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VOL. Entered at the Postoffire in McMinnville, aw Second-class matter. \ SUBSCRIPTION PRICE PER YEAR. One Dollar if paid in advance, Single numbers five cents. M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER <11 K <1.1 UlllNI. 1 IM'. We have special arrangement« with the following leading publication«, whereby we are able to offer them in connection with our own at exceedingly low rates, a« follows: The R epórter and WIVES 151» WIDOWS IX INDIA. ELI PERKINS IN KENTUCKY. MONTANA’S WON DEKLANID. Treaituenl That the American New Women W ould Not Maud. He Sees a Hopeful Outlook for Democracy» A Rival to the 1 oscinite, with Cliff. 4000 Feet Hitfh. Coirespondence of the Boston Transcript. L exington , K y ., N ov . 21.—The On the day of her marriage the H elena , M ont ., November 7.— East Indian girl is placed in a pal longer 1 stay in the blue grass region anquin, shut up tight and carried to the sadder the people seem. They There has been discovered during the her husband’s house. Hitherto she , look upon the defeat of the demo past season, by a party of scientists, Weekly Inter Ocean................................ has been the spoiled pet of her cratic party as a mother looks upon in one of the most inaccessible por .31.35 St. Louis Globe*Democrat, semi-weekly......... 1.75 mother; now she has to be the little her dead baby. They even keep tions of Montana, a spot that, for ’Rural Northwest, Portland, semi monthly... 1 25 slave of her mother-in-law, upon away from the races and stay in their grandeur and unique beauty, gives New York Tribune, weekly............................ 1.25 whom she has to wait, whose com houses to mourn. Joe Blackburn promise of outrivaling the Yosemite ♦The Rural North went is the brightest, for Infants and Children. mands she is implicitly to obey, and does not come on the streets of Ver valley of California, the Grand Can the most practical and useful publication who teaches her what she is to do to sailles, and can only be seen leaning yon of Colorado, and other famous on the coast for farmer«, dairymen and HIRTY year.* observation^o f Ca storia with tho patronag e of fruit growers. please her husband—what dishes he back in a chair at the village livery- scenic attractions of the great west. This newly discovered wonderland millions of persona, permit na to .peak of it without gueaaing. stable. likes best and how to cook them. is situated north of lake McDonald, “ Yes," said the landlord at the FOR SALE If the mother-in-law is kind she It is nnqneationably the best remedy for Infants and Children near the boundary line between Flat- Versailles hotel, “ I came away from will let the girl go home occasionally the world has ever known. It is harmless. Children like it. It TIUUfllWOOK DAIRY to visit her mother. Of her husband Indiana to get away from the black head and Teton counties, among the gives themhealth._ It will save their lives. In it Mother» have she sees little or nothing. She is of republicans, fixed up a splendid bar snow-covered peaks of that remote something which is absolutely safe and practically perfect as a Oft STOCK RANCH.. uo more account to him than a little room here, and it was full of our best region, and surrounded by almost child's medicine. cat or dog would be. There is sel citizens all the time, and now those impenetrable forests. Until recently 2J5 ACRES. Castoria destroys Worm*. dom or never any love between them, same republicans have snowed us the beauties of this place had never Good house, new barn, orchard, etc. Best Castoria allays Feverishness. and, no matter how cruelly she may under, and I can’t stand it. Wat been seen, excepting by Indians and Stock ranch on Big Neatucca river. Price >3.500. be treated, she can never complain Hardin carried Joe Blackburn aDd half-breeds, and possibly a few trap For further particulars address, 46-4 Castoria prevent» vomiting Soar Card. to her husband of anything his bis free-silver speeches under the pers and prospectors. A half-breed Caatoria cores Diarrhma and Wind Colic. CHAS. E. HALL, mother may do, for he would never drift with him. Breckinridge joined scout having told a party of “wise Hillsboro, Oregon. Castoria relieves Teething Tronbles. Grover and Carlisle, and what life men from the east,” camping on the take his wife’s part. Castoria cores Constipation and Flatulency. Her husband sends to her daily there was left in him has been killed shore of lake McDonald—itself a bit LEGAL BLANKS of wondrous scenic beauty—marvel Castoria neutralises the effects of carbonic acid gas or poisonoos air. the portion of food that is to be again.” The following general forms are alw ays in stor k ous tales of the wonders of this spot, “And Grover,” chipped in Colonel cooked for her, himself and children. Castoria doe» not contain morphine, opium, or other narcotio property. and for sale at the Reporter office : their interest was aroused, and they Shelly, “ couldn't be elected constable When it is prepared she places it Warranty Deeds Real Estate Mortgage Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, Quit claim Deeds chattel Mortgage determined to visit this isolated re in Kentucky. Carlisle, if he should in a large brass platter, and it is H. ilisf'autioii <>i Mort. Bond for Deed givinghealthyand natural »leep. Farm Lease Transfer of Mortgage sent to her husband’s room. He eats quit Grover and come back here and gion, and judge forthemselves of its Notes and Receipts. Bill of Sale Ca sto ria is pnt np io one-vis e bottle« only . It 1» not sold in bulk . Crop Mortgages. Order hooka, when he wishes, and then the platter repent, might be taken on probation.” attractions. Acknowledgements, Abstracts. Accordingly, they first proceeded Don’t allow any one to »ell you anything else on the plea or promise Justices' Blank« “How did the black republicans is sent back with what is left for her We carry a large stock of stationery and are to the head of lake McDonald, where that itis" justas good" and “ will answer every pnrpose." and her children. They sit together happen to win?" asked the judge. prepared io do Joi» printing of every sort in the nebt style of the art and at low figures. they secured, as guides and packers “ Why, it was just their luck. on the ground and eat the remainder, See that yon get C-A-S-T-O-R-I-A. having neither knives, forks, nor You see, the republicans always two trusty frontiersmen, half-breeds, Before Subscribing lor a Magazine see tbe best. The fao-simile /SX y / . ~~~ ** on «*««7 manage to have good times when named Geduhn and Apgar, who were spoons. signature of • vn-apper. When she is young she is never al they are in and fix it so everything familiar with these wild mountains lowed to go anywhere. The little goes all to pieces as soon as they get and trackless forests. It was an girls are married as young as 3 years out, and all our fellers can do is to arduous undertaking, but they toiled Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. of age, and should the boy to whom say, ‘The republicans did it.’ Now, persistently onward. The steep, such a child is married die the next why can’t we make good times when narrow trail led northward from the Demorest’s Cut Paper Patterns are the day she is called a widow, and is we are in, and set the hardtimes’ lake for perhaps ten miles; when this most practical on the market. They are of any distauce had been accomplished, size that any member of a household could n from henceforth doomed to perpetual trap for the republicans?” quire In each copy of the Magazine is printed “I reckon we’ll bust these protect their journey was only just begun. widowhood; she can never marry a coupon entitling the subscriber or purchaser to a pattern (worth uixl regularly sold for 35c) or ive tariff fellows when they get in For many miles they were obliged to again. As a widow she must never any number of patterns for four cents each to | cover package and postage. When the value of i next time, though,” said Dr. Breck chop their way through dense forests wear any jewelry, never dress her the patterns is considered the subscriber actually and tangled undergrowth, where gets hair, never sleep on a bed—nothing inridge. nothing but the trails of deer and Demorest's Magazine Free. “How?” I asked. but a piece of matting spread on a brick floor, and sometimes not even Ami what a magazine it is• For 1896 it will be “Well, you see, we have a demo footprints of bears—many of the lat mure brilliant than ever before. New manage- j that between her and the cold bricks; cratic deficit of $300,000,000. It will ter very fresh—could be detected. meut, new methods, new ideas. Each copy con tains an exquisite reproduction in colors of some After two days of indefatigable and, no matter bow cold the night be $400,000,000 when Grover goes celebrated picture by a famous artist, worthy to labor they suddenly came upon a spot adorn the walls of the most refined home. It is might be, she must have no other out. The darned fool republicans ultirmed that DEMOREST’S is the only com plete Family Magazine published combining all covering than the thin garment she will try to pay this. Why, Harrison of such rare beauty that Dr. L. B. of the most excellent points of its contempora ries. bebides having inimitable features of its own. wore in the day when he was in paid $200,000,000 on Sperry, of Minneapolis, one of the Demorest’s is actually a Dozen Magazines in one. It is u Digest of Current Events mul She must eat but one meal a day, the national debt and $38,000,000 party, and considered an authority Ideas for the busy man or woman, a Review and that of the coarsest kind of food, back to the states for equipping on American scenery, pronounced it and u Storehouse of Interest fur all. Wives mothers, sisters and daughters can find exactly and once in two weeks she must fast troops during the war, while Grover “a scenic gem of the first water.” what they need to amuse and instruct them, also practical helps in every department of domestic This consisted of a basin in the shape twenty-four hours; then not a bit of will run behind $400,000,000.” and social lite, including the furnishing and or namenting of the home, embroidery, bric-a-brac, of a horseshoe, about two miles in food nor a drop of water must pass “I can just see these black republi artistic and fancy work of all kinds, etc., etc., and suggestions and advice regarding the well her lips, not even if she were dying. cans,” said the doctor, “trying to length and a mile or mile and a half being and dressiug of their own persons. The scope <»i lie-< !<>r l-'1.'.) and 18'.»6 will She must never sit down or speak in run the government when we get in width, surrounded on all sides by cover the whole country and its varied interests, the presence of her mother-in-law, through with it. It will be a year walls of rock, rising almost perpen and the articles will be profusely illustrated w idi the finest engravings, and, in addition, it will unless commanded to do so. Her before they can change the tariff. dicularly to heights varying from publish the best and purest fiction. It treats at length out-of-door sports, home amusements and food must be cooked and eaten apart We'll have $500,000,000 deficit by 3000 to 4000 feet. In the floor of this entertainments; it gives a great deal of attention to the Children's Department, and “Our Girls,” from the other woman. She may that time, and it will cost a billion basin, like a jewel in its setting, was and has a monthly symposium by celebrated peo • pie, in which are discussed important questions never even look on at any of the dollars to run the government. It a beautiful lake of deep, sapphire of the hour of interest to the older readers. Let us have your subscription at once. You get marriage ceremonies or festivals. It cost Harrison and Grover a billion blue, a mile and a half in length by more value for your money than it is jossible to . would be an evil omen for her to do dollars to pay all the bills. That, half a mile in width; its waters of secure in any other magazine. The Magazine one year for 92.00. such perfect clearness that the so. Or six months for - with the $500,000,000 deficit, will speckled trout, with which they were (Over 250 different garments are shown each She may have been a high-caste make $1,500,000,000 for the black year, put terns of all of which are obtainable by sqboeribers at 4c each • Sample copy (with pat Brahmanie woman, but on her be republicans to pay. They’ll look filled, were plainly visible. The sur tern coupon) sent for 10c. coming a widow any, even the lowest nice putting up a tariff to pay that, rounding ledges of rocks were sur Demorest Publishing Co., Offers a choice list, embracing some of the finest servants, may order her to do what won’t they? Oh, we’ve got them in a mounted by numerous peaks, rising U0 Fifth Avenue, New York. to dizzy heights, lOoO to 2000 feet the>‘ do not like to do. No woman tight place now!” A liberal otter. Only Y2.5O for above the amber line, their lofty sum in the bouse must ever speak one “Yes,” said Colonel Shelly, “we THE REPORTER word of love or pity to her, for it is about killed Harrison with Charley mits white with perpetual snow. At the head of the basin were two supposed that if a woman shows the Foster’s billion-dollar congress, and and Demorest’s Family Magazine one year. streams of icy water, pouring in slightest commiseration to a widow we democrats will pound 'em to death Send your Subscriptions to this office. beautiful cascades over the rocks and she will immediately become a widow when the dogon black republican in the County. Read the following List of Special Bargains: herself.— Boston Home Journal. cliffs; sometimes clinging to the walls, tariff party gets its billion-and-a-half- resembling ribbons and cords of sil dollar congress.” Supply uud Demand for Horses» ver, and sometimes dashing over the “But suppose the republicans sell ledges, diffusing themselves in clouds A correspondent of the Indiana mile to school, short distance to iiosto ffice. Price gold bonds to the English at 4 per Nol. 7V acres in Fairlawn add to McMinn •250 cash, or 3350,150 down, balance 1» months NEW YORK. of rainbow-tinted spray, hundreds Farmer who has lately traveled over ville; good house and barn; living water; set in at» per cent. cent to pay this indebtedness?” I fruit and berries; good for gardeu. 31200—terms of feet below. The total height of considerable sections of Indiana, asked. A Religious, Literary and Fam-1 easy. No. 38. &) acres at Scholls, in Washington Co.; 14 miles from Portland, 15 acres in < idtivation, Ohio and Illinois is satisfied that these silvery streams was estimated ily Newspaper. No. 2. 120 acres, 13 miles west ot McMinnville; balauce in pasture, good 7-roont bouse, barn and “O, they won't dare to. The dogon 20 acres in cultivation; good bouse and barn; to be at least 2500 feet, and they de out buildings, all fenced and divided in there are not now in those states one VnUenomiuatlonal. unbiased and impartial. A plenty of living water: 1% miles to school; good »jiber republicans will know just enough four fields, blacksmith shop on place, wood busi rive their supply from the vast fields paper for clergymen, scholars, teachers, stock farm; 1U acres iu fruit. Price 37.50 per ness point, 1-4 mile to P. O. and store, % niile to fourth as many colts, foaled this to put on a tariff big enough to pay acre. Will trade for small tract near McMinn school, grist and sawmill close bv, young orchard business men and families. It dis of eternal snow lying in the awful ville. year, as usual. and good water. Price 38000, % cash, italauce to all the bills, then we tariff-for-deficit cusses every topic of the day suit purchaser at 8 per cent. The reason for this great falling democrats will holler ‘high taxes.' solitudes far above. —religious, theological, po No. 3. 2 acres in Cozine's 3d add to McMinn ville; good house and other out bouses; % in litical, literary, social, Along a portion of the southern No. 39 2 lots with good house and barn, in off is the low price which has pre fruit. Price 31300, half down, balance on time. ‘grasping monopolists,'and Grover'll good location. Price 800, cash, balance on one artistic and scien | wall there was a slope extending from or two years' time. vailed for the past two years or more. tific. Its con No. 7. 40 acres 4 miles northwest of McMinn get in again. You see!” ville; 12 acres in cultivation; balance good tim a height of 2000 feet down nearly to tributed ar No. 40 130 acres, 105 in cultivation, good im At the present time he finds that ber. Price 3750; part cash, balance on time. ticles are provements, water supplied by windmill, good there is a demand for only three ' the border of the lake. Here avalan seven-room bouse, good barn, all under fence, by the No. 8. One lot on Fourth street, McMluuville. one-fourth No excuse for sleepless nights when ches are of frequent occurrence, mile from Carlton Price 345 ]ier acre. classes of horses: first, draft horses Price 3500. Center of town. von can procure One Minute Cough Cure. Most Eminent Writers of the No. 9. 160 acres 6 miles west of Carlton; 65 Have been offered 860 per acre. weighing from 1,800 to 2,000 pounds This will relieve all annoyances, cure the shooting down the slope with terrific No. 41. 90 acres, all in cultivation, gocal house English Language. acres in cultivation: all fenced; plenty of ruunlug mile each for the heavy work in large most severe cough and give you rest and force, and with a rushing, roaring water; 3 acres in bearing trees; good’ bouse ana and barn, good windmill on the place, barn; mile to school. Price 312 50; payments from Carlton. Price 347 per acre. cities; second, good, stylish coach health. Can you afford to do without sound not unlike peals of thunder, made easy. No. 42. 107% acres, 2% miles from A mity. 75 It employs specialists and distinguished and plunging into the unfathomable in cultivation, warehouse on farm, fine horses weighing from 1,200 to 1.300 it? Rogers Bros. writers as editors of its Twenty-one depart No. 22. 160 acres with good house and barn; acres fir timber good tor paper pulp, can main depths of rocky chasms. On account all fenced; 30 acres in cultivation; good springs white ments for driving. The latter when well bouse; one mile to school; 4 miles west of county road—best in the county. A paper particularly fitted for lawyers, alwve of these oft-recurring avalanches, McMinnville. Price 31800, inquire for terms. matched and with good action, bring Prunes at Tliree Cents. doctors, clergymen, those engaged in busi- No 43. 236 acres on the Big Nestuck river in the party christened this secluded Dess, young people of both sexes, men ami No. 23. 46 acres 3 miles north of McMinnville; Tillamook county, 25 acres mow land, aiost all higher prices than any others. In the article on the "Outlook for women who read and think for themselves. all in cultivation; good improvements; fruit of level, good fencing, watered by springs. 140 acres good pasture, good orchard, 40 or 50 tons of Common plugs and cross-breeds Prunes,” it will be seen that from the mountain valley “Avalanche Basin,” A paper specially valuable for those inter all kinds: plenty of good water Price S'iViO; fur in hay put up on place, tine stock farm. Price 3350', ther particulars on application. ested in Fine Arts, Science. Music are a drug and worthless almost California standpoint the profit van and the surrounding peaks aud pic One-half cash, balance plenty of time. A paper giving valuable information up No. 31. 400 acres 8 miles from McMinnville; turesque masses of rocks were given on Finance. Life Insurance, Commerce. No. 44. Two lots in Saylor's add Good loca everywhere. Hundreds of worthless acres in cultivation; good house and baru; ishes in prune-growing when the price names suggested by their appear A paper for Sunday School Workers, 150 fruit in abundance; living water 1% miles from tion Price 3125 Worth double this am ount. horses have this year been turned those who have a Farm, Garden or house school bouse; excellent stock farm Price 340-0 No 45. 80 acres % mile from Wbiteso*>; house into fertilizers in factories in Illinois falls to three cents per pound. ance; the Sphinx, the Dome, Cathe plants barn, good spring water. lOacres in cultiva There is a good deal of difference of No. 32 3 unimproved lots in McMinnville; good and A paper for the family, old and young tion ; balance In good wood timber. Price 39»vi, and Ohio and a large number have dral Spires, the Castle, and the Mat locat ion. Price 3300. terms easy. opinion among the prune growers of terhorn, the last on account of its No. 33. Good house and 2 lots in Oak Park. been slaughtered and canned at No. 46. Grain warehouse for sale, or m ill trade Oregon and Washington as to the Price 1000 Payments easy. IMPORTANT. ; surprising resemblance to the far- fora farm. Hammond, Indiana. lowest price at which cured prunes No. 31. One acre on College side, all cleared The Independent announces to its sub No. 47 Good bouse and % block in the- city in famed Alpine peak. | |It is believed that it is a safe busi scribers and to any who may become so. and fenced Price 250. a good location, young orchard, plenty of-berries, can profitably be produced. The The walls inclosing this bit of won that it is prepared to furnish anypapers and No. 36. 2 lots w ith good bouse and barn, and good well, a good bargain. Price 3500 ness to breed such horses as are now majority of the growers believe derland are of metamorphic sand magazines published in this country, Eng in demand as the supply is likely No. 48 2 acres Adjoining city.good improvements, land, France and Germany, at a very large chicken par»; good well, good location Price cured prunes at three cents do not stone, some of the strata being of un all for 8400, or will exchange for city pr» iperty. reduction from publishers' rates This op- »40. soon to fall below the demand.— Hu fortunitv is open only to subscriber: of the give any profit to speak of, but pay colored quartz, nearly as white as No, 49. 4 acres in Cosine's add to ?icMinn- ral Northwest. ndependent. Upon receiving list of pa No 37 so acres unimproved, 7 miles west of ville. good improvements, price 8500, part cash, the grower rather better than almost the surrounding snows, while other pers or magazines from individuals or North Yambill, good spring. 11 acres cleared, 1-4 balance on time. Here's a bargain. reading rooms, an estimate will be given I any other farm product at prices strata a^e of bright red. The forma If suffering with piles, it will interest bv return mail. which have been prevalent for the tion of the rocks exhibits many mar you to know that De Witt’s Witch Hazel Its yearly subscription is $3, or at past year or two. Very few of the velous phenomena, and the place Salve will cure them. This medicine is a that rate for any part of a year. specific for all complaints of this charac Northwest growers as yet make any contains many scientific, as well as reat Clubs of five, $2 each. ter, and if instructions (which are simple) allowance for fertilizers in figuring scenic attractions, and will prove a orthern are carried out, a cure will result. We the cost of prunes or other crops, and most interesting field of study for “TRIAL TRIP" one mo.ith 25c. THE SHORT ROUTE ailway have tested this in numerous cases, and if the matter of fertilizers is not the geologist and mineralogist. Specimen Copies Free. always with like results. It never fails. taken into account prunes can prob It is very probable that long ago. And O. K. A N. Co.’» Leased Lines. TO ALL POINTS IN Rogers Bros. ably be profitably produced here at in the prehistoric ages, this spot was F O. Box 2787, 130 Fulton SI., Sew York three cents per pound. The French Washington, Idaho, Montana, Dakcita, The electric storage battery has prune can be produced at a little the bed of some enormous inland Minnesota and the East. been kept in the background by the less cost than the Italian as it yields lake of great depth, of which the little Notice of Administratrix to Credit lake now existing in its center con ors. Through Tickets On Sale] CHICAGO ST. LOUIS NEW YORK rapid development of other systems, larger average crops, dries quicker tains, comparatively speaking, only Notice is berebv given that tlie under To and From ................ ( WASHINGTON but there can be little doubt that it and loses less weight in drying than the last few drops in the slowly PHILADELPHIA BOSTON signed hau been duly appointed adminit- i will take an important place among the Italian. The actual cost of pro- emptying basin. But whatever may tratrix of the estate of John Flett, de-; And All Points in the United States, Canada and Europe. the world’s utilities. Many Ameri ! duciug prunes is probably about the have been its history in the dim and ceased. All persons having claims distant past, it is easy to predict its against the said estate will present them can electricians are working on the The GREAT NORTHERN RY. is a new transcontinental line. Runs Buff problem with excellent prospects of i same here as in California.— Rural future; for when, by the construction properly verified within six months from of good roads, communication shall Northwest. date of this notice at my residence near et-Library-Observation cars, palace sleeping and dining cars, family tourist sleep have been established with the rail Wapato station, Yamhill county, state oj ere and first and second-class coaches. Having a rock ballast track, tire GREAT success. NORTHERN RY. is free from dust, one of the chief annoyances of transcontinen Oregon. ways, it is certainly destined to be One Minute Cough Cure is a popular come one of the most celebrated re Dated this 29th day of November, A. I tal travel. Round trip tickets with stop-over privileges and choice of return routes. De Witt’s Little Early Risers for bilious For further information call upon or write D. 1895. S abah F lett , ness, indigestion, constipation. A small remedy for croup. Safe for children and sorts; a shrine where earth’s weary A. H. PAPE. Agent, McMinnviUe, Oregon. Administratrix of said estate. pilgrims will find peace and rest. adults. Rogers Bros. pill, a prompt cure. Rogers Bros. Or C- C. DON AV AN, General Agent, 122 Third St., Portlane, Ore. T DEMOREST'S AN UNPARALLELED OFFER. YRMHIL i L i FARMS Healthful Climate. Mild Temperature. Near to Market. Crops Never Fail. BEST IN THE WORLD. W. L. WARREN, Real Estate Agent, McfllNNVILLE, ORE., Grain, Fruit and Hop Lands ®I)C Jnùcpciiùcnt G THE INDEPENDENT, W T. V iktox , Attorney for estate. N • • • • R The New Way East A Woman’s Waist. CASTOR OIL FOR JACK TARS. It is a matter for rejoicing that Thoiuiuida of Gallon* Sold to Who Ifoctor Their Crew*. fashion is no longer to decree a Just below the Produce Exchange is a slender waist as something indispen neat looking drag store which has a pe sable to propriety and grace. The culiar line of trade. The proprietor ha. natural waist of the woman of aver been in tlie business almost a quarter of age height is about 28 inches, and a century, aud if the adventurous youths any less size is attained only through who hanker to be sailor boys only knew arrested development, or compres how many thousand gallons of castor oil the druggist had doled out iu his sion by means of whalebone and time to ships’captains the Baid youth steel. The amount of room inside Would decide to hunt adventures ou laud. This drag store fits out ships with these 28 inches is absolutely needed medicines. Anybody who has had any for the proper working of the ma experience with the merchant servioe chinery of the internal economy. In knows that the captain is usually the spite of this fact girls very often only M. D. aboard, and that his knowl bind the yielding ribs into such edge was never gained iu any college of narrow compass that the waist meas pharmacy or medicine. In the office of the United States sbippiug commission ures 20 or 22 inches only, and you ers is filed a record of the trip of every will now and then hear some mother ship that takes a crew from United of a family, with a very different States ports. It is virtually a private waist now, boast as if it were some diary kept by the captaiu for the benefit the government. No matter what thing to be proud of that when she of happens, the amount aud number of the was 19 her waist measured 19, too. doses of mediciue administered to the It is, however, of no use to talk to crew and to each individual of it are young people about the injurious ef set down, with the minutest details. It from these diaries that the most fect of compression on stomach, liver, appears popular and potent medicine known to heart, lungs and the arterial system. captains is good old fashioned castor oiL They are not anatomists, and they No matter what is the trouble with do not comprehend the matter nor Jack, he gets castor oil. None of the want to do so; they observe that newfangled variations of it is pre- ecribed. The proprietor of the drug they feel as well now as they did be store bears out this statement. He says fore, and without weighing the that more castor oil is administered to thought that it requires time to work sailors than any other medicine, unless ruin, take it for granted that they it may be salts and senna. No captain will sail without a liberal supply of always will feel as well, although both. Oftentimes a captain has reason they have been told and taught that to believe some of his crew are sham in post-mortem examinations it has ming illness, and then the castor oil is been found that wherever tight lacing administered iu doses to bring any man to his sober senses. has been the rule, every organ was Among the medicines in the captain's out of place and seriously injured. chest are rhubarb, quinine, Jamaica But although it does move them a ginger and paregoric and certain old trifle to be told that red noses and fashioned patent medicines. No modern discoveries in that line are allowable. eruptive skins and flat chests are to So this druggist keeps ou hand for his be laid to the account of the too shipping patronage patent medicines slender waist, yet on the whole neith that the modein patent medicine fiend er common sense nor auld-wife wis never heard of, they date so far back. Little sugar pills don’t go with cap dom nor doctors have the power of tains. Medicine is administered to a couviction that fashion does, and sailor with the idea that the worse it when fashion says that there is no tastes the more apt the sick man is to beauty in a wasp's waist, but that think it is curing him. Sailors scorn little sugar coated pills.—New York the lines of nobility and health made World. by deep breathing are really lovely ! A Good Nature«] Emperor. lines, fragility being something It was a few evenings before the em rather to be feared than loved, why peror's departure for the Franco-Aus then fragility begins to be avoided, trian war. General de Cotte was on and the lines of the Venus de Milo, duty at the time, and after dinner went of the Diana, of the Pallas begin to down to the smoking room set apart far the military and civil household. “Th» come in. thing is settled,” he said aloud, light The habit of tight lacing has al ing a cigarette. “Ina day or two we ready done almost irretrievable in shall be ou our way to Italy, unless jury. If it were continued there is Providence aud the lunacy commission ers stop us at the first stage at Charen no knowing what shape it might ton. ” (Charenton is tho Paris mad eventually have developed. Even house. ) Half an hour later the general now sculptors declare that a model went up stairs to the empress’ drawing with a natural waist, sloping outward room. He had scarcely entered the apartment when the emperor cams up rather than inward, is something to him with a smile. *'My dear gener not to be found, even the most charm-: al,’’he remarked quietly, “I have too ing figures otherwise having the much resp»’ct for the opinion of others, hour-glass tendency, in however even when they are diametrically op posed to mine, to ask people to fight slight a form sufficient to spoil them battles the causes for which they do for posing for anything demanding not approve. You will remain in Paris the freedom, the beauty, and grace with the empress ” did not suit the general’s book of the antique. The Greek women at That all, but he did not utter a word iu supported and stayed herself with defense. He only bowed. He was, in bands of linen, but there was no com fact, too astonished at his comment pression in the swathe, and her having reached the ears of the emperor natural waist made of her a perfect so soon. As far as he was aware, no servant had entered the room while he beauty; and to-day the natural waist was there. He was then reluctantly of the Circassian does not interfere compelled to conclude that an equal with the reputation of her loveliness. had played the part of telltale, and that The adoption of European dress by alone would convey a fair idea of the code of honor that obtains among the ladies of the harem, and of Japan, immediate entourage of tlse sovereigns. showing, as it does, either a want of Nevertheless he was not going to be the knowledge of true beauty or a left out of the fighting, so on the 14th willful abandonment of its principles, of May he simply had hie horse and baggage taken to the imperial train, se will probably lead to tight lacing in lected a seat in an empty compartment the orient just as we are relinquish aud only showed hie face at Marseilles. The emperor merely smiled aud held ing it here. Why any one should have imagined out his hand. This is a sample of ths emperor's amiability, of his willing that a waist which looked as if it ness to let bygones be bygones.—North were going to break in two could be American Review. more attractive than a waist which A Story of Monte Carlo. looked capable of supporting its In the good old days of M. Blanc it head and arms and shoulders is a was the custom, so the story goes, di mystery—so great a mystery that rectly a suicide was found to stuff his the effort to solve it is to be given up pockets full of bank notes. Thia was in satisfaction over the report that done to prove that his losses at play were not the cause of his hurried de the foreign creators of the mode have parture from the shores of time. The recently asked themselves the ques last person wbo received this generous tion if the shape that the Creator treatment was, I believe, an American. chose for the human body was one He was found lying in one of the uniat alleys of the beautiful grounds, with an they could improve.— Harper's Bazar. empty bottle labeled "Poison” by hia Wife—Here’s an account of a man who shot himself rather than suffer the pangs of indigestion. Husband—The fool! Why didn’t he take De Witt’s Little Early Risers? I used to suffer as bad as he did before I commenced taking these little pills. Rogers Bros. A Mechanical Horror. Machinery is a monthly journal pub lished at Johannesberg, South Africa. In the October number just received is an account of a most remarkable clock belonging to a Hindoo prince, which the editor thinks the strangest piece of machinery in India. Near the dial of an ordinary-looking clock is a large gong hung on poles, while underneath, scattered on the ground, is a pile of artificial human skulls, ribs, legs, and arms, the whole num ber of bones in the pile being equal to the number of bones in twelve human skeletons. When the hands of the clock indicate the hour of 1, the number of bones needed to form a complete human skeleton come to gether with a snap; by some mechan ical contrivance the skeleton springs up, seizes a mallet, and walking up to the gong, strikes one blow. This finished, it returns to the pile and' again falls to pieces. When 2 o’clock, two skeletons get up, and strike, while at hours of noon and midnight the entire heap springs up in the shape of twelve skeletons, and strikes, each one after the other, a blow on the gong, and then fall to pieces, as before. side. The secret agents of the bold Blanc instantly stuffed his pockets full of gold and notes, preparatory to giving information to tbe police. No sooner bad they filled him as full of lucre as be could hold than the suicide leaped to his feet, raised bis hat, exclaimed, “Thank you very much!” and went off to enjoy himself with his newly acquired wealth.—G. R. Sims iu “Dagonet’s Daunn s. ” Welsh Sand Waate*. Large tracts of sand wastes are being reclaimed along the Welsh coast Series of parallel fences are put up seawards, closely interwoven with wires and furze, and spaces between these posts are filled with earth aud road scrapings. In these various trees, such as sycamore, willow, pine and alder, are planted, while the ridges are sown with gorse and broom seed and planted with brier. She Wanted Sample«. “Is this where you vote?” said an Ohio votress to an election officer. • “Yes, ma’am.” “Then please cut off samples of all the tickets, and I’ll take them home and see which I like best.”—Pittsburg Chronicle. The Lowell Family. The LowellB hold an honored place in the local history of New England. One member of the family introduced oottou spinning int<> the United States, and for him the town of Lowell is named. An other left money to found in Boston the course of lectures known as tlie Lowell institute. The most famous of them all was James Russell Lowell, born in 1819 at Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. also the birthday of the most distin guished of all Americans.—'‘J“’“’“ Russell Lowell,” by Brander Matthewa< in St. Nicholas.