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He who thinks to please the World is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. VOL. IV. LEBANON, OltEQON, FKIDAY, FEDItUAKY 0. 1891. NO. 48. A. BEARD, Druggist and Apothecary, DEALER IN Pure Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oil, Glass, STATIONERY, FINE PERFUMERY, BRUSHES AND COMBS, CIGARS AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. MAIN ST. LEBANON, ORG. PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY COMPOUNDED. EAST A2W SOUTH -VIA- Southern Pacific Route. THK MOUNT SHASTA EOITK. EXPBKSS TAD UCaVS fOBTLASD DAILY. f P. . j l.v 10r23 P.5t. I Lv 10:1ft A.M. I Ar Portland Ar I 9:S A. M. Albany Ar I A. M. San Franotswo Lv 9:00 P. M. A tore trains stivp onlv at the tallowing stations north t Koebtirg. EwM Portland, Oregon City, WHH!bum. Salem, Albany, Tangont, hhixida. Mni-wy, Harrlsburg-, Junction clijr, Irving ami Eugene, . Roaebartc Mail Dally. '8:00 A. Jt. Lv Portland Ar I 4 sX) P. X. 12 P. m. l.v Albany Ar) VJ K. t :40 T. M. Ar K'H-W ,.1'LL? 'L!-: Albany Local lUy (Eaeept Sonday.) ft P. M. 1 1-v Portland ! Ar 9aW A. M. I Ar Albany Lv j .-00 a. M Local raasenger Train. Dally Kxe.pt Sunday. 8 -.So p. X. Tv Albany Ar I :25 . J. S -a p. M. I Ar : Lebanon Lv B:t A. u. T-30 a. x. I Lv Albany Ar i P. M. S ria A. Jt, Air Ufbanon Lv 3 HO P. at. TTTT.T.r aim BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Sleeping Car For accommodation of Second Class Passengers, attaced to Express trains. WKST B11B DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVAU.IS. Mall Train Daily (Kacept Sunday.) 1 :.V . M. H :10 P. M. I Lv Ar Portland Corvallls Ar Strop. K. Lv I 14 P M. At Albany and Corvallls connect with trains of Oregon Paoific Railroad. Expra Train Dally Eseept Sanday.) i)p. x. :2S P. M. Lv Ar Portland Sl-Mmnvtll Ar 1 8 -JO , K. Lv J Sr4S . St. xnrouicii ui-.no v.' t - ; Vor tiei and tall lnformaun regarding rate, maps, etc., call on Co s a-nt at lbanon Manager. Asst. O. F. P. Agt w . II Mint. Vjt .n, Rtttltll DR. C. H. DUCKETT, D K NT IS T XJEBAXON OREGOS. J. K. weatHerford, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. ALBA NT, - . OREOOX. W. R. P1LYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBANY KEOOS, G.T.COTTON, . . ' Dealer in. Graemes and Provisions. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and - " , Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Mala Street, Ibanovj, Oregon 3. t 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 Ml Meat Market ED. ELLEN BERGER, Prop. Fbesh & Salted Beef, Pork,' Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. BACOSaXD LAED ALWAYS OS HAND ' , - ISalm Street, Iebaxxm; Org. 11. L. McCLURE (inrmor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hair Lebanon, Oregon. Sharing. Haircutting and Shampoo ing in the latest and boat style. Six-c-ial attention paid to dressing Ladies' hair. Your patronage respectfully so licited. I. 11. liORUM. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair Cut, Cleaned or Dressed. Hot and Cold Oaths at all Hours, Children Kindly treated. Call and sea me. CALIFORNIA. A three-cent street-ear fare bill has been introduced in the legislature. The assembly has passed a bill mak ing it a felony lor lawyers to advertise for divorce business. BUTTE COCSTr. The stables of William Rackerby and James Cain, in Chico Vecino, were totally destroyed, with their contents, by fire Jan. 21. In Raekerby's barn were stored groceries to the amount of $3200, upon which there was an in surance of $2250. There is no clew to t le origin of the fire. E. I. Smith's barn and eight horses were burned Jan. 21, presumably by a fire started by tramps. George Wilson of Chico is under bonds for an attempt to murder his wife. EL DORADO COCKTY. George Palmer fell 600 feet in the Church mine Jan. 22 and was killed. FRESNO COUNTY. The four abstract companies of Fresno have combined and incorpor ated. An unknown German about 25 years old blew his brains out in the Fresno courthouse square Jan. 20. The Kaweah colonists are likely to lose all their improvements, having settled on land not open for settle ment HrMBOLDT COUNTY. The coal vein that is being exlored in Hound valley, Mendocino county, is now known to extend uninterruptedly to Rainbow ridge, near the coast in Humboldt county, and has been traced several miles by the county surveyor and others. S. C. Graham, an oil man from Ven tura, has leased 2000 acres of land in the soutnern part of the county for a rental of one-tenth of all the oil he can get. KERN COUNTY. Haggin & Carr have filed abandon ments of entrie on 14,000 acres of desert land and entered the .same .with Valentine scrip. ,; LOS ANGELES COUNTV. The Los Angeles cable railway com pany i3 bankrupt. The supervisors have orderecf suit brought for the Soutnern Pacific's taxes levied in 1887. William Strang of Pasadena has been fined $25 for failure to provide suitable medical treatment for his eleven-year-old son. He and his wife believe in the doctrine of divine heal ing, and when the boy's arm was broken they contented themselves with praying over it, which did not, however have the desired effect. MARIPOSA COUNTY. A strike of rock 1400 pounds of which carried $10,000 in gold is reported at the Ulack Hart mine. NAPA COUNTY. Louis Fassannelli was fatally scalded Jan. 19 by stepping into a cauldron of pomace up to his waist in tne uaiiior nia Pomace company's works, of which ie was manager. OKANOE COUNTY, John Wacrner was burninc brush near Anaheim Jan. 20 when he was caught in the names and horribly burned about the head and hands. PLACES COUNTY. Five persons who attended a dance near Auburn were nearly killed by eating pie which had been treated with strychnine. The fiend who did the work overdid it, for the pie was so bitter with poison that it was uneat able. . SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. Dr. W. E. Scott or Ontario wTas found dead in bed at his home Jan. 20, having committed suicide by cutting an artery. David Patterson, superintendent of construction of a cement ditch for the insane asvlum at Highlands, was shot through the left lung Jan. 19 by Rob ert Erret, whom he had discharged, because he refused to pay him his wages until Feb. 10, which would be the regular pay day. t 6AN DIEGO COUNTY. S. Phillips has gone fo Saa Quentin prison for two years tfr passing bogus checks, .ki-.- y M. D. Hamil" -mty treas urer, is fwmoi ... W. Foote shot and killed J. W. Mo- Klnzlu at Teal's station Jan. 19. Footo was hunting on lands of the Tulo Boll club and McKinzie, who was employed by the club to watch the property, ordered him off and drew-a pistol. when Foote shot him. The latest Vacaville incorporation project contemplates the Incorpora tion of the entire township. SONOMA COUNTY. A razor wns tiikcn from Tiriiiriyv. the condemned murderer in tho county Jail, the other day, and other prisoners have In-en found in possession of sev eral deadly weapons of late. A ririnf. tiAtvif1 RltMiionn fiiifr,tlttrv frm HHcfit'ft ritMcita... lit, hi tlinmt Jan. 22 but was discovered in time to save his life, temporarily at least - TULARE COt'JfTY. Glolie has been mnde a postofflce with James W. Bursoll postmaster. Burtrlars cot eierhteen pocket knives and six razors from the Grangers' store at Visalla Jan. 21. VENTURA IVUXTY. Ooorere Eastwood, a respected citizen of Venture, has loen sent to the In sane asylum at Agnews. A. J. Griffith has gone to the state prison for three yenra for grand larceny. Three thousand dollars has been subscribed to build a road Into Cuy ama valley. YOLO COUNTY. C. Ti. Taylor, whose father resides in San Francisco. and who has been working on a fruit ranch, ended a spree by blowing his brains out at winters Jan. 22. YUBA COUNTY. The till of the Empire restaurant at Marysville was robbed of $10 Jan. 20 and George Willis, a waiter, was ar rested with some of the stolon money in his pocket. Two burglars, scared from their work in Marysville Jan. 21, ran, but were caught by a policeman. Bur glaries have been numerous there of late. Senator E. A. Davis has been ap pointed judge of the superior eotirt to succeed the late Judge Keyser. ALAMEDA COUNTT. "j T.;.. A jury awarded Miss A. de Moldrnp of Oakland $4500 damages for the bite of E. A, Cohen's tlog. Special Policeman A. J. Boss has leon fined $50 for assault in er one Dris- eoll in a saloon in a dispute' over who snouiii pay ror a tiriiiK oi branny which Boss took in a salxn after th hour when it was Boss' duty to see that the saloon was closed. V;."- MARIN COUNTY. Florence Blvthe. the heiress, and Grandpa Terry were thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse near Han Rafael Jan. 22 and the old gentleman was considerably bruised. PACIFIC COAST. The Southern Pacific has contracted with the government for $51 a head to take all Chinamen ordered deported from Seattle or Tacoma and laud them in China. . ARIZOSA. The order for the abandonment of Fort Lowell has been susiended. Arthur Drap, a storekeeper on Cattle creek, shot and killed a 'Mexieau whom another man was holding Jan. 21. ' . , t . BRITISH COLUMBIA. . - . The Canadian Pacific's new steamer Empress of India, which Is to run between Vancouver and Japan, made nineteen and one-half knots on her trial trip. The steamer Eaton had'a hole stove In her by a Collision with the City of Pueblo in anaimo harbor Jan. 22. A cargo of guns for the Victoria navy yard was received Jan. 22. MONTANA. A new company, organized in New York, will, it is expected, own the An- aconua mine hereaiter. Two robbers attacked a gang of gamblers in a tent at McCartliysville, on the Great Northern extension, killed two and wounded three and es caped. NEVADA. While B. L. Gartin. a brakeman. was jumping from one car to another at Halbrone Jan. 20 the train broke In two and he fell between the sections and was run over and killed. "- The1 sale of liquor in the capitol building during the session of the legislature has been prohibited. NEW MEXICO. Ore is reported in the Old Abe mine at White Oaks that is one-half gold. A "murderer, a horse thief and two other prisoners tunneled under the adobe walls of the jail at Las Lunas Jan. 19 and escaped. OREOON. William Brackett, receiving clerk, and L. Sophie and C. Zeller, his assistants, for the Western Union tel egraph company at Portland, have been arrested for robbing the cash drawer. Sandy Olds, the gambler who mur dered .fc.mil v e be r, another gambler. at Portland for giving information to the police and has been tried three times and twice sentenced to death, has got a change of veuue to Wash ington county for his fourth trial. Snow has stopped work at the Blue ltiver mines. Billy Lang, alias Jones, who escaped in Oakland while on the way to San Quentin to serve a twelve-year term for burglary, has been caught in Port land. The fight for possession of the Evan gelical church at Sweethome has re sulted in the arrest of one minister and several laymen for keeping the opposing faction out with guns. Frank W. Dietz, a railroad con ductor, was clubbed and knocked senseless on the street at Portland Jan. 18, but was not robbed, and the cause of the assault is unknown. The proprietor of the Jacksonville Times has been fined $25 for advertis ing a lottery. A large number of sufferers by the lake Labish disaster will sue the rail road company. UTAH. Malachi W. Dillon, a saloonkeeper and gambler, shot George Mitchell dead for refusing to drink with him in an Ogden saloon Jan. 20 and was arrested. WASHINGTON. The decomposed body of a man was foundin a trunk at Smith Cove Jan. 22. After a sharp contest Watson C. Sqnire was elected to the federal senate. Selecting; Purnltatv. Sacramento, Jan. 22. Tho young wife who expects to do her own work can make a great saving In each (lay's labor for years that are to come If, la making choice of her first furniture, and In all additions to that choice, she takes Into considera tion the fact that she will have to dust and wipe with damp cloths each arti cle from time to time, especially If she lives on this dusty coast, and makes selections accordingly. There are many Ptyles of furniture which in clude In their ornamentation hand some carvings with deep creases or veneerlngs of scrool-saw work that It Is almost Impossible to keep clean, though many hours are spent In the effort weekly. It Is not necessary to buy those to have handsome f uralture. Styles sufficiently ornate can be selected which have no dep creases nor difficult angles for the housewife to reach, and very few who have never tried it have any adequate compre hension of tho amount of lalnir they may save themselves by paying heed to this simple matter without sacrific ing a particle of beauty and finished ness in the appearance of their homes. If the young husband has any In genuity at all about him and Is In dustriously Inclined he can save many a dollar by buying a few simple tools and making a good many articles of furniture himself. Myself and hus band began our housekeeping days on a farm. We had not much of this world's wealth but were, of course, full of faith In our strong arms and healthy bodies. I had heljed my mother do the housework since I was old enough and had acquired an In tense dislike for the creases and crev- j lce9 and angles that had cost many ! an hour of weary toil In keeping the furniture clean. When we went to the furniture store I said : "The first and most important aim, to which I am ready to sacrifice everything else, la to get something that can 1m easily kept clean." Though the house on the farm where we legan life was a large one we did not fill it with furni ture. We pot a comfortable set for the kitchen and dining-room ami one bedroom set. My husband said he could make" a bedroom set that we could use and the one we were buying would then do for the "spare bed room," and we could fit up a cosy front parlor later on. For the present that, must remain closed. He had bought the farm for half cash, and it had required close calculation on our part to stock it and furnish the house without getting In debt. We had enough money left to have furnished that front parlor quite handsomely, but my husband said : " We can get along without that for a while. If we furnish it we will have to run a bill at the village store for the necessaries of life until we have something to sell. We can get our goods cheaper for cash and that will save us many a dollar in the year." I reluctantly consented, and gave up the present realization of the cosy little parlor I had been picturing to myself. I am glad I did, for we had a dry year and our little hoard of coin carried us through and saved our sacrificing any of the stock which my husband had selected with so much care and the Increase from which has paid the last dollar for the dear old homestead. My husband bought a few carjenter tools saws, planes, bits, etc., 'and a load of clear redwood lumber. The tools he said he would need in keeping buildings, fences and Implements in repair. The boards were damp as they came from the yard, but they were stored away near the roof of the stable and In a couple of months of summer weather were as dry as so much tinder and my husband, who had never been a carpenter, much less a cabinet maker, began the presump tuous task of making a bedstead, all of redwood. He sawed and planed and hammered during odd moments, and I nagged him about the " homely redwood rattletrap" he would have and told him he might keep it in the barn I would not tolerate the thing in the house. He had it In shape at last, and I had to confess, as it stood there by his bench, smooth, close - jointed and sandpapered, that it was a very fair- looking piece of carpenter work, but still I insisted we could not have a plain redwood bedstead in the house, He said nothing but produced a bottle .abeled "mahogany stain." This was like a red dye, apparently mixed with water, containing no oil, and he poured some out in a bowl and applied it with a paint brush. The effect was marvelous I The grain of the red wood, which I had not noticed before. stood out aa if painted in colore, but with a perfection no painter could im itate. The dye sank deep Into the softer parts and made them dark almost black while the harder por tion of the grain absorbed but little color and remained light in shade. It was dry almost as soon as it was laid on, and my husband went over it with very light sandpaper and left it till next day. Then he went over it with linseed oil, laid on, as before, with a brush, and it looked rather dull and I was somewhat disappointed. Still another day, and he produced another bottle, labeled " orange shellac," and he applied the contents of this with a piece of cloth, rubbing it rapidly, but it dried so quickly that there were ridges and creases and marks of the cloth in it when he got through. With a bottle or alconol in one hand and a cloth in the other he went over the work again, moistening the cloth with alcohol and lightly rubbing the creases and rough spots, and they melted down under the alcohol as a rough piece of sealing-wax will melt down In mild heat. It was beautiful. I danced around it in Joy, and said: "George, I said you should never put that In our room, and you shan't. It's too beauti ful. Put it In the spare room. We couldn't buy a handsomer piece of furniture If we wore as rich as Stan ford." He kept it In the barn several days longer, while he put on three successive coats of varnish, and then he brought Into the house the hand somest piece of furniture 1 had ever seen, and one of the easiest b take care of. It was not plain by any means. It was ornatnentod with veneer panels of redwood In Its natural color, ehf 1 lacked and varnished without stain, and glued on. Theso were cut in fan ciful shapes, but there were no sharp curves to hold the dust. They were all beveled at the edges, and the dusting-cloth reaches every part of them with ease. In course of time George finished up washstand, bureau and other ar ticles for our best ledroom, though we bought chairs and a lounge. These were of stained birch and matched the redwood well. We learned several things after ward, one of which was that the stain. In the course of years, fades, and the brilliant dark and even black shad ings modify under the influence of light. We stained some articles with oil stains and they look nice, but they have not the brilliant markings that so enchanted me when George made that first bedstead. He has made a set in the natural wood, without color, that I consider the prettiest in the house now. But one' advantage all these home-made articles have there are none of those hated creases and coils and notches. Thev are all easily kept clean. " Mrs. S. L. Berry. SarmBofca. It-R Fertlliaera. Interest and Investment In fertilizers for horticultural uses are just legin nlng in California, and it Is exceed ingly Important that they should start aright. Already certain things hare transpired which Indicate that the use and trade In fertilizers are not open ing in this way. There has been com plaint from many who have purchased small lots for trial that no satisfactory results have been realized. They have not been able to see that the money they expended In this direction did them any good. Others who have made similar purchases have noticed notable improvement in their trees and fruit and have purchased more and more freely. Of course this difTer ciin) in experience may le due to several different conditions and may not necessarily Indicate that the material applied was worthless, but In some cases this Is no- doubt the true explanation of the disapolntment. Fertilizers which are really worth less may sometimes Ins sold through Ignorance, not alone of the purchaser but of the seller. We grant this docs not often occur, and In most cases worthless stuff Is sold with the full knowledge of the manufacturer that he Is not giving value for the money ho receives. There was an enterprise begun in this state some years ago which ingeniously proposed to sell farmers ground limestone at so much a ton, and a pamphlet was prepared setting forth the many values of lime in the production of crops. This was so simple a delusion that we attributed it to the ignorance of the projector of tho enterprise, rather than his inten tion to perpetrate a swindle. The whole matter was dropped when some one Becured a statement rrom 1'ror. Hilgard that ground limestone was of no appreciable value as a fertilizer. Another case has more recently come to light. Some farmer in southern California sent to the university a sample of a carload of bono fertilizer which had been sent him from some dealer in San Francisco. The stuff was simply disintegrated shells taken probably from inland deposit. This was apparent to the eye, for the ship per had taken no pains to disguise its character. An analysis showed that it was almost totally deficient in avail able fertilizing matters and that its actual worth was considerably loss than the cost of freighting it, not to speak of the dealer's charge for it. It has been known for years that material sold as bonemeal and bone fertilizer by some parties in this city has been largely adulterated with such shell material and thus debased, but this is a case in which the adulteration was sold pure, so to speak. No doubt Prof. Hilgard's reply to the party who sent him the sample will prevent the sale of more of that st uff as a bone manure. The fact of the matter is, that in fer tilizers as in many other things the time has come when we must learn wisdom from the older states. These states have laws governing the sale of fertilizers. They provide that any farmer may take a samplo of what Is sold him and send it for analysis to the experiment station or other recog nized authority and secure a statement of its value. They also provide that dealers in fertilizers must furnish an alyses of the material they offer and provide penalties for selling material not up to these analyses. There are also other provisions which comprise what Is known in all the older states as "fertilizer control." This is what we must arrive at in this state, and the first step is the enactment of a fertil izer law and provision for its execu tion. When this is done we shall hear less or such outrageous things as are now coming to light in the fertilizer business in this state. Rural Press, J. R. Metcalf,- member of the house of representatives from Stevens county says ne vas paia yjjuo py itarry A. uiaric oi apoKane i aiis to vote ror v H. Calkins for United States senator Calkins denies th3harge. ; (Current Bmus. The C hilean Kebellion. It Is difficult to get reliable Informa tion of tho exact status of affairs in Chile, the government exercising a rigid censorship over all means of communication. The trouble origin ated in a contest between the presi dent ( Balmaceda) and congress, and at the last session the last-named body refused to vote any funds for carrying on the government unless Bulmaceda would comply with Its de sires. He would not yield and con gress adjourned without voting sup plhs. This paralyzed tne government, though Balniaeeda continued to col lect and appropriate customs dues at some of the more important ports. A ortion of the navy rebelled and has blockaded the ports to cut off this revenue. The outbreak Is certainly of greater magnitude than Is admitted hi the dispatches received by Chilean representatives abroad, for while these declare that only three ships of the navy had revolted, and these only In sympathy with a captain who had been punished for a breach of discip line, the fact that ports are blockaded shows that the rest of the navy sym pathizes with the movement. Private adveios, transmitted with much difil eulty, indicate that the Insurgents have a strong force on land, have cap tured the city of Pisagtia ami have placed Balmaceda and his supporters In great danger. A Horrible JOhlli.t Crime. A peasant gathering wood in the forest on the outskirts of the village of Sbornon, Keiv, Russia, heard sounds like the wrenching of a body against a tree. After a wearisome search he found in a secluded gulch a naked man bound fast to a sapling. He had been half stripied of flesh and muscle, and a wooden gag prevented all pos sibility of his shouting or calling out Intelligibly. Wooden spits had been thrust Into his eyes and the trunk was horribly mutilated. On his breast hung a placard with these words: "Behold the punishment of a spy on the liber ators of Russia. The police whom the peasant summoned found the naked man still alive, biK too near death to tell about the assault on him. Two hours later be died. It was subsequently learned that he was a captain of the secret police. The men who took his life have con cealed every clew to their identity but are believed to be nihilists. Madame Kartschoff, a rich Moscow woman, was strangled to death in her led and the bed fired by somebody who escaped and left no clew, and as none of the valuables In her room were touched this crime, ton, is laid to the nihilists. ratal Cold Weather. During the two weeks ending Jan. 21, when a thaw began, England and all Europe puffered from the coldest weather known within a generation. Streams and harbors froze up that had never been known to freeze up before. Trains were snowed up and men and animals froze to death in the streets and on country roads in England, France, Germany, Austria and othe European countries. The authorities of Taris kept hundreds of fires burn ing in the streets, where swarms of freezing paupers crowded around tho blazing heaps to save their lives. It is believed that damage was done in the olive-growing districts of France and Italy that it will take many years to repair, the trees having probably been killed or so injured that they can hardly recover their vigor. On the 21st warmer weather came, with copious rains, and great damage was done by the consequent floods. Co-operative Cooking Fails. The experiment of co-operative oxking, which was to do away with troublesome cooks and all the drudg ery of the kitchen, was tried in Evans- ton, 111., 250 persons being served with hot meals from one model kitchen, under the supervision of an expert cook. The meals were carried to the homes of the subscribers in a number of handsome wagons and were pro nounced excellent, but the expense proved to be too great and the Co-operative Housekeeping association failed Jan. 20 and closed its kitchen door. The kitchen girl is voted cheaper, and her service, with all its defects superior to anything that can be achieved on the co-operative plan. A Deacon eaaea Home. The Methodists met in San Fran cisco Jan. 20. It was a union gather ing, representing nearly all of the leading Methodist churches in San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda, to organize a " Deaconesses' Home " to be composed of ladymembers of the con gregations and perform, personally. out-of-door home missionary labor, It is to be to Protestants what the Sis ters of Charity are to Catholics. The urgent need of its establishment in San Francisco, where there are forty times as many drinking saloons and brothels as churches, is great. It is to be a society of true Christian ladies who will be willing to leave their homes and minister to the sick and the destitute in houses and hospitals. Alameda, Grace, Central, Simpson Memorial and the Howard-street Methodist Episcopal churches each subscribed $100. The Women's Home Missionary society also gave $100, which, together with individual sub scriptions, swelled the sum total to about $1000. know. that tho genuine ''Seal of North Carolina Plug1 Cut" coats them no more th-- por Tobaooo, which some dealers try . J on thai . .. . ..- ". . - - " "" ; (Bnmral Betas. UNITED STATES. "Bev." U. S. Grant GHck, who ministered to the epiritual wants of Anschiag, the Garden Grove mur derer at Los Angeles, and was sus pected of furnishing that brute with jtoison with which to cheat the gal lows, lias been arrested lor extensive swindling games In Washington. He has a record as a swindler In other cities. The Farmers' Alliance, Knights of Lalor and other labor organizations have a political union known as the Confederation of Industrial Organiza tions. The Indiana legislature luis passed a resolution asking the state's repre sentatives In congress to vote against the dressed loef trust and In favor of the repeal of the McKlnley .tariff act. The federated miners of the United States have decided to strike May 1 for eight hours. An explosion of natural gas de stroyed the hotel Marvin at Findlay, O.. Jan. 18, killing live persons and injuring several others. Two Mormon elders were beaten by masked men and driven from Blount county, AI., Jan. 16. O. F. Kibllng, who has so long de fled the prohibition law at Hanover, N. II., and Norwich, Vt., has been sen tenced on 723 convictions to sixty-three years In jail for selling liquor. The Chicago and Erie road between Huntington, Ind., and Chicago, has been completely tied up by a strike of telegraphers. . The court decided that Robert Ray Hamilton's alleged widow was never his wife and can have none of his property. At Port Hope, Ont, the house occu pied by Robert Sharpe was burned. Mr. Sharpe was slightly burned, while his one of children was burned to a crisp. Bill Lewis ran a saloon at Kansas city In a building with one end in Missouri and the other in Kansas and repeatedly evaded conviction in one state by claiming that the sale had leen made in the other. Jan. 21 the line was carefully located by surveyors and the Kansas authorities sawed the building in two and destroyed the Kansas portion. John Toms, 54 years old, of New Brunswick, N. J., was knocked sense less by two robbers, who tied his wrists together behind him and hung him up by them in a closet where he hung, gagged, for fifty-two hoars before he was accidentally discovered and re leased. He had" recognized the rob- lers and they will probably pay dearly for "the, $57 of which they despoiled him. . Rev. A. M. de Ford of Hortonvilie. Wis., has been sentenced to five years in prison and $500 fine for raising a treasury note. Two thousand negroes, promised transportation from Atlanta to Liberia gatnered there rrom .Mississippi and Texas and have been suffering for food and clothing. The whole thing was a fraud and considerable money was ad vanced for fares on the ship that never will sail. A system of railway tunnels con necting New York, "Brooklyn and Jersey City is proposed. Fifteen men derailed, wrecked and robbed a passenger train near Browns- vine, lex., Jan. 19. Blaine will forward to St. Petersburg a protest against tne persecution oi the Jews. - New York elected ex-governor Hill to the federal senate. FOREIGN. China will have an exhibit at the Chicago world's fair. The strike of 2000 miners at Sosnow- ice, Russia, is the first strike in the empire, ine men at tne imperial dock yards, St, Petersburg, have also struck. Alphonse Moliere died of starvation in a miserable garret where he lived in Paris Jan. 19 and left $1,200,000 in bank. Tt. i rumored that Emoeror William of Germany has a cancer in the throat. There is a demand so strontr that it will probably be complied with for the revision of the constitution of Belgium and the extension oi the franchise. , Wolves, driven by the rigor of the season from their retreats, are trouble some in northern x rench villages. Prince Baudouin, heir to the Bel gian throne, died Jan. 23. England proposes a customs union of all her American, colonies and to that end will hold an exposition of the products or those colonies in Jamaica. The Scotch railroad companies de clare they have all the men they want. An occasional riot by strikers is the principal indication remaining that there is a strike at all. Lepers run at large in Samoa. Japan will make & fine display at the Chicago world's fair. ; . . France and Italy are snarling at each other over the question which of them shall gobble up Abyssinia. - The new Japanese parliament house has been burned. Dr. E. T. Painter, who went from Pittsburg to Berlin and was treated with the Koch lymph for spinal tuber culosis, writes home that the treat ment is heroic and the third injection nearly killed him, but that he is now improving rapidly. The Spanish cabinet has decided to do away with all treaties of commerce with other countries, except that with Morocco. . Lieutenant E. P. Turner, son of Ad niiral Turner of the United States navy, blew his brains out while on the way from Vancouver, B. C, to San J; rancisco. Bismarck an5 Emperor William are reported to have kissed and made up, The abbe Laponniere of the church of St. Sulpice, Bordeaux, has been ar rested for embezzlement and infant icide. An explosion in a coal mine at Kharkov, Russia, killed 100 miners. Austria has levied a tax of 100,000 florins on the bourse for the support oi tne poor. Parnell is taking an active part in parliamentary proceedings, claiming to be still the leader of the home rule party. . Bernhardt is coming to America again. - The liberals carried an election at Hartlepool, heretofore represented by a tory. The men employed on works at Hare island and Skibereen by Balf onr with the famine fund have struck for better wages. 5 5 German lawmakers are discussing the admission of the American hog the four-legged kind. Those with two legs ore admittted now. MOUf.TAI.".. The FamUv That Uvea ea the To f Overlook Derln the Cola Mentha "I hare clentr to read dd here, asd A WINTER HOME ON A I can't aay that I get lonesome at ail. though I hare no neig hbor,H isii Mrs. Charles Brink the other day fa her cottage on the summit cf Orel-look " mountain la the Catak His. Since tb winter signal service station w&s aban doned a rear ago oa the top of Mount Washington Mr. Brink and his little family lire at a higher altitude daring the cold months than any one near the Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Brink Is la charge of the property of the company which own the hfghest moaotaia nonse in tne uauiuiis, ana daring ta severest winter weather, when gnlj are particularly lively round the sum mit of the line old hill, he and his fam ily are there alone in their 2nig little cottage, 3,200 feet above the level of the sea- - About fire years ago Mr. Brink's Ehysician told htm that if be continues riDff at West Hurley he would die ef consumption. He was told he most mate m change of eum&te, and so Brink made the change. Instead. however, of going aerersl hundred miles away, he changed climates ia perpendicular direction, and by nsak- e ing fals home orer 3.000 feet above the sea be foond the dryness oi ptisre that was essential to his recov ery. .Now a more rigorous and hardy man conld scarcely be foond ia the state. Mountain air has done won ders for Mr. Brink, and he Is -jast about to spend his fifth winter oa the Mountaineers get so ased to running up and down bill, that Mr. Brink hired man thinks nothing of traveling nearly three miles ererr day far down the mountain side for the little milk f the family consumes; and, though ao v one else lives on top of the moaataia. the Brink family is not deprived of social pleasures darinr the winter, for now and then sleigh loads of people climb the steep ascent from Woodstock and hare jolly party and lots of dancing on top of the mountain. The snow-clad eenntry below is plainly ia new on ererr clear moraine front near Albany to the Highlands oa the Hudson. Parts of several states are seen, and the Tiew is as fine la the clear air of winter, when every thing is snow-clad, as daring the season of rerdnre. Mr. Brink geoeralir mnks one or two trips a week down the mo on tain to the post-ofSce and stores at Woodstock. Darine the rreat blis sard, bowerer, he was cot o if from in- tercoarse with the rest ef the world for about two weeks by the I ir passable nature of the roads. His wife is very fond of reading, and thoagh her little dauzhter is away from her at school she finds plenty to occupy her attention with aa ample supply of reaci'iig matter and her ' household doth -. One of Mr. Brink's occupations dtfr.; the winter is fill- , ing the ice-house for summer nse at the hotel. He cots the ice from r erroir of water that is kept on the mountain top, and last winter, when the whole eastern country feared that - it would not be able to harvest any ic at all, be succeeded in getting his usual supply without much trouble, ' which shows that the top of Overlook mountain, besides being m solitary - place of winter residence, is : also not ' little colder than - the surronndiBg mm country. - t The Story of a Great Poem. , wub umuis uceu iu vuuusa una book in order to find what ao expen sive and unsatisfactory business it is , in most cases. I bad a friend who bad given birth to a religions poem. He thought it would rival Paradise Lost." and shake the nations. H kept the secret under lock aed key,or s long while, showing it only to a few special '. i friends, and that under protniw of secrecy. He grew thin in calculating at what time the world could best en dure the exhilaration of its publica tion. At last toe manuscript was ia type, and the proof was read, and the 1www .w i t r , queted bis friends on publication day, in anticipation or a large fortune. He . figured up how many would be sold. First, he calculated on disposing of twenty thousand; but as be reviewed. the importance ox the work and tho fascination of the style, he put tbe fig ores to fifty thousand. Afterward, be- thinking himself of tbe fact that it is impossible to keep a rare thing oa this side of the Alia otic, and the certainty .. of its world-wide distribution, be cob- " eluded it reasonable to expect tbe cir ca i a hod oi one Hundred thousand . The fact was. that of the first edition of fire bond red copies, one hundred and fifty were sold, and tbe rest were firen away. Its riralry di not hurt oba Milton's reputation a bit. Dr. Talmagc, in Ladie$' Borne Journal. Jewels of tb Aston. The Astor family possess some won derful lewels. oarticularlv diamonds. The late Mrs. John Jacob Astor ased to wear a tiara that few of the crowned heads of Europe could match. Mrs. William Astor wears a beautiful riviere of diamonds, three rows gradu ated. She also possesses a famous dia mond o klace of six strings, set ia such a manner that no gold is risible, and baring tbe appearance of being strung together. Mr. Astor ia con stantly baring it altered, and increas ing its brilliancy and value by the ad dition of larger diamonds in tbe place of small ones. There are some fine emeralds in tbe family, but ao member seems to care much' about display, and. except on rare occasions, these Jewels are not worn. One of Inspector Syrnes' detectires, who stood in full evening dress in a brilliant ball-room oa too crest of Murray mil one night last winter, where Mrs. Astor and the f- wealth of New York were present, said: t - "There is nearly fire million dollars' 13 worth of jewelry and precious stonea" in this room." Valuable gems glittered and glistened in the gavnght like rain- . drops in the sun. Foster Coales, Ladies Borne Journal. t A. Legal XHatiacttoa. ' i "Good morning. Uncle Abner. I was sorry to bear of your being convicted ? of chicken stealing again." "Tank yer. Boss. I wnz mighty sorry myself speshually when dey done 'rict me on sarcumstanzabte ebber dence. -What do you call circumstantP evidence? It appeared to me to f' ' direct proof." ' -Beg pardon, sah, but here's diflnncc Ef de witness dun sw'ar d . heseede hall chicken in my ' " dat'e cl'ar pros', sho nnff. but wf iwar be on'y see de tail feddersr ' ' . - sn out on er my coat, tiat sTSl jea' plain, ol' fashion sarcuau ' - bberdence.n , - - ' 4 -"