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THE TELEPHONE. X PUBLISUEÜ PUBLICATION OFFICE: 0ns Dcor North of cor er Third and E Su , M c M innville , or . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year........ (IN ADVANCE.) 12 00 1 .50 00 Mx mouths . Three months S, A. YOUNG, M. D. Physician & Surgeon, M c M innville , - . . O regon . RATES OF ADVERTISING. V<HST SIDE TELEPHONE VOL. Ill MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, JANUARY 17, 1889. Tlie Great Transcontinental Route. Office end residence on D street. All calls promptly answered day or night. -------- VIA TlIE-------- TONSORIAL PARLOR, Shaving, Hair Cutting and- - - - - - - - Sliani|Mting Parlors. FLEMING, & LOGAN, Prop's. All kinds of fancy hair cutting done in the latest and neatest style All kinds of fancy hair dressing and hair dying, a specialty Special attention given to Ladies’ and Childrens’ Work I also have for sale a very tine assort ment of hair oils, hair tonics, cosmetics, etc I have in connection withmv parlor, • the largest and finest stock of O| CIGARS Ever in the city. BSTT hikd S treet M c M innville . O reoon . Cascade Division’ now completed, making it the Shortest, Best’ and Quickest. The Dining Car line. The Direct Route. No Delays. Fastest Trains. Low est Rates to Chicago and all points East. Tickets sold to all Prominent Points throughout the East and Southeast. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleep ing Cars Reservations can be secured in advance. To Fast Bound Passengers. Be caeful and do not make a mistake but be sure to take the Northern Pacific Railroad. And see that your tickets read via LINE, St I’aul or Minneapolis, to M'MINNYILLE NATONAL. THIS avoid changes and serious delays occa sioned by other routes. »SBAßK.b Through Emigrant Sleeping Cars run Transacts a General Hanking Business. on regular express trains full length of the hue. Berths free. Lowest rates. President,................J. W. COWLS, Quickest time. Vice-president, LEE LOUGHLIN. General OlHee Of the Company, No, 3 Cashier............... CLARK BRALY. Sells exchange on Portland, San Francisco, and New York. Interest allowed on time deposits. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m Apr. 13 tf Washington St., Portland, Oregon. AD CHARLTON. Asst General Passenger Agent. Tlie only FIRST CLASS BAR ---- IN----- ARE YOU GOING EAST? If so be sure and call for your tickets via the ‘TAMOUS ML B,” It is positively the shortest and fin Mt line to Chicago and the east and south and the only sleeping and dining ear through line to Omaha, Kansas* City, and all Missouri River Points. McMinnville, is opened —IN— COOK’S HOTEL Where you will find the best of Wines and Liquors, also Imported and Domestsc Cigars. Everything neat and Clean. T. M. F ields , I’ropr. The St. Charles Hotel. Sample rooms in connection. o------o Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed train service and elegant dining and Is now fitted up in first class order. sleeping cars has Irtmestly earned for it the title of Accommodations as good as can be foun din the city. S. E. MESSINGER, Manager. The Itoyal Itoute Others may imitate,but none can surpass it Qur motto is “always on time ” Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets via this celebrated route and take none others. W II MEAD, G A. No. 4 Washington street, Portland, Or. —Mrs. Trollope did not commence her career as an author until she had reached “the sober season of married and middle lire.” —Browning, the English poet, who is a warm admirer of Walt Whitman, ha3 one of the largest collections in Europe of works by American verse writers. —The success ot a well-known au thor is attributed to tho fact “that he who reads feels that the hero is but a slight idealization of himself, the hero ine such as every girl expects or be lieves herself to be.” What is this but the understanding of human nature, upon which all true literary success depends? —Thomas Mooney,who was the first missionary to visit this country on be half of Ireland, is dead. For many years he was the London correspond ent of the Irish World of New York, writing under tho nom do plume of “Transatlantic.” On April 21, 1888, when he laid down his pen, he was ninety years old. —Sirs. Eotta, the well-known wife of Pref. Vincenzo Botta, himself a lit terateur of note, became distinguished early in life as Miss Anna Lynch, the poetess. Later her “ Handbook of Universal Literature,” a remarkable work, passed through a number of edi tions, and was adopted in most colleges and schools as a text-book. —Mr. Andrew Lane is said to be one of the best paid literary men of the time. The London Daily News give him for his editorials on minor topics $3,000 a year; his monthly “Ship” in Longman's Magazine brings him in $500 annually; his articles in the Saturday Review are said to be as remunerative as those in the Lon don Daily News; he has a handsome salary as “reader” for Longman's; he writes magazine articles and London letters, and copyright receipts frstn his books swell the list. —The question, “How to be an Orator,” has been asked ot Rev. Robert Collyer. He answers thus in the New York Mail and Express: “What I have to say I try to say in the simplest words I can find, and in happy mo ments I seem to find these by instinct. Then I sever make up my mind how I shall say them. I leave all this to some swift intuition of the instant, and the holy spirit of the truth, and know beforehand that, if the thing is well worth saying, and I can forget Collyer, it will be all right when I am through ”_______________ —Upward of 2,000,000 of the youth* of India are to-day receiving a iil>eral English edaeation. For the most part it is purely secular. The spread o Western knowledge is opening ' 9 flood-gates of infidelity, of non-religmnt leaving the people in a state not on y Creedless, but Godless. THE TELEPHONE democratic . EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. CITY STABLES, Third Street, between E and F McMinnville, Oregon. Henderson Bros. Props First-class accommodations for Ccnimer cial men and general travel. Transient stock well cared for. Everything new and in First-Class Order Patronage respectfully solicited ltf Great English Remedy. Murray's Specfic. Trade M.rk. A guaranteed cure for all nervous diseases, such as weak ’memory, loss of brain power hysteria, headache, pain in the back, nervous prostration, wakefulness, leucorrhoea, uni versal lassitude, seminal weak ness, impotency. and general loss of power of the generative Before Taking, organs, in either sex, caused bv indiscretion or over exertion, and which Ultimately lead to premature Trgd.M.rk. old age,insanity and consump tion $1.00 per box or six boxes for $5.00,sent by mail on receipt of price. Fall particu lars in pamphlet, sent free to every applicant. WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES to cure any case. For everv $5 00 order received, weAftsr 1 iking, send six boxes with written guarantee to re fund tjie money if our Specific doe» not ef- Address all communications to the Sole manufacturers THE MURRAY _ yrr-T-iifiYii' MEDICINE r'O CO. Kansas < ity, Mo. Sold by Rogers Æ Todd, sole a-rents NV- V- PR'ICE PHOTOGRAPHER. L'p Stairs in Adams’ Building, McMinnville, Oregon PATENTS US PATENT OFFICE, w e have no sub JLneies all business direct, hence can P“leb.t„ik’i’’Howto Obtain Patents.” with references to actual clients m v«- State. ¿/ a . SNOW & CO Opposite Pat. nt W.i-lonu-b.'.. >>_ WM. HOLL, Proprietor of the The leading jewelry establishment , -OF- YAMHILL COUNTY, Third Street. McMinnville Or. One square or less, oue insertion................. fl 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.... 5(f Xoticeaof appoint ment and final settlement 5 00 Other legal advertisement«. 75 cents for first insertion and W cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices in business columns, 10 tents per line. Regular business notices, 5 cents per line. Professional cards, $1*2 per year. Special rates for large display “ads." NO. 39 CONGRESSIONAL NEWS PACIFIC COAST NOTES. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS THE AGRICULTURALIST t PORTLANDÌMARKET REPORI An Interesting Resume of the Week's Mat'ers of Local and General Import A Brief Mention of Matters of Gen ral GROCERIES—Sugars have fallen jc Newsy Notes Conce nlng tbe Farm and since our last report. We quote C f jc, Happenings In Both Branches or Gathered from All Sources for Interest.—Notes Gathered from of Especial IIterest to tie Pa extra C 5jc, dry granulated flje, cube, the Nation’s Legislature the Benefit of Our Readers. Home and Abroad. crushed and powdered 7j}c. Coffees firm, cific Coast Husbandman. Guatemala 18tW21ic, Cost* Ric* 18j(«2le, Rio 2Oi«0214c, 8alvadorlU^20c, Arbuckle’» Samuel N. Bixley has been appoint Fresno tailors are striking for better roasted 23yc. R ice troubles are feared at Arcola, Georgia is to have an immigration wages. ed postmaster at Kelso, Cowlitz coun Miss. bureau to encourage immigration to PROVISIONS—Oregon hams are qnot- ed atl39« Hie, breakfast bacon 134®Hie, ty- Albuquerque, N. M., built 300 hi uses Bernhardt gave ten performances the State of industrious and intelli Eastern nie»t isqnoted as fololws: Hams gent farmers and mechanics. James P. Starr has been appointed I last year. at Cairo, Egypt, recently. Fka 13 i», Sinclairs 14 a 15c, Oregon break fast bacon 134®14c, Eastern 13®13 c. postmaster at Syracuse, Polk comity, , Wallula and Walla Walla are now Do not sell ofi* your surplus hay or Last year 1356 people died of de FRUITS—Green fruit receipts 1230 bxs. in place of Frank R. Hubbard, re connected by rail. straw yet, or you may find yourself Hard lirium tremens in Eugland. fruit is scarce, and the supply ot ap signed. short of a supply before the winter is ples not equal to the demand. Apples (J6® John P. St. John will m ike his resi The Paris police will search the over. The amount to be retained de 85 per bx, Mexican oranges $1, lemons A railway mail service has been es dence in California. houses of all known anarchists. tli'all.50 per bx, bananas $3.50®4.50, pends on the condition of the stock quinces tablished on tlie route from Wood tOgUOc, Traver, Tulare county, Cal., now The Sultan is one of the most en and the severity of the weather be VEGETABLES—Market well supplied. ville to Snohomish, six times a week boasts a cheese factory. tween now and spring, thusiastic chess players iu Europe. to take effect from the 28th. Cabbage f ale per R>, carrots and turnips '5e per sack, red pepper :ic pertb, potatoes Every farmer’s son should be edu 3Va4'*c In Russia last year 80,000 dram- Governor-elect Hovey has left Wash The penitentiary of Washington per »ack, sweet per n>. Territory is now heated by steam. cated to a knowledge of botany and simps were done away with by law. ington for his home in Indiana. He DRIED FRUITS—Receipts 01 pkges. to thoroughly understand all the apples 4'aoc per tt>, factory will resign his seat in the House, A gang of hoodlums at Victoria at Lord Coleridge has collected $35,000 points of the different breeds of stock, Sun-dried slic d 8c, factory plums 7(a0l-, Oregon which will be filLd by a special elec tacked ike salvation army recently. for the widow and daughters of Mat as well as be familiar with the nature prunes 7 "9c, pears 0 a 10c, peaches 8 910c, tion next month. raisins $2(32.25 per box, Cali orni* figs North Yakima is soon to have a thew Arnold. of fertilizers and their fitness for cer- 8c, Smyrna 18c per tt>. Senator Cullom has reported favor system of waterworks to cost $100,000. The British government states that tain crops and soils. DAIRY PRODUCE—Oregon creamery ably a bill from the commerce com Attempts have been made to rob a successor to Sackville West will choice dairy 35c, medium 7<330c Cal Do not be afraid to open the doors and mittee to increase the salary of the people while getting on trains at Col shortly be appointed. ifornia fancy 30e, choice dairy 274c, anu windows of the cellar on clear eastern 25'<Co0c. surgeon general of the marine hos ton. Final preparations have been made days. It is much hotter to have pure EGGS - Receipts 203 cases. Oregon 23c. pital service to $6000 per annum. J. C. Leisure, of Pendleton, lias re for the oiiicial trial of the 15-incii air in the cellar than to keep it close POULTRY - Chickens »5« 5.25. for The total coinage of the United signed and damp. When the cellar is musty large young and $4 4 75 for old, turkeys the position of deputy district pneumatic dynamite gun. States mints for the twelve months atoruey. and a disagreeable odor noticed the IU3I0C per tb, ducks $5(37 per dozen. Another valuable coal deposit lias ending the calendar year ef 1888 was entire house is likewise a fleeted. WOOL—Valley 18820c Eastern Oregon just been discovered in Dakota, three An effort is to be made in the Ne $65,318,614, divided a* follows: Gold, 10(<i 15c. A farm must not only be self-sup $31,380,080; silver, $33,025,606; mi vada legislature to obtain a charter miles north of Centerville. HOPS-Choice 8814c. for a lottery. nor, $912,200. The Italian railway system is un porting but should pay a profit. GRAIN—Valley $1.35, Eastern Oregon When the farmer reaches that stage Oats 33 <z)35c. Many arrestB have been mads on ac dergoing a radical reform to facilitate when lie is compelled to borrow, or de $1.30 The Secretary of the Navy has is Fl OUR-Standard $4.50, other brands the mobilization of troops. sued peremptory orders to hasten the count of the recent not at the New pend on some income from another $4.25, Dayton and Cascade $4.10, Gaaham work of preparing the Uniteu StattB castle mines. The largest organ in the world is source, his farm is unprofitable, and $3.25, rye flour $0, do Graham $5.50. ships Atlanta, Vandalia and Mohican FRESH MEATS-Beef, live, 3j®34c, The sealing schooners are all pre now being built in London for Syd he should then endeavor not only to dressed 7c, mutton, live, dpoil’c, dressed for sea. It is reported that the last paring to leave British Columbia ports ney. It will cost about $75,000. discover .the cause of his loss but also 7o, lambs $2.50 each, hogs, live, ojtigtlc, two named will be sent to Samoa to for the north. aim to improve in some manner, in dressed 7874, veal 0<a 8c. France appears to be somewhat dis reinforce the Nipsic. The repairing shops of the Oregon pleased over the debate in the U. 8. A party of Dakota Democrats, re and Washington Territory road are to Senate on the Panama cal project. cently elected delegates by the be located at Walla Walla. Eugene Wetherill, husband of Em Mitchell convention, are now in Wash The lone highwayman appears to ma Abbott, the noted piima donna, ington, their object being to secure necessary legislation to carry into ef be busily engaged in holding up stage died suddenly at Denver last week. Mrs. Sheridan has accepted the de fect the desires of the convention, and coaches in northern California. they express the intention of remain The wind from eastern Oregon sign of Samuel H. Kittson, of New ing there until that is accomplished. blows alkali dust which settles on the York, for the monument to General Sheridan. The President gave a state dinner glass of the Fort Canby lighthouse. President Carnot of France received of forty-eight covers to members of A colored man assauted a pretty the cabinet Friday night, the second Pasadena girl last week, and if he nearly a thousand Christmas presents of the winter’s series of official enter had been caught the mob would have from his admiring fellow-citizens of the Republic. tainments. The White House was lynched him. handsomely dt corated for the occa Mrs. Parnell has deeded to her son, Lirge numbers of miners are flock sion. A miniature lake, with banks Charles Stewart Parnell, the Ironsides lined with evergreens and red and ing to *he gold mines in the Harqua- hoirn stead and other property at white roses, was the principal floral Hala mountains in Yuma and Mari B jrdentown, N. J. copa counties, A. T. decoration. Though nearly a million Lebel John and Fred Mize, who attempted A letter was laid before the Senate rifles have been turned out iu France, to murder their father-in-law, Henry Friday from tlie Secretary of the the government workshops are still Treasury in reply to a resolut on of Cattery, at Santa Rosa, will have to turning out 3000 a day more. serve one year in San Quentin. the Senate asking for copies of the rul King Leopold, of Belgium, has in ing made by the department as to tlie A Chinaman at Sacramento at classification of gill-nets made iu tempted to take a stone from a rail structed the bishops of his little realm Scotland, and imported for salmon road track, to prevent what he thought to have prayers ottered constantly for fisheries on the Pacific Coast. The would be an accident, and was killed the safety of Stanley and Emin Pasha. Secretary says no decision lias been by a passing train. A celebrated team of bull-fighters made during the past year on gill- The wife of Charles Allen, of Grass from Seville, Spain, performed before nets ready and fit for use by salmon Valley, has been sent to the insane 30,000 excited people at the City of fishermon. asylum. She fancies she is a bird, Mexico recently. Four bulla were Claus Spreckels has made a state tries to imitate its twitterings and at killed. ment before the Senate committee of tempts to climb trees. Articles have been signed by Sulli finance, concerning his experiments John Barry, a drunken scoundrel van and Kilrain for a fight near New in the manufacture of beet sugar in at Portland, was arristed recently for Orleans for a purse of $10,000 and the California, intended as an argument whipping his wife’s dead body and diamond championship belt now held against the proposed reduction of duty dragging it from the bed to the flo ,r, by the latter. on sugar and the substitution thereof because it would not rise at his bid The most prominent brigand in of a bounty of 1 cent a pound. Dur ding. China, Ho Ta Lao-hu, has been cap ing the hearing it was intimated that At a rjeent meeting of the Colum tured and killed. He was a giant, the committee would insert in the bill a provision, making the bounty of one bia River Fishermen’s Protective being 7 feet 2 inches in height and cent a pound operative until the year Union at Astoria, the price of salmon broad in proportion. for the next cannery season was set at Five negro murderers were drowned 1890. $1 per fish if caught in cannery nets in Broad river, 8. C., a few days ago, The members of tlie Senate commit- and ' $1.25 if caught in private nets. while struggling for the possession of tee having charge of the tariff bill The colored church in Sacramento money they had just taken from the have decide«» to offer an amendment , making the duty on lumber $1.50 per had a sensation last week, when the body of one whom they had murdered. Empress Frederick is understood to 1000 feet, a reduction of 25 per cent i janitor found a number of loud ciga- pictures in the seat which has have made friends with her eldest son. in the bill as reported from the com- arette ' mittee. It was first proposed to make j been occupied the previous evening the Emperor, but she failed to receive the duty $1.25, but a compromise on by a parly of young female members. the - customary Christmas present a $1.50 rate was secured by the sena John Foster, who stole a horse from from him. It is given out that she tors from the Northwest. A proviso the neighborhood of Elk Grove, Sac requested him not to send it. will be inserted that this rate shall be ramento county, Cal., last month, and James L. Wright, R. N. Keen, It. C. conditional on Canada removing her who left a piece or doggerel after him McAliley and Joseph 8. Kennedy, the export duty on lumber. i to induce a believe in the proximity four original members of the Knights C. C. W. West, Governor of Utah, of i Black Bart, has been sentenced to of Labor, have issued circulars to the years at San Quentin. is now in Washington. He intends to ten I knights which are expected to over appear before tbe House committee While passengers were being landed throw the Powderly administration in on territories to oppose the admission from the steamer Point Arena at Lit the order. of Utah as a state. This sentiment, , tle River, Mendocino county, last The Czar is said to have become he says, is shared by nearly every Gen week in a boat, the latter was capsize tile in the territory. West places his ( and Mrs. Kilday and the daughter of reconciled to Prince Alexander of Bat objection on the broad ground that an , assistant keeper at the light-house tenberg, owing to the kindly efforts of a mo herly Grand Duchess who take; Mormons are unfitted to exercise tbe ( at Point Arena were drowned. interest in the Princess Victoria of rights of citizenship. He says: “To Last week, at Bonita, Graham Prussia, and wants to see the young give these people sovereign rights, as A. T., several sheepmen were couple happy and married. proposed, would be to place every non- county, ' their flocks neai the range of Mormon in Utah completely at their grazing I Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Hillas, Chiricahua cattlemen, who Texas, twice rescued a burglar from mercy. Under the territorial form of some ' wanted the sheepmen to go elsewhere. government we are protected by Con the hands of a mob last week, and battle ensued and five sheep-herders each time the culprit was hanging gress ai d the Executive. Confer the A right of Statehood upon Utah and the were killed and one cattleman from a tree. The second time the res cue was made the deputy fired upon »Mormons would frame a constitution wounded. There is trouble over land claims at the lynchers and injured several. and laws so unjust and arbitrary in their character that an outsider could Los Olivos. Squatters are flocking The city council of Cheyenne, Wy. not live among t.iem. I favor leav- j in from all quarters and taking T., has closed the deal with the Union possession of land on the Brinkerhoff ing it a territory, but so amending the Pacific and workshops will be imme law as to abridge the power of the , and Laguna extension, near the town. diately established. The citizens of The land in dispute is claimed to be Cheyenne are overjoyed, a boom has church.” part os the Bell ranch, between Los set in, and land in the neigh borhoixl The National Woolgrowers’ Associ- Olivos I and Limpoc, Santa Barbara has increased in value wonderiully ation met in convention at Washing within the last few weeks. ton last week. Resolutions were county. The little daughter of L. 8. Kenne adopted declaring, that while Con M. Lucien Gaulard, who had so gress maintained a geneial policy o dy, living at Pilot Rock, had a nar- large a share in the introduction of protection, the wool growers a.d wool iow escape fiom death last week. Two the traneformer system of electric manufacture in the United States school-boys wire shooting at a mark, lighting, died recently in a lunatic have a right to demand that the du and while crossing a field on her way asylum in France. His friends at ties on wool and on woolen and worst to school the child was struck by a tribute his mental failure to the legal ed good« shall be adjusted and main- passing bullet, inflicting a painful tree tiles he had experienced in con ?ined ’„° “ rket^The^SS though not serious wound above the nection with his various patents. right temple. protest »gainst the Senate tariff bill so Charles Johnson, recently an in When Will Bright, son of John Far as it affects wool, and providing for mate of the British Columbia peniten Bright, wanted to reprove his father a committee of seven to formulate tiary, and now a resident of Portland, f ir the latter's severity for comment such schedule of tanff duties for wool was engaged last week in circulating ing on his eon’s adherence to home ’«may be deemed just an 1 necessary, a paper in Victoria headed, "Prison rule principles, the young men wrote: and to present the same to the finance reform and hidden secrets, a brief ac "My dear father, these are not the committee of the Senate and urge >ts count of the tyrany, injustice and op kind of letters that should lie ad adoption. They further declare that pression practiced in the British Co dressed by one statesm an to another.” the determination of the econom.c lumbia penitentiary.” The charges It is expected that not more than ami financial policy of this govern made against the officials are very se one million pounds of tobacco will be ment >- imporunt to wool-growing rious. raised io Egypt this year, although, “nd.Bother industries and business George Vanderbilt, the millionaire three million pounds have been pro of the nation as to require son of the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt, duced in former seisms. The de anil definite legislation, and if t a his purchased a tract of 3000 acres of crease is owing to the recent action of shall not be aceomph.bed duringj the valuable land in North Carolina. It the Khedive in putting a tax of nre-ent Congress sn early extra ses is believed he intends to erect a $157.50 on each acre of ground de Fion of 511,1 Congre“ “ reC°n’’ woman’s college. I mended. order that the farm may be self-sup porting. The most disagreeable thing on the farm in winter is mud, and, although it can not be entirely avoided, yet some of its disadvantages may be overcome by carefully draining every location that allows an excess of wa ter to accumulate. When the cattle are compelled to stand knee deep in mud there is a loss of animal heat, and a greater proportion of food will be required to keep them in condition. Churning cream when slightly sour, as is the custom in the Holstein dairies, yields butter of a peculiar and fine aroma. Butter made from very sour cream is destitute of th s aroma, and has the t .ste which the Holstein butter acquires after keeping some time. Stirring of cream does not pro mote souring, but rather hinders it hX increasing access of air , it may be ad vantageous in making the souring uniform. Ferret breeding is a new and highly profitable branch of farming in Aus tralia and New Zealand. Ono firm that has commenced the business on a large scale has contracted to supply 14,000 ferrets per annum for three years to the government at 7s. GJ. per head, the creatures being delivered when they ire three months old. They have on hand two hundred fer rets and thirtz rabbits, and the milk of three cowb is required every day for their food. For very early eggs warm, com fortable houses, proper feed, and good care are necessary. If the hens have to use all the feed they get to keep themselves warm, if they are not sup plied with food containing egg-forming materiirl, and if the houses are not kept clean and well ventilated, the egg basket need not be a large one. The roof of the poultry house should be tight, the sides well battened and the knot-holes covered, or the entire sides covered with tarred paper to pre vent draughts, and the floor made in a way to take no drainage from the outside and be perfectly dry. For ventilation, any plan whereby the fowls can be supplied with pure fresh air without being subjected to draughts will answer. On how many places is it a pleas ure to visit the hen house? Although there has been a great change for the better during the last few years, the average hen house is still shunned by all who are not obliged to visit it. Tiiis is not surprising, as it is full of lice in summer, and in winter is foul with the stencil from a year’s accu mulation of filth. This need not and ought not to lie. The poultry on a place, especially if a pure breed is kept, should be a "j >y forever.” Tuey never lo«e their interest. Each has its individuality, its likes and dislikes, like all other stock, and a half hour spent in watching them is always full cf pleasure, and seldom without profit. Something new can be learned at every visit. Wood ashes have too great a value to be wasted. Every farmer’s family should make its own soap supply, It is cheaper for the farmer to muk** soap than to buy it. When not util ized on the farm, "roap _ _ grease” i* either wasted or sold for a pittance. After the ashes are leached they are as good as before for manure, where the soil docs not lack jMitash. If a teaspoonful of clean wimm ! ashes is given every third day to horses in their feed they will will very rarely need condition powders. The same amount given to cattle will have good results. Cattle, also swine, are fre quently seen licking ashes where rub bish has been burned. The ashes given to hogs may be mixed with their salt. Ashes correct acidity of the stomach and destroys some in testinal worms. Wood ashes are a valuable fertiliser for all crop*, but es pecially for orchard crop«. They con tain all the mineral element« required by plants. The fine condition and peculiar proportion of their ingre dientfl make their real agricultural value greater than the value com puted from chemical analysis. Coal ashes are comjiaratively worthless, but wood ashes should never be thrown away. FOREIGN GOSSIP. —Korosone oil is responsible for nine-tenths of tho fires that take place in China. —Tho Emperor of Austria is very fond of chamois shooting, and in that sport uses an old-fashioned muzzle loading gun. —The great gamo of Japan is "Go.” ft is something like chess, and the masters of it sometimes take twenty- four hours for a gamo. I —English girls arc said to laugh at the idea of wearing stays while playing tennis. They mean business when they go into a court, and for the moment forget to worry about what sort of a figure they cut. —“Walking Day” is the odd and ap propriate term of a holiday in War rington, England, when children and teachers march in procession, and largo numbers of tho people take excursions to various points of interest. —Old Emperor William as Jupiter, Emperor Frederick as Mars, Empress Augusta as Juno and Empross Victoria as Minerva are four statues of sand stone which have boon placed in nichos above the grand entrance to tho Royal Schloss in Berlin. —The Austrian Consul at Yokohama reports great difference •»> commercial morality between the merchants of China anil Japan. The Japanose, he says, are neither enterprising nor up right, but the Chinamen are solid and trustworthy in every respect. —A few years ago the Argentine Republic did not raise wheat enough for homo consumption. Last year it exported 7,000,000 bushels. Immense tracts of pasture are being converted into farm land, and tho country is be coming n great grain-growing region. —English business men who have to send large quantities of mail matter to distant parts of tho world find that they cun save a groat deal of money by sending their mail in bulk to Bel gium and posting it there, the rates being so much cheaper. It is said that tho saving to one firm alone by this course amounts to $3,000 a year, and there Is a loud demand for reform in tho British rutos. —An elevator for canal-boats, as a substitute for five or six locks, is in successful operation at Arquos, near St. Omer, Franco. Tho boats are lift ed to the height of nearly fifty feet by dydraulic pressure, inclosed in a reser voir made of wrought-iron platos, and separated from tho rest of the canal by iron gates. When tho required heiCftt has been reached, the gates are opened and tho boat is drawn out into tho main channel. —A British agent at Cettinje, Monte negro, reports that thero Is only one road fit for a wagon in the > 'tola coun try, and that thoro is practically no industry, Montenegrins scorning any pursuit but that of arms. All the tailors, painters, carpenters, masons and other artisans are foreigners, and all (goods except those which are the direct product of agriculture are Im ported, and are of the commonest de scription, except tho groon and while cloth used for men's coats. —Tho English law carefully regu lates the subject of tho sailor's grog. Every Bhip must carry a quantity of lime or lemon juice as an antiscorbu tic, containing fifteen percent, of pala table fruit sirups, that la, sound rum of a specific gravity fixed by the stat ute or sound brandy of a quality simi larly fixed. The Board of Trade tolls how the grog shall be mixed. One ounce of the lime juice is to be mixed with one ounaa of sugar and at least half a pint st water and must be served Ip time for dinner. —What we aro doing for the children to-day, wo are doing for the Nation to morrow. This is tho teacher's field of work, and it is a grand ono. Let the politician work upon the grewn-up men all he may; he can do little, after all— that is, in improving them mentally and morally. They have passed ths plastic stefo. But there is hope in the children. Those who would do good to humanity will be most successful who take the children by the hand. The teacher is tho trtie state-builder.