TO 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. , .
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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. '
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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."
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Dcirberate with caution, but .act with
decision and. yield whh graeiousne&s or
oppose with firmneKs, Colton.
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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.