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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1888)
riiE U THE TELEPHONE. ’m» »II W" ptrHl.lSHKIl EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. PUBLICATION OFFICE: Dcor North of cor er Third and E Sts , m < minnville , OR. aUBSCRlFTION (IN RATES: a OV a NOK.) S2 «0 ... 1 01 AO One V“r;....... Si» iiwnths ._ Three month8 VOL. III. MCMINNVILLE. OREGON. OCTOBER 26. 1888 s, A. YOUNG, M. D. TRIUMPHS Physician 4 Surgeon. M c M innvillk , . . , O rroor . Oflice and residence on D street. All i promptly answered day or night. Cascade Division' now completed, making it the Shortest, Best’ and Quickest. The Dining Car line. The Direct Route. No Delays. Fastest Tiains. Low est Kates to Chicago and ail points East. Tickets sold to all Prominent Points throughout the East and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Cars Keservations can be secured in advance. To Faxt Bound Passengers. W. V. PRICE, PHOTOGRAPHER. l|> Stairs in Atliims’ Building, McMinnville, Oregon M’MIJNTTsr VILLE TONSORIAL PARLOR, Shaving, Hair ( iitting and------ ------ Shampoing Parlors. FLEMING, & LOGAN, Prop's. Be caeful and do not inuku a mistake AU kinds of fancy hair cutting done in but be sure to take ilie the latest and neatest style All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair Northern Pacific Railroad. dying, a specialty Special attention given to And see that your tickets read via Ladies’ and Childrens’ Work THIS LINE, St Paul or Minneapolis, to I also have for sale a very Hue assort avoid changes and serious delays occa ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc sioned by other routes. 1 have in connection with my parlor, Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars run • the largest and finest stock of on regular express trains full length of the line. Berths free. Lowest rates. Quickest time. Ever in the city. O| CIGARS General OrtUe Of the Company, No, ‘4 ISTT iiird S treet M c M innvillk . O rkoon . Washington Ht.. Portland, Oregon. M'MINNVILLE-NATIONAL •8BAI2K.8* Asst Tlie only TrnnHaets a General Banking Business. • ■ FIRST CLASS BAR McMinnville, is opened COOK’S HOTEL, Where you will find the best of Wines and Liquors, also Imported and Domestic Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. T. M. F ields , l’ropr. President,................ J. W. COWLS, Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. Cashier................ CLARK BRALY. Sells exchange on Portland, San Francisco, and New York. Interest allowed on time deposits. Oflice hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p, m Apr. 18 tf ARE YOU GOING EAST? If so be sure and call for your ticket, via the The St. Charles Hotel Sample rooms in connection. o-------o —THE- Is now fitted up in first class order. Accommodations as good as tan be It is positively the shortest and fin Jit line to Chicago and the east and south and foun din the city. the only sleeping and dining car through S. E. MESSINGER, Manager. line to Omaha, Kantmi^ City, and all MiMowrl River Points. Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed train service and elegant dining and sleeping ears has honestly earned for it ths title of Third Street, between E and F McMinnville, Oregon. Henderson Bros. Props The Royal IToute OF TRADE. •cow the Sea lias Been Subjected to the Uses 6| Mau. I he sea was to primitive man a dreadful and a little known wilderness. It seemed to disjoin men, to hinder trade, to coop up the human race. I o-day it is the “ring of marriage with all nations.” As upon the great deserts merchants traveled in caravans for safety and counsel, so they at first traveled upon the sea in fleets, as soon as individual explorers had led the way and commerce had any sort of organization. Men were too timid to venture alone with their goods. The picturesque element was un doubted. l’ake Venice as a type not too remote in time for the modern mind. A green sea laves the foot of its white quays and palaces. Red robed officials stand at the top of the quay steps and the doors of mansions and on the Rialto. The public square is alive with the sound of fifes and trumpets and processions of archers, mariners and dignitaries pass along. \ enetian beauties smile on the young patricians who are about to leave home for a long jour ney. The air is heavy with flags and pennants; it is a public holiday, for the fleet is going eastward on its annual journey, and going in a body, under a Commodore elected by the Grand < ouneil, who has his own train of music men. his black-robed physi cians, his pilots, scribes and craftsmen bearing their tools. Each ship has been chartered by public auction, and is directed by a patrician. The fleet, with the blessing of the Doge and the good wishes—alas! also the tears—of the people, will slowly maxe its way eastward, and when it has bought car goes of silks, camlets, carpets. Persian shawls and spices, sent by caravan to the Syrian ports and to Egypt, it will curve back toward the mouth of the Mediterranean, distributing its riches as it goes, and shipping others, until it has reached Portugal and can creep ilong to Antwerp, the center of West ern trade, and thence to the Thames, lo assemble in state at Southampton for the homeward voyage, laden with English kerseys and cloths. < ontinental wine fleets came to En- •land in this way in the early time, l ossed into disorder, they reached the I'lmmos, and when they reached the New Weir, the city boundary, they res.-ed up, raised their ensigns and 'aen came up to London Bridge, the uarines singing all the way with lusty oices. their kiriele. or song of thanks- iving and deliverance. Many En glishmen, in their river craft and front their overhung doorways and dormer windows, used to think these foreigners made a needless fuss about a little toss on the German ocean or a hustle in the chops of the channel; but 'hen, as now, they had a wicked wit for men in strange garb, over curious i n their eating anil drinking and quick in speech.— Cassell's Family Magazine. ---------— SPA.N’S POSTAL SERVICE. Others may mutate,but none can surpass it Our motto is “always on time ” % Country Where Post-Offices Are Con First-class accommodations for Ccnimer ducted in a Peculiar Way. rial men and general travel. Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets You can not get a stamp at a Spanish via this celebrated route and tak. non. Transient stock well cared for. W II MEAD. G A post-office for love or money. You Everything new and in First-Class Order others. No. 4 Washington street. Portland, Or. get it at the nearest cigar store, where Patronage respectfully solicited ltf also you find a letter-box, and nowhere Great English Remedy. Murray's Specfic Mark. A guaranteed cure for all nervous diseases, such as weak , , ^memory, loss of brain power, hysteria, headache, pain in the fi i>ack, nervous prostration, wakefulness, leucorrlioea, uni versal lassitude, seminal weak ness, impotency, and general loss of power of the generative Before Taking, organs, in either sex, caused by indiscretion or over exertion, ami which ultimately lead to premature Mark, old age,insanity and consump tion $1.00 per box or six boxes for $5.00,sent by mail on receipt of price, Full particu lar» in pamphlet, sent free to every applicant. WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES to cure any case. For every $5 00 order received, weAfter Taking« send six boxes with written guarantee to re fund the money if our Specific does not ef fect a cure Address all communications to the Sole manufacturers THE MURRAY MEDICINE CO. Kansas City. Mo. Sold by Rogers A Todd, sole a .rents AVri^-lit I3ro’s. Dealers in Harness. Saddles, Etc. Etc, Repairing neatlv done at reasonable rates Wright’s new building. Corner Third and F streets. McMinnville. Or PATENTS < h vents, and Trade Marks obtained, and all Patent business conducted for MOPER ATE FEES OCROFFK EISOPPOS1TE V. S PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub aiiencies, all business direct, hence can transact patent business in less time and at less cost than those remote from M ash- inyton. -end model. drawing, or photo, with description. We advise if patentable or not free of charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured A book, “How to Obtain Patents,” with retcrences to actual clients in your State, county, or town sent free. Address „ Opposite Patent Office. Washington. D < WM. HOLL, The leading JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT. -OF- YAMHILL COUNTY, Third Street, McMinnville Or ‘ - 1 NO. 27 One square or leas, one insertion................. $1 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.. . 50 Not ices of upfxiin i men tund final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisement«, 75 cents for first insertion and 10 cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business column», 10 cents j>e’ line. Regular business notices, 5 cents per line. Professional cards, >12 per year. Special rates for Urge display “ads.” i rri te G vertí Transcontinental Route. C. A. SNOW & CO. T * RATES OP ADVERTISING. ilse except at the post-office. A strange story was told me by an English chap The saw-like note of the great tit lain at Malaga. Casually strolling mouse is said to foretell rain; that ol into the cafe one day, he noticed a the blue-tit, cold. lumber of letters stuck up on the wall, Various proverbs would seem to in tnd to his supreme astonishment found dicate that the cry of the owl, if heard that several of them were for him. in bad weather, foretells a change. i)n investigating the matter he discov Herons, says an old author, flying up ered that a postal clerk had entered and down in the evening as if doubtful into an arrangement with the cafetier where to rest, “presage some evil ap to send him letters addressed to for- proaching weather”—a legend as old 3igners, the understanding being that the latter would probably pay him a as Virgil. In Germany dwellers in the country fee for his trouble, or, at any rate, lack faith in the skylark as announcing frequent the cafe! The chaplain re fine weather, but when the lark and the ferred the matter to the Consul, and cuckoo sing together they know sum the game was stopped, little mer has come. Among the letters in the cafe In Hampshire swans are believed to were several addressed to parties, be hatched in thunderstorms, and it is known to the chaplain, who had left said that those on the Thames have an weeks bofore. The moral would seem instinctive prescience of floods. Before to be. don’t address your letters poste heavy rains they raise their nests. rcstante. but send them to the Consul In the south of France so much store or the broker named in your letter of is set by the wisdom of the magpie, credit. Registered letters appear to be safe, that if it builds its nest on the summit of a tree the country folk expect a on the other hand, but the extraordi season of calm, but if lower down, nary precautions taken to make them winds and tempests are sure to follow. safe appear like an accusation of gen The abhorrence in which mariners eral dishonesty. If you receive a reg hold the swallow-like storm petrel is istered letter you have to return the well known. Its appearance is be envelope with the signature of your lieved to denote wild weather. This receipt. This is simplo enough. The little bird is the Mother Cary’s chicken difficulty lies in knowing how to send of sailors, and is also called storm finch off a registered letter. I shall never forget my first experience in that line. and water witch. . ... I Concerning gulls in general, children When I handed in my letter it was re who live by the sea say: "Seagull, “Seagull, I turned with the remark that it must be seagull, sit on the sand; it's never good sealed, I took it to a cigar store weather while you're on the land; and and had a seal put on it. but fisher folk know that when the sea-, again it was handed back. "There mews fly out early and far to seaward must be five seals,” said the clerk. Not wishing to expose my fair weather may be expected. When rooks fly high and seem to ignorance to the black-eyed beauty in imitate birds of prey by soaring, swoojp the cigar store. I went to a stationer's ing. and falling, it is almost a certain and bought a bar of sealing-wax. but sign of coming storm. Staying in the having no stamp used a coin instead. vicinity of the rookery, returning at I Once more the letter was returned: midday, or coming to r<^t in ?ro”ps “The stamps on the seating-wax must it I~ despair '--y-'- I ' took '« are also said to be omens to the like be all the same." In back to the black-eyed girl and ex- I ‘'"'m constant iteration of the green plained ______ my difficulties. She put on i woodpecker's cry before the storm has the live seals, and then at last the let- ! given it the names of rain bird rain ter wa.< accepted. The most absurd nie and rain fowl. Stormcock is a part of the .— whole story - is that al- provincial name shared by this bird though Seville swarms wiih foreigners ( and the missel thrush, the latter‘often in spring, there are no directions re singing through gales of wind and ra n. garding the matter posted up any I Storm bird is also applied to the field- where. Indeed, not even the time (three or four hours a dsy) when the f8To Sco'ch shepherds the drumming post-office w open h announced at tha Jo SCO co e drv weather and window. Obviously, the Spaniard, are "nd Gilbert White re not much in need of postal facilities frost at n ? ,COcks have been ob- and foi a good reasixi. since not much marks that „Labi v listless against more than twenty-five per cent, of the I population can write and read. Cor IV Y. Poti. Parvest"—s. *’**• OF GENERAL INTEREST. -Mr. Edison is worth *6.000,000, nd has a fine prospect before him. Mrs. Langtry has been exceeding- y thrifty in a business point of view. Her property In New York is said to be worth *250,000. Then she has pos sessions in California. — A young man who was asked by an elderly friend the other day why he carried a cane was able to give an answer. Said he: "I carry a cane be cause. getting in the habit of it, I never lose an umbrella.” —A blacksmith at Oviedo. Fla., apj pears to be a second Elihu Burritt. His sign reads: "Thurston Holling- worth, general repairing and jobbing in all materials neatly and promptly done. Specialists—Surveying and pho tography. Information given on sci entific and mechanical subjects.” —Apricots are slow of bearing, usually. Sometimes they fail to pol- lenize well, but when then they do they are often destroyed by the cur- culio. Examine the flowers and see if they are perfect; if not graft over to some other kind. Should they set well, prevent attacks of the curculio by spraying with some offensive mix ture at frequent intervals. Apricots are not usually raised at a profit this side of the Rocky Mountains, at least in Northern latitudes. —Kentucky has a man who is probably the heaviest man in the world. His weight is given at 792 pounds and it requires thirty-seven yards ol cloth to make him a suit. He is six foot four and one-half inches in hight, is thirty-one years old. and weighed eleven pounds at birth. When two years old he took a *1,000 prize at the baby show in New York, tipping the beam at 206 pounds at that time. His father weighed 115 pounds and his mother 122. —A Bristol cat had a strugglo with a young rat one day which camo near ending fatally to both animals. Pussy pounced on the rodent as he camo from behind a cracker barrel, and soon was getting the best of the fight. Suddenly the rat made a dive at the cat’s o|»en mouth, and half of its body disap peared. There was a terrible scratch ing and coughing, and when tho store keeper came to the rescue of his mouser he was just able to grabtne rat by the hind legs and pull it fiom the cat’s throat, which was fast choking to death. —The assistant examiner of Chinese customs service has sent to the Treasury Department here a printed list of Chinese medicines exported from Yangtse ports. Among tho remedies are tigers’ bones, ground blood, bears’ gall, asses’ glue, tree bugs, elephants’ gall, fossil crabs, fossil teeth, fowls’ gizzards, “insects of nine smells," Job’s tears, cow-hair, glass, rhinoceros horns, cow’s knee puff balls, dragons’ teeth, straw, hodgehog skins, dried silkworms, snake skins, crabs’ eyes, horse tails, and centipedes. —The naval cadets of Annapolis have invented what is called the “smile drill” for the benefit of their lower class men. The upperclassman holds up one finger and the poor lower class man must smile—just a little. Up goes another finger and the smile must broaden; still another, and it is wider than before. Al last all the fingers aro up and the grin is stretched as far as a grin can be. This rather painful situ ation can be prolonged until the cruel upper class mun is tired of seeing the other fellow smile. Then he closes his hand and the smile must instantly cease. Prompt obedience is the es sence of the smile drill, as of every other. —One of the finest collections of au tographs in this country was made by the late Dr. Lefllngwell, of New Haven. It is valued at *75,000. Among the famous names whose possessors wrote them are Adelaide. Queen of William IV.; Queen Anne, Caroline, Queen of George II.; Charlotte, Queen of George HI.; Charlotte, daughter of George IV.; Charles I., Charles II., Edward IV.. Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth Wood ville, Queen of Edward IV.; Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I.; Henry IV., Henry V., Henry VI., Henry VII., | Henry VIII., James I., James II., Rich- . ard II., Richard III., Ixird Francis 1 Bacon. Oliver Cromwell, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, William Cowper, John Dryden, Oliver Goldsmith, William Shakespeare, George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, John Quincy Adams Martin Van Buren and Roger Williams. A Nigger in the Wood-Pile. Mrs. Yerger (who is reading a news paper and takes an interest in politics) —I am inclined to think that thejneet- ing of the Czar and the German Em peror may result in the seizure of Montenegro. Colonel Yerger (who is a litt’e deaf and is thinking about local politics)— What's the sense in the police ever lastingly grabbing up a few poor ne groes who play monte? It's the high- toned white gambling establishments that should be raided. Let the monte negroes alone. They backed me up the last time I ran for aiderman.— Teza» Sifting». In a Depressing State. In descending the stairs Bobby's foot slipped and he and tho coal hod which he was carrying rattled to the bot- tom. “Here, here.” shouted the old man from the parlor, "what’e up out there?” “Nothing's up. Pa,” shouted ba«x Bobby, who wasn't much hurt, “every thing's 4c wn!”— Eitock. SAFE WATER SUPPLY. Tb. Bent Cistern l-'ll.er and Well-Wall for Farm 1‘urpo.e«. INTENSELY OBLIGING A I»H<ly Cuitouier'» Struggle with an Ac comodating Salesgirl. When the saleslady condescends to Properly made, the brick partition wall is. I lielieve, the tiest possible cis unbend sufficiently to be affable she is tern filter. It should be thoroughly ce most gracious and affable indeed. Al mented on both sides for a foot or more at though not paid for doing so, she is the bottom where the sediment will col often perfectly willing to give you a lect in the side of the cistern to which great deal of advice, of which you may the water is admitted, and above that think you do not stand in need. “Let me see your black passemen use the soft brick for the water to filter through. Such a filter is absolutely terie." said a Detroit lady to one of perfect. I would make the cistern these obliging salesladies the other large, so that a supply can be secured day. ■•What did you wish it for?” she asks in winter and early spring when the rains are copious and cold and I would sweetly. “For a black silk dress.” have a manhole to each side of it, I recently learned a new method of , "You wouldn’t want cut steel trhn- walling wells, which is cheap, requires mings, would you.” "No.” no skill, and insures the water against “Oh, I was just going to say that we contamination from surface water. are selling cut steel almost entirely Instead of using stone or brick, glazed now for trimmings; still, if you prefer sewer-pipe is put in with joints ce the passementerie, I suppose------ ” mented. The joints can be made abso “Let me see that narrow piece.” lutely watertight, and with a well from “That is hardly as wide us you will fifteen to twenty-five feet deep, as is want,” she says culmly, as she hands usually the case, if the clay be tamped you a piece you don't want, and says: around the tile, as it should be, it “Now, if 1 wero you, I’d have this would seem impossible for any leach- i on the skirt, and----- ” ing from the surface to reach the bot “Let me see that other piece.” tom. For economy, eight-inch tile is “There isn’t enough of it, and besides generally used, and when these small It’s----- ” tile are put in it is well to turn a small ‘ “I want but a little piece.” arch with brickbats to make a reset'- 1 “Oh, well, here it is; but don't you voir for water for the tile to rest on. think this oak leaf pattern prettier? / When the well is to be used only would certainly prefer it if I were for house purposos it is better to you.” dip the water and draw it with a wind “Let me see a pioce a trifle wider.” lass than to pump it. Use a bucket “I don't think that we have any that of six inches in diameter, made of you would care for. It seems to me heavy tin, with a conical bottom, and that this wheat pattern would be arrange it with a piece of strong wire . lovely. I have some of it on a black attached to the valve and coming to dress and you’ve no idea how---- ” the top of the bucket so that you can “Haven't you other patterns?” open the valve and allow the water to "Oh, yes; I was just wondering how run into a pail set under it, and there you'd like a new cut steel pattern we will be no lifting or pouring of the have,” water from the well bucket. "I don’t want cut steel.” In walling a well with tile or other "No? It’s all the rage now, and it material great pains should be taken trims a black dress beautifully, and— to tamp thoroughly, especially as you oh, here it is; now, how would you near the top. The best clay should be like a collar of this, and----- ” reserved to use at and near the surface, "Not at all. I want jet.” and it should be raised a foot or two “Oh. do you? We are soiling so above the level and so graded that the much of the steel now that I thought water will flow away at once from the I’d show it to you. I know I’d prefer well. Another cheap and very satis it if it was me. How would you like factory plan with wells, especially beaded escurial lace?” those for stock, in localities where the “I don’t want luce of any kind.” stone is near the surface, is not to wall “No? A friend of mine has a black at all, but arch with brick, starting the silk trimmed with the lace and it's arch on the ledge. I have three wells perfectly lovely. It’s lighter than the finished in this way, two of them stock passementerie, too. and—oh, hore is wells ten feet in diameter. In this, as just what you want.” In many other localities, we strike a “It’s entirely too wide.” regular ledge of limestone four to six “Oh. I don’t think so. We sell a feet from the surface, and here we cut groat deal of it much wider than this. a shoulder and start the arch. If the Now, supposing you should have a ledge is so far from the surface as to wide plait on one side of the skirt and bring the top of the arch below ground, a row of this------” a neck of hard brick car. be built up to "I don’t want any for the skirt.” to the surface, and the arch should al “No? Then you want epaulettes for ways be topped out with a large sewer the shoulders.” pipe extending a foot or eighteen "No, I don’t.” inches tbove ground; fit the pipe to the “They’re all the style.” arch with cement so tight that not even If you are plucky enough to hold a d rop of water can enter and then fit your own against a maiden of this a good cover of two-inch boards to the kind you may in time get what you top of the sewer pipe, and you will se want.— Detroit Free Pres». cure your cistern from all sources. POULTRY FUNDAMENTALS. There are wells by the thousand in the country with old rickety wooden curbs, HlntN from Nature for the Health of lleiM hik I Their K kkm . rotten at the foundation, and when the It is an old experience of mine that wells are cleaned there is usually found eggs ranking highest in vitality cornu in the foot of sediment the skeletons of from fowls which roam over an unlim rats, dead toads and other things suf ited range, and, outside of clean and ficient to turn the stomach of a hand insect-free quarters, are given the least saw. 1 appoint each reader of this a amount of care, and but little food (or committee of one to make a careful ex none during the summer) besides what amination of the well curb and its con- they find on their foraging expeditions. nection with the wall. — Waldo z. The demands of the egg-mill for raw Brown, in N. Y. Tribune. material keep the bird active and in THE “BACK SHOP." A Chicago Institution In Wlileh Every Man 1» Ills Own Tailor. On of the queerest institutions in the tailoring trade in Chicago is the "back shop," about which one begins to hear almost as soon as one makes any In quiries into Chicago tailoring. “Most of the work is done either at home or in a ‘back shop.’ ” is the customary statement. “What is a back shop?’’ demands the invostigator, whereupon he is usually told that it is an institu tion that must be Been to be appreciat ed, and he goes to work and sees it and appreciates it. T'lio "back shop” is a place whore for a dollar or two a week a tailor may rent a seat upon a broad table, with the privilege of using irons oflf the common stove. It is a large shop where every body is his own shop keeper. One of the largest of those “back shops” is on the northeast cor ner of Fifth avenue and Madison street on the top floor. A reporter climbed up beyond the sundry stories until ho reached the top. where he found himself in a long, well-lighted, but rather low-ceiled room, which stretched the full length and breadth of the building. Close to the windows all about the room we > a collection of broad tables, upon which a number of men were squatting after the bone breaking manner in which tailors rest themselves and work, A few women were grouped together In one corner of the apartment, and in the middle two stoves, heated like the fiery fur- mice in the old testament, wero keep ing the irons of the establishment warm. There was little talking but a groat deal of work, and us soon as the reporter had found Mr. Bray brook, the proprietor of the enterprise, no body paid any attention to him save the person with whom he was talking. “Yes,” Mr. Braybrook said, “this is what is called a back shop, where tailors are provided with a place to do their work and hot irons aro furnished for a fixed charge per week. You see, in most of the tailor stores about towa there is no place for the men, and so they come to places like this. There are quite a number in Chicago. I simply rent a man his soat and see that he has all the irons he wants and that ends my duties in the premises.’’ “What, do you charge them?” "Ono dollar a week—or if two men who are partners work together—*1.50 for the two. Seamstresses we make room for at 75 cents apiece.” “And how many mon usually take advantage of the scheme?” "It depends on the season and the amount of work. There are usually about forty or fifty hore.” "Of course, you have nothing to do with the time they work?” “Oh no, certainly not. They rent their seats, and that is the end of it as far as I am concerned.” "IIow about shop discipline? Have you any rules which your renters must observe?” "No. If a man makes himself disa greeable to the other workmen, of course I get rid of him as soon as I can and will not let him back into the shop—but that seldom happens. You see, tailors, as a rule, aro very decent men, and they know how to take cara of themselves and do their work. Un der any efteumstanees it would be none of my business. As long as nobody doos any thing to interfere with the others I have nothing to say.” "What is the reason, Mr. Bray brook,” said the reporter flnully. as he good health, and prevent the injurious cast a glance about the room, "that WITCHCRAFT IN MEXICO. accumulation of fat. Fresh eggs from the tailors ait on tho tables and curl An Old Woman Beaten to Death Beranee fowls thus kept, if properly packed in themselves up like that man yonder,” Mho Practiced Sorcery. bran or saw-dust, give a good chance and a workman in an acutely uncom A remarkable criminal case is about to hatch even after a journey clear fortable position was pointed out, “in to come to trial here which illustrates across the continent. The breeder stead of sitting on chairs?” the survival of the belief in witchcraft who surrounds his flocks with condi "Because it is the most comfortable in the nineteenth century. The parties tions similar to those found in nature, position for the work. A tailor gots and tho "witches” in the case are in who scorns the use of artificial methods supple-jointed after a time, and he can habitants of a little town near Capi and feeds, will hear very little com do the most extraordinary things with tulo. During the past year an old I plaint of poor “hatches,” or of chicks his legs. These positions don’t look woman living in the town has been such as a heavy dew, a light rain or a restful to you, but they are." exacting a monthly tax from the hot sun can kill. “What do these tailors make?” fathers of families to prevent her "That depends. Some of them can Most breeders, having a number of j from taking the lives of their chil- different breeds and strains, are com sit down and make *25 a week; others dren by sucking their breath in some pelled to keep them more or less in j run lees. They can average *15 a week mysterious manner, her pretense being confinement. It takes an experienced without working too hard.” that she was a witch and had a mys person, with an unusual dose of com “l)o they have to make a deposit terious power over life and death. She mon sense, to know just the amount of when they take goods away from the livod in a little hut, in which she kept all the vnrious raw materials which i ! shop?” all the paraphernalia of witch laying hens require; a sufficiency and i “No. The stuff is given to them all craft—a cat, a broom, a dead croco no more: and such a person may have > cut and prepared, and no tailor is dile, etc.—and was in the habit “eggs for hatching” to send out which i asked for a deposit. It is not needed. of going out on the neighboring mount will approach in vital force those pro • I I never heard of but one case in Clii- ains and looking for hours steadily at duced by free-roaming floeks kept on i cage whore a man mode off with t'ie the horizon, and when in town would the "scratch-hen-or-die” plan. I prefer (doth and material given him to make mystify the inhabitants by making to put my trust in the latter. Forcing up.”— Chicago »Vetcs. incomprehensible gestures, writing for egg production can be indulged in A Desperate Individual. strange characters in the dust, and oth only at the risk of injury to the vitality erwise terrify the simple villagers. of the eggs. Fowls are like average “Papa.” said a pale but beautiful Recently a child in one family died people- inactive, lazy, so long as there girl, "I refused Mr. Sampson last suddenly, and as tho father had refused is no incentive to work. Plenty of night, and as he went to go he said: to pay the monthly tax to this witch, food for the picking up makes fat fowls " ‘Miss Miflinton, your refusal has it was rumored that she had bewitched and spoils their eggs for hatching. made me desperate; all the colors of the child, an impression which grew The chicks either die before fully de my life are changed; look in the stronger and stronger. Finally the veloped. or just when ready to leave papers to-morrow morning,' and, with godfather of the child, a man named the shell, or soon after, and no skill a groan, he was gone. Oh. papa, see Medina, met the woman in a street of in feeding or management can ever what dreadful thing has happened.” the village and said to her: "Why make first-class fowls of even those “Was his first name George?" asked did you kill my godchild?” Tho witch that An excessive corn the old man. s. anning the paper. live. replied: “Because its father did not I diet should be avoided, especially at "Yes. papa.” pay me my tax.” "Well, neither will the South, where the abundance of “H-m George Sampson. Yes, ns I pay that infamous tax,” he replied. that cereal leads to over-free use. has been sent up for ten days.” “Then.” said the witch, "I will kill The best staple grain food for breeding your child.” Medina replied: “Well, fowls is wheat and oats. I use the “Sir,” he said to the old man. “for you will not kill It, for I will kill vou.” former almost exclusively, but reason months I have worshipped your He then beat the old woman to death, ably sparingly, during the breeding daughter with a mad passion, which I nnd his act was sustained by the whole season. To the advice: “Away with had every reason to suppose watt recip village. He has been arrested for mur the useless and injurious eaters” (the rocated.' der. and his trial will bring most of surplus cocks), I would add: Away “Well?” the older people of the village to Mex with narrow yards and tight fences; "Idist night she cruelly refused me, ico as witnesses in his behalf. The away with superfluous and injurlou« and. in the depth of my despair, I lawyer for Medina is Emilo Romero. I 1 food, especially corn.” I would prefer overestimated ray capacity, and this This cane reoalls the fanaticism once to have but a single breed or strain on morning wan lined teu dollars.” rampant in the Massachusetts town of one farm, if pure stock is the aim. and "Well?” Pocanset, and will be the most inter to leave them as much as possible to “I think, sir, that in view of all ths esting trial, from a psychological point themselves. Thie will give you No. 1 existing circumstances, it would be no of view, known hero for some limo. - (“eggs for hatching.”— T. Greiner, m more than right lor you to reimburse * Now York Tribune. ' me the fins.”— M. Y. CWy V Afeat««