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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1889)
The PEOPLE Know THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE telephone ----- THE VALUE OF----- Register A NEWS MEDIUM THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER ENJOYS THE LARG- EST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER PUB LISHED IN YAMHILL COUNTY WILL BE CELEBRATED By issuing a MAMMOTH EXTRA devoted entirely to McMinnville. Look for it. F Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , N ovember íffj^¿«XTái’Sk>Consolidateil Feb. 1,1889. H. BALLINGER, LEAVENING POWER ATT0RN1Y AT LAW. Of the various Baking Powders illus trated from actual tests. Office in Fletcher building, Third Street, McMinnville. Oregon Physician Surgeon, and LAFAYETTE, OREGON. Professional calls promptly attended day or night. , . S3 ) [Office st old Printing office. I B. B. J. V. CALBRKATH. K. GOUCHER. Calbreath <fc Goucher, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, MeMntNviLtE, O regon . ... (Office over Braly's Bank.) S, A. YOUNG, M. 0. Physician t Surgeon, ... McMissviu-s. Oaxoox. Office and residence on D street. All sails promptly answered day or night. DB. J. C. MICHAUX Practicing Physician and Surgeon, LAFATETTB, OREGON- Jsa.Sl. '83. HEWITT BROS. D1ALRR8 IM R ooks , stationery AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES. Musical Goods and Instrnmeuts of all Kinds. In building formerly occupied by Me Minnville News Co. MONEY TO LOAN -----ON----- Improved Farm Property On Short or Long Time in Sums to suit. Lowest Rates and no Commissions. INSURANCE NEGOTIATED. | Jail on or address :| W. T. SHURTLEFF, At J. I. Knight 4 Co.’s McMinnvile, Or. I_ia,d.ies, -2ù-tten.tion. 1 A new invention for Dress-Cutting that ean be used by a lady and gentleman and (iye perfect fit Price of scalo. including a ev of full instructions, can be had by call ing on or addressing in Babyhood Her Hair, Hands and Feet arc Dyed With Henna. to strut and coo and the ducks float on the surface. Aiound tbe court yard are ranged the various apartments of the anderoon rare ly more than one story and having a flat roof. They are protected from the sun’s rays by broad verandas, supported by graceful pillars and another tank in the center of the veranda. When visitois call fountains in the middle of the tanks toss their silver spray and give delicious coolness to tlie air. Her eyes are as black as sloes, Of course they are black, for blue eyes are considered unlucky in Persia. Her skin SUMFORD’S* (froth). is a rich, warm, delicate brown, which RAWFORD’S (when freth) overlays the round, plump features that CHARM* (Alum Powder). are tinged with a tint of rose where the DAVIS’* ind 0. K.* (AlumABRNB^^^BMBEKa dimples are or should Ire, the silky hair isdaikofthe plume of the raven that The chief meal of tbe day is in the CLEVELARD'S................................. crowns the head of the little gill baby, evening after the sunset prayer lias been PIOWEER (San Francisco)...... who was born but yesterday in that announced from the lofty minarets. CZAR................................................ quaint dwelling at the foot of Mount El- Fathimeh’s father then withdraws from DR. PRICE’S................................... aanaKsnc. borz The mollali or priest, lias already the duties of the day and seekB the se SW0W FLAKE (Groff-.)......................■■>■■■»»» been to the house, and, in the presence clusion of the anderoon with his family. of her father, has turned over the leaves Dinner is served to him on the floor. It of the Koran or Mahomet in scriptures, is brought in on a large disk of whitened and hit on the name of Fathimeh, the seasoned copper and consists chiefly of daughter of Mahomet, the prophet, soups, highly seasoned ragouts, rice, HARFORD'S (None Such), when not fresh I1 Fill h l! so Fathimeh is to be tlie name of this sweets and tea. The lord of tbe man His wife looks on PEARL (Andrews & Co.)............. EDQBSSSS new-born babe. She is a Persian, and sion eats alone. in Persia will she live, for it is only with while, seated on liis kuees and heels, he ROMFORD'S * (Phosphate), when not fresh.. the special permission oi the shah that a leans over the dishes and carries tbe Beports oi Government Chemists. Persian woman ean live out of her native food to his mouth with a bit of thin “ The Royal Baking Powder is composed of land. bread of the country hollowed between pure and wholesome ingredients. Iz does not She is but a day old, but an amulet his fingers like a spoon. If he is in a eontain either alum or phosphates, or other in has been already hung on her neck, con pleasant mood he calls Fatl.imeh to Iris jurious substances.-EDWARD G. L ove , Ph.D.” taining a tiny scrap of paper on which is side and puts a choice tidbit in lier “ The Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly inscribed a passage from the Koran, in mouth, saying: “Eat, my lamb, it is the purest and most reliable baking powder tended to ward off mischief from djinns, good for thy health, God willing.” offered to the public. or evil spirits. For the same reason if “ H enry A. M ott , M. D., Ph. D.” Alter he has dined liis wife or a baud "The Royal Baking Powder is purest in qual any of the neighbors look in to see the maiden brings him a basin, a ewer ol ity and highest in strength of any baking pow little stranger, and express admiration rose-scented water and a towel and laves der of which I have knowledge. of her beauty, the nurse requests them to his hands. His lordship then arises W m . M c M urtrie , Ph. D.” spit in the baby’s face, lest the influence and reclines on a divan in the corner • All Alum baking powders, no matter how high their strength, arc to be avoided as dan of the evil eye should lurk in what might by the window, and liis Italian or water gerous. Phosphate powders liberate their gas be the praise of envy or jealousy. A pipe is brought to him. While he thus too freely, or under climatic changes suffer de tiny white cap of open embroidery also takes his ease Fathimeh and her mothei terioration. covers the infant’s hair and her limbs in turn take their meal and then proceeil are swathed very tightly in swaddling to rejoin the husband and father, and bands. perhaps smoke with him. All smoke in When Fathimeh is five or six months Persia from tho youngest to the oldest. Sample rooms in connection. old the bands are gradually removed and o------- o When bedtime arrives the process ol her hair hennaed. The first application retirement to the land of nod is simplic Is now fitted up in first class order. turns it to a bright orange red, the sec ity itself. A pile of bedding in the corn Accommodations as good as can be ond wash turns it to a rich blue-black. er of the sleeping-room is unrolled on found in the city. The finger and toe nail«, the soles of the the rugs covering the floor ; there are no S. E. MESSINGER, Manager. feet and the palms of her bands are also sheets, but only counterpanes and in dyed yellow with henna. This is not winter heavy quilts. Divesting berseli done entirely tor beauty, as Europeans of her outer clothing, Fathimeli folds often imagine, but rather to toughen the and places them in the niche in the wall skin. This is especially necessary with called tachtehes, which serve the pur the soles, as most women in Persia go pose of closet and table in most Persian If so be sure and call for your tickets via the barefooted in the house. houses. When little Fathimeh is old enough to Fathimeh is awakened early by tin toddle about she has a present of red summons to rise lor morning prayers, slippers, embroidered with tinsel, but which sounds soon after dawn over the rarely wears them at play for they are city and country, or she mav be aroused an encumbrance. When slie is two or still earlier by the horn of the bah-hahm tlnee years old, however, she begins to bashee, or bath-master, announcing that —THE— wear a mantle—an article of dress that the public batlis are ready. Those who she will wear until her death, whenever do not have private steam baths at she steps out of the house, whether to home go to the public baths. The men w sport in the garden or to play or walk in go at all hours, from dawn until noon. tlie street. This awkward dress she No Christian is ever permitted to enter wears attached to her head and it reach these baths, which are carefully pre It is positively the shortest and fir. Bt es to her feet. While she is a child it is served for the faithful. tine to Chicago and the east and south anil worn loose and flies behind when she Going to the public bath is one of the only sleeping and dining car through runs; but when she reaches the age of Fathimeh’s greatest diversions from line to eleven or twelve the mantle is drawn the earliest childhood. At least once a Omaha, Knnsn* City, and all Missouri over the face, excepting over the eyes, ween her mother takes her there. They River Point. which are protected from the gaze of any make an afternoon-of it. Fathimeh has Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed but her own family by a tiny lattice her fingers freshly dyed with henna, and train service and elegant dining and work exquisitely embroidered of white her hair, which has grown very long, is sleeping cars lias honestly earned for it the silk. title of plaited into innumerable small braids, While still a child little Fathimeh sits which are expected to last without re in the gate and sometimes plays with combing until her next visit to the bath. tlie boys of the neighborhood, and thus, These days at the bath are an education perhaps, forms a passing acquaintance to thé little girl now rapidly approaching Others may imitate,but none can surpass it with her future husband. If her parents womanhood. With the exception of a Our motto is '‘always on time ” were peasants she would accompany Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets them to the fields and aid in picking the few lessons with the needle or on the guitar or in the making of preserves, the via this celebrated route and take none fruit and gleaning tbe harvest. But as others. W H MEAD, G A little maiden has no other education ex her parents are well-to-do city folks of No. 4 Washington street, Portland, Or cept what slie gains from hearing older some means, she is soon taught that her people of her own sex converse. And Notice of Final Settlement. destiny is to be a life almost as secluded thus, when she is at the bath and hears as that of a nunnery. Her days are to the women talking while embroidering Notice is hereby given that the under signed, C. Loder, ’administrator of the es be passed in the seclusion of the an or smoking .after the ablutions are over, tate of Samuel McCutcheon, deceased, has deroon, or women’s quarter of the house, she learns much from their conversation filed his final account of his administration of said estate in the county court of Yam where she resides, whether it lie her of life in the outside world of Persia, If hill county, Oregon and said court has father’s or husband’s anderoon. fixed December 3d, 1889, at the hour of 10 the former, by the time Fathimeh is and she will need all tho information o’clock, a m.. at the county court room at she can acquire ; for if she ever learns to McMinnville, Oregon, as the time and place nine years old her days are passed in read or write, which is not likely, it for hearing the same. apartments where her only society is must be after she is married. That mar Therefore, all persons interested in said estate are hereby notified and required to that of her mother, sisters and brothers riage is her inevitable destiny she learns appear at said time and place and show and the female slaves of the household. as soon as she can talk. There are no cause, if any there be, why said estate be not finally settled and saia administrator Occasionally other little girls pay lier a old maids in that country. When she is discharged formal visit, and they pass a serious af eleven or twelve years old the question Dated this 1st day of November, 1889, ternoon eating cucumbers and confec C. LODER, of finding her a husband is earnestly dis tionery to a degree that would speedily Administrator of said Estate. cussed. The matter is settled between F. W. F intom , kill off most American children. In Attorney for Estate the parents of the bride and the groom, ( Nov 1 :12{ Persia those who are unable to bear the most difficult point to arrange being such irregular diet die early; the surviv the amout of the dowry to be paid with gffi hare the Exclu tir a Contrôlât ors become so hardened they are able to lhe bride. If this is the first marriage endure anything. This is a simple way of the prospective husband then he also of avoiding the necessity of heavy doc is young, not over sixteen or seventeen tor's bills, which is, perhaps, an advan The marriage is accompanied with great tage in a country where the physicians pomp and the festivities last several are the most bare-faced quacks. days, after which the bride is taken to If Fathimeh’s father has several wives her new home at the head of a long pro which it is greatly to be feared is the cession, crowding the narrow streets I case, then she also has her half brothers marching to the sound of horns, pipes I and sisters as playmates, and a merry any kettle drums. And there we leave time they have of it. The anderoon is the little bride, hoping that she will have entirely separated from the rest of the her share of wedded bliss.—S. G. If. establishment, within an enclosure of its Benjamin in New York World. own, and each wife with her family occu pies a distinct portion of the anderoon. A Famous English Novelist. It is built around a square court yard, Personally Besant is a striking-looking An* don't haue to offer a prize to _________ tell tilfS surrounded by high walls, so that no one for Its t/is BEST MADE. Every Can holds man. He wears a luxuriant beard,which may look into it, nor is any neighboring covers most of his face. Ilis features are house permitted to look into the ande- regular, and he has a splendid broad roon court whether from the roof or from forehead. Large eyes look out at you MC. MINNVILLE. ORE. windows. Nor are there any window s in from under heavy eyebrows and through the anderoon itself that face lhe street. gold-rimmod eyeglasses. His whole ap Thus you can see that the anderoon and pearance is that of an earnest, intellect its court are entirely shut out from the ual man. He has one of the best libra world. ries in London, in w hich he takes an es However, these quarters are by no pecial pride. He is a hard worker and a means as dreary as one might imagine, very practical man, who believes in get for the court is laid out with parterres ting as much money as he can out of his filled with an extraordinary profusion of books. He is the head and front of the flowers, chiefly roses, asters, pinks, lav Incorporated Society of Authors, who ender, oleander and marigolds. It is are banded together to protect them quite as well. densely shaded also with lindens, china to Rive •». selves against the grinding publishers letter*. Every trees, poplar, plane trees and pomegran one whs lakes hold l«nsi. e-» i ..;,g:: i: ■ pn.iits with whom the authors of other days had Shall we start l’Oi in Ibis business, ate trees, the latter a most exqusite ad so much trouble. Besant is popular al raader? Write to us and learn all about it G-r yours* if We are starting many; we will atari you if y< u don t delay until dition to eveiy garden where it grows, most everywhere in London. You may another gets ahead of you in tout port of the < ci'iiin l! y. u take hold you will be able to pick up gold fast Uv'iteitd— with its bright, green, glossy leaves, its find him in a west end draw ing room or On account of a forced manufacturer s sale 1 3-*».<>O<> I etl dollar Phologrnph Albums arc to !><«<1 I to the i lovely flame-colored blossoms, and rich, Kple fi»r each. Bound tn lloynl ('riiiison Silk Velvet in a swell club, or you may meet him ah. ('harinhigly decorated insides. Ilnndv.-neat albums in ih» red globes of fruit. Hidden in this world. Largest Size. Greatest bargain« eter know n. Ag. ns again in the slums about Whitechapel, waited. Liberal terms. Big money for agen's. Any one .an I wealth of foliage the bulbul or nightin- become a successful agent. Sells itself on a glit—lit’le urno or in his “Palace of Pleasure." He is as talking neceaaary. Wherever shown, every . tic wan!« to pur ! gale warbles it enchanting strains, not chase. Agents take thousands of orders with rai rii’y ne ver much at home in one place as another. before known. Great profits aw ait every worker. Age nts are makieg fortunes. Ladies make ns much as men. You, n a.'wr, j onlv during the still watches of a moon- Taking it all in all he occupies a very ran do at well as any one. Tull information aud tern.* free, j light night, but often during the hush of to those who write for came, with particular« and terms f r our pleasant position. He has made money, Family Bibles, Books and Periodicals. A tier you knnv all, ■ a drowsy summer day. In the center of he has won a lasting reputation in a dif- cboald you conclude to go no ftirther, m hy no harm is dono Address F.. C. ALLEN A CC .' A khsta , M.il.U the court there is an immense tank, into I ficult field, anil succeeded beyond his which the water otten runs for hours I wildest hopes w here failure might have I been looked for. Bfllf EDT1CCDC Of other»,who with toexemi*» j w ith a grateful music, being afterwards — AU W EH I I wEll W this paper, or obtain animate» , drawn off to irrigate tbe gardens. But on advertMing »paca when in Chicago, will find it on file at it is never empty, and around its brim •w Agsrey st LORD & THOMAS. ! the children play, and the doyes alight SUITS* (Alum).. —«111111 D r . F. 8. L ocke , Homeopathic ROYAL PERSIAN GIRL LIFE. Illi II The St. Charles Hotel. ARE YOU GOING EAST? F. ZIRKEL, The Royal Route LEADING TAILOR OF McMINNVILL Second door south of Postoffice. E. WRIGHT Has the most complete stock of harness mi the county. At present 12 set of sin gle harness, hand made, in prices ranging from 112 to 130, and 8 set of team harness as cheap AS ANY PLACE IN THE COUNTY Can be Been on tbe hooks in my shop. I have competent workmen employed to do all kinds of repairing and to make any harness ordered. I also keep a full stock of oil and rubber robes, lap robes, horse covers, saddles, etc. A full line of extras for repairs constantly on hand. J. B. ROHR, Itwe, Sip, and Ornamental Painter The Oily Sign Writer la the Ceunty. Home, fitted up in the Neatest and Most Artistic Style. Designs furnished for Decorations. Remember Paper Hanging and Inside Fur nishing a Specialty- Work taken by Contract or by the Day. Ex perienced men employed. Third Street, McMinnville, Oregon. ■ cminnville national bank . Corner Third snd C streets, in Broly block. m ’ m INNVII.LE, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. President................................ J. W. COWLS Vice President.............LEE LAUGHLIN Caehier.......................... J. L. STRATTON Sells sight exchange and telegraphic transfers on Portland, San Franco and New York. Collections made on ail accessible points. Interest allowed on time deposits. Office hours from 9 a. m. io 4 p m. M c M innville TRUCK AND DRAY CO. CARLIN A HIGH, Proprietors Goods of all descriptions moved and care ful handling guaranteed. Collections will be made monthly Hauling of all kinds done cheap THE NADJY BAR! IN TH» COOK HOUSE. Stocked with the Choiceat Wines, Liq- •n and Cigars—Domestic and Imported. HHao Best in. th.» City WM. MARTI«, Proprietor. Eurisko Market, BOND 4 WEBB, Proprietors Fresh Meats of all kinds constantly on hand. Highest price paid for Butcher's stock T hird SratBT, M c M irrvills , 0». ONE AND ONE HALF POUNDS. J. N. HENDERSON. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. The Lowest of Human Beings. The advertising columns of the Lon don newspapers have recently announced that nine cannibals from Terra del Fue go would be fed three times a day in view of the audience at the Aquarium. At 2, 10 and 6 o’clock the spectators have enjoyed the privilege of seeing these specimens of an extraordinary type of American savage, heat their beef and fish over a fire, and then tear the flesh to pieces with their fingers and de vour it practically raw. This family of Ona Indians are the only representatives of their large tribe that have ever been taken from their homes. The thing about the Onas which most stimulates scientific interest and popular curiosity is the fact that they are regarded by some authorities as the lowest stratum of uncivilized hu manity that lias yet been discovered. This family now in London seem to pos sess the most limited vocabulary. Lista said he could not learn that the Onas have any words except those relating to hunting and fishing and the few natural objects that interest them. Popper could never get them to speak except in mono syllables, and they seldom made them selves intelligible. It is probable that i heir vocabulary’ doeB not embrace more tlian 200 or 300 words. The brief accounts given in the London newspapers of these visitors bears wit ness that they’ are blessed with wonder ful appetites. The explorers who have seen them at home also testify that when food is scarce they can endure hunger with rematkable fortitude. Mr. Stubenrauch, who has a sheep ranch on the coast, tells a curious story of a cap tive Ona girl, about sixteen years old, who fell into his hands while he was chasing her friends, who had been steal ing sheep, lie sayB she refused to take any kind of food for eight days. On the ninth day he placed the carcass of a sheep beside her. Breakfast then began ind lasted three hours, and when it was jver, as Mr. Stubenrauch asserts with great solemnity, the girl’s body was swollen to extraordinary dimensions and the sheep had almost entirely disap peared. Low as these miserable crea tures are in the scale of humanity it can hardly be said that some of the poorest of the Shoshone tribes in our own lati tude occupy a much higher plane. Some of the wretched natives in Nevada and other parts of the great basin, living in holes dug in hillsides, or merely shel tered in brush heaps, greedily enjoy eat ing the food most other savages reject, ire unmistakably the poorest specimens of mankind in North America. As the Western historian, Bancroft, says it is hardly possible to conceive a lower pliase of humanity. What a Mormon Oatli is Like. In tbe preparation for the coming mu nicipal election in Salt Lake city, we learn from a dispatch that many appli cations for naturalization have been made recently. Objection is being made to the admission of persons accepting faith in polygamy, and adhering to other Mormon tenets, and to-day was set by the court to hear the question. Attor neys for the liberals asserted that no Mormon who had taken oaths in the en dowment house could be a gooe citizen, and testimony was ordered regarding tbe noture of these oaths. John Bond swore lie went through the endowment house in 1868, and was required to take an ob ligation which compelled him to obey every doctriue of the church, especially in oppositioh to the United States, under penalty of his life. He was also required to take oaih to avenge the blood of Jo seph Smith, and to teach this to hie chil dren. Martin B. Wardwell took a similar oath about the same time and was told that if he revealed any secrets bis throat would be cut and his bowels torn out. He saw the death ;>enalty enforced on a member named Green, and when some of the members murmured John W. Ycuug told them to shut up or they would be served the same way. Andrew Canoon swore to the same obligations and said that he took an oath that the highest al legiance was due to the Mormon church ; polygamy was the command of God and all must indorse it or be damned. Ca hoon had heard leaders of the church pray fo. the overthrow of the United States. It was common, he said, for Wilford Woodruff, the present bead of the church, to do this. All the witness es spoke of the murders they had either seen or heard of in consequence of these oaths. Lincoln’s Marriage Notice. An original copy of the Sangamon Journal, printed at Springfield, III., November 11, 1842, was added to the collection of newspapers at the Libby Prison war museum a few days ago. The paper at that time was supporting Henry Clay for the presidency, and his name is conspicuous at the top of the editorial column. In the advertising columns of the paper is the following marriage notice: “Married in this city the 14th inst., at the residence of N. W. Edwards, esq., by the Rev. C. Dresser, Abiaham Lincoln, Esq., to Miss Mary Todd, daughter of Robert Todd, Esq., of Lexington, Ky.” This tells a story in which all are interested, and this paper is believed to be the only copy in exis tence containing it. Tlie Power of the Press. The power of the press is full exempli fied in the reform which the dispatches state is being inaugurated in Russia. The barbarous system of sending crimi nals 3,000 miles to Siberia has been abolished, and this black spot of tyranny of the czar will not put to the blush modern civilization any longer. Mr. Smau, widely known in Russia by his writings on Siberia, says the principal reason for the reform is the articles of George Kennan in the Century. Thus, it will be seen, that Mr. Kennan by his pen has accomplished what the com bined civilized world, with millions of -oldiers at command, was afraid to un- ! dertake. VOL. I. NO. 43, 28,1889. An Humble Printer. A Dutchman, sitting in the door of his tavern, in the far West, is approached by a tall, thin Yankee, who is emigrat ing Westward on foot, with a bundle hung on a cane over his shoulder. “Vail, Mister Valking Stick, vat you vant?” inquired the Dutchman. “Rest and refreshment,” replied the printer. “Supper and lotcbin’, I reckon?” “Yes, supper and lodging, if you please.” “Pe ye a Yankee peddler, mit chewlry in your pack to cheat der gal ?” “No sir, I’m no Yankee peddler.” " “Singin’ master, and too lazy to vork?” “No sir.” “A shenteel shoemaker vat loves to measure der gal’s fhet ard ankles better tan ter make der shoes?” “No sir, or I should have mended my own shoes.” “A book achent, vot bodders der school committees till dey do vat you vish, just to get rid of you ?” “Guess again, sir, I am no book agent.” “Ter tyfuls! A dentist, preaking der peoples jaw at $1 a neb nag, and runnin’ off mit a daughter?” “No sir; I am not a tootli-puller.” “Phenologus, den—feelin’ der young folks head tike so many cabbitch?” “No; I am no phrenologist.” Veil, den vat ter tyfuls can you be? Cboost tell; you shall have de best saus age for supper, and stay all night, free gratis, mit out a cent, und a chill of whisky to start out mit in der mornin.” “I am a humble disciple of Faust—a professor of that art that preserves al I arts—a typographer at your service.” “Votehs dot?” “A printer, sir; a man that prints books and newspapers.” “A man vot printsch noosepapers! Oh, yaw, yaw! ay, dat ish it. Aman vat printsch noosepapers! yaw, yaw I Valk up! A man vot printsch noose papers ! I vish I may be shot if I did not tink you vas a poor tyiul of a dish trick schoolmaster who works for nod ding and boards 'round. I tought you vas him.” A Pack of Common Cards. There is more mystery and history connected with a common pack of play cards than the average man or woman is aware of. The four kings originally rep resented David, Alexander, Caesar and Charlemagne. Distinctive features are given these in some styles of French cards, the original name being still re tained by that people. The other forms of pictures is the representation of the king in old Jewish costume, or even in Greek, Roman and Frankish styles. The queens in the same pack are usually Ju dith, I’alais, Esther and Argine, which latter is a mere transposition of the let ters in “regina,” making queen by des cent. In fact, history lias been ransack ed for figures to replace the barbarous effigies which have become historical, but sooner or later the effigies are again restored. American playing cards have present ed as great a variety in this direction as foreign ones. Shortly after the revolu tion, one R. Sanzand invented a pack for our forefathers’ use. Instead of kings there were Washington, Adams, Frank lin and Lafayette. For queens, Venus, Fortuna, Ceres and Minerva were repre sented. Ineian chiefs provided knaves. To-day a pack of them are considered a valuable addition to almost any museum. The origin of playing cards lias been and is still a disputed point. Some his torians accredit their first use to the Chi nese, who in spite of the bad name they enjoy to-day, were parents of most of the useful and ingenious things of the earth, if the antiquarians do not perjure them selves. By others the Hindoos are sus tained as being the creators of the game. However, this may be, it is known that to this day the Hindoos play a fantastic game with packs which number ninety- six cards, eight suits of twelve each. The story that cards were introduced in Europe for the amusement of the mad King Charles II., of France has long ago been disproved. They were known in that country long before the demented monarch was born. To Grow Like Jack’s Bean Stalk. When the news was first published that Minneapolis was to have a twenty eight-story building, many people disbe lieved it, but the scheme is about to ma terialize. The plans show the outline of 728 rooms all of which open from tbe interior court and every one of which has a window in the exterior wall. The plans are drawn for a building eighty feet square at tbe level of the sidewalk and tapering a lit tle towards the top, which gives it the general appearance of a lofty tower with almost countless loopholes. The court within is scheduled to be foity by forty, and in the middle of it sixteen elevators are outlined to lift the tenants to their offices in the sky. The total area is 149,- 040 feet square, not reckoning tbe stairs and hallways. Tbe building will be 350 feet high. “Compare this with some structures now in existence,” says Mr. Yarnall, who has charge of the plans, “and see whether or not it is feasible. The tower of the New York Produce Exchange is 240 feet above the sidewalk, and the ele vator runs to within fifteen feet of the top. That is but 55 feet square. The Washington monument is 55 feet square at the base, and 250 feet high. This building will be a skeleton of iron, made in the style of work known as lattice-riv eted iron-work, and its weight will be one-fifth of that of a building of stone or brick. Tbe structure will be perfectly fire-proof, being of iron with a thin ven eering of brick or terra cotta. Mr. Buf fington’s original ideas have been follow ed to a considerable extent but study has suggested some changes. I estimate tbe cost will be $1,000,000. It can be built at tbe rate of forty feet a week upward when once the work is under way.” Alabama’s B ohn Outlaw. In a (.'lose Place. According ts the Spokane Fall Krriew, young Russell, who killed Canty at Farmington a short time ago, is in a tight place. On his preliminary examin* ation at Colfax alxiut 100 citizens went over from the vicinity of Farmington to see that lie was not admitted on bail. A number of them took Henry Sullivan, one of his attorneys aside, and told him that he had better let Itusrell stay in jail. Mr. Sullivan informed them that he would allow the justice to fix the bail high enough to hold him—$3,000 or $4,000. Oncol the leaders then said: “It don’t make any difference if the bail is fixed at hall a million, and just as sure as he is admitted to bail in any sum we will riddle him with bullets in the courtroom.” Tho scene in the court room during the preliminary hearing was very exciting. Pistols were noticed sticking out of pockets all over the house. In the course of liis remarks to the court Attorney Sullivan made the statement that the shooting was accidental. “Take that back!” came the demand from twenty throats, and Mr. Sullivan did. Russell’s father and brother, who were present, fled from the room, thinning the crisis had arrived. Russell was, of course, committed without bail, and af ter the Farmington people had exacted from Sheriff Mclasan a promise that he would not take the prisoner to Wall* Walla and that lie would let then, know if the sheriff of that county came after him, they returned home satisfied. Rube Burrow, “Red Rube” he is called in the terrorized region he lives in, is physically a splendid specimen of manhood. He is just thirty-four years of age and stands 6 feet 1 inch in his stocking feet, weighing 175 pounds. His shoulders are very broad and square and his arms long and muscular. He is as active as a cat and has been noted a" a runner since his boyhood days, it be ing said that he was never beaten in a foot race or thrown in a wrestling match. His fare, even, has a muscular appear ance. It is rather long, with high cheek bones and prominent lower jaws pro truding noticeably backward under his ears. His complexion is inclined to be light, his hair a dark, sandy color, rath er stiff, and his mustache long and drooping. His eyes are, however, the main feature of his appearance. They aregiayish blue in color, set well back, and are very piercing, giving him a dare devil, reckless appearance. As he ap peared in Blount county tbe other day he was dressed in a dark coat, heavy jean pants, and wore a broad soinbreio or cowboy hat. Running down from over liis shoulders and around his waist was a leather cartridge belt. On each side, rather in front of bis hips, was a Colt’s 45-calibre revolver. In front, stuck through the belt, was a large bow- ie knife, and in his hand he carried a sixteen-shooting 45-calibre Winchester rifle. It is sure death for any one to stand in front of the rifle within a quart er of a mile distance with Rube at tbe An Irate Peddler. trigger. His pal, Joe Jackson alias Henry.Davis, who was with him, is very He was a new man and had never much smaller in stature, with dark hair been to Monrovia before, He received a and dark complexion, and similarly message for an old widow woman just at equipped. noon and thought he would deliver it on hie way to dinner. Wlio Jenny June I». With his business-looking grip sack in one hand and telegram in the other, he Jenny June has become so much a rapped at the door and waited to deposit household word that perhaps some little his intelligence. Alter some delay an description may not come amiss, says a old lady peered out and said : correspondent to the New Orleans Timet. “No, wo don’t want any silverware to Expecting a tall, fair stately woman, day.” with an air of dignity and authority—a “But, madam, I am not a apectacle sort of atmosphere of an eleven-year vender,” said the indignant o|>crator. president of Sorosis, imagine my amaze “1 have—” ment at the briskness and engergy and “Well, we have plenty of matches, real abiding youth of the rather small and pencils, and soap. Don’t want any person who walked into my room with of your prize-packages, or iire-kindlers, the quick step of a girl of sixteen. She or lamp-ileaners, I say,” interrupted the looked steadily at me a second—tbe female. look, of course, was returned—then, “But I tell you I have—” having both made up our minds, we “Yes, yes, a patent clothes-wire, or laughed, kissed and made friends, with or striped table spread, or new stove out wasting time in preliminaries, ana hook. We don’t want any to-day. so cleared at one bound all the usual Come, move on, or I’ll call my son, conventionalities. She is one of those Philander." rare, energetic women who do not tire And the accommodating operator you. Somehow, she is too sure of her threw the dispatch down on the front self, and inspires a confidence that rests steps and walked off like an express you, and when she invites you most cor wagon; and hie face looked like tl.e ret dially to take tea at her own home you ting sun. feel quite sure in advance of a charming evening, not only aH a guest in the lovely Salaries of High Officials. home life, but in the meeting of distin Here is the St. John Daily Telegraph, guished men and women. The amount of literary work she accomplishes is for instance, with an article entitled dimply wonderful, and, added to a life “ l’wo Cabinets,” in which it compares apparently full to overflowing, she has the cost of the executive department at recently launched a t>aper, the Woman’s Washington and at Ottawa. The salary Cycle, which bids fair to become a real of the president is $50,000, and the sal success. Mrs. Croly does a high grade aries ol tbe eight members of the cabi of work, as witness a recent essay in lhe net at Washington are $8,000 each. The Nationalist, on “A New Point of View,’’ salary of the governor-general of Canada revealing a power of analytical reason is $50,000, that ol the premier $8,0 Ml anil that seems wonderful until we rememlier of the twelve ministers $7,00*1 each. In addition to this each of the Ottawa min her greatest charm is her versatility. isters receive $1,000 a year a* a meinlier of one of the houses of parliament. A Wonderful Typewriter. Therefore, the thirteen ministers of Ot Wier’s cryptograph is a small type tawa receive in the aggregate $105,000, writing apparatus lending itself admira and the eight secretaiies of Washington bly to the purpose of secret correspond $40,00). Difference to the credit nt ence. The apparatus is only about 12 Washington, $41,000 per year. “Tlio inches long by three inches wide and question naturally arises,” says the one and a half inches high. It consists above paper, “why should 5,000,000 of a typecarrier for ordinary letters and of tieople pay $41.000 per annum more figures, which can be placed in any or to their ministers than the adjoining na der that may be desired. There is also tion of 00,000,000?” The St. John pa a movable index plate, on which the let per should remember that the inestim ters and figures appear in the order in able benefits of reflected royalty cost which they are placed in the typecarrier. something. On a small tablet in the center of the ma chine are four white spaces and a central Female Street-Car Conductors. black one, and opposite these spaces is a South America can give us points in at movable pointer. By setting the pointer tc> the black space the machine can be least one respect. In Valparaiso all the Wied as a simple ordinary typewriter. •treet-car conduct™a are females. The To work it the index plate is shifted to fail collect the fare. It is Raid the first the right or left until each required let impression a North American forms of a ter in front of a pointer connected with woman with a bell-punch, taking fares, the printing key. By adjusting the plate ia not favorable, but he soon liecoinea ar d pressing the key an ordinary type accustomed to it. As some of the con written letter can be prepared. For se ductresses are rather handsome, it is cret writing the movable pointer is set, probably not difficult for strangers to say, to the first white space, reading from submit to the inevitable. They wear a left to right. A message can then be neat uniform oi blue flannel, with a jaun written in an unintelligible cipher,which ty Panama hat and a many pocketed can be varied in its details as may be white pinafore, reaching from the breast previously agreed ujion bv the parties to the ankles, and trimmed with dainty corresponding. If so agreed the recipi frills. In theae pockets they carry small ent ot the message sets his movable change and tickets, while hanging to a pointer to the fourth white space, and strap over their shoulders is a little shop then reproduces, as it would seem, the ping bag, in which are a lunch, a pocket- jumble of letters and figures in the com handkerchief and surplus money and munication before him; but on remov tickets. ing the printed paper from the ma chine he will find tliat he has before biin in clear and intelligible language the pre cise information the sender desired to convey. Russia’s Great Novelist, Count Tolstoi, the famous Russian novelist, ia a keen-eyed, serious-looking, earnest-mannered man of commanding presence, with a bald, broad forehead and a patriarchal white head. He is rising two-and-sixty, and is one of those who really practice what they preach. He lives in the top garret of his former palace, the state apartments being occu pied by poor peasant families, and he spends most of his time in agricultural labor, harrowing and mowing or mend ing the huts of the peasant women who are widows. He receives hie visitors in apostolic fashion, acting as their servant and attending to their wants himself, nor does he stop repairing the boots of his neighboring beggar folk while dis cussing the sterner problems of life with archbishops and cabinet ministers. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria John Brisben Walker, editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, has had a varied and interesting career, although he is only 42 years old. 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