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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1888)
THE TELEPHONE. I THE TELATANE PUBLISHED FRIDAY EVERY PUBLICATION OFFICE: One Dcor North ot eor er Third and £ bu , M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (IX ADVANCE.I Ope year........ Six monili« ■ Tbreü montili* »2 III 1 U0 « Vi EST SIDE TELEPHONE VOL. Ill MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, NOVEMBER 9, 1888 s, A. YOUNG, M. D. Transcontinental Route. Physician & Surgeon, ------- VIA THE- Cascado Division’ now completed, making it ihe Shortest, Best’ and Quickest. . McMiNxviLt., . . ObI(.oh Office and resid.nce on D «treat. All calls promptly answ.red day or night. W. V. PRICE, PHOTOGRAPHER. Ip Stairs in Adams’ Building, The Dining Car line. The Direct Route. No Delays. Fastest Trains. Low est Rates to Chicago and all points East. Tickets sold to ail Prominent Points throughout tho Fast and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Cars Reservations can be secured in advance. Shaving, Hair Culting and- - - - - - - - Shaiupoing Parlors. To East Bound i’assengers. FLEMING, & LOGAN, Prop’«. McMinnville, Oregon TONSORIAL PARLOR, Be caeful and do not make a mistake All kinds of fancy hair cutting done in but be sure to take the the latest and neatest style Northern Pacific Railroad. SLUMBER SONG. The south wind softly comes and goew With secret whisper lu its sighs That lulls the uight to sweet repose; Dreams wait to snare thine eyes Where love’s light glows and glorifies! Sweetheart, slumber—I will keep watch o’er thy sleep. From out the scented solitudes A wafted fragrance fills the air; Enchanted where sweet silence I roods The uight wind lifts thy silken hair To kiss thine eyes to dreams most fair! Sweetheart, slumber-I wifi keep watch o'er thy sleep. ' Yet, as the shadows fitful grow, The wind volco hath another tone. Its utterance seems weird and slow, My sighs are mingling with ihiue own. Lift thy soft lips close to iniuo own And slumber, sweetheart, as I keep watch o’er thy sleep. And thus I fold thee nearer me— Thy dear face so against my breast— My heart throbs inner melody, My soul, as with thy vision blest. Is blent to thine in dreams! so rest And Slumber, sweetheart, o’er thy sleep my watch I keep! -Harriet Maxwell Converse In Home Journal Cause ot Night Blindness. All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair The night movements of the Russian dying, a specialty. Special attention given troops have recently been rendered dif 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 fine assort avoid changes and serious delays occa ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, ate sioned by other routes. Tlirongh Emigrant Sleeping Cars run O| I have in connection with my parlor, • tlie largest and flneat stock of on regular express trains full length of the line. Berths free. Lowest rates. Quickest time. CIGARS Ever in the city. General OUIce or the Company, No, -1 Washington St., Portland, Oregon. tSTTHiBD S txsit McMmsviLLB. O bbson . M'MINNYILLE NATIONAL •ÎBAI2K.I» ficult by the number of soldiers attacked with hemeralopia (night blindness). It is well known that tliis affection is due generally to a lack of proper food. Meiss ner saw in Podolia an epidemic of this disease produced during a religious ex citement, when bread was the principal article of diet, which disappeared when animal food was again taken.—Science. For Heating Passenger Cars. To provide means of heating passenger ears by steam when tlie locomotive is de Asst General Passenger Agent. tached a “blizzard heater," so called, has been devised, consisting of a firebrick pot Transact, a G.n.ral Banking Bu.in.aa. ar.d a telescopic chimney, on tho prin President,................ J. W. C0WL8, ciple of tlie traveler’s pocket drinking When not in use tho whole thing Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. cup. occupies only ten and one-half inches of IN----- Cashier............... CLARK BRALY. space, and may be 6hoved under a seat and out of tho way. It is hung by chains McMinnville, is opened Sells exchange on Portland, San from tlie car roof and floor.—Frank Leslie’s. —IN— Francisco, and New York. A D CHARLTON. rlTio only FIRST CLASS BAR COOK’S HOTEL, Where you will find the best of Wines and Liquors, also Imported and Doiuestsc Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. T. M. F ields , I’ropr. Extracting Teeth from Indiana. Interest allowed on time deposits. A dentist in Calgary, Manitoba, has Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m been busy lately extracting teeth from Apr. 18 tf Indians. It is stated that before the ad ARE YOU GOING EAST? If so be sure and call for your tickets via the Ths St. Charles Hotel Sample rooms in connection. o------- o -TH E- Is now fitted up ill first class order. It is positively tlie shortest and fin »st Accommodations as good as can be line to Chicago and the east and south and foundin the city. the only sleeping and dining car through 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. line to 1ST 1. ES, Third Street, between E and F McMinnville, Oregon. Henderson Eros. Props Omaha, Kansas^ City, and all Missouri River Points. Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed train service and elegant dining and sleeping cars has honestly earned for it the title of The I^oyal Route Others may imitate,but none can aurpa»» it Our motto ia "always on time ” First-class accommodations for Ccmiuer cial men and general travel. Be sure and ask ticket agents for tick.ts via this celebrated route and taka non» Transient stock well cared for. others. W H MEAD, G A Everything new and in First-Class Order No. 4 Washington stro.t, Portland, Or. Patronage respectfully solicited ltf Great English Remedy. Murray’s Specfic. Tsaile Murk« A guaranteed cure for all nervous diseases, such as weak iinemory, loss of brain power, hysteria, headache, pain in the ^7/ylmck. nervous prostration. wakefulness, leucorrhoea, uni versal lassitude, seminal weak ness, impotency, and general ---- loss of power of the generative Before Taking. ()rgans, in either sex. caused by indiscretion or over exertion, and which ultimately lead to premature Tr»«u- Mark, old age,insanity and consump- tion $1.00 per box or six boxes for $5.00.sent by mail on JB’ receipt of price. Full particu- g. larw in paiiiplilet, sent free to everv applicant. WE GUARANTEE SIX B<).X ES to cure any case. F< every $5 00 order received, weAftar Taking» send six boxes with written guarantee to re fund the money if our Speciiic 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 agents ^4 AVTd^lit I3ro’s. Dealers in Harness. Saddles, Etc, Etc, Life on a Cattle Ranch. The men are called at 3 o’clock In the morning, and, after a hasty breakfast of bacon and coffee, somo aro detailed by the foreman to ride out and drive all the cattle thoy can find within a certain radius into camp, while the others keep them In a herd, when they aro driven tn. As soon as they aro all In, the representatives of each “outfit," in turn, ride through them and cut out every animal with their brand upon it aud herd them apart. Occasion ally a cow breaks away from the herd and a rider starts after her at full speed, and after an exciting chase drives her back again. When the cutting out is completed each “outfit” begins to brand its calves. A rider ropes a calf by the hind leg, throws it and drags it toward the fire; one man then holds it by the hind legs, while another sits on its shoulder and It is branded on its side and has its ear notched. This Is an exciting scene as the calves are bleating, the men shouting, roping and wrestling with them and the fires are blazing. Sometimes when they rope a vigorous young steer they have great difficulty in holding him and it re quires five or six men to do so. The night is divided into watches of two hours’ length and the men take turns in keeping the cattle in a herd. It is the most ex citing part of the cattle business, but it is a very hard life, as a man is in the saddle ail day and only gets a few hours sleep.— W. Lynn Wilson in Detroit Free Press. ____ ___________ Repairing neatly done at reasonable Tradition Concerning Wampum. rates An Indian of the Onondaga reservation Wright’s new building. Corner Third in New York gave to a legislative com and Fstreets. McMinnville. Or. mitteeman the following tradition con cerning the wampum: “There Is a tree set in the ground and it touches the heavens. Under that tree sits this wam pum. It sits on a log. Coals of fire are Caveats, and Trade Marks obtained, and unquenchable, and the Six Nations are at all Patent business conducted for MODER this council fire held by this tribe. To- Alli FEES < if R OFFICE IS OPPO81T1 <lo-da-ho, a member of the Bear clan, is V. 8 PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub the great chief here. Ho has a descend ■gencics, all business direct, lienee can ant in our tribe today; his name is Frank transact patent business in less time and Logan. One of the uses of the wampum at It*"* cost than those remote from ash- is for a symbol in the election of officers. ington. 'end model, drawing, or photo, The wampum bearer koeps the treaties of with description, We advise if patejitable the nation.’’—Chicago Herald. or not free of charge, Our fee * not due till patent is secured A book, “How to Obtain Patents," with teferences to actual clients in your Stats. Financial Information. _ county, or town sent free. Address A _ Did you gain any thing in you C. A. SNOW i CO. n Opposite Patent Office. Washington, D * 1 * Wall street speculation? y_ O yes; I acquired the idea that I was an ass. “Is that all? Why, I could have told you that before you attempted to go in."—Texas »flings. WM. HOLL, The lead ing JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT, -OF— YAMHILL COUNTY, Third Street, McMinnville Or. RATES OF ADVERTISING. / / The Grreat Um Pd¡ Exl’iii. — I )EMOCRATIC MORNING. —A dog in Davenport. I»-, having seizod a young sparrow that hod dropped to the sidewalk, wa’ instantly .etupon by half a dozen of the grown birds with a ferocity that not only made him drop bis prey, but sent him off howling with the blood «owing from oeveml places where their sharp bills vance of civilization, when tho natives subsisted solely on buffalo meat, decayed teeth were unknown among them. Braves who stand tho torture of the sun dance without flinching are reduced to a state of abject terror when they feel tho cold grip of tlie forceps.—New York Evening World. Anecdote of Bergh's Boyhood. It is said that tlie late Henry Bergh, when a boy, had a favorite dog, which was bis faithful friend and companion. Tho dog was enticed from home and cruelly tortured by some brutal ruffians until it died. Young Bergh felt the loss keenly. “I may never see Pilot again,” he said, “but if I live to lie a man I will make life easier for his kind.”—Youth’s Com panion. Not Affected by Some Poisons. The Discipline of Genius. It is still the fashion in certain quarters to depreciate collegiate education by cil ing tho examples of men who have risen to eminence in various intellectual call iugs without having been trained in the schools. We are bidden to observe that many of tho world’s greatest orators, poets, and statesmen, as well as some men whose names stand high on tlie rolls of art and science, were “the untaught children of nature.” Whence is drawn the inference, expressed or implied, that, after all, elaborate mental training is of doubtful value, even if it be not a positive hindrance in tlie struggle for success. Tliis kind of talk, at all times sufficiently common, is especially rife each year im mediately after tlie close of the com nienceinent season. The present, there fore, seeuis to lie a gixxi opportunity for 6tating a few plain facts in refutation of a mischievous and groundless delusion. Of course no one denies tliat individual instances of splendid mental achievement by persons not liberally educated may be easily pointed out; but to assums that, as a rule, these men were “untaught” is to commit an egregious blunder. When ever tho veil is lifted and the world gets a glimpse of tlie inner life of one of these “diamonds in the rough, ” it is discovered that the diamond was most assiduously polished. That the polishing was not done by professional lapidaries in insti tutions established for the purpose is a fact of minor importance. A favorite instance with the decrier, of culture is Patrick Henrv. But the most recent and authentic biography of the famous revolutionary orator shows that tlie popular impression about him is all wrong in so far as it conceives Mr. Henry to have been an untrained prodigy of genius. In the first place his school ing was much more and better than tra dition lias accounted it; and in the sec ond place, instead of leaping at a bound into fame and fortune, lie climbed by slow, toilsome steps. Instead of neg lecting tlie books and trusting to torrents of eloquence for success at tlie bar, Pat rick Henry irts. through all his early career, a patient, plodding student, both of law and general literature. A still more familiar instance is that of Robert Burns. Certainly he affords a wonderful example of genius triumph ant over ad verse conditions. Ilis school ing was indeed meager. Yet it is doubt ful whether any poet was ever better trained, even in tho technicalities of his art. It is a thousand pities that those who talk so glibly alxxit Burns as a poet of nature and nothing else, do not lead his autobiography. In that too brief story of himself tlie immortal Scottish bard lets us see the process through which ho went in learning to do his work. It was a process exactly the same in all essentials, as that which is related year after year by collegians of the present time. In the deplored ab sence of living teachers, Rolx’it Burns sought instruction from Ixxiks. He studied words, made lists of rhymes, an alyzed sentences in prose and verse, dili gently gave heed to all the printed di rections for tlie formation of style which came within his reach, observed and in vestigated, with a viev io avoiding like errors, specimens of bad ¡xx-try, and un sparingly criticised his own productions in the light of all tlie knowledge gained by unwearied efforts.—Boston Adver tiser. Poison for some animals is food for others. Hogs can eat henbane or hyo- cyamus. which is fatal to dogs and most other animals. Dogs and horses are not easily poisoned with arsenio. Goat3 eat Presentation to the Queen. water hemlock with impunity; pheasants, I don’t suppose one lady or gentleman stramonium; railbits, belladonna; and morphia is said to be innocuous to pigeons. out of 5,000 in England ever dreams of being presented to tlie queen. It is, of — Chicago Herald. course, quite proper to the whole 5,000 to do so. But it is quite unnecessary. Frederick Ill’s Respect for Women. Some jieoplc think that by being pre The late emperor of Germany disliked sented at court they get invited to state to hear any one speak slightingly of balls and concerts and to entertainments women. When lie was crown prince an given by the Prince of Wales. There is officer once remarked of a wounded a great mistake in regard to this. Here comrade that ho was “weeping like a is where the error is. No one can be in woman.’’ “Never make that compari vited to a state entertainment unless he son,” said the crown prince with a or she has been presented at court. Pre frown. “Crying like an unweanod sentation is a sine qua non. But it is not child would lie better. Women havo the only thing necessary. There are more fortitude than men.”—New Or other considerations which have to be leans Picayune. taken into account. I don’t fancy that mure than one person out of 100 who are No Doubt of It. presented at court ever gets an invitation “Don’t my room look almost like a to a state ball or concert at Buckingham bower?” she asked, as she moved a poo palace, or to a Prince of Wales garden dle from one chair and a pug from party at Marlborough house. another. The other ninety-nine might have been “Yes, dear,” answered her friend, “a presented, so far as lieing asked to stato Free entertainments is concerned. For Ameri regular bow-wow-er. ” — Detroit r.-w« Press. can ladies or gentlemen to rush over to England and spend a lot of money on Dishonesty in Conversation. dresses, in tho hope that the day Good men talkers have sometimes court after the drawing room they will lie been accused of a certain dishonesty in asked to dinner with the queen, or to conversation. That is. bring the subject luncheon with the Prince of Wales, is a round to a point on which they talk well fondly cherished delusion from which — lying in ambush, as it were, and time will soon awaken them. Presenta springing their own subject on the com tion has grown so common in these days pany. _M. E. W. Sherwood. that it is a wonder io me that any sensi ble person, not conqielled to undergo tho He Shut tho Door. ordeal, care to submit themselves to it. M Chevreul. when asked to account After all. cui bono? Is the game worth for his long life, said: “At fifty I shut the candle? It is a pretty sight, no doubt; the door on all my pleasures.” Ho has but if curiosity be tlie motive, what be lived for more than half a century a» comes of the respect to tlie queen? It is exlremely simple and regular life, work quite useless to say anything. Ameri ing actively all the time.—The Argo cans will keep on dis king to the drawing naut __________ rooms and levees and giving tlie legation some-tiling to do.—The Argonaut. Hi. rrlze Medal. Of all his decorations the late Emperor Ecuador and Its Capital. Frederick most prized the medal which The road to Quito is a mountain path was given to him for saving a man fiom fit only for mules, and not passable six drowning many years ago.—New York months in the year. The custom house is built of pine from Maine and corru Tribune. _________ gated iron from Pennsylvania. Tlie A Long Wire. Guayaquil steamers were built in Balti A Glasgow firm has just finished a more. Ice fact« riesalxmnd; freshwater brass wire for the Glasgow exhibition is brought twenty miles an«l peddled in 65 miles long and a copper wire 111 casks. Tlie finest pineapples in tlie miles long._________ _ world come from this country, and ex A baby's face—how pleasant it b to cellent hats and hammocks. All the --------- — 1-q.J, (.anno« Panama hats we wear which are genuine see a human countenance whir are mado in Guayaquil. It is 320 miles be insincere. - Hawthorne. from this place to Quito, and freight costs $1 per 100 pounds to be sent up. • Tlie only freeman.” mys Benedict, It takes twenty-four men in two divis ••b he v.bnso simpio bn’:ts lift him ions to carry a piano un Nevertheless, bove the desire fur wealth. American goods, after they get up to Quito, compete with tlie native manufac has n _________ * 3cen San Francisco declare» rhe tures. Nearly all the furniture in Quito shaken 417 times by eortbquakca in tlie is brouglit from the United States in last eighty years. porta, atel in that highest and oldest city in America many of the [>rople sl«-ep on He who is a fool and knows it can Grand Rapids (Mich.) beds. Twelve very en-ily |«a«w him» If off io» “ breweries in Quito import their hope man.—Uncle E-ek. chiefly from America, and the sugar used there ia mainly r«'fln«-d in our coun In China there are over 400 species of try. Ecuador has 1.000,000 inhabitants, plants used for food, »nd in the world but only forty-seven |«>toflices. No in probably ten times tliat numLer. terior postage is charged on newspafxre uf any kind; Ixit there is no newspaper Salt in our foo.1 must neither be in ex ■aiUide of Guayaquil in Ecuador.—GtB- cmnati Enquirer. cess nor deficient. THE NO. 29 A private letter from Mr. Alexander R. Webb, now United States consid to Manila. Philippine islands, to a friend in St. Louis is full of interesting gossip about the people and costumes at his post of duty. His description of the po lice and fire department of Manila is graphic and amusing. The Manila “copper” is a thing of picturesque beauty, if not a joy forever. “Tlie coat and pants are of navy blue, with fancy decoration in red and white, and heavy white cords with silver |x*n<iants, festooned from the left shoul der to the breast and Uxnaxi around un der tlie arm. The hat is a pure white helmet, with a silver knob on top, the royal arms in silver in front and a heavy silver curb chain running half way around it and hanging pendant from a hook at the back. They carry no club, but in stead are armed with navy revolvers and a knife two and one-half inches wide and eighteen inches long. Tlie handle is of brass, and there is usually a tuft of red plush at the hilt. This weapon, which rests in a brass tipped black leather sbeatli, looks like an extra large cheese knife with an ornamental handle. I inn told that one edge is kept as sharp as a razor. Both weapons are worn in plain 6ight at all times, attached to a black leather belt. This is the day uni form. “The night force goes on duty barefoot, with long, thin, black coaks that reach from tlie neck to the heels and have no sleeve holes, and a high black cap with a cockade in front and a straight leather front piece. In addition to the weapons worn by the day force, each peeler car ries a rifle slung over his shoulder. Tho policemen are very small in stature, and, like all the natives, are naturally averse to fighting. They are a quiet, peaceable race, affectionate and kind to each other, and apparently preferring at all times to submit to insult and abuse rather than to get into troublo. When they arrest a man they tie his arms behind him at tho ellxiws and inarch him off to the nearest station, anil they seem to feel actually sorry to bo obliged to do it. "When there is a fire the policeman blooms into a fireman. There are no fire alarm bells, but when a blaze starts some one runs to the nearest police station and informs the guard, who immediately blows a small whistle, and all the police men within bearing come running in. Then two or three policemen start out blowing their whistles and gathering in tlie patrolmen, until there aro fifteen or twenty at tlie station, who have stripped off their uniforms, and in bare feet and witli no clothing but thin pants and shirt and a black glazed leather cap, are ready for work. Tho majority arm themselves with axes, two carry a pole with alxiut 100 feet of rope and a small anchor at tached to it, and two more carry a |x>le with perhaj» 100 feet of two inch linen hose anil a brass nozzle on it. Then they start off on a run for tlie fire, which, by tliis time, has gotten well under way. “The water system is very good, the supply coming from a river or a lake several miles distant from the city, the water lieing pure and as clear as crystal. At intervals of ¡terhape fifty or a hun dred feet on all the streets are little iron trap doors alxmt 8x15 inches, under which the fire plug is located. On their arrival at the scene of the fire, tho hose is attached to one of the plugs, and a stream can be thrown alxmt one hundred feet. While this is working pails are us'd at the upright plugs (also used for drinking purposes), the men witli the rope, anchor and poles pull down the surrounding houses, and everybody works frantically. As most of tho houses are not more than twenty-flvo fi-et high, and aro mado of bamboo and cano leaves, huddled closely together, it doesn’t take long to burn up one hun dred of them. Last week over three hundred burned in an hour. Still the loss is usually light, for tho natives sel dom have more than two or three dol lars’ worth of household goods, and as it is quite comfortable to sleep out of doors, they are not seriously discommoded by being burned out.”—St. I»uis Republic. Filling Bubbles with Gas. Soap bubble parties were quite fash ionable a little time back, and grown people took as much pleasure in the pretty amusement as ever young people did. Of course yon all know how they are made, hut perhaps some of you do not know that you can easily make them fly up into the air like balloons. This is how it is done: Get a rubber tuhe, sav a yard long, and with an internal diameter small enough to require a good deal of Btretching to force it over tlie gas burner. After you havo fitted it tightly over the burner wrap the stem of n clay pipe with wet paper and push it into the other end of the tulie, where it must fit ho as to let no gas escape. Now dip tile howl of the pipe into the soapsuds an<i turn the gas on. Tlie force of tlie gas will blow the bubble for you, and as the gas is lighter than the air, the bubble, when freed from the pipe, will go rapidly up and never stop until it coilapses.—Philadel phia Times. Horrible Custom In .«p&ln. A horrible custom prevails in southern Spain of exhibiting corpses, dressed in clj tho finery obtainable, in tho windows. Tho people stand and gaze with ns much interest as if tho ghastly spectacle was one which gave them great pleasure, and remarks ami even jokes are passed freely among them. A short time since a young girl who was alxmt to tie married sickened ami died of virulent smallpox. Iler parents dressed her in all her bridal finery, orange wreath and veil included, and Laid her, disfigured as she was, in the window, to be gazed at by all ininers by. After this one can hardly wonder at the fearful prevalence of smallpox and such like diseases in the southern part of the jieninsula.—Cor. San Fran cisco Chronicle. M.Tlmnm Brain Earning,. A dinner was given to the Prine, of Wales by eminent men of all pro fessions. The bar, the church, music, painting and literature were all repre- sented. The subject was discussed of bow much a man could make with his brains, and it w as agreed that «100,000 a year was tlie maximum, though a leading pointer said be could make «150,- Oa) if he gave up Uu vacation.—New York bun. When wo study a state at its center, its political action, its organization, its spirit, the management of its institutions of learning and of charity, the tenden cies. restrictive or liberal, of its legisla tion, even the tone of social life and the cixleof manners, we discover distinctions, individualities, almost ns many differ ences as resemblances. And wo see— the saving truth in our national life—that each state is a well nigh indestructible entity, an empire in itself, proud and conscious of its peculiarities, and jealous of its rights. We see that state bound aries are not imaginary lines, made by the geographers, which could bo easily altered by the central power. Nothing, indeed, in our whole national develop ment, considering the common influencie that have made us, is so remarkable as the difference of the several states. Even on tl-.o lines of a common settlement, say from New England and New York, note the difference between northern Ohio, northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Wis consin and Minnesota. Or take another line and see the difference between southern Ohio, southern Indiana, south ern Illinois and northern Missouri. But each state, with its diverse popu lation, has a certain homogeneity and character of its own. We can under stand this where there are great differ ences of climate, or when one is moun tainous and the other is flat. But why should Indiana lie so totally unlike the two states that flank it in so many of tlie developments of civilized life or in re tarded action; and why should Iowa, in its entire temper and spirit, lie so unlike Illinois? One state copies the institutions of another, but there is always some thing in its life that it does not copy from any other.—Harper’s Magazine. Work of an “Artistic Costumer.” “As I have no sign out, my business has never had any name. I suppose you might call it ‘artistic costuming. ’ What I really do is to dress children, from babies up to the time they need draperies—when they go to the regular dressmaker. 1 never kxik at a fashion plate. I study old pictures and nature — everything that will help mo to graco in designing and harmony of color. The unconventional is what I seek. “My business was an outgrowth of a department of the Decorative Art society. Some one who did fine sewing for tlie society having failed to till a contract for an infant’s outfit, tlie question was raised: *W)io can wo find to take this work in all stages of incompletion—and finish it?’ A friend, who hud more faitli in me than I in myself, overhearing the discussion, vouclied for my capability, and. knowing that I wanted work, brought me the bundle and said: ‘Now, just finish tliis, will you? You can do it if you try.' At that lime I had not had a great deal to do with children, and hod never known how much they were dressed. So you see tho work brought to me was the last I naturally would have chosen. But there it was, and I did it, and have kept on doing it ever since. Tlie ladies who trusted to my ex|>erience havo continued to trust me. I have the three original customers with whom 1 liegan, and have curried their children through all the succeeding stages of long clothes, short dresses, guimpes and smocks. ”—Buffalo Courier. Insects Destroying Timber. Tt is said that worms aro often more destructive to forests than fires or whirl winds. Tlie insects lay their eggs under the bark and they luitch in the darkness, which is a necessary element for their development. When they hatch into tlie grub form they bore their way into the sap wood and then make a circle around the tree once, twice, and perhaps three times, before it is time for them to turn into ¡>erfect winged insects. This stops the flow of the sap and the growtli of the tree, and eventually the tree dies. Large tracks of dense forest in Maine have been destroyed in this way, and sometimes tracts ui the Adirondacks. It is claimed to bo better for tlie forest to let in the woodman and allow him to thin out the trees and thus give light and air to tho eartli and forest growth. These insects will not develop where there is plenty of air and light, and it would Ixi well for those who own a tract of wood land to bear this in mind and thin it sufficiently to prevent a dense, dark growth. It is told of a Maine man that he held a piece of forest for thirty years and would never allow any wood to tie cut on it. When he came to examine it he found that a large part of it had been ruined by tho girdle worm.— Chicago Times. A Bath In the Dead Sea. I stripped; put in one frxit, then another; it was cold; I pressed on to the knees; I expected peculiar sensations, but expected in vain. Even to the chin the waters rose, and I could still keep my feet to the ground. It was not easy to detect the difference between ordinary Rail water until, indeed, we tried to get dry, and then we found that we had sud denly liecoine liko Izit's wife. Intense irritation followed, and it took some days of washing before we got really rid of the unpleasant effects.—“Last Journals of Bishop Mannington.” V- Special business notices in business columns, 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, 5 cents per line. Professional cards, $12 per year. Special rates for large display “ads.* • q FIFTY CENTS A Individuality of Various sraUw. MANILA POLICE. Guardians ot the Law on the Philippine Islands—Fire Department. One square or less, one insertion................... $1 00 One sqaara, each subsequent insertion.... .W -Nuticesoi appointment and final settlement 5 00 other legal advertisement«, 75 cents for first insertion und 40 cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. ÛAY. ; Meals at City ltestaurauts During Hot Seaaim The Menu. the Summer is the season when the cheap tablo d'hote flourishes. An immense numlx'r of the regular residents of tlie city are turned into a sort of floating population by tlie fact tliat their wives and families have gone into the country, and they float in the sense tliat while they sl<>ep at home in a darkened house or linen ahrouded flat the hearth tires are quenched—not to mention tlioso in the range—and they are reduced to a sort of skirmish for their meals, getting a din ner at Coney Island today, at a down town cafo to-morrow, luncheon any where from the elegant cafe to the free lunch counter of a barroom. This sort of business can be made very ex]x>nsivo, or a uian can live well on fifty cents a day. Don’t lielieve that? Well, there’s a struggling young lawyer hero who does it. Tliis is what he says about the matter: “I sleep in the house of my cousin, who is at Newport for the season. Got a fine four story brown stone affair just off Fifth avenue, and as she knew I was hard up she asked mo to come and stay there while she was away, and the col ored lady who is care taker of the house ■dix's’ for me as a part of her duties, a semi-occasional half dollar rendering her (x-rfectly rcc ncile l to my presence. I am up by 8. and on tuy way down town I stop at a Sixth avenue bakery that lies lietween me and the Elevated. It has one outside r<xim, with chairsand tables, mid you can get coffiv—good eoffxe, too —for live cents a cup. Their buns are fresh and hot at that time of the day and you can get (Ivo of them for five cents, or a sandwich for the same sum, if you lutppen to lie a hearty eater and require meat in the morning. If you are a gilt edged epicure you can get ti slice of pie. But as for me, I'm a plain, homely minded sort of person, nnd I find flvo buns more filling. So my breakfast costs me ten cents. "About 1 o’clock my stomach goes into executive session and liegins to vote lunch appropriations by acclamation. There’s n place down on lower Broadway, near my office, that I patronize—indeed, there are two of the same kind, near to gether, hut I’ve a faithful sort of dispo sition and I stick to the one nearest me. All the bank clerks and the young and iui|M?cuuious lawyers like myself go to these places between 1 and 3, but I’ve seen lots of men who get their dinners at Dclmouico’s come in there hurriedly for luncheon, and get it for fifteen cents. You know tlio millionaires never scorn to save nickels. It’s not so swell as the bakery. There aro no tables or chairs— just a long counter, with big dishes of everything piled within reach, and every single tiling costs just flvo cents. You help yourself to anything you liko tlie looks of—sand«’iches, doughnuts, cakes, pies, hard boiled eggs, buns, etc,—and then the man behind the counter passes you out milk, coffee, ten, lemonade, os jou choose, and tliat’a five cents, too. “When you’re through you tell the man what you've had, he gives you a check, and you settle up with the cash ier near tho door. I generally present him with tho munificent sum of one »lime and a nickel, and don’t go away hungry, either. That seems like a lot of confidence to trust the lunchee to tell how much he has had; but just let any tramp go in there and try to beat the management, and he'll find out double quick whether any one’s glittering eye Ims been ujxni him. Slimmer weather one doesn't want much to eut while you aro working, but when the day is done you feel tlie need of something more staving than tlio everlasting buns and sandwiches; a good square meal, in short, and I know where I can get that same for 25 cents. "There aro half a dozen places whero you can get it, and the menu is not so bud ns you might tliink. Tliero is soup, barley, vegetable or consomme; a bit of fish, with a boil“d |xitato; latnb, mutton, veal or beef, some kind of vegetable, a .qiooufu) of stewed fruit for dessert, or you may lake cheese instead, and then vou get coffee, witli bread ad libitum, throughout tlio meal. The )>eck of dirt is not thrown in, thank Heaven. My place is on Third avenue, but it’s as clean ns tho Brunswick. Tho waiters wear white jackets, but they’re white, and tlie ¡x-ople see they are all clean and respect able themselves, for it’s the decentest dinner for tlie sum tliat I’ve ever seen, and I have Inn I some experience, I can toll you. I ante up my little American quarter, and then I am fed for the day at tho ri’asonable sum of 50 cents.” There aro twenty nice restaurants on the good avenues where a capital table d’hote can lie had for fifty cents with a half liottle of vin ordinaire thrown in, while the Italian eating places cut it down as low as thirty cents, but wine is left out. Actresses out of employment club to gether anil dine at these places, and by three ordering for two, which gives them all enough, they fare sumptuously every day on alxmt tlie sum usually reckoned sufficient to ki'ep a bird alive. There are still Ix-tter, nimoHt elalxirate dinners to bo had for seventy-five cents nnd $1, and at thcao places you will find the newspaper and literary men these hot evenings, with sprinklings of tho professionals and artists.—New York Cor. Bns klyn Eagle. ■í'” sa? & ■G «Mg ’ÄÜ - •j * è ■■ ; Msnnfiwtnrem of Artificial Kills. Artificial silk Is the latest discovery, and judging from the details of it that are to hand, it seems likely that the silk worm's occupation will soon Im gone, and that lie may retire to his cocoon and lament his lost importance in silence. The new material is made, wo aro told, from a kind of collodion, to which lias Imcn added perchloride of iron and tan nic acid. The process of manufacture is somewhat coniplu-atel, but the result seems to be all that can be desired in the way of providing a substance practically equal to g«xxl silk.—Frank Leslie's. nonws!)f)('S of ln<lin Rubber. The sulKtitution of india ml>- l»cr for metal in the manufacture of liorsc hoes is bawnl upon various sup* po-tf d advantage*» ono of these lieing that nil'r <nal-l'•< a to go •u-.ly over ail kinds of roads ;»iid rough or slip pery ground without slipping. Tho con trivance brought forward for tbit pur- pore is such ns to obviate in one instance tho lKCffc-ity of using an iron shoe which can be moved momentarily when the boree i.j not traveling, and can also be used when the liorsc is shod with an iron rl»oe. — Mechanical News. Printing on Green Pl»per. Several of tlie French railway compa nies, and other public txxlics. have adopted the practice of having their printing done on green instead of whito paper. The reason for this alteration is that they have concluded that the com bination of white paper with black char acters endangers tho eyesight of their work people. Black on green has al ways Ion recognized ns a good conibi- nation for this purpoie, and many rail- j way tickets are ao prtuled.--Nuw York 1 Sun. _ —- A ChangeaM« Lan.lwape. A weather prognosticator an«l amateur arti-d of Prague Ims painted a landscape colored with the salts of cobalt. These colors are very scusitivo in moisture and are made still more so by mixing with gelatine. With an iiicreu-.ing amount of moitturu in the atniospliere, tlie blue heavens of the picture aseuiue a dirty rol hue and the gi\x-n grass and foliage. a.1 well as tho background, etc., are :.kjo strikingly changed in color.—Bliiladg^ phia Times, S h.-ul struck him. J *