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book at the Map. Look at the Map. State of Oregon, Yamhill County. Here von will tliul the moat pro ductive section in tlie World. Land is cheap, offering special in ducements to fruit raisers mid dairymen. McMinuvUle, Yuinliill County. Here is tlie County seat. Here is published THE TELEPHONE- REGISTER, Monarch of home newspapers, uccorded first place in nil the Directories. Look at the Map Look at the Map Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. TELEPHON Consolidated Feb. E s t ab 11 sh«d Ju nt.' 1889. (JAUBKEATH & GOUCHER, PHYSICIANSAND SURGEONS, (Office over Bralv’s Bank.) M c M innville , - • - O regon . ICH AUX & FENTON, M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , O ctober 5,1893. 1, WIFT’S SPECIFIC OUR WILD CAT CURRENCY. renovating the entire system, eliminating all Poisons from the flood, whether of scrofulous or malarial origin, this p'.fr ar at ion has no equal. . . Michigan’s Experience of Fifty Years Ago. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Th. rapar Munry Era. ot the Pulisti Slat..-*Do We Want Tli.m to lt.turn? Our Currency Should bo Above Question, LAFAYETTE, OREGON- The paper money eras of the United States may be roughly divided into six, as follows: W 1 • 1MELSCHNEIDEH, 1. Natlouai bunk notes, 1791 to 1811. 2. Free bank notes, 1809 to 1845. 2. National bank notes, 1817 to 1888. 4. Wildcat bank notes, 1833 to 1845. -------- •--------- 5. State bank notes, 1845 to 1862. Dealer In All Kinds of Watches, kwslry. Plated Ware ’’TREATISE on Blood and Skin 6. National bank notes. Clocks and Spectacles, MeMINNVILLE. OR. 1 Diseases mailed free. T hb S wift S pecific C o ., The first national bank notes were Atlanta. Ga. issued by the bank of the United States I W COWLS. LEELAU6HLIN E.C APPEHSOM Preeldent. Vice President. Caebler chartered for twenty years Sept. 5,1791, with a capital of $10,000,000. When the charter expired in 1811 it was not re WILSON A HENDERSON, Props. newed, Jefferson, Madison and Clay McMinnville, Oregon, opposing it as unconstitutional. The states have surrendered to the federal union the right to coin money and Transacts a General Banking Business, EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS, were themselves especially enjoined by Deposits Received Subject to Check the constitution from even emitting LATEST STYLE RIGGS Interest allowed on time deposits. “bills of credit” but tbe right to emit Sell sight exchange and telegraphic trans AND APPOINTMENES. bills of credit remained in tbe people. fers on New York, San Francisco and Port Tbe states undertook the regulation of land. Special Attention Given to this private right, and the legislatures Collections made on all accessible points. Boarders. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p in. of several incorporated private institu Third Street, Between E anil F, McMinn tions for the special purpose of emitting ville, Oregon. bills of credit (or bank notes.) Penn sylvania chartered forty-one at the ses Manufactures and Deals in sion of 1814, a petition being all that was required to start a bank. Thirty Proprietors of The McMinnville seven went into operation at once un der pledge to redeem their notes in specie, but with authority to issue notes SADDLES, to three times tbe amount of their cap- BRIDLES, ital stock, Witbin six months all had WHIPS, Situated at the Southwest corner of the suspended specie payment. SPURS, Fair Grounds. All sizes of BRUSHES, The “free bank mania,” as it was called, rapidly spread over tlie country, ROBES, Etc. First-Class Drain Tile in spite of the fact that, with a few ex And sells them cheaper than any other dealer in the Valley My all home-made kept constantly on hand at lowest living ceptions. each bank was compelled to harness is the favorite witli all who have DERBY & BOYER, suspend specie payments within a few tried them Give me a call and get prices. prices 41- McMinnville, Oregon. months after the issue of notes. The M c M innville people were helpless and were compel led to use depreciated bank notes from September, 1814,to February, 1817. The COULTER & WRIGHT, Proprietors discount on the notes of the New York banks ranged from 15 per cent to 2 per Goods of all descriptions moved and care Marble and Granite ful handling guaranteed. Collections will cent, on the Baltimore banks from 24} be made monthly Hauling of ail kinds Works. per cent to 2 per cent, and on the Phil done cheap. QXTIÏTC-Z-, MA.SS. adelphia banks from 15 per cent to 4 J. D. BAKER, per cent. On the minor banks there were hardly any quotations, They B ranch Y ard — “Holl’s Old passed, like confederate money, for SURGEON AND HOMEOPATHIC what eould be agreed upon. Stand, PHYSICIAN. Those days were very different from McMinnville, 1 Oregon. these. The people were poor; they Office Upstairs in the Garrison Building. Are prepared to do Cemetery work in wanted credit—transferrable credit,that all its branches at bottom prices. Any could be lent or borrowed. It is only M. RAMSEY, one needing work of this kind will do in rich communities like ours that bank well to call and examine their stock W. FENTON, and get prices before going elsewhere. deposits are large and tranfers of credit are made by private ¡checks. In poor communities bank notes (bank checks) ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, take the place of the private checks McMinnville, .... Oregon. with us; and banks, practically without ho YW r . Do you wear them? When next In need try a pair. deposits, have no other resource than Office, Rooms 1 ami 2 Union Block. Beat In the world. their note issues by which to discount paper or make loans. Note issue is the .45.00 00 first act of any banking system; it was •4.00 the great want of the people and the Gates & Heury, Props. •3.50 banks at that time. It was done blun McMinnville, • Oregon. •2.50 deringly and with little knowledge,but I •2.25 with as much knowledge as there was any where in the world on that sub •2.00 ject. In January, 1817, the second bank of the United States began business, and in February specie payments were If you want I Ano DRESS SHOE, mid« In the latest Sumner in his atyles, don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or nominally resumed. Special Accommodations for Commercial $5 Shoe. They St equal to custom made and look and “History of American currency," says Travellers. wear as well. If you wish to economise In your footwear, that this resumption was only nominal. "orner Second and E Streets, one block do so by purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoes. Name and “In 1817 a case at Richmond, after spe- price stamped on the bottom, look for It when you buy from Cooks hotel. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. Sold by oie payments were resumed, gave an R. JACOBSON, MeMINNVILLE insight into tbe state of things. A man having presented ten $100 notes for re demption was refused. He could not (E-v axigrellat,) get a lawyer to take the case against Of Des Moines. Iowa, writes under »late of the bank for a long time. Finally hav March 21, 189.3: ing obtained a Judgment a sheriff" was S. B. M f . d . M fg . C o ., BEST IM THE WORLD. sent to collect. * The president of the Its wearing qualitieaare unsurpassed, actually Dufur, Oregon. bank'refused to pay. The bank was outlasting two boxes of any otber brand. Not by beat. tTGET tHE GEN EINE. Gentlemen: closed by the sheriff" but soon after FOR BALK BY DEALER8 GENERALLY. Jyf On arriving home last week, I ojiened and went on.” found all well and anxiously await The banks had in circulation in 1813 ing. Our little girl, eight and one- and 1814 notes aggregating $45,000,000. half years old, who had wasted In 1817 this had expanded to $100,000,- away to 38 pounds, is now well and 000, and in 1819 it bad contracted to vigorous, and well fleshed up. 8. B. about $45,000,000. This contraction Cough Cure has done its work well. WHY? Because he follows these was brought about by tbe banks rules: "Keep the headcool, thefeet Both of the children like it. Your “breaking”and the withdrawal of their warm, and the bowels open." You 8. B. Cough Cure has cured and notes caused great distress in the cities can have a clear head and live to be kept away all hoarseness from me. of the country, which continued until ninety if you do the same thing. So give it to every one, with greet 1821. In 1823 there was a crash of When the bowels fail to move dur ing for all. Wishing you prosperi banks in New York, but distress was ing the day take on retiring two ty. we are Yours, Smith’s Small Bile Beans. Their in part averted by the bank of the M b . & M rs . J. F. F ord . action is ao mild that you are not United States increasing its issue. Fif aware of it. All day your mind will If you wisli to feci fresh anil cheerful.and ty-two charters for banks and insur ready for the Spring’s work, cleanse your be clear and cool. “Not a gripe in a ance companies were issued in New system with the Headache and Liver cure, barrel of them." Ask for small atoe. 1»V taking two or three «loses a week. York alone, and in 1825 came another Take no substitute for SMITH ’ S At .50 cents a bottle by all druggists. Sold crisis. Seventy banks failed, specie under a positive guarantee by Rogers Bros. payments were suspended, fifty failures occurred in New York and there was a general collapse of banks all over the country. ' The charter of the bank of the Unit I ed States expired in 1836 and its renew al was vetoed in 1833 by President Jackson. To take its place a large number of banks started up. Iu 1830 there had been .830 banks in the coun This College is one of the oldest and best try, in 1834 there were 506, in 1837 there were 634 and in 1840 there were 901. equipped colleges in the Northwest. Fully one-third of these were “wildcat” banks, as they were called. While the previous “free banks" bad Expenses Light; A boarding hall In the been honest, if Ill-managed,these "wild College building on the club plan, Presi dent Brownson, steward, thus guarantee cat banks” were fraudulent from their ing good board at the least possible cost to inception. They look advantage of the the student. Board can also be bad in pri free banking laws, and tbe demand for vate families at $2.50 to $3.00 per week, In ’ a currency caused by the withdrawal cluding lodging. i of the national bank notes, to put a The Fine Telescope recently mount- I thinly dlaguised fraudulent currency eel in the New Observatory and the extensive Library, to which students In its place. Every possible method »es not found elsewhere in this state. was used to get tbe notes into circula have free access, offers ad van tion, with no intention of redeeming Thirty Acre Campus, Beautiful Location, them and with no Intention of doing a Healthy Surroundings. Suitable Boildings, banking business The experience of Thorough Work. Efficient Teachers, Michigan in “free bankiug" and bow , jecieniinc, Normal, Literary anti the law was used by the wildcat swin Bn&Xwlth ^special In Vocal and Instrumental Music. . Hrete Busl- dlers to cheat the people, may be taken ness course of two iiXnaod^o years. Gradustes f th > McMinnville is accessible ’fl”FSHLI-SCliSisSSiSfct ^KtX^ trunk of the Southern Pacific R. as an example of bow tbe business was managed in tbe western and southern ny ran irnni an imrw ”• ’T"’™ ai „ 1 state*. Almost tbe first act of tbe legisla ture. when the state was admitted, in aen^r- ~ SET , * BR0WNS0N, PrwWwt. 1837. was tlie passage ot a free Iwnklng A, J. HUNSAKER, Solicitor and Financial Agent Jan,21, '88- jb local physic ianst hit obtained no relief; the sore gradually grew worse. I finally took S. S. .S’., and was entirely cured after using a few bottles* C. B. M c L emore , Henderson^ Tex. Watchmaker and Jeweler. THE CITY STABLES. Paid up Capital, $50,000. Livery, Feed, Sale! ELSI A WRIGHT T. HARNESS DEBBT, ™ FACTORY iitl TRUCK AND DRAY CO., QUALEY & HENDERSON, pe W. L. DOUGLAS •3 SHOE THE COMMERCIAL STABLE I Livery, Feed and Sale! Everything New And Firstclass. J. F. FORD, Gladstonehas A clear Head Beans! M c M innville college . McMinnville, Oregon. Offers Superior Advantages law authorizing any freeholders to start a bank, providing that when .30 par cant of the stock should be paid for ill specie aud 70 per cent by the first mortgage on real estate, the auditor should issue to the bank notes equal to twa and oue-half times tile capital, “Everybody who saw in the law an opportunity for rascality went into the banking business.” “Where two roads crossed a bank was valued at $25, and the specie provision established. A vil lage plot with a house, or even without a house if it bad a hollow stump, was the site of a bank.” “Lands were bought at $1.25 per acre were got rid of by using the same coin over and over aud over again, counting it each time it was paid in.” Forty-nine banks were organized and $2,000,090 in notes issued. In Decemlier, 1839, forty-two banks were in the hands of receivers, and only four open. Business was paralyzed. The law was declared un constitutional in 1840, but the lesson was a bitter one. Michigan had two years of wildcat money and the expe rience was probably wortli what it cost. As early as 1825, the New Englund liauks adopted the “Suffolk sy stem,” by which they redeemed their notes not only over their own counters, but at a central bank in Boston, which re deemed for all the members of the asso ciation, each member keeping a spe cie reserve in this bank. This, prac tically, was an indorsement by eacli of the notes of the others, and gave the notes wider circulation and wider cred it. It was the seed out of which grew the state banking “systems” soon adopted by the older states. Only once in the seventy years between 1787 and 1857 did the Massachusetts state banks suspend sjiecie payments. In New York state the legislature se cured the issues by compelling each bank of issue to depo.it certain securi ties at Albany for their redemption, and many country banks adopted, in addition, the “Suffolk system,” by hav ing a bank in New York where the is sue would be redeemed. “Itedeemable in New York City at the--------Bank of Wall street,” is a common line on the old issues. It was by the use of the ancient New Yerk state system, en larged to the whole country, substitut ing federal for state and city bonds to guarantee circulation, that the federal treasury attemted to float its bonds and started the present national banking system. But while these sounder and safer banking systems were slowly evolving out of the "free banking”, panic and disaster constantly followed each other up to 1841, at intervals of two or three years. These wero caused as much by ignorance of the subject, perhaps, as by wildcat fraud. The new western states where it was applied were those which suffered most, but the effects were general. The most careful and conservative eastern banks felt, in a greater or lesser degree, the losses of the western, and responded, in greater or lesser degree, to the local panics and crashes. In 1840 the independent treasury act was passed, taking from state banks the custody of the funds of the govern ment. It was repealed, but rc-enacted, and remained in force until 1861, when it was suspended. From 1841 to 1857 there was an unbroken period of finan cial prosperity. State banking had been systematized. The legislature had passed acts bringing the banks under supervision, compelling them to mako reports, to increase their specie reserve, to protect their circulation, to limit their loans and discounts and to prove their assets. All this was the work of time, for the other problem was new and there was nothing in experience to show how it was to be done. The knowledge had to be bought. There was nothing European or Asiatic his tory that could lie liorrowed. The bank of England did not cover its is sues with government bonds until 1884, and was fur behind many American banks in wise management. The crash of 1857 was world wide. It began in Europe early in that year. The commercial crisis was so severe in England that the Bank of England had to appeal to tlie Britisli govern ment to save it from suspending. The run had reduced its cash assets to £500,- 000, and the English ministry author ized an extra issue ef £2,000,000 in notes; hat tided it over. But to save the bank of England thousands depending upon it for credits had to be sacrificed, and among these was the Ohio Life and Tmst company, which failed Aug. 24, 1857, witli $7,000,000 liabilities. This caused the suspension of the banks of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia. A run was made upon the banks ef New York, and the legislature author ized the suspension of specie payments for one year, but the banks resumed payment Dee. 24, the day the Massa chusetts banks suspended, for the first time in their history. The panic then became universal throughout the coun try. Tbe business failures amounted to 5123, and the total liabilities to $291,- 750,000. Tbe country had had sixteen years of financial quiet, tbe longest it bad ever known; it had had ten years of greater prosperity than any otber country on earth has ever known, or than it has had in thirty years since. Whether the panic of 1857 was caused by any lack of strength in tbe state banking systems, or by overtrading caused by tbe enormous inflation of the metal currency from tbe California gold discoveries, or by otber reasons, is a matter of opinion. The cause cer tainly was not local, but was general, applying equally to Europe and this country. Tbe wiideal era of banking was be tween 1833 and 1845, and these are its extreme limits, its beginning and its final extinction Its limits ef activity may be put between 1836 and 1840, for all before or after were isolated cases. It was the development in one direc- tiod of free banking, as the state bank systems were its development in an other. With the disappearance of wild cat banking and the general establish ment of state systems, the biennial and triennial panics tliat had been general from 1809 to 1841 ceased altogether. Business expanded, trade iuereased and the most wonderful decade of pros perity followed. PRESERVING WITHOUT COOKING. The Use of Salicylic Acid as a Fruit Pre servative Explained. A h tlie time arrives for the collection of fruits the question how shall we pre serve our crop for winter use? comes up again for consideration. That it is not yet settled to everyone’s satisfaction is sufficiently evidenced by the number of questions on the subject which ap pear every autumn in the papers partly or entirely devoted to domestic inter ests. A variety of plans are suggested for preventing the fermentation or moulding of fruits and preserves. Thus some lay great stress, in preserving whole fruits, upon the selection of only the soundest material; upon treating it at once; upon heating it, covered with sirup, in glass vessels, etc. Unfortu nately, even when all precautions are taken, the result is by no means always satisfactory. Another practice much recommended at one time was that of pouring chloroform over the fruits and hermetically sealing. This plan seem" ed to answer very well until it was found tliat chloroform communicated a curious flavor to some fruits which no amount of cooking could remove. Then with regard to jams the same difficulty has been experienced. The proneness of these preparations to change is well known, and attempts have been made to minimize it by a number of devices more or less success ful. In salicylic acid, however, we have a ready means of preventing such loss of material and tlie consequent annoy- anee and disappointment. In the pro portion of 4 to eight grains per pint or pound, salicylic acid prevents fermen tation and the formation of mould in any saccharine liquid. Fruit juices of all kinds, jams, preserves, and the like can be in this manner unchanged for years. Experiments have shown that apple and pear compote prepared with only a small quantity of sugar (1 lb. to each 5 lb. of fruit), after ten months, during which time the vessels had been fre quently opened and various portions removed, showed no trace of fermenta tion, or of mould or acidity. Similarly cherries and blackberries may be kept with from one-fifteenth to one-tenth their weight in sugar; in the presence of a small proportion of salicylic acid thej’ keep from one year to another with unaltered taste and quality. With regard to the manner ot apply ing the preservative, it may be added as it is to the jam in the process of preparation. It is advisable to gradu ally introduce it in the solid state into the boiling mass with constant stirring or the acid may be rubbed down smooth with a portion of the fruit juice and then added to the whole. In any case the finished product ought not to show any white flocks. A peculiar method of preserving with salicylic acid is to pour over the cold, uncooked fruit the cold salicylated juice of the same fruit, so tliat the former is entirely covered. The cold salicylated juiee is prepared by pressing out the fruit, heating the juice, adding to every pound 15 grains of salicylic acid, and allowing to coal. In this way fruits, such as cherries, plums, etc., can be preserved through the winter uncook ed^ that they are suitable for any and every kind of application, even for use in pies. The advantages of salicylic acid in the preservation of fruit and fruit pre serves may therefore be summed up as follows: If properly applied it is al ways successful; it does not communi cate any unpleasant flavor to the prep arations; it is in no way injurious to tlie consumer, being present only in minute quantities.— Chem. Tr. Jour. A Kite Without a Tail. From the Java village yesterday af ternoon, says the Chicago Tribune, one of the inhabitants let fly a kite which floated up to the heavens and there completely mystified all the spectators. In air it appeared to be an ordinary kite, adorned with the usual dragons aud wild beasts of the eastern coun tries. But it had no tail. Now, any boy knows positively that no kite can be flown without a tail. Yet this kite did fly, aid when in air it described the most mysterious gyrations. It dashed down a hundred feet and look ed as if it were going to plunge head foremost into the ground, but always sailed up again like a bird and ever kept its equilibrium. When it was pulled from its dizzy height by its Ja- veneoe owner it was found that the kite was a nearly square bainooo frame covered with rice paper, oi. which were the usual dragon flgun*s. The strings of the kite were tied in exactly the same way that an American boy fastens them, and yet no American boy could make that kite fly as the Javanese did it. “How do you do it?” be was asked. "I do’no. I just fly it all the same as I always do. Just make the kite the same way always done." And that was about all the explana tion that could be offered. VOL. V. NO. 36 WRONG INTERPRETATIONS. | The Bible Has Suffered at the J Hands of its Friends. Preachers Who Have Imagination and Ambition Without Good Sense Make Peculiar Uses of the Iioly Book. One is sometimes on the verge of say ing that the Bible has suffered less from its avowed enemies than at the hands of its professed and, doubtless well-meaning friends. Interpretations have beeu put upon the Word of God which have discredited it before the intelligence and moral sense of multi tudes of the thoughtful and the earnest. Ministers lacking intelligence, have fulminated indiscriminate denuncia tions of Action, whose sermons were as truly works of the imagination and as far from facts as any novel, and as un worthy of the pulpit as the liaggadie legends of the Talmud would be of a place in the sacred canon. Men of flu ent tongues, who did not take the trouble to be students of the scriptures, have taught all manner of strange things from behind the open bible, and have dressed up the inspired text in such grotesque embellishiugs, with no warrant save their uninstructed and reckless fancy, that, instead of being preachers of the Word, they become nothing better than chartered libertines of the imagination, posturing and prancing in a sort of religious mardi gran. In a clerleal circle it was re marked, concerning a certain crowd compelling minister, whose exposition^ of Bible history and doctrine were as wild as his antics: “Well, we must ad mit that he has obeyed the injunction to stir up the gift that is in him and make the most of it;” and, on the ques tion being asked, what was the man’s gift? the reply came: His “imagina tion.” It were better for a minister to confine himself to didactic and horta tory preaching, enforcing repentance, holiness and the practical duties of life on the basis of the Decalogue, the ser mon on the Mount and the thirteenth chapter of d«'lrst Corinthians, than to be conjuring with texts to see what novel notions he can suck out of them or pump into them, a course certain to result in farfetched, forced and fantas tic explanations and many petty pueril ities of interpretation. The mind that starts out to hunt for types and shadows is sure to And strange similtudes containing startling signiflcance. It only needs that two characters oUevents have some features in common'and one to be antecedent to the other for certain expositors to discover subtle resemblances which, perforce, make the former a type and the latter a fulfillment of the type. In such handsjscripture narratives, which are sufficiently valuable as simple his tory and were never intended to be treated as anything else, become deep depositories of foreknowledge and pre intimation. This propensity to set forth all per sonalities and events of the Old Testa ment as prophetic types of later things has brought prophecy into contempt. It is amazing to And in sermons, Sun day school magazines and lesson loaves how many Old Testament worthies and unworthies were types of Christ— not only Moses and Joshua and David, but likewise all the judges, because they were saviors of their brethren; and how many even, were types of John the Baptist, among whom, we are teld, was Elijah, because, as a dignitary of the English church has actually writ ten, “as thejpersecution of Elijah by the king drove him, as it were, for ref uge to the Aery chariot,” se, “the per secution of John by Herod ended his sufferings under the sword of the exe cutioner and sent him to his rest.” Who would believe, before the fact, that an Anglican bishop could be guil ty of suchjastoundlng and outrageous exegesis? Is it in the power of the bit terest enemy of Christianity in all En gland to do as much toward bringing the Bible into contempt? This is typol ogy gone mad through being overwork ed. Equally justiAabie would it be to go type hunting through ante-biblical ages to the time when the mountains were brought forth, and to point out how obvious it is that the Mountain of the Holy Cross was set in the Rocky Mountains by the Creator as a proph- cy of the eruciAxion on Calvary. Our much-abused bible has been made responsible for many things it does not teach; as for example, when it was represented as Axing the crea tion of the world six thousand years back, whereas it named no date, but only said, “in the beginning God creat ed the heaven and the earth.” The inspired truth has also suffered by pro cesses resembling the following: First, a narrow conception, formed upon some fragment of revelation; then a searching of the scriptures for confir- mation of that conception and a tear ing loose from their connection of pas sages to be used as proof-texts; then, the erection of the misconception so supported into a dogma; Anally and most lamentably, the making of that dogma, Incorrect as it is, and inessen tial as It would be even if correct, a standard of faith and a test of ortho doxy. Bo much of this unwisdom ba ilee n perpetrated In the past that we do not wor.der when, in any religious body wise men protest upon occasion against the creation of new standards and the further multiplication of tests ef ortho doxy.— Methodiet Review for Septem ber. For tbe first time in tbe recent histo The following are tbe nations, ac ry of this coantry there is more eml- gratien than immigration at the port cording te tbe Chicago Tribune, which of New York. The reputed hard times have stopped free coinage since Germa ny did in 1871 to avoid a slump from are driving many foreigners home. Eu bimetalism to silver monometaliMn: ropeans who would be frightened away from these shores at this time are just France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Rou-' nunia7Aus<ria-'Hungary,Hollan<i,8we- [the den and Norway, Denmark, Rpaln. Dr Mites' Nsw Hnrt CsfS M DrsagMa POISONOUS CANNED FOODS. Too Much Care Cannot be Taken in Pre serving Fruit. Tlie subject of foods and their adul terations is one tliat comes close to tlie stomach, if not the lieart of everyone; and tbe United States department of agriculture, through its division of chemistry, has something to do when it undertakes to keep track of the anal ysis of those prepared foods, which are thrown on the market and are subject to criticism as being injurious to public health. A recent bulletin issued by this department gives a result of the in vestigation from which we select some of the more important statements and add some conclusions. Tlie result of the investigations conducted shows that there is a great deal of adultera tion—indeed it is almost universal— and there are few canners who do not use salicylic acid or other preservatives in a trade in canned vegetables which has grown to enoiuious proportions. There are international additions and adulterations. *But there are others which are incidental, due largely to the methods employed and tbe quality of tin used in canniug; and these delete rious substances are lead, tin and zinc, aud sometimes copper and iron, al though the last two are not as Injurious as tlie others. The trouble with tin is, that while “bright plate” should be used, if any, “terne plate.” which is covered with more or less of a mixture with lead and tin, is substituted. As tin is wortli many times us much as lead, tlie ten dency is to use the cheaper grades, al though lead and Iron have very little affinity for eacli other; and the results show tliat while there may be some poisoning from tlie solder, there are traces of lead in the large majority of the samples examined. For many years it has been determined that in tbe preparation of vegetables the green color should be retained, and sulphate of acetate of copper has been used for that purpose. Recently in many es tablishments the dissolving of copper is brought about by an electrical cur rent passing through the vessels con taining them. As long ago as 1855 the London Lancet declared that there was “death in tbe pot” from the prevalence of copper greening in Great Britain; and in this country during the last few years it has become frightfully preva lent. The examination of the agricul tural department covers over eighty samples of peas, of which forty-three were packed in this country; and nearly all contained traces of copper, zinc or lead, while fifteen samples, ten of these American, contained salicylic acid; nearly tbe same proportion ob tained witli the samples of lieans. In the forty-one samples of canned corn, zinc occurred in thirteen, salicylic acid in twenty-four and sulphurous acid in nearly al|, These samples of corn were from prominent packing es tablishments in our own and other states of the union. Seventy per cent of all the samples of teniatoes contain ed salicylic acid, and about tlie same proportion was found in those cases of canned and bottled asparagus which were examined. To what extent sali cylic acid, salts of lead and copper are injurious in these foods it is difficult to determine. Occasionally the physician is suddenly called to a faipily showing symptoms of metallic poisoning, trace able to canned goods, and sickness or death follows. These are injurious sub stances and their disuse and the impos sibility of contamination should be en forced by law. Glass cans are cheaper and safe and should be substituted— Al bany Journal. Increasing: Batter Fat. William Thompson, an eastern writ er, in speaking of the ability of feeders to increase tlie butter fat in milk, says: “A creamery friend of mine, feeding a herd of fifty cows in winter, most of them being well advanced in lactation, on clover hay, wheat straw, ensilage and oat sheaves, was making one pound of butter from 15} |x>unds of milk, and on dropping the oat sheaves, found that it took about eighteen pounds of milk to make a pound of but ter, but when the oats were resumed the former average was restored. To that extent, at any rate, richness can be fed into milk, and I am inclined to believe that by careful and continued feeding tbe butter fat producing capac ity may to a varying degree in different animals be slowly improved so as to become a fixed characteristic and be transmitted to the offspring. ' . eee----------- To Prevent the Growth of Horns. The United States department of ag riculture lias given a formula for pre venting the growth of horns on calves: Fifty parts of caualic soda, 25 parts of kerosene and water. Take the calf from one to three weeks old, trim nway the hair around tlie base of the horn, then with a few drops of the mixture on the rubtier cork, which should be used in the bottle, rub on first one horn and then the otber, repeating until three or four applications are made. Do not allow it to run down over the face, and we would suggest that a cardboard with a hole In it just large enough to cover the horn tip would be a good preventive of that. Prevent and mire Constipation and Snk- Beadaclie. Small Bile Beaus. DYNAMITE RAIN MAKING. Attempts to Produce Kaiu by Dynamite Still Continue. Another experiment in rain making in New England was reoentiy tried at Bloomfield, Conn., when several half- pound dynamite cartridges were sent up attached to lire balloons. The New York Tribune says the tobacco growers had gathered in large numbers, hopiug for tbe salvation of the tobacco erop, which is already badly damaged by tbe intense heat aud the drought. A wire was tied to a cartridge and tied to tlie bottom of the baloon. At tached to tbe cartridge was a fulminate cap and to this a fuse a little over six feet in length regulated to burn three feet each minute. The light was touch ed to tbe end of the fuse and the bal loon released. It sailed upward, and the dangling fuse began to smoke. It rose uutil at the end of two and a quar ter uilnutel the red and white sphere v-.JJ • ’.’’mtantly into a cloud of Hack smoke. Th« spectators saw tlie balloon shattered and two seconds later heard a terrific report. Mr. Uhappel said the baloon was al »out 4000 feet high wbeu the cartridge exploded. A second bal loon was sent up. A longer fuse was used, and four and a half minutes after the ballon had been released tbe car tridge exploded at an altitude of 6000 feet. The third cartridge s«ut up was as big a success as tlie ones before it, and orders were given io the experts to send up the remainder of the fifty balloons and cartridges as quickly as possible. The next balloon was prepared aud re leased. It rose a dozen feet, when it was caught in a current of air and sagged. The paper near the base took fire and in a moment tlie balloon began to descend, while tbe flames began to envelop it. Tbe mass of fire with the dynamite cartridge dangling from it created a panic aud scattered the crowd in all directions. The long fuse kept eating its way towards the bomb and it would be at least four minutes before the car tridge would be touched off in tlie reg ular way, but there was danger that the fire from tbe balloon would ignite the fuse close to the cartridge. Mr. »Stevens and Mr. Uhappel kept their wits about them and as soon as tlie fuse could be rea ched tore the cartridge from the flames and the balloon sank to the ground a crumpled mass. It was de cided that it would be too risky to have a repetition of the accident, witli people standing around in danger, and tlieex- periments were cut short. The Parsec “Tower« of Silence." A l’arsee correspondent from Cen tral Iudia writes us relative to the Par sec funeral obsequies. He says: “When life is extinct the body is wrapped in clean clothes and placet! on polished stones on the floor, the face of the deceased being exposed to the gaze of a dog three or four times during the recitation of the funeral sormon, the glance of a dog being supposed to have power to drive away the evil one. With the same idea a dog is conducted over tlie way by which a dead person has been carried, to make it again suited for use by man anti lieast. The dog must also have certain special marks, be of yellow color, or white with yellow ears anti have two black spots ever his eyes. The hotly is carried on an iron tiler, accompanied by male relatives and friends to one oftheso-called“Tow- ers of Silence” a number of which are to be seen near Bombay and in many other places in India. They are circu lar, unroofed stone structures, in soli tary places, where the bodies are left uncovered and ex|iosed to the sug and rain to be devoured by vultures, num bers of which are always to be seen in the neighborhood. The bones are after wards thrown indiscriminately iuto a pit in the structure. An Amusing Incident. A rather amusing incident occurred while the workmen were putting up the telephone line through the valley. It happened in the rural districts near Harrisburg. The line passed directly in front of a fanner’s house, and one of the work men, being ahead oftlie rest, had occa sion to communicate with headquarters in Portland. He got on top of a gate post and attached an instrument to tbe line and commenced with “hello.” This proeeedure so frightened the lady of the house that she locked the doors, and sought safety in its remotest parts. When her husband came in from the field in a short time she told him tliat a crazy old tramp had been on top of the gate post for an hour talking to somebody In Portland.— AI bang Iler- aid. A careful analysis shows tliat the speech with which McKinley opened this year's campaign is the same speech with which lie closed the campaign of 1891. ------ The New York state building at the World’s fair may not be demolished at tbe close oi tbe exposition, as the Chi cago naval academy Is making strenu ous efforts to secure the building. To al 1 Dlfeutlon take one Small Bile Bean after eetlirn. 25» . »»er ls>ttle. D’PRICE’S owder The only Pure Cregm of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes—40 Years the Standard.