OBITUARY
DONT LET W U a
homey bu rn a hole
IM YOUR POCKET!
A Bri H
C om m ission
By JOHN I'.iiNAN
1 WilH Hi, i ..i .......... 'tlltl'llli Irt-illl L' 1 111
till plat•*. with l . l i • it«vill* out ii
rln-i'rfiil lit'ul. A i k . ii didn't acein
happy, though, ulul 1 n»k«-d her why
■be looked *o mciuiK holy like
"I'll tell you, Mr. Grlmstui w," »lie nalil.
"iilil you ever bear the »oug, ‘No One
to liove. None to Care»»?’ Well, Hint’»
Hie way I feel.
Fattier ever »iuee
luollier'» death I i .- ih lieen re»tie»» and
cross, mid now lie'a goln' In iiive me
a ateiimotlieiv I haven't uny brother*
o» al»ler» to love, nml I'm goln' to have
a atejiinotlier to hate.”
"W hy, Aiuellu,” aaya I, "th e thin* for
you to do 1» to get m arried."
"How ran I do lliut with uoliody to
marry m e?" »he asked, awful »ml.
M PRESS on the you ng man who is burning the candle a t both ends
“ How you talk !'' nay» I. "You know
and who is spending his big salary as fast as he makes it the V A LU E Mighty well there'» lot» of feller» that
OF A BANK ACCOUNT. S ta rt him on the R IO H T ROAD today. would lie glint to git you.”
"I'd like to know where they aro. If
I f he is not hopeless he a t once will see the erro r of his w ays. The open
you know any »Irh I wlah you’d aend
in g of a bank accou nt has put a stop to m any a you th 's wild desire to be
eui around.”
a HIGH F L IE R .
"Hartalu. I'll * l t you a hu»hand In
tio time. Air you |uirtlrulnr about hi»
bein' good lookin' or havin' n farta of
hla own or nuyMiiiig like th at?”
"No, I ain’t particular, leustwaya 1
won't lie If you can fix me out before
pnw brill*» tbut red bead«»! wldderlilto
: the boose, 'raiiKe I know I've *o t to fit
j out when »he come» In.”
“How much time 1» there?”
"W ell, I heard [>aw »ay the other day
that he ra lr’lated to lie married before
the end o’ next month.”
"Bupimain' I »end you a feller that
« lit» you and you »ult him, what 1»
there In It for ine?”
A share of the banking business
"1 don't »oe whnt I can do for you,
of Stay ton and vicinity
i Mr. (irlm shnw, gorin' th at I haven't
got a cent In the world, anil there Isn’t
is solicited.
any favor I know of that I ran do
j you. Hut I suppose”—looking down at
the floor—''havin' made the match,
you’d he entitled to kins the bride.”
You are assured of a safe deposi
Tills bothered mo a lot. I was to
( tlx up a match by which another feller
tory and courteous treatment at
wus to git all the kisses he wanted for
a lifetim e, nml 1 was to git oue klas
this bank, by ample capital and
' on the weddln' day.
• " I t seem» to me, Amelia,” 1 says,
long experience in the banking
; "th a t’s like sellln’ n man a bouse
wo'th a lot o' money for a commission,
business.
lie gits a whole house, and the broker
! *lta a few dollars.”
“You forglt,” said Amelia, “that the
| broker don't want nil tbe houses he
»ell». Whnt would be do with ’em?
i Besides, when n man buys a bouse tt
| argys that he's able to own n house
! and wants a house, and wnnts that
particular house. I don't see that the
broker earns anything more than his
I commission. Do you?”
“ I don't see as he does.” says 1,
•cratchln' my head.
And 1 d idn't
Itowsomever, I couldn't git It out o’
my noddle that I was goln' to git the
little end o’ the bargain. Hut I frit
i sorry for Amelia, powerful sorry, for
I'd had a stepmother myself.
"Is It custom ary," says I, “to pay
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a commission before tbe transaction's
completed ?"
“Not a t nil,” said Amelia. "That
wouldn't do.”
“Why not?”
“Well, the broker, havin’ got his pay,
wouldn’t take any pnlns In the mat-
tar."
EU GEN E
SA LEM
" I f he didn't do his work he might
return whnt he'd received.”
“In thnt case he'd git double pay for
•Othln—th at Is. If his commission was
a kiss."
"Is n 't there somepln among business
men like payin' |>art down, the rest
when the deal has gone through?”
"T h nt's got nothin’ to do with bro
kers; It's when you buy a piece of
property yourself."
"W ell,” I says, givln’ it up, " I reckon
I’ll have to wait for my pay till I've
done the Jc!>.”
AGENTS FOR T H E
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I got up nml was goln' out when
Amelia said:
"H ow Siam are you goln' to send a
Caller?"
" I dunno. Somehow 1 don’t like the
transaction. Seems to me he’ll git the
lion’s share."
“W ell, Mr. Grlmshnw, since you look
at It thnt way I don’t know but 1
ought to make It more to your Interest
to do the Job.
I might double the
commission, one-half payable lu nil
vanee.”
“ Now you’re shoutin'," 1 said, and
Instead of goln' away 1 sat down ag'ln
and tuk »lie first half o' my oonunls
•Ion. It tasted so good th at I began
right off to hanker for the other half
of my pay.
“Amelin,” I says, "you couldn’t pay
It all In advance, could you?”
"Snrtnln not. Whnt would there b->
to hold you to your w ork?"
I thort awhile, and then I said:
"Supposin' I make the deal for my
self."
“Whnt do you menu by th at?"
”1 mean supposin' I Jlst take the
No F'umes, No Freezing
> other
feiler by the nape o' the neck
and put him out. Then, Instead o'
No Headaches, No Thawing
actin' na Ills broker, I acquire tbe prop
erty In ni.v own nam e."
“ Land sakea, Mr. G rlm shaw !"
That was all tbe talkin' we done.
I was hungry for another kiss, and 1
tuk her In ni.v arms nml bad a dozen
without stopptn'.
"Good gracious, Mr. Grlmshaw, whnt
you doin’ ?" she says.
" I ’ui makin’ n fust payment to bind
the bargain."
Amelin and 1 was married before her
father brought the stepmother to his
house, nml Amelin found a home with
j me. tine Of her old flnmea on our wed-
j din’ day claimed a right to kiss the
! bride.
“ Whnt did yon do to e a r * It? " says
1 to him.
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STAYTO N
STATE
BANK
Farmers & Merchants
Bank of Stayton, Oregon
Capital $25,000.00
HAUSER BROS.!
ALBANY
Gymnasium and Athletic Supplies
Basket Ball Goods
Indoor Base Ball Supplies
Famous Grip Sure Basket Ball Shoes
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Base Ball and Law n
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Tennis Supplies f
Spalding Sweaters and Jerseys
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Dayton and Adlake Bicycles $28*85 to $45 [
Bicycle and Gun Repairing—Key Fitting
Guns, Rifles, Ammunition, Cutlery s
TROJAN STUMPING POWDER f
Lilly Hardware Co*, Local Agents
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Amelia bust out lartln.
Vincent Fieirok was l>orri in
Silt-Hiit, Germany, January 21st,
ISM anti died at his home in
Linn Co. near Stayton, Feb. 20,
1917, after a long illness, at the
*gc of 71 year» and 20 days.
He served through the military
raining service and in the war
gainst the French in 1870-71
nd the siege of the City of Paris
and took part in the triumphal
march to*the City of Paris.
After the war he received per
mission to reside in a foreign
country (America) and he emi
grated to the United States in
May 1874.
On January 16th
1876, he was married to Marry
Kufner, of Fairbault, Minn. He
came to Oregon in 1877 and made
his home here at the same place
ever since.
To this happy union were bom
14 children of whom 13 with
their mother survive him, they
are: Mrs. J. P. Mertz; Frank
August; Rosa, now Sister M.
Nester; John Peter; Mrs. Jos.
Brand; Mrs. Jos. Senz; Joseph
Benedict; Philippi George; Mrs.
B. Zelenski; Paul Bonifacius;
Lawrence; Andrew Nicolas and
Magdalena, all residing in Linn
county, except Sister Nester and
Mrs. Zelinski, of Oswego, Ore.
Besides his niece, Sister M. Lud
milla of Elmira, N. Y., is his
only other relative in the U. S.
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Anecdote From Hi* War Experience
At the beginigof siege of Paris
the French people in outlaying
villages had deserted their homes
and the German soldiers were
quartered in them.
Deceased
and five companions took po-
session of their quarters and
an old French grandmother in
the house, the only person left
in town. She was in deadly fear
from the German Barbarians in
fear she knet down and started
to pray on her Rosary. The boys
tried to get her to understand
that she had nothing to fear but
she could not. So he (deceased)
took out his Rosary, knelt down
and started to pray. When the
old lady saw that the Prussians
could pray as she did, she gained
confidence and treated them to
the best of her ability and pre
sented him with a fine handker
chief which he preserved to his
dying day.
CORROBORATION
! Goods at Cost
And Below
At Alexander s
Notice These Prices:
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For months Stayton citizens have
seen in these columns enthusiastic
praise o f Doan’s Kidney Pills, by resi
dents o f this locality.
Would these prominent people re
commend a remedy fhat had not prov
en reliable?
Would they confirm their statem ents
a fte r years had elapsed if personal
experience had not shown the remedy
to be worthy o f endorsement?
The following statem ent should carry
conviction to the mind o f every Stay-
ton reader.
Mrs. M. Custer, 615 E. Third S t.,
Albany, Oregon, says:
“ I had an
acute attack o f kidney
compiaint,
caused by a cold settling on my kid
neys. It made me so weak and lame
that I could scarcely move around the
house. The kidney secretions were too
frequent in passage.
Doan’s Kidney
Pills cured m e .”
(Statem en t given
February 6, 1916.)
At a later date, Mrs. Custer said:
“ Doan’s Kidney Pills have done me a
world of good, and I will always reco
mend th em .”
Price 50c. at all dealers.
Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Custer has tw ice publicly recom
mended. Foster-M ilourn Co., P rop's.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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NATUROPATH and CF
ETRIST
A certain man who returned to Lon
Greene-Supplee and G ysi’s Methods
don from South Africa a multimillion
Office North of Beam
;>’» Drug
Used in Making P late
aire a fte r live years' money making In-
Store
SA L E M , O RE.
rlu-d ii friend to visit his mansion in 214 Masonic Temple.
C O N SU LTA TIO N F R E E
Phone 345
Park lone. The friend was expatiating
to other friends upon the glories of
tlie establishm ent— the marble ball*,
the Turkish carpets, the gold plate.
And, my boy,” he said, “he’s got a
mint o' money. Why, he’s got a Ru
bens, a Vandyke aud a Landseer.”
Can furnish anything from wean
For Infants and Children
“E xtrav ag an t bounder!” said one lis
ed
pig
to
brood
sows
and
service
tener. “W hat does ho w ant three cars
boars. Write me your wants and
for?”
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I Will do my best tO please yOU Always bears
She—You deceived me when I m ar
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ried you. He—I did more than th a t
RAY J. FOX, Lyons, Ore.
a «n“tuteoi
1 deceived myself.
DENTIST
Q U A L IT Y H E R D
Poland China Swine C A S T O R I A
In Use For Over 3 0 Years