) - 1 v. .3 i! .1 ' 1 Of EXPR 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. V LEIJANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH L0. 1801. NO. it J) 4 i . 7 : CgTes.. W. B. DON AC A, -DEALER .Cigais, Tobacco, Etc, Groceries and Provisions First-Glass Goods at Reasonable Prices. ' GIVE ME A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED. Country Produce Taken in Exchange for Goods. KEEP ON HAND Shingles, Posts, Boards and Pickets. v. c. r ETKUSOX, Notary Public, i PETERSON & GARLAND, Real Estate Brokers ' - HAVE ON HAND choice B-A-Raiisrs In Larffe and Small Farms. Best Fruit Land in Valley. Finest drain Ranches In the world, improved ana l mmprovea urnw. rrom per -icrt- ami up. Satisfaot lotten ttuaranteed. Have PROPERTY, ResMene in all Additions Houses Rented and Farms Leased. AOESTS FOR London Liverpool A Globe Insurants Co. Guardian Assurance Co., of London. Oakland Home Insurance Co., of Oakland, Cal. Stat Insurance Co.. of Salem, Oregon. Farmers' and Merchants' Ins. Co., of Salem Oolleotions Receive F-romnt Attention. pleasure in giving our patrons all information desired in our line of business. J. Druggist A. BEARD, and DEALER IN Pure Drugs and Medicines, Taints, Oil, Glass, STATIONERY. FINE PERFUMERY. BRUSHES AND CIGARS AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. MAIN ST., LEBANON, PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY COMPOUNDED. DR. C. H. DUCKETT, D K N T I ST LKBANON, OREGON. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. CfBee over First National Bank. ALBANY. . - OREGON. W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBATORC3)X. G. T. COTTON, Dealer In Groceries and Provisions. Tobacco and Ciprars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Lebanon, Oregon E. L. McCLURE Sncceasor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. . Shaving, Haircutting and Shampoo- ing in the latest and best style. Spec- i attention paid to dressing Ladies' ir. Your patronage respectfully so- IN Furnishing Goods, Etc. A STOCK OF SAML M. (iAKLAXD, : Attorney-at-Law. on hand some . unit t-. till ami to Unslness. Baiffalns the lowa. Notary Business a Specialty. We take Apothecary. OR. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON. OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT CHECK. TO Exchange sold on New York, San T a licit co, Portland and Albany, Org. Collections made on favorable terms I. It.BOItVM. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave. Shampoo. Hair Cut, Cleaned or Dressed. Hot and Cold Baths at all Hours Children Kindly treated. Calland see me. LEBANON "J: I ' Jit a ' 1. Vl Meat Market ED. KEILESBERGEK, Prop. Fresh & Salted Beep, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. s I. i : ". t""" ! sit Z r?l Air H 1 ' 1 BAC03 AST) LARD ALWAYS OX HAND Main Street, Tlwi, Ore. -iTCDjist News. 4 CALIFORNIA. W. E. Hlokpv. n ratlnnl inan.Grt'U Dalton, Cole Dalton ami Jaok Parker havo lHen tttwstetl for theAlilant- tompteil train iThbMy. ExmvPB Mps-st-ngiT HojwU, who !lnl tlirniKh ho (loornrtno car sun neuron ine robbers away, is still btlievvl by th railroad nuu to have killtnl the ilre tnan ami tho express compnny has been forced to take him olT the road a!nl ?ive him a posit ion at IjO Angeles. The sale of intoxicants to persons under It years of aire has been pro hibited by law. .The senate has passed a woman suffrage bill. - AM ADO It COl'STT. The larffe barn of John Mozzero, a rancher near Volcano, was destroyed by tire the other night. Eleven head of cattle and a quantity of hay were lost in the tlatnes. The damage was $1000, on which there waa no insurane. El'TTK COVNTY. John Mayvllle waa badly burned while putting out a tire in a house ov. the rancho Olileo March a. The house was damaged f 15hj worth. COLV8A l'STY. Chnrlea James, n tramp, stabbed O. Halley when the lntter elected him from his saloon at Willows and was arrested. 1.ABSEM OOV HTY. Julius Drevfus. a San Francisco Intmmer, committed suicide at Husan- villo March 6. sapa rorsTT. Alfred Chrlstin endcul a siree by blowing the top of his head off at Napa March 6. OHASOE COl'STT, T. P. Owen has been convicted of horse stealing. PLACKR WCXTT. tleorure Btone and Mrs. (Ireen left Lincoln between two days and were arrested at Marysville n warrants sworn out by Airs. Htone charging Httne with desertion anil Mrs. Ureen with larceny. BAX PIEOO COVSTi Archibald Freeman, one of the par ticipants In the Moosaeanyou tragedy, nas ueen uonnn over rr iriai. jcx- J ust lee V. ll.linwiddie, on whose illetral warrant the ofllcera were art- Ing, Is on Freeman's bond. BAN FRASCISCO OOCXTV. The strikincr iron molders have re sumed their assaults on non-union men and three were badlv leBten March 8. The Occidental board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church has undertaken n war on the system of holding Chinese girls in slavery in San Francisco. St. Luke's hospital is to mortgage its property for flfi.wto. Several cases of consumption have loen declared cured by the use of the Koch lymph in San Francisco. E. J. Still well, an Examiner reporter, paid 1400 to El wood Bruner, essembly man from Sacramento, for a place on the San Francisco oliee force. He did not get it, and has sued for the re turn of the 1400. Bruner says he knew there was a plot to "down him," and took tne moaey ana ueposiiea it wun friends to await result, He says he did not know the San Fraucisco iolico mmissioners and hail no places for sale. SAX JOAQCIN COCSTY. An Incendiary fire March 3 de stroyed J. C. Hoult & Sons' harvester works at Stockton, with twenty-two harvesters. The county courthouse Is lighted with natural gas from the county's own well. Charles II. Ackerson of San Fran cisco escaped from Dr. Clark's private insane asylum Jr el), iii ami his uoiy has been found where he drowned himself. FRESNO OOCNTT. While standing near a brush fire on her father's place nenr Fresno the other day the dress of a little child. Hannah T. Toft, caught tire. The names were extinguished before any harm was done, but the shock was so great that It undermined the child's health and in a few days she died. Constable William O. Lane, who got drunk and murdered William Can field in a disreputable house at San ger, has been convietea or municr, with a recommendation of imprison ment for life. The United States brought suit for the forfeiture of the bond of the Fruit vale wine company, whose secretary is in prison for evading the revenue laws, but the suit was lost because the lonil stated that the wjnrry was at Fresno while it was three miles from that city. MERCED COUNTY. A sister of the murdered man, John Ivett, has been found in England and will claim a share of his property. John Sullivan of San Francisco was run over and killed by a train near Merced March 2. SANTA CLARA COUNTY. San Jose has over 1500,000 worth of buildings in course of construction. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. The Watsonville sugar factory made $40,000 last year. SISKIYOU COUNTY. A fire started in the postofflce build ing at Moot the other morning, and before it could be extinguished had burned out a board ing- house and butcher shoo. The total damage was $2100, of which $500 was secured by insurance. SONOMA COUNTY. A. P. Overton contracted with sev eral Santa Kosa business men to pay him a high rent for one of his build ings if he would secure the removal of the postofflce to the vicinity. He got the the postofflce. Some of the men refused to pay tne rent, iiesuea for it. The superior court decides that the contracts are void, being against public policy. Petaluma has an improvement as sociation with a large membership. The Fremont house, the Midget saloon and (Jneg ic ierner s wrare; house at Fortuna burned March 5. The cause is thought to be incendiary. This is the third time the Fremont house was set on fire. Total loss of all the buildings, which are fully in sured. Collins and Burke, employes at the home for feeble-minded children at Glen Ellen, had a fight March 6 in which one of Burke's eyes was gouged out. TEHAMA COUNTY. Dick Haglin has been arrested on suspicion that he murdered his fat her near Pnske'.ita. VENTURA COUNTY. Works for the refining of petroleum are about to be constructed at Ven tura. They will have a capacity of from thirty to forty tons a day. YOLO COUNTY. The levee broko opposite Sacra mento March 4 and Hooded fields. orchards and vineyards. YUBA COUNTY. W. F. Patton and George Burton have been Identified as the two foot pads who have committed several violent assaults in Marysville of late. A tornado, or whirlwind, started In Brown's valley March 5 and passed between Marysville and Wheatland. It tore up everything in Its course, demolished taukhouscs, bams and fences, took fence panels lfto yards In the air and moved a 1500-jound barley crusher twenty feet. It went very slowly and In a zigzag course. No lives were lost. ? . AI.AMFUA COUNTY. '.Fifteen-year-old Willie Day took refuge during a shower tinder some lundier at the Southern Pacific yards. In Oakland. G. W. Alburn, a watch man, ordered him away and as he waa running shot him In the leg and then went awav, leaving the boy lying where he fell. Willie will be a cripple fir life. PACIFIC COAST. Oregon gave nothing for the world'a fair. Washington gave floo.utK). - Among the items of damage by the storm at Ensenada are the destruction of the soai factory, damage to the woolen mill, the entire washing away of 100 acres of wheat and the destruc tion of most of the roods. Arrangements have loeu iado to run through trains from St. Paul over the Great Northern's own line to Winning, then over the Cnnadlau Pacific to New Westminster, over the New Westndnster Southern to the boundary, over the Fairhaven and Southern to Sedro, and on the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern to Seattle. ARIZONA. Yuma presents a scene of desolation which no n picture can adequately describe. From the hill at the prison one looks down on the ruins of almost the entire city. Among the heaviest losers here are: H. W. Blaisdell, $15,000; Althce Modest i, $:12,0U0; An telope Canal company, $10,ooo ; Ancient Order of United Workmen lodge, $4000; J. Molina, f'21,000; Sisters of St. Joseph, ftOUO; F. L. Ewing, 14000; A. G. Kingcld, $70OO; Jesus lledondo, $M000; Juana B. Smith. $'JOOO; Gon- fonro & Sanguinetti, $:0.KH; Chris Horner. $-25,Kjo; Isaac Lew, $15, noo; Charles Baker, $5000; G. M. Thin low, $5000; O. F. Townsend, $5075. Others lost from $100 to $30O0 each. A Mexican woman and five children were drowned at Solomon ville while endeavoring to cross the Gila river on a raft during the flood. The legislature has passed a law exempting from taxation for twenty years all railroads begun within six months and completed within three years. It Is reported that Manuel Verdugo, who broke jaii after being sentenced to death for murdering Louis Cohn, the merchant, at Nogales, has leen caught In Mexico and shot for some offense committed there. The steamer Gila went to the Coco- pah reservation to rescue some fam ilies who were perched on the tops of houses. Ihe Colorado went down very fast In the night and by morning the steamer was six feet above water on a sandbar. IDAHO. Dispatches from Bellevue say that Alturas and Logan counties are in a state of anarchy Weauso all the officers have leen legislated out of office by the passage of the law crcat. Ing Alta ami Lincoln counties. It will Ik some time lofore the new officers to le appointed by the governor can nualirv. Justices or tne toaee are throwing cases out of court for alleged want of jurisdiction. No legal papor can ie recorded. Auseondiug credi tors have a light of way out of the county, and even the treasurer of Logan county refuses to receipt for money oiierea to im pain into me treasury. NEVADA. Mischievous loys gained entrance to an old powder-house near Austin some days ago and. tired aixxit loo pounds of black powder and two cases of giant. The building was blown Into splinters and the explosion was heart! tor miles, but tne ooys esca'd unnurt. Cash V. Willey committed suicid at Carson March 0 on account of do mestic trouble. NEW MEXICO. A wolf killed Robert Chaves' baby at Hillsboro while the family was out driving wolves off from a flock of goats and the baby was in the house. Albuquerque will bo a city after the April election. OREGON. Georgo Tucker, a young man, has been lost In the Cascade mountains east of Eugene, which are covered with snow to the depth of 8 feet. It is three weeks since he disappeared and all hoie of recovering him alive has been given up. The people of Eugene arc pulling hard for a road to the Blue ltiver mines. An unknown man called Mrs. Mar tha Hall to her door the other evening and stabbed her in the throat, missing the Jugular vein by a scratch. WASHINGTON. B. N. Boone, a contractor of Port Townsend, while temorarily insane from drink and loss or money, blew his brains outieb. 20. The North Yakima City council has sold $30,000 worth of city bonds to a firm of Chicago bankers for $27,000. B. Y. Hampton and Charles Spears, miners, were caught in a snowslide the other evening at Boulder Camp, twenty miles above Ketehum, anil killed. The wife of Joseph Rule, a bartender of Seattle, has given birth to triplets two boys and a girl. Both of the boys died shortly after birth. There is a proposition on foot in Seattle to establisli there a plant for drying the codfish caught in Alaskan waters and making Seattle the great distributing point for fish on the Pacific coast. Alexander has been proclaimed king of Servia. The German emperor indulges in ugly talk about France and Caprivi haa given notice that he will resign next fall. General News. UNITED STATES. The Chicago presbytery has voted against deaconesses. Two of the -murderers of Chief of Police Ilennessy at New Orleans have een Identified bv an eve-wltness. Politz, one of the accused, has also made a partial confession to the effect that the chief was killed by tools of the Mafia. Twenty-four oysterm? n. most of them colored, were drowned during a gale on the lower James river In Vir ginia the last week in February. Kansas has prohibited the acqui sition of land by aliens and provided that land hew by aliens, if not dls- osml of within seven yearsj shall Ik orfelted to the state. Twenty-live Illicit stills were seized near Jacksonville, luv., recently. Jay Gould habitually pays a fine rather than do jury duty. Emma Abbott' Ixvly wax cremated at Pittsburg, according to her request. The railroad commission believes the government should fix all freight and passenger charges. Several leaders of the striking miners at Scottdale. Pa., hare 'xeu arrested for conspiracy and rioting. The rail mills of the Illinois steel works at Jollet have shut down owing to trouble about wages. A lot of Bohemians who went to work on a railroad -near the Poca hontas coal mines In Went Virginia report that they are half starved. nearly naked, ami are driven to work, K or well, by men on horseback who flog them brutally. They are not permitted to e goal.' Chataoua county. Kas.. Is oiiaran- tined on account of the spread of smallpox among the farmers. The threatened strike on the Penn- svl the Ivania railroad did not take place, le men learning that the company was prepared to fill their places. Five men disobeyed orders by tak ngoien lumps into the Nottingham mine at Plymouth, Pa,, March 4, and an explosion killed two of them and badly Injured the other three. The United States government ex ecta to have a preliminary survey of he proposed North and South Ameri can railroad, from this country to ltnizil, completed in eighteen mouths. Seventy million dollars has been ex tended on the new American navy and $G3,ooo,ooo more is wanted to complete it ami make It the most effective In the world. After a ten-week strike, which made a difference of $1,000,000 in the wages earned, MtO0 miners In the Mononga hela valley got an advance of half a cent a bushel and went tack to work. Charles F. Clark, president E. M. Heed, vice-president; William L. Bishop, Jr., secretary: William L. Squire, treasurer, and Chauneev M. Hepew, l'unt K. Trowbridge, William 1). Bishop. Nathaniel Wheeler. Horace C. ltohinson, Joseph Park, Henry S. ijee, v niinm ltockerellcrand Leverett Brainnrd, directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford -railroad, have been arrested, charged bv a cor oner's jury with homicide on account of negligence which caused nn ex- pl-fedon in the Fourth-avenue tunnel In New York that killed several per sons. George White's house at New Lim erick, Me., was burned March 6 with his two children In it. Hunt has been frozen out and the Northern Pacific has secured his roads and a monopoly. FOREIGN. The Dockers union has seceded from the Federated Labor union of England. Another carved woman has leen found in London and the fear of Jack the Biper is intense. Italy is practicing retrenchment. The French government has for bidden gambling on horse races. Carlos Ezeta Is elected and Installed president of Salvador for the current term or rour years. The Argentine republic proposes an export duty on meat, hides, hair and other animal products, which eon stitute the bulk of her exports. The financial situation there seems to be going from bad to worse. An immense cotton plantation. under government patronage, is to be estaoiisned in itussiaa tJentral Asia. It will have a monopoly in Russia and it expects to produce cotton so cheap as to drive American cotton out or Lurope. The three queens of tho Hervey islands have prohibited the liquor traffic. Bishop Reeves of the united dioceses of Down, Connor and Dromore, Ire land, has threatened the excoimnuni cation of Parnell's sympathizer. Tho British government opposes the eight-hour day demanded by the miners. Tho increase of the French duty on corn has caused some of the leading distilleries to close. Lieutenant Sivrlghl, the Italian chief of police of Massowah, is accused of murdering natives to confiscate their possessions. A convention of the Australasian British colonies met at Sydney the tlrst week in March to establish a fed eration with a tscnate and house of representatives which shall have prac tically the same powers and duties as the congress or the united States. The world's tea crop is short and prices aro expected to advance 10 cents a pound all around. in tne Canadian election the gov ernment majority in parliament was so reduced that it is predicted that the ministry cannot stand long with out being again forced to appeal to the people. The Chilean rebellion continues to gain strength. The mayor and sheriff of Dublin are treasurers of a Parnell campaign fund which Is being raised. A dispatch from Zanzibar states that Wissmann has punished the Kibosh tribe, aud in so doing has killod 200, wounded CO and captured 50 of the tribesmen. The German loss was two men killed and fifteen wounded. The Germans captured 60,000 head of cattle and a quantity of ammunition and ivory. They put the kibosh on tho blacks, so to speak. " There was a riot at Kolemea, Aus tria, at the elections March 6, organ ized by anti-semitics, who wrecked a number of Jewish shops and ravaged the Jewish cemetery, where not one gravestone was left standing. One Jew was killed. Smokers should be smart enough to know that the genuine "Seal of North Carolina Plug Gut costs them no more than poor Tobacco, which some dealers try to force on them. , Current News. Ths Last CongrviM. The fifty-first congress of the United States, which expired March 4, will be principally remembered for its action on four measures: The repeal of the timber culture and pre-emption lawa; the McKlnley tarriff bill, which passed; the free coinage bill, which was changed Into aii act requiring the purchase by the government of 4,500, 000 ounces of silver a month, and the Lodge election) bill, which irlshed In the senate. ." Among the bills which Ifeoame laws are these : The copyright bill, private land court bill, postal subsidy bill, Indian depredat ions claim bill, timber and pre-emption law repeal bill, cus toms administrative bill, general land forfeiture bill, bill to relieve the supreme court by the establishment of an Intermediate court of appeal, United States Judges' salaries bill, world's fair bill, Wyoming and Idaho ad million bills, anti-lottery and anti trust bills, reapportionment bill, im migration bill, bill to ratify agree ments with various Indian tribes and pay the friendly Sioux $500,000, to re duce the fees of icnsion agents, to pay tho French tollatlon claims, meat lnsection bill, bill to prevent the imMrtatioii of adulterated food and drink, live tattle and hog Inspec tion bill, bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the Improvement of the Mississippi river, to iermlt sorghum sugar manu facturers to use alcohol without the payment f a tax, to limit to GO per cent of the rates diarged private par ties the rates which the land grant railroads shall charge for the trans portation of government troops and supplies, for the relief of the settlers on the Northern Pacific mil road In timity lands, to permit the export of fermented liquors to a foreign country without the payment of the tax, to apply the proceeds of sales of public lands and the receipts from certain land grant railroads to sup- tHrt agricultural and Industrial col leges, and for the relief of telegraph ojterators during the war. Among the measures on which neither house acted, except In some cases bv committees, were the sub- treasury and farm mortgage bills, service pension bill. Canadian recip rocity resolution, bill to encourage the construction of an lnter-continental railway, postal savings bank and iHstal telegraph bills, Butler bill to aid the negroes to migrate to Africa, woman suffrage and prohibition con stitutioiial amendments, income tax bill, and various other radical finan I'ial and iolitical measures. - No appropriations were made to pay the French spoliation cliams bill or the claims of Pacific Coast states for the return of the war tax, or to pay the claims of Pacific railroads for services rendered the government, for the last two of which court judg ments have been rendered. The sen ate fought hard for these appropria tions, but the house killed them. Market Change. Ban Francisco, March 9. Potatoes are plentiful. Oregon Bur banks are now crowding the market. Humboldts are also in good supply; 1 cents a pound Is the extreme re tail price. New potatoes have already api-eured. Poultry Is in demand, especially young broilers. A carload of eastern is looked for every day : $7 and $7 50 Is the wholesale price. Butter has apparently no price at present. The market is very heavily stocked. All houses have more than they wish to carry and are willing to unload nt any price; 225i cents pound is the Idghest price asked for fancy. A few days since a carload of butter was shipped here from the east, but as prices declined the shipper tele graphed not to sell it, but to return the car intact. As about three-fourths hail been sold, the car was filled with California butter and returned. The shipper will clear two or three cents a pound after paying freight both ways, Eggs are about equal to the demand and 19 cents a dozen Is the highest price paid for them among the jobbers. They retail freely at 20 cents. They do not accumulate now. Hams are still weak. Competition among eastern dealers seems to keep the prices down. ihey will be no higher at present. Sugars have declined half a cent a pound during the past week. We look for further decline for weeks to come 2 cents a pound duty comes off in April. Lookout! Cheese is weak and lower. Dried fnilts are selling slowly, Stocks are light and there is not much demand. Prunes are selling better than others. Apples are coming into demand. Massacre In Madlgascar. News or a horrible massacre comes from Madagascar. Ramiasatra, gov ernor of the province of Belanond resenting a petition from the populace to tho government to defend them from cruelties, massacred 278 persons. including men, women and children belonging to the leading families. The slaughter continued for several days. The agonies of the victims were in many cases protracted. Some times their limbs were gradually dis membered, their heads were sawed off, and their bodies thrown to the dogs. . Many of the women were outraged The survivers were forced to erect trophy, composed of the heads of the victims. Popular fury has caused the government to announce that the offenders will be punished. The ladies of Oakland are moving fenergetically for the establishment of cnnio lor the poor. Farm Notes. ; Valtta of fatal pa Trt. As shade trees they are especially desirable alout the home lot. They are of rapid growth, and are easily grown from the seed ; their brood leaves while adding much to their beauty are better adapted for shading ian those of many other trees ; their owers while In season are both pretty nd fragrant; the trees will bear "cut- ng In " better than most others, and an be pruned even to the trunks every season If desirable, and will but throw out tatter growth, their vigor Is so great. Freshly pruned, they pre sent, the first season, quite a unique apearauee with great clusters of tropical-like leaves that soon develop nto branches. Every farmer knows, who has raised the trees, that they make the best fence posts, and that a fence thus pro- ided will outlast three others, the wood Is so Indestructible. Branches trimmed from the main stem and used as profis for Lima beans in the garden have been In use many years and are as gd as ever. It is said to be the firmest and best wood for the use of railroad ties and for wliatever use an Indestructible wood is needed. Why then should we not grow more atalpa trees? They are good ehade trees for the street, Invaluable at home for the same pnrpose, while as orna mental trees they have always won favor. I never look at the great trunk f some old eatalpa tree but X think f the boon it will some day be to the economical fence maker that is if fences are In vogue In the future. Vick's Magazine. Hens for FreHt. Madison Avenue writes for the Pasa dena Star as follows : In the opinion of the writer, hens may be mad to pay. Starting about two years ago novice In the business with a dozen fowls for the purpose of securing a few fresh eggs for home use, to-day my flock numbers 2, including two roosters, and while my neighbors and friends are complaining very gener- lly of their hens laying scarcely any eggs, mine are averaging nearly ten day right along, t or curiosity, a recoid was kept for the month of November just passed, the product of which amounted to 290 eggs, and still tne giM.ni work goes on. It Is un doubtedly more profitable for a family to keep a few hens and take good care of them than to have a large number and allow them to shift for themselves, The matter of feed is of the greatest mportance and after experimenting with the various kinds I have settled down to the following combination as possessing a large amount of egg- producing elements, all of which the dealer thoroughly mixes when pur chased, viz. : Rolled barley 25 pounds, cracked corn 20 pounds, bran 25 pounds, whole wheat 10 pounds, shorts 5 pounds, oilmeal 5 pounds, making 100 pounds. Of the above mixture I give my hens two quarts, wet with scalding hot water, in the morning, and toward night they get a full pint of wheat. Theyareshutup until mid die of afternoon, when they have ac cess to green grass, clover, etc., while before them in tneir corral is always a supply of cracked bone, fine gravel and fresh water. I would here state that for variety of fowl I have a mix ture of Wvandotte. Plvmouth Roelr and Light Brahma, ami the eggs for Bize are not excelled. Kerosene Kmnlatoa as a Sheep XNp. It should not be necessary to urge upon him who owns sheep the Im portance of ridding his flock of ticks or other parasitic insects that annoy them. There seems to be a common but mistaken opinion that only poor, unprofitable animals will get " lousy. Certain individuals in a flock or herd on account of a tender skin or other peculiarities are preferred by the ticks or lice, as the cae may be, and In consequence they congregate upon these animals in large numbers. The first step necessary to be taken to get such an animal in good condition is to free it of parasites. This can be so cheaply and easily done by the use of kerosene emulsion, a mixture of kero sene, soap and water, substances that are always at hand, that it seems en tirely Inexcusable for a man to allow his domestic animals, and his pocket book as well, to suffer from these causes. C. P. Gillett, Iowa Experi ment Station. Planting Vineyards at Night. A scene characteristic of California's enterprise and push can be found in the vineyards of Fresno county, where hundreds of men may be seen plant ing grape vines at night by lantern light. To the wondering observer the vineyard lands seem to be infested with a multitude of huge fireflies. which are darting and moving in every direction. It is claimed by the vineyardists who are planting vines at night that the setting of the stakes can be done much more easily and accurately by the aid of lanterns than in broad daylight ; that more work is accomplished by the men in the same number of hours and that a large amount of time is saved. The one set of men work from 9 o'clock in the evening until 6 o'clock in the morn ing when they are relieved by another relay. California Fruit Grower. The question is often asked why popcorn sometimes fails at the critical moment to pop. The trouble is that the corn has either been pulled too green or has become too dry. In the former case the skin would be too tender to retain the heated air until the explosion took place, and in the latter case the skin is so brittle that the air escapes without bursting the kernel. If the corn i too dry, which is most frequently the trouble, im merse the unshelled ears half a minute ia water and the grains will pop with a delightful exuberance, California Fotit Grower. A HAND-MADE SMILE. Tne Woman Whose Mission Wat to Bene. lit the Unman Race. She was about 40 year old, perhap not eo much, says tbe N. Y Herat J. , but her face had a look of much tod cold experience la the . world, look not at ail disgutseu by the nanil-niade s in ilo the wore like a veil. , She wjul tall and well-dressed, but just a trj over-dressed. She came into tue Boston express at Bridgeport and steered straight for a seat beoide a nice, . tiue-naired old Jauy. altnoug-n there were eix or seven empty seats in the car. The old lady had a little girl travel ng with her, aod the train Hadn't left - the station before she of tbe smile had fed tbe child with candy and asked the old lady if tbe pretty little girl was her aaugnter. ro. tier granuaaugbierr How strange! Then sbe edged op a , little closer and turned os another ' valve of talk. How old was tbe little girl? Fire years? How strange! She ' erself bad lost a little girl of just tbat age her only child. Children led to - home. Didn't tbe nice old lady lore home " And where was her home Ob, Sunbury, Mass. Oh. Indeed: a most beautiful place she bad heard. lea. Indeed, stie did love Home but her own home had been broken op by the death of ber child, and how the . and her husband were traveling try- ing to do good to the human race. i Didn't the old lady like to do good' Oli. yes. if one hail tbe means; that's very true. And tbe old lady baa some " means witn wiiicn she aaa tried to do what good she could? Admirable! . Splendid! That's what she of the smile believed In. About all tbe floodgates of talk were wide open now. and tbe stream wag flowing amootblr. ebe of tbe smile didn't care for money for herself. Ail they cared for was to do good with their money. It was so charming to meet some one who held tbasame view. Now, one of the cherished plans for tbe benefit of the human race was tbe establishment of tbe old ladies' borne. Waa tbat a beneficent project? Yes in deed. So glad to find tbe old lady ap proved of it. We bad got together about enough money to begin work; Providence (walling ber eyes) had opened a way by which the rest could be secured. 1 be way waa thus: X ears go ber husband had ' come Into possession of a gold mine. ' Shares in this mine be was now aispostng ox at $100 each. They would be worth $1,000 each within a year. Then tbe happy possessors could do just so much more good for the human race. J. be train bad passed Mott Haven now, and sbe of tne smile was exhibit ing considerable nervousness and baste. By the way sbe bad one of tbe shares with her. Pe'liaps that nice old lady would like one 'o help along the fund of the home.: With that sbe made a reach Into her valine. The trais waa just coming to a stop in tbe Grand Uentral station, the nice old lady got op, took ber baggage and ber granddaughter in hand, and leaned, over the still smiling benefactor of tbe human race. "I have to thank you, madame. she said, ' for the most entertaining a fter noon I bare spent in some time. Bat I am not quite so green as I look." The band-made smile disappeared then for the first time, and left a face that looked ten years older, and some what bard and crueL And tbat was the la9t the passengers who watched the little drama with intense interest saw of the nice old lady or sbe of tne mile. New-Born Intmnts. According to a Yorkshire (England) notion a new-born infant should be placed in the arms of a maiden before it is touched by any one else; and in some instances its right band is bound in a cloth during tbe first day of its existence in order tbat it may gatber riches when grown to manhood or womanhood estate. In many parts of the United States, Germany, France, and Holland, as well as throughout the British isles, it is considered very im portant that an infant should "go ap before it goes down in the world. Thus, if a child is born in the lower story of a house it is instantly bundled np by one of the old women and car ried up-stairs; if tbe event occurs in tbe upper story the same old woman is expected to take tbe ctuid . in ber arms and clamber upon tbe top of tbe table, bureau, or even a chair, any thing to get the little one up in the world. In the north of England when a child is taken from the house for tbe first time, it is given an egg, some salt, and a little loaf of bread, and occasionally a small niece of money these gifts" being supposed to insure the child agaiuet ever standing in need of tbe common necessaries of life. In the East Riding of Yorkshire a few matches are added to light the child to heaven. In Holland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, and parts of Russia tbe mother of a new-born babe, if not too poor, pro vides a small cheese, which is cut in small slices and distributed among the unmarried ladies of ths neighborhood. Any young lady who receives her share of the cheese and eats it without ask ing where it came from and who sent it, will meet her future husband at . a cross-path or cross-roads' within a month. In Northumberland a cake called the "dreaming bread" is dis tributed in the same way. the young ladies who partake of it being sap posed to dream of their future bus bands the same nischt. In the United States, as well as in many other countries, a book, a piece of money, and a bottle of liquor Is placed before an infant the day it is one year Old. -the object being to test what its after inclinations wi ribe- - An Attempted "Kitchen Robbery. The mistress of a suburban house hold undertook to relieve her domestic perplexities in an extraordinary way. A second suburban chatelain was seat ed one day last week at her window sewing when she saw a carriage with liveried coachman halt at ber door. Presuming a caller bad arrived, though not recognizing the estab ' lishment, she was surprised to see the coachman descend, and, avoiding ttt main entrance, vanish kitchenward. T a few minutes he reappeared, esco ' ing her cook to the carriage, wh she remained for several minute,' conversation with its occupant. TV . the cook retired, the coachman f mounted, and the carriage was djr away. It was a clear, andrto t'. credit of woman be it said, a most usual case of attempted kitchen " -bery. It is satisfactory to be - V further report that the cook e" Rented such a manifest "outrag - r 1 V clined to make the sujgr -.- . . in her employer. N. Jr. ' . i ( A