OREGON CITY COURIER, - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 1903,
AT THE
CHILDREN'S
HOUR
By Willette
Provost
Copvriflit, im, by T. C. McChurt
m
The room was dark save for the
bright gleam from the hearth. In a
comfortable armchair before the fire a
Ban reclined. On the rug In front of
fclm a little child was sitting, watching
the glowii; embers. Over In a dim
corner a girl was playing very softly
O softly thut the melody seemed to be
but a part of the gathering shadows.
"You're awfully quiet tonight, uncle,"
amid the child. "Are you lonesome be
cause you're going away tomorrow?"
"Perhaps that's it, sweetheart. I
won't see you' for two long months, and
ni miss my little girl dreadfully."
Bhe jumped up from the rug and
flllmbed on his knees, putting her little
arms around his neck and kissing him.
"Are you sorry I'm going away?"
"Oh, yes, indeed. No one ever tells
Be the nice storlts you do, Uncle Fred.
. Won't yJu please tell me a story now
before mother says it's bedtime; just a
little one just a jveenty teeny one,
about a bear?"
The man paused and glanced at the
oorncr of the room. The music had
hanged to "Bonnie Sweet Bessie."
"All right," he said. "I will see if
I can make up a little story that you
Will like." N
The child pulled his head down close
to hers and kissed him. He began:
"Once upon a time there lived two
mall bears who wore playmates. They
were very happy and used to dwell in
a sort of fairyland all of their own.
But by and by the boy bear, who was
called Cubbio, was told by his father,
Big Hruln, that he was old enough to
go away to school. When dibble
heard this, he went to little Fluffle, his
playmate, and told her the woeful news,
tad she tried to comfort him.
" 'It'll only be for a little while, Cub
We,' she said, 'and then when you come
hack I'll be here In the woods just the
me, and you'll come to see me.'
" 'Yes,' he answered savagely, 'and
you'll be grown up and stuck up, like
i
ffS ?Sr" I dEE-roE SEEEPBB8
"Ah,
Tm glad,
"Yes, dear, but there was something
about her that Cubble could not under
stand, lie finally came to the conclu
sion that she did not care (or him any
more."
The man was gazing earnestly Into
the tire as he spoke; he seemed to have
forgotten the presence of the child.
Then he looked down and smiled. She
had fallen asleep.
"And that's the end, for Uncle Fred's
little girlie has gone fast asleep., I
wonder If auntie will call mother to
put her little girl to bed?"
In response the girl rose from the
piano and, coming over to the fire,
stood behind him for a moment with
her hand resting on the back of his
chair.
"I would like to know what this big
rough bear Is going to do. for dussv
may want to lihow when she wakes in
the morning?" she asked.
"Oh, live and die an old bachelor
and write stories for little ones like
Sweetheart here stories to put them
to sleep."
"But I thought you said the bear was
going to marry some one."
"That was long ago. The beautiful !
and wealthy bear," he added, with a
smile, "found out in some way that he '
had asked to marry her only because
of his father's dying wish, and she pos-
Itlvely refused to do so." j
"But supposing Fluffle did not know i
of this. Supposing she had known he
was engaged, but never heard of the
breaking of the engagement until to- j
day," said the girl gently. "If she had
not known, would the big bear have i
forgiven her for doing as she did?"
A light shone In the man's eyes a j
light that revealed a dawning hope. j
"Was that the onlv renson?" he nslrwl I
f quickly. "Was the bea-oh, hang the i
bears, Flossie, are you not engaged to j
some one?" i
The girl bent her head and kissed his
forehead.
"I don't know," she said. "Am I,
dear?"
A CLUB WHERB DOZING MEMBERS
ARE NEVER DISTURBED.
you Will Be Happy if Well.
There la Good Heun For This
Curtom, Which Is Hot Allowed to
Be Violated A Short Sleep Which
Culminated la Tragedy.
There is an exclusive club in upper
Kew York where the employees are for
bidden from awakening any member
Who drops asleep In his chair Jn the li
brary or sitting room. If a visitor in-1
Quires for him he Is "out" Other mem-!
bers, If they see him, carry
conversation In low tones or go to the
smpking room or cafe. Very few new
members are admitted to the club, but
those who are fortunate enough to get
In or those who bring visitors are re
minded of this custom,
Paine's Celery Jitktitm
Compound
oesiows mat neaun ana
S T
ing a neasure.
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Vigor that Makes Liv
THe only irst- Class
ond-hand dealer in
Sec
Is ii.i..' ..iif
If you are sick and out-of-sorts, it Is in voiir
on their f .. um
uappy. '
There is not the slightest reason why you
should go through life feeling sickly, miserable,
languid, and melancholic. To be well and
strong, means happiness and true joy.
If you are sleepless, rheumatic, neuralcic.
dyspeptic, or have the shadows of disease
Furniture
STOVES and UTENSILS
I A Dhvsieian who belongs tn thn ni.ii. -hovering over you; if you are not as brieht.
cnergcuc, ana strong as you were some weeks
ago, the use of Paine's Celery Compound will
tone up and fortify your whole system, cleanse
the blood, correct digestion, sharpen the
appetite, and conduce to restful sleep. Thous
ands once in a half-dead condition owe their
present good health to the use of Paine's
Celery Compound. Mr. Wm. S. Gibson, of
Pleaiureville, Ky., who, through sickness and
suffering, was brought near the dark grave,
writes as follows, regasskg his marvelous
cure :
" I have been broken down in health and
strength, nervous system shattered, kidneys
out of order, had nervous and trembling spells
off and on for the last ten years. I have taken
three bottles of your Paine's Celery Compound
and all of the above-mentioned troubles have
left me, and I can now do a good day's work.
l go about my business all day long and it
don't worry me, and I now feel better than I
have in ten years. I have a good appetite,
and can eat and get around on foot as active
as when I was a boy. My age is 65 years."
&M'J.t'i..i.:'MUHi" iiw
A Purist.
Most persons believe Stevenson's
verses for children may, without cor
rection or amendment, safely be placed
in' the hands of the impressionable
youngster without corrupting either
his morals or his English. But there
are some who think otherwise, says
an exchange. x
Little Alice's mother, having taught
the 'child to say "Time to rise," in
which "the birdie with a yellow bill"
figures, the child announced that she
meant to recite it to her teacher.
"Well, aud what did Miss Trim say
to 'the birdie with a yellow bill?'"
asked Alice's mother when the little
girl returned from school,
"She says it is quite a pretty
thought. But this is the way she
makes me say it now, mamma:
"A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon the window sill,
Cocked his shining eye and said,
'Are you not ashamed, you sleepy
head?' "
"But that was not the way the birdie
said it, Alice," the mother remon
strated. "No, mamma, I know. But teacher
says it Isn't good English to say, 'Ain't j culty, but failed.
you suainea, you sieepyueaar
HI GIRL STOOD WITH HBH HAND ON TH
BACK OF U1H CRAIH.
all big lady bears, and , you'll think
yourself too good to tulk to mel' And
Oubble began to growl like a reifl bad
bear.
"Finale's big eyes were filled with
tears, for Cubble bad never spoken to
her so crossly before. 'Why, Cubble.'
she said, 'even if you were away for
years and years and
Spanish Politeness.
' The most perfect example of Spanish
politeness was a letter left for the Duke
of Marlborough by Dom Arrom de
Ayala, a Spanish consul, who commit
ted suicide in Blenheim park on April
14, 1850:
My Lord I humbly ask your lordship's
pardon and forgiveness tor the great lib
erty I have taken In coming to put an end
to my dreary and misufuble existence In
your park. It may be a chlldlBh feeling,
but one cannot blow his brains out in a
common road or on one of those cultivat
ed fields full of cot ta it os and Ufa and civ
ilization and railways and establishments
of all kinds In which your blessed coun-
j try of England abounds.
1 I mean no offense. Your manor Is one
I . ,., 1 ji, . , , .
v.. imv uiuov uuuic, Byieuuia Hung 1 ever
saw In my life, and I have traveled about
and seen everything worth seeing. You
have the finest Rubens that can be seen.
That should have a great attraction for
me under other olrourastances, but now
they have been of no use I am your
lordship's most obedient servant.
ARROM DE AYALA.
Dancing; Dervishes.
A TlBitor to Constantinople gives this
years we'd love 1 picture of the dancing dervishes: "The
each other just as much as we do now, , worshipers, huving divested them
wouMn't we?' I selves of their flowing cloaks, stretched
"That seemed to cfimfort him. They i out tholr arms and began to revolve,
were sitting under a favorite tree, lie . at first slowly and rhythmically, but
put his arm around her, and when
Flutlle's mother cuine to look for her
long . ufter hIiu found that they had;
fallen asleep in each other's arms." j
The girl at the piano was playing a
lullaby.
gradually warming to it. In a few sec
onds the hall beneath was alive with
a host of figures reeling and twirling
round und round with ever Increasing
rapidity to the weird music of reed
flutes and cymbals both Instruments
"W ell, cubble went away, and when 1 conducive to spiritual exaltation. In a
he cm me back next year he found that , few more seconds their long white
blultlo and her mother had wandered robes bulged and expanded like colos
iway to live in some other woods, but 1 sal, parasols, until the whole mass
no one seemed to know where," merged in one Immense cloud of calico,
auu music grew ruiui, almost ceased, wniie ueir towering headdresses as-
"Tho years passed and CubbW grew
10 be a great big, rough bear. He of
ten thought of little Fluffle and won
dered what she was like and If she re
membered him."
The ma u paused.
"do ott, Uncle Kred. What did the
beg boy boar dor' said the child.
"Well, his papa wanted hUn to stay
at home aud marry a very beautiful
and wealthy little bear, bat It was not
his little Fluffle; to he said no.
Then, after a long while, to please
hla father, who waa dying, he promised
to ask the beautiful little bear to be
Ma wife. Ton see, be had almost given
vp hope of seeing his Fluffle again."
11 waa silence In the corner by the
window. The girl at the piano was
listening.
Tluffle was mean not to have come
back, wasn't she, Uncle Fredr
"Perhaps she couldn't get back,
dsMs" answered the man. "She might
bar got loBt. It must have been that ,
may, for one day she did come back to
tfc old woods.1'
sumed In the spectator's bewildered
yes the appearance of a large con
gregation of chimney pots suddenly
(one whirling mad."
The Caaae of the Raw.
An Irish undertaker was laying out
the deceased husband of a weeping
Hibernian widow. The corpse wore a
Wig, and it was very difficult to Induce
It to stay on straight as wigs ought
always to do, even if they don't The
bereaved widow was called in to as
sist "Go an' git me a pot of glue,
Mrs. McGoveru," said the undertaker,
"so that I may keep his wig where it
belongs."
Mrs. McGovern set out after the
ticking material and after a time she
returned. "Here is the glue for ye."
he said, with a sigh.
"Mrs. McGovern, you kin take back
the mucilage," said the undertaker.
The dlinculty Is fixed. 1 ' used a
tack."
And that waa what caused the row.
-Bradford Era.
explained the reason of it. "It is
wrong under any circumstances," he
said, "to awaken a man who has fallen
into a natural sleep. How do you
know but It Is the first time he has
been able to sleep for hours or even
days? This phenomenon of sleep is a
very complicated one. There are many
grades of sleep, and they affect differ
ent men in different ways. Dreams
are the result of defective or partial
sleep, and their common occurrence
in the lighter varieties of the state
shows that the rest taken by most per
sons is not profound or continuous
even while it lasts.
"Don't you know that scores of per
sons In New York take 'a long trolley
ride in the evening simply to produce
a feeling of sleepiness? If a man looks
straight ahead of him or reads a news
paper his ride will do him little good.
He might as well remain at home on
his front stoop. But If he looks about
. him, constantly shifting his gaze from
1 one scene to another, he gets into a
j state of drowsiness such as is brought
i about by artificial means when it Is
I called hypnotism. That Is why so
J many men feel like dozing in the club '
I after they come in from a ride or a
drive in the park.
I "Sleep induced by overeating is not '
natural. That brought about by stimu
lants is nothing but blood poisoning
and stupor. It may be desirable and
even necessary In some cases to pro- '
duce this stupor. But the state into
which the brain is thrown is not sleep. '
If natural sleep follows, It is a con- I
tlngency and not the effect of the '.
stimulant, But I was going to tell ;
you a Story, not deliver a medical lec- '
ture. I must not mention names, but '
many old club men of New York will j'
remember the tragedy. j
"There was a man who was quite ,
prominent, both In a business and so- '
clal way, ln the life of this city. A j
dreadful family misfortune brought on '
insomnia. He would sometimes go !
forty-eight hours without sleep; then
after a normal night or two he would
not be able to sleep for a week. All
his life until his trouble came upon
him he bad been habitually a heavy
sleeper. After two or three months of
this insomnia attack his health began
to give way. Physicians tried all the
usual means of overcomlna the dlfft-
He was prescribed
j sleeping drafts until it became dan
! gerous to continue them longer.
I "Then he went to Europe, taking a
I competent young physician of my ac
quaintance as companion. Specialists
abroad prescribed walking and moun
tain climbing, but they discovered that
, there is nothing to be gained by in
I creasing the fatigue of the body when
j worry of mind will not allow the re
pose to which the limbs are entitled.'
The man camo home little the better
for his trip. He retired from business.
; His strength wasted away.
! "Finally by one of those curious
1 freaks of nature we occasionally
caught him dozing at the club. All
1 who knew his misfortune sympathized
with him. We moved about as though
in a sick chamber until he awoke. He
seldom slept more than twenty min
utes and told us that his restlessness
, at night continued. One afternoon he
came In positively drowsy. To a friend
he said: '
" 'I feel as though I could sleep for a
week, but I can't sleep In my own
! home no. Find me a bed here.'
i "We got him upstairs to a room aud
I put a man on guard nt the door, with
j instructions to see that no servant was
; allowed to disturb him or make a noise.
I An hour or so afterward nn accident
In the kitchen brought the fire engines
up to the door. There was really no
danger, but before a ladder could be
raised poor Blank's body came tum
bling Into Hie area.
"lie was killed. Suicide? No. It
was the opinion of all of us that sud
den awakening from the first sound
sleep he had enjoyed for more than a
year upset his mind and that when he
was awakened by the noise he did not
realise where he was. In a frenzy be
leaped' from the window." New York
Times.
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X njVou will find a .full line of new and Second -Hand Furniture
tt.SMiwc CrHr.ra.. TjT 1 -r-i
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Stoves, Crdckery, Hardware, Etc,
JHighest Cash Price Paid for Second Hand Goods.
1. rUFUJAK,4,
DIAMOND DYES
Color Jacketi. Coats. Cces,
Ribbons, teckiAs, P
Stockings trill not t.a;- m .roeff -
Diamond Dyes. Director b jit
free. CIAMOt-rr; r7 , j, I
S3MSW3S? -y?k&.
vith
-loles
r
hummer yoods
Latest Styles
Beautiful Stock
Lowest Prices
At the Fair Store. See our
line of laces. They are the
nicest in town and the cheap
est. Ladies' goods a specialty.
The Fair Store
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MAIN STREET.
door north Commercial Bank
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Something New Eastbouad.
Double daily service to Chicago
via the Union Pacific and Chicago
Milwaukee As St. Paul Line. New
ovi.-rland service. It is as satis
factory as it is new.
H. n. KOWE, GVneml Agent,
L&icago, Milwaukee and St. Pa'il Railway
134 Third Blreet, Portland, Ore
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THE MORNINQ TUB
cannot be enjoyed in a baRin of limitno
capacity nor where the waler supply and
temperature is uncertain hy reason of
detective plumbing or heating apparatus
To have Doth put, 4n thorough working
order will not prove expeuBive if ctif
work ie done by
F. C. GADKE!
$2SO
P.(lLskh
Cnla Soaaaal Herekuts,
In China there la a profession for
ladles, strange because openly and
handnomely remunerated In the cur
rent coin of the realm. It la carried
on by elderly ladlea, who go from
bouse to bouse of rich people, announc
ing their coming by beating a drum
and offering their services to amuse
the lad of the house. This offer ac
cepted, they sit down and tell her the
latest scandal and the newest stories
and on dlts and are rewarded at the
rate of half a crown an hour, besides a
handsome present should some portion
of their Rosxip have proved particular
ly acceptable. London Tit-Bits.
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Jeweled!
watch
Made
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For sale by
ALL JEWELERS
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Watch Co,
Factorits
WaMrinfT, Cms.
Offices-
NswVerk, Calcat,!
saorrucuco.
Natural Inquiry.
He I'd like to meet Miss Bond.
She-Why?
"I bear she has thirty thousand
I fear' and no Incumbrance."
"la she looking for onef Life.
Oregon City
Second-Hand & Junk Store
Sugarman & Co. now have a full
line of camping stoves on hand at
1.1; up.' Also all kinds of sacks j
cheap. Call on us and we will
convince you of our bargains. All j
inds of junk bought anJ sold
10th and Main Sts., Oregon City, Or. ,
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
i!ie Kind You Havs Always Bought'
Bears the
fOjinature
Foley's Honey and Tar
PRICES
T A L K
T
We bought th3 Rid Froat 3ankrapt Stock at a
Sacrifice and are now receiving Groceries, Shoes and
Dry Goods. We are selling very close to
WHOLESALE PRICES
DRY
GOODS
Child's Hose 10c; Ladies' 8c to 15c
Ladies' Blcacned Vests 7c, Corset Covers 10c up,
White Waists, some soi'ed, 30c; better ones at half price.
Gent's Bow Ties, were 20c, at $c and 10c.
Boy's Suspenders, roc. '
Men's Suspenders, off, now toe, 18c and 27c.
Men's 50c Underwear, good weight, 40c. and 45c. .
Men's 25c and 35c Underwear, light, at 15c and 25c.
Men's 50c Work Shirts, at 40c; 65c at 45c.
Men's Hats, at half price or less.
Good Weight Course Sox. 3 pair 20c; Fine Sax, 10c, I2c, 15c.
Hop Picking Gloves, 10c; 'Muleskin Gloves, 20c; $1 and $1.25
Buckskin Gloves at 75c and $100; 50c gloves at 40c,
Men's Collars, at 3c and 5c; Ladies' Bows, 5c and 10c.
Ladies' Wrappers, worth 90c to $1.50, at 70c and $1.00,
Ladies' Walking Skirts, cut to $1.45, better Skirts, some slight.
ly imperfect, at yz price or less, $.75, $2,50 and $3.50.
Baby Bonnets, 5c and 10c.
Corsets, 35c and up, big cut on mostly new goods.
GROCERIES
T") l rr i i . ..
73l, ivuasi onee, duik, ioc, osemite
20c, sample free, compare with 35c
lie.
goods
Green Coffee
Best Coffee
elsewhere.
50c Baking Powders, 50c; 25c goods at 15c and 20c. .
50c Teas, at 40c and 45c ; Cocoa, ioc can.
Arm & Hammer Soda, 2 pounds for 15; bulk soda 7 libs 2jc.
Soap, 2c, 3c and 4c bar.
Star Tobacco, 45c pound; Flour, 95c sack, $3.75 bbl. '
Mason Jars, 1 qt 65c, 2 qt 85c dozen.
17 lbs Dry Granulated Sugar, $1.00 , '
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SHOES
Odds and ends Baby's 5c, odds and e.ids Child's 45c,
Misses' and Ladies' 75c and $1 ; Men's Shoes 75c, $1 and $1.50 ,
New goods lor Gents' and Ladies' at close cash prices r
The Red Front will be our business home,
and see us and get prices.
Come
Red Front Store
E. C. HAMILTON
OREGON CITY,
OREGON