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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
^ y i L B U R N. P IN T I.K R , 1>. M. 1>.
DENTIST
Office over Fred Ki-ck’s Store
STAY TON
R
OH KO' »N
A . ELNVOOn,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office over R ock’s store,
STAYTON,
-
OREGON.
J. M. RINGO,
S u c c e s s o r t o \V. K . T h o m « «
Funeral Director and Embalmer
Leave orders at Stayton H otel.
STAYTON,
J O H N
OREGON.
H E N K E L
Merchant Tailor
I have on hand a full line of sample*
for Spring and Summer Suits.
Repairing and Cleaning a Specialty
W AYTO N
C IT Y
OREGON
M EAT
M ARKET
Sestak & Sons
^/'«ai*rv
id
Fresh, Salt and Smoked
M EATS
HIGHEST M A R K E T PRICE PA ID
FOR STOCK AND HIDES
Stayton, Oregon
Grand Central Hotel
Is open to the public. A ll newly fur
nished rooms.
Accommodations first-
ilass.
Nice, warm dining room and
Irst-claas meals.
M. J. SPANIOL, Prop.
Stayton, Oregon
STAYTON
CEMENT STONE WORKS
A L L KINDS
Cement
OF
Building
Stone
And Cement Building M aterial.
Cem ent Stone made to Order on Short
N otice. Foundations a Specialty.
L. P B R O W N .
0 . K. BARBER SHOP
How He Did !t.
"W hen I was connected with a cer
tain western railw ay," say» n promi
nent official of an eastern line, “ we
had In our employ a brnkemnu who,
for special service rendered to the
road, was granted a mouth's vacation.
" l i e decided to spend hla time In a
trip over the Rockies. W e furnished
him with passes.
“ He went to Denver and there met
a number o f Ills friends at work on one
of the Colorado roads. They gave him
a good time and when be went away
made b i u i a present of a mountain
goat.
•’ Evidently our brakeman was at a
loss to get the animal borne with him,
ns the express charges were very
heavy at that time. Finally, however,
bitting upon a happy expedient, ho
made out a shipping tag and tied It to
the horns o f the goat. Then he pre
sented the beast to the othee of the
stock ear line.
“ W ell, that tag created no end of
amusement, but It served to accom
plish the end of the brakeman. It was
inscribed as follows:
‘“ Please pass the butter. Thomas J,
Meecbln, brakeman, S. S. und T. By.' “
—Harper's Weekly.
Ant Merchant*.
Ant merchants, clad In leather nn
derwear, are to be fouud in Paris,
London and several other European
cities.
W herever pheasants are pre
served the ant merchant Is In detnaud.
It is not, however, ants, but the eggs
o f ants, that the man chiefly deals In
From every part o f Euroi>e ants are
shipped to him, and he keeps them In
sut ruus—places similar in their nature
to chiekeu runs—and he feeds and
tends them carefully, so that their
health will keep tine and they will lay
generously.
The eggs he packs in wooden boxes
and ships to various earls, dukes,
counts and other game preserves in
different parts o f the world. And the
ants themselves he slays as soon ns
they cease to lay, pressing them and
selling them in black bloeks similar
to plug tobacco to dealers In birds and
bird food.
It is Interesting to be an nnt mer
chant, but leather underwear Is essen
tial to the business, as the little crea
tures bite unmercifully.—New ^Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Coincidence.
The strange story told by a default
ing debtor o f his being recognized after
he had been for six years trying to
live down the past is not so strange a
story as one which came within the
ken o f Professor Jowett. A good man
went w rong, was caught and sentenced
at Liverpool to imprisonment A fter
the sinner had served his term Jowett
and others helped him, and he obtained
a colonial editorship where his past
was unknown.
He did well; was a
new man. One day a tornado swept
off the roof o f his office. Under the
roof was discovered a batch o f old
English papers which had been placed
there anti forgotten after the mail had
brought them. lie set members of Ills
staff to work to get out of the derelicts
anything which might be Interesting
enough to prlni. The first thing that
they found was a full report o f the
trial and conviction o f the man him
self, their editor, at Liverpool all those
years before.—St. James’ Gazette.
Pants and Trousers.
Everybody talks well when he talks
In the way he likes, the way he can’t
help, the way he never thinks of. The
rest is effort and pretense. The man
who says "trousers" because lie likes
to say it and the man who says “ pants"
because he likes to say it are both
good fellows with whom a frank soul
could fraternize, but the man who says
“ trousers” when he wants to say
“ pants" is a craven and a truckler,
equally hateful to honest culture and
wholesome Ignorance. Ho belongs In
the same sordid category with the man
who wears tight shoes and high col
lars that are a torment to the flesh,
who eats olives that he doesn’t relish
and drinks uncongenial clarets In Imi
tation o f Ills genteel neighbor In the
brownstone front.—Atlantic.
*
Book Evolution.
“ Books” have progressed from the
days when they were only wooden rods
or bits o f Imrk. For the derivation
which connects “ book” directly with
“ beech.” both having been “ hoc” In
Anglo-Saxon, Is tho favorite one.
"Buchstalieri." the German word for
letters of the alphabet, means literally
“ beech staves." Many book words go
back to such vegetable origin. Tho
Call at the Tonsorial Parlor and get Latin “ liber,” a book, whence comes
a first-class H a ir Cut and an O K our “ library,” wns properly the Inner
liuh. I t is healing and cooling to the bark or rind of a tree, especially of
scalp, restores hair to its natural papyrus. The Greek “ lrfblon," whence
health, opens the pores and strength “ Bible” and “ bibliophile,” meant much
ens the roots.
the same thing.
A “ codex” was a
block o f wood, and “ leaf” Is obvious.
>-,G. W . P L A S T E R , Prop.
Near Florence St.
STAN ION.
lob Printing
GET
YOURS A T
The Mail Office
Variety.
Visitor—Why do you make some of
your pies round and some o f them
square? W ife—Because my husband
lias been complaining of sameness of
his diet lately.
Jesters must lie content to tust® of
their broth.—Latin Proverb.
N. in the middle ages it was held as
A Lesson In Grammar.
symbolic
of the overlord, oul.v being
In n certain «vountHlnoua region the
teachers are appointed with little »pi**» granted to vassals and feudatories
tlon concerning their grammatical whom the lord wished to honor, so that
orthodoxy.
Occasionally, however, a It Implies as nothing else could the mi
wave of school reform sweeps through prcmac.v of the pope over the kings of
the valleys, and uudeslred examina England Loudon Standard.
tions are thrust upon embarrassed |>ed
Wbat Make* the Heart Beat?
agoguea.
Professor Jaequea Lw h, the celebrat
It was during one of these period* or
Intellectual discomfort that the follow ed biologist, in Ids hook, "Dynamics
ing sentence was given: "The bird of Living Matter," lias shown that a
flew over the house." Aooouipanylng strip cut from the ventricle of the
It was the query, "Is ‘flew’ a regular heart put In u solution o f chloride or
sodium will coutlime to bellt for a
or an Irregular verb?"
One teacher after another shook tils number of days, until putrefaction sets
head hopelessly despite the slow, In. Ho says Hits can be done with an
thought Inspiring fashion In which the ordinary muscle after It Inis been e x
examiner repented the perplexing fact tirpated from the body. This would
tend to prove that the heart Is a chem
that "T h e — bird — flew — over
the
ical machine and that It Is all due to
house."
Finally a man rose In the rear. and. chemical action. The muscular con
with the assurance of one who puts traction Is probably due to the auball-
his trust In logic and a practical know l tution o f sodium for calcium salis lu
edge of natural history, he volunteered the cells o f the muscles.
The difficulty o f tills theory Is thut It
a solution Said he:
" I f that bird Which Mew m er the docs not explain the control o f the
house was a wild goose. It went In a I muscles. It Is plnlu that the problem
straight, regular Hue, so the verb Is o f control Is not solved by the ehem-
regular.
But If it was a i»eckwi>od Icul theory.
that flew over the house, then It went
in a crooked, zigzag line, and so the
verb Is Irregular."
All but the grammar bound exam
Iner were satisfied with this sensible
and rational explanation. — Youth's
Companion
Stayton Livery
G. B. TRASK, Prop.
Rigs, Horses and Accommo
dations First-class.
Hacks connect with
trains at K in gs
ton and W est H la) tun.
Stage lin e from T u rn e r to Lyons.
STA Y T O N ,
OREGON.
DB. E. E. J A C K S O N
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist
!*"• t -K r M-l >i n I • nl Wyiintii'n Cull« nr.
D uly
rt-zUtvr««! In On-nuti. s i year« n Vi n rin n ry
lllltlc ull ( ••• • S u l n l t f l . Siill.f». I l e a ><unr«a
lead.
STAYTON,
OflCGON.
Right to th* Point.
“ The follow ing letter," said a travel
ing man. "w as received by a friend of
mine who was drumming up trade In
New England for a New York necktie
house:
" ‘ W e have received your letter with
.|M-nse account. What we want Is or
Artistic Slip*.
ders. We have big families to make
It Is a frequent matter of lament»
expenses for us
W e find In your ex-
tlon on the part of artists that one of
peuse account
cents for hllllarda.
their uumlier may spend genius and
Please don’t buy any more billiards;
time on a piece of work, only to fall
also we see $ J.'J.'i for horse and buggy.
conspicuously In small detail.
Where Is the horse, and what did you
There Is a story that one Royal acade
T o be lield in
do with the buggy? The rest o f your
mician gave a hand five fingers and a
expense account Is nothing but la-d
thumb and that auothcr painted h live
Why Is It you don’t ride more In the
lolistcr bright red
nighttime?
The clever Goodnll had l»een engaged
i " ‘John says you should stop In Bos
in painting a numtier o f laborers drag
W ill be tin- most bn|l| lilt
ton, whore his cousin George Moore
ging a hug • stone across the desert
lives John says you sho dd sell Moore
when a man o f science entering the
a guild Mil. Give good prices he Is
studio said to him "I say, (joodall. If
John's cousin
Sell him mostly for
you want those fellows to pull that
ever li-ld in the I’scitlc Northwest.
cash; nlso John snys you eon leave
stone you must double their numlier.
Boston at 11:13 In the night und get to Cortland, "T h e llo «e t 'it y ," will I m - a
It would require Just twice as many
Concord st I B.*» In the morning. Do
scene of spli-uilor nnd the centre of
for the task.”
this and you won't need any l*<-d And,
world wale interest for one week.
But It Is not modern painters alone
remember, what we want is o r d e r s '”
who slip up on points o f accuracy
Several im portant conventions told-
Even Albrecht Durer In a scone repre
In-ld in C on ian doti that ei'eii.ion.
Trading
a*
a
Fine
Art.
senting Peter denying Christ painted
A grocery store In Nelson, Ijinca-
one o f the Roman soldiers in the art of
smoking
Turner put n rulnlww !**- *liln>. was managed by a collier's w ife
slde the sun. and In another picture he One night the g<s»d woman was com
got fearfully tangled In the ship's rig polled to leave the shop for a short
time In charge of her husband, giving
g in g —Chicago Record-Herald.
him full Instructions how to net and
especially cautioning him that in the
Fixing a Photografter.
event o f a customer presenting a Jar
W ill Sell Special Tickets
Senator Stone of Missouri once made
or pot and asking for treacle. Jam or
On
Tins Occasion From
himself unpopular with a certain pho
pickles he "must I k - sure and weigh
tographer. The latter Individual ap
th' pot."
E S T S TA Y TO N
peared at the senator's room at the
Full of confidence, the collier install
capitol and announced that he was
to Cortland and Return at
ed himself behind the counter. In a
there to take a picture Stone expostu
short time n lad rnu Into the shop and
$
lated. but In vain. A few days later
piped out:
the photographer again appeared and
For C 11 rticnlsr* Gall on
" I want two pound o’ pickles fur ml
presented the pictures and also a bill
fsythur, und here's th’ pot."
If.
B. CON D IT , Local A gent.
for $10. RemenilM-rlng how hopeless
The good man carefully weighed tlw
was his argument against having the
M. Mi Ml R R A 1, I » i i . Ca». Agent,
pot und exclaimed:
picture taken. Senator Stone decided It
“ Nay, lad. th’ pot weighs enough
Cortland, I tregon.
would Is? still more useless for film to
bowt pickles, but I'll gl' th! one or two
decline to pay for them. So he wrote a
anyway.” - Liverpool Mercury.
check. A fter the man’s name was on
the check he wrote the word “ Photo-
The First American Duel.
"t, \ n
grafter.”
In
the
year 1030 occurred the first
When the man presented the check
at the senate disbursing office for pay duel known to hnvo taken pine® on
ment. he was required to Indorse tin- American soil. The principals, Edward
check and write after his name. Just Doty and Edward Leister, were serv
as It was written on the face of the ants o f a Mr. Hopkins, one o f the New
check, the word “ Photo-grafter.” —St England colonists. The men had quar
reled over some trifling matter nnd re
Louis Republic.
sorted to the field for Its settlement.
The affair was stopped by the authori
When Actor* Play to Actor*.
ties but not Id-fore one had been
“ When he (Henry Irving) engaged me wounded In the thigh and the other In
to play Ophelia In 1878 he asked me to the baud. There wns no law covering
go down to Birmingham to see the such matters, but the governor o f the
u : j
n o . .’j u i a j . u ' . j . ' i .utrjawj
play, and that night I saw what I shall province decided that the men should
CURBS
always consider the perfection of act lie punished nevertheless. At his or
ing. It had been wonderful In 1874; In ders they were sent to have their heads
1878 it was far more wonderful," wrote and feet tied together nnd Ho In that
Ellen Terry in McClure’s. “ It has Ix-en condition twenty-four hours without
said that when he had the ‘advantage
food or drink. They suffered so much,
of my Ophelia his Ilumlet 'Improved.
however, that they were released at
I don’t think so. He was always quite the und o f nn hour.
Independent o f the people with whom
he played. Tho Birmingham night he
Proving Hi* Motto.
knew I was there. He played - I say It
“ W ell, sir," exclaimed the millionaire,
without vanity—fo r me
W e players
are not above that weak lies . ii It be a “ wliat do you want this morning?”
T!ils remedy r ;n ahvi»bt depended upon ar.d
“ I’ ve come again to ask for your
weakness. I f ever anything I ns pi ref
iv plcasar.l 1 1 t-'.e. ft cento iu no opium cr
us to do our best It is the p • ' ice l:i daughter,” said the poor but ambitious
ether harnf 'l ¿r; gard o; he given asconfi-
the audience o f some fellow ¡,.-.i I who young man.
j dcntly to a C 7 ns ti * . adjlt.
"H aven 't 1 tolil you six limes over
must, in the nature of thing;. kt;o,v
Riice 23 cents, large :iie SO rents.
on
as many different days thill It Is
more completely than any one \ hat we
What do you
Intend, what we do. what v e fee!. The out o f the question?
mean
by
Irotheriug
me
In (Ills way?
response from such a idcmi.or of 1 -.
audience tiles across the f>-'lights to You are making a nuisance of your
i like a
• I fell It eg
b n I self!"
" I f I seem to be more persistent that
played O) i.i la-fire 1
>
t
citeiimstances warrant, 1 must Insist
felt that he i*!t ll on;'* v
i!.c ;
that you sir, are to blame.”
A Fresh Complexion
ed M.irgtieriu- Guitiie; for me.”
"M e !” shouted tie- Indignant old man
Is preserved—and produced— by
' 1 don't understand you.”
Robertine, a mild, delightful
The Topsyturvydom ef Rtlisicn.
preparation, delicately fragrant.
"There." said the mail w ho loved Ills
At tin* op .In g «».’ i-hig E h -tr .
f
tho skin exquisitely soft|
daughter as lie pointed to a motto over
first parliament lie hud to repeat af.
banishes crackled appearance caused
the
banker’s
desk.
"Is
m
.V
excuse
foi
the lord clmneciior an oa h whh !• <■ u.i
r *»y Over-dryness t reduces the size of
Jeiimed in almost brutal v o. Is all coming here day after day. 'I f at first
enlarged pores, cleanses them, re-
\ our** inflammation and spreads an even,
things papistical. Yet held ¡:! > '
a you don’t succeed, try. try, try again
rad ¡ant glow due to wholesome nourish
I’ rotestani peer for nil l ’ , >;■- n .
: i Do .ion he lie vc In that sentiment, oi
ment of skin glands and stimulation of
reverence v.ns a veritable ein’ > m of have you put it lip there simply to de
tho capillaries which also feed the
[aipal supremacy- u qualm little bon reive people?"
•kin and supply it* healthful color.
A
fter
he
had
scratched
tils
head
net o f crlnr.on velvet til led up v.ltb
Aik your Druggiit/ora frti lampli of
ermine. This Is th - c::p of i alule- awhile the mean old plutocrat said:
"Yes,
I
believe
In
that.
I
haven’t
nance, nnd to tr Ted I-- it tli.it no
succeeded yet in making you under
bands 1ml royalty may ling r r
Thu
the preini' • marquis, who- ■ I; ..-¡I ;•> stand that my daughter shall not be
i 11
>ll.i - come the w ife of a fool, but I am going
n c a r r y it, b a l a i e -
what nf ; ; 1 h e f ' d o n o f ;1 ' 11.i j t n * o r .to keep on trying till I do! Good morn
upon a
lilt«» s t a f f .
'1 L t.-v n i p w i i k Ing!”
And that time he did i t —Htrand
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