THE ANNIVERSARY
The PEOPLE Know
OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE
(Telephone
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A NEWS MEDIUM
WILL BE CELEBRATED
THAT 18 ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE
TEI.EPHONE-REC’ IS TER ENJOYS THE LA RO
EST CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER PVB
I.ISHED IN YAMHILL COUNTY
By inning fl MAMMOTH EXTRA devoted
entirely to McMinnville. Look for it.
Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County.
REGISTER Established August. 1881.
TELEPHONE Established June. 1886.
M c M innville , oreqon , T hursday , J anuary
Consolidated Feb. 1,1889.
H. BALLINGER.
ASTRAY IN A FOREST.
OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA.
VIA
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Experience of a Traveler in the
Coast Woods.
Sondimi Pacific Company’» Lincs.
THE N011T SBASTI ROUTE!
W. E. Foot, of Stockton, who recently
returned
from the Oregon coast, was in
McMinnville. Oregon
Time Between
San Francisco recently, and related one
Portland and San Francisco, ¡
of his remarkable experiences in the
E. E. OOUCIIER.
J. F. CALBREAT1I.
30 HOUKS’
dense forests of the Northwest to a Call
reporter.
California
Express
Trains
Run
Daily
Calbreath & Goucher,
"'That reminds me,” he said, in course
BETWEEN PORTLAND AND SAN FRAN
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
of a conversation about adventuie and
CISCO !
travel, “of my experience on the west
McMnonrnxE,
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O regon .
LEAVE
ARRIVE.
ern slope of the Coast range in Oregon.
Portland . 4.00 p m San Francisco 7.45 pm
(Office over Braly’s Bank.)
San Fran. . 7:00 ¡> iu;Portland
10.45 y/n
I had urgent business at the county seat
Local Passenger Daily, except Sunday
of Tillamook county. The stage road
S, A. YOUNG, M. D.
LEAVE.
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over the mountains waB covered with
Portia id . 8:05 a mj Eugene.
2:40 p
soft snow to a depth of six feet, so the
Eugene.
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a
in
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Portland
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3:15
p
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Physician & Surgeon.
roads were impassable and I took pass
McMlXXVlLlX.
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age on a steamer from Portland to As
Tourist Sleeping Cars,]
toria, hoping to finish the journey by sea
Office and residence on D street. All
For accommodation of Second Class Pas
calls promptly answered day or night.
from there on one of the vessels plying
sengers attached to express trains.
The S P. Company’s Ferry inakc-s con
along the coast. That same morning a
nection with all the regular trains on the
violent rain storm set in and continued
DR. J. C. MICHAUX
East Side Division from foot of F street
for several days. But Bhips were weuth-
WEST SIDE DIVISION
Tnis powder never varies. A marvel of bound by the heavy western winds I
Practicing Physician and Surgeon,
Between Portland and Corvallis.
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordina y kinds, and could not wait for the storm to subside,
Mail Train Daily, except Sunday.
cannot be sold in competition with multi so I boarded a little steamer which fer
LAFAYKTTE, OREGON
LEAVE
ARRIVE
tude of low test, short weight alum or phos ried me over to the Clatsop plains There
Portland. 1
McMinn’ 10:13 a ID phate
Sold only in cans. R oyal
Jan.‘31,’88.
McMinn’ 1(
Corvallis ... 12:25 p m B aking powder.
P owder Co , 10G Wall St., N. Y. I was lucky enough to find a wagon go
Corvallis
1
McMinn’
3:44 pm
ing in my direction about twelve miles.
McMinn’
2
Portland. 6:20 pm
The streams were swollen and would
At Albany and Corvallis connect with
trains of Oregon Pacific.
not permit of traveling on horseback. I
Express Train Daily, except Sunday
resolved to take my chances.
DEALERS IN
I.EAAE.
ARRIVE.
On foot. Three miles beyond where I
Portland. 4:50 pm
8.00 p Ill
McMinn’
5:45 a m|
. 9:00 a ID B, CLARK. PROPRIETOR. left the wagon I stayed over night in a
Through tickets to all points South and
farm-house, and after breakfast next
East via California
morning started out again on the trail
Ticket offices. No 134, corner First and
Alder streets, Portland, Oregon; corner Furniture of all the Latest Styles made to into the mountains. Just as I was about
AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
Front and F streets, Portland
leaving the beach trail a sudden desire
order in Oak, Ash or any Wood
R KOEHLER,
E. P. ROGERS.
came over me to go down to a place
Manager.
Asst. G F. & P Agt
desired.
where a ship was wrecked one dark night
FINE WORKMANSHIP A SPECIALTY! upon the rocks and none of the crew es
caped. I followed the shore southward
o
In building formerly occupied by Mu
about a mile past the light house. Tar
Sample rooms in connection.
Minnville News Co
Orders taken for all kinds of work and rying longer than I had intended at the
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satisfaction guaranteed. Call at factory spot the tide began to surround me and
and sec specimens of furniture.
Is now filled up in first class order.
forced me to climb the cliff. But the
Do not buy without first seeing the furni slope was steeper thsn it at firBt seemed.
Accommodations as eood as can be
ture manufactured here in your own state It took mo over two hours to make the
found in the city.
and county
ascent of 600 feet.
8. E. MESSINGER, Manager.
It. CLARK.
By this time my enthusiasm over the
tramp began to weaken a little, but I set
Prices Consistent with Good Work
off, witli a light heart, expecting to in
On Short or Long Time in Sums to suit. i
tercept the trail at right angles from the
Lowest Rates and no Commissions.
AT THE
verge of the cliff. Only a few paces in
land I came to where some settlers had
If so be sure and call for your tick
been felling trees yearB before. The sun
via the
all on or address:
You will find the most complete
was then shining, but it shone no more
stock of
W. T. SHURTLEFF,!
for me for two days following. I have
Fancy and Staple Groceries,
spent touch of my lifetime in the woods
At J. I. Knight A Co.’s McMinnvile. Or.
Crockery and Glassware, Stand
and have hunted them through and
and Library Lamps
through in pursuit of game, and had
Ever Brought to the City.
learned to tell the four points of the com
Fine Teas and Coties a special
- THE—
pass where 1 had ranged by the weather
ty ; Roast Coffee ground free of
charge. Goods delivered tree to
marks on the trees, and thought I was
Has the most complete stock of harness
ony part of the city.
perfeclty safe this time, but I was de
in the county. At present 12 set of sin
II
J. H HENDERSON. Prop.
ceived.
gle harness, hand made, in prices
“1 looked at the trees on the brink of
ranging from $12 to $30, and 8
JOHN DERBY',
JESSE EDWARDS.
the precipice where they were exposed
set of team harness as cheap
I
to the rain and sun, and got my bearings,
AS ANY PLACE IN THE COUNTY It is positively the shortest and tin !3t
and started east into the wilderness but
line to Chicago and the east and south and
Can be seen on tlie hooks in my shop.
the only sleeping and dining car through
as I went the marks became dimmer, tbe
Proprietors
of
The
McMinnville
I have competent workmen employed line to '
trees taller, their tufted tops denser, tbe
to do all kinds of repairing and to make
any harness ordered I also keep a full Omaha, Kansas City, anti all Miss suri
underbrush thicker, until I finally got to
stock of oil and rubber robes, tap robes,
Hiver Point.
where the sun never shone, nor the rain
horse covers, saddles, etc. A full line of
extras for repairs constantly on hand.
Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed
Situated at the Southwest corner of the beat upon the bark. The trees looked
just alike all around, and nature’s com*
train service and elegant dining and Fair GrOunds. All sizes of
sleeping cars has honestly earned fc r it the
pass was obscured.
title of
First-Class Drain Tile
“Added to this, trees that bad become
kept constantly on hand at lowest living tired standing upright for a century past
prices
EDWARDS & DERBY,
were lying prone upon each other on the
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McMi invitte, Oregon
earth’s bosom, and I had to deviate from
the straight line to follow the meandering
The Only Sign Writer in the County.
Others may imitate,but none can surpass it
TRIPLETT & BOND, elk trails.
Our motto is “always on time ”
Homes fitted up in the Neatest and Most
Proprietors of the
“I kept on, still thinking I bad the
Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets
Artistic Style.
via this celebrated route and take none
right course, but I found that I had made
Designs furnished for Decorations.
others.
W. II MEAD, G A
No. 4 Washington street, Portland, Or I The neatest place in the city Animals a complete circle and came back to
Remember Paper Hanging and Inside Fur
• carefully selected for killing—insuring the where I had first started from the cliff. 1
nishing a Specialty
finest meat
Poultry, etc , bought and felt chagrined, but started again, this
Work taken by Contract or by the Day. Ex
Notice of Final .Settlement.
M«1<1 Highest market price paid for every time following the brink of the cliff down
perienced men employed.
thing.
the coast but did not go a mile when 1
Third Street, McMinnville, Oregon.
Notice is hereby given that the under
came to a deep canyon in the bottom of
signed, administrator of the estate of Elzira
Notice to Taypayers.
Stater deceased, has filed bis final account
which I could see a little stream. Near
Notice is hereby given that the tax books
of his administration of said estate in the
M c M innville national bank . county court of Yamhill county, Oregon of Yamhill county. Oregon, for the year this pla e I found where somebody had
and said court has fixed the 7th day of Jan 1889, are now in my hands for the collection been before me—apparently lost also. In
Corner Third and C streets, in Braly block. uary, 1890. at the hour of 10 o’clock, a in., of taxes, and that myself, or deputy, will the edge of a pool of water was a gallon
at the county court room at McMinnville. visit the various precincts of said county
m ’MINNVII.I.E, OREGON.
Oregon, as the time and place for hearing as follows, between the hours of 10 o’clock coffee can ; on a stump with a pint bot
a m. ard 4 o’clock p m. for the purpose tle that bad been emptied, a teacup on
the same.
Transacts a General Banking Business,
Therefore, all persons interested in said of colleciing said tax :
the ground, a walking-stick and 6ome
Wheatland, Monday, January 27,1890
ostate are hereby notified and required to
President............................ J. W. COWU appear at said time and place and show
Dayton. Tuesday, January 28*.
shreds of cloth and other signs.
Lafayette, Wednesday, January 29
Vice President........... LEE LAUGHLlW cause, if any there be. why said estate be
“I hurried away, crossing the canyon
Dundee, Thursday, January 30
not finally settled and said administrator
Cashier
J. I.. STRATTON discharged
through the thick brush and thornB and
Newberg, Friday. January *31.
West Chehalen ? Saturday. February 1.
Dated this 28th dav of November. 18S5.
over and under logs, tor I had been tolii
Sells sight exchange and telegraphic
‘ F. W. FENTON.
North Yamhill, Monday, February 3
transfers on Portland, San Franco and New (48)
that the trail crossed this stream. On I
Carlton, Tuesday, February 4
Administrator of said Estate.
York.
Bellevue, Wednesday, February 5.
went for hours, wrestling away with
Collections made on all accessible points.
Willamina. Thursday. February 6.
briars and thorns, but what was my as
Interest allowed on time deposits.
Sheridan, Friday, February 7.
<0 have the Exclusive Control of
Amity, Saturday, February 8.
tonishment and dismay to find again that
Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p A.
North and Smith McMinnville, Monday very bottle, can, teacup, etc.
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and Tuesday, February 10 and 11
“I started out on the same route again
All persons are notified to be present at
N
M c M innville
said appointments and settle their taxes, or for I knew that must be the right direc
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pay the same to me at my office, within 30
days from the dates above mentioned. If tion, and it only needed to be followed to
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not paid by the expiration of 30 days, costs find the trail. I crossed the canyon once
CARLIN & HIGH, Proprietors
will be added, as specified by section 2795,
Revised Statutes—pay your taxes or costs more. Then darkness commenced t<
Goods of all descriptions moved and care
50 will be made.
settle, and the mist had laden the tall
ful handling guaranteed. Collections will
T J HARRIS. Sheriff.
be mad? monthly Hauling of a 1 kinds
trees with water, so that at overy recurr
done cheap
iug breeze their waving boughs seiv
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down showers of rain. The bushes were
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wet and I was soaked through. I saw
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that I had to spend tbe night there, and
IN TKE COOK HOUSE.
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immediately went to work to build a fire.
Stocked witli tlie Choicest Wines, Liq-
A Journal for Adevrtisers.
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But the rains had rendered everything
ors and Cigars—Domestic and Imported.
Anu don’t have to offer a prize to sell thfc
PRINTERS’ INK is just what it incombustible iu tne woods, and I ba i
Goods, for its the BEST MADE. Every Can holds
TTa.e Best Ear izx tlie Citjr
purports to be, “a journal for adver only a pen knife to whittle with. Dark
WM. MARTIN. Proprietor.
ONE AND ONE HALF POUNDS.
tisers.” It is issued on the 1st and ness of the blackest Btate soon surround
I. N. HENDERSON. 15th days of each month, and is the ed me, and tny attempt at building a fir-
representativo journal—the trade was a failure. I bad not had a morse
MC. MINNVILLE, ORE.
journal, so to speak—of American since breakfast. There were plenty elk
advertisers. It tells the intending signs, but the signs of bear were more
and inexperienced advertiser in numerous, where they had come to the
on a farm for
are those put up by
Cl
I sou have an agency plain comprehensive articles how, marshy places and sought the esculen.
A Co » alburns and publi-
w
D.M.
FERRY SCO.
d often make M
a day.'
when and where to advertise; how bulbs of skunk cabbage. All that wa-
Who are the Largest
w. II. G arrison .
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to write an advertisement; how to eatable of anything I found were the ten
Seedsmen in the world.
William
Kline,
Ilnrrisburg,
Fa
.
D. M. F erry & Co’s
writes: “I have never known display one; what newspapers or der shoots cf fern just sprung up but that
Beautifully Illustrated, Descriptive
anything to sell like your album.
1 esterday I took orders enough to other media to use; how much to would not satisfy, and I was apprehen
SEE dah KUAL
n»e over
\v. j. El-
Ban gor, Me., writes: “I expend—in fact discources on ev sive that it might produce sickness.
for 1890 will be mailed FREE to all
ery point that admits of profitable “Tired and weary, I wrapped my over
applicants, and to last season’» cus
tomers. It is better than ever. Ev
discussion. If you advertise at all, coat around me and laid myself down on
ery person using Garden, Flower
or Field SEEDS should send for it.
Printers’ Ink can hep you. Per the damp ground in a cavity beneath a
D. M.FERRYACO.
one who takes bold of this ernn<! business piles up grand profit*
haps
you expend but Ten Dollars a fallen tree. When morning dawned I
DETROIT» MICH.
Shall we start YOU in this business,
reader? Write to a« and learn ali about it for yourself We year in advertising; if so, Printers’ resumed my struggle for hours, till final
are etarting many; we will start you if you doti t delay until
another gets ahead of you in your part of the countrv ’ If y.m
Ink may show you how to obtain Iy I came to tbe sea coast on a promoa-
take hold yon will be able to pick up gold fa>t
On account of a forced manufacturer s sale 125,000 ten
double
the service you are now get tory, which a hurricane had swept over
<1ol!ur Photograph Album» areto be sold to the
people for ¡Sti ea h. Bound in Koval Crimson Silk Velvet
ting for half the money. A year’s a few years before and laid that p trt of
Plush. Charminglv decorated insides. Handsomest albums in th j
world. Largest She. Greatest bargains ever known. Agents
tbe forest low. Gigantic trees were piled
wanted. Liberal terms. Big money for agents. Any one can ¡subscription costs but $1; a sample
become a successful agent. 8ells itself on sight— Utile or no
í4e*tÍJ0
copy costs but five cents. Advertis upon one another in some places to the
talking necc»snry. Wherever shown, every one wants to pur
Perfect
chase. Agents take th- usands of ordc-i with rapidity never
ing is an art practiced by many but height of about 40 feet, and I had liecoiuc
before known. Great profits await every worker. Agents are
making fortunes, -adits make as much as men. You, reader,
The conduct entangled among them. After I got free I
can do aa well a* any one. Yuli information and term» free, , understood by few.
to those who write for same, with particulars and terms for our
ors of Printers' Ink understand it went out to where it was more open, hut
Family Bibles, Book* and Period'-al*. After you know all,
should you conclua * to go no furtr-?r, v by no harm is done
thoroughly. Surely their advice, had not gone far when I came upon the
Address E. C- ALLEN
CC . A vgusta . M ains .
based on an experience of more than can, bottle, teacup, etc.
UnVEDTICE DC others,who wish to exam r- I 25 years will help you. Address:
“I had described another and larger
AU V fell I I'lJfellv this paper, or obtain estimates
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circle.
Without waiting I started upon
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ROWELL
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on ac'vertising space when in Chicago, will find it on file at
Newspaper Advertising Bureau,
tbe same course across the canyon again,
the Ad verthing Agency of
10 Spruce St., New York, or I could think of no other way to go.
Office in Fletcher building, Third Street,
Pullman Buffet Sleepers
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Furniture Factory,
HEWITT BROS
R ooks ,
stationery
Musical Goods and Instruments
of all Kinds.
The St. Charles Hotel.
Improved Farm Property
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Edwards & Derby,
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J. B. ROHR,
Sign, and Ornamental Painter The Ttoyal Route
PEOPLE'S MARKET.
TRUCK AND DRAY CO.,
Printer’s Ink
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LORD&THOMAS.
ie, i890.
: For hours again I toiled crawling on my
■ hands and knees under the brush, and
again and »gain scaling logs, till it was
, becoming late in the day.
“The mist came up again, tbe trees
were laden with their aqueous freight,
and tbe zephyrs shaking it down. I saw
by the fog that I was getting near the
ocean. I thought surely that I had pro
gressed this time. All at once I heard a
wailing sound.
“I listened: I heard it again—like a
steer lowing for his mate. Tue sound re
vived me.
I thought I was close to the house
where I had expected to lunch the day
before. I started al most, on the run in
this direction, when there was that can,
teacup, etc., again.
“I had reached the circle. The eleva
tion I had clung to so long was only a
circular table,land being in the shape of
a horse-shoe. I waded the stream to that
beach, but it was then late and darkness
had settled on the lonely Bliore. 1 gath
ered seme dry pieces of dritt-wood and
built a fire and spent most of the night
in wanning myself up and drying my
clothes. After having taken a salt water
bath in the surf I began to feel some
what comfortable. I had got past being
hungry, but was somewhat weak. Mus
sels were my only food. I was safe at
last, and able to contique my journey
next morning without stopping at the
lone house by the sea where I had ex
pected to lunch two days before, and to
the next house, sixten miles beyond,
where, after another surf bath, I stayed
all night.
“I passed the bight in thinking of the
can, bcttle, teacup, etc., and of the man
who left them there. Perhaps he, too,
had been lost just as I was, and had per
ished.”
Au Incident in Grady's Life.
Little things show character, so the
philosophers say. Then the following
story of Grady, told by himself to a
Iriend, and preserved in the Atlanta
Constitution, proves that the strong man
had a child’s heart. He visited his
mother on Christinas a year ago an 1 he
says:
“I don't think I ever felt happier than
when I reached the little home of my
boyhood. I got their at night. She had
saved supper for me and she had remem
bered all the things I liked. She toasted
me some cheese over the fire. Why, I
hadn’t tasted anything like it since I
put off my round jackets. And then shi
ll ad some home-made candy she knew I
used to love, and, bless her heart, I just
felt sixteen again as we sat and talked
and she told me how she prayed for me
and thought of me always and what a
brightness I had been to her life, and
how she beard me coming home in
everybody that whistled along tho street.
When I went to bed Bhe came and
tucked the covers all around me in the
tear old way that none but a mother’s
liands know, and I felt so happy and so
peaceful and so full of tender love and
tender memories that I cried happy,
grateful tears until I went to sleep.”
When be finished, says the narrator,
his eyes were full of tears and so were
mine. He brushed his hand across liis
brow swiftly ana said laughingly: “Why,
what are you crying about? What do
you know about all this sort of feeling?”
Grady was a real man, and in the p es
ent crisis his wise counsels will be great
ly missed.
Attar of Roses.
The manufacture of attar of roses fur
nishes employment to hundreds of peo
ple. A visit to the rose fields is some
thing one will remember a lifetime. The
largest rose fields in the world are al
Kezan Dik, in Bulgaria. There the ros-
as from which the perfume is made are
-ultivated most extensively. The rose
listrict extends for miles and miles, and
the entire country' is a solid mass of flow
ers. The district is, I should judge,
about one thousand square miles. In
procuring the attar of roses, nothing but
he leaves are used. It takes 6,000
pounds of leaves to make one pound o*
the attar. The rose leaves are picked in
the proper season, thrown into piles and
then taken up and placed in large coppei
Kettles for the purpose of distilling the
puieoilor attar. The kettles are ar
ranged one within another, and the
eaves are taken through twenty-five oi
thirty distillations. Good attar of reset*
can be had at from $12 to $15 per ounce
it wholesale. It sometimes retails for
$50 an ounce.
The Richest Actress.
I saw Lotta during the week and the
I ittle actress seemed to be enjoying hei
rs hugely. Although the richest single
woman in the world who lias earned her
own money she does not seem at all bur
lened with business cares. She haB a
hotel in Boston adjoining her Park Thea
ter, which she owns. She figures among
>er assets a flat-house in Now York and
lots ot real estate in different parts of th*
ountrv. Yet she does not bother with
ts management. Her shrewd mother,
who has saved all this money, takes all
Die responsibility of its care and Lotta i
eft to enjoy herself. After this year oi
rest and pleasure in the United States,
-he is going to take a trip to Europe and
it has not get been decided whether she
will work next »ear or not. She is old
-nough and rich enough to enjoy the
balance of her life outside of the theatre.
Otiitla in Her Home.
Guida’s shrine is a little room the walls
of which are painted in the lovely old-
fashioned Italian style, with birds and
■id age and trellis work covered with
fl >wers. The center of the space is filled
with a round table crowded with exotics,
t iberoses and ferns in pots and v s s of
eve y shape and hue. Two small wax
i-andles, furnished with butterfly shapes
just enable you, and no more, to make
your wav through the fragrant twilight
to the coi ner fenced in with a Japanese
screen, where Ouida sits on a low chair,
beside a low tea table and stretches forth
a tiny, very pretty, perfectly ringlet®
hand in welcome. She is gorgeously at
tired, sometimes in bronze velvet and
fur, when velvet and fur were the mode;
sometimes in an enchanting tea-gown of
blue or pink brocade gleaming in Bome
rare fashion with silver or gold embroid
ery. From under the rich stuffs her lit
tle feet peep forth—feet which might
have been owned by Cinderella. The
costume also would have been most ap
propriate for Cinderella when site went
to meet the prince One thinks it a piiy
—for Ouida—that she is not going to
meet the prince.
romance ’ of riches .
A Town Where an Acre of Land
Was Worth $2,000,000.
This is the oldest town in the Pennsyl
vania oil region, having been the first
town to spring into life under the won
derful stimulus of the oil excitement.
It is located on Oil creek, two and a half
miles above Oil City, and it was here
that the third well was drilled for oil,
and on the McEibanny farm, a short
distance above Rouseville, the first real
“spouter” was struck. This was the
famous “Fountain wel’,” which flowed a
stream of oil over the top of the der
rick, high above the tallest tiees in the
neighborhood, and started the great rush
of people into this wonderful region.
This was once a great oil metropolis,
with banking offices, scores of hotels
and all the commercial facilities of a
city. Being so near to Oil City and Pe
troleum Centre, its population never got
above 10,000, if it reached that figure,
but it was one of the most active cities
in the belt of oil. It was surrounded
by some of the wonderful flowing wells
of early oil days. The Widow McClin
tock farm, which fell into possession of
Johnny Steele, afterwards known to the
world as “Coal-Oil-Johnny,” is within
sight of tliiB town. Like all other oil
towns, Rouseville has been swept by
fire a number of times, and there is but
little of the old town left- What is left
of it is a curious old relic in which there
is but little to suggest the bustle and ex
citement and the fortunes lost and won
in former days. “Coal-Oil-Johnny” is
by no means ;he only man who found
an easy fortune within sight of this queer
old town. The first great oil fire here
was when the Rouse well was burned
and Henry Rouse, after whom the town
was named, was burned to death, along
with sixteen other men. It was the most
appalling tragedy in the history of oil
fiies, and being tbe first, created a won
derful Bensation. There lias been talk o'
erecting a monument on the site of the
tire to honor the memory of the sixteen
men who were the first to perish in the
development of the oil region. Colonel
Drake, who drilled the first oil well, has
no monument yet, and the citizens of
Rouseville do not believe that either
will ever be erected.
If oil were found in a literal lake, in
stead of in a porous rock, Rouseville like
Petroleum Center would have been situ
ated over a lake of oil. A number of big
wells were struck within tbe limits of
the town, and great “gushers” surround
ed the town on every side. Not only
were the Oil creek flats here wonderfully
prolific, but Cherry run, which empties
into Oil creek at this point, produced
some wells only second in richness to
the Oil creek wells. Some of the largest
of these were near Rouseville, and it can
be said that the wells in the vicinity
have produced enough oil to have sub
merged the town. Tbe money value of
the oil taken from the ground near Rous-
ville is above $50,0>X),00J. Tlie Storey
farm alone has produced about $10,000,-
•00 worth of petroleum, and still has a
small production—perhaps 100 barrels a
month. The first well drilled at Rouse
ville, the third on that creek, as stated,
was put down by the primitive method
uf a “spring-pole engine.” Thia was no
engine at all, but a stout sapling or
■*pnng pole to which the toola were at
tached. Three or four men would pull
the spring-pole down and its springs
would lift the tools for the next stroke
Tliis was called “tramping a well down”
and as many of them were tramped down
to the depth of 500 or 600 feet the opera,
tion was very slow and tedious. No less
than 150 wells were put down on Oil
creek in this crude way before steam was
ipplied in thiB work. Where three
months were often required to drill a
well then, one is drilled now in ten days
or even less.
The history of one of the big wells
near Rouseville is the history of many,
and will serve to illustrate tbe amazing
richness of tbe oil belt in this section.
The Reed well, on Cherry Run, was
struck July 17, 1864, It was located on
an acre of leased ground. The land in
terest was to receive one-quarter of the
oil and the ownets of the well the bal
ance. One well was put down, and in
ninety days from the time of starting the
Irill $785,003 had been realized from it
by the working interest alone. The
Mingo Oil company of Philadelphia
bought out one quarter of the land inter
e**t in the well for $280,000, after the
owner had already sold $30,000 worth of
>il irom it. Mr. Reed, after selling $75.-
00 worth of oil from his account sold to
Bishop Russeli <k Co., half of his interest
fur $203,000. A man named Frazier had
n interest in the well that netted him
»100,000 in oil, and he afterwards sold
his interest for $100,000 cash. Most of
these sales were cash in hand. The
Mingo Oil company paid $280,030 for
their interest in one payment. Three
other wells were dulled on this one acre
if ground, and from the four wells $2,-
030,000 were realized. This is perhaps
• he richest acre of ground ever developed
n the oil Country. The original owners
were uteri of email means, and all be
came weelthv from this single transac
tion. Even tbe Philadelphia and New
York companies who bought them out at
-uch extravagant figures realized hand
somely from their invest meet. There is
no sign of the Reed well or any of its
rich neighbors now. The places where
the derrick ami lank stood are grown
high with weeds and bushes, and from
the mine of wealth the spot has returned
to i s primitive wildness and worthless
ones.
VOL. I. NO. 50.
The Newspapen of the World. WHEN TRAIN WAS YOUNG.
A large number of statistics have been
collected in connection with the Paris
Exhibition, and of these probably the
most interesting are those which deal
with tbe total number of journals pub
lished in the whole world. These have
been collated by La Nature. The facts
given show that Germany has the honur
of publishing the largest number of per
iodicals in Europe, these numbering 5,-
500, of which 800 are dailies. Jou n ils
devoted to special religious dogmas,
creeds and scientific theories, abound
more in this than in any other country.
The oldest German journal is the Ga
zette det Postet oi Frankfort, founded in
1816: the most widely circulated, tbe
Berliner Taegblatt. issues but 55,000 cop
ies. After Germany comes England,
which publishes over three thousand
newspapers, 809 of which are dailies
France follows with a nearly equal num.
ber, of which only a quarter are dailies,
bi-weeklies or tri-weeklies. Italy holds
the fourth rank by publishing 1,400 jour
nals, 200 of which appear at Rome, 140
at Milan, 130 at Naples, 94 at Turin and
79 at Florence. Of these, 170 are dai.
lies. In Austria Hungary there are
1,200 journals, of which 150 are dailiee.
So far as other countries are concerned,
Spain follows with 850, and Russia 800,
200 of the latter appearing at St. Peters
burg and 75 at Moscow. In Greece jour
nals are proportionately numerous, every
little market town and village having
one. Athens publishes 54, all of which
arc dailies. In Switzerland there are
450 journals published, and Belgium and
Holland furnish an almost equal num
ber. In Swedon, Norway and Portugal
journalism is but little cultivated, while
in Turkey it is quite active. Altogether,
Europe is credited with 20,030 newep*'
pers.
Turning to Asia, the figures show that
no fewer than 3,000 papers aro issued,
most of which appear in Japan and the
British Indies. China is veiy poorly
supplied, having but the King-Pau offi
cial journal of Peking) which issues
three editions a day on paper of differ
ent colors ; and one journal at Shanghai,
and one in Corea. Japan, on the other
hand, publishes 1500 journals.
Africa makes but a very pool Bhow,
having but 200 newspapers, thirty ol
which are published in Egypt, and the
rest in European colonies.
America haw a large share of repre
sentation in the world’s press, the Unit
ed States alone issuing 12,500 papers,
1000 of which are dailies. In Canada
700 journals are published, most oi which
are French. Besides Mexico and Brazil,
in which quite a large number of papers
are published, it may be stated that the
Argentine Republic has about 60 jour
nals.
Australia is credited with TOO papers,
all of which are English.
Flies in the Snow.
A week since, in the company of a
friend, I made tlie ascent of Benmore
from Crianlarich. We found the cone
well powdered with snow, which got
deeper and firmer as we ascended, and
when we had reached say 500 or 600 feet
of the top, we came upon a solitary fly,
quite dead, but which had evidently
been very recently in the full enjoyment
of life and health. A few feet further on
we found five or six more, some alive
and some dead, but higher still, and
within a very short distance of the top,
we were surprised to find hundreds, all
alive and apparently enjoying tliemselves
though few of them seemed able to use
their wings. At this elevation the ground
was pretty deeply covered with sn iw
and all the rocks thickly crusted with ice
and we noticed that it was i articu’.arly
where the ice was thickest th it the in
sects were most nunten us. On the south
side of the mountain, where we descend
ed, we saw none of our little friends. I
am not a naturalist, and Benmore may
perhaps be the ordinary winter resort of
the fly, but it appears curious that an in
sect which is so generally associated with
the idea cf waimth should be found in
such numbers in winter, at an elevation
of 3,800 feet above sea level.
An Ohl War Home.
George Francis Was A Favorite
With Lords of High
Degree.
In 1857, during the Sepoy rebellion in
India, Col. Green, when editor of the
Boston Pott, took a trip to Europe. In
London he fell in with Mr. Train and
tol*l him Uiat he was altout to make an
application to Mr. Buchanan, who was
then the American minister at the court
of St. James, to procure him a ticket of
admission to the house of commons.
“It is not necessary," sai*l Mr. Train;
“besides, it will take the old fool half a
lifetime to put his specs on, and the
other half to procure the ticket. Come
with me; I know the speaker," When
they arrived at the vestibule of tlie home
Mr. Train scut Lis card to tlie sj»eaker.
In a few minutes an official with a long
rod in his hand courteously *alute*i Mr.
Train an*! conducted him and the colonel
to seats on the floor ot the house, where
Mr. Train introduced tlie colonel to sev
eral disti'uruislied members, with whom
he seemed on intimate terms.
After satisfying his curiosity the colo
nel wished to withdraw. “Now." said
Mr. Train, “I will show you some of the
live lions of the British empire, generals,
admirals and statesmen, who are taking
their ease in withdrawing rooms to which
few are admitted.” Here tli?y found
men of all ages sitting in gioups at
ta les, some reading, others writing and
others talking. Mr. Train introduced
the colonel to lords and others of high
degree with an ease and familiarity that
astonished him. All who rember Col.
Greene know that he was eminently
handsome, above the middle height,
well proportioned and of pleasing ad
dress. He made a favorable impression
wherever he went and was treated with
marked courtesy by tlie gentlemen to
whom he was introduced. An admiral,
who bad served on the North Amorican
station and who had visited Boston, in
vited the colonel to take a seat by him
»nd entered into conversation with him
about several families whose acquaint
ance he hail made. As a conversation
alist tlie colonel had few equals, and in
a very little time he ami the admiral
were chatting away like old friends.
Their conversation, however, was inter
rupted by loud talking at the next table.
Mr. Train and an old Indian were dis
cussing the Sepoy rebellion. ”1 tell you,
sir,” said Mr. Train, “you will never
suppress the rebellion by your tactic*.
on have not men enough ; your com
mander-in chief is an old man, kept
down the best pait of his lifetime, and
before lie gets ready to move his army
will be gobbled np. Your Clives and
Weslevs are names of tlie past." The
Indian calmly replied, with a pleasant
smile, “Whv, Mr. Train, you have but a
limited knowledge of the vigor of Sir
Colin Campbell, who lias served many
years in India, ami I think a little more
knowledge of India will lead you to a
different conclusion.” “My lord,” re
joined Mr. Train, with energy, "I know
all about India, its history, resources,
castes, etc. I studied tliem all, for I
was three weeks in Calcutta.” This
drew forth roars of laughter, but George
was not abashed. He contended with
increated vehemence that India was lost
to England
He had the last word.
Col. Greene felt embarrassed and whis
pered to Train that ho had an engage
ment to meet and must be punctual. At
parting the gentlemen sho?k Mr. Train
cordially bv the hand, and some of them
invited him to call at their houses. He
was evidently a great favorite with the
whole party. George was then young
anil hsndsome, had made the circuit of
the globe and seemed to know* everyone
worth knowing. Where now is the ir
repressible George? For years lie has
lieen a solitary man, whose principal
business in summer was feeding bird»
with crumlrs of bread and amusing chil-
■Iren, and now he shells the radiance of
his intellect on the whitened atone which
makes hideous to the tiinid tho Charles
street jail.
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Holland’s Youthful Princess.
The heiress to the throne of the Neth
erlands, the Princess Wilhelmina, is a
few mon*hs past her ninth birthday. A*
the onlv Queen Regent of the future she
is a very interesting personage, the most
important young lady that now figures
in European politic*. Young as »he i*,
the question of her marriage has already
lieen mooted and widely discussed, and
it is probable that very few more years
will pass over lie: childish head before
she will be solemnly betrothed to some
one or other of the many pretendant* to
her hand. She is at present a pretty,
fair-haired little girl, very closely and
carefully guarded by her watchful moth
er, Queen Emma, who superintends her
self the course of education which i*
destined to make the future queen of
Holland one of the most accomplished
princesses of Europe.
There recently died on the farm
of Colonel Craighill, near the city
of Lynchburg, a horse that enjoyed
the supposed distinction of being
the only survivor in the South of
the cavalry steeds of the civil war.
He had reached the age of 33 years
but almost up to his last hour, at
the very time when he had fallen
into extreme decrepitude, it is said
that his spirit would at once revive
at the sound of cannon or musketry
or the strains of martial music, al
though so long a period had passed
since he had gone into battle. His
original owner, having been a mem
ber of the famous Stonewall Bri
Parnell at Home.
gade, had christened him “Old
Charles Stewart Parnell, when at home,
Jack” after the immortal Stonewall conforms to local style in dress. Hi*
and the old horse seems to have breeches are tied at the knee with ribbon
been worthy of the name he bore, vividly green in hue. btout, brown
which was the familiar title that worsted stockings, a little the worse for
the soldiers of Jackson gave their »ear, cover bis shapely limbs, ending in
a pair of brogues that have not recent!v
great commander. “Old Jack” re been submitted to tlie blacking brush.
ceived two wounds in the various A waisti oat left unbuttoned display* a
charges in which he took part, but blue cotton shirt; a high collar, such as
neither could have been very severe, Mr. Gladstone wears in holiday time, i*
as he had vigor enough left to live loosely tied with a kerchief, green, but
not so decidedly patriotic in tone as th«
to a very advanced age for a horse. noiHins that knot tlie breeches at tbe
From the hour that the war ended knee. A high hat with exceedingly
»mall brim is rakisblv set on one side of
he had been required to perform but iris head, nn<i you do not fail to notice
very light service, it being very the “cuddy” stuck in the rusty band that
the base of the crown, and ha*
properly thought that no heavy bur confines
oraved many storms in the lovelv Wick
dens should be imposed on an ani low mi untains.
mal that had so distinguished
W. 8. Grady, Jr., brother of tlie late
history. Upon his death his owner Henry W. Grady, is now at Toledo, Ore-
i gon. He was until quite recently a clerk
gave him an honorable burial, and st the Siletz reservation. He came to
we understand ho proposes erect Oregon on account of Iris health, and
cor.templaies returning East. The young
ing a suitable monument over his er brother of the great editor also pos
grave.
sesses great journalistic abilities.