LONGFELLOW.
Awiike, he lovwl (heir voluw
And wtiyih litem in ti iits rhyme,
J.tA i he mimic (if their luiiirhter
Wnn with film ail tht unit).
Though lie I; new tho tonffuea of imtloM,
And Uidriiuuuiliiti nit wrre rtar,
Tin limit lc ami IJt of lift In child
Vhh the mvoi'ti 'tt lor him to hnnr.
- Jamim-AVliitt'omb lilley.
A Xw ItPl 1 or SHk HimioI.
Alt hough well known In the twl branchefl
of the hi Ik luxl cotton tradcH, it in not gen
erally roalisH. by the outside public that
the cost of trjiiiHport of silk ttnd cottoa
thrmd is vpiy expwwlve, owin to th grvnt
disproportion Iwtwptm the w'ifcht of the
rwle or npol and Mint of t he ttilk or cotton
wound on them. It hiw been uliown in evi
dence before special committee of the
house of txmimim t hat in wmie instwiees
W ht cent of the weight curried Ik in spools,
lflttviun only It rmrwntof real m lk. The
same rWmrks apply to duties when export
Ug to foreign eotiutries, the bulk of the
duty being actually paid on the wood reels,
an the silk cannot he weighed separately
from them.
To remedy this defpet and to relieve the
manufaeturer of bin heavy tax, Mr. John
KenlH, whowf nania Ih well known in con
nection with bootnuikiug machinery, liun
invented a spool whifcb, from its lightnewi,
is named the "featherweight." Thin spool,
whieh i i!V inches in diameter and of the
thick ut-HH of u visiting card, in fornied with
MirriitioiiK or slits around its circumference,
whieh produce ears of petal shaped projec
timtN radiating front the center. It in made
from celluloid, which is wood pulp ciiem
ically treated in order to nentraliste the resin
which is retained in the ordinary wood reels
and which support inwict life, to the det
riment of the foods, especially when exposed
in orieutai couutriiw. Loudon Times,
On EKparlfintte In a Lifetime.
An old lady, wife of a bank president, has
out? happening to rnlat--us she does un
ceasingly the single adventure of her life.
But that was suftieiently exciting to last
throughout an ordinary existence. Her
home was entered not long ago by a gang
of burglar, whose search was for her son,
the cashier, to upun the safe fortheui in the
bank wxl dtwir,
At Ktglit of the young man led away, with
revolvers pointed at his head and mirrotmd
ed by deKiierate maskttd men, his mother's
fright and horror found veut in wild cries
and a passion of tears.
The rest of the family were gagged, hand
onffed and bound to chairs. iShe was tied
to n tied and camphor and water left close
t band.
No one else took any other not ice of her,
but as the strange procession moved off on
of the ruffians hastily stepped back to
where she lay, strxmed over and kissed her
ahriveled cheek, inurtnnring in her ear, "I
bad a mother once."
An incident so romantic that it does not
ring true, which it is. New York Times.
The Humll Boy llecuinen Thoughtful.
Tommy (at the Wirn)I'apa, is thin the
finest, team in town!1
Tommy's FatherNo, but there isn't any
liner. Those horses, my buy, cost me 800.
They're a perfect niatcli, high spirited, good
travelers and come of u famous aucest ry.
"That's why you've got such a nice barn
for 'em, isn't it?1'
'"Yen, partly. A pair of fine horses, my
son, must lie wmsidered as uu investment,
and a good business man always takes care
of bis investments."
"And that's why you watch 'em bo much
and drive on the boulevards with 'em and
keep 'em looking so slick, isu't it?"
"Yes, that's on the same principle. A
careful man is iKiund to look well after his
investments and see that they are always in
good shape."
(After some cogitatiou) "You don't cou
nidor me much of an investment, do you,
pam" Chicago Tribune.,
frpttual Motlou Nut Perpetual.
Perpetual motion dim not necessarily
mean a machine that will run perpetually.
That is the literal meaning of the term, but
inventors do not bind themselves strictly
to it. It is not supposed to be possible to
lo away with friction, therefore nothing
can be perpetual. The commonly accepted
meaning of perpetual motion is a mechan
ism that will operate itaelf.
Many men have gone crazy in the attempt
to invent such a device. The youug Span
iard who has Invented a clock which he
thinks will solve the problem has a strange
ly suggestive mune for a man who is trying
to accomplish what the world has failed
in. He calls himself Lunal New York
Tribune.
The Growth of the Finger Nails.
The philosophy of the finger nails is a
most interesting study, simple though it
may appear at ilrst sight.
It has beeu computed that the average
growth of the finger naila is one-thirty
( second of an inch per week, or a little more
than an inch and a half per year. The
growth, however, depends to a great ex
tent npou the rate of nutrition, and during
periods of sickness it is undoubtedly re
tarded. It is understood to grow faster in sum
mer than in winter and differs for different
fingers, being most rap. J in the middle fin
ger uud slowest in the thumb and little fin
ger. Philadelphia Times.
Statistics A ho tit London.
London has 1,000 ships and 9,000 sailors
in its port every day. It has on an average
upward of 75,000 persons annually taken
into custody by the police, 27,000 persons
living in its common lodgiug bouses, 85,000
persona annually arrested as drunk and
disorderly, and more than one-third of all
the crime of England is committed within
its radius. Exchange.
A Short Way.
Hiss TwilterMr. Knpeo .has a habit of
referring to his wife as "she."
Mrs. Dogood Only an abbreviation.
Miss Twitter For whatP
M rs. DogoodShe who must be obeyed.
Truth. .
Bashfulness is but an aggravated case of
self consciousness, but the unhappy victim
-should bo pitied rather than ridiculed and
.helped to gradually conquer that which,
while it lasts, Is as bad as a disease.
Scientific Teaching.
Science teaching t-IiouM be progressiva
and should start the foundation -as, for
instance, in the building of a house. Tho
flrrfc stuff is concrete, which is lime and
givi.'el. To make lima, limestone or chalk
is neethL also fuel to quicken or bum it,
requiring the description of wood, the
growth of plants and the process of com
buHUom Coal, ashes, cinders, breeze, fol
low, Tho formation of clay, marble, gran
ite, sandstone and plaster comes next In
this house will be needed Iron, lead, zinc,
tlnplate. Then glass, glue, whitewash,
nutty. These materials should be handled
by the pupil and the processes shown by
means of apparatus.
No philosophizing should as yet. be done.
About here introduce him to the truly
awful revelation that in all the universe,
as far as can he learned, there is but ft lim
ited number of prime stuffs the elements.
Now Are, flame, water may be carefully
studied. Charcoal, peat, gas, matches and
their an hstances come successively. Then
the papering, pnititing, glazing, varnishing.
Furnishing would embrace numerous man
ufactures and process.
The next divinion would concern the per
son, with chapters on clothing, food, wash
ing, writing, reading. Clothing includes
the textile fabrics; food, the manufacture
of bread, which would lie an intellectual
epic poem, explaining the growth of wheat,
the nature of yeast, the relationship be
tween the constituents of wheat and the
body. The sttody of life and a flower is
more elevating than the most subtle game
of whist ever played. Chicago Post.
Hav rity For Bakhful Mn.
Girls, do not lsngh at the mistakes of the
bashful man or boy. You have no idea how
your innocent mirth wounds him, and there
is no use in making anybody unnecessarily
miserable. No matter how much a little
woman of the world you think yourself
now, you can rememtier certain episodes in
your past career that make you grow warm
from bead to foot just to think of at this
far away date,
Kven though today your manners are as
nearly perfect as possible and your deport
ment at all times correct, you can undoubt
edly remember a time when toenter a room
that held strangers was an ordeal that you
would have avoided if you could have done
so without shocking the proprieties that in
those days seemed such fearful bugbears.
Can you not remember feeling that every
eye was fixedpon the smallest details of
your attire with harsh and irritating criti
cism In the glance, and for the time being
your feet and hands seemed to have as
sumed most unusual proiort ions, and
though in other places you knew perfectly
well what to do with them they on this oc
casion became unmanageable, and you felt
as though you were all hands and feet?
Isn't the memory of the mocking smile
or the titters that went around at your ex
pense a hard to Ijear in memory as it was
in reality? Therefore refrain from making
fun of the bashful men. Exchange.
Overt" 0 uctttJun.
"It is now asserted by many that a man
can ora woman, either be overedueated,"
said T. K. Harper. "People meet so many
cads and cranks who are 'educated1 that
they have really liegun to assert that a per
son may lie overKiucated- -know too much.
Good old American home aense will out
grow t his idea soon, I know. It isn't edu
cation t hat is troubling the cads and long
haired cranks. It isn't knowing too much
that is troubling any one. It's the simple
fact that a minor knowledge of a hundred
arts and sciences has succeeded in bewilder
ing these people."
"They run to this meeting, and that i
o'clock Spencer class, and this S3 o'clock
class for flie study of Ibsen, aud that even
ing class for the instantaneous acquirement
of n supreme knowledge of the German
muster works until t hey have become be
fuddled. They don't actually know what
they are doing, and so they gather about
aud talk on a doceu subjects, only to make
some poor striving soul imagine that he
doesn't know any t lung at all and that they
are su prewe. A s a matter of fact, they are
wasting their time, and so is anyone else
who listens to them." St, IjOUIS Globe
Democrat. Our Ureal Country.
It has recently been discovered that on
American soil the sun never sets. The
British have for years sung a song in glorl
tlcation of the fact that the sun never sets
on the soil of that clime.
But, lo! now comes the stars and stripes,
which are never out of sihtof the sun.
The exact situat ion of t he geographical cen
ter of the United States is a surprise to any
one who hHs not given the subject careful
attention. The most eastern point of the
United Slates is tjuoddy bead, Maine, the
western, Attoo Maud, Alaska; the most
northern, Point Barrow, Alaska; tho most
southern, Key West. The center of the
quadrangular figure formed by uniting
these four points is located at crossing of 55
degrees north latitude and 110 degrees west
longitude, about 420 miles north of the
north line of Montana. It is also true of
the United States as of Great Britain that
the sun never sets on our territory, for
when it is 0 p. m. on Attoo island, Alaska,
it is 9:80 a. m. of the following day at East
port, Me. Exchange.
1 Effect of Boston's Streets.
Cobble How on earth did those
trousers get twisted around your legs
so?
Stone I have been in Boston and
tried to find my way arovtnd the
etreets. Life. . ,
Uulned Their Bu Bluest.
Skoptio If this ia such a wonderful
specific of yours, why are all the doctors
opposed to it?
Quack Because when a man takes it
he keeps well too long. New York
Epoch.
The sounding board of pianos, the most
important part of the instrument, is made
of American spruce and is as carefully
chosen as the wood for a violin.
It is averred that a sausage and a slice
of bread and butter compose the Prince
of Wales' breukM five mornings out of
CoUffCttng Chined Coins.
"The earliest Chinese coins that I have
heard of,M said Consul BeiUoe, "date
from the dynasty which ruled from 255
to207B.C.
"From that time until today these use
ful little coins have been used by every
monarch, no matter whether he was an
emperor of the entire country or king of
one of the petty principalities into which
from time to time the Chinese empire was
broken. There have been over 1,200 oc
cupants of the various thrones, royal and
imperial. In addition to these regular is
sues, if such they may be called, there
have been special issues from time to
time and also specUl local issues. A
wealthy mandarin in Canton is said to
have the finest collection extant, con
taining 25,000 siwcimens of different
kinds."
The cost increases as you go backward
in time. The cash of this century can
be secured at their nominal face value.
Those of the eighteenth and seventeenth
centuries bring from 1 cent to 10 cents
each. Those of the Han dynasties bring
$100 each when in fine state of preserva
tion. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Artificial Maple 8uar.
Decoctions or extracts of the wood or
bark of trees are frequently used for
flavoring simps or sugars. Different
extracts differ in taste. The hickory
tree, it is said, yields an extract that will
impart the flavor of the maple, and
Daily's method of producing artificial
maple sirup of sugar is as follows:
Make an extract of hickory bark or
wood by allowing water to percolate
through the same. The bark or wood
may be ground, or sawdust therefrom
used. Hot water may be used, or the
material boiled in water. The strength
of the extract may be increased by in
crease of the quantity of the wood or
bark. To one gallon of hot or boiling
sugar sirup add. say, three taWespoon
fuls of the hickory extract. It is said
the effect of the extract is to produce a
flavor that renders the sirup indistin
guishable from genuine maple sugar. If
the sirup is boiled down, a sugar re
sembling maple sugar in taste is pro
duced. London Public Opinion.
PLASTERS.
If you are thinking about buying a plas
ter, remember that you will place it upon
your body and cannot get a plaster that
will be too good for you.
Allcock's Porous Plaster is the bet
plaster made. Your d racist nmv have
some other plaster on his shelves which he
is anxious to get rid of, or else some worth
less imitation purchased at a low price for
the purpose of substitution. Do not accept
his "just SB good " plea; insist upon hav
ing the genuine. Alluocx'b Porous Plas
ter has no equal. .
Bhandbsth's Pills can always be relied
upon.
Men make more fuss about their honor on
the singe than suywhere else.
Tar Gxbmka for breakfast.
CHILDREN
who are puny, pale,
weak, or scrofulous,
ought to take Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. That builds
up both their flesh and
their strength, For this,
and for purifying the
blood, there's nothing in
all medicine that can
equal the " Discovery."
In recovering from
"Grippe," or in con
valescence from pneu
monia, fevers, or other
it speedily aud surelv in
vigorates and builds up the whole system.
As an appetizing, restorative tonic, it sets
at work all the processes of digestion and
nutrition, rouses every organ into natural
action, and brings back health and strength.
For all diseases caused by a torpid liver or
impure blood, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Scrof
ulous, Skin, and Scalp Diseases even Con
sumption (or Lung-scrofula) in its earlier
stage the " Discovery " is the only guaran
teed remedy.
If it doesn't benefit or cure, In every case,
you have your money back.
diseases.
wasting
"German
Syrup"
Just a bad cold, and a hacking
cough. We all suffer that way some
times. How to get rid of them is
the study. Listen " I am a Ranch
man and Stock Raiser, My life is
rough and exposed, I meet all
weathers in the Colorado mountains.
I sometimes take colds. Often they
are severe. I have used German
Syrup five years for these. A few
doses will cure them at any stage.
The last one I had was stopped in
24 hours. It is infallible." James
A. Lee, Jefferson, Col. $
DR. GUNN'S
IMFEOVID
um
PILLS
MILD PHYSIC
ONE PILL FOR A DOSC.
A movement of tta bowelaMo&dy Is nwery for
health. Thow piUu supply what the lyittm laolu to
mko It WKuUr. Thoy oun Headaohe, brighten th
Eyes aud olear the Cgropleiion better than 00a
metioa. They wit mttdly. neither gripe nor alakena
other pills fo. To oonvloiie you of their merit wt
will mail aamplea free, or a fu& boxfor 88 oeuta. Sol
BTrjrwbu, oMuko HwL Co fhUw&itUa. St.,
SWINGING AROUND THE CIK LE
Of the dlsenstvf to which ft In adapted with the
best results, Hosteller' Niomncli Bitters, u fam
ily meilif'fiii', PonijircheiiMivp in Its mnws, hm
11 i.n uiiii nfHiu (Jiumi; HlU'lMKHt Ml UU-
kiunw (it h tuiivorwil pimnreu for bo!Hy ills.
Tiilm'lHliTi, iIhIIv tirnt(jiiud fn the ooIumiiM of
the .diiily jnw by the proprietor of meiiirine
far inferior to it m speetfks, has in a thousand
i rm. slices diaKusM'tl the public in advance bv ita
iibHUrdUv, and the prospecU of other reme'iilcK
of miperior ijiiulHfos have been handicapped by
the iretetiNKjn of their worthless predweBsorH.
Hut the American people know, because they
Imve verilii'd the fitct by the moHt irvliu? test,
thin the Hitters poaiiefiHes th virtues of a real
KpccfflcineaM'Mol main rial and liver (Unorder,
constipation, nervous, rheumatic, stomach and
kidney trouble. What it does it does ttioroiiKh
ly.and tnatnlv for this reason it is indorsed aud
recommended by hosts of respectable mcdicHi
men.
Death, taxes and the eprays from a street
sprinkler are all hard things to dodge.
BOW'H THI8!
We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
CitHtiOf CrtlHfrh thHt nmrnt tui n,ir..A t. li.n.
Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHKN'EY & CO..
... , Toledo, O.
we, th undendgnert, have known F. J. Che
ney for the last it Keen years, and believe him
and financially able to carry out any obligations
limit: uj 1 nun nun. nr.fi v IK.IAX,
Wholesale Drutfgixts, Toledo. O.
WAI.DINO, KINNAN fc MAKVfN1,
Wholesule DrutndtUf, Toledo, O.
HaH'sCatarrh Cure is taken internally, at1 tine
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Testimonials sent free. Price. 7fi
cents per bottle. Sold bv all druggists.
0ae Knameline Stove Polish; no dust, no smell.
Hood'sCures
' I am glad to recom
mend Hood's Saraapa
rilla and Hood's Pills. I
have suffered very much
with severe
Sick Headache.
After taking six bottles
of Hood's Sarsaparllla
and two boxes of Hood's
5" ' terrible disease. I know
Hood'i Sarsaparllla Is the best medicine I ever
took." Mrs. H. M. Lctih, Pine Valley, N. Y.
PRINTERSK-
-AND-
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-WILL FIND A FULL LINK OF-
TYPE
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Cor. Front and Alder Streets,
PORTLAND, OR.
Write lor price, mi termi More b.jlni eke-where
Hercules Gas Engins
(OAS OB GASOLINE)
MMai for Power or Pumping Purpo
The Gmpest Reliable Gu EnglM
on tbeJterkeb
Out Of Enomi Met
Punk
Hood's Pills cure liver ills. 2Se. per box.
Metewand W'
ji.uuper ttotue.
One cent a dose.
This Great Cough Cubb promptly cures
where all others fail, Coughi, Croup. Bore
Throat, Hoarseness, whooping Cough and
Aatbma. For Consumpticn it naa no rival:
has cured thousands, and will CURB TOO if
taken in time. Bold by Druggists on a guar
antee. For a Lame Back or Chest, use
BHILOH'B BELLADONNA PLASTERJioC.
HILOH'S,
CHlt
Have yoi
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REMEDY
(tor Simplicity It Beata th World.
II olla itself from a Beaerrolr,
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Ho BetterleeorKlectrlo Bpark.
II nnewltb.Gbe.per Grade of Oaeollae tban inf
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AND
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Fishing Tackle.
Stanard Files, per doz
Oregon Tronl Flies, perdoz
Beiin'K Flies, ptr doz
Split Bamboo Hods, each
oem uy man on receipt of price.
0.2fi
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THE H. T. HUDSON ARMS CO.,
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Catalogues on application.
If
THIS IS THE TIME TO
order your BUMMER
HOLLERS. You want
the best j that's the
o:uy aina we deal in.
Brooklyn Hotel
208-212 Bush St,, Sao Francisco.
This favorite hotel is under the management
of CHARLES MONTGOMERY, and is as good il
not the best Family and Business Men'B Hotel
in 8au Francisco.
Home Comforts! Cuisine Unexcelled!
First-class service and the highest standard of
respectability guaranteed. Our room cannot be
surpassed for nmtnm and comfort. Board and
room per day, 91.26, 1.60, fl.76 and 2.00; board
and room per week, 7 to jl'2; single rooms, 50o
to $1. Free coach to and irom hotel.
HARNESS,
Saddles, Collars,
Wnips and Leather. WHOLESALE,
Harnpss, per set, 7.00, 110.00, $12.00. flfi.03: EleKanl
tyle, (20.00, 12T..00. Huddles, rawhide covered trees,
4.00, 98.03, f 12 90. 916.W, mo Oa, 9.00, 930.00, H0.00.
Flow Harness, 915-00 to 92S.00. Team Harness,
fZfl.oo, $10 00, all with the celebrated no wau Horse
Collars. Tho "Jim Corbetf cart Harness, pric
112.00, 8et Breast Collars, is a "ltuoek out." Bri
die, Hohes, Blankets, Bits, etc.
FOR BIG VALUES t$3rjrg?
with order to ,
W. DAVIS & SON,
MANLiFACTL'HEUH, 4lo Market Street,
Ban Francisco, California.
MRS WINSIflW'S SOOTHING
mi i vi iiiiivfevii v DTHUr
- FOR CHILDREN TEETHING
Feraaiebrall Uriinht. S6 Ceatt bottl.
fiflllEftl.,FRAZEB AXLE
BestiitbeVgridinnrACr
IrBANK WOOL8BT, Agant, Portland. Of.
THE BEST
HARNESS
EVER MANUFACTURED ON THE COAST
is sold by D0LE-PEAK8ON HARNESS CO.,
at prices that will astonish von. Only the best
Oak-Tanned Leather iiBed, and all work fruaran.
teed. Send for line Illustrated Catalogue fkek,
IliU Union Avenue (Eaat Side), Portland, Or.
'DON'T BORROW TROUBLE." BUY
SAPOLIO
'TIS CHEAPER IN THE END.
RHEUMATISM CURED BY THE USE OF
loore's Revealed Remedy.
" '-""u"'. jiaiiunjY iv,j,uaii Rune who pieaaurtj trial nytne ua of
S22?,E8.5,K11AIJ!!l) W" myiunbandwasrellev.,! from iuS S
MAXUM wusu the twtt doctor 1 oouU et did him no rood. Yours In grautud.
MBJj. H, V. WMUI.
OLD BI IOBB DBVOtlHT.