M c M innville , O regon , F riday , june 21,1889.
Feb. 1,1889.
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THE CIRCUS.
The Streets of this City will be
Thronged.
To the People:
S irs :—Every year for tho past ten
years a circus lias visited McMinnville
anil there will be one here to-morrow.
The citizens are all delighted to have a
visit from circus people, because there
has always been a very strong impres
sion here that a circus is a lienofit to ths
town for the reason that it leaves more
money than it carries away.
I met a Lafayette man who told me
that the circus always lost large sums of
money in that town, and the same state
of affaire has always existed in Inde
pendence.
It is therefore easy to see that the cir
cus relieve! the stringency of the money
market and assists materially in build
ing up the state.
While I regret that such enterprises
should not find the wheat Helds and
back pockets of the people remunera
tive, I still admire the philanthropby
that prompts their annual pilgrimages in
this direction. SometiBi.l, howeyer,
the advance press agent attempts te
work on i,«y feelings by harrowing re
citals of the financial losses they expect
to meet and use it as a lever to secure a
50-per cent rebate on my regular adver
tising rat: j, but they come it net.
A few days ago who should clamber
into this edi oriel sanctum but my pa
ternal ancestor. Instead of sending in
his card by the colored attendant, he in
vaded my retreat boldly and asked for
two deadhead re erred seats to the
show.
“Do yon remember,” I ;aid in my se
verest manner, “the time when yon
nearly flogged the clothe* off me for at
tending a circus in Michigan ?”
He seemed quite abashed that I should
recall this cirernnstanc. which ha doubt
less imagined I h. d forgotten, and his
face assumed a vague, puzzled look like
a man just awaking from a dream.
“Yon don’t mean to say, my son, that
I ever flogged yon for a harmlosa diver
sion like that
“Indeed you did, and then after al
lowing a quarter of a cant ary to .lid. by
without an apalogy for your conduct,
yon come here and dam. >d two dead
head tickets and reserved seats. 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.
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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.