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We sell the Bain Wagon from $55 up
We sell the Oliver Chilled Plow from $6 up
We sell the Oliver Steel Plow from $6 up
SUPERIOR"
Both Cast and Steel.
, : Air-Tight Heaters of all kinds at all Prices
BOX STOVES, ALL SIZES
jfflTThe above Stoves we sell below Portland prices
We will sell
Don't fail to
36 Clothes Pins for
Vie have the
Bail Story Telling. -
If Oscar Wilde's assumption were to
fee taken seriously, that all fiction is ly
ing, it might account for much that
fllicts readers, since the lack of morale
affects the intellect, and what is done
VviiJiout conscience is apt to be done
tartly. Of course all fiction is not lying,
as all killing is not murder, but it is a
wvd fact that many writers of novels
ud short stories seem to have left their
wwsaiences and much of their brains
twiiiud when they go forth to work as
If these .belongings might safely remain
in seclusion, with the dress coat and
the white tie, to be brought out only
few especial oocasions. Artomus Ward
xnice remarked that he had a giant mind,
twit did not have it with him, and that
tor the latter half of it) is apt to be the
"C&S3 with any of us when we are cure
less. True, even good Homer sometimes
Swdded, but this affords no example for
s who are not Homers. To come to our
tasks otherwise than with all our wits
obout us und invite publio atteutiou to
the chance "oozings of our brains" is
ms if one should issue from his apart
ments unshorn and half clad or enter
upon the busy haunts of men without
-tnouey in his pocket Frederic M. Bird
4a Lippincott's.
lie i'assed Out.
"I won't submit to being turned
a-way," suid the disappointed arrival at
She hotel. "See here I'm flush I" And
lu displayed a roll of bills".
"I know," responded the clerk, "but
Cve got a full house." Philadelphia
Ntirth American.
WILSOM
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ATTENTION
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We keep all the extras for Oliver Plows and we sell
them at just the same as they are sold everywhere.
Spring Tooth Harrows from $15 up
Spike Tooth Harrows from .. $6 up
Steel Harrow Teeth at Bottom Prices
STOVES AND RANGES
Graniteware at cost. Tin and Copnerware at a Bargain.
see our Union Barn Door Hangers with the Lawrence rail
5c Ammunition a Specialty
Best Stack of Cutlery in
No. 5 Commercial Sank Stack,
Leigh ton'ii "Cluiabue,
In describing a visit paid to the late
Lord Leightou, Mm Tooluy said that
the artist on that occasion referred to
the success of his first picture of uote,
'Cimabue,"aud to the fact, whioh evi
dently still pained him. that his uext
picture, "Orpheus," was greatly rid
iculed. "Where is the picture now?" he was
asked.
"Don't I wish I knew!" he replied.
"It would be worth a fortune to me at
the preseut tune. " And that was all the
reference he made to it.
The curious part of the incident, how
ever, lies in the fact that after his
death the canvas of this very picture
was discovers! rolled up and thrown
away in the coal cellar. Strand Mag
azine. ftsutet. ...
"That escaped criminal seems to have
bad rather the best of it " remarked the
talkative friend
"Not at all, replied the detective,
drawing himself up naughtily We've
gut him so trigiiu-.iiwl lie doesu t dare
sliow his face wbera we ara " Wah
Vugton Star
Plant From L'urfn.
There are certain varieties of nioun:
tain plants which have a singular pro
vision of nature tor perpetuating their
species. The duration of summer in
those elevated regions is too short to
permit of the ripening of seeds, nnd the
top buds fall off and take root as would
thfl flaps a
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01-23 jei City
Folk in general are not nowadays wj
careful as they weie years ap,o in the
matter cf sfflxicg postage stamps tc
letters and leceipt stumps uj on bills,
and many never uote whether the
stamps are the right way up or upside
down. It was very different, however,
before the rush and roar of this half oi
the century begau, for it was next doer
to a crime, in the eyes of many, to affix
a stamp with the queen's head tLo
wrong way up. Many were not only
under the impression that her majesty
would "feel offended," but that if she
took the matter up personally or told
officials to act punishment could fol
low. There are still,' however, many
people who look with horror upon c
postage stamp upside dewn. Notes ant.
Queries.
. Strange Mistake.
Old Mrs. Jones entered the drawinp
room unexpectedly and spoiled a very
pretty tableau.
"I was just whispering a secret in
Cousin Jenuie's ear, " explained Charlie.
"I'm sorry," saij the old lady jruuv
ly, "that your eyesight has become to
bad that you mistake Jennie's u.outh
for her ear. "London Tit-Bits.
. . Old Cnntoiu Revived.
' An ancient custom has been revived
in some English rural districts. Clergy
men, in surplices and attended by a
choir, made a tour in procession of the
cornfields end farmyards, where prayers
were offsred up for a blessing on the
young crops. .
PRINCESS VICTORIA.
tha Simple Lire of England's Queen In
Her Childhood Days.
James Cassidy has written for St.
Nicholas an article on the "Girlhood
Days of England's Queen," in the
course of which be says: '
There was an occupation in which
the wee woman of seven years, wearing
a simple white gown and large straw
bat, was frequently Been engaged. It
was watering the garden plants. One
of those who saw her said that as he
sometimes watched her intently at
work he wondered whioh would get the
most water, the plants or her own little
feet. - .. ; , . .--. ; .
The princess was an early riser, get
ting up at 7, frequently earlier in the
maimer, and breakfasting at 8 o'clock.
Her breakfast was just such as any
well cared for little girl who was not
a princess might be expected to enjoy,
bread and milk and fruit, plaoed on a
small table by her mother's side. ;
When breakfast was finished, the lit
tle princess went for a walk or a drive,
while her half sister, Feodore, ber al
most constant oompanion, studied with
her governess. From 10 to 13 the ducb-
ess instructed 'Drina, after which she
was at liberty to wander at will through
the rooms, or to play with her many
costly toys. I -.- v , - ; '
Two o'clock was the dinner hour of
the princess, .though the luurheon hour
of the duchess. Plain food, nicely
cooked, was placed before the little
girl, and she did it justice, for she was
healthy and strong and enjoyed her
meals. After dinner she received assist
ance in her studies till 4 o'clock, when
she was taken by her mother to visit a
friend or perhaps to walk or drive, or
she was peimitted to ride a donkey in
the gardens.
At the dinner hour of the duchess
her little girl supped, seated next to
her mother. Then came a romp with
ber nurse, Mrs. Brock. By Ihe time the
romp was finished the house party
would be at their dessert, and then the
princess would be called in to join
them.
Nine o'clock was bedtime, and she
never prolonged her day beyond that
hour. No matter whether she was at
home or at the house of a friend, '
o'clock bedtime was rigidly enforced. "
Her little bed was placed beside her
mother's larger bed, so that by day and
night mother and daughter were uevei
far apart.
Regular study, regular exercise, siin
pie food and plenty of time out o!
doors, plenty of play ard plenty of sleep
distinguished the upbringing of Eng
land's future queeu, ' -
First Duels In Italy.
The first dne!s were fought in Italy,
according to Jlillingei), who spcalscf o
manuscript discovered at CstFcl and de
scribes a duel between a father and a
sou in the reign of the Emperor Theod
orio. When Charlemagne forbade wager
of battle among the Ivnhnrds, ho e?i
countered the fiercest oj:j ositioti from
the nobles. Early in Ihe ninth century
Ufi Medicis, a knight, defeated in single
combat tho bandit llugel, who devastat
ed the Florentine district ixw called
after him, Mugello. Otho II granted
tbo prayer of the nobility for the re
establishment of wager of tattle in 088.
Women nnd priests were not compelled
to accept it. The Normans showed less
gallantry. With them a woman hud to
accept, nor could eke tume a champion.
Her male opponent, however, was buried
to his waist in the earth. Armed with a
club, he tried to strike her us she cir
cled around him, his wenpru being
ball of iron at the end cf a cord. If he
failed to touch her at the third attempt,
he was vanquished, which meant to
him death with dishonor.
Beccarin says that the reasou so miiuy
duelB were fovht in Italy in the early
days is that w hero the luw does not af
ford protection cue must lock to single
conilut fo retain ll.e m pec t of cue's
fellow men. In the middle iiges the feroc
ity of Italian duels pusse s leliif. "Anj
way cf puttirg an .enemy to death
('ogni niodo') is good enough," , says
ono of their writers. "When an Italiuu
spares his vanquished adversary," tuiyt
Brautome, "ho maims his arms ni:ri
legs and gives him as a memento cf his'
kindness and generosity a hideous gash
across the f ace. " Lampaguano practiced
on a painted model of Galeazzo tfdrai
before he stabbed him. Duelii g was
called "la seienza eavalleresca. "
Cornbill Magazine.
WAIL CF A FLAT DWELLF.R.
Mr. Werkenrfay's Kemarks on New VorU
Apartment Ilathroouis,
A long and bitter experience iu
apartment forces me to observe, " said
Mr. Weriten 'lav' shivering as he hopped
on the oik'k 'tn the bathroom with
his bare feet, ' ,,j3at the architects who
plan the ordinA. 7 nat of commerce do
not bathe. I don't ndge tWa from.their
appearanoe, became ihey are a particu
larly clean and nice lot' of men. But I
cannot believe that an v one with the
least respect for the importance of the
bathroom could treat it with such ar
chitectural stepfatherlinesa
"It always is shoved away in a dark
corner as far fronj the bedrooms and as
near the parlor or dining room as possi
ble. It always is dark and ventilated
by an airshaft up which there blows
perpetually a dismal draft that has
something on its mind and grcans about
it all the time. It ought to have some
thing on its mind, for it is a sure kill
er. Then, of course, the bathroom, be
ing the only place in the bouse where
one takes off all his clothes and gets
wet all over, is the place whioh most
frequently has no heating appliances. :
"Again, why do so many architects
build the washstand in the hallway in
stead of in the bathroom, where it be
longs? I don't know whether they think
that a man enjoys taking his bath in
sections or whether they act on the
theory that he ought to take it gradual
ly, preparing himself fox the bathtub
by degrees. : m'-i.-.
I asked an architect once why he
did it. 'Well,' said he, 'we hardly ever
do differently except in private houses.'
Has only the privateer, then, as the
Europeans call him, the right to take a
complete bath in one room, or has evo
lution produced a species of flatters who
naturally are incapable of doing it? .
"I suppose that the smallness of bath
tubs is explained by the lack of rooru.
Of course every flathonse bathtub is too
Bmall for any one except an infant, and
I have noticed, not without some awe,
that in each new flat into which we
move the bathtub is smaller than it was
in the one preceding. As I sin growing
stouter ench year, a genuine misfortune
for one whose finances make a third or
fourth flat necessary, I am sure that if
we make two or three more 'moves' we
will, on this scale of bathtub de-creasa,
find a bathtub into which I will not Le
able to get at all. "New York Press.
A TEST FOR HORSEFLESH.
But Even Choiiilst Cannot Always Bee.
oguUe Ih
"People are apt to jump at conclu
sions," said a chemist in speaking of
the latest notable murder case. "Chem
istry is a very nice science, but it is
possible to mako some sad blunders iu
applying It to law and evidence. There
are certain things you can prove by it
if you am sure of yr.nr- prwnispi ?m
certain other things that Vou cannot,
This thing of trying to prove a pnorl
deal by chemistry calls to mind t he baf
extract case that gave a pucker iu Lais
city considerable vmcasinecs.
"Somebody r;ot hold r.f his beef ex
tract nnd ch'.i'i'.pd thnt H was roada frir-,
horseflesh, and it was proved ly analy
sisthat is, to the satisfaction of the
man that fiiialyzal it Tho ordinary test
for horseflesh, according to the authori
ties, is glycogen. ThiH is a suWafirc
that, speaking iu a general way, is
found in horseflesh, bat does not exist
in beef, and it was shown that this par
ticular extract contained plycogen.
"Tho packer came to us in some dis
tress of mind for a way out of tho difll
culty. He said his extract was made of
nothing but beef, and ho wanted us to
help him provo it, and we did so to his
relief and to the satisfaction of tho
nealth officers. We demonstrated that,
while un ordinary piece of beef did tot
contain glycogen, it existed iu the
heart, liver and blood of cattlo, and
some of each of these might have en
tend into the mnl.in cf tho b-jof ex
traet. The result was that tho chemist
who.hnd arrived at cutli sw epirg con
clusions from tho first test had to back
down from Lia position. '--Chicago
Times-Herald.
The Now Rlblor.
The now ribbons aro very attractive
and aro evidently going to bo morn than
jver a fs.-.uro f dna t' l.nv.iii'ij. There
are gorgeous piuids and tba most fasci
nating air.iyef Rfripe-s, up and down
and ucrubs iu tho l!nni,.u l.sl)h.u, Throe
ear four shi'di-n of one color are striped
together, with pos.-;i!)ly u e.lvU stripe
on ono cdyu, und ia..n- anain there aro
many stripes ef twitoimhitf colors blind
ing tocfetbur v.ith a bright , pretty eiloet.
Oriwnti.1 brooaekel rlly-ons aiid to the
variety, and so do glace ribbons with
fancy borders. There aro nnc-.it velvet
ribbous with thu ribs running cross
wise, somo iu lovely colors, tho newest
being a clear shado of purplo blue.
MAKES
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A Procession of Wortni
In some of the Hungarian forests and
in the pine woods of Norway there ex
ists a tiny, wormlike insect called the
sciara, of the genus tipula. During the
montii oi July or early in August they
gather together in large numbers, pre
paratory to migrating in search of food
or for change of condition.. When set
ting out on this journey, they stick
themselves together by means of some
glutinous matter and form a huge serpent-like
mass, often reaching a length
nf between 40 and 60 feet and several
inches in thickness. As the sciura i
enly on an average about three thirty
teconds or an inch in length, with no
uppreoiable breadth whatever, the num
ber required to compose a continuous
line of the si above mentioned is al
most incalculable Their pace is, of
eoorse, very slow, and upon meeting
an obstaole, sucb as a stick or stone,
they will either wrttb over or around
it, sometimes- breaking into two bodies
tor this purpose.
M. Guerta-MencviRe, a celebrated
Frenoh naturalist, says that it the rear
portion of thim wonderful snakelike
procession be brought into contact with
the front part and a sect of circle formed
the insects will keep moving round in
that circle for konw without apparently
noticing that they we getting Bo "for
roder" on their journey. If the proces
sion be broken in two, the portions will
reunite in a short time. The Norwegian
peasants, when they meet on of these
trains, will lay some article of their
olothing, snrh as a belt or handker
chief, on the around in front of it. If
the procession passes over it, it is re
garded as a good sign, but if it makes a
way ronnd the reverse is believed. In
the Moravian districts a similar experi
went is supposed tc foretell a good or
bad harvest Popular Science.
. Teaching Children.
Noah Webster of dictionary fame
would not have been in favor of the
kindergarten, so people who sometimes
revert to the beginning of the un
abridged edition find by his memoiis
Ihere. "He felt," the writer says, "that
I children should learn to acquire kuowl-
ienge by severe effort; that the prevail
ing effort to make everything easy isun
I philosophical and wrong; that the great
'effort of early training is to form the
mind into a capacity of surmounting
i intnllflntunl rlifHiM.Hiio n... 1 ....
ery kind. He wished at an early
period of ready memory and limited
comprehension to store the mind with
many things which would afterward
be found of indispensable use, things
which are learned with the utmost re
luctance, or rather in most cases are not
learned at nil, in the mpre advanced
Stages of intellectual prcgresa. Ha felt
there must necessarily bo much cf
! drudgery iu the fmnititicn cf a
thcr-
Jtighly
educated n.iind.." Now
York
limes.
Points For Toanhers.
I The West Indian negro is a born
poaeiher. He catches the quail by tha
omei expedient of strewing finely pow
dered caychlie Ct Lhtl pepper in the lit
tle dust pits whero the birds "wash."
The burning powder gets into the eyes
it the birds, which, confused and help
less, aro then easily caught.
When ho wniits a wholesale supply ot
Bsh, he explodes a piece of dynamite
which was probably intended for the
making of new government roads, over
it hole in a mountain stream, and the
Qsh aro killed by the concussion.
But hia favorite resource is the bark
of the dogwood treo. This ho drops in
to a river hole, and the mullet, intoxi
cated, comes to tbo surface of the water.
This singular property of the dogwood
has caused it to be employed as a nar
cotic. It is particularly useful as a lo
cal anaesthetic-, end it has been recent
ly proposed to apply it in dentistry,
Pearson's Weekly.
The Actor and the Man.
Great painters, sculptors, musicians
snd actors are careful not to lose their
heads in the tumult of their emotions.
Edwin Booth, so far as is known, never
threw himself into his character but on
one occasion, and then he was playing
Bortuccio in "Tho King's Jfool." It is
related that he cutue off the stage at
the conclusion of the performance oon
viuced that he hud surpassed all of his
previous efforts, and that ho was Pl
otted, thrilled, tingling with the omo- '
tious of the character into which he
bad blindly cast himself, but bis daugh
ter, Edwiua Booth, who had been sit
ting in a stage box, told bini she had
oever seen him act bo badly. For that
one performance Booth deliberately bad
chosen to be the man and not the art
ist. San Francisco Argonaut
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