M c M innville , O regon , F riday , june 21,1889. Feb. 1,1889. W. T. Shurtleff. J. I. Knight. J. I. KNIGHT t REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE, LOAN BROKERS, NOTARIES PUBLIC AND SEARCHERS of RECORD. McMinnville, Oregon. * MONEY TO LOAN • On farm property in sums from $‘200 up. If you wish any insurance on your prop­ erty give us a call, as we have the agency for the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Insurance Co., of Albany, the best home company in Oregon. Besides, we can and we want to sell you a lot in Oak Park Addition to McMinn­ ville. If you wish any information regarding oar County, do not fail to write us. All your questions will be answered cheerfully and to the best of our ability. J. I. KNIGHT & CO. f. F. CALUMATO. B. E. OOÜCHER. Calbreath A Goucher, [ ¡ WM. HOLL, Watchmaker and Jeweler. PHYSICIANS AND SUR6E0NS, MeMwKvtLLK, - - - O regon . (Office over Braly’s Bank.) Dealer In All Kinds of Watches, Jewelry, Plated Waro. Clocks and Spectacles. McMiNNVILLE, OR. S, A. YOUNG, M. D. 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Con­ sider the situation calmly end ask yonr- self how you stand.” “Seems to me I did administer eome- thing of a ca ligation to yon for eome in­ subordination, and I have of*sn thought that I neglected my duty in nc. adminis­ tering it ofiener. If there are any apolo­ gies I owe yon for finishing you once when I should have thrashed von twice I am here to pr< ent them.” “Do you recall the last altsmpt you made and the utter failure c’ the opera­ tion?” I remarked, with a dash of sar­ casm in my voic*. “Yes, indeed; you got the uaderliold and I found that I had bnilded stronger than I knew.” With this pleasantry he held ont his hand for the ticket j. I shook it heartily and the reconciliation was templets. He will be in the front row to-morrow afternoon applaudin'» everything ia sight and I gueis there will be a good dial in sight which will nt< ssitate the old man to take an opera glass ia order toee.it all. When the vast audience from Dayton. Lafayette, Newberg, Carlton, North Yamhill and Salt Creek hsv. packed the great consolidated caavas and the roar of the Jabbsrwoek and th. murmur of tiie Whangdoodle has died away ths flaps of the side tent will ba op.,-ied as if by magic and a pair of spiritsd mules will dash in driving th. McMinnville sprinkler. It appears that already the circus and our water committee has fall­ en out and thecommittra has said that the circus can have none of the Baker creek water to use on tlie ring, for it is scarce you know. The circus should not wet down the ring because our people are not used to a clear atmosphere, and it is liable to cause tears to come to their eyes, which will interfere with seeing the women in short clothes. That is the great attraction to a Yamhiller and if he loses the sight of those le,-s the amuse­ ment of the day is gon., tie gc.s home broken hearted to weep in the silence of his chamber. He does not, however, pour his grief into the rj~s of h:s de­ voted spouse, who liss been busv rh.ll- ing peas and spanking th. baby while he was attempting to see the elephant. If tlie eirevs uses water thev will b.reto scrape it up in the Cook hoes. bx:k yard. In doing this they should be very careful or it is liable to break. It is a peculiar kind of water, it 'i known ss congealed water. Genuine Bedouin Arabs from Co»k will dfafeibute the mat­ ter about th. ring in pails. The circus was here a year sqo and was attended by me—I msc 1 my latrily. We entered rid took reserved seats without paving, which ia one c* the ad­ vantages of being connec cd with a news­ paper. Myself and family were then enabled to mingl. with Lome of the lead­ ing members ef the Siwssh tribe, people high up in the i oui cil chimbe. 1 of oar city and prominent leprersnta ives of our local Mongolian "Four Hundred.” Several of our friends hogan to cheer and guy us, but when J. J. Spencer and John Louis Rogers appeared with camp stools and lorgnettes of great power and seated themselves within the ropes the populace turned their attsntica ,o them and left the chief teribe cf a wild, howl­ ing democratic paper io Bink into noth­ ingness, for which we wore glad, aid would have willingly paid for ths same some fifteen minutes before. We owe our thanks to the above mentioead gen­ tlemen and hope they will again relieve us to-morrow. While I was engaged in scanning the $10 boxes and counting the noses of the back subscribers in them, my cars were deafened by the sound of bra is, and look­ ing beheld a coal black t.eed come pran­ cing in, much to the astonishment of the clown who fell over several guy ropes in getting out of the way. A woman was on the horse drested in air and mosquito netting. She poised hoi;elf on her right toe and pointed her left leg directly at me much to my astonishment and cha­ grin and much to the pleasure of John Louis and -Tack who were working the full strength cf their lorgnette on her. No man.no not one in ten thousand, likes to lie pointed out in this manner in such a public place; she finally swept her foot around in the direction of other people and I felt more at care. The complexity of her costume I shall net attempt to de­ scribe, but she was, to all appearances, in tlie prime of her youth and beauty, al­ though Sam Manning said she had been primed that ray for the last quarter of a century. Still I am never disposed to criticise a public character. If a woman of sixty ! can fix herself up to resemble a gushing creature of twenty. I accept the illusion and applaud with the rest. Were 1 obliged to pay at the door I might be more fastidious and inquiring. After the performance, howovor, as I was taking a cigar with the manager, I said to him : “I want yon to understand sir, that when in next week’s issue of my journal, I describe year leading bareback —and I might also say bare-legged—rider as the 'young and beautiful flying god­ dess of the air,’ that I am not deceived as to her age. My long experience as a show critic enables me to detect all the shams of the business.” He gave a low chuckle and remarked that it was seldom ho could deceive t le press, but in this particular instance tho “goddess of the air” was a bright young boy of fifteen who had gone ia the ring that afternoon as a substitute for his aunt whose ankle wai dislocated. The burst of rude laughter that filled the cigar store cansed me to wander aim­ lessly up the street, where I could find more congenial company. I attended the menagerie^that evening and was pleased and interested with what I saw. There being no regular professor of natural histery present to enumerate the names and characteristics ef the animals I deemed it my duty to borrow a cane and go along ia front of the cages where I lectured on beasts of th. desert and otherwise mislead ami diverted th. mul­ titude. “Ladies and gentlemen, thia i. th. Nn- midian ibex, which sheds it. horns .very forty-eight hours. Th. splendid pair of herr.a yon now r-e on th. animal will drop eff precisely at tw.nty minutcJ to eight; those wishing to remain and wit­ ness th. operation can do eo without .x- tra charge.” There was but ten miantes more to wait, and after my announcement the Yamhill county contingent crowded about the cage, each man palling ent his watch to mark the time. John Hnleiy made a bet of $20 with Dr. Goncher that th. horns wonld fall off at the time specified in my remarks, and, as lock would have it, lost hii bet. As Hnlery hi_s the reparation of never betting except en a certainty, several of his friends followed oa his lead, and after the lose of their money began to fol­ low me, and I had tome trouble convinc­ ing them that th. eironB company was responsible for importing a non-horn­ shedding ibex, which was esh'.naerl a greater enrioeity than the regulation kind from the fact that they retain their horns in all climtaes. I also visited the cage of the rhinoceroas and was shocked and disgusted at the lack of style conspicuous in his attire. His overcoat ought to have been eat ay and made over ter the child­ ren, or disposed of at almost any figures at the nearest misfit clothing store. Strolling outside to avoid complication with tho ye.pl. of Yamhill whom I was constantly running agei.st, I found a man telling soap. Be retailed the arti­ cle at a dollar per cake and guaranteed that each package contained a $M green­ back ar thereabout*. Juat about that time I nctic.d a man take a $S<) bill ont of a package and alee about th. Km» timel net iced the soap ma. pnt th. eame amount into a package and a moment later in an absentminded way he offered me the package. I pnrchas.d th. package and withdrew from the crowd before opening it, as I was certain that half a dos.n people who voted for me at th. Isa* co.nty primaries wonld insist on a divvy if they e- me with $20 exposed and wind, so .eadily. The package contained neither soup nor greenbacks, and several leading peo­ ple in the eity afterwards informed me that they had a similar .xperienc. with the man, who does not appear to be such a d----- foql as h. look». After wandering aroa.d for a f.w heirs and bucking at all th. fake semes which are allowed to run on circa, d.y in Mc- Minnvill., I saw a great hrut. of a man thumping a small boy becaes. he was tired end wantwi to ge horn.. The man wanted to try hi. luck rime more es the thimbl. gam.. I expostulated with the man and he hit me in the eye. W. had a fight right there, and just as I was get­ ting in an undercut thwt would have laid him .at, (»•«. Kaufm.n pall.d me and let th. other fellow go. I was badly mu­ tilated and mad, and I do not intend to vote fer him at the next election. I now sign mys.lt • am D avis mutilated. «trowing Rabies. The baby incubator at th. Woman’s Hospital, Twenty-stJond street and North College avenue, has already saved the lives of four prematurely born infants since its introdnetien there not quite three months ago, and is still in constant use. So great has been its success that the institution has ordered another inca­ bator from Pari., which will be double the siz. of the present one, and will hold three babies at one time. The new ma­ chine will arrive in a few days, and will immediately g.grt in to meet the grow­ ing demand mad. upon the hospital au­ thorities to render aid (o prematurely born infants. Th. present machine has not been empty a day sine, littl. Florenc. Myall, its Irst occupant, graduated several weeks sqo from th. machine in fall in­ fantile health .nd vigor.. Daring her in­ carceration ef five Weeks Florence gained nearly seven pounds, end at th. timj of her graduation she weighed nearly eleven pounds. The incubator, or eonv.use, as it is technically termed, has just released a six months baby bey named John Ha­ gan, who, after spending six weeks in hit little 1 ife-giving prison, became so plump that his mother said h. was cer­ tainly going to be twice as big and fat as his father. John weighed fear pounds when he was initiated into th. mysteries ef the cenvense. For the next seven weeks h. was fed hourly during th. day and at th. clos. ef his treatment in the box he vm an .ncsnallv plump baby. His mother thought so when he was taken ont fer good «nd found to weigh twelve pounds. Daring the latter part of King John’s reign in the inenba- ter he had a girl companion, who had come into the world a month sooner than had been expected. Her name was Ra­ chel Smith. So well did Rachel prosper that she receiv.d certificates of gradua- t’on ut the same time baby John was re­ leased. The presvnt .ccnPant of th. convense is a queer personage. R. brers the his­ toric name .f .Tulin* Caesar Dannis, so christened because bis moth.r under­ went th. «Asarean operation st birth. The nam. “Dennis” is often associated with bid luck, but thii yenng Dennis is thriving rapidly. He hu been in the eonv.ns. for a week, sad has already gained two pounds »nd a half. Dennis is a bright young cherub, and looks as though he might live in spite of his name.— Philadelphia Record. Rnm Tactics tn Maine. Biddeford has been interested ia a new device of the rnmsellcrs, brought to light by a receat seizure. The objects of curiosity are two tin cans, crescent shaped and made t. fit closely to the side of the hnman body, They ere about fourteen inches high tid not over an inch wide at the widest part. Each is provided with a mouthpiece and a stop­ per. This beats tho bottle tied to the wire of a hoopskirt, at one time a favorite device of Lewiston female law-breakers. SIOUX ORATORY. VOL. I. NO. 20. LAURA BRIDGMAN. Chief Gall’s Address to tlie Com­ The Wonderful Acconiplisments of a Woman Who was Deaf, missioner» at Standing Rock. Dumb and Blind. The Sioux warrior is, perhaps, one of Laura Bridgman was born in Hanover, the noblest specimens of darkbrowed ab­ original depravity this side of the realms N. H., in 1829. When she was two years old scarlet fever deprived her of of the sweet by and by. Clothed ar he usually is, in the mystic her sight and hearing and consequently »plendor of turkey feathers and pale red of speech. Her sense of smell was also ochre, he stands unrivaled as a living destroyed, and that of taste much im‘ symbol of picturesque treachery and cop­ paired, leaving only that of touch intact. At the age of eight years she was placed per-colored assassination. He has never read Emerson or Brown­ in the Terkins institution, where the su­ ing, and his utterances are characterized perintendent, Dr. Samuel G. IIowc, un­ by a clearness and vigor nnobsenred by dertook the difficult task of instructing rhetorical flourishes er tampered by any her. vague philosophy from the Concord Dr. Howe, assisted by Miss Drew, be­ School. gan her first lesson by giving her the He speaks plainly and to the point, using his own peculiar style of deadly word “knife,” which was printed in gesture, acquired in years of practice raised letters on a slip of paper, and read with the scalping-knit, and whiskey bot­ by moving her fingers over it as the blind tle. do in reading. Then she was given this At Standing Rock recently the Com­ knife so jbat she could feel the label on missioners were compelled to listen to it, aud the sigu indicating likeness, which one of those flights of savage .loquence was made by placing side by Bide the we read .f in history of th. “noble rod forefinger of each hand, was conveyed to man” of th« defunct and obscure past. her. By repeating the process with Aft.r spending two hours ov.r th. Gov­ other articles she was lead to understand ernment dinner, which was carved with that the words represented the objects to Sioux trimmings, Chief Gall approached which they were affixed. To form words th. Commission.! s with from letters she was supplied with setB “A st.p that none h.d known, of metal types, and in less than three But h. w»s stepping to • throne.” day. she iiad learned the order of all the But th.re wann’t any thron. there. letters in the alphabet. In about two The Governm.nt had forgotten to send months she began to use alphalietical signs as made by the fingers, examining one. It was evident that the Chief had some­ an object and learning its name by plac­ thing to say, and that something wonld ing her right hand over that of her teach­ not be in favnr ef th. United States. It er, who spelled it with her fingers. Then is hard to treat with a man after he has she learned the words herself. After she had learned about a hundred filled rp at your expene.. If you ever have any business t. transact with Lo common nouns she was taught the use of verbs, then adjectives. She learned to don’t put it off till after dinner. The Sioux stepped in front of the Com­ write slowly, and later to talk by means missioners, and, with a superb gesture, of the mysterious finger alphabet, and swept the remnants .f baked dog from used it frequently in animated conversa­ his month and erated : tion. In walking through a passageway, “Chief Pratt and palefaced liars from with her hands spread before her, she the East: Yon have eome here to-day knew every one she met and gave them a to ask th. red man to giv. yon land, hut passing sign of recognition, but she em­ you will get left. Yon hav. kept ns braced affectionately her favorites, and here too long alrenffy. While you have expressed tlie varied' language of the emo­ been telling what yon ere going to do tions by the lips as well as the. fingers. for u. the wetais are growing ia the sorg- She also learned grammar, arithmetic, hnm telda and pal.-blu. chinch bngs and a little of music. loiter on she stud­ are eating np ovr o*te. ied algebra, geometry, philosophy and “In our land here, where the coyote history. A remarkable faculty was her ability and the prairie dog make th.ir home and the tend.rfoot come, to look for to reaii character, and this she did literally geld, rr« want to faring your barbed- at her fingers’ ends. She was very wire tenet, and pot np notice, to 'Keep thoughtful oi her friends and liked to ai'l Off the Gras.;’ but th. red m.u lov.s the poor. At th. time of the famine in freedom—he needs it in his bu«ine.s— Ireland she bought, with money she had he needn it more than civiliza/on and earned by her work, a barrel of flour, advise. which was sent to the sufferers. In the “You come among us end get our summer of 1852, when she was twenty- land, and when we away w. have three years old, she undertook to make nothing left bat rogiets and an appetite her jiernianant home in her fathers house for strong drink. in Hanover, but she became bo liomeick “Go lack to yvar peopl. «nd tell that at last she was confined to her bed them that th. red man i. onto their and Dr. Howe, who went to see her, rackfa—tlmt he be* quit doing business found that she was almost at death’s on tlm William Fmtn system. door. She was brought back to the in­ “You ask us to wash off our paiut and stitution, where she remained up to the cultivate th. acqr lintanre ef civilization, time of her death. tho Jersey cow and th. real estate agent —to exchange our tomahawks and Farmers tn the Lower House. scalping knives for cigars and lawn Colonel William Henry Hatch, of mowers, .nd our cremating stake for a [>eanut roaatw; but th. Stoux warrior Hannibal, Mo., who has just completed says ‘Vo.’ H. knows his ba.in.ss, and his fifth term in congress, and his third if the paleface attempts te com. tier., to acquire hie land, he will forsake th. do­ term as chairman of the house commit­ mestic felicity .f bis fireside, and own tee on agriculture, is everywhere recog­ those plains, wh.r., ia days gone by, he nized as the, foremost moulder of agricul­ has ch*^i th. regular buffalo and the tural legislation in the house of represen­ regular doldi.r; he will go forth in search of gore, and again display to the tatives. The rise of the agricultural white man that shifting panorama of committee to a position of prominence in aboriginal felicity and lurid aspect of the house is nearly coincident with Col­ Circassian war—wahl” onel Hatch’ b connection with it. When He was then led away, and Man- Afraid-of-His-Wives, a dark, maroon­ ho became one of its members it did colored warrior, with one suspender and not even have a committee room for it­ four wire., took the stand to champion self, but shared half its present quarters the drooping cause of the United States. with another committee. No definite efforts in behalf of agriculture were Steam Monsters. made, and bo tlie body drifted into leg­ The famous Corliss engine, the largest islation rather than prepared for it. ever constructed, and th. one used to Since the opening of the forty-sixth con­ driv. the maebinety in the great hall at the gress there has been a marked change in centennial of 1876, is now in the shops o^ this respect. Since Colonel Hatch came the Pullman Car Co. at Kensington, near to the head of the committee he has Chicago, Ill. The writer is aware that taken pergonal pains to find out the de­ sires and needs of the farmers, and to this differs from other statements made, try to meet them. The noble enactments *t being generall}’ supposed that the em. which have been brought forward or ac­ peror of Brazil bought the engine and re­ complished under his leadership are tlie law; the Agriculture moved it to his own country. He did oleomargarine Experiment Station law, popularly talk of bnyiiig'4it,*but the bargain was known as the Hatch bill during the dis­ never coneutnited. cussion of the measure ; the pleuro-pneu- This tireless giant works in an upright monia bill, the pure lard bill, and the position; is over 80 feet high; of 1,«Oil­ bill to make the commissioner of agricul­ horse pow.r, and has two 40-inch cylin­ ture a cabinet officer. The pleuropneu­ monia bill failed in the forty-ninth con­ ders and a t.R-foot,stroke. The lsrgest locom.tivs engine .ver gress, but the work was accomplished constructed, prior to 1880, was that made by legislation attached to the agricultur­ at th. Baldwin locomotive works during al appropriation bill. Colonel Hatch is the early part of 1879. It was turned out 55 years of age, silver-haired, and of ready for ns. April th. 10th that year compact build, with gray beard. His and named “U bc I. Dick.” Unci. Dick eyes are cool and steady, and his man­ weighed 130,600 pounds; was 60 feet from ner is always genial. He was a lawyer headlight to th. rear of the tender. He before he was a farmer, and he won his is row at work .n th. Atchison, T.peka title in the Confederate army. Since lie cnterc 1 congress, absence from home A Sante E. road. As b.iore stited Uncle Dick was th. has compelled him to give up more and most powerfnl locomotive ia th. world more his law practice, and has gradually pri.r to 188#. During th. year 1883 the led him to enlarge his farming opera­ s*m. works that constructed Uncle Dick tions. He has two farms, one a grass tnrned eut tavsral locomotivej for the and stock farm of 250 acres at his home Northmn Pacific Railroad, each weighing in Hannibal, Mo., and another of about the same size in the Lincarte bottoms in 180,000 pounds. During the sama year as if t. over­ Illinois, both rich and productive. Col­ shadow the Baldwin works, the Centra! onel Hatch’s fancy has run to live Btock Pacific Company ciue.d to be bailt at and he has become more and more a their shops in Sacramento, Cal., what breeder. Jersey cattle, trotting and really are th. largest locomotives in the draught horses, Southdown sheep and world. They hav. .ight drive-wbe.ls Berkshire hogs all come off his acres. each, the cylinders are 19 inchea ia diam­ In draught horses he breeds imported eter and the strokes three feet. These Percherons. For trotters, he breeds to engine* weigh, exclasive of the tender, a horse sired by Onward, one of Joe 123,000 pounds and with the tender as Wilkes’ best sons, and has in his strains Uncle Dick’s weight Was given, they Abdallah, Hambletonian and Wilkes weigh almost 160,000 pounds, said to bo crosses. Colonel Hatch has a keen eye about 23 tons above Baldwin’s best ef­ for a good horse, and though he drives but little in Washington, hiH judgment forts. is highly prized by his friends, and in the selection of cattle as well. Colonel Most Shameful Extortion. Ilatch’B work as chairman of the agri­ To the discredit of the men who cultural committee involves a vast deal owned and controlM the transterring of labor, including the answering of cor­ from all sections of the facilities of Seattle, it is slated on good respondence country, and a steady supplying of agri­ anthority that they took advantage of cultural reports. There is hardly a man the dir j neeejiitie J of their fallow citizens in congre»“, save the few who come from and the transient population alike to ex­ great cities, who does not have a con­ call for theso rejiorts, and the tort fiom them fabulous sums for the stant plans devised to get extra copies are transportation of trunks and valuables at sometimes very amusing. Some of the the time ef the fire. IT. eonVersad with wealthier congressmen buy hundreds of several who paid it high at forty them outright from the second-hand dollars for th. removal of a trunk to a dealers, who get them in ways known plac. .f safety three blocks away on the only to themselves. Upon Colonel th. fatal Thursday night, June the 5th. Hatch the demand is ever pressing. On. hundred dollars was the price The only way in which he meets these charged fer hsnling a full l.ad and cases is bv steady, hard work. In the thirty-fivo te fifty dollars for a trank was summer days tlie visitor finds him in his th» regular price demanded and paid room in tho basement of the capito!, in that night. The fuCts seem suffi iently his flannel shirt—dressed so that he substantial to preclude the possibility of could resume the management of his a doubt. It behooves Seattle to set farm at once—writing or dictating let­ down on this sadiment of selfishness in ters, preparing reports or seeing about a way that they shall never forget. Just the transmission of documents.— Jour­ such ghouls as this measly little crowd nal of Agriculture. may have caused, and no doubt did, occasion much unnecessary distress and Near {Olean, New York, is another suffering, and the Newt trusts their sins dam, all same Johnstown. It might be and the sins of others like them mar be remembered forever and a day. The well to get our dimes together to send Johnston .t people set a roo 1 example as help to the Olean sufferers when that to how to deal with heartless ghouls. dam breaks away and drowns a few Seattle might well have followei. It thousand people—or would it l>e better may not be too late to make them feel to first kill the three or four men who the weight of public indignation.— Ta­ own the Olean dam, and then let the water run harmlessly away.— Aetorian. coma Newt, Itth. Use Judgment in Breeding. When a good judge of horses makes a trip through almost any section of the country, and looks at the horses on the farms of that section, he can see that comparatively few farmers have studied the subject of rearing horses sufficiently to enable them to understand what course they should take in breeding them to in­ sure the best results. A man makes up his mind w hether lie will breed heavy or light horses, and having decided as to that, the expense is, in many cites, the main consideration. He does not appear to understand that the services of n su­ perior horse are worth mor. than those of one that has neither good breeding nor individual merit to recommend him. The difference in the fees charged may be only a few dollars, and yet he considers he is practicing economy by saving that small sum. His selection is made with­ out regard to whether the horse is suited to the mares, and because defective where they «re also deficient, the choice may lie the worst that could be made. The owner does not realize this, however and iwrhaps is much surprised when the colts do not prove to be equal to what he ex­ pected. If he had informed himself by reading, er had consulted some skillful breeder of horses, he would have known that such breeding wonld re.ult unsatis­ factorily. Another, perhaps, makes convenience the main consideration and chooses tho horse that is so located that he can be patronized with the least loin of time. In this way he believes that he has ef­ fected some saving, whi.e the fat t may be that it would have been far more pro­ fitable for him l.ad he gone ten times as far. The time and expense required to grow the colt to a salable age is the same, or nearly so, whether it makes a horse worth $S0, or one that will bring double that, and the difference in the selling price pays handsomely for extra time and trouble, should these be required at tho outset. Too many breed in a hap-hazard way, with no clearly defined purposo in view, as is shown by the vast number of very inferior horses put on the market each year and sold at prices that must have little or no profit for the breeder. More skill and. good judement are required probably in breeding the lighter class of horses than in raising colts of tha draft breeds, for in the case of heavy work horses weight and soundness are the most important considerations, while in the case of driving horses the value ia largely de|>endent upon form, stria and speed. While the value of a draft horse is increased by good, prompt action and well shaped body, still without thase ho will find a buyer, if he has weight and is sound, more readily than the driving horse if he is deficient in the qualities named. The increasing use for heavy horses in large cities has made a demand for them that has prompted many farm­ ers to turn their attention to breeding them instead of the lighter class of horses. Skillful breeders claim that they can make more money in raising the fatter but concede that tlie heavier breeds are more profitable for a man who lacks either the taste or the judgment to raise Hometiling better than the inferior stock found on so many farms, especially through the West. There is room for a vast improvement in this direction, with the result of adding materially to tlie in­ come of the fanner—a point that he has ample reason to consider in these «lays of low prices for so many products of tho farm.— National Live Stock Joural. Machine and Printer. There seems to lie an uneasy feeling among compositors about type-setting machines. It is true that only three of the many recently invented are now at practical work, but all of them give a promise of usefulness, if not in all fields, at least in some field of composi­ tion. It is certain that the machines haye come to stay. Compositors fear that they will reduce the price of labor, and will indirectly drivo them oat of bus­ iness. Much of this disquietude is un­ necessary. That type-setting machines may or will reduce the cost of the work on reprints and cheap books and papers is probable. That they will ever drive any large body of good workmen out of business is absurd. The machines will surely make more work for workmen. So far from decreasing the standard of workmanship they will elevate it. This conclusion is warranted by a review of the changes in the trade made by inven­ tions in another department — that of presswork. Instead of driving hand pressmen out of the trade, the printing machines have really brought mote press­ men in it, and have enabled an employer to pay better wages. The machines have not even driven good hand press­ men out. In all our large cities the ex­ pert hand pressman is in active demand He does but one-lialf the labor of his pre­ decessor, yet he is paid twice as much and has steadier work. For some forms of printing the hand press is more eco­ nomical than any machine, and if there were more men who could use them skill­ fully they would be more generally em­ ployed. They are not used because it is difficult for an employer to get a boy to learn this kind of press-work. He objects because the work is hard. Not even for double or treble the old pay will a press­ man in 1889 undertake to do on a hand press the work done by all pressmen in 1840. The journeyman book com|>ositor of New York, who works by the piece, now earns an advance of 75 per cent, on the rates fifty years ago. The time hand gets twice as much. Expert machine pressmen in the larger New York book offices are paid $20 and $22 a week—an advance of more than 100 per cent. If they are especially skillful or active, they are cheerfully paid a great deal more. They have steady employment and com­ paratively easy work. It should be noted that the highest wages are always paid in those offices that have the most and best machinery. Low wages are the r ule almost without exception in all offices that have little or no machinery. In­ stead of throwing men out of work, ma­ chinery has made a demand for more work. Instead of lowering the labor wages it has raised it.— National Printer. The ambassadors to Germany from the Sultan of Mandara hare had a lively time in Berlin. Bismarck gave them a pleasant reception at Wilhelmstrassee palace. He presented the dusky diplo­ mats with bracelets, add in return they gave him a magnificent spear sent to him by their sultan. Alter indulging in wine and beer they executed a war dance in the prince’s parlor. They broke sev­ eral pieces of furniture, but were readily- forgiven. They were much impressed by the stature of Bismarck, who towered above their tallest representative. The CliiiKKik Jargon. The Popular Science Monthly for June has an article by Edward Howard Nicoll concerning the Chinook jargon, which he defines and describe» as follows: Chinook, a language or jargon, the ex­ istence of which few |>eop)e living east the Rocky mountains know of, is the sole medium of communication between tho whites and Indians upon the Northwest coast of America, from the Columbia river to Alaska, including the tribes s-.-at- tered over Washington territory »nd Ore­ gon. Chinook is a con icutional language and in this respect is like tho lingua fran­ ca of the Mediterranean coast, and the “pidgin” English of the East Indiee and China. A century ago, in the year 1787, two vessels, the Columbia commanded by John Kendrick, and the Washington by Robert Gray, left Boston on a voyage to the northwest coast of America to open up a fur trade, and, if possible, to trad» wtih China. At the rendezvous in Nootka sound, to the westward of Vancouver is­ land, which latter is a part of w hat is now British Columbia, the people on tho ves­ sels acquired a number of words used by the native*. The expedition going after­ ward up the river to Oregon, they carriod these Indian words with them there, which, added to some common and easily pronounced English words, formed the lieginning and basis of Chinook. It* vo­ cabulary, however, was scant until th» coming of the Astor ex]>edition and the settlement of Astoria. It was then en­ larged by numerous English words, to­ gether with many of French origin, or of tho Canadian |MtoU. The dialei Is of the Chinook and Chehalis tribe«, which ranged about Southeastern Oregon, fur­ nished many words for it* development. The Hudson Bay and Northwest com­ panies, and the early settlers in Oregon, further added to it; it came into nse be­ tween Indians of different tribe, and even between Americans and Canadians; it spread to Tuget sound, and found it. way, with trade, up tho Pacific coart and rivers, as explorers and Bottlers ad­ vanced, gradually spreading anti! it. n«< reached its present extent. Chinook is not a written language, and the *i>clling given here is purely pho­ netic. Of the 500 or e>00 words in com­ mon use, about one-third are of English and French derivation ; n few can not l>e traced to any source, and the rent are taken from the Chehalis and Chinook dialects. Eflfiret of the Iliiiiinn Breath. It has l>een told hv a merchant, long resident of Mexico, in a lssik published in 1849, that it is a common practice in that country to tame the most violent horses by a very simple but singular method, viz: by putting the horse's nos­ trils under a man’s arm-pit. Our in­ formant assures us that the most refrac­ tory brute instantly liecoincs tractable on inhaling tho oiler of the human I hh I v . This strange statement is corroborated by a fact first made known l>y Mr. Catlin who tell* us that when an Indian of the Rocky mountains runs down and noose, a wild horse, one of his first step* is to place his hand over the eyes of the stug- gling animal and breathe into its nos­ trils, when it liecomes docile, and is so completely conquered that it *ubmita quietly ever afterward. Thisinfoimatiou natutally led to a great many experi­ ments. A Mr. Ellis, a gentleman from Cambridge, happened to read Mr. Cfat- lim’s statement, and felt a natural deaina to ascertain how far this mode of horse taming might be employed among Brit­ ish horses. He tried the experiment on a filly not a year old, that had been re­ moved from her dam three montlia Indore and sin«-» that time lia«l not licen out of the stable; he tried it, too, under mani­ fest disadvantage, for the filly, which was quite wibl, was in tin» qpga air, with several stranger* aliout her, and both tho owner and the amateur were rather seek­ ing amusement from the failure, than knowledge from the success of their ex­ periment. It was with great difficulty Mr. Ellis managed to cover the eyes of the restive and frightened animal. At length he succeeded ai d blew into her nostrils. No particnla« effect seemed to follow. Hethen breathed into her nos­ trils, and tlie filly at once desisted from her violent struggles, stood still and tremble«). From that time .lie liecame very tractable. Another gentleman also breathed into her nostrils, and she evi dently enjoyed it, an«l kept putting out her nose to receive the breath. On the following morning she was led out again. She was perfectly tractable, and it was almost impossible to frighten her. ----------- Isaac Saxton, a colored man, has Keen elects«! justice of the peace at Bridgeton, New Jersey, umler fieculiar circumstances. At the election fast March it was thought that there was no vacancy in tho office of justice in the thir«l war«l, but many citizen* voted for Saxton in a spirit of fun. It has been discovered now that the term of Justice Wtxxiruff expired on May 1st, and that Saxton received enough votes to elect him. The Duke of Portland is the luckiest man in England. When he was born tho chances against hie over holding his pres­ ent title were very great. But he became a peer very early in life and his income is sufficient to keep a whole multitude of wolves from the door. His racing stable consists of sixteen horses but lie hu won the Derby two vears in succession, anil this season will pn.bably carry off the leading three ami four year old events. He is fortunate in love as in other way. and is madly devote«! to six feet of hand­ some English girlhood. POWDER Absolutely Pure. When the flood poured into Milton, Pa., a week ago last night, a Western Union operator, John Wolfinger, tele-1 graphed Supt. Gill: “The water is com­ ing in the office, what shall 1 do. ?” I This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomene«*. More “Get a gum coat and a pair of rubber J economical than the ordinary kind«, and boots and stay there,” was the quick re- ■ cannot be Bold in competition with multi* ply. Wolfinger obeyed orders and re-1 tude of low test, abort weight alum or phot** inained at Lis post until the flood sub­ idiate powder. Sold only in can«. K oya L j > aki 9 g P qwdei : Co , 10G Wail St., N. Yt sided.