HUNTING OB MONAZITE.
A New Industry in the Plndmont
Seotlon of North Carolina.
Tbe Paopla of That Vicinity
aU But
Cnurr Orar tho Btraoga
ary How tha Siloaral la
ObtaUaad.
The enthusiasm with which the
Hearch for monazite Is now being pros
ecuted in. the Piedmont section of
North and South Carolina is something
remarkable. Men, women and chll-j
dren talk about It, dream about it, I
search for it, and would perhaps eat it
it it could be prepared so that it would hiblted at the pure food show? asks
be palatable. For two hundred years Kate Field's Washington. Four hnn
the plauters on the coast stumbled over I dred competing loaves all fell short of
phosphate rock, which had been (ho standard, if it is reported fairly. It
brought to the surface, and considered
it of no value. Finally, says the Now
York Sun, after the late war, a man of
scientific turn of mind began to investi
gate this rock, and as a result an in
dustry has sprung up that now amounts
U) millions of dollars annually.
lu like manner gold miners year
t ftar year in their search for gold
! i ing the streams of this Piedmont
.vition have been finding in their pans
a heavy yellowish sand which they
cust aside as worthless. This has all
Wen completely reversed in the last
twenty months, and nowadays a pros
pector will cast aside fair specimens of
gold while prosecuting his search for
monazite. To obtain monazite from the
hundred little streams that are found
in the monazite belt the prospector
wits out provided with shovel and pan.
With his shovel he scoops out a hole in
riio bed of the stream or near by it. He
r " ;oos through the alluvial deposit until
lie strikes a whitish sand and gravel.
Of this he takes a panful and washes it
out, carefully examining quality and
quantity. After prospecting in several
different places, he is able to decide
whether the "branch," as these small
streams are called in the south, is
worth working. If it promises well a
trial is made. . ,
Contractors do most of the mining,
, , taking leases and paying a royalty of
from one-seventh to one-fifth. Occa- !
sionally the monazite privilege is bought !
straight out, and in some instances two
hundred dollars an acre has been paid. .
bametimes, however, the owners work
their own lands.
Common, unskilled laborers are em
ployed to do the work. "Strippers"
are the hands who clear away the top
foil, removing all timber growing
thereon. They go down to the sand
aud gravel The gravel gang comes
li.xt. They carefully lift out all of the
r.;rmazite sand and turn it over to the
washers, who get out all gravel, silver,
- .and clay, leaving a mixture of heavy
material behind. This goes through a
second washing, and the material left
is marketable monazite.
The washing is done in a wooden
trough from twelve to eighteen feet in
length, twelve inches wide and twelve,
ticep. There is a cast iron perforated
plate at the upper end of the box,
through which the monazite drorw.
nunc uiv iigutci Bbuu auu viuy uudb
away. A stream of water flows' through
the box. Expert washers receive one
dollar a day, but there are plenty of
: men who do this work fairly well,
and are anxious to work at sixty-live
cents per day. Overseers and time-
V keepers receive one dollar and a half.
This is considered fair wages down
south, where there is little demand for
day labor now. '
The sand is about as current as gold
dust, six cents a pound being the aver
age price. It is estimated that a group
ui well-managed hands will make
twice their daily wages. Letters of in
quiry come from all countries seeking
information about monazite, and, judg
ing by the number and character of
these received by the geological survey
. , ' 'from various European countries, the
industry and the amount of money
brought into this Piedmont section for
monazite this year will hardly amount
to less than one hundred thousand dol
lars. Monazite has been found in
small quantities in Russia, Norway,
Bohemia, and in gold washings in Bra
zil and in the mica veins at Quebec,
but nowhere has it been found in such
enormous quantities as in this belt. -
A Gloucester (S. J.) company is the
onlyconeern manufacturing monazite
in this country. The value of sand de
pends upon the rare metal, thorium,
which it contains, which is separated
from the associated material by very
complicated chemical processes, which
are kept secret from every one except
those who manipulate the operations,
It is then used in the manufacture of the private sale of a rich man s furni
incandescent gas burner- of different , lure. When Anthony Drexel died there
forms. . I were a lot of tilings which had personal
The finding of monazite is the best reminiscences connected with them
thing that has ever occurred for the which everyone wanted. It was finally
poorer people of the section in which it decided to hold a family auction and
is found. Hundreds of day laborers sell them to the highest bidder. The
are now feeding their families with the first thing I put up was a small clock,
money made in this industry.
AMERICAN PLUCK.
It .Was hovm at Ita Beat At Mr the fire
of 18SS.
"The fearful loss did not crush spir
its, however, and committees were im
mediately appointed to look after the
interest of the citizens," says the Ship
ping and Commercial List of April 13,
recalling the fire which cost New York
twenty-five million dollars in 1836. "One
committee was to make application to
congress for an extension of credit on
duty bonds and for a remission of du
ties; another to make application to the
city and state governments; and an
other on relief to those injured, and!
several others for other purposes. .The :
business men were not cost down.'
Many had lost all they possessed, but
were ready to begin again. Within a ,
year a multitude of warehouses and
shops had been erected and the hum of
industry was to be noted everywhere.
Ileal estate was high Many lots when
sold brought more money without build'
inga that they could have been sold for
bofore the fire with buildings. Tho
enormous rents demanded for dry goods old-fashioned tall clocks. Chllds' eld
stores In Pearl street caused the mr- est ton finally bought it for elirhtaen
MJSs""4.
BMLNS AND BREAD.
IntolUatonoe. an Important Factor
In the Bakoshop.
rat Staff of Life u Prodaead by Uakara
U Foaaauatt of Hot Lime Sultaln
Ina; Powar A THraa-Gant
Luuehaon. , .
"With brains, sir," was the celebrat
ed rejoinder of Sir Joshua Reynolds to
ho question of an inquisitive and prob
ibly shallow youiifr puinter who asked
Mm with what he mixed his colors. ,
Is brains tho ingredient that was
left out of the loaves which were ex
! more generous to believe, however,
.hat the standard has been raised by
m intelligence which means to educate
the community.
In New York a few exclusive bakers
advertise "high-class bread" at high
class prices; actually it is not too good.
But brains in Boston, joined with broth
erly kindness, have produced bread
which may challenge any competition
anil which Is sold to the public in tiny
loaves, perhaps better called long rolls,
at one cent apiece: faultless
cbs bread
,. k( J
it, but not
sweet as the wheat can make
sweeter: light and fine and close; ex
quisitely baited in the mild, slow heat
of a brick oven. This bread, such as
the rich seldom taste, comes daily from
the New England Kitchen for all who
are so fortunate as to be able to send
for it It is the product of the intelli
gence and philanthropy of a society for
the promotion of public health. When
the kitchen was organized a few years
ago Its first six months' working was
supervised by Mrs. Mary Abcll, who
had taken the Lamb prize for on essay
ipon sanitary and economio cooking.
This essay, accompanied by recipes and
menus for the poorest wage earners, is
among the publications of the Syracuse
lublic health society.
Proof of the economy and excellence
of the cooking of the delightful Boston
Kitchen may be made by anyone who
hurrying, as I once was, to the Provi
lcnce depot without time for lunch and
with Ideas above a railway station res
taurant. 1 was provided with a small
paper box. I bought one of the little
oaves I have just described; it nearly
tilled the box. For another cent it was
buttered. What else could I carry? I
was offered a slice of spiced pressed
meat, such as is made very poorly in
some houses and called veal loaf . But
;hat was not poor, but delicate Bnd
savory. It was daintily wrapped in
white paraffine paper, b11 ready to be
handled neatly. This was also one
cent. Here was a wholesome, delicate
and abundant lunch for three cents. I
-.bought of Franklin, opening his career
in Philadelphia with his big Dutch
penny roll, and, like him, I indulged in
jorne philosophizing. One hundred and
llftv vears of What we call "progress"
senarate us from Franklin. In those
vears the era of homemade bread, with
thatof homesnun clothing, has depart-
And still we have no good public !
bread only the chaffy and spongy
baker's loaf, overraised, nndermixed,
deceitful Bnd dear. Poor men cannot
be fed with such bread, and so they
wash it down with spirits.
We are a great people and we have
the greatest chain of bikes Bnd the Wy.
gest rivers and the widest wheat-fields
on the globe; but we are not able to
give the multitude bread until It has
been turned into carbonic acid gas for
the profit of the bakers.
In feudal days the lord of the manor
had the monopoly of the oven; no bread
for the peasant but that which was
baked in his oven. By the independence
and competition of the laborer we have 1
atoined the privilege of starving our-:
selveTbltot almost time to Ling .
. V7 .1 v," ii ,
back to the public oven, supervised by
the best intelligence of the community,
and secured against the greed of com
petition? There is not wanted free
bread to deprave the soul, or sour bread
to deprave the stomach, or high-class
bread to suit the rich; but honest
bread, fit to be called once more the
staff of life.
BIQ PRICES FOR FURNITURE.
Auction! Talk of the Private Bala of
Rich Aleo'e Effects.
A party of auctioneers en route from
Chicago to Buffalo were in the smoking
room of a Lake Shore sleeper the other
night telling stories. "Selling horses
and farm stuff By auction is ail ngnt,"
said one. "but for genuine fun give me
worth, I suppose, about twenty dollars.
" 'IH give five hundred dollars,' was
the first bid. It came from a nephew.
" 'Make it one thousand dollars." in
terjected a younger son.
"'Fifteen hundred dollars,' replied
the nephew.
"The nepbew won and got the twenty
dollar clock for money with which he
.could have bought the finest clock in
Philadelphia. I never knew what the
history of the clock was, but it must
have had a peculiar one. Then I put
up a big arm-chair. It was the chair
Drexel had sat in for over twenty years
and it had a valuable association for
each one of the family. A married
daughter and young Anthony Drexel
were the ones who wanted It the most,
Bnn the bidding, which opened at one
thousand dollars, was spirited and
uveiy. 1 anally sola tne chair to An
thony for six thousand five hundred
dollars. The day's sales brought In
over twenty-five thousand dollars."
"I never had anything as good as
that," said another auctioneer,
but I
told the Chllds effects in the same way.
The chief contest was over one of those
ZZ?Z&r
COLONIES FOR tHE WEST.
larpltu Population of tha East to sattla
oa Arid Waataru Land.
It has been years since the cry of
"westward, nor nas been heard in the
eastern states, and meantime the cities
and thriving manufacturing centers
east of the Mississippi have been rapid-'
ly filling to the point of overcrowding,
until labor is a drug on tho market.
Mining, which attracted s many hun
dreds of people from tho east many
years ago, has lost itsglamour, hunting
and trapping have too many devotees
already to encourage more to enter
this life to-day, granger life on the
western soale requires too much capi
tal and tho too-plentiful foreclosure of
western farm mortgages has been dis
couraging to those who may have been
considering emigration. All these
things have tended to stagnate the
population of the east, and the result
is alarming to all concerned, capital
and labor alike.
An opportunity has presented Itself
at dost, through what is known as the
Carey law, passed by the Fifty-third
congress, by which each of eight west
ern states was granted one million
acres of arid land located within their
borders on condition that they utilize
them for agriculture, through Irriga-
! ' prove w uw Bocruuu-y ui uie
1 interior that their irrigation plans are
1 f.lw. . . .
Fire of the eight states have accepted
the proposition and one more is ex
pected to reply favoistbly before long.
The national irrigation congress, a
body composed o( delegates from twenty-three
western states, has appointed
a national irrigation commission, which
body is engaged in forming colonies to
take up these arid lands and can y them
on by irrigation under proper and scien
tific direction.
Some of the details of the scheme
are given in the Boston Transcript It
is the purpose of the commission to
form colonial clubs throughout the east,
wherever there Is a congestion of popu
lation, and these clubs will disseminate
information concerning the present and
future possibilities of tne western coun
try. It is not intended to send out sepa
rate families, which would certainly
become entangled in dlfllculties, if not
properly directed. Whole colonics are
to be organized and dispatched to fa
vorable localities, with men competent
to teach them the solution of the prob
lem of irrigation and agriculture.
These colonists it is proposed to, organ
ize on the principles upon which the
successful Mormon colonies were car
ried on. An organization, to be known
as the Plymouth colony, is now being
formed to take up lands in Idaho. Each
member of this colony is to furnish
one thousand dollars capital. The land
is to be taken in small holdings, and
the whole managed on the basis of a co
operative village.
GOOD HEALTH OF HOBOES.
Tramps Oanerally In Bettor Condlllan Tftan
any Other Claaa of Paopla.
Prof. John J. McCook, of Triniti col-
leSe. in a recent lecture in New Haven
"The Pathological Aspect of the
lnunD "ooiem. irave tne louowing
lUlOTCTbUlg lUUM auuui uie HilJgUVB 01
the road:
"New Jersey was the first state to
pass a law punishing the professional
tramp and at the same time to define
what he was. This was in 1878. Khode
Island was the next, and Connecticut
came third. A recent writer asserts
that there are about 60,000 tramps in
the United States. This number is a
trifle large, although it is safe to say
that there are over 40,000. This is
larger than the army of Wellington at
Waterloo. Wo look on tramps as human
wrecks, as driftwood, and yet the ma
jority of them are in the prime of life,
''" -veruge .
P cent, of the tramps from
h,om . ta'lstf .we leo"
claimed in the dead of winter, while
the grip was raging, that thoy were in
bad health. They arc robust, and will
fill you with envy, malice, and all other
jealous feelings when you hear them
snoring at midnight.
"Eighty-one per cent, of tramps de
clare that they took to the road be
cause they were out of a job, and only
one man because machinery took his
place. Over 00 per cent, of the English
tramps are givon as taking tho road
because of vagrant habits. The major
ity of onr tramps arc of American-birth,
86 per cent, of 1,343 being of American
parentage and 272 Irish, who come
next. Over 100 out of 1,7S8 tramps
could read and write, and they all
spend money on the daily newspapers.
Out of 1,S8, only 70 are married, 67
nre widowers, and 84 have children.
Thirty-eight per cent, say they work
for their food, 24 per cent, beg It, and
69 per cent, that they steal it. Over 400
sleep at cheap lodging houses, and near
ly 800 in police headquarters. About
100 sleep in boxes."
vVhUt In Llon'i Deo.
In the Hungarian menageries a fa
vorite sensation scene is for four whist
players to sit down and play a rubber
in the lion's den, while a fifth stands
by to sec fair play on the part of the
lions. I thought, writes James Payn
in the Illustrated London Kuwa, 1 hud
played whist under all possible circum
stances, and in company with the very
strangest specimens of created bungs,
but thiacxperience is beyond me. Some
people are mode nervous by folks look
ing over their heart, which (unlets they
are my adversaries) docs not nlie-jt me
at all, but I don't think 1 should lil.-o
this from a lion; the greater nticntion
he paid mo the less pleased I should
feel by the compliment. I am wire I
should be very much put out even if it
were evoked by B mistake of my oppo
nent'sif he roared. Hungarian play
ers do not scorn to mind tiioso things.
The other day, howover, it nppiv.n this
very imorcBting pcrformasco wo ifiven
once too often. The lions, with deli
cate forbcuinneo, abstained, H in trno,
from interfering with the player.), but
they wont for tho fifth joan, whom thoy
douljtlor.s considered biipcrlluoMS, and
made very short work of him. In spite
cf tho bcuumaeak that in often, though
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A Clubbing Offer,
A great many !' mir readers Mini
nunty like to ttilif I lie wt'ckli' Ori'iMii
ill. W Iihvi' in-iilc uvriiiii ill ills
.In' i'V vi' cur l'ii:'iiisli ll td mvdiU'l
u fr. nt-tlip fi';iiiti- piTtei- to ihiij-e w ho
,Uil llitl It tli- Kxr-lin IIMll 1 be
Ji'iguiiluii. Ti." tvnuiui: 411 lei' uf till1
Oreu'iuifHii ia $!.nl it year, etui 'if Ihi
Gsii'lll'SS il.fiil In ii'lviiiiei'. VV
-till furnish I1.1t :t f r fi i r - If
ui vniuH.' u Having I' 0111' il'dhir iln
Ulwe. ipur. The OU'ipniinii gives all
ilie general newsiif the eniiiili'y mice a
week, mill the KxI'UKhh gives all I lie
local in W8 once a wetk, which will
make a must t'Xivlkiit ueux service
for the moderate sum of ?2. per year.
I'hiou? who nre lit priwnt milniorUieri'
if the Exi'HM-8 imisl pay In all arrear
ages 11 nd one jeur ill udviuiee to obtain
this special price.
.Nottoe of lSxeoutrix.
Noiico in liurohy givon to alt whom It
may concern, thai, by an unler of tho
County Court for Mi in County, Blute of
Oregon, tlte umlersitfned linn been duly up
pointt'd and ib now the duly qualified und
acting Kxmnrix of tliu lust will and
testament of Eugene H. 1'lm, deceased.
All parties indented to mill t'tuto arc re
quested to mnko immediate pay men I- to
the umlcrHigned, and all ptinif.-t Inm
claims ntfiiiiist the u-ttati air hereby n
quired to present tho same properly veri
Hed, within six niontlis.frtmi tho ftth day n!
April MV), the first puidication uf tu
nolit'e, to tlit; iiiutmHigiifd at the pilicf
fcfum'l M. (iurliind, Lebanon, Ore.
h. J. I' DM,
Ex. of tin1 last 'will and nstn:mnl
Eugene II, Dim, -divinised.
B.M'l .V. tiAl.MNt),-, ,
- Any tor Kx'-f'tir , .
A elm iiiLm t r.t 1 mVi . -t
Niiliit1 i In-rtii.-' iriviMi tlint the u:
fdjtned has ht-urt duly n: l. u-. i-y i
('otiiity t'uurt of U;'p enmity, Mmm-.
iidnin.!tn)itr ui tin- e.-iai- nf ( ,
(iaroutte, dv;ti:fi, (mil Im duly qiiMiiiii
as such adiiiuiististior. All di-vhw U;t
ii.g euiims tiga ,.-- 1 '.,v eMail ims hvu'
required to preset -t Ihent, with. pro. vt
vouchers, within ix months from the
date hereof, tu the undersigned, at the
oltlceof W, ,M. Iirown, in Lehanuu, 'Linn
comity, Oregon. .
Dated this !ml. duv of January, 1805
1'hll Kilter,
WW.. Iirown, Administrator.
Attorney fur Administrator.
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LIVERINE
THE CHEAT
LIYER, KIDNEY AND CONSTIPATION
I'leacaut to lake by old or
young-. No griping. .
. The root of the Liverine
plant is extensively used in
Norway for the cure of Piles.
Sold by all first class drug
gista. . . .
Whokwile Manufactures.
Anchor S CiikmicalOo.
Lebanon, Oregon.
BARBER SHOP
Bern Hliawin, Hulr Cut or HluiintoiiHl
B. F. KIRK,
Shaving Parlor.
NEXT DOOKTO 8T. CHAULKM
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. Elegant Baths.
Children Kindly Treated.
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PANSY,
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Have just rocoivod the (hiwst line of C.RCKKUY and
ULASS WAUli evwlm.iii-.it 'to Lebanon, which tliey in
vit you to call and insjnu i.
Their jirico are as low, if not lower than anywhere' else,
in the valley.
Highest Prices Paid for Country-Produce.
Insist on
in packages
ft Costs no more than inferior package soda
never spoils the flour, keeps soft,
ft tenuity acknowledged purest in
I Bade only by CHURCH t CO Pew York.
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Business Ian . , ,
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ed HtiitiiiiH'ry and other Ad
vertisiiif; irmttor, und oh o
conseijiH'iioe bin btininess dies
away und ho in then like tho
mun whose picture appears
above.
The Enterprising
Busi u ss Man, ,
Uses a great amount of Adver
tising matter of all kindu.
Coiisi'(iiiintly his Ihnsinoss In
Oieasen nud lie .Ikioouioh an
happy as tho individual who
is represented by the picture
just above.
Job Printing
of All Kinds
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Workmanlike Manner, and at
Prices to Cnniiiure with the
Times. Your Business will bo ;
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All Orders Receive EJrompt
Attention.
Special Rates for
Family lashings.
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