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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-11
FREIGHT CAR FAMINE.
Kansas and Nebraska Roads Overrun
With GrRin TrnfIic.

OMAHA, Neb., August II. - Railroads
south of here report that they are overrun
with shipments of wheat and cannot secure
sufficient cars to handle their shipments.
Both the Rock Island and the Missouri
Pacific reads are short on cars. each line
lacking about 800 cars of what it needs.
This shortage, however, affects Kansas
more than it does Nebraska points. The
Rock Island is short at points in Kansas
and Oklahoma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-11

It matters little what 1t is that you want
whether a situation or a servants
want" ad. in The Star win reach the
person who can an your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-11
Paper Mill burned

MANCHESTER. Conn. August 1.-THE
Peter Adams paper mill, in auckland. was
destroyed by fire this morning. Loss up-
J. d. Pickles and brother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-11
The Busy Corner,
9Th and Market Space.

H Ss.s ss! ss:. IS. Kanr, Soms&C0.
OUR 2dGrand Rebuilding Sale
We close
Tomorrow ait 1 o'clock
I'm order to take down QUIZ Inventory.
closing ali day hall all that a'n ne ns ma' so easy
What the will be of this inspection of stock will
be known to you the day.
=; !, Ell 5s S s; : s5:$ %
Up to o'clock
We shall sell 75c. and ST. Silk Flowers
For &c.
Up to o'clock
worth 12ac. f~ lawns
For $3.50.
We shall sell large Unbeahed Honevcomb Frnpd Towels
~. 80 ,,, For $50.
We shall sell Genuine wide Percale worth a9c
For 53Ac.
We shall sell on eIneo quality Indigo Prints
For 412c.
dressing, ' 'N mum Lille :"
For SC.
We shall sell all qualities OF Apron Gnghams
,,..oo, For 4112c.
We shall sell Percale-6nished Shifting Prints
For 334c.
We shall sell Half Pn and Pint Bicycle Lubcang and H.
Eliminating Oils, worth I5c 25c, -
For Sc.
Up to o'clock
We shall sell Ladies' Fancy Duck Suits worth up to sso
For csc.
is UP TO O'CLOCK A. wu
CLOSE.
S. KAMM, SONS & CO.,
Sth and Market Space.
9TH st Entrance Family Shoe Store
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-11

will sue the patent office for $1,000 I'll
get it one way if I don't get 1t the other.
The patent office has no right to take more
money than the fee of SIS to see If the in
vention is of patentable nature
II will not return the copy of the decision
until get settled with you and get salts
"f: .sss fa ,rnsa'a's s ss9,z pun,s
s"BUx 100. Medford. Wis"
The Wcdderburn Letter.
To Wedderburn & Co. Bulin wrote as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen: sYour letter of the 18th in
slant at hand. and in reply will say that
you looked through the records Of the pat
emit Office and found my invention in
wrench attachment patentable, but by the
looks of your 4ettdr Of the 165h instant it
don't seem to be patentable.
Now whenian Invention Is patentable 1t
can be patented. The first 81 which sent
were supposed to find out II my invention
Is patentable,i andt1you notified me that It
was. And so,fyouyca by no means take
money IL 1t cannot be patented 1 am no
millionaire, that can afford to give away
money.
Nov. tell you honestly and fairly, you
are to send me all money back which I
paid you and 500 besides, and l will give
you ten days to do 1t in. II you don't I
will sue you for 10000. damages, and I
have lawyer in Oshkosh who Is -eady to
take up the case any minute. II you don't
send this money in ten days will sue you
just as sure as you are sitting in your Of
flee, and advertise you In every paper in
the United States. I have hacker who
can do 1t. Now. remember, you won't
think of beating me out of my money, IL
am only nineteen years of age. You will
think am twice that age before You get
through with nee. and after get through
with you you might just as well close up
your Office.
There is no such thing after having
money CROUCH to secure patent and then
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
WHY SO MANY REGULAR
PHYSICIANS FAIL
To Cure Female uls-Some True
Reasons Why Mrs. Pinkham
is More Successful Than
the Family Doctors.

A woman is sick; some disease pecu-
liar to her sex is fast developing in her
system. She goes to her family physi-
clan and tells him a story, but not tire
whole story.
She holds something back, loses her
head, becomes agitated, forgets what
she wants to say, and finally conceals
what she ought to have told, and thus
completely mystifies the doctor.
Is it any wonder, therefore, that the
doctor fails to cure the disease? Still,
we cannot blame the woman, for it is
very embarrassing to detail some of
the symptoms of her suffering, even to
her family physician.
It was for this reason that years
ago Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
determined to step in and help her
sex. Having had considerable ex-
perience in treating female ills with
her Vegetable Compound, she encour-
aged the women of America to write
to her for advice in regard to their
complaints, and, being a woman, it
was easy for her ailing sisters to pour
into her ears every detail of their suf-
fering. Over one hundred thousand
women were successfully treated by
Mrs. Pinkham last year. Such are the
grand results of her experience.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
How Work Alters Featnres

Every occupation more or less leaves
It's imprint on the face of the work
ers, and in the student, too, we hear of
the pale cast Of thought" But some
work positively disf1gures the workers,
and alters the features SO much AS to
render them unrecognizable In MANY
cases. The whitehead workers are
singularly figured, but they do not
satisfy the inquiry so much as the
glassblowers. The exertion of blowing
glass by the bottle makers is attended
with lamentable results to the workers.
The task of blowing often results, not
merely in distending checks, causing
them to become baggy, and when at
rest to hang down loosely, but also in
cases the cheeks have been known to
give way under the continuous strain,
and positively break into unsightly
gashes, which become life-disfgure-
mentS
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
Character in Hats.

Notice how a man wears his head
gear, and you can make a pretty
shrewd guess as to his character. II
the hat is perfectly straight and nicely
adjusted to his head, you are safe in
believing that he has a corresponding
straightforwardness of character. If
a hat slopes at the back, its wearer has
good brain power; tilted habitually for
ward, it indicates preponderance of
the material nature. The man who
places his hat on one side is self-asser-
tive, and has his vices. Men who wear
hats too large for them are of a philo-
sophie turn of mind, and wrapped up in
their own thoughts. Men who go to
the opposite extreme are mincing, af-
fected individuals with, as rule, an
inordinate love Of dress and any
amount of elf-esteem. The man who
throws his hat on his head any how is
a careless, happy go-lucky, indolent
character. He generally has his hands
in his pockets, and you can see any
number of his genus lounging at the
street corners.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
One in a Hundred Million.

Travelling on American railways is
attended with little risk, according to
the tables compiled by the Railroad Ga
zette. One passenger was killed in
1896 for every hundred million miles
travelled, and but for two or three Sc
rious accidents the showing would have
been more favorable. The passenger
fatalities of 1896 were greatly in ex-
cess of those in 1895. Last year there
were one hundred and twenty eight
deaths, largely due to negligence in op-
Grating, while in 1895 only thirty eight
lives of passengers were lost. There
was an increase In the number of ia
talities among employees. Three hun
dred and eighteen were killed in 1896
and three hundred and two in 1895, but
as the train mileage went up from
S34, 100000 to 940,O0O,OOO in 1895 the
death rate was practically unchanged.
The tables prove that, Notwithstanding
the killing of passengers in carload
lots, it is safer to ride on trains than
to handle them.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
Explained His Success.

Henry Miller, the well-known ranchs
er, was busily engaged in counting a
big herd of cattle as they were driven
by him, when an acquaintance ap-
preached him with the greeting:
Hello, Henry!'
Miller kept on counting, nor daring to
even turn his head for fear of losing
his count
Hello, Henry" repeated his ac-
quaintance, thinking he had not been
heard.
Still Miller kept on with his count.
"Say, Miller, you needn't be so stuck
up because you are worth few dol
lars" remarked his friend, angrily. 81
knew you when you were peddling
sausages on the street"
The rancher had just completed his
count, and, turning to his acquaint-
ance, said:
Eyes, by tam, und if 1 don't have got
any more sense as you l be selling
sausages yet."-San Francisco Post.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
Trolley Cars in Siam.

They are up to date in Slam. They
run electric trans in Bangkok and the
king is one of the largest shareholders.
For some years the dwellers In Bang
kok were content with the lowly horse
as a traction power for their trans,
but the company promoter and the cleo
trio engineer found their way to enter
prising Siam, and now an electric tram
way finds its silent way through the
streets of Bangkok. 1t runs from the
lower end Of the town to the royal pal
ace, distance of six miles. The shares
return a handsome dividend, as much
as 19 per cent. has been paid, but the
average return is 10 or II per cent No
wonder his Majesty has handsome jew
els and takes summer trips to the con,
tinent.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
Facts About Postage Stamps.

In this day and age we moisten a
stamp and affiX it to our letters and
give 1t no further thought, accepting
the stamp as a matter-of-course con-
venience, and many persons would be
wondrously surprised if they were to
be told that their grandparents never
saw a postage stamp.
Henry Shaw, the father of Gosh Bill
lings," purchased the first two stamps
ever sold in the United States on Aug.
6, 1S47. He bought one each of the
five-cent stamp and the ten-cent stamp,
these two denominations being the
only ones put out at that time. The
ten-cent stamp he gave to Governor
Briggs and kept the five-cent one for
himself.
Of the first stamps ever issued Wash
ington's portrait was on the ten-cent
and Franklin's on the other Since
that time the various issues of the Uni
ted States stamps would furnish a
unique portrait gallery, showing the
faces of forty-eight noted Americans.
Washington appears on twenty-five is
sues, while Lincoln's picture Is on ev-
cry issue since 1866, except the Column
bian series.
In 1875 law was passed prohibiting
the use of the portraits of living men
on the United States stamps, thus plac-
Ing living men in the same position that
women occupied, whether dead or
alive, for no woman's portrait has ever
graced stamp belonging to the Uni
ted States, postal or revenue
OF the two hundred and fifty stamps
which have been issued the values
have ranged from one cent to five
thousand dollars. Five dollars is the
highest value among postage stamps.
but newspaper stamps reach the hun
dred-dollar mark, while a revenue
stamp may represent five thousand dol
lars.
Stamps were put on the market in
August, 1S47, but were so little used
that the government had to pass a law
enforcing prepayment of postage
which went into effect in 1855. Before
this action was taken scarcely one let
ter in a dozen was found with a stamp
affixed. To-day the postoffices of the
country sell four billion stamps Count
ing postal cards, stamped envelopes
and stamps of all kinds, valued at
seventy-five million dollars, during
single year.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12

given his time for the remainder Of his
days and be pensioner on the city.
The horse and his mate were purchased
by the city in the days of the volunteer
fire department to draw ladder truck
No. 1, and for several years they did
this work, which is now considered
pretty heavy job for the three horses
attached to the truck. When the paid
department was organized Jerry be-
came a member Of it, and he has dis
charged his duties faithfully ever since.
He is now entitled to be considered
"aged," having served longer than the
usual span of life allotted to horses,
and the commissioners do not feel In
clined to sell him for a trifle to some
one who will perhaps starve and abuse
him and render the rest Of his life I'M
comfortable; SO they have decided that
he is to have free hay and oats at the
expense of the city as long as he lives.
Portland Oregonian.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
AN ORGAN THAT COST $50. 600.
Mr.. Searles, Who Married Mrs. Mark
HOPKINS, Bought It.

Mr.. Sear1es, Who Married Mrs. Mark
Hopkins, Bought It.
e. r. Searles, the millionaire, who
now lives at Methuen, Mass, is de-
voted to organ music, and has just
bought what is believed to be the great
est organ in America. Mr.. Searles mar
ried the immensely wealthy widow Of
Mark Hopkins, of California.
The organ belonged to the Boston
Music Hail. and originally cost $50, 600.
The price Mr.. Searles paid for it was
$1,000. He will erect a building es-
pecially for it at Methuen.
The great organ was built many
years ago by popular subscription. Is
specifications were as follows: /,
manual great, % stops, 1880 pipes; 2,
manual (swelD, 1S stops, 1,1T2 pipes;
3, manual Choir, 10 stops, 92S pipes; a,
manual (solo), II stops, 754 pipes; ped
al, 20 stops, 800 pipes; total, SO stops,
5,474 pipes.
1t stood seventy feet high, was foi-
ty-seven feet wide, eighteen feet deep,
and weighed seventy tons. Two great
central towers stood forward fifteen
feet, and were composed of several
great hirty-two-foot pipes of tin. The
woodwork is all of black walnut, richly
carved. The pipes. including the me-
chanical accessories, numbered $500.
The organ was placed in Music Hall In
1868.
The order for building the colossal
instrument was placed in 1858 with the
firm Of Walcker, at Ludwigsburg, in
Germany. It's purchase and compile
ton were matters in which the pride
of all music-loving Boston was centered
for years. The sum which it was or
iginally proposed to spend was $25, 900.
The directors of the Music Hall appro-
priated $4,000, and the rest was raised
by popular subscription. In spite Of
the war the work went on steadily and
the organ came over in a specially char
tered ship, which succeeded in lodging
the Confederate privateers. Before 1t
was finally put together it cost over
100000. The first public recital given
on it was a popular event Of the first
magnitude, and for years the organ
was one Of the wonders of Boston.
No man in the world probably pos
sesses greater organ for his personal
enjoyment than Mr.. Searles. He has
attained the height Of his ambition.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12

vanity Of church and state, with the
melancholy rolling drum of the military
funeral, or the gorgeousness of the Ma
sonic regalia apron-all are alike made
Quate and unavailing.
But once in my life have witnessed
ceremony that was as grand and i'm
pressive as the silent, awful occasion
that was ever given to the dead.
] will tell you of funeral which lin
gers in my memory as the grandest,
most solemn, and befitting ceremony
that was ever given to the dead.
1t was rumored many years ago that
a poor widowed woman, leading hard
life of unending labor, was called to
her only child Mother and daughter
had toiled together for fifteen years,
and the only bit of sunshine falling
into their dark lives was that shed by
their living companionship. But the
girl had always been sickly. Under the
heart-broken mothers eyes she had
faded and wasted away with consump-
ton, and at last the day came when the
wan face failed to answer with its
EildcliS SIlllG lAc dAAlOuS,
eyes of the mother.
The poor young creature was dead.
For many months the pair had been
supported by the elder woman's sew
ing, and 1t was in the character of en-
ployer l had become acquainted with
Mrs. Cramp and her story. By an occa-
sional visit to the awful heights of an
East Side tenement where they lived,
by few books and with some comfort
ing words, had won the love of the
dying girl. Her grateful thoughts turn
ed in her last hours to the small num-
Der of friends she possessed, and she
besought her mother to notify me of
the day Of her funeral and ask me to
attend
The summons reached me upon one
of the widest days preceding Christ
mas. A sleet that was not rain and n
rain that was not snow came pelting
from all points of the compass. A wind
that walled in the chimney and howled
in the street told how truly dreadful
for outdoor purposes was the weather
of the day. piled the glowing crates;
/ drew closer the curtains and shut out
the gloom of the December afternoon:
I turned on the gas and sat down de-
voutly thankful that 1 had cut all con-
nection with the witched weather
when an installment of it burst In on me
in the shape of Parepa Rosa. She was
Euphrosyne Parepa at that time, and
the operate idol of the city. Muffled
with tippets, fecked with snow, glow
ing with the short encounter she had
had with the elements rushing up the
steps from her carriage, she threw her
self into an easy chair and proclaimed
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
San FRANCISCO Market.

Wool-Nevada 11@12c; Oregon, 10
@14c; Northern 14@ Ice per pound.
Hops-10@14c per pound.
Millstuffs-Middlings, $40 @22; Cal
ifornia bran, $15. 5o@16. 90 per ton.
Onions-New red. 70@80c; do new
silverskln, $1.O0@1.15 per GENITAL.
Butter-Fancy creamery. 27@2sc;
do seconds, 25@26c; fancy dairy. 24@
25c; good to choice, 81 @23c per pound.
Cheese-Fancy mild, new, 12 nc; fair
to good, 7@9c per pound.
Eggs-store, 1s@26c; ranch, $40
4Oc; Eastern, 16@24; duck, 25c per
dozen.
Potatoes-New, in boxes, 35@S0c.
Citrus Fruit-Oranges, Valencias,
$1.5O@3.Oo; Mexican lines, 81. so q
800; California lemons, choice, $500;
do common, 75c@$1 per box.
Hay-Wheat, 12@15; wheat and
oat, $11@14; oat, $10@12; river bar
ley. S7@s; best barley, $10@12;
alfalfa, $8@9.50; clover. $8 10.
Fresh Fruit-Apples, $50 S5c per
large box; grapes, 20@30o; Isabella,
4o@ SOC; peaches, 5o@s5c; pears, 81. 90
01.6o per box; plums, a6@40c.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
Seattle Market.

Butter - Fancy native creamery,
brick. 24@25c; ranch, 16@18c.
Cheese - Native Washington, 100
II nc; California, 91ac.
Eggs-Fresh ranch, 28c.
PouItry-Chickens, live, per pound.
hens, loo; spring chickens, $2.50@
800; ducks, So. 5o@3.75.
Wheat-Feed wheat, $25 per ton.
Oats-Choice, per ton, $40.
Corn-Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
s22; feed meal, s22 per ton.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats-Choice dressed beef,
steers, &c; cows, 51ac; mutton sheep,
&c; pork, &c; veal, small, z.
Fresh Fish-Halibut, Sc; salmon,
SIC; salmon trout, 7@1oc; founders
and sole, 3@4;' ling cod, 4@5; rock cod,
&c; smelt, az @4c.
Fresh Fruit-Apples, SOC @$1 per
box; peaches, 75@sOc; prunes, a5@4oc;
pears, 81 per box.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
Portland Market.

Wheat-Walla Walla, 79@80c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 81@S3c per bushel.
Four-Best grades, 81. 90; graham,
So. 70; superfine, $2.4O per barrel.
Oats-Choice white, 34@35c; choice
gray, 32@33c per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $1,000; brew
ing, $40 per ton.
Millstiffs-Bran, $14 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $3.50.
Hay-Timothy, $12@12.50; clover,
$10@11; California wheat, SO; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, 5000 per
ton.
Eggs-221a per dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 45@ SOC;
fair to good, 35@40c; dairy, s5@35c
per roll.
Cheese = Oregon. 111ac; Young
America, 12Rc; California, 90 @10o
per pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $2.50@
800 per DOZEN; broilers, $2.00@2.50;
geese, $4.O0@5.00: ducks, So. .00@3. 80
per dozen; turkeys, live, 9@10c per
pound.
Potatoes-Oregon Burbanks, 35 q 40c
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per GENITAL.
Onions-Oregon, new. red, 90c; yell
low, SOC per Genital.
Hops-8@15c per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 6@7c.
Wool-Valley, 14@16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 7@12c; mohair, 20
@22c per pound.
Mutton-Gross, best sheep. wethers
and ewes. So. 500 @2. 60; dressed mutton,
SC; spring lambs, 5 51ac per pound.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, 81. so;
light and feeders, $3.0o@4.O0; dressed,
$5.50@6.O0 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steers, 81. rs 800;
COWS. $2.25; dressed beef, 4@5Rc per
pound.
veal-Large, ~ sc; small, 81 q
Sc per pound.
Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12

Board OF Trade Brokers. 7i1-714 Chamber of Com
merce Building, Portland, Oregon.l
Facts established sooner or later con
troll wheat values. Speculation may
temporarily advance or depress values,
but in the end the laws of supply and
demand are sure to assert themselves
and control values. 1t has been a self
evident proposition for several weeks
past that conditions warranted higher
values. Speculative influences have
repeatedly driven prices downward. bu5
the market has rebounded with the
buoyancy of a cork upon the water.
The news announcements of the week
have been uniformly favorable to high
er values. Crop advices at home indi-
cate less than an average acreage seeded
to winter wheat, owing to the pro-
tracted drought, which has been broken
only in certain sections of the winter
wheat belt. Receipts at primary points
are falling off and promise from this on
to prove smaller than last year. Ex-
port clearances continue large, 5,991,-
900 bushels for the week, which is
largely in excess of our exportable sur
plus weekly. The export demand shows
no signs of diminution. On the con-
trary, it is urgent and increasing, the
last few days of the week having re-
suited in very large sales for export.
Foreign advices continue extremely
bullish. The reports of our own con-
suls in Europe more than confirm the
maximum estimates of European i'm
port requirements Advices from Lon
don assert that Mediterranean ports are
outbidding England for Russian wheat.
The French chamber of deputies has
been petitioned to reduce the import
duty on wheat, and some action in this
direction will probably be taken sooner
or later, although not necessarily at
present, Russian advices, although al
ways unreliable and largely mythical,
are extremely bullish and must neces-
sarily have some foundation on fact.
The Argentine crop is still an unknown
quantity. Reports are conflicting.
Drought conditions have prevailed.
Locusts have caused some damage, and
in the absence of reliable reports it can
not be assumed that the crop will be
large one in yield. Local speculative
conditions are extremely favorable for
higher values. Stocks on contract grain
are very small, practically exhausted,
and there is no immediate prospect of
their being replenished. We can dis
cover nothing in the situation at home
or abroad warranting any declines in
values, and would regard any decline as
but temporary. unwarranted, and
therefore good speculative opportun-
ity to buy wheat, the final outcome of
which we anticipate to be much higher
nricea