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EXPRESS. ' JLJM 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. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 1. 1891. NO, 8V BANON VOL.tv. W. B. DONACA, DEALER IN- Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacfco, Etc., First-Class ; Goods r at Reasonable Prices. GIVE ME A TRIM AND BE CONVINCED. Couritrv ProdiiflS. -Tt'akeri in Exchange for C Joods. keep im iiaKd a stock of Shingles, Pokts, Boards and Pickets. 4 W. C. Peterson, Notary Public PETERSON & GARLAND, Real Estate Brokers ' HAVE OlS HAND CHOICE BRGhJDSTS In Large and Small Farms. Btet Fruit Lnd in Valley. Finest Grain Ranches in the World. Improved and 1 Unimproved Land, from S4 per Acre i Bid up. SatiBfartien CxTiarantejpd. Have on hand some CHOICE CIT PROPERTY, Residence lind Business. Bargains in all (Additions to the Town. Houses Rented and Farms Leased. iisrs'.criiXisrCE .; , C AGKISTS IFOR " London & Liverpool Jfc Globe Insurance Co. I ' uardian Assurance CoJ of Ixmdoin. ' M n , Onkiaud HorAe Insurtutce Co., of Oakland, Cal. . Tiuu.;.-a ii'.n pleasure in giving our patrons all iikformatio desired to our line of business. DR. C. H. DUCKETT.l n K N T I S lEBASOS, OEEGOK. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. 1 AtBASY. - - - - - ORGO- W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LA) AtBANTOBEOON. . J. 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 rarioieco, Portland and Albany, Org Collections made on favorable terms 11. L. McCLTJRE (Sneeewar fo C. M. Harmon.) Barter : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting and Shampoo ing in the latest and best style. Spec ia.1 attention paid to dressing Ladies hair. Your patronage respectfully so icited. LEBANON Meat Market ED. KELLENBERGER, Prop. Fresh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & ham. BACOS AND LARD ALWAYS ON HAND f Vt-' 1 1 i .Or. Furnishing Goods, Etc. Sam'l M. Gakland, , Attorney-at-Law. butr InsurMmce Co., of ttaiem, uregron. Farmers and Merchants ins. uo., 01 aiem NntjirT DiiAineAS a SoeeiaJtv. wetafee i p. T. COTTON, Groceries and Provisions. -1 , Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Fortign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queenjdware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. ft Main Bltreet. ' Iicbama, Oregon t. TLBORVM. Tonsorial Artist Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair jut, uieanea or uressea. Holt and: Cold Baths at all Hours, ' cfeiUdrei Kindly treated. Cslland see me. 1 FOREIGN. The entire Portuguese cabinet re sign ed April 15. The czar has ordered the expulsion of al'l Jews from all parts of Russia except Poland and about a dozen southern provinces. Bisihop Racine of Sherbrooke, Que bec, I'las issued a man d men t urging tbe I'rench Canadians to go to the new d istricts of the province instead of theUnited States. The insurgents have defeated 3000 of Balrnaceda's men at Copiapo, Chile, and ai?e about to advance on the capital! The Cpanadian government does not intend to tinker the tariff at the com ing sesstion of parliament. Russia, is increasing her military force. . - The Mexican-Guatemala claims commission has about finished its labors. Xhe Guatemalans presented claims fop $2,138,379 and the Mexicans for $1,557l232- The claims disallowed are $ 227,787 for Gautemala and $449, 799 for Mexico. - The time allowed for presenting more claims has passed. The gri htLs trebled the death rate in Hull., I Flour sells for 22 cents a pound in Chile and starvation ha nearly as many victims as the civil war. Two hundred families at King's Cove, Nova Srotia, are reported starv ing. The MarfpU;ris are cot subdued and the British h)ave sent forth heavy forces and expect hard fighting. The grip is increasing in severity in England ancl an the continent. There ha Ipeen much rioting by striking wtwfers in London of late, resulting inhncany broken heads. EAST AJSTD SOUTH Southern Pacific Koutc. TUE MOUNT SHASTA ROUTE. EXPRESS TRAINS LKaVX MSTLMD DAILY : IKW p. jc. I Vv Portland Ar 9 ;3J A. M- 10:23 p.m. 1 Lv Albany Ar 6:13 A. M. 10 qs A.M. Ar San Francisco Lv M. Above trains stop only at the following stations north of Boeebnrg: East Portland, Oregon City, Wood burn, Salem, Albany, Tangent, Shedds. Hnlsey, Barrlaburff, Junction Cliy, Irving aud Eugene. RoMbarg Mall Dally. S H A. 3C. j X.T Portland Ar 4:00 p. M. 13 :30 P. M. I Lv Albany Ar 12:00 M. 5 :40 P. M. f Ar Boaeburg Lv t aaOA. K. Albany Local Dally (Except Sunday.) 5 AO p. K. I Lr Portland Ar I 9:00 A. ML 9. -00 p. if. Ax Albany Lt 5K A. m Local Paaengjr Trains Daily Except Snnday. 2 :S6 P. X. ' LV Albany Ar I 9 :'25 A. K 2:2t P. K. Ar Lebanon Lv 8:40 A. M 7 190 A. K, Lv Albany Ar I 4 :M P. X 8:22 A. 1C Ar Labaaon Lv 3 140 P. M PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Sleeping Cars For accommodation of Second-Claae Passengers, attacbed to Express tra'ns. WKST SIDK DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORYAtLIS. MaU Train Dmily (Except Snnday.) At Albany and Corvallls connect with trains of Oregon Pacific Railroad. (Expn Train Daily Except Sunday.) 4:40 p. icILv Portland Ar I 8 :20 A. M. TdtSp.x. Ar HcMlnnvUla Lv 5:45 A. n. Through tickets to all points Bast and South. For tickets and full Information regarding rates, maps, etc, call on w b agent awDanon. K. HUKULCK, General News. UNITED STATES. The rope carrying a car in the shaft of the Philadelphia colliery at Potts ville, Pa., broke April 15 while the cage was coming up with nine men on it. Th.ee of them jumped off at the firsi landing and the others fell 300 feet. All got broken arms and legs, but, strange to say, four are ex pected to recover. Stanley has gone to England. Three small sons of Thomas Muneo, residing near Washington, found a partly empty nitro-glycerine can April 12 and threw stones at it. One of the stones struck the can and then there was only one boy there and he was dying. The others were scattered over four townships. The government's ease against the whisky trust, accused of hiring a man to blow up the Shufeldt independent distillery with dynamite, is growing remarkably strong. Spotted fever is raging at JVIesquite, Tex. T. Martin, ex-president of the Dover ( N. H.) Shoe company, has been ar rested on a charge of embezzling stock to the amount of $50,000 from Adolph Meyers & Co. of Boston. Dr. Pides-, one of the most prom inent physicians of Wheeling, W . Va., and Taj lor Foreman, superintendent of the county poor farm, have been arrested on a warrant charging them with grave robbery. Upon the recommendation of the civil service commissioners President Harrison has ordered the classifica tion, under the civil service, of the school superintendents, their assist ants, school teachers, physicians and matrons in the Indian service. The report of a combination of the sugar trust, the independent refineries and the wholesale grocers associa tion of the middle and eastern states to control prices is confirmed. Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has gone to South. Dakota to acquire a residence and secure a divorce, after which, it is reported, she will marry Dr. Bui! of New York, who attended her through her late illness. Her husband has gone to Europe to avoid an appearance in the divorce court. N. P. Shafera office at Scran -on, Pa.p caught fireseveraltiroesin differ ent parts of the room recently with no apparent cause. Investigation by a chemist showed that liquid had been spilled about the room which, when a certain point in evaporation is reached, blazes. E. T. Young eloped from Kentucky with F. C. Cash's wife. Cash got a divorce and then followed them, over took them in Texas and shot Young dead. He was tried for murder and acquitted April 11 and he and Mrs. X&sh were remarried the same day. Silas Slaughter, a horse thief, de serted his wife and moved from Par kersburg, W. Va., into Calhoun county, and changed his name, to Waiker four years ago. Recently he ! applied for a pension giving, of course, his right name, and this has led to i his arrest. United States Treasurer Huston has i resigned and Enos H. Nebecker has ! been appointed to succeed him. , j The Indians in Colorado and New ! Mexico have lost many thousand ! cattle, horses and sheep through j severe weather. . j Eben Tourjee is dead. I Constable Green, who was search ing for evidence against violators of the liquor law in Burlington, la., ' April 13, was set upon by twenty or liiirty of the lawbreakers and beaten : almost Lo a jelly. The Farmers' All iance is almost certain to run a presidential ticket next year. Judge Greshen is " talked A crazy woman in the poorhouse at Birmingham, Al., set fire to it April 13 and it was burned with one bed ridden inmate in it. - Adam Itzel, musical director of the McCauli opera company, arrived at Chicago April 12, got into a hack clad only in his underclothes, drove to the Leland hotel, sent for a blanket and, clad in this, entered the hotel. His clothing had been stolen on the train from Baltimore while he was asleep. A party of boys returning from Sun day school at Pittsburg, Pa., April 12, stole a can of giant powder from a factory, built a fire and burned it to see the fun. Michael O'Toole and Edward Caldwell, aged about 12, were killed, and none of them saw any fun in it. A cycloue destroyed the courthouse at Hansford, Tex. April 17, killing two men and injuring another, and wrecked the little town of Paludona, Oklahoma. Current News. Southern California at Chicago. The southern California citrus ex hiuition was the most elaborate and perfect of Its kind ever seen. Start ing at the door the visitor saw a glor ious orange thirty-seven feet in cir cumference made up of thousands of smaller fruit. Behind it were the rest of the orange county products in the form of banks and pyramids of times, lemons and oranges with a car wheel, indicating that all are sold in carload lots. To the left is the additional dis play made by Cucamonga of oil, wine and other things. Then came the beautiful arch, forty six feet in span, of Redlands, San Bernardino county, representing in its background the Bear valley dam. Next was an exhibit from Ontario of a car composed of oranges. The upper San Gabriel valley with separate exhibits from Its three towns, Glen dora, Covina and Azusa, showed a model of Cleopatra's Needle and an immense mass of fruit. An interest ing feature of the exhibit was the courthouse of Los Angeles, standing upon an eminence and built, except the clock, of mandarin oranges and limes. The bay and harbor of San Diego, with Point Lioma, were represented, gulches and all, in the gold-yellow fruit, with orange and lemon-laden ships, wharves and piers. The exhibit of various products followed. A beautiful model of the old mission of the Franciscan monks at San Gabriel stood at one side of the en trance, with steps, ruined walls and the old Spanish belfry carefully por trayed. In the center were architec tural designs not less pretentious and impressive. Duarte had a great mosque, cres cent-topped, admitting a score of per- ons beneath its bulging minaret, while to the north was the great obelisk of Pasadena. This alone required 24,000 oranges of assorted kinds, navels, St. Michaels, Malta Bloods and Mediterranean sweets, the choicest of all the golden coast products. Nearly 200 boxes made thirty-eight feet of solid oranges, with palms and pam pas plumes atop, bringing the total hight of the column to fifty feet. The Santa Barbara exhibit was in hard luck. The1 first night out, before it had crossed the mountains, the train tumbled down an embankment and left nothing but fragments. With characteristic enterprise, a new lot of fruit was exhibited by the third day of the exhibit, and the original idea of a beautiful tropical garden carried out. At the entrance to this garden stood two great fan palms. Behind them were strawberry guava of Japan n full fruit, from which comes the famous jelly, and the Abyssinia banana, both in fruit and flower, the latter measuring some ten feet in length. There was also a lime nearly ten inches in length having all the flavor of the smaller fruit without its excessive acidity. Custard apples, Cherymoya, Eygptian papyrus, giant bamboo, branches of a she-oak from a tree 5 years old and fifty-two feet in height. Then there were two date palms containing six bunches of fruit weigh ing from sixty to eighty pounds apiece, a branch from a lemon tree eleven feet long, all grown In one season of four months. All this, with raisins and olive, citron, lemon and oranoe trees in both blossom and fruit, hardly gives a complete idea of tne nnest exmuii ever mane. Stanford University Faculty. Dr. Jordan has completed his ar rangements for the appointment of the faculty for the Stanford Univer sity and has made the following names public: Dr. Andrew White, ex-president of Cornell University, to be non-resident professor of history. F. Stanford, Lake Forest Univer sity, associate professor of physics. Horace B. Gale, Washington Uni versity, St. Louis, professor of mechan ical engineering. .Professor Joseph Swain, Indiana University, associate professor of mathematics. Doughlas H. Campbell, Indiana University, associate professor of botany. Mr. Blaine Concedes Nothing. Secretary of State Blaine has at last replied at length to the demand of the king of Italy in regard to the New Orleans lynching. He says first, that the only criminal proceedings possible will probably be those in the state courts, though the question has been submitted to the United States at torney general ; second, the treaty with Italy does not guarantee any money indemnity to the Italians or their families, but only the same pro tection afforded to United States citi zens, and that is the right to sue the members of the mob for damages; third, if the authorities of Louisiana had due notioe of the intention of the lynchers and did not attempt to pre vent their action, and if any of the men who were killed were Italian citi zens who resided in this country " not in violation of our immigration laws ( this bars out at least three of the four claimed to have been Italian citizens who were criminals whose immigra tion was illegal ) the president would feel that a case had been established which should be submitted to con gress with a view to the relief of the families of such Italian citizens. Mr. Blaine says : " I am directed by the president to express the satisfac tion of his government with the very material qualification of his demand made by the marquis Rudini on be half of the Italian government" But he gives no encouragement to expect that even the modified demands of Italy will be acceded to. Farm Notes. Pertinent Paragraphs. Ostrich farming is not a bonanza to the man without experience. The 162 ostriches on the farm of the California Ostrich company at Anaheim, valued at $30,000 and assessed for $11,000, have boen sold for$6000. We wouldn't advise any young man with $500 cap ital and no experience to go into ostrich farming for profit. The owners of 8000 acres of vine yards In the Saratoga district of the Santa Clara valley have combined with two objects, first, to market their own wines in the east, without carry ing the burden of middlemen, and, second, to see that no poor wine goes out with the brand of the organiza tion. There is an enormous differ ence between the price the producer gets for all kinds of crops and the price the consumer pays, and a large part of the difference can be saved to the producer, in almost every product, by such a combination managed with ability and honesty. Foreign Practice. An Hanoverian farmer, chiefly en gaged in calf-fattlng, was not abio to push forward the animals sufficiently rapidly for the market. The milk he utilized was creamed; linseed meal was employed to supply the absence of milk-fat, but did not suit. He pur chased what he calls ox " kidney fat or tallow, and melting it added it to the warmed milk. At first the calves disliked the mixture, but took to it in the end, even when scales of grease were on the milk. The butchers, he states, prefer his veal to that of other iatteners. Professor Nathorst of Sweden is oc cupied with the question, how to aug ment the richness of milk without diminishing its quantity. He totally objects to crossing breeds of milk cows to effect that end. He has tried the union of the Jersey and the Dutch or Freisian races, but the result was illusory. Next he studied the ques tion of alimentation, ' and naturally noted that rich rations tended to rich milk ; but they did not at all increase the secretion in the case of cows yield ing rich milk. Ultimately he decided to analyze the percentage of fat in the milk yielded by each cow of the Dutch breed ; he found much vaiiation under this head. But he selected the best butter animals and, breeding from them, has nowa most satisfactory herd of dairy stock. There is nothing new in the principle; patience, time and careful selection will develop and in crease good points perhaps in every animal. The very interestingdiscussion con tinues, before the academy of sciences, between the two eminent chemists, Messrs. Schloesing and Berthelot, on the subject of the absorption of at mospheric nitrogen directly by the soil. The question divides continental chemists into two opposite camps. Awaiting the agreement of the doc tors, the situation appeal's to be this : That nothing definite has been estab lished by any of the experiments. Galleu says yes; Hippocrates, no. Berthelot, among other investiga tions, has sent electric currents through vases, containing soil and growing plants. The soils electrified were found to be richer in nitrogen than those not electrified. The only step this delicate subject has made in In advance Is the discovery that microbes, while executing their role of grand decomposers and disintegra tors of organic matters, favor the ab sorption of nitrogen by the soil and by the plant. But what effect would Berthelot 's electric current have upon this lowest form of parasite life? Can the victim resist the executioner? Cor. New England Farmer. A New Class. For fifty years to come horticul tural interests will probably increase, and among horticulturists the skilled fruit-grower, owning from ten to fifty ;ires of land, will best represent his class. Such a person is likely to be more of a business man than the average farmer, and is in closer rela tions to town and city life. He is compelled to travel more, watches the markets and the fields of invention closer and represents, all in all, a finer type. A California fruit-grower is in some respects akin to the middle class of suburban dwellers near Boston and New York, with this very important difference, that he actually and con stantly makes his living from the soil he owns. The one tendency of his life is toward what may be termed extreme Calif ornianism for he is growing almonds or oranges or some thing or other that cannot be pro duced at a profit in many other places on the continent, and the ' glorious climate " is his best friend. But, on the other hand, he is in a skilled busi ness, full of technical details, requir ing plenty of brain work, and he is selling in the world's markets. Many a California grower of raisins, oranges, walnuts, olives, prunes, or other horti cultural products goes to Chicago and New York every autumn " to keep the run of the field." The drift of Pacific coast life is toward a rapid increase of the number of orchardists. They are organized, too, in a manner Junknown among the farmers, and have several times shown unsuspected courage in independent politics. Some of these days professional politicians will have to deal with a new factor the horti culturist, a distinct evolution from the conservative American farmer type, quicker of brain, less wedded to party bonds, and more capable of under standing the interests of the common wealth. Charles H.Shinn in the Pop ular Monthly for April. - The Burlington road's switchmen are on strike. Growing' Mangels. The following hints on the growing of Mangel Beets have been kindly fur nished by Mr.. W. C. Damon of Napa : Beets do best in a deep, sandy loam, mainly because such soil is easily kept moist by working. But they will do equally well In blaek adobe or yel low clay, when thoroughly cultivated so as to retain the moisture. Any land adapted to corn or potatoes will produce good beets. They also do well in alkali land, and will extract the alkali, thus improving the soil for other crops. Beets do not exhaust the soil more than wheat. They are great air feeders, gathering all their sugar through their leaves, and tak ing nothing from the soil except wa ter and a slight trace of salts. Like all vegetables, they do best in rich, stnpng land. I never irrigate my beets, though a moderate use of wa ter will improve the crop. If manure is used it must be old aud well rotted, as green manure renders the soil too porous and the crop will dry out If not irrigated after July. The land should be plowed In the fall and left as rough and well drained as possible through the win ter. In March or April it should be plowed again, but not harrowed down until the heavy rains are over. Then lay off the ground as for corn, in rows one way, four feat apart, for Long Red Mangels; but Yellow Globe, or Sugar Beets should be planted three feet apart. Sfft in the seed with the hand, walking at full pace, using from five to seven pounds to the acre. Cover with the harrow ; if early, one or two inches deep by harrowing with the rows and no clodding or rolling afterward, as a heavy rain after plant ing will harden the land if it is left too smooth ; if late, plant four inches deep by harrowing across the rows, and clod-mash or roll thoroughly af terwards, to hold the moisture. Two men can rplant five acres in a day, and no tools are needed except a corn marker and a harrow. I never use a seed drill. Success depends largely upon planting at the right time. The seed must not be planted too early, as heavy rains after planting will har den the earth around the roots. April is generally the best time to plant, or even May, if the land is kept moist. The Long Red Mangel yields the largest crop on a deep, rich soil, often producing 25 to 40 tons per acre. It can be pulled without the spade, comes out clean and is very brittle, crisp and tender. If harvested about Christmas it can be corded up like wood, (not piled in a heap) in a cool, dry place, and it will keep nicely until June. The air must circulate through the mass to prevent moulding. Wilt ing does not injure, but improves them. When harvesting, clean off all dirt and cut the tops closely. The Yellow Globe Mangel is more turnip-shaped, and less brittle and watery ; it yields well, is very easily pulled, and does better on a thin, dry soil than any other variety. The Su gar Beet is smaller and grows more in the pTound, but it is richer in su gar, and yields g re at crops on good soil. But the Long Red is the general favorite, and very extensively grown by dairymen, though the others may be better for horses. Never use hot water on the seed ; it is liable to weaken the germ, if it does nut utterly destroy it. I have found the following treatment very successful : Three or four days be fore planting, dip the sack of seed In a tub of milk-warm water, and leave it there one day. Then take it out and lay it in the warm sun. Cover it up at night. Every morning dip the sack in warm water (a moment or two), and leave it in the sun. The ob ject is to keep the' seed moist and warm, but not to leave it under water after the first day. In about four days the sprouts will begin to appear. ixun jmuui it,, ami u me SOU IS moist and warm it will come tin with- in ten days. But it must be planted in moist soil, of course, or it will Hrv out. Seed planted before the first of a.pru neeu not oe soaKed. After the plants are well started they should be thinned out. On every six inches is enough, and later sun remove nan oi cnese, leaving them a foot apart for Long Red. Do not neglect this if you want large beets. One hoeing is enough, but keep the ir round well-stirred with the cultivator the first part of the season. It will pay to go over it every two weeKs in iuay ana dune. Bird Seed. Whoever buys bird seed at retail pays a huge profit to the dealer, even when weighed out of seeds in bulk ; to use the pound paste-board boxes is still more costly. These are often adulterated with millet, which no bird eats unless forced by hunger; well fed birds waste itso much the package might as well be weighed with sand. I sowed some German rape from one of these mixtures. When it grew it was wild mustard or charlock, Sinapis arvensis. But it is good bird seed all the same, and it may be gathered in quantity from the fields in many places. Pull the plants and hang them in bunches till dry, then the seed can be cleaned very easily. Turnips set out in spring will yield bird seed, and mustard seed may be fed to some extent. Canary grass sown in garden drills a foot apart, and kept hoed, will yield a long succession of heads, first from the top of the stem then from the lower points. Cut, not pull, them as they ripen, dry and rub them out, winnow in a large pan. Hemp is easily grown in the garden or any out of the way corner. Some hemp plants are males, pull them up mostly as soon as you can tell them their flowers swing by fine threads, the females are In thick, erect spikes. One male plant is enough to keep. Turkeys willTareak down hemp some times, and hens will eat up canary grass if they can get to it. Yick's Magazine for ApnI. Woman's World. " Current Comment. L. E. McEIroy is the first female notary public In California. She was commissioned April 6 and has her office at San Quentin. Women are working their way into all places in California except that at the polls. The Young Women's Christian As sociation of San Francisco has opened a lunch room where working girls can bring their lunches and eat them or with or without tea or coffee or bread and butter, which last are eharged for at 1 cent each. Tea, coffee or bread and butter tickets are sold at the fac tories, five for 5 cents. Misses Evelyn and Jarrett Keyser, practical printers, have decided to go Into the job printing business at Paso Robles and perhaps to start a paper there. The young ladies learned to set "type in Hanford and those who know them prophesy success for them. Voong- Shoppers. ' Too many people assume the cares and duties of house keeing and home making without the knowledge gained by experience in handling money. The safest and - least humiliating place to acquire this ease Is under the home-roof where a dear, sympathetic mother can guide and ad vise. against errors. Children may be trained very early to understand and appreciate the value of money, and I know of no better way than to allow them to pur chase some simple articles for the house. All children should have a little money of their own to accustom them to personal expense. No child realizes the unavoidable expense he is to his parents unless he handles and, if pos sible, earns some of the money that is used In keeping him comfortable and happy. Such knowledge, if properly brought to a child's notice, will only serve to make him more considerate of his parents and less likely to make them needless trouble. This habit of allowing young folks "pin money" is a familiar one in many families, but few, I think; take the pains to instruct them in the im portant art of judicious buying. Chil dren enjoy a little importantance very much, and will exercise great care if sent on an errand in which they may use their own judgment. When the result is unsatisfactory, gently point out the fault; if all is well, be equally sure to give due meed of praise, for much is due the child who succeeds while learning something new. One girl can never forget how hard was her path when, on going at seven teen to live with an invalid aunt, she, for the first time in her life, had all the shopping to do. Totally without experience In this kihd of work, for work it certainly was, she was often completely at the mercy of the store keeper and, on reaching home, ex tremely liable to her aunt's dis pleasure. Let me relate one instance. She was sent down town one day to buy gingham to make six short dresses for the year-old baby. For two, she bought material of a small blue check, for two more of a small brown check, and for the other two of a pink end white that was very pretty to the eye. No one had ever told her that pink rarely washed well, but she never touched one of those pick dresses in all the long winter that followed with out thinking as she looked at the faded, slimpsy garment: "Why couldn't some one have cautioned me against such a mis take? " One wise mother said to her grocer, and to the head of the dry-goods house where she usually dealt:. "I shall occasionally send my little daughter to make small purchases, allowing her to use her own judgment. If I am in immediate need of any thing for which I send her, she will bring you a note. Otherwise do not allow her to take time from your more important customers." The dealers thanked her warmly, for there are many seasons when their time is altogether too valuable to per mit of their turning the business into a training-school for young shoppers. So in this way the child had a chance to learn without defrauding others. She was sometimes sent to "buy some suitable buttons for this ging ham apron, dear," or some like in stance, and although only ten years old, she showed considerable good taste and judgment. She would occasionally be sent to the grocery store to order vegetables for dinner, and was teasing hard to be taught all about meat, so she "could order papa's Sunday roast." Not a precocious child, mv TMAf Only ono whom a very conscientious motner naa oeen training m this direction for several years. Maud S. Peaslee in Rural Press. Phoebe Cousins Belligerent. A Chicaco dispatch of Anril la m - The war between the executive com mittee or the lady managers of the world's fair and Secretarv nnn;na was brought to a climax to-day by the positive re i u sai or Miss Couzlns to recognize the authority of the sub committee, headed by Mrs Potter Palmer. Miss Couzlns said she would neither retire nor appear before the committee; that she was legally a member of the board of lady managers and was not amenable to discipline from the executive committee. She also declared that if this com mittee undertook to depose hamhA should appeal to the courts. A fear was quite generally expressed this evening that the feud may entirely disrupt the board of ladv martnemra as Mrs. Palmer, it is pointed out, is a woman oi great ability and determin ation of character, and Miss Cnuina has a legal education and a remark able record as a pluckv and succaha ful fighter "Needles and Pins.' When Nrtt of NsdoII came to this Kbore. She knew but two words "needles, pins" and no more, a Until a street Arab, rjncoitiired yoong wtgj . Did something I cannot consider as ripbt. And laugbt her to add to tire "needles f pins." - . em. "When a roan's married, bis taonbler7. , Bnt Netta of Nspoll noted erelong, By looking at ladies who'd list to bersong, Thst this was a sentence exceedingly wrong. And being a poetess after her way, Betbouirht her of something more fitting to say; So that now her refrain is still "Needles mo9 Pit Wben a man's married, a treasu're-e wins Which Is why the good housewives, at least U our block, W hen Notta appears, all select from her stock. Mrs. Valentine Adams, In Harper's Young People. LEGENDS OF THE 7REN. Its Trick on an Eagle Wins It Popularity Among the Irish. In Ireland the wren is called ihfT-. king of birds. One old legend amon. the Irish, that dates as far back as the . days of the Druids, is thus stated by the Boston Globes ; Once upon a time the eagle, arwayT.. proud of his strength and valor, called v all the birds together for a trial of , flight, with this understanding, that h . who soared the highest would forever command the distinctive title of "king of birds." The eagle, by common consent, had been invested with the honor from time immemorial and be had oo Mea of giving it up; bat the better to im press his superiority on all inferior birds he called together the whole feathered tribe for this flying tonrna- meat. At the appointed time the birds came. There were thrushes, linnets, magpies, crows, blackbirds, bluebirds. nawKS, uoves, rooms, sparrows, nignt in galea, larks, game birds from the fnreftt- Rpahirds frnm the. eoaat and last of all, bat as noisy as any of them, came the turkeys, geese, oqcks ana hens from tbe barnyards. The eagle surveyed them all with bis piercing eyes. At some of them he cast a contemptuous glance, bat wben be saw the skylark he looked a little uneasy. This was tbe only bird be really feared, for the skylark can fly very high. Bat his fears did not last long, for just then he saw some thing to make him laugh. It was the little wren hopping along saucily with his jaunty little tail perked up with the utmost assurance. One would think he sorely expected to win the prize. Tbe eagle began to poke fun at him. and all the other birds joined in. so that the poor little wren was glad to escape out of sight. Wben tbe signal was given for tbe birds to start he was nowhere to be seen, and if any one thought of him at all it was probably to conclude that be had realized the folly of his trying to compete with those so. much stronger than himself, and bad wisely gone home to his nest in the hedge. At a given signal away, flew tbe birds. Up, up. up! Tbe wild did very well, so did tbe hawk, and the skylark kept close under the eagle's big wings; but one by one they bad to give up. all bat the proud old eagle. He kept on soaring until be reached a point from which he could not raise himself another inch. Then be looked down proodly at all the representatives of tbe feathered tribe below him, and they looked up admiringly at him, wbeu suddenly up above him flew a little dark speck. It was a bird, and the horrified, eagle looked up to see the despised little wren hovering above him. All the other birds saw him too. and they set up a great shout. Then down flew the crestfallen eagle. As the birds touched the ground they looked for the wren, and they saw him hop off the eagle's back. He had been nestling among the feathers, and the big eagle .did not feel bis weight. " So it was that when the eagle and the other birds had used op all their strength he was able to reach a point higher than all of them. According to the letter of the law the wren was adjudged "king of birds." bat, as one may suppose, the eagle was very angry. He set to work and cursed tbe wren and laid a spell on him so that he sbonld never agxin he able to fly over anything, and to this day an Irish wren cannot even fly over a hedge; be must find an opening in it somewhere before be can pass from one field or garden to another. - The drnids treated the wren with great distinction, but when Christianity was introduced into the cooatry tbe first Christian missionaries, not above superstition themselves, considered their admiraticfei a great offense, and since then the poor little king baa sometimes had a bard time of it. Another incident to bring the wren into ill-repute with the Irish is the story that once when tbe Danes had invaded Ireland a party of their while asleep were about to be surrounded by the natives when several wrens awoke . them by pecking on their drams. The same story is told of wrens awaking a . detachment of protectants daring one of the religious wars of Ireland. Either affair would be enough to make the Irish hate the poor little wren, and they set apart St. Stephen's Day that is the day following Christ mas on which to persecute hrm. On that day tbe idle men and boys go a wren hunting. They take sticks or clubs and run like mad from hedge to hedge nntil they succeed in killing one. Then they form a procession and carry about tbe poor little body, bong by one leg in the center of two hoops crossing each other at right angles, the whole arrangement deco rated with bits of colored ribbon. They march from door to door, and in front of each the funny one of the party, called the "drolleen," sings: The wren, the wren, Tbe king of all birds, St Stephen's Day He was caught In the firs; And although be is little, His family's frreat. Bo arise, good lady. And give us a treat. They usually receive a hearty wel- come, and tne treat rhyming with great besides a few pence dropped into an old stocking which the drolleen holds out as he sings. These receipts are spent in a jollification for the evening:, and the funnier tbe drolleen is and the more apt he is at repartee the heavier the stocking will be at the close of the day. Serving; a Subpoena. While a constable at Bayville. N. Y.r was trying to serve a s'ubpeena the other day the unwilling witness in endeavoring to keep away from the man of the law jumped through a win- -dow, landingin a tub of water. The constable landed on top of him, and,. white both were "w allowing in their bath11 the constable served his a ibpov Da, . y a f v - 1-