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5f ood (iver Slacier. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1894. The prune crop is a partial failure in Prance and also in California. Levi P.. Morton and Senator Hill have both accepted their nominations tor governor of New York. Oliver Wendeir Holmes, th well known poet and author, died at his home in Boston October 7th r" '.'"": Hush Gourlav'a .new paper, the Klickitat Republican, published at joldendale, has been received. . Andrew Gregg Curilu, the wnr gov ernor of Pennsylvania, died at his home In Bellefonte, Pu., October 7th. . He was borne in Bellefonte April 22, .1315. - ' ' s. The Sun, a daily and Sunday morn Ing newspaper, to be published at 102 Second street, Portland, Is announced to appear October 15th. Captain John O'Brien, manager. 1 -: 1 ' The prohibition ticket is barred out in Washington through failure to tile the nominations Willi tne secretary of state within' the prescribed Jiaiit, thirty days before election. - ( . j . . c, i as '., . v .-.! The regular semi-annual meeting of the Oregon state board of hortirulture will meet in Portland October 13th and 15th. -The object of the meeting is to summarize the work done by the board during the past six months and formu late a report to be submitted to the leg islature. " :' , , The consolidated vote of the election in Georgia shows Atklnsou'a majority for governor to be 26.000. The rest of the democratic' state ticket received 30,000. , The democrats will have a majority of 125 in the house and 27 in the senate. Republicans had no ticket in the field, and the fight was between democrats and populists. ; r -u : .' Senator Hill's 'maneuverings to en list united democratic support for the ticket in New York have extended to Washington City,, and pressure has been brought to induce the president to preside at a big ratification meeting to be held in New York "city towards the close of the campaign. Mr, Cleve land refused a' similar invitation du ring his' first administration, a-id has very decided opinions as to the propri ety of his taking any conspicuous part In political campaigns.;. .. . . .;, " Census bulletins showing the owner ship and debt in the state of Washing ton were issued October 3d. They show that 81 per cent of the farms are owied .by persons cultivating them, and of this number 73 per cent own free of en cumbrance. The debt ' on ! farms amounts to $6,963,100, or 28 per cent of their value, subject to'.' an average in terest of, $9.87 per cent..' It, is also shown that 40 per cent of the homes are owned by those who occupy them, and 80 per cent own free of incum brance. The debt on homes is $6,225,- 270.' '' . '-. ..vr"! ,'.; v:v;;i::' . Prof. '.George Sloan of Chicago has for forty-five days thrived ,.oh a diet' of mineral water and drugs.-; During all that time not a particle of other nour ishment, solid or liquid, has passed his Jlps. Once . be tried to arink. some . weak beef , tea; but could not. Now, although proud of having beaten Dr. Tanner's famous record of forty -two days, he would like to eat, but cannot. He is 64 years old. , For several years Mr. Sloan has been afflicted with a ma lignant stomach disease and at time would fast for days in order to find re lief. ' .k-- -..-. ..- .'M .,, An exptrt fruit mail, who for fifteen1 years has made inspection trips through' New York, Northern .Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Canada, lately returned to New York from one of these trips and gave the Journal of Commerce his opinion' re garding the apple crop of 1894. "The New Emrlaiid Stages." said he. ''will have a good. -average crop, and the out look where I have been outside is for a large yield. , In no particular;' section west of the. New England states is there a full crop, but every section in the states I visited, which has supplied winter fruit . heretofore, will, supply largely this year. A. close inspection shows this to be a season in which the fruit is found well inside the tree. ' The quality of . the fruit is below the aver age, except in Missouri, .Kansas, Ne braska and Iowa.... The aggregate sup ply will be in excess of the fall of 1891. The crop lu the New England states, New York and Michigan is fully equal to that of last year In some sections apples have been Injured by the-severe drouth, but late rains are bound to help them." "f- ! Army officers and others in the East seem surprised at the action f Gen. Barber, commanding 'department of the Platte, for his insulting letter to the society of the Army of the Tennes-: Bee. i lie was honored by being placed on a ' committee to act' at the re union at Council Bluffs, and in declin ing to act he wrote that he had never heard of the association and cared nothing for it. It is expected the af fair .will receive official inquiry when the report reaches Washington,' and may result in court martial. " Barber's frienda try to excuse him by sayirg that he has suffered in recent years from nervous break -downs, and that this is one of them,,: It is more iikely that Gen. Barber meant just what he said, and meant to insult the society of the Army of the Tennessee. Barter served in the army of the Potomac and is now a member of the society of the Army of the Potomac. Barber's action is the outcroppings of a spirit of sectional pride or clannishness that has existed among soldiers since the war!' Some men who served lh 'the army of the: Potomac will not concede that any Western army did any service worthy of note. They seem to forget,lf they ever knew, that the army of the Tenuessed was never whipped iind was gaining victories v iii the Southwest while the nrmy of the Potomac wus suffering defeat or merely holding its own. 'The same spirit is shown by men . from the Eastern and Wester li armies toward the Pacific coast soldiers. This feeling of course is held by only a few, but they manage to make them selves heard at all Grand Army gath erings on. this coast. - The man who volunteered on the Pacific coast during the war . was just as patriotic and as brave as an Eastern soldier and is de serving of the same praise even though he never heard the report of an , en emy's gun..' He helped fill the quota and to keep Indians in subjection, and if he was not sent East lie expected to be when he enlisted. - Gen. Barber may know, more about the society of the Army of the .Tennessee before he gets through with this case. An Inspired Dream. ... , ! Editor Glacier: Dreams are of va rious, kinds, many,, no doubt being caused by some abnormal condition of body or mind. But some are inspired revelations; whisperings as it were of that, other vague and shadowy con sciousness that we all possess yet can not explain or understand, and which is sometimes called ' the good genius that presides over our lives. Now, have Just had a dream' of the latter kind, ' a ' revelation. -"' I was riding through a thick growth of small young oaks, all of which had been top-grafted with scions of the oak precisely like themselves. The scions all seemed dead and many of them ' tumbling out of the clefts. While I was wondering at the stupidity of the individual who could do such a thing, I saw one that was alive and putting forth leaves. The stock was a hazel-bush and the scion some closely allied species with a slightly different leaf. This I seemed to know was a filbert, although I had never seen a filbert tree in my life, Just then I awoke, and it instantly flashed through my fertile brain that here was the solution to a great prob lem. I remembered that the greater part of the wealth of many of my less fortunate neighbors consisted of im mense hazel thickets that had hereto fore served only as the digger squirrel department in this paradise of the West; why not, as by a single stroke of genius, convert tne wnole business into one vast filbert orchard, against which the codling moth ' and green aphis might burl their myriad legions in vain, only to meet with utter ruin and annihilation? , thus solving, as it were, the insect problem, as well as to be come rich and great at a single bound, Fearing lest I should lose before morn ing this brilliant gem which had so suddenly leaped into the .reservoir of my already over-crowded intellect, I roused the snoring beauty by my side out of a sound slumber and proceeded to acquaint her with my wonderful dream, as ; well as the great results which would be sure to follow, t ' Now, Mrs. T. does not seem to ap- preciate ' the bent bf my genius, and when she spoke, her remark were of a personal nature only, and entirely for eign to the- great subject under consid eration; hence it is unnecessary to re peat them here. V So, after repeating (.under my breath) the immortal lines of Gray, about the flowers that are born 'to; blush unseen and which al ways seemed so applicable to my case I ' followed her example by turn ing over the other way and again throwing myself into the arms of Mor pheus until morning. " ''' :) . ' ,:-, i But, if any one doubts the truth of my inspiration; let him just graft a few filberts onto some hazel bushes and keep the sprouts cut away for a few years, and if he don't see something that, will open his eyes as well as those of, the digger squirrels to the possibil ities of these hazel-beclad regions, then my name is not ' 1 Tedrick. The Silver Dollar. u ; ; The purchasing power of the 'silver dollar, which is now equal to. that of the gold dollar, would be reduced if the present policy of the treasury were abandoned. Silver dollars would re main a legal tender, but that would not preserve their purchasing power. They would have tae same debt-paving power as gold, but no debts would then be paid in gold. Silver or its equiv- leiit would be exclusively Used to pay debts, and would have for that purpose the same power as at present; but when used to purchase commodities its value would be reduced, because the prices of goods, in silver, would be raised. The purchasing power of a dollar at present is the same as that of 23-22 grains of fine gold, whether iu bullion or gold coin. There are 37H grains of flnesil- ver in a dollar, but it requires about twice that amount of silver bullion to purchase 23-22 grains of gold bullion. This simply means that we are using the gold standard. If we bad the si -ver standard, the purchasing power of the dollar would be that of 371J graii 8 of silver bullion, which at present is about fifty cents. The ratio of 16 to 1 of gold . to silver simply means that 16 ounces ofsilver are of equal value with one .ounce of gold. Recently an ,ounce.,of gold has been selling for as much as ,812 , or 33 ounces of silver; as the exact ratio va ries from day to day, we will call it 32 ounces. Now it is obvious that the dollar cannot be worth at the same time the value of the gold bullion which it contains and the value of the silver bullion, since these are in the ra tio of 2 to 1. , It may he either, but it cannot be both. At present it -has the purchasing power of the gold bullion, and the different kinds of dollars are kept at a parity, that is, at equal pur chasing power, by the policy of the treasury department, which gives to the citizen the sort of dollar which he desires. A note which calls for coin is paid in either gold or silver at the op tion of the holder..; This prevents gold coin from going to a premium. : ' Free coinage means .that the govern ment shall take 871 J grains of silver, worth about fifty cents, and give a dol larforit.' Whenever that' happens it will be impossible for the treasury to payout gold and silver without dis tinction. Gold will then only be ob tainable from private individuals, and will go to a premium, while silver dol lars will have the same purchasing power as 371 grains of silver bullion. Free coinage advocates say the pries of bullion will rise. Possibly it might rise-lO per cent; if so, the purchasing power of the dollar would be 55 per cent of what it is now. If it rose 20 per cent, its purchasing power would be 60 per cent of what it is now. . In order for the dollar to retain its present purchasing power, it would be neces sary for silver bullion to rise. 100 per cent, and this is extremely improbable; It is quite probable that the adoption of the silver standard would put up the price of silver bullion for a time. The passage of the Sherman act in 1890 put up the price of silver bullion to $1.21 an ounce in about a month. Then it began to recede, and it is now from 64 to 65 cents. Probably something of the same sort would follow free coin age, but iu the, end the purchasing power of the dollar would probably not be materially higher than the present price of 871 grains of silver bullion. Our adoption of the silver Standard would slightly increase the demand for silver, but it would not be equal to the demand which existed prior to 1873. Hence the need of an international agreement as to the use of silver and its ratio to gold. Louisville Courier Journal. .: . ' V : Death of Hon. J. H. Hosier. Hon, Jonah H. Mosier.who has been sick for some time, died at his residence at Mosier October 5tb. He was born iu 1821, and has lived in Oregon since 1853. In that year he came to The Dalles, working at his trade of car penter. Soon after he settled on the place which was named after him, and where he resided until he died. In 1874 he was elected to the legislature from this county, serving as senator during two sessions. Mr. Mosier leaves a large family of children, nearly' all of whom are married. Asa neighbor and citizen Mr. Mosier was generous and honest, and he bad a large circle of friends among those with whom he was acquainted. - He was a member of the Masonic fraternity; under whose auspices the funeral took place. Times Mountaineer. , - ; .-';. --'', . The U. It. Conference.' i The Oregon Annual Conference of the United Brethren Church will con vene at Hood River, Thursday, Oct. 18th, and continue in session four days. Bishop N. Castle, D. D., of Elkhart, Indiana, will ' preside. V Rev. W. M. Bell, D. D.; missionary secretary of the U. B. Church, of Dayton, Ohio, will be In attendance. All of the ministers of this denomination in Oregon are ex pected to be here. Dr. Bell and Bishop Castle are men of national reputation. 1 J-v. Important Land Decision, s v " Furnished by W. D. Harlan, Land Attorney, '.' ' washingi m, D. C. : ; The good faith of a settlement claim is not impeached by absences from the land to earn money for, support of set tler's family and to purchase the land. Ass't Sec'v Sims. The district fair opened at The Dalles Tuesday with good weather and good attendance. At the pavilion in Win- gate hall was displayed paintings, la dies' needle work, fruits and vegetables, etc. - D. R. Cooper of Hood River showed some fine apples grown twelve miles from tbe snow line of Mt. Hood. : 'NDr. E. T. Cams, Dentist. T Has retikned to Portland. The doctor will return To Hood River November 1st. nrenared to examine, fill, extract. regulate and make new I teeth; also, crown and bridge work. . Bnckles's Arnica Salve. ' . The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Bores, Tetter Chapped Hand, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erupt ions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hood River Pharmacy, i j TIPS FOR THE QUEEN. They Are Called Perquisites, But She Gets Them Just the Same. ' Queen Victoria gets more tips than any other functionary in Great Britain, and, what is more, she insists on get ting them. Of course they are not called tips. They are called perquis ites, but it is all the same. An ex-attache, writing in the New York Trib une, says that among the most curious of them is her right to every whale or sturgeon captured on the coast of the united kingdom . and brought ,to land. Both of these perquisites date back to the days of the . Norman kings and it appears that in the case of the whale the monsters were divided between the sovereign and his consort, the queen taking the head in order that her ward robe might be replenished with the whalebone needed for the stiffening of her royal garments. - ' i : Another of the queen's backsheesh is a certain number of magnifieent Cashmere shawls, which are dispatched to her every year from the kingdom of Cashmere. r They vary in value, as a rule, from three hundred to twelve hundred dollars apiece and the queen is accustomed to present one of them as a wedding present to every young girl of the aristocracy or in whose fu ture she is in any way . interested. Every tailor holding a patent of "Pur veyor to her Majesty," if he conforms to ancient tradition and usage, should present her with a silver needle each year. ; ,,- .-'..,: Another class of royal .purveyors is called upon to present annually to her a table cloth, while from other sources she is entitled to an annual contribu; tion of such varied tips as white doves, white hares,currycombs,fire tongs, scar let hosiery, nightcaps,knives,lancesand crossbows. Moreover, at the corona tion the lord of the manor of Adding ton must present to the sovereign a "dish of pottage" composed of "almond milk, brawn of capons, sugar, spices, chickens parpoiled and chopped." At the same ceremony the lord of the manor of Haydon is obliged by virture of his tenure from the crown to pre sent the monarch with a towel, the lord of the manor of Workshop giving the sovereign a "right-handed glove." These are xnly a few.of the various backsheesh to which Queen Victoria is entitled by tradition and usage. . ; Oi MEMORIAL SERVICE, Sixteen Hungry Boys Filled with ' Veal Pie in Dickens' Plcshop. An exchange tells the following story of the pieshop in London before which Charles Dickens need to stand when, as a child, he . drudged in a blacking factory. Every day, on the way 'to and from his work, he paused to de vour the , viands with his eyes, and sometimes he pressed his tongue to the window-pane, as if by so doing he got a .taste of the good things which were "so near and yet so far." , . ,, An American railroad man who ad mires Dickens hunted up his pieshop when in London in order to gratify his curiosity and his sentiment. It proved to be a mere box of a place in a poor quarter of the city, but the original business was still carried on there. As the traveler peered into the shadowy interior, a voice was heard at . his el bow: , , "Please, sir, will you buy me a weal pie?" , . ', . The owner of the voice was a small, disheveled person, with whom a pie of veal, or anything else of a "hearty" nature, would have agreed right well. - "How many boys do you think this shop will hold?" asked the American. "I dunno. About fifteen or sixteen, I should think." -' ' - ' i "Well, go and get fifteen boys, and bring them back here." ' ; i ' The boy studied the man's face for a moment, as if to make sure that he was in the enjoyment of his senses, and then with a yell hurried into a side street. - Hardly a minute elapsed be fore he returned at the head of a pro cession of sixteen gamins, of assorted sizes, unanimous in appetite and hope. . This ragged battalion assembled close behind its benefactor and fol lowed him into the shop, where he an nounced that he was going to give all the boys all the pie they ; wanted. They wanted a great deal, as it proved; their capacity for "weal pie" was something marvelous. But their benefactor was as good as his word, and sixteen happy and satisfied boys left the shop singing his praise. ,t .. ; ' ' Whistling on Shipboard. . ' .''' Whistling and let us honor this sweet tradition is- very much against the proprieties of sea life, writes Lieut. J. D. Jerrold Kelley, in an article on 'Superstitions of the Sea," in Century. You may, in a calm, if not a landsman, woo with soothing whistle San Antonio or St. Nicholas, and a lagging wind may be spurred ia consequence by these pa tron saints of the mariner; but once the ship is going, never, wise and wary passenger, whistle if you fear keel hauling, for like the ' padrone in the Golden Legend you may find " ' - ' Only o little wWle ago. " ' ' ' ' ; - I was whistling to St. Antonio For a cap-full of wind to lill our sail, - , .; And Instead of a breeze ho has sent a gale. .' A Human Songbird. ' '' It is said of Albohi that she "warbled like a bird all day long." She used to sit in her garden and sing as she worked at lace making or some other feminine occupation,- and the rent of the house adjoining her villa . was raised a thousand francs because of the free musical entertainments thus fur nished. In regard to her great size, her body became so unwieldly in her last years t jat she rose with difficulty from her chair, and usually had to be helped to rise. The great singer was so fond of the homely art of darning stockings that it was 6aid she , "would have darned stockings for the universe" if she had had time. . - , .'-''.': ... Kapoleon's Piano. ; A piano made for Napoleon in 1810 has been unearthed in London. In shape it is a grand with silver keys, I and, curiously enough, there are five j pedals. Two of these work a drum and cvmbals, and were presumably added in compliment to the military tastes of the emperor. ' o u i Excellent Teaclieisi " DBeaAiLtifTJLl "vSX3nIng:s.v' SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES, Address, ' -'-,," MRS. SARAH K. WHITE, Principal. TliE BUT C ZEE ZC HAS CONSTANTLY ON HAND THE 3 Choicest Meats, Haxn. . ' ' Eacon, lard. Grame Poultry, Also Dealers in VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. - - Corner of Oak and Fourth Streets, -' Hood River, - Oregon. KAHNA & VOLFAHD. , , DEALERS IX . HOOD RIVER, OREGON. AGENT8 FOR Woonsocket Rubber The Best in We have a large line in stock. "WE SZ-uTZ"E ; DECIDED That thirty days is as long as we can credit goods, and would respectfully j : request our patrons to govern themselves accordingly. ; ,. , , Directions for Mixing the Acme Compound. v ' Weigh out ten pounds of the Compound and put it in a harrel or large ket tle; then pour on five gallons of boiling water gradually, until the mixture is of the consistency of soft soap stirring it all the time. After It is thoroughly dissolved add the balance of the water (forty-five gallons), hot or Cold hot pre ferred. Do not boil the mixture. It is then ready to apply. ' Be sure and have your kettles or barrel clean (also your spraying tank) and free from other mixtures, in order to avoid cloggingyour spraying" nozzles.' Do not spray when iii . . : j I' . - '.. J 1 : . . A i . . 1 tv- .. n i , . . . . ce itkkjs urr, iuviki,. rur lAniiiu hhhu use ixn. i, nuu spray immediately alter the blossoms drop, then again four weeks after, which will destroy all other In- : sects that may appear. , Apply by means of a spray pump or a florist's syringe. " '::-fKy.'y--i Testimonials. -' , Coralitos, Cal., March 26, 1804. Watson, Erwin & Co.: I used one hundred pounds of your Acme No. 1, and it had the desired effect: it not only gets away with the insect but it cleans up the tree and leaves it in a healty condition. I will guarantee it will do just what it is recommended to do. Yours truly, .... ;. ; v. ' - . - - '. ; J. E. Mortimer. Niles, March 14, 1894. t-I have had six years' experience spraying, and used various washes to quite an extent. For tbe last two seasons I have used Acme Insecticide, and find it the best wash, and that it gives the best results of any I ever used. It is a very pleasant wash to use, and easily prepared. ;.; '..:-' Joe Tysox. S6 For Years' Says Carrie E. Stockwell, of Chester, , field, N. H., i " I was afflicted with an ; extremely severe pain ia the lower part of ' tbe chest. The feellug was as It a ton freight was laid on a spot the size of my band. Dur ing the attacks, the . perspiration would stand iu drops ou my face, and it was agony for tne to make sufficient effort even to whis per. They came suddenly, at any hour of tho day or night, lasting from ' thirty minutes to half a day, leaving as, suddenly: but; for , several days after, I was quite pros trated and sore. Sometimes the attacks ' were almost daily, then less frequent. After about four years of this suffering, I was : taken down with bilious typhoid fever, and when I began to recover, I had the worst attack of my old trouble I ever experienced. At the first of the fever, my mother gave me Ayer's Fills, my doctor recommending them as being better than anything he could prepare. I continued taking these Pills, and so great was the benefit derived that during nearly thirty years I have had but one attack of my former trouble, which yielded readily to tbe same remedy." . AYER'S PILLS Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Every Dose Effective The Annie Wright Seminary. TACOMA, WASHINGTON. 1884. Eleventh Year. 1894. A Boarding School for Girls, with Superior Advantages , XBD 1SHTITUTIU1 1 UlUnrtU 1 UBVIHTUlf 0ms Cuint L INTELLECTUAL J or m Amnio to i ) PHYSICAL ( Stommti. Boots and Shoes. the World. Call and examine goods. FOB SALE. Eighty acres, five miles from tow; 40 acres in cultivation; 600 trees, prin cipally apple, in full bearing. All fenced.' Good house and barn. Three shares of water in Hood River Supply Co. go with the place. Good well and spring. Harvey Ckappkr. ..- C. J. . HATES, SURVEYOR. All work given him will be done cor rectly and promptly. . He has a few good claims upon which he can locate parties; Doth farming and timber lands. February, 1894. . , ,.; , v . -v " COLUMBIA NURSERY : The undersigned has on hand a good va riety of choice !' 1 Fruit Trees, Plants MA Vines, i at Hard Times Prices. Grafting and budding done to order octl -.. H. C. BATEHAM. GUARDIAN, SALE. H. Lnge, guardian of the person and estate of Nancy Stanley, will sell, by order of the county court, on Saturday, October 20th, on the premises to the highest bidder, the home stead of John Stanley, deceased, containing 189 acres. This property lies about two miles east of the town of Hood River, on the Colum bia river. - . . . , -1 . .