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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

it is certain that all their efforts were
only partially successful, and I was
given up as gone case, and placed
in a car, packed in salt. before large
fire which they kindled in the stove.
Most unaccountably l revived. Itmay
have been the jolting of the car, or the
horrible heat to which l was exposed;
for, can any one imagine a place more
like Pandemonium, according to the
general idea of that locality, than a
railroad car heated by large fire in
the month of July! l have no doubt
that my naturally "pure spirit" re-
VOTED at the idea, and preferred the ten
ement of clay to an uncertain change. BE
that as it may. Isurvived fire and water.
rolling on barrel, and the other in
Vulnerable torments to which drowned
man is exposed, escaping without bro
ken bones, and am still man of this
(mundane) world, instead of spirit Of
the next. 1 still maintain, however.
that l have right to claim the priv
ileges of dead man, and to repudiate
al obligations which attached to my
former existence.-Neu York Sunday
W,ns.c
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
Initiating Senators.

A correspondent writes, 81 read with
interest the article published in a
March number of the Companion, de-
scribing the pages employed in the
Capitol at Washington. The fact men,
toned in the description, that their
moral education is neglected, reminded
me of a scene / witnessed in the Senate
Chamber one night last winter.
1T was the night on which memorial
services in honor of the late Prof. Henry
were held in the Hall of Representa-.
tives. The hall was packed, and in
stead of trying to push my way in, l
went over to the Senate Chamber.
1t was brilliantly lighted, and
though the Senators were absent they
we're attending the memorial services
their seats were occupied by the pages.
"They were holding q mock session.
One of their number, occupying the
Vice Presidents chair, was returning
thanks for the honor of third election
as their presiding officer. His heart
was warm, he said, and though I'M
worthy of the position, he would strive
to fill it to the best of his ability.
"When he took his seat, amid gen
eral applause, a bill giving the suffrage
to women was read.
"a page representing the Senator
from - arose and began speech. 1t
hurt him to the very core of his heart,
he said, to see the way the country was
going to the dogs. He couldn't think
of the Woman Rights question with
out shedding bitter tears.
Here he gave way to his emotions,
and amid his smiling several glasses
of water and two or three towels were
offered him. Wiping his eyes and
moistening his lips, he began again.
"With violent gesticulations and
loud voice. he depicted the dark pros
poets of the country until, again over.
come by his emotions, he dropped into
his seat, took up an evening paper, and
seemed absorbed in the news.
"Several other amateur senators
spoke, and so perfect was the imitation
of senatorial forms and peculiarities,
that the audience regretted when a mo-
ton to adjourn finished the mock ses-
sion.
81 saw and moralized. The little
fellows had picked up the ways of the
Senators they waited on. Perhaps the
page who called for "a glass of lager al
the restaurants bar had picked up Tia,
,ray from a real Senator. y Washing.
ton, in Youths Companion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
Egg-Eating Hens.

The quickest and most efIectual
method of cure is to watch your flock
until you detect the guilty ones, then
catch them and cut their heads of.
Another method is to confne them in a
coop by themselves for month or
more, and give one feed each day of
raw meat chopped fine, and keep plenty
OF crushed oyster shells by them. Have
two or three nest eggs of something
that will not break, in the coop all the
time. The hens will try to eat these
eggs, but finding all at empts to break
them in vain they will finally give it
up. The meat and oyster shells will
satisfy the craving for animal food and
lime, and a month or six weeks of con-
tinement and porcelain eggs will effect
cure. / used to be troubled with
egg-eaters among my flock, and cured
several by this method, but should not
try it again unless the hens were very
valuable.
There are several ways by which hens
learn to eat their eggs. In cold weather
eggs are left in the nest until they
freeze and crack open, the hens peck at
the cracks and soon learn that eggs are
good 10 eat. Egg-shells aye thrown to
the hens and they devour them greelily
for the sake of the lime, and soon learn
to peck at the whole eggs. From lack
of shell forming ingredients in their
food, hens frequently lay soft-shelled
eggs. or eggs without any shells, and
as they doubtless feel ashamed of their
unfinished work, devour it to get it out
of sight.
The preventives are obvious. Give
your hens plenty of lime in some shape
crushed oyster-shells, burnt bone, or
old plaster, and always use porcelain
nesteggs. AS soon as an egg-eater is
discovered she should be killed at
once, or removed from the other fowls
until cure is effected. One egg-eat
ing hen will soon corrupt the morals of
the entire flock. - Fanny Field, IN
Prairie Farmer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
Fruit Trees.

I find that lime, wood ashes and old
iron put around the roots of declining
fruit trees, have a very beneficial effect.
These fertilizers restore the tree to. q
healthy condition, and also greatly i'm
prove the fruit in quality and quantity.
l made the application on a Windsap
and Never Fail about half bushel Of
mixed lime and ashes to each, and dug
it in with hoe some six feet around
the trunk, and put the old iron imme-
diately around the base of each.
The trees put forth with renewed
vigor, bloomed abundantly, and yielded
good crop of fruit. An excellent
wash for trees may be made thus: Heat
an ounce of salsoda to redness in an
irop pot, and dissolve it in one gallon
of water, and while warm apply it to
the trunk. After one application the
moss and old bark will drop off and the
trunk will be quite smooth. The wash
has highly recuperative properties,
making old trees bear anew.
have tried soft soap as wash with
good results, and also coating of lime
in the spring season, which is fine
specific for old trees. The question is
often asked, is 1t best to manure trees
in the fall or spring? I have found the
summer season to be good time have
much faith in mulching, especially
young trees, for several seasons after
they are planted. Apple trees are said
to have two growths during the season
the secondary growth takes place af-
ter midsummer, hence it is that top
dressing of good manure, and also
coarse litter, facilitates the late growth,
and often produces very marked re-
suits in the habit and formation of the
tree.
The good effect that mulching has to
young trees is, that it wards off the in
tense heat of the sun from the tender
roots, and also has tendency to hold
moisture. A good top dressing of
stable manure in the fall. around young
trees, with good many corn cobs cast
over the surface of the soil, gives salts
factory results. A. London, ia RI
raj Messenger.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
r ub1ishe ~
Be Still.
BY ALICE CARY.


Come. bring me wild pinks from the vale!
Ablsze with the fire O The SIN
Nopoor little piti!al lilies
That srelk Of lie t! at is dcne'
And open the windows, to Tighten
The wea,isome chamber Of pain
The eyes of my darling will brighten
To see the green hill..ops again.
Choose tunes with la.laly flowing,
And sing through the watches you keep;
Be sof; with your coming aid going
Be soft she is falling asleep.
All, What would my life be without herr
Pray God that never may know:
Dear friends, as You gatlcr about her,
Be low with your weepipg-be low.
Sing slower, sing softer and slower
Her sweet check is losing its red;
Sing low-aye, sing lower aud loNer-
BE- still oh, be -till she is dead.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
Curious Animal Aversi0ns.

Some time ago, in company with some
of my relatives and friends, / paid a
visit to the Geological Gardens at Cliff
ton.
One lady of the party, Mrs. M,
had travelled with her husband in for
eign countries, and expressed herself
very fearless about wild beasts. Before
entering the monkey house, SIZE in
formed us there was one monkey who
had taken great dislike to her, and
however long a period elapsed between
her visits, its recognition of her was
almost instantaneous. The house in
which the monkeys were confined, had
cages round the wall, and q huge one
in the center, in which were number
of all sizes and shades. We entered on
the tiptoe of expectation to see if this
time it would recognize her. We were
not long in determining which was the
enemy. One OF the monkeys jumped
from its perch and chung to the bars
nearest to us, whining and grinning in
a frightful manner. Whichever side of
the cage we stood the monkey followed,
all the time closely watching Mrs.
M, who had with her ginger snaps
and nuts. with which she proceeded to
feed the other monkeys. Seeing this,
Mrs. Ms enemy sprang upon them,
seized the food, and threw it back an
grily in her face, chattering and
screaming in great fury and I am not
sure If it was not the same monkey that
succeeded in tearing off some deep
lace Mrs. M wore round her man
tie, and climbing ON to the upper
perch, commenced tearing it in pieces.
1 was not sorry when we left the ugly,
grinning face and screeching voice be.
hind us and paid visit to the lion aud
tiger house.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

Sidney Hall. the English artist,
whose work on the London Graphic has
never been more brilliant than it was
while he was accompanying the Prince
of Wales in India, and who came to
America in the suite of Princess
Louise, has been requested by the
Queen to return Immediately, 80 that
he may paint the portrait of the Duke
OF Connaught, whose marriage is an
nounced, and sailed from New York on
Friday.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
An Editor VS., a General,

1t requires as much genius to create and
conduct a great newspaper as it does to COM
mand an army. The best evidence of this
truth is afforded by the San Francisco WEEK
Ii CHRONICLE, eight pages in size, brimful
of news, and Astounding with everything that
can amuse, instruct, or inspire to beneficial
thought. The care, labor, expense and en-
terprise of preparing even a single number
must be immense. 1t is with something of
professional pride that we note the pr, spcr-
ity and incessant improvement of our great
contemporary.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
The Wilcox Pump,

No inventor upon this coast has done so
much in the interest of the steam pump
business as ". c. Wilcox, of AIT Mission St.,
S. F. This latest invention, the WILCOX
PUMP, is undoubtedly the best in use. 1t is
simple, cheap, durable Send for descriptive
circulars ana price list Buy the best. Buy
the cheapest. Buy the most durable.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
Xxi Elastic Truss.

This is late invention of A. A. Mclean,
6O5 Sacramento St, S. F., and is spoken Of
by eminent physicians and by patients who
have tried them as being the best Truss yet
introduced. 1t is SAID to be perfectly easy
and comfortable to wear, is cheap and dur
able. To the afflicted we would say, try it
in preference to any tina. we have yet seen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
Success.

The satisfactory fact that really iirst-class
cigar can be manufactured upon this Coas,
to compete in quality and price with the best
eastern brands has been most thoroughly
demonstrated ny Messrs. Sanderson n Horn,
OF 81 Front ST.. 5. F. Their Horse Shoe
Tag Cigar is made from the best selected
leaf in the market, by white labor alone,
while no adulteration Of any kind is used in
its manufacture, TheAarc undoubtedly the
best cigars i'm the mars l.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

Sedalia, Missouri, is delighted over q
mule colt with five legs. This thing
has got to stop right here. A five
legged mule when he grows up will be
worse than an ght.barreled revolver !;
q sort of Calling gun among mules.
Just think of the havoc that may be
wrought by a mule who has four legs
to amble along, and an untrammeled
leg to circulate around and attend
strictly to business on both sides of
the road Let the colt be shot while
it is yet possible to get near enough to
it to shoot it in safety.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
@. j, Hawlev & Co.

Notwithstanding hard times and lively
competition, the trade Of this house is steadi-
ly increasing, the le ii innate resi- lt of energy
and fair dealing Order any goods you may
need through Wells, Fargo & Co. or by p. o.
order and YOUR goods will be selected with
the same fidelity as If you were present. Ad.
dress 2lJ SITTER St., San Francisco
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
To YO Semitic Tourists.

We take pleasure in calling attention to
the advertisement of Barnsrds io Semitic
Valley Hotel. The location is most beauti
fui, the table i most hounteOus ard in all
it, appointments it is iirst-class. Visitors to
the wonderful Valley will find Barnard's
most lovely and comfortable house-all that
they could desire.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

A DOUBTFUL HoNoR.-Do not seek to
be intrusted with your friends secret !;
for no matter how faithfully you may
keep it, you may be liable in thousand
contingencies to the suspicion of having
betrayed it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
Good heas on WHY.

They make the very best pictures of all
kinds AT very reasonable rates and takes Just
as much pains with strangers a, with their
best city customers, is the reason we recon.
mend you TO the Imperial Gallery, 134H
Market ST., San Francisco.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
The Stomach Cannot be Frelghted

I no 0UOI1cIIu OdHIIOU 10 Z 10! y uUEU
With greater trash than a violent drastic
purgative. True, such medicine relieves
constipation for the time, but at the expense
of great injury to the intestinal canal, which
it both intlames and weakens, thus uniting
it for the performance of its proper functions.
Widely different is the action of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, a tonic aperient which pro-
duces effects prompt, indeed, but never vio-
lent and CONFUSING. The purity of its botan-
ic ingredients its unobjectionabe flavor, its
genial influence upon the mind, and the
thoroughness of its remedial action in cases
of constipation, liver complaint and dyspep-
STA, combine to render it most desirable
family specific. 1t increases both physical
vigor and substance, tranquilzes and invig-
crates the nervous system, and gives an un-
wonted relish for the food. A wineglass
three times daily is about the average dose.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04
DentlStry,

DR.. Cochranc, $50 Market ST, >. f., as
dentist, stands nj the head OF his protests
Go to him if you want iirs t-ciass work a
reasonable rates.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

CIGARS are guaranteed to he made oi The fin.
eat Havana Tobacco. :..23 Sacramento ST. s F.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

IoE the nest PhoiOg apis and lowest prccs 90 to
VIM. Shew, rs Kcarny ST, San Francisco
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-04

Thirty years ago careless little boy
threw an orange skin on the sidewalk.
A few days ago he was hanged. The
rising generation will perceive in this a
terrible warning.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-12

OF this exhibition, which will appear in
Brattleboro next Monday, the Boston Daily
Globe says:
The entire entertainment is well worth the
price Of admission, and is carried out to the
letter. 1t opens with IA grand procession
around the arena, introducing every perform
or that takes part in the programme which
follows. Miss Pauline Lee gave graceful
and perfect equestrienne act, and the only
trained giraffe in the world was then driven
around the ring by his trainer; Billy Burke
then made his appearance, and showed con-
clusively that he was cut out for his position.
He has n splendid voice and his Jokes are
new and good. His burltsque act, "A little la
ter caused universal merrment in the audi
ence. Herr Drayton gave cannon-ball act
in manner that showed him to be an expert,
and Wooda Cook, who followed in bare
back equestrian act, can hardly be excelled.
Miss Emma Stickney gave an exhibition act
on n trained horse, which preceded n bare
back hurdle race by Robert German. Milly
Tonour, the queen of the air so well known
in Boston, performed her wonderful feats OF
balancing in mid-air on the trapeze, and Lot
tie Miranda gave a trapeze act at the same
time at the opposite side of the ring Mile.
Jeanette then made her appearance on horse
back and acquitted herself nobly. The beau
tlIul trlck morse AlalOhtt followed Win many
interesting tricks, showing himself to be one
of the best trained horses in the world.
Messrs. Stone, Leander, Robinson and Fore
paugh then gave fine gymnastic perform
ance, which preceded the feature of the en-
tertainmont, the wonderful performances of
the trained elephants, under the direction of
their trainer, Adam Forepaugh This show
alone is worth the price of admission, and
when gazing upon that huge pyramid Of liy-
ing creatures, representing SiO,0 900, it gives
one a little insight into the risks of circus
management. The entrance of Robert Stick
ney, the ne plus ultra Of bareback riders,
called out round of applause from the audi
cuce Young Ajax is evidently made after
the manner of a snake, judging by the trick
he gave of standing with each foot in a chair,
and bending over backward and taking glass
of water from the ground with his teeth,
drinking the water and assuming an erect po-
stion without the use of his hands. Then
followed some fine tumbling, and leaping
from a spring board over eight elephants.
and at the conclusion of the show first
class concert was given. The menagerie con
sists of thirty-fve cages, containing fine Sc
lection of nearly all the ferocious and won
dcrful animals ever exhibited in the world
a beautiful zebra, three sea-hons, yak, a
hippOpotamus and many Others The per
formers III this circus are ali clean-looking,
well-dresssd, gentlemanly appearing men,
and the ladies rank with any in the business,
while the management endeayors to give the
public perfect satisfaction and succeeds in So
doing.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-12

There are about thirty men employed to go
with 'thrasher crowd" There is q large
machine, fourteen feet wide to cut the grain,
called header because it merely cuts the top
or head off, leaving the straw standing in the
field. AS it is cut off, it falls on to revol-
wing elevator, which carries it up a long spout
about three feet WIDE and it falls into the
header wagon which usually goes beside the
header. The header is used with the knife
or sickle bar in front of the horses (six
ABREAST, so that it looks MS though the horses
We're pushing the header in front of them.
The driver steers with a sort of long pole or
rudder and can lower or raise the machine
in front of the horses at his will, three horses
being on each side of the rudder. The wag-
on Mt the side of the header is drawn by four
horses abreast one man drives and another
loads the grain evenly as it falls from the
spout of the header. There are about eight
wagons to a header, and as soon as one is full
it goes to the engine, or where the separator
is that thrashes out the grain, and another
takes its place. Two headers are used in our
crew, and you can imagng the large quantity
of grain cut when say that each header cuts
a swath fourteen feet wide. When the wag-
Ons reach the separator, large derrick fork
is used to lift the grain from them on to
large platform connected with the
separator. II takes about three minutes
" uhIOhu u wagon, M tnc utIIlCA lOIA ID
also run by the engine As the grain is I'M
loaded on the platform, or table, as we call it,
another set of eight men, four on n side, pitch
it on to the revolving elevator, and it is car
ried into the separator, where it is threshed
out and runs into the sacks, which requires
two mems attention, as three are filled in
two minutes and it is quite knack to fill
them full and plump. Each sack holds 1870
or 40 pounds. The tenders lift them away
few steps, and then the sewer takes them
and shakes them down, and perhaps puts in
or takes out little, and proceeds to sew them
up, which he does very eXpeditiously, dispo-
posing of 1900 to 1900 per day. After this
another man takes them and carries them to
the Pile a short distance from the machine
The straw that is threshed out from the grain
is brought from the separator, as il is thresh-
ad out, to the engine which runs it, and is
used for fuel. After the grain on this ranch
" threshed out, six four horse teams are put
ON, and they haul it to the landing, where it
is shipped by schooner TO San Francisco and
sold Two schooner loads went down last
week, and the wheat sold for S1.75 per hun
bred pounds. lutte CaHt0THia Letter,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-09-12

This advice is always good, but il is special
ly timely, now that the prospect ahead for
work or business looks encouraging and ev-
erybody feels cheerful How many times
have you said to yourself during the past few
years If l could only get my bills squared
up, Inever would be caught in this way again, +"
and YOU have fused and worried over old
debts contracted when times were flush and
the prospect for paying them seemed fair.
Now is good time TO turn over a new leaf,
because it is just the time when the temptation
TO do the same thing again is strong upon you.
II your wages are increased or you are selling
more goods and getting a better profit, you
begin to think 'now can buy that new car
pet or chamber set that my wife wants and
can pay for it in n short time" You had bet
ter wait till you have paid up all the old bills
first. Don't get trusted. Pay for your pro
visions and groceries as you 60 along and hus-
band what you have over. The relief from
old debts will be like the recovery from n
boil feel better when it is well, and
the comfort Of feeling that the little pile you
accumulate is subject TO nobody's lien, is Il
positive pleasure Flush times almost in
varably lead to speculation, and speculation
includes not only the investment in stocks
or lands for rise, but the dscounting of the
future for anything that you want. The man
who buys what he is unable TO pay for at the
time Of the purchase, is mortgagng his life
and his labor aud mourning burden which
most likely he will regret Pay as you CO.
is wise maxim, for yourself honest, and for
your neighbor Just. Its observance will light
en- the cares and burdens Of life, sweeten toll,
encourage industry, reward honesty, promote
good neighborhood, and induce prosperity
.SpTiHqfeh iHi0H.