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H0STESSF3 _ “The Farn! 3 rs Store Of duality” it Y o u ru j C u ri l i C > O n . August 15th Get Busy Last Loofc L,P week’s ad for Prices as they have not changed GOOD GOODS GOOD GOODS A. 1 W. SeHRUNK A U M S V IL L E . % OREGON j ! | FIXES HAIR te i W i t h N e w W a y o f G a t l o r m j J e w s ls W ill I ^aise th e P rice of Saft T H IS W IL L GIVE YOU PLENTY OF T IM E TO GET YOUR SALT FOR HAYING BEFORE TH E ADVANCE rOPSED In N sw Y o rk . Monili Veneti. X V A youiig svo lutili xvIn» bus a iiimv melliod of mhhery I h bclug mitighi hy thè polire of ibis city, New lìo< hello. \\ lille rialti* and Voukera S ilo I h ii \ ery prctty girl, about tucul.» ,»#nrw old ami eipen-dvely attinsi. Ilcr nietlmd of otiti!liilmr Jowels, hand bags. pm sci and iiiiytlilngelse of vaino, whlcli lias I h - c i i lite sanie tu all placca. I h rvplalucd lo Mrs Edgar II. Davis of Idi Klcveiith livellile. Moimt Vertion Wldlc ttu* Dai I h fuiully »vas ut lunch. »sin ilio girl calimi mi tln-lr homo nini Introduci»! In-isoli ns a friend of Frisi Goodell. il collabi of Mrs Davis, »vini ll»cs ni llrldgc|Mirt. ami sald flint tlood- ell Ioni soni Iter to Mrs Da via lo »»alt t borii imiti In- cu Iloti wlth un atitomo- blle and tlioy would go for a rido. Slie declinisi ali In» ttatlou lo purtakn of tbo imit'licoii. bnt askcd If sii# coutil go tu a hcdrooni to drena ber lialr. Mrs. Davis aont Iter to ber o»vn rooni and rottimeli tu ber meni. Hiilf nn hour l’iter II »vas disco» croi! filo girl Inni Hed nini tliat Min Davis timi lost $200 In Jcivela frodi ber hcdroom. In cucii place thè girl ropreaenta flint she 1« to watt for some relative of thè faiully who ls to cali for ber. i;j .j B ud F ish e r jum ped the old-tim e ru t w hen he invented Je ff and M u tt. F o r y ears, w ith thut am using pair, h e ’a ch ased a w a y th e people’s ca re , and m ade th em laugh and th row th e ir hats, und cack le till th e y broke th e ir slu ts. T h e tired , th e sad, tho w eak, th o w orn, h a v e la u g h e d w ith B u d , und c e a s e d to m ou rn ; the lam e, tho halt, the blind, th e d eaf, h a v e w hooped w ith glee o ’e r M u tt nnd Jeff. W h e r e does ho find tho joyous jests w hich break tho b u tto n s fro m o u r v e s t s ? Y o u ’d think tho fount would huve to fa il, but n e v e r o n c e bus ho b e e n s ta le . BUD FISHER W h e n he sits dow n to h a tch a plot Cart vanni, •■>■> in w hich his heroes will bo cau g h t, " T u x tJ o h i t m a J t a r m o v f Fo H ghts his pipe, und soon a joke p i pt m y favori I « / fo o rm mmo^ng. ih coointu an j em erges iro m T u x e d o sm oke. Ho sw ears b y " T u x ” und s o w ill you, 1 / j l j . ^ w h en yo u h a v e tried a j a r o r tw o. HORSEIS SOLE NEIR TO $42,707 LE6AGY “ W EINHARD’ S GOLOEN NECTAR” !» “ W EiNHARD’ S AMBER NECTAR No Other Pets Found to Enjoy Comforts Ordered In New »W I > C IV IL IZ A T IO N . T h # u p w a rd aw tap of c iv ili* la tio n la net unlike th# riaing of the incom ing tide. It advancea and recedei, but each advance c a rrlee h u m a n ity to a h ig h e r a l* titu d e th a n it had reached be fore*— B. O. F lew er. a w -t ew u w i T h # Pelican. No on# would b# likely to Imagine l hat so heavy and. In fact, apparently ungainly a bird as a pelican la a king among soaring birds. After much flop ping when these great birds hare ac quired headway the broad wings are spread, and In majestic circles they mount skyward, with oaly an occa sional flap of the wing, often pasalng beyond the range of one's vision. Q ueer E rre re . The error In one biographical dic tionary in which It Is said that from 1SU8 to 1000 Itooserelt was "president of New York" reminds the Philadel phia ledger of the fine old typograph ical error that crept Into one of Horace Greeley's editorials. "There Is no barn In Guilford,” asserted the editorial, Greeley having written. "There Is no balm In Gilead.” U n ex p la in a b le . “It's a queer world.” ‘‘W hat’« the matter now?" "I was Just thinking thlflgs over. Mr husband hasn't a single bad habit, ar.d yet lie can't make more than $25 per week, and the man across the street has all the vices and yet Is earn ing $10.000 a year.” — Detroit Free Preas. O rig in of th# Cannon. It 1* a curious fact that the flrst can non was cast at Venice. It was called a "liombard'' and was Invented and employed by General Plsanl In a war »gainst the Genoese. The original bom bard, which bears the date of 1380, Is still preserved «nd stands at the foot of I’isanfs statue at the arsenal. The bombard threw a stone a hundred pounds In weight, but another Venetian general. Francisco Barde, Improved It until be was able to handle a charge of rock and bowlders weighing 3,000 pounds. It proved disastrous to him. however, for one day during the siege of Zara while he was operating hla ter rible engine ha was hurled by U over the walls and Instantly killed. t n w w v S W W S V W W SW W V I i EARNESTNESS. I « * e J t If we cared w is e ly and deeply e v e ry th in g in the w o rld would stra ig h te n its e lf out. W e should be amaxed in tha changa in our* selves. T h e n we should m arvel a t tha changa in th a peopla «bout ue. v w n w H w m w w w v v w w w ) Enough. "My dear, do you want to go t o the movies tonight7” "No. I’ve got enough of tbo movies. I've been watching two families go out of the block this morning and three coming lato I t " —Baltimore American. A H a rd H e a rte d People. Filial piety flnds no place in Tibetan character. It la no uncommon thing for a son to turn his father, when too old for work, out of doors and to leave him to perish In the cold. The supersti tion that the souls of the dead can. If they will, haunt the living drives tbelr hardened natures to gain by the exercise of cruelty the promise of the dying that they will not return to earth As death approaches the dying person Is asked. “Will you come back or will you not?" If he replies that he will they poll a leather bag over his head and smother him. If he says he will not lie Is allowed to die In peace. r York Woman’s Will. T h e G ordian Knot. The famous Gordian kuot was^uade of leather taken from some part of the harness belonging to the chariot of Gordius, king of riirygla. It seems that this knot was so tied that the ends of the leather thong were not vis ible. hence the difficulty In loosening I t Many must have trhnl to untie It. for Its fame as a "sticker" at last reached the great oracle, which declar ed that the lucky experimenter should be rewarded by the kingship o f Per sia. Alexander, trying hls hand and meeting with no better success than the others, drew his sword and cut Into the knot until be found the ends of i t O rig in o f th# Saw. According to Apollodorus, the tnven ! tlon of the saw came alxiut In the fot lowing way: Talus, so the account goes, having found the jawbone of a : huge snake, used It to cut through a I piece of wood and, finding that It i worked so well, formed an Instrument j of Iron similar to It The first saw mill concerning which we have any clear knowledge was erected on the island of Madeira somewhere about the year 1400. A few years later one was built at Breslau. There were no sawmills In England prior to 1003. In that year one was built there by a Dutchman, hut he was forced to aban don I t Sawmills were erected near Loudon about 1770. LOOK FOR THE GOOD New York.—The appraisal of the es tate of Mrs. Edith Rogers Ueltatly, who died on July 17. 1013, nt 34 West Fifty-seventh street, and »vho »vas tbo wife of John Gellatly, an Insurance broker, shows that »vhllc she left the Income from stocks valued at $42,797 for the care of her horses and dogs, the only nnlnml she owned nt the timo of her death was a horse at Whlto Flatus, appraised nt $700. In making the bequest Mrs. Gellatly • t w w w w s M w n w v w tsS M S w l directed that upon the death of her pet# the principal of the fund and tho Th# Suicida nf Hannibal. Defeated at Zamn. n„nnlbal tied to unused Income should l>e used by tho the east to avoid falling Into the bauds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of the Romans and found temporary t<> Animals In finding homes for ani mala and In preventing cruelty. security in the dominions of Mlthrl Mrs. Gellatly, who »Cn* tho daughter (lutes. lie Incited this monarch to #n of Columbus Rogers, disposed of an In gage In n Roman »var. and, his advice dividual estate of $080,704 net. nnd a as to Its conduct being rejected, the trust fund of $702,201, set aside for her war proved unsuccessful, and Mlthrt- In her father's will. She gnvo $1,- dates was required as one of the condi lOtV.'Tl to her husband and flSO.ICO to tions of pence to deliver up Hannibal her sister, Ella A. Rogers. to his enemies, the Romans. The unfortunate Carthaginian heard HELD UP BY BEAR. of hls approaching fate, svvallow ed the poison which for years he had carried Cub Refused to M ov# U n til A u to W a n t about his person and expired Just ns the a t T o p Spa#d. envoys arrived to take him away as a Ogdonshurg, N. Y.—David Earlier, a prisoner. traveling salesmnn, wns held up re D eadly In s u lt. cently hy a cub benr near Loon lake Among the offenders huddled In the while driving from Malone to K.'irnnac dock before u police magistrate was a Lake. Barber thought the liear »vns a most respectable looking grocer. II# dog. The anlmnl sat In the middle of Penaance and O xford. the road nnd refused to move out of A curious coat of arms, dating back was charged with assault. to early religious times. Is that pos "Why did you strike this man?’ was the path of the nulomoblle. Mr. Barber alighted from hls car to sessed by Penzance. The town Is call the flrst question the magistrate put to see what wns the mntter with tho ani ed Pen Sans on the corporation seal, him. mal. He approached close enough to and the coat of arms shows the head "Well, your honor,” said the grocer, see that It »vas a benr nnd then re of John the Baptist on a charger. "what would you yourself do If you Pen Sans is old Cornish for Holy kept a grocery store and n man came versed hi» direction. He hastily Jump Head, and so that the expression in and asked whether he could take a ed Into hls car nnd speeded up the en might be properly shown In the arms moving picture of your cheese?”—New gine. the noise of whb h so disturbed the bear tlmt It ambled off Into the of the town the head of John the Bap York Times. bushes. "I wasn't afraid of the bear, tist was chosen. The date of the coat but I didn't want any extended Inter- of arms of Penzance Is 1014. W eigh ing Instead of Counting. vle»vs with Mother Bear," said Burlier. The most appropriate coat of arms of No longer Is It regarded us good any town In England Is that belonging management to count uniform pieces to Oxford. It shows an ox and com one by one In manufacturing plants. MONEY MACHINE FAILS. memorates the fact that the site of the Scales especially constructed for the town was originally on a part of the purpose nre employed for counting ma It W o u ld N o t W o rk A fte r $5,000 H ad river fordable by oxen; hence Ox-ford. Been Paid F o r It. terial of like units. Not only ls the Peoria, III.—Isaac Dcutsch nnd weighing machine more accurate be W in d Pressure. In meteorological terms a strong wind cause It substitutes simple manual op Myer ICntz of West Frankfort. 111., Is anything from twenty-four to thirty- eration and the highest degree nf me near here, nro fa c in g trial on n charge seven miles an hour, a gale from thirty- chanical precision for the complicated of operating n confidence game brought mental figuring and Inaccuracies of by Anton Korchycli of Depue. III., who eight to fifty-five miles and a storm other systems, but It counts from 100 claims Dontscli and Katz sold hint a from fifty-six to seventy-five miles. Be to 1,000 per cent faster than the time machine to make $20 bills, lie paying yond that it may he described a s .a w#rn methods. them $.”.000 for the outfit hurricane. In the convulsion which According to Korchycli. the machine destroyed the Tay bridge In December, H u m o r In A rch itectu re. wns to be opernled by placing a $20 187!>, tlie anemometer registered gusts Up and down England arc to h# of wind which exceeded 100 miles an found hundred# of examples of the bill In nn aperture mid turning n crank. hour. The connection between the ve humor of ecclesiastical architects of a Scores of duplicate certificates enine locity and the pressure of the wind Is past age. from the snarling griffin# forth. Three thousand were “made" In not yet known with absolute certainty, worked Info the stonework of Henry two weeks. Armed with a shotgun, ho but roughly speaking n wind of forty VII.’s clinpel, Westminster abbey, to Is said lo have guarded Ills machine Ho miles an hour produces a pressure of the dun cow and milkmaids In Durham for three days after the men left eight pounds to the square foot and cathedral. A cat playing n violin can then discovered the device would not fifty-one miles a pressure of thirteen be seen In the Wells cathedral, and In work without morn bills and brought pounds.—London Chronicle. Hereford cathedral two cats, apparent su it ly performing n violin duet Boston F irs t and Forem ost. "My wife has a great deal to say to "Stump" is crowded with fantastic BEES STING WOMAN TO DEATH carvings, among which may lie men ! me about her flrst husband." tioned a wife chastising her husband, A tta c k e d W h llq T a k in g Honey, Sha Is "Nonsense! Your w lft was never a teacher caning a pupil and nn or K ille d Before A id Can Come. married before.” chestra composed of bears playing nn Ravenna. O.— While trying lo lake “ 1 know i t Tliat'8 what makes her i organ, a bagpipe and a drum.—West honey from a beehive. Mrs Eliznbeth reflections so palufuL"—Puck. minster Gazette. Kline of Itootstown »vas stung lo T h e Bridge of Boils. dentil. Khe went to the liive without Heroes of E veryday L ife Among the many works carried out | the customary protection of gloves and Many of us would be willing to take a veil and began lifting the boxes of by the late Kir John Alrd Is the most oddly named bridge In the world. This '■llallíes If »ve could only get them.— honey from the hive. 's in Peru, on the rail w ay from Lima 1 Philadelphia Ledger The bees attacked her and before W a r T ax a tio n Invented. to Oroya, spimning a deep and precipi she could eslnpe she »vas stung fatally War taxation, like everything #ls#, tous chasm over fiOO feet wide and on the fare, neck nnd hands find to bo Invented. The king who resting on three gigantic piers first thought of It In England was Many of the men employed on the Cow Adopts Colt. work were ex sailors, whose training Henry II. Instead of asking hi# bar Greenville. I 'n . - J . S. Brown, a farm ons to accompany him to French bat enabled them to work nf dlzz.v heights er near fotinenut lake, «ay# a short Although the work wns necessarily of tlefield# at their own charge, he com time ago a mare owned by him died a most dangerous character, there pounded with them, accepted “•cut- after giving birth to n Hue eoli The age" or shield money, nnd from the were roinpararlvely few accident#. colt »vns fed on n bottle fur n time, But au epidemic of bill -nub plague burgesses he collected "gifts,” ‘ aid#’’ and when II »vas strong enough If »vns broke out So the bridge was "Ifieially or "tallages.” Henry coakl then hire turned out with a herd of row# for ex christened Puente d e lus Verrutns, o r hls own men, and If need be turn ercise One of I he o u rs hail, lost a Bridge of itoiN # m m which it still them against the bold, bad larou# calf, and the niiluiiil Immediately themselves, ns the army wns under retains - Exchange adopted the colt. Bossy and the colt hls own control.—Duidon Tlt-BIK ure now Inseparable^ W e find w h a t we look fo r in the w orld. I have alw ays been looking for th# ro b l# r q ua litie s in h u rrs a btings. and I have a l w ays found thsm . Th#ro ars great souls all along the h ig h w ay of life, and there are great q ualities even in the people who seem com mon and w eak to us o r d in a r ily .— E lla W hselor W i l cox. ' I he D rin k th a t S i t i i f i n and dors not In to iic « !« " ICE COLD AND ALW AYS ON TAP IN KEGS AND BOTTLES AT Fred Rock's The “ Pastime Billiard and Cigar Store STAYTON, - - - OREGON HARVEST TIME MEANS BUYING TIME Y ci.r r.ccds will fce fully met here in S T A N D A R D and C L O V E R L E A F T W I N E HAY FORKS AND HARVEST GOODS For the Home, Lawn and Garden. See our line of Perfect Ranges, Lawn Mowers, Screen Doors, Screen Windows, And Garden Hose Green Trading Stamps ¿ j ’H Green Trading Stamps-tf-WT With all Cash Purchases H Lilly Hardware Co. 1 ♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«»♦»♦♦m o s# # »# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Coos Hay RAILROAD JUBILEE Aug. 24, 25 & 26 BOOST for * C O O S The Greatest Celebration in Years Coos IRiy Country invites the world to celebrate the coming of the railroad. Hospitality is the Keynote of this celebration PROGRAM NOR 7 H HHNI) I)A Y Aug. 24th Butifl Cuwi-rti S h a k in g Ucri-montcH Dedication Simpson Park Street Carnival Water Sports Parade#-Driving (¡olden* pike COOS COUNTY DA V Aug. 25th Trip# by rail and boat to Uoquille, Bar-don, Myrtle Point, Power#, Uoo# Boy, Mmo l Itm f. Sunset Bay, Cape Arago. See food dinner at Cbnrlslon Bay. Fishing at Lakeside- Launch trip# on Coo# Bay, MARSH Aug. H ELD DA Y 26th Industrial Parade Water 8porl*-A uto Racing rnde—Fir# work»- Dancing Horse Racing. llluminnted Launch Pn- LOW ROUND TRIP FARF.S O n Sfllc A u g. 21 to 26 inc. R e tu rn lim it A ug 3 1 . Ask Local Agent J O H N M . S C O T T , GF.N. PASS. A C T . P o rtla n d , O regon SOUTHERN DACIE 1C LINES