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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1891)
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. no) IV. LEBANON, OHEGON, . FHIDAY, JANUAIi Y 9, 1891. t - XD SOUTH -VIA- oiitliera Pacific Route. S THE MOBSt SHASTA ROUTE. ttE?s rUArxS LEAVE rOKTLiSD DAILY : 1'ortlaiul Ar9:3A. M Albany Ar6 a5A. M. Sau Francisco Lv 9 :00 V. M. slop onlv at the following station VMirg: East Portland, Oregon City, Salem, Altany, Tangent. Shedda, j-risburg, Junction Cliy, Irving and ..Roseborg Mail lally. portland Albany Ar I 4 P. M. Arl MM M. Lvl 6 : A. M. y Local Dally (Except Sunday.) V K. Lv l P. M. 1 AT Portland Albany . Ar I 90 A. 1 W A. Lv 1 Passenger Train Daily Sunday. Except Albany Lebanon Albany Lebauon Ar 19 .25 A. M Lv 8 :0 A. K. Ar 14:26 P. K. Ar Lv Ar Lt I 3:40 p. M. SAN BUFFET SLEEPEKS, Tourist Sleeping Cars ., 'or accommodation of Second Class Passengers. attached to press trains. iWEST SIDE DIVISION. 1TLAXD AND COKYALIIS Mall Train Daily (Except Snnday.) S :R0 P. M. 13 3d P. it Albany and Corvallls connect with trains of t jvgon raoinc Kauroaa. I Impress Train Daily Except Snnday.) Lv Ar Portland MeMinnvUle Ar Lv 8 20. A. at. 5:45 A. SC. i-Thrt.ugfcUeketsto all points East and Soath or tickets and foil information regarding fes. maps, e r., call on Co'a agent at Lebanon KOttlLtE, E. I. ROGERS. Manager. Asst. G. F. P. Agt DUCKETT, TIST OREGOX. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. AT.RATSY. ----- OREGON. W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBASY REGOX. ... 2? OI. T. COTTON, Dealer in Graemes and Provisions. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Qoe'ensware and Glassware, Lamps and i;LH. Lv Portland Ar jSU P. AT OorvaUia Lt , Lamp fixtures. X PAY CASH FOR EGGS. aYntreetT " Ubanon, Oregon X L. McCLRUE (Successor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting- and Shampoo- ing in the latest and best style. Spec '"t ial-attention paid to dressing Ladies liair. Your patronage respectfully so 'licited. ! ' " ; - J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON. Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON. OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. Exchange sold on New York, San rancisco, Portland and Albany, Org. Collections made on favorable terms. LEBANON (ill sat Market '. KELLESBERGER, Prop. A- A T.TED BEEF. PORK, MUT- ; SaCsage, Bologna & Ham. i LWAYS ON HAND -IV Mrs. O'Shea is in Paris. Dr. Schliernann is doad. General Spinner is dying of cancer. FarneU was defeated in North Kilkenny. Spain has adopted a protective tariff policy. The Argentine wheat crop is the larerest on record. Wairea have been cut 10 per cent in the Pullman car shops. Extreme destitution In Peru Is leadinar to revolutionary movements. Sittlntr Bull's followers, bound for the Bad Lands, have been captured. The German Catholie oleriry have been instructed to make war on socialism. An attempt to have the bible read In the Chicago public schools was a failure. A thousand railway men at Hull have struek for shorter hours and highor wages. Four hundred and six Italian paupers were relused a landing at xsew lorfc Dec. 24. The Glasgow strikers have been trying to wrecK trains and assaulting non-nuton workmen. The ltussian government has ordered the expulsion of 11,000 Germans and Austrians. Several persons have been arrested for a plot to overtnrow trie Argentine gov' eminent. As stated In this column several weeks ago, the Indian scare in the northwest has petered out. The Liondon Times Is making1 war on Booths scheme of social regeneration ror earnest Ljogiana. Twelve girls were drowned in Holstein Dec. 22 by the breaking of the ice while tney were stating. The Columbian congress has legalized the extension of time for th; completion oi the I'anama canal. XTrugtay is likelv to raise the tariff on spirits, sugar, perfumery, silks, canned provisions and tobacco. Isaac B. Sawtelle has been convicted at Dover, X. H of murdering his brother Hiram for his property. Five negroes were lynched for the murder of Dr. F. R. Higgin in Mecklen burg county, Va Dec. 20. A farmer In Mahaska county, la., found a gold nugget weighing seventy ounces on his place the other day. John Watson, bookkeeper of the Meri- aen silver plate works at aienaen, uonn is a defaulter ana missing. Samuel Malone and John Hicks were burned to death in Malone's house at Holden, Mo on Christmas. Mrs. Pearcv. who murdered her para mour's wife, Mrs. Hogg, and her baby, near London, has been hangid. -The Masonic temple at Baltimore has been bnrned and all the reeoixls of the Maryland grand lodge destroyed. Joe Taflinger and Bud Robinson were killed in a fight at a Christmas enter tainment in a church at McXabb's Station, Ky. Dr. E. L. Shurly of Detroit is treating consumption successfully with subcuta neous injections of iodine and chloride of gold. The treasury department decides that natural gas piped from Canada into the United States is subject to a duty of 10 per cent. Though Parnell's candidate In North Kilkenny was' defeated by McCarthy's Parnell will continue his fight for the leadership. The steamer Shanghai has been wrecked near Nanking and the crew of sixty natives and several European officers were drowned. At New Corydon, Ind., Dec. 23, Wesley Tellis killed Virena Travel and himself because the girl's parents would not let her marry him. Americans traveling in Germany are warned that it is a crime to remain seated- when the emperor's health is proposed. John P. Matthews, postmaster at Car rollton. Miss., tried to kill W. S. McBride Dec. 25 but McBride fired first and killed Matthews. " Nineteen shovers of counterfeit silver dollars, sent out from New York, and $1100 of the coin have been captured at Pittsburg. All the American republics except Guatamala, Uruguay and Paraguay have adopted the plan for an international silver coin. Bob Pruitt killed City Marshal Kit treli, who attempted to arrest nitn at Gainesville, Ga, LVc. 26, and Policeman Lowry killed Pruitt. A 6trike of railroad employes stopped traffic between Aberdeen and Edinburg Dec. 22, and many collieries, furnaces and large factories had to close. Earl B. Smith has been driven insane by a hazing he was subjected to at Deveaux Episcopal college at Suspension Bridge. His recovery is hoped for. Parnell says the defeat cf his candidate in North Kilkenny was accomplished by the priests threatening spiritual penal ties to all those who voted for him. The government building at Chicago sunk so as to burst the water pipes and flood the building Dec. 24, ruining, among other things, much Christmas mail. The Jenkins hotel at Washington, Ind- was partially wrecked with dynamite Dec. 26 by James McBride because his wife, who lived in the hotel, refused to see him. Cordova, the second city in size In the Argentine republic, has been 6wept by a flood, resulting from the bursting of a dam, which des toyed loo houses and as many lives. Alexandria, Mo, once one of the most prosperous towns in Northeast Missouri, has been swept by successive fires and floods until Dec. 22 it was almost com pletely wiped out by fire. A man named Mickel killked his wife and stepdaughter because they would not get up and drink with him when he went home at St. Paul, Christmas eve, and then committed suicide. Three men have been sent to prison for from two to thirteen months in Paris for aiding the escape of the nihilist Padlewsky after he had murcered the Kussian uenerai benverskort. R. B. Merriam, a 41-year-old widower, seized Miss Josephine de Marse and lumped into the river with her at Water- town . Ji, Lee. 24, Decause sue would not marry him, but both were saved. The census shows that there are 10,018 Jewish families, with 60,030 members, in the United States, and the death rate among them is about nan tne general average of the country, being 7.11 iu 1000. At Des Moines. Ia 6ix aldermen and ex-aldermen, six ex-constables and haif a dozen other citizens have been indicted and arrested for conspiracy and attempt to evade the prohibition law. lney were released on 1000 bail each. The mavor of Deadwood had the fire hose turned on a lot of drunken and quarreling railroad graders Dec. 26 to quell a disturbance and there were three fires that night, believed to have been set in revenge by them. I he loss was $25,000. The Detroit Boat company is building a submarine boat Iorty feet long, nine feet beam and fourteen feet In depth of noiu wnich will rnn by an electric motor, carry a supply of oxygen and be lighted by electricity. Stopping the machinery will bring it to the surface. The severest snowstorm in years visited the Atlantic coast Dec. 26 and many ves sels were wrecked and several lives lost. Railroad travel was impeded and electric wires broken down from Pennsylvania to the Canada line. A wing of the storm crossed the Alleghanies and extended through western jVennsylvauia and Ken tucky. t Mrs. Annie G .-teau. worth $300,000 has been dive . oftd rendered a pauper without hvr 'a?e while absent from her home , erty was d, husband m ' hiyl heard - ,re su- .Artea nd s? - wiMinn. Her prop--" the woman her . Mrs. Barteau '.a,t.he deeds Firebugs are working at Marysvllle. The Truckeeitea hava had Ann weat hnr for Ice. Pedro Antonio Tjiiv7. illml t R&nfca Fa Dec. 23, aged 115. A. J. Johnson of Sacramento has been appointed state printer. The Southern Pacific haa secured rbzht of-way through San Luis. Ell "Mantes killed Alf Redman In a fight at Red Bluff Dec. 22. Mrs. Amy Patten died at San Ber nardino Dec 23, aged 103. The last stone has been laid on the American river dam at Folsom. David Treiello killed Ignaclo Reyez at Jerome, A. T Dec. 26, In a fight. The Gilroy cannery was burned Dec. 26 through the carelessness of tramps. Thirteen-year-old Bennle Kelly of St. Helena, Or, as dragged to death by a horse. The vlcarate of Utah has been made a diocese and Father Scarettan is the first bishop. C. W. Lemperle fatally shot C. W. Mitchell in a quarrel in San Francisco William Harris had his left arm acci dentally shot off while hunting at Goshen A national park will probably be set off on Puget sound where the largest trees are. A San Francisco doctor claims to have discovered the long-sought-for specific cure ior cancer. Miss Laycock, a Longmont school teacher, was stabbed by a big boy he attempted to whip. J. B. Curtis. 64 years old, was burned to death In his cabin one mile from Sutter Creek Dec. 21. Alva Alexander, a boy, blew the top of his head off by accident Dec. 23 near Fairfield while hunting. Octavio L. Telles got drunk and shot Simplicio Marquezdean on the street at Albuquerque Christmas morning. The 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Baugh of Sansevaln, Cat, was burned to death while burning brush Dec. 26. R. Armine haa been arrested for assault ing an 8-year-old colored girl, Maud Hope, at Alpine, San Diego county. The Los Angeles police declare that the Sunday-closing ordinance Is strictly ooservea Dy me saloons oi tnat city. The family of J. H. Wilkinson of Eu gene, Or, was badly poisoned by head cheese bought In the market Dec. 26. Fope laibot s bark Atalanta was wrecked off Clayoquot Dec. 14, but the crew, after much suffering, were saved. John M. Stoop killed Grant Lebarr at the Peck mine near Prescott Dec. 21 and on Christmas committed suicide In jail. A fine deposit of stone coal Is reported to have been found near Millvlile, Shasta county, by an expert from Pennsylvania. William Armstrong cut James Welch's throat at Sacramento Dee. 25 in a row In a dive but prompt aid 'Bared Weleh's life. Fort urenara. n.. nas been recom mended by the commission appointed to se eet a site for the Puget sound navy yari. The colored people of Tacoma hare organized to encourage the Immigration of colored peopl from the southern states. Baron Paris Hochkofler. an Austrian. died of delirium tremens at National City Dec. 25 and his wife took a fatal dose of poison. James Harris fired three shots Into R bert Majors at Santa Crux Dec. 22. and Majors put four bullets through nams neart. A Mrs. Schweitzer lumped Into the river at Sacramento Dec. 25 but was res cued and says she will not try it again n ine winter. J. C. Scott, one of the Arm who had Wtlls, Fargo St Co.'s agency at Porter- vi He, has decamped, $2400 short. Friends have paid the money. The coal company at Carmelito. Mon terey county, expects poon to be pre pared to ship 250 tons a day. The four-year-old son of Rudolph Miller of Vallejo played with a cartridge Dec. 24 and luckily escaped with the loss of a thumb and part of a third finger. About 1700 ex-emoloves of the Union Pacific have been waiting for their pay In Portland and many of them slept in the city jail and lived on charity. The concession to the Ensenada woolen mill has been canceled by the Mexican government. The mill Is given sixty days in which to fill orders on hand. The secretary of war haa been asked to detail a force of cavalry to protect the big tree forest from the Kaweah col onists and the fire-spreading shepherds Thomas Griffiths, an old Grass Valley gentleman, fell in a fainting fit the other day and got his foot In the fire and it was burned off before he was discovered. Samuel McCowan, a vasrant. objected to the cooking in the Albuquerque jail on Christmas, and attacked Jailer James Mullen, who killed him with a butcher knife. Burnette G. Haskell and the other Kaweah colonists arrested for cutting timber on government land were placed under bonds to appear for trial at Loe Angeles. - Loser, one of the four tramps accused of the murder of Brakeman Shuilenberger at Glenn's Ferry, Idaho, has been held and the others discharged but afterwards lynched. The government commissioner who examined the Indian school building at Carson pronounces It "an architectural monstrosity " and says the walls are not even maoe piumo. Mrs. David Rockwell, wife of a wealthy rresno arayman, joined tne salvation Army and then went to the bad and Rockwell has Bold out, taken his children ana gone to Arizona. jacoo . iayior. tne ssan Lieco cap italist, has been arrested for seducing Jessie Marshall under promise of mar riage. The. girl recently got. a verdict for $2o,ooo damages against him. William McDonald has been arrested at Port'and for a will forgery alleged to have been committed In Lancaster, Eng. He says he was in this country when the crime is alleged to have been committed. Harry Bishop, a carpenter worklno- on me vuuoriiia-si.reet, railroad s new en gine-nouse in oan r rancisco, worked on Christmas but celebrated occasionally in a saloon and finally fell fifteen feet and was fatally injured. Gust Bremen, who Is accused of burn Ing his brother Erick to death at Santa Cruz, is under arrest. He is the fellow who -was tarred and feathered at San Fedro lor boasting that he had led an other man's wife astray. Two locomotives escaped from the switch yard at Fresno Dec. 26 and ran into affreight train three miles north of there, killing Brakeman J. Lafferty, fatally injuring Fireman J. Stanager and seriously injuring Lngineer John Moore uan rtoDerts urea iour shot at a blacksmith named Trunan Dec. 24 at close range without hitting him and Trunan gave him a clubbing. Next day he fired three more shots without hitting T . . -J . I 1 . . i i V" iiunau iiiu mo laiwr naa mm arrested The eighth burglary In three months at San Leandro deprived Miss Lottie Waite, daughter of P. T. M. Wait, of a gold watch Dec. 23. An attempt was made to chloroform Miss Waite but she screamed and the burglar fled. A buck that weighed 120 pounds when dressed was chased from the mountains Into Santa Rosa Dec. 22 and jumped Into D. M. Carithers' co servatory, doing $50 or $100 worth of damage to plants and glass. The animal was afterward killed on the street. Ryland Drennan, aged 13, and George Sagar, a boy about hts age i-re hunt ing near Santa Cruz Doc.. ' Sagar fired what he supposed ""ears tridge at Drennan and r " s ' iiheek and lower - .-.. ved.' -r ' : " Arboriculture. William S. Lyon, chief forester of the California state board of forestry, says: It is not generally known that the common black oak. used for tanning purposes, la becoming scarcer each year, and to take Its place we have been look ing around for a aultablo tree, and have found it In tha black wattle. Slnca we made the discovery of which tree was best adapted to the state and for the purpose wanted, the state board has been hard at work Introducing Into California the black wattle from Victoria. Australia. As long ago as 1873 the university of California Imported red wattla and golden wattle from south Australia, and a species known as the Hack wattle. This last has turned out to be a spurious tree, absolutely worthless for the purposes for which It was designed. We have at last found the genuine article, the black wat tle of Victoria, and we propose to plant these seeds throughout the state as soon possib'o. My forthcoming biennial report deals largely with this important subject. The report will have thirty-two full-page lllustratlors dealing with the growing of barks for tannery purposes. The coast supply of common black oak will In time be exhausted, and the black wattle is tie only tree to take Its place. Another important work we are com mencing Is the distribution of the cluster pine, made necessary to state interest from the fact that our pine forest do not yield tereblnthlne products, such as turpentine, tar, pitch and resin, in ufllclent quality or quantity. 1 he cluster pine is the best for the purpose, and it does not take a lifetime for it to yield paying returns. Then we are making rapid progress with our experiments with the eucalyptus. The railway company for eight years has been making experiments at Truckee, and now announces the eucalyptus a failure for use in railway ties, not from Its liability to decay, but beeause the wood checks and splits. We are gradu ally discovering what the railway com pany failed In finding. By all means the eucalyptus should be fostered In Califor nia, for we imported from abroad no less than 15,000 pounds of eucalyptus ell last year. A firm in Loe Angeles is now pro ducing eucalyptus oil equal to the best English product. The oil is taking the place of mineral antiseptics in medicine and surgery. A superb and healthful table cirink called eucalypta Is also just commencing to be manufactured. We are oistnouung tne red and tne sugar gum In all parts of the state, and I pre dict that great industries will arise in California from the result of planting the eucalyptus. Dom It Pay to Stimnl ate Fowls If we want egga when prloes are high and want to get the utmoet profit ot of our poultry It does pay to "stimulate the ovaries " and promote digestion, Doee It pay to stimulate our cows with meal, oil-cake, cottonseed meal, etc, etc.? It does, and cows well eared for and gently stimulated pay their owners twice the profit that they would by following the natural method. It is the same with poultry. By the natural method the chicks are hatched about June, become mature about the following April when eggs are away down and pay their owner just about as much as the food costs; while by inducing early laying and ( as a consequence ) early broodlness. the chicks can be hatched the last of March or first of April, and, if fed to growth, will come to maturity in Oetober or November, or if fed for eggs and gently stimulated they will lay vigor ously all winter when eggs bring high prices, and pay their owner a liberal profit. No better proof of this can be furnished than the egg yield on our farm for two weeks last past. We have about 300 pullets (SO of them are year-olds) and they have laid In the 14 days ending Dec. 2 1454 eggs for which our grocer paid us $48 43. It costs us not far from $1 a day to feed them, which leaves $34 43 profit; about $2 50 a day . Can any farmer earn $2 50 a day easier than by taking care of 800 pullets and hens? We know a farmer who keeps about 80 fowls and who actually had to buy a dozen eggs last week for the Thanksgiving cooking. He said his "pesky hens don't lay." Well, he follows the natural method. He has pullets, year-old and two-year-olds, all rurnlng together and roosting in one house. He feeds them once a day on "corn mostly" and gives them a drink of water olcs a day if he don't forget it, and his "pesky hens don't lay." We intend to .sell (for killing) all of our fowls when they are about 17 months old, believing that ' by that method we get the - atmost profit out . of them. By.- getting' them to laying early : and keeping - them-, laying by -keeping the birds healthy and stimulating the ovaries, we get the cream of their egg-yield be fore they moult the next fall, and then market them. New England Farmer. Infected Eastern Trees. Information was received at the board of horticulture a few days ago that three carloads of peach trees had been shipped from New York to San Jose, and that the trees were Infected with the eastern peach borer. Alexander Craw, executive officer of the board, went down to San Jose to Investigate, and, finding the In formation to be correct, he had the trees treated with a strong insecticide, which will completely destroy, the pest. B. W. Lelong, secretary of the board, went down to Fasadena recently on a slmilat errand. ' He has just returned, and says he found three carloads of trees sent to Pasadena from Georgia, all badly Infected with peach-yellows'. The yellows Is a fungoid disease and Is Incurable; so the trees have been placed in quarantine and ' will be returned to the shipper. Both these diseases are contagious, and if they once get a foothold in California it will be extremely difficult to dislodge then. Chronicle, Dec. 23. Later Mr. Lelong denied that he had discovered peach yellows at Pasadena and Mr. Craw went down to investigate. In some markets fowls cannot be ' sold if drawn, while in others they must be drawn, cleaned, and be perfectly fresh. but the heads must be removed and the shanks cut off at tha knees. The thieha are then nicely passed into the skin near the opening,- and the wings locked ( or crossed L This must be dona under pen alty or connscation, ana it is a practice that la worthy of Imitation elsewhere, as h Ttralls are the drst portions of the -A to decompose. It is -Oao to the - ,ge of the farme- --. he drawn . be salted. '- - "to bear Qturrcnf Beroa. SEATTLE SHAKEN UP. A CkrUtnia Windjttorm Without a ITe- ceded In the Morthwest. Seattle had a windstorm on Christmas that she will not soon forget. The storm broke early in the morning and con tinued all day with undiminished fury. The climax was reached about 5 a. in. Vessels in the harbor were torn from their moorings and tossed about like corks. Large trees and telegrph and electric wires were laid low. All railroad travel was suspended and many build ings were demolished. The damage was heavy. George Bell, a woodchopper, was crushed to death in his tent by a falling tree. Magnus Nelson, a railroad laborer. was struc I by a large Mr tree which crushed his skull. Nelsen lived about an hour. The tree was about fivo feet" in diameter' and fell across the b.irn of Z. T. Clark, on Melford street, crushed in the roof, and a large beam in the peak of the roof fell, killing a large dray horse and fatally wounding another. A fir tree, blown across the long trestle on Deep ravine, on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern road, broke the trestle completely in two and many large trees wore blown across the track. The Seattle and Northern road also suffered great damage on the Snohomish flats. The wind at Ballard lifted the big pattern shop of the iron and steel works from Us foundation and turned it part way round, nearly wrecking It. At Red mond, on the Seattle and Lake Shore road, a barn was blown down and several cattle were killed. In Snoqualmle county huge trees were upturned and the wagon roads were nearly all blockaded. Seattle and Montana contiacUrs esti mate the damage to the roadbed at $15,000. EPIDEMIC OF CRIME. Brutal Murders the Order In New Met Ico Territory. A Christmas-time dispatch from Santa Fe say : Mysteries thicken In Colfax county. Two Mexicans were found dead a week ago near an uremer lakes. Their throats were cut and beside them lay their rifles. They had not been rot bed, for money was found In the pockets of each of them. Then followed the killing of old Julio Martinez, living on the Point. He was called to his door at night and shot down by per sons on the outside. Deputy Sheriff G. N. Cook is under arrest for this killing, and says he had a warrant for Martinez' arrest, issued by a Catsklll justice, and fhot him while he was resisting service of the same. Another mystery is the disappearance some six weeks ago of J. P. Jones, a respected citizen residing on Verruljo creek, and still another tragedy has oc curred in the death of Mrs. Stockbridge near Raton, who was dead and burled seventeen days without the lntelilgeiiee having been communicated to anyone save her son. John Stockbridge, and his wife. An examination revealed the fact that she had been beaten and strangled to death by her son John, who is in jail. At his preliminary he attempted to ex plain that he had done everything under the direction of God;-that he had not worked for five years because God had told him to use his efforts in another way, and that he was trying to evil spirits out of his mother, brutal chastisements were done good. get the Ail his for her Newfoundland Thrantens to Rebel. By an old treaty between England and France the French, besides retaining the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, were given, temporarily, the right to land and dry and salt fish along a strip of the Newfoundland coast, and to fish along that coast. Newfoundland fishermen claimed the rlcht to fish in these same waters and for a year or two French fishermen have denied that right and French war vessels have driven New foundland fishers from the disputed ter ritory. Newfoundland now demands that French fishermen be excluded from her shores and waters. .The British government haa failed to settle the controversy and now proposes that it shall remain as it stands another year while It settles the matter with France on terms which may or may not suit the Newfoundland parliament, and at this announcement the Newfoundler threaten rebellion. Newfoundland never joined the Doniln ion federation, though strongly pressed to do so, and now a leading paper voices the popular sentiment when it says: " We are determined that only one flag shall fly over Newfoundland, and that flag wilt be the Btars and stripes If En- doea not do her duty. There Is a move merit on foot in connection with this matter that will startle the people when parliament meets. " No arrangement entered Into by Great Britain and France will be submitted to for one day rmJese it Is assented to by the Newfoundland parliament. The people will defend tholr rights and franchises alike against the Imperial government, the aueen's naval officers and the sub jects of France." A Brother Discovery. Emma Mather was killed Dec. 26 on railroad bridge near Halifax, Pa.,, by train running at a high-, rate of speed She was half-way across it, and realizing her danger attempted to drop through the ties into the creek below. The space was too narrow, - however, and while she was trying v to squeeze through the engine struck., her. All her clothing was torn from her as tho. train passed over, killing her instantly.' Her body dropped into the creek and one of the men who helped to carry the crushed body to the shore stopped to see if he could identify it. Suddenly he exclaimed : ,My God, it is my sister!" The girl was 23 years old. ' '-.' Lima Beans, Dried. Soak one -pint as beans In warm water over night. Iu the morning drain off this water ml'- -cover with fresh, warm water. Two hours be fore dinner-time drain agaio cover them with bolllDg soft water and boll thirty minutes; drain again, cover with fresh, boiling soft water and boll- until tender. Add a teaapoonful of salt after they have been boiling an hour. When done, drain them, dredge with a tablespoonful of flour; add one tablespoonful of butter, a half-pintrof cream, salt and pepper t taste; or, they may be eer vlth ter, sail and pepper "K , . such as butt"' . .. Frer"- " ' ..., .' I'rrsaual Influence. So long as the influence of home and mother surrounds the child It rarely goes wrong, as most children or sixteen and under are good and true; If, after leav ing the Influence of the mother, they withstand temptation until twenty they seldom become other than good men and women. When boys or girls leave home for the harder battles ith lite if their tur roundings are such that they have the influence of good women about them they do not easily become bad. It is when the home counsels and influences are withdrawn that we see them go down You can scarcely find among all the really great of earth one who did not attribute to his mother's influence, pre. cept and example the exalted position he had attained. Women do right intuitively and shun wrong more from instinct than men. The man sits down and reasons the matter where the woman is governed by the shorter and usually mora accurate route through her emotions. As a rule the motherif she be what the ninjority of our New England mothers are teaches her children the two most important factors in the form ation of character, to obey and to work. And obedience means something more tuan forced and sullen doing of the things commanded through fear of punishment. but is a cheerful acquiescence in yield ing to parents or teacher. Children are easily tanght this, and if we go where any number of them are together we can select those who have been taught that true obedience does not degrade but strengthens and Improves. The same is true of labor, and where the two are properly united they make the strongest factor in the formation of charcter. In no place ia this matter so clearly Bhown aa at school. It is not the precocious scholar wno turns out the best one; it more frequently happens that the one who patiently and industriously studies, whom we call hard to learn, is the be&t educated, simply because he haa been taught industry and obedience. Up to this period the character of the chid has been largely formed by the mother. In going from the school to the shop or farm the child is taken from the im mediate influence of women, and unless tha start has been right there is more or less danger "of degeneracy. The neces sary mingling with men of coarser fibre shows another side to character than that taught under the pure Influence of home and too many youths get an idea that it is smart and manly to disregard early Instruction. Vice is concealed under beauty, and character is oftentimes soiled by a failure to comprehend that the glitter is dross and not pure gold. Any course of conduct derogatory to women Is equally entitled to censure in men. Is the influence of men upon cheracler and society aa great for good as that of women when they are credited with a good character and tolerated in good society with vicious habits clinging about them? When character, and character alone, shall be the open sesame to good society we shall see less evil power in the masculine influence than to-day. The field of politics open to men ' and f om which women are praetieally excluded has much to do with character and society. He who understands the differ ent phases of political action and closely studies the causes which affect measures and men is a power socially, and many recognize this without stopping to con sider the character behind it. In many places where men's influence upon character and society '-exceeds that of women the reason is simply because our sisters fall to interest themselves In questions vital to the interests of the church and state, and in summing up this question I am inclined to divide it somewhat and claim that where the judgment of character for purity, for uprightness and true nobility is con cerned women have made it and pre served it. Where society has been, purged of vicious surroundings and is free from the taint of wickedness it is where women have been no small factor in the work, but where the judgment of character is all formed by business successes and worldly honors without regard to better qualities, men have been the instruments of Its creation, and society (which is but the cover of immorality by some other name ) men with their less noble sisters compose It, and both alike should have the censure of the good and true of both sexes. From a paper read at Worcester, Mass., grange. Mechanical Help in Jlousework. It has been said that baking would be greatly simplified when a thermometer could be attached to a stove to tell just how hot the oven Is at the time the bread or cake goes Into it, and also to in dicate any variation , in the temperature during the baking. The man who has Invented such an accessory to the range told tne recently that he was encouraged to work upon this Invention by reading so much about the need of it. Now that he has succeeded In supplying the ap parent demand, , he finds that ' the women-folks are.slow In trying it." He must wait patiently, for-, sometime the oven thermometer will be considered indispensable, and his own patent seems, upon superficial examination, to have no fault. But while the women beat their cake with an iron spoon iustead of a wooden one, make tea in a tin pot, sweep their parlor carpets with a stub broom instead'of ' a carpet sweeper, use cheap soap arid boll their clothes, he must ex pect to contend with conservatism. -' So . many useless, household utensils have been patented that jwomeTi are wary of spending money for anything new; in that line. , Some of these Inventions are useless because the inventors are men not familiar with household work: they-believed that certain things might bo done more easily and better and have tried by experiment ing to bring this about. An example of woman's success as an inventor is seen in the handy nickel plated wire soap holders. These holders ate made adjustable to any tub, pail or sink, and the demand for them is con stantNew England Farmer.- Ten thousand do"-"" head of Garclp s 2000 men . How It Always Works. They tried to choose men to find. Jury twelve honest Distinguished for their absolute vacuity of miDU. One candidate was challenged because be brousrht to view Some little trace of Intellect and that would neter do! The next was dropped directly, as quick aa you could wink. Because he said when he was young be some times used to think. The next was turned away in haste without a second look. For he imprudently confessed be once had read a book. Tid-Bita. A nig Monopoly. t have taken many trips to destinations near and fnr: I have sailed In every kind of ship that plies the restless main: I have traveled iu an omnibus, a carriage, and a car: 1 have pone to town on horseback and then ridden home again. But of all the many vehicles upon the land and sea. A train of chairs that runs between the dining-room end hall. Although you might not like It much, is cer tainly to me Jleyond a douht, the plcasantest conveyance of them all. - And the traiu-condactor goes around to gather up the fares: While the ding d'Hig and dell Of the big dinner bell In a mighty racket mingles with the crashing of the chairs. T. Jackson, in St, Nicholas. THE UAILWAY (J110ST. Wcstfield is an old, old town, and the railroad has run through it for many a year, now upon embankments which tdopc to creeks and inlets, now through narrow ents with high hills rising sheer on cither side. ' Day alter day, year after j'ar, the trains .go to ami fro, and sometimes reckless way farers are seen in tlie brightness of the midday making tlso'r way from West fielil to the nearest village, or return ing, on the railrorttl "rack. But tlii're arc few v. ho venture that way after sundown. It is dangerous, they sav. Many huvt; met their deaths through folly of tli s kind. And this is true. Neverthelo 8 there arc those among them who aiv thinking of the Railway Ghost It is the ghost of a .muan. A dozen site died. And years and more since always at dusk that f. , sad wraith floats to and fro over l:n shining sreel rails t:tat run down -;ty ward from Westticld between the high rocks and beneath the first dark an-h of stone; it is there the white sli;i;e floats and fades and reappears. For it was at that spot . . . Tlier,: is - a curve immediately !eyond the bridge, an.i all shut in by rock. Yo;t e.-tn scarce breathe, having heard the first dull roar of the approaching; traiu, ere it is upou you, U-apitig and shrieking, aud the carriages dattee by like mad creatures. But the p.tle ghost kuo.vs no fc:tr. It lingers there as vt-r. And fourteen years ago there was no ghost. Let us turn b.tck fourteen j"c.ir3 and read the storv. " : It is uiorn.ng in June. M.rnnig in the great city. The sun shines sweet ly, the leaves of ivy and wisteria si;. tu rner in the soft wind, where the titlck vines hat e hidden sombre iiro.vu stone exteriors. Innmmi-r:i!!o aggressive sparrows compete, carriages clatte r through the t-lose-bu.it erosi-strt,vts o;-v.-as'o.ta!'y. and a hami-or-.-t.s mi:!ch i-iv is m;as uring off vard-ie.iglhs vt Tiis Little Duke." l'wo people hear the tune as they starxl smiling in e:tf i others eyes. Tiiev stand near the window in the tlran injr-roouj of nno of those fine brown stone, wisteria-mantled man sions. Tho window is opened n little. and the tune comes up in blithe stac cato; one almost hears the words: Pee how his face h covers. He was tin- pr.nee of lovers. The two people stand smiling a lit tle longer; then the man tnrns from the woman. I must go," he says. ''Everything is prepared. Yon will not fail at the last moment? You will lot be afraid?" He is tall, and dark, and large- framed; she is slight, ami fair, and petite. She looks at him with great shining eves of azure. "Oh no." she says; "I will not fail. I am a woman." "Then a? reroirVhesavs. "At three. I will meet the cab at the station. "Gootl-bve," she savs, audwatches him go out and down the sunny street. "He was the prince of loversrl the hand-organ flings it at Jaer from the distance. And she hums the tune as she goes about her task. Her task is great, yet little. Only to write a let ter the briefer the "better. AH else is complete. Her ' traveling-bag packed. She is ready to go to leave all for him whom she loves. " The letter is brief." She writes without a tear or pang. it "George, it says, "l have gone for ever. Do not seek me. I have never loved you. - No one is to blame. I was never happy as your wife." .V "" . . Irene As the clock " strikes the' half -hour before three,'-She'" places' the letter where it shall easily bo" found,- "and goes out into-the suushine goes -out from her husband's home for ever. The lovers travel far away; they journey unmolested, even by con science. The woman is happy in her choice. " They have no wealth corn pared with that once hers. But they have each other. Months slip bv. They rarely speak of the past. But at length she says to him one day: "George could not have cared much. He will soou rut the legal knot.. And we ea'n be married, can't ye, Francis?" : "Yes." he answers carelessly. Other months slip by... The ."lovers tire of journeying. They drift back to Lie great city, out somehow do not care to rest t here. ; .- It is anether J une. more stilti'y atui like midsummer. Wo will go, to, Rome near town gome quiet - wsttei-side-", place,".' he de cides. And she fccfees with him. He will f e-ehter -business hi the city; he is tired of idleness, he-says. ". ltis in the old . town of Westfield that they chance to find that which they sec kl A house upon a hillside looking one way dowu . upon '" the dis tant railroad and one way dowu upon llio green sea water. It is. a pr-ettv house when all is fixed and fitter!. But it is lonesome very. lonesome for the woman who Js-l'' much alone, while he isu ' , city: Left all alo'pi-""' . ... valit and . , ; spunk," . ..:.' r. no relic?. They only serve to ci . waning love. . .-.-- - Deeper and deeper grows th , ow, colder and. colder grows his until one day comes the end. V'e'i " " . of her gloom and tears he pcaks sharp reproaches, and they part bitter anger. He goes off to thecif ml she sits nursing her dull liea- . ache all day long. Evening comes, but he does not. turn. She watches and listens, butl oes not come. She will not . er fast or quench her thi"""" - does not come. She hears ; . conic thundering in and p . - . -r. -- his footstep, but she bears Quieter and quieter it grt. '- " - - : waits for the midnight tr. - w watches at the gate, watches , as far as she can see in the clo..-- ". mosphere. She whispers his name over. over, "Jtrancis, trancis! and pi with him to come to her once m - 'I will never speak impatiently agf - never weary you, if you wul o. come," the says. "Only come, Franc my love, myall: j 1 here is a great agony in hej err - but he does not come. Theiast trait. ' . is in. ihereare no more trains til morning. Why does jfot the mora inf come? Oh, why? She , flings hersel. upon the earth and grovels in her, . terror and suspense. 'Francis, mjy" love, my. love! Only come back to V . me!" -' And dawn breaks and 'the sun if risen, and happy day smiles u poii th earth. But he has not returned. 1 The servant goes about the house V singiug a careless song. Does the ser- (i vant know the mistress agony? I owara noon the servant goes dowa - to the village postofBce and presently,. returns witn a letter. . - "Give it to me," the mistress saysA- her face whiter than the white sails on the distant water. V She is cold and dead at heart. She knows his handwriting. She : mu-st read and live or die. X The words must burn through her eyes and fire her brain. Yet she does not cry out or fall swooning. She only reads and reads again his cold farewell. "Better for us to part-J""atoTfe m Mm We have made a mistake. . . Before"? reading this you will have heard of vour husband's suicide. You drove him to it, He was a good husband to '; vou and yoa deceived him. We might live on togetner even now, when, love is dead, but you could hardly expect me to respect you, knowing your crime towards him. ... For my part I am heartily sorry. 1 he servant had gone away, and th woman who read this fell down on her f face upon the floor. f . "God !" she eried huskily; "my crime! f He told me what to do. He urged me- -.-. he implored. It was for his sake V - that I sinned, and now be turns to : taunt me!" She had cried her last strength of passion out with these few husky m words. Now she lay silent for a time. It was the end. She saw that his love was dead and he cou!4 not re spect her. She would not have him come back to her now, not fo;a'i -f wealth of the universe. She,- - not have him back. But how without him? How to live, t to breathe? How to keep fron ing to heaven to let her die? Francis loved her noltngefv end had come. It was Nemesis. had wronged her husband;-that huV"M! band's death avenged the wrong. AH was over, and welcome death at any ; hour. The afternoon had dragged to its . elose: the sun had set, and a soft breeze : t-.rrert me glorious trees m the road. Twilight deepened. A slender form went out of tle house. and dowu the path, and through .the ; gate. She did not look back, though she knew she was going out lor ever. 7 She did not turn her white pinched ; '"" face upward for any starlight to bless. She walked with head bent clown, oold, as if half dead already. -V Sometimes she said over to herself her name, "Irene," and his name. r "Francis." Dusk was fully come as she left the road and went slowly down the rail road track towards the dark shadow of the deep cut. Into the shadow she passed slowly, t resolutely, untremblingly. ' ' t The train sped swiftly along, - One J man sat with head thrown batk and eyes fixed upon the car-lamps. ' "It is quite dark by this tiir3Tw " s;iid. 1 wonder if she i-fn-io- r. wonder if she has eripd much, ard if , she is wishing fo-e-Hie to come now. . I shouldn t have written that let. ; Bsc she'll forgive roe. . . . No; I wa$j , a brute, I suppose. . . Still sh made me so mad. And that interna . suicide. ... She loved mc Ter much; she must have loved me Xo r with me. " Well, it's all . over no) w He's dead. We'll marry and she'll g. ' over shedding tears and mopis She'll get over ft when her health; .' better. . ". -. I wish I hadn't writ that letter. I'll not do it again. . must have loved me very much..'' don't suppose, in her place, I'd hi' made he sacrifice. And she's jb? very true and good to me." I There was a queer vibration c. "V car. He stopped thinking and -Tlie train was coming to an t": a -stop- This was not a station. s . were not yet at "Westfield. . Han -i- ... thing happenedVVany accident? t s ". The train had come to a f ull It was backing up now quite slo."- He' thought he would go out f"4 , -platform and see what the trout or had been. - J -. He shivered a little at what hi ' i Someone walking upon the tr been struck and killed. ' . - By-and-by, after considerafel he saw them lifting a white ' . carrying it upon a stretcher. . They took it into the gu He hurried forward from hU as the train began slowly to ward. - , ' .. And now he shuddered .' ,. , ". more. For someone said: -young and beautiful."- An -else, "Mangled! No, nc much." And still another ' - -"Yellow hair in o.-""" form " - ; . HehivS- - - .