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SEWI-WRUKLY TELEPHONE MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, JUNE 21 WEST SIDE TELEPHONE. ---- Issued---- EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY ILLINOIS PIONEERS. AGRICULTURAL. FIRST BROKE THE PRAIRIES. and Stockmen. round a little trundle n«-aa tiiai turns tne even though you have to hire a team millstone. The whole was out in the woods, and put the ashes on land that you sometimes without even a shed; so being ut rent. The reasons for this answer will MANNER OF LIVING BY THOSE WHO mill was very much like being out of doors. Devoted to the Interests of Farmers appear in our attempt to answer the Devoted —Cor. Chicago Herald. Tha Building of tho Log Cabin—Furni Talmage Heath, Publishers and Proprietors. ture of tho Interior—Mortar and “Sweep” for Grinding Corn—Going to Mill—Clothing. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: NO. 107. Pioneer life takes its shape from tho sur One year............................. s...................... J2 0) Six month»........................................ 1 25 roundings. Southern Illinois differed from Three months............................................ 75 the other wostciu states in being distant from largo towns, without public convey Entered in the Postoltice at McMinnville. Or., ance, having a climate neither cold nor as second-class matter. warm, having u nearly even mixture of woodland aud prairie, und being settled by FORGIVENESS. emigrants from the south. Tho houses wero mostly round pole cabins, I.1’' Crush the rose, Its odor rises, not tho huge poplar logs they had used in Giving sweetness for tho pain: tho south, but such as they could get. Eomo- Grieve a woman, and sho gives you tiines tho walls wero “shelped down,” or Sweet forgiveness, poured like rain. very slightly hewn, and sometimes the walls —Georg» Birdseye in Brooklyn Magazin», wero built of split logs smoothed a little on tho face. Somo of tho cracks in theso walls wore chinked und daubed, whilo some were DEATH IN LOW NECK DRESSES. left open to admit light. Windows were Actresses Wear Them Because Excite nearly or quite unknown. Some of tho cabins liad cracks all around “that a dog ment Makes Them Imjiervious to Cold. “I see that some one has been trying to could jump through.” If the floor wa3 any head oil the hue and cry against decollete thing else than baro ground it was mado of dresses,” said a well known theatrical man puncheons, or slabs, split out and smoothed ager, as he toasted his toes on the steam a little with a chopping axe, and fastened radiator of his comfortable office, “by down with wooden pins or not fastened at pointing to the low necked dresses seen on all. There wero but threo “sleepers” to the the stage and the general healthfulness of floor, one at each ond and one in tho middle. the women who wear them. Now, to people The roof was not nailed and had no rafters. who know nothing about stage life that point At the oaves the end logs projected at each would seem to be well taken. The drosses corner a foot or two beyond tho walls, and worn on the stage are usually as thin and on tho ends of these rested logs, one on each scanty as those worn by society belles. The side; and theso were called “buttin’ poles,” exposure, too, is always much greater on because tho ends of the first course of boards the stage than at any ball or party, because butted against them. Several cousses of the stage is full of draughts and chills, and logs wero then put up, tho gables, of course, while tho side logs r.ers “drawn in is not much better than a big, windy barn upright, sliapo the roof. ’ ’ On theso logs clapboards anyway. Yet we never hear of an actress to wero laid, four foot boards being generally taking cold from wearing her flimsy costume, used, and held down by “weight poles.” A however delicate and frail she may be. It polo was laid on each course of boards, and seems hard to understand why her society these poles wero kept in place by blocks or sister should be any more susceptible. I don’t sticks set up lictween them, called “knees.” knowhow it is, but there is a peculiar excite Tho chimney xvas of split logs below and ment about going on before an audience that small sticks higher up, with a stone, some takes an actress safely through exposure that times only a dirt, firoplace. Sometimes would inevitably kill her anywhere else. there was a loft, made by laying clapboards You see them coming out of their warm on the joists; sometimes not; and then the dressing rooms on a cold winter night, joists—generally poles—wero convenient for dressed in their thin, low cut and sleeveless hanging up deer ami deer skins, etc. Shelves dresses. They stand about the wings wait resting on long pins in the walls answered ing for their cues, and the keen wind blows for cupboard, pantry, bureau and wardrobe, down their backs and they shiver pitifully as everything that might not as well be on in the cold as though their teeth were going the floor was stowed away on these shelves. to drop out. You wonder how the poor There were but few bedsteads in the coun creatures can get through their parts. try. “Bed scaffolds” were made on two “But the instant they hear their cues there rails or pieces driven into the walls, one for Is a kind of electric thrill runs through them tho side and one for the end, in the corner and they step out into the passage and never of tho cabin, the other ends of these rails feel a particle of cold. The wind may howl being let into a post, tho entire structure around them hard enough to blow their wigs frequently having but one bed post. Boards off, and it may bo cold enough to freeze tho wero laid across from the long rail to the E flat trombone solid, but they don’t know wall, or from rail to rail, and on theso the it. Actresses have colds and dio of con bed—if tho happy family had any—was laid. sumption, but they never catch cold or con Tho table was either mado of boards nailed tract consumption while they are in their to a rough, unwieldy frame, or it was made «tage costumes. I know the case of a promis on stakes driven into the ground—1. e., the ing young woman of a g(*>d family who was floor. Meat was plenty, but breadstuff wus playing at a certain local theatre a few at first brought from the older settlements on years ago. She often wore decollete dresses tho Mississippi, Ohio or Wabash. Bome had «1 the stage, but when sho married and left little hand mills that would grind a bushel tho stage career for society she was as well or two of com in a day, and they did well. ns any woman in America. Two or three But many had to beat this meal in a mortar. years afterward sho died of pneumonia con One family had a big kettle which they used tracted at a bull where sho had appeared in for a mortar, but generally the mortar woe a dress cut no lower than many she used to a stump with a basin buraod out in the top wear on tho stage. There was none of that of it. Over this was suspended on a “sweep” peculiar excitement that had warded off a a huge billet of wood. This billot was cold when sho was acting, however, and she brought down upon tho grain in tho mortar, ■died from the exposure. You see it won’t tho sweep raised it, and so, thump, thump, do to argue that w omen aro safe at a ball tho pounding went on till the grain wus with low cut dresses because thoy don’t broken small enough to make bread. An catch cold on the stago when they are so other style of mortar was made of a large attired. ” — New York Mail and Express. block, and tho pestlo was a maul with an iron wedge in the end of it. This was used England and America. in bad weather, as it could be brought in One who has traveled much in England doors, and it cut the grain rapidly. The and America cannot fail to have noticed the meal was sifted through a sieve, mado by general tendency of Americans to adopt high punching a piece ot deerskin full of holes sounding names fop ordinary places and with a hot spindle and stretching it over a things. What is called a lift in England l»e- hoop. In tho early autemn meal was grated, conics an elevator in America. A chop and the bread made of this meal and baked house is a restaurant. Rome, Athens, Car on a bard or in the ashes was as delicious as thage are names remarkable for their fre heart could wish. But finer delicacies than quent occurrence and for the squalor and these were sometimes prepared. Meal was insignificance of the hamlets to which they ■Lircbod ’—that is, it was beaten very fine, are given. There are some twenty Pacific then it was put into a cloth of loose, open railways in the country, somo of which do texture, and as much as possible sifted and aot extend more than a hundred miles from beaten out through the cloth. This was the starting point. What is called a tram “sarched” meal, and it was nearly as fine as way in England in America is a railroad. flour. The Americans are never so directly Most of the hats or caps worn were made brutal as the English in their nomenclature. of skins, often cf the most fantastic shapes, Nowhere in the United States have I seen but in summer tho straw hat waj common. the sign: “Persons allowed to be drunk on Tho hats the men brought to this country the premises,” so common in English bar with them wore worn on Sunday. As the rooms. It is not the opinion of the Ameri original supply of clothing began to fail, the cans that a rosaof another name would smell first rcsourco was to make clothes of deer as sweet, as is instanced by the remarkable skins. Those in the hands of the Indians euphemism by which a groggery is called a made excellent clothing: but our first set sample room—a stroke of genius in my opin tlers were not such good tanners, and the ion. Although an Englishman, I have noth clothes did not do so well. The breeches ing to say in defense of the too general rude soon got a tremendous knee that was a per coarseness of the English in word and deed: manent thing. When tho men or boys went but surely there is some middle ground be out into tho grass while the dew was on, the tween this and the crude pretentiousness of breeches would soon be dangling around the American nomenclature.—Englishman their feet; and then about 10 o clock, or sooner, when they became dry again, they in Globe-Democrat. rustled and crackled about their knees as The Bigness of a Magazine. much too short. Moccasins were almost The weight of one month’s edition of 250,- universally worn-often being made for 000 copies of a magazine the size of The winter uso of skins with the hair on. In Century would be 187,500 pounds, or about warm weather all went barefoot. Most of the leisure time was spent in visit ninety-four tons. This would make forty" »even loads for a two horse team, or fill ing or hunting, horse races and protracted about six ordinary freight cars. Five meetings. Much time was also spent in editions would make sufficient freight foran going to mill. A two bushel sack of corn ordinary freight train of thirty cars. Tho was shelled; long before daylight the next magazines piled one over another would morning the bustle of getting »«J**»"- “ make a pile 8,312 feet high—that is. fifteen as to make the trip in one day if possible, times as high as the Washington monument j tho sack was thrown across a horse, manor or fifty-five times ns high aa Bartholdi s boy mounted and jogged away, followed by “Liberty.” Placed end to end the maga many cautions about crossing the creeks zines would reach a distance of thirty-nine and much anxiety was felt if miles. Four editions would make a line from ! to get back tho next night or the following Albany to New York city. The sheet» of ' 'l had better describo one of the mills. white paper of one edition before folding would cover 307 acres. They would cover There is an opm shed, open all around. In tho floor of each story of twenty five build the middle a large post-say ’>?»>«*" ings the size of the new capitol. Placed end i i diameter—turns on a pivot in a block set to end the sheets of paper would extend 1,1» in the ground, and is stayed by cross beams miles, or nearly half way across the con- I at tho top; this post, about two feet from tinent. A cylinder press making 10,000 im the ground, a beam go« through and ex tends eight or ten feet out at each pressions daily for an eight page 'form would be kept busy for over two years in to these the hors« are hitched. About six printing one edition. It will be seen from feet from the ground all round the post the above that tho mere mechanical and phys rticka five or six feet long with a natural ical problems involved in issuing an edition fork at the end are driven into auger holw, of a quarter of a million copies of a modern md in these fork, a raw magazine are something startling —Cor. -ope works Some later mill« had a light iittl instead of these suck*. This bond go« Philadelphia Call. COAST CULLINGS. Principally to Washington second question. Territory and California. We aie not told whether the ashes A FRENCHMAN'S MANNERS. Cultivation of Cranberries. are made from hard wood or soft wood. Peter Donnelly was killed by a train Hi« Squirming»« and Twistings the Poetry The requisites for cranberry culture We will see that the ash from hard near Petaluma, Cal. of Contortion*—A11 Artistic Swindle. are a soil of muck or peat that can be wood is richer in potash and phos- Many years ago 1 witnessed a leave taking drained for twelve or eighteen inches phoric acid than that from soft wood Robert Brock was diowned in the on the platform of the railway station at below the surface, a supply of water or bark. river at Sacramento. Rome, Italy, which I never think of without Robert Reichart shot himself in the By reference to tables in Johnson's associating it with the triumphant art of u at hand sufficient to allow the meadow Frenchman's maimer. Tho gentleman was u to be Hooded at will a-id an abund “How Crops grow,” one can leaan the left breast and died, at San Francisco, member of the French legation at Naples. A ance of pure sand. You want water value of ashes of the several kinds of The town of Bickleton, W. T., re lady and her daughter had como to see him I for the purpose of protecting your wood and bark We are now not to cently destroyed by tire, ¡ b being rap «T. Ho made his adieux inimitably ex vines so that you can flow your bog consider the per cents of soda, magne idly rebuilt. pressive. His squirmings and twistings were and protect it from freezing, aud after- Stockton is rejoicing over the exten tho very poetry of contortion. You felt it j ward, in the spring time, for the pur- sia. lime, silica and chlorine found in wooil ashes, since any of our soils have sion of the free }>osUil delivery to be was insincere, that he had perhaps gone i pose of killing the vermin that infest enough of these, and we will consider gin July 1st. through the same motions a thousand times before, but you couldn't deny that it was 1 the vines. You need to protect the Che potash and phosphoric acid. John- Earl Potts, a newsboy, fell beneath graceful and effective. Tho cheeks of the i crops when very severe frosts come on gon’s tables give the values from younger lady were pink with the emotion suddenly, by flowing the bog rapidly, strictly pure ashes. It is evident the a train at Pasadena, Cal., and was fa produced by tho exuberance of his manner. and covering the berries, thus saving ashes from a sawmill are not pure, but tally injured. She blushed, not because sho was - bar- them. Progress at the Siskiyou railroad have admixtures of sand and soil, rassed, but because sho liked it. Tho subtle The surface of the marsh should be which need not be considered in this tunnel is slow, only about eight feet art of the fellow’s demonstrations made you being bored daily. forgive him for being such a professional i first pared off, with a machine or other- case. Dr. Kedzie, of the Michigan Ag ' wise, removing all sod, stumps and ricultural College, once made an anal Willard Carter a conductor on the humbug. And this reminds me to say that no other roots. Then cover to a depth of three ysis of ashes from stove, furnace and Oregon Short line was discovered dead man can maneuver his backbone in making to eight inches with sand or fine gravel asliery in the condition we would find in hiB room at Pocatello. a bow as a Frenchman can. He perfectly il —the deeper the sand the longer the ’ them usually if wo were to buy them. There are twenty eight truss bridges lustrates the idea expressed by the dictum bog will last. Loam will not do because I Hardwood ashes taken from his that a curved line is the line of beauty. An it brings in weeds and grasses and is I kitchen stove, where beech and hard within an aggregate length of 3,482 feet on the Cascade branch. Englishman rarely inclines tho body in salut not as warm as sand. The sand as- maple were used, showed 12$ per cent ing a lady, and when he does, if your taste is Mike Grace, a brother of ex-Mayor exacting, you wish he hadn’t. The American I [ sists in protecting the berries from ’ of potash and 6 per cent of phosphoric Grace, of New York, waB killed by considers it enough to talco off his hat. It Lost and injury. It keeps out «feeds acid. Apaches at Crittenden, Arizona. Leached ashes, taken from a tan saves his spino and it is the conventional and serves as a mulch in warm wea- There is a new station on the North thing to do. But when a Frenchman salutes er. It also keeps the bogs from run nery, showed 1.6 per cent potash and ern Pacific between Martin and Wes his entire anatomy is absorbed in the act. ning to vines, because cranberry vines, 6.8 per cent of phosphoric acid. Every joint in his body is brought into play. if you put them in the mud, will run I I Soft wood ashes, from the pit of a ton that has been christened Stam Every muscle feels tho tension of tho de | so much to vine that they will not planing mill, where pine, fir and bass pede. mand. Every nerve center recognizes the Mr. Abe Wood, aged 65, was killed importance of the occasion. Viewed simply make the uprights on which the ber- wood were burned with some soft coal, by the accidental discharge of a gun 1 ries grow. The sand has to be wheeled showed 12 per cent potash and 4 per as a pantomime it strike your admiration. while hunting deer in Clarke county, The effect is most impressive, and when tho I in wheelbarrows on planks and spread cent phosphoric acid. Before sanding make object of it is an imaginative and sensitive ! by hand. Tannery ash, made from spent tan W. T. The Oregon Pacific is to be pushed woman you are disposed to pardon her be I ditches about three rods apart, run- bark, mixed with Borne soft coal, trayal of satisfaction. i ning into a main ditch, and with such showed 2.5 per cent potash and 1.2 per eastward by the Minto Pass to meet Nevertheless, there is a disillusionizing direction and fall as will speedily con cent phosphoric acid. the C. & N. W., which is rapidly ap sense that the the whole thing is an artistic duct the water from the dam over the proaching Boise City. Now, it is probable the sawmill fur swindle. His affections are no keener, his I bog and most readily drain it off to a An accident occurred at the Chollar nishing the ashes to our correspond sympathies no deeper, his perceptions no ent used mostly hard wood. Then, a mine, Virginia City, Nev., whereby finer than those of other men. He may have depth of at least eighteen inches. Fertilizers are seldom applied, as ton ton of hard ashes fresh from the Richard Pasco was killed and three more quicksilver in bis blood, more of tho monkey in his suppleness, find more attrac 1 they cause too much wood growth at furnace, unleached, would be worth men seriously injured. tion in outward form and take greater de the expenteof the fiuit. Ground bone $19 40, while potash sells at 5 cents a About fiu miles of snowsheds will light in mere ceremonial, but at heart and in I in moderate quantities is probably the pound, aud insoluble phosphoric at 6 be required on the Cascade branch to truth he is not the incomparable chevalier. safest fertilizer to use. Bogs run out cents—since 12$ per cent, or 245 protect the mountain sections from The master of mode and the knight examplar after a time, hut may be renewed by pounds, is potash, and 6 per cent, or blockade during heavy snowstorms. of etiquette is not the genuine expositor of ¡ I mowing and burning the vines and 120 pounds, is phosphoric acid. real gallantry.—Brooklyn Eagle. Linnie M- Palmer has recovered ' resanding. There are bogs on Cape A bout correspondent can easily haul $16,700 from the Utah Northern rail , Cod that are yielding profitably for to his farm three tons of asheB in a day road for injuries sustained by the kill Ingersoll on Ella Wheeler Wilcox. “You have written won-der-ful lines. You their thirty-second year. The vine is from the sawmill, he had better lose ing of her husband on defendant’s make won-der-ful poetry. It delights me to 1 very hardy and may be set at any no time in securing all available at road. read it, and I am truly glad to meet you.” time, but spring is beet. The usual that rate. The actual cost of handling the Such were the words of gracious, honest : course is to punch holes in the ground Leached ashes are not worth so and earnest greeting to Mrs. Ella Wheeler about eight or ten inches apart each much, hence it will be well to haul the snow along the Cascade branch at the front and on the switchback this last Wilcox, the fair poetess, by tho great icono clast, Mr. Robert G. Ingei’soll, on the occasion way, and insert therein two or three ashes away as fast as made, and apply winter, footed up between $75,000 and of one of his late receptions at his home in ' vines, and afterward press the soil it to the land or store it in a dry place. $100,000. Thirty to forty bushels of fresh New York. It was a social incident of no around them. Some cultivators of John Chappell, a well known resi ordinary interest, this hailing each other of large experience set the vines in shal ashes will be an ample dressing, and dent of Ilwaco, W. T., dropped dead these two ships of genius as they passed by on low furrows and cover them, leaving on light soils there is no better fer the ocean of time, each bearing its precious out the ends of the vines. It is im tilizer. Fruit trees and berries are at the latter placo. The coroner’s ver cargo of human heart food; the coming to portant to put them down below the specially benefitted by a dressing of dict was that death was caused by par alysis of the heart. gether of the very extremes of strength and the sand, so that they may take root wood ashes. Christian Hittecher, for several tenderness of the most beautiful and soul in the soil. Great care should be taken stirring eloquence of the age. years commander of the barkentine Farm Pronta. in selecting the plants. Those which He held her hand somo time in his, and Perhaps a safe way to increase farm Worcester at Han Francisco, com- gazed earnestly down into t£e fair, childlike, have the greatest and most bushy mittled suicide by shooting himself happy face so eagerly searching his, very foliage are the poorest plants for bear profits from lands that have value in the head with a revolver. much as if he were going to stoop and kiss it, ing, but the most fruitful vines may be i based on production, rather than ex- In addition to the twenty-two relig- but he did not, you know—he only looked so. known by their greenish-brown leaves I traneous conditions, would be to limit areas of cultivation. This would per gious denominations now represented Mr. Ingersoll was bom looking so. and the wiry texture of the wood. The gathering was a large and brilliant mit equal expenditure of lalxir, if re at Tacoma, the Second Day Adventists one, and Mrs. Wilcox was the center of at Cuttings may be used instead of vineH, quired, but it would lie concentrated have found lodgment, and hold nightly and if plentifully sown they cover the traction throughout the evening. Sho was and would necessarily tend to larger meetings in a huge tent on E street. treated with marked distinction by her dis ground completely. We have known production, relatively, thereby afford The Crown Point, one of the Ward tinguished host, who sought her frequently, | of instances where the vines were cut and together they carried on little duets of : in pieces with a hay-cutter, sown ing more liberal margin for gain. To ner group of mines, has been sold to converse not often excelled in charm, even in ! broadcast and then harrowed in. Keep illustrate the idea, suplióse a farmer i John Sevenoaks, and Mr. Knowles, New York parlors. One little strain, for in 1 the plants well cleaned of weeds for plants ten acres to potatoes and gathers I superintendent of the La Trinidad of stance: ! two years, and by the end of that time in autumn a thousand bushels, the Mexico. The consideration is $85,000. “I hold you to be mistress of rhythm,” he land worth one hundred dollars an ! A carpenter named Abram Urch fe* said, “and I am a great believer in rhythm, the vines will have full possession of acre. Count cost—plowing, harrow coupled with thought, of course. Do you the ground. The yield tiie third year ing, marking, seed, planting, digging from a scaffolding on a new builclinj know,” he continued, “what rhythm in? It is will be about fifty bushels to the acre, on Tacoma avenue, Tacoma, to th* the rise and fall, the swish and swing of the the following year it will be 100 bush- and interest on land,—say twenty-five ground, a distance of fifteen feet, strik dollars an acre. The potatoes cost blood in the human frame, produced by emo ' els, and alter that possibly 300 or even ing on his head and sustaining seven tion, whether in poetry or music; whether 400 bushels to the acre, but the aver twenty-five cents a bushel. Now sup contusion of the brain. grave or gay, courageous or fearful, malicious age for any number of seasons is 100 to pose instead of ten acres he plants The Stampede tunnel, on the Can or loving; whether the surging tides of pas five and by superior cultivation gets sion, the dancing ripples of innocent joy, or 150 bushels. When plants are set out two hundred bushels to the acre—a cade division, is 9,850 feet. Seven the placid calm of satisfaction flowing on un in March, if the bog is kept covered thousand bushels. He saves interest other tunnels, two east and five west of der the clear, bright skies of a cloudless con until June let, or until danger of frost on five acres, one-half the seed and one- Stampede tunnel, aggregate 3,226 feet science.”—New York Journal. I is past, most of the vine insects will be making a total length of tunneling killed, except the fireworm, which is half the labor of marking, planting upon the branch 13,076 feet. John Brown's Wife anil Daughter. killed by sprinkling the vines with a and digging, all amounting to ten dol A temporary bridge is in course of At Los Gatos we begin to ascend into a strong solution of tobacco. It is nec lars an acre after allowing extra work more wild and picturesque country. The essary, also to flood the bog when in cultivation to the amount of two erection across the Columbia river at rood winds up and around the Santa Crus early frosts threaten, and so turn off and a half dollars an acre. He has on Kennewick, which will be completed mountains, along creeks fed by the mountain i the water before the berries rot. All the smaller area a crop equal to that by September, in time to move this streams and gulches, into woods which hold from the greater area produced at fifty year’s crop of grain across it. A per greater wealth for California than the gold ’ insect pests can be destroyed by fre- dollars less cost after allowing for ex manent bridge will lie erected upon 1 quent flooding. in its mines, for here tho wild grapevine was tra cost of cultivation. That makes the temporary structure, and be com discovered and here was the homo of the | Cranberries ripen in this latitude early “Mission" grape, which was tho first about November 1st. The vines should the jiotatoes cost twenty cents a bushel pleted by December 1. Frank Read and Charles Gilsea, one cultivated. Near Los Gatos a spot is j then be picked clean of fruit. The instead of twenty-five, the difference pointed out—a Imre «pot, between two trees, .cranberry rake, made of bent sheet- being fifty dollars for the five acres be aged 19 and 16 respectively, were upon a mountain peak—where the wifo and iron, witii a row of V-shaped teeth on sides leaving the remaining five for drowned in the river near Htockton, daughter of John Brown took refugo after some other crop with perhaps even Cal. They were attempting to row in the tragedy of Harper’s Ferry. It was a wild, its lower edge, can often he used to profit. It íb true this is but a paper the wake of the steamer Mary Garratt, lonely place, with not even a trail by which advantage. The leading varieties of estimate, but its counterpart may when the steamer reversed her engine it could be reached; but the daughter used to , the cranberry are the Bell, the Bugle come down tho mountain at intervals on the and the Cherry. The Early Bell is the be found easily in practical farming. and they were carried by the current back of a mountain pony to do a little trad standard early cranlierry, of good size Then it serves only to illustrate a point, under her wheel. ing end carry her load home strapped to its ■ and dark color and very productive. yet every farmer knows that he can Corporal Eberhard Weiderhold, of back. The editor of Tho San Jose Mercury ■ Black Bell is hardy, good size, dark work out the problem in his fields with the Second Calvary, stationed at Walla first called public attention to the wretched absolute certainty ot favorable results. loneliness and poverty stricken condition of color and yields well. Richmond Bell The whole matter goes back to the Walla, is a German baron in his own the two women and started a fund for their is large, fair, very prolific, but rather starting point. Farming does not give right, with a monthly income of $900. This has been established beyond benefit The New York Tribune and Daily I late. Bugle is large, long, not early, Times took it up, and a sum was raised which fruit apt to be coarse and shaded green ; the profits that ought to be realized, i doubt. Weiderbold is in the garrison mainly because farmers do not employ bought the land, built a comfortable cottage good on well sanded ls>gs, not cold. hospital, the result of an attempt at and left enough for a small income The ¡Creeper is cherry-shaped, extra large, means wisely. They misapply forces suicide by poisoning. county subsequently made a road up the ¡light color,’very prolific rather late, when they know how to do better. At Pasco, W. T., Johnny Ireland, a mountain; and though the mother died Portions of Klickitat (W. T.) county boy of 14, picked up what he took to nearly two years ago, the daughter continues not a good keeper, adapted to locali to live in her home in tho wild Santa Crus ties subject to scald. Long Pond is a are developing aa a corn growing re be an empty cartridge, and while try mountain» — California Cor. New York I useless sort. The Cherry cranberry is gion. Four farmers have over 358 ing to drive it into a log it exploded, of two kinds, large and small. It ia of this grain in cultivation. Graphic. __ ______________ being a giant powder cap. Two of the very hard, dark, crimson, medium Isiy's fingers were blown off and driven A Correct Tll.gno.i*. early, and a most popular market The acreage of hops in Oregon anil into his leg, from which they were ex Physician (to patient)—Hav. you been out berry. The darker the color the bet- i Washington is fully twenty per cent tricated by a physician to-dav, madam’ ter the berries will sell. greater than last year, and the pros- With only a few counties heard Patient—Yee, sir. I attended an auc i pects for a good crop are quite prom from Aahra a» a Fertiliser. Montana has, within the past two tion sale of household efforts. ising. Physician—You probably overdid your A correspondent writes that he can months, paid out over $10,000 for the self’ get wood seller from a sawmill for the For the codlin moth there seems to scalps of ground squirrels. The law Patient—Wo, I didn’t do anything. My hauling, and has to haul three miles be aa yet no remedy found as effectual was first regarded as a joke, but has husband went off this morning without to bis farm. He wishes to know if it aa spraying the trees with a solution now become a serious matter and an leaving me a cent. Physician—I see. I would recommend will pay to haul ashes so far, and what of Paris green, in the proportion of extra session of the legislature is an ounce and a half of the green to talked of to prevent a depletion of the bromide, madam Yon are suffering from | is the manurial value of ashes? | To the first question we answer, Yes, five gallons of water. territorial treasury. nervous prostration.—Puck.