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CAN'T HELP TELLING. No Tillage so small. No city so large. . From the Atlantic to the Paclfio. Dames known for all that is truthful, all that is reliable, are attached to the most thankful letters. They come to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.', and tell the one story of physical salvation gained through the aid of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 5 . The horrors born of displacement or Ulceration of the womb : n . '. Backache, bearing-down, dizziness, fear of coming calamity, distrust of best friends. , ' ' ' jt'- All, all sorrows and sufferings of the past. The famed "Vegetable Com pound" bearing the illustrious name Pinkham, has brought them out of the valley of suffering to that of happiness and usefulness. , . In one advertisement alone we re cently published thirty testimonials from women in one small town who had regained health through its use. IT SAVES MIONEY As Well as Restoring Your Strength - '" and Giving You Health to -' Knjoy Life. ' The regulator on Dr. Banden's Elec tric Belt makes it the most conveni Of all cures real and b o-c ailed none Is so certain in Its effects as Dr. ent belt 1 the its 15 Banden's Electric Belt. world to use, WHEN YOU HAVE SQUANDERED YOUR money feeding the quacks who live upon such as ynn, it is hard to make you believe that an advertised remedy Is good. Some men have a p'ejudice against anything advertised. But surely the cures shown to have been per formed by Dr. Sanden's Electric Belt must com. mend it to every sufferer. They prove that It cures after all else falls. It would be better to 'trv this very simple and highly recommended remedy before spending time and money with drugs, because a fair trial of it will make it un necessary to use any other remedy. Dr. San den's Electric Belt costs no 'more than one month's doctor bill, 5, !0 or $15, according to the power, and hundreds in this city say it is wonh ten ti nes as much. Call and see It, or send for the book. 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Our Neighboring States Improve, ment Noted in All Industries Oregon A large cougar, measuring 6 leet from tip to tip, was killed near Alsea last week. ' , ' ' The Oregon PresB Association will meet in Baker City on October 16, 17 and 18. , .' Quite a number of the Umatilla In dians are in the Gran Ronde valley, in Union county, digging camas. Just outside of the town-of Athena a field of 25 acres of wheat has just been harvested, and the yield was 52 bushels to the acre. . .. ' The salary of the prinoipal of the Roseburg school has been reduced to 170, and the nnder-teachers to $37.50. The janitor's -salary was cut down to $18 from $30.'- Last week a piece of bridge timber 70 feet long and 40 incites in diameter was cut at Saldun's logging, camp, near Clatskanie, for the Astoria & Columbia River railroad. ' - , ' At the custom house in Astoria one day last week $1,200 duty on coal was paid under the hew tariff, or $360 more than would have been required under the old law. .,'' Thirty-six bounty warrants for squir rels and gopher scalps were issued, by Marion county last week. The sums for which the . warrants were issued amounted in the aggregate to $94.10. Mrs. Mercy Simons, of Sodayille, is said to be the oldest person in Linn county, and perhaps in the state. She is 105 years old, Mrs. Fisher, who is 95 years old, is the oldest resident in Albany. " ' - The Columbia river annual confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held in Pendleton during the week commencing August 25. The con ference has about 85 ministers and more than 90 charges. It is expected that 150 visitors will be present. Bishop Toss will preside. A dispatch was received in Baker City from Weiser, Idaho, announcing the arrival of a smelter and that the same would be immediately forwarded to the Seven Devils. This is the first move of importance toward opening up tii is vast copper belt. One carload of sawmill machinery was received at the same time. The smelter is said to fie of 75 tons capaoity, and one ton of matte will equal four tons of ore. . As the Peacock ore averages 20 per cent copper, the lessees of the mines expect to reap a rich harvest. . Several arras- tras are being put up for the purpose of working some of . the rich gold, ledges which 'abound in the same district. '. . Washington. Aostin has a new flouring mill. The State Bar Association will hold its next annual meeting in Spokane. More than $1,000 was paid the gill netters in Blaine for one night's catoh. The annual report of the auditor of Adams county shows that the county only owes $5,000. - John W. Tfov, the alleged defaulting auditor of Clallam county,1 has been taken back to Port 'Angeles. -. It is prob able that -his case will be settled out. Of court. ".-;-. .; . ! The telephone line to Goldendale will soon be completed. The poles are all set, and the wire in place as far as Winans. The line will -oross tne river at Winans' place, being stretched be tween their big stationary fishwheels. It is reported that the' General Elec tric Company, of Portland, has had a survey of the Klickitat falls made re cently for the purpose of furnishing eleotricity for The Dalles and Gol Jen- dale and to build an electric line from Lyle to Goldendale. : .,! ..' i So -many men 'are leaving' Skagit county that'there is a fear of , crippling the shingle industry in this county, as the ' manufacturers say they -can't get enough men to keep the Vnills in opera tion. Even the farmers come to Mount Vernon daily looking for help to work in the hay fields. . . ' . ' The Walla Walla Statesman' says that when the petition of the Commer cial Club of that place to the war de partment to have two troops of cavalry Bent to Walla to replace those sent to Fort Yellowstone was referred to the commanding officer of the department of the Columbia, that official made favorable report upon the petition. .Mrs Espey and her daughter Clara, of Rockfor-d Spokane county, who walked all the way from Spokane to New Yorki oity, returned a few days ago' to their home. ; Both mother and daughter report . having had a good time, and declare that their health was never better, although the long journey reduced them in flesh. Their object in making the trip was for the purpose of making enough money to lift a mortgage from their farm. They were in demand at thp various museums and other places, where salaries were paid them as curiosities. ,. '.. , The receiver of the bank of Puvallup has received permission to sell the real estate and other assets of the institu tion. . The report of the- commissioner of 8sh and fisheries recently published ihows that the government has dis tributed iri Washington state daring the fiscal year, 625 large-mouthed slack bass, 450 yellow perch and 850 '.enoh; in Idaho, 495 carp, 758 tench, 1,475 brook trcut, 400 yellow perch, 170 largo-mouthed black bass and 2, 40,000 whiteflsh fry, WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Jown!ng, Hopkins A Company's ReTtew ' of Trade. The short sellers of wheat have but a single argument left to support their views, viz: The admitted fact that the wheat crop of this countrv will beat least 100,000,000 ,bushels larger than that of last year. The current: news during the week has been" extremely bullish and developments have materi ally strengthened the position of spec- ulative buyers. Probably the most im portant annoucement was Beerbohm's estimate placing the European shortage compared with last year at 224,000,000 bushels. This has been emphasized and confirmed by, the activecash de mand and enormous sales for export. An additional aid in enhancing values has been furnished bv the farmers stacking their wheat at a' greater ex tent than usual. Should the coal min ers' strike continue a fortnight longer it will prove a powerful, although un natural, factor in enhancing values, and in all probability result in a more Serious congestion of the market for Septemberdelivery than has prevailed for fuly contracts. , The promise of an abundant wheat crop in America, the absence of competition in supplying the requirements of importing coun 'tries, and the consequent increased .ex port demand for American wheat'all tend to benefit the American farmer. Wheat Will prove a profitable purchase on all reactions and the general tend ency is toward a still higher range of values. The American visible this weekshows a decrease of "164,000 bushels, and now totals 17,650,000 bushels against 46, 429,000 a year ago. . There is much to be said regarding both sides of the corn market, but after all is said it is still a fact that valueB are extremely low due to panic and overproduction. The growing crop is not yet assured, and with the enhancing values ruling for wheat compared with producing years, the increasing activity in general trade, corn must participate to a greater or less extent in the general improvements, acoording as the crop promise to be above or below that of last year. .In any event, present values promise to be well maintained, and there is little if any inducement for speculative short selling. 'Should the growing crop meet with any mishap much higher values will quickly obtain. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Walla, 78c; Val- ley, 81c per bushel. , ' r Flour Best grades, $4.15: graham, $3.65; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 8840c; choice gray, 87 89c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $1616.50; brewing, $ 1 8 1 9 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton; middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. 1 I Timothy, $1213; clover, $10 11; California wheat, $10 11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. : Eggs 1212c per dozen, Butter Fancy creamery,' 35 40c; fair to good, 80c; dairy, 25 30c per roll. . ' Cheese Oregon, llj4' Young America, 12c; California, 910c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00 8.50 per dozen; broilers, $1.502.75; geese, $34; ducks, $2.508 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10 11c per pound. . Potatoes. Oregon Burbanks, 85 45c per sack; new potatoes, 50c per sack; sweets,$1.902.25 per oental. Onions California, new, red, $1.25; yellow, $1.50 per cental. " Hops 10 lljo per pound for new crop; 1896 crop, 4 6c. Wool Valley, ll13c per'pound; Eastern Oregon, 7 9c; mohair, 20c per pound. . , Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers ard ewes,, 2i2c; dressed mutton, 4c; spring lambs, 5 per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4; light and feeders, $2.503; - dressed, $3 4.25 per 100 pounds. ; V . Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 3; cows $2.25; dressed beef, 45c per pound. ' ',. l Veal Largo, 88o; small, ; 1 per ponnd. Seattle Markets. Butter Fancy native brick, 18c; ranch, 10 12c. creamery, Cheese Native Washington, 10 11c; California, 9jc " Eggs Fresh ranch, 1819o. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10 11c; spring chickens, $2 8.50; ducks, $2.508.75. , ,.j Wheat Feed wheat, $28 per ton. - - Oats Choice, per ton, $28. Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. ' Barley Rolled or ground, ; per ton, (.22; whole, $21. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef, steers, 60; cows, 5c; mutton sheep, So; pork, 63c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish Halibut, 4c; salmon, 45o; salmon trout, 710o; flounders nd sole, 84; ling cod, ' 45; rock cod, Bo; smelt, 2)4c. ; V San Francisco Markets. 1.: Wool Choice foothill, 912c; San Joaquin, 6 months' 810o; do year's staple, 79o; mountain, 11 13c; Ore gon, 10 J3c per pound. ' Hops 7 9o per pound. . ' Hay Wheat,$1215; wheat and oat, $ll14; oat, $1012; river barley, $7 8; best barley, $9 12; alfalfa, $7 8. 50 clover, $7. 50 9.. . Millstuffs Middlings, $18.5022; California bran, $1415 per ton. Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 60c. Onions New red, 7080o; do new silverskin, 8595o per cental. 'Freeh fruit Apples, 20 80c per small box; do large box, 40 65c Royal aprioots, ' 2085o common cherries, 1525c; Royal Anne cherries,' 25 40o per box; currants, $1.00 1.50 per chest; peaches, 25 40c; pears, 20 40o; oherry plums, 20 80c per box. Cheese Fancy mild, new, 8c; fair tojjood, 70 per pound. ' v HAD A VERY QUICK EYE. A Man Ear prises Another Man Who Writes a Letter. The typewriter was clicking away at a great rate, and a man was sitting near watching the flying fingers of the operator. , He was waiting to see the attorney who was the employer of the operator, and when the attorney final ly entered the visitor did not observe his approach. "Hello," exclaimed the proprietor of the office, "what are you looking at my typewriter so absorbingly for? Have you been dreaming that he was a lovely maiden In disguise, or some other fairy story like that?" "No," replied the visitor, "I was Just trying to realize how difficult a feat I saw a man perform yesterday, down at one of the hotels, where there is one of the fastest operators In town." "What did he do? . Jump a board bill?" V "No, that's 'easy. . What he did was different. A man who was with him had some sort of trade on, I don't know. Lwhat, but Just before they proceeded, to conclude it, the other man said he wanted to write a letter to his partner in Chicago. He had it already draft ed In pencil, and he took It over the far side of the writing room and hand ed It to the operator, saying to be care ful, as It was very Important, and to1 get It done at once. Then he Joined the other man, but before they began talking a third party called the first man aside for a short talk. As these two talked, the operator at the machine clicked at the letter, and the man who was waiting for some reason, watched the operator very closely as her fingers flew' over the keys. . , "The letter was finished at least three minutes before the talk was, and when that was done the operator handed the man the letter in an envelope duly addressed and went' back to her ma chine. The man put the letter In bis pocket just as it was handed to him. " 'I hope you will pardon me,' he said, turning to the waiting man, 'for so much delay, but" It was unavoidable. However, I'm ready now to close with you at the prices named.' . " 'And I'd see you hanged before I'd sell to you at any price,' said the other man in a suppressed tone; greatly to the surprise of the man with the letter In his pocket. , "In another minute there would have been a fight on, but I rushed in, as-did another party, and Ih the excitement the man with the letter got away and disappeared. In response to our in quiries as to what it was all about, the man told us that he had 'made a study of training the eye to quickness, and that he practiced It whenever he saw a typewriter at work. He h$d go per fected himself In it that he could fol low the fingers of the fastest operator, and he could read whatever he might happen to be writing. In this case he had done the same without thought, because the man with whom he had the. trade on was engaged for the mo ment. Before he had read five lines of the letter, however, he' discovered that the man was making arrangements with his partner in Chicago to swindle him' out of $5,000. It was a cold-blooded case of steal, and the wonder to him was that he hadn't hit the scoundrel first and told him why afterward. . "That was all there was to it," con cluded the visitor, "except that we tested him and found he could do what he said, and now, if you don't think it is a difficult feat, you watch your op erator as she flies along some time at sixty words a minute, and see if you can read the letters her fingers dance among." Washington Star. - " Sure Cures " for Hiccoughs. ' For the common afflictlona, such as colds, everybody knows a "sure cure." When It was announced that a New Jersey farmer, was dying of hiccoughs, which had lasted a forthnight, though the doctors tried fifty different medi cines, two or three scores of persons wrote to volunteer advice. He was told to inhale nitrate of amyl; to drink the Juice of 'canned huckleberries; to rely on the "faith cure;" and other odd remedies were offered, for example: . Lie down, stretch your head back as far as possible, open your mouth wide ly, then hold two fingers above the head so high that you have to strain the eyes to see them. Gaze Intently upon them, and take long,' full breaths. , . Drink vinegar, or warm pit of stom ach. 1 ', Eat a raw onion while prinking a bottle Vf old stock ale. , I suggest that you do something' to make yourself sneeze. Draw air Into the stomach through the throat. ' ' Good 'drink of ;. fresh, warm milk, drink with breath .at intervals. Brandy and laudanum at frequent In tervals, or very strong calamus tea." Swallow a few lumps of butter slow ly.,' Fortunately, the sufferer did not have to take everything that the well-meaning public proposed. He was cured, by eating a small dish of ice-cream. Statistical Item from Texas. It Is estimated that 124,000 Uabies have been born lii, Texas so far this year. If all the colic they have suff ea-ed could be gathered together In one pain ten ear loads of soothta.g sirup would not be sufficient to relieve it Estimat ing that each baby has been walked twenty miles, it appears that the, com bined distance walked has been 2,480. 000 miles. If one parent had been com pelled to do the walking for this in fantile crop of 1897 it would have been necessary for hdm to average twenty miles a day for 339 years eight months and twenty-five days, and the distance would have equaled ten times the cir cumference of the earth. Galveston News. ' '-, Snow at the Equator. : At the equator the limit of perpetual snow la 14,700 feet Morphine Fiends in America. A Parisian work on the morphine habit says it is most prevalent in Ger many, France and the United States, and, strange to say, that the medical profession furnishes the laregst number of morphinists, 40 per cent. Men of leisure come next with 15 per cent, then merchants, 8 per cent. Of 1,000 fiends 650 were men and of the female victims women of means furnished 43 per oent and wives of medical men 10 per cent. - NEXT AN APPROVING SCIENCE,'" CON- A vigorous stomach is the greatest of mundane blessings. Sound digestion is a guaranty of quiet nerves, muscular elasticity, a hearty ap petite and regular habit of body. Though not always a natural endowment, it may be acquir ed through the agency of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, one of the most effective invigorants and blood fertilizers in existence. This tine tonic also fortifies those who use it against ma laria, and remedies biliousness, constipation and rheumatism. A magnetic well of great power has been struck at Bowersville, five miles south of Jamestown, Ohio. The well was drilled 140 feet deep, and at this dep h the drill became so magnetized that particles of iron clung to it. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube gets inflam ed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it 1s entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir- ' F. J. CHENEY fc CO., Toledo, 6. , Sold by druggists, 76c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. We excuse our selfishness by assum ing our greater need. ' Piso's Cure for Consumption is our only medicine for. coughs and colds. Mrs. C. Beltz, 439 8th ave., Denver, Col., Nov. 8, '95. John Pratt wore at his funeral in Holden, Me.," the other day, a fine pair of calfskin boots made for him in 1862 and worn every Sunday since. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARK ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE , EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA" AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA." AS OUR TRADE MARK.. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hycmnis, Massachusetts,: was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," "the same r that has borne and does now -j? fT " on evert;, bear the facsimile signature of (af7cUcU ' wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been, used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is ! the hind you have always bought nj? .T" 071 tMi and has the signature o f A wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H, Fletcher is President. ? March 8, 1897. QSC Lt.j). Do Not Be Deceived. 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Rules of contest published 'in larga advertisement abo 'A the first and middU of each month. ; a 28 Nicola' Tesla, the electrician, says that he has practically perfected an ap paratus by which telegraph messages may be sent without wire". He pro poses to give a demonstration of his mastery of the electric currents. Paris harbors a widow, Mme. Jules Lebaudy, who inherited from her hus band $25,000,000. As she disapproves of theway in which he made his for tune, she refuses to use it contenting herself with an income of 6,000 francs. WHEAT fake money by suo cessiul speculation Att Chicago. We buy tfp l sell wheat there on mar gins. .Fortunes nave been maoe on a small beginning by tradinit in futures. Write for full particulars. Best of reference given. 8ev- ' eral vears' experience on the Chicago Board of Trade, and a thorouirh knowledge of the busi ness. 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