I LEBANON 1' f t 1 : :" ' vtf 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, FKIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1890. NO. 40. V EAST AND SOUTH -VIA- Southern Pacific Route. THE MOUNT SHASTA ItOCTK. VXrR&-8 TBAtxS LSaVK K1MUSD DAILY : T H30 P. . J 1st i -:. V 4. ! I.V M-45 A.M. 1 Ar Portland Ar I 9.8 A. M. Albauy Arl6:15 A. M. Sau Francisco Lv 0 P. M. Above trains Mnp only at the following stations north ot RoBehurg: Eaut Portland, Oregon City, Wood burn. Salem. Albany, Tangont, Shedda, Hnlwy, Harriafcurg, Junction Uliyv Irvtug and Eugpue, Qlunrcnf Bnua. Bwbqrg Mall mtly. 8 aX A. K. I Lr 12 M V. M. I Lv 8 :4t P. K. Ar fortlar.d Albatij- Ar I tM P. M. Ar 1 13 sM Jt Lt t 6:30 A. M. Albany Local Illy i. vccit Sunday.) S tfO P. K. 9 0 P. X. I. Ar Portland Albany Ar I 9:00 A. M. L 5:00 A. M Local Passenger Trains lal!y Except Sunday. a :34 P. St. I.v Albany Ar I 9 A. M. S :i P. X Ar Lebanon L 40 A. M. 7:30 a. M. Lt Albanv Ar 14:38 p. M. 8S!3 A. St. Ar Lebanon Lv ) 3 : P. M. PUIXMAir BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Sleeping Cars For accommodation of Scond Class Passengers. attac ;ed to Express trains. WEST SIDE DITISIOX. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORYALLIS Mall Train Daily (Except Sunday.) T -.30 A. X. 12 :10 P. K. Lv Ar Portland Corral Us Ar I 8 :S0 P. H. Lv t 14 :55 P. At Albany and Corvallta connect with trains of Oregon Pacific Kaiiroaa. (Express Train Dally Except Sunday.) Seattle has voted $341,70 of bonds. Hoquiam, Wn, Is a sub-port of entry. Willows has a new $20,00 ) schoolhouse. Watsonvillo thinks she harbors a fire bug. Butte. Mont., has $110,000 in the school fund. Gambling has been i topped at Red ding. Grasps Valley is troubled by provision thieves. The new courthouse at Whatcom is finished. Whateom, Wn has been made a sub- port of entry. Travel to the Yosenilte is about at an end for the year. Coroner Eaton of San Francisco has been sued for divorce. Svlvania iodire of Good Templars, at Gras Valley, has disbanded. The Butte (Oal.) Star printing office. worth $5300, has been burned. Alexander Marshall of Creston. 50 years old, committed suicide Nov. 21. A telt a-ranh line is in operation be tween Sierra City and Sierra Valley. The white miners of Copperopolls have driven all the Chinese out of the camp. Th Northern Pacific la completed to Aiiaeortes, between Tacoma and Seattle. Half a ton of honev was taken from a tree at Ktrkwood, Colusa county, Nov. 25 Frank Rilurla of Comox. B. C acciden tally shot and killed himself while hunt ing. William Canfield. whom Constable Lane shot while Lane was drunk at Sanger, is dead. The Ore ;ro n pottery company's works at Portland, worth $oi,ooo, nave been burned. Lena Hollander poured coal oil on the fire at Phoenix Nov. 27 and was burned to death. There Is 180,000 bnshels of wheat and oats in the fanners warehouse at Al bany, Or. Stone and Hyde, land-entry swindlers on a large scale, nave been arrested at Genesee, Or. George M. Taylor has been arrested for forging a check and raking money on it at rresuo. Stevens' warehouse at Madison, Cal, with 2.3,000 sacks of grain in It was burned Nov. 25. Henry A. Joseph, an employe of th Oakland postoffiee, has been arrested for emoesaziement. Frank D. Lewis, a government agent. was robbed by a highwayman six miles from Bedding Nov. 23. Louis O Dea, a non-union nioider, was brutally beaten by a gang of strikers in San Francisco Nov. 25. William Elfera had his rignt hand blown oft by a blat in the Inyo marble works, near Keeier, Cal, jov. zo. Mrs. James McWhite ai.d a five-year- old daughter were thrown from a buggy near liaker City, ur, ana suiea. Frank Loscatere of Oarden was mur dered and robbed near Wells, Nev, Nov. 26 by Ben Morris of Alosta, Cal. George W. Young, who killed Charles W. Bea:h near Preseott last September, has been convicted ot manslaugnter. Solferini Tunerini of Ban Francisco killed James Marshall in a gambling quarrel over $3 at Naaaimo, JJ. C, aov 27. The Sonora Banner reioieea that Tuolumne county held a fir this year. a? bv so doing she drew 42000 frem the state. Ah Gum has been convicted ot receiv insr S2XM of the money taken by the two Cliinese who robbed the bank at The Dalles. A train ran away at Edison, Wn, Nov, 29 and struek another train, killing En gineer Fred L. Dexter and injuring two other employes. Jerry Gould, a rancher, had a fight with an Indian known as Beaver six mUes east of Snohomish, Wn, Nov. 26, and killed him. Larire deoosits of gypsum are reported . , i . i . . , ....k t: . . -. -r-v t i i to nave ueeu iuuuu ai ouum imicioiuu i? oreiffll and UOmCbllC r 1 Ullb, J anti a company has been formed to grind )P. X. L.v Portland Ar 8 -.20A.X. 5aiP.ll. Ar McMinnvllle I.t 5:45 A. M. ja-Throngh tb-xets to all points East and South For tiukets aud lull information regarding rates, maps, etc., call on Co s agpnt at Let) anon K. KOEUttK. E. f. KOGKKS. Manager. Asst J. F. a P. Agt DR. C. H. DUCKETT, D EN T I S T JJEBANOX, ORECOX. J. K. WEATHERFORD, -ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. ALBAXV. OREGON W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBAM- OREGON, G. T. COTTON, Dea'er to Groceries and Provision. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. A FINANCIAL SQUEEZE. The Oregon Improvement Company In tha llauds of a lto-elver. The month of November, 1890, will long be renumbered in the financial centers of the world as one ot danger and disaster. Not a great number of leading houses failed, but many trembled on the brluk of ruin and many made heavy sac rifices to save themselves. A number ot banks and business houses failed in va rious parts of America, and runs were made by scared depositors on many more which were able to withstand the attacks. The center ot disturbance was, ot course, In Wall street, New York, but it was felt all over the world. In Buenos Ayres gold went up to over 200 per cent premium and Nov. 26 the government forbade the publication of quotations. It was said to have reached 300 premium that afternoon, but was easer the next day. In Europe the feature of the season was the collapse ot Baring Brothers, the great London backers. They were the financial agents of Russia, and in re taliation for that country's persecution of the Jewia the Je wish bankers made an on slaught on the firm which it could not withstand. A syndicate was formed which took the business, but on such terms that the Barings must par l 20 on the dollar it they ever get it back. A large amount of gold was trans ferred from San Francisco to New York to relieve the stress there, and the sec retary of the federal treasury contrib uted to the same end by liberal purchases ef silver and government bonds. The Oregon Improvement company was unable, on account ot the stringency ot the money market in New York, to borrow money which it needed, and an nounced that it would default payment of both interest on its first-mortgage bonds and its sinking-fund obligation. The company's business was thrown into the hands of a receiver Nov. 25, Joseph Simon being appointed. The company owns 2333 acres or coal land ana 9uuu acres ot agricultural and timber land in Washington and Oregon, including coal mines at Franklin and Newcastle, Wn, and Coos bay, Or. It also owns two blocks of land in San Francisco, a half interest in the Throssel water ditch in Washing ton, thirteen steamers, leased to the Pa cific Coast steamship company, 19,000 shares of that company's stock. 13.704 shares In the raeille Coast railroad, which runs twenty-six miles from Port Harford to" Los OIlvos, 10,000 shares in the Columbia and Puget sound rail- vay, which runs twenty miles from Seattle to the Newcastle coal mines, with a branch twenty-three miles long, known as the Cedar River extension, and 3000 shares ot the Seattle Coal and Transpor tation company. It leases wharves and coal bunkers at Oakland, Cal, and Port land and Astoria, Or, and owns 4J0 town lots at Preseott, Wn. The company holds, as security for advances, the entire stock of the Seattle and Northern railroad and the Port Townsend Southern railroad and $335,- 000 of the par value of the Olympia and Chehalls Ya'ley railroad company. It owes about $7,000,000 and its property is estimated at $10,000,000. Confectionery, it for a fertilizer. Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and , Xiamp fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Lebanon, Oregon R. L. McCLRUE (Successor to C. H. Harmon.) : and : Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting and Shampoo Inff in th latest and best style. Spec ial attention paid to dressing Ladies' hair. Your patronage respectfully solicited. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON. Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT CHECK. TO Exchange sold on New York, San rancisco, Portland and Albany, Org. Collections made on favorable terms. LEBANON MM III! si a Meat Market ED. KELLESBERGER, Prop. Mrs. David Howell horsewhipped W H. Murohv at Oakland Nov. 29. her hus band heluing her. She got her face slapped in the job. The gold d po ts in the Carrizo mount ains in New Atexico are reported to be marvelously rich, but the mountains are la an Indian reservation A tramp walked into the Coeur d'Alene mining camp the other day, discovered a crold deposit, located on it and sold out within the week for $20,000. Charles Branson, who was hired to burn a saloon in San Jose and informed asrauiBt his employer and was arrested with him, has jumped his bail. The citv of Spokane Falls has bought the northwest exposition buildings for $75,000, the exposition directors agreeing to pay $6000 a year rent lor it. Whitlock, who killed Miles with a fence nicket at a dance near Healdsburg last June while both men were drunk, has pleadea guilty ot manslaughter. The Tacoma chamber of commerce has asked the Northern and L nion Pa ciflc to supply more cars to relieve the wheat blockade in eastern Washington before the rains come, Preseott Sawver. son ot the federal judge, who has twice been discharged on tecnnicauties wnen arrestea ior an as sault to murder committed at Sausalito, has now been indicted. Arthur Harold's little girl uoset a ker osene lamp at Seattle Nov. 25 and she and her mother were badly burned, a 4-month-old baby was burned to deatl and the house was destroyed. Two Union Pacific conductors named Chugg have been arrested at Salt Lake for taking up tickets ana selling tnem to scalpers. About 100 uncanceled tickets were found in their residences. The schoolteachers of Spokane county. Wn.t many of whom have been working for $30 a month, have formed a union and fixed $50 a month as the minimum wages any member will work for. Sandy Olds, the thrice-con vicled Port land murderer, is likely to escape con viction on his next trial, the principal witness against him having been hired by the gamblers for $800 to. leave. The Union Pacific has been reducing its force and the remaining men at the Osrden yards gave notice Nov. 29 that thev were being overworked and would strike if the evil were not remedied. As the United States steamer was about to leave Mare Island nnder orders for China her second bottom, with the boilers, dropped, its iron suppo ts hav ing rusted off. Had the accident oc curred at sea the Alert would probably have gone to the bottom with ail on board. The 10-year-old son of Henry Miller, a caroenter. fell through a stairway open ing on the sixth floor of a building at the corner of Towell and Ellis streets. San Francisco, Nov. 29, and was killed. Ex-Governor Zulick has got the Marl r-.ona county Ar.) grand jury to ffnd four indictments against Edwin S. Gill, editor of the Phoenix Republican, for articles pu lished during the late cam paign, tiill nas aiso oeen rauicteu ior ibeiing Chief Justice Wright. The residence of Supervisor Culbert son on Moccasin creek, Tuolumne county, with all its contents, including his win ter's supply of provisions and the pupils' books, tne scnooi parapntruajiii, Aiurary, "The Bareheaded Forger Caught. " The bareheaded forger " is in limbo. For years he hss operated on this coast and in the Mississippi basin. He would rush into a business house, bareheaded and coatless, with a pen behind his ear, and present a draft on a bank bearing the name of a firm located next door and ask that it be cashed as an accommoda tion to the next-door business house. Supposing him to be ' the neighbor's bookkeeper, the person applied to would hand over the money, only to find, on presenting the draft when the bank opened, that it was a forgery. He usu ally got $63 at a haul, and sometimes he cleared $200 in a day, as he did at San Jose. His name is Julius K. Dillman and he has a father and brother at Pasadena. He traveled under the name of George E. Curtis and was arrested at San Fran cisco Nov. 25, having come back from a professional tour of the east to make a second season on this coast. A full out fit for a forger and a lot of forged checks were found in his room. Mra. Htanton In England. The following Is a small part ot an ad dress given by the president, Mrs. Eliza beth Cady Stanton, at the opening ses sion of the National American Womnif Suffrage convention in Washington, Fob. 18: When I was last in England, a daugh ter of the great statesman, John Bright, Invited me to her house to spend a few days, as she proposed to have a parlor meeting and wished me to tell her f i tends the status of our cause in America, "But," said she, "I want you to bo very careful as to what you say. You must remember we have municipal suffrage for widows and spinsters, but not for married women; so say nothing about them. Don't say anything about mar riage or divorce, nor the Bible, for our people are not prepared for any radical ideas." I was so afraid that I might get outside the narrow limits that I said, "The best thing is for you and your friends to ask questions, and thus keep me on the line yoi desire." That was agreed on. and after I had talked about fifteen minutes on the condition of women in America, one of the reverend gentle men present asked if the sphere we pro posed for women was in harmony with the teachings of the Bible. I said our Bible, like our constitution and statute books, was susceptible of various inter pretations, but its general principles or juitlce, liberty and equality, illustrated In the characters of such grand, women as Huldah, Deborah, Vashtl and Esther, fully warranted women in assuming all honorable positions In the college, the state, or at the head ot the army. As they listened apparently with Interest to my commentaries, I gave them the most favorable view for our movement that can be drawa from the scriptures. I made no reference to Paul's epistles, nor to the contemptuous disposition of every thing oi the feminine species In the Pentateuch. When the audience dispersed, my host ess said: "I am afraid you shocked these Chrlstaln people; they never heard such latltudlnarian ideas before." -Well," said 1, "perhaps it is time they did hear them. For my part, I like to rouse people to some new thought, even if at first It does shock them." As Mrs. Margaret Lucas ( a elster of John Bright ) who has just passed away, was of our party, we talked by the fireside late that eight as to the wisdom ot utter ing the highest truth we saw aa oppor tunity offered. The next momiug, to my surprise, the Methodist minister tailed to invite me to occupy his pulpit in the afternoon, and give exactly what I said the previous evening. I accepted the invitation. When Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Lucas re turned from church, I told them of my afternoon engagement. " Why," they exclaimed, "that will never do; the min ister will lose his place ; the general con ference would reprimand him severely for allowing so heretical a teacher to preach in his pulpit!" "Well," said I, "go and tell him what you think; I will not be offended If he reconsiders the invitation." She returned, saying he was quite determined. Bo I gave my Bible argument, and the congregation received it with enthusiasm. The women were particularly pl.ased to hear that they were not an afterthought in the creation ; that they were not the authors of sin, from the beginning iu collusion with the devil; that maternity was not intended as a curse, nor marriage necessarily a condition ot slavery. The minister wrote me a letter afterwards telling me how much pleased his people were with all I had said. Here is an evidence of how little we can judge of what the people are ready to hear, and of the wisdom of uttering at all times the highest truth we see. Q3CllCr&l I$Ctt)0. AT THE TOMB OF THE FIRST W0MAM. .Fresh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. A Fasting Woman. Mrs. Adam Wuchter ot Whitehall, Pa, is , afflicted with some disease of the throat and cannot swallow and on Thanksgiving day had been 235 days without food. She had failing health and medical attendance from 1880 to March 6. 1880, when she had cut a slice of bread and buttered it and attempted to eat, but found difficulty in swallowing. This continued for weeks and she found it necessary to have her food moistened before she could swallow It. April , 1890, she experienced so much pain in attempting to swallow softened bread that she had to ive it up, and her hus band declares that since then she has not taken as much food or water as would last him three days. Opinion is divided as to whether the couple are deceiving the public, or the woman is deceiving her husband and the public, or the case is genuine. " A Story of Poisoning. Mrs. Victoria Langrez of Portland, 70 years old and worth $50,000, was sent by her daughter, Mrs. Merrill, to an inebri ate asylum, Mrs. Merrill saying she had delirium tremens. She suffered a couple of weeks and died. A few days after Mrs. Langrez was taken to the hospital Mrs. Merrill called with two lawyers and had her mother make her will. About this time Mrs. Sargucsse, a sister of Mrs. Merrill, dined with the latter and immediately after was taken violently ill. A neighbor wanted to give her coffee, but Mrs. Merrill insisted that she should be given brandy and declared that she was a habitual drunkard and when a physician was summoned she drove him from the door. Nevertheless he prescribed for a case of poisoning and a neighbor adminis ercd the remedy and Mrs. Sarguesso rec BACOS LARD ALWAYS ON HAND Blattn Street ".Lebanon, Org. etc, of a scnooi wnica occupiea one it is no unusual sight on our streets room of the building, have been burned. a riderless horse coming along. McNair Bros, have bored the deepest The boys who work at the mines on the well in the valley on . their ranch. The ! outside of the city, get them out of the bore is tnree inches and cased 38 feet j liuery stable, ride them to their place of from the surface, it nows 30 gallons a minute of hot water. No water was i struck until the auger reached 1075 feet, whan a small flow was struck. Thehot water was struck at 1132. Sierra City Trib- ne. work, and then turn them loose. The intelligent animals come back alone, and will not stop until they get to their own stable in town, ana no one . can eaten them on the road or ride them, either. -ina City Tribune. The national Woman's Christian Tem perance Unlou has petitioned President Harrison to forbid the sale of intoxicants at military canteens. Clara S. Folte, who sued Henry D. Cogswell, the Sail Francisco dentist ot fountain fame, for her services as a law yer in preparing and aiding in the pas sage ot the act empowering the "regents ot the university of California to convey na,lain lamia maa n.-ar.lntl at A K. I ha Jury. Creamed Cabbage. Chop fine one smal head of cabbage, add salt to taste and water enough to just cover it after it wilts. Boil until the cabbage is tender, and if the water boils away at the last, all the better. When it is tender, add one and one-half cups ot milk, and butter size of an egg. Let it boil up and serve at once. Do not let It boil much after the milk has been added, or the salt will curdle the milk. Apple Salad. Take six apples, four tablespooniuls or powdered sugar, one fourth teaspoon! ul of cinnamon, one gill of sherry. Pare, core and cut the apples into very thin slices. Put a layer of these slices in the bottom of a glass dish, 8prinkt i them with the sugar and a little cinnamon, then another layer ot apples, and so continue until all Is used. Four the wine over, and stand away In a cold place for one hour, and it la ready for use. Apples Fried. Peel and core sour apples, then divide them into eighths, and sprinkle them with sugar, flour and bread-crumbs. Cover the bottom cf a stew-pan with a small piece of butter; when melted cover It with slices of apples, and fry --ellow on both sides. When done place in a saucepan soiue milk, sugar, bread-crumbs and currants; put the iried apples in and let taem boil up without breaking. Serve hot with the sauce left In the saucepan. Banana Pie. Doubtless there will be more bananas eaten during this fall and winter than in any previous season, owing to the scarcity of other fruit. A friend lately gave us this recipe for banana pie, which we find a pleasant change from the fresh fruit: Take two large bananas, peel and rub them through a colander, add one pint of milk, two heap ing teaspoonfuls of sugar, two eggs and a pinch of salt. Bake this in one crust like a pumpkin pie. Apricot or Peach Salad. Pare, cut the apricots or peaches in halves, and re move the stones. Arrange the halves neatly iu a bowl, with the stone sides up; then pour over them the following fruit salad dressing : Four tablespoonruls of sugar, one gill of sherry, one table spoonful of maraschino and two table- spoonfuls of champagne. All these in gredients should be mixed together and stirred until the sugar is dissolved. After the fruit salad dressing has been added, stand in a cold p:ace one hour, and serve. "Lcbkuchon" Honey Cakea. Take en pounds of pure honey, strained ; put it Into a very bright and clean copper basin, place it on the lire, and, when it boils, stir in sufficient sifted flour to make a medium stiff dough: when cold, add, for every five pounds of dough, one and a half ounces of very finely-ground soda, and such spices as you choose to use; when well mixed put it into your moulds or pans, press them full, and bake them in a moderately hot oven. These cakes can be made with half molasses and honey, or all molasses. They may also be enriched by the ad dition of cut almonds, citron, etc. ? A Creamery Combination. In the Farmer and Homes for Oct. 4, under the head ot the dairy, Mr. Moso ley of Iowa, in his article, quotes from a letter written to him by a Franlin county (Vt.) dalrymun concerning the situation in that part ot the etitto. I think that a little elaboration, at h-iint, should be added to what hits already been said hi order that the matter inty be understood more clearly. There aro In this county eight or ten creameries, each doing busbies distinct from the other. Separators are employed la tli business. Tnere are from two to eight connected with each creamery scattered about In different localities. The cream from these branch srparnlors, or "feed ers," as they ore termed, hi transported to the creamery aud there put Into shape for market. There are perhaps 25 of these separators in this eouuty so employed. These creameries have been In operation some live years, have done an exteutlve business aud the product ts well kuown in the markets. To make this branch of dairying more 8UcetsfuI a now move is being Inaugurated. It is the consolidation of these different creamerk-s under one management, to be known as the " Franklin County Creamery Association." The location of me separators may be changed some what so as to place theui at the nni eligible points to accommodate the farm ers aud get the required iiui.'iber of cow. The cream Instead ot being made into butter at all of the creameries as now, will be transported to some cuutral point and there manufactured. Now as to some of the advantage? that are to be derived from this move; First will be the lessening of the cost of making the butter; becoud, by having Uie most approved facilities and em ploying the best skill it is confidently expected that a more uniform and bet ter product can be obtained which, put up in attractive style and In such hap as the market requires and delivered to consumers Iu the quickest possible time, will naturally command the highest prices. Last, but not least, will be the ability to pay the farmer more for his milk. This wilt be a stock company with sufficient capital to operate it su certsfu!ly. There are good men connected with this enterprise who will work faith fully for its success. It U also highly commended by thos-j capable of judging as a move iu the right dlrectiua. Nearly all of these creamery men are faitneia and dairymen. They commenced on a small scale iu thli business aud have worked It up to large proorUous. One of them reached the Kiut -of 19,000 pounds of butter a week the present season, and others have made aa hUjh as louo to 1200 pounds a day. If any of the patrons are so di4poeed they can become stockholders In the business and thus make it co-opwrative ou their port, but this will be entirely optional with them. It is not exiected all dairymen will patronize this creauicty association, nor that it will control the dairy business of the county. It will be the endeavor, however, to put the busi ness upon such a basis and present such inducements to the farmers that they will quite generally find it for tiu'ir ad vantage to patronlzo It. Of course if any can do better by working up his milk at home ho will contiuuo to do It. To make the creamery t success it must have the milk aud the furmcn must furnish It. They" will not be boui.d In this case, nor run any risks in the matter, so it will be seen that they must be dealt fairly by or their patronage cau not be retained. It is expected to make butter the jear round Instead of, as now, tor only six months, bo there must necessarily bo winter dairying on the part of some. The milk will be paid for according to its value for butter the only true way and it Is probable this will have a tendency to bring In many dairies hitherto kept away from the want of such a method. E. R. Towle, Frank lin County, Vt, in New England Farmer. Arsenic Srays and 1. Several Eastern nuiserles have, during tlio past year or two through their cat alogues, advised the public to use arsenic sprays for curcullo, while the trees wore in bloom. This may bo well enough where f'ere are no bees to gather honey from the blossoms, but apiculturlsts claim that the generat practice of this method would result disastrously to the bees, which leave everything for the or chards when the trees aro In bloom. Not only would many bees bo killed outright, but a proportion of arsenic would be im parted to the honey. Just, how much can only be ascertained by careful ex experlments. Sooner or later, the "lit tle Turk " curculio will Invade Califor nia. It Is well to be forehanded with the uneradlcable post when it comes. We should also care for our bees. Neither the curculio nor codliu moth can attack the fruit until after tho blos soms have fallen, and it would seem that then would be, the best time to apply arsenic sprays California Fruit Grower. The American Agriculturist's prize for the largest yield of potatxtes raised on n meiLHio-eil acre of around was taken this year by a farmer in Johnson countv, Wy, with a yield of 974 bushels. A. It. Chisholm of Dei Norte, Col, got Ml1, bushels. Cowhide horseshoes. It Is said, are fast coming into use in Luglaud und in many parts of the continent of Europe. It is claimed for this stylo shoe that it is much lighter, that it lasts longer, and that split hoofs are never kuowu in horses using it. It is perfectly smooth ou the bottom, uu calks being required. the shoe adhering ttrmly on the most polished surface. Its elasticity prevents many sprains, the horse's steps leiug ibthter aud surer. It is said that straw. treated with chemicals unknown, has been used for horseshoes for centuries in Japan. Many doubts are being raised in the minds of our fruitgrowers as to the ad vlsabilitv or desirability in any event of caprif ying figs in California. A Fre no grower states as his reason ior uisoeiier in the method that the process will not give the fig any better flavor, because if it had been so the ancients would not have dropped the method simply for the reason, that the capriuoa ngs naa worse navor. uapruicauon uoes not, cause tho flir to drop when mature, be cause the fig, without cnprltlcation, drops when it is ripe. Caprtticatiou will not assist in curing, or prevent acidification because the curing and souring are due entirely to causes outside of the tig it self. It is yet impossible to state whether caprificatlon will increase the size of the tig or not. This can only be determined after a thorough te- has been made. California Fruit Grr The Indian scare Is over. August Belmont U dead. Sued tho faster is hungry. The world's fair buildings are to be fire proof. . They have another Charlie Ross in BoHtou. Tho government was sustained In the Italian elections. Many sheep perished in Germany In the storm of Nov. 27. m Tho predicted famine Is already felt In county Mayo, Ireland. Tho verille;! population of the United States Iu 1891 U 62,622,259. The South American Indians expect a tuest-lih In a few mouths. The lead-sliver suieltnrs of the country uru combining In a big trust. Th ttoputation of the United states Is 62 622,250 by this jeer's census. The last lottery postal law is likely to break up the Louisiana lottery. Many bridges aud dykes in Holland have been destroyed by floods. Monte Carlo has degenerated from a fKrti:ig palace into a gambling hell. Canada wants France to surrender the islands ot St. Pierre aud Miquelou. Influenza of a typhoid character prevail- in the '.iclnily of Buda-Pesth. Eight miners were killed by an explo slou in a colliery near Boltou, England, Nov, 26. Albert II. Smith, the New York forger, has been convicted. His forgeries broke the tirm. The Cottou Employes' Association of England has decided to raise wage 10 per cent. A Winnipeg court has deeided valid tlii act abolwhint; separate school- in Manitoba. Benjamin Penhallow ShUiaber, author ot Sirs. Partington, died at Chelsea, Muss, Nov. 26. Three children tunneled Into a saud bnu at Atlantic, la, Nov. tl and were caved on and killed. . The German government will buy Pro fessor Kock's tuberculosis cure and mau facture the lymph itself. The steamer T. P. Leathers was burnt near Fort Adams, Miss, Ncv. 27, with the loss of live lives. Thousands ot sheep perished In an un usually heavy enow t-tortu in England the last week in November. The public debt or France is 80,810,813, 594 francs, which is more than that ot auy other nation la the world. Michael Haley, a 16-year-old boy of Newburg, N. Y, ha become a complete idiot through the ue ot cigarettes. The brains of a dog and a cat hare been successfully transKtsed at the uni versity medical college la New York. Under a new ukase no Jew is per mitted to earn a liviusr in Russia until he uiul all bis family join the Greek church. Massachusetts print manufacturers say that if business does not improve soon they must either reduce wages or eiose down. Forty fishing boats were sunk, 123 damaged and twenty-eight fishermen drowned in a gale off Oifen, Norway, Nov. 26. Mayor Walsh of Wexrorl has been sent to prison for three months for publishing articles displeasing, to the British gov ernment. Floods destroyed 5)0,000 florins' worth of property at Carlsbad and at Jena fif teen iiouses fell and several persons were killed. William Waldorf Astor is building a seventeen-story Intel in New Vorb. It ni'J be 225 feel high, the tallest hotel in the world. William M. Donahue, a eierk in the Boston p-stoflice, has been caught in the act of raising postofllee orders from $1 to $100. Charles Francis Adams has lieen crowded out of the presidency ot the Union Pacific by the tiould interest, bydney, Dillon succeeds him. William Clarke drew $2J,noo from a bank at Milwaukee Nov. 20 and was robbed of it a few minutes luL?r by two meu who escaped. It is announced that several Scotch giiivhatu factories will thorily be re moved to America Henry W. Spieker, for years book keeper in the office of the St- Louis tribune, is several thousand dollars short and has a family too many. George Weston and his wife of Atchi son, Kas. had a discuss'on Nov. 26. He killed her with a hammer and she hacked him terribly with a hatchet. The fedoral supreme court has again refused to interfere with electrocution (begging the Record-Union's pardon the word can't be squelched) In New York. While Daniel W. Gerry and Nelson B. Call were wrestling at Boston Nov. 25 a lead pencd' in Call's vest pocket was driven into Gerry'a neck, inflicting a fatal wound. The free stand at Eastern park, Brook lyn, fell with 2900 people on it just be fore the Yale-Princeton football match Nov. 25. Nobody was killed, but about fifty were injured. Miss Lilian Rounder of New York has married Yoong Suing, a Chinese cigar maker who has buried one American wife. Miss Rounder was about 4) and Shing was in Iter Sunday-school class. Miko Hordurick and Dennis Chesna, Hungariaus, were arrested in the act of placing obstructions on the railroad track at Plymouth, Pa, Nov. 6, while fast passenger train was approaching. W. L. B. Hunter, an editor at Syla- cauga, ija, charged lown juarsnai G-Hirge Nlckerson with being drunk wliile on duty. rulcKerson attacKOd mm with a club and llunler snot mm aeaa. Rev. Mr. Brown of the Episcopa church at Middletown, N. S, gave G. H. King a fearful beating because King sat ou the dominie's hat on a train Nov. 21. Kinar's nose was broken, his eyes black ened and tho car fl'Xt'r covered with blood. James Sto.-kton and his bride went through the Johnstown flood and each supposed that the other perished. She wont to Massachusetts and he to uaii- rornta. They met at Memphis Nov. 29 and went to California to finish their honeymoon. A bridge across the Hudson, to accom modate six or eight railroad tracks, with room for foot passengers but none for teams, to run, probably, from Forty-second street, New York, to the New Jer sey shore and to cost $39,000,000, is likely to bo begun next spring ana nmsnea within three years. Ronalds' castle, built in moditeval style witli towers, walls, courtyards, moat and drawbridge, at Newton, Conn, by P. Lauriliard Ronalds, has been burned, just before completion. It was filled with tine paintings anu oric-a-urae anu tne tho loss i i about $151,093. When Tomns Martinez was called up for trial at Eivas, Nicaragua, Oct. 22, for attempting to murder Dr. Trinidad Florcs he arose, drew a revolver and shot Flores dead. He then shot another man dead, wounded a third and escaped, but was afterward recaptured. Probate Judge Isaac Bergman of Cheyenue got a dose of the judges' own medieiue, being sent to jail for contempt for refusing to turn over to the district court the records of his court, which had been abolished by the new constitution. Ho attempted suicide Nov. 28 and shot out both his eyes. Tho men in Cox fc Co. shoe factory at Rochester, N. Y, struck last May on account or the introduction of lasting machines. Nov. 29 a manifesto was is sued, signed by twenty-five leading man ufacturers, to the effect that they will employ no union man until the strike against Cox & Co. is abandoned. Tlalt to the Grave of the Mother of the Hainan Race. It is not verj often that an American visits the little town of Jiddah, on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea; yet, everj tear, as the sacred season of the Iledjaz comes around, hundreds of thousands of devout Mussulmans are disembarked at its little harbor, intent on making a pilgjrimajre to Mecca, which insures to them the happiness and honor of paradise. It was Dot with any intention of attempting to visit the' tomb of Mohammed and to faze on the mysterious "Kaaba1 that took sail one moonlit night from Suakim. and crossed the turbulent Red Sea to Jiddah. ' My object was to visit the shrine, of one venerated by Chris tian and Isl unite alike the reputed tomb of Eve, mother of all mankind, writes a correspondent of the N. Y. llr.raUL The country presents a very sterile appearance, there being but little vege tation. A few date palms are dotted alwut, and away to the west, in the di rection of Mecca, groups of stunted acacia trees render the prospect less barren. The approach to the tomb is up a sandy slope, rising abent 200 feet above the town. The grave itself is 1G0 feet loug and 5 feet wide, and is surrounded by a stone wall 4 feet high, covered with chntiam. In the ceuter of it rises a sm;i!l dome-crowned mosque, wherein pilgrims assemble to say their prayers. The mosque Is in charge of some dervishes, who have plenty' to do h keeniujr it clear of beg gars who assemble and clamor for b:iekslteeh- 1 aside the mosque is iterfeetly plain. except that in the renter is erected aa altar. This stands aliont three feet high and Is covered with curtain. The curtains leing drawn aside disclosed a black stone let into the floor. The stone i-t fipiaed to lie directly over the.tomb of Eve, and is polished like marble br the kisses of the faith ful. It is by no means permitted to everr uiigrmi to pi:c his lips on the sacred spot, but br n ii'ieral amount of b.i,k.heeh and the iiressence of the consular I was le-riiiilied Ibe honor. ii'id accM'diiigSv liieruriain was drawn. and on liatnU ami knees I paid homage to our leueml.irv mother. The stone which is treated with so much honor is a very eut tons oue, evi dently meteoric, and is sit jtposied, like the K-talm at Mecca. ; la have been speebtiir sent down from Heaven for it present use- 1 had a hmir ciint with the chief CU3 todian ot the ttirn:, who told me that t!;e office had !een in the family for generations. lit; ..said th:tt the most rejnl.-tr visitors to the shrine are the Bedouins, who. in theiryearlv wander ings through t .e Arabian desert, rare ly ftii to visit Eve's tomb. I asked him if there was any legend as to wbj Eve was stipooseil to -tie buried there. but he knew noue, and asked: "Where else would she be buried except on this acred soil? It is certainly curious that legendary lore should select spots so distaut from each other for the graves of our first parents. While Eve rests on the shores of the Red Sea, Adam is popularly sup posed to lie buried under the forest- clad slopes of Adams's Peak, in Cev Ion. Ou my walk back to Jiddah I asked my companions if they supposed the grave represented the stature of ive. and thev said, "surelv." Two Sweet Girl Gradaates. IS to THE THLINKETS OF ALASKA. Two sweet girl graduates went forth to walk in the woods. In their holiday mood all roads were one to tbem, and wheu thev came to a cross-road they turued into it- A hnnter who happen ed to be standing; near spoke to them ' Don't take that road voang women, he said: "it isn't safe." Why isn't it safe?" asked the sweet est of the cirl graduates, incredulous ly. '-Because a bear has lately gone op that way. 'How do vou know that? Did you ie the Itear?" ' No, I didn't see him; but there his trail; and the hunter pointed some foot-prints on ti.e ground. The girl gnulntes carefully examined the tracks, antl said one to the o;hen "They don't look like the prints of a bear's paws. Do you think they are? "Don't believe him," said the other. "I don't think they look a bit like bear tracks." "Do you know a bear trail when yon see it?" queried the hqnter. "If you mean the prints of a bear's paws on the ground," said one of the girl graduates, with a lofty air, "I aro sure any ono could tell what they would look like." Did you ever see the tracks of a bear?" repeated the hnnter. No," replied the girl graduate. "but natural history gives us the conforma tion of a bear's paws, and - the com monest mental operation would teach us from that what their tracks would look like. I don't think these look the least like the footprints of a bear. Bears have claws, and there are no marks of claws here." "Who ever heard of a bear without claws?" said the other girl graduate, with a withering glance at the hunter. "What kind of tracks be they, then. miss?" asked the hnnter. "Indeed I don't know," returned one of the sweet girl graduates, snpercili- ouslv. They certainly . are not the tracks of a Itear." -Besides," added the other sweet girl graduate, "who ever heard of bears walking along roads?" lhe hunter s stock of arguments as well as words was limited, and he said nothing. Tho sweet girl graduates went on their way. They had not goue far when a bear sprang upon them and ate them op. lhe only parts of their anatomy not masticated beyond identity were their tongues, which, finding tough.the bear had swallowed who'e. Before the pro cess of digestion - fairlv began, these found time for a few words: "They were bear tracks, after all,' said one. "And suppose they were," replied tne other, ."how were we to know? harper's Bazar. Down on College Students. me of the Mtrang Cutomt Which Pre. trail Among Tlile Ft altar People. Alaskan music Is not unlike Chinsn its monotony. The instrumnt-i! music is extracted principally from a guitar of two strings. But there can be no doubt of the Ihimket s mueicat ptittide. .This is fhown by the chiU reu at tb mission schools. All AI.ikk- aus have the same difficulty as the Chl- uese in pronouncing r and v. Illici matistrt becomes numatisni. every. blr, storv. stolv, rears, veab. Pro nunciation varies with the situation of the letter. A hideous peculiarity of theThiink- ets is the wearinjr among the women of what is called the "labrette" iu a lit made below and horizontal with the mouth. Oddly enough, amort. the Eskimos the ttti-n often iusert sim itar atrocities in the corners of their mouths. When the girls arrive at the are of 14 or 15 the ceoter of the under lip is - perforated; aod a piece of copjter wire titroduced to prevent the aperture from closing. This 'aperture is grnd uatlr lenglhenetl, and tlie wooden or ivory ornaments are eularged in pro portion till they are frequently ta ereased to three and even four inches it length and almost eqnal in widt-i. This generallT haptteos wheu the matron is advanced in years aud the tmtscles are relaxed. The labrette is bolloned out on each side like a m?oii. though not quite so deep; the edges are likewise hollowed In the form of a paney. in order to Iije this precious ornament more firmly tr the lip. It is rare now on the coast In see labrette-" worn by young women. They think them fooiish. having been se verely criticised by the whites and told that the v are uily. Yanitv prevents them from distorting t'teir not too pleasing, faces; but I saw many a la brette worn Iv oirt women, aud in-l- eons enough was the spectacle. It is said I will not vouch for th truth of the statement that this orna roeut is sometimes as useful as it has heretofore been considered ornaments!, affording a firm hold for fair fin sera of their itossessors when engaged ia drunken broils. The Thlinklets. like ot'ier r-'lra races, are hospitaMe to a fnalt. VV an Indian has a surp'tn of f-nl ! e. is not happy until his friends help hi:.t to eat it up. What they cannot devour on the spot they are exnecicd to r;rry away. A host is ouended it ins guests do not partake of everything s-t ie fore them; if strangers are ajiion ? :-? visitors, fonr or tiVe feast are n-t un common in a single day. When Ju l Swan was anticipating such an tb".t tion, his Indian eotn-.innioii 'war1! hint not to cat loo m-t-h lest he siionM Ite s;ck and not be able to eat untj the bitter end. The pot is always on the lire and ihs food is almost all loiled. although Hour and water of forbidding texture is of en fried. " "Miick-a-nmek" is seaweed. It locks not unlike tobacco, and is chewed, but when cooked with vinegar it is said to be good to eat. The leaves of the bearberry or kfo nikinick are mixed with tobacco for smoking to eke out the precious nar cotic. These leaves are osed for the same purpose by all North American Indians. Once thev were pounded" in mortars, still extant, bat of no farther ose, for tobacco has superseded .the native plant and small Indian boys are seen smoking the effeminate cigarette with marvelous nonchalance. Sprnce gum is the woman's joy. Their j:ws are perpetoally going, and" the expectora tion is generons. Though the Thiinkets are apparent- ly very dirty, owing to never changing their clothes until the latter are ready to drop off in rags, still they wash themselves daily. and are never so persistent in bathing as during the wjnter. Corporal punishment is the greatest disgrace that can be inflicted oa man. anil is rarely resorted to, saving when a boy refuses to bathe in eoid water. Then argument is panctnaied by beating with a stick, which is con sidered less as a punishment than as & means of hardening the body. KaU Field in Washington. The students of Lehijh college.Penn- svlvania. will not be able to boast of their conquests among college widows in their college town. Twenty-eight young ladies have formed a society to discourage the attentions ef the college boys, aud for the first time in history the attentions of college "nien" will not be welcomed. Ia Prison In Georgia. From Lien t W. H. Sh el ton's "A Hard Road to Travel Out of Dixie. in the Century, we quote the following: Before passing the gate or t' , prison for Union officer at Macoa"J we expected to see a crowd bearing wm outward semblance of respeetabilitv. Instead, we were instantly sarronnded by several hundred ragged, bare-footed, frowzy-headed men shooting "Fresh nsh!" at the top of their voices ana eagerly asking for news. With rare exceptions all were shabbily dressed. There was, however, a little knot of naval officers, who had been ca"ptared in the narrow windiugs of the Rappa hannock by a force of cavalry, and who were the "aristocrats of the camp. They were housed in a substantial lair - building m the center ot toe grounds, and by some special terms ot surrender roust have brought their complete wardrobes along. Oa hot days they appeared in spotless white dock, which they were permitted to send outside to be laundered. Their mess was abundantly supplied with the fruits and vegetables of the season. The ripe red tomatoes they were daily seen to peel were the envy of the camp. 1 well remember that to tne, at tnis time, a favorite occupation was to lie on my back with closed eves and im agine the dinner l won id oraer i were in a first-class hotel. It was unusual thing to see a dignified colon ef washing his lower clothes in a pail, clad only in his uniform dress-coat. Ladies sometimes appeared on the y guard-walk outside the top ef the jf stockade, on which occasions the clean' est and best-dressed men tnrncd out." see and be seen. I was quite pronr -appear in a clean gray snirt. sy" ' white drawers, and moccasins'' blue overcoat cloth. S On the Fourth of Jayr . regular morr.ing count, y , ,: the bigcentral bnildiujf . t . formal celebration. . . brought into captivv - . person, a little &W ' was carried op: ... : the building. . s 2 . the wildest W" , the flag a - ' - V. ; speed)-' , , r guari . . .. . - our- .. . . ' ' y : ,' tr- . -. y.: ... ". ., '.-.- - - Bill Doughorty and Herbert Inger soll have been arrested for stealing a Lompoo livery team and selling It in Los Aneeles. They appear to have been working the whole coast. An ordinary hard question for house'. wives to solve, "How to clean frames?" is answered ia the Scte' "J 'r American. The method advised V - ! ? pie, consisting in washing the' witn Deer. .. .V- J J 1) y?tjfSza&a 4 f.