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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1891)
teaches fhu ladybug to make an opening . greater by 12 per cent than for the pre- in the rind of the apricot for the bee, who : ceedlng year, although the imputation cannot otherwise gee at the juices of the ; lias increased only 2! per cent, in fruit. So God rends the ladybug ahead to 1872 pensions consumed only $28,500,000 ALL SEASONS HAVE THEIR LESSONS prepare the way for tho honey bee. He ! HARDING & HEATH. Publishers. teaches the ant to bite each grain of corn FOR THE CHRISTIAN. But in 1890 this was increased to$106,- that sho pots in the ground for wintci 936,000. This year it will lie $133,000,- food in order that it may not take root esdBSL ’•’’•'C-’WkTF:«. 000; “and the country," says Senator Beautiful Imagery of the Bible, Teach- | and so ruin the little granary. He teaches I ¡ng Lessons from Nature—The Snows ot the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles |2 00 Carlisle, “will lie unexpectedly fortun One Copy, per year, inadvance.. Lebanon and Monnt Hermon—The Ilogs ! into a hollow tree, that the water far down I 00 ate if the expenditures for this purpose Or.» Copy, six months In adrsnee and out ot reach may come up within the of St. Bernard. stop short of $200,000,000 per annum.” reach of the bird's beak. What a comfort THE TELEPHONE-REG 1STER. THE LESSONS OF WINTER. know not. He squeezed through somehow, although I think tho gates took the skirts I ot his garments. I think he lives in one of those bark streets in one of the plainer residences.” Then wc shall see a palace, the door-! steps of gold, and the windows of agate,: and the tower like the sun for brilliance, and chariots before the door, and people' who look like princes and princesses going! up and down the steps, and we shall say, “What one ot the hierarchs lives here?" That must be the residence of a Paul or a i Milton. or some one whose name resounds through all the planet from which we have just ascended.” “No, no," says our celes tial dragoman; "that is the residence ot a soul whom you never heard of. “When .«lie gave a charity her left hand knew not what her right hand did. She was I mighty in secret prayer, and no ono but God and her own soul knew it. She had more trouble than anybody in all the land where she lived, and without complaining sho bore it, and though her talents were i never great, what she had w.as all conse crated to Gml and helping others, and the Lord is making up for her earthly priva tion by especial raptures here, and the king of this country hud that place built especially for her. The walls began to go up wbeu her troubles and privations and consecrations began on earth, and it so happened—what a heavenly coincidence!— that i he last, stroke of the trowel of ame thyst on those walls was given the hour she entered heaven. "You know nothing of her. On earth her name was only once in the newspapers, and that among tho column of the dead, but sho is mighty up here. There she comrs now out of her palace grounds In her chariot behind those two white horses for a ride on the bank.« of the river that flows from under the throne of God. Let me see. Did you not have in your world below an old classic which says something abont “these are they who come out of great tribulation, and they shall reign for ever and ever?” glorious! I do not care who you are, or where you are, you need as much as I do that cleans ing which made Gaaherie De Witt good while he lived and glorious whan be died Do not take it as the tenet of an obsolete theology that our nature is corrupt. We must be changed. We must be made over again. The ancients thought that snow water had especial power to wash out deep stains. Ail other »rater might fail, but melted snow wonld make them clean Well, Job had great admiration for snow, i but he declares in substance that if be should wash his soul i n melted snow he wonld still be Atvered with mud like a man dowu in a ditch (Job ix. 30). “If I wash myself in snow water, and make my liands never so clean, ret shalt thou ¡■lunge me in the ditch and mine own clothes shall abhor me." We must be washed in the fountain of God’s mercy be fore we can be whiter than snow. "With out holiness, no man shall see tbe Lord.” Oh. for the cleansing power! If there be in all this audience one man or womau whose thoughts have always been right, and whose actions are always right, let such a one rise, or if already standing, lift the right hand. Not one! All we, like sheep, have gone astray. Unclean! unclean! And yet we may be made whiter than snow—whiter than that which, on a cold winter's morning, after a night of storm, clothes the tree from bot tom of trunk to top of highest branch; I whiter than that which this hour makes tbe Adirondacks, and tbe Sierra Nevada and Mount Washington heights of pomp and splendor fit to enthrone an archangel In the time of Graham, the essayist, in one mountain district of Scotland an av erage of ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts, and so he pro posed that at the distance of every mile a pole fifteen feet high and with two cross pieces be erected, showing the points of the compass, and a bell bung at the top. so that every breeze wonld ring it, and so the lost one on the mountains wonld bear the sound and take the direction given by thia pole with the i ross pieces and get safely home. Whether that proposed plan was adopted or not I do not know, but I de clare to all yon who are in the heavy and blinding drifts of sin and sorrow that there is a cross near by that can direct you to home and peace and God; and hear you not the ringing of tbo gospel bell hanging to that cross, saying, '"This is the way; walk yc in it?” No wonder that the sacred poet put the Psalmta’s thought Into rhythm with that ringing chorus we have so often snng: KAY & TODD’S N ew Y ork . Feb. 8.—Tho remarkable that he is a God in tittles! The emperor of movement initiated by The Christian all the Rnssias in olden time was looking Herald services in the Academy of Music at a map that spread before him his vast is growing apace, and negotiations are dominions, and he could not find Great pending for additional accommodations on Britain on tbe map, and he called in his a gigantic scale. Dr. Talmage’s sermons secretary and said, "Where isGreat Britain, have set thousands of the people of New that I hear so much abont?” "It is under York to serious thinking on religious mat your thumb,” said the secretary; and the ters. At every service now men and emperor raised his hand from the map and women riso in all parts of the house to in saw the country ho was looking for. THE rsTTSITE EEALM OF GOD. timato their desire that the Christians And it is high time that we find this present would pray for their conversion, and after the regular service is concluded mighty realm of God close by and under they speedily occupy the orchestra chairs our own little finger. To drop you out of while Dr. Talmage and the large corps of his memory would be to resign his omnis workers who are helping him listen to clence. To refuse you his protection would their difficulties and give them advice. be to abdicate his omnipotence. When Tearful eyes 3nd convulsive sobs bear you tell mo that ho is the God of J upiter, testimony to the earnestness of the seekers. and the God of Mercury, aud the God of The New York Herald estimates that dur Saturn, you tell me something so vast that the person who sends them, not for pub ing January alone over a thousand persons I cannot comprehend it. But if you tell Oregon is not much of an Indian declared their resolve to live Christian | me ho is the God of the snowflake, you tell lication, unless unaccompanied by a "non de plume.’’ but for a guarantee of good ; state after all, though sonic Eastern i lives. Dr. Talmage’s sermon this evening, me something 1 can hold and measure and faith. No publications will he published realize. Thus the smallest snowflake con people have tbe notion in their heads| which he also preached in the Brooklyn tains unless so signed. a jewel case of comfort. Here is an Academy of Music in the morning, was * that we are always in danger. Mr. from Job xxxviii, 22, “Hast thou entered opal, an amethyst, a diamond. Here is A ddress A ll C ommunications . E ither I- or one of the treasures of the snow. Toko it the editorial or business departments, to Robert Porter has sent us some Indian into the treasures of the snow?” Grossly maligned is tho season of winter. for your present and everlasting comfort. T he T elephone -R egister . McMinnville, statistics, compiled for 1890, which Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of Oregon. show that there are 249,273 Indians in The spring and summer and autumn have accumulated power. During a snowstorm had many admirers, but winter, hoary S ami 'LF. Com's O f Tin: Tr-LEi'lloXE-llEols- , tbe U. S. Tlic following states and headed and white bearded winter, hath let an apothecary, accustomed to weigh tkk will lie mailed to any person in the 1 territories have more red men than Or- had more enemies than friends. Yet with most delicate quantities, hold his weighing United States or Europe, r. ho desires one. ; egon: Indian territory, 74,997; New out winter the human race would be inane scales out ot the window and let one flake free of charge fall on the surface of the scales, and it will * Mexico, 28,999; South Dakota, 19,845; and effortless. Yon might speak of the * * „ even make it tremble. When you ’ e I nvite Y ou To C ompare T he T ele - ! Arizona, 16,740; California, 15,283;\Vash- winter as the mother of tempests. I take not it as the father of a whole family of physi want to express extreme triviality of rnoxK-Rr.Gt«TER with nnv other paper I | ington,10,837; Montana 10,573; Wiscon- cal, mental and spiritual energies. The weight you say, “Light as a feather,” but published in Yamhill county. snowflake is much lighter. It is just PEARLS OX THE FOREHEADS OF THE RIGHT I sin, 8896; Minnesota, 7065; North Dako most people that I know are strong in pro a twenty-four EOUS. times lighter than water. And portion to the number of snow banks they «Vs we pass up the street I find a good All subscribers who do not receive their ta, 7952; Michigan, 6991; New York, had to climb over or push through in child yet the accumulation ot these flakes broke paper regularla will confer a favor bp im 5,332; Oklahoma, 5680: Nevada, 4956. hood, while their fathers drove the sled down, a few days ago, in sight of my house, mafly on foot, and 1 say to the dragoman, mediately reporting the same to this office. Then comes Oregon with only 4282. loaded with logs through the crunching I six telegraph poles, made helpless police “Who are these?” And when their name ' and fire departmentsand halted rail trains is announced I recognize that some of Illinois only has 1; Georgia, 2: Tennes drifts high as the fences. them were on earth great poets, and great At this season of the year, when we are so with two thundering locomotives. see, 10, and Missouri, 14. We have already learned so much of the orators, and great merchants, and great Thursday. February 12. 1891. familiar with the suow, those frozen warriors, and when I express my surprise power ot electricity that we have become vapors, thoso falling blossoms of the sky. There are a good many people in this those white angels of the atmosphere, those careful how we touch the electric wire, about their going afoot the dragoman and in many a case a touch has been death. says, “In this country people are rewarded CORRUPT IN ITS LEADERS J country who believe that the United poems of the storm, those Iliads and Odys But a few days ago the snow put its hand not according to the number of their of the wintery tempest, I turn over ! States will never again be engaged in a seys the leaves of my Bible and—though most on most of t hese wires, and tore them down earthly talents, bat according to the use The cartoon on the first page of this ; war and that nil expenditure for coast of it was writ ten in a clime where snow as though they were cobwebs. The snow they made of what they had.” And then issue needs no explanation. That the Jesus. I long to be perfectly whole: defense and for the maintenance of the seldom or never fell—I find many of these said: "You seem afraid of the thunderbolt; I thought to myself: “Why, that theory I Dear 1 I will catch it and hurl it to the ground. would make a snowflake that falls cheer want thee forever to live in my soul. republican party of the state of Oregon beautiful congelations. Though the writers Break down every idol, cast down every foe! : army mid navy is merely a reckless when led by the nose by such men as may seldom or never have felt the cold I Your boasted electric lights adorning your fully and in the right place, and does all Now wasl> me, and I shall be whiter than snow! I waste of money. touch of the 1-uowflake on their cheek, cities with bubbles of fire, I will pnt out as the work assigned it, as honorable a> a Whiter than suow! yes, whiter than snow! Simon and Lotan, has its hands tied There is some reason in what they they bad in sight two mountains, the tops easily as your ancestors snuffed out a tal whole Mont Blanc of snowflakes.” Now wash me, and 1 shall be whiter than enow! with money and ring influence is an “Yes, yes." says the celestial dragoman, Get that prayer answered, and we will say, but although this country is less of which were suggestive. Other kings low candle." The snow put its Huger on “many of these pearls that you find on the the lip of our cities that were talking with evident fact. The individuals of the exposed to war than are European na sometimes take off their crowns, but Leb each other and they went into silence, ut foreheads of the righteous, and many of be fit not only for earth, but for tbe anon and Mount Hermou nil the year heaven where everything is so white be republican party are not corrupt only tions it bus questions and disputes oc round and through the ages never lift t he tering not a word. The snow mightier the gems in the jewel case of prince and cause everything is so pure. You know so far as they allow the corrupt leaders princess, are only the petrified snowflakes that the redeemed in that land wear robe.« than the lightning. casionally with foreign powers. Two coronets of crystal from their foreheads. to make their issues. Throw them In March, 1888, the show stopped Amer- of earthly tempest, for God does not forget that are white, and the conquerors in that The first time we find a deep fall of snow such questions with our very powerful aside and the party regains its great the Bible is where Samuel describes a i ica. It said to Brooklyn, "Stay home’" to the promise made in regard to them, ‘They land ride horses that are white, and John in British neighlxir are now pending, and in fight between Benaiah and a lion in a pit, I New York, “Stay home!” to Philadelphia, shall be mine, said the Lord of hosts, in vision saysof Christ, “hta head and his hairs ness; not till then. When this is done although there is no immediate danger and though the snow mny have crimsoned "Stay home!” te Washington, “Stay the day when I make up my jewels.’ ” Ac were white.” and the throne on which be the party can face the democratic ele of hostilities resulting from them their under the wounds of both man and brnte, I home!” to Richmond, "Stay home!" It cumulated power! All the prayers and sits is a great white throne. By the par ment on its own ground. into a white sepulcher most of this charities and kindnesses and talents of all doning and sanctifying grace of God may mere existence ought to be sufficient to! the shaggy monster rolled over dead, and put the giant was victor. But the snow is not nation. Commerce, whose wheels never the good concentered and compacted will we all at last stand amid that radiance! I suggest that the country should not l>e stopped before, stopped then. What was be the world ’»evangelization. This thought ■ Erance will place a duty upon Ainer- fully recognized in tho Bible until God in Ten thousand timee ten thousand. terrogates Job, the scientist, concerning its the matter? Power of accumulated snow of the aggregation of the many smalls into In glittering armor bright. can pork large enough to -.top its use in 1 left entirely defenseless. that one mighty is another treasure of the ■ flakes. On tho top of tbe Apennines one The armies of the living God, No country wants to go to war with ; wonders, saying, “Hast thon entered into France. flake falls, and others fall, and they pile snow. Throng np the steep« of light. the treasures of the snow? ” the United States and no country will j Another treasure of the suow is the sug Tis finished, all » finished, up, and they make a mountain of fleece JOB, THE LEARNED SCIENTIST. I The bill dividing the state into three except under very pressing circum Their fight with death and sin; I rather think that Job may have exam on tho top of a mountain of rock, until gestion of tbe usefulness of sorrow. Ab j Throw ojion wido the golden gates fair districts and appropriating S3000 n stances. But those circunstances will ined the snowflake with a microscope; for, one day a gust of wind, or even the voice seuce of snow last winter made all nations , And let the conquerors in. year to each district, passed the senate be found very much less pressing if it, although It is supixised that the microscope of a mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors I sick. That snowless winter has not yet ■ into action, and by awful descent they ended its disasters. Within a few weeks it was invented long after Job's time, there ODDS AND ENDS. Tuesday. were known that our rich hnrlx>r« were ' had been wonders of glass long before the sweep everything in their conrse—trees, put tens of thousands into the grave, aud adequately defended. microscope and telescope of later day were rocks, villages—as when in 1827 t he town left others iu homes and hospitals gradu i What a world of meaning there is in the The portage railway bill lias passed thought of. So long ago as when the Col of Briel, in Valais, was buried, and in 1624, :d!y to go down. Called by a trivial! simple bang of a door! the senate. This bill appropriates $400- A bill by Senator Fulton provides for iseum was in its full splendor, Nero sat in in Switzerland, three hundred soldiers name, the Russian "grip,” it was an inter i Longfellow gave us "Hiawatha" when ii OO for the construction of portage rail the exemption of railroads from taxa the emperor’s box of that great t heatre, were entombed. These avalanches were national plague. Plenty of snow means | public health. There is no medicine that 48, “Tales of a Wayside Inn" when 38. which held a hundred thousand people, made up of single snowflukes. ways at The Dalles and Celilo. tion if built within two years, the ex and looked at the combatants through a What tragedies of the snow have been so soon cures the world's malarias as these It is becoming quite customary for a witnessed by the mouks of St. Bernard, white pellets that tho clouds administer— widow to retain her husband's name on The late census shows that the Jews emption to last several years. The ob gem in his finger ring which brought who for ages have with the dogs been busy pellet.« small enough to l>e homeopathic, her calling cards. everything close up to his eye. ject is to stimulate railroad building. are the healthiest people in the United Four hundred years before Christ, in the in extricating bewildered and overwhelmed but in such large doses as to be all ipathic, The Smith family occupies fifteen close States. This is owing largely to their stores at Athens, were sold powerful I travelers in Alpine storms, the dogs with u.nd melting soon enough to be hydropath ly printed pages of the Ixmdon directory Lost in the Mountains. blankets fastened to their backs and flasks ic. Like i sponge, every flake absorbs un I for 1890. glasses called “ burning spheres, ” and laws regarding the eating of meat. Layard, the explorer, found a magnifying ! of spirits fastened to their necks to resus healthy gTbe tables of mortality in The citizens up on the Oregon Pacific citate helpless travelers, one of these dogs New York and Brooklyn immediately less- - Oilcloths will last longer if one or two | Double leaded editorials now con- ■ in the vicinity of < latesville are alarm glass amid the ruins of Nineveh and in decorated with a medal for having saved ened when tbe snows of last December be- ' layers of wadded carpet lining are laid un the palace of Nimrod. Whether through same a portion of the TAiwidere»’’* col : ed over the long absence of a young magnifying instrument or with unaided < tbe lives ot twenty-two persons, the brave gan to fall. The snow is oue of the grand- ; der them. Mrs. Gen. Grant's eyesight is very poor, umns. They are intended as hot shot mail named Tucker, who left Gatesville eye I cannot say, but I am sure that Job J beast himself slain of the snow on that day ' est and best of the world’s doctors. and her maid is writing her book of remi when accompanying a Piedmontese courier TnE BLESEIXOS OF WINTER. for the legislature, anti in some instan ten days ago with a party <>t’ four men somehow went through the galleries ot the on the way to his anxious household down Yes, it is necessary for the laud's pro- niscences from dictation. snowflake and counted its pillars and ces are. The Persian New Year resembles our for a few days' hunt in the mountains. found wonders, raptures, mysteries, theol the mountain, tbe wife and children of the ; ductivcness. Great snows in winter are ogies, majesties. infinities walking up and I Piedmontese courier coming up the mount i generally followed by great harvests next Easter Sunday in the respect that every Henry Failing of Portland is talked About the second day out Tucker l>c- down its corridors, as a result of the ques ain in search of him, an avalanche covered summer. Scientific analysis has shown one is expected to put on a new suit of <>f for the treasury portfolio. Failing in cnine separated from his friends and on tion which the Lcrd had baked him, “Hast all under pyrjgiids higher than those un | that snow contains a larger percentage of clothes. Windom’s plats' would certainly adver the third day they ri'tiirned home, ex thou entered into the treasures of the der which the* Egyptian monarchs sleep ammonia than tbe rain, and hence its Personal joys or sorrows should uot bu their sleep of the ages! greater power of enrichment. And besides made the subject of conversation. The lat tise Oregon, and that is all that can be pecting to find tlint he had lost the Its snow»” What an illustration of the tragedies of that, it is a white blanket to keep the earth ter should be especially avoided. Oh, it is a wondrous meteor! Hum cation of the camp and returned home expected of him. boldt studied it in the Andes, t welve thou- | the snow is fonnd in that scene between : warm. An examination of snow iu Siberia Russell Sage, the largest individual without them. Bnt in this they were sand feet above the level of the sea. De j Glencoe and Glencrcran oue February in showed that it was a hundred degrees There is considerable rottenness in I mistaken, for the young man had not Saussure reveled among these meteors in Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes warmer under the snow tliau above the loaner of money in New York perhaps, is said to hare a rule never to loan more the assessments this year. Not the | returned home. Hi« friends were at the Alps, and Dr. Scoreshy counted ninety- forth to bring to his father's bouse his suow. Alpine plants perished in the mild than $500,000 on any given day. cousin Flora MacDonald for the celebra winter of England for lack of enough snow six varieties of snowflake amid the arc work of the assessor but the individuals once alarmed and search was instituted It has been found that the bigbest cloud tics. They are in shape of stars, in shape j tion of a birthday, and the calm day turns to keep them warm. Snow strikes back themselves. They will be ventilated . After a lapse of ten days, no tidings of coronets, in sliapeof cylinders; are glob into a hurricane of white fury that leuves the rich gases which otherwise would es layers in the United States manifested an Ronald and Flora as dead, to be resusci average velocity of eighty miles an hour some of these tine days if it is ¡xwsiblc having been received of the missing ular, are hexagonal, are pyramidal, are | cape in tbe air and be lost. Thank God for by the shepherds! What an exciting the snows, and may those of February be during about two years. to do so. man, a general search was commenced. castellated. After a fresh fall of snow, tated one walk yon crush under your feet struggle had Bayard Taylor among the as plentiful a.« those of December and Janu In a pigeon com|ietitiou some years ago At the Gatesville sawmill all hands in Tuilleries, Windsor castles, St. Pauls, St. wintry Apennines! ary have been, high and deep and wide and the winning bird flew from Ventnor to The house has passed a bill appropri quit work and joined in the search, de Peters, St. Marks, cathedrals, Alhambra« RUSSIAN SNOWS AVENGED JOSKPHISE. carichiug; then the harvests next July will Manchester, 208 miles, at the rate of fifty In tbe winter of 1812, by a similar force, embroider with gold this entire American miles an hour. ating $50,000 for the world’s fair. Of claring it to lie their intention to thor and Sydenham palaces innumerable. 1 this $10,000 will lie from the year 1891, oughly scour the mountains in the vi know it depends much on our own condi the destiny of Enrqpc was decided. The continent. Bnt who with any analogical Amber in the raw state looks like large French army marched up toward Moscow «20,000 front 1892 and *20,00o from 1893. cinity in which the hunters had camp tion what impression these flying meteors five hundred thousand men. What can i , faculty can notice that out of such chill as pieces of resiu. Besides being used as ot thosnow make. the .«now comes the wheat, without reali mouthpieces for pipes amber is made into This is better than nothing, but not ed. They fear the young man may I shall not forget two rough aud unprc resist them? Not bayonets, but the dumb zing that chilling sorrows produce harvests beads, medallions, hairpins, etc. much. In all probability the 8250,000 have accidentally «hot himself or met tending wood cuts which I saw iu my boy« elements overwhelm that host. Napoleon of grace! The sun is tremendously large. It is retreats from Moscow with about two hun Tho strongest Christians without any will lie made up by subscription. with a misfortune. Since the above hood side by side; one a picture of a prosper dred thousand men, a mighty nucleus for exception are those who were by bereave equal to 1,300,000 earths; but owing to its ous farmhouse, with all signs of comfort, was writen the young man ha« been and a lad warmly clothed looking out of another campaign after he gets back to I ments or sickness or poverty or persecu small density its weight equals that of only There is this to be said for the sug found. He was a considerable distance the door upon the first flurry of snow, and Paris. The morning of Oct. 19, when they tion, or all of them together, snowed un 832,000 earths. To set delicate colors in embroidered gested appointment of McKinley to lx> away from where the search wa* made, his mind no doubt filled with the sound of start for home, is bright and beautiful. der, and again and again snowed under. jingling sleigh bells and the frolic with The air Is tonic, and although this Russi« n These snow storms of trouble! They kill handkerchiefs, soak them ten minutes be Mr. Windom's successor that no man and was a roving maniac. playfellows in the deep banks, and he, campaign has been a failure Napoleon will j the malarias of the soul. They drive us fore washing in a pail of water in which a in the country would enforce the clappinghls hands andshouting, “It snows! try again in some other direction with hi» out of worldly dependence to God. Call dessertspoonful ot turpentine ha« been Oregon anti Washington. Chinese tariff which he framed more1 in it snows!" The other sketch was of a boy, host of brave surviving Frenclimeu. tho roll of r.U the eminently pious of all stirred. accordance with the intolerant and sub But a cloud comes on the sky aud the the ages and you will find them the sons Tlic school census for the state of haggard and hollow eyed with hunger, From the latest times of paganism to servient spirit In which it was enacted. Washington for 1890 shows that the looking from thebrokendoorof n wretched air gets chill, and one of the soldiers feels and daughters of sorrow. The Maronites the early ages of Christianity we can but home, and seeiug iu t he falling flakes proph on his cheek a snowflake, and then there is say that one characteristic of the cedar rarely quote instances ot fire lighted up — lIMrf. number of children of school age in I that state was 87,813. The school cen ecy of more cold and less bread and great a multiplication of these wintry message«, tree is that when the air is full of snow tor other purposes in public form than for er privation, wringing his hands and with and soou the plumes of the officer.« are and it. lwgins to descend the tree lifts its the ceremonies of religion. I The American navy, of which every sus of Oregon for 1890 showed the num tears rolling down his wan cheeks, crying, decked with another style of plume, aud branches in a way lietter to receive the There is a woman in Atchison, Kan., American is proud,in a more or less <le- ber of children of school age in this “Oh, my God! it snows! it snows!" Out then all the skies let loose upou the war suow and bear up under it, and I know by who sets a chair at the table every day for ot the abundance that characterizes most riors a hurricane of snow, and the march much observation tiiat the grandest cedars her husband, who diet! over a year ago. Iu degree, is manned by 7946 enlisted state to lie 99,567. The largest vote ever of our homes may there go speedy relief to becomes difficult, and the horses find it of Christian character lift higher their men, only 3668 of which are Americans i cast in Washington was 58,521. The j all whom this winter finds in want and hard to pull tbe supply train, and the meu branches toward tteil when the snows of his plate she never fails to place a little bouquet of flowera. either by birth or by naturalization. largest vote ever cast in Oregon was I exposure. begin to fall under the fatigue, and many trouble are coming. not able to take another step lie down in Lord Nelson’s coffin was made out of the GOD IN IM 8SOWFLAJUL This state of affiiir» does not make a 73,387. That is, Oregon hail last year Site Wore nn Extra Bang. the drifts never to rise, and the cavalry masts of the ship L'Orieut in which he had And now I proro3C, for your spiritual persons heart palpitate with patriot 12,000 more school children than Wash and everlasting profit, if you will accept horses stumble and fall, and one thousand fought so bravely, and your throne iu! Hut weather has a particularly ilisas- ism. ington, and cast 15,000 more votes than 1 my guidance, to take you through some of of the army fall, and ten thousand perish, heaven, O suffering child of God, will be trous effect on bangs when one has to re Washington; yet the census of the I these wonders of crystallization. And and twenty thousand go down, and fifty in.ilt o A. of conquered earthly disasters. sort to papers or a curling iron, so Miss Under the force bill the party in pow United States taken last year gave Ore notice first God in the littles. You may thousand, and a hundred thousand, and a What gave John Bunyan such a wondrous Flipperty thought she was very fareeeing she pinned on a becoming little er could control at an election as gon 35,000 les« population than Wash take alpenstock and cross tho Mcr de hundred and twenty thousand and a hun dream of the celestial city? The Bedford when ( Glace, the sea of ice, and ascend Mont dred and thirty-two thousand die, aDd the penitentiary. What gave Richard Baxter fringe of hair. She was on her way to officers of the government something ington. There can be no possible doubt1 I Blanc, which rises into the clouds like a victor of Jena and bridge of Lodi and such power to tell of the “Saints’ Everlast Narragansett Pier, and was to be cared for over 400,000 persons. The salary for that Oregon contains from 40,000 to 50,-. pillar of tho great white Throne; or with I Eylau and Austerlitz, where three great ing Rest,” andto give bls immortal “Call to by one of the other sex, a friend of her these administration officers would OOOmore inhabitants than Washington, arctic explorer ascend the mountains armies, commanded by three emperors. the Unconverted?” Physical disease which chaperon. It was too bad to have him continually asking her to remove her cha amount to something like $17,000,000 notwithstanding tlic late lanientisl cen arouud the north pole, aud see glaciers a ! surrendered to him, now himself snrren ! racked every nerve of his body. What peau and make herself comfortable. At maile George Whitefield so mighty in sav thousand feet high grinding against gtac dera to the snowflakes. for three or four days work. It is in sus. iers three thousand feet high. Bnt 1 will Historians do not seem to recognize that ing souls, bringing ten thousand to God last in sheer desperation she quieted him the coffin now and we luflio it will never take you on a less pretentious journey and the tide in that man's life turned from' when others brought a hundred? Perse with the following experience, which was Advertised Lette m . show you God in the snowflake. There is Dec. 16, 1809, when he banished by hideous 1 cution that caricatured and assailed him fresh in her mind: lie resurrected. It was a coaching party, and of oourre I room enough between its pillars for the divorco his wife Josephine from th«! all up ami down England, and dead vermin Followingare the letters reniainingfor i great Jehovah to stand. In that one frozen palace, and so challenged the Almighty, I thrown in his face when he was preaching. wanted to look my best, and it was to be a The Bell telephone patent monopoly two weeks in the postoffiec at McMinn dropon the tip of your finger you may find and tbe Lord charged upon him from the What mellowed and glorified Wilber long day, so I combed my own bang out in England lias expired. The patent ville, Oregon; • the. throne room of the Almighty. 1 take fortresses of the sky with ammunition of force’s Christian character? A financial and then rolled it up into a tight little up the suow in my hand and see the cours ' crystal. Snowed under! Billions, trillions, misfortune that led him to write. “I know j knob, through which I stuck a hairpin. there was granted for fourteen years. Arthur, MrsJennie Bancroft, MrE T ers of celestial dominion pawing these quadrillions, quintrillions of flakes did the not- why my life is spared so long, except it i Now, if yon have never seen a girl with 4 Cheap telephones will now prevail in Croilie, Miss Nellie Cameron, " Mr D S work. And what a suggestion of accumu be to show that a man can be as happy! her hair arranged In this way let me tell' pavement« Couners. Mr J Franklin, Hloma J crystal England, the same as in Germany, J » The telescope is grand, but I must con lative power, and what a rebuke to all of without a fortune as with oue.” What you it is anything but becoming. Into my Gerriek, Mr W F Griggs, John H where Bell failed to get u patent. In Ingram, Bertie fess that lam quite us much interested in us who get discouraged because we cannot gave John Milton such keen spiritual eye- j bat I pinned a real artistic fringe of hair, Morris, Mrs Anna do much, and therefore do nothing! sight that be could sec the battle of the; with just the right amount of curl in it, this country the patent expires March Moran, John • Maddcx, Manier 2 the microscope. The one reveals the uni angels? Extinguishment of physical eye- i which 1 knew iron Id not change in its ap DO TOUR i SHARE FOR GOD. verse above us; the other just as great a 7, 1893, having been originally granted Pool, William Baine, It H sight. What is the highest observatory pearauce, rain or shine, and the chapeau I “ Oh, ” says some one, “ I would like tej universe beneath u«. But the telescope Strange. Mrs A Thrapp, J S March 7, 1876 for a term of seventeen overwhelms me, while the raicroseopecom- stop the forces of sin and crime that are for studying tbe stars of hope anil faith fastened on my head with a long hatpin. Willis, Mr E II Willis, Mr F F years. forts me. What you want and I want es marching for the conquests of the nation«, and spiritual promise? The believer's sick The effect was all that could be desired, Willis. Mr K F Watkins, Mr O V » pecially is a God in little.«. If we were bnt I am nobody; I have neither wealth bed. What proclaims the richest and most and it seemed impossible that anything Whitmer. Mrs Martha nor eloquence nor social power. What can golden harvests that, wave on all the hills could occur to disturb the arrangement; ■»„in . i * » ■ serapuic seraphic or or arcucxiigcnc arcbangclic iu in our our uniurv!' natures we » • For many long years the democratic • n'r\1C> ea"ln£ ,o1’ «he above letters wonpi want to study God in the great; but I do?" My brother, how much do you of heavenly rapture ? The snows, the deep bnt I wish you could have been there. Oh, party of the state of Oregon has liccn will " please ............ say .’ “Advertised." if not such small, weak, shortlived beings as you weigh? Asmuchasasnowflake? “Oh,yes." ; snows, the awful snows of earthly calamity. no, I don’t either! The driver called out “low bridge," but praying for a champion of the cause in called tor in two weeks they will lie | and I are want to find God in the Tittles. j Then do your share. It is an aggregation And that comforting thought is one of the we were having such a jolly time I didn’t the city of Portland. It lias arrived. sent to the dead letter office as “un When I see the Maker of tho universe ' of small influences that will yet put this treasures of the snow. bear him, and my hat had that nasty fish TnE IMAGE OF FU1UT1. giving himself to the architecture of a lost world back into the bosom of a par The Evening Telegram has been pur claimed.” .1. C. C ooper , Another treasure of the snow is the sug net on it, which caught and bung in the snowflake. and making its shafts, its doning God. Ala« that there are so many chased by Geo. H. MolTett and will be Post master ! domes, its curves, its walls, its irradiations men and women who will not use tho oue . gestion that this mantle covering the earth tree, while the coach bowled gayly on. published hereafter under his manage so perfect I conclude he will look after our talent because they have not ten, and will is like the soul after it is forgiven. “Wash How I felt words fail to describe, but I Pied. insignificant affairs. And if we Are of not give a penny because they caunot give me,” said the Psalmist, “aud I shall be clapped my hand over my forehead and did ment, with no connection with the O>- more value than a sparrow, most certainly I a dollar, aud will not speak as well as they whiter than suow.” My dear friend Gash- not move until a dear, good youth brought egoniem, as a democratic paper. It now K ogers .—At Prineville, Or. oil Eel . !, wearcot more value than an inanimate can because they are not eloquent, and will erie De Witt went over to Geneva, Switzer my hat to me, and, would you believe it, lieeomes the duty of the democrats of 1891, Clark Rogers, aged 65. snowflake. • the Bible would chiefly ini- not be a snowflake because they cannot be land, for tho recovery of his health, but right side up, so that I don’t think any of other fellows saw the bang pinned in Oregon to give it their support. With Mr. Kogers was an old resident <>f|P"" us wi,h God In the lit ties. It does an avalanche! In earthly wars the gen the Lord had something better for him the ,, . , . li-i i . not sav, “Consider the clouds,” but it says, erals get about all tho credit, but in the than earthly recovery. Little did I think it. Oh, yes, of course, I suppose he told them lies its power of doing good. this county and Ills death will he re- ''Consider the liliesIt V docs not say, UWS UUb O«*y, “Be JL»C- wsr for God and righteousness anil heaven wbeu I hade him good-by one lovely after them abont it afterward, bnt I have had a gretted by bis many old friends in this hold the tempest-»!" but L... “ „.'„.I., Behold the all the private soldiers will get crowns of noon on tbe other side of the sea to return sisterly affection for him ever since. — Senator Carlisle shows in a recent ar vicinity. to America, that we would not meet again New York Sun. fowls!” and it applauds a cup of cold victory unfailing. ticle that while the population of the When we reacli Leaven—by the grace of till we meet in heaven. As he lay one Sab water and the widow’s two mites, and says Biicklen'e Arnica Salve. —On Wednesday, Feb. 11. 1890, - the hairs of your head arc all numbered. God may wc all arrive there—1 do not bath morning ou his dying pillow in United States was in 1890 only 16 times C ook Mary, daughter of J.’ F. Cook of this Do not fear, therefore, that you arc going think we will be uble to begin the new Switzerland, the window opeD, he was The Best Salve in|the world for Cute, as great as in 1790, yet expenditures city. to be lost in'the crowd. Do not think that song right away because of the surprise looking out upon Mont Blanc. The air Bruises, Sores, Ulcere, Salt Rheum, were more than 130 times as great. In Miss Cook lias been an invalid for! because you estimate yourself as only one we shall feci at. the comparative reward:- was clear. That great mountain stood in Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, 1810 the expenditures were 72 cents; in several years. Some time ago sbe con- j snowflake among a three days' January glveu. As we arc being conducted along | its robe of suow, glittering in the morning Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup 1890 they were $4.19. While the popu traded the measles which with «‘oni- snow storm that you will be forgotten. the street to our celestial residence we will; light, and ray friend said to his wife: “Jen tions. and positively cures Piles or no Tbe birth aud death of a drop of chilled begin to ask when' live some of those who nie, do you know what that snow on Mont pay required. It is guaranteed to give lation was nine times as great, the per plications caused her death. vapor is as certainly regarded by the Lord were mighty on earth. We will ask, “Is Blanc makes me think of? It makes me perfect satisfaction, or money refund capita expenses of the government was as the creation and demolition of a planet So-and-so here?” Ami the answer will be: think that tiio righteousness of Christ and ed. Price 25 cents jier box. For sale Impure blood and Ion vitality will 1 Nothing is Hg to God and nothing is “Yes, I think he is in the city, but we don't the pardon of God cover ail the sins and by Rogers Bros. 48 times as great. And the ratio ot in make fearful inroads on your health. 1 hear much of him; he was good aud he got. imperfections of ray life, as that snow crease is constantly becoming larger, Wright's Sarsaparilla will cleanse your small. For tame back, side or chest, use Shiloh's What ma. the honey industries of in, but he took most of his pay in earthly covers up that mountain, for the promise although this is a time of peace. The . blood and build you up. Sold by Itog- South Carolina such a source of live- I applause; he had enough grace to get ! is that though our sins be as scarlet, they Porous Plaster Prie~ S rents. 8<-H l>y flowcrth and Co. i expenditures for the fiscal year 1801 arc ' ers Bros. lihood and wealth? It is because God I through thecate, but just where he lives I shall be ns white as snow." Was not that Entered at the jostoffice at McMinnville Oregon, as second-class matter. The new assessment taw allows land indebtedness to I m ? deducted. If the T he advertising R ates of T he T ele deduction of indebtedness on land is a phone -R egister are liberal, taking in good tiling for the stat.e tvliy is not a consideration the circulation. Single note not secured by a mortgage a good inch, $1.00; each subsequent inch, $.75. <l»ecial inducements for yearly or semi-1 thing also. The owner of the land is yearly contracts. the preferred person while a struggling J ob W ork N eatly A nd Q uickly E xecuted business man pays taxes upon every at reasonable rates Our facilities are dollars worth of property in his posses- the be«t in Yamhill county and as good ; rion. The legislators will no doubt a« any in the state A complete steam monkey with the assessment law until plant insure? quick work. * ♦ ft j they make it as bad as possible. This R esolutions of C ondolence and all O bit - uary Poetry will be charged for at regular seems to be their only aim when con advertising rates. sidering measure« effecting tlic mass of A i l C ommunications M ust B e S igned B y the people. STILL GOES ON! ALL BROWNSVILLE AND SALEM MILLS GOODS AT COST ! An Immense Line of ALL WOOL BLANKETS To Choose From! Great Bargains In Their Entire Line of Goods Special Prices °n Overcoats It will pay you to Look at their Goods and Get Prices whether you Buy or not. KAY & TODD INVEST YOUR MONEY V :-IX NORTH DA ! JÆS % * (SS Miles from Portland.) IS THE NATURAL OUTLET OF A COUNTRY RICH IN RAW MATERIAS! Which Has Only Waited The n OF CAPITAL It To THE EQUAL OF As a Manufacturing Center. Advantage is being taken of this by Eastern Capital, as demonstrated by the BOSTON SHOE & LEATHER CO Also Ilio Shrewdest Investors of McMIXX VILLE. THE HUNT SYSTEM l’o Reach Portland, Must Pass Through NORTH DALLES fi THE SHIP RAILWAY Around the Grand Dalles, for which theSen ate Appropriated 82,800,000. will Terminate Here. H. J. LITTLE, Opposite Cook Hotel. McMinnville. Oreon.