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TRICKS OF THE MIND,
How Old Age Gels the Better of Memory
and Makes Embarrassment.
Uefroit Free Press1

How Old Age Geis the Better of Memory
and Makes Embarrassment.
Detroit Free Press.1
John B. Cough used to be taken with un-
expected spells of forgetfulness when ad-
dressing an audience. AS is well known,
he rehearsed his early lectures in cabbage
field. On one occasion he stood up before q
fashionable audience and could not recall
one word Of his lecture. He repeated the
preliminary address, but there he stuck
At last he exclaimed despairingIy: "Oh,
for my beloved cabbage headsr'
In few moments the inspiration came,
and as he recalled with vivid effect his lost
illustration, he said thankfully: 'I am
glad you are not cabbage heads nowl'
The failing memory OF age is termed in
medical diction amentia. Emerson suffered
from it when he could not remember the
name of an um mbrella, but asked his daughter
for ''that thing you hold up when it rains"
He attended the funeral of Longfellow
and at the grave he paused and said
"He was beautiful spirit whom we have
just buried here, but 1 cannot remember his
name"
When grandfather goes around looking
everywhere for his glasses, which are repos-
ing safely on his benevolent old forehead,
then memory is playing him trick, and he
laughs at it with that philosophy which is
the alchemy of age.
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BARRIERS OF SPAIN.
They Shear Donkeys as Well as Men and
| Are Not Very Particular.

They Shear Donkeys as Well as Men and
Are Not Very Particular.
The BARRIERS business in Spain, says the
St. Louis Globe Democrat, is peculiar, in
that he is called upon to ply his shears on
donkeys as we'll as men. For it is an i'm
portant item in the care of Spanish donkeys
that they should be sheared as to the back
in order to make smoother resting place
for man or pannier. So while the master
held his animal one of the BARRIERS piled
some enormous clacking shears and Uttered
the ground with mouse-colored hair, leav-
ing the beasts belly uncovered below a
fixed line, and for a small additional price
executing a raised pattern of star poiots
around the neck. The tonsorial profession
is an indispensable one in country where
shaving the whole face is so generally
practiced among all the humber orders,
not to mention toreros and ecclesi-
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tenth OF his income or not. 'Ifhe can afford
to cheat the Lord we think that the church
can stand it, and that the Lord will settle
with him by and by"


to cheat the Lord we think that the church
can stand it, and that the Lord will settle
with him by and by"
PUNISHMENT AFTER DEATH.
"What il the Mormon idea of hsllf''
said I.
"Well, we don't believe in terrifying our
people into joining the church by preach
ing birthstone damnation. We don't take
man by the nap of his neck and the seat
OF his breeches and hold him over the burn
ing fires OF hell and shake him back and
| forth and turn him over and over until he
squirms or sizzles into repentance. We be.
lieve In future state, but not in that kind
OF future state. We believe that the deeds
of this life will be rewarded and punished
In the next, according as they are good or
bad.
"We believe In the Atouement, but we
hardly think that the Lord will take the
time-hardened sinner who has committed all
the crimes in the decalogue to heaven by tel
egraph, just because he repents with his dy-
ing breath. We believe in future state OF
progression towards perfection, and we think
that religion should be matter of work as
well as faith. Many Of you Gentiles have q
wrong impression of Mormonism. We are
nearer the Bible to-day than nine-tenths of
the churches, and believe there is as much
Simon-pure Christianity taught in Utah as
there is in any other place of its population
in the United States.
THE CHURCH SCRIPTURES.
'The Book of Mormon Is only q supple
ment to the Bible. 1t does not take the
place of it. We believe in the ten command
ments, and we know the Scriptures as we'll as
the Gentiles, and we try to practice what we
preach"
"What. will be the effect of the abolition
of polygamy on the growth Of the church,"
81 think it will help it rather than other
wise" replied Delegate Cain. "Polygamy
has been more of a clog to US than an aid.
The church got along during its first year
without it and prospered. It will prosper
now."
You have never been polygamist?"
said I,
"No; not in practice. I have had but one
wife, and one family was all that L could
support 1 have had ten children, and the
Mormons believe in having children. They
are as rigid as Catholics on this subject.
We have, in short, what consider the best
religion on the face of the globe, and il the
rest of the United States really understood
it don't think that the present opposition
would exist" FRANK G. CAREENTRR.
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A PEANUT FAMINE.

The Glass for n Nickel Will be Quite small
INT Christmas Time.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
There have been several jokes lately about
the danger oi peanut famine. but joking
aside, there is likely to be a marked scar
city this fall aud winter, and nickel's
worth will be a very small handful. The
supply in the country is smaller than in any
preceding September, and not one-tweutieth
oi what is needed. The annual consump-
ton is enormous, but, as a rule, more nuts
are offered than are wanted.
The reverse is the case this year. and st.
Louis is the only market with anything like
supply on hand. Prices will run very
high until this years crop is ready Tor
roasting, which viii not be until alter
Christmas.
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THE RAILS CREEP.
A Peculiar Phcnomenou on the Grent Eads
Bridge 81. Louis,

Peculiar Phenomenon on the Grent Eads
Bridge st. Louis,
A st. Louis civil engineer, says the Globe
Democrat. says the rails on the st. Louis
bridge were never stationary, but constantly
crept to the east; that is in the direction of
OF the heaviest travel. The rate of progress,
he said, was about 26O feet in the year. or
would be If the rails were permitted to
creep as they pleased. VI hich, of course, they
are not permitted to do.
1t reminded him of a hill In Southwest
Missouri, over which turnpike road was
constructed, and, do what they would, the
people could not keep the road up and down
the sides OF that hill in good condition. The
stoDes would creep to the bottom, and in
six months the road would he as bad as
ever. They finally had TO take up the
gravel and macadam and replace them with
good sized blocks of rough stones.
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farmers are in to sell their products direct
to the consumer. They are given free space
on the second floor of the West Diamond
Market house for the sale Of poultry, butter,
ETC., and on the first floor of the East
Diamond market house for apples, potatoes
and cabbage. What jam there is on these
days! Farmers, farmers wives and daugh-
ters, mechanics and their wives and daugh-
ters and Pittsburg generally, crowds,
pushes, jostles, sweats and not infrequently
swears. 1t is almost impossible to force
way through the crowd.
Farmers find a very ready market for all
they have to dispose Of This year they
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s'Etsburg's markets supply lessons for the
philosopher. the student of human nature
and the industrial economist, as we'll as that
most practical and industrious of all econ
omists. the good housewife. The nation
alitv of persons or of their ancestors might
more truly be determined by the food they
like than by the accent in their speech.
For the latter is easily lost in the second
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astics. But the discomfort to which the
BARRIERS customers submit is astonishing.
Instead OF being pampered. soothed, labored
at with confidential respect!ulness, and
lulled into luxurious harmony with himself.
as happens in America, a man who courts
the razor in Spain has to SIT upright in
stiff chair and meekly hold under his chin
brass basin full of suds, and fitting his
throat BY means of curved nick at one
side. One individual we saw seated by the
dusty road at the gate with towel around
his shoulders and another in his hands to
catch his own falling locks. He looked sub
missive and miserable, as if assisting at his
own degradation. while the barber was mag
ni6ed into tyrant exercising sovereign
pleasure.
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ELECTRICITY ON CARRIAGES.
4 Physician Fixed Up SO He Can Read
While Travelling ut Night.

While Travelling ut Night.
Physicians who have to travel much at
night will appreciate The scheme of an East
ern doctor who has imported French idea
and had his carriage fitted with both exter-
nal and internal lights. The former enable
his coachman to drive rapidly along the
worst of roads with comparative safety,
~hlle the latter enable him to read or even
write while being driven round.
The accumulauor is about Is inches long
and halt rs broad, and is placed under the
seat and out Of sight. The cost is not enor-
nous. and before long electrically lighted
carriages will certainly be seen in all the
aiEies.
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HAT does Plttsburg eat!
Almost everything and
plenty of it. Pittsburg
has long been denomi-
mated as q big workshop.
Well, everybody knows
workingmen have good
appetites. So il is with
the collective appetite Of
be Gas City. Good work
IS not done on q pinched
,r empty stomach, and
10 where in the world is
better work done than in
Pittsburg.
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BY WILLIAM ACK
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.

Thle," "Sunre" and Many Other
Stories of the Highest Reputation
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MARKET CHARACTERS
Queer Studies From Life to be
Found Every Day in the
Diamond Square.
WHAT PITTSBURGERS EAT.
Where the Fish, Meat, Vegetables and
Other Edibles Come From.
CROWDS THERE ON THE BUSY DAYS
Including the Egg Testing Crank and the
Lake Water Doctor.
HUMAN NATURE SEEN WITHOUT PAINT
WHAT PITTSBURGERS EAT.
CROWDS THERE ON THE BUSY DAYS
Including the Egg Testing Crank and the
Lake Water Doctor.
HUMAN NATURE SEEN WITHOUT PAINT

7RRrTrEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.l
, 1890-05-08
A P0TLATCH RAILROAD
Spring Farm Work in the
Palouse Country.
A RANCHER AND A SIWASH ROW
A Country That Is Not Afflicted
With Cyclones. Drouth
or Bugs.

PALoUsE CRY, Wash, May A.
The following valuable information
was received from n reliable source:
There Is u strong probability that
the Union Pacific will make sur
vey from Garfield into the Potlatch
country, and run In n southeastorly
direction through Burns hollow and
TO the Palouse river, either at
Palouse City or to the mouth Of
Deep creek, thence up the Palouse
river to Halter creek, and across To
Bear creek; thence down Bear creek
to Latah City, on the Potlatch river,
down the Potlatch TO Clearwater
and to Lewiston. Tho dlstan ce
from Garfield to Lewiston, via this
route, would be about seventy miles,
and probably no branch line of the
length would open up as
large and rich u country as
viii this line. 1t will
secure to tine Union Pacific the
Clear Creek country-Ia Dow Flat
townships Of fine agricultural lands,
now pretty we'll under cultivation,
besides the Upper Palouse river val
ley, u tract of country several miles
wide and from thirty to forty miles
In length. IL will tap the finest
timber belt in North Idaho, from
which comes the lumber supply of
the Palousc country. The Bear
Greek country and all that region
known ~ the Potlatch, a country
nearly as large as the Palouse coun-
try and fully az rich. The export
Of wheat frcni the country viii
amount to several millions OF bush
els annually. The Spokane Il
Palouse will be extended to
the Potiatch country this year,
making II almost imperative for he
Union Pacific to do the same thing
or lose the traffic that would nearly
equal that of all Whitman county.
Both roads will probably be ex-
tended to Lewiston. The route out
lined IL thoroughly practicable, with
easy grades and light work. The
preliminary survey will probably he
made in few days.
There has been "a good deal Of
placer and quartz mining on the
Palouse that promises good results
for the future. The line would pass
within IA few miles OF the finest
mica mine in the world, being IA
mountain of the very best quality
Of mica. From Iiatah City, on he
Potlatch, IL j. only about twenty
five miles up the Potlatch and Ruby
creek TO the Ruby creek mines,
which promises a development
equal TO the Cmur d 'Alenes.
The products OF these mines are
known as wet ores, running very
high In silver, with n large per cent.
of lead. There are also dry ore and
chloride. The formation Is lime
and granite. The building of the
line would put the mines IN direct
communication with Spokane Falls.
Splendid prospects for coal are
found on the fotlatch near Latah
City.
, 1890-05-08
aARFlELp GLEANINas.
A Country Without Cyclones, Drouth
or Bugs.


or Bugs.
GARFIELD, May I.-This Is one of
the oldest towns In the Palouse
country and contains about 1000
population. IL X tifty-seven miles
from Spokane Falls on the line of
the Spokane Il palouse railroad. IT
IL the business center of Il large sec
tion Of farm and timber country.
Mr.. W. L.. Custer, one of the lead.
ing merchants of Garfield, says that
tributary to Garfield this year there
will he rom seven to eight thousand
ncres Of soil broken up; that the
grain yield, also the fruit yield, will
be greater than ever before; that q
new brickyard is soon to he cstab-
lished; that bank and grist mill
are badly needed and would
pay well, Dix 4 Holbrook, drug
gists, and l.. \. Laird, proprietor of
Merchants hotel, IA genial host and
an old timer, saysUbstantcially the
same thing, as also does w. q. Gus.
ter. Solid immigration, with money
viteJ rTIu. snii ma,r ~
sron' % @ % "'k @ io',ii,
have 'vn "avoro, ,o e'sm, no,r,o,r ,1oi ueep. we
nlcntv of rain n snls ,i' c,imn,s'
And IL moi haye ~ irr,nato ,n n.,'
crnns % ~ IN 'rborn ns Il. NO ~ S;n,o ran;o 70 ss r,,se
cyclones or buos in this co,,m,ru' vn'
There il plensv NJ oood ,imt.y,
Mines clos. by, There ia nIenty of
land moi cultivated that viii nay "a
we'll II not halter than in INV n; h ar
country outside of this paIo,,.e con ;. !.
try. II il "A good country I'm everv
respect to live i'm.
We have two railroads: Spokane
a. Palouse and the Union Pacific. ;.
ono hoteI tha Mor,hon,s, ,a,, ~
d,,a,aS A. T ~, % ~ a" i',,, Ven coll
,uo.ou " - =. i%Iru, cl'y Nail;
several secret orgah'zatlonsi news
paper, the Garfield enterprise; three
, 1890-05-08
TRUTH IN DEATH.
But He Regretted 1t, and Added
Faisshood mt Last.

nus he ReEretted 1t, ami Added .
Faisshood mt Last.
We had q man named Burrows
In our mining camp, and he was
without doubt the most notorious
liar Nevada will ever shelter, writes
u New York Sun correspondent.
His fame as a liar spread for hun.
dred miles around, and men used to
stop at our camp TO get a look mt
him. He wasn't wicked man,
and he had no malice about him,
but he was n natural-born liar. He
lied about his father, his mother,
his wife, brothers, sisters and
everybody else, and for every
hour In the day he had a new
falsehood. He had u claim of his
own and was fairly industrious, and
so we had no excuse to drive him
out, although his lies were continu-
ally kicking up ill-feeling among
the men. One day n lot of earth
aud rock caved In on him and In
ilicted fatal injuries, and number
of US knocked oil work to be with
him In his last moments. You
would have thought the shadow Of
death would have brought II change
OF sentiment, but II did not. Lying
there with only an hour of life left
in him, he told us that he had bee n
u pirate on the Pacific and where he
had buried "a large amount OF
plumber. We all knew that he was
from Ohio and had never seen any
ocean; but he stuck To 1t. One OF
the men finally felt it his duty to
say; ,,,,.uo.. ,.o,, ,,,o ou,,. . .,o.,
time to live. You had best spend
that In preparing for eternity"
.I've allus been good, he quietly
replied.
"Yes, but you are an awful liar,
you know"
"Yes, suppose 40. I've told a
million of them, haven't L."
"No doubt of IT,
Sand every one has been laid up
against mc?n
"Nery likely"
"And my chance Is rather sllm?r
"Rather.n
swell boys, it's my way, and |
can't change at this late day. Just
as that cave-in came i struck n mug
get rs big us my head. 1t would
value up clean $4,000. II you'll
be kind enough to pull 1t out and
sell 1t and send the cash TO my wife
III die feeling better"
lie went off soon after that, and
we said to each other that he had
given us the greatest yarn of all.
No one took his claim, which was
accounted poor one, and IL lay for
three months before one of the boys
dug into one day for the pickax
buried and forgotten. He hadn't
got the pick when he came across
II lump of gold which balanced
Sl3, 80 in coin, and every shilling
of the money was sent on To the
widow, as directed. II got there to
fiud there was no widow, but six
months later went to n sister. In
his dying hour Burrows told the
truth about his lind, but alas. he
repented Of 1t and lied about having
a wife.
, 1890-05-08
Railroad tn Okanogan.
lokanogan 0utlook.l ]

The prospect Of railroad facilities
for Okanogan county Is very fiat
tering, and II the various schemes
projected by the different railroad
companies for this state materinlize
we will have competing lines Of
transportation In this district before
fall. The Great Northern has So
cured control of the Seattle, Lake
Shore x Eastern and the Nelson
Bennett systems, which will he con-
nected by "A route passing through
this county, and most likely through
this camp. A contract To build 100
miles east from the terminus Of this
Bennett road IL reported TO have
been let recently, which will extend
TINT line into the very center of this
district. The Central Washington
Is pushing this way IA rapidly as
men aud teams can make II. IL Is
already graded as far as the Grand
coulee, aud force of men are now
breaking ground between the coulee
and the Columbia river. II will he
but few months before the road
will be In operation as far as the
Columbia, and there Ia a strong
probability that 1t will have crossed
the river and pushed on into this
camp within the next six months.
, 1890-05-08
THE COMING CENSUS.
boundaries OF Proposed Enumerati or
Districts for Stevens County.


Auditor OiNeilI, who has charge
os the census takino I'm this couutv
L,s r,rnished ,ho Miner uith ,ba
n',I..'',... III - ,'o,',1as., ,.,h,.,' - n ~ ~
'o''o"'"s oo"iiuiS, ""''i, may We
ot some interest 10 the people OF the
county. Anyone who desires to as
slst In taking the census of their
respective districts will apply TO
Auditor O'Neill. who viii furnish
~, ,ho naoassa,,, ,anors 4, H.
~ ". e-ey palu ~ 10 "
hopeu t'ihI ProPe. interest WIN pe
manifested IN sending To Washing-
ton ns mvoraph a report OF this
county ms can be collected, for the
advantages OF the county, as out
lined III the general report from the
census bureau ~ washington, VIII
go iar toward presenting th's
county IN the right lignt To the
people OF the states, ana more e.
pecially those VINO contemplate
moving 10 TINS state. 100 much m
terest can not ne taken, and it is
earnestly hoped that every citizen
, 1890-05-08
WARM SPRINGS.
The Jeanette Mine a Popular Favor

Ne'
EATON, Idaho, May 5.-The
steamer Galona brings re-
port from Warm Springs camp,
Kootenai lake, of a big strike on the
jeanette claim This claim w,s
known as tho star and ,y.s n,,,',J 80
h,, n n, s,ao,a -, ' 'w ne"
~ ''o,, y, "poNnne fmis.
anu "a .. Nerrih, oi hootenai.
ioaho' Mr, Steeles Interest was
bought by r.. ID. Ainswortb about
six weeks ago, and men were mt In
work about AnrII on -,
shaft wos s,ortod aho,, $40 a.. NV
,h" nor,b " ""d eu 't,,' noou' ,oo 're. ' rom
owned by the Pacific Bullion Min
ing Company of Spokane Falls. and
at IA depth of ten feet, the sbaC,
shows a full fuce nj
galena and carbonate ore very much
the same character as that from thc
spokane mine.
o,Anr,I,cu,.-,, ,u
,wo Zoo, -, d. -, a."'.i,o'' ~, struck
NJ pouldor CT, So" "a .. uie mouth
c,rrios ss nnnoosas LILY s VI, which
cant lood Tl',s ,,,'1,.' a,'Ir !, n ahu % per
Boulder.
jasper king made q good strike
Tn ;,n nouiaer creek, hve miles from
, 1890-05-08

oleanders, and his heart was glad
dened by It.
Many little Bundoos and ,Tyras
grew up about him and his young
WIFE,. and to all of them "Mass
Atty's'' was n wonder and u delight.
Around that little grave the Ebo
became civilized. From the lessons
taught him there by his mistress,
he became Christlanized, and rose
at last to be the head man on the
plantation, respected by his own
race, loved end trusted by his own
era
, 1890-05-08
WEEKLY EDITION.

boat can run to Kootenai Falls al
all stages of water, and there will be
enough business during tho coming
year to pay for such u boat.
A new strike on the up river.
twelve miles above this point, wM
made by Clark " Watson, who ara
out for William Eaton. Tho claim
In called the Kentuck. II show.
up Ilvc.foot face of mineral, Nc
assays are yet received.
, 1890-05-08
SHOT IN THE FOOT.
A Rancher's Misfortune While Defend.
ing His Homo.

lHk MS homes
EATON, Idaho, May 5.-Ycster1ay
afternoon Albert Owen, n rancher,
while liking upa fence, was accosted
by an Indian, who claimed the
ground. After some words, tho
siwash tore down some of the fence,
nitcr which more words passed.
Then the siwash took Wlnchesier
ana shot twice. II Is gonemlIy
supposed that tho shots wep hrd
more To scare the ranchcr than WIN
any intention Of hnr,ing him M.
Owen rushed to his cabin to pe'a
revolver, and while loading Il accsr
IDENTIFY nhot himself through tne
foot The revolver was No -
Colts, The bullet passed through
tho ileshy part Of tho foot, between
the big and first toes. No bones
were broken,
, 1890-05-08
a nix lrrIrat,nr sehcme.

BAKER CRY, May Am iinmcnse "
rigatins scheme was placed on foot TO-
day by Eastern capitalists, who pfcpo~
to take ont OF Powder river canal ior.y
feet wide and eight fcct deep that w'''
cover over 100000 acres of tho hne''
land In the Powder river valley.