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VOL. 1. NO. 16. J. D. RIRKWOOD, X> E NTIS T, Pullman. Washington Trr. Office Hours : 9 a. m. to 12 if., and 1 to 4 P. v. STEWART BLOCK. MAIN BT. E. H. LETTERMAN A CO., Dealers in. Grain. Highest market price paid for Wheat, Oats, barley and Flax. PULLMAN, - WASHINGTON TER. WILLIAM NEWTON, Attorney and Counselor, at Law, PULLMAN, W. T. Money to loan on real •state at the lowest rates of interest All legal business promptly attsaded to. Taxes paid for non-residents. Col ■ lections promptly made and remitted. ■ J. WKBB. J. F. WAIT. WEBB & WATT, Physicians and Surgeons r. Are Prepared to Treat All Special Diseases. v. Office in Stewart Block. PULLMAN, WASHINGTON TER. 11. C. WILLIAMSON, FASHIONABLE Barber and Hair Cutter. Special Attention Is Given to Cutting : and : Trimming- Ladies' and Children's Hair. Hot and Cold Brfths. PULLMAN, WASH. TER. PACIFIC INSURANCECO CAPITAL STOCK: $500000 $500,000 $500.000 PORTLAND . - OREGON. W. V. WINDUS, Agent. Fall man, Waahlngtan T.t. MASON BROTHERS, Proprietor* Pullman Meat Market. Dealers in all kinds of Fresh and Cured Meat. Specialties In »<■»•»■■ £y-nighi>it market price« paid for Cattle and Hldr-t, Hogs, etc. %-oain* Block, - - Main »«*eet. VICTOR HUNZIKER, Jeweler-.and -.Engraver — AND — -:- Practical -:- Watchmaker. -: mil man. Washington Ter. - m Jf ru,-iiln|[ of Watches, dockland J«w lry a specialty. Postofflee Baildlug. BARNEY hattrup, — PROFRIKTOR — Pullman Sample Room, Cor. Slain and Vrand streets. Fine "Wines, Liquors and Cigars. «■ ■ Perfect order maintained »nd K»«>tlenianly treatment to every one. rnllman. - - Washln«tssi Ter. "Union Pacific Railway. . OREGON SHORT LINE. ThroMh Pollman Sleepers and Modern Day -SK Oman*. Council Bluff* and Kansas ■ S?.m»klne DIRECT CONNECTIONS to the CA7'. of CHEYENNE, HALT LAKE CITY OODBS. COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA. £ J&AS CITY. ST. LOUIS. CHICAGO, and all Jointed the East and South. •*"* . . Ha***** e»*«he* *"*•■«■ from *■»• m » D to all point* named. Family Sleepers Free on All Throu h Trains >''-' _ *«rther Information regarding territory F or '*rt2f' oi j»re, descriptive pamphlet*, traversed, W^eaUt^ent of fee Union P actflc Railway or OK- * *~° °r »ddreM _ Railway, or H H. BROWN, Agent, Pnllman. - T 8. TBBBBTi, G. P. *T. A.. Omaha, Neb. "•*• • . A. L. Maxwell, «s a P AT. A., O. K. A N. Co., v- Portland, OrKon. - ::- _ ■ 1 \ jw -• FROM WASHING-TON. CONGRESSMAN BRECKENRIDGE IS REQUESTED TO RESIGN. Additional Appropriations in the Naval Bill-A Constitutional Govern ment for Samoa—Sewell to be Relieved as Consul. The House public lands committee have recommended higher rates of pay to surveyors in exceptional instances. Senator Mitchell has introduced a bill to establish a port of entry at Blame, W. T. Senator Stewort, of Virginia, has presented a petition for the restora tion of silver to its place as a co-equal measure of value with gold. The Liberal members of Parlia ment at Ottawa, Canada, have decided to continue the present policy, which favor* unrestricted reciprocity with i the United States. The President has made the fol lowing nominations: C. D. Wright, »j Massachusetts, commissioner of labor ; Thomas M. Vance, of North Carolina, receiver of public moneys, at North Yakima, W. T. The Senate committee on woman suffrage has reported favorably on the i joint resolution proposing a constitu-1 tional amendment to prohibit the de nial of the right to vote l>y the United States, or any State, on account of sex. The survey of the lands in the Um atilla Indian reservation is to be made before they are effered for sale. The secretary of the interior holds that they must first be inspected, and an order to this effect has already been issued. A Congressional committee has been examining the construction of the Washington aqueduct tunnel, and have concluded to order the entire lining of the tunnel replaced at the expense of the contractors, nearly $500,000. Secretary Bayard suggests a very good scheme of constitutional govern ment for Samoa, with a native legis lature, securing its independence and autonomy, including the acknowledge ment of Malietoa as king and Taoia se se as vice-king. A bill has been favorably reported in I otl> Houses of Congress to place G^n. W. S. Rosecrans on the retired list of the army. He is at presen reg ister of the treasury. If the bill be come a law he will receive retired pay at the rate of $4000 per annum. There is an outspoken sentiment amtmg the Republic in Senators and ; Republicans in the House, that a com- : pltte change be made in the civil j service commission, and the commis sion for the District of Columbia. There is not a Republican on either board. The Senate committee on military affairs has ordered a favorable report upon the proposition to present Mr?. Irene Rucker Sheridan with $50,000, in token of the country's appreciation of the services rendered by her hus band, Gen. Phil H. Sheridan. This is urged in lieu of a pension. In view of the insufficient evidence produced to support the charges made by Representative Steel, of Indiana, j against Judge Bond, of Ar.zona, as a basis for impeachment proceedings, the House committee on judiciary has declined to enter upon considera tion of the case at present. There is a very loud call for Con gressman Breckinridge, of Arkansas, to resign his seat iv the next Con gress and ask for a new election, on account of Clayton's assassination; and many of his friends are advising him to do so. They insist that this is the only way that he can clear him- j self from the suspicion of sharing in the results of the assassination. Secretary Whitney has issued an important order regarding the naval records of the war of the rebellion. It | has been found on examining the pa- j pers on file in the navy department,! that almost the only ones therf, are those addressed directly to the depart-1 ment. He desires certified copies of j all orders to officers and war memo randa to be forwarde \ to the war de partment. Superintendent Thorn, of the coast and geodetic survey, has submitted an estimate for an additional appro priation of $3680, which he says is I necessary to make the repairs on the United States coast and geodetic sur vey steamer McArthur, now at San Francisco, to put it in condition for the work off the coast of Washington Territory and Oregon tke coming sea son. It is announced that the recall of American Consul General Sewell from Samoa, has created an excellent feel ing in Berlin. The German papers urge the necessity for the recall of the English consul also, alleging that he contributed largely to the trouble. The three powers might then oe rep resented by other trustworthy agents, who would assist in bringing about a friendly settlement. Heavy additions have been made to | the naval bill. The construction of two steel gun-boats, or cruisers, is pro vided for, to be ef from 8000 to 12,000 tons displacement, and to cost not more than $700,000; also, one steel cruiser of 2000 tons displacement, to cost $7C0,000. An appropriation is also made for one ram for harbor de fense, in accordance with the plans prepared by the naval advisory board of 1881. In order that the vessels may be speedily built, the appropria tion for steel machinery is increased by $1,500,00, and that for armament by $1,400,000. All the new vessels are to be lighted by electrity,and $60, --000 is appropriated for that purpose. PULLMAN, WASH. TER., FEBRUARY 16, 1889. THE PAGIf IC COAST, A WORKMAN'S DISCOVERY OF RICH TREASURE TROVE. Clever Sneak Thieves at Work in San Francisco—A Five and a Quar ter Million Mortgage—The Quake in California. Sacramento is overrun with thieves. In Ventura, Cal., flowers are bloom ing prematurely Herring are caught in large num bers in Humboldt bay. The Gurney cab system has been introduced into San Diego. Sam Jones has completed his revi val meetings at Los Angeles. The lumber mills of Olympia are pushed to their utmost capacity. It is now unlawful to sell i«toxicat ing liquors to a woman in Nevada. Eighty-two boxes of opium were seized at San Luis Obispo, recently. No immediate trouble is appre hended with the Indians near Bridge port, Mono county. It is believed that the voters of Ne vada will defeat the lottery amend ment to the constitution. A scarlet geranium leaf in Tulare county, Cal., measnred forty-seven inches in circumference. The assessment roll of Vancouver for 1889 shows an increase of 90 per cent over that of last year. The cold weather at Los Angeles has injured the ostrich-farm eggs that were intended for hatching. Since electric lights were introduced at Willows, Cal., not a wild goose has been seen to fly over the town. George Hopper, of Los Angeles, a well known mining man, is the latest victim of the gold brick swindle. Several earthquake shocks are re ported to have occurred at San Ber nardino, Co'tin and Lj>s Angeles. Tht postoffiae authorities are nego tiating for the purpose of dispatching the mail by the Golden Gate special. The deposit of slickens in the Spo kane river has alarmed the people of Spokane Falls as to their future water supply. A Sin Diego man has planted ten acres in mulberry trees, preparatory to going into the bueiness of raising silk-worms. At Rincon.C.il., a thief had thiiteen bullets put into his body while run ning from a party ef cow-boys who were after him. Petaluma haa memoralized the leg islature of California to pass a law making it unlawful to kill larks, rob ins or blackbirds. The bill introduced into the Neva da legislature restricting the wearing ol high hats in theaters, has been de feated in the upper house. J. F. Glennon, the S.in Francisco policeman who attempted to murder Willie Burke, has been found guilty of assault to commit Diurder. It is reported that the 0. R. and N. will commence construction in the spring on a line from La Grande to Joseph, in the Wallowa valley. The young and dashing-looking Spaniard, who has been swindling a number of San Francisco firms by means of bogus bank checks, Has been arrested. The people of Santa Ie are indig nant that a petition should have gone to Washington from Albuquerque ask ing that New Mexico should not be admitted into the Union. Hardin Yager, treasurer of San Bernardino county since 1865, was found dead recently. He was known as "honest old Hardin." and was be loved by all who knew him. The parents of Alexander Golden son, the slayer of Mamie Kelly, hive instituted suit for the possession of 101 pictures painted by him during hie confinement in the San Francisco jail, A first mortgage for $5,250,000 has been filed in San Diego by represent atives of the Mercantile Trust com pany of New York on the rights, fran chises and property of the S^n Dego, Cucamonga and Eastern railroad. At Grass Valley, last Thursday, as Superintendent Skewer, of the North Banner mine, was going to town he was stopped on the road by two masked men and relieved of three thousand dollars' worth of bullion. On the 31st of January, E A. Har bour, an old and highly respected cit izen of Meda, Or., was instantly killed by the top breaking out of a dead spruce and striking him on the head. Sam Poster was also struck and his recovery is doubtful. Two unknown men entered the of. fice of F. Reichling, at San Francisco, Friday last, and while one engaged the attention of the clerk, the otUer ! succeeding in gaining possession of a bar of gold bullion, valued at $4000. The theft was not discovered for two hours after they had disappeared. It is reported that while excavating recently north of Penawawa, a work | man unearthed a cannon and a lot of ammunition which had been buried in boxes; also a lot of silver coin, in rotten buck-skin sacks. Tradition al leges that Steptoe, on his retreat from i the Palousa country in 1854, buried | the material at that place. A clever piece of burglary was cxc- I cuted in a shoe store last Thursday, at San Francisco, by thre small boys. The eldest of the trio pretended to purchase a pair of slippers, while the youngest engaged in a romp with the cat uHtil he got near the safe, which stood partially ajar, when slipping his hand through he grasped a sack con taiag $240 in gold and the three cool ly walked away. MISCELLANEOUS. REMARKABLE BILLS INTRODUCED INTO STATE LEGISLATURES. The Eccentric Will of a New York Ped agogue—The Ghastly Crime of a Philadelphia Street-c r Em ployee—Cold Waves. An exodus of negro laborer? from South Carolina is now iv pi ogress. President Cleveland will practice law in New York city after March 4. The'new union depot at Pueblo, Col , will coht between $200,000 and $300,000. The Kansas legislature has pag6ed a bill restricting the ownership of land in that state Wisconsin lumbermen are up in arms at an order forbidding logging in certain districts. The Dakota legislature has passed a law taxing railroad property the same as other property. The bill to provide for inflicting the death sentence by electricity has passed the Ohio senate. Four Chinamen were scalded to death by a Geyser at Canyon City, near Yellowstone Park, last week. The post-mortem medical report in the case of Crown Prince Rudolph, sets at rest the rumors of his murder. Major Stewart, of Austin, Texas, is in New York in the interest of a na tional home for ex-Confederate sol diers. Dr. E. A. Kelley, superintendent of the State Insane asylum at Norfolk, Neb., has besn arrested on a charge of ! murder. Ohio and Kentucky tobacco grow ers have agicud to raise twenty-five per :ent less tobacco next season than the last. It is said that Secretary Bayard has accepted Bit-nnvrck's proposition for a conference at Berlin on the S.imoan question. A very large meteor fell in Chicago last week. It burst into many pieces and specimens] have been picked up for analysis. Canada is making an effort to se cure independence of all lines of traf fic passing through any portion of the United States. . The Trades 'assembly at Chicago at a mass-meeting has demanded the re moval of Police Inspector Bonlield and j Captain Schaak, The cold wave and blisgard through-1 out Canada is intense, the tuermonie ; ter registering in many places forty i degrees below zero. The supreme court at Washington has lately decided the law constitu tional which prohibits ranchmen from fencing any of the public domain. At Marion, Indiana, an outbreak ! was prevented among tobacco strip jpers and stemmers owing to the im ! portation of negroes to do the work. Some of the Canadiins not only ! want annexation for their own coun ! try to the United Staten, but want to | have Mexico annexed on the south. The Arkansas legislature has of i fered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the thieves who stole the ballot-box and poll-book last ! November. The wolves, it is said, are making things deadly lively in some districts in Montana, killing colts and steers, | and in some instances pursuing hu man beings. A bill bis passed the Indiana Sen ate declarikg unlawful all trusts, pools, agreements and combinations, in restraint of trade, production, man ufacture or sale. The House wili also pass the bill. Inspector Bonfield, Captain Schaak and Detective Lowenstein, prominent in the trial at Cbic.igo of the anarch ists, have been ind< finitely suspended from the police force pending charges of corruption. The report that General Boulanger was to have been arrested at the insti gation of the government ministers on the night of his election from the de partment of the Seine, proves to be unfounded. Otto Kaiser, a married street-car conductor at Philadelphia, shot Anna Klaus, a young girl wbo believed him single. He then returned to his home, cut his wife's throat and ended his own life at the approach of officers. A bill has been introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature prohibit ing treating, and making it a penal offense, punit-lnble by a fine of not less than ?50 or over $100, for any one to treat another to intoxicating liquors. Twenty-four persons, mostly all children, have died, recently, in Web ster county, Kentucky, of a disease with which the doctors appear to be unable to cope. The deaths usually occur from six to twelve hours after the attack. M. W. Merriam, an eccentric Suf folk county, N. V., school-master, has willed his property in bulk to the Unit ed States government. One of his rea sons was the government was rich and could fight his sister if she at tempted to contest the will. He was worth $100,000. It is proposed by the people of Mon tana to elect two Senators, to go to Washington in the interest of the Territory, and to urge its immediate admission into the Union. Mr. and Mr*. James Olsen, with their three children, were drowned in the Missouri river at Bismark recently when the ice broke. The horse, wagon and its occupants were all lost. AGRICULTURAL. STRiW AS A MATERIAL FOB SUB STANTIAL STOCK SHELTERS. A Good Idea fora Hoist for a Barn—The Treatment that Should be Given to Fowls—Receipt for De stroying tha Weevil. The longer turnips and cabbages : can remain out without actually freezing, the better they are fur eat ing purposes ami the better thf>y will ket i") through the winter. Economy is certainly wealth in the feeding of farm horses, and yet it does not necessarily mean stinting or cut ting off of rations. Give this matter a thorough investigation, and gee if there is not more in it thaD a tsper ficial glance would indicate. Corn meal in small quantities, lin seed meal in i^mall quantities, and a liberal quantity of good bran meal with the roughness, will make an ad mirable winter feed for milch cows, and if given liberally, with good shel ter, it is possible to secure a good How of milk during the winter; provided, of course, that you have a good breed of cows, that this feed can be given to doriog the winter. By pouring boiling water over pny kind of grjiin, and allowing the grain to remain twenty-four hours, it will swell and prove an acceptable change to the fowls. The yoiked grain un dergoes a partial chemical change, contains a slightly larger portionoi | sugar, and is really more digestible. Nothing is added to the grain by soak ing it, bat it will be more readily eaten tor some time than dry grain, though the birds will return to dry grain as a preference if fed too long on that which is soaked. A correspondent of the Xesv Eng land Farmer gives the following direc tions fjr destroying the potato weevil: Take an ordinary manure hod, one that is broad and light is to be pre ferred, and grasping it by the hole for the left hand near the mouth of the bod, with a broad and limber broom carried wfth the right hand, proceed through the field, placing the hod against vines inftsted with grubs and gently beating or sweeping them over the eilge of the hod and into it with the broom. In this way a great msjarity of all the grubs in a small potato patch may be gathered in a short time and destroyed. This may be of service, especially in cases where there are objections to the use of pois ous offered in the markets. A little practice will enable a person to do ex ecution with the above implements with considerable dispatch. Strj.w as a material for stock shel ters have favorable qualities: It is a very poor conductor of heat, hence it makes a warm shelter. It costs little. being produced in abundance on a large majority of farms; and its em ployment for this purpose does not rf quire t-pecial skill beyond the farm er. But it is not us economical as many suppose. It is as ueces&ary that the top ©f the shelter be water tight as that the sides be wind tight— even more important. A straw roof can be kept lain and snow proof only by frequent re-pairings. Straw is not a durable material and a straw shelter ie not long-lived. In many cases where straw hhellers are now used, a proper computation would show lum ber to be more economical; and as it is usually cheaper to piint lumber than not to do so, the cheapest shel ter would be a neat, substantial paint e I one. One of my neighbors had a fine pen of fowls; had had them confined in a small, dark house, with no run at tached, and I suppose all the corn they could eat, as they were very fat when I purchased them. My neigh bor said he was sick and tired ef them ; no demand for eggs and no eggs; could never make a living raising ian cy fowls. I was not suitably fixed for taking another breed, but as I got them for $1 each, about one-tenth their value, I bought them and took them home, intending to do the best possible by them,considering the con veniences at hand. Took two orders for eggs before driving home. I placed them in a small house with m 16x10 foot run. As I said before they were very fat. My first move was to see that they had" plenty of exercise, and thereby reduce them in flesh. I di vided a portion of their run c 11' and put, in about, one foot of straw, and they had to scratch for a living. It was not very long until they were shelling out eggs to their full capacky. —Poultry Keeper. A good idea 'or a hoist for a barn is to erect two upright posts six inches square and firmly fastened in the up per part of the building, one on either side of the hatchway. Strong iron or wooden boxes attached to these posts support the journal of a round shaft one foot in diameter, upon which is a wooden wheel four to six feet iv diam eter. The larger size gives increased power, but for ordinary lifting four feet is large enough. The wheel is made of eight segments cut from two inch plank, each one being a quarter of a circle. They are put together with spikes or bolts in a manner to "break joints." Before being fastened together the segments are notched to receive the ends of the four arms, which are also made cf two-inch plank, halved together at the center of the wheel. The short end of the shaft, as far as the wheel goes on, is shaped to fit the square hole in the center of the wheel. Long iron spikes are driven and a groove turned ' in the on ter periphery of the wheel to keep the rope from slipping off. The hoist rope is firmly attached to the shaft upon which it is coiled by the revolution of the wheel. ' PORTLAND MARKET REPORI 1 GROCERIES-Sugars. We quote Golden C 5Jc, extra C He, confectioners' A 6Jc, dry .granulated 6gc, cube, crushed and powdered 7c. Colters Java toe, Rio 20.c, Arboekle'a roasted 21ic PROVISION'S—Oregon haras are qnot ied at 124(c13Jc, breakfast bacon 13c, Eastern meat isqnoted as fololws: Hams r.'4<« Vi^a, Sinclairs 14 a 15c, Oregon break fast b con 13c, Eastern 13@13 c. FRUITS — Apples Slffli.3s, California oranges $3§4.i0 lemon* §<>, bananas $3.50<.a4.50, VEGETABLES—Cabbage "c per H>, celery BUfeßsc per doz bunches, carrots and turnip 'ioc per sack, onions 70 i7cc potatOasS per »ack. DRIED FRUITS— Sun-dried apples sc, slic d ti.*c, Oregon prunes d4(o7c, Italian 9c, California French 8 10c, peaches Ha 10c Dears 8 1 9 c, Cali ornia flgsSc, raisins §'.75 it per box. DAIRY PRODUCE— creamery and choice dairy 250, medium ■0c Cal ifornia fancy 25c, choice dairy 2. EGGS- Oregon 23c. POULTRY—Chickens $\ ducks $7.50, gesse 810, turkeys 14c. WOOL— Valley 18jg20c Eastern Oregon 8«15e. HOPS-Choice GRAlX—Valley «1.274@1.30, Eastern Oregon §1.221®1.35. Oats 32 **SJc Fi.OUR-Standard 84.50, otner brands FRFSH MEATS-Beef, live, 3J@3Jc. dressed 7c, mutton, live, 3Jt3'c, dressed 7c, lambs $2.£0 each, hogs, live, oi^.tie, dressed l(afi^, veal bis Be. ELECTRICAL LIGHT. How It Affects Flowers, Vegetables an* Other Plants. From time to time, of late years, ex periments have been made of the effect of the electrical light on flowers and plants, with results seemingly the same, to wit, feeble efforts of some plants to prolong their periods of bloom into the night and then pre mature decay. One has only to study their actions, as observed, to conclude that even plants need, rest, or, to be more precise, they seem to thrive best under the conditions which nature has imposed—the period of darkness and the period of the light, which is heat as well; or else that the family of plants, as now they are, sprung from these exact con ditions, and will not thrive without them. It is the nature of some flowers, I as every one knows, to open at one period of light and close at another; of others to open only at night and close before or at the moment when the orb of day tops the horizon. So strictly do some of these follow their unwritten laws that floral clocks have been con structed, so that one may step out into his garden, of a bright day or clear night, and learn the time by the con dition of bloom on the floral dial. Pro. Wollney", of Munich, satisfied by experiment that electrical light will not advance or improve plant growth, recently tried the effect upon them of the current itself. We quote the fol- j lowing, being the means employed and its result: He "took patches of ground twelve or thirteen feet square, separated by boards penetrating the earth to the depth of a foot. In one case he ap plied two earth plates and interposed five earth cells; in another he inserted an induction apparatus; and in a third, a plate of copper at one side and a plate of zinc at the other side to form a natural battery. Peas, potatoes, car- I rots, etc., were planted on these and other patches, but the electrcity, whether of high or low potential, seemed to have either no influence or a bad one upon their growth." Plants being full of sap, and sap a fairly good conductor, every fiber must have been reached, and, so far as the Professor was enabled to perceive, tha only effect of the rent was to pro voke a perturbation on the protoplasm. — Scientific American. FOREIGN GOSSIP. r — costs the Prince of Wales |50 --000 a year to keep up his hunting stables. —Hundreds of English girls are non adopting shorthand for a livelihood. —In Berlin heavy wagons are mot allowed on certain streets. In Paris any carload of rattling material must be fastened till it can't rattle. —The telegraph lines entering th« central station at London are all un derground. It appears all the more wonderful when it is said there are 1,700 different lines. —Princess Eugene of Sweden ha? sacrificed her family jewels to build a hospital for cripples upon an island ofl the coast. —The Queen incurred expenses in her jubilee as well as other people, the cost to her having been £60,000, and the largest payment being in the department of the master of the horse. —Paris receives 100,000 francs by ♦he will of a citizen who was run ovei and killed in that city. He bequeathed the money to erect bridges over the streets at the most dangerous points. The old Town Hall at Leicester, a curious wooden building, in which Shakespeare is said to have acted, ie now occupied as a school of cookery. A pulley still shows where the drop curtain was. -::V^ —Emperor William of Germany is still carrying on his crusade against all things not Teutonic. He has ordered the officers of ' his army to discard pointed English boot 3 and wide creased trousers. He has also made a change in the royal crown, which he consid ered too high for his style of beauty. —A man was fined one dollar in a New York court for calling a lawyer a liar, and yet the offender had sworn to tell the truth.— Texas Si flings. : —The largest carpet in the world has been on exhibition at ; the Cincin nati Exposition. It contains 2,700 square yards. $2.00 PER YEAR! LIFE. Joy comes and poos*, hope ebbs and flow* like ilio wave, Change doth unkiiit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends lifts a little j;race, A few sad smiles, and then Both ore laid in one colt] [Aace, In the grave. Dreams dawn and fly. friends smile and die Like spring flowers; Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves with bitter tears For their dead hopes; and all. Mazed with doubts and sick with fears. Count the hours. We count the hours! These dreams of ours, False and hollow. Do we go hence and find they are not de&df Joys we dimly apprehend Fares that smiled and lied. Hopes born here, and bora to end. Shall we follow f —Matthew Arnold. Widowhood Among the Hindoos. Take the case of the widow from infancy, shorn of all that women value anywhere iv the worM, dressed in coarse clothing, de prived of her ornaments, compelled to fast till health breaks down, made to subsist on the coarsest of food, kept out of what amuse ments come in the way of the rest of tha household, forced into being the unpaid drudge of the family, held to be the legitimate butt of the ill nature of all, considered fit only to amuse the children, openly called and taught to think herself a creature of ill omen —this being cause of all the rest of her sorrows—superstition has indeed nowhere else shown more clearly its power to pervert the reason of man. How much the women dread widowhood is exhibited to the full in tho fact that to call a women a widow is to offer her a dire insult, and from her earliest childhood a girl is taught to pray that she may die while yet the red spot of coverture remains on her fore head. In any case the fear of widowhood overshadows he Hindoo lady's life, even though she hate her lord.—Capt. R. C. Tem ple in Journal of the Society of Arts. Picturesque Scenery In Spain. The little towns wo pass look like houses made of building blocks, with elfin castles on the summits of miniature mountains. They are very picturesque—almost too much so—and add much to the unreality and beauty of the landscape. They seem so quiet in appearance, that it is bard to believe that the time worn walls contain the group of beggars, the tink ling bells of the donkeys, and the noise of the brightly dressed throng. There can be no country in tho world which offers such a panorama of natural in terest as Spain. It is as shifting in color as a kaleidoscope. Here are flocks of goats coming down the mountain paths to water at the clear valley streams. The steep road* are covered with burros and Bayly dressed drivers, and along the roads stand the crosses raised to show that some one was slain there by the wayside. The mortality must have been great, judging by the number one sees everywhere.—W. Parker Bodfish in Demo rest's Monthly. A Great Saving in Fuel. "Boy," said a clerk in a Woodward avenue grocery to a lad who was hanging around, "do you want to save the price of an over coat this winter and feel warm all over!" "Yes, sir." "Then eat one of those." They were red peppers, and the boy promptly took a large bite. Ho turned red in the face, the tears came, and be had to hustle around the corner to prevent breaking down. It was an hour before he returned. Then the clerk said: "Well, how did it work "Splendid:"'replied the boy. "It not only saved me an overcoat, but I don't believe my brother Bill will have to have any shoes this winter! I'll take the rest up home. It may save our bouse rent and coal."—Detroit Free Press. Popularity of Macaroni. Macaroni is now largely manufactured in this country, only one pound in ten of that consumed being imported. The industry, however, is solely in Italian hands and under Italian control. One peculiarity of this staple article is that it, is almost proof against climatic changes and influences. In one of the caches constructed by Sir John Frank lin's party a box was found intact and un tainted forty years after, and at the time of the Greely rescue the first food served the survivors was mncaroi:; soup. P.". Javing ston always endeavored to keep a supply while engaged in his African explorations, and but a few weeks since the statement was published that Henry M. Stanley's supplies had been reduced to a quantity of vermicelli. —Detroit Free Press. ■Writins About Rich Girl*. Tho manner in which the society paper* discuss the chances of an heiress's marriage in America nowadays is rather startling to the old school jor.--nalists of the town.- Every suitor who presents himself to a rich girl is duly written about in print, bis chances dis cussed and his eligibility weighed. He pur sues his loverlike way under the vigilant eye of the vast horde of society gossips who con tribute to the weekly papers, and every move is duly chronicled and set forth. The posi tive or prospective fortune of the girl is con stantly printed and commented upon, and til together the courtship assumes a phase of publicity which is decidedly 4 new feature In jonrnalism in New York city.— York Sun. Settling with a Check. A man living in an outlying district near' Concord, N. H., recently opened a bank ac count in that city, depositing 1300. He was given a liberal quantity of checks, which he used so ignorantly that he was soon brought up and told that he had overdrawn. When asked to settle, with great indignation he made this characteristic reply: "Didn't you give me all these checks, which are not half used? If I owe you anything I will draw a check and pay Springfield Repub lican. A Barrel Making Machine. A Philadelphia man has invented a ma chine that, with the help of six bands, will turn out as many barrels in a day as sixty men can make. The machine has been suc cessfully operated, and coopers are taking a good deal of interest in it If it proves financially successful it will probably revo- ■ lutionize the cooper's trade. —Chicago Herald. The Debating Society. / The Schwenksville Debating society re cently wrestled several hours at the question, "Why do handbooks have so many footnotes in them}"— Shoe and Leather Reporter. Before and After. . When a man is going out to the races he calls them "pointers." When be comes back be "»i<« them "disappointers." Cauliflower seed are eight times as valua ble by weight as silver. They sell at $8 on ounce*. I Gold was first coined in Christendom In ' 1320. ''^iigjSß ";; ' ' -:' ■''..:, .'■ . ""'• - - -■ '- ■ ' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■..;■ - .-. " ■