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f LEBANON EXPRESS. 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. LEBANON, OREGON, FltlDAY, JULY 3. 1891. NO. 17. . J W. B. DONAGA, -DEALEB IS- Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacco, Furnishing Goods, lite, First-Class Goods at Reasonable Prices. GIVE ME A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED. Country Produce Taken in. Exchange for " .' Goods. KEEP ON HANI) Shingles, Posts, Boards and Pickets. V. C. Peterson, "A otary Public. PETERSON & GARLAND, Real Kstate Brokers . HAVE ON HAND CHOICE BARGAHSTS In Large and Small Farms. Best Fruit tne oria. lmprovea ana i nimprovea jana, mm per Acre ana up. Satisfaetien Guaranteed. Have on hand some CHOICE CITY PROPERTY, Residence and Business. Bargains in all Additions to the Town. Houses Rented and Farms Leased. AGENTS London A Liverpool & Globe Insurance Co. Guardian Assurance Co., of London. Oakland Home Insurance Co.. of Oakland, Cal. State Insurance Co., of Salem, Oregon. " Farmers' and Merchants Ins. Co., of Salem Collections Receive Prompt Attention. pleasure in giving our patrons all information desired in our Une of business. DR. C. H. DUCKETT, D E N T I ST LEBANON, OREOOX. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank.' JLBANV, ..... OREGON. W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. A L R A X YO It KG ( V. J. L. COWAN. J. H. B ALSTON Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. Exchange sold on New York, San rancifcco, Portland and Albany, Org Collections made on favorable terms G. T. COTTON, Dealer- in Groceries and Provisions. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Stwset. . IlMwion, Oregon LEBANON Mfia.t Market ED. KELLEXBERGER, Prop! Fresh & Saltbd Beef, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. Mil;! BACON AND LARD ALWAYS OH HAND Mate 8Us( UhMiM. Org. hitc A STOCK OF Sam'i.' M. Garlaxij Attomev-at-Law. Land in Valley. Finest Grain Ranches In FOR Notary Business a Specialty. We take EAST AND SOUTH VIA Southern Pacific Route. THE MOUNT SHASTA ROUTE. EXPRESS TBAES8 LEAVE PORTLAKD DAILY : 7 AO P. M. I 10 :23 P.M. I 10 aS A-M. Portland Ar I 9: A. H. Albany Arl:15 A. X. Ban Francisco Lv J 9 SX) P. M. AT Above trains stop only at the following stations norm 01 Boaenurg: oai roixiajiu, uiwunn Woodburn. Salem. Albany. Tangent. Shedds, HXIsey, Harrisbura, Junction Ctiy, Irving and Eugene. RoMbnrg Mall Imlly. 8 :00 A. M. I Lv Portland Ar 4fl0 P. M. 12 :20 P. M. 1 Lv Albauy Ar j 12 HX) M. 6 :40 P. M. f Ar Roaeburg Ivj afl l. M. Albany Local lally (Except Bonday.) 5 0 P. If . I Lv Portland Ar 9 :00 A. M. 9 KM) P. M- I Ar Albany i-v 5 K)0 A. M Local Passenger Trains Daily Except Sunday. 2 :3 P. M. Lv Albany Ar j 9 :25 A. H " 2:2b P. M. Ar Lebanon Lv 8:40 A. M t :30 A. M. I Lv Albany Ar 4 :X P. M 8 .-22 A. M. Ar Lebanon Lv 3 :40 p. M PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. tourist Sleeping Cars For accommodation of Second-Claw Passengers. attached to Express trains. WEST SIDE DIVISION. BETWEEX PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS Mall Train Daily (Except Sunday.) At Albany and CorvalUs connect with trains o Oregon Faclnc Kallroad. b Train Dally Except Sunday.) Af-Thronffh tickets to all points East and South. For ticket and full Information regarding rates, maps, etc., can on vob agent auDanon. K. KOEULEK, K- 1. ROGERS, Manager. Asst . F. & P. Agt I. R. BORUM. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair Uut, Uleanea or Dressed. Hot and Cold Baths at all Hours. Children Kindly treated. Cal land see me. R. L. McCLURE (Successor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting and Shampoo ing in the Latest ana nest style, espec ial attention paid to dressing Ladies1 hair. Your patronage respectfully so-icited. Current News. Labor Union News. Three thousand architectural metal workers in Chicago struck June 15 for au eight-hour day and an increase in wages. I Seven bunded Jewish and Russian . tailors in Philadelphia are out on strike. Thousand: of female employes of London lauudries struck June 18 for an eight-hour day and eighty cents. They smashed the windows of non union laundries, dragged out women who wanted to remain at work and laughed at the efforts of the police. The Iowa coal miners strike failed and the men have gone back to work on the old terms. At Dunreph and Angus eight hours were granted with out a strike. After the btg British coal ship Hounslow, which has been engaged for several months in carrying coal from Nanalmo to San Diego, was dis charged and ready to sail June 17 the Coast Seamens union got her crew, who had signed contracts for two years at $25 a month, to desert, and representatives of the union patrolled the wharves and constantly rowed back and forth ia boats to prevent the shipment of a non-union crew. June 19 Captain Norman had se cured a boatload of men, and while passing from the wharf to the steamer three shots were fired at them by the pursuing members of the union, but no damage was done. "While making another trip the captain was beset by a number of desperate 'longshoremen, and but for the presence of a squad of police with drawn revolvers he would undoubtedly have been seriously in jured or killed. When he reached the vessel he had the anchor weighed and the steamer went down the harbor to Ballast point, where several more non-union seamen were taken on board, they having been driven to that point in a wagon to escape the pickets of the union at the wharf. After drilling the new men until noon next day the steamer sailed, leaving the strikers in San Diego minus about$2000 in wages ; which by the strike they hare for feited. At the coal mines of Spring Valley, III., after a settlement was made, about the middle of May, the men worked a week and then struck on account of an arbitrary order requir ing them to remain down in the mine until 5 p. m., and another grievance respecting screens on which the coal passes before it is weighed. The screens had been changed from flat to diamond bars and more nut coal passed through, which was a loss to the miner. The men quit on May 25. June 19 the general manager re ceived a letter from W. L. Scott, pres ident of the coal company, instructing him to rescind the obnoxious order and offering to submit the screen question to a board of arbitration. He also offers in the letter to make a semi-monthly pay day. All these points are concessions to the men and a settlement of the trouble seems probable. A Patriotic Rebuke. Henri F. Emeric of San Francisco who, with his invalid wife, physician and attendants went to Liverpool by the Inman Bteamer City of New York, administered a cutting rebuke to the captain of that vessel for a studied insult to the United States. After a concert was held for charitable pur poses a vote of thanks was tendered Captain Lewis. In respondinghe said the entertainment would conclude by singing "God Save the Queen " and "The Star-Spangled Banner," and then, checking himself, said : "Oh, I forgot; I regret to say that there are no copies of The Star-Spangled Ban ner aboard this ship, therefore we Bhall omit it on this occasion." A murmer of disapproval echoed through the saloon. At last Emeric arose and said: "I protest against this. I have crossed the Atlantic on this vessel twenty times, and on each trip that same excuse for not singing our American national air has been made by the captain. I think that even if it be true there are no copies of the song aboard there is a sufficient number of Americans pres ent who know the song to sing it, and if, indeed, there are nocopieson board, here is $20 to start a fund to buy some, so that the ship shall be no longer left in such a destitute condition. At the same time Mr. Emeric indig nantly threw down on the table a $20 gold piece. This patriotic example was enthusiastically followed, till the cabin table resembled the Tranby Croft baccarat layout. Frank Albracht, a merchant of Forest Hill, arrived at Sacramento June 18th, accompanied by his two boys, and stopped at a hotel. In the evening he left on the train with the little ones and rode to the outskirts of the city, where all three alighted. They proceeded down the railroad track, however, and walked all the way to Brighton Junction. About 1 o'clock the next morning Albracht applied at the residence of a rancher named Bidwell for admission, and when the door was opened he pushed his way into the house, struck a match and began looking for a lamp. Ho told the astonished rancher to "tell the boys to come in," but be fore the request could be complied with the two little worn-out tots stumbled into the door, one of them exclaimed that he was "afraid of the dogs." Bidwell saw that the man was insane, and objected to him re maining there ; so Albrachtpcalied his boys, and they spent the remainder of the night in the high grass of the neighboring field. Albracht returned to Sacramento and was arrested as insane. Coast News. CALIFORNIA. The state floral society has passed resolutions indorsing the demand that horticulture and viticulture should be separated In the exhibits In the world's fair. Mrs. Josenh A. Winninirer of Wood land drowned herself at Santa Cruz while despondent, nobody knows why. An electric railroad from San Jose to Redwood City is proposed. The state controller refuses to draw warrants for the appropriation to encourage ramie culture and the superior court nas sustained mm. xne ramie people will appeal to the supreme court. . - . - Southern California has more potatoes than the i ail roads can carry or eastern consumers eaL . Thft nrnrt of evervthlnff is so trreat that it Is impossible to get hands to harvest It and grain fields and orchards are suffering and much fruit will rot wnere it grew ior wanioi neip to pieK it. Inexperienced hands can eet $30 a month in all parts of the state, al most. AMADOR COUNTY. At Sutter Creek the other day B. Unbolt, one of the oldest citizens of the place, was found hanging by the necK in tne oasemencoi nis resiuenee. He was well-to-do, had a family of three daughters and a happy home. and no cause has been assigned for the act. ALAMEDA COUNTY. Alameda city has fixed the price of liquor licenses at $500 and provided that no license shall be granted until a majority of the householders living within 600 feet sign the application ; that no saloon shall be within 100 feet of the entrance of a public school, and that no saloon shall be conducted in connection with a grocery store or other business. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. A passenger train and a gravel train were wrecked in a collision at Port Costa June 15 and William J. Jordan, head brakeman of the gravel train, and W. A. Spurgeon, a mail clerk, were killed. FRESNO COUNTY. W. R. Dwyer, a Selma lawyer, has deserted his wife and children and disappeared. A wild man dressed in skins and with a Ion or white beard has f ricrhtened alt the Chinese shepherds out of the neignoornooa oi xainarac aieauowa, in Kintr's river can von. They think he is a devil. White men think he is an escaped lunatic, but have been unable to capture him. The Fresno citv school census did nofcshow enough children and it is to be taken over again. Etnmett Irwin attempted to assault the voung wife of Andrew Fuller on the Enterprise colony. Fuller gave him a fearful beating and Irwin ned, tearing prosecution. Charles Stewart, a farmer, built fl new house four mites west of Fresno. He had been lavincr carnets in it and sat down to rest, June 18. While he sat there a mattress in the room began to blaze. Investigation showed that a lamp reflector on the wall had thrown the sun's rays on the mattress and fired it. Had not Stewart chanced to be in the room at the time his house would have been destroyed by mysterious fire. HUMBOLDT COUNTY. Edward Cavanaugh was killed by a fall at tne eeal mock nmitnouse June is. William Connors was caught in the apparatus of the donkey engine at tne jsewoury mm, jtonnervuie, i une 18, and Killed. LOS ANGELES COUNTY. Justice Morris and Constable Mays of Lancaster were the only ones who dared pursue llony Crane, J . U. JUteh line and W. H. Lewis, horse thieves. so they took their rifie3 and after a hunt of two days caught the thieves and tooK tnem to jail. John Houghmount, a bricklayer at Los Angeles, went insane on reading the advertisement of a " microbe killer" and imagines himself full of microbes. After taking nineteen gallons of the dubious mixture he has been adjudged insane. Santa Monica imposed a $6 license on insurance agents ami tne com panies have eiven notice of a rise of 20 per ctnt in rates if the order is not rescind ea. Peter Taylor's house in Los Angeles was burned June l!th, and his son J miles, 32 years old and weak minded perished in the flames. MENDOCINO COUNTY. David Penwell blew up a tree wiili dynamite at Bear Harbor and it fell on mm ana Kiiiea mm. MERCED COUNTY. Elbert Hale ha been convicted of the murder of Mrs. Lottie McDowell at Cottonwood last January. The penalty is fixed at life imprisonment, MARIN COUNTY. Ten yachts anchored off Marin is land, near San Rafael. June 21. and their occupants had a clambake, but they set the grass on fire and the island was soon in names ana tney had to ny for their lives. MONTEREY COUNTY. Charles Howes fatally shot Edward W. Wagner, a drug clerk, at Monte rey, June 20, because Wagner refused to sell mm ten cent s wortn oi mor phine on credit. NAPA COUNTY. George Lang's distillery at Napa has been seized for defrauding the government. PLACER COUNTY. Oliver S. Lower, a bachelor farmer of Newcastle, advertised for a wife. Miss Ella Ustell of Kentucky an swered his appeal and they became engaged. She arrived at Sacramento June 17 and they met for the first time. They were married the next day. PLUMAS COUNTY. A fire the other day- consumed the hotel of P. R. Welch at Longville, and the outhouses and buildings aojacentj causing an uninsured loss of $4000. SACRAMENTO COUNTY. Charles Lewis, aged 14, was drowned while bathing at Sacramento J une lb. John Ryan, James Smith and Joseph Tiowmi v have ?nne to the state prison for five years for robbing James Maple in a Sacramento saloon. SAN DIEGO COUNTY. The Oceanside railroad office was robbed June 17 and several watches and other valuables belonging to the express company were taken. The San Diego chamber of com merce is trying to raise a bonus of $200,000 for an Iron and steel plant with a capacity of 100 tons a day to be located on San Diego bay. Warrants were promptly issued for the arrest of the members of the Coast Seamen's Union, who committed a murderous assault on Pilot Dill and non-union seamen bound for the boy cotted steamer Hownslow. SAW FRANCISCO COUNTY. James Ballenger was cruelly beating with a wagon spoke a small boy who had annoyed him June 17 at the foot of Seventh street when Peter Gal lagher, aged 17, interfered and struck Ballenger with hfs fist. Ballenger thereupon shot Gallagher through the body. SONOMA COUNTY. Petal u ma creek is to be dredged at once from the town railroad to the steamer Gold's warehouse. BAN JOAQUIN COUNTT. Supervisor Otto Grunsky was dis pleased at comments of the Stockton Mail on his conduct and when he and Editor E. L. Colnon met June 17 he knocked Colnon down. When the editor got up Grnnsky handed him his hat and cane "and, the dispatch says, " the trouble was at an end." More wells are beinsr bored atStock- ton for gas for light and fuel. SIERRA COUNTY. John C. YouDor was found dead In his mining tunnel near Siena City, having been killed by a eave. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. Track Walker O'Brien of Wricht's got drunk and was robbed of $3-r0 by four men June 19. - STANISLAUS COUNTT. The Oakdale water works have been b u rued. An accidental explosion at Mc- Dou gall's camp June 17 fractured one man s skuu, oroKe anotner s arm ana Injured half a dozen others. TEHAMA COUNTY. Thirty of A. Walton s dairy cows at Red Bluff were killed by poison spread on the feed In a field of corn June 21. TULARE COUNTY. The Kawe&h eolnv leased patents to certain sections of land within the national park, and on these it will probably be permitted to run sawmills provided satisfactory arrangements can be made with the government for right-oi-way to and from them. VENTURA COUNTY. J. W. Richards, ased 76. committed suicide in the county hospital June 16. PACIFIC COAST. The Alertno and Eusenada stage was robbea June aotn by two masKeu men, wno got only ALASKA. Lieutenant Robinson and four of thecoew of the revenue cutter Bear and A. C. Moore of the Russell Mount St. Elias party have been drowned wuiie iryiug lo maite a lammig in ivy bay. BRITISH COLUMBIA. S. H. Romans, a commission mer chant and manufacturers' agent at Y.-incouver, has been arrested for ob taining money by raise pretenses. IDAHO. Whisky and women caused Robert Fool to snoot ntmseiF at nnosnone, June 1. NEVADA. Daniel Harrington was probably fatally injured in a fall from a buggy NEW MEXICO. A dozen men have been killed by Apaches within nve months and general raid by them is anticipated. James B. Hiler, who killed Dr. C. L. Mason because of gossip about him and Mrs. Hiler at Kingston, has been sent to the penitentiary for fifteen years. William Hubbard blew his head off with a pistol at Kingston June 18 be cause he had been mixed up in the tiller--Mason scandal. OREGON. Portland's $56,500 of 6-per-cent thirty-year refunding bonds sold for 1UO. To secure a bonus of $6000 offered by the people some eastern parties are considering the establishment of a $20,000 plant for manufacturing a combined pulverizer, seeder ana harrow. A blacksmith at Monument named Churchill shot and killed his assistant aud fled. A German stranger over took him on the road and Churchill, thinking he belonged to a pursuing posse, snot ana Kiuea mm, too. A stallion kicked and killed William Curtis in Tillamook county and tore him in pieces and ate part of him. The Young Men's Municipal league of Portland, encouraged by the vic tory of the citizens' ticket iu the recent city election, have determined to circulate a petition asking for the removal of Chief of Police S. B. Parish, a leorganization of the police force, a withdrawal of the fire department from politics, the prohibition of gambling and prostitution. and the closing of saloons on Sunday. WASHINGTON. Spokune Falls will bond for $1,200, 000. A masked man robbed the Wenat chie and ELlensburg stage, securing a lot of registered letters, June 16. The hop vines are covered with lice. Fears are entertained that they will destroy the crop. Ezner Meeker of Puyallup, an extensive grower, says they are the same aphides found on willows and are doing no harm to tixe hops. Taylor Stark, who killed Neil Bloomstran, at Seattle, when Bloom stran attempted to prevent his paying attentions to Miss Chestie Bloom stran, has bee n acq u i tted and has married Chestie. Frank Salvo has been arrested at Bucoda for a murder committed in Colorado. Six of the soldiers accused of the lynching of Hunt at Walla Walla have been tried and acquitted, but they must still undergo a court-martial. John Canvinska killed himself with strychnine at Prescott, June 21. General News. UNITED STATES. 'William G. Forsyth of Fresno has been appointed chief of the horticul tural department of the world's fair. Seabright, N. J., was nearly de stroyed by fire June 16. About 400 buildings were burned. Loss $500,000. Western Kansas is exnerinr-fnir an irrllfatiOD boom arid htindrerln rtf thousands of dollars of Investments have been made. Storage reservoirs for dry seasons are in the programme. : A. M. FoRter Jr. of Tn AnlM wna : drowned June 16 while bathing at Troy, N. T., where he was a student in Rensselaer polytechnic institute. At Ceilna, O. June 18. two men assaulted Mary Price. Her brother! responded to her cries and the men shot him dead and escaped. The town of Ottawa. III., war hndlv damaged June 18 by a flood caused I by a cloudburst. The recent noteworthy attemnt tn prohibit women from wearing tights In Minnesota came at last to grief. This was probably owing to the vig- ! orous intellectual writings of one of j the brightest women in the state who suggested that the law be changed, 1 making the fine and penalty rest on men who attend the performances. A bridtre at La Junta. Col., broke down as a train was passing over it June 19, and Charles Wilkerson was drowned A. J. Bliss and his four chil dren were seriously injured. Grasshoppers are doint? much dam age in Otter Tail and Marshal coun ties, Minn. At Newburg, N. Y. a trirl is under arrest for horse stealiug. She will also be charged with arson and murder. Within three months she is said to have married an old farmer, uurneu aown nis nouse and Darn and roasted his weak-minded son to death !n the fire, and wound up bv nmninp off with a livery team aud surrey and uouiuk biiem ior uiuor uorses ana a wagn. . Kansas has an eiirht-hour law. The directors of the penitentiary refused to obey it, stating that it does not apply to that institution, and the attorney-general is about to begin pro ceedings to enforce it. A fearful storm of wind and rain passed over the vicinity of Osceola, Kan., June 20, and destroyed nouses and crops. Several lives were lost. FOREIGN. A libel action has been brought by ParnelTs secretary, Campbell, against the Cork Herald for stating that while other members of parliament were attending? to their duties Campbell was hiring houses for immoral pur- j poses for Parnell in Dublin. i Jewish refugees from Russia are going to Congo in considerable num- j Wholesale executions of persons suspected of disloyalty to Hippolyte, without trial, continue, and all Hayti experiences a reign of terror. Lord Brook, son of the earl of War wick, has sued for divorce on the ground of his wife's criminal intimacy with the prince of Wales. A passenger train plunged through a bridge In the canton of Basle, Switzerland, and 150 people were killed and hundreds more were in jured. Gold has fallen from 943 premium to 280 in the Argentine republic. Dispatches from Odessa say that many Baptists and Stundists have been banished from Caucasus and de prived of their children All the cordage works in Canada have been purchased by the National Cordage company of New York. A waterspout in the mountains at the Concepcion silver mine, San Luis Potosi, killed twentv-three persons, injured several and disabled the min ing works. By the bursting of the Martell glacier 1200 feet thick, behind Zufallfarner, in theTvrol, June 18, a lake 80 feet deep, 1000 feet long and 350 feet wide was released anil the valley below flooded, causing great damage but no loss of life. The opposition, including sixteen labor delegates, have a good majority in the new parliament of New Soutq, The British government opposed a clause in the factory bill prohibiting the employment of children under 11 in factories and was defeated, the amendment being adopted June 18 by a vote of 902 to 186. More trouble is feared at Samoa. Sixty earthquake shock were exper ienced throughout the province of Bengal June 18th, and many build ings were destroyed. The Arabs in Yerman have again defeated the Turkish troops and cut the telegraph lines. Anastasuis, the Turkish brigand, who recently wrecked a train and held several of the passengers till he got $40,000 ransom, paid by the Ger man government, has been captured. Emperor William lectured his uncle, the Prince of Wales, about his f ambling exploits and the prince is uffy, so William may postpone his intended visit to England. A large amount of the Pope's funds : has been lost by the failure of Italian banks and parties to whom it had been loaned, and Leo is cutting down the expenses of the Vatican. Han ford Burned. The business part of Hanford was almost entirely destroyed by fire June 19. The principal losses are as fol lows: D. C. Hubbard, $700, insured for $500; Joseph Schell, jeweler, $400, insured ; the Kutner Goldstein com pany, $20,000, fully covered; Simon Manasse & Co., damage to brick build ing and general merchandise, $2000, fully covered ; Frank Sharpless, un completed two-story building, $10,000, insured for $10,000 ; John Bruner, new brick building, two stories, stock of harness, $10,000, insured for $7500 ; C. Jacobs, frame building, $600, insured for $500; W. R. McQuiddy, frame building; J. M. Dagg, frame build ing, $2000, insured for $1000; Daggs & Landes, butchers, fixtures and stock $2500, insured for $1200; C. M. Smith, a brick and a frame building and stock of furniture, $8000, insured for $5100; Renoefer, brick building, $2000, insured for $1700; A. Weiner & Co. $6000, insured ; the Porter-Mickle brick building, $2000, insured for $2000; Mickle & Pugh, butchers, fix tures and stock, insured for $500 ; B. J. Turner, Grand Central hotel, $10,- 000, insured for $8000; Mrs. M. L. Trewitt, millinery, $200, insured for $500; Mills & Snow, frame building, $1000, Insured for $500 ; Jacob Troseh, bakery, stock, $500, insured for $300 Tyre & Russell, plumbers, stock, $1600, insured for $1000 ; the Stanford Development Company Hotel Artesia, $50,000, insured for $25,000; John B. Gardiner, furniture, $1000, and saloon stock, $2000, insured for $1000. In surance covers three-fourths of the loss. Woman's World. The KIub"s Uanghters. The second annual convention of the King's Daughters was held in San '.. Francisco June 16. About thirty del egates, representing the various circles in the state, were present. Reports were received from Mrs. J. E. Abbott of Santa Clara, Mrs. Walter Perkins of San Jose, Miss Winnie C. Rich of the Powell street Methodist Church, Mrs. General Graham of the Presidio, Mrs. Gal bralth of San Jose and Mrs. Conklin. ex-president of Palace circle, San Francisco. Most of the circles were shown to be in a flourishing condition and accomplishing much good work in a quiet and unostentatious way. The annual report of the state sec retary, Mrs. Clark, stated that the order has some 1100 members in this state and that every eircle has in creased in prosperity and member ship since last year. It was decided to create a state fund by annual assessment of the various subordinate circles. The following ladies have been In vited by the board of directors to become lady managers of the Home for Incurables and have signified their willingneasto accept: Mesdames Olivia Kingsland, T. W. G. Graham, W. H. Slocomb, Robert Conning, L. Eckskom, B. Woodruff, Mary Head, H. T. Terry, Winnie C. Rich, S. M. Thrasher, E. W. Mitchell, M. B. Graham and Virginia E. H. Church. Washlne-. Hard water contains salts of lime uud is less solvent that soft water. Common soap will not dissolve In it but will curdle and form a new soap, or substance, which adheres to every thing like f greasy scum. Lye or soda will soften hard water but borax is better. One-half ounce of crude borax to a common washing Is the rule. One rule for softening hard water is to take half a pound of the best quicklime to one hundred gallons of water. Make it into a cream by the addition of water, then mix in the tank of water; the lime will unite with the carbonate of lime which causes the hardness, and settle. A tablespoonful of washing soda to three pails of water is another rule for softening hard water. Another way of softening hard water is to boil four or five quarts of hard wood ashes and pour it into a barrel of water. If enough is added to soften it the water will become curdled, then will settle clear. An excellent washing fluid is mode as follows: Dissolve one pound of sal-soda, one-half pound of unslaked lime and a small lump of borax in five quarts of water and let it boil a few minutes, stirring a few times. Then let it cool and settle, pour off the clear liquid and put it in old bottles or a stone jug. Put about one cupful into a boiler of clothes and for each ad ditional boiler add half a cupful. But clothes washed with soda after a while will grow yellow, and chloride of lime will certainly cause the clothes to fall to pieces; it is not fit for general laundry use. It is economy to build a cistern for rain water, as hard water with any kind of doctoring will not make clothes clean; and although it may be toler ated for cookingpurposesitwill never answer the purpose of a cleansing agent. Soft water and good soap with a place to whiten clothe by the sun and air all combine to make wash ing easy. Few people now boil clothes unless in case of sickness, thus preventing a kitchen full of steam and the worker from danger of a chill after getting overheated in a steamy room. The best laundry soaps are the cheapest as, if used according to directions, a smaller quantity is used than of common soap. New England farmer. It Is of the utmost importance that food should be well seasoned and palatable. Herbs and seasoning are as important as the food itself. They oring dock tne languia appetite and encouracre one to eat when he would not otherwise do so. During the summer, when herbs are in theirhigh est state of perfection, full of juices and just before flowering, they should be gathered and dried. This should always be done on a perfectly drv day. early in the morning or after sun down. Cleanse thoroughly from dust ana airt, cut on the roots and .spread the herbs on squares of brown paper. -. liv uuQiu an a not ui j cu, j i rk.iy to preserve the flavor. If allowed to dry gradually the heat dries off the aroma and they will be almost taste less. Care must be taken that they do not brown or scorch, as this also destroys the flavor, says Mrs. Borer. When dry, pick the leaves from the stems, put them into bottles or jars and cork tightly. They must be per fectly cold before going into the bottles or they will sweat and sour. Mark each bottle or jar on the inside to save confusion when wanted for use. Delicate Cabbage. Take off all de fective leaves of a cabbaxro. nnartar remove the core and cut the cabbage une as you wouia ior siaw; let it re main in cold water a few hours before cooking, turn this water off and then cover it with boiling water and cook until done, about forty-five minutes. Add salt just before it is done and take up into a colander, press out the water, add a little more salt with pepper and butter. Putin a dish and keep hot until served. Some prefer the cabbasre broucrht to the taole in undisturbed quarters; this may be done by boiling it tied in thin netting or a piece of muslin. It will require a longer time for boiling in this way. It is nice served with drawn butter or cream dressing when it is boiled in quarters. It is not generally known that fruit juice may be boiled to a jelly without sugar. Mash the fruit and strain, boil down very carefully in porcelain or granite ware. While it is thin cook rapidly, but as it thickens let it sim mer slower and slower and finally finish in a stone-ware jar in a cool oven HOW OLD IS AN OLD MAID. A Woman May Ke On at Twenty an Hot On at Forty. When does a maiden become an old maid? Ah, there's the rub! If Homebodr will determine this point the social world will feel a shock of relief and then go whirling on more smoothly than ever. Yon who bare never been old maids, and never will be. have no idea of the worry a certain class of women en dure. As they approach the 30-year- old period they begin to get nervous and show signs of impatience. Ther will not admit that they are scared, but bj their eagerness to attract atten tion and the earnestness with wtalcb they discuss matrimonial and kindred topics it is quite apparent that tbey are merely whistling to keep their courage up. ii tbey only knew mat worry ana anxiety bring wrikle. " Irritate the nerves, and disturb the circulation tbey would try to be calm. Nervous ness ages them more than bard work. while disturbed circulation is a sura destroyer of good complexion. It used to be thougtit that a girl bad lost her best opportunities if she were not married neiure reacmng tne age or twenty-one; but that notion ban been effectually upset. She may sail along safely nntil she is thirty, and if sbe doesn't fret and worry herself into a f right sbe can even go several years longer witbont being branded with the obnoxions letters O. M. There are old maids who haven t seen twenty summers and there are maidens who have seen forty winters who are not old maids. It is a con dition of mind and heart rather than a question of years, afiirms a writer in tbe fittsourg vommercuu. The records of the license court show that a very large majority of Ameri can women marry between tbe ages of twenty ana toirty, witn more over tne latter age than under the former. With foreigners it is different. The women marry anywhere from four teen to twenty. Hungarians and Poles are given to early marriages. Old men marry young bits of girls, but old women rarely young men. The Hun garian laborer wants a wife to help aim make a living, and be wants ber to be strong and healthy. Tbeir wives know what is expected of them and assume the burdens of wifehood with the feelings of one entering upon a lifelong servitude. American women look upon it as tbe beginning of the best and most enjoyable part of life. liiTlnfC In Great Style. The Edwin Forrest home, in a Phil adelphia suburb, now contains thirteen benenciaries,eigutof hom are women and five are men. John Ernest Me Cann was a recent visitor, and in Eciioes of tlie Week he" describes the house as packed with objects of art. There are paintings, etchings, marble . hosts, marble figures of heroic size, bronzes, a piano, a library of 8.000 volumes that are a delight to look at. and Talma's sword, and all the swords and daggers used by Forrest in bis dif ferent parts. The portraits are numer ous and valuable. There are tbe burnt remains of tbe folio of 1663 in a gla-ss case, which cost Mr. Forrest $6,000. There is a highly polished hoof of Ed win Forrest, the racer, and a great collection of other curiosities relating to Forrest and the stage. Mr. McCann estimates that each of tbe inmates would bare to spend $10,000 a year to live as luxuriously elsewhere. If they want to go down to Philadelphia.1' he says. their fares are paid. Tbey can go off to other states on visits if they wish, and their fares are paid also. There are seven rooms on the first floor, seven on the third floor, ten rooms on second floor, and two bath rooms. Everything is like wax. Neat isn't the name for it- The dining room contains one large table with fourteen chairs around it. There is a massive sideboard, covered with the solidest of silver. There is a china closet that would make Brayton Ives1 eyes bulge. There are cut-glass da canters and glasses. Everything is rich and solid and in perfect taste, and everything was bought by Mr. For rest. He most faftve been m gentleman of rare delicacy of taste." Best Work Done Under Iiffionltiea. It has been my experience that a man does his best work under the most disadvantageous circumstances. When he gets things so that they exactly snit him he is apt to do noth ing at'all. It is the same with cities as with men. Look at Kansas City. If there is a spot on earth that one wonld pick out as the worst possible place for a city, that spot is the site of Kansas City, and yet there has grown a great city that has outstripped its compe titors. Milwaukee has a better harbor and better conditions than Chicago, which had to be filled in; which has a stream running through it at a decline of an inch a mile, so that everything stands still and stinks, and yet see what Chicago is and think what it is destined to be. A hundred years hence Chicago will be the greatest city of the world, and I mean what I say. As it is with men and cities so it is with newspapers. A newspaper when it puts up a splendid building and sur rounds itself with every convenience is apt to be a worse newspaper than when its editors and reporters had to work in one room under the greatest disadvantages. There Is an inspira tion when nil are working thus to gether, which is lost when everybody has a separate room, and this editor is No. 14 on the first floor, and that editor in No. 7S on the sixth floor. Therefore, as a reader of newspapers, I can't say that I look npon the erect ion of big" newspaper offices with favor. Col Ingersoll. Shark. Teeth for Weapons. The natives on some of the Pacific islands being provided with neither metals nor any stone harder than the coral rocks, of which the atells they inhabit are composed, would seem badly off, indeed, for material of which to make tools or weapons wereJt not that their very necessity has bred aa invention no less ingenious than effect ive. This is nothing less than the use of shark's teeth to give a cutting edgo to tbeir wooden knives and swords. The mouth of the shark contains 300 teeth arranged in five rows, all closely lying upon each other, except the onter row, and so constructed that as one tooth is broken or lost another takes its place. The teeth are not only pointed and keen-edged but are finely and regularly aerated, so that the cutting power is greatly increased. Indeed, so great a faculty have these teeth for wounding that the imple ments and weapons upon which they are used have to be handled with great care. The Kiogmill islanders make many strange articles of shark's teeth.
