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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1889)
U WIDOWS SCHEME, gQURIOUS episode . ■L—m Which Courts as Wall U Bo- W*Srin«n Ought to Study. SUGAR FROM BEETS. ■ow She Sapport.d ,IorM1, Wlthowt forming Any Wark. .k’T’L?8 * P001, wom“ Uvlng in one t the little shanties up-town, with a ,amily °f Pto goats, geese and “MUro“ »warming around It She sup- porta her family by taking in washing Mdher poverty and industry have X tQr I/r compassion and the washing of/a number of benevolent la- e8' thes* ladles recently remonstrated with her on the size of heribills, and said that she had ■ Ak* day8 a*f° * young lady of good position, and the daughter of ■¡grtspuetablo parente, was arrested Sj jeweler’s store in Brooklyn for the of some diamond rings. She ■¡exaniiuing a tray of the costly Egls when, as she describes it, an un- Ktrollablo impulse urged her to take Kgndful and conceal them about her Kgin. The grief and consternation of ■ parents, when the fact was made vich more ,or hor washing than Kga to thorn, is readily conceived, v J“1® dld au .any “y of the th® laundries. '“oodriee. The ■ay procured her release on bonds, hard-workf------ )ng widow admitted that this Kthe will have to stand her trial for was the ca »«, but she respectfully, but ■ crime. firmly, de< lined to reduce her prick ■„ the same police court where this “You se >,\na’am," she said, “I do ■tenable girl was arraigned, another the very fit est handwork, and it wouldn’t ■ng woman was present to answer to pay me to dpittpr the prioe the laun- ■milar charge. She watched intently dries 'fct IdUnachlne wort If you ■ proceedings which had to do with oompared my work with theirs you ■ sovice in crime. And just as they would see a great difference. ThosdChi- K« concluded, she rose and facing nnmen living in dirt like pigsare taking Kjudge, said in a voice which cut the the bread out of honest women's mouths. ■ like a knife: I don I.seehow any lady can be willing M>Y ou are going to make a thief out to send her clothes to them. Of course ■liatgirl!" t | they do it cheap when they have no ■he words thrilled through the court families to support and can live on al- ■alike an eldctrio shock. Officers most nothing; but they tear your ■spectators were alike amazed. “I clothos all to pieces, and dear knows ■once like her,” continued the young what you catch fftm them. No, ma’am, ■an, "and my first crime was like you'd l etter pay a little moqp and have ■ I could have been saved then. your clothes done nicely by a clean, re- Key had let me go, I sjiould never spectabte woman, besides helplng’her Ke offended again. ButJ)j»y sont me to support her family.” ■prlBon, locked me up ^ith thieves The lady was influenced by this can ||abandoned wretches, afid lam now did statement, and decided to continue It I am." __ _______ her patronage. But a few weeks after the sensation which this announce- she was surprised to see emerging from Lt created was reported a Sing Siqg laundry in her neighbor I intense. The episode, 1 hood the’ well-known figure of the son Lr, quickly passed, and of tho poof faff hg^A' laundress, stag ■Unary routine of the court went gering under a huge bundle of clothes. rarosual. -The circumstance, how- A dtlrl?'suspicion crossed the mind of lr, is fruitful of thought to those who the charitable woman; Having a slight b devoting their lives to the reforma- acquaintance with Sing Sing from a few n of criminals. Perhaps this young previous negotiations, she entered the pnan spoke the truth. In her case laundry and mado some caqtious inqui b punishment was the confirmation of ries about tho boy who had just cone riminal career. No one will argue out Sing Sing readily acknowledged it the perpetrator of a first crime that fie came every week with a large mid invariably be let off without pun- bundle, and it was tojt obvious that the ment But should the machinery of poor but honest and hardworking laun tice be always inexorable and impla- dress was doing an easy dnd profitable ile? Should it never be relaxed? Are business by subletting the washing re no circumstances when the veil of given by her customers to the_ much see ebon idbedravm o ver a crime* 'Jbspfaed Chlnaffihh agalnsf*whom slie” here such a thing as uncontrollable bad warned them so vigorously.— raise? Theso are questions Which cago News. rts and reformers ought to study.— Paul Qlobt. NO VERMIN THERE, PHYSICAL BEAUTY. How B Lady In Search of a House Myitlfled a Landlords Lady—You are sure that the house w Plain Faces Are Transformed Into I contains no vermin? Handsome Ones. rhero are some men to be met with 0 frankly admit that their wives are ly, and even, here and (here a wife o agreos that her husband's judg- mt is correct But as a rule, Ssvery in considers his own choice fife best I where there are fifty minds there II be fifty ideas of what constitutes yslcal beauty. We all know and ad- t that personal charm and mental ac- nplishments can transform a plain » into a handsome one, and the lack them deprive a woman with the utenance of a Greek statue of the ■uty which at first sight struck the a It is notorious that the women er whom men “play the fool” are ten far from pretty. Not infrequent- the belle of an Indian station is the fiieet girl within fifty miles, and the omen around whom half the men on ■rd a ship on a long voyage flutter, i very often by no means the beauty of ■ quarter deck. Nina D'Enclos, who id lovers after she was seventy, does It seem to have been a great beauty, lor, if wo are to judge from sue of the portraits of Mary I Scotland, was that siren, with bom, as Lord Beaconsfield used to B, men fall in love till this day, by ■ means strikingly beautiful. The Itagerous women” of history have Hom been beauties. Nature is full loompensations. The reigning, belle feta often silly, or, overestimating the ■dnatioi.., of her face, does not take ■ trouble to be amiable. On the ■»hand, the plain woman, knowing lu ihe is handicapped at the start, Hi her best to compensate for her 111- ■tndness by attractiveness of man- B. ud in the end generally wins in B nee. John Wilkes, who “was the West man of his day, was in the habit ■tasting that he would give the hand- fcmt man in England half an hour’s K* of him and oust him early in the •>ing- There is, in truth, nd ac- plng for taste. Dr. Johnson al- n< spoke of the painted and affected ■“*. old enough to be his mother, he married in the heyday of his Bilh as a “pretty creature,” and even •Gargery, in one of the most dolight- ■ of -Dicken’s novels, was willing to ■»e that Pip’s masculine sister was ■ fine figure of a woman.”— Boston His Curiosity Fully Satisfied, House Owner (indignantly and very emphatically)—Vermin in a house of mine! Not much! Lady—Well, I’m glad of that If there is any thing I do dotest it’is a house overrun with roaches and— House Owner—Oh, I won't say there ain't a few roaches. Most any house is l iabl e to-have* few-roaches. Lady—And rats and mice—are there any of them ? Houso Owner—Well, there might be a mouse here and there and a couple of rats or so, may be, but there ain't none to hurt Lady—How about bed-bugs? •* House Owner—Bed-bugs? Well, now, of course, bed-bugs is different Jevver see a house that had been lived In at all- that didn't have a few? ( Warmly.) Why, the house I live in myself is chock full of 'em. What I do say, though, is, that there ain’t no ver min in no house of mine; no sir, not none. When do you think you’ll move in? Lady—I'm afraid your bouse will not suit me. Good-day. House Owner (soliloquizlngly)—Now I wonder what that woman can find fault with in this house? After almost sayin' sho'd take it and my provln' that there's nothing wrong with it, she don’t want it That's just like a woman. They ain’t got no sense, nohow.— Texas Siftings. » - Mr. Beecher's Estate, a» Henry Ward Beecher left a compara tively small fortune. He had an es tate in the PeekskilJ which cost him about |150,000. He had insurance pol icies which footed up something like |20,000or 125,000, and in hot haste his heirs sold his pictures and bookB and all personal belongings endeared to his frtanda, at all events by many, many years of cb se association with the dear old man, and now how does it stand? The 1150,000 place at Peekskill has literally gone to seed. Those magnifi cent flower-beds, on which the old man eloquent spent years of thought, for tunes of experience and thousands of dollars earned by the sweat of his im perial brow, are choked with weeds and overrun with grasses. Already the market price of the place has fallen to 185,000, and I understand—in Tact, I have seen it stated in print—that an of fer of <65,000, which was refused, will, in all probability never be made again. Andon the heels of this, with what was curiously called an "autobiography, written by one of his sons and his son- in-law. lying as dead aa Mark Twain's own books upon the shelve« of the stores, come a rumor that lus simple will is also to b» oontestod.— N. r. ■jpnan (on railway train, writing Ho his wife)—It would afford you ' xmusement, my dear, If you could freckle-faced, long, lean, gam- tanked, knock-kneed, sneaking, rtinent, ill-bred, half-baked specl- of a back-woods gawky that is lnt over my shoulder as I .write Letter. _____ ___________ Ha Was Not An Indian , ;, Tramp—Could "you give » bite to a poor man who hasn’t eaten any thing Lady of the House (shouting shrilly) —Tige! Tige! Come here, Tige! T Ltoftilv)—You are calling your dpg,' madam. I want you to under stand that I don't eat dog. I m no In- ^nd he strode away in silent dignity. —Boston Coi'itr 7' i. “f ‘b* Moat *‘r°aperoM and Ki tensiva \ of German Industries. JTJACOBS O] SCHOOL AND CHURCH. —i Philadelphia has 67« churches: r Y.xvL- AQO. nt:____w> . ’ ONCE CURED NO RELAPSE. The beet-sugar Industry in Germany I US gFown to large proportions in the last twenty years, and has been thor- University, of Providence, du^Z *y8tematlled- I‘ «as intro- duced in Hanover in 1864, and sugar is ■ow produced, in qtll the southern por <XW, and Alexander Duncan, of En tion of Hanover, the larger part of gland, lately added «20,000 to the Brunswick, the Prussian part of Sax general fund of the institution. ony, and also in a P40 of the kingdom Twenty-one schools in Syria which of Saxony. Perhaps »wo-thirds of all had been closed by order of the Turk the German beet sugar is raised In ish officials have been reopened. This these localities, it requires very fer result is to be credited to the efforts of ule ground to raise the sugar boet, and Mr. Strauss, the American Minister, bone dust, phosphates, Chilian salt who is a Jew, but was educated at peter and composts are freely used. Princeton College. Ihe plant is exceedingly exhausting to —Bishop Viadimer, of tlte Greek the soil, and farmers, tom-eserve their Church in America, has the largest ground, observe strictly the rule ol diocese in the world. It include» alt rotation in crops, only planting a field of North America to Buenos Ayres in tn beets once in seven years, as a South America. The Bishop lives in rule. The planting is done in May Sitka, but spends a good deal of his The ground is thoroughly prepared time in San Francisco be’orehand." It is plowed twice in the Momethlw« New. •Wl preceding, the first plowing being to the depth of 4 inches, the second 16 , A *«T effective thing wbl'sh or 18 inches. Then just before plant Is taking hold on the market is a valuable discovery made known through The ing it is harrowed and rolled untiLit is Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md., as smooth and hard as a floor, The proprietors of the renowned SL Jacoba seed is drilled in rows 1 foot apart Utt, and known as Diamond Vera-Cura, Dyspepsia, a positive ran for Indiges When the young planta, aro aboat S I tor tion and all stomach troubles arising inches high thef aré thlniíéd out, lèav- therefrom. If not found in the stock of ing three or four in a hill, 1 foot apart, druggist or dealer, it will be sent by mail receipt of ZS cents (5 boxes «100) tn and these are subsequently reduced to on »1* P>pe. Samples sent on receipt one in a hill. The cultivation is donp I of two-cent stamp. It has been found on mostly by plow, the crop being plowed f »Srial to te a specific for sour stomach, nausea, giddiness, constipa about four times in a season, both heartburn, tion, nervousness and low spirits, and it .engthwise and across the rows. The is spoken of and recommend) d by hun women and children, meantime, are dreds who have used it and have found lasting benefits. constantly going over the field keep ing out the weods by hand. The gath Tools and sensible men are equally Innocuous. It Is in the half-fool and half-wise that the dan ering seasoi'extends from Septembei ' ger lies.— UoetKe. K to.February IS. Men go ahead with Khorkin® AecMeat. long spades and loosen each hill, the So read the headlines of many a newspaper women and children following, who column, and we peruse with palpitating inter lift the roots/out of the ground est the details of the catpstropny, and are deep- Impressed by the sacrafice of human lives and pile them together. After I ly involved. Yet thousands of men and women the tops are removed they are are falling victims ever* year to that terrible consumption (scrofula of the lungs), either taken directly to the commu disease, and they and their friends' are satisfied to be lieve the malady incurable. Now, there could nity factory or covered deeply with be no greater mistake*. No earthly power, of earth to preserve them. The factory course, can restore a lung that is entirely wast ed, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery system is a very interesting part of the will but rapidly and surely arrest the ravages of business. Factories are established in consumption, if taken in time. Do not, there fore, despair, until you have tried this wonder each neighborhood.” In all the suc ful remedy. 2____ -__________ — cessful ones capitalists are rigidly ex Dissimulation the only thing that makes cluded, and only ..farmers may' hold society possible. is Witnout its amenities the shares. Each farmer must, for taclv world would be a bear-garden.— Ouida, share ho holds, cultivate from three’ to five acres in beets. The average product is 17,000 or 18,000 pounds per acre, for which the farmer gets about 90 pfennig per 100. He is guaranteed a sure market for his crop at a fixed prioe, and gets a dividend out of tjie profits at the end of the season. The pulp of the beets, after the sugar is taken out, makes a first-class food for cattle, and this thd farmer gets also at a fixed price. The cultivation is sub- •ject to inspection by the factory, and I each inspector must be not only a first- class farmer, but a chemist He must live close to the factory, and gets a good salary. l»-»i<l>-s a per cmrt Of the | profita Most of the sugar goes to re fineries at the large cities. At each factory is also a government inspector, who examines each lot and fixes the tax. Each wagon-load of beets is sampled by a chemist, and if they faH below a certain grading as to percent! age pf sugar, they are rejected. ThiB is to prevent the use of inferior com-1 posts, which would make large beets I with little sugar in then). One nice T feature about the business is that on all the sugar which 4s exported the government returns to'the farmer an amount which is more than equivalent to the tax. This resulte in a very large portion of the crop being exported. BRAND SMALL INDUSTRIES. The Insignificant Shops In Which the Fa* mous Sheffield Cutlery Is Made. The Sheffield cutlery—one of the glories of England—is not made by ma chinery; it is chiefly made by hand. There are at Sheffield a few firms which manufacture cutlery right through from the making of steel to the finishing of tools, and employ rage-worker», and yet even theso firms —I am told' by my friend. E. Carpen ter, who kindly gathered for me infor mation about the Sheffield trade—let out some part of the work to the "small masters.” But by far the greatest number of the cutlers work in their homes, with their relatives, or In small work-shops supplied with wheel power, which they rent for a few shillings a week. Immense yards are covered with buildings, which are sub-divided into series of small work shops. Sdme of them cover only a few square yards, and there I law smiths hammering, all the day long, blades of knives on a small anvil, close by the blaze of their Brea Occasionally the smith may have one help or two. In the upper stories scores of small workshops are supplied with wheel power, and in each of them three, four, or five work ers and a “master” fabricate, with the occasional aid of a few plain ma chines, every description of tools— files, saws, blades of knives, razors, and so on. Grinding and glazing are done in other email work-shops, and even steel is cast in a small foundry, the working staff of which consists only of five or six men. When walk ing through these work-shops I easily imagined myself in a Russian cutlery village, like Pavlovo or Vorsina. The Sheffield cutlery has thus maintained its olden organization, and the fact is tie mote remarkable ft* the earnings of the cutlers are very lbw as a rule; but, even when reduced to a few shillings a week./he cutler prefers to vegetate on bi# »mall earnings than to xo as a waged laborer la a "houwe.’ The spirit of the old trade organize, tions, which were so much spokes of flve-and-twenty years ago. is thus still alive.— Prints Kroiapktn, in A»n* leenta Ctnhnrg. —- TO MAKE —X DELICIOUS BISCUITS or WHOLESOME BREAD USE D wights C ow -B rand S oda «S aleratus . . ‘ ABSOLUTELY PURE. ALWAYS UNIFORM ANO FULL WEMHT. R» mm IM IkSM b AfMaro sf s Aw ea mr Mekace Mmvn km falls wralad lor all NKRV LOWr MAWNOOD,