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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1909)
li us, ei Hi m li us i ly a FyrnfsSii ngs EVERYTHING AT RE DUCED PRICES Sale on all Millinery Goods. Must reduce stock at once. Furnishing Goods all go at special low prices. Call and see us Benton Qeunty Lumber Go, ' , Manufacturers of all kinds of - Fir Lumber, Mouldings,' Cedar Posts, Sawed end Split. Oedar Shakes - , . Dealers in ' " ' ' ' Doors, Windows, Urns, Bnsx dement, Shingles, etc dental Lumber Co. Successors to Corvallls Lumber Co. We are here to supply your needs in the Lumber line. Please call on J. B IRVING for information and prices. And talce notice that if we have not got exactly what you want we will get it for you. G. O. BASSET f, Local Mar. - - y WOODS BROTHERS GENERAL REPAIR SHOP Prompt attention given to repairing all kinds of gasoline en gines, autos. bicycles. Piows and axes sharpened. Saws filed. All work guaranteed satisfactory and done on short notice Give us a call. We can please you. Located back "of Beal Bros-' blacksmith shop on Second street. Phone No. 3145 Ind. I U II It I OREGON Ths Best Paint There is no betterpaint made for appearance and durability than S Specially prepared for exterior and interior use. "FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS" WA'L PAPER AND PAINT STORE Second Street, Near Palace Theater ttwr-Sl m ur toots are Pen for your inspection. JLLA-AsL Buyers name given if wanted. We not only r:Fa9e Set toP Prices but you can satisfy yoursell ffwiMia absolutely at any time that you get what w !UIBrrri!rric PROMPT CASH RETURNS . &kiJEsUkZtL& J& Ship your produce to us. Write ; - to. us now for coops, tags, etc SOUTHERN OREGON COMMISSION CO. W. H. f.lCCORQUODALE. PROP. s 95 FRONT ST., PORTLAND, 0REG6S AN ABLE ASSISTANT. By ADELAIDE RUTH HILL. Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso ciation. A sunny morning in June a girl of twenty stood in the grounds of a coun try place, a diagram in one hand, a pencil in the other. A . man 'carrying artist's sketching materials was com ing down the road. He stopped and leaned against the stone wall. "Is this the. Harrington place?" he asked the girl. ' "It is." . "The old maids who owned it. I hear, are dead, and it has passed into the. hands of a new owner. ' They say he's a globe trotter and there's no more chance of the place being kept up than before." "On the contrary. I am employed to lay out the grounds in an entirely new scheme." "You?" "You seem surprised to see a girl do ing such work. I have just been grad uated in the department of gardening at college." , "H'm! Where are your assistants? You can't do the job alone." . "Can't get any." : .., "How would I do?" he asked after a pause. "You seem to be an artist, not a tiller of the soil." "Artists can't live on their artistic productions; they must' stop once in awhile to earn some money by work." "You couldn't earn much here only $2 a day and found." . U - "I could run ahead ?12 a week. " I'll go to work right off if you like." The man was engaged, the head gardener warning him that if she caught him dreaming over the sur? rounding scenery, which was very fine, she Would, "dock" his wages. He must also agree to give her a week's notice before quitting. All this being ar ranged, she set him to work digging up the sod for a new arrangement of the walks. It was hard work, and he didn't get on very well. At evening she told him he'd better give it up. "I tell you what I'll do," he said. "You pay me what you are allowed for assistants. With that I'll agree to employ two assistants and boss them. That'll give you all your time for plan ning." . -, He succeeded, ia talking her into the scheme, though she couldn't see where he would get help or make anything for himself. He went to the village that evening and the nest morning had two lusty fellows at work. He sat in the grounds sketching, giving his men occasional instructions. . "I declare." said the head gardenei "if that isn't just like an artist. "No body can ever tell how they Jive Well, if he doesn't make any mone it's no-concern of mine. He's getting the work done." i Finding too much time fore hor plan iiing; she stroiied out and took a look at the picture he was making. - The outline of, a landscape was sketched on the canvas. "I . would like to know," she said, "how you expect to gain any money by paying your wages to others." "I thought that was the only way to make money getting other people to do the hard ' work and doing the skilled part yourself." "But you're not even doing the skill ed part." - ! "You're doing that." ' "While you are" "Wasting my time. I admit it. This picture will never be good for any thing. Let's go in and try the piano." He seemed to have his own way with her. She followed him into the house, and, sitting before the piano. he struck several chords.5 . . .- 'This won't do," he said snappishlv. "The thing can't have been tuned in years. These people can't expect you to get on with a tin pan. What's the agent's name?" ' Before she could stop him he had rung up the agent on the telephone, and she was horrified to hear him say: "Miss Kissock, the head gardener, wants 'to know what you meata by leaving the piano in such a condition? She says if you don't have a man here to tune it right off she'll throw up her job' . . V; - He flung down the receiver and re joined her. , , V . T "Upon, my word!" she exclaimed. "Who authorized you to say that?" ' "If he doesn't have, a tuner here by tomorrow morning you needn't pay me any wages for myself or the two assistants.- "You women are not fitted to get on as men are. You haven't got any sand." "Where, men have as much of It as you have there's none left for us women." ' .She consented to let -the matter rest, and sure enough the next morning the piano' was tuned. Then the first assist ant gardener insisted on the head gar dener spending the morning with him in the music room. ' - ; Finally the grounds were laid out on the new plan. The men ,the assist ant had hired kept at work and seemed satisfied with their pay. How their boss managed the finances to make anything was a' mystery. When the work was ready to turn over to the agent the artist took his traps and moved on. It seemed to the girl that her world had moved on and left her desolate. The agent sent word that the owner had arrived and he would bring him to -inspect the grounds. Miss Kissock dreaded lest her, scheme should be disapproved. Doubt less the globe -trotter owner was used to the beautiful landscape gardening abroad, and ,her 'girlish effort would eeem a fcotch to him. When the two arrived she was in her room. She hurried downstairs. There waa the agent, and with him the artist "Mr.' Trowbridge, the owner!" said the agent. . -. 3 HARRIS as Them A New. Line of Vici and Patent Colt. . The very latest styles and marked at the lowest prices. A choice assortment, just the right thing for this sunshine weather, in Taffeta and Pongee. 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