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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, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1890.
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ALBA XT" OREGON.
G. T. COTTON,
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Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
Confectionery,
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Main Street. Lebanon. Oregon
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Barber : and : Hairdresser.
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LEBANON, OREGON.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO
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Exchange sold on New York, San
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Collections made on favorable terms.
LEBANON
Meat Market
ED. KELIEKBERGER, Prop.
Fresh & Salted Beef,' Pork, Mut
ton, Sausage. Bologna & Ham.
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EG03i AX1VLAED ALWAYS OS HAND
-- arafm Btret,Xtaan, Org".
("least Bcius.
Thomas Rinehart drowned himself at
Modesto.
WiUard Slawson has leen convicted of
bigamy at Ellensburg, Wn.
The Sacramento Boo Is now set in
type by non-union compositors.
There is serious dissension in the ranks
of the Kaweah socialist colonists.
Large numbers of cattle are being
shipped from Arizona to California.
United States weather signals are dis
played on the pavilion at Sonoma.
Liquor selling was not permitted on
the Humboldt county fair grounds this
year.
Los Angeles ha1 granted a franchise
for twenty-three miles of electric rail
road. J. W. Gray is "being sued for divorce
in San Francisco and his wifo says he is
a bigamist.
James Simpson got drunk and shot his
divorced wife at "Fresno Oct. IS. She
may recover. (
James E. Vance fell from a steamer
at Eureka Oct. 17 and was killed by the
paddle-wheel.
A gang of murderous toughs and rob
bers have followed Robinson's circus all
over the coast.
George Thatcher, a San Francisco
liquor drummer, dropped dr ad in a chair
at Seattle Oct. 14.
Duncan McDougall was crushed to
death bv a log which fell on him at
Blanchard, Wn., Oct. 13.
The 12-year-old daughter of Y. Hughes
of Ellensburg, Wn., was run over by a
wagon and killed Oct. IS.
Ben Burlin was held by robbers while
they blew open the safe iu his saloon in
Portland and got $-200 Oct. 13.
Sirs. Rich, who was wounded in n raid
on a saloon near Middletown, Cal.. is
dead. She was shot four times.
Port Angeles has been made a port of
entry again. It is where the socialist
colony plan was tried and failed.
Frank Mesa toyed with a pistol he
didn't know was loaded at Hoaldsburg
and killed his stepson, William C'arlest.
Hiss Leslie Bushnell has sued William
C. Williams, a Taeoma capitalist, for se
duction under promise of marriage.
Three young men seized Elisha Smith,
choked him and robbed him of $4785 in a
Southern Paciric car at Portland Oct. 1.
William B. Scanlon, one of the Helena
merchants accused of stealing coal from
the Northern Pacific, has been convicted.
Three valuable stallions were burned
to death in the barn on the Goodrich
place in Round Vallev, Invo countv, re
cently. The Southern California dental asso
ciation accuses the state board of .dental
examiners of Incompetency and ineffi
ciency. Joseph and Henry Winner, brothers.
quarreled near Stuck, Wn, and Henry
stabbed his brother, probably fatally.
Henry is in jail.
Mary Gempler, aged 9, poured coal oil
on the kitchen fire at Salt Lake Oct. 13
and she and her four-year-old brother
were burned to death.
Boston, Galveston and Mexico men
hrve I0,000,0u0 acres in northwestern So
nora, Mexico, which they propose to col
onize with Europeans.
L. C. Seaton and his wife were out
driving near Ellensburg, Wn, Oct. 13,
when a runaway team ran into their
phaeton and killed Seaton.
United States District Attorney Carey
of tne northern California district has
resigned and Charles A. Garter has been
appointed to succeed him.
Dan Lawler has been arrested and
identified as the man who snatched Mrs.
John Nightingale's purse in San Francis
co and urove off in a buggy.
Herman Dods, living in the Xapa red
woods, played with a pistol he didn't
know was loaded and got a bullet in his
head which destroyed an eye.
A freight train on the Boulder branch
of the Northern Pacific broke down a
bridge Oct. 16 and seven men were eurt
so that they were taken to the hospital
at Helena.
Jose Martinez Castro, who has been
wanted since 18S7 by the Mexican au
thorities for a mu-der committed at
Todos Santos, has been arrested near
Julian, San Diego county.
Stamboul beat the world's stallion rec
ord by trotting a mile 2:11 at Napa
Oct. 13, and tne yearling stallion Freedom
beat the world's yearling record by trot
ting the same distance in 2:29.
Congressman John L. Wilson says that
he lost 10,000 In securities, $350 in
greenbacks, some gold and some valu
able papers on his way home from
Washington to Spokane 'falls the other
day.
W. H. Robertson has been arretted in
San Francisco for supplying street-car
conductors with duplicate bell punches.
He came from Denver as the agent of
J. Patrick Kellum, who has been arrested
there.
The first death that ever occurred at
Maricopa, Arizona, was that of the 14-month-oid
daughter of 31. V. Samuels,
who upset a pan of boiling tomato cat
sup over herself and was scalded to
death Oct. 15.
A stage was robbed between Ukiah
and Wiiletts Oct. 13 by a yonng man
named G. W. Cummin gs, who says his
object was to raise money to perfect his
education. He was a reader of sensa
tional novels.
The workmen at the Boston and Mon
tana mines, the dam and the Union
smelter, Great Falls, Mont, struck for
more pay Oct. 13. Non-union men were
set at work, with armed guards, at the
dam and smelter.
George H. Shinn, a train wrecker, and
Charles H. Thorne, who murdered
Banker Cummings and robbed a stage
in Nevada county, both of wnom escaped
from San Quentin Dec. 1, 18S7, have
been recaptured in Chicago.
A stranger, believed to be insane, put
a section car on a bridge at Pampa, near
Bakersileld, Oct 17, and blocked the
wheels with ties to wreck a Southern
Pacltic train, but it was discovered in
time to avert an awful accident.
At its last regvlar meetinga the Sierra
county Women's Christian Temperance
Union resolved to work for woman suf
frage and to use its influence for the
success only of the political party openly
avowing Itself in favor of prohibition.-
The schooner Maid of Orleans sailed
from San Francisco for Shoalwater bay
Oct. 12 for lumber, but returned on fire
three days lster. Had she been a few
hours longer in reaching port she would
have been destroyed, yet sh was not
damaged much.
Col. Beltran, detailed by the Mexican
government to make an official report
of the progress of boring for coal at San
Marcial, Sonora, Mexico, reported Oct.
17 that the drill had struck a six-foot
seam seventeen feet down and on that
day, at eigty feet, had penetrated a solid
anthracite body six feet.
A $100,000 steel bridge is being built
across the Willamette at Salem by the
counties of Polk and Marion and the
city of Salem and it has just been dis
covered that the heavy concrete piers
are on an insecure foundation and are
scttliug and getting out of plumb.
Ah Gee Yung, under sentence of death
for the murder of Kum Gook, escaped
from the Fresno county jail Oct. 15 -by
picking the lock of one gate while the
other stood temporarily open. He was
soon recaptured but before morning he
got hold of and swallowed a fatal dose
of opium.
The Selma Enterprise says : Last week
a catamount got on the trail of Super
visor Hanke at Sanger and followed him
for some considerable distance. Not
knowing what sort of an aniiial was
following htm, Hanke seated himself on
the shady side of a tree, and, taking out
his trusty six-shooter, he Quietly awaited
the approach of his enemy, expecting to
confront a wild hog. When the cata
mount approached within a few rods
and crouched down ready to spring urcn
him nance sect a tnui tnrougti nis Drai;.
(Sntrral Bctub.
.Etna is In eruption.
W. W. Belknap is dead.
Cholera is declining In Spain.
Bismarck is making butter at Varzln.
Supremo Justice Sumuel Miller is dead.
Stephen J. Field is home from Europe.
Edison says he will make an electric
air ship.
Tho London dock strike was ended by
a compromise.
Excavation for the Nicaragua canal
began Oct. 16.
Three tin-plate factories aro promised
near Pittsburg.
In the Charlerol district. Bllglum. 3000
miners have struck.
Tho health of the prince of Wales Is
such as to cause alarm.
Tho abolition of titles of nobility Is
being f gitated in France.
The Christians in Armenia are stil
being harried by the Turks.
Dr. Koch has given up experimenting
In the treatment of consumption.
Canon Farrar has been made chaplain
of the British house of commons.
The population of - Pennsylvania Is
5,24,594, an increase of 22 per cent.
riiilip Briggs of Salt Lake committed
suicide on a train at Kelton, Nev, Oct. 17.
An English syndicate Is buying up the
best woolen mills in the United States.
The rerseverance cotton mill at Bolton,
England, with 30,000 spindles, burned
Oct. 16.
The play " The Clemenceau Case " was
suppresselt by the Boston authorities as
immoral.
The clear profits of the Fullmau tar
company in the year jut ended were
2,Sv3,13d.
Joseph Pulitzer is almost totally blind
and has retired from the managemant of
the New York World.
The failure of the Cape of Good Hope
bank was so bad t iat the shareholders
will have to pay $150 a share.
Luckv Baldwin predicts that next sea
son, with a straight tract at Monmouth
park, horses will trot a mile in two min
utes. The Cuban planters ask for reciprocity
with the United States and a revocation
of the law of mercantile relations with
Spain.
The British South African company
has traded with the king or Mutaca for
the territory of Slanica, which Portugal
claims.
Policeman Thomas Madden shot and
killed policeman Albert Jung in Chicago
Oct. 15, as the result of a long-standiug
feud.
The Leland hotel at Syracuse, N. 'Y,
was burned Oct. 15, causing the loss of
twenty-five lives and $330,000 worth of
property.
The chief and several members of the
Denver police force have been indicted
for maltreating prisoners to extort con
fessions. The parliament of Holland has declared
the king unlit to reign by reason ot his
illness. The popular impression is that
he is insane.
Bordeaux policeman named Porque
ret, who had forced his 13-year-old
daughter into unnatural relations, was
shot dead by her Oct. 1.
The Greek patriarchate has ordered
all the churches in Turkey closed until
further notice as a protest against the
porte'a action toward the church.
"""The Tennessee Methodist Episcopal
conference has suspended Rev. 1). C.
Kelly for six months for running for
governor on the prohibition ticket.
The Farmers' Alliance has bought fifty
acres at Kansas City and will establish
stockyards where cattle will be marketed
independently of commission men.
The Montreal chamber of commerce
asks for a duty of 5 cents a dozen on
eggs, of which 700,000 dozen were im
ported from the United States last year.
James Morrisey poured coal oil on his
sleeping brother Joseph and burned him
to ueata wuile both were drunk on their
faim, six miles from Kingston, N. Y,
Oct. 13.
J. G. Tan Dyke killed Will Long at
Winfield, Kas, and was arrested and
taken to Grenola, where Long's brother
Sol met him at the depot and shot liim
dead.
The German government proposes to
build workingmen's houses costing $1000
each In North Berlin and sell them for
$75 down and the rest in installments of
$1 25 a week.
The sultan of Zanzibar has sold to
Germany for 4,000,o00 marks his sover
eign rights over that portion of the east
African coast leasea oy tne uerman tast
African company.
The"use of the German language on
shop signs or in public schools in the
iialuc provinces ot itussia uas oen pro
hibited and the stipends of Lutheran
ministers withdrawn.
The Iowa Women's Christian Temper
ance Union has withdrawn from the na
tional org-nlzatlou by a vote of 315 to
63. The sixty-eight delegates will form
an Iowa union on the third-party basis.
Thn federal circuit court in Kansas
and a state court in Iowa have decided
that the congressional original package
act can apply only in states which pass
prohibitory laws after the passage of that
act.
Dillon and O'Brien escaped in a yacht
to France, on their way to rill their lec
turing engagement in America, after
which they will return to take their sen
tence. Two St. Joseph men named Fishabaugh
tnd Emerson were found dead in a box
;ar at Cheyenne Sept. 27. Now 14-year-old
Charles Miller confesses that he was
stealing a ride with them and killed them
for their money.
A workman was entering a railroad
tunnel thirty miles west of Leadville Oct.
14 with a box of giant powder when he
accidentally hit it against the wall and
it exploded, blowing him and soven other
men to kingdom come.
Several passengers on an cast-bound
Missouri Pacific train were robbed by
thretj men as the train was pulling out
of Kansas City Oct. 15. A passenger then
drew a- revolver and drove them nom
the cars.
Elder Cudney, an Advent missionary
to the Pitcairn islands, is missing, and
Elder E. H. Gates hs started in a ves
sel built at San Francisco and named
the Pitcairn to try to learn whethor he
was shipwrecked or eaten by cannibals.
Chnunccy M. Depew, president of the
New York Central railroad company, was
one of the most loudly applauded speak
ers at the annual meeting of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers at Pittsburg Oct. 16.
Britain negotiated a treaty with Port
ugal under which she was to have con
trol of the Zambezi river. The people of
Portugal protested against its ratifica
tion and threatened a revolution. With
out waiting for ratification Britain sent
gunboats up the river, and there is groat
excitement in Portugal.
Gilbert Bell left his wi'e and five chil
dren in Delaware county, Ind, fourteen
years ago to seek his for lu tie. He re
turned from San Diego the ' other day,
rich, and found that four of his children
were dead and his wife, hearing he was
dead, had married again and was bring
ing up a second family.
" Rev, A. H. Durant, assisted by Rich
ard Campbell, killed Primus Jones at
Sumter, S. C, to show ihe congregation
how easily Durant could restore the dead
to life, but the restoration act was e
failure and the pastor and his assistant
are in jail, charged with murder. All
the parties are colored.
Two colored soldiers deserted from
fort Shaw, Mont, Oct. 14, stole two
horses from Government Scout Roanch
and fled. Roanch caught them next day
ad on the way back one ot them shot
Roanch, wounding him slightly in the
abdomen, and both attempted to escape.
Roench shot his assailant dead and
wounded the other man, who escaped
on one of the horses.
(Euvrcnt Bciua.
CUBAN BANDITTI.
A N itol.lx-r hler Who KlvaU (iarrla
In Audaelly.
Since the advent of Cum Ho Folavloga
as captain-general of Cuba, with tho an
nouncement that he would speedily hunt
the brigands out of the Island, those en
mles of organized society have been
more active and audacious than before.
The eastern end of the island is overrun
with them. The village of Peru was
raided Oct. 5 by a band of cutthroats.
Jose Melan, an influential citizen, was
badly wounded and barely escaped with
his life by mounting a swift horse.
The same night three of them entered
the storo of Jose Lugo at Arroyo Blanco,
where half a dozen men were d'scusslng
measurer of protection against the ban
dits, and one of the robbers got between
them and theii arms, with a revolver in
each hand, before they were aware of
hU presence, and held them there while
his companions loaded up with valuables.
They then notified Lugo that if he did
not pay them $2000 on a specified date
they would kill him within forty-eight
hours. Half an hour lar the valiant
troops were on their track, but they kept
well out ot range of the firearms of the
robbers until the latter disappeared in
the mountains. The leader of this band
is known as Marcio, and he is believed
to be a United States e tlzen who went
over to Cuba as a filibuster. His fame
as a terror to law-abiding citizens already
rivals that of Garcia, "the king .of the
Cuban forests." Gai-cla has leen quiet
for a month.
Itrltisli Columbia Itumptiouone.
Chief Justice Begble of British Colum
bia has fined Captain Dixon of the
steamer North Pacific $250 for failing to
produce, on a writ of habeas corpus,
eighteen Chinese who were within the
jurisdiction of the United States, which
refused to surrender them. The Chinese
had stolen Into this countly by way of
British Columbia. Being sent back, they
were refused a landing. Writs ot habea
eorpus were sued out and served as the
North Pacific was sailing, too late to
send them ashore without being so de
layed as to miss her connections, so
the captain took them along with him.
Intending to take thorn back on his re
turn trip, bnt Blaine ordered them sent
to China, having concluded that there
was little use in sending them to British
Columbia to steal back Into this country
again.'
The. smuggling of Chinese into this
country from Fritish Columbia is a prof
itable traffic for that province, as each
heathen pays the government $50 on
landing, besides what the smugglers
make and what the Immigrants spend In
transit. ..
lWlaration of Principles Wanted.
Selma farmers believe in Irrigation and
the Farmers Alliance of that place passed
resolutions early in tne campaign "that
the candidates for supreme judge, for
both long and short term, shall define
their position on the irrigation question ;
that they shall be prepared to Interpret
the riparian law to mean water for the
riparianists for domestic and stock pur
poses, and the balance of the water of
the river shall be divided equally, giving
to each acre within the reach of the
river an equal quantity of water; that
we shall refuse to sustain any man for
that position, Irrespective of party, who
odes not hold substantially to this doc
trine, and we must know before voting
what tho principles of the candidates
are."
. A Reign of Terror.
Chief of Police Hennessey of new Or
leans was murdered as he entered his
own door. He had been endeavoring to
break up the Italian murderers society
La Mafia and fifty suspected Italians
were arrest d. Oct. 17 Joseph Duffy, 18
years old, called at the prison and asked
to Bee Antonio Scaffide, one of them, and
as soon as Scaffide appeared Duffy
"vhlpped out a pistol nnd shot him dead
through the bars.
Threats ot raiding the Italian quaiter
by an enraged mob became so ominous
that a heavy extra guard of police was
posted there. On Saturday, the 13th,
Mayor Shakespeare called a meeting to
take steps to stamp out the Mafia and
before night he received a letter warning
him that he would be the next victim.
He appointed a committee of fifty who
with money pouring In from the aroused
citizens, have undertaken to convict the
murderers of Hennessey ana break up,
the Mafia.
Safe-Opening Extraordinary.
Henry E. Adams proposed to another
young man to rob the safe of tho hotel
Wayne at Chicago and the other man
agreed but notified the police and detect
ives were hidden in the room. At 4 a.
m. Oct. 14 Adams entered the office with
his supposed accomplice and the detect
ives watched In wonderment while, with
out tools and without a knowledge of
the combination, he picked the lock.
He pared the nail of the Index finger
of his right hand until the the blood
vessels were exposed. Then, by placing
the sensitive wound on the knob of the
lock, he could distinguish tho movement
of the tumblers as they fell. After an
hour's work he opened the door and was
picking up the contents when the de
tectives arrested him.
Fatal Panic Among Children.
A curtain caught fire in St. Stanislaus
Polish church, Chicago, on the morning
of Oct. 17, while the children of St. Stan
islaus school were at early mass. Father
Barzinski exclaimed : " Peace, children ;
nothing shall harm you." The little ones,
accustomed to give him implicit obedi
ence, sat perfectly still and ho and his
attendant had torn the curtains down
and nearly trampled the darnel out when
a woman whose'Identlty cannot be as
certained rushed Into the church shriek
ing: "Fire! Fire! Run, my children !
Run for your lives ! "
A mad rush for the door resulted, and
the boys reached it first and trampled
upon each other, killing three and seri
ously Injuring eighteen or twenty others.
A Fatal Fire.
Rowley Jt Brock's hat, cap and helmet
factory in London, ofour-story building,
burned Oct. 13. . The fire broke out in
the workshop on the upper floor, and
two minutes after It was discovered the
whole building was a mass of flame,
and the employes found every avenue of
escape cut off except windows. Through
these several jumped to the ground, five
women being killed in so doing. Several
persons were burned to death and a
dozen were burned seriously.
JTanu Bolts.
I'ltlertuentrtl Wine.
Mr. E. Hulse not long since road a pa
per before the Victoria vegetable com
mission of Australia, regarding tho use
of unfermented grape Juice, from which
the following is extracted : The grapes
aro picked when they-are fullj ripened
and the Juice extracted as soon as pos
sible afterwards. The bottles are filled
brimful! and placed up to their necks in
vats of hot water within ten degrees of
the boiling point. When the must Is as
hot as the water, the cork is forced into
tho bottle, expelling a portion of the
liquid. It tho least portion of air Is
left between the cork and the liquid, the
olygen contained In the air will set the
saccharine matter In the wine In mo
tion and fermentation will ensue. When
the cork is forced into the bottle, tho liq
uid is In a state of expansion from the
heat. As it cools It contracts, leaving a
vacancy between the cork and the liquid
but the vacancy must not be an atmos
pheric chamber. Tho cork must, of
course, be throughly air-tight. It fer
mentation does set In, it may bo driven
off by reheating the wine. The bottles
are then laid on their sides in- a cool
place and the organic foreign sub
stances must be allowed to settle, so
that the liquid may become clear. The
settling may occupy whatever period the
manufacturer chooses; sufficient time
should, however, be given. The wine
can lie six months or a year without
damage. At the end ot the settling pe
riod, it should again be filled Into bot
tles, the sediment being left behind,
these bottles must be brimful!, and
should again bo set In vats of hot water,
heated up to the same degree and
corked in precisely the same manner as
at first, using sealing wax to exclude
tho air. The wine Is then lt-rt to cool
in the ordinary way and must be put
aw7 where the temperature is even
and cool. It is now ready for use and
will keep just as long as It Is
kept free from contact with the
atmosphere. This makes a very delight
ful beverage, which Is entirely tree from
alcohol.
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Eastern and California Apple.
The Santa Barbara county papers are
telling the following amusing story re
garding an easterner, who was an un
believer 'n California's ability to pro
duce palatable apples. This is not such
an exceptional case as might be sup
posed. It shows how far a man's pre
meditated prejudice will carry him : Mr.
Hunter, ot Santa Barbara, has upon his
ranch in the Monteclto a large apple or
chard. A gentleman from the East
called at his country home, nnd In dis
cussing the fruit Interests of Southern
California, he admitted the excellence of
our citrus fruits, "but said he, "Cali
fornia can't grow apples. I've not
found an apple that's worthy of the
name." "That's so," responded Mr.
Hunter, with apparent heartiness. "Let
me bring you in some Eastern apples."
Accordingly he went out, and soon re
turned with a dish of great, rosy
cheeked apples, which he set before his
guest. The gentleman was not slow
to help himself to the tempting-looking
fruit, and after eating a few mouthfuls,
he exclaimed delightedly: " A real, gen
uine. New England apple. I should
know it anywhere, for there is no other
soil that can impart such a rare and
rich flavor to the fruit. It's as fine an
apple as ever I ate.. Must cost you
something to bring such fruit here, but
it pays sir! it pays. What variety did
you say It was, sir?" "It's a seedling,"
replied Mr. Hunter, "and It has grown
right here in my own orchard? and I
challenge New England to produce any
thing better in any of her apple or
chards." New Treatment for Borer.
A writer in the New England Home
stead gives the following method of
treating borers, which he claims has
been wonderfully successful: Make a
mixture of about one quart of wood
ashes to a pail of water and stir It Well;
make a ridge of earth around the tree,
a few Inches distant from the trunk and
sufficiently high to allow the mixture to
encircle it and run into the holes which
the worms have made. This, the or
chardlst claims, is a sure and Instant
death to the borers, and the application
costs less than one cent a tree. Treat
ment twice a year will keep the trees
entirely free from the pests. Thin
whitewash Is sometimes used in the
place ot wood ashes, but it is not so
good. He also suggests that it tli ris
a very large number of trees to treat,
long strips of Elnc or sheet-Iron, four
five Inches wide and of sufficient length
to encircle the tree, can be used In the
place ot a circle ot earth, and, in Borne
respects, the latter Is better, as It does
not absorb the water, and by giving a
greater pressure forces the water more
rapidly Into tho holes.
When you have lo drive yoir horse a
long distance, begin quietly aud let him
work gradually Into his pace, and when
nearing home, or the end ol your drive,
Black up and let your horse take it easy
for two or three miles or more, that he
may come In cool and avoid some of the
dangers of catching cold.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, president of the
Golden Gate Kindergarten association of
San Francisco, has been Invited to de
liver an address on "The Kinder
garten " lefore the "Women's National
Council at Washington next February.
Miss Frances . WiUard will preside at
the council.
The physican is frequently asked by
lady patients for something that will re
move freckles. A writer in the Pharos
aceutlcl Zeltung says that a wash con
sisting of equal parts of lactic acid and
glycerine will do the work and is harm
less when applied to tho skin.
Wheat rust belongs to a division of
rusts where the fungi causing them de
velop In several apparently distinct stages
or forms. In the first, or summer stage,
the wheat rust fungi produce whnt
is called "red rust," wlilch may develop
later in the season Into the second stage,
known as "black rust." This is much
more Injurious to the crop than "red
rust." Early ripening varieties ' may
therefore escape serious Injury, while
those ripening late may be badly dam
aged by the rust.
The potato Is not a seed, but' a part of
the root of the plant, and the the future
crop depends much more on the soil and
cultivation necessary to produce a vigor
ous plant than on the size of the piece
planted. Still there is no getting around
the fact that a large piece planted will
start much more vigorous sprouts than
little slices.
The Newcastle fruit company has failed.
Most, the anarchist, Is going to London
to live.
The four Irish arohblshops and. their
suffragans have been summoned to
Rome. They will probably go in January.
Home.
Say what you will about equality of
the sexes, alxjut the desirability ot uni
versal suffrage, about the propriety of
girls learning trades and competing
with men in shops and factories, there
is one point where all people, of all
shades of opinions, agree, and that is
that no man's hand can make the home
as restful and inviting after a weary day
ot toil and contention and disappoint
ments, either in field or shop or mart,
as can tho hand of a good woman. No
bachelor keeps his quarters as neat and
s tastefully-arranged as a maid keeps
hers. Throughout the history of our
race woman has demonstrated her su
periority as a homekeeper. -
But there are home;; and homes. There
are eo-cailec Homes which the male mem
bers of the family visit only when nec
essary for the purposes of eating and
sleeping. To be the mistress of such a
homo is to be a failure In life. Make
your homes so attractive, ye wives and
mothers, that your husbands and sons
yes, and your daughters will prefer
them to any other place on earth. Make
your rooms and yourselves as attractive
every day, for the benefit of your own
family, as you do for the benefit of an
outsider when you are expecting com
pany. When we see young boys loafing about
the streets or at the corner grocery,
learning to curse and swagger and smoke
cigarettes when out of school, we think
there is a family In need of a home
keeper. Perhaps that mother toils and
struggles the whole day long to make
kt home what it Bhould be, and is lit
erally working herself Into the grave,
but her efforts are misdirected. She
has set herself the wrong ideal, and she
will never attain it. We are writing for
that great majority of American moth
ers who do their own housework and
are not ashamed of it. We would con
vince them it we could that the sunshine
and the good things of life are made for
them and theirs as much as for anybody
else. We would see them let up a little
on their everlasting grind of toll, and
keep the wrinkles of care a little longer
out of their faces. We would have the
best room in the house thrown open
seven days in the week. It can be made
more attractive than the corner grocery
is to the boys, more attractive than the
j club to the husband.
v nat ir airs, urunay aoes nna tne
varnish scratched by little toes and the
carpets and upholstery showing signs of
wear ? She did not buy them, and if
they have bee-, instrumental in making
your children better and more refined.
In keeping them from company- whose
influence is doubtful, in making home
seem dearer to them, then they have
been put to the best possible use. Un
bend yourself and take part in their
games and help them with their lessons"
and in return let them take many of
the wearisome steps which housekeeping
involves.
These children will be with you but a
few years at the most. Utilize those few
years in making life so bright to them
and so full ot the gentle yet powerful
influence of a good mother that throuth
out life they will look back In memory
upon the evenings at the old home as
the happiest they ever knew.
Stand op Straight.
Women who wish to preserve the
6li(nnoss and contour of their figure
must begin by learning to stand well.
That Is explained to mean the throwing
forward and upward of the chest, the
flattening of the back with the shoulder-blades
held in their proper places
and the definite curving In the small of
the back, thus throwing the whole
weight of the body upon the hips. No
other women hold themselves so well as
the aristocratic English women. Much
of their beauty lies in their proud car
riage, the delicate erectness of their
figures and the fine . poise of their
heads. The aristocratic carriage is
within the reach of any girl who takes
the pains to have it; it is only the
question of a few years ot vigllanee,
never relaxing her watchfulness over
herself; and, sitting or standing, always
preserving her erectness and poise, the
result being at the end of that time it
has become second nature to her, and
she never afterwards loses it. This in
a great measure preserves the figure,
because It keeps the muscles firm nd
well strung and prevents the sinking
down of the flesh around the waist
and hips, so common in women over
thirty, and which is perfectly easy to
escape. Another thing to avoid Is a bad
habit of going up stairs, which most
women do. bent forward, with the chest
contracted, which, as well as an indo
lent, slouchy manner of walking, is in
jurious to the heart and lungs. Public
Opinion.
A few drops of lavender extract will
prevent mucilage from molding or be
coming sour.
Sprinkle a little flour in tho butter or
lard before frying eggs to prevent their
sputtering and suapping.
Hartshorn will often restore colors
thnt gave been injured by acids.
To remove (mint from your cloth
ing, saturate with turpentine until
softened, then waih out with soap and
water.
Bent whalebones ian bo restored and
used by simply soaking in water a
few hours and then drying.
The huckleberry is coming into prom
inence as a fruit, and it is predicted by
many horticulturists that in a few years
it will stand in tho front ranks among
our small fruits. The bushes have been
greatly Improved in character and the
berries In size, and already they are reg
ularly grown in many thousands of gar
dons. California Fruit Grower.-
At the Kentucky experiment station
twenty-five varieties of strawberries
were tested on a rich garden soli under
laid with clay. According to a bulletin
Issue i regarding the tests of these
twenty-five kinds, Buback No. 5 alone
receives a perfect mark in a scale of ten
for market purposes. For home use
Henderson, Jessie, Gandy and Gold re
ceive ten. In quality Henderson and
Gandy receive ten and Parry nothing.
Professor' Riley announces that the
department of agriculture hopes, with
the assistance ot Ered Enock ot London,
to import some living specimens ot a
Russian parasite of the Hessian fly in
order to endeavor to aeclimptlze it in
this country.
To Stew Prones To preserve the rich,
juloy flavor, do not boll the' prunes. Al
low them to soak over night in cold
water, eaough to cover the prunes. Then
take the prunes out and boil the water
in which they kava soaked add sugar
to taste and boll fifteen minutes. Then
add to the prunes and set off on the
range to stumer thirty minutes; then
set off to euui.
Blindf
Come out In I he orchard, Rogrr; the air Isoool
and Bu-et-t,
Here, (rl ve me your linnd. old fellow, we'll wa3k
to the Hrbor fKat.
The wife' been ij In' tlmt lately you've been
J pto.vourfrUximv Irk-k;
We tunnid allow il.au Itog'-r, In a boy of
wverity-wix.
i:;ii:d Why. that Ir the reason you ought to
lw llfrhl ami jrav:
(It ti :i- ti l till sixty-rive, voit know, that your
je-sis-l.t went owavt:
And ii - !ir to me tit- t the Master in His
wisdom done it well
To plve you in .u-c of tlie weed?, Roger, the
biooiiis ilmt in memory dwell.
Tour hair, who shall ay it I white, Rog-crf It's
v-t'.k y nn-1 hhu-k a a crow:
And Nature lia. rubbed on yonr cheek, Roger,
the rolert roeg that irrow
Tla I that am ttK'Hng quickly I'm eighty-one
to-day,
An-I my sunken elieefca are yellow, and I'm
someihlnK more than gray!
I see all the w inter snows, Roger, w ti-.-D tlie gay
ne!d flower are gear.
And the red !ei,f falls from the oak tree, like
r.u i Id man's detithtied lear.
I fee, deMTted and mosgrown, the aisle we sc
oft have trod;
For the par-oil over tho hill, Roger, has an
easier road to God.
The railway runs throutrb the meadows where
the bfaeklierries ued to Brow;
The bail field icii't the dear old epot of fifty
years a so:
Aud I'd nice in lay on the rascal a whip with a
mldion knots
As ma'ie of our cherished school ground "do-
irab:e building lots."
B--t you you fortunate fellow can sit la the
co den Kiow
That li:s on your spirit's vision from the
jewelled ion? aco:
Can laupli at the uiishty hammers that are
smashing our gods of clay.
For all tlust is dearest and best, Roger, you've
saleiy stored away.
Thomas Frost
OH THE DEVIL BACKBONE. ;
A few years liefore the war I was a
clerk in the store of niv brother-in-law,
Nathau Ritchie, in Pittsburg, and at
just that ae in which a young man be
gins lo take a real serious interest in
girl, and. naturally, to get into all
sorts of scrapes and troubles there
from. The Washington county farmers nsed
to come into town then on their wa
gon, bringing along not only big
oads of grain, wool, flax, poultry, and
other produce. lmt their wives and
daughters as well. They would drive
in one day. put up over night at the
old '-Farmers' inn,'" down near the
Sniithficld ni-irket. and the next day
would make their neces.-iry purchase
and go home.
I got to know personally a great
many of the farmer folks, and had oc
casion or took it to observe that
there were plenty of very fine young
women among them bnxoai. foll
boomed, bight-eyed, red-lipped girls
full of health, vivacity, and natural
honetr. Bnt old man Dan Elder's
daughter Jennie seemed to me the
flo.wer.of the flock, and I assure you
that, as far as I ronhl. I made it an
object of interest for the Elder family
to do its trading at our store.
Jennie and I got quite friendly, and
began to hnve a hopeful suspicion that
she was pretty near as glad to see me
when she came to town as I was to see
her. Once I got her and her father to
go with me to a theater, the first time
either of them' had seen a play, hut he
got a notion that there was something
wrong about stago plays and would
not let her go again. Still the old fel
low seemed to take a sort of liking to
me. and after he had got to know nie
quite well, nearly two years from onr
first meeting, he invited me to visit his
place out on Raccoon creek.
Abont a week afterward I hired a
good saddle horse and rode ont to pay
that visit. It was easy enough to find
"Uncle Dan's"' place, for everybody
within a radius of ten miles about it
seemed to know him, and I reached
his bouse jnst at dusk. I thonght it
was a good omen wheu the dogs were
so mnch more friendly than conntry
dogs generally .ire in greeting a stran
ger, and wn- nre of it when Jennie
S.lid a! !:. -, :
oimMn't be o good
natured if he did not kno-.v that I was
expecting you. Ke must have heard
tne talking abont you.'"
That evening the whole family, Jen
nie, her fitther aud mother, an elder
brother, and two sisters went to
dance, about .two miles distant, and,
of course. I went along. At least I
seemed to do so. In point of fact. I
went to Paradise. I sat beside Jennie
in the big wagon, with my arm around
her while we went through dark
patches of forest; thtneed with Jen
nie. I don't know how many times;
waited upon Jennie at supper, rode
home beside Jenuie. with renewed
utilization of forest shadows; and even
snatched a kiss from Jennie ere she
Med to her room. Under such circum
stances how could I be expected to
be more than vaguely conscious that
there was a big. hulking, clod-hopper
named Jim Arney. who scowled and
glared at me as if he would like to eat
me? What the mischief did I care for
Jim Arney? But the fellow wouldn't
be ignored. The very next afternoon,
feeling that it was not quite the. proper
thing for me to loiter around the house
all day. I borrowed brother Dave's
rifle aud went out to shoot a sqnirrel
or two if I could find any. Suddenly
at a turn in the road I was confronted
by Jim Arney on horseback. Eying
me with an insulting affectation of
scorn he snarled:
"You're a pretty looking dandy from
town, ain't you?"" I replied that can
didly speaking. I really did think I
presented a rather agreeable contrast
to him.
He flushed angrily, and speaking in
a voice thick with passion, retorted:
"I'd break your back if Jennie had
n't said I was to leave you alone." I
told him I would secure his pardon for
nil the back-breaking he could do on
me. and invited him to "wade in."
but he rode olf on his way. and I went
on squirrel-hunting.
Leaving ifiy courso to chance I
strolled higher and higher up a gently
s'oping hill until I came out suddenly
at the top of a precipice several hnu
dred feet in height, which I subse
quently learned was called the "Devil's
Backbone." The face of the cliff was
as sheer as a wall, but rough with
great holes burrowed here ami there in
the soft sandstone by the elements,and
with narrow ledges, on which trees
and shrubs grew, masking all the rocky
declivity with foliage. The tops of
tall trees were down below me, and
far in the depths beyond their roots I
could catch glimpses of the creek, like
a silver thread. Around where I stood
bushes grew thickly up to the very
verge of the precipice, with trees occa
sionally among them leaning over it.
An impudent, chattering gray squir
rel sat upon his haunches in a tree on
the brow of the elin. barking at me,
and 1 shot him. He fell and lodged
on a little ledge full twenfy feet below
the top, where I s.ood. I made np my
mind to get the body of the little beast,
and the difficulty and eveu positive
laugvr to be encountered ia doiag to
were only incitements to achierethe
feat. Laying my gun upon the
ground, I seized a tough bush, swung
over the edge of the precipice, and
lowered myself to a point where I got
a foothold and a second bush that
would bend still lower. Before mak
ing the second descent I made the first
bush fast, iu its bent position, to the
second, to have a way secured for re
turn. Then I went to the ledge where
the squirrel lay. In stooping to pick
it up. I carelessly let go the bush by
which I had swung down, and it
sprung back instantly to its normal
rj-sition. a dozen feet above my head,
was securely trapped in a place from
which I coulcfn't safely get away un
aided, without I eould have flown like
a bird. Not a friendly twig was with
in ten feet of my clutch; the precipice
dropped sheer down hundreds of fuet
right at my toes, and the ledge- wa so
narrow that I had barely room to
stand un it. I yelled for help, but, v
of course, nobody heard me. I took '
off my stockings. 'unraveled them, tied
a stout) to Ihe yarn, and tried to swing
it over the bush above me. almost
throwing myself off the ledge id doing ...
so. The effort was a failure. I was
hoarse with futile howling. Night
fell, and the darkness seemed very
cold. I managed to sit down, with my
legs dangling over the edge of the
lede; but was afraid to sleep for fear
of falliue off. - An owl perched near
me, hooting in great enjoyment of my
predicament. "
The night seemed years in duratiou.
And there surely never was a slower
dawn than that tqion which I looked
from my open-air prison. By this
time I was weak with hunger and wild
with thirst, A little after sunrise I '
was startled by a gunshot from the
valley far Ix-low. and r the vicious
"spat" of a bullet upon the rock near
my left ankle. It made me fling toy
legs up so suddenly that I came near
toppling off my perch. "That, now."
I said to myself, "is ao doubt Jim
Arney who has discovered roe. and is
popping away at me in safety; the
cowardly assassin." Bat. as I learned
afterward, I wronged him. Tho bul
let was fired by a hunter, whose sharp
eyes saw only my foot; and at that
distance, thinking it an owl, took
snap shot at it. Thank heaven fiis
aim was no better. "
Abont 9 o'clock I heard the welcome
baying of old "Bosc" from the top of
the cliff. The whole Eider family and
some of the neigh hors were out hunt
ing for me, my absence through the
night having occasioned much alarm;
and wheu I shouted a whole chorus of
voiees answered me at once. Ropes
were proenred. and I, with no little
difficulty, was dragged up to safety;--J
where I received so warm- a welcome
from all and especially so from Jen
nie that I felt compensated by fortune
for what I had suffered. The old man
said, in a dryly sarcastic way, that he
thought I r.tther "over-va!iyed the
squir'l."
I have often goue out "to "-Uncle
Dan's" less frequently since Jennie
and I have been married than before
but have never had any inclination for
fooling about the -Devil's Backbone"
any more. No; I have never heard ,
that Jim Arney came to any. -bad-end:
He simply married some "other girl
than Jennie. .
THRICE BROUGHT TO LIFE.
A Lady Who Was Three Tinea Apparently
Ready- for Bnrial Alive To-Day; .
'""The question of being buried alive
was a matter discussed by a -party of
gentleman at the San Francisco
Bohemian Ciub the other night. A
journalist who was present told the fol
lowing story: -r . ... 4 . ,
-Living in San Francisco to-day are
two persons whose strange experiences
have long been a mystery to me. Two
years ago a Boston gentleman came
out to the coast. He brought with him
his companion, a youug woman in the
last stages of consumption. She was
pretty and talented, and ten years
younger then her escort. , I am of the
opinion that a sort of platonic love
existed between them.
"Three times to my knowledge the
young woman has apparently passed
ont of this life into the other world,
and twice preparations had been made
for her burial. On one occasion he -companion
was out of the city. Dur
ing his absence she was taken sud
denly with asinking spell, and the
landlady became greatly alarmed. In
two hours tho invalid was pronounced
dead by the ladies in the boarding
house who were in attendance upon
her. As the day advanced the land
lady, seeing no signs of the ggnliS"
man's return, visited an undertaker's
near by. and preparations were made
lor laying out the corpse.
'The body was cold and still when
the undertaker arrived. He viewed
the corpse and went back to hi3 shop
for his assistant. During his absence
the missing companion of the dead
young woman arrived upon the scene.
It was now about 4 o'clock in the after
noon. Upon being informed of her
death five hours before the gentleman
uttered an exclamation of surprise. -Then
rushing up to the room where the
body lay, closed the door behind him.
and turned the key. When the under
taker returned ho .was refused ad
mission. Two hours after the gentie
rnau emerged from the room and
ordered two suppers sent to the apart
ment. -
"Later the youug lady was seen sit
ting upright in bed, eating heartily.
Her companion had brought her back
to life by a method of rubbing and
physical manipulation known ouly to
himself. Twice after this he repeated
the performance. Three times, to my
knowledge, has this young man
brought the 3-oung woman" back from
the dead. She lives here to-day, still
an invalid, and is liable to die again-?-at
almost any moment."
- The Morning Xap. -
Early rising is a matter both of trajN.
iosr and temperament. The nervou1.
person is apt to rest lightly during th"
nrst tnree noura alter .retiring, sd-itc .
fall into the most refreshing slum be 1
after midnight. In that case his morn
ing nap ought not to he abridged.' Xa
ture will gently titillate his evelids
when tUey need to unclose. Long- .
limbed persons of the nrotive lemperi'
meut. those who. require- much eSSft .
cise. can maintain equilibrium upor , .
much less sleep than the nervous cold-
blooded, thin-skinned kind. .'..The form
er waken early, filled with vitality and y
vigor and desire to talk and laugh at
once. They have full command 01
their powers upon regaining conscious-
ness. But the person of nervous tem
perament aroiises himself slowly. H
retrace his footsteps lingeringly frr -the
land of dream and only gradu
rearains the fu;l use tiS tniad andF - .
All such idiosynciasius ongiit to ' i
epected if one would feel at bis 7 ,. -..', .
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