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2 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 1903. Oregon Cfy Bicycle 3 aw 6un Store Main Street, next to Oregon City Bank New Location New Gooods I We are showing the largest stock of Bicycles, Guns Sporting Goods, Fishing Tackle and Bicycle Sundries ever shown in Clackamas county. Having purchased -. . the entire stock of Bicycles and Bicycle Sundries of Burmiester & Andresen and Huntley Brothers, we will close them out at reduced prices to make room for new goods Exptri Gun and Blcvh Hepairlng Shells loaded to order any powder. shot or shells. They are far superior to machine loaded. We guarantee satisfaction. LAMB & SAWYER, Oregon Citg, Oregon, next door to Oregon Ci!y Bank. ,,,,l,,,4,4,,,l,,,",,l,, THE LITTLE I COACHMAN T&y Elliot OalKfir Copyright, 11)03, by T. 0. MoOlure There was more than a suspicion of iiow in the dampness of the late twi felit, now darkening rapidly as the dismal clouds above closed pall-like jver the city streets. ' The well clad business man, the iturdy laborer with no overcoat, swing ing his dinner pall by rough red fin gers; the factory girl hugging herself within a faded shawl, the smart clerk, the trim saleslady all pressing on, leaving their workday behind. Among thein glided a small, wiry Ban, stepping fast where open spaces gave him expeditious 'advantage. His bead was bent, his cap pulled over his eyes and the collar of his heavy box coat turned well up to hide all view of the face and head save a glimpse of grizzled, close cropped hair, a Jutting nose and quick eyes. Presently he slipped down a side Btreet, keeping close to the smooth walls of the high brick buildings, then with a lessened speed, moved cautious ly Into a dark alley. A few moments later Jound him la a poorly lighted sa loon, knocking softly upon the closed floor of a room to the left of the unat tractive bar. "Come In," sounded a low call, and the man entered. At a round table sat two men, both of good appearance and In apparently poor keeping with their dingy sur roundings. A gas Jet flickered dimly from the tarnished fixture on the cheap papered wall, glimmering on the empty glasses and the bottle ornamenting the table between them. "Turn up that light and sit down. I'ennoek. I got your note. What's the news?" remarked the older of the occupants to the newcomer. "It looks like a chance tomorrow night, Mr. Gradley," began Pennoek in a deliberate whisper. "S-sh!" said the other wnrnlngly. "We'll drop names, I guess," and his companions nodded. "Have a drink?" be added. "No, I unist skip back. The old man's particular, you know. He won't keep a coachman a mluute If he smells of liquor." "How about the first time you met us?" grinned the third man. "That was a night off," replied the coachman soberly. "I know better now. Gentlemen, If I turn the boy over to you what do I get?" "Twenty years If you're caught," said Gradley facetiously. "That's what we will all get. If we work things right it means a fortune for you." Pcnnock's gray eyes were expres sionless In their stare. Ills thin, close shaven Hps set anxiously. "Hut I've got to get away," he objected. "I'm the one they'll look for, of course. I'll weeKs pernaps, ana I've dut. a lew mil iars., You gents led me Into this; not but what I was willin', but it looks ticklish now. Give me a thousand down when I place the lad with you a thousand, see! If not, 1 swear I won't take the risk. I know the Inside of a Jail, and I don't like it." His companions, leaning on their el bows, covered their hard mouths witli compressed palms and gazed thought fully In each other's eyes. , "You two are as safe as fleas, went on the coachman. "I'm to provide tlif team and get rid of it. You're landed at the place you've picked out wilh what you've been after these two mouths. Where am I? Eseapin' for my life or just as bad. A thousand ain't a penny too much; no, nor tKe thousand with "Mint you'll get." "Ilushl" hissed Gradley through Ills fingers. "Tomorrow night, you 'say. Deliver the goods and It's yours. Then get out and keep hidden until you hear from us. Where shall we meet?" "Carter street, corner Hammond ave nue, between !) and 10 o'clock. I'm drlyln' him home from a kids' party and he'll be alone. That's it." The little coachman put on his cap. buttoned his coat, nodded significantly with a finger on his lips and the door closed softly behind him. Then he passed quickly through the outer room and out agnin to the dark alley iiow whitening fast with swirling snow flafces. "I'm 'bout the last one to leave, Peii nock," Bald little Philip Vaughn, as the coachman tucked blm fa.' "If s 'most 10, ain't It? I had a lovely time. Rldln' borne alone In the big sleigh is fun too. Have some candy? I've got two bags.'.' "No, Flip (every one called him Flip). "I don't go much on candy." Ills stern countenance was flintlike as he mounted the box. Three" blocks and he slowed up and stopped, to jump down with the reins In one hand, bending over to open the heavy door. "Two gentlemen, friends of your fa ther, Flip," he whispered. "I'm goin' o give them a lift." "All right," murmured the six-year old sleepily. "L 'em pile In." A few cautious words, the handing of a small package to the driver, ami a whisper of advice from that worthy. "He's almost asleep. No need to doie him." The millionaire's sleigh slid rapidly on through the lighted streets. Inside It was very dark and still. The child snuggled against the warmth of the villain beside him and his little head fell lower and lower. Now they were going faster and turned a corner sharply to stop with a Jerk. On each side the curtained door, were violently wrenched outward. The conspirators .wtthlu, too startled for re sistance, found themselves In the re leutless clutch of uniformed men who yanked them viciously to the Icy pave ment with tierce commanding words. The abductors glared wildly at theii captors, then at the entrance toward which they were being roughly hustled. Over it, In black, forblddlug letters, plainly to be read in the gleam from a nearby arc light they saw "Police Station." "Tuck that boy in! Tell him it's all right, and we're going straight home," rapped a sharp voice from the box as a shrill wall issued from the interior of the equipage. "Lock those fellows up in separate cells." A big officer touched his can. "We'll take care of ui, sir," he called re spectfully, and the little coachman drove on. "Oh, that's Kllerton, the detective." be added to a curious bystander. "Smartest man In the west for this sort of thing. Old Vaughn sent for lfiiu three months ago. Seems he got an Inkling that blB boy was being watch ed. Neat, wasn't It his landing 'em right here at tlie door?" Hut the next morning little Flip won dered what had become of his friend and if he should like the new coachman half as well. rHBCONSHit.vroits i n:: a.-. 1,1 TO TUK 11 1' i'A. An. It's run v.: The Thin Man's Adventure. They were talking of strauge adven tures. The big man from the north west told of one which astoulshod his hearers. '' "Some years ago," he said, "I was sleighing In the country, and my way lay across a frozen river. I Knew the Ice was thin, but 1 was determined to cross, im team seamed orer tne riv er under whip, and we were midway between the shores wben the ice sud denly gaye way, and the sleigh, horse; and myself sank within a second to iii. bottom. However, the speed of tU' horses was so great that we were car rled by the momentum safe upon I'..--other shore, a little wet, to lr. xur but not much the worse for that." The thin, silent man had l.-;u:i. . with great interest to the stoiy. "It Is strange," he said, -inti C. same sort of an accident uupi :!'' ' me. The issue, however, w;u ;.. tragic." The big man squinted at the sp":il; "And what was the issue?" he aii,i;V suspiciously. "Well, I was drowned," said the man seriously. A Joke That lied to Butchery. What citizens of old were cruelly punished for joking about their cm peror? This fate befell the citizens of Ale:; andria. Caracalla, a monster of atro clous cruelty, left Rome about a year after the murder of his brother Geta. who had shared the throne with bint, and spent the remaining five years of bis reign in the provinces of his em pire until his death, A. D. 217. While peace prevailed he visited Al exandria, a chief center then of wit and learning, and there some one hung up in the theater a joke made at t'.ie emperor's expense. This so enrafor1 1 Caracalla that he caused the citizens to be assembled outside the city on the plain and told them that they should shortly see that his wit w::S practical. Then from a secure post in the tem ple of Serapls he directed the slar.;' li ter of many thousand innocent citizens and strangers and coolly informed tin senate that all had been alike guilty ci unpardonable insolence. London An swers. wna -jr SnWH I CdPrVflPANV, Washington Street 1 Cm I ?1? IT A nn TMThnK ijt oo. no. 6) 1 Challenge Sale Continues. ! $100,000 Worth of tine un-called-for tailor-made clothing, on which de- 1 posus nave Deen paid, purchased by my Chicago b 13 c Joe Godfrey, at I Twenty Cents on the Dollar Evil Day For Actors. At a time when, as Ken Jonson sa.vt. "nothing but filth of the mire" was u tered on the stage, laws were made in England against stage playing. In 1"W common phtyers were debarred frne Oxford university. By an act passed Ii; 1508 strolling players were punishable as rogues and vagabonds, with wl i ping and imprisonment unless they lie longed to a nobleman and had his 15 cense, and even this exception wj" abolished by another act passed 1' 1004. It was further enacted in 1625 thv players acting on a Sunday should l fined 5 shillings or placed in the stoe.: : The powers of the cities of London a n 1 Westminster with their environs w-. r augmented by an ordinance of 1047 1 which all players were brought wit' ! the scope of the acts of 1598 and 100!. By an ordinance passed in 1018 ; ;;. lerles were to be removed, the ne'e whipped, during market hours In so:... market town, the spectators fined, ' shillings each and all money paid i admission forfeited and disbursed ' relief of the poor. Letttr Lint Following is the list of letters remain ing in the Oregon City postoffice on Aug. 27. 1903: Women's List VTri Minnie Baldridge Mrs..Ilma Hurd, Mrs Mary Prior, Mrs Harry Hobiuaon. Men's L'b t L 0 Baker, A T Delano, Eddie Dummar, ,1 E Bailey. J FFlook, J R McDonald, Arthur MeLCaver, ,T H Miller (3). 0 E ManeHS, F. Miller, H J Phillips, Howard J Yliller Hurry Percy, T J Powers, 0 Spaldin. W V, Trahn, E E Tyler, W II Ullyart, G W Young. Tom P. Randall, P. M.t & SUITS AND OVERCOATS $20.00 un-called-for, tailor-made suits and overcoats ; Challenge Sale price s S4.T5 $22.50 un-called-for tailor-made suits and' overcoats; Challenge Sale price $25.00 and $30.00 un-called-for tailor-made suits and overcoats ; Challenge Sale price 1. $30 and $35 un-called-for suits and overcoots; Challenge Sale price $40, $50 and $60 un-called-for tailor-made suits and overcoats; ) 1 1 . ) i 't i i ' ale price . 15. TROUSERS $5 uncalled-for tailor-made trou sers; Challenge Sale price $7.50 uncalled-for tailor-made trousers; Challenge Usale price 2.9 $10 uncalled-for tailor-made trou sers; Challenge Sale price 3.9 $12.50 uncalled-for tailor-made trousers; Challenge Sale price 4fL Any Suit or Overcoat for $15. State Normal School Where Racing Will Be dood . EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Notice i hereby given that the undenlitnod hai been by the Honorable County Court of ilacka miia oounty, Oregon, rtnlv appointed executor of the will aiid estate of John lmiau deceased. A II persons having claims against the estate are notified to prenent thejci, duly vcrefietl, at the office of nit attorney II. K. Cro, Oregon City, Oregon, within oix months frou the liue of this notice. 5t. FRANK DOLAN Kxeeutor.TI BUD j AND FLOWERS OF HOME LIFE. Paine's Celery Compound Makes and Keepn the Children Well and Strong. Visitors to the Oregon State Fair thia fall will witness the greatest racingever seen in the state. Salem business men have raised a parse of $2,000 for 2:17 pacers to be raced for on Salem Day, which has 30 horses entered. These horses are from the best stables in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho. Calilornia and j Mnta..a, and it is expected at least twenty ol them will start, furnishing the largest field of high class horses ever seen on a track on the Pacific coast. Portland, too, has contributed a purse of $2000 for 2 -.20 trotters to be raced for on Portland Day. This race has 27 horses entered, of which most of them will start, making two of the greatest racing events ever held thia side the Rocky mountain If you are fond ot high class racing, don't miss seeing these two events. A Worm Killer. ' J. A. J. Montgomery. Puxtoo. Wayne Co.. Mo, writes: 'I have little twin girls, who have been Dotnered wnn worms all their lives, i tried every thing to relieve tliem which lulled until I used t White Cream Vermifuge; the first two doBes 1 brought four worms from one of them, the next ' two doses, twelve, one of them measuring twelve . inches; the other child was only relieved of four worms. It is a most excellent medicine'" i White's Cream Vermifuge is good forchiidien. It i not only destroys wor malt helps the child to per-- feet growt i, wards oft' sickness-, 25o at Char man Ss Co. - Fall term opens September 22 For catalogue or information address, MAM MOUTH, OREGON Training school for teachers. Courses arrang ed especially for training teachers for all branches of the profession. Most approved methods for graded and ungraded work taught in actual district school. The demand for graduates of this school as teachers far exceed s the supply. The training department which consists of a nine grade public school of about 250 pupils is well equipped in all its branches including Sloyd Music, drawing and Physical Training. The Normal course the best and niii"lcf tiratr n fafra Cart i fi-ofa Jii auuit-j) -uiv.hlji vy tu tuik wi miLaic, E. D. RESSLER, President or J. B. BUTLER, Secretary. Mothers Slake It the Homo Medicine Fur the Little Ones. The children, God bless them, are the buds and flower ot our homes. Without their prattle and hearty lauf-hter, our homes would se desolate. They should ever be carefully tended in childhood and youth, if we expect them to ripen into perfect men and women. In the home and at school, -the children have their times of ill health and suffering. We often note the pallid and bloodless cheeks, heavy eyes, nervous movements, and twitch ings of limbs and muscles. They complain of headache, drowsiness, weariness, dyspepsia, and indigestion. All such symptoms and ail ments mean that the seeds of disease will have a fast and firm hold, unless proper measures are taken to restore a perfect condition of health. Thousands of wise and prudent parents have made their children happy, healthy, and vigor ous by giving them nature's medicine, Taine'i Celery Compound. In many severe and com. plicated cases, Paine'i Celery Compound has restored health when the little ones were given up by physicians. If your dear ones are not as hearty, strong, and rugged as they should be, try the health giving virtues of Paine's Celery Compound. It makes and keeps the children well. The house la made bright and cozy with DIAMOND DYES Pillow and table covers, curtains, portieres, afghans, tidies, and chair coverings, may be dyed beautiful and artistio colors. Direction book and V dyed eamplee free. DIAMOND DYKcl, i)urllnioa,Vt. Oregon City iillllhlnNillIllliillllllllliH We carry the only complete line of Caskets. Coffins, Robes and Linings in Clackamas County. We have the only First-Class Hearee in thex County, which we will furnish for less than can be had elsewhere. Embalming a Specialty. Our prices always reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. SHANK & BISSELL, Undertakers '''Ifllll'WIJS"1 Phones 411 and 304. Main St., Opp. Huntley rniipiiNifiiiiiiifiiiiim!i ipimiifNiufi f mpiniiinin ifiMnifiMiiim fiifiiwiiiiiii'iiiifi"i!ii!iii'iipiiiiipiiiiiijiiwmiiii. ' Second-Hand & Junk Store J Sugarman & Co. now have a full line of camping stoves on hand at 1.15 up. Also all kinds of sacks J cheap. Call on us and we will convince you of our bargains. All inds of junk bought and sold i I 10th and Main Sts., Oregon City, Or. T Are You Going to Build? ' Do you use Lumber ? We want to furnish you We are located near the Eldorado School House, near the postoffice of Carus. j , We have a good mill, are cutting lumber out : of the best yellow fir. j, ' Can fill your order on j short notice for any I kind of lumber If you need lumber don't fail to write to us 1 or come to see us. It will pay you t St urges Brothers, Cans, Ortgta. Brown & Welch Pbofrirtorb of the 7th st Mt Market A. O. U., W. Building OREGON CITY, OREGON D. L, Trullinger Manufacturer of Lumber A large stock of of all kinds of Lumber kept constantly ! on hand. Prices very reasonable UNION MILLS, ORE. New Plumbing f ( and Tin Shop A. MIHLSTIN JOBBING AND REPAIRING apeclalty Opposite Oaafleld Block OREGON CITY Choicest Meats AT R. PetZOldS Meat Market hood money. 1