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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1886)
iST SIDE TELEPHONE M’M INN VILLE, OREGON, DECEMBER 28, 1886 WEST SIDE TELEPHONE, CHICKEN ----- Issued------ SVEKY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY —ta— eirrisois Building, McMinnville. Oregon, —BY — Talniayr« & Turner Pnbliilwr« and Proprietor«. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: tree months...................................................... ‘o Entered in the PostofHce at McMinnville, Or. * as second-class matter. V. V. JOHNSON, M. Northweet corner of Second and B etreeti, OREGON McMINNVILLK May be found at his office wnen not absent on pro- l^ianal buotaeM. LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, and Surgeons, Physicians M c M innville AND LAFAYETTE. OB ottico over Yamhill County J F. Galbreath, M •3. Bank MoMiunville, Oregon D.» office on Main streut, M R. Littlefield, M. Ê Lafayette, Oregon. S. A. YOUNG, M. D Physician and Surgeon, M g MINNTILLK - - Office and residence on D street. •aswered day or night. - OREGON. All calls promptly DR. G-. F. TUCKER, DENTIST, - McMINNVILLK Oflce—Two doors - east - OREGON. of Bingham's furniture Laughing gas administered for painless extraction. PHOTOGRAPHER Up Stairs in Adams' Building, OREGON McMINNVILLK CUSTER POST BAND, The Best in the State. Is jrspared to furnish music for al’ occasions at reason able rates. Address N. J. ROWLAND, Business Manager, McMinnville. LOGAN BROS. & HENDERSON, Proprietors. “ORPHANS’ HOME dww SO«d(t) Church number, to the contrary not withstanding. Employed Fini 4oor south of Yamhill County Bank Building. M c M innville , O regon . H. H. WELCH. BILL LOWELL. "’’I «lying in Poverty After Being Rich Half a Dusen Times. aid of his foal and his wonderful home mail« thread, he climbed up the glass to the surface of the water. There he attached some threads above the water to the glass, leaving some below. When the little spinner felt like having THE MUSSEL a breath of fresh air, he “hauled in' on his upper guys, and rose above the When tired of that, he An Ancient Spinner Which Comea i surface. “slacked off,” and took a turn under- of Good Family. ' neath, thus making something like his accustomed.tidal habit Watching these little animals in In the “goodold days” before the in their daily movements, one grows to vention of the spinning-jenny and the have a fellow-feeling for them. Some steam-engine, when workingmen were of their actions seem almost human, «laves, and the rich had not the luxur | and they form a part of the household, ies they have now, spinning was the just as the cat, the dog, or the canary. One day a conscienceless sea-pirate work of the mistress of the house. I known as a dog-whelk settled on this Many good stories begin with an ac little spinner, and begau to bore count of a fair maiden at a spinning- througli his shell with murderous in- wheel, and a very ancient rhyme refers ' tent. The whelk was taken off, and to the days “when Adam delved and j removed to another part of the aquari- | um. On the morrow, he had found his Eve span.” When a young lady was way back and settled down again on growing of a marriageable age, in the the innocent little victim, so he was days of the spinning-wheel, she made sentenced to death as a murderer, and preparation for her nuptials by spin paid the penalty with his life. This mussel has inherited the spin ning the material for sheets, table ning business from a long line of an cloths, napkins, and all manner of cestors; for when the coal-forests household necessaries, hence she was bloomed where the iron furnaces now called a “spinster.” roar, in the “Black Country” of Eng Words change in their meanings land, the forefathers of our little spin with the changing fashions of a change ner were inhabitants of the fresh-water ful world. There is one class of spin pools in the carboniferous forests. Ages have come and gone since then; ners, however, to which the whir of the stony remainders of tjie ancient the loom and the steam-engine has ' spinners are dug from out the deepest made but little difference. “Men mav coal-mines, but the clever little fellows come, and men may go, but they goon still spin their simple threads along forever.” All the changes of our com our shores as of old. We sometime« plex civilization make but little differ weave their threads into gloves and ence to these littlo spinners. They hose, as a matter of curiosity; but few live in their dark little houses; spin ever seem to have time to listen to the their threads; live their lives; die in wonderful story that can be told to peace, or else get eaten up, and pass listening ears by this Ancient Spinner. off the scene, making no fuss, seeking —Chamber's Journal. no honor. Some people call them BROTHER GARDNER. mussels; scientific naturalists call them Mytilus edulis. They deserve a good Limekiln Philosophy Dealt Oat in Multum name, for they are an ancient and hon in l’arvo Doses. orable family, that have fought a good I long ago dun made up my mind light in the fierce battle of life, and dat aiverage humanity expects too have endured through long ages, while much on dis airth, an’ dat we am all many others have perished.. Every one who has visited the sea too selfish to really injoy ourselves. shore must have noticed at times a lit If we plan fur a huckleberry excur tle mussel forming the center of a tan sion we look fur dry weather, no mat gled mass of threads, shells, stones ter how much our naybur’s co’n an’ and all sorts of fragments. These are taters want rain. bonnd together by the labor of the If dar am any danger of spring frosts black-shelled spinster. Instead of an we expeek dey will fly ober our garden choring to a rock, as a well-behaved an’ light down on somebody else’« little mussel ought to have done, this truck-patch. one has gone far ofTj and anchored to We expeck cyclones now an’ den in •11 sorts of rubbish, and been driven de natcral order of tings, but we doan’ and tossed by the waves of the sea in expeck ’em to hit our eand of de all directions, until it has formed the county. We am sorry fur sich people center of the tangled mass we find on as was in de way, but dey orter bin the beach. In the natural way, a mus som’ers else, you know. sel settles between high and low water If we take in a tramp over night wo mark. When covered by the tide, he expeck him to be honest an' grateful. opens his doors and angles fpr a living If anybody else takes in one an’ gits with his wonderful fishing apparatus, beat, our vardict am dat it sarved em for the spinsters of the sea arc all born right. fishermen. When the tide is going out We expeck to git de big eand of de the little angler closes the valves of trade when we swap hosses wid a man, bis houso as tight as a steel safe, and but if we diskiver dat we hev bin keeps his mouth shut, with a lot of cheated we want de law to punish him water inside, until the tide covers him for a swindler. again. Moas’ of us am willin’ to take our How the Frenchmen have learned chances on matrimony, if de gal am the habits of this well-known little good-lookin’ or de young man has spinner, and cultivated him, and made cash, but when de rollin’-pins begin to of him a cheap and nutritious article fly we blame our friends dat dey didn’t of diet for the French nation, is well warn us. known. How the little fellow builds If we lose our pocket-book we argy his house and weaves his ropes, is not dat de pusson who find it am as bad as quite so well known. The house itself, a thief if he doan’ return it. If we with its black outside, and the beauti find some one else’s pocket-book we ful sky-blue, pearly inside, is a work well, it comes like pullin’ teeth to let of the greatest skill, while the mechan go. ism by which it is opened and closed We respeck our naybur, but we want forms a chapter in the world's wonder our beets an' cabbage an’ onions to lore. The little spinner lives in a soft, keep about a week ahead of his. fleshy “mantle,” inside of his stony We doan’ know of any pertickler house. On the edge of this mantle are reason why lightnin’ should strike our tiny fingers (cilia) and little pigment ba’n, but we Kin furnish half a dozen cells with which he builds. The mate reasons why it should burn ba’ns all rial—carbonate of lime—is extracted around us. from the clear sea-water by a simple We begin in October to predict s process in the life of the animal. Just miW winter, an' if we happen to git as onr food goes to form blood and one we kick like a steer de nex’ sum bone, muscle and sinew, so does the mer beka.se we hev to pay mo’ fur ice. food of the little spinner go to form his I tell ye, my frens, when I come to delicate tissues and his hard sbellv realize jist what a queer piece of clay bouse. The mussel-house is as much we am. an' how much workin’ ober a part of the mussel’s life as onr homes we need to come out perfeck, I can't are part of our lives, and the processes wonder ober de shoutin’ and hurrahin' of building are not so very different in Heaben when one of us grown folks either; both are simple, both are mys finds his wav in.— Detroit Free Press. terious. To watch this little spinner make Bird-Destroying Plumage. his thread is very interesting. From A check seems to have been given to one side of his house protrudes a very curious little pad of flesh, a quaint, the destruction of birds with beautiful pointed sort of a tab. This is called plumage for the adornment of wonr-n't bis “foot,” though it might just as well headgear, and it was none too soon, for have been called his hand. He touches the rock, or whatever he desires to at the annual destruction of these inno tach himself to, with his foot, then cent and beautiful denizens of the ait with draws it, leaving a tiny thread, was something enormous. According whichhe has made by some mys to the published statistics. Ragland im tic process, in his own body, just ports front India, Africa and America as a spider makes her silken ten million dollars’ worth of feather« cord. The foot comes out again and birds every year. One and one- and again, always leaving a thread half million exotic birds, including until a strong rope is woven, 2.'>0,0lO humming-birds, are annually which binds hi* securely to his chosen imported to France and England. St a borne. He can shorten or lengthen tistics are not available showing the this cable by a simple contractile mo bird slaughter for the whole world, bnl tion. which allows him a little play: were it known, the figures would be but he may be said to be fixed for life, startling. Of all the plumage worn by once ho settles down. After a severe women, the ostrich feathers alone dr storm, some of them will generally be I not represent the actual destruction o' found on the shore, driven from their the feathered tribe.— Demorest's Month moorings, helpless and homeless on the strand: but they can stand the storm ly- ribbons flying, gown awry, panting breath and boots unlaced, to her vowa of yore »lie’s beeu, uow and ever—in ue “>n haste.” Julie K. Wet tier ill, in Century. The recent death in this city of “Chicken Bill” Lowell adds another to he long list of mine discoverers who lave died in poverty and without riends. Chicken had a vein of orooked- less in his make-up, and this may ac count in some small degree for his for- orn condition in his later years, but. Institute as he was, he would not have lad many sympathizers, anyway. Bill was one of the first settlers in California Gulch, where Leadville now Hands, and some of the best properties here were once owned by him. Like nost of the great prospectors, he had nt capacity for keeping properly or uoney. Once in possession of what romised to be a paying cla m, he was i it easy until it was disposed of, and ae money that he received burned his »ckets as long as it lasted. During the 1st iifti en years tie was rich half a I izen times. When in funds hs> lived ke a lord, buying every thing that he aw, treating everybody who came v thin reach, and in general squander- ig money in every conceivable way. Then he had exhaust 'd his purse and ■is credit he would go back to the mines ■ md begin over again. For a long time Bill was confident hat all he had to do to make a fortune vas to sober up and go out and look lor a lead. His faith in the country was irodigious, but his dependence upon limself was even greater. His good ,'ortune had been bo conspicuous, and die men who had bought his claims had nade so much mouey, that his opinion vas eagerly sought for, and some cap- talists were always willing to pay him i round price for any thing that he vould say had mineral in it. A few fears ago, having squandered his last jenny, he returned to Leadville and re-” turned prospecting with a sublime con- idence in his ability to locate some- lliing that would lie of value. He was watched jealously by many fortune lunters, but as he d d not appear to hake much progress, he was soon left o himself. After many weeks of un satisfactory search lie became impatient, ind hear ng that there were several cap- talists in town, ho secured considerable nineral from a m ne that was in suc- :«nsful operation and “salted” his claim n great style. Then, going into town, le culled attention to the strike that he lad made, and invited bids. Tabor, ifterward Lieutenant-Governor and Senator, inspected the property, and, nfluenced to some extent by Bill’s rreat success in the Little Pittsburgh ind other projects, offered h m two .housand dollars for his cla m. The >id was a small one, as things were roing, but Bill was desperately short, md for a salted mine he thought the turn was ample. The transfer was |uickly«n:ide, and nightfall found Bill n town liquoring up. Before morn ng Bill was suflicently iommunieative to expla'n to some of lis new-found friends what an elegant oke he had played on Tabor, and by he next day the news had spread hrough the camp. When Tabor heard if it lie was at first inclined to take lummary measures, but a further in- <pect ion of the claim convinced him that ¡here was something m it, and putting i force of men at work lie sank the •haft fifteen feet dia per and came upon 1 body of m neral which was of re markable richness. This was the be ginning of the Chrysolite mine, from >vh ch millions of dollars were taken. Bill heard the news of Tabor's big trike in Denver when lrs two thou sand dollars was nearly gone, and he hurried back to Leadville for the pur rose of convincing Tabor, if possible, hat he ought to have a share in it, but lie did not succeed. The Governor made him some donat ons from time to ¡me. but, remembering the “salt,” he jave him nothing else. After that epi sode Bill was not himself. He u-ed to my that Tabor’s strike “queered” him. He knew, he said, that there was big money in that claim, and nothing but tis uncontrolable thirst had ever in- luced him to salt it. “1 couldn’t wait,” he -aid. “I might save known that when I located a claim I ere would be mineral there, if I would >niy go after it I had never failed up o that t me. and I wonldn' have failed ■hen if I hadn't been too dry to work.” After that he never made any more noney. Fortune had come to him nany times only to be cast aside, and n hfs extremity it would not respond o his bidding.— Denver (Col.) News. MOTHER AND CHILD. —Th« N< w Haven Register says: “In article on Yale yesterday, for 'alum water’ read 'alma mater.’ ” —The United States have nearly three times as many doctors as En gland, and nearly four times as many as France in proportion to the popula tion. —A Chinaman recently arrested at Grass Valley, Cal., for running au opium joint committed suicide the night following by hanging himself in the prison cell with his cue. —A private coachman can not be blamed for marrying an heiress for her money, but when a man in society stoops so low as to do such a thing he should be kicked.— N. O. Picayune. — Most of the hair that is made up in this country into bangs, braids and twists come., from Europe, Germany and Switzerland sending thousands of pounds of it every year.— Chicago Sun. —A female in New Orleans recently caused the arrest of a policeman for calling her a woman. The judge de cided that she was a woman and dis charged the policeman.—A’ O. Times. —A novel summer tour along the Erie canal is advertised as “possessing the risk, of an oce.-m voyage, free from the cinders of a train, and less arduous than a balloon trip.”— Buffalo Express. —An English advertisement reads as follows: “A young man, sober and reliable, who has a wooden leg and cork arm, is willing for a moderate salary, to allow his false limbs to be maimed by wild beasts in any reput able menagerie, as an advertisement. No objection to traveling.” —In these days, when two-headed and four-legged chickens are hatched on every farm, it is a positive relief to read that Owen Craven, of Ran dolph County, Mo., has a one-legged Plymouth Rock chick that is perfectly healthy and hops about on its one log with apparent pleasure. — Chicago Her ald. —An albino baby was bom recently at Harrisburg, l*a. It has a shapely little head, luxuriously covered with hair as white as snow, of fine texture, and softer than silk, and the indica tions are that it will have similar eye brows. I'lio eyelashes are long and white and beneath them are pink eyes of wonderful brilliancy.- -Philadelphia Press. —Virginia for a time taxed sales of liquor at two cents a drink, and re quired barkeepers to be provided with bell punches for registry. The State bought the instruments at five dollars each and sold them to the rumsellers at ten dollars. They were afterward taken back upon the repeal of the law, and the State has now sold them at auction for six cents each.— Chicaqo Journal. —It is estimated that twenty-five acres of grass land are necessary to keep an animal the year round in Ari those inefface- zona. The total acreage of the Terri- We can not go tory is about 48,000/ On thia basil Young father, it is < easy to estimate its capacity for you are you cattle — raisin ®ut * icr’ou* drawback Be therefore is water. T 'lnia will bare to be supplied ir child to Im.— by artesian wells if at all. As yet only about half of the grazing area is occu pied.—»7. Y. Telegram. I —A mammoth gum tree in the woods PARIS FASHIONS. near Cambridge, Md., has for years been used by an eagle for the rearing of her young. Tho tree has been cut down after great labor. The nest at the top was found »:• large as a cart body, and contained two young eagles nearly full fledged. The birds sur vived the shock, and have been cared for as pets. Th« old bird was ont on a foraging excursion at the time. —A special committee on railroad axles has reported that iron axles are safer than steel axles; that all cranks should have the webs hooped; that as iron cranks appear to fail after run ning some 200,000 miles, and steel after 170,000, it is highly desirable that they should be taken oflr and not again used on passenger engines; and that crank axles, properly constructed, are as strong as straight axle«.— Chicago Times. —An enterprising young man of New York City abandoned the beaten paths of industry a short time ago and invented a new occupation. He hired small boys i break store windows, and then offered to protect the windows for twenty-five cents a week. He was clearing eight dollars a week when ambition led him astray. He struck for double pay, and failing, broke a window himself. For this indiscretion' be was sent up for six months.—AT. Y. Herald- * —Eternal fitness:— A sailor for .««a, And* «pinater lor taa. A lawyer for talking and a ««Idler for Sgbt- mg; A baby for nolae. And a ctrcus for boya. And a typewriter man to do autograph writing. A banker for chink A nd a pr oter for ink, A leopard for «poll and a wafer for «Making! A erack baoa ball flinger. An opera alnger, A shot-gun. a mill« ud a choir for klektngj • —BurdeUa ' —The velocity of light is so tre mendous, th at as the^Buffalo Commercial- Advertiser figures it out, “it moves round the earth's surface, a distance of nearly twenty-five thousand miles, in one-eighth part of a second.” We re peat these figures, says the New York Tribune, for the benefit of the mes senger-boy of the period. He would do well to cut them out and paste then in his hat Not that he can ever I. pe to cope with light in rapidity of mere- ment, but that the contemplation of the feat of traveling twenty-five thousand miles in an eighth of a second may stimulate him to break his own record of speed.