The Corvallis gazette., August 26, 1898, Image 4

SARAH SAVED THE DA Y.
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ACKSON SMITH had a hobby.
He would stand at the foot of his
table, carving knife in hand, while
he enlarged upon the "soulless demo
cratic times," emphasizing his sen
tences by brandishing the carver In air.
His next aversion to a Democrat was
an old maid. Indeed, the old maid was
even more odious to him. The Demo
crat he could forgive as being a fool, but
the old maid was beyond pardon on any
grounds. And yet, as in very mockery
of his pet antipathy, his only child,
Sarah, had developed Into the hated ob
ject, right In his own household.
Sarah was tall and angular, like her
father, but her face was pleasing, and
her disposition mild and amiable. She
had never revolted against anything In
her life not even against the injustice
of spending her youth in making pre
serves, apple butter or piecing quilts,
while other girls were making merry.
Sometimes Sarah wondered where her
youth had gone, but, while she was 82,
she could not recall having been youDg.
One day Jackson Smith received a
hurt, and when Dr. Brown was called
In he told Jackson his days were num
bered. Then It was that his hatred for
old maids proved itself.
"I'll never leave this place to a wom
an that can't get a husband," he said
fiercely.
"But, father, Sarah's never had no
chance we've always kept her down,"
remonstrated his weeping wife.
He waved his hand to silence her.
"Woman, no old maid shall Inherit my
place. I've sent by the doctor for Law
yer Clarke, and he'll come to-morrow.
There's money enough in bank for you,
but I'll fix it so that at your death It
will go with the farm. Jackson Gog
gan, my namesake, shall get it all."
Tearfully Mrs. Smith Imparted the
facts to Sarah.
"Mother, would he turn you out of
the old place Just because he hates
me?" And Sarah looked Incredulous.
The elder woman nodded; then Sarah
kissed the round, sunburnt face and
said: "Mother, I never have revolted
against father, but I'm going to save
the place for you I wouldn't mind so
much, but you shall never leave your
home. I'm going out now to think it
over." And putting on her pink sun
bonnet she went out the back door.
When some r distance from the house
1Bho sat dcnmb in the shade of a tree, and,
whlleneP ReartybeaiK loudly over her
father's contemplated Injustice, she, re
Bolved to outwit him.
I "There's Josh Mullln; he might but I
can't bear Josh; he chews tobacco, and
his mouth always looks dirty. Henry
Hodge is home, but he drinks so that
there's no dependence to be put In him."
She cast her eyes over the landscape,
and on the next farm she saw the figure
of a man in the field. Yes, there's John
Howard, but " and her face grew
pink "I hate somehow to ask it of
him." Then the tear-stained face of her
mother passed before her mental vision,
and giving a jerk to her sunbonnet she
started down the path across the
meadow.
1 John Howard was hoeing corn.'When
he saw Sarah approaching he stopped
and leaned on bis hoe, a look of concern
In his face.
: "Is the old man worse, Sarah?" he
asked.
! "Yes; Dr. Brown says he can't live
more'n two or three days, and Oh,
John, it's awful the way he Is."
"Yes, but you have been a good, sac
rificing daughter, Sarah, and you can't
blame yourself for anything, you "
1 "Oh, you don't understand, John; he's
going to leave everything to to Jack
eon Goggan, and mother'll have to
leave the place," she half sobbed.
' "Yoncan't mean it, Sarah? Why
why, that would be outrageous. What
makes him talk of such a thing?"
"Because because I am an old
maid; he hates old maids." And her
face grew pinker than the sunbonnet.
John Howard shifted the hoe to the
other arm and looked down,
i "John, I've come to ask you Oh,
John, don't think me brazen; It's for
mother's sake. I can't stand to see her
turned out, and for my fault, and if
you will only help me and and come
up to the house and pretend that we are
to be married just until after the will
Is made it wouldn't be so very wrong,
John not so bad as letting mother be
put out of her home " She caught
her breath in short gasps, but when
John was silent her pink face suddenly
paled. "I reckon it's asking a heap too
much of you, John, but don't hold It
against me; I couldn't see any other
way. Good-by, John." She was turn
ing away.
1 "Don't go yet, Sarah. I I think your
Idea is good, but It might not work.
Jackson Smith is sharp; he'd see right
through It, but if If you would be
willing we could drive over to Squire
Hall's this afternoon and get married.
I wouldn't trouble you any, Sarah we
could go on just the same, and I'll nev
er want to marry any one else, and if
you should you could get a divorce, you
know."
i "Oh, you're sure it makes no differ-,
ence you don't mind, John?" Her tone
was eager.
! "No, I don't mind; I'd help you any
way I could, Sarah. It's high noon now.
"I'll drive over for you in the buggy
right after dinner."
"I'll be ready, and I wouldn't have
asked you, John, only only you un
derstand how it Is, don't you?" Her
face was red again.
"I understand it, Sarah. Don't fear."
"Why, Sarah, where have you been?
You look as rosy as a poppy." And
Mrs. Smith wiped the tears from her
eyes as she gazed at her daughter's
(face.
I "I've been attending to business for
us, mother. .You will not leave the
place. I'm going over to Squire Hall's
to take me in the buggy."
L The sun was sinking low in the west 1
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when John Howard and Sarah returned
from the squire's.
"Will you como In, John, and stay
about some? I'd rather you'd tell him
if you don't mind," Sarah said.
John hitched the horse and went In.
He walked to the bedside of Jackson
Smith and sat down.
"Uncle Jackson," he began, "I've
como to tell you what I've done. You
know that I've often warned you that
some day you would lose the most val
uable possession you had "
"It's the brlndle heifer," Interrupted
Jackson Smith, his eyes snapping an
grily. "John Howard, you think be
cause I am on my deathbed that you
can do as you please, but I'll show you.
It's Just like a rascally Democrat to
shoot a neighbor's heifer Just because
she jumped into your wheat I don't
expect anything better of you tho
whole party is made up of thieves and
cutthroats but I'll leave it in my will.
Jackson Goggan shall law and law, un
til " He sank back exhausted from
his outburst.
"If you get that angry over the brln
dle heifer, Uncle Jackson, I don't know
what you will say when I tell you that
I have not touched the heifer, but I
have married Sarah."
"HER FACE GREW TINKER
"Married Sarah!" And Jackson
Smith's eyes dilated. "Married Sarah!"
he said under his breath. "John, give
me your hand. I knew Sarah was a
Smith. Why, there never was an old
maid In the Smith family, but it did
seem she meant to take after the Walk
ersher mother was a Walker. Sarah
married! I can go in peace, John, now
that you have lifted the disgrace from
the Smith family. You needn't mind
what I said about the Democrats I
reckon you don't know better. Call
Sarah; I want to give her the brindle
heifer."
When the lawyer came the next day
he wrote a will bequeathing all, save
a life Interest to Mrs. Smith, to his be
loved daughter Sarah, who had glad
dened the last hours of his life.
A few days later, with all due cere
mony, Jackson smitn was una away
by the side of other Smiths. John How
ard went home with his wife and her
mother. At the porch he halted awk
wardly, seeing which Sarah turned.
"Will you come in, John ?" she asked.
"I'm afraid it would only pester you
If I did I reckon I ought to go home,
but I hate to leave you you women
folks alone, and you'll be kind of lone
some now.
"You might stay. We would fix up
father's room real comfortable if you
would Just as soon," said Sarah, begin
ning to realize the awkwardness of
their position.
"I'd like to, Sarah. I could tend the
crop Just as well, but I'd feel as If I was
living off you women, and and you
might get to hate me if I hung around."
"You needn't be afraid of that,
John," said Sarah, tapping her foot
nervously on the porch floor. "It would
be the easiest way out of our our di
lemma; but if you'd rather not stay we
could explain to folks how it was that
you Just married me to save the farm."
"But, Sarah, if we told that it would
be a lie. I took advantage of your
trouble to get you married to me, and
you didn't suspect me, but now I feel
mean, and as if you will not respect me
when I tell you the truth." Sarah gazed
at him In wonder. What could he mean,
she thought, but no sound came from
her Hps, and he continued: "I've been
trying for ten years to ask you to marry
me, but I never could do it, and when
you came to me. in your trouble I jump
ed at the chance, Sarah, because I
wanted you I've always loved you, but
now I feel I can't stay unless unless
you can take me for your husband In
earnest" His eyes did not lift to her
IS
face.
"JoluiJ" Her eyes were open in wide
amaze, and the face so lately tear-stained
became radiant with unexpected joy.
"You love me?" she questioned In glad
unbelief. "Why, I have loved you all
this time, too," she whispered. Chica
go Record.
STATISTICS ABOUT THE SEA.
Cnriona Fijinres About Ita Weight,
Depth and Volume.
I Intend to take my revenge on the
sea for the past indignities suffered
from him and to deal deliberately In
personalities about him. Inviting to
my side his many victims who have
suffered the like indignities, I propose
that we weigh, measure and gauge
him, battle him, play games with him
and show him up generally for, like
most bullies, he is a bit of a humbug.
For our attack on the sea we shall
want a few facts to start from, and
here they are;
We take the statements of four good
men of science, a geographer, an as
tronomer, a physicist, a statistician,
add the statements, divide by four, and
arrive at the result that the surface of
the sea is 139 millions of square miles,
his weight 1,332,000,000,000.000,000
tons and his volume 322,000,000 cubic
miles. A like processwill tell us that
the average depth of the sea Is 12,000
feet (more than two and one-quarter
miles), and we know that one cubic foot
of him weighs over sixty-four pounds
avoirdupois, 1. e., about four and one
half stone, or ns much as a small child
8 or 10 years of age. From these fig
ures Mr. Schooling deduces that tbo
sea is simply nowhere when we com
pare it with the land of this planet as
regards the solid quantities of weight,
depth and volume:
"Only In the superficial quality of sur
face does the sea beat the land. As to
beauty, there is infinitely more of It
and In much greater variety, on tbo
land than on the sea. To further em
phasize the magnificence of the sea wo
will now pouf it into a jelly mold one
of those thin, ornamental, tin shapes
you see in the kitchen dresser. For
this experiment I have dug out all tho
inside of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, from its surface
all the way down to the center of the
earth (3.9G0 miles), and have thus mode
the largest jelly mold known or rather
two of them, for Ireland forms a shape
by itself, although, at bottom, it is firm-
ly joined to England, Wales and Scot
land. Now, this Jelly mold would be
large enough to hold Just one-half of all
the sea of this planet, so that a pair of
THAN THE SUNBONNET."
these tin shapes would dispose of tho
whole sea!" Person's Magazine.
Spiders.
Spiders have played a greater part in
history than most people are aware of.
Everybody knows how the persever
ance of a spider encouraged Robert
Bruce to regain his kingdom of Scot
land, but not so many know that, ac
cording to Jewish tradition, a spider
saved David's life. Saul was hunting
for him, and his soldiers approached n
cave where David had hidden. Shortly
before, however, a spider had spun her
web at the mouth of the cave, and the
soldiers, taking it for granted that, if
he had taken refuge in the cave he
must have broken the web, departed,
forgetting the web might have been
spun after as well as before his en
trance. A spider saved the life of the
grand uncle of the German Emperor.
Frederick William was King of Prus
sia, and an attempt was made to poison
him in a cup of chocolate. By chance
a spider fell into the cup, and for this
reason the monarch gave tho chocolate
to a dog, who immediately died. In
quiry was made, with the result that
the cook was hanged, and a large spi
der, wrought in gold, now decorates
one of the chief rooms of the Winter
Palace at Potsdam In memory of the
King's escape.
Bicycles Abroad.
Many of the passengers on the trans
atlantic steamers nowadays carry bi
cycles among their baggage. Many
land at South Kensington and there
take to their wheels, "doing" the Isle
of Wight and the seaside resorts in
Southern England before going up to
London. One family on board the
Paris on a late trip had six bicycles.
When a young man comes more than
a hundred miles to see a young lady,
that settles it so far as her neighbors
and friends are concerned, and they
commence to worry about what they
will get her for a wedding present
Every woman's letter contains an
apology for not writing sooner, though
her friends, who have to answer, think
she should apologize for writing so
soon.
There are a few things that money
cannot buy, but the trouble is that not
many people want them.
When a man's wife falls heir to mon
ey, all the other married men around
town feel mighty funny.
A pickpocket's work is done In a me
ment of abstraction.
I Have
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Said a jolly man of 40, of almost alder
manic rotundity, "since taking Hood's
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pletely cured all distress and disagreeable
dyspeptic symptoms that he lived, ate and
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Music for Invalids.
Miss Anna Eatell Wilson, of New
York, has found a decidedly novel oc
cupation. She prepares music for in
valids. She says that although the
healing power of music is yet only
dimly perceived, nevertheless physi
cians acknowledge that its proper use
produces highly beneficial effects. Un
der the influence of certain kinds of
music the nerve cells, if depleted or too
relaxed, may be stimulated to mora
vigorous action. Music of an opposite
character will diminish too great ner
vous activity and tend to produce a
condition of peace and restfulness.
Several physicians commend Miss Wil
son's system. She does not say any
thing about how many different dis
eases of the nerves one piano in a fiat
house is capable of producing In a very
short time.
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Scarpology is the art of leading char
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Mil Whfln AnnA YvrA i ofl aro Antorn o a a
cargo on a ship, they are often recorded
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ural history specimens," to allay the
superstitious fears of the crew.
Mr. Maxim's new gun will throw a
ton of wet compressed gun cotton five
miles, with the effect of destroying
everything afloat within the space of
132,025 feet of where it falls.
A seven-foot granite monument in
the Upper Harz, Germany, has an iron
tablet inscribed: "Fere, in the year
1847, the first trials were made with
the cultivation of the potato."
Cut flowers can be tinted almost any
color by means of aniline dyes which
are absorbed with the water.
Dr. Albert C. Peale reports to the
government that there are 8,822 known
mineral springs in the United States.
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Maternity is a wonderful experience
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WAR AS AN EDUCATOR.
What She Had Not Learned Waa Not
Worth Knowing.
She was a winsome young wife, all
sweetness and pink shirt waist.
"Oh, Harold," she twittered over the
newspaper, "it is perfectly dreadful to
have a war and to read In the news
papers day after day of how the poor
soldiers are being killed, wounded and
missing, but it is an ill wind that blows
no one any good, and, while there must
be all kinds of horrors, there Is In It
all an education for many who would
not otherwise be educated."
He had never heard her talk in such
a strain before, and he was greatly
surprised, not to say alarmed.
"Why, dear," he replied, noting her
closely, "what is it?"
"I was thinking, Harold, what we
learn by hearing so constantly about
the war, where it is fought, and the
weapons with which It is fought Why,
do you know, dear, I hadn't the least
Idea before of the difference between
a protected cruiser and one that was
on the free list, though for a long time
I have heard you and papa talking
about the tariff. You see, deae, it
never seemed to come home so to me
until our boys went forth to meet the
foe."
He stared at her quite helplessly.
"And there are those machete guns,"
she went on, or would have gone had
he not stopped her.
"Macnme guns I guess you mean,
don't you?" he ventured In a tone that
she did not wholly approve.
"Of course, I do, stupid," she re
sponded with confidence. "A machete
is a machine, and of course, a machete
gun is a machine gun, and what's the
difference, I'd like to know. It seems
to me that some people haven't learned
as much about the war as they have
had opportunity to." And she arose be
fore the smiling Harold and stepped
out upon the piazza, where she could
commune with herself undisturbed.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
Warning Notes Calling the Wicked to
Repentance.
BANGERS reveal
heroes.
L i f e is God's
largest word.
Worldliness I s
world-llke-ness.
A secret told Is
a He two-fold.
Have fatrh in
God ; not in your
faith.
"He loves me"
takes the edge off
every sorrow.
Charity Is heart cement
Facts are the mirror of truth.
The truth that lives in us will be lived
by us.
Truth is a mental elevator It uplifts
humanity.
Don't ring the bell of prayer and run
away; wait.
Small sins weigh heavy In the scales
of character.
Id the race for wealth, men run down
their health.
Family prayer locks the home door
against the devil.
Many a failure Is a Calvary road to a
Resurrection succesa
The man who fears to condemn men
will be condemned by God.
Christ can do nothing for you till you
can do nothing for yourself.
There Is a difference between having
a cross to bear, and being as cross as a
bear.
Underneath all creeds lies this: I
want to be made bettter, and God alone
can do it
We suffer sometimes, because we in
sist on plucking the fruit of blessing
before it is ripe.
Daniel would not bow to the king in
his religious principles; but made the
king bow to his religion.
God has sent children as rivulets flow
ing Into the river of love that the sea of
charity might not dry up.
People who don't know what they
want are harder to please than those
who do know and can't have It
Some people are forever putting their
feelings under other people's feet and
then crying because they are hurt
If It is a sin for a preacher of the gos
pel to be rich, it Is equally so for a lay
man; both are stewards, not owners.
A strong desire for a definite object
may result in its accomplishment, but
a longing for we know not what Is nev
er satisfactory.
Christians are the trees of life bear
ing all manner of fruits, planted by the
river, at the gates of the city of God,
yielding leaves of healing to the na
tions. God's grace is man's rain. As the gar
dener both receives It as It falls and
gathers and saves It afterward in
trenches, so man must both passively
and actively absorb the grace of God.
A "iueky" Lawyer.
Numerous instances are given of tho
power that Itufua Choate possessed
over a jury, concealing it even at the
time he was exercising It with the most
potent effect. E. P. Whipple instances
two notable cases of this kind: One
resolute Juryman said to another, as he
entered the "box:"
"Now, mind you, there is one man in
this crowd who will not give a verdict
for the client of that man Choate, Why,
sir, he is the great corrupter of juries.
I know all his arts. He is engaged by
fellows who wish to subvert justice
between man and man. I hate him with
my whole heart and soulP'
When the verdict was given for
Choate's client, with hardly a discus
sion in the Jury-room, the wonder was
expressed that this obstinate member
of the conclave agreed so readily with
the rest.
"Oh," he said, "the case was a plain
one. Choate was right this time; and
you know it would have been scandal
ous for me to violate Justice because I
had a prejudice against the person who
supported it. Let 1ilm appear before
us In a case where he Is palpably wrong
and I will show you that I'm all right.
He never can humbug me!"
On another occasion a hard-headed,
strong-hearted, well-educated farmer
was one of a jury that gave verdicts in
succession for Choate's clients. He
said:
"I did not think much of his flights
of fancy; but I considered him a very
lucky lawyer, for there was not one of
those five cases that came before us
where he wasn't on the right side."
l'outh'B Companion.
Making Use of Cheap Telephones.
Owing to the low rate charged for
the use of the telephone it Is said that
Stockholm uses it more than any other.:
European city. The central station has
about 100,000 calls a day, or about one
for every three persons in the city.
In onion there is strength, but the
unknown husband of a prominent wom
an doesn't believe It equally distributed.
Good Road Are Easily Maintained.
"The great secret of success in road
making and road-keeping is to drain
the roads, and keep the roads drained
Vy keeping the ditches open," writes
John Gilmer Speed on "How to Have
Good Country Roads," in the August
Ladies' Home Journal. "The old
method was to run a plow through the
side ditches and throw the disturbed,
soil, sod and all, in the middle of the
road. There it would stay till a heavy
rain came to wash this soil back into
the ditches and fill them up again. If
there were money enough this kind of
thing would be done over and over
again, as often as four times in a year.
Where there was wet spots broken
stones or gravel -would be placed in the
road and left for the passing wagons to
wear this metal into ruts. The money
spent was absolutely thrown away.
"By the new process all the road
mender needs to do is to provide ditches
and outlets for them, and then to
shape the road that the water falling
in a rainstorm will run "off at once into
the ditches. The water must not be
suffered to run in the road, but off the
road. The rainfall, being thus simply
and effectively disposed of, becomes a
most beneficial instead of a destructive
agent; it cleans, and shapes, and hard
ens the roadway, instead of washing it
away and deepening the ruts. When
there are wet places, such as springs,
in the roadway, gravel and broken
stones will not cure such things. The
water must be drained off rmdnmenth
the roadway and into the ditches by
- tn-.j. ni
means of pipe or blind drains. .The
whole thing is ao simple that any one
n.it rl,H trails into r,rantal n-.
i r
lion.
THE BIGGEST BICYCLE IN THE
WORLD.
A German has Just completed a bicycle that
has one wheel nine feet in (linmetcr. Two
people ride it one on each side of the monster
wheel. It runs as easily, as a smaller bicvele
because of its scientific construction. The
scientific formula of Hostetter's Stomach Hit
ters Is the reason of its great virtues in making
tho weak strong, and in curing most o( the
every day ailments of men and women. If
your health is poor, try a bottle.
A writer has calculated that from a
single pair of New York rats there
will spring in three years 050,000 de
scendants. TRY ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE.
A powder to be shaken Into the shoes.
At this season your feet feel swollen, ner
vous, and hot, and get tired easily. If you
uave siiiaimijr reel or inrnr, snoes, tr
Allen's oot-Ea?e. It cools the feet an
makes walking easy. Cures swollen an
sweating feet, blisters and callous spots.
Believes corns and bunions of all pain and
gives rest and comfort Ten thousand tes
timonials of cures. Try it today. Sold by
all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent
by mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package
FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, e
Roy, New York.
Dr. Albert O. Peale reports to the
government that there are 8,823 known
mineral springs in the United States.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
By local appltcatlonfl, as they cannot reach the
tionai romeflies. DeiuneBS is caused by an in-
flamed condition of the- mucous lining of tho
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imDer
feet hearing, and when it Is entirely cloed
deafness Is the result, and unless the Inflamma
tion can be taken out and this tube restored to
its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine eases out ot ten are caused by
catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Dealnessfcaused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Hallrs Catarrh Curo. Send for
circulars, free.
J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75e.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Cut glassware would be more popular
if dealers would est prices.
The attention of the publio js called
to the professional work of Dr. T. H.
White, No. 271 Morrison street,
Portland, Or. His electrical appli
ances are the most modem, and his
crown and bridge work is of such artis
tic form and finish, that his patients
are delighted not only with the looks,
but with the comfort they receive from
the use of such artificial work. All
operations are painless under his meth
ods. See tiiat your teeth are properly
:ared for and that by a skillful dentist.
There is no need to suffer the discom
forts of broken-down and stained teeth
when they can be made useful and
pleasant to look upon without pain.
The English Archaeological school
on tho island of Milo recently unearth
ed three oities built on top of each
other. Two belong to the Myoenaen
period.
According to Nilsson, the zoologist,
the weight of the Greenland whale is
100 tone, or 224,000 pounds, or equal to
that of of 88 elephants, or 440 bears.
The German timber trade has in
creased enormously with the advent of
railways through the Black Forost, the
Odenwald and the Thurinaenwald.
There are 8,000 persons in Great
Britain who pay tax on an income of
mure than 10,000 a year.
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Excellence
WalterBaKer&Gors
Breakfast
gcoa
Absolutely Pure,
Delicious,
Nutritious.
.Costs Less Tljan OKE CEHT 8 Gap..
Be sure that you get the Genuine Article,
made at DORCHESTER, MASS. by
WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd.
ESTABLISHSD 1780.
MfcJ
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A Rnardliisr and T)h.v ftnhnol for bOVB.
Military discipline In elm rue or U. S.
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Training or Sloyd bas recently been In
stalled. Buys of all ages received,
special Instjucttau In music, modern
languages, stenography. Through col
lege preparation a specialty. The
Christmas term will open September
Ktth, 1898. Catalogue on application to
the principal. J. W. HILL. M. D , P.
O. Drawer 17. Portland, Or.
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In order to further introduce ELASTIC STARCH (Flat Iron Brand),
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