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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-06-26
SATURDAY.

Or Guiss, Of woodburn, was in the city
today.
Mr. William Richards went to Yaquina
Bay this noon.
] l. Underwood, the Corvallis phetog-
rapher, Is In the city.
On June 18th In Corvallis, Mr. Smith
and Miss Smith were married.
Prof Reid, the new principal OF the
Eugene public schools, is in the city.
] II Lame and Editor Phelps, Of the
News, OF lialsey, were In the city today.
Rev L r Pdchard went to Yaqulna
Bay this noon, and will hold services at
Newport tomorrow.
Miss Ella Sullivan, who has been at
tending the convent AT Albany, returned
to Montague Tuesday.
Hon ] ii Tongue, OF Yamhill county.
has been retained for the defense in q
prominent suit to be tried next week aud
will be in Albany Monday.
IS w Reece came down from Green Ba-
sin last evening. He reported the mill
as doing agood business. It had among
other shipments just sent car load oi
hem.ock TO Oregon City to be manufac,
tuESu INTO paper.
II II Sittmon, Of Grants Pass, was In
the city day or two age, and left piece
of slate at the A M & M Cos Office, taken
from quarry near that city which 10 OF !
fine quality. Mr. Sittmon offers the
quarry for sale for $40, 900. II is q supe.
Ilior slate for roofs, or even for school
states.
Ex-Governor = + Chadwick and Napol
can Dayis passed through Albany today
homes in Salem. They had been in al,
tendance on the graduating exercises o
the Roseburg public school. MIR Davis
delivered the annual address, and Mi
Chadwick presented the diplomas to the
graduates. There were eighteen grad
uates from the literary course Of the
school. Under charge OF Prof Hornel
the schools are in q prosperous condition
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-06-26
A SCROFULOUs BOY
Running Sores Covered Ills Body ana
Head. Bynrs Affected. cnrcsi
by Catirurs senieIs,s.

When ~ months cid, cbs Ie,s hand es our i.,.t,
grandehsld bsesu % swell, s8d bhd essry srtae.s
s1es Of large boil. We poulseed Il. ~. M 80.
running eofe. Boon other sorea furf,led Il. -.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
Bald.Headed Cotton Seed.

The spartanburg correspondent of the
Greenville IS. c. News, says that the
lintless cotton seed plant whose discov-
cry was announced in the News and
Courier last year, and was much derided
at that time, has come to stay" II. II.
Ferguson exhibited stalk Of the plant
in Spartanburg which contained 800
bolls, each boil filled with large plump
seed. He has taken much pains to get
the variety perfect, and announces that
he twill have seed enough this year to
plant the entire State" The estimated
yield is four hundred bushels to the acre.
The product is easily harvested, and
the yield Of oil is about one-third more
than that Of ordinary cotton seed. If all
these statements are true, it is seen that
South Carolina has developed another
new and important agricultural industry,
and will soon be able to supply the
world with q practically unlimited guam
tity of vegetable oil, stock food and fer
tilizers. 1t would be remarkable re-
suit truly, if the cotton-seed crop should
largely supplant the cotton crop, but it
may come to that in the end. These are
record-breaking times, and the cotton
plant is as full Of surprises as monkey.
Charleston Is. c. News.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18

action, good sight, and strong nervous
and muscular systems, all Of which are
essential to good work in the postal ser
vice. Another thing they want is that
they shall have a regular paid auxiliary
corps to act as substitutes when the men
on regular runs are sick or disabled, these
auxiliary clerks being subject to the
same practical working examinations an.
piled to regular men and also to the
examination Of the Civil Service Commits
sion.
Mn. SrEPpAS1, of Berlin, wants to build
Moorish castle on the Worlds Fair
grounds, and proposes to spend $500 600
on it. He exhibited structure of this
kind at Paris, but it's cost was much less.
The plans have been submitted to the
Committee on Ways and Means, and If
they are adopted visitors will certainly
be dazzled by the Oriental magnifcence
OF Mr.. Steppani's palace. The building,
it is proposed, shall be 100000 feet,
one story high, and constructed Of brick
in the Moorish style. Mirrors will make
OF the interior place Of brilliant and
many times multiplied reflections. In
deed, one will be likely to lose himself in
the maze Of bevelled and prismatic glass,
for it is intended that a feature Of the
castle shall be q labyrinth where the H.
lusions are to be SO perfect that on en-
tering one will think he is advancing to
an endless series Of colonnades. In this
hall Of pleasant bewilderment will be
shown the interior Of harem. Here
will also be found Rebecca at the we'll,
and the visitor gazing down will see HIM
self reflected in what is apparently a
bottomless pool. A cave Of splashing
waters is to be another source ofdelight.
OF course there will be restaurant, and
OF most sumptuous and imposing style.
One OF it's attractions will be vista Of
ancient cities seen through the colon
nades. Altogether, it will be new
world Of wonders to the untraveled
American, and when he issues from the
portals Of this Moorish palace, he will
feel like rubbing his eyes to make sure
Of his identity.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
VenisOn Given Away.

A letter from Runge, karnes county,
Texas, says: For some unexplained rea-
son the deer Of neighboring counties APP
pear to have conferred near here. For
three weeks past the brush has been filled
with bucks, does and fawns. They have
vaulted over pasture wires, and in many
places cropped the grass in the pastures
so closely that cattle cannot live on it.
They have invaded corn fields and broken
down the growing stocks, and in some of
the cotton plantations their passage is
marked by swath Of crushed plants.
Venison has been killed and given away
here until nobody will cat it.
Yesterday afternoon Sam DALEY, a
ranchman. left town on horseback. A
half mile out he ran into drove of thir-
ty deer, which were browsing Oh the in
side Of the road. He was armed with a
Colts revolver, and emptied six barrels
into the fleeing herd. He was rewarded
by three dead deer and one, which had
its spine touched by a bullet, ran short
distance and was subsequently taken.
Preparations are making for grand
deer drive, in which 200 men will take
part. 1t is the intention to gradually
pen the animals in the corner Of u pas
ture fence. For fear Of accidents the
hunters will be armed only with pistols
and clubs.--[New Orleans Times-Demo-
GRAFT
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
" Tower of the Tongues"

Our story Of the Tower Of Babel is
known in Chaldean and Armenian ira.
dition as The Story of the Tower Of
Tongues" 1t is one Of the earliest recol-
lections Of the Tigro-E uphrates basin,
and is related by Berosus in the follow
ing manner:
The first inhabitants of the earth,
glorying in their own strength and size,
and despising the gods, undertook to
raise tower whose top should reach the
skies. This tower they erected in the
place where Babylon's ruins now lay
thickly strewn over the ground. In er-
Getting this monster roadway to heaven
they toiled necessarily. But when it had
approached near unto heaven the wind
assisted the gods and overthrow the
work upon its contrivers; and its ruins
are said to be still at Babylon. And at
about the same time the gods introduced
diversity Of tongues among men, who
till that time had all spoken the one
language. The place in which they at
tempted to build the tower is now called
Babylon, ON account of the confusion of
tongues, confusion is by the Hebrews
called bable. "-[St. Louis Republic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
A WONDERFUL COINCIDENCE.
How DR.. Mayo Astonished His Su.
periOr Officer.

DR.. Mayo, the well-known author of
"kaloolah," tells the following story:
Some years ago he was acting as surgeon
on board the United States ship of war
Cyane. The vessel was in midocean,
when craft in full sail, but so low down
the horizon as to be scarcely visible with
the naked eye, was described. Trying
to make out the stranger with his spy
glass the captain said:
81 wonder what that vessel can be-"
DR.. Mayo, who was one Of group Of
officers about the captain, spoke up and
said:
ooh, that's the Josiah Quincy of
Boston,"
The captain turned, looked at the doc
tor in an astonished sort of way, and
then proceeded once more to gaze through
his spy-glass, while the others went be-
low to the wardroom.
~ say, DOCTOR" said a senior lieuten-
ant, "you'll find it's mistake to guy
our commander. He has no more notion
OF humor than billy goat, and he doesn't
approve Of jokes"
DIR. Mayo only smiled, but he felt a
little nervous about it himself, for, Of
course, he no more knew the name of the
vessel sighted than he did that of the
man in the moon.
An hour later the stranger was ap-
preached almost within hailing distance.
She was bark-rigged and evidently load
ed heavily with some kind Of merchan-
disc. But as the Cyane passed her she
went off on fresh tack and the captain
could read her name through his glass on
the stern. 1t was "Josiah Quincy, of
Boston,
Great Scott" exclaimed the aston
ished commander. Then turning to the
doctor, he said: GLOW on earth could
you know"
Merely by the cut of her lib, sir"
replied DR.. Mayo calmly. and he did not
even admit in the wardroom that his
guess had been merely the first name
that came into his mind Since that time
he has firmly believed that nothing is too
strange to be referred to as coinci-
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
A Dust.storm During a Rain.

A curious phenomenon occurred in
Simla, India, recently, ON two successive
nights. This was nothing less than a
dust-storm in the midst Of heavy down.
pour Of rain, or rather, to speak more
correctly, q shower Of mud. A column
OF dust seems to have been carried up
into the higher atmosphere from the
plains, and to have been caught and
forced down by the heavy rain. In the
morning, as result, ali the plants and
flowers in Simla were found to have re-
ceived thick coating Of mud. There
could be no doubt that the mud had been
rained down, for it was freely sprinkled
on plants away from the hillside and at
a great height from the ground. More
over, deposit Of mud was found in the
rain gauges in various parts of the
station. 1t is common thing to see the
atmosphere in the hills during the hot
season thick with dust from the plains,
carried aloft by strong wind. But the
conjunction Of rain and dust is an acct
dent Of which, it is stated, there is no
previous record.-[New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
BREAD OUT OF sAwDusT.
When 1t Can be Made Mankind Will
be Happy and Rich.

A Star reporter was informed that the
Department of Agriculture is interested
in plan for making bread out of saw
dust.
Absurd? By no means. Scientists be-
lieve that there is no good reason why
the thing should not be entirely practic-
able. Everybody knows that starch is q
substance extremely nutritious; in fact,
it is nearly all nutriment. Well, starch
and sawdust are the same thing. Saw
dust, which is "cellulose," is Of precisely
the same chemical composition as starch.
The two are expressed by the same chem
ical formula, C6 H10 O5-that is, six
parts Of carbon. ten parts of hydrogen
and five parts Of oxygen. These are the
simple ingredients Of either starch or
sawdust. Scientific experimenters have
been trying for long time to find out a
way to transform the one into the other.
If they should succeed the discovery
would be away ahead Of the philosophers
stone in point Of value. An inexhaustible
source Of food supply would at once be
rendered available in the forests, the
grass and even in straw and chaff.
Hitherto chemistry has occupied itself
almost wholly with taking things apart,
in order to find out what they are made
OF; but now the science is directing it's
attention to putting elements together
for the production Of useful substances.
Already it has succeeded in the artificial
preparation Of indigo, alizarin, uric acid
and many other compounds. The anime
colors, obtained from coal tar and yet
rivaling the most brilliant tints Of the
rainbow, are similarly produced. So
complex are some Of them that their
names, which give full accounts of their
composition, have to be regular seven
league words, one beautiful dye being
known as "Hexamethylme
triphenylcarbinol.' From coal tar in like
manner are derived many valuable anti
fever medicines and soporifcs.
The prospects of this new science Of
putting elements together seem infinite,
and the era of bliss may yet dawn which
has been prophesied by the illustrious
naturalist Frederick COIN, who says that
all struggles for existence among men
arising from want Of food will be done
away with when chemistry shall have
learned to make starch from carbonic
acid and water. Plants grow by doing
just that, and it may, therefore, be said
that farmers have been engaged since
time immemorial in this very chemical
industry. 1t would scarcely be SO sur
prising, then, if the farms Of the country
should be replaced at some time in the
future by chemical Observation-Disclosures
ington Star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
A Barometer of Finance.

There are not so many diamonds worn
in New York now, writes Gotham cor
respondent, as there were few years
ago. Probably tho farmers out West
who have been raising such tremendous
crops have been buying them up with
their surplus cash, Or it may be that
tho pawnbrokers have them. At any
rate, there are fewer diamonds to be
seen now than for some time. The diu-
mond is always barometer of finance.
If money is plentiful everybody is wear
ing them. When there is stringency
in the money market the diamonds are
sold. The New York money market has
been in II state Of stringency for some
time, and guess that accounts for the
scarcity Of diamonds. They are good
things to invest in, are diamonds, because
they can nearly always realize their full
value. Next to the diamond the most
popular stone is the ruby; emcralds of
fine color are next. Opals of brilliant
lustre are always in demand and a good
many people prefer them to diamonds:
The old-time superstition about the opal
is rapidly disappearing and they are
considered as desirable for purposes OF
ornamentation as any other stone worn.
The cats eye is another popular stone,
although hard to get. The turquoise
and garnet, except they be OF the first
quality, are not so popular as they used
to be. Fine pearls are in demand, but
the average do not sell as readily as they
did once. You remember a few years
ago men used to wear pearls in studs
and in their gold sleeve links. You
rarely see q man wearing pearls now,
except in scarf-pin, and these are not
numerous. Their use is almost entirely
confined to women. Sapphires are not
in such great demand as they were few
years ago, and those that are worn
figure in combination pieces affected by
women. The agate is the most popular
cheap stone.-(St. Louis Globc-Demo-
Rrlf
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
China Silk Industry.

The Empress Of China has recently
been endeavoring to give an impetus to
the manufacture Of silk in that country
by starting silk-weaving department Of
her own. One Of her great motives for
this step, according to Shanghai cores
pondent, is to create an employment for
the many millions Of girls and women
who are at present excluded from all
labor except that Of making embroideries
and doing the lighter kinds Of Homework.
The Empress has had the necessary
looms, skilled artisans and women trained
in the management Of silkworms sent to
the palace at Pekin from the imperial
silk mandatory at Hang Chow. The
industry will be started in the palace
grounds, which Her Majesty, by Chinese
custom, is forbidden to leave, so that the
apprentices will be under her super
vision.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18

America to-day. He has two strips Of
silk, one three yards long and two and
one half inches wide, and one two and
ono half yards long and five and three
quarter inches wide, and in double
widths. The edges IRE hemmed as if by
hand, having slight fiber running
through the CENTER The work was
woven by the mouths Of 5000 silkworms,
and was done in five days.
"Mr: Anastasiades has been studying
the silkworm for years, and has had mil
lions OF them. He says that the only re-
cord OF anything like it before occurred
during the week that Alexander the
Great was born, when piece three yards
long was woven. That piece was made
into sash and put around the infant.
Professor Anastasiades will press the
pieces and send them to the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, ID. c."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
Electric Ideas.

A British inventor claims to have con-
structed several clocks which are driven
by the electricity Of the earth itself An
electrician states that electrical appara-
tus will return ten per cent. of the heat
energy expended at the central station,
and in using stove we get twenty-five
per cent. but as the central station can
and does use coal costing one-fourth or
one-third OF what we must pay for coal
to burn in stove, electric heat can be
obtained as cheap as heat from coal
stove. In new fire engine, both the
forcing of the water and the propclling
Of the machine arc effected by the cur
rent from a storage battery. A cambria
needle has been magnctized by polar
ICED light.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
Novel ventillating Apparatus.

A French electrical paper has de-
scription Of a novel electrical ventilat-
ing apparatus for supplying building
with fresh air, either warm or cold. A
motor operates q ventilator, thus drawing
the cold air in, but if warm air is desired,
the electric current is sent through a
network Of fine wires which becomes
highly heated. The dir is drawn through
this network by the ventilator and comes
out az warm as furnace heat 1t is
claimed that the hygienic results of such
an arrangement are excellent. New
Orleans Times Democrat
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
An American Island King.

Pat O.Keefe twenty years ago was q
poor sailor, living at Savannah, Ga, and
making precarious living working on
small craft on the neighboring streams.
His Majesty, Patrick L., is now the abso-
Lutte monarch Of the island Of Nyph, in
the South Seas. Pat had trouble in Sa-
vannah, and went away to seek his
fortune. He prospered, bought an ISL
and, peopled it, mostly with Malays, and
now spends the most Of his time at Hong
Kong, China, where he dwells in truly
royal style and great opulence.-INew
Orleans Picayune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
A Small Philosopher.

He was six years old, short for his age
and barcfooted and dirty. His eyes were
sharp and watchful and his face was
lined and old. He ran away from school
for weeks ut time, and secured alleys
and instinctively avoided all the conven-
tional and dccorous paths of childhood.
When he listened to admonitions and
promised to amend, his inner ear was
deaf and his words were from the lips
outward; but he voiced his genuine ex-
perience and reflection with the brevity
Of a maxim:
81 think Tdrather bea girl; they don't,
git SO many kicks. "-[Detroit Free
Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
Unequaled Feat of Silk Worms.

Professor X. Anastasiades, silk Gull
turist, has excited curiosity and interest
in the city of Norfolk, Va, by having in
his possession two strips of naturally
woven silk that are considered marvellous
by the silk culture experts. A Norfolk
paper, giving an account Of it, says:
professor X Anastasiades, No. 1870
Church street, is the proudest man in
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18

and any good American dentist who will
come here and stay can do likewise. ]
made $4,000 the first year, and have
done considerably better right along
since that time. get from 500 to S15O
for full set Of teeth on rubber. The
same thing in the States costs you s15.
Whenever I administer gas charge $40
for the pulling of tooth, and when
number are pulled charge SO for the
first tooth and IS for all succeeding ones.
For Jerking out tooth without gas l
charge 50, and in the United States you
would only get so cents for this work.
As to filings, they range from 80 up
ward, and gold filings cost from $50 up
into the hundreds, according to the size
of the cavity and to the size OF the bank
account Of the man who has his teeth
filled. 1 always get $500 for making a
set Of teeth on gold, and all other bust
ness is done at proportionate rates. l
know Of many dentists who are making
more than l, and I know Of number
who charge moro than l do. l often
make 81 900 month, but dentists in the
City of Mexico make more, and l know
of man there who gets $50 tooth for
any kind Of filling, and who came to
Mexico from South America, where he
made $4,000 in single year.
The sessions of the Railway Mail
Superintendent at Washington have
been so fruitful that it is proposed to
hold a similar conference every year.
The deliberations have led Ito the simpli-
fication Of matters at the departments,
and general Improvement in the matter
Of handling the mail as it flies across the
country. There are about $500 postal
clerks under these eleven division super
intendents, divided as follows: Boston
district 475, New York 100, Washington
355, Atlanta 1926, Cincinnati 1,010, Chi
cago 800, St. Louis $50, San Francisco
225, Cleveland 600, St. Paul $50, and
Fort Worth 800. The superintendent
want the examinations changed SO as to
secure men better fitted for the service
physically than those now turned over to
them by the Civil Service Commission.
They say it is necessary that applicants
should pass very strict examination to
determine whether they are Of the proper
height, Of good'lung power, good heart