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ORKCON CTTV COURIER, FRIDAY, JUJE- ts, 1903 " AT A HORSE"AUCTfON; ' Wbe Proceeding! as Viewed Fra the Horir'i Standpolat. ' Skipper was a police horse and the tiVrida of the mountod squud until he acquired a spavin. Then he was sent to a sales stable. His experiences ftaere as told by Sewell Ford in ""Horses Nine" were as follows: Skipper was led into a big ring be ft ore a lot of men. A . man on a box shouted out a number and began to stall; very fast Skipper gathered that :--Ue was talking about hiui. Skipper .iarned that he was still only six years old and that he had been owned as a iisaddle horse by a lady who was about to sail for Europe and was closing out :'!bor stable. This was news to Skipper. The man talked very nicely about -Skipper. He said lie was kind, gentle, (sound in wind and limb and was not -only trained to the saddle, but would work either si;iglo or double. The man "wanted to know how much the gentle mien were willing to pay for a bay gelding of this description. Some one on the outer edge of the crowd said, "Ten dollars." : ' At this the man on the bos grew quite indignant,, He asked if the other aooan wouldn't like a silver mounted &arness and a lap robe thrown In. "Fifteen," said another man. . Somebody else said "Twenty," an other man said "Twenty-five," and still another "Thirty." Then there was a iiMtcli. The man m the box began to stalk very fast Indeed. "Thutty, thutty, thutty,' thuttyl Do JI hear the five? Thutty, thutty, thut ty, thutty. Will you make It five?" "Thirty-five," said a red faced man -who had pushed his way to the front nd was looking Skipper over Bharply. The man on the box Bald "Thutty- rfive!" a good many times and asked If 'lie "hoard forty." Evidently he did snot, for he stopped and said very slow ly and distinctly, looking expectantly Mammal: "Are you all done? Thirty- vflve once; thirty-five twice; third -and last call sold for ?3j!" When Skipper heard this, he hung vJb1a head.1 When you have been a $2uU Tbhie ribboner nniV the pride of the vJCorce, it is sad to be "knocked down" iCot $33. INSTINCT IS THE TEACHER. Slow the Yonnar of the Feathered Tribe Are Educated. There Is n school of the woods, Just rju much as there Is a church of the woods or a parliament of the woods ur a Society of United Charities of the ""woods, and no more. There is uothing Ha fiie dealing of animals with their .young that In the remotest way sug iigrests human Instruction and discipline. "The young of all the wild creatures do ilnstincUvely what their parents do and Jld. They do not have to be taught; ithey are taught from the Jump, Bays a "writer In the Atlantic Monthly. Tho tttrird sings at die proper ae and builds ills nest and takes Its appropriate food -without any hint at all from its par- ipnts. The young ducks take to tho -water when hatched by a duck and nllve and stalk Insects and wash thcni ' selves Just as their mothers did. Young chickens and young turkeys under stand the various calls and signals of -.their mother the first time they hear or ree them. Attlie first alarm note they raquat; at a cflll to food they come on "the first day us on the tenth. The hab Mts of cleanliness of tho nestlings are stublislK'd from the first hour of their Slv-5. When a bird conies to build Us I'firsl. nest and to rear its first brood, It '.knows how to proceed as well as It "does jears later or as Its parents did Kbefore It. The fox Is afraid of a trap ilu'foro he has had any experience with vtt, and the huro thumps upon the ground at sight of nnytlilng strange ind unusual, whether its mates be -within hearing or not No bird teaches ffs young to lly. They fly instinctively when their wings are Btrong enough. iUiOTereure In rrnjora. Little Alice always said her prayers cnegnlarly beforo going to bed. One lgtit, however, as she rested her head am the pillow she remarked, In a ques tioning way: 'Atiuniiiu, my prayers are so much Vt)ngT than the one nurse says In the suornTng. Can't I say hers when I'm tired T "Itoes the uurse pray In tho morn 'f?ni?7" asked the mother with n puzzled iSook. "yes," said Alice sweetly. "She says, ""Ixml, have I got to get up?'" New ".Vork Tribune, l.l.i.t lit Sevenly-Hve. Even at Hcventy tive Liszt was a pl-s-ttnldt whose powers lay beyond the ;pale i which sober language or calm "prUielsin could reach or be applied. X?muvh that its greatest charm seemed Mo me to lie in a perfectly divine touch .-and In a tone more remarkable for ex niiilsltely musical quality tlian volume t.r dynamic force aided by a technique it-tl!l incomparably brilliant and superb. -Hermann Klein in Century, Tm Mm'ti For Time. Ttlrs. Newrlehe (who would like tho "oui't fur a sun In-law) -It's true that 't.Y'Uiit d'Kd IVoiirk is Inclined to be a 'iitlle-er-wild. but he'll settle down, ,l'ou Know. Time works wonders. OoUmx - So It docs, but I never yet Kfecan of It being In the miracle busl-rnesji.-Hriioklyu Life. ftot In Fvlilence. May-Miss I'assay has been quite III Us she likely to recover? Kay 'Sli-' thinks so. She says sho J.teati youth on her side. MiO'-Well, If she has It must be on rUie Inside. Catholic Standard and Water fwjtes every night of t?.s ;year i,f M'o Crueero. in P'olivia. while &t noon; v i, e tun is hot euou.li to Philosophic Discourse A Granger Discants on Evolution and Other Things. An Able "Paper heao Before the 'Sta'.e Grange by 0. D. Rabbins. - Do not look so alarmed, fellow Pa trons, I do not intend to bore you with a very serious paper. This is n it offered as a 1 idaciic contribution to Umnge lit erature. That field hits btt-n well ulled ly other woikers. I t-ouimend lbs re port! of i!ie worthy officers to the care ful attention of all. 1 heartily endorn most of the .ideas advanced by th brothei s in tba address of welcome and the respoaee. Pioneer days have pissed and pioneer methods must pais alto. The log bouse and school house with wooden bencher, the rail fence, the mud road t and the orub stock, including the "razor-bck, h e served their pu. pi te and must di appear as they mostly have. By the way, t..e pioneer hog had to hustfe and the razor-back, was pre-eminently a hustler. His long attenuated probobis enabled him to reach through a crack in the leiueand eat up the third row of potatoes and as the (armer calcu lated on that, it was all right. Pione.r cows needed horns too, but we are git ting away with them along with the lonc porcine proboeis. , Well, li I had any weil-daBned object in mind whan I concluded to write some thing for this occasion, it was to. give some pointa that ..might be interns' inn, about Oregon City and Clackamas coun ty, histoncul and o'herwise. If this has loo much of a local flavor and I seem to be tooting onr born t o loudly, remember that I owe mucli to Clackatnai county. I am a pioneer ol this county and when I firBt arrivad here, had very poor health, I was con fined by the doctoi's orders, to an exclu sive milk diet. ,Mind and body were alike fveble and the period is a blank to me. I have been told that at this begin niu" of the pmiod, my weiyht was tevetr po inds- A change for liie better was gradually brought about by a mild cli mate and exercises, first of the vocal or. gam and then of the organs of loconio tion which at ffrHt included the hands. When I could eat the big a ple, the fine potatoes, the luscious berries and the othi r fine things that grew in pro lusion, improvement was rapid until Na ture's limit was rescind. Oregon City's most ancient lndinak,fiO to speak, and the firBt cause of the town's existence, is the falls. Long before white people came to disturb them, Iudian tribes fought for possession of the fishing grounds where the Chinook salmon, king of edible fishes, ga hered in vain at tempts at further asceueion of ihe beau tiful Willamette. In a grassy opening on the bank of the river above the head lithe locks, the first settlers found many canoes fi led with bones which were said to be those of warriors slain in battle. The salmon made"byas clone muck a muck" for si-vaeh, kloochmaa and tillicuin. Moreover, it wai ea y to i obtain and dry a year'a supply and Mr. Lo could then indulge his phenomenal i capacity for repose while Mrs. Lo did tha chores. The earliest pioneers of the Northwe?t . encountered many savage and cruel In diane, five of whois the Whitman mur derers, were hung here at Oregon City and buried at the (ool of Moss hill, on the Abarnethy. MoBt of the ' noble red men" that we later arrivals came in con tact with were too lazy to be cruel. They were so comincu that the' pale facts I came to use the classic Chinook Ian , guage almost as much as their own. The I common greeting was "klihium, six; ka mika data wa" often followed by the quest 10 "nika tika oahoa cuitaur " Ah ! Thos't old times are interesting to recall, hut we would soon tire condi tions as they existed before Hon Holli day built the 0. & C. line, llow well I remember the first traiu with Holliday on the rear platform. Clackamas county was a hard place, generally to hew out a farm in, but the farms were made und the soil waa good. Big crops of grain and hay were raised while big red apples and white cl.ildreu grew in abundance. Anon, there were many log school houses p-esided over by a most miscel laneous and variously gilted lot of teach ers', gathered from the four corners of tho earth. Ifear the boys and girlsdo not appreciate and make use of their ad vantages now as they should. Among these advantages the Orange is by no means least. To return to Oregon City, perhaps some of you ers not aware there w as once a rival town where the locks now are. It was swept away by the flood of til and was called Linn City. Allow me to call or recall your alten tion to the fact that the iir.ive of Dr John McLaughlin, the fattier of Oregon, is in the Uailiolie church yard and that Kva Emery Dye, author of "McLotigl. lin and Old Oregon" is a resident of our cty. We have three ot the oldest build, ligs in Oregon. They are the old Meth odist church building on Seventh street the Barclay residence on Main street and the Samson residence ueiirly op posite the court house. The material tor these buildings was prepared in Bos ton ami snipped around ttie .-lorn. The Samson residence has tlie distinc 1 tii'etion ol having once been tho bead quart' is ot lien. t rant and of Gen. Slier idn also 1 believe Oregon City is pre pared to dispute with Philadelphia for the title of "The City of Brotherly Lcve." We have her fourteen secret societies and most of the citizens beloug I to all of them. Their chief concern is to avoid giving the signs and passwords I of one order while attending Ihe meet ing of another. Aa most of them are i beneficiary orders, if a sudden cataclysm I of nature istiould destroy the male pope- mi on, we wouui nave a wealthy lot ot widows, for a j ear at Uast. Fine finish is but liitle needed in tha interior of a hall here, as there is not much of the walis visible between the charters. It you should sue one of our citizens in a secluded place, moving his arms and hands in sll couceivable ways and point ing to hU the stars in the firmament, he he is not crazy as you may think, lie is just practicing the signs of recognition, cant on and distress of the orders to which he belongs. Much of the means to curry on this fraternal and other good w ik.is furnished by the paper and woolen mills that give direct employ ment to many people and indirect em ployment to the politicians in guess-in lio ttw Uh rers wi'l vot . We i a jj uu of old Cl .ckamis foi Uic txstaud prttent and k pe well forth I iturt. ftelov it lor its advantages and in ipite o( disadvantages which are as few as ita ci'.izens that do nrt want an office. II we do not f rui on a bin ia.de we are near the best market lu the statu Which makes diver iLied farming profit able. We believe we have done well in the w-y of pr- gws, considering tl.e difficulty o( clearing lands building roads and bridging st reams. We love ''Our pleas-ant home and wo ded hills, Our peaceful ft ains and rocky rills." We love onr Oranges, which are more numerous than ii pov othei county:. Ve love our tree.-), our flowers, our birds. Yes, we lovu evt.n the Chinese pheas ants that pull up onr corn, (when they are well Molted j.ai d the pimmer. comes to love hie Cell, Wf hive paid the taxes so lonir that we love the '"white man's bun'en." Letter Litt. Following U the list if Ittlsrs rsaiain inrin the Onron City postoffice aa Jun'llUb, 1903: Women's Lit! Mrs Fannie Anderson, Miss Myrtle Boen, Mis May CUrk.Miss Emma Freeman, Miss Mahle Jefferson, Miss Kosa Smith, Miss Chloe Schmidt, Miss Mary Jane VSard. Men's List James Z Anderson, Rev Boehner, H 0 Beasley 2, 1 0 Cole, W A Cill, Albert Campbell, AT Dlano Eq, Wm Footel, B Fy, John B Jackson, Wm Lewis, Frank M.toon, JT din ger, A Watkius. .. Tom P. Randall, P M. Watch Your Shoalders. When standing before a looking glasa, notice If your shoulders are the same height. Generally the right is higher than the left. The reason for this un even ness lies In the way one sits. You get into a comfortable chair at your desk, and at once you rest your right elbow on the arm of your chair or your desk, thus throwing one shoulder high er than tho other. This is especially the case where oue writes a great deal. When you notice that one shoulder Is higher than the other, the thing to do is to change your way of sitting at your desk. Two simple exercises will be beneficial. The arm of the lower shoul der should be extended upward, the hand grasping a dumbbell. That of the higher, shoulder should be lowered and made to support a heavy weight. Marvelous Memories. Among men noted for wonderful memories were Milton, who was said to be able to repeat Homer; Professor Lawson, who boasted that be could re peat the whole of the Bible, except a (ew verses; Lord Macaulay, who made the same boast about "Pilgrim's Prog ress" and "Paradise Lost;" Dr. Lerden, a friend of Sir Walter Scott, who couM repeat an act of parliament on hearing It read but once, and a London report er, who took no notes, but could write ant an unexpected debate verbatim. Henry Clay could not memorize a sin gle stanza of a poem, but never forgot I smium, a foe or an argument. va4t Battles of History. Bwrke In his letter on "Natural So " says that Sylla destroyed 300,000 mea In each of three battles, ene being at Cheronoa. The Persians are said to hava lost 230,000 men at Platsea. II Chronicles xlli, 17, records 500,000 slain on one Bide, which, however, may not have been In a single battle. I Kings kx, 20, tells of 100,000 men being killed on one side In a single day. Filial Repartee. Slchard Brinsley Sheridan, who was always distressed for money, was one day hacking his face with a duil razor when he turned to his eldest sou and said: "Tom, If you open any more oyster Witt, my razor I'll cut j ou off with a hilling." "Very well, father," said Tom, "but where will you get tho shilling?" . A Full llnnae. Lady Guest Your father Is such a hospitable gentleman! He dearly loves a full house, doesn't he? Jack Well, yes if It happens to bo on his side of the table. Kansas City Journal. Throughout every part of my career I have felt pinched nml hiimpered by my own Ignorance. Sir Walter, Scott. Considerate. A gentleman asked Mary, an only child, how many Bisters she had and ' was told "three or four." Her mother asked Mary, when they were alone, what had made her tell such nn untruth. "Why, uianinm," cried Mary, "I didn't wnnt him to think you were so ijoor that you hadn't but oue child"' ffimrRV all ponp J Hrailwht? Stonnch out of order? 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