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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1888)
Th. Railroad tn Cnytete Soekwly does the railroad approach the water's edge that there eeeiae barely room for it between the clustering palm» k ■ nd red tiled roof, of the village on one side ami the bine abtniqg sea on tbs other Every now and then, when a larger wave tbaa nsnal cornea rolling In. tlie whok breodth of the track is plentifully lx sprinkled with spray. But tn spite o thia it is thickly dotted with white till bans and bine or scarlet sashes, partl-col ore.I skirts, brass nose rings, dusky face and thick, black hair glistening with c< coanut oil; for the railroad is a farorit promenade with the natlvee, who And it flrm, smooth roadbed a great relief afte the toil of plodding ankle deep througl the soft, unstable sand of the beach. But all at once a shrill whistle is beard, and the tnrhanod prontenaders acattet aaray from the track to right and left, while .the moruing train cornea rattling up at extra epeed, as if in haste to sweep nway the intruders who are trespassing upon its prtvste rood. Ont of the third clasa car,—’which are nothing more than overgrown wooden bore*, with both side? knocked out—peer the round faces and beady black eyes of half a doaen native children, to whom a journey by the won derful English ”flre carriage” is a treal that never grows stale. From the win dows of the second class—the sides <>l which consist chiefly of Venetian blinds tastefully painted with red dust—lean the limp white Jackets and heated face* of three or four English soldiers, convey lag in every scowl of their smarting, sand plastered eVCs at least £40 worth of oaths at 5 shriifc#' apiece. The flrat class is chiefly colfe'irtcuous by ite absence.—David Ker in New York Times. V UFB ON THE FARM. Bared Employment« Not Odious io Them selves City Vssatloms. There Is a frequently recurring complaint from the farm, reached through the agri cultural proas, of the reluctance of boys to remain in fanning pursuits; indeed, some times even td enter on such a Ilfs What is the cause of this restless and unwilling spirit! Are country employment* odious in them selves! Is it a task more dreary or more dan gerous to break a fiery colt tuan it is to face the winter as!brakemen on a freight train! Is it more perilous to attend a shorthorn bull than It is to be a policeman and club burglar»! is it worse to do chore» as a sn^ali boy on his father’s farm than this to work for $4 a week and pay traveling expenses to re^cb the office, where the boy is the scapegoatwho is always wrong, und at whose door the shortcomings of every other employs lie! Is it harder lines to plow behind your own team, to drive your own mowing machine, or do a good part of your own carting, than it would be to work, in a factory at any one of the various Indus tries carried on throughout our land! While we are compelled to acknowledge that farmiug bw» its unsatisfactory pointe none can disprove that much discontent i.- broadcast everywhere The advantages of fered by agriculture to its followers are freedom,, not from duties, but from personal inconveniences. It is the farmer’s own fault if hia hmiiu* comfort; the artisan must work in his employer’s shop or factory—the larger the establishment the less th© Indi viduaL How many typesetters have injured sight! How many brakemen are maimed and killed! How long is the dark list of mechanics worn out before they have reached maturity from the hardships inci dent to the duties of their callings! Bo take a look at a higher social grade as Romance of the Future. contrasted with what country avocations The realm of the half supernatural ha* offer. It is appalling to note the young lives been much worked, but it is by no mean> wrecked in cities; youth« who strain every exhausted yet. Is there nowhere a family nerve and use every means1 to attain a pro merged in our complex civilization which tossion, who just reach the threshold and descemU, and knows that it descends, then succumb, worn but i a mind and crushed from the mee believed by old coinmen in body. Of the vast naltitudes who yeaj kitors to be mentioned in Genesis, after year leave their country homes to seek the half breeds of heaven, the children fortun’d in cities, how Ui^py succeed! The of angels and men. and which re- tains from Ttwt—de sc e nt —power»—and_ percentage is very small, even of those who capacities and longings, .and, above all. ' Tiul a mudeiale aingunt o f snccFtfW . Some certainties as to another life, and with lack ability, others endurance, aud many do them religious obligations unknown to its not possess sufficient strength.—Ajnerican Tobacco Growing In England. Agriculturist. Tobacco bas been grown experimentally In .fellows all arouml. always operative, yet England during the last year or two under a always of necessity concealed? Is there Memory of a Railroad Conductor. license, or something equivalent to it, from no'ofie who is undying, yet must obey all An illustration of flow the memory may be other conditions of humanity; no one, the inland revenue authorities; But a legal, cultivated in retaining a long list of num journal contends that tobacco growing is ab except St. Leon, for whom wealth is pro bers. one has only to observe the freight con solutely illegal by statute. The truth seems ducible at will, yet who dreads to usa_his ductors, aud very often remarkable examples to be that in the reign of Charles il two stat- power; no one possessed of the faculty of reteutive memories trill be found. 1 have litee were passed expressly^ forbidding to- 1 Bulwer used to hint at, but never utilized been on the road us a freight conductor for bacco culture in Great Britain, under a pen- i in bis’Tialf supernatural stories, of gen fourteen years, arid in that time my memory alty, of $50, subsequently increased to $200 [ erating in another mind any idea he has bad a careful treining in the particular would? The novelist« who have used j>er rod planted. These acts were framed mesmerism as a machine have thought of line of retaining numbers on the cars. 1 solely Cor the benefit oftbe American col that power»hut.have alwayil limitedlit txj start out on a run and know the numbers oi onies.— Boston Transcript. a 11 the cars with which the train is made up, its subject’s periods of unconsciousness and employed it fur some comparatively and while some cars will be left at stations Got An^ry by Telephone. along the road, and other cars will be taken trifling end. A recent decision in Germany is worthy of Except in the departments of meemerisn? Up, yet at the end of my run if an officer record for the benefit of American telephone and. sleep walking, the romance writers asks me whether I have a car number so-and patrons. One unfortunate telephone user have hardly utilized the facts of physiology so, I can invariably tell him without refer lost his temper at being kept waiting by the now creeping slowly into common knowl ing to my book. . j central office, and when explanations were edge, while they have left the machinery r Npw, when it is remembered that the train made he told the telephone official per tele of science to Jules Verue. who uses it may be made up of forty cars, and that the phone to shut bis gab and not lie about it. numbers run all the way from the hundreds The court gave the merchant sixty marks to the twenty-fiyejMid thirty thousands, and hao fine and twelve days in jail as a warning I light. Suppose a man in sleep learned all that a dozen cars may be taken off and against a libelous use of a scientific conveni that waking be desired to know. It ’* another dozen taken on along the run, my ence.—Electrical Review. would be but a grand exaggeration of statement undoubtedly seems incredible to some well known mental proceases ip those not familiarly acquainted with—this particular department of railroading. Blit An Enmgsd Hack Driver. sleep.—London Spectator. it is a fact, nevertheless, and 1 have known Jack Allprey has a large foot—a phenom quite a number of freight conductors who Novel Shell for Steamboat Warfare. enally large foot— wears No. 13 shoes—and be “The coming weapon of civilised war have memories of equal rententivenesa has also a phenomenally cool way of repudi fare will not be an explosive bullet-, but a Noting the numbers on the cars daily for ating his debts. chemical one,” remarked a scientific gen years, a conductor becomes so familiar with “Ye don’t owe me $2r said an enraged hack driver to him the other day. ?*Ye don’t, f tieman a short time ago. “Many sugges the work that his memory bolds these large ye ch’atin’ thafel An’ ye won’t pay it, ye tions of this sort have been made and numbers with but little difficulty. The style won’t! Well, it’s meself wishes 1 cud have some pian will be adopted before long, and peculiar finish of the cars from different roads are also learned, and a conductor at a the kickin’ or ye all aroun* the ock wid unless I am greatly mistaken.” “What is the best plan?” glance can tell the road to which a car be- your own fut I"—Harper's Bazar. “I am inclined to favor the suggestion lougs as far as he can see it—Globe-Dema of Weston, the electrician. He suggests crat. Arteslaa Well Power. Heavy machinery is now run by artesian the use of nitrite of amyt It is well Unlucky Horseshoes. well power in many parts of Francs, and ths known that this drug possesses the power We had a rum customer in our jail re experiencs of the French show that the of causing insensibility very quickly in a cently. remarked the sheriff of an adjoining human being breathing its fumes. The deeper the well the greater the pressure and effect is equivalent, temporarily, to a county in Kansas. 1 was away when he the higher the temperature. Tbs famous j ‘ paralytic stroke. Now. nitrite of amyl is arrived at the jail, but a day or two later, Grenells well, sunk to the depth of 1,800 feet, ' when 1 was making the rounds, I saw him in and flowing daily some 500,000 gallons, bas a j very cheap and plentiful. He proposes to his cell. pressure of sixty pounds to the square inch, i ’ fire shells filled with this chemical instead “Hellor* I said. “What are you tn here forT the water tieing so hot that it is used tor j • of gunpowder. It will not be necessary “Are you the sheriff!” be replied. i to penetrate a ship. A few gallons of this heating the hospitals.—New York Bun. “Yes, sir,” said L ' nitrite dashed on the deck of a war ship ! would soon render her crew helpless. The “Well," he returned, “the community in Method In Her Madneee. ' most powerful ironclads would be even which you live and in whicb.1 was so unfor Bachelor (whom Brown has brought home | more vulnerable than the light cruisers, tun ate as to sojourn is the most intolerant 1 to dinner)—Doe« your wife always kiss you. I for they would be sucking down great ever heard of." Brown, when you return from the office! ; draughts of air through their artificial “How so!” I asked. “Have you anything Brown—Yes, always, never faila ventilators and the odor would thus to do with the liquor traffic!" Bachelor (with a sigh)—Ah, It must be de rapidly permeate the whole ship. The “No," be replied, “but they arrested me for lightful Co have a cozy home like this and a whole crew being rendered helpless for an superstition, and here 1 am in jaiL The idea lovely little wife to greet you with a kiss. hour or two, the ship could, of course, be of arresting a man for superstition. This is Brown (also with a sigh)—Yea, she kissea towed into a safe spot, while the captors a free country. Hasn't a man a right to be me to disco ver if I have been drinking any ventilated her and removed the insensible superstitious!" thing.—The E;» oc I l inon.”—New York Mail and Express. “Why, 1 guess so," I replied. “What was 4 ydur superstition F Ahead of the Doctor. A Fs ah tollable Woman's Whim. “Well, sir,” said the prisoner, “my mother Doctor—Tm afraid you don’t take the The extent to which money , is wasted __ at ___ a always told me to pick up a horseshoe when baby out doora often enough. I fashionable woman's whim was illustrated to ever I found one. for good luck. 1 picked Mother—Nonsense. She catches cold every I me the other day. I wm in the shop of a up four in this town; they were found in time she goes ouC I'm sick of this air bath i well known florist on Broadway when a my possession, and 1 was arrested, tried, con foolishness I lady cam« in from a private coach. She victed and jailed." “But, my dear madams, you know flowers j purchased three huge rosea, for which she “I guess you’re lying," said I, and with can’t get along without sunshine*----- paid $5, and carried them daintly away by that I went out of the jail, and met the pros “Well, flowers can’t get along without wet i their long iteuu. An hour later, going by ecuting attorney: 1 asked him about the feet, either."—Omaha World. ■ Delmonico's, I saw my lady of the ros*e case and hesaid: j lunching at one of the windows with a coin “Those four horseshoe« had a horse fas It 1« In the Bible. ( panion of her own «ex Fifteen minutes af tened to them. That fellow is the moat no “You mustn't «ay Teller,’ Johnny, re , ter ward, returning by the same way, I noted torious horsethief in the state.”—Kansas City marked that young gentleman's Bunday ' that the table where they sat was vacant. Journal school teacher. “It isn’t correct.• “Well, I | Three bare rose stems lay amid the dishes, One of Mr. Conkling's Hobbles. The lady don't care, it's in the Bible!* exclaimed which were buried in rose leaves. Bathing was one of Mr. Conkling’s bob Johnny. “Isaiah xiv, 8: ‘Yea, the fir trees | of the roses had plucked %£ worth of flowers rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, to pieces in a few minutes’ idle conversation bies. The operators at the Hoffman house and sayiug, Since thou art laid down no feller after her luncheon I Neither their cost nor the Lafayette place baths like to tell how tbef is come up against us.’"—Burlington Free I their beauty had any value in her eyas.—AJ- have rubbed down his manly form. One . \ the Hoffman bouse bath attendants said U» , Cred Trumble in N«w York News, Presa the hot room there the other morning that the Senator preferred the Russian mode, anu Cholera Germa In the Bay. that be had taken at one period two and three It is extremely unpleasant to know thaff baths a week. After he moved into the I Dr. J. J. Kinvoun, of the Marine Hospital Hoffman house annex he had the bath room service, has proved that the Asiatic cholera connected with his suite fitted up especially spirilla thrives and reproduces ad libitum in for him. A large porcelain tub was made the water of New York bay. Hence the dis and put in. and the Senator used it every charges of cholera patients, wheu they reach morning He used salt in profusion, and the tide or oea water, do not lose their dan, ofteu bathed with the water at a very low gerous rbaracter. On the contrary, the temperature. It was about the only form of germs will reproduce and be left on the flats indoor exercise that Mr. Conkling took of at low tide, where they will have the sun’s late years. Once be used the gloves and In beat and plenty of filth to revel in. In the dian clubs a great deal He didn't hesitate present struggle for existence between mi about exposure, and often went out for long crobes and human beings, the former »eem drives of twenty and twenty-five miles. It to have a good man/* advantages,—Phila made no difference how severe the weather was, be felt that be could brave it and be delphia Times. did.—New York Sun. Thl* aoUtary «wiflixanwit to • relic oT a «wbaroua a«a Th* btatory ot tt» middl. axrt to fall ot co» "b« ““ haT* rear«, M *ou». Inrtanrea olmort a lifetime, walking back and forth ta a lonely oaU which, parbapa, may bare been tor a portion ot the time a dunfeua. All ere familiar with the rtory of the prtooner confined in the Ctortle ot Chilton, la BwilaerlanJ, who chained to a pillar »alked to aud fro a* far m and a deep as bto bi« chain would permit, psruuh“ *“ wore •««.« • furrow iu th. prisoner to gone, but the tourirt may today rint the old prteon by lb« elde of the placid l*ke I^mau and eee thi* furrow, au.l ponder on.the rtory of human .uttering that it tells. In America much of the rigor of impruon- mani baa been alleriatod by the introduction of contract labor. ’’Imprtooned al bard labor” may ream to imply a melancholy tot, but oompored with eoUtary couflnemenk, with nothing to occupy the prisoner’« atten tion, or hl» luuKcles, bard labor moan« an existence tar preferable America l* doubt- leea in the advance in thia reform. The moat thinking European nattona oome next, while UuMla etill Unger, lathe twilight ot bar- bartam—axebang« - . , - Bepertlag Prine. Bl.mareh’a gpeeahae. UTILIZING AUSTRAUi <te*med Babbit far .*i. a* BaalteHl-A M^b!. Many unaccountable thin», teliigent communities. Th, ■»re than ordinary dnllnew j is the action of England New South Wate. ounoeniinr cumstanqe of an over abund It is notorious th.» | r—i— i___ *_*------ A member ot the o>TdeI stenographic corps ot the reicbatag, in writing of Ble- marck aa a speaker, say(: “It is not the ■peed With which he speaks that makes the reporters* task of taking down his words an especially dWcnlt one, tor there are swifter talkers than he; but Prince Bismarck spenks at a very unequal rate, and as a rule it Is quickest st those very places which are most to the point. Not unfrequeutly, too, he Interrupts himself with Intermediate sentences; and he has a peculiar style of his own, with quite un expected turns ot spri’fh; In addition to which he often interweaves quotations— sometimes in foreign lenguages—with his remarks, and occasU-rmlly, toward the end of a sentence, f peaks so low as to make him difficult to he understood at our desk, although it is In ths immediate vi cinity of where he star.«'!,. And then the Scorching a Hindoo stenographer cannot altogether get rid of In a temple within the pnlac® * tho feeling that he ir orking under the daily offering of a goat is made lot pressure ot the weight- aud importance of loving goddess “Kali.’’ We did w what he ia taking as well as under day’s sacrifice, but the blood wm i too consciousness that he Is preserving which flowed from neck oft tne words of tho man at- whom all Europe offering, which is severed byoosM is looking. ”—John P. Jackson in New the high priest. I was looking!^ York World. with her neoklace of skulls thro* opera glass. I saw the priest Ixkttu’to Collection of bboes. r some disrespect to the deity. I The intellectual ami imaginative Jack glass. He marveled at the hire St. Maur haslieen telliugsome interesting image assumed. I then turned the stories about lxitta’s unprecedented col made him look through the diming lection of shoes. “ Wew! Wow 1 W-o-w!" wu hk , “Why, gentiemen,” sold the enthusias tion of surprise. tic relator, "there are vtlvet shoes, satin After making our offering I ** ■hoes, silken shoes, canvas shoes, grass cloth shoes, Turkish ami morocco-sUppers, light my cigar in the court with a u and sandals from Borneo and far oft Sara ing or sun glass. I saw liis rev ww» wak, where Rajah Brocke, whose charm to see the thing. I motioned hia lol ing wife is an old schoolmate ot Lotta’s, his hand. His face wore an exrn holds supremo sway^over his heathen sub sweet innocence as the raysot the on jects. There is one particular pair of to brighten on the back of hia flat, slippers made from the skin ot a favorite they got to a little focus and shot a b cat that quitted catterwauling and noc into his brown skin he uttered i “Wowl wow! oh, wow! w-owp | ' turnal adventures some :wo years ago. If saw such merriment as the other one you ask Lotta what these slippers are made of she will tell you with a mla- attendants exhibited, and the good di chievous smile that they are ‘peau de seemed hugely to relish the joke, Yon can’t imagine anything noticed that every now and thee to pusse.' rnmfnrtnbln. . It really must look at the little roasted spot and rebl be that the spirit of that departed tortoise his other hand. He ~iH Hmria shell auimates those slippers; for as truth hereafter.—Carter Harrison in (M m is my witness, I have heard Lotts make a The “Three Sixes'* Alar*. sort of purring soun<’ •'•¡.ea putting them on. Lotto’s size? On, come now, what’s Speaking of fires, one occamsity the use Of making all the women in the the remark that the alarm world envions’ You probably don’t ra- sixes.” Now what is meant by ‘Iter mensber Cinderella's size. Well, it’a my lean enigma to most person, It I belief that the glass slipper would fit Lotta larly supposed it is a general slant < very well Anyway, her feet have played bring to the scene of action all tto as lively a part as her face in the extra paratus in the city. This issnM ordinary success she has won.”—Detroit ‘ three sixes" are substantiallywq^ Free.Press. double third alarm. Fire and journal devoted to the firemenk explains that ordinarily a third i Blood Betting.In Persia. out an average of eleven «<im In Persia blood letting is the same pan and four hook and ladder compi acea for well nigh all fleshly ills to day “three sixes” sent out after a thiid that it was with our ancestors in the days been sent in will bring out, i of bluff King Hal. In the spring every Persian hies him to the barber snrgeon to twenty-two ongines, eight hook i compixpes, two water towers, Ito have that professional phlebotomist re assistant chiefs and several chfe lieve him of, say, half a pint of blood. Or»e sunny March morning I sat up on the taiions. These numbers mifbiu, ba la Ivhana of a village cliapa house and according tn the location of th* in The full force of the New T«rt watched the barber bleed.,a goodly share of the whole male population. With his pertinent coneist* of flfty-Bre *” arms bared to the elbows, a bunch of raw paniea, eighteen hook and ladd* cotton in lieu of lint beneath his arm, and two water tower», two fir* boat his keen edged Yazor insetted beneath his of department, two a^Maal cap, the traveling tonsorial artist took up twelve chiefs of battalion*. 1WB ____ his position on the bank of the irrigating can. ditch that ran through the village of I»as- Wives of Newspaper ■ gird. Candidates for his services soon There are not a few newspaper I began crowding about him. Each sturdy wives are constant helpmates in ti ryot bared his’right arm to the shoulder, sion. The wife of Frank G. Cai> aud got one of his neighbors to bind a Washington correspondent,toed to' handkerchief tightly just above theejbow. day, from a seore or more of te He then presented himself to the baiber. articles which might in future be The tonsorial artist pressed out with his her husband. These she would date thumb and forefinger the small vein he file away in envelope^ in a cabinet I wished to slit, and, with the air of a man the purpose. Consequently, Mr. C who knows his profession and ite import has lots of clippings on any subject ance, deftly inserted th** point of bls razor. ever written about in the public pn The blood spurted out in a tiny stream; says it is the best thing Of its kind the Wllagers sqnatte.l down on their enee, and his wife is responsible for haunches and watched it bleed, occasion ally working the elbov joint to stimulate York World. the flow. Half a pin* i. considered about Th« Alligator a Delsti* the correct quantity for an adult to lose The alligator is a snore and a i at one bleeding; the barber then com generally speaking. Those who i pletes his services by binding on a small we him basking numerously up« wad of cotton. of every river and creek, for alii Many prefer being bled in the roof of like the picture book crocodile the mouth, instead of in the arm. I ob Infancy, are doomed to bitter i served that these were old men mostly, menl Except in rare cases, be do* and judged them to be knowing custom ers, who had wise theories of their own as The mighty hunters of Gotham ' down every winter to shoot and fiihi to why the mouth bleeding was prefer ern waters have pretty nearly wipm able to the others. I have seen as many alligator, and have scared the teffj as thirty or forty of the Persian barber’s his visits are as few and far bef patients squatting In a low row on the On the Ocklswaha ««■ bank of a stream or ditch, each one let angels’. ting the little stream of blood from arm shooting is now prohibited by law, I may be seen slipping from the ■ qr mouth spurt into the water.—Thomas into the water, as the steamboat* Stevens in Inter Ocean. excursionists glide by. But big ones are scarce, and» tng blow to find the largest to be formidable after all Little onesai alive by hundreds and farmed i dealers in curios, who drive a^ trade in them, and beguile «W into purchasing the unattractive p their will Alligator teeth are pins of various devices, all M" and into cuff buttons, banglre a naments, which, it is to be ■! »me admirers, as thousands tf* the course of the season.-J*** Cor. Boston Heralds * *> 1 3”* 1 food. Longing for meat for i children, many go by night Io or two. When game-keeper, in the poor fellow, are mi branded aa poachers. Th. < New South Wale., instead of L expert, in the art of snaring Js meat as fast aa the rabbitoTZ' inviting men who, with vile pete, to spread disease among the *° they may die an awM death, the flesh and skin also tahw The Englbh government *iid“Z at greet expense in watching ud the very men in England who»-, valuable in Australia. • If tte, them ‘•poacher,’’ a fm, n.2^,? and the head, of governing'Ite take them by contracting to nZ with a homestead, when th, rtet caught, they would do it right, time, farter than th«ae pojJZ? doctor. By employing artuTh millions of dollar, might be mad, j served rabl.it moat. Ilow mueb ible to make money of the flmhmdi the quantity should be inimeanml price down very low *o much Ite The iioncher, would mako motarn, cents per rabbit, aa they would atch averago of 200 every day, and sand number at flrrt. The delicto« fn than be taken to England audutl» within reaeji of every half «Urnd turalor other laborer. -Georn o„ New York Herald. 3