YAMHILL REPORTER. A. V. »S YIIKK. Proprietor, M c M innville , - - O regon . RAPID MODELING. What a Skillful Hand and Artistic < nlture Can l*o----8eereta of a Ntudio. [Alta California.] THE GEYSERS OF THE LOWSTONE. YEL­ Cor. Detroit Post and Tribune. Most of the great geysers are regular in their performance, but some are al­ together unreliable in their goings off. When one st arts the cry goes out and is repeated from one end of the camp to the other, giving the name of the exhibitor. “There she goes” has but one meaning—it is good old 1 aithful. “Bee-hive! Boe-hive!” means that the Bee-hive is beginning to spout; and “Grund! Grand!” indicates that the Grand is ready for business. The names I have given indicate the appear­ ance of some of the cones from which the water springs, or the peculiarity of their spoutings. Thus the Bee-hive is named for the resemblance of her cone to the old-fashioned bee-hive of our fathers; while the Fan gains her name from the pattern of the spout she throws. As to old Faithful, it reminds you of the poetical description of old dog Tray, and though it may not, like the dog of the famous ballad, have its tail drove in behind, it is always to be relied upon and ever faithful. Once in sixty-five minutes you may sot your watch by the event. Old Faithful throw« her waters over 150 feet in the air. 'lhe outburst lest« not over a min­ ute bnt in that time she has thrown off tons of water and sent a torrent rushing down to Firehole river. It is esteemed great sport to throw a hat or handker­ chief into the rising volume and see her dispose of it. A hat is generally restored to its owner in good order, and linen handkerchiefs will stand this kind of laundrying, but frequently the gey­ ser holds on to all that it gets, some­ times tearing a handkerchief to shreds or holding it for several days and then ejecting it none the worse for the boiling. The difference in the extent and time of the operations may be inferred from the figures tlrnt I will give of a few of the spouters. First, because ho is always doing his best to entertain visi­ tors, shall be named glorious old Faith­ ful, who for several explosions yester­ day and to-day I have timed and found her punctual at her post and blowing out at (¡5 minutes without a single vari­ ation; height, 150 feet; Bee-hive, from 7 to 25 hours, 219 feet; Lioness, very irregular and tolerably frequent, 60 feet; Giantess, 14 days, of 12 hours’ duration, 250 feet; Giant, 4 days, over 200 feet; Castle, 48 hours, 120 feet, etc. THE FUN TllEY USELT t O HA VE. The German Turn-verein having ar­ ranged for a celebration in honor of Luther to take place last night, they THE RCHOOLMARM’S STORI. had commissioned Marion Wells, the sculptor, to prepare for them a large [Wolstau Dixey in Treasure Trove.] model of Luther, in plaster, as a sort of A frosty chill was in the air— Row plainly I remember— centre-piece for their rooms. The model The bright autumual fire- had paled, was to be eight feet high without a • Save here and there an ember; pedestal. Most people wonld imagine The sky looked hard, the hills were bare, that to get up such a huge work would And there were tokens everywhere That it had come—November. take months of labor, but Marion Wells had a system of his own for doing the I locked the time- worn school house door, job in a very few hours, and it was the The village seat of learning. good fortune of The Alta reporter to Across the smooth, well-trodden path My honioward footsteps turning; catch him at his rapid work yesterday My heart a troubled question bore, afternoon. As a foundation for the And in my mind, as oft before, work a wooden frame stood in the A vexing thought was burning. centre of the studio. It was a rough, “Why is it up hill all the way!’ very rough, outline of a gigantic human Thus ran my me litations; figure, sans arms, sans feet, sans head, The lessons liad gone wrong that day, sans almost every attribute of human And I had lost my patience. form. On a bench near by was a lump “Is there no way to soften care, And make it easier to bear of modeling clay and a portrait of the Life’s sol rows and vexations!” celebrated statue of Luther in the town of Worms. Across my pathway, through the wood, “Guess I’ll tackle the head and feet A fallen tree was lying; On this there sat two little girls, first,” remarked Mr. Wells, and after And one of them was crying. studying the portrait for a few minutes I heard her sob: “And if I could, he seized a spoon-like instrument with I’d get my lessons awful good, which he gouged out the reformer’s But what's the use of trying!” eyes, rounded off his cheek-bones, pared And then the little hooded head away his nose, and scooped from the Sank on the mother’s shoulder, soft clay all his features. The work The little weeper sought the arms was done rapidly, and in less than ten That opened to enfold her. Against i he young heart, kind and true, minutes there was a telling likeness to She nestled close, and neither knew the head in the photograph. “Make That I was a beholder. a plaster cast of that head while I model tho hands and feet, ” said Mr. And then I heard—ah I ne’er was known Such judgment without malice, Wells to his assistant. This was soon Nor queenlier counsel ever heard done. The head of plaster was fixed on In senate house or palace I— the top of the wooden frame, the hands “I should have failed there, I am sure. were fastened on a couple of pieces of Don’t be discouraged; try once more, And I will help you, Alice.” wood, which were to do duty as the foundations, and then Mr. Wells an­ “And I will help you.” This is how nounced his readiness to fix up the To soften care and grieving; figure. Taking an armful of common Life is made easier to bear By helping and by giving. excelsior chair stuffing from a bale which Here was the answer I had sought, lay.on the floor, Mr. Wells placed it And I, the teacher, being taught around the Bticks which did duty for The secret of true living. legs, and by means of strips of muslin, If “I will help you” were the rule, wound around much in the same style How changed beyond all measure that the Greek brigands are supposed Lite wonld wcoinel Each heavy load to wind ribbons around their legs, he Would tie a golden treasure; built up pretty fair understandings. Pain and vexation be forgot; Then lie filled out the body in the same Hope would prevail in every lot, And life be only pleasure. way, and all was ready for the plaster drapery. A MOTOR THAT KEELY NEVER First came the shirt, for Luther was THOUGHT OF. to be a fully-dressed figure. This shirt Chicago Times. Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. might have done duty as a priestly An old settler on the prairies in tlie The Bodie Free Press says: “It is penance, but it was anything in the reported that Jim Townsend has six of world except the kind of skirt that a course of a conversation about the life his arastras . running to their full ca­ first-rate German reformer is supposed farmers then led remarked: “They pacity. The remaining four will bt to wear. It was simply a piece of had a much more jolly time than farm­ started up next week.” The most inter­ coarse burlap which for some time had ers do now. The woods and prairies esting thing about these arastras—the been soaking in the tub. Taking a were full of game, and we generally power by which they are driven—is, bowl half full of water, Mr. Wells went hunting once a week. There were curiously enough, left unmentioned by rapidly mixed in a lot of fine plaster of no dams on the streams, and fish were Tlie Free Press. From a millwright Paris until it assumed the consistency plenty during most of the year. Before who assisted in putting up the machin­ cf a thick paste. Into this he plunged there were any mowing or reaping ery we h ive some particulars regarding the shirt, and, when the plaster was machines we used to change work dur­ the novel apparatus, which is Mr. thickly coated all over the wet, clinging ing the season of haying and harvest­ Townsend's own invention. The ar- apology for a garment, was wrapped ing. If a settler wished to put up a astrai are placed in a little sandy flat, around Luther’s burly torso. The new house we all turned in and helped where only sufficient water for drinking curves were all natural and graceful, him. We joined teams when there was purposes and to moisten the oro oper­ but in less tlran five minutes the a piece of prairie to be broken. In the ated upon is to lie obtained. The ar- plaster had set hard, and the old piece fall we had shucking bee3. After the astras are actually operated by sand, of burlap was transformed into the ap­ floor was cleared of corn stalks the which drives a large overshot wheel. pearance of a solid plaster garment. young people had a dance. We did not On this wheel sand takes the place of When the shirt was quite dry and hard, grow old very fast, so nearly every one water. It was at first Mr. Townsend’s Mr. Wells placed some drupery around was young enough to dance. The intention to run tlm arastras by means the legs—soaked in plaster the same as women in a neighborhood had a quilt­ ing party as often as once a week. of a large wind mill, or windwheel, but the shirt. as this wheel would run too slow at “By Jingo!” said Mr. Wells, as he While the winter school was in session times, at other times so fast as to be stepped back to contemplate his work, there were spelling matches, in which liable to tear everything to pieces, and “I came near sending Luther out into nearly all the people took part. There again would not run at all, he hit upon the woild like John P. Irish, without a were no carriages in the oountry then, a regulator. This regulator is sand, a collar and necktie. Here, John, give but the people rode a great deal. great pile of which has been raked up me that knife and a piece of burlap.” Twenty would pile into a farm wagon to the Works. The wind-mill runs a From this he c.it out a broad band, and drive to the nearest town. We belt containing a groat number of which was soaked in plaster, and, when sang all the way going and coming. We buckets, and these carry tlie sand up to placed around Luther’s neck, made a went nutting and fishing in the samo a big tank, just as grain elevators carry splendid collar. A neckliow of burlap, sort of conveyance. Rilling horseback wheat in a flouring-tnill. A stream of also plastered, was added, and then was very common. If there were not sand being let out upon the overshot Luther appeared like a well-to-do mer­ horses to go round two would ride on wheel, it revolves just ns it would under chant half through with his morning the same animal. There were no so­ the weight of a stream of water, and toilet. Luther always wore a gown, cial distinctions. Everyone was social, the arastras move steadily on nt their and so Mr. Wells had to procure a and all endeavored to have a good time. work. When there is much wind, sand gown for liis statue. A piece of burlap After the country became settled up is stored up for use when calm prevails, two yards square, with two large holes and the people liegan to adopt city ways so the arastras are never idle, After a for the arms, was first soaked and then a change took place for the worse as sufficient quantity of sand has once plunged into a huge tub full of freshly- far as having a good time was concerned. been accumulated there is no moro mixed plaster of Paris. Mr. Wells and Women would no longer ride to town trouble on that score, the samo Bund his assistant worked like beavers, rub­ or meeting on horseback or in farm being used over and over. bing the burlap with the stuff, for it wagons. As the people could not have hardens very quickly, and if it became the amusements city people enjoyed, GETTING A CRIMINAL PRAC­ dry before their job was done, either they declined to have any.” TICE. Luther would have no gown or they THE PHILOSOPHY OF “THE CURVE" New York Sun. would have to prepare a frosh one. Chicago Herald. A murderer in New York can, if 1m As soon as the burlap was well coated, Tho reason for the curve is something chooses, take his pick from a consider­ the two sculptors mounted the stage, that professional players have never able number of fairly competent and with a dexterons cast threw it troubled themselves about, and thongh lawyers, even though he hasn’t a dollar around the figure in graceful folds. The Matthews and Coleman, and, in fact, with which to ]»ay. “I was five years first effect was fairly good, but did not any of them, can tell exactly how a getting into n profitable criminal prac­ please Mr. Wells, who, with lightning ball will go if it leaves the hand in a tice,” one of the men in this line is rapidity, Hew around the figure, pinch­ certain way, with a certain amount of quoted as saying, “and 1 succeeded only ing a little holo and filling out a bit force, why or how it does it they decline by serving gratis. I haunted police there. When the drapery was arranged to explain. Tyng, of the New York courts, and to every prisoner committed to his satisfaction ho scraped up the Stock exchange nine, or the Staten for trial who had no counsel I tendered plaster remaining in the tub and pro­ island nine, as they now call it, is more myself. In the trial courts the judge ceeded to round out the figure by slap­ readv with a theory, which he probably may assign any lnwvpp »»’’»ri .-Pt t-J ping on handfuls where needed. In five developed at Harvard while taking fend i> prisoner not provided with minutes the lsrgo drapery was quite Ernst's hot balls from the bat. “The counsel. 1 it point to be on dry, and stood'emt in bold relief just out curve,” said he, “or the one from hand for the^g assignments. Of course like a east of solid [»luster. The next right to left, is the only curve that can many of coses were so small that work was to fix on the arms. This was be made, for the reason that a man they djjn’t get into the papers nt all, simply done by nailing them to Luther's can’t throw a ball swiftly when he and,- in some that were reported my side. More drapery walk, prepared for holds it in position to do any thing else. ,!iame would not appear, but usually sleeves and plastered over-Uie arms. A To get an out-curve the ball must lie each hard day’s work brought the de­ large, plaster-coated pastebolRil model held in the hand in such a way that its sired reward in the way of publicity. of a bible was plain'd in the bonds of axis is perpendicular; that is, with tho My practice grew to immense propor­ Rome’s great enemy, daubs of pkister back of the hand toward the ground. tions, but it was n year before I could were stuck on hero and there, and in When it is thrown out in that position get enough money out of it in a week to less than four hours from the time that ¡Hid made to revolve from right to left pay my modest board bill on Saturday the shirt was first put in soak there the resistr.nce of the air is strongest on night. At the end of tho second year! stood in the middle of Marion Wells’ the right side and least on the left. The had worked up to a barely living in­ studio an almost perfect plaster copy course of the baH then naturally in­ come, but had a debt left to clear off, of the great Worms statue of Martin clines that way; the more rapid the and it is only very lately that I havo Luther. revolution, of course, the greater &9 liecome established firmly enough to re­ curve. To direct the ball the other H amaze to Peter Cooper. fuse all but cash cases. Indeed, 1 do wav the axis would have to be kept up­ [Susan N. Carter in The Century. ] not yet let a good murder fall iuto rival right and the revolution reversed, His familiar face was known all over which could be done by holding the hands on account of tho perpetrator’s impecuniosity. Lot mo advise you New York, and whenever his plain palm of tho hand downward." to commit u sensational crime, if any, carrv-all appeared, it was immediately THE WEALTH OF THE PACIFIC becatwe then you can secure lawyers recognized lot it lie in Fifth avenue, in COAST. free more eminent ones, too, than you Broadway, or in the poorest streets of New York Sun. the city. Whether it was an Irishman may imagine.” California’s «heat crop for thopresent driving hie loaded cart, or a tine car­ year is estimated to lie worth ♦<•0,000,- “RAIN O AM ¿LINO.• riage. everybody yielded Mr. Cooper 090. One-third of this will be retained New York Hun. the “right of way.” Such homage as the state for Home consumption and The newest gambling institution is at this can only bo voluntary, and it is a in Bombay—“rain gambling.” There are singular contrast to the forced defer­ seed, and the rest will lie exported to certain shops near the Mombadevi ence which compels every vehicle to givo I foreign countries. The wheat product Chowky where rain gambling goes on way to the equipages of the court in of the other Pacific c< ast states and territories will lie worth $20,009.000 regularly during tho monsoon. This foreign countries. more, making the value of the total . species of dissipation consists in I sitting wheat crop of tho Pacific coast $80,000,- that rain will or will not fall within a Talier: The bails of sight are so certain time, and much money changes formed that one man s eyes are spec­ 000, which is more than tlie entire value of all the precious metals mined in the hands. tacle. to another to read his heart with. United States during 1882. THE LEPER’S FAREWELL. HALF A CENTURY'S WORK. The Unutterable Agony of Hearts WrsBC with lhe Hiser* of Hopeless Condition. dr . whitman ’ s overland trip fiftv YEARS AGO—THE TltANS-CONTrNENTAL ROAD OF TO-DAY. [Honolulu Cor. Chicago News) The hospital now being full, a ttcainer comes to fetch to Molokai those whose condition is most advanced, there to remain until death draws its charitable veil over eyes that hunger for a land they can never see, and closes ears that listen in vain for voices that can never speak to them. It was with such a party that I traveled finally to Molokai, liis excellency having at last exhausted his reasons for my not going. It had been my lot to witness many sad scenes in which the human heart seems to have run the gamut of agony. 1 have heard the wail outside of an Irish prison when the black Hag floating to to the staff told that the sentence of the law lia THROAT and LUNG TROUBLI the sovereign cure for all bodily aches and i all druggists for M cent». pains, and I cheerfully bear’ this tcati-1 Gray brown is a popular shade in the Sold J. by B. bATKN A <’•„ Praprie tera. new spring velvets. mony." 417 Moaaasse rftreet-K. I • ■ ■ r, , > » I