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PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Commercial and Financial Happenings
of Interest In the Growing
Western State.
Creamery for Sheridan.
At a meeting held at Sheridan, Or.
for the purpose of discussing the cream
ery question, H. . Loundsbury, of the
Southern Pacific, and Dr. Withycombe,
of the state agriculture college, made
addiesses. A large number of the rep
resentative farmers of that district were
present and listened very attentively
to the interesting data presented by Dr.
Withycombe's address. Questions
were asked, and all present weie im
pressed with the desirability of starting
a creamery at that point, as they all
admit that no money can be made or
mortgages lifted with wheat at present
prices, and especially as fruit and hop
raising have not given the relief ex
pected mainly, however, on account
of lack of co-operation in marketing
the product.
Washington State Militia.
There is a movement on foot to hold
the militia state encampment at Taco
ma in July. Governor Rogers favors
the project. The state provides for the
expenses while in camp only, and rail
way fare and other expenses incurred
will have to be borne by the men if the
event of the state encampment idea is
carried out. There are no funds avail
able from the state treasury for en
campment purposes this year, but
efforts are being made by the Tacoma
contingent to provide for the entertain
ment of the visiting companies.
Sawmill at Deer Creek.
A sawmill of 40,000 feet capacity
daily is soon to be in running order on
Deer creek, one half mile above Britton
station. This new company has been
formed by Robert Service, Charlie
Tibbs and Thomas Tibbs. The Tibbs
brothers have timber that will make
15,000,000 feet of lumber on Deer
cieet. The mill is furnished with a
large dynamo, which will furnish
lights for the mill and lumber yard.
The machinery is all in transit, and is
to be in running order within 40 days.
Putting in a Ballast.
The Northern Pacific is still working
a large force of men on the roadbed
between Vollmer and Clearwater, Ida.,
and putting in a ballast of a most per
manent nature. The ballast consists
of clay and small rock about the size of
an egg, which, when once set, becomes
like concrete. It will take about two
months yet to put the grade in first
class condition, and the company is
not sparing any pains to do everything
in good shape.
Asked to Pledge Acreage.
At New berg, Or., blank contracts
furnished by the Willamette Beet Sugar
Company have been received and the
canvass among the farmers for securing
acreage will begin at once. Solicitors
have been appointed, viz.: A. Clark,
D. Turner, W. Cooper, William Man
ning and R. B. Linnville. As a basis
for beginning the canvass 1,000 acres
have already been subscribed at public
meetings.
Small Strike at the Paper Hills.
Eleven boys employed as cutter? in
tho Willamette Pulp & Paper Mills, at
Oregon City, Or., walked into the com
pany's office and asked for an increase
of wages from 75 cents to $1 per day.
The matter was finally compromised
by a promise to give the boys steady
work. Only about three of the num
ber were working on full time, the
others getting on an average of 15 to 20
days each month.
Smallpox Among Indians.
The quarantine that had been placed
on the Indian settlement at the mouth
or Cayote gulch, near Lewiston, Idaho,
some weeks ago. has been, raised.
There were nine cases of smallpox un
der quarantine, and one of the victims,
u woman, died as a result of going
bathing while afflicted with the dis-
New posts are being set in the tele
phone line between Yale and Ontario,
Or.
The Toledo, Or., creamery is now re
ceiving about 1,000 pounds of milk
daily, and will shortly have nearly all
it can use.
J. T. Moylan, representing an east
ern syndicate, was in Kalama, Wash.,
closing a deal for purchase of timber
lands on the Coweeman river. The
prices paid run rom $1,600 to $3,500
per quarter section.
A gilt-watch faker has been working
the people of Elgin, Or.
Ripe wild strawberries were picked
near McMinnville, Or., April 23.
An expert is examining the coal pros
pects on Birch creek, 20 miles south of
Pendleton, Or.
Ellensbnrg's, Wash., municipal
electric lighting plant is about to be
improved at a cost of a little more than
$3,000.
New Whatcom has $73.80 on hand to
entertain President McKinley when he
shall visit the coast and that town the
coming summer.
Preparations are making for a big
season at the watering places of West
port and Cohasset, Gray's Harbor.
New seashore attractions and excursion
rates are advertised.
The Walla Walla creamery is using
10,000 pounds of milk per day, and
will soon have a branch running at
Freewater. One-half of the milk now
consumed comes from Umatilla county,
Oregon.
George Mapes is gathering his cattle
near Plush, Lake county, Or., to take
them south. He will take about 1,200
head. He has wagons arranged like
hayracks upon which to haul the calves
that are not able to make the trip on
foot.
K. Elliott, of Lebanon, Or., has sold
200 head of Crook county horses to R.
W. Nichols. Mr. Nichols will first
take a drove of them to California and
sell them, and will then take a lot to
Portland.
A new rule has just been adopted by
the Spokane police department by
which any Indian found in the city
who has not a pass from the Indian
agent or is not on some special business
will be promptly arrested as a vagrant
and sent back to the reservation.
Eleven Indians were jailed the first
day.
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
Further
Subsidence of
Prices.
Demand and
Brad street's says: A further subsid
ence of demand and leveling of prices
is noted in several lines this week, this
leveling being no doubt aided by the
unsettling effect of the rather more
than usually disturbed considerations
in labor circles. Its net result is some
thing approaching dullness in many
channels of distribution, increased con
servatism in the making of ventures
and a disposition to digest business al
ready arranged for before making new
engagements. That the basic condi
tions of general business, such as the
outlook for crops, the export demand
and the increased purchasing power of
the people at large, have not been
much reduced, but, on the contrary,
actually improved, seems evident from
the advices received this week.
Business at wholesale is relatively
quieter, which is not unusual at this
period, but more than ordinarily mark
ed attention is being concentrated upon
retail demand, which is, of course, re
lied upon as a measure of progress of
actual consumption.
Touching this public demand, it may
be stated that relatively best reports
come from the Pacific coast and from
the Noithwest.
Flour shipments this week are very
large. Wheat, including flour, ship
ments for the week aggregate 4,537,022
bushels, against 3,863,863 bushels last
week.
For the week failures number 153 in
the United States, as compared with
182 last week.
Failures for April in the Dominion
were fewer than in April a year ago,
but liabilities were nearly 15 per cent
heavier.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, $9.
Lettuce, hot house, 40 45c
doz.
Potatoes, $1617; $1718.
Beets, per sack, 50 60c.
Turnips, per sack, 40 60c.
Carrots, per sack, 75 85c.
Parsnips, per sack, 50 75c.
Cauliflower, California 85 90c.
Strawberries $2. 00 2. 50 per case.
Celery 40 60c per doz.
Cabbage, native and California,
$1.00 1.25 per 100 pounds.
Apples, $2.00 2. 75; $3.00 3. 50.
Prunes, 60c per box.
Butter Creamery, 22c; Eastern 22c;
dairy, 1722c; ranch, 15(2 17c pound.
Eggs 15 16c.
Cheese 14 15c.
Poultry 14c; dressed, 14 16c;
spring, $5.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $11.00
12.00; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $18.00 19.00
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23;
feed meal, $23.
Barley Rolled 'or ground, per ton,
$20.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.25;
blended straights, $3.00; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.804.00.
Millstnffs Bran, per ton, $13.00;
shorts, per ton, $14.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $80.00.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef
steers, price 8c; cows, 7c; mutton 8c;
pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 8
10c.
Hams Large, 13c; small, 1 3 34 ;
breakfast bacon, 12 c; dry salt sides.
8c.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 62 53c;
Valley, 53c; Bluestem, 56c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.00; graham,
$2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 86c; choice
gray, 33c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $14 14.50;
brewing, $16.00 16.50 per ton.
Millstnffs Bran, $13 per ton; mid
dlings, $19; shorts, $15; chop, $14 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, $9 10; clover, $7
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $6 7 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 80 35c;
seconds, 45c; dairy, 25 80c;
store, 2225c.
Eggs 16c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 18c;
Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $4.00
4.50 per dozen; hens, $5.00; springs,
$2.503.50; geese, $6.508.00 for old;
$4.506.50; ducks, $6.007.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 14 15c per
pound.
Potatoes 40 70c per sack; sweets,
2 2 34c per pound.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75c;
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, lo per pound; parsnips, 75;
onions, 3c per pound; carrots, 60c.
Hops 2 8c per pound
Wool Valley, 12 13c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 1015c; mohair, 27
80c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3c; dressed mutton, 7
73c per pound; lambs, 5c.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $6.00;
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,
$5.00 6.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $4. 00 4. 50;
cows, $3.504.00; dressed beef, 6a
1o per pound.
Veal Large, 67c; small, 8
83c per pound.
Tallow 55a'c; No. 2 and grease,
31s4c per pound.
San Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 14 16c per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 12 16c; Val
ley, 20 22c; Northern, 10 12c.
Hops 1899 crop, 11 13c pet
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 1717c;
do seconds, 16163-c; fancy dairy,
16c; do seconds, 14 15c per pound.
Eggs Store, 15c; fancy ranch,
17c.
Millstuffs Middlings,, $17.00
10.00; bran, $12. 50 18. 60.
Hay Wheat $6.50 9.50; wheat and
oat $6.009.00; best barley $6.00
7.00; alfalfa, $6.006.60 per ton;
straw, 25 40c per bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, 60 66c; Ore
gon Bur banks, 70c $ 1.00; river Bur
banks, 40 75c; Salinas Bur banks,
80c1.10 per sack.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia,
$2.763.26; Mexican limes, $4.00
6.00; California lemons 76c$1.60
do choice $1.75 2.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.60
2.50 per bunch; pineapples, : nom
inal; Persian dates, 66Ko per
pound.
WALK TO NOKTH POLE
OARING PLAN OP TWO VETERAN
KLONDIKER&
They Will Attempt to Take a Stroll
to the Northernmost Point on Earth
Unhampered by any Heavy Load of
Equipment or Provisions.
A plan unique In some respects for
reaching that coveted place on the
globe the north pole was outlined In
the Chicago Dally News recently on
the proposed expedition northward by
two veteran Klondlkers Mark Rum-
sey and Harold Sorenson. Together
these men braved, the terrors of the
frozen north In their search for gold
In the Klondike, were successful, and
have now determined to utilize the ex
perience thus gained In making an at
tempt to reach the most northern point
on the earth's surface and plant the
American flag under the north polar
star. Mr. Rumsey, who Is to be the
leader of this novel expedition, is 45
years old, and in making bis attempt
to do what so many have failed to ac
complish will carry out a cherished
ambition of his life. His companion.
as his name indicates, is of Scandlna
vlan blood, which always responds to
the spirit of perilous adventure.
Discarding the elaborate plans and
preparations of previous explorers of
northern latitudes, Rumsey and Soren
son will make the entire journey north
ward overland or rather, overland as
far as possible and elsewhere over Ice.
Lieut Peary, by his journey of 1,000
miles across the ice cap of northern
Greenland, may be said to have demon
strated the possibility of the overland
plan of reaching the pole. It Is the pur
pose of these daring travelers to utilize
the British military posts and forts in
the far northwest as bases for depart
ure and they have been promised hearty
co-operation by British officers. Going
by boat from Seattle to Juneau and
thence across mountains and rivers to
! Fort Frances, they will there establish
their first station. The second will be
Fort Simpson, 200 miles farther to the
north. Thence they will cross the Mac
kenzie river and follow the waters of
Lake La Matre to the east, establishing
a station at the headwaters of the lake
and then going eastward to Fort Enter
prise on Lake Providence, the last out
post station to the northward. From
this point tbey will proceed in a gen
eral northeastward direction, passing
on their way the Island of Boothia,
where the' magnetic pole is located.
Still swerving northward, they will es
tablish supply stations as they go until
they reach northern Greenland. From
Cape Kane they expect to go almost
due north to the pole over ice floes,
their stations and caches of provisions
being still nearer together as they ap
proach their goal.
This, as will be seen, is a plan some
what similar to that of Lieut. Peary's,
but, unlike his, involves no expensive
ship outfit and discards some of the
regulation supplies for northern explor
ers. The men who will make the at
tempt to reach the pole by this new
route will rely mainly upon an abun
dance of fresh provisions forwarded to
them from station to station by relays
of men, the expedition employing more
assistants for this purpose than any
that have preceded it in the history of
polar exploration.
Mr. Rumsey realizes that the plan he
proposes is an arduous one that may re
quire, possibly, ten years for its ulti
mate success. With ample resources
for employing men and forwarding sup
plies the plan seems to be at least as
practical as any that have yet been
proposed, perhaps more so. Its sim
plicity is its chief strength, and while
some may question the utility of all
such expeditions, the fact remains that
men will always be found ready to un
dertake them. That being the case,
Americans will be proud, of course, if
the flag of be republic should be the
first to be unfurled at the point on the
earth's surface heretofore impregnably
defended by frost and cold.
CURIOUS CA8E
Resulting from the Taxation of Honey
Bees by the Turks.
There is a curious illustration of the
rapacity of Turkish officials In a report
sent to the State Department by Con
sul Merrill at Jerusalem. Palestine
was once considered a land flowing
with milk and honey. Modern methods
of cultivating the honey bee were not
Introduced until 1880, when a Swiss
family named Baldensperger made a
start and began making honey. It was
not long before this Industry began to
attract the attention of the Govern
ment, and at first a tax of a little less
than 10 cents a hive was imposed, but
this was soon Increased by an ingeni
ous device whereby the officials not
only counted the actual hives, but ev
ery door, window and hole in which
they could see any bees moving was
reckoned as a "hive," with the result
that 150 hives were counted as 2,000.
The matter had to be carried to
court, and was not settled till after
two years of litigation, when the
Baldenspergers were found in debt to
the government to the amount of about
$500. This decision affected one large
apiary only. It was In 1889 that the
judgment was rendered, and, as the
Baldenspergers refused to pay, this
apiary was sold at auction In Jeru
salem for about $1.25 per hive.
The difficult part of the work was to
deliver the goods to the purchaser,
which the officials were bound to do.
The purchaser, the officials and a large
number of camels and camel drivers
went to the place where the apiary
stood, expecting to take It away, but,
as the bottom boards of the hives hap
pened to be unhooked, the bees, when
the hives were touched, swarmed,
and everybody had to retreat. A com
promise was effected, one-half the
amount demanded being paid, and the
bees remained in the hands of their
original owners. Chicago Tribune.
EVERYBODY KNtW MR. SMITH.
Merchant's Experience tn Vialtingr a
Rival Store.
Mr. Smith is one of the managers of
a big department store down town.
The other day his wife came by for
him to go to luncheon.
"Now, I like the menu at she
said, naming a rival store on State
street. "Let's go over there."
Smith makes it a point never to go
Into another shop, and there is no or
deal he dreads' so much.
"They always think you're nosing
around for pointers," he explains.
But Mrs. Smith insisted, and they
started off. Two feet inside the rival
store a voice called out, cheerfully:
"Howdy do, Mr. Smith?" It was a
"cash" who had formerly worked for
Smith.
"Ah, Mr. Smith, what brings you
around?" queried a floor walker In the
next aisle.
"My gracious, there's Mr. Smith!"
twittered a girl at the perfumery count
er, who likewise once clerked at the
Smith store. Nothing would do but
that Mr. Smith and his wife must be
sprinkled from a bottle of the choicest
violet, "for good luck."
"Well, I am glad to give you a lift,
Mr. Smith," remarked the elevator
man.
In the dining-room six waiters recog
nized Smith, the cashier shook hands
with him, and, coming out, the proprie
tor of the shop clapped him on the
shoulder cheerfully. It was the same
sort of a continuous levee on the way
out Everybody knew Smith.
"I told you so," groaned Smith.
"Anyhow, you seem to be popular,"
said Mrs. Smith, who appeared to be
thinking things over. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
"MS '"-s ' i
Henry James was once praising the
work of a fellow author. "You are very
kind to him," said some one present,
"for he says very unpleasant things
about your work." "Ah," said Mr.
James, "but then both of us may be
wrong!"
At a time of crisis in foreign affairs,
the Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess
of Teck, was seated at dinner next Mr.
Disraeli. She was anxious to under
stand the apparent inaction of the gov
ernment and asked him suddenly,
"What are we waiting for?" He took
up the menu, glanced at it and gravely
replied: "Mutton and potatoes, ma'am."
During the Franco-Prussian war a
well-known English corespondent was
sent to the front by his paper, and on
one occasion Von Moltke sent for him
and said: "Mr. , on such and such
a day the German army will perform
such and such a movement If that
appears in the " (naming the pa
per) "you will be shot" The news did
not appear.
Sir Augustus Harris once settled the
pltcjquestion in his own offhand f ash-
I - A M 1 . J n A his
1UU. A lULUUUS pxiuiu uuuuu ui ma
opera company came to him complain
ing that the piano used for vocal re
hearsals was too high, and asking that
it might be lowered. "Certainly," re
plied Druriolanus, with a bow; "here.
Forsyth, have a couple of Inches sawn
off the legs of this piano."
Prince Hohenlohe is a strong advo
cate of Emperor William's scheme for
a great ship canal which will connect
the Interior of Germany with the ocean.
In discussing the subject with one of
the agrarian nobles,, who opposes the
project the latter said: "Your excel
lency, you will find the opposition to
be a rock In the path of your canal."
The prince's eyes twinkled as he re
torted, "We'll Imitate the Proihet
Moses, smite the rock, and then the
water will flow."
The late Archbishop of York (:Dr.
Magee) made an eloquent speech in t he
House of Lords in opposition to Glad
stone's bill for the disestablishment of
the Irish church. Incidentally he said
that he "could not regard it as consist
ent with the salvation of his Immortal
soul to vote for the bill." A moment
later, one peer who was coming Into
the house inquired of another who was
going out: "Who is on his feet now?"
The outgoing peer, who stammered, re
plied: "Archbishop M-M-Magee .s
t-t-talking against the d-d-d-disestab-
lishment of the Irish church." "What
does he say?" "He says he'U be
d-d-d d If he votes for the bill."
When Representative Gibson, of Ten
nessee, was speaking in Congress one
day recently, It was observed that a
member sitting tn a neighboring chair
was fast asleep. This occurrence was
not unusual ,but for a man who speaks
as loud as Mr. Gibson to have a sleep
ing neighbor seemed to his political op
ponents a good Joke. So one of them
interrupted Mr. Gibson to report that
somebody near him was sleeping and
to suggest that be should speak a lit
tle louder. Mr. Gibson, who Is a mem
ber of the pension committee, promptly
retorted, as he turned toward his sleep
ing colleague, "If he cannot hear me he
ought to have a pension for deafness."
Several stories of the quick wit and
brilliant repartee of . Mrs. Craigie
("John Oliver Hobbes") are told in
Town Topics. Everybody knows the
old story of how Mrs. Van Rensselaer
Cruger said she would prefer to be
kissed to death, and bow, when she
was pointed out to Mrs. Craigie at the
opera, that lady said: "She will never
find an executioner." The sequel, how
ever, Is not so generally known. A re
ception was given for Mrs. Craigie, and
Mrs. Cruger wrote to decline, adding
that she would not express regret that
she already had an engagement as it
so frequently proved disillusioning to
meet authors after having read their
works. On being shown the note Mrs.
Craigie remarked that "having read
the works of Mrs. Cruger, one could
not possibly be disillusioned In meeting
her." Mrs. Craigle's verdict on "The
Quick or the Dead?" was that the
reader was distinctly de trop. She was
asked what she thought of the passage
where the heroine returns to her home
after an Interval of two years, finds a
half-smoked cigar where her husband
had left it picks it up and kisses it pas
sionately. Mrs.- Craigie was asked If
she thought it true to life. "Well, hard
ly," she replied, "the woman who
would have done that would have
eaten it"
A defective stomach keeps more pet
pie awake than a guilty conscience.
THE WOMAN AND
THE BIGHT WAY TO ALIGHT.
ft is asserted by street railway men that ninety-nine women out of every 100
get off the cars "wrong side to:" In this lies the secret of the many dangerous
and humiliating falls that women encounter in alighting from street cars. There
is one safe rule to follow, and that is step with the car; keep your face headed
in the direction the car is going, and step the same way. Chicago Inter Ocean.
INVENTORS AT WORK.
Rich
and Poor Scientists with
the
Same End in View.
It so happens that to-day other inves
tigations are being carried on with a
view to wrest some secret from nature
whereby there may be improvement in
the propulsion of vessels and the cheap
ening of the cost Some of these scien
tists have no temptation in the way of
the gaining of a fortune, whereas, oth
ers are inspired wholly by that Im
pulse. Thus, John Jacob Astor, who Is
fond of mechanics and finds bis chief
recreation in his amateur workshop
and laboratory, is reported by some of
our steamboat owners to feel sure that
; he had discovered a method of pro
pelling steamboats in such manner
, that storms will not affect them, and
bo that they will ride the seas as
smoothly and easily during a tempest
as they do in fair weather.
Mr. Astor's apparatus is not ex
plained any further than that he ex
pects to accomplish these results. The
practical steamboat men to whom he
j has spoken speak with some cynicism
about his apparatus, but their doubts
would be much greater were it not
known that Mr. Astor can both drive
! and make a locomotive engine, that he
has invented several ingenious ma
chines, and has a good understanding
of the fundamental principles of
physics.
On the other hand, Mr. Colin Camp
bell, a poor man, but one of those scien
tific enthusiasts who are looked upon
as eccentric, almost cranks, until at
last they achieve something and are
then spoken of as geniuses, has perfect
confidence that an apparatus which be
Is now explaining to those who own
or control steamboats, will be far su
perior to the screw propeller or the pad
dle wheel for certain purposes. It can
be described briefly and untechnlcally
as an apparatus which, by the explo
sion of powder from a tube suspended
below the rudder, will propel the boat
Some of the steamboat men laugh at
the proposition and would probably
laugh harder were it not known that
Mr. Campbell is a warm friend of
Chauncey M. Depew, who has had con
fidence In him and has supported him
in some of his earlier mechanical suc
cesses, Mr. Campbell looks for the pecuniary
rewards. They are his Inspiration.; Mr.
Astor finds his whole inspiration in the
excitement and delight which creative
work gives him and possibly in the
hope that his name may be associated
with something else than riches, for he
would rather be known as the Inventor
of some apparatus that revolutionized
some branch of commerce or industry
than as one of the richest of the citi
sens of New York. New York letter In
Philadelphia Press.
He Loves Music.
"If I had plenty of money to do with
as I wished," said Senator Lindsay, of
Kentucky, to a party of friends at the
Hotel Wellington the other morning,
"I'd have music played at jail of .my
meals and get cigars made sit $50 per
100. These are two luxuries I would
most surely Indulge myself In. I'd
have the music played by a small or
chestra say a horn, and two or three
violins and a flute and bass viol, and
I'd have it play soft harmonious airs
while I ate, and now and then I'd have
vocal music given by colored voices.
There's a peculiar harmony. In a negro's
singing tone. I'd have 'em sing such
things as 'When the Watermelon
Hangs Upon the Vine.' That's a song
calculated to inspire the most sluggish
appetite. I remember bearing it once
OQ a Mississippi river boat A lot of us
were aboard, and in the party was
Hooker, of Mississippi. There were
some darkies aboard who played In
strumental music with banjos, guitars
and a fiddle. I asked 'em if they ever
sang, and they said they did sometimes.
Well, they struck up 'When the Water
melon Hangs Upon the Vine.' Hooker
had never heard it before, and it nearly
set him crazy."
Frenchmen on Horseback.
In a paper on "Fashionable Paris" in
the Century, Richard Whlteing con
trasts Rotten Row in Hyde Park with
the Row in the Bois de Boulogne.
It is the same with the riding. The
Row In the Bois is prettier in its sur
roundings than the Row in Hyde Park.
It is more ample, and it commands a
finer landscape. The sense of the time
of year, spring, summer, or even win
ter, is more insistent The personnel
may not be quite so Impressive as in
the Row, but that is another matter.
The riding is a little mixed. Every
body thinks himself entitled to have a
try. The freedom from fear and trem
bling with which some Frenchmen will
mount a horse must ever cause fear
and trembling in the beholder. The
beggar on horseback is not half so ob
jectionable as the rich man who has
mounted late in life. The park riding
is good, but bere once more, as in all ,
THE STREET CAR.
THE WRONG WAT TO ALIGHT.
else, it tends to err on the side of
finesse, and to suggest the Hippodrome.
There are no better circus riders in the
world. Who but they have taught the
horse to waltz and to make his bow?
A little of this affectation has crept
Into the management of the cob. Fi
neesse! finesse! you find it everywhere
even in the institution of afternoon
tea The bread and butter is a trifle
too diaphanous for human nature's
dally food The sense of a religious
rite is a little too Intrusive. When the
French copy the foreigner, they copy
with the exaggeration of Idolatry.
The Invincible Armtdi..
A correspondent of the NewYork
Press recalls the history of the "Invin
cible Armada," which sailed from Lis
bon, Spain, against England In 1588.
That fleet was composed of 129 large
vessels, carrying 19,205 soldiers, 8,460
sailors and about 2,000 slaves as row
ers. It was a most formidable fleet
one of the most formidable fleets of the
time.
A storm in Spanish waters destroyed
several vessels of the "Invincible Ar
mada" and the rest put into port for re
pairs. When everything was in readi
ness again the fleet started and entered
the English Channel, sailing along In
the form of a half moon, nearly seven
miles broad. They were met by the
English fleet consisting of thirty ships,
which had been Increased by the addi
tion of merchantmen and privateers to
about 180 vessels, under Lord Howard,
of Effingham, Drake and others.
They fought And It soon appeared
that the great Armada was anything
but "invincible," for Drake sent eight
blazing flreships into the midst of the
Spanish fleet In terrible consternation
the Spaniards tried to get out to sea
and so became dispersed. The English
pursued, a storm came on and drove
the Spanish vessels among the rocks
and shoals. The "invincible" fleet
with a loss of thirty great ships and
10,000 men, defeated and disgraced,
sailed home again.
A Chinese Wonder.
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore describes
In the Century a great national phe
nomena which she has observed on one
of her many visits to the long-lived
Chinese Empire.
"There are three wonders in the his
tory of China," she writes, "the De
mons at Tang-chau, the Thunder at
Lung-chau, and the Great Tide at
Hang-chau, the last the greatest of all,
and a living wonder to this day of the
open door,' while its rivals are lost in
myth and oblivion. On the eighteenth
night of the second moon, and on the
eighteenth night of the eighth and ninth
moons of the Chinese year, the great
est flood-tides from the Pacific surge
into the funnel mouth of Hang-chau
Bay to the bars and flats at the mouth
of the swift-flowing Tslea-tang. The
river current opposes for a while, until
the angry sea rises up and rides on. In
a great, white, roaring, bubbling wave,
ten, twelve, fifteen, and even twenty
feet in height. The Great Bore, the
White Thing, charges up the narrowing
river at a speed of ten and thirteen
miles an hour, with a roar that can be
heard for an hour, before it arrives, the
most sensational, spectacular, fascinat
ing tidal phenomenon a real wonder
of the whole world, worth going far
and waiting long to see."
England's Boy Choirs.
Julian Ralph, writing of "The Choir
Boys of England," In the Ladles' Home '
Journal, says "Small boys are much
preferred for the reason that they de-,
velop into manhood later than big, stal-
wart children, for it Is at the coming
of manhood that their voices break
and they are obliged to stop singing nal, Edward Bok favors the re-estab-untll
their adult tones are reached a llshment of the custom of publishing
matter of years. A boyish treble is as the bans making such publication ob
delicate as the bloom on a peach, and ligatory. "This precaution which our
Its possessor must lead an orderly and forebears had of giving thirty days'
innocent life, which is why so many public notice of an intention of mar
choirs are made up of boys taken from riage, proclaimed from the pulpit and
their homes and boarded and taught ' posted at the public hall," he believes,
in church institutions. These, some- j "was born of wisdom and rested on a
times, are able to sing until they are sound foundation. The pity is that we
17 or 18 years of age, though between j ever got away from It I do not say
14 and 15 is the usual period when that a return to this old custom of the
their voices break.'
A Gypsy Evangelist.
One of the most successful of evange
lists now preaching in London is Gyp
sy Smlt i. He was born in a gypsy
tent reared in the lane and fields of
rural England and knew nothing of
books w ten converted.
General Gives tbe Word.
The general decides when the ene
my's fire has been sufficiently subdued
to deliver the final assault
The thieves will finally start a story
that honesty is not the beet policy, and
give reasons why honest men should
not be respected.
A man's right arm is stronger than
his left because he uses it so much is
lifting his hat to women.
Denver, Col., bricklayers have practi
cally gained their demand for a ?5
scale and the eight-hour day.
Maine will cut more lumber this sea
son than she has done in any year
since 1880. The total will be 555,000,
000 feet
Indiana as a glass producer ranks
first in the window-glass line, having
passed Pennsylvania during the past
year. There are now more than 100
glass plants in the Indiana field, all at
work, employing an estimated force of
16,000 men.
An American superintendent of iron
work, now being constructed at Liver
pool, England, requests that a force of
American workers be sent to him, as
they are mnch superior in skill and effi
ciency to the force of Britishers be has
now under him.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, at
Youngstown, Ohio, advanced the pud
dling rate to 16 a ton, the highest
wages paid since the panic of 1873.
This makes an advance of 50 per cent
since July 1, 1899. The pay of 15,000
men is Increased by this action.
Not content with seizing the Rus
sian market, Americans are going for
business in China which the former are
seeking. It Is probable that the trade
of China where Russia Is constructing
a railroad, will fall into the hands of
the Americans before the railroad Is
completed and before Russia Is in a
position to profit by the riches of China.
The steam railroad running between
Pekln and Tientsin in China is doing
a rushing business. It has four passen
ger trains each way every day, making
the trip eighty miles. Its profits last
year were 840,000 teals, or in American
money $1,176,000. Every train is
crowded. And the territory and popu
lation it covers Is a mere speck of
China.
The official report concerning the af
fairs of labor in New York State for
the last three months of 1899 disclose
a larger percentage of unemployed
than in the three preceding quarters,
but a less percentage than In the last
quarters of 1897 and 1898. Earnings
were also larger than In the previous
periods. Labor - organizations had
grown and the membership of the en
tire State was 224,383 on Dec. 31, 1899.
This is an increase of 49,360. In Great
er New York the membership was 152,
860, against 125,136 the preceding year.
Advices, received from London, Eng
land, reports that a movement is on
foot to form a tremendous central
union of the workingmen of Great Brit
ain and the United States. The move
ment has been planned by the leaders
of the General Federation of Trades of
Great Britain, who think the time now
ripe for the formation of an organiza
tion whose membership would reach
Into the millions. Peter Curran, 'Chair
man of the Trades Union Congress,
which recently met at Birmingham, Is
the most prominent and Influential agi
tator In favor of the colossal organiza
tion.
LAW AS INTERPRETED.
Liability of ship owners for injuries
to a stevedore at work upon the vessel,
by the fall of a keg negligently left by
the servants of the ship owners near an
open hatch in such a manner as to be
likely to fall Into the hatch and Injure
persons working below, Is sustained In
the Joseph B. Thomas (C. C. App. 9tb
C), 46 L. R. A. 58.
Criminal responsibility for a con
spiracy to cheat by materializing
seances of a professed medium is held,
in people vs. Gllman (Mich.) 46 L. R. A.
218, to be punishable, notwithstanding
the contention that no crime was com
mitted because it was an obvious hum
bug' that in the nature of things could
not deceive any rational person.
. Provision In a trust that In case of
the death or divorce of the wife of the
beneficiary before its termination the
Whole property shall vest in him, but In
case be dies while yet married the prop
erty Bhall vest In a third person, is held,
in Cowley vs. Twombly (Mass.), 46 L.
R. A. 164, to be sustainable against the
claim that it violates public policy by
furnishing an inducement to secure a
divorce or cause the death of the wife.
Right to make appropriations of the
water of a stream for different periods
of time by different persons is sus
tained in Cache La Poudre Reservoir
Company vs. Water Supply and Stor
age Company (Col.), 46 L. R. A. 175,
which also holds that water appropri
ated for a mill and discharged again
Into the stream becomes subject to an-
other appropriation. With this case is
a note on the subject of the periodical
appropriation of water.
How to Stop Elopem nts.
Writing on "The Ease with Which
We Marry," in the Ladles' Home Jour-
proclamation of marriages would be
the panacea for all marital evils. But
It absolutely would do away with all
the runaway marriages, sentimental
elopements and the life compacts born
of a single moonlight night from which
results so much unhappiness to our
girls, and which have brought and will
continue to bring, so much humiliation
and disgrace upon parents and families.
It is a significant fact that In those Eu
ropean countries where Intention of
marriage must be publicly proclaimed a
fortnight or a month previous to the
actual ceremony, and where the addi
tional precaution of a civil marriage is
added to the religious ceremony, di
vorce is hardly known."
"Innumerable electric lights," In a
society report usually means a dozen;
we have taken pains to count them.