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Newspaper Page TextTO CHANGE RILES The Puerto Rico BUI Is Now L'n- ' dcr Consideration. VOTE IN HOUSE WILL BE CLOSE Th KpabUrn Majority tor th at cuire Will Sic Exceed Three I)fm ' ermt Are Uoperal. AVASIIINGTOnJ;. April io.- The meeting of the rules conaittec, has been - called for II o'clock tomorrow morningl when the question of the special rule, fixing the time and duration of the debate on Puerto . Rico bill jn the house, will be determined. Xi two hours on each side is allowed, the vote will come late in the day. As to the final result of the vote, there continues to be much doubt, and a little anxiety on the Re publican side, owing to the extremely narrow margin between the two sides' Long, the jRepubiican vhip" said: '"There tori much doubt to venture a prediction. jThe situation is summed up thus: the Republican majority in the house is nineteen;; there are eight Republicans against the bill; that leaves a majority of orriy three. It is a nar row margin."! KepresentativUnderwod. the Dem ocratic "whip" , said: "We will have t vety man present except two; they are in bed. There will be no democratic votes for the bill. This will make the vote very close, and we ihope to pre vent -a concurrence." WILL BEGIN TODAY WHEELS IN THK TOWNSKMD CKEAH KRV TO COMMENCE KOLLI.NU. On Monday 490 1'onnda of Cremm Wan Col l-tt The Kuatea Wilt He Cov ered Trl-Weekly. (From Daily- Statesman. April nth.) The creamery established on East State street 'by T. Townsend, of Portland, will begin operations this morning. Mr. Townsend 'had expected to have his plant installed and .making butter by the 1st inst-.buf an unavoidable delay in transporting the necessary ma chinery to- Salem -was responsible for the delay. tMr. Townsend has established five route for the collection of cream and the different routes will be covered every other day for the present. When the weather becomes wantier or the amount of cream- requires, other ar rangements will le provided for the collection of the cream. On Monday the five routes were tirade ami 400 pounds of cream was gathered which .wHl furnish a supply for the creamery to begin operations with this morning. All of the machinery has been install ed in the "plant, the apartments are scrupulously clean and everything is mi Teadiness for the commencement of operations. Mr. Townsend will come trp from Portland tlus morning and give the plant his attention until everything bas adjusted itself, and is running smoothly. "Stay-ton's new creamery building is now completed and as soon as the ce ment floors are dry enough to permit it. the new machinery, part of which is now here, will be put in position." says the Mail. "E. J. Seeley of A'.bany. who is launching this new enterprise at Stayton was' here a few .day ago but was not prepared to fix the exact day when the boi'Iex would be fired. Pos siblv ten daysiwrll elapse be;ore the p'ant can" be started. Everything about the plant is new and up-to-date. The build ing is large and finished throughout in workmanlike .manner. Nick Springe-, of Albany, who had charge of the con crete work on the building, says he has done service in nearly all of them, and -Stayton's creamery building is one of the -best in the Willamette valley." A recent issue of the Hillsboro Inde pendent contained an article on dairy ing, the introduction to which contain ed' the following truthful statements: "Dairying pays.; as is acknowledged by all authorities; whose opinions are valuable.. In Oregon the jndustryhas not reached the profit point attained by several of the states in the Mississ ippi valley, though the statisti-s gather ed 4cad to thebelief that this Pacihc state is better adapted to dairying than those east of the Rockies. "The Southern Pacific Company is interested in the dairy development ot the Willamette, not so nuioh in the ex pection of -getting butter to carry to market, as to increase the -general pros perity of the valley. Last year ten or more carload of butter were puhed across the Rocky Mountains, and al-. ready this year two cars have cone. The company thinks this should not be. Again it appears that Oregon is only about one-third as prosperous as Cali fornia. This can not be attributed to lack of natural resources, but rather to lack of enterprise on the part of our citizens or to ignorance of "industrial statistics.! To remedy the latter lthe Southern Pacific Company has directed Mr. Markham to scn4 hi . secretary through the valley to compile "industrial information in such shape that the com pany can use "it in anweringthc ques tions of possible immigrants." At the meeting of the Chehalem Dairymen's Association at, Newberg. !at- Fridav. C. Jt. iMarkham of the CMiurhern Pacific companv, and Dr. Jas. Withycome cf the Oregon Agri cultural college delivered two excellent address.- -;- .' . ,," , " In addressing the association. Mr. Markham said he had no apology to offer for leaving his business and trav eling around over the Willamette val ley in the interests of the dairyinff in dustry. He atd: "Your interests are our interests, and your prosperity is our prosperity. This new industry is com ing to the front all through the coun try and is destined .to become one of our greatest resources. The best results are attained where the business men mani fest an active interest. As to markets there is no fear of over production. We do not even ; supply our home market, to say nothing of the unlimited Torergn market which is continually opening. Besides this; the cost of producing dairy products is enough lower here to I ' ' allow: t& in w' of stock Paf tiwh1?t-:'the- 01 stock, and the unhmited market for iZSI As ?" inducement anl .A-r;! ,n lms. work ,we give CClI:iBnTaie to dairymen, so that wJT mey nave a creamery close at hand or not. they 'can ship at little coif ,lne real beneficial and -practical ad dress was made by Dr. Withycombe. tie is a -man ot wide and thorough ex perience and demonstrated that he knew absolutely whereof he spoke. His ad dress m spired new confidence in those already engaged , in dairying and cer tainly set other to thinking along .his Jme. He said in part: -Commercial and industrial conditions are rapid y changing; The farmers have not kept pace with the times but are in the same old rut. This is a great mistake. To succeed, they must adapt themselves to changing circumstances. They should be careful to keep up their ioti fertility, hich is their capital stock. By con tinual girain raising they are depleting 1 and will come to the need and ex pense of using fertihiers, ais in the East. Dairying is the solution of the problem. It takes nothing from the soil and brings much to it. It goes well with fruit raising. As far as com petition is concerned we can compete with any place. This is a great coun try for raising dairy foods. We can beat grass countries because the soiling system is ahead of the pasture system. Brains are as necessary in dairying as in any otjier occupation. tDairymen should keep good cows for there is the secret of the profits. They should also take good dairy papers and keep up with the most improved methods." THE LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT. Representation of the Various Districts Created by the Williamson Bill at the Last Legislature. (From Daily Statesman. April nth.) The senatorial and representative dis tricts of this state underwent a consid erable change by the enactment of the Williamson bill at the last legislative session. . t - The Senatorial districts as they are now constituted, are as follows: 1 'Marion. 2. , 2 'Linn. 1. 3 'Marion, Linn, joint,1!. 4 Lane, 1. 5 Douglas, 1. : :. ; 6 IougIas, Iine Josephine, joint, I. 7 Coos,; Curry, joint, f. 8 Jackson, r. 9 Klamath, Lake, Crook, Wasco, joint, 1. (. kh -Benton. !. n Lincoln. Tillamook, Yamhill. joint. 1. 12 Polk. 1. 13 -Yamhill, 1. ' 14 -Gfackamas, 1. 15 AV'asbington. 1. i(f Multnomaih, Washington, joint. 17 Clackamas. Multnomah, joint, 1. fiJ? .Multnomah, 5. atsop. 1. Wasco, -Sherman, joint, I. 21 -urant, (jilliam, Sherman, asco. joint. K 22 Morrow, Lmatilla.. union, joint. I. 23 Umatilla. 1. 24 Union. 'WaMowa: joint. 1. 25 'Baker, Malheur. Harney, joint. 1. The representatives districts are pro vided for as follows: 1 'Marion. 5". 2 Linn. 3. 3 Lane. 3. 4 'Douglas, 2. 5 Coosjj , 6 Coos, Curry, joint, 1. 7 Josephine, 1. 8 Jackson,' 2. 9 Jackson, Douglas, joint, 1. 10 .Benton. I. n Polk, 1. 12 Polk. Lincoln, joint. 1. 13 Yamhill. 2. 14 Yamhill, Tillamook, joint, 1. , 15 Washington. 3. , 16 Clackamas, 3. 17 Clackamas, (Multnomah, joint. 18 'Slttltnomah. 12. 19 Clatscp, 2 ' 20 Columbia. 1. 21 'Wasco, Crook. Klamath. Lake, joint, 3. 22 Umatilla. Morrow, joint, I 23 Umatilla. 2. 24 Union. WaHowa, joint, 1. 25 Union. I 26 Baker. 1. 27 Malheur. Harney, joint, r 28 Grant, Gilliam, Sherman. Wasco, jcint, 3- RAISED THE PRICE. New York, April 10. Ai buckle Bros, trwlav advanced the price of refined si'gar 5 cents per 100 ;iouid. Two weeks ago the Atbuckles cut "he price of refined sugar 5 cents per 10c poimds. HEAVY LOSSES Pretoria. April 10. The British cas ualties, in the fight at Dewetsdorp were 100 killed and wounded, and 459 cap tured.'' THE COMPLETE ARCHER. Sir Robert Peel wa once going through a picture collection with a friend "wlrere there was a protrut of a prominent Englishman who was :amous for saying sharp things. "How. wonderfully like!" said the friend. "You can sec the quiver on the .Yes replied Sir Robert,' "and'-the arrows coming out of it." Congressman Littlefield of Maine js the son of a Free Will Baptist clergy man, wlio changed his ! parish several times, and hence the boy .-rnt to mar.y schools, among others Lebanon; Rk ford. Foxcroft, Vinal Haven a.ic' Weeks Mills. - r . 1 ' ' - j- - ; ; " Neither to cliange. nor filter, nor re pent; , Thi. like they glory Tkan! to le Good, great, and joyous, ocaufful and free; ' ' - . , This is alone Life. Joy, Empire and Victory- j' i . Shelley Prometheus. He bujkied better than 4ie knew; Tb- conscious stone "'y f1; Emenwn, "The Problem. Happmess is unrepemedjpleasure. Socrates. : " I- ' ' With wild oats the thing to tote is that the Harrowing parr of it come s m af the harvest instead of at 'he time of sowing CoiHer's Weekly. Be wise; soar not too highl to fall; but stoop to Tise. Massmgef. - He that live. with wolves will learn to howl. Proverb. t - Weekly Oregon STATESiiAN.JFRiixyi: April DRIFTING OVER THE SEA TREES AND OTHEI TX08A CABBIE 0 THOUS ANDS Of MILES. , Tropical Timber ft Asia tflei l m Alaska Sbores -OregM rises Tkat Visit Bawail Tie rioattefl Isla f 1893 Wkwe! lew Drift Was W75 Maes. Travelers along the Alaskan coast, where the shore bends; westward to thej Aleutian chain, tell of heaps of drift-; wood strewn here and there along thej beach. They are contributions that) the shores of Asia have been making; for centuries to the American main-! land. In these piles of drift on our sub-Arctic coast are many specimens! of the flora of tropical and sub-tropical; Asia, such as the camphor tree, the! source -of large industries in Japan and; Formosa. the mango, whose fruit was highly prized by all East Indians be-j fore it had been widely transplanted,! and mahogany, one of the costliest of woods. Many trees were . apparently! uprooted by -some terrible storm and' borne away by rivers to the ocean .i where they began their Jong sea voy-j age. Some of the tree trunks are l.sq feet long and kgs are found .eight feet in diameter. The bark is usuallv worn! away by the long immersion in said water. The ocean carrier all this dtb-1; is Ktiro Sivo. the "gulf stream"" ;i the Pacific, which brought! the .wreck age from tAsian forests thousands Yd nriles across the sea. The natives of these, islands long ajjo believed that their fathers had come from the Far East." drift inia to the islands in their boats just as thej trees ome to them from saute Eastern! land. But when nine -poor Taoanese! fishermen were cast' away and reached) the (Hawaiian Island in 1832. after tea- months of frtiffeting with the waves, the natives changed their minds.. They saw the resemblances between the for-j eigners and themselves. "It is p'ainj now," they said, "that our fathers camp frm Asia." j No advantage has ever been derived! fr m the Asian timber thrown up onj the Alaskan feeach.es. but .there are; peoples to wlkvii such contributions) ot tiie sea are ainone nature s greatest irifts. A tribe of Eskimo in east Greenland have found the drift wood) cast up on their shores after a l ng voyage from the Siberian rivers onc-i of their greatest sources "of convenien-C") irid comfort. These 500 natives baS never seen a white man. nor heard of) my other oart of the world before the, exolorei Holm readied them in 1883 and jKyet they had N many implemen't made of wood that had come to thern from half around the world. Their dog sledges were made of timber thai) undoubtedly grew on the banks of thj great Siberian rivers. Theys fashioned the parts from the bits of timber, joined them with stout thongs of sealskin ann shod the wooden runners -with bone , A unique wooden product, was theii maps of the country around their homes. One map. for instance; repre sented, a peninsula with all' the coas; indentations notched- in the edges ct the- wood and topographic feature , quite accurately shown -in relief. All f Eskimos are bom geographers arrd many of the tribes make rude maps When a hunter of this east Greenland tribe sets out on a journey he is likeli to carry one of these wooden mans. and can tell by consulting it where the vallevs will lead him and the route by which a kajak or skin boat may best be carried overland from on fiord to another. 'Another blessing brought them by 'the sea rs hoop irost on casks and boxes that- are doubtless relics of ships that went down hunj dreds of miles from their coast. Theif wooden harpoons are .tipped with inn. and they notch the edge cf hoop irrnj.. insert a piece in a frame that surpris ingly resembles our common buck saw, and ise this ingenious implement to saw bones and walrus ivorv. j 'Nansen told, before he started on bis last famous journey, of the great amount of Siberian and. losome ex tent also. American driftwood, which every year reaches the coasts of Green land. He said he had seen it (floating among the floe ice near Jan Mayeji and Spitsbergen. ' Some of it was rejd spruce, but the greater part was Si berian larch. He examined a grei deal of this wood both on the eaft and west coasts of Greenland when h made the first journey across the island. "Its appearance generally in dicates." he caid. "that it has not betjn in the .water for a very long time. For the Greenland Eskimos this drift wood is a nccessityof existence, as it gives them material for all their wea pons, imolenients. boats, sledges arid tents. Without it they would be Jn rreat distress: but they need have rjo fear, for fresh supplies of wood -are brought them every yeat by the Arict tic currents. ' - 1 Vast quantities of Siberian driftwood are found on the east coasts of Spits bergen and lesser islands between Ku rope and Greenland. From the drift wood on the east coast of N-ovaya Zemlia the sturdy old Dutch sailer. Willem Barents, supplied himself wikh much of the material for making the hut in w-hich white men "first passed the long night of the Arctic winter. When Dr. Nathorst explored Bear Island, between Norway and Spits bergen two years ago. he found a great deal of driftwood ptrewn- over ' its flat foreland. One day during the Franlk I:n search when Admiral In glenoid was' passing up AVellington Channtl. across Baffin bay from Greenland: ne found pine timber on the shore. "Ojne of these pieces of drift." he said. "Was a pine tree one foot in diameter and about fifteen or sixteen feet long wljh the bark upon t very little bruised. We know it could have come from Jno other pafrt of the world than Siberia. A part of the bark was taken home and the naturalist with a microscope discovered seeds " and other matte s noon it which assured htm it had not been in the water morev than a few months. , The Norwegian -fihingi boats ise thousands of glass balls as floats. a(n4 some cf these balls have been foitnd on the west coast of Greenland, whre they were evidently carried by ube branch of the gulf stream which, arte? cearing the shores cf Norway txifn north and merges with t?ifc west boilnd current from Siberia. .. - - V A considerable quantity pf timbeij is :-a yM, "the Orinoco. Amainn t .Plata nvrrs and borne over the tn '9rio directions according! to w . ... . . - 1 2 the trend, of the currerdts. These riv ers also send to sea another kind of drift maleriaf which is rarely carried into ocean waters, except by tropical rivers, with low-lying banks. Parts of river banks are sometimes torn away and carries hundreds of ruiles down the pus u6Y?bja8ja. jo ssciu ibjS ir -uiE3Jj also insects and reptiles... The floating islands,, as they are called, may travel a considerable distance out to sea un til the waves tear them to pieces and scatter their fragments over the ocean floor. These floatmg masses are of very common occurrence in the T.a Plata, but tlr they reach the sea they are always carried f southward by the j current. .-In 1893 there was undoubted prcoi that a bit of land torn .from some coast or river bank and crowned with veg etable if not animal life had drilled half wav across the ocean, f'Tliis remark able mass of 1 earth.' Toots ami verdure was (first seen in the guh stream off the coast of Florida, and as said to have an area of about two acres. This esti mate was probably, ai ; exaggeration. It wasvseen again on July JK. when it was nearly in: the longitude of the Ber mudas and the latitude of Wilmington. Cel. It"-was'i then in the centre of the gulf stream, ; and was 'descr?bcd- as a mass of earth, thickly covered with tropical grhss and Tnishes. , whose roots apparently held it to'getlverP The mass was elevatetl adove the general b-.cl in one part . until the bushes that crowned it were thirty! feet above the sea. It was in plaia view at a dis tance of seven mdes. tit apreartd tc le nearly square with a 'length of about one hundred and ten feet on each side which wnuTd;give it an ara of less than a third of $n acrr. Nearly 1 month later the floating island wns seen again. It a Anc. J and th "itf stream had cam'-J; it a little rioth of -'the. '.latitude of lfton. It. a -out h' of Kew-Toim 11anl. wa app'oach mgthe Grand Hal and in the 'rack 0 transatlantic 'travel. More thnn two weeks later, on Sept. i and it. vo vessels came across the wandcr. There was a heavy sea rnd the traveller from the troWs r ws having a ha-d ime tif. it;- Tie floaHnig mass Was not. 'iowvef. derrKli!id .by the violence of the waves, for it was seen ayafn on so l().V It wa then", in the latitwd Caoe Breton T"lant north-west cf He Azores and almolt in mid-ocean. Considering its limite! experience in navigation it as making c- n-o--ress fiowa'd Frctne. avl thi li o he New World seemd . destined t dd a trifle to the area of ih- O'd Stt !:! nr' h"ard of again, ant ToJ'iblr the October storms tore is to vircft. ; , , J '1 ; It is believed that tmsv waif in tropical America eame from the Ori nnci river. It is known to have trav elled 1.075 miles, and-, it total iourney may. Slave een at least twice that dis tance. J This inc'ideat suggested ar idea that was of -greaif interest to geog rapher and geologist?. It is -wetl known that seed inckise l in shells not easily penetrable, may float in ocean current for many hun dred!, of miles arid, reproduce the?r kind on, the foreign sfre.they rea-h; but scientific men have not been able to see how land animals and many vari etieof plants, most A of them nc known only a fossils- could he idt ically the same or refv closely al'ied in regions' severed briwide seas, onles ihesearegions wee one conneed bv v lani . bridge. The flfatine island cf ifk)X was undoubted pnoof that a little speck-of Jand carried vegetable and perhapj animal life faJf across the ocean. I .' It seems reasoinable to suo oosethat larger floating island may have played an important part in the distribution of species. , . ix: looo. , - ... 1 . ! .... , 4 1- j: -i. y.iyy,y- Made from pure and health Ail ingrc dients. No alum, lime or ammonia, Assures light, sweet, pure and wholesome food. 6 J I ROY At. BAKING POWDER CO, 100 WILLIAM Everybody knows that a great deal of vegetation growing near .the edge It is curious to find that-an itching and -much of it is carried far init inti the ocean. It is,- callel seaweed, o algae, and vast uuantitiei of it a-e carried by 'ocean currents to that region of comparative' calni known a; the Sargasso ' sea. in the fiiid-Atlantlc mainly east of the ' Gulf of Mexico. The extent of this sea. green with the dense masses of vegetation that covers it, was an interesting marine prpbii for no one knew its approximate lim its till finally with the aid of steam, it was possible to arrive at satisfactory conclusions with regard to its size and shape. Nine years ago Ihr. Kram me.l, the German oceaivographcr, was able to mike a map showing the. gen eral contour of this mass of floating vegetation and" in what parts of the sea the ailgae are fo-yrid in greatest abundance. In shape the -.Sargasso sea is a sort of an ellipse, in the in most parts' of which the mass of -vegetation is 'most dense. The. area over which the algae spread is greater th.au that of the United States, -and the cen tral part where the mass is most dense is larger than the MissisMppi valley. As to the" origin of 'algae, Tr. 'Knim mel reachcl t lit- .'conclusion that they are not,for the most part., of "marine growth, as many have asserted, but come from the lands bordering -on the Gulf of Mexico the coast 4 florid anl the shores of the Antilles and. Ha lunas, He fays the algae arc c.irr ried away from the land bv "the- iili stream and he made calculation as to the time Teju:red for them to " reach the central part of the Sargasso sea. A fortnight after reaching the -gulf proper the weed will, at the rate of three c knots an hour, reach the lali ti'de of Cape Hatteras. I-roni tin: ioint its onward motion is slower a't it tikes about five months and a lia-tf for it to arrive west f the Azores. A hence it circles around south wa--l "d westward into th- region f cal ns. When in this centra! part of the Sirr faso sea the Weed continues to inov slowly until, oecoming heavier as it grows older, gradually sinks to make wav fnr fresh st"vTieK ,i.ftcr all. the Sargasn sea contairlt tiie greatest muss of vegetation that is torn awav fr rn the land an,! carried off on an (fr-ui ioitrnrvCynis C. Adams, in New orkVSun. , ' - ' The tliorns which tief I reap'd are of the I pia.-fted they have torn- me and I 1 e(l ! . o : I.shouM" have known what frttit would spring from such a seel. , Byrj Childe Harold- Genera! A!1ert I. Shaw, com, nvut er in cltief of the Grand Army "of the Republic, has lccn rovally received on his tour of Southern cities. Concerning hi welcVme by the 5U!ithernjTsf, Gen eral Shaw says: ''The people evtry mhcre have shown "fliat the former di vision of hearts and sections are ov ?r The spider'i most attcnuat td thread Is co'i. is cable, lo man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it brans at every breeze. : ' Worfiiy brooks are not camp mons, they arc solntt'e. Bailey. Fraji Lilli Iehmann recently sang at a Colon ne concert in Pari, wher- she made a deep impreson. She gave an aria from Gluck' "Armiia," ihrrc songs of Schubert's and the latest sceie Jrom "Gotterdammrr!ng." , . . AVe are .accustomed to see men de ride w4iat ithey d not understand, and to narl at the good; and the beaniful, because it lies beyond) their sympathy. Goethe. ' ...... ... 1 lousckeepcrs must exercise care in buying bak ing powders, to nvoid alum. Alum owders are sold cheap to catch the unwary niij alum is a Hi son, and lis use hi food seriously iivjurcs health. 8T..NEW vnotr flOUNDS TO HUNT COYOTKS. Scotch Deerlnnmds and a Fast 1 lone a' Great Ctwiibi nation. A writer in the timcrican Field says that ah organization of hiuitmeii of Spokane is about to purchase a pack, of fCngli'slt fox bounds with which to cbaie the fleet (m t ed and wily coyitc; j.Uing that lie qtteMions the! efliciem-y of the. Kng'lish hound-, for the purpose named. We have had no small -experience in this line, says, the ; contributor to Pastime, and are freej to say that the lighter, ra cier ami faster Amercan hound . far better su:tel for the proposed. -work- m coyotes. The modern American, -foxhound as he lis seen in the Southern states-with his snipe y muzzle, short ears and racy body, is not our ideal -of a fox hound, lie has lost much in the mel ody and ,lenjgth of his note, and we be lieve in his nose. Hut if not in. hi nose certainly his close funning of thcvtrail antl his promptness jin picking it lip when once lost. Hut 'again while he is not our ideal of a foxhoihid. the coyote is not the best substitute for the nat ural game of the foxhound. Therefore when we. change the game to an animal of much greater peed. and an eridur arcc akiiot equal t that f the best houiids. success can1 only bo attained by nlaking also a change in the type of hound with which it is Imntcd. We have seen coyotes run for hours by Kn'glUh foxhounds ami the longer he was rn the lK-iter Inicame his -chances of; escape. He has no IitVicu.lty in rinl ning away from the hounds, and when he becomes -a litlle 'tired be will be down aiid rest until the hounds begin to got near him, When up he-will get and away again. Even Wiih the lighter and faster American type, art old coy 1 it in good condition -:ve the in all he race they want, and more .'ten es cape than otherwise.; ; ' i , Where thej country is 'Miftici?iit!y cpeit a pack of Scotch drcrhoun ls and a fiire anl fleet-footed liorse makes the best combination with which to course the coyote. 'A good deer hound will oitt foot, the coyote ami wheri he is overtaken-fight to the death, in his own way. The course is not often too hng for a good winded hori-e and the spirited ride over the country adds, much to the ex citement of the 'port. f PACIFIC COAST WlfKATt 'r - j , - ; -I. Washington. April 10. The April report t the Statisticiart of :hc Depart ment ..'of Agriculture show an everp tioniliy high condition irom the winter wheat Mates west of the Mississippi liver, and front the! Pacific coait.; 'I he latter averages arec Washingt,n, 106; Oregon, 100; California, 00. .! HE DI CLIN'ES. Seattle, Wafc. April 10. .Mam-' i'ton I-wis; in a letter fo Secretary Tbos. Malony. of the Democratic sictc central Cfiiumtttee, made 'public -today, declines in advance the no.ni.iaton. ty the Democrat next fall, ior ongres or ffr governor. But thou shalt flourish1 In imr.Krtal youth, - ' . . ; ' Unhtrrt amidst the wars cf elements, ITie wreck of matter, anJ the tru-sh of worlds. Addison-Catoi "The ' Sout." ... 1- '. Dcirberate with caution, but .act with decision and. yield whh graeiousne&s or oppose with firmneKs, Colton. . j. 1 1 1 11 n Nothing is more "surprising than the easiness with which the many are gov erned by the few. Hume. To expect defeat is nine-Jtenthi of the defeat itself. F, Marion Crawford.