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THESTAYTON MAIL
t . D. A LEXAN D ER . Publisher
Kntcred at the postoffice et steyton. Oregon
mell matter «■» the second da*»
T n i Man. ta mallevi regularly to lu »uh«Çrib-
era until a definite order to disoontluue la re­
ceived aud all arrearage» are l‘»Id
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
1 W 1 L B U R N. P IN T L E R , D. M. D.
DENTIST
Office over Fret! Rock’s Store
OREGON
BTAYTON
R
A. ELWOOD,
A T T O R N E Y AT L A W
Office over Rock’s store,
STAYTON,
T
•
OREGON.
M. KINGO,
Succenitor to \V. K. T h u n iM
Funeral Director and Embalmer
Leave orders at Slayton Hotel.
BTAYTON,
OREGON.
J O H IN
H EN K EL.
Merchant Tailor
I have on hand a full line of samples
for Spring and Summer Suits.
Repairing and Cleaning a Specialty
BTAYTON
C IT Y
OREGON
MEAT
M ARKET
Sestak & Sons
*7Cai«rB 1U
Fresh, S a lt and Sm oked
MEATS
HIGHEST M A R K E T PRICE PA ID
FOR STO CK A N D HIDES
Stayton, Oregon
Grand Central Hotel
Is open to the public. A ll newly fur*
nished rooms.
Accommodations first-
«lass.
Nice, warm dining room and
Irst-claas meals.
M. J. SPANIOL, Prop.
Stayton, Oregon
STAYTON
CEMENT STONE WORKS
ALT, KI.X'TO OF
ilio dock xvhere a »hip wotild snlNtbat
The Other Reaeon.
day for New York. Atuoiig thè bar
A teamster retires lit the age of
rcls was thè oue contalulng Martin. ninety with an accumulation of $5u,-
Iteprluumdlug thè porter for careless 000. II«* says lie wants anti Is entitled
noss, I rollisi It ou to thè truck myaelf. to a rest. Some iuipilrera wunt to
Tlicn, taklng a short cut to thè dock. I know how lie could have saved so
(O riginal.)
rolliti every laurei ulanird thè tdilp, to much on $12 a week, tlie lilglu-st wages
There were years o f contluuctl revo­ (he astoulsliiuent o f (he rmmtabouts. I he ever received The answer Is easy.
lution iu Culm W*fore tlie tluul rellu- 1 saw thè vessai sali and grow dlm on He got $2 a day. He lived on 22 rents
qulsliineut o f tlie island by S|ialu bjr tbc nort berti horizou.
a day. U nsaved tlie difference. 1 IIv im I
ortier o f tlie I'ultod States. As far
A con pie o f weeks later l revelved a In Now York on 5 cents a «lay for
hack as fifty years ug» filibustering; letter frolli Martin slatlng thnt he had nearly six months and was lu magnifi­
expeditions weut there from Florida, cut liliuself out o f thè latrrel and ar­ cent health. Some |ieople ent to live;
but revolution had not gathered suffi­ rivisi siifely In a free country.
| others live to ent. As the old «'hap on
cient strength for an auxiliary to I h > o f
G A R D N 'E K V B O R LA N D .
the ferryboat said to the small hoy:
benefit. New aud again a leader would
“ Sonny, why dives a pig eat?”
arise, but after a brief resistance to
“ ’Cause lie's hungry."
Urvdodgeeble Tax*».
Spanish tyranny would succumb. Usti-
“
No. There's another reason.”
*'Iu the past,” said the tax assessor,
nlly a price was set upon Ids head.
“ Whitt's <tntr
“ governments were wiser. They levied
It was during the latter part o f this
“ He wants to make n hog of hint-
taxes that could not be sworn off.
period o f Incipient revolution that I
There was. for instance, the English self."—Now York Press.
w ent,to Cuba as a sugar planter. My
birth tax o f the seventeenth century.
plantation was in the Interior, but my
Lacked Something.
A luborcr paid 2 shillings as birth tax;
office was lu Havana. One day while
“ You Germans have no s«-nse of hu­
a duke paid £30. You couldu’t get
at the form er my coat was caught by
mor." snl«l an American
a portion o f the machinery, and 1 was round It.
“ T ry me and *«•<*,“ snl<l the German.
“ Burials were taxed, according to
Jerked toward Instant death. One of
“
W ell,” salil the American, "yon
my employees, l>lu% Martin, of mixed tlie station o f the dead, from a shilling know America Is the home of very
to £25. That, too, could not be dodged.
Spanish aud Aztec blood, pushed fo r­
large tilings tlie highest mountains,
“ Marriages were taxed. A duke to
ward and extricated me u few seconds
marry paid £.’s); a common person, the greatest w g te rfiil*"-
before I would have been mangled but
“ Oh. yes. yes, yes." said the German.
like yourself, paid half n crown.
for him. 1 had been carried to a posi­
“ And our trees.” miitlmi«*'! the Amer­
“ In those days you paid a tax on
tion so dangerous for any one to enter
ican, “ are s«> tall that In order to see to
every servant, on every dog. on every
except with extreme cautlou that uiy
tlie top of th«*m one man looks ns fur
horse, on your carriage, your hearth,
rescuer’s net was one of great bravery.
up ns he cun. aud another inun Iveglus
your windows, watches, clocks, wigs,
It surprised me, for he had all the
where the first man leaves off and
hair powder, plate, ribbons, bricks,
softness o f inuuner possessed by his
looks up to the top.”
coal, gauze and candles.” —Cincinnati
Aztec progenitors.
“ But dat vans uo Joke; dut vaaa a
Enquirer.
I took Martin with me to Havana
lie “
aud placed him in a position where he
Natura’ a Vengeanca.
CURED OF RHEUMATISM.
might become valuable to himself as
riin y Informs us thnt twelve cities
well as to me. Rut he was entirely un­
Mr.
Wm. Henry, ol Chattanooga,
In Asia Minor were swallowed tip In
educated. aud I found few things of
Teun.,
had rheumatism in his li lt arm
oue wight. Iu the year 115 the city of
Importance that he could do well. Iu
Antioch and n great part of tlie adja­ “ Tim strength seemed to have gone
order to benefit him 1 paid him more
cent country were burled by nn earth­ out «>( the muscles so that it was use­
than he was worth. I confess I con­
quake. About 300 years ufter It was
less for work,” lie says. “ I applied
sidered him sldftiess and with u<> fan­
agaiu destroyed, along with 40,000 In­
cy for hard work. He remained with habitants, and after an Interval of six­ Chamberlains Pain Halm and wrapped
me several years, during which 1 tried ty years was n third time overturned, the arm in flannelnt night, nnd to my
him iu many positions, in all o f which with tlie loss of not less than GO,000
relii'f 1 found that the pain gradually
he failed. One day 1 sent him out on souls. In 1002 the city of I ’ort Royal,
an errand, and lie did not come back. lu Jamaica, was destroyed by an earth­ left me and the strength returned. In
I made an examination of my cash quake, and the houses sank Into a gulf three weeks the rheumatism hud dis­
and found it all where 1 had supposed ! forty fathoms deep, lu 1003 an earth­ appeared . lid lias not einae returned.',
It was. He luul taken nothing, ut least quake occurred in Sicily which either
If troubhal with rheumatism try a few
o f mine.
destroyed or greatly damaged fifty- applications of Pain Balm. You are
About this time an insurrection broke four cities. The city of Catalonia was
out iu the interior which gave the utterly overtJirown, 10,000 inhabitants certain to be pleased with the relief
Spanish more trouble than any that of the city perishing iu the ruins, lu which it affords. For sale by all drug­
had occurred up to that time. The 1755 Lisbon was destroyed by an gists.
people o f the section iu which it took earthquake, and it buried under Its
place had fouud a leader, and it was ruins above 50,000 inhabitants. In Au­
this leader who caused all the trou­ gust. 1S22, two-thirds of the city of
Some Famous Salt Lake*.
ble. Such was usually the case with Aleppo, containing a population o f 200,-
The Dead sen Is forty miles long and
Cuban Insurrections. The jieople, who iKs), were destroyed by an earthquake. nine miles wide. Tlie Great Salt lake
were mostly negroes, were Incompe- Thirty thousand of its inhabitants were Is seventy m!i<-s long nnd eighty tulles
tent to defy even for a brief )>eriod buried in the ruins.
wl«I«>. the Inrgest I*sly of brine lu the
the authority o f the captain general
world. There Is evidence to show that
until some man arose to lead them.
once the Great Salt lake was at least
Senate and Lord*.
Nothing was known of the general of
35o miles In length nnil 150 in width,
The British house of lords Is a sur­
this insurrection except that he was
nine times its present area. The Demi
called Bonito. The government offered vival o f the ancient aristocracy o f the sen contains nixvut 24 p*-r cent of sol­
kingdom,
which
for
a
long
time
was
the usual reward for liis head, but the
ids. one-third o f which Is pure suit,
supreme in all national matters. When
government could not get him.
while o f the 23 per cent o f solid mat­
Uie
democratic
sentiment
won
n
place
But Bonito was fighting hopelessly.
ter In the waters of Great Halt lake
Gradually his forces dwindled either for Itself In the shape o f the house o f nearly nil Is salt
by death or a return to their ordinary commons tlie natural and apparently
avocations, aud at last the lutrepid iu- indestructible conservatism of the Brit­
P L E N T Y OF TR O U B LE
surgeut found himself alone. This of ish people held on to the house o f lords
is caused by stagnation of the liver
course meant that sooner or later some as a check upon the commons and a
one iu order to obtain the reward o f­ perpetual reminder o f the ancient Insti­ and hovels. T o get rid of it and head­
fered for his capture would deliver tution. The senate o f the United States ache and biliousness ami tli«* poison
was the result o f the compromise
him to the government.
that brings jaundice, take Dr. K in g's
Oue evening I remained longer than struck lietwecn the Nationalists nnd New L ife Pills, the reliable purifiers
usual at my office to make some esti­ States' Rights parties In the convention
Some that do tlie work without grinding or
mates. A ll my employees had gone that formed the constitution.
were
for
merging
the
representatives
griping. 2.jc. at Biewers drug store.
home, and I was sitting alone at my
desk, with my back to the door. Sud­ In a single body, while others insisted
denly there came to me one o f those upon the second chamber (the senate)
Not the Kind He Wanted.
Indescribable sensations which imirk as a recognition o f the political equality
"L ittle W illie ran away to hunt red­
the Imparting o f knowledge without o f the states.
skins.”
F
M y
E m p loyee.
the usual mediums. Though I heard
no sound. I knew some one stood lie-
Bathing a Prince.
hind ine. Turning, there stood Diaz
George IV. while prince and residing
And Cement ituilding Material.
Martin. H e had entered with the soft In his Brighton palace kept In his bed­
step usual to him aud stood looking at room a portrait of Mrs. Gunn, nn old
Cement Stone made to Order on Short me with that mild, dreamy expression bathing woman who used to dip him
I had seen iu pictures o f the Aztec Into the sea when lie was the little
Notice. Foundations a Specialty.
Eniia-ror Montezuma. 1 extended my ITinee o f Wales. A picture book much
hand, which he grasped with a feeling prized by children showed tlie old lady
L. P B R O W N .
not Indicated in his countenance. Then bathing the little fellow. Beneath the
I asked him why he had left me aud picture was this stanza:
where lie bad lieen.
To Brighton came he.
Came George the Third'» eon.
“ 1 received word, signor, that my
To be dipped In the sea
father's little plantation had 1**011 raid­
By the famed Martha Gunn.
ed by Spanish troops under a pretext
A companion portrait to Martha
that he was disloyal to the govern­
ment. A ll lie had was taken from hhn, .Gunn's was that o f Thomas Smoaker,
and he was thrown into prison, while who had charge o f the horse which
my mother and sisters were left to drew the bathing machines into and
starve. I could not but go. signor, to out o f tlie sea. One day tlie little roy­
their assistance. I gathered a force in al highness, having learned to swim,
a forest, from which 1 emerged aud swam out farther than Thomas Judged
to be safe. lie called to him to come
fell upon” —
back, but tlie self willed boy struck
‘ You are"—
out
with more vigor. Thomas went
“ Bonito.”
When 1 had finished gaping at him after the prince, overtook him, seized
hi astonishment, I got from him an him by an ear and drew him to shore.
“ Do you think,” he replied to the
account o f how for a long period he
had held a provim e from Spanish rider boy's angry words, “ I ’m a-going to get
how lie had lieen left uloue and had myself hanged for letting the king’s
come to ine ¡is a last hope for Ids life. heir drown liissclf Just to please a
When he had finished, after procuring youngster like you?”
some
provisions for him I locked hhn
Call at the Tonsorial Parlor and get
A Madman's Strange Beliaf.
up
In
my office and went home to con­
a first-class Hair Cut and an O. K
An unfortunate maniac was confined
Rub. It is healing and cooling to the coct a plan for getting him out o f f'uha.
A sugar barrel, being o f extra size, In one o f the Scottish lunatic asylums,
scalp, restores hair to its natural
health, opens the jiores and strength­ seemed to me to lie the most feasible his particular Infirmity being nn un­
conveyance. I f I could get the man shakable belief that every day was
ens the roots.
whose head was worth $10.000 into a Christmas «lay nnd that he was din­
G. W . P L A S T E R , Prop.
barrel and drive him myself to tlie ing sumptuously on turkey or roast
Near Florence St.
S T A Y T O N . do<-k, I might put him aiionrd a ship beef nnd a good slice of plum pud­
and scud him to another land as sug­ ding. JMs real diet, however, was of
ar. The next morning I went to my the plainest, he being served twice
office, which was in my warehouse, dally with a dish of oatmeal porridge.
long lieforo any one o f my employees A fter «lolly describing to his attendants
was there. I packed Marlin in a sugar the pleasures he had tnsted in Ids rut
barrel, with some provisions, a gimlet o f turkev or what not lie ns regularly
and a little saw. leaving him stamU'ig 1 added, “ Vet, somehow or other, every­
on
Ids f<s*t iu tlu* warehouse. Then I thing that I eat tastes o f porrlilg«*.”
GET YOURS A T
went to breakfast. Returning, I or- . This story it was which gave rise to
dcre»l a truck to take some sugar to | the saying, “ As palatable as the mad-
| manj» porridge.”
Cement
Building
Stone
0 . K. BARBER SHOP
lob Printing
The Mail Office
wiioopiNO conni.
I bave
Kcm<-dy in
|ng coligli,
it i» tlm
uscii Chainherlain» Coligli
my fam ily in ca-eeof wboop-
and want to teli you tim i
best medicine I bave ever
u»«xl.— W. F. Unstun, Po*c«>, G.
Ib is
remedy i» »afe and aure. For »ale by
all drnggists.
A fra m l w ith a rea i
ilic e
n a t i l e i» a
m o n e y • m a k lh g in » tin i im i.
GKNTLK ANI» KFFKCT1 VE.
A w ell known Manitoba editor w rii«-»
“ A » ami inside worker I fimi riu n ii
Iverlains Mintimeli and l.iie r T a b let»
invsvlable for thè toiicliea uf bilioue-
neoe naturai t<» »edeniury lifo, their
action being geu tlean d elfeotive, idear,
mg thè digestive traci ami thè head."
Price, '25 cent*.
Hsmple» Iree. A ll
d ru g f iste.
Monumems
/Warble, Gran­
ite or Bronze
If you are in need of a mon­
ument I am prepared to
furnish anything in the
monument line.
I have a
line of samples with prices
that will interest you.
I also build stone and con­
crete walls. Send for cir­
cular and price list and I
will convince you that my
prices are right.
L. L. ThOH AS,
Stayton, Oregon.
StaytonLivery
G. B. TRASK, Prop.
Rigs, Horses and Accommo­
dations First-class.
Hacks connect with train* at King*
ton ami West Mlayton.
Stage line from Turner to Lyons.
STAYTON,
OREGON.
Sour
Stom ach
No appetite, lost ol atrength. nervous
ness, headache, constipation, bad breath,
general debility, sour rtalngs. and catarrh
"Y es? "
of the stomach are all due to Indigestion.
"But he didn't fitul any until his fa­ Kodol relieves Indigestion. This new discov*
ther had finished with him.” —Hnrper’s ery represents the natural juices of dlges*
lion as they ezlst In a healthy stomach,
W eekly.
combined with the greatest known lonlo
and
reconstructive properties. Kodol for
Ungallant.
dyspepsia does not only reileve Indigestion
“ My faee Is my fortune, sir." she and ayspepsls, but this famous remedy
said.
helps all stomach troubles by cleansing,
“ W ell,” he replied, "poverty Is no dls- purifying, sweetening and strengthening
grace, but It’s aw fully Inconvenient at the mucous membranes lining the stomach.
V lm n * ••
HE (iOT WHAT HE NEEDED.
Mr. S. S. Balt, of Rsvenewood. W. Vs., say»:—
" I
troubled with sour etomech f«,r twenty year*.
Kodol cured me and we ere now using It In miA
forbsby."
Kodol Digests What You Eat.
“ Nine years ago it l«>ok«-«l as if my
Bottles only. Relle*»» lrd!(ettlon, sour stomach,
lime lia«l come,” says Mr. C. Farthing,
belching of (» » . etc.
*»f Mill Creek, In«l. Ter. “ I was so run P re p a re d by Z. O. O e W IT T A C O ., O H IO A Q O .
Hold by Brewer I »rug Cn.
down that life Inmg on a very slender
tlneac. It was then my ilruggist rec-
ommended Electric Bitrers. 1 bought
a bottle and I got vvliat I needed—
ftrength. I bad one foot in th<! grave,
but Electric Bitters put it hnck on the
turf again, nnd I've been well ever
since.”
Hold under guarantee at
Brewer's «Irng store. 50c.
The Wicked Husband.
"W h y «loes a man lie to his wife?”
asks a woman writer. Dear tne, does
lie?—Duluth Herald.
A moral, sensible, well bred man will
not Insult me No otln r ;an.—Cowper.
A big cut or a little cut, small
scratches or brui»«‘s or big ones are
henled quickly by DcWitts Csrlvolizod
Witch llazel Halve. It is especially
good for piles. Get Ih’ Wkts. Hold by
Stayton Pharmacy.
DR. K. K. J A C K S O N
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist
Port-graduate ut Wj-niafl's
College.
duly
registered la On-gun. T1 y«-ers s Veterinary
IHfllrnlt naaee HoliclU-d
teed.
ST AYTO N ,
-
Hatlstartlon Utiaran-
*K ij’. u'iU jnarieiu»auuuu'JusueiiKinei
C tJ B B S
Goughs,Colds,
CROUP,
Whoopingfough
Tlilt rrmrdy can always hr depended upon and
Is pleasant to take. It contains no opium or
other harmful drug and may be given as confi­
dently to a baby as to an adult!
Price 25 cents, large site SO ants.
OREGON.