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hlllSBORO ARGUS, MARCH . 1910
EXPERIMENT
By M. QUAD.
(Copyright 1910, by Associated Literary
Th laxy man of (be village of Kaw
onvllle was Silas White, lie bad
teea laij for many years. There were
everal old residents who could re-
member that when be and bis wife
; moved Into tbe village be was a work
; er and ambitious. Then one da; be
attended a circus and was kicked by
, a giraffe. Tbe circus men gave blm a
dollar aa damages and scut blm borne.
1 X doctor examined him and said no
great barm had been done, but Silas
' took It Into bis bead that be had re-
celved sovere Internal Injuries and
. that any further labor would take him
i to his grave.
One afternoon when Silas bad wan-
, dered down to the bridge over the
, river, for the first time In four years,
, some hilarious young men seized htm
and threw blm over the railing, lie
did not resist. It would have been too
much like work. It waa expected, of
course, that soon after striking the
water the laiy man would set his legs
and arms In motion and help himself
. ashore. He did nothing of tbe sort
He simply permitted himself to sink
alowly and easily to the bottom, and
he lay there until those who had flung
blm In helped blm out
: Again, one winter's evening Silas
was seized at his own gate and car
ried a mile away aud dung Into a
snowdrift and told to He there and
freeze or make his way homeward.
There was some slight doubt as to
which course be would adopt, but It
waa soon settled, lie snuggled down
la a drift, and there he was found five
hours later by the conscience stricken
men who bad left him. lie bad been
frost bitten, but be had saved bis rep
utation. A dry goods drummer visiting the
Tillage heard of the case and recom
mended a cure and offered to adminis
ter It himself. At midnight a figure
with horns and hoofs and tall, sup
posed to be a good Imitation of our old
friend down below, opened the unlock
ed door of the White cottage, and Si
las and his wife were awakeued to
find the intruder In their bedroom.
Mrs. White screamed out In terror.
61 las took a long look and asked what
waa wanted.
"I want you." was the answer In an
awful voice.
-What furr
"I want you to come with me to the
bottomless pitT
"Then you'll have to carry me." re
plied the champion as he turned over
toward the wall.
It was now realized that nothing
could be done with such a man, and
for years Silas was left to enjoy his
laalness in peace. It was the general
pinion that he would be too lazy to
draw bis last breath when tbe time
came and that his uncomplaining wife
would have to do It for him. There
waa to come a change, however. One
day after the wife had placed a chair
for him under an apple tree and left
him to smoke and sleep she noticed a
thunderstorm creeping up In the west
It was her duty to watch things and
bring Silas In before tbe storm broke,
but she suddenly decided to make an
experiment She would leave him
where he was and see if be would
aeek shelter rather than get wet It
wasn't a bit like her to do this, and
a he never could make out why the
thought came to her that day.
Tbe black cloud grew larger, and the
thunder muttered and the lightning
flashed. Silas heard things and woke
up. He saw tee coming storm, and he
aaw his wife In the back door. lie
waited for her, but she did not come.
Lightning did, however. There were
twenty barns and houses and treea
around for It to strike, but it ignored
all of them and struck Silas White. It
aeemed to scatter him over half an
acre of ground. It tore off his clothes
and pulled off his boots. It burned off
his whiskers and bleached bis eye
brows, lie was gathered up as a man
dead as a doornail, but at tbe end of
two hours he suddenly sat up. Silas
was a little bewildered, but still In the
ring.
.There were half a dozen men in the
house when the champion came to him
self. They were exiting to hear him
drawlingly ask what had happened
when he Jumped off the bed and began
driving them out. In live minutes
he had cleared the house of mourners.
Then, In spite of the tearful protests
of brs wife, he seized the ax and cut
more firewood than he had In six
years before. When he dropped the
ax at last It was to pick up hammer
and nails and begin patching up the
hog holes In the fence. Before night
he had weeded the garden and put a
new binge on tbe gate.
People came to nsk Silas bow be felt
when struck by the thunderbolt, and
he answered at the top of bis voice
and rolled out the words so fast that
he could hardly be understood. lie
couldn't bear to be still a minute.
That thunderbolt had changed Silas
White from a champion lazy man to
t champion bustler. He uprooted trees,
pulled down fences and dug boles in
the garden. Inside a week be had four
fights about politics aud called every
man In tbe village c liar. They couldn't
stop hiin from working and talking.
. Ee got to pulling down tbe shndtris
long the street and to making speeches
n the postofllce steps, and after a
fortnight, as there was nothing more
he could hustle for and nothing more
lie could talk about, he committed sul
fide by hanging. At the Inquest tbe
coroner said:
"I don't reckon we are goln' to blame
the Wldder White any la this case, but
It's the solemnest kind of a warniu' to
wives agin glttin' a bustle on a lazy
husband."
He Knew His Neighbors.
"I want to find a way of living with-
out work."
"1 didn't think you were that lazy."
"Lazy nothing."
"Why do you want It, then?"
"To capitalize and make a billion or
In 8uspens.
"How does he like bis new workT
"Oh, fairly welL"
"1 understand he la fired with enthu
siasm." "Oh, no, not yet, but you never can
tell what a boss will do."
NEW GROCERY
The undersigned has opened a
new grocery store in the
Pythian Building
Aud solicits a share of your pat
rouage. A splendid assortment of
Staple and Fancy
Groceries. I buy the best and sell
at the closest possible margin.
New Store New Goods
Give Me a Trial
E. W. MOORE, 2nd St.
"Keep Your Own Key and Counsel"
Sound advice within certain
Limits.
It's all right when applied to holders
of keys to our safe deposite vaults.
Absolute privacy. We can rent you
boxes forji.ooper year. Call and
examine them. .
CORNELIUS State BANK
Cornelius, Oregon.
Spray Your Trees
This is the SEASON to
SPRAY for San Jose Scale,
and other barh insecticide,
fungi and all fung'us disease.
Be sure that you
GETTHE BEST
and that is
The "AETNA" brand
LIME AND SULPHUR SPEAY
No Salt
This is the tried spraj-, aud is endorsed by
all prominent and progressive orchardists.
I guarantee the full test. Write me for
prices .
Hillsboro, Ore., Feb. 7, 19 10. B. Lets has deposited
in the Commercial Bank $100 payable to any one
who can find any salt or other impurities in the
Aetna brand of Lime and Sulphur Spray. Must
be opened in original package.
Geo. Schulmerich, Cashier.
B. LEIS
Beaverton. Oregon, Route 2
GIVE US TRIAL
3 cans of corn for... 25c
13 cans of tomatoes for. ,25c
Hard wheat flour, per
ach $1.70
Rolled oats, per lb 5c
Coffee, per lb 15c
Tea from 50c to 35c
All brooms, each 55c
We also carry shoes, Kingsbury Hobs, and
Gents' Furnishings of the Best Quality
at the Lowest Prices.
T. W. WYATT & CO.
Executor' Noiice.
Notice in hereby given that the un
dersigned has been thia 24th day of Feb
ruary, 1910, appointed awl confirmed by
the county court of Washington county.
Oregon, ax executor of the hut will and
testament of Adelia A. Kyle, deceased,
and that he has duly qualified an auch.
Now, therefore, all persona having claims
against aaid estate are hereby requested
and required to present them to me,
properly verified, at the law office of John
M. Wall, in Hillsboro, Oregon, within mi
months from date hereof,
RICHARD M. KYLE,
Executor of the last will and te lament of
Adelia A, Kyle, deceased.
Dated this Stfth day of Kebruary, 11)10.
John M. Wall, Attorney for Executor.
Land for Ea'e
Will Htll 15 to 30 acres of culti
vated land, three fourths of a mile
from Witch Haze! etation. No
house. Will Hell at $225 per acre,
part down, balance on time E ic
Suniterg, Beaverton, Ore, R 4
Banner and Sbadelind Challenge
eeed oati for Bale, at 2 cents per lb
J. Schmitke, mile and a balf
above Monntaindale, on Delaney
farm. Address Cornelius, Ore., K
1. Bx 36. Phone Pacific Statee,
Glenooe, 107. 49 51
Money to 1 an in any gums de
pirn upon real property mortpags
lecuri'yonly WaFhineton Coun
ty Abstract, Title & Truet Com
pany, Shute Bldg. 36tf
Jj. 8 Bierly ar.d wife of near
Kioton, were in tbe city Wednes
day morning.
Customers at Emmott Bros, may
get a beautiful China Dinner Set,
free. Hee their window display,
and ask them how you can get
one.
mksl llxy mm
urn mm cask
Hagtcy & Mare and I.oring
K. Ada mi net Dccisiou
OVER TEN 1H0UAXD IHUUKS
Successful litigant la Wife f J. S
Gardner, knowa Beit
In UK13, Martin liillihan, well
known and reepeded piomer.a rea
ident of tfauvien Island, and arab
C. Uilhhtn, his wife, each executed
a last will aud testament with like
provisions, devising all of thsir
property, real and personal, to their
nine children, on of whom wae
Lucy Ann Gardner, formerly a res
ident of Washington County, and
now residing at Knee Lodge, Lin
coin county, ehaie aud slut re alike;
but each of the wills provided that
if Lucy Ann Gardner, ife of J
Nelson Gardi er, should survive her
hu-bnd, tbat the brqiiMt to hr
Jbould remain iotacl and operative
in full force aud etl'-ct; but io case
ilHeaid Lucy Ann Gardner should
not survive her husband, then iu
tbat case, sbo should take one dol
lar, and the ninth divined to her
should become the property of and
berouallv divided anioug the other
sight children.
Ia 194-6 Sarah C. Rillihan died, and
shortly thereafter Maitm C.illihan died.
Both wills were admitted to probate In
Multnomah County, I.ucy Ann Gard
ner, during the administration of said
estates, petitioned for disliibution of her
share, cUimiug that under the terms of
said wills, the undivided ninth of all the
property Immediately vested, and that
she was entitled to immediate im vine nt
thereof. The case was prrsented to
judge Lionel K. YYchtter several dif
ferent times, aud by hint held umlrr ad
visement, and just before his retirement
from the Multnomah County bench, de
cided that under the terms of the will
Mrs. Gardner's interest was a vested in
terest, and that she wits entitled to her
proportion the same as the other eitfht
children. The two estates are valued at
approximately f ioo.ooo.oo, a portion of
which is a large farm upon Sauvca Is
land, the balance being cash.
liagley Sc Hare of Hillshoro, and I.or-
log K. Adams or 1'OrlUml, reprcwtitcd
Mrs. Gardner.
The Gardners were well known here a
few years ago, having lived near Reed
ville, and for some time Gardner con
ducted the l-'oote sawmill, near the llor-
wick place. Thev are now on a home
stead over in tbe SilcU. Gardner is a
"hale fellow well met," and to strangers
tella that his name i.H "Alkali Ike." or
some such sobriquet. For years Ike ran
stock on the Columbia Ulvcr.
The KJdville Literary Society
met last Friday night, and an ex
cellent program was rendered, after
which the subject, "KeBolved that
Country Life is More Favorable to
Uuxan' Development than City
Life.'' Those ou the affirmative
side were Norman Anderson, Frank
Coryell and Miss Klla Dant. On
the negative were Prof Thomas
and Mies Elsie Winters, Clauds
Johnson being absent. The affirm
ative side won in a most excitable
and heated debate. The IWdvillf
Athletic Club won a victory over
Cooper Mountain Athletic Club,
wli n Frank Coryell, of the Reed
ville Club, brought Julius (iaea
ner'n bhnulders to the mat; tbe firet
fall in sixty eiz seconds, the seco: d
in two minutes. The Keedvillt
Cub celebrated the event by an
oveter supper Tuesday tiight-
Treasurer W. M. Jtckson, who is
convalescing from a rtirgienl opera
lion, is so far recovered that he wat
able to be on tbe streets yesterday.
He hopes ko in to be able to resume
b ia dudes handling the county
funds, but Louis Rood is looking
after that e id of it junt now as a
HubHitute, so W. M. isn't worrying.
J oh 'i T. Res, who has one of the
most productive onion ranches on
tbe Bieeline road, west of town, was
in the city yesterday. He has sold
his crop, hut eayo the price of
onions is not up to the usual stand
ard this bear-on while everything
else is high.
Cbfta demons, a son of the late
Martin Ciemons, well known
around 0!encoe, and who left here
34 years ago for the Walla Walla
country, was out the last of tbe
week, the guest of ChaB, Loudon, of
blencoe.
W. W. Wright, of Portland, and
with Beall & Co , hardware and
machinery people, was out yeater
day, on buflineep. Mr. Wright war
fur some time manager nf our local
telephone system Pacifio , States,
P. C. Anderson, the former Reed
ville merchant, and who heB been
at Ballston, Polk Co., fur some lime.
was in U wn the first of the week,
lie and his family eion m iye to
Canada to reside
John Nyberg, the Tuala in road
supervisor, and who knows a thing
or two about good roads, was in the
connty Beat yeBtrrday, conferring
with the county board.
The Ladies of the Maccabees will
give a dance at the Maccabee Hall,
Saturday night, March 19. Tick
ets, including supper, $1 00. Walker-Barrett
orchestra. Everybody
invited.
Steve Hollenbeck, the Mountain
dale prune grower and drier, was
in the city yesterday morning.
Spray your trees but do not
forget your pruning shears. We
keep the Standard shears. Em
rick & Corwin.
fji mm
j anner
U) aroains
Mens Hat
i 1.50 to $2.50 values
$1.19 sulc price
Men's Blue Flan
nel Shirts
52.2.1 values
$1.50 sule price
Children's Bear
Shin Coats
2.ro uf ioo vahus
$1 69 "salt price
Ladies' Tailored
Waists
$1.25 to $2 22
Ladies' Shirts
New Styles ami Host (Jualities
Special prices
Men's Fleece Lin
ed Underwear
Regular " cut values
29c sale price
M en's Good Heavy
Worh Shoes
f22." ahw s
$1 55 stile price
Ladies' Silh-Rub-ber
Rain Coats
12.50 to il'M)
$11 19
Men's All Wool
Underwear
Kc,v;tilar f2.00 values
$1.29 sale price
Comforters
$2.00 to :UH) values
$2.29 sale price
BAIRD
Between the Dru( Stores
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CLEANING PARLORS
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ancPressintf Parlors ami has 1 nsi.ilk d a first class
workman, who will clean and press suits, coats, trous
ers, etc., in uict!cM)lit;iu manner. Ladies' skirts a
SptClt" Main Street, over City bahery.
II. E. HALL
U f is an aid to rather 1
II than a teat of your j
Mty. mmMofhVt JiJ
Hit you don't gat fc I I
jj tbe baking results r '
II you should try a AhL r
If saok of Olymplo aVC '
( It always makes
1 good things to oat fnUTrrTQ
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KAXTUB
Th RnMllar in .
and tbe Urand Mum . . t . .
m vnu Iur &
quarter cigar, are what yon want
whfin you buy acinar. Kept a
every bar in Uilltboto. AbIi for
vuuiu a
For Sale-Bay mare, 12 yearn,
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You Have Been Lookiiit' For
HAS COME
Ymi ran now jct that
snappy, up-to-date spiiutf
suit fiom ChictKo's fash
i"ii;ililc taihus, The Car
den City Tuilorinji
Co., made to fil, or 110 sale,
ami wc will ivc 10 dis
count on all orders taken
he fore March 1.
Yes we arc .still iviiiK
20 discount on all onds
heretofore advertised, and
continually addiu other
lines. Notice what you
save hy taking advantage of
the Twcuty per cent.
$7.50 shoes, for $0 00; $0.50 for $5.20; $.'5.50 for g&J
$.'.00 hats for $2.40; $2.50 for $2.00; $2.00 for I f
$1. 50 underwear for $1.20, $1.25; $1.00 for 50c, 40c.
$1.00 per jral harness oil, cut to 75c uow 00c.
Corsets now ou sale.
We get you the top prices for your produce, try lS
and he convinced.
MAYS Ca CONOVER. Scholia. Ore.
weight 1,000; gejli.. anil wel'-brokp;
"iinoh (trHHH hurne 5 yem, wHiuht
7W broke to rlrivn t.ut rathnr wild;
nw, T yero, Trwh March 1; N i (1
t'. H. cream hi parntnr, thorouahly
overhauled, new bnwl and new
Kear; nnato) hnrk wilbout top.
with elml runners to H'. Will eell
cheap for c.anh, or Irai'o for younn
Block F, W. P.ibnow, Ranke
()Rn. 4j.rl
C. A. Petereon, of B"10
who faae bwtt attending tbe Ma
of hie father, at Monmouth,
eral daye, returned Sunday
ing and left out for hom, J0 Df
Mr. rotereon wbb Bufwrini (
illneHB,anl found it n J.
coneult a phyBioian when rec
Hilleboro.
A.C. Wlrli.of above Moaof'
dale, was la town TuenJy-