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a 1 EXAMINATION ENDED. LAST DAY WITH THE APPLICANTS FOR TEACHERS' PAPERS. The Results Expected About Monday -Some of the subjects submitted. The second quarterly examination, for the current year, of applicants for county certificates came to an end about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the members of the class wrote answers to the last questions submitted to them by County Superintendent G. W.

Jones and turned their papers over to the examining board for inspection and the proper marking. The board has been steudily engaged en its particular part of the quarterly meeting and expects to have the results ready for publication about Monday, Ten subjects were submitted to the applicants during the examination. and, for the benefit of those who might be interested in the style the questions, the following samples of the lists are published: Mental Arithmetic. A farmer put all his grain into 4 bins. In the first he put three-eighths of it, in the second one-quarter, in the third onesixth, and in the fourth 40 bushels.

How anany bushels of grain had he? A merchant sells silk at a profit of $1.50 a yard, which is 40 per cent gain. What did it cost, and what is the selling price? A man receives $530 to purchase sheep and cows; what sum will he expend for each, after deducting his commission, which is six per cent of the money expended, provided he expends four times as much for cows as for sheep? A and have $3.000 on interest for 4 years at five per cent; what amount of interest will each receive, provided A has twice as much as A man said he owed to A a certain sum, to 1 three times as much, to times as much, and to six times as much; and that $750 would pay all his debts. What was his debt to A bay agreed to carry twenty-five alasses to a certain place six cents mulece, on condition that for each one The broke he should forfeit ten cents: he received 70 cente. How many did he break? and agree to reap an amount of wheat for $141, sent five men six days, and sent twelve boys for three How much should each receive, days. if man does as much as two boys? Geography.

What is political geography? What efisct has climate pon the color, dress, occupation, and civilization of the peopie of the earth? What is the horizon? How does it change? Define each of the following: Atoll, isotherm, lagoon, dew point, tidal wave. What is the plane of the earth's orbit? What common plan of surface strucaure is seen in the two Americas? Why do the surface of broad plateaus receive but little moisture? State the required conditions for a manufacturing center. Under what form of government is the greatest number of people? Name, in order of their proportion, the five largest cities of the United States. Which ones have a population vet more than 500.000? Locate the following and state what interest attaches to each: Damascus, Saratoga Springs, the lava beds, Oregon, Corsica, Castle Garden. State Che religion and some of the customs of the Turks.

What is the most northern town in Europe? Explain how a person in New York may receive a telegram the day before it is sent in Paris? Name one great city in Asia, one in Europe, and three in the United States en or near the fortieth parallel of north latitude. Name five of the chief exports of South America. Grammar. Write sentences to illustrate the following: Predicate complement, adverb of denial, subordinate conjunction of reason, abstract noun, interrogative pronoun used in the objective case. Write the correlative form of each of the following: Solo.

attorney-general, Professor Brown, dregs, apieces, kine, swine, formula, knight templar, news. Analyze the following: "Count that day lost whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done." Parse lost, whose. Analyze the following words: Agent, diameter, jurist, carnivorous, subscription. Define and Illustrate the following: Impensonal verb, indefinite pronoun, periodic sentence, ellipsis, passive voice. Write a synopsis of the verb lie (to recline) in the first person, singular, active voice, affirmative form, through the indicative and potential modes.

Arithmetic. Define and illustrate the following: Complex fraction, multiple, aliquot part, Jar value, ratio. Explain the difference between the gross earnings and the net earnings of a firm. Find the diameter in feet of a wheel which revolves 19.5 times in going 253.5 feet. A farmer gives to his eldest son nineteen twenty-fifths of a farm and the remainder to his daughter; the difference between their shares is 780 acres; how many acres does the daughter receive? Express 125 rods, 4 yards, 2 feet, 6 inches as a fraction of a mile.

Find the area of an irregular piece of land the diagonal of which is 320 yards and the perpendiculars 35.5 yards and yarde. If a man use a pound of fertilizer on a piece of ground two yards square, how much will he use on threefourths of an acre? An agent sold 450 tons of hay at $13 a ton, commission 5 per cent, and with to the proceeds bought wool at per pound, commission 4 per cent; what was his whole commisison, and how many pounds of wool did buy? If it costs $425 to fence a field 72 rods by 98 rods, what will it cost to fence a aquare field of the same area? Thirty-three is two and three-quarters SATURDAY'S DAILY. per cent of what number? What per cent of $240 is What ie threequarters per cent of $40.807 What mumber increased by eighteen per cent of Itself is equal to 1,476. large a on can be Fought in Portlend at 60 sight for Chicago, $3,000, the premium being per cent and interest six per cent? Physiology. of what is bone composed? What is the periosteum? Why is a bone felon 90 painful? Between what bones does the turning motion of the head take place? What kind of motion will be permitted by ball-and-socket joint? How is the thoracic cavity bounded? What separates it from the abdominal cavity below? From where does the left ventricle of the heart receive its bicod? Where, through what, and how does it send it? When an artery is divided, how does the blow flow? What is the most important of all the articles of food? Why? What condition is produced when the demands of hunger thirst are not satisfied? What and where is the lachrymal gland? Why are the eyes dazzled in passing into bright light? Describe a tooth, speaking of its composition and naming its different parts.

SIGNS OF COMMENCEMENT. Willamette University Alumni ciety Summoned for June. That the pleasant days of commencement at old Willamette are drawing nigh is heralded by the fact that Miss Mae Boise is issuing the annual notice and fraternal summons for the meeting of the alumni society. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 16th, in the Philodosian society rooms (Nos. 23 and 24) of the main building, where the business session will convene at 2 m.

and public literary entertainment at 8 the same then day in University chapel. The following program, supplemented by music and readings, will be rendered: Recitation- -Myrtie Marsh, A. '96 Essay--Edith T. Reynolds, A. '95.

Oration--B. F. Irvine, B. '77. There will be the usual happy reunion and supper and the hope is abroad that the alumni representation here (n '97 may be the largest and most spirited and enjoyable known for years.

WAS A PIONEER. Mrs. Webb. now Deceased, Came to Oregon in 1847. Further particulars of the sudden death of Mrs.

James Webb, at Gervais on Wednesday, are gleaned from the Star, published in that city: "Mrs. Christian Webb, wife of James Webb, aged 71 years, 11 months and 22 days, died suddenly Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock from heart failure. She complained of being cold and her aged husband went to get some light wood to start a fire and was away but a few moments and when he returned she was dead. Webbs were pioneers and crossed the plains by ox teams. Mr.

Webb was a blacksmith for the Hudson Bay company. They first located below Portland, then went to Oregon City and later took a homestead at Parkersville, near this place, and have resided there since. was born in Dayton, Ohio, and when 7 years old her parents moved to: St. Joseph, Indiana, where she married in September, 1840. She crossed the plains in 1847, arriving in Oregon the same "She seaFas the mother of thirteen children, eleven of whom survive, as follows: F.

P. Webb, Daniel Webb, Geo. W. Webb, of Gervais: Mary Groshong, of Jefferson; Sarah Skeen, of Marquam; Mrs. M.

A. Wade, Mrs. Benj. Stevens, of Gervais; Mrs. Dan Groshong.

of Wilhoit; Mrs. Warren Simmons, of Howell; Mrs. W. S. Taylor and Mire.

Margaret Jones, of Gervais." ROAD the pet tion of Stayton and Sublimity citizens the county road between those towns is to the benfit of an appropriation of county funds to assist in making the highway more passable. Liberal donations of work have been agreed to by private citizens of both towns on the condition that the county would do certain grading and filling in. At the last session of the court Archie Mason, of Salem, was given the contract for this work. He will receive for removing earth 14 cents per cubic yard, shell rock 35 cents and solid rock 75 cents. The work was begun Monday morning.

The hill is to be cut down eleven feet, and when completed will only be one foot rise in six at its steepest point. The incident of Salem citizens raising a bonus for the purpose of paying the rent, for lights and fuel for the use of the postffice of Oregon's capital city is indeed a sad commentary on our boasted institutions. Such cheese-pareing on the part of Uncle Sam is to be deplored. He sends General Miles junketing around the earth at an expense of thousands of dollars, but has no money to pay the necessary running expenses of his postoffices- offices, too, that are each and every year returning a considerable net profit to the government. The Crown Princess of Sweden, who, for many years has been an invalid, and has been obliged to spend the winter in the South, has lately learned to ride the bicycle and has found the exercise good for her health.

She leaves Italy next month for the north, and after visiting her parents at Baden-Baden she will go for a stay of three weeks to Kreuzbach, where she will be joined by her husband and sons and will return later with them to Stockholm for the summer. Mr. Bush's visit to Washington is said to have been twofold. At one and the same time he accomplished the seating, of Broncho Corbett, and prevented removal of the postoffice from the vicinity of his hostelry. 1 and GARDEN nA Spare two hours in every week from spring to summer to cultivate your family garden and berry patch To grow merchantable fruit some system must be adopted to conserve moisture for the needs of the trees while the apples are maturing.

Never crowd the orchard. Trees should have room to grow; they need plenty of ground and free from sun. Don't imagine that to have a profitable orchard all you have to do is to buy trecs. plant them and afterwards allow them to take their own chances. How often do we hear the complaint from a weary housewife: "We had 8 berry patch once but it is all grown up to weeds and grass now and we get but little fruit." Get your berry patch down small enough to properly attend.

The orchard soil is now in an excellent condition for handling and should be cultivated thoroughly. Each year set out a few runners from your best strawberry plants, that you may always have nice healthful plants. Do not allow any dead spots or bark to remain on your trees. Remove them with your knife and burn them as Cast as they appear. A berry grower says to look out for rust in your blackberry patch.

It appears on the new wood soon after growth starts, and the diseased canes should be removed and burned to prevent the spread of the disease. More hard work is to be done on an acre of strawberries than upon an acre of any small fruit, but it is equally sure that more money and more pleasure can be derived from that same acre Manure the ground well, but not too heavily. lest too great a. plant growth be induced and black rust invited. See that the center of the bush is kept open when pruning the currant.

Don't waste time on a patch that has ceased to be profitable. Dig them up and plant new ones Planting trees and pruning should be done at the same time, or rather prune the young trees just before planting. In planting trees always see that the roots are well covered and that they are set two inches deeper than the tree set in the orchard. No tree will was thrive with its roots exposed or unprotected. Blackberries are a profitable fruit and be grown with little labor on almay most every farm.

The planting of a few nut trees will be laying the foundation for profit for generations who will follow and live on the old homestead. In setting out an orchard confine yourself to a few, well -selected varieties of each fruit; as you become experienced you can add new ones. SO HE WOULD. If the man pulled the load While the horse held the whip, He'd fix up the road When he'd made the first trip. THE PRESS AND PLOW.

We envy not the princely man city or in town. Who wonders whether pumpkin vines Turn up hill or down. We care not for his marble halls, Nor yet his heaps of gold; We would not own his sordid heart For all his wealth twice told. We sing the honor of the plow, And honor to the pressTwo noble instruments of toil, Each with a power to bless. The bone, the nerve of this fast age, True wealth of human kind; One tills the ever faithful earth, The other tills the mind.

-Farm and News. ABOUT THE ORCHARD. Look for the blight on pear, apple and quince trees. Destroy it at once by removing the limb and burning the same. Look after grafts and see that they have a chance to grow.

Rub off the sprouts near them. Look for the nest of the tent caterpillar and destroy them by using a rag saturated with kerosene and placed on the end of a pole. See that hogs, sheep or cattle are not injuring the trees if they have access to the orchard. Look for borers and remove them with knife and wire. Borers may be expelled by a whitewash containing crude carbolic acid and paris green.

See that wormy fruits are picked up and destroyed. Pigs and sheep will do this cheaply. See that the orchard is well cultivated and kept free from weeds. Look to it that no grain crop is raised in any orchard kept for fruit production. Look for premature fruit on pear trees Such appearirg is a sure sign of yellows, and the whole tree should be removed, even though a single limb is affected.

See that "water sprouts" or "suckers" are rubbed off trees as they start. will injure the trees much less than if they are permitted to grow into large branches and then removed. Look after trees planted this spring. Loosen the ground about them and then apply a mulch of leaves or straw. In rare cases the life of a young tree may be saved by the timely application of water.

Look for lice. If they are injuring the trees, spray with the kerosene emulsion, which is the best summer application for trees. See that the soapsuds are not wasted on wash days. Cannot some practicable method be devised that may reach the MORE CLAIMS MADE. MANY INSTITUTIONS ASK TO FILE THEIR REPORTS Expecting to Be Recognized by Mr.

Kincaid as Part of the State Machinery. Secretary of State H. R. Kincaid is receiving numerous letters from various institutions desirous of filing claims against the state. Among those received yesterday was one from P.

A. Worthington, secretary of the Eastern Oregon state normal school at Weston, enclosing eight vouchers for services performed in the school. To this communication Mr. Kincadd immediately made the following reply, returning the velope." "Dear Sir: Your communication of the 13th inst. enclosing eight vouchers for services performed in the various departments of your school, and asking me to file same, has been received.

Replying thereto I will say that there is 110 money due the Eastern Oregon normal school, all the money appropriated for that institution having been drawn. There being no money due, there can be no valid claims against the state, and for that reason I respectfully decline to recognize or file any and return the bills to you in this velope. Another claim was sent in by J. W. McGinn, secretary of St.

Mary's' Home, located at 290 Front street, Portland, enclosing the report of the home for the quarter ending March 31, 1897. and desiring to file the claims of the home against the state with the secretary. Mr. Kincaid notified Mr. McGinn that he could not file the claims, as there was nothing due the institution from the state.

Following is the language used by Mr. Kincaid in his reply, accompanying the returned "Dear Sir: Your comumnication of the 5th together with report of St. Mary's Home for the quarter ending March 31, 1897, showing total expenses for that period to be $800, has been recelved. There is nothing due from the state to St. Mary's Home.

The appropriation WaS exhausted December 31, 1896, and no appropriation has e'nce been made for the years 1897 and 1895. There being nothing due from the state. I therefore respectfully decline to recognize or 1 file the claim which you have sent, and return it to you with this Many such claims are received from institutions which, because they have once received state ald, think that, although no further provision has been made for their support by the state, they still have valid claims, and they promptly demand recognition at the hands of the secretary of state, expecting to be recognized as a part the state's necessary machinery. This Mr. Kincaid is opposed to, claiming that these institutions have not that standing.

until the legistature makes provision for them by an actual ation. Captain Willam J. Clark, the latest survivor of the John Brown raiders in Kansas, died in Hobart, Delaware county, N. last week. He was born in 1840; and when eighteen years old went to Kansas, where he served with John Brown.

In 1862 Captain Clark went out with the One Hundred and Forty-fourth New York Regiment, was promoted to lieutenant and for a time had command of company I of that regiment. KENTUCKY TROUBLE. THE STATE SENATE IN AN UPROAR OVER A RULING. A Wild Scene Followed an attempt to Pass an Obnoxions BillCounting a Quorum. orchard? Apply to the trunks of trees which may have become scaly, soapsuds will thoroughly remove the same Look to it that all the wood ashes reach the orchard, the best possible place for them.

Coal ashes are not of much value fertilizer, but they loosen the ground and are of benefit in the orchard. See that there are no scars on your trees, made by the removal of limbs, or by other means, which are not covered by paint or some protecting substance. Care here may lengthen the life of a tree many years. Observe which variety of each kind of fruit is most productive on your own ground, as well as at your neighbor's. his may be of future velue when about to plant a new orchard Thin peaches pears and plums if the fruits hang touching each other.

What remains will grow much larger and finer. GOOD POULTRY FEED. Grow sunflowers for poultry. Year after year this advice is given, but there is no evidence of an increase in the crop. It is one of the most valuable and inexpensive crops grown.

The only things to observe are to have the land rich and well worked, to a depth of 6 inches; to sow the mammoth variety in drills, putting the seeds a foot apart; to cultivate thoroughly, and then throw the life of the plant into one head, by going through the rows and snipping off all side shoots, which appear at the root of every leaf stem. One large head holding at least one pint of geed, is far better than a score of small, insignificant heads on branches Rural World. POULTRY AS A SFECIALTY. Farm and Fireside: Use the farm for poultry by giving the flocks plenty of room, and work with a view to making the hens pay, the same as is done for the cows, and the results will be satisfactory. Fifty hens in one acre could give at least a clear profit of $1 a hen, or $50 to the acre, and the cost for shelter will be less than for larger stock.

The fact that so few know how to keep large flocks for profit is proof that farmers have all along neglected poultry, giving the hens on the farm but little 110- tice, yet on the poorest farms poultry can be made a specialty, There are good markets for eggs close to nearly all the farms, as winter prices will show. HOW GERMANS DO. Northwestern Agriculturist: The Pillsbury-Washburn company has recently shipped a train: load of bran to Germany. It is a crying shame the Germans should be able to come to us and haul our bran half around the world almost, and then feed it to stock, presumably at a profit, while we are not enterprising enough to convert all our feed stuffs into meat here at home and ship the meat. The secret of commercial succes is economy, and in 110 way is economy more grossly violated than in transporting crude materials instead of the finished and condensed products -bran instead of dressed meat.

KEEP GUINEA FOWLS. Texas Stock Journal: It is only here and there that the guinea fowl is to be found nowadays. They are getting to be as scarce as the traditional "hen's teeth." And yet they are a fowl well worthy the best farmer's attention. According to our taste they are the superior of any domestic fowl for table use. Their flesh is palatable, having just enough "gameness" about it to give it a peculiar relish They are fairly good layers a8 burglar alarms and scare crows they are hard to beat.

Try a few next season, it you can get them. DON'T KILL BIRDS. Texas Journal: A man shot a magpie to save his cherries. In his craw he found a few cherry stones, and the rest crammed with large blue-bottle flies, who deposit their eggs in meat. Black birds do some harm in the cornfield the their errand for grub worms, caterpillars and army worms that would, unless thus interrupted, destroy more corn than the birds.

So with thrushes, woodpeckers and doves. PEACH TREE BORER. The peach tree borer does not pene trate the tree as far as apple borers de the apple, hence they are not hard to destroy. The gurn about the base of the tree tells of their presence, just as the sawdust about the apple and the quince does of their enemy. During June and July is the proper time to look for these.

FRANKFORT, May wild scene occurred in the senate today over the attempt to fuse the gold democrats and the republican, forces through a bill providing one name under two different devices on the state election ballots. The silver democrats outgeneraled the opposition, got one of their number, Senator Goeb, In the the The appeal from the chair an appeal adjourned pending, and, ruling of the regular republican president, who counted a quorum present, although not voting. The majority refused to stand adjourned on the announcement of the president pro tem. President. Worthington WAS urged back into the chair.

"Falsehood and indecency" were the words shouted between Stephenson and Goebel, who seemed about to draw weapons. The men had got between the president and Bronson, but the president finally declared the senate adjourned because the democratic clerks, who left on the first announcemnt of the adjournment, "would not do their duty," as he expressed it. A fight will be made ngainst the quorum till the end of the session and, if the president again counts a quorum, trouble is expected. POOR BUSINESS. Bradstreets Report a Falling Off In the Demand for Staples.

New York, May will say tomorrow: The unexpected falling off in the request for staple goods within the month is the result of a period of comparative calm at the time when a general revival in demand had been looked for. Wholesalers report that the volume of business consists of filling orders, even the West having held Its own in the volume of goods distributed. Interior merchants are buying for immediate wants only, and in many districts farmers are too busy with field work to supply their wants at the country stores. FLORIDA'S SENATOR. Ex-Congressman Mallory Chosen by the Legislature.

Tallahassee, May 14-Stephen R. Mallory was elected United States senator today on the twenty-fifth ballot. The vote was as follows: Mallory 53. Chipley 44, Call 1. Chipley led after the roll-call, but changing votes gave the election to Mallory.

Washington, May Russell Mallory, who was elected United States senator in Florida today, was IL member of the 52d and 534 congressen from the first Florida district. He is a lawyer by profession. The enactment of the Dingley tariff law will surely boom the lumber bustness. Salem ought to have talking connection with the tall timber of the Santiam by the time the president affixes His signature. Hurry up the telephone line.

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