Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report aw ABSOLUTELY PURE "TOOK THE WRONG MEDICINE." Why This Headline So Often Appears In the Dally Newspaper. It is an odd trait in human nature that a man who has been ordered by his physioiau to take paregorio will never take it if there is any oarbolio aoid or prussio aoid in the house that he oan absorb in preference. Statisticians who have studied the thing declare that an invalid will search the whole house for a poisonous drug ftnd drink it rather than the medicine ordered by the doctor. The death no tices in the newspapers in oases of that kind are generally headed, "Took the ' Wrong Medicine. " A man arrived at his home the other evening, and glanoing on the bureau saw a bottle of liquid that he had been ordered by the dootor to take. "That looks like the stuff, " said be, "but I'm not sura As I was locking up the cellar I saw behind an old shelf a blue bottle that looked as if it hadn't been touched for years. It said on it, 'Sulphurio Acid. ' Now that bottle on the table looks exactly like the one I drank out of last night, but still I have an idea that the stuff down in the oellar is what the doctor means for me. . I . don't know how thediokens it got down there when it's meant for me to take, or how this bottle that isn't meant for me to take got on this bureau. But I n not going to take any chances. I'll just go down into the cellar and make sore, and I'll throw this stnflf out of the win' dow." Then he cautiously went down stairs and took the sulphurio aoid, and be was buried in due form after an ambu lance surgeon had done bis best and the coroner s pbysioian had made a com plete investigation and autopsy. It isn't only ohildren who make these blunders. Doctors will tell you that they have only to label a bottle "Lotion, For External Application Only, " to make sure of its being drunk. If . a patient gets a bottle of corrosive sublimate to put on a felon on his great toe and . doesn't use it all, he will carefully save it. Ten years afterward a doctor gives some cough mixture to him, and then he goes and hunts up the corrosive subli mate bottle, plays three card monte with it aud the cough mixture, gets them thoroughly mixed up so that he can t tell one from the other, and then when he feels that tightness across the chest that the doctor told him about he swallows a part of the corrosive sublimate and leaves his widow to collect the life insurance. By no aocident is the cough mixture ever taken it is always the corrosive sublimate. New York Her ald. . Metal Railroad Ties., A protest against the denudation of forests in order to secure material for railroad ties is made in a report issued by the agricultural department at Wash ington on the use of metal railroad ties and preservative processes and metal tie plates for wooden ties. It shows that about 20 per cent of the railroad mile age of the world, outside of the United States and Canada, is laid on metal. In the United States little practioal prog ress in metal ties is reported. The pro portion of track laid with metal ties to the total length of railways throughout the world has increased from 7 per cont in 1890 to 10 per cent in 1804. Bail way Review. - - . CHAMPIONSHIP. In all the out door sports of the season the weather is playing champion to knock out and close up games, A change will come, of course, and with hot weather will come the fiercer struggle to make up for lost time. All tbis means a greater amount 1 J . i XI I I i .- i . 1 ui wear nu wrac me uuuy , tu lis musuiea, nerves and bones. What the damage in . all will be from sprains, braises, wounds, hurts, inflammations, contusions and the like, no one can tell, but there is a cham pionship to be won; important to all, to which few give sufficient consideration, and that is the triumph over all these pains and misbapa in the surest, prompt est way. St. Jacobs Oil is the champion remedy fir all such ailments; it does not disappoint and never postpones a cure for any cause whatever. Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough medi eine. Mb. W. Pickbbt. Van Siclen and Blake Avea., Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1894. MUSIC STORK Wiley B. Allen Co., the - oldest, the largest, 211 First St., Portland. Chick, ring, Hanlman, Fischer Pianos, Es ley Orgiiiin. Low prices, ey terms. 10-CENT MUSIC Send for catalogues. A man who ha never had the toothache does not know the real pleasure there Is in pot hav ing it. Try Germka for breakfast. i0 discourager of af- jgx lection, it is al :Hw ways an indication ot poor heaitn , bad digestion. To bad digestion is . traceable almost all human ills. It is 'Tjfthe starting point or many very ser ious maladies. Upon the healthy action of the diges t i v e organs, the blood depends for its richness and purity. If digestion stops, poisonous matter ac cumulates and is forced into the blood there is no place else for it to go. The bad breath is a danger signal. Look out for it! If you have it, or any other symptom of indigestion, take a bottle or two. of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It will straighten out the trouble, make your blooo. pure and healthy and full of nu triment for the tissues. ENGLISH STATE TELEGRAPHS. Messages Cost 13 1-3 Cents Each, and All Most Be Prepaid. The telegraph service of Great Britain is undoubtedly quicker, more reliable and cheaper than that of the United States. I make this statement after proper allowance of the differences in distances. It costs 12) cents for 12 words and 1 cent for every additional word. This for Great Britain and Ire land a uniform rate. ' It works admirably, as nearly all the postoflices are also telegraph offices. As a rule, the people are civil and obliging, and the delivery of messages more prompt than with us. These post offices, which inolude, as a rule, news stands and stationers shops, are scattered all over the city, especial ly in London, and one has no such trou ble in getting postoffioe orders, postal notes, stamps, etc, as is too often the case in New York. . Another great advantage of the Brit ish system is that there is no such thing as sending messages "collect " You can prepay an answer to a telegram, and the boy brings up a blank with the telegram when an answer has been paid for. Again, if you write to any one and want a telegraphio reply, merely inclose a blank with sixpenny postage stamps affixed. This saves the trouble of trans mitting money or imposing on a friend for reply. At one of the big city dinners a few weeks ago I sat opposite W. E. Preece, C. B., the engineer in chief and eleo- trioian of British Telegraphio Wonder land, fie was greatly interested in the fact that we oounted the population by the means of electricity, and of course knew exaotly how it was done. The increase in 25 years of messages alone from 6,500,000, when three pri vate companies controlled the business, to 70, 000, 000 messages in 1894, tells its own story. That the number of offices has increased threefold, now numbering 9,000, and the miles of wire have in creased from 60,000 to 200,000 surely this indicates that the publio are well and cheaply served. Financially the telegraph department is today paying expenses, but not the in terest on the money invested. It is claimed, however, that the division of expenses between tbe post office branch and the telegraph branch was of such an artificial character that the two serv ices should be looked at together finan daily. This wonld Bhow a net annual surplus of from $18, 750, 000 to $1 5, 000, 000 a very handsome addition to the publio revenues. A uniform telegraph Bervioe, say, of 25 cents per message, isno more, in this advanced day of electrical appliances, than a uniform 2 cent letter rate was when adopted. Chicago Inter Ocean, CURIOUS WEDDING CUSTOMS. Some Odd Phases of Social Life In North- : ern Michigan. . Many curious customs are in vogue among the foreign population of north ern Michigan, especially in social mat ters. When a French couple get mar ried, a carriage' or a sleigh ride is in evitable, according to the season ot tho year. The couples are hot packed to gether in one wagon or sleigh, but each fellow and bis girl have an individual rig, the bride and groom taking tbe lead and the others following like a funeral procession, but there is nothing funereal about it, especially the pace set After the procession has been riding for hours, a danoe ends the festivities. The Folanders have a curious wed ding custom that is very ingenious as a money getter, and takes the plaoe of wedding presents. After tbe wedding feast follows a dance that sometimes lasts 12 to 14 hours, and even longer. The chief honor is to dance with the bride, and this is decided in a curious manner. The mother of the bride takes her plaoe in one corner with a plate in her lap, which she takes very good care shall be built after the plan of an eat ing house coffee cup. The gallant who wants to dance with the bride, and all are in honor bound to do so at least onoe, must pull out a pieoe of silver and endeavor to chip or break the plate by throwing their money upon it, and only those who succeed in chipping or break ing the plate are allowed ' the coveted honor. Let those who think it easy to break an ironstone plate try it Few succeed in doing it for less than 50 cents, and it is not an unusual thing for the bride's money to amount up to $75 or $100, even where the crowd is ap parently as poor as a church mouse, and it may go even higher when the bride is pretty and popular. All the money goes to the bride, and in a backwoods coun try $50 to $75 will start a happy couple nioely in housekeeping. Detroit Free Press. ' A Japanese Test For the Aspiring; Bride. . In Japan it appears that one factor entering into the choice of a daughter-in-law is her skill in raising silkworms. There is more to this than appears on the surface of the statement, for it seems that the thread spun by a silkworm is regular and even in proportion as the worm has been regularly and carefully fed. The prospective mother-in-law carefully and minutely examines the garments of tbe aspiring bride, judging of her qualifications by their 'condition. This seems even more absurd than the woman who said her son should never marry a woman who could not keep her top bureau drawer in order. New York Times. LUCK, PLUCK, BRAINS THE COMBINATION THAT ACOOUNTS FOR SETH LOW'S SUCCESS. Made President of Columbia College When but Forty Tears of Age Donates 81,000, OO For a Library His Career In Pol itics and Business. In many respects the Hon. Both Low, president of Columbia college, stands alone among educators. He Is undoubtedly the richest college president in the world. When ho was chosen president of Colum bia, he was the youngest chief executive of any great educational institution, for be was then barely 40. His career throughout has been remarkable. He was born in 1850, and his father was Brooklyn merchant. In 1870, at 20, he Was graduated from Columbia college. He quickly mastered all the details of his fa ther's extensive business, and when 24 took the management thereof. A year later, when he was 25, during the hard times of 1875, he originated a plan by which any man in Brooklyn who wanted work could get It. During the Garfield campaign in 1880, when Seth Low was 80 years old, he was the foremost Republican in Brooklyn, and a year later, at the age of 81, he was elected mayor of his native city, in spite of the political bosses.. He was elected presi- ' PRESIDENT SETH LOW. , dent of Columbia in 1890, and now, at 45, he has given $1,000,000 to be expended in the erection of a library for his college. Some one has said of Seth Low that his success is the result of a combination of luck, pluck and brains. Lucky he cer tainly was in his birth, for his father transmitted to the son not only money, but a sound mental, moral , and physical con stitution. Plucky he has been, for he has never hesitated in the slightest to battle with all his might against what he thinks to be wrong and for what be thinks to be right, and if ho were not a brainy man he surely would not have been able, with all his luck and pluck, to do what he has done in business,' in politics and in the field of education. . . ' The selection of Mr. Low as Columbia's president five years ago was somewhat of a departure from the ordinary course in making choice of the head of a great edu cational institution. He had always been understood to be a man of culture and of wide information, but he had never been regarded as a scholar or a student in the strict acceptance of those terms, , He had rather been looked upon chiefly as a busi ness man, a man of affairs, who, in addi tion to his exceptional exeoutive ability, possessed political genius of no ordinary sort, and when he was elected mayor of Brooklyn it was confidently predicted by his friends and, feared by his enemies that he would be the next governor of the Em pire State. Thore is reason to believe that he, too, thought that sequel a not unlikely one, but in 1888, when, as- is claimed by his principal supporters, he might havo secured the Republican nomination for the office of New York's chief magistrate, he declared, on the ground that he did not agree with the party's national platform, that be could accept no such nomination. For a couple of years after that he was comparatively lost sight of, but since his election as president of Columbia he has been very much in evidence, and his per formance of the duties he then assumed has more than satisfied the authorities of the college that they chose wisely in call ing a thorough man of affairs to the place. When .President Low assumed the chair, he announced that in future he should de vote himself heart and soul and without reservation to the conduct of Columbia's affairs. One does not need to be well in formed to understand that perfect fulfill ment of the duties involved would require most of the time and energy of any man, no matter how liberally endowed with mental ability or what is known as genius for hard work. In the main President Low has carried out his expressed intention. Society has seen little of him. To the pub lio at large he has not often been visible, and he kept out of politics until the open ing of last fall's campaign for the purifica tion of New York's municipal government. Then be was made a member of the com mittee of seventy, and as such did excellent service. There was some talk about mak ing him tbj reform candidate for mayor, but he frowned it down, although during the campaign he devoted muoh time to the furtherance of the election of Mayor Strong. r ' - r Personally Soth Low Is a pleasant man to meet. He is of medium height, rather stout, with sincere dark eyes and dork thick hair and mustache. His features are not regular, but rather inclined to what may be termed the aggressive type, the contour of his face being such as at first to suggest that he might be somewhat un pleasantly so. He is, however, an excel lently poised man, and while he can un doubtedly make himself extremely un pleasant to one who deserves unpleasant treatment his aggressiveness is of the sort that men generally applaud. His address is winning. On the platform he speaks In a forcible, convincing and earnest manner. He bos not the torrentlike vocabulary of Bburke Cockran, the cold and classic elo quence that was Roscoe Conkling's, the fiery intensity that was James G. Blaine's or the peculiar charm of Colonel Bob In gersoll, but he always knows what he wishes to express when be speaks, and he always expresses it in a fashion that is simple, direct and extremely luoid without In any sense being dull or commonplace. As an educator he is an advocate of the methods of today. It is not his notion that a young man may properly be fitted for a successful life by loading his mind up with certain kinds of information without refer- : ence to any special bent the young roan may possess. His plan is to discover, so far as is possible for a teacher to do so, what is the young man's bent, and then j furnish him with the training and infor- mation that will best enable him to do himself full justice in the battle of life after leaving the preclnotsof the college. HOITT'S SCHOOL FOR BOYS. Ira G Hoitt. Ph. D.. Master at Burlin game, San Mateo county, Cat., is one of tne Dest scnoois tor ooys on tne i'acinc Coast. . Attorney You say, when ou asked him for the money, he 'used blasphemous language? Kiley I did not, sor. I said lie swore al me like a trooper. . LIKE A SIEVE. The chief function of the kidneys Is to separ ate from the blood, in its past-age through tbem, oi eriain impurities and watery particles which make their final exit through the bladder. The lett ntion of thete in consequence of inactivity of the kidneys is productive ot Bright s d sease, dropsy, iiiab"te, albuminuria and other mala dies with a fatal tendency. Hostetter's Sromaeh Buters, a highly sanctioned diuretic and blond ucpurent, impels the kidneys when inactive to renew their sifiing funoton, and strain trom the vital current impurities which Infest it and threaten their own existence as organs of the iiody. Catarrh of the bladder, giaveland reten tion of the mine are ako maladies arrested or averted by this benign promo-er and res ora tive of organic action. Malaria, rheumatism, constipation, biliousness and dyspepsia also yield to the Bitters, wbich is also speedily bene ficial to the weak and nervous. "Was he warmly received upon the occasion of his debut ia tragedy?" "Warmly? Why they had to ring down the asbestos curtain?" A GREAT STAYER. As competition increases it becomes harder aud harder fur the b islnexs man to succeed, and in jecosiiition of this fact, tbe public is often nformed that this or that thing has "come to stay." A strong purpose is good, but doing the tnlug Is even better. One of the greatest stay em we know of is Pain-Killer, the advertise ments of which we Mre printii g elsewhere. This famous old family remedy has stayed in the homes of tne country 5 years, and is today more popular tuan ever. 'Hi is one fact proves its value, and makes argument unnecessary. It only remains for the proprietors (as they are now oing) to remind each coming generation lhat for over half a century Pain-Killer has i en recognized as the handiest, surest and henpest cure for tbe common ills of humanity, and tuat a bottle on their shelf will sooner or later save them trouble aud suffering and mouey. " HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward lor any case of Catarrh that cannot be uured by Hall's Catarrh Cur-! : F. J. CHENJfiY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known P. J. 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GUNN'S IMPROVED LIVER PILLS A MILD PHYSIC. iwt! utt.t. vim. a nosE." A movement of the bowols each day is necessary for health. These pills supply what the system laoks to make it regular. They cure Headaoho brighten the Eyes, and clear tha Complexion better than cosmetics. They neither gripe nor sioben. To convince you. we will mail simple free, or a f uU box for J 60. Sold every where. BOSANKO MED. CO., Philadelphia, Pa, P3i II KSItedl 1 f3j Catalogue UJ and aches of an annoying nature, a torturous nature, a danger ous nature, can be quickly and surely cured with Pain-Killer. As no one is proof against pain, no one should be without Pain-Killer. This good old remedy kept at hand, will save much suffering and many calls on the doctor. For all sum mer complaints of grown folks or children it has stood with out an equal for over half a century. No time like the present to get a bottle of ' " .- Sold everywhere. The quantity has been doubled but the price remains the same, 23c. Look out for worthless imitations. Buy only the genuine, bearing the name Perry Davis & Son. . , , SEEDS I have bought from the RECEIVER of F. L. POSSON & SON, the stock, fixtures and good will of the seed business lately carried on by them and will continue the same at 205 Third Street. BUELL LAMBERSON, Portland, Ob. - HEEP-DIP WEINHARD'S Antifermentine Preserves all kinds of Fruit without cooking, and retains their natural flavor. Estab.1866. CORBITT & MACLEAY CO. Inc. 1893 IMPORTERS, SHIPPING and COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Liberal advance made ou approved consignments of Wheat, Blour, Oats, Wool and Hops. Special imports from China, Japan unii In dia: Tea, Cofl'ee, Riee, Matting and kiifts Snices, Sago, Tapioca, China Nut Oil, etc. From Liv erpool: Liverpool Fine, Coarse and Lump Rook isalt, Chemicals of all kinds. Tinplate, selected No. 1 returned Wheat Bags. Hop Burlap, Roll Brimstone, Bas- Ale. 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