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— punti |-■rlr1T^” '*1l^^t^Tll^^T Mll^l ^ Theatre STAYTON, ORE. “Home of B est P ictu res ‘ Program for the Week Saturday M ay 5th. Hearst-Pathe News. 1 Reel. Lea*) Year, 1 Reel Animated Cartoon. Victims of Vanity. 2 Reel Drama Luke’s Late Lunchers. 1 Reel Comedy. Sunday M ay 6th. “The T est" 5 Reel Gold Roos ter Feature. Luke Gladiator. 1 Reel Comedy 8p*ni*h Doubloons. Should one find a pirate's burled treasure lie would have to dispose of hia Fi'.iuUh gold at Its bullion value, for ihv Aug. 1, 1WWS, when the com m "i crier made |roclaiuat!ou from the st.-os of the Ko.tal Exchange of Lon don that alter that date the doubloon would cease to to legal tender In the West Indies. Including British Oulatia, the doubloon has not been the preeloiis tiling It was. In ITIU) and for a ecu- tury after it was worth $S. more or less. It Ims ceased to I h > coined In Its native country, Spain, and since r.*tS it has been unpopular In the West In dies, where for a long time It figured In a mixed circulation, embracing B rit ish, f itte d States and S|ianlsh coins. Ill the Interest of romance, however, the name at least must survive, it signifies uothiug more than that the coin was double the value of a pistole, but the •‘doubloon" was never such a mouth filling mockery as “pieces of eight," which suggests great riches, hilt uieuns only Spanish silver dollars, pieces equivalent to eight reals.—Roch ester Post-Express. Jay In Trying. Do not allow yourself to Juat drift along through life. Set before you an aim. some real purpose. Cultivate hop« and ambition to accomplish something. Do not la* contented to let things hap. |H>u; make things hapt*>n. Whatever your busliieas or occupation atm to ex cel In It Financial gain Is not all one gets from la taw well performed. Your character is elevated and your mind ta enlarged, and the ««((»faction In hal ing done well Is the moat real toy Don’t be t. id to set your aim high GUd It with your highest Ideal«. Let the hope of its attainment nerve yonr every act. Turn Incidents end clrcum stance* toward the attainment of yoov atm. If you have no atm you reach nowhere. A life without a purpose le a dreary thing, without real Joy. Sup- IHise you fall to reach the heights you have set ns your standard; you will have gone higher than If you had not striven. You will he mere useful, of more worth, than if you had not tiled. —Milwaukee Journal. An Expert In Motive*. Cousin Henry 1* an expert In mo tives. If you were reading off s Ust A Famous Nsw York Stroot. Few of the thousands of people who of names and overlooked Henry he pass the comer of Nassau and John would understand. He would know streets every day know the early his exactly the motive that prompted you tory of Nassau street. And yet right to do It. If you don't think to Intro at that comer Is n bronze tablet which duce hlin to the man who la with you gives in concise form the following he cau see through It. lie may have to go hack four or five years, but h* Monry to Loon —I Have Made Arrange historical Information: “Nassau Street, Known Originally will make a complete case against you ments for loaning eastern money, wiii make very low rate of inter as ‘the Street That Runs by the Fyo In less than an hour he will know est on highly improved farms. Ho Woman,’ Was Ijiid Out About 1095 and wliut your motive was. Right now ha Was Named In Honor of the House of I* angry because Ills daughter was not mer H. Smith, room 5, McComaek Nassau, Whose Head at That Time selected as valedictorian of her class. Bldg., Salem, Oregon, Phone 96. Was William the Third, King of Eng You may think that the other girl de tf. land and Stadholder of the Dutch Re served to be selected, but you don't public. Nassau Street Became Identl know all that Henry know*. It la a FOR SALE—Double buggy harness fled With the Jewelry Trade More long story, but he 1* willing to tell It ; to you, and after hearing It you will and light work harness, with collars. Than Half a Century Ago.” The bronze tablet Is on the exterior understand the motive—you will un Also rubber tired buggy. All in good of the building at the northwest cor derstand that it 1* a case of *plto work shape. Inquire at Gehlen's Store. ner of Nassau and John streets. It —Claude Ciillau In Fort Worth Star was erected by the Maiden Lane His Telegram. WANTED - 5000 Shakes address F. A. torical society In 1916.—New York Sun. Smith Rt. 2 Stay ton phone 1124 5-10-x How David Garrick Mad* Hla Fortune. If David Garrick had had no more William Ds Morgan. In spite o f himself William Do Mor tliau ills salary as an actor he would Making a Garden. Agriculture is nearly as old as man, gan became famous. He deliberately hare bud little to leave at his death. lnd since it began it is probable that violated all the rules made for the He made his fortune aa Joint proprie formers have been studying out bal guidance of novelists who seek to l>e- tor, and for a time as sole proprietor, anced rations for domestic animals, but come popular. None of his novels was of Drury Lane theater, so that th* even yet few housekeepers have any addressed to the greater public that is amount set down to himself as salary re.il scientific ideas on feeding the avid for the latest thing o f the moment was practically nominal. When he re family. Your state agrtcultuial college In fiction, but nevertheless they reach tired from the stage in 1776 he sold w the department of agriculture. Wash. ed that public. He wus a law unto half his share In the theater for £35, Ingtou, can help you out in this, and himself in the novels that he wrote 000. He wus probably the only actor you should take the matter Into con during his marvelous career that span who consistently made Shakespeare sideration in making your garden and ned only ten years. It is doubtful if par, and, like Shakespeare, he was see to it that your vegetables include in English literature or In any other actor, author and proprietor. the most nutritious and health giving can be found a writer whose life and It may be recalled that Garrick, who properties. Every farmer knows that literary career are comparablo to his. had no enemies outside hla own pro when a horse works all day he should He was an old man when the world of fession. was the grandson of a French receive certain feed and when he Is readers came to know him. and his age man exiled at the revocation of the Idle—in rainy weather, for instance—he was an asset toward celebrity. At edict of Nantes and that his father gets different rations. How about a seventy he was hailed as eagerly as was a captain In the army.—London man or a child ? Do you know how to Kipling was bailed at twenty, and In Standard. set your table to get the maximum re his way he was no less a prodigy than sults and keep perfect health? Do you the younger writer.—Bookman. Wall Balanced Diet. serve the same food to the men work One of the raoat common fault* of ing In the heat of the harvest field, to the dipt la the eating of too much pro Th# Emerald. the boy going to school and to the The emerald has l>een known since tein food*. In excess this U hard for babies? Your garden should contribute early times both In Euro[>e and in cer the b<>dy to excrete and Is likely to de to the health and happiness of each.— tain parts of the orient, where its at compose In the intestines with the Reclamation Record. tractive color and rarity have endowed formation of poisonous waste product«. Green Vegetable* nud raw fruit are it with the highest rank and a varied Explained at Last. lore. Its name may l>e traced back to Important elements of the diet There Rufus—Palidon me, sah. Can yo* an old Persian word which appeared Is little energy in these foods, but they «plain to me de meanin’ ob domestic in Greek as “smaragdos,” mentioned supply mineral salts which the body felicity? Itastus—Suttinly Ah kin, Ru by Theophrastus over 800 years bef<re-- needs and curious substances called fus. Domestic felicity signifies dat de the Christian era. and again in Latin vitamins, which are easily destroyed man ob de house kin whup de wife ob as ‘‘smaragdus," seen in the writings by cooking. One food expert has suggested a rule his buzzom.—Farm Life. of Pliny, who particularized somewhat on its properties and supposed me for securing a well balanced diet. It in n recent te s t'o r uitTsrrengtn or dicinal virtues and was even shrewd is; An ordinary family should spend fish glue, says the Popular Mechanic«, enough to suspect its identity with the about as much for milk, vegetable« a poll of C.0G0 pounds was required to much more common beryl, although and fruits as for meats, fish and eggs separate the halves of a one inch wood- eighteen centuries elapsed before this and as much for milk and egga a« for - - -lock that hsd been cemented to suspicion was verified by scientific meat and fish. gether with this adhesive substance. proof. Follies of 8cltne*. The history of science ha* seven problem) which men In all ages more or less have tried to solve, but which have finally been given up by all. To day they are called follies. The usual list comprises the follow ing: First, squaring tb* circle; second, duplication of the cube; third, trlsec- tlon of an angle; fourth, perpetual mo tion; fifth, transmutation of metals; sixth, fixation of mercury; seventh, elixir of life. Rome list* put the phi losopher's siono for the lis t three and T H E U N IV E R S A L CAR then add nstrology and magic to make the seven. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ------------------------- I Ford To Owners of Ford Cars The';Ford Motor Company, of Detroit, ap pointed us authorized agents for Ford cars in this territory, to properly represent Ford interests, to give service to Ford owners. The Company in return demands that we equip and maintain an adequate service station, employing competent Ford mechanics, using only genuine Ford-made materials and charging regular Ford prices. This service we are giving to Ford owners. Material—workmanship—prices, the stand ard of each guaranteed. When your Ford car needs attention, bring it to us, and get the benefit of expert Ford mechanics. We give you the assurance of genuine Ford service, with genuine Ford- made parts. Ford cars—Runabout $345; Touring Car $360, all f. o. b. Detroit. Peter Deidrich Stayton, Oregon Too Much For Him. " I thought he was going to marry that girl?" “Well, he did think of it. But it seems when ho called the other night she threw him down.” “W$U, if she's as good as that at wrestling I don't blame him for quit ting.”— 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. Not That Bill. “I ca:, 1 tell a canvasback duck from a barnyard specimen.” “Experts say you can tell by the bill.” “How so? The bill for one is al ways as high ns the hill for the other. That’s what I'm kicking about.”— j Louisville Courier-Journal. Just a Chang« In Words. Young Clerk—Do you like to stand In front of the store and see the crowds go by? Old Merchant—No, but I Ilka to stand In the back of our store and see the crowds come buy.—Exchange. A Sticker. Howell—Rowell Is n man of tenacity. Towell—Yes. Tf be were a dog and got a grip on your trousers you would lie perfectly safe In ordering a new pair. Pistols. Pistols were Invented at Flstojn, Italy, and were first used by English cavalrymeu In 1544. Gold, like the sun, tvhlch melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hoarti»,—HIvarol. The Ultimate, □ a—D* you know what I m b fotag to say to you? Drop ttl NJu-Drop what? He— Everything happiness and lora and work and God knows what alaa! It Is all so provincial. Even our dreams, let theui t<e what they will, a rt provin cial- ye«. even our sufferings. N'Ju—And what 1« there that Isn't provincial? He—W hat! Art and death] No| « it is too! Only death. NJu—Yes; I understand. • • • • « • B He—You don't lev« me, NJg. NJu I lore you very much. B««!ly I do love you, only there la something that la more than k>v»—something still higher. He—What'a that- life? NJu—I don’t know. He—Or—or death? N'Ju—No; there la something Mill higher. H e- Than Ilf«, death and lore? NJu Than all combined. There moat surely la* something; otherwise th« whole thing would be ao mean Inf la««. —From the Russian Play “^Jo.*’ Spring Time Garden Time Hoes, Rakes, W eeders, Hand Cultivators A complete line of all kinds of garden tools. LILLY HARDWARE CO. Grata an the Lawn. Grass seeds germinate In from four teen to eighteen day*. A quart of s«eda I Is auflV'leut to corar 8t>0 square feet— 15 by 2«) feet. Five to six bushels ars required per acre. Do not sow grass seeds In hot, dry weather, particularly In Joly or Au gust. I’oa trlvaiu la good for shady lawn« under trees. Festuca rubra la moat suitable for hard wear and for dry or sandy sails. Sharp sea sand applied lightly over lawns In the autumn—that la, over lawns on flay or loanv- encourages tb« growth of fine grasses taw ns that are frequently watered need more fertilisers than those that are not, as the water washes away much plant food.—New York Sun. G lengarry’* “Treason.'* now startling was the different* In the customs of the English and the Scots even less than a ceutury ago la shown in the story of the way In which the famous highland chief, Alastlr Macdonell, of Glengarry frightened Qeorge IV. out of hla wlta. In 1823 Glengarry was oue of a party of Scot tish nobles and gentlemen who ban queted "the first gentleman of Europe" In Ilolyrood palace. Colonel Macdonell was the last chief to wear the full highland costume, and when the com pany sat down to dinner he, according to custom, placed a brace of loaded pistols by his plate. The king started up In alarm and was persuaded to re main In the room only on the assurance that Glengarry meant no traaara — Lon don Spectator. a Wife. A half caste aallor once said, “Mr. Stevenson la good to me, like my fa tte r. and hla wife la the asm« kind of man." King Temhlnoke said of Mrs. Stereo- son, "She good; look pretty plenty ehench" (sense). Perhaps they both meant what th« poet Edmund Gosse ao well expressed when he wrote of her as being “so dark and rich hearted, like some won derful wine-red Jewel.” B at the liest tribute In Mrs. Steven son’s praise came from the pen of ber husband.—Critic. Our Coal Supply. The United States coal supply Is near, ly one-half that of the entire world. Estimates put the available coal supply of the United States at 3,!J3S,500,000,000 tons out of a world total estimated at 7.397.533.000. 000 tons. Chins ranks next to the United States In available aup- ply, estimated at 1,600.000,000,000 ton«; Great Britain. 180,000,000/500; Get- many, 164,000,000,000, and Canada, 100.000. 000.000 ton« T *a Pushing. I had an Idea I'd grow up and own this bualness soma day,” said the dis charged office boy. T h a t's ju st why you ware fired,” aatd the boas “Ever e t a » you Starts* to work here you've l>een acting as If you already owned the lmalnea«.”— Birmingham -Age-Herald. Forgiveness, W alter—Beg pardon, sir, but—ahem-— the genta hers usually remember my services. Guest (pocketing all the change)—Do they? They ought to b« more charitable and forget them! SUBSCRIBE FOR The Stayton Mail We are Showing a nice line of ladies underwear in Muslin and Knit Goods Pretty Spring Gowns In muslins and crepe at moderate prices. A full line of Pictorial Review Patterns alw ays on hand, J. R. Gardner’s Cash Store, Stayton, Ore. Moccasins Sandals Tennis Shoes * F o r M en W o m en and Children Lancefield’s Shoe Store THE TROVER—WEIGEL S T U D IO Will give with every order of one dozen Portraits taken Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th One Nice LARGE Photo suit able for Framing. Worth your while to take advantage of this offer. Clavar Sheep Sheerer*. Averaging everything, wethers, which are hard, which are easy, expert* will shear about 00 or 100 from young to old ewes, in Australia sheep a day. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Diet Par th * Aged. The aged should have food at frequent Interval»—Uttle and often should be the rule—food every three or four hours. Ths appetite Is not as keen In old age as It I* In youth, nor Is the di gestion so ghod. Fresh vegetables are needed and relished by elderly persons, and they are a valuable addition to the dietary If they are trou bled with constipation, as they contain fibrous tissue, which gives bulk to the contents of the Intestinal canal and supplies something for the intestines to contract upon. Rtewed or raw fruits are useful, aa well as veg etables, and one or the other should be eaten two or thre« times a day. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0 Auto Trucks W e are prepared to m eet your needs in any line. W e make a specialty of furniture moving B etter arrange to see the Circus M ay 11. Round trip fare 75 cents. Call on us for prices. W e are at your service day o r night. H AMMAN & STO UT Mr. and Mm. Geo. Chrisman from Linn county, were Stayton shoppers Saturday. Mrs. Arthur Leffler and baby left Wednesday to join Mr. Leffler at Pendleton. Miss Dora Rabens, of Sublimi ty, is visiting in town. Mr. and Mrs. Fryer, of Junc tion City, arrived in town Sun day called by the illness of Mrs. Fryer’s mother, Mrs. J. R. Gard ner. Mr. Fryer returned home the following day, and Mrs. F. left yesterday. Mrs. Gardner is considerably improved.