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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1890)
1 ift" 1FS 1?YB .V 4 5 f an- ' J 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. YOL. IV. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1890. NO. 42. R 1 , EAST AXD SOUTH -VIA- 'Southern Pacific Route. TUB MOUNT SHASTA ROUTE. ' tl PRESS TRAINS LEAVE FOKTLASD DAILY ! P. X. I Lr 33 P.St. I Iv 15 A M. 1 Ar Portland Ar9;3A. M Albany Ar6:15A. M. San Francisco Lv 9 OPT. M. ,bove trains stop-only at the following stations nb ot Rose burg : East Portland, Oregon City, " V-dbura, Salem, Albany, Tangent. Shedds, "S r Harrtsburs, Junction Ciiy, Irving and Euune, Roseburg Mail Dally. 8 K.0 A. X. Lv 11 S) P. U. I Lv 5j40 P. M. f Ar Portland Albany Koseb-f Ar I t M P. Ar l- :00 M. Lv 1 6 :20 A. Albany Local Daily (Except Sunday.) S SjO P. K. Lv Portland Ar I 9 aX) A. X. 9 .-00 P, X. Ar Albany Lv SKX A. M Local Passenger Trains Daily Except Sunday. 2 :SS P. X. I Lv 2:5K P. X. I Ar T iW A. X. Lv 8 :22 A. X. I Ar Albauy Lebanon -Albany Lebanon Ar 9 ri5 A. X. , Lv I 8 :M A. X. Ar I :Vi P. X. Lv I 3 :0 P. X. PTJlXjiAMT BUFFET SLEEPERS. I z Tourist Sleeping Cars Vr accommodation ot Second Class Passengers. attached to Express trains. t . WEST SIDE DITTSIOX. 1 BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORY ALUS. Mail Train Daily (Except Snnday.) i 7 ao A. X. I Lv 11 :10 P. X. J Ar Portland Corvallis Arl 5-.se P.. Lv 1 IS 5 p. x. At Aluany ana uunaiua kuuikvi ......... - - Oregon Pacific Railroad. (Express Train Daily Except Snnday.) :40 P., 1 Lv Portland Ar8:20A.X. .nx n r 1 4 v M.TinnvillA Lv 1 5:45 A. X. , MB lnt'Ju ,n - ... ( For tickets and fall information regarding ,-atea. maps, etc, call on Co s agent at Lebanon k KOEULER, E.P.KOGERS. Manager. Asst. G. F. k P. Agt DR. C. H. DUCKETT, p E NT I S T LEBAXOX, OKEGOS. j J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW, Office over First National Bank. AI.BAXY. - - - - - OREGOX ' W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW, ALBAY' OREGON. 3. T. COTTON, Dealer in Grpceries and Provisions. . : 1 Tojbacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. - i Foreign and Domestic Fruits, j Confectionery, Queinsware and Glassware, Lamps and t JUamp tixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. . i Maim Street LcbsDoo, Oregon vr; l. McCLEUE - i (Successor lo C. H. Harmon.) Bark : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting and ShampOO in o- in 1 h latest and best style. Spec ial attention raid to dressing Ladies' hair. Your patronage respectfully so licited. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON. .Bank of Lebanon LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business, ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. Exchange sold on Npw York, San rancisco, Fortland ana AiDanj, uig Collections made on favorable terms LEBANON dleat Market ED. KELLESBERGER, Prop. "resh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mtjt- ' ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. 02? kKd L1RD ALWAYS ON HAND . , Main Btreefl'liebanon, Org-. CHRISTMAS GUESTS. An Anslrallan Poem. The loneliest rifiht or nil the year!" 'lnencK man murmured w it h aweary moan: And I shall spend, with ut a creature near. Anotncr arcary tiirisiuius-iide n one: A rrooilen shanty, com mor rotifrh, nnd bare. Kline Rrelti r nffi'red tn a KiifTeriniy m-n? Its door fluiifr open to the warm nif.ht tt, (.ourtingr, in vain, a breeze ins cheek lo fun. A man well on in years: ileep-lined and pray his nrow, and iiiose scam locks whlcu o r it lillllff: One who had lost, he had been heard to say. All that he had lived lor while be still was joun. A world-worn wand'rer on the face T earth. hom le th nnd rrow. in an tril time. Had driven from the country of his birih io loneiy iaoor in au Autrttl eilme. Where .tolling without heart, to keep alive A life he did rot cherish, he had failed. As hopeless toilers fail 'mid those who strive; er sorry life alone his gams availed. Half-!ress d, and flnnfr upon his restless bed. He. burnin -oved. irnzed out nnon the ni ht? Gazed from the glowiiifr darkness overhead -lo n nere ii.e distant townships lamps shone bright. Full many kindly souls," lie muttered low. "F,ating nnd luugbiDsr on this Christinas Eve. Did they my dire extremity but know onid gladly sects my sutr rings to relieve. And who am I, to wrap me in my pride, Seoroinff- to ask what would he f el v pirpn? Yet. no! 1 cannot Im-jt!" be feebly cried. "Help, to be hi lp for me, must come from Heav'u!" E'en as he spoke, liiprh in the vast dark blue. a meie r, loosin a irora its viewless tit s. Across the star-flow red fl- li s of ether new. Like some frrand Ure-winged bird of para disc Its Irailing lusire shed a transient gleam I Don two ntrures at tne cd- n do r. Whose fact s brishtene l with atender beam Ihe lonely hut that wee so im 1 cfore. A womrn rnd a child! Was he distranrht. That neither fear n, r wonder Le d him hound To we come beinfrs wh, his reason taught. Had slept for twenty years in Englisb giound? Why should he fear them? W( re they not bis ow n The wife, ihe child with whom h:s heart had died? What wonder if, when he was sick and lone. Uhey lett tbeir Hraven lor service at his side? Hand clasped in hand they crossed hla threshold now. Smiling udoii their loved one as thev came: They spoke no word, but kissed his pain-dewed brow. And coolness fell upon his frame. Row 'twas T.e knew not hot within a space That seemed no longer than a moment I fliirht A happy change had come upon the place. And au around mm streamed a soit, ciear light. The child was hanging gar ands everywhere x aminar wreatits ot hony e glossy green. Of laurel and of bay; while here and there O learned marv lous unknown blooms oi 6oowy sheen. The mother spread the table for a feast. as mouth resuming old, sweet household care: And he, in whom all sense of pala had ccas'd. i as gently led this wo idrous meal to tnare What was his fare, that Eve of Christmas morn? He cannot tell us, nd he only could: But, if 'twere not a dream of weakness born. He, for the first time, tasted angels' food 1 Then, smilii g stil', they h?ld his feeble hands. Ana sweetly raited that old, old hymn ot praise. That -hoes on through widest-sundered lands Tn Christian hearts all earthly Christmas Days. Come all ye faithful!" Were they calling him? Bidding blm seek a heavenly Bethlehem? He smiled in answer as his eyes grew dim, -And strove to rise that he might follow them. "Joyful and triumphant!" Ah! such hap monies Thrilled through the humble hut, as human ear, TJnhelp'd by angel-teachers from the skies. Has never heard, may never hope to hear. Grandly it rose and swelled, that Christmas song! Surely all the choirs of Heaven joined tht strain That mighty stream of praise that bore along Upon its flood a being freed from pain I When bis next neighbors, on the Christmas Day, Some friendly impulse to his shanty led. Calm, placid, still, upon his bed he lay, A smile was on his face and he was dead! Lindsay Duncan. A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS. "Only two days until Christmas! How different this will be from the one I looked forward to this j-earl" thought Mr. Romain, as he restlessly paced the wide porch of his handsome home. "How ulcasant the air is as warm and balmy as spring! Exquisite, if one had some'one to enjoy it with; but I'm lonesome. Poor Tom! How I hoped to see 3-ou again, to tell 3-ou that the fault was mine in that quarrel; and you are dead buried only last week, they tell me and I am back in Old Virginia, with never a child or a chick to bid me -welcome." "Dood-morain Mister Man; will yon please turn to ye nauetion?" As these words fell on his ear, Mr. Homaia turned and saw two little children standing on the steps, a chick en held tightly under the arm of one of them. They were pretty children, too a boy and a girl, exactly the same size. Blonde curls crowned each shining head; brown eyes, with long, curling lashes, looked frankly out from under straight, clear-cut eyebrows, and two little pug noses turned up merrily from the little rosy mouths that were always I Mi A smilinor beneath. No, not always; for there was a frightened little quiver about them now, as their. owner looked up timidly at the stem, handsome man who was so earnestly regarding them. "Come to your what?'1 repeated Mr. Uoninin. To our naiiRtion,1' the boy explain ed. "Palm's gone to heaven, and tve's goin.to have a nauetion; it's to dot inorey, you see; we's goin' to sell all our sings. Mamma says ye more yo folkes come ye more we'll dot money; and if dere's enough, we's not going to sell my wockin-htuse. I'se dot Tickle, dis here chickic, safe me aud Rosy take turns holdin' her but tve tan't hole ye horse. I dess we'll go now." Did your mamma send you?" asked Mr. Homatu. "Oh, no! she's cryiu'. an wo dus fought we a neip ask folks. 1 lease turn, Mr. .-Jan." And smiling hi a friendlv, but half frightened fashion, the children trot ted down the walk. As their little figures vanished. Uncle Peter came around the house. Who are those children, uncle?" questioned Mr. Romain. gazing after them. DOOD MOUNIX MISTER MAS." Dov's po' Massa Blake's chillun, lah. Yo' 'meitiliers I tole you how Massa Tom done die las' week; well, .ley's his twins. Dey do say it's scan' lous how Miss' Blake's be in treated. Massa Tom done sign a note fur a gen neman. an' he can't pay an' dey is ter be an auction dore to morrow, an' Massa Tom not dead a week vet scase ly. Po' Miss' Blaker That night Mr. Romain sat tip late in his library, reading over letters and papers he had uot seen in ten years. uot since the day he ha,l that qn-trrel with Tom Blake, for it was ta s:tnie morning he had received a cablegram calling him to Europe to take posses ion of a large estate left him. and yes terday he had reached home for the lirst lime since his departure. "I was just beginning my battle with the world then," he mused: "now I feel like a warrior, battle-scarred and louely. How enthusiastic Tom and I were then! how close our friend ship was!'' And taking up an old letter, a low laugh burst from his lips as he read its witty allusion to an almost forgotten college scrape. A very different look came into his face as "he glanced down the. page of the next letter which met hN ye And read: "My Dear Feilow: After all, I find I can I lend you that money. 1 nave reen old nrown, and he is willing to Hive it If I n ortaiige the Meadow Farm. I don't like mortgages, but we must save ytur horn--. Ur wn imugims that there is coal ut.der that land. 1 ihiuk not. I'll tell you a leenet, hough. I know there is under the field adjoinino-. -"In ten years I hope to have m-wey to open mv mining land: nv an ime I'll use my Meadow Farm to save your home, -nd you can repay me liefore the mortgage falis lie. I ha I intended to settle both f. rms 01 Nellie bs soon as we were married : so if anything happens to me. my dear boy, you may con sider Nellie and her interests your iegntcy- trom Tours as ever, "Ton.' To think I threw away a friend ship like that!" almost groaned Mr. Romain, as he laid down the paper. Then a sudden thought struck him, and he hastily rang the bell. . "Uncle Peter," he said, ''who owns what used to be Mr. Tom Blake's Meadow Farm?" "Old Mr. Brown, sah; he got power ful rich on dat farm. 10 see, sati. hit's got a coal-mine in it. On, yes. sah, he's rich." "And Tom mortgaged that' land to save my old home," thought Mr. Ro main, sorrow fully, "i wonder if it could be that the" check I sent from Enzlaad did not get to him in time? In any case he's dead, and Nellie and the children penniless, aud" glancing at the letter again "a legacj- to me!" "An auction almost on Christmas Eve! Why, it seems fairly barbarous!" thousht Mr. Komain, indignautiv, as he entered what had been the pleas ant home of his friend Tom, and was so soon to be left desolate under the hands of the auctioneer. It was early in the dav, but already the house- was rilled with neighbors who had come from miles around to attend the sale; aud as Mr. K'tinain moved amoug them his ears wern con stantlv orreeted with remarks on the foolishness of "sijrnin' for people." Sick at heart he entered tbe little kit chen back of the house, which was as yet unoccupied, save by Mrs. Blake's faithful colored cook. Aunt Nancy She was sitting on a split-bottom chair, rocking herself to and fro, and occa sionally wipiug her eyes with her blue Check apron. Where is your mistress, auntie?" Mr. Romain asked. There was a kindly ring in his voice that unlocked the old woman's bur dened heart, and she sobbed aloud as she answered: "Oh. massa, she done took de chil luns, an' gou" to her cousin's. Miss Rachel. It jest broke my po' ole heart to see em go! Uut Miss liiake say she couldn't stand it here, an' dey have to go soon sure. Po' things! only de good Lord know what's to come of dem, she say. . Oh. massa. hit awful hard on missis. dis is. She went all over de house dis mornin' tryin' to sav good-bve to it. De little ones a clingin' to her kep' a pickin' up thiugsV 'Mamma, dey won't take mv wockin -horse, will ., ueyr "Mammy, will de nauetion man dct my little chair?' dey ask. Missis tried to hoi' back de" tears an' speak chirk to deni chilluns, but when she come to her owu room she say: 'You stay out here, darlings; mammy wants to go in here alone. 1 took de cuii luns. but pres'ntlv I peek in de room, 'nd dere my 00' missis, a kneclin' 'fore massa's bir arm-chair, w'ul her head lyin' on de biff famblv Bible dat she'd put on de chair; she had her arms around dat, and s!io was cryin' softly "Oh, my husband! she whispered over and over, and den she sav: "A fader to de faderless, a husband to de widow.' 'Dear Lord, let dia cup pass from me. 1 J. I shut de door den. By 'in by 8he come out, all white nnd tremblin", but she tried to smile on de chllluns as she led dem down de walk. 'Dose po' little things! Kosy was uggtn' her rag doll au' tryin' to ntae it uuder her rag aprun, au' Romain was totin' Pickie, de chicken, clost in he arms. De nauetion man can't take mamma's chilluus, and so he can't take ours,' dey'd keep sayin'." Komain?' repeated her visitor. "Ye9. sah, Romain: dat'a for a fren f Massa Tom's. Massa not see him for years, but he talk a heap o' Mr. Rom:kiu." 'Thank God! Tom fonrave rue," whispered Mr. ltomain, as he left the kitchen in response to the business like ton of the auctioneer that now rang out clear and cold as he began of fering the parlor furuilure. Great was the indignation of one spiuster when the lirst bid of a tall. handsome stranger, carried the price far beyond the sum she had mentally decided on, and he secured it without pposition. Her feeliugj were soon shared ty most of those present, for a similar scene took place over almost every article offered for sale, from Mrs. Wake's piano to Romain's rocking horse. The stranger outbid every one. THANK GOD. Wg VE A HOME OSCE WORK." and was soon sole posesor. He even liecame the owner of the fnrm and slock, the onlv active bidder .linst him lieinjf the representative of Mr Brown for the Held adjoining his coal-mine. Mr. Brown had not expected to meet with any oKv-ition. an I so had set the unit his representative wms lo pav at very moderate figure. This Mr. Ro main instantly outbid, and soou se emed the whole. As soon as the auctioneer aunounced the close of the sale, Mr. R-imain asked the astonished and disappointed crowd to please vacate the premises as soon as xissil)le, as he had laiiight every thing for a lady who would take pos session of her projierty that nijrM. lne people tiled slowly out and Mr. Romain was at lat left alone with a awverhehad brought, the auctioneer and the holder of Mr. Blake's unfor- nnnle obligation. - All - the claims against the proiierty- were very soon met, and then, after seeing the gentle men depart, Mr." Romain hastened to the littte kitchen. Go for vour mistress, auntie." he said, "and ask her to please bring the children and eome back at once, there js a jmper she mint read." Y hen Aunt ancy delivered this message, a few minutes later, to Mrs. Blake, she was greatly surprised; but, w ith the palieiic Ixirn of great snffer- nr, she ut once called the children to accompany her. and went home, won tiering, as she walked along, how she was to endure the agony of seeing her home despoiled of its treasures. She had dreaded the sight of wagons and people moving her goods, and, as she entered II e gate, was astonished to see .' no one. Only Rollo, the old dog. lay basking in the last raj-s of the setting sun. and bounded up to meet them. The children ran joyfully up tne walk, and at tne sigiit ot the rooms when they entered, cried gleefully, Whv. mamma, maybe dere wasn't no nauetion! Mrs. Blake gave herself no time to think, but hastened frnui one room to another, seeking the lawyers, until she came to her own room. How pretty and homelike it still looked! There was her husband's big arm chair, still drawn un to the table. just as she had left it; the family Bible still lay on its seat, but on it lay some thing she had not left there, and as she picked it up she read her own name on the big enveloe. With lingers trem bling so she could hardlv use them, she tore it open and read: "My Dear Mrs. Blake When you rend the erclnsed letter, written twel-e year, ago, b my friend and your husband. I think you wii not deny It Is my right to give you the en closed deeds, etc., securing to you your home. lie rave me mine. "1 find Mr. Brown hurried the sale to secure the land adjacent to his coal-mine. It Is very valuable, aua in a rew years win make you ncn. And now. my dear friend, to-morrow can not be to you a Merry Christmas, but with brave cheerfulness I hope you will make It to your children not an unhappy one. I am v ery sincerely your 1 1 lend, as 1 was your nnsDana 8 xriena. "JOHN HOHAIK, "A father to the fatherless, a hus band to the widow." Once again the words fell from the lips of the weep ing woman, who for the second time that day knelt bv the old arm-chair. - Then, clasping her children in her arms, she cried: "Thank God with me, my darlings we have a home one more!" "And isde nauetion clear gone away. mammae ltomain asked, anxiously "All gone, my treasure; every bit gone, thank God!" "Then," said little Romain, careful ly pulling out Susanna Louise from un der his apron, "set down, Pickie, and turn on, fo'kses, an' less have Chris- mus!" Anna IHerpont Siviter. Oat of His Head. Guzzleton (alwut to depart after Christmas dinuer at his club) Shay, are you sure tlnsli isli my hatr Waiter Yes, sir, there's your in it. name ' Guzzleton (looking in tho mirror) Well. then. 1 wonder I 1 nam t bor rowed some other feller's (hie) head! A Sclentiflr Diagnosis. Van Doodenbocker (in front of mon key's cage at Central Park) "Say, Chawppie, I don't take any stock in this twash some of those beastly old scientists invented about these cwetaws being our gwaudfathaws, do you?" Chappie (gazing vacantly at the in tense faces of their monkeyships) "Naw, tbawt I don't; too deni'd much expwession for a gentlemau's gwand- f fat. haw, don't chew knaw." Judqe. COAST DEFENSES. The Out-of-Date Works at the Oolden Gate to be Modernised. Since the abandonment of Fort Scott the artillery at the Presidio has been greatly In need of a suitable place for testing heavy ordnance and for practice. Some months ago the construction of earthworks was begun under the super vision of Lieutenant Hamilton for the reception of a battery for practice, which are rapidly nearlng completion. The works have a front of 170 feet and a depth of 80 feet, and are sixteen feet high, except the western traverse, which Is over twenty feet high, being raised in order to deaden the concussion and sharpness of the firing, the hospital being In that vicinity. The battery consists of four eight-inch converted muzzle-loading ritles, which are the best firing guns so far Issued to the service. They are mounted on Improved barbette carriages, which are furnished with a hydraulic cylinder ot bumper for recoil check and are strengthened by transoms or crosspleces which have not been In use hitherto. The charge con sist of thirty-five pounds of powder and a conical projectile weighing 190 pounds. The guns were formerly smooth-bore and were converted by Inserting a steel tube which serves the double purpose of contracting the caliber and reinforcing the gun. They had been mounted on casemate carriages which would not ad mlt of the use of a full charge of powder. hence tne change. The earthwork Is a simple parapet and not built as a per manent feature of the post, yet could be turned to good account if needed as a defense. In the center of the works is located the magazine, fully protected by thickness of nearly forty feet of earth. Congre e has appropriated $260,000 for enplaeements for 128 twelve-Inch breech- loading rifle mortars and for several eight-Inch high power steel rifles, which are to be placed as a portion ot the de fenses ot this harbor. The emplacements will be so constructed as to accommodate sixteen ot these mortars In a group and will be made of solid concrete. FARMERS' ALLIANCE. Summary of the Platform Adopted at the Urmia Section. The national Farmers' Alliance at Ocala Fla., on its closing day adopted a plat form demanding the abolition of national banks and the establishment of sub- treasuries In the several states to loan money on land and farm products at 2 per cent, the prohibition by Congress of dealings in futures on farm and mechan ical products, free coinage of silver, pro hibition of alien ownership of land and the acquisition by the government of all land owned by foreigners or by railroad or other corporations In excess of what they actually use, "the removal of the present heavy tariff on the necessities of life that the poor must have," a grad uateu income tax and government con trol or ownership of railroads and tele graphs. A motion to reconsider the protest against the Lodge election bill was de feated, 56 to 82. Illinois, Texas, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and North and South Dakota and a portion of the delega tions from Arkansas, Missouri, West Vir ginia, Florida and Kansas Voted for the motion. A memorial approving the Paddock pure food bill and protesting against the Conger lard bill as discriminating against the cotton oil ot the south and the beet fat of the west was adopted unanimously. The next meeting will be In "Washing ton, D. C, the third Tuesday in next November. This arrangement does not compel the support of alliance measures or the ad vocacy ot alliance demands on the part of these newspapers in their editorial columns, but does compel a certain de gree of friendliness on their part, and amounts to an absolute boycott of all newspapers which do not come up to the terms ot the resolution. THE IRISH SITUATION. Parnell and the Fopnlar Majority A gain t th Prlesta aad Leaders. The split in the Irish party is complete and Parnell on one side and Davltt on the other are appealing to the people of Ireland for support. The bishops having decided against Parnell, the majority of the priests naturally go with them, but In most ot the towns visited by . the two leaders of the campaign Parnell has had the support of a majority ot the people and Davltt and Healy in many places have not been permitted to speak. In some instances Davltt was the favorite and Parnell could net get a hearing. United Ireland, tne recognized organ of the Irish party, under the editorship of men placed in charge by William O'Brien while he was In America, opposed Parnell. When Parnell was in Dublin he took legal measures to seize it, claiming to own seven-tenths of the stock, and the sheriff ejected O'Brien's editors. These latter recaptured the office and destroyed several columns of type set under Par nell'B direction, but Parnell and a posse broke open the door with crowbars, again ejected the opposition, and published the paper. The Antl-Parnellltes then began the publication of a paper called Sup pressed United Ireland and the followers of the two factions amused themselves bv destroying wagon loads of the two sheets as they left the offices to be mailed Koch's Tuberculosis Cure. Success continues to attend the use of Koch's lymph for the destruction of the tubercles which, when they make prog ress on the lungs, produce consumption, when on the skin lupus, etc. The injec tion of tho lymph, as has been stated bo fore in these columns, causes the affected tissue to slough off, carrying with it the bacilli. A quantity of the lymph has been se cured in New York and Is being used with Buccess in the polyclintlo hospital, and. on the request of Kooh's assistants. an agent an expert chemist, Richard Rnnrinirer has been recommended as sjmnt in San Francisco to receive a Bupply. . i t- ' The lymph. Injected Into a person sup posed to be healthy, reveals the presence of tubercles If they exist, and removes them. It is reported also to have favor ably affected a victim of leprosy. The French- government, has analyzed a specimen . of the lymph and reports that it "Is composed of ptomaines of tubercle bacilli, glycerine and one of the cyanogen compounds ot gold." Women's Wages. Sax Francisco. Dec. 10. ; One of tho black chapters of outrage and wrong In the history of civilization Is that pertaining to the proper field for women's work. The opposition which has been made to the efforts of t omen to work their way Into institutions of learn ing, and into the various trades and pro fessions, is answerable for the downfall of many a woman who has turned. In despair, from virtue to vice for the means to appease her hung, r and clothe her nakedness. The means of edacatlon, until recent years, have been kept beyond woman's reach. She might uot enter a ollege nor an academy, 6he might only study the more common branches In the common schools. She could not fit her self for any profession nor enter upon it even if she we:e fitted. Gradually the places of learning have been forced, for very shame, to open their doors to the sex, though therj are many colleges and higher schools yet where ' woman may not enter. But when fitted for a profession there has been a roost ungenerous opposition from persons ot both sexes to her prac ticing any profession. In the trades the same sciusn meanness is marines tea. No person working at any of the Indoor manual trades in which females are em ployed can lone remain Ignorant of the extent to which the prejudice against employing girls prevails. And when em ployed they seldom get the same pay that a man gets for the same work. There are prlnttng offices which pay a regular. stated price for composition 43 cent per thousand ems to men . and 30 cents to girls; the same practice prevails in other trades. It is no defense of this crying and cruel wrong to say that girls have less expense than men, that some of the latter have families to support. The em ployer Is not a benevolent institution to furnish means of support to his employes according to their need, and he does not act In that character. He simply hires his help at the lowest price for which he can get satisfactory work, and takes ad vantage of the girl's necessity to compel her to work cheaper tnan the man. In every field that has been opened to women seeking employment this unjust discrimination prevails, and it Is answer able for much of the crime and vice to which so many are driven who were once sweet, pure little girls. This distinction In waaes between the sexes is a relic of the ages when women were deemed property to be bought and sold. What Is the logical interpretation ot the system? It is this: The workman who opposes giving women an equal chance with him to earn a living virtually says to the woman, " I want to keep you in need of money. You must not receive generous wages. 1 must receive enougn ior my work to pay my own expenses and have some left over with which to tempt you in your penury to step aside from the path ot virtue. " That Is what it amounts to in actual, every-day practice, and hun dreds of poor girls, willing and anxious to work and honorably earn their way in the world, are crowded out of employ ment by the selfish prejudices of work men or compelled to work tor inadequate pay, until, driven to despair, they yield to the temptation placed before them by better-paid workmen and take the first and lrretraeable step toward the most terrible hell known to mortals. Woman's proper sphere, If all men were in theirs, would be, in the majority of instances, the circle of home ; but she has a light wherever there is work to be done that she is capable of doing, and she Is entitled. In simple justice, to fair pay for good work. Until she receives It until the discrimination between the sexes in wages for the same work Is abolished the employers and the work men who crowd women out of work as they would not crowd men are partners with the direct actors in the hideous wrong of leading girls Into the hell of immorality whose doors stand opeu to receive them. Mattie Norms. To Clraa a (Sink Spout. " If you want a point or two about cleaning waste pipes without sending for a plumber," said a retired member of that fraternity to a New York Telegram reporter, who was complaining of the trials of house ownership, "just listen to me. It I were still In the business I would not give away what I am going to tell you now, but as I am out of It I do not see why I may not help a friend. One of the most frequent and trying annoyances," he contlmed, "Is the ob struction to the free, quick outlet of the waste water of the washbasin, bathtub and kitchen sink. This is caused by a gradual accumulation of small bits of refuse material, paper, rags, meat, bones or grease, which check and finally stop the outflow of waste, and then the plumber is called in to remove the stop page with his force pump. Sometimes this is accomplished, but often the pipe has to be cut, and there is great incon venience and expense. Just before re tiring at night pour Into the clogged pipe enough liquid soda lye to fill the " trap," as it is called, or outlet. Be sure that no water ruus into it until the next morning. During the night the lye will convert all the offal into soft soap, and the first current of water In the morning will wash it away and leave the pipe as clean as new. See? This is practical chemistry, yet few chemists would ever think of it. " The Women Suffragists. Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon pskled at a meeting of the California State Women's Suffrage society at San Fran cisco, Dec. 12. Among the ladies present were Mrs. Jennie Phelps of Modesto, Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, Mrs. Addie M Ballou, Mrs. E. G. Edholm and Mrs. Maria Farrlngton. The report ot the committee on the revision of the con stitution and by-laws was received and adopted. A resolution was adopted em powering President Gordon to telegraph the American Federation ot Labor In session at Detroit, urging tho delegates to adopt the resolution favoring women suffrage before the convention. Mrs. Gordon was authorized to repre sent the society before the legislature and to obtain what aid she could to ad- vaneeHho cause of women suffrage la this state. The Federation ot labor adopted the desire resolution. Smo' n si -Tol should be smart enough to know1 Caroli' the genuine -Seal of North Sncr Cut" costs them no more than i to fort otiacco. wnicn someueaiers.iry ra them. Apaches are raiding in Arizona. Watsonville Is to have a savings bank. Burglars are having a boom in Oakland. William Skaggs of Skaggs' springs Is dead. Vaca vallev took in 1.000.000 for fruit this year. Five victims of the lake Lablsh disaster are dead. A navv vard will surelv be located on Puget sound. Burelars and footpads are active at Sierra City. Fresno has shipped 1286 carloads of green and dried fruit, raisins and wine this year. Shasta county Is exportinar raisins bv the carload. The Fiesno canal has been declared a nuisance. Footpads are numerous and bold at Sacramento. The Union Pacific switchmen at Oeden e truck Dec 8. John Deutsch committed suicide at San Rafael Doc 11. Portland. East Portland and Alblna are to be consolidated. Constable Pearson killed Alfred Hourse near San Diego Dec. S. Delano marketed 9865 pounds of tur keys for Thanksgiving. urovme snipped a carload of oran&es east Jjec. 10. An army of workmen are employed on tne new stocayaras at uaaen. The Jesuit fathers will build a training- school for novices at San Jose. Mr. Hagle has got a divorce at Sacra mento after a suit lasting ten years. There is 20,000,000 acres of forest open to settlement in Washington. Entry of land containing the big trees of California has been suspended. Port Orchard will probably be selected for the Puget sound navy yard. Work has been stopped on the Union Pacific's extension from Miiford to Pioche, Nev. Cho Chung. Imprisoned at Portland for Insanity, hanged himself by his queue Dec. 10. Henry Chappeli was killed by powder fumes from a blast in the Chollar mine Dec. 10. Mrs. Langrez of Portland, whose daugh ter was accused of poisoning her, died of alcoholism. Spokane Falls is to have a million bushel grain elevator and a warehouse of equal capacity. D. R. Fredericks, convicted of arson at Fresno, has been sentenced to ten years at San Quentin. John Hayes has been arrested for arson at Madison and is believed to be one of a gang of firebugs. W. C. Fry has sued the sheriff of Fresno county for $10,000 for arresting him with out a warrant. As much fresh fruit has been shipped from Sacramento in 1S:W as trom the en tire state in 19. Cnarles JJamelson and 1. Jr. Carr are in jail awaiting trial for stealing corn from a box car at Lathrop. H. M. Mitchell and William E. Dunn of Los Angeles went hunting and Duan killed Mitchell for a deer. Two lepers confined in the San Fran Cisco smallpox pest-house for want of a leper hospital have contracted smallpox. Foulke Lewis got drank and set fire to his cabin and was burned up In it at lreka Dec. 13. Skaxit. Nooksack and Snohomish rivers. in Washington, are likely to be Improved oy tne lederai government. A strike of union miners against the employment of non-nnion men is in prog ress in the Coeur d'Alene mines. After a bad run of luck, in which they lost $30,000 in two weeks, all the Port land gambling houses elosed Dee. 10. Superior Judge Mount at Spratrue. Wn.. has decided that a woman Is not eligible to the office of school superintendent. One man was killed and two seriously injured in a collision wnicn wrecked two freight trains near Coyote, Wn, Dec. 12. The Sacramento Bee boycotters have been fined for contempt of the court which enjoined them from boycotting the Bee. Aibert Dillwood and John Hern made several bullet wounds in each other at Fresno Dec. 8, but neither was danger ously wounded. Burnette G. Haskell has been arrested for embezzline $72 50 which a member of the Kaweah colony trusted him to collect in San Francisco. Sylvester Novella, who killed Robert H'guera at Cayucos and was discharged by a justice of the peace, has been in- dieted by the grand jury. A passenger train ran into a freight tram near needles uec. 11 and killed Al A. Thompson of Iowa City and a fireman ami wrecked tne tram. The eschscholtzia has been chosen bv the state 11 oral society of California as the state flower and the spelling of the name changed to "escholsia." Mrs. Eckerson of Pleasant Home. Or. fell into a log fire and a log rolled on her and she was burned to death before her husband could rescue her, Benito Solarsono was shot and killed by accident by one of the shooters at a Thanksirivinir turkey-shoot at Madera Solarsono was placing the turkeys to be shot at and did not make allowance enough for bad marksmanship. Shag rock, which the San Francisco supervisors bought, against the protest of the board of health, for $15,000, is one tenth of a tract of tide land assessed at $275. - A gang of street graders under E. C, Curlineame of Tacoma have struck against a reduction of wages and com pulsory boardini; at their employer's eat ing-house. bteeihead salmon, which run- in the Columbia in winter but have been con sidered of little value, have come into such favor in the east that they bring more tnan omnooK. John de Mars, while hunting on Sarvis island, near Portland, hid his gun under a barn, beetng that the muzzle was visible he pushed it farther, when it was discharged, filling his leg and thigh with snot, Three men concealed themselves In the Wljrwam. a cheap San Francisco theater. Dec. 8, and after the audience was gone pound ana gaggeu tne nigra watchman broke open the safe and made off with $1900 in money and $1000 worth (?) of diamonds ( t ) ana otnec jewelry. Castle Frothers of Stockton hired six teen Chinese at Columbia the other day to work in their mine at Pice Log, near Copperopolis, discharging their white miners, but the next night a posse of Copperopolis miners drove the Chinese back to Columbia like a drove of sheep. The Del Norte county grand jury has submitted its report, it charges that the treasurer s books are in a bad condition that there is a shortage of $851 3J in the accounts of the county clerk, and of $751 6o in those of the recorder. The board of supervisors of the county and the district attorney are censured for neglect of duty. The high Brazilian officials . ha- changed their minds and will not let ex-Emperor Pedro return to die la ihe republic. So many signat -es w-ob-tained to the petition for perml.SPn fur the exiled monarch to return tAat the officials became afraid he was too popu lar for the safety of the reppjie. William Joplin eloped w'.' -lis3 Miller of Jenny Llnd, Ark, t"10, but her father overtook them J l3re they could be married and took wj)tirl. Joplin got a shotgun and sttrtj: back to Jenny Lind on foot. A ,-rrs! on horseback over took him. Jo-. v.f!;ot and killed him, rode the he7tv s far as it could go, took posJPr., -y tf another team and hurried tr? , ly Lind, where he killed Dr. Stey-ivho he thought had some thing -o dowipj fustrating his marriage, antf then Killed Miss Miller, her father Snd rnotLer nd himself. Jarrtt Bote. I ertlnent Paragraph. The annual report of the bureau of animal industry states that the bureau has succeeded la producing a drug In oculation with which makes swine Im pervious to hog cholera. This, if true, is one of the most Important discoveries of the age and a pretty even offset. In point of usefulness, to Koch'a discovery ot a tuberculosis remedy, for if we can thus fortify the American hog he will probably be admiftei to European markets again, and while consumption disappears in the human race cases $f death from eating cholera-infected pork, as well as those of poverty from our inability to sell our hogs to the Europeans, will disappear, and we can all be happy together. Seri ously, the statements of the United , States bureau of animal industry are worthy of respect, and it seems probable that the greatest enemy of the hograiser has met Its match. The report claims that a substance has been produced Which not only resembles the bacteral product of the hog cholera germ in com position, but which has quite the same power of conferring immunity from dis ease. The Patrons of Husbandry are work ing all over the land for both the Conger lard bill and the Paddock pure food bill. The Farmers Alliance, which is strong in the south, approves the latter, but the former touches the pockets of southern members, forbidding the sale as pore lard of compounds of lard and cotton seed oil, and the alliance is pledged against It. Apple Maggot Fly.. We have not heard of the Importation into California as yet of the apple mag got, which is so destructive in Maine and other eastern states; but there is a prob ability of its importation at any time, in similar way to that in which the codlin moth was brought into the state. The apple maggot (Trypeta pomonella ) Is one of the meanest of trait pests as it completely rums the fruit attacked and every precaution should be taken to pre vent its Introduction, and no pains should be spared to eradicate it should it be found. The following description by Prof. Harvey will give some idea of the pest. . The female fly deposits her egg just beneath the skin of the apple by means of her sharp ovipositor, and the number she may thus dispose of are from 300 t ju. xnese are placed one in a place, though there may be half a dozen or more in different parts of the same apple. These hatch In four or five days into minute footless maggots, that at onee begin to work on the pulp of the apple, or the part between the skin and core. In this they differ much from the com mon apple worm, for that works round the core, though sometimes going from there out through the pulp. As the larvm grow and the fruit matures, the channels made by the larvse become brown. They often cross each other, and in de last stages of the Trypeta work run together, producing large cavities. Finally they involve the whole fruit, rendering it a worthless mass of disgusting corruption, held together by the peel. From this picture any one ean tell easily whether wormy apple is made so by. this Insect or by the ordinary apple worm. 'The worms usually attain their full growth in from four to five weeks, when they are a little less than a quarter of an inch long, slender, footless, the greater part of the body cylindrical, tapering near the head. The color is of greenish white. With two minute black hooks on the under side of the head. They usually come out of the apple when full grown and go into the ground about an inch below the surface to pupate, but thv may not be full grown till after the apples are gathered and stored, when like the other apple worm their pupee will be found in the barrels or bins. In the field they may not go into the ground, but pupate beneath some rub bish on the surface. In Maine the per fect insect does not come out till July, but it is probable that it it is to be found in southern Illinois S appears as a winged insect earlier than this. There appears to be only one brood in a season, the flies not all coming out at the period mentioned, but hatching from that time all through the season. The perfect fly resembles somewhat a related fly that hatches from the galls that are found at this time of the year in the stems of the golden rods. The body is black, the head is red, and the two wings have four smoky bands across each." The best and most practical means of getting rid ot the post when once intro duced is to destroy every windfall and carefully sort the stored .apples frora time to time, thus preventing its breed- iut- wmiurum r run, rower. Xdme, Salt and Sulphur Wash. The spraying of deciduous fruit trees for the San Jose scale will soon be in full blast, says the California Fruit Grower. It should be unnecessary to urge thoroughness in the spraying of trees, but some fruit was noticed the past summer, covered with scale, from trees which had been sprayed in a slov enly manner. It the work is not done in a thorough manner, it had better not be done at all, as both time and money are wasted. Fcr the benefit of thos who have new orchards or have occasion to spray for the first time, we give the formula of the lime, salt and sulphur wash, as recommended and most success fully used by the Sutter county board of horticultural commissioners : lake 40 pounds unslacked 11m, pounds sulphur; 15 pounds common stock salt; water to make 60 gallons. Boil ten pounds of lime and the twenty pounds of sulphur in twenty gallons of water for half an hour or-more, or nntfl botlr lime and eulpfcorare , dissolved. The" sulphur must thoroughly dissolved and mixed with the lime; '-the mixture will then be ot an amber color. Then slapk.-in an empty half barrel forty ponnda of lime with soft, hot water, osing enough water to thoroughly slacken the lime and keep it in a liquid form. After the lime is slacked, add fifteen pounds of common stock salt while the mawrlal is still hot. -When the salt Is well disso.'.--i mix the two iota together with sufficient water make sixty, gal lons of spraying material, wiijh will then be a thin whitewash. The m'at&riai should be strained after being thoroughly mixed through a fine wire strainer. -Apply the wash, milk warm or warmer, with a spray pump. Use either a "New Bean NozzleJ" or a San Jose .nozzle. If the latter is used, the usual brass disc accompanying it should be replaced with a rubber disc, to prevent the material -clogging the nozzle. Use oaly wher loU&ge is off the tree. i- - ..i-A