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C V LEXINGTON WEEKLY BUDGET. VOL. 2. LEXINGTON, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 1890. NO. 10. PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY EVENING fit SNOW & WHITSON, Tvrms of Subscription t One Your, . 1.00 Bix Mouths, 90 cent. Invariably In advance. KATES OF ADVERTISINGS One square (ton lines or less), first Insortlun 1.00 1 tub subsequent insertion, 60 cents. S)ieclttl.rates with regular advertisers. All transient advertisements must be paid for la advance. Job Printino Of every description executed with neatness and dlspatob. F. SHIPLEY, M. D., PRACTITIONER Of Medicine, Surgery &' Midwifery, Registered. II EITHER, OK EllON P. SINE, Attorncy-at-Law and Notary public, LEXINGTON, ORKCJON. Attorney for the North American Attorneys anil Tradesmen's Protective Union of Connec ticut. J1RANK KELLOGG, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, HEI'I'NER, OREGON. Money to loan on Improved farms. Ollice In First National Bunk. Q O. BOON, Constable and Collector, LEXINGTON, ORF.C10N. Will attend to auctioneering. )E3, KATE PABSELL, Notary Public and Conveyancer, ALPINE, OREGON. Deeds, Morlffaptes and all others Lena! hint-nu-nts car-fully drawn. Applications for ritate and School lauds made, ana Pensions obtained pRANK H. SNOW, Land Agent and Notary public, LEXINGTON, OREGON. Flllnns taken on Kovornmont land. Real estate advertised and sold on comniiSHiou. New comers aro invited to call and be tilled lull of solid facta about the ail-antaxes of Morrow country. Ollice hour' '.om 7 A. M. to midnight, BunoBT building. R. LIEUALLEN, GENERAL BLACKSMITH AiuTHorseshoer, T9 ALWAYS ON DECK AND PREPARED TO 1 do anything In his line In a neat anil work manlike manner. Horses shod with care and accuracy. Shop on 0 St, Lexington, Or. G. W. BROCK, i to REPAIRING DONK. Arcade Street, Bet. C and D, Lexington. - Oregon. ELKHORN NELSE MASNUSQN, Proprietor. LEXINGTON, OR. HORSES BOARDED BY THE DAY OR WEEK. Outfit Furnished for Commerelail Men t Keaannavbla Kavtna, A LL KINDS OF TURNOUTS AND SADDLE Livery & Feed StaMc Swami Jewelry. Thero Is, says Vanit-i; Fair, a histo ry attached to out) of tho wedding gifts accepted by the prince of Wales on he half of Princess Louise that is so char acteristic of the keen interest felt by the ueen in anything connected with India that it deserves to lie recorded. Southern India has long; leen known for its Swami jewelry, but the forms and figures of the typical Swamies are so outrageous as frequently to offend western notions of propriety. To bridge over the difficulty an energetic Parsee Framjee Boston joe Bhumgnra determined to retino Swami carving so that, while retaining its really dis tinctive features, it should vie in chaste- ness with the best efforts of tho Lou don goldsmith. To this end he visited Fdigland, carefully took heed of West- end establishments, and returning to India set to work to carry nut his ideas. There was ono thing that Mr. Framjee learned here m addition to ac quiring ideas of carving, and that was that to make anything "go" it must be come the fashion, and that tho surest way of becoming fashionable was to win a royal smile of approval. Accord ingly Air. rramiee, Having gaineu en trance to Windsor, told his talo to the queen, who at once caught up the idea and appointed him her special jeweler for Indian art jewelry. Thus power fully encouraged Mr. Framjee returned to his own land full of the news of tho kindness of the empress, and raised great enthusiasm for the person of the sovereign among his fellow-workers. Now comes tho pretty part of the story. No sooner is tho intelligence of the Princess Louise's wedding Hashed to India than these workers in precious metals agree to show their appreciation of the deep obligation tliev owe the queen, arranging that Mr. Framjee, as their representative, should present a niagmhcentiy carved, casket to the happy bride. Mr. Framjee hastens to Loudon with the casket and appeals to the queen for guidance. Ihc queen re members his former visit, and intimates her desire to Marlborough house that tho gift bo accepted, with tho result that the casket formed one of I ho most attractive of the many gifts that charmed tho delighted guests of the prince ot W ales. The Fascination of Niagara. "Never," said an old resident of the village, "have I known of so many peo ple going over the lal is as during the past six mouths." During that time some eight or nine persons have been known to pass over, three of whier have been delilx-rato suicides. It is e source of wonder to many people living here why persons will come from a dis tance to Niagara apparently to connuil suicide. Tho press dispatch sent out frorr Binghamton under the impression that the last suicide was a Miss Meade, of that place, says that tho young lady visited this place a short time ago ami has been "strangely fascinated with Niagara ever since." It is a well-known fact that scarcely any two persons havf the same impression when first looking upon the rapids or falls. Only a few evenings sinco your correspondent heard a clergyman in a neighboring city make this remark: "I never look upon Niagara above the falls but thai there is a strong desire to get inlo the water, lie down and go with it. I have no thought of suicide, but it nlwayt seems to mo as if it would be pleasant to go with the water." A lady from Rhode Island was mak ing her lirst visit to Niagara and waf standing on one of the Sister Island bridges looking into the rapids under neath. She hurriedly took the arm ol her companion and asked to leave the spot. Upon rcuchingthe centre of Goal Island she sank upon a scat, seemingly exhausted and nervous. When asked the cause, she said: "I don't know what came over mo, but if I had stood on the bridge another moment nothing could have prevented me jumping into the rapids." "Why," said her friend, "do you wish to commit suicide?" "iod forbid!" said she, "It was the furthest thought, but there was an im pulse which I coiiid not control, and 1 do not think I would daro live al Niagara." Others have experienced a similar ensation. Buffalo Krirtss. The Kcd Man's It. Joinder. Around camp the Cheyenne scouts wear ncombinalion of blanket and army uni form. They are little fellows, and bet ter than they look. Tho correspond ent of an eastern newspaper who had been out there long enough to say "daminjun" like a native and to hold these children of nature in sovereign contempt, was walking through Fort Keogh a fow days ago. A Cheyenne wont crossed the parade grounds with an old blanket enveloping him from head to knees ami wellworn army pantaloons showing below. "Look at that daminjun,'1 said the New Yorker to his companion. "Isn't he the dirtiest animal that walks on two legs?" The Cheyenne stopped, turned, and with the native dignily w hich the white man has never achieved, said slowly and distinctly in excellent English: "Look here, young man. Jf you are not more careful i ll report you to the commanding officer and havejou put in the guardhouse." Unulmm JjtUer. She (at the pinno) "Listen! How do you enjoy this refrain?" lie "Very muchl The more you refrain the better I like it" MuicU C'uurter. Sluinlfrr Pillow. The Ideal slumber pillow is filled with pulverised orrn root uud way ba bought lor W0. MISSING LINKS. The average age of tho twelvo En glish bishops is 70 years. Mrs. (icorgie Runyan edits the Wumaii's News, of Springfield, Ohio. Tho nightmare is going out. At least that is tho opinion of the Bombay sur geon general. It is calculated that during a London season the average amount spent in Mowers daily is Jt'o.OOO. Tho Woman's National Press Associa tion intends to erect a statue to Mrs 11. B. Hayes, in Washington. Mr. R. 1). lilackmore, tho novelist, now devotes more attention to his market-garden than to his pen. John W. Mackay, in behalf also of Mrs. Mackay, has denied emphatically that his wife has ever helped lioulanger. The heat has been so intense in Foo chow, China, that tho authorities, in the hope of bringing rain, ordered tho kill ing of pigs to bo stopped. ' Wagner's oury son, Siegfried, now grown, is studying to bo an engineer, lie looks like his father, but shows no marked musical talent. W. R. Shadman, of Glynn County, Georgia, has three acres of olives. His is believed to be the only olive grove East of tho Rocky Mountains. A London journal states shirts of chain armor, which cost about 100, are now worn by more than one distin guished person on the continent. M. de Freycinet has issued a com mission to inqure into tho feasibleness of employing swallows to carry wui messages in lieu of carrier-pigeons. France's production and consump tion of milk amounts every year to 1, 8.rj0,000,000 gallons which is three times iu excess of tho production ol wine. Tho International Congress of Short hand, lately silting iu Paris, has passed a resolution commending the intro duction of shorthand into primary schools. A clever Buffalo woman who hap been to England, traveled all around London, seen everything worth seeing in a two-months trip, and all it cost hci was $200. A Philadelphia woman who was executed for poisoning her husband and two children left a will bequeathing hei estate, valued at (3,000, to the two law yers w ho defended her. Miss Helen Gould, daughter of Jay Gould, is said to have always believed she hail a mission to teach, and even now instructs four music pupils, mem bers of her church, at her home. Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louis, is the oldest Catholic prelate in the United States. Ho was consecrated in 1841, and now at the age of 80, presides over his diocese without an assistant. Among the inscriptions in her album most prized by Mine. Patti-Nicolini h this, by the elder Dumas: "Being a man and a Christian, I lovo to listen to your singing; but if 1 were a bird 1 should die of envy." Observations of the stars were made In Babylon from remote antiquity and careful records kept of eclipses. Koine of tho Babylonian astronomical statu ments refer to a period earlier than 7, 000 years B. C. The Sultan, which lately ran on some Mediterranean rocks and sunk, has been raised at a cost of ;(, 000. She cosl jtMMo.OOO originally, 1' AVI, 000 more I'm alteration and maintaiuaiicc, and will cost Jf..i0,000 more for repairs; total. $4,000,1X10. There is a new Count of Monk Cnsto. Ihe Marquis Carlo (linari, ol Florence has bought the island and lit title. Ho intends to construct a resi dence there whose splendor will outdo those of tho grottoes of the late Mr. Ed uiond Dautes. George W. Cable, who had such an aversion to the theater that ho could not be induced to visit one, is under stood to have not only dramatized one of his own novels, but to have placed the work in tho hands of a Boston manager for production. Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, says that "of tho l.iWO inhabitants of Block Island fully 1,000 of them have only four different family names." This is the result of inter marriage, but no deterioration i noticed on that account. Tho London Times, in discussing General Sheridan's memoirs, remark' that "he saw an amount of service and experienced a number of exciting ad ventures such as cannot, probably, be matched by tho oldest and most ad venturous veteran now living in any European army." "General" Booth in opening a new salvation hall in Liverpool, delied uny one to point out any authorized iloi n of the Salvation Army not juslilied from the Bible. They had Si,70( societies and 8,000 olliccrs, for the most part self-supported, and the annual in come was not less than $1,000,000. The old brig which carried Najioieon from the island of Elba to France in 181S was wrecked in Monterey Bay in 1834, where she was employed as i coastguard vessel by the Mexican gov ernment, and she is now being fished up by speculator for her copper. Many relics of this historical craft have been gold. The N. Y. WorH building will 1 thirteen feet higher than the Time building. Above this main structure of stone, brick, and terra cotta w ill be raised a dome of live stories high, and surmounted wil h a lantern which will 1 be 300 feet altove the sidewalk. The J editors and reporter will huvo quarter in the dome. Says an English verbal critic 'Americans are generally falling ink the habit of using tho word 'allirm' foi cnnlirm.' For instance, when an oflioial is questioned as to tho truthful ness of a certain rumor, the answer it apt to be, 'I will neither allirm not deny the report." Of course ho ought to bay 'conlirni.'" The Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, which was sent out a year ago, has already made successful explorations, and has secured about three thousand tabids bearing inscriptions more or less important. The party of explorers will continue an other year at their work and will bring back all their trophies to the University of Pennsylvania. Maine girls are proverbially smart, anil ono of them who is summering al Squirrel Island, has handsomely sus tained the record. An Augusta youii" lady, Miss Maude Slanwood, w hile oul yachting, accidentally fell overboard. Tho yacht passed completely over her, but she came up to tho surface and coolly tried out: "Lull' her up, cap tain, and I'll climb aboard." A process of engraving on glass and crystal by electricity has been communi cated to Hie i. .'eneh Academy ol Science. The plate to ho engraved is covered with a concentrated solution of nitrate of potash and put iu connection with ono of tho poles of tho battery, and the design is traced out with a line platinum point connected with tho other polo. Results of u marvelous delicacy are ob tained. The explanation of tho queen's ap parently inexhaustible supply of Indian shawls, ono of which is her rcgului wedding present, is that early in hei majesty s reign one of tho Indian princes, lit consideration of his havin a largo and valuable territory ceded to him. bound himself to pay an annual tribute, which included IhVee pairs ol tho linest Cashmere shawls and twelve perlect shawl goats. Emperor William lias but recently honored himself with any high military rank. Though as kaiser he is the "win lord" of thol.erman army, he remained but a brigadier unlil a short while ago, when ho rose to bo a major general. Since Queen Victoria made liini an ad miral and tho Austrian emperor made him a general, Mollko has urged him tr conic up to the ursl rank, and ho uutr Li a commanding general. lie Proved His Cuse. "Human nature is mighty queer, isn t it r he observed to the other man on the rear platform of the si rcet-car. "Yes, I suppose so," replied the other. "People are too scnsisivc altogether too sensitive." "1 don't know about that." "Well, I do. For instance, now, you have a red nose. You are not too blame for it, perhaps, but you arc so sensitive that if I should oiler you a remedy for it you " "You old loafer, I've a good mind to knock your head oil," hissed the red-nosed man as he squared olf. "Told you so!" re plied tho oilier as he dropped oil'. "Human nature is Ihe queen-sl durned thing on earth, and soniu folks are so sensitive that they'd swallow their false teeth rather than let one know thev had 'em." Di trnil t'ri'.e I'n.is. Genial to the Lust. "I visited him on Sunday," says the doctor, "and advised liini that it was -of the utmost importance he should re main perfectly quiet, anil, above all, not to talk. 'Just fancy yourself a Vegetable.' I said, 'wil bout the power of conveying your thoughts or cum uiunicalMig your wishes.' Mr. Cox at this time was fully aware of his condi tion; he could barely speak above his breath and was extremely feeble. lie smiled just perceptibly and drew mo down that I might hear him the better. '"Have you any choice, doctor, as to the kind of vegetable you wish mo to be?' "I suggested that a turnip was about as lifeless a vegetable as I knew' of anil as little liable to nervous excitement. "Very well,' replied Mr. Cox a tur nip it shall be.' "This is a good example of the man's indomitable pluck." A. '. Turns. A Kussbin Comparison. A Russian gentleman who has an American wife met some friends of the latter who were traveling in Europe recently, says the Boston Cimrivr, anil among other things which lie told them concerning her was the fact that she had been bitten by one of the blood hounds that had started out and run amuck, so to say, one day upon his es tate. The Americans were Idled with horror and were eager in their inquir ies in regard to what was thine and if tlu.ro were any evil results from tho wound. The Russian, who is of high rank, hastened to reassure them. "There were no bad consequences at all," he assured them. "I took a hot iron and burned out the wound. Jt smelled a little like unit ton-chops cook ing, but 1 (l Ml n I mind that. There was perhaps no reason why an affectionate husband should not compare tho burning of his wife's flesh to the cooking of a mutton-chop, and yet so much did it olfeiid the tastes of the people to whom he spoke that they henceforth and forever avoided and Will "VQ'd him. The Kucalyptus. California still continues to have faith In the health-giving properties 0f the eucalyptus. The stale board of horticulture is just now distributing seeds which have Ih-imi received from Australia of a largo iiumlw-rof varieties v ittiiKMui i vj.;. THE CURSE OF THIRST. Thero is in Italy a fountain over which is the statue of a beggar drink ing at a spring. It is called tho "Beg gar's Fountain," and this is its story: dnco upon a time there lived, so says tho legend, a very proud and haughty man, who hated the poor and set him self above all the world who were not as wealthy and well dressed as him self, and his want of charily was so great that it had become proverbial, and a beggar would no more have thought of asking bread at his gate than of asking him for all his fortune. However, there was a spring on his land, a sweet spring of cold water, and :ts it was the only ono for miles many a wayfarer paused to drink at it, but never was permitted to do so. A ser vant, well armed, was kept upon tho watch to drive such persons away. Now, thero never had been known before any ono so avaracious as to re fuse a cup of cold water to his fellow man, and the angels, talking amongst each other, could not believe it; and one of them said to the rest: "It is impossible for any but Satan himself P I will go to earth and prove that it is not true." And so this fair and holy angel dis guised herself as a beggar-woman, covered her golden hair with a black hood, and chose the moment when the master of tho house worf himself stand ing near the spring to come slowly up the road, walking over the stones with bare feet, and to pause besido the foun tain and humbly asked for a draught of its sweet water. Instantly the servant who guarded tho spot interposed the pike he carried, but tho angel, desiring to take news of a good deed, not of an evil one, back to heaven turned to the master him self. "Sir," sho said, "I am, as you seo, a wanderer from afar. Seo now poor my garments aro, how stained with travel. It is not surely at your bid ding that your servant forbids mo to drink. And oven if it is, I pray you bid him let me alone, for I am very thirsty." Tho rich man looked at her with scornful eyes and laughed contemptu ously. "This is not ft public fountain," he said. "You will lind one in the next village." "'The way Is long," pleaded the an gel, "and I am a woman, and but weak." "Drive hef away," said the rich man and, as he spoke, the beggar turned but on tho Instant her black hood dropped from her head ami revealed Hoods of rippling golden hair her un seemly rags fell to the ground -and the shimmering robes that angels wear shorn) in their place. For a moment she hovered, poised on purple wings with lua-hands folded on her bosom and an iiiell'ablo sweetness of sorrow in her eyes. Then, with a gush of music and a flood of perfume, she van ishi-il. The servant fell to the earth like one dead. The rich man trembled am! cried out, for ho knew that he had forbidden a cup of cold water to an an gel, and horror possessed his soul. Almost instantly, also, a terrible thirst fell upon him which hothin could assuage. In vain he drank wines, sherbets, draughts of all pleasing kinds. Nothing could slake his thirst. Ihe sweet water of tho spring was Salter to him than the sea. Ho who never in his life had known an ungrat ilied desire, now experienced Ihe tor lure of an cvcr-unsalislicd longing; but through this misery he began to under stand what he had done. Ho repented Jus cruelty to the poor. Alms were given daily at his gale. Charity was the business of his hie. ihe fountain was no longer guarded, and near it hung ever u cup ready for any ono w ho chose to use it. Bui the cursu if curse it were was never lifted. The rich man young when the an gel visiteil him -grew middle-aged elderly, old, still tortured by this aw ful thirst, (lespito his prayers ami re pentance. He had given awav his sub stance; ho had himself broken bread for the most miserable beggars who came to his door. And at 80 years of ago, bowed with infirmity and weary of Ids life, ho sat one day besido tho fountain weeping. And lo! along the road he saw iip- iroaching a beggar-woman, hooded in dack, wearing sordid rags, and walk ing over the stones In her bare feet. Slowly she came on and paused beside the fountain. "May 1 drink?" she asked. "There are none to forbid time," said the old man trembling. "Drink, poor woman. Once an angel was for bidden here, but that lime has pussud. Drink and pray for one athirst. Hero is Ihe cup." Tho woman bent over tho fountain and Idled the cup; but instead of put ting it to her own lips she presented it to those of the old man. "Drink, then," she cried, "and thirst no more!" .t ..I.I . 1. 1 1. ... and 4 lie oiu man ufiiii ma ,,.. ...... emptied it. Oh, blessed draught! With it the torture of years departed, and as he drank it h praised Heaven. Aim lifting his eyes once more be saw the beggar's hood drop to the ground and her rags fall to pieces. For a moment she stood revealed in all her beauty of snowy skin and golden hair and silvery raiment; and she stretched her hand toward him, as in blessing, and then, rising on purple pinions, vanished in the skies. A strain of music lingered, a perfume filled the air, and those who came there soon after found tho old loan praying beside the spring. Jieiore lie died he built the fountain ! from which the spring still gushes, and j it, with the splendid mansion bejond it. now a hum, it 1 tb Door furevor. The Modern Marriage. A writer in tho Astoria (Oregon) Tramrript, in commenting on the re cent divorce of a young couple at The Dalles, who were both under the age of twenty-one years, showed conclu sively that ho has never been thero himself when he adapted tho following from the peu of a well-known humor ous writer: "Nino-tenths of tho unhappy mar- riages aro tho result of green human calves being allowed to run at large in society pastures without any yoke on them. They marry and have chil dren before t buy do mustaches. They aro fathers of twins before they aro tho proprietors of two pairs of pants, and tho little girls they marry are old women before they are twenty years old. Occasionally one of these gosling marriages turns out all right, but it is a clear case of luck. If thero was law against young galoots sparking; and marrying before they have cut all their teeth, we suppose tho little cusses would evade it in somo way. But there ought to be a sentiment against it. 'It is time enough for these bantams to think of tindiug a pullet when they have raised money enough to buy a bundle of lath to build a hen-house. But they see a girl who looks cunning, and they are afraid there aro not go ing to be enough lo go around ami they begin to spark real spry, and be fore they are aware of tho sanctity of the marriage relation lliey aro niluiicuj for life, and before they own a cook stove or bedstead they have got to get up iu tho night and go after the doe. tor, so rrightenod that they run them selves out of breath and abuse the doc. tor Ill-cause he docs not run too. Ain when the doctor gets there, there is not. linen enough iu the house to wrap up the -baby."' THE STRAWS0NIZER. A Novel Agricultural Implement at the 1-urls Kxpoaltlon. Perhaps no single implement at tho Paris exposition is nltraeting so much attention as tin; Strnwsonizcr, says the American AiriaiUurist. In shape it appears something like a two-wheeled cart, with some apparatus near the axle and a hopper above. It is an automatic distributor, and will dis tribute in a minute spray either liouid or powdered fertilizers and insecticides in the form of a dry powder. 1 he claim is made that it will also broadcast all kind of line grain in any quantity and with absolute evenness. The broad casting of seeds, insecticides, fertiliz ers., can be done at the rate Irom four to eight acres per hour. It distributes these various articles in the form of a spray, spreading them more evenly iu a subdivided condition than was ever before attained. This can bo inferred from the fact that tho Slrawsonizi-r will distribute as small a quantity as lift y pounds of nitrate of soda per acre with great evenness, or ono gallon of petroleum can be sprayed like line dew over an acre. With the proper attachments tho sprays can be thrown over the trees, hop-vines, grapevines, etc., and will doubtless come into gen eral use for applying paris green and other insecticides to orchards, vine yards, and potatoes, and all other crops, for distributing small quanti ties of liquid poisons or offensive mat ter it is especially valuable. The ma chine is worked with one horse and a boy to drive. The practicability of the machine seems to have been thorough ly demonstrated by repeated tests last year, and this season several Slraw sonizers are at work in England and France. It is probable that the Straw soiiizer will be ou the American mar ket in 18!H. It Whs On WhnoW. . Undoubtedly the biggest fool seen In New York for a long time was a man down from New Hampshire, who was looking for li)5 Broadway, the Western Union Building. Ho had been told of the wonderful things to bo seen there, including tho telegraph wires and Jay iioi.m. no nan "r.w written on a card and was walking around the street looking for a corresponding number. Catching sight of a llroail way ear with the number VJi painted conspiciously on the side, he exclaimed; "II gosh, the thing's on wheels!" and, with a look of superior wisdom and de light on his face, piled on board. Ho shiillled cautiously inside, and, taking a seat, said to a man beside him: "Wall, I'm a guinea if this don't take the cake. The folks up in New Jlanii shire won't believe it when 1 go home an' tell 'em 'bout this. Curious? Wall, I should say!" Tho ringing of the register bull interested It till. 'Mutt's all done by 'b-ctricity, I'll bet a dollar. Better not git too close to it, 1 reckon," and ho slid away. "All you folks in here to sire the elephant, loo? Wall, it's a corker, an' make no mistake." The conductor came around for the fare. "Didn't know there Wilis anything to pay." "live cents," said the conductor. As country wont down into his pocket he said: "I've heerd of you afore, Jay, but I 1'idn't know you would tackle a feller fcr live cents. But hero qics. I'm in Uown to see the sights, an' I'm goin' to play her for all she's wurth. " Ar. Hurld. "I suppose your ollice has a poet's corner?'' a.ikeil the pale, young man. "No, sir," replied the businuas man ager; "there is no poet's corner, and never will bo. It is impossible to cor ner an article the natural supply of which is so much in excess of tiio de uiuud." Ttrrt llauta tixjirau. , - iluraea as in aapuaiu oi pa..