:3A.M. Albany Ar j 6:14 A. 51. San FTanclscoJUv wi jrx. Above trains stop only at the following ""on? nortnot Koseburg: East Portland v:., - u.mdr'r. Juncdon 01 y, Irving and Eugene, . Roseburg Mall-Dally. S AW A. It. I Lv 12 A) P. U. 1 Lv 6.-00 P. M. I Ar Portland Albany Rosebur? Ar Ar Lv 4 M P. M. ia o sr. ! 6 X A. X. Albany Local Dally lExeept Sunday.) 5 Ml P. M. JM P. M. Lv Ar Portland Albany Arl 9:00 A. M. U i A." M Loral Fasseneer Trains Dal V Except Sunday. 3 :30 P. M. I Lv . 38 p. Jt. 1 Ar '. -JO A. St. j Lv 8:32 A. St. Ar Albany Lebanon Albany Lebanon Ar Lv Ar Lv t :25 A. M. 8 0 A. St. 4 : P. f. 3 : P. St. PULLMAN" BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Sleeping Cars For scoomm.-xJatlon ol Second Class Passengers. attac ea to Express trams. WEST SIDE DIVISION. RF.TWEEX P0BTLAXD AXD C0RV1LUS. Mall Train Dally (Except Sunday.) 7:30 A. M 12:10 P. X. Lv Ar Portland Corvallis Ar Lv S :3t) P. X. IS :S5 P X. At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of Oregon Paoinc Jtiaiiroaa. (Express Train Dally Except Snnday.) 4 AO P. X. 1 Lv ' r25 p. m. I Ar Portland JlcMinnvllle Ar Lv 8 -J20 A. X. 5:15 a. X. aa-TTirv.n o-h tickets to all points East and South For tickets and roll Information regarding rates, mapa. etc, call on Co's agent at Medfoid. Vt KOKHLLK. E. 1. KlKiERS. Manager. Asst. Q. F. P. Agt DR. C. H. DUCKETT, D E NT 1ST LEBANON", OREGON". J. K. WEATHERFQRD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. ALBANY. - - - - - OREGON, W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBANY", OREGON. G. T. COTTON, Drt'er in Groceries and Froviw. Tobacco and. Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queens ware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Lebanon. Oregon R. L. McCLRUE fncecor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haireutting and Shampoo- insr in the latest and best style, spec ial attention paid to dressing Ladies1 hair. Your patronage respectfully so licited. J.-L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. Exchange sold on New York, San Francisco. Portland and Albany, Org. Collections made on favorable terms. LEBANON Meat Market ED. KELLLNBERGER, Prop. Fresh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mut ton, Savsage, Bologna & Ham. BACQ55 AM) LAED ALWATSUS HAND -"" Main Street, teban? Indianapolis ear company has failed. All tho nations of the world are at i peace. . Rube Burrows, the southern desperado. has been killed. Russia will immediately beirln building the Siberian rail ay. Roberto Saeasa has - been re-elected I resident of Nicaragua. The expulsion of Jews from Russia pro ceeds with relentless vigor; Winnie Davis has broken oft ber en gagement to marry young Wilkinson. Florida orange dealers in now "iork propose to have a steam-heated wharf. Clayton Lloyd poisoned his wife and four children at Newton, A1M and tied. Father Alois Steffi n, pastor at Wood ha ven; N. l., is co-respondent in a divorce suit. Ten persons were killed bv an explo sion in the pyrotechnic school at Bourges, France, Oct. 10. There was a fire In the Putnam hotel at Chicago Oct. 11. in which four per sons perished. Full amnesty has been offered to all Salvadorean political offenders, even in cluding Atala. Vernon Whiteside, eitv auditor of Chat tanooga, Tenn., is $26,000 short. His mother will pay it White Cans at Abseeom. N. J.. rode John Newman on a rail trimmed with barbed wire Oct. 6. Srlkers drove the non-union men out of the mines at Bulll, X. S. W Oct. 9, and took possession. The federal supreme court will have a chanee to amplify the original package decision at its October term. The French liuuciied gas gun is a suc cess ana the Colt arms company nas bought the patent for $1,000,000. The Servian trovernment has asked the Skuptschina to pass bill expelling ex-Kiug Milan from ttie country. Italy declines to send esh'bits to the Columbian exhibition on account of the passage of the Mckinley tariff aet. Colombia asks such a heavy payment for an extension of time on the Panama canal contract that she may not get it. Jehiel Tryon's wife and dwelling at Middletown, Ct., werw consumed by lire Oct. 7 and Jehiel was somewhat scorched. The postal service in Turkey has been suspended because it is believed that revolutionists have been taking ail van tage of it. Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the czar, is dyine of what is called cancer. as so many members of European royal 1 amines ao. Chieaco is to have a Sl.5iW.000 tin-plate factory, taking fin from the Black Hills and from North Carolina and employing ooou men. In the midst ol their trial at Tipper- ary O linen and Dillon evaded British vigilance, lumped their bail and sailed for America. England has demanded from Portugal immediate settlement for the recent seizure of the steamer James Stevenson in African waters. The shippers" union for protection against labor-union demands in Great Britain is growing into a general era ployers' federation. Xarcisse Lerocque Is under arrest at Cumberland. Ont for assaulting and murdering Eliza and Mary McGonlgle, aged 12 and 14 years Dr. Merrille Gates, president of Am herst college, has been appointed to suc ceed Clinton B. riske on tne ooaru ol Indian commissioners. The strike of New Zealand colliers was a failure. Ihirty-rour steamers or the company are running, furnishing em ployment to 2J00 men. A London woman thinks that on6 of her lodgers, who used to keep irregular hours, cut up fresh meat and get blood on his towels, was Jack the Kipper. Cholera victims are dying by thousands along the Red sea and in the Interior of Arabia and their bodie lie wner they fall until biros ana dogs devour mem. Madame Boneil confessed that she was a German spy and na3 Deen sentenced to live years' imprisonment, 5000 franca tine and ten years exile from France, Arthur Hoyt Day has been convicted at Wetland, Ont., of murdering his wife by pushing her over the banb at Niag ara Falls and sentenced to be hanged. There were election liots in Pondi- cherry, the capital of the French settle ment In India, and several persons were injured In connicts or tne police witn the mob. After the Liberals had. under federal supervision, carried the licino constitu tional election, tne bwiss government restored the deposed Conservatives and witnurew. A vouncr doctor named Koucharsky lectured on pob onous acids in St. Peters burg the other day and concluded by taking a dose and dying in the presence of the audience. The Portuguese government is in tight place. To refuse England's d mands in Africa would mean a war witn England which Portugal is unable to wage, and to grant them means rebel lion and probably a republic. The most destructive prairie tire ever known west of the Missouri river has destroyed many hundreds of cattle and done immense damage otherwise in the western part ol N ortn Dakota. Joseph Jonassen of New York, who was arrested in nermany ana cnargea with saving: "I sneeze at your em perr, a crime punisnaoie by ten years imprisonment, nasjaeen acquitted. A quarter of a mile of land, with the buildings of Mathias Gadnon at St. Pierre. uue slid into tne river tjct. v Mrs. Gadnon was killed and Gadnon was badly iniureu, but their nine children escaped. The daughter of Mrs. Mittman of Leavenworth, Kan, for whose murder Charles Benson was arrested in New Jersev. has confessed that the and Ben son planned tne muroer oi notn ner mother and brother for the property. Mrs. Nancy Sullivan of Springfield, O, went crazy on religion and built an altar, undressed her 8-nionth-old son laid him on the altarnd was with diffi culty restrained from killing him witli a butcher knife as a sacrilice to the Lord While the coroner held John Sweeney a prisoner on the depot platform at Oat- ville, O., Oct. 11, a pil of Sweeney's pushed the coroner on the platform in front of a train. He kept his grip on his prisoner and took him with him he fell and both were killed. I he man who gave the push was arrested for murder. Frederick Henzler mixed carbolic acid and kerosene and washed his bird store in New York and the cages in it with the mixture to drive away cockroaches and somebody dropped a candle fnto the mixture. An explosion followed, causing a fire which consumed 100 p irrots, 100 eanarv and mocking birds, two monkeys two cats, a dog and all tho cockroaches Tunis V. Palmer, crazed with grief at the death of his wife, hanged himself in New York Oct. 7. ills two little ennoren awoke In the night and found him hang lni to a chandelier. They begged him to come down. Getting no answer, they ran and roused a neighbor and asked him to come in. He told them to go home and said he would come in a minute, but he did not come and the little ones watched their father's body several hours till daylight, when neighbors came in Jay Nicherlos deserted his affianced. STissi Flla Henrihan of Constantia. N. 1. a year ago, after the wedding feast bad been prepared and the guests had as sembled, because his people objected to his being married -y a Catholic priest. Ella was sweet to him when they met again and agreed to be married by a Protestant minister, and a few days ago they stood before Rev. Mr. Embey, who was just beginning the marriage service when she paid Jay in bis own coin by dropping his hand and walking away. The Qloast Buns. Slsson had a frost Oct. 11. Carson had a snow storm Oct. 8. Coronado has seceded from San Plego. I Dixon is becoming a raisin shipping point. Seattle charges S1000 a dav for a circus license. The next session of the state irrnuge will be at Hay ards. Bunco men have been making Tncoma their headquarters of late. Sacramento's street rai'wavs are to be equipped with electric motors. June Dennis, the colored prize lighter. is in the Agnews insane asylum. . rock fell on J. E. Keller and killed htm in a mine at Hiidreth Oct. 6. Will King committed suicide at Salt Lake Oct. 4 with uo known cause. George F. Foster, city tax collector of Tucsou, drank, defaulted .and suicided. The Irvington Odd Fellows have dedi cated a $10,000 hall which U about paid for. Snow began to fall f.t Sierra City Oct. 9. The long winter last year bi'gau a day earlier. Frank Gano was crushed to death while caupllng cars at Scotia, Humboldt Co, Cal., Oct. 7. A cartridge burt while Thomas Leflech aged 14, was loading a gun at Horn- brook Oct. a. m William, son of ex-Governor Sprague f Rhode Island, committed suicide at Seattle Oct. 7. Mrs. Fry talked about Miss Preston at Pe-rls and Miss Preston sued and got $1000 damages. Ditches are to bo surveyed at onee for the irrigation of 50.000 acres in Sunny- side county, Wn. : Tramps fired a barn at Castroville and the (lames spread and destroyed $23,000 worth or property. The new Cumberland Presbyterian church at Eugene. Or., has been dedi cated and paid tor. Louise Esslineer married George Weh lin at Redwood City and committed sui cide before morning. Mrs. William. J. Rogurs committed sui cide in San Francisco Oct, 7 after, a few words with her husband. White men are hiring Indians to kill thousands of deer in the Sierra Nevada mountains for their hides. An electric street-oar line from the heart of San Francisco to the new stock yards at Baden is projected. Mrs. Catherine Fitzsimmons sued Frank Band for breach of promise in San Fran cisco and a jury gave her $1. Old Adam, the last chief of the Til lamook Indians, believed to be between 100 and 140 years old. Is dead. There are 9276 Good Templars in Cal ifornia and the grand lodge meeting in Santa Cruz was a successful one. Mrs. Columbet, who was thiown from a buggy near San Joee and lav uncon scious nearly a week, is recovering. Gus Gunderson sud ex-Sheriff William Cochran at Seattle for arresting him by mistake for I'ete Oisen and got SjOO. Tho Great Northern Jim Hill's) rail road will have a terminus at New West minster, B. C, and a line to Portland. Mrs. Hainy. living near Drain. Or.. shot and killed F. F. Templetou while he was trying to get into ner house. Daniel Zelmer. secretary of American council No. 7, order of Chosen Friends, San Iranciseo, has run away with $ooo. Ernest B. Muffly, a Taeoma railroad agent and baseball suarp, has raised money on bogus checks and skipped out. Alexander Harris of Stockton attempted to jump on a moving freight train and fell under the care and was killed Oct. 8, About one-half the town of Compton CeU has seceded from the incorporation The incorporated half is a prohibition town. Anastaelo Griego stole up behind his wife, from whom he had separated, at Los Griegos. N. M- Oct. 7, and shot her dead. The California etate grange meeting at w atsonviiie was more largely attended than any previous meeting for several years. George de Graf, a Seattle merchant, started for San 1 ranclseo toept. 24 and has not been seen since he reached Port land. Dave Johnson and George Ray dis cussed politics at Oreana. Idaho, and Johnson carried his point by shooting liay dead. Sand on the track derailed a train at Ceiilo. Or Oct. 6. killing Fremnn How ard and badly injuring George Long and the engineer. A hundred and ten tons of Lima beans. the largest shipment of beans ever made irom the coast, left llueneme Oct. 11 lor the east. Ross Hutchins lumped the pre-emption claim of a man named Jennings nine miles from Boise City and Jennings shot and Killed mm. Train wreckers burned a railroad bridge five miles east of Dixon Oct. 9 in front of the Oreg-n express, but the train escaped destruction. a gang or thieves from ia to is years old, belonging to prominent families at Spokane talis, has been broken up and much plunder recovered. Jacob H. Merer, a Seattle contractor and builder, has disappeared with $5000 uriuugiuic uo n. ij. v yaiL, irom wnom he had taken a sub-contra .-t. cnaries augnan tried to pick out an unexploded blast near Port Vine, Sierra county, and it went off and blew him to pieces and.broke T. Clark s arm. A Napa man named McGeo and nine Mexicans were killed by an explosion in a gold mine seventy miles Inland from Mazatlan in the latter part of Septem ber. Anton Vogt and John Aimbrufcier of San Francisco have been arrested at Portland for distributing boycott circu lars against a brewery and fined li0 each. " The largest tree in the known world has just been found in tho Sierras two miles north of Kentucky Meadows, Fresno county. It is over 129 feet in circumference. John Sebrean of Bolinas. who thrashed Schoolmaster R. B. Warren for whaling the young Sobreana because they said the pedagogue drank beer, was tried for assault and acquitted. The company owning tho townsite of Rialto, having gathered a tomerance colony by incorporating a prohibitory clause in its deeds, has now commenced selling lots without that restriction. Ah Sin Yung.'sinned too young and has been sentenced to death for the murder of a Chinese woman in Fresno county. If hanged he will bo tho tirst person legally executed In that county. Frank E. Smith fired at his wife and wounded her and then at her father. John P. Crins, and broke both arms, at South Union, Wn., Oct. 7. He then had the decency to blow his own head off. The forest fire In tho mountains north east oi nonoma swept over an area twelve miles long by six wide, destroy ing many iences ana mucn timber and thousands of acres of feed, but nobody pensnea in it. A wind storm blew down an awning at Seattle Oct. ti and in its fall it brought down the electric railroad wire. R. E. Johnson, a hackdnver, attempted to drive over the wire and both his horses were instantly killed. A man drove up to where Mrs. John Nigtingale sukkI in front of her resl deuce in San Francisco Oct. 7, jumped from his buggy, snatched her purse, which contained Sii, returned to his buggy and drove off. New Mexico rejected the Btato consti tution because it provided for free public schools. The Engl'sh-spcaking people now esk congress u pro-vide for free public schools for tho territory, and also that no person shall sit on a jury who cannot read and write tho English language. Qlutrenf Ben&. A SHOWER OF 1IIM.IN FLESH. Leg, Ann, Jawbones and Other Sample Scattered Over a Tonhlp. A workman nnmod Cran was receiving can of hexagonal powder to be shipped for the use of the United States govern ment In one of tho packing mills o the Dupout powder company on tho Bran- dywlne, five miles from Wilmington, Del., Oct 7, when a spark fell Into It and It exploded. Betting off all tho powder in tho building. Seven or eight other mills were exploded by the concussion, leaving nothing but holes In the ground to show where they had been. Fifteen or twenty employes were killed outright and many were Injured. Fifty, houses wero completely destroyed, and in the illnge of Dupont Banks, near by, 100 houses were rtined, doors, windows and walls bctug blown in and all the contents smnshed. Glass was broken In houses as far away as Wilmington, and the shock was felt in Philadelphia. For several days after the explosion people continued to find parts of human bodies scattered over an area of several miles. Ono farmer was astonished just after ho heard the explosion to see a bleeding human hand drop at his feet. Another found a jaw and part of a cheek, and others found legs and arms. The powder company announces its readiness to restore all damaged prop erty. , The Dark Continent. King Lobengula of Mashonolaud, lu southern Africa, has been wheedled and coerced Into ceding a -ast area to the British South Africa company. His peo ple, the Meta belles, a brave and warlike tribe, look with jealous eyes on the en croachments of the whites, and a force of t) trained and well-equipped soldiers on dutv there find great difficulty In penetrating the country any consider able distance. A conlllct in which 100 British soldiers were killed Is reported, anl it is feared that Lobengula's chiefs may have forced him to go to war de spite hi frienuliness for the whites. In other partV of Africa the natives protest effectually against the parcel ing out of tne continent by the Euro pean powers. Some chiefs on the Gold Coast have forced the Germans to with draw, and In Dahomey the French have found it advisable to conclude a treaty of peace on terms highly favorable to the king of that country. M nrtler Uj Mar, V Maniac. James M. Dougherty, the crank who followed Mary Anderson for years with Incoherent protestations of love, has been in the Insane asylum in Fiatbush. New ,York, for a year past but he quite recently escaped. He walked Into the institution Oct. 6 and, with a re volver In each hand, faced the assistant superintendent. Dr. Lloyd. AY ell, Doughertv, what do you want? said Lloyd, pleasantly, thinking to pro pitiate the crank. "I want Dr. Osgood. Where is he to be found ? " was the response. " Oh, he has just stepped out, but he will be bac"i in an hour or two." " Dougherty looked at his weapons and then at the doctor, who smiled and said Now, Dougherty, put those pistols away. I am sure vou do not want to use them." Quick as a Bash Dougherty tired two shots and Lloyd fell dead. A Ileruie Engineer. - The boiler of a locomotive exploded two miles west of Huntington, Ind., Oct, 12. The fireman, George KIrby, was blown from the cab tack on the track and burned and scalded . 40 that he was ex pected to die. Engineer Edward Mur phy was badly scalded but jumped off lu time to escape fatal scalds. In jumping he broke his leg, but when the first neighbor arrired on the scene he found Murphy crawling up the track with a lantern in nis hand, to stop a passenger train which was due In a few minutes. His action averted a terrible disaster, Murder Will Out. Nathan Wlllett, a prosperous farmer of Norwalk, Los Angeles county, Cal has been arrested for a murder commit ted seventeen years ago. He had killed a man In western Texas and fled to An derson county. There a rival of U. B. Woodward for the affections of a woman hired Willett to kUl Woodward. A fugi tive from justice already, Willett was easily persuaded. He took a drink with Woodward and then shot htm dead. He then came to the coast and has led an upright life In southern California ever since. He married near Norwalk twelve years ago and has two children and farm worth $20,000 or $30,000. Cruel Kobbers. Two men seized ex-Assemblyman Jos- selyn as he drove up to his home at Monterey Oct. 10, beat him brutally and then tied him with ropes while they run sacked the house. They took $30 in money from his person and then 'molly cooked dinner, which they asked him to join in eating, but he declined. They tormented Joaelyn until 3 o'clock tho next morning, when they left. It was daylight when he managed to free him self. Tho brutes took the motning train and left it at San Jose. Masked Murderers. Stephen Rich and his wife keep a way side saloon about a mile from Bradford's mlue In Lake county and two and one half miles from Middletown. On the evening of Oct. 10 while Fred Bennett was in the saloon five or six masked men entered and began firing at Ben nett. Rich returned their the and killed one, who proved to be W. R. Magulre, a miner. Rich and his wife were wounded. In the struggle the mask was torn from 6ne of the men, who proved to be Henry Arcarro, another miner. Bennett escaped through a window. ' A Fatal Kxplotflon. Cortez mining company's powder mag azine at the Garrison mine at Beowawe, Nev, exploded Oct. 10, and tho building and the air compressor engine-house were blown to atoms. H. Taylor, w ho was In the magazine at the timn, was killed and several other men wero hurt by flying debris. J. B. Dougherty's boarding-house and several other bui'd lags were considerably Injured. Satin Botes. A Keform Needed. The experiment of an Alameda county fruitgrower In marketing his grapes with out the Intervention of mlddlomon bo twoen himself and the consumer, an ac count of which we copy from the Rural Press, ought to succeed. The enormous prices at which good fruit retails in San Francisco aro out of all proportion to tho prices producers get and the cost of transportation and handling. We do not agree with the Press, however, in attrib uting the trouble to " retailers' extor tions." The greatest gap Into which percentages fall Is between the producer and the retailer. The commission fian gets them. Retailors labor under many disadvantages whl"h commission men do not encounter. Tho commission men of San Francisco have a closo organization and no retailer buys a pound of fruit that this organization does not fix the price upon. If the retailers do not tako tho bulk of the consignments at that price, so much the wotso for the grower. What is . left on the commission man's hands is sold to canners at next to noth ing and the price evened up (or down) in rendering account of sales so that the man whose fruit was taken by the re tailer at 5 cents a pound gets no more than he whoso shipment went to the cannery at 1 cent. The result of all this U that the retailer sells only halt as much fruit as he would if he got it at 2 or 3 cents and Is com pelled to charge twice as much profit to cover expenses and losses on damaged goods, and the San Francisco consumer. while he is paying 8 or 10 cents a pound for fruit, sees the canneries getting as good an article for 1 cent and jumps to the conclusion that he is being robbed by retailers" extortions," supposing that his fruit vender Is making from 700 to 900 per cent profit. The conimlstlon men and canners get all the profit theie Is In this kind of trade, the grower finds hard to pay help and taxes and the poor go without fruit in the metropolis of the grandest fruitgrowing region the sun ever shone upon. A remedy for this state of affairs can not be expected from the commission men. Their profits are sure and their work easy. They do not tnt a change The fruitgrowers and consumers can, if they will, cure he evil. It will not be found practicable for fruitgrowers In general to retail their own products, as the Press has pointed out. but a nuin'jer cau combine, hire a room and have con slgnments or fruit auctioned off every morning to the highest bidder by tho single box or more. Retailers and con sumers could thus buy at prices some where near as low as those the growers get after paying transportation eharw. A steady retail trade might, perhaps, tie conducted In the building after auction hours, and probably a cannery would soon be added which would work up all unsold fruit while-yet fresh and whose trademark would soon become known as guarantee of first-quality goods. Here is a chance for the grange or some similar organization. City buyers might take stock Id It, for they would really be the greatest gainers by It. A void! tig Middlemen. An Alameda county grapegrower bas an interesting experiment in progress In the line of an effort to establish direct trade between producer and consumer. He had a crop of Black Malvolse grapes which. If sold through San Francisco commission merchants, would hardly pay even as much as local wlnemakers would pay for such low-quality grapes say $15 a ton. Knowing wnat is done in tne large eastern cities In the way of "bas ket fruit trade," he has begun the effort to establish such a trade In this city under the name "Home Basket Fruit Company." He secured a small stand at the lower part of Market stieet and gave out several thousand small circulars making the following offer: "Black Malvolse grapes, freh from the ranch. Five pounds for 23 cents, including a fif teen-cent lunch basket, "and If you will bring the basket back will fill it again for ten cents every day aa long as the crop holds out." This announcement proved attractive and sales were considerable from the start, and the trade was-so economically and Ingeniously conducted that the grapes netted 2 cents a pound or $49 a ton. The experience with the first stand has led to the establishment of two oth ers at points higher up on Market street. ' The experiment Ls still in progress, and whether the sale of fruit on such a low scale of prices can be mado permanently profitable remains to be seen. Tho ex periment has within it the testing of tho general proposition to extend the 'sale of freth, 'Wholesome fruit In large quan tities at rates which aro low and yet yleid the producer more than ho can get through existing channels. To at tempt such an enterprise as Is now being tried requires personal qualifications for driving close trade and causes, the pro ducer to put In his own time possibly at Irather low wages. Consequently many producers aro not personally qualified for such an. undertaking and others can make hotter use of their time, perhaps. Thus, while the experiment now uudor trial does not offer a field to all produc ers, it may possibly lead to a reduction of tho retailer's extortions and open the way for a much larger cons mptiou of fruit, at prices which will pay pro ducers something better than they now usually get. For this reason we have alluded to the subject and noted progress of tho experiment thus far.- the Ru- rai iress, uct. . It' has boon a common practice to sow or plant corn for fodder or ensilage en tirelv too thick. Starch and sugar aro not ru v (inveionea witnout au aouuu ance of sunlight, and immature plants are likelv to contain a very large per centage of water. A paradox in California is an annua fair without a horse race or any kind of irambling. given at Watsonvillo under the auspices of the Pajaro Valley agri cultural fair association. It receives no ntnte appropriation : encourages the young by having a juvenile department with one-half the premiums that all other departments get, including public school work; and gives entertainments every evening during fafr week. . The Angora goat industry on this coast has been declining for several years. At the annual meeting of the Angora goat breeders' assooiat'on in September the secretary in his report voiced the senti ments of tho members in a recommenda tioh that goat breeders petition the gov ernment 10 negotiate with Turkey to Recurs a permit to buy 100 ewes and twenty-five bucks in Asia Minor, their exportation being now prohibited, and that the government maintain this flock and distribute 1U progeny among goat breeders at eost. Why Girls Leave Home to Work. Fbesso, Oct. 6. A great deal has been written of late about the fact that girls are employed in shot, stores and factories in recent years to a much greater extent than their mothers and grandmothers were, sumi writers deploring the chango and others apparently regarding It with com placency If not with satisfaction. Vari ous supposed reasons liavo been ad vanced, but I have not seen among them any reference to what 1 consider tne great and fully justifying reason for girls seeking employment outside of their homes, and that Is the fact that all kind? of manufacturing work are being concentrated In factories Instead of being carried on on the farm and in the home. When our grandmothers were young they made butter and cheese, which are now made with one-tenth the labor at the creamery and, the cheese factory. They spun and wove underwear, towels. napery and bed linen from the Has their fathers and brothers raised and prepared for the linen wheeL Now all this Is done In the factory, where devices of iron and steel take the places of thousands of nimble hands. They carded, spun and wove tho wool from the family Socks of sheep, knitted the socks and stockings for tho family, wove the cloth and made the coats and trousers and woolen shirts or the men and dresses and petticoata for themselves. Now all this is done in the factory and the male portion of the family Is clad in ready-made clothing, while tho most the girls can do is to buy cloth and make np their own gar ments. They picked berries in summer and sold them to acquaintances in the neighboring villages. Now tho village has become a manufacturing town where nobody knows as much as his neighbor's name and the berries and fruits come in in carloads and families get their sup plies from Italian retailers or from hoodlum-like boy peddlers with strong lungs. The boys on the farms in those days learned trades, as iihoemaking harness making, coopering, etc.. and as for car penter work, every man was his own carpenter. When a rainy day came, or a very " cold snap " ia winter, tho farmer got out his tools and made or mended shoes for tho family or the neighbor, made tubs and buckets or otherwise turned an honest penny. Now the fac tory does all this work and people won der why each succeeding census shows an increase of population in cities and a decrease in the country In the older sec tions. "Why do buj leave the farm?" and "What shall we do with our girls?" are stock subjects for newspaper discussion. Boys leave tho farm because thowecupa tions which used to be found there have left and tho boys follow them. Girls go to the factory towns for the same rea son. But we cannot feel as safe In send ing our girls out from the home nest into the great, wide world as wo do when our sturdy sons start to learn a trade and seek fortune and anie. We shrink from the thought of our daughters being surrounded by the hurly-burly of the great, unsympathetic city, with no mother near to sympathize with and comfort, them when in trouble and coun sel them when In perplexity. Then help them to get employment near home, where they may pehd their evenings at home. or. if not that, they can at least come home once a week and remain dur ing the day of rest. Let them be schoolteachers, typewrit ers, bookkeepers, compositors, salesgirls or what they may. Do not let anybody deceive you with the lie that these occupa tions are unwomanly or immodest. Hon est work Is neither. It is the girl who is brought up In idleness, because the occupations once followed in the home have been transferred to the factory, who Is in the greatest danger of making failure of life. The objection that girls are filling positions that belong to young men is the vdtiest bosh. A position bi longs to whoever fills It, as long as he or she fills it and no longer. The contention that girls should learn housekeeping and nothing else tecause they expect to have homes of their wn to care for some time may look nice on paper, but it is not practical. Every girl If broucht up as she should be learns housekeeping' be'.ore she is old enough to learn a trade, and she does not forget it again. Besides, if thrown upon her own resources some day, as any of us may be, they cannot earn a living at housekeeping without being somebody's drudge, and girls born under tho stars and stripes have no fancy ror that. It Is quite true that any good kitchen girl can get $25 or $30 a month now, while in our grandmothers' youth $1 a week was fair pay anl $1 50 wa3 something grand, but in tho old days the girl was treated as an equal, and ato at the table with tho family, while now she is looked down upon aa something tolerated about the house for the convenience of the family. It you hire an American for ftlnve vou must pay a good price, and they are hard to get at that. Abigail Hals, Cheap Spongo Cake Three eggs well beaten, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of Hour with ono teaspoonful of cream tartur sifted with It. liall a teaspoonlul of soda dissolved in three toaspoonfuls of hot water, dosser tspoontul oi extract of lemon or vanil'a. Bake about one- hnlf hour in an oven not too not. Madamo Modjeska gives her opinion thua: Red worn below the face deadens the complexion: worn abovo the face it hightoiis tho complexion. If, therefore, a woman wishes to subdue the color in t.h cheeks she should wear a red gown or plenty of red ribbons about her throat on the other hand, if she wishes to giv her face a certidn touch or color let ner wear a red hat or red flowers in her hair. It is a sad fact that every year many babies are unintentionally starved to death. Their nursing bottles are alway full, but tho elements or nutrition in their food are lacking. Mothers do not understand that arrowroot, cornstarc aitd some patent foods will not meet all the requirements of nourishment. Some Peach Pudding A peach pudding made of fresh or canned fruit is delicious. For this ia reauired about two-thirds or can of fruit, and dough. Put the peaches with a little of the Juice in a round ti mold. A cake mold if not too large will do. Drop the dough over tne top in BtHMinfuls and set in a steamer over kettle of fast-boihng water. Cover closely and cook one hour. This should turn out without any breaking, when the peaches will be on top. Serve with want, half-cuo of butter rubbed to craan. one cud of powdered sugar and ar, ao-cr luuiten verv licht: flavor to taste This sauae should be soft, but not liquid. WIT AND HUMPH. Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind ilade hi in Miave his whiskers off to disappoint the wind. Chatter. Of all sad words of tonpue or pen. The Butidost are those she utters when You're tried to kiss, and trying-, missed her And ahe says. "Go practice on ,our sister." What was Noah's wife's name?" "Joan, wasn't it?" X. Y. Sun. Troubles sometimes come pinslr. afterall; all children are not twins. Atchison Ufobe.. How to catch fish is a study. How to lie about it comes natural. Sew Or leans l'icayune. The number 13 is not so unlucky if you put a mk like this before it: hashintjlon Post. "How liih are J.he White "Monu tains?" Tuey varv. From $5 to f 15 a day." A'. Y. JJcrald. "U. I wish I'd -been a man." cried Mrs. Bjousou,. "I wish to Heaven you had!" retorted Mr. Bjonson. Tlie Epoch. Atlas carried the world on his back and not in front of him as it is carried by jrreat men of the present dav. Dal las (2 ex.) .Yeu-s. Little Tnrtle owned Chicago in 1790, fnt be had so little snap to him that the place did not grow much while he was proprietor. Courier-Journal. "That man made money just by Lis saud." -What?" -Yes. Hes a briekniaker." St. Joseph (lo.) AVtcs. A man never, seldom ever, knows how to use his own ideas quite a4 well as the ideas he has -picked np. Dallas (iex.) Aews. r A woman can disguise her wrinkles, debts, and deceptions from a man, but She can never hide them from another woman. Atchison (iw.) Globe. The interesting question m some cir cles is: How can the depositor retain is equilihrinm when the cannier has lit out with his balance? Philadelziltia ress. Don't be hurt at what vou think is a lack of sympathy. The spot on your ose that looks so bhr to you is hardly isible to any one else. Terre Haute Express. Editor '"Your poem contaius some parklinir petns.' Idyl (proudly) Indeed!" ditor "Yes. you should have seen them flash when the flame caught them." The Epoch. A Louisville pie factory Ls about to be established in Washinjrton. There will be no nine months' session of Con press after this faetory gets in opera tion. Atlanta Constitution. Talking Shop Mrs. Snodrras3 "1 think Mrs. Laker must be from Chi cago." Mrs. Sniveiy -Why?" Mrs. Snodgrass Because she "says "O, lard ! "so often." West Shore. - David Crockett is to have a monu ment down in Teunessee. This is a reward lor Lmvv s good. lortune and foresight in not being buried in New York City. Pittsburg Dispatch. It is simple enough to be a great man; keep your moutn shut, ana when you see a dollar grab it. Atchison Globe. Grab it any way and explain to your constituency later. Aeio Or leans l'icayune. We sent onr young boy to college,' writes a German editor, "and after three Tears' hard study he didn't know how to hitch a mule to a wagon and couldn't run a straight furrow to save his life. What are these colleges good for anyhow?" "The discovery of America in 149S was a great erent, wasn t it pa? re marked a Congressman's son. "Yes, but it doesn't amount to anything at all compared to what some of these politicians are -going to discover in 1S5?2. ' Hasftington rest. The Semite has put sponges on the free list. This is like carrying coals to .Newcastle. No man ever yet spent an eveniug . with a sponge who doe? not know that these persons are and always have been on the free list. 2f. T. Commercial Advertiser. Einstein ' "Didt you hear a pout Cohen? Ven Repecca Sonnesheim vooldn't marry him, he vent andt took a krarters vort of morphine. Vat. fools some men are." Minzberger "Yasn't he. thousrh? Ten cents vort vould haf done der pisness chnst as veil." Tcrre Haute Express. Bernard Conn, a New Hampshire farmer's man. was scared almost into convulsions while listening to a phono graph in Dover, and explained, when be came to, that he recognized the voice of a man he had stuck in a hoss trade. Conn, science makes cowards of us all. Philadelphia Ledger. X recent issue of a weekly paper published at Colmisneil, Tex., appeared in rather ragged shape, and the fol lowing apology appeared in the editor ial columns: "I he cause or delin quency of this Paper, this ishure. Is that J. K. Hamlin, bas been quite ill for several days, and disable to do of fice work." Detroit JFree Press. Tansy, mint, thyme, lavender, sweet brier, sassafras, sweet fern, sweet marjoram, and half a dozen other de lightful aromatic plants once covered the square in the garden that is now devoted to cucumbers, cabbage, and squash. Maud does not want lo come into the garden any more until she is fond of vegetables. Dallas f lexas) News. "" At a dinner-at which Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia was present, at Mount Desert, it is narrated Walter . Phelps said in the course of a discus sion of the Irish question: But you must admit. Bishop Ryan, that many practices of the Irish in Ireland to-day are treason." "Ah, but treason is reason in Ireland on account of the ab sent T." retorted the Bishop. De Montmorency Smith (hoping, yet fearing) "Well, Miss Fitz-Maurice, I await your answer." Miss Fitz-Maurice "I shall have to say no, Mr. Smith. It is possible I might learn to love you in time, but as an American young woman who owes a duty to her country I cannot consent to become a member of the Smith family. It is too large already." Chicago tribune. O'Dowd -But. bedad. the day's at hand, O'Brien, whin there'll be no tinants in ould Ireland." O'Brien "An' whin's that?' O'Dowd "Whin the landlords that's there is all abshen tees. au' whin the tinants is all land lords." O'Brien "Arrah, but there'll shtill be wan tenaut left, O'Dowd." O'Dowd "An' who'll he be?" O'Brien '-The Lord Lift-tinaut." Harper's Bazar. "It strikes mo, John," observed Mrs. Billus, "that when yoa arrange for Your brother Horace to come and spend the whole summer with us it looks as if you thought more of your brother's comfort than you do of your wife's." "Good gracious, womau!" 1 exclaimed Mr. Billus. "You don't ex pect me to feel toward you as Oo to ward my own flesh and blood, do you?" Chicago Tribune. Attorney (defending prisoner charged with swindling) "Your Honor, one of he witnesses alleges that my client rung a cold deck oo him. A cold deck, your Honor, it may be necessary to explain, is a " Judge (of Mon tana court, severely) "I be assump tion that the court doesn't know what a cold deck is. Mr. Sharp, is an im pertinence that will subject you to a tine for contempt if persistetl in. - Pro ceed with your argument-" Chieaao Tribune. - The Sunday-school teacher had been reading the story of the fall of man. Scholar "You've told us what Adam said, and what Eve said, and what Satan said, but that can't be the whole of it. What did Cbauncey M. Depew say?" Teacher Chauocey M. De few?" Scholar "Yes; he always eomes into the stories the governor reads in the papers. If yoa can't teil what Clianncey said the story's no Zood. I've got so's always" to look for it hat lie saj s, and I reckon no story's ttraigbt uuiess he figures in it-"- Uos--'on Transcript. SENATOR JONES'S CRUB STAKE, A Thousand Dollars He Loaned at Miner Brought Him Million. Senator Jones, of Nevada, is one of your se'.f-made men. He commenced life poor. But a, year old when his pareat came from Herefordshire. En gland, he bas made hi3 way to the top By dint of hard work and the exercise of considerable shrewdness. Like Senator Sanders, of Montana, who made his first ten-strike out of a claim he staked out" in a graveyard. Senator Jones first streak of luck was purely . accidental, as nearly all streaks of luck are. The story goes that when Jones was in California-he stumbled across his pile ia the following remarkable manner: He lived in a certain couuty that Bret Harte made famons--Tuolnmne, the veracious chroniclers assert and during the gold excite ment kept a small grocery store. He did a thriving trade: prices were high in those days in California, and after a few years Jones had amassed a few thousand dollars. Up the mountain a piece lived a.solitary miner.' He was poor, had the reputation of being shift less, but despite the report was always busy. . , One day be ealled on Jones. Say, Jones I think I've ot bonanza in that claim of mine, said the poor miner. Jones smiled. He had heard these stories before. He knew how great expectations were frequently neve- realized. Time, labor and money were usually wasted on what looked like something rich but that developed into snares, so Jones merely smiled. ; It's a big thing," persisted his visitor, and he proceeded to explain what the claim was and his reasons for being so sanguine. After several hours' talk the miner asked for an ad vance of f 1,000 with which to bny tools and' food. Jones demurred. A thousand dollars was a big enough sum, saved, as it had been, with much trouble and labor. Bat afteraU $ touo eut no figure in comparison -frith the profits of a good mine. Jones finally told the miner he would see what eould be done. After nightfall and the Chinamen employed in the ' neighborhood had taken their departure Mr. Jones al lowed the embers of his fire to die out. When satisfied no one was about he ?craued away the ashes, ' raised the stone on which the fire was built and weighed out the necessary gold dust to make the $1,000. These little pre cautions were always taken in that region, where even robbers were more plentiful than fortunes. 1 he tools were bought, Jones lend ing the money and the miner promis ing him one-third of the profits of the mine. For months the solitary miner labored, but he did not strike the lead. He grew wan and hollow-eyed, and oc casionally dropped in to see Jones. The latter had by this time abandoned all hope of ever "seeing his money gain. "There's no gold up there." he would inform the exhausted miner. "Yes, there is, insisted the latter, "if I could only strike it." Affairs were now becoming desperate with the hopeful but penniless man. One day he called on Jones an8 after coughing apologetically, asked for tome meal and bacon. " He knew he would be successful eventually with his search, but provisions were ont. Jones smiled again. . "It's like throwing it in a rat hole,, be cheerfully observed as he dug out a side of baeon and gathered up a sack of eorn-meal for his luckless partner For four months nothing was heard of the old fellow, and Jones presumed be bad either gone away or had died at his post up the gulch. Both suppo sitions were erroneous. The miner dashed into the store one day irra diated with joy. He had really struck his bonanza. The mine was sold for 13,000.000, and. faithful to his promise, the honest miner gave Jones one-third of it- Senator Jones's prosperity dated from that time. Pittsburg Post. Giving the Ocean a Show. - t There is hardly a day but that soma man comes down to get his first view of the ocean, and it is always interest ing to watch him. says the Detroit Free, Press. Most of them manage to conceal a great deal -of their surprise on first beholding the bbunding ex panse of the white-crested ' breakers, but your real old farmer is no dissem bler. One came down the other day who wa3 74 years eld. and who was ac companied ov nis wue, almost as oiu and three sons. Tha five stood in row on the hotel veranda and gazed at the rolling deep Jot fully five minutes before a word was spoken. Then the old man turned to hiswife and said: "Well, Sarah, wESt do you think of it?" ' "I believe it's bigger'a oar whold. farm," she replied. - "Bigger! I guess it is! Han't .lie purty ? I've alius heard and read of the' ocean, and here it is at last. It's at sight worth seein' eh, boys?" "Yes. father." answered one. -but - don't see a whale or a shark." io. nor i either, bu don t be in a hurry, Henry. Give her time. Sho's a big tody of water and has got to move slow. There's sharks and whales in there as sure as you are alive, but give 'em a show let 'em have a little rope. We've got four hours to stay, and we won't jump on her for a swindle until we've given her a faif trial."' . John Boyle O'Keilly used to say t he had found the true fraternal a- to exist at its best in convicts, sol, ' . and Journalists. , 7 4 I V . J "I