SEVI I-WEEK LI' WEST SIDE VOL. I M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, JANUARY 25, 1887 ¡ST SIDE 'TELEPHONE. ----- Issued----- ; v E ry TUESDAY AND FRIDAY —IM— Garrison's Bniliing, McMinnville, Oregon, —BY — Ac Turner, ralniase Publiiher* and Proprietor*. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ne) t»* 1 * ij^ree months........................... 1 25 70 itered in the Postoffice at McMinnville, Or. as second-class matter. THE POSTMAN'S SOLILOQUY. Th.e5S 8 nillny » romance comes my way. Ana many a sorrow meets my iraze: Going ibe stune route every day, xlinow P1,® PeoPl® and their ways: And much I tee, from the letter» I take. Of joy, and trouble, aud deep heart ache. Tbit letter, addressed in manly style, it for a maidon, I can see “ wu r * b.r**ht eyes and happy smile whenever they come, that they must be. {rom her sweetheart; and, what is more. The days they come she’s at the door. This looks like a bill; they're poor, I guest: Bills come so often to 64. A1Ea,l.e;ficed1w'im“n- wlth re»' distress, w,u take this from me at the door. And Nothing more?" she's sure to say. in a hopeless, half-expectant way. it1 *? one with a foreign stamp­ well. I am glad th s letter's come! I ^.?.£roiP rt sailor, a wild young scamp, J v. v. JOHNSON, M. D Northweil corner of Second «nd B etreete, Lenruviujt OREGON. ... HU be found «t hie offloe when not «beent on pro- , iJci buitnew. LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH, ’hysicians Surgeons, and M c M innville L afayette , or . and w ho this time last year left b i home. H s mother wa ttso anxiously; •li t from my son,’’ she’ll say to me. And this one, edged with black. I dread To deliver it at bm . It’s from the West; their friend is dead; Letters from there have stopped of late: The girl s sad aud—well, 1 know This is the last from Idaho. And here is Mis. Harry Brown, Q hat’s why the dainty letters come No more to number 81. He t brought the letter writer home. Yet, many a romance comes my way, And many a sorrow ever.v day. —Abbe Kinne, in N. Y. Ledger. j F Calbreath, M. D.. office over Yamhill County mk McMinnville, Oregon. j| R. Littlefield, M. D., office on Main street, Sayette, Oregon. S. A. YOUNG, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, - jMINNVILLE - OREGON - paee .nd rwidence on D .treel. kwerad day or night. All call, promptly THE “SICK MAN.” A n Interesting and InstructiveOhat with “Sunset” Cox. A Specimen Turkl«li Jok,—Age of the “Oriental Imbroglio”—The “Ant-Hill” or Dlplomate»— l he Duties of the American Legation. dr . g . f . tucker , DEMIST, hUNNVILLE Office--Two doors OREGON. - - east of Bingham's furniture - Laughing gas administered for painless extraction. ST. CHARLES HOTEL is Leading Hotel of McMinnville. |l and $2 House. 8ingle meals 25 cents. le Sample Rooms for Commercial Men F. MULTNER, Prop. AV. V. I’ltlCJE, HOTOGRAPHER Up Stairs in Adams’ Building, IINNVILLE - OREGON JSTER POST BAND, The Best in the State, spared to furnish music for all occasions at reason able rates. Address . J. ROWLAND, Business Manager, McMinnville. M’MINNVILLE ferj, Feed and Sale Stables, Comer Third and D streets, McMinnville IGAN BROS. & HENDERSON, Proprietors. 'he Best Rigs in the City. Orders imptly Attended to Day or Night, RPHANS’ HOME” BILLIARD HALL. LStrictly Temperance Resort. iwdt!) Church member, to the oortr«ry not withstanding. rphans’ Home” TONSORIAL PARLORS, (I, Hot claw, and the only parlor like (hop in the city. None but it-elaaa TELEPHONE. Workmen Employed. «outs Ot Y»mhlll County Bank Bulldint. M c M innville , O regon H. H. WELCH. frorty-cwo ice laccuriua nave Mtarted in the South during the nine months. "Keep your temper, my dear sir.” |»n old judge to an irritable young [*ri “keep your temper—it is worth F*t deal more to you than to rny- ielse.'' ¡The widow of Hon. Alexander H. pn. of Tilton. N. H., bequeathed pnousand dollars cash and a house I8 rectory to Trinity Episcopal Pn in that town. She also left F » large sum in trust, the income f n»ed for the benefit of the poor in Parian co flee is newly introduced r"” market. Tne Leery is large. l ‘°" an I, although of good flavor, f surprising strength. Used a, K Java, <>r Rio co.Fee are. in in- r8, it is so much richer in the r pi'inc pie of co lee that its effects Mr nervon* system are almost lielir uin tremens. It promises to |®uch u-. in m xing with weaker f or g.ving strength to adulterated p*8-—-V. F. /'».e/rom. Hon. S. S. Cox’s diplomatic mission to the Orient has given him a great ad­ vantage over the regular United States humorist. He can graft a Turkish joke on one of his old Congressional rib-ticklers, and produce an article so fresh and new that even the deaf will laugh. Although the high moujiks in Constantinople persistedin calling him Pasha “Sunset,” he never donned the festive fez but three minutes and that was a trial experiment. While a re­ porter was waiting in the parlor of the Minister’s residence. No. 13 East Twelfth street, waiting for him to ap­ pear, many tine views of the Bosphorus and places of interest in Constantinople were seen. The Sultan’s palace and a Turkish cemetery were attractive and curious. When the popular orator and Minister Plenii potentiary appeared, he | was bareheaded, u, ___ and ____ had ____________ the Parisian "grip,” a new name for a cold, so bad­ ly that he was somewhat hoarse. That inimitable and breezy style so char­ acteristic had not departed, and when asked for a Turkish story he said: “I have just received a fresh one by cable from the Golden Horn and it goes: A Turk in Constantinople called upon his neighbor and wanted to bor­ row liis jackass. “ *1 have sent the ass to Scutari, my friend,’ laconically replied the for­ tunate owner of the long-eared ani- imal. 'Even now that ass is climbing over the hill that brings him in view of that city. If he were here, of course I would lend him to you.’ "About this time the ass brayed loud •nd long in his stall. “The neighbor spoke up. ‘Ah, there is your ass braying now; I thought he was nearing Scutari?’ "The owner haughtily replied: ‘My friend, which do you believe is lying, the ass or myself?’ “This is a prime specimen of the humor of the unspeakable Turk. “My health? Well, I have improved great¡v. My summer in the island of Prinki’pos was very delightful, and the air is very dry and bracing.” When questioned as to his sojourn at Constantinople, the Minister talked very freely in relation to the events which are now transpiring in the East. He said that Constantinople had unusual attractions for a diplomat«. In fact fifty vears ago Miss Pardoe, in her book called "The City of the Sul­ tan,” said that Pera, where the Am­ bassadors lived most of the year, and which is a European city, opposite old Stamboul, was like an ant hill. The diplomates and dragomans are con­ stantly goin^ and coming, carrying a little gossip in the shape of diplomatic straws. Thev are forever alert, like the Greeks of old, for some new thing. “But,” said Mr. Cox. the ‘Oriental imbroglio’ is not a new thing. It is as old as the selection of Constantinople as the grand site of commerce in the East. You can not open a volume of history, and especially the histories of Bvzantium and Greece, without finding the antetype of the ‘Eastern question. It has been continually recurring and never settling. The pre-eminence of the city as a commercial emporium standing between the East and the West: with her magnificent waters of the Mediterranean, the Dardanelles and the Marmora (Propontis), Bos- phorous and the Black Sea, make it altogether peerless, not only in politic­ al. but in commercial prominence, bo that ever since its first settlement his­ tory is full of Scythian. Bulgarian, Saljurkian, Turk^NIongol. Greek, Ser­ vian and Slavonic conflicts. These races were ever on the move, either in i arms or otherwise, to secure the ad­ vantage of this remarkable port. “It is well known that from the time of Peter the Great. Russia has had her eye fixed upon this ancient capital. She has been checkmated by the‘con­ cert’ of the European Powers. These Powers are jealous of the great land animal.' Russia. Especially »»nee ‘he Antagonism of Russia with England tn Central Asia, ana tne leaching out by means of railroads to the heart of tha't old Continent, Constantinople has seemed to be the great desideratum of all the nations who aro anxious to aggrandize their dynasty, boundary, commerce and polity. Ever since 1452, when Mahomet II."took the city, the Christian world, or some part of it. has been arrayed against the Moslem world. In the effort to carve up the territories of Turkey, and especially of Turkey in Africa and Europe, Russia was on the point of taking Constanti­ nople when her armies were at San Stefano, on the European side of the Sea of Marmora, just below the city. The city was saved to the Turk then by a treaty which gave great advantage to Russia. But this treaty was modified by that of Berlin subsequently. This last treaty was signed by the six Powers. They are called the Signatory Powers. Of course, in its consumma­ tion, Turkey lost large slices of her territory. Still, so far as the Balkan Peninsula is concerned, which is the territory lying between the Aegean and tlie Black Seas, she has maintained much substantial power over a part of the territory, and considerable nom­ inal power as the Suzerain of other portions. Bulgaria recognizes Tur­ key as the Suzerain, although Bul­ garia was practically torn from Turkey by the aid of Russia. Bulgaria being a ha Slav country and having the Greek re­ ligion, of which the great patriarch is Czar, claims the right to dictate not only who shall be her rulers, but as to her Government and administration. Recently Russia has made immense and sinster advances in the increase of her armament and navy upon the Black Sea. Every thing has pointed to an advance of Russian interests and power in the direction of Constantinople. In other words, she is making the contest for Central Asia on the Bosphorus. To this end Persia has become really a Russian khanate, and Afghanistan nicy he what Circassia has become. “It is useless to prophesy about any movements connected with this East­ ern question; for is it not the unex­ pected which always happens? Last year, the coup d'etat of Prince Alex­ ander annexed Eastern Roumelia to Bulgaria. It fell upon Constantino­ ple like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. It was aimed at an asteroid, but it struck several planets. It happened at the beginning of the Beiram season. This commences just after the season of Ramazan, which is the Lent of the Turk. The Beiram is the season of fes­ tivity. Then the Turk quits his fast. At the beginning of Beiram the Sultan receives all the civil and military func­ tionaries. He invites all the foreign Ministers to be present at his grand galace of Dolma Batche. At the lastf eiram, in September, 1885, I was on my way in the American launch from Therapia to the palace, when a mes­ senger from the Sultan stopped our boat to say that his Majesty had post­ poned the reception of the foreign Ministers because of a remarkable event which had just occurred. It was the Bulgarian emeute, which annexed East Roumelia. I shall never forget the scene which occurred, for I pur­ sued my way to the vicinity of the palace, although I did not enter the palace. 1 saw the immense excitement which Moslem muftis and gold-be- dizened pashas, even the most phleg­ matic Turks from the little dwarf of the palace to the Grand Vizier, felt. But the moderation of the Sultan averted the catastrophe at that time. He restrained his people, while he dis­ missed his Ministers. The Ministers of the great Powers were then called together. Sir William White was then holding the place of English Minister. He has within a few days returned again to that post. But the question returns; for Russia was lying in wait for the opportunity to dispossess the Prince who would not obey her be­ hests; and when some months ago that Prince was seized bv Russian emis­ saries and transported beyond the bor­ der a new crisis came upon the affairs of Turkey and of Bulgaria. “England has not much trading or political interest in the Bulgarian question; but still it is her interest, with her 40,(>00,000 of Mohammedans in her Indian Empire, to keep the good will of the head of Islam, which is the Sultan. Besides, does she not contest in the Balkans with Russia, and upon the contest depends her Asiatic pres­ tige and sway over 200,000,000 of peo­ ple. When the Czar, at the launching of one e of his great vessels at Odessa, Black Sea, not long since an­ upon the t______ nounced the resurrection of tne Russian naw upon that sea, and when the mayor of Moscow, in presenting an address to Czar, shortly after, prophesied that the Russian flag would soon float over the dome of St. Sophia, the temple of Byzantine Christendom, it was a sus­ picious notice and warning to all the world that the dreams of conquest in­ dulged by Peter the Great and Catha­ rine II. had not been dissipated in the brain of the Great White Czar.”— N. Y. Mail and Express. —Small an tall— My wife is tall, my aon 1. tall. Much taller than hl. father; To be about a, tall as he I very much would rather. I look small and I am small, but What makes me teel smal I rather, Mr wire cate down my eon's old clothe.. To make them fit hie father. —Two clerks in a Texas dry-goods engaged in a conversation, store are c~~~ "The boss s said sail something to me this ‘in'tlike. “ ----------- He often morning that I don ’t like. ’ does that He don’t care what he say»." “Well, I don’t like it, and if be* don't take back what be said to me it will be impossible for me to stay with him.” “What did he say?” “He gave ms notio« to quit on the first of the HINDOO WIDOWS. NO. 65 FUFTNACEOH EATING. Tho Truly Helpless Condition of The«« Un­ fortunate Women. Four Points to Be Considered in the Selec­ tion of a Furnace. The formal period of mourning for a widow in Bengal lasts for one month with the Kayasths, the most numerous and influential class in that part of In­ dia—the Brahmins keeping only ten days. During this time she has to pre­ pare her own food, confining herself to a single meal a day, which consists of boiled coarse rice, simplest vegetables, clarified butter, and milk. She can ou no account touch meat, fish, eggs, or any delicacy at all; she is forbidden to do up her hair and to put any scent or oil on her body. She must put on the same cotion sari dav and night, even when it is wet, and must eschew the pleasure of a bed and lie down on bare ground, or perhaps on a coarse blanket spread on it. In some cases she can not even have her hair dried in the sun after her daily morning ablution, which she must go through before she can put a particle of food in her mouth. The old women say that the soul of a man after his death as­ cends to Heaven quickly and pleasant­ ly in proportion to the bodily inflictions which his wife can undergo iu the month after the death of her husband. Consequently the new-made widow, if not for any other reason, at least for the benefit of the soul of her departed husband, must submit to continuous abstinence and excruciating self-inflic­ tions. A whole month passes in this state of semi-starvation. The funeral ceremonies which drag on till the ent. of that period, are all performed, and the rigid observances of the widow of a little relaxed, if it may be so termed, since the only relaxation allowed to lier is that she need not prepare the food with her own hands, and that she can change her clothes, but always using only plain cotton saris. The real misery of the widow, however, begins after the first month. It is not enough that she is quite heart-broken for her deceased husband, and that she undergoes all the above-mentioned bodily privations. She must also bear the most galling indignities and the most humiliating self-sacritices. She can not take an active part in any religious or social ceremony. If there be a wedding in the house the widow must not touch or in any way interfere with the articles that are used to keep the curious marriage customs. During the poojalis, or religious festivals, she is but grudgingly allowed to approach near the object of veneration, and in some bigoted families the contact of a widow is supposed to pollute the ma­ terials requisite for the performance of marriage ceremonies. The widow is, in fact, looked upon as the “evil one” of the house. If she has no son or daughter to comfort, her, or if she has to pass her whole life, as is often the case, with her husband’s family, her condition truly becomes a helpless one. During any ceremony or grand occa­ sion she has silently to look on, others around her enjoying and sporting themselves, and if some kind relation does not come to relieve her tedium she has hardly any thing to do but to ruminate on her present sad, wretched condition. Every female member of a family, whether married or unmarried, can go to parties, but a widow can not, and if she expresses any wish to join the family on such occasions it ¡ b in­ stantly repressed by the curt rebuke ofl her mother-in-law or some other rela­ tion that “she is a widow and she must not have such wishes.”— Davendra N. Das, in Nineteenth Ceniurti. — loo scarp.—“Vo you Keep any Hamburg edging?” asked a timid Miss. “Not if we can help it," was the pert reply of the clerk. He kept some that day.— N. Y. Ledger. —“I say, Jerry, why don’t you water your horses?” “Water 'em? Why, they never want water.” “And why don’t they want water?” "Why, be­ cause they're both baijs." —A suggestion of economy.—Lady (in dry goods store)—I will look at your material for towels. Clerk (re­ cently transferred from the dress-goods department)—Yes, ma’am; something that won’t show dirt? —"My mamma gives me a penny every day,” said a little girl to her companion, “for taking a dose of Cas­ tro oil.” “Wliat do you buy with so much money?” “Oh, mamma saves it up to buy the oil with.” — Bertie—"Mr. Schuyler, are you a very strong man?” Schuyler—"No, not so very strong, Bertie.” Bertie— “What diil pa mean, then, when he told sister at the breakfast table to-day that he saw you with a heavy load on last night?” —“Judge. —"What are you ri adl ¡ng. my dear?” asked a motherly old lady of her daughter, who was swinging in a ham­ mock in the side yarJ d one Sondar afternoon. “ ‘St. Filmo.’ mother.*' “That's right, my dear; read all you want to about the saints, but I never want you to open a novel on Sunday.— .V. Y. Times. —Influential citizen: So yer thinkin' uv locatin' hvur, air ye? Young phy­ sician: Well, yes, I had thought some of practicing here. Influential citizen: Look hyur, young man, thar's a good openin’ hyur for a doctor as un’er- • tand« his biz, but we don’t want no practicin’; doctorin’s what we want.— Harper's Bazar. —What he came back for—Father of Young Girl: I should think you would be satisfied after the treatment you got here last night. I kicked you down the front step» and set the dog on you. and he c.ime back with a big piece of our trouser*. Now. what do you want? Youngman: I’d like that pieci of cloth, please. 1st. Be sure and put in a furnace capable of comfortable healing the building in the coldest weather without heating the fire-pot to red heat The contraction and expansion due to the great changes of temperature in the furnace, when the fire has to be forced, soon loosen the joints of a furnace built up of several pieces, and permit the es­ cape of tlie gases of combustion into the fresh air supply. Wrought iron and steel-plate fur­ naces are now made which are claimed by the makers to be superior to cast- iron furnaces, but it has been shown that wrought iron furnaces may leak after having been some time used. It seems to be the general opinion of manufacturers of hot air furnaces that no rule can be made by which one can tell what size furnace he should use to heat a given amount of space. They say the only thing to go by is experi­ ence, taking into account tne exposure of the building, location of furnace, etc.; hence an architect must rely upon the recommendation of the manufact­ urer, and it is, therefore, best to deal only witli those who have a good repu­ tation. 2. Cold air supply. Especial care should always be taken to secure a large supply of fresh air by means of a wooden or metal duct connecting the air chamber under the furnace with an opening in the outside wall of the building, preferably on i the north < should or west side. This duet be as large as the opening in the base of the fui.iaee. The air sup- ply should on no account be taken from the cellar, because it is almost sure to be contaminated with gasses escaping from the furnace door, and, perhaps, there may be decaying matter or bad plumbing in the cellar, which also give ofl' injurious gases. Tlie fresh air supply should not be brought in through an underground duct without taking especial precau­ tions to have it air-tight, and should not pass across or near a drain or sewer. 3. A furnace is usually placed near the center of a building, the object being to have the flues conveying the heated air from it as short as possible. Hori­ zontal flues for heated air are very undesirable, as the friction in them cheeks the current and involves loss of heat. The direction of the wind has a great influence on the action of hot-air flues, and for this reason it is better to place the fur­ nace, not in tlie center, but toward that side of tlie house against which the winter winds blow most frequently and strongest. In the Northern States this will be toward the northwest. If a building of large area is to be warmed by furnace heat, it will be much better to use two or three furnaces distributed over the area than one large central one. 4. The register and hot-air flues should be of ample size, as it is much better to have a large quantity of air admitted at a low temperature than a small quantity of air at a very higli temperature. — Builder and Wood­ worker. a DUCK STORY. A Wyoming; Hunter Dtacoverfl a Huge Cavern Which Contain* Three Lakes. A singular story comes from the head of Panther creek, a stream of Northeastern Colorado, with its course not many miles from the Nebraska line. One of the sources of the creek is a shallow, sedgy pond, from which the water pours over a miniature preci­ pice some ten feet in height and five or six in width. The pond is the resort, in their sea­ son. of a great many wild ducks, who feed on the sedgy plants growing on its margins and its shallow bottom. Last year a neighboring ranchman no­ ticed that on disturbing these water­ fowl, in place of flying to a distance, they circled about a few moments and then dashed through the veil of water formed by the falls coming from the pond. Though a gooi deal astonished the ranchman had then no time for in­ vestigation of the singular circum- stanse, and not until a short time ago did he follow the tracks of the ducks through the falling waters, Beyond a slight ducking he experienced no inconvenience in passing be- lii nd the falls. < Once there and the way was clear. Opening before him was a passage three feet in width, and of sti fticient .................. height ,‘ to allow a man topass upright. The wallsof the subter­ ranean way were dripping with water, ami undoubtedly pa. -ed beneath the pond. He had not gone many yards before the sound of a great quacking fell upon bis cars. Hastening his pace he soon came upon a large cavern, in the center of which was a lake. The surface of this lake was thick with ducks. The water fowl were mostly mallard and teal, though several other varieties were represented. On the approach of the intruder the ilucks arose in an immense cloud and disappeared through an opening be­ yond the lake. Our adventurer fol­ lowed them and found another an similar lake covered with wil l duels. Again the fowl arose, ami with fright­ ened and clamorous quacks thronged through another passage-way. Here •ne pursuer foil ml tie largest lake of ■Il and the end of the »ubteiram an water chain. The ducks now look the back track, and he could hear the rush of their wings and the sound of their harsh notes growing fainter as they •ought the safetv of the outer air.— ('he venue ( H'vo. 7’.) Leader. MODERN folly OLD MAIDS. and aood-Natured Women Who Dress in Excellent Taste. According to theideaof things which prevailed not so very long ago, the woman who did not marry was a blighted being. It did not matter whether she remained single from choice or necessity; for since it was considered a woman's only manifest and unalterable destiny to marry, she must, of course,'be regarded as a fail­ ure in life if she did not do this. And though she may have refused forty of­ fers of marriage, or have had the most imperative duties of anv sort, or devel­ oped the most decided talent for some vocation in life other than marriage, yet neither one or all of these would have been accepted as a valid reason why she should not follow what society han Poe'. —“George," she murmured fondly, “do y iu b'iieve in supporting a mo- nop>y?’ “No, dear. 1 d>n’t. I bo­ le.'« in help ng a monopoly along just ns little as I can. But why cioyou ask?” ••(), I don't know, only 1 thought may­ be if you didn't you would have turned down t ie z*<”—sVeyi Hams Vise