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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1912)
CD WOOD, COAL LIME CEMENT PLASTER f TIMBER, SHINGLES fum-a-Lum Lumber Company Pealcrs in Building Materials of all kinds. We have come to stay and have just completed our improve ments. We have one of the' largest stocks to select from found in Crook County. We sell the genuine Rock Springs Coal, free from slate and give 2000 pounds for a ton. Wc deliver in the city. Phone. Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company WM. W. ESSELSTYN, Local Manager jjMadras o regpn I UVERY 9 FEED &SALE STABLE t MADRAS, OREGON G. V. STANTON (JIVE Your Orders Prompt Attention T CUL Oli.nn T)nrx ft VnnA I nrl 0 AM l liaiin oiuun uivbii um ui fbuu miiu uaic : i ii a no ao gmrjiT LUABirr 1 IflHUnHO IIILHI If IHfllVL I : J. L. Campbell. Wholesale and Retail Dealers ppESH CTTIREjD MEATS We have the best line of Fresh Meats in the country ALL KINDS OF GARDEN VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON t Now ib the time to do your buying Everything at Cost for the Next Ten Days '1 Millinery, Ladies' Furnishings Sweaters, Aviation Caps Shawls, Embroideries Dolls, Hand Painted China Japanese China, Small Jewelry n T T 1 .. CI. Save Your Tickets for Silverware MRS. ISA E. B. CROSBY Ashley FUEL Bros Rock Springs Lump Coal $11 per ton, delivered Red Juniper body wood seasoned, $8 sawed, $7 4-ft. length 0. W. R. & N. Depot Deliveries at any place within city of Madras The Scrap Book Jolted His Dignity. Jnmcs .7. UIII, the rnllrond king, told the following amusing Incident hap pening on one of his roads: "One of our division superintendents had received numerous complnluts thnt freight trains were In the habit of stopping on n grade crossing In a certain s ui a 1 1 town, thereby blocking travel for long periods. lie issued orders, but still the kicks came in. Finally ho decided to investi gate personally. A short man in size, very excitable, Jie went down to the crossing, nnd. sure enough, there stood, In defiance of his orders, n "move that TitAiN long freight train on!" splutteheij nnchored squarely the "bui'eh." across It. A brake man who didn't know him by sight sat complacently on the top of the car. " 'Move that train on!' spluttered the little 'super.' 'Get it off the crossing no people can pass. Move on, 1 sayl' "The brakemau surveyed the tempes tuous littlo man from head to foot. 'You golo blazes, you little shrimp 1' he replied. 'You're small enough to crawl under.' "Cosmopolitan. Tho Abiding. Pain and pleasure both decay. Wealth and poverty depart. Wisdom makes a longer stay. Therefore bo thou wise, my heart. Iand remains not, nor do they Who the lands today control. Kings nnd princes pass away. Thcreforo bo thou fixed, my soul. If by hatred, lovo or pride Thou art shaken, thou art wrontf. Only ono thing will abide Only goodness can bo strong. nichard Henry Stoddard. A Mixed Drink. A cafe in Peoria which was famous for its beer was owned by n Bohemian and conducted actively by his sou and nenhew. The old . man seldom had occasion to go be hind the bar or to deal directly with the public in oth er ways. One day, how ever, all hands were out of reach when n m a n came in to get a drink. To make the HltunIon acute, he ordered a cocktail. The proprietor knew of s u c h things vaguely. Imt Iti n r I n n n where everybody drink it! came to drink Bohemian beer a cock tail had no place. First he took a lemonade glass and put some ice in it. Then he poured from every bottle behind the bar and set the mixture before the customer. "There," he said. "You have every thing but the license. Drink it." Chi cago Post Moliero and the Doctor. Mollere had written mnuy plays to ridicule doctors nnd medicine. Louis XIV. heard that the author had. how- ever, a doctor at his service since he I became famous and well to do, so the king one day called upon Mollere and said to him: "J have heard, Mollere, that you have u physician. What is he doing to you?" . "Sire," 'answered the author of tho iFalade Imnginalre, "we chat together, j lie wrlles prescriptions for me, I don't unco tuein, aim i am eun-u: Start the New Year RIGHT by subscribing for The Madras Pioneer THE PAPER WITH THE CIRCULATION We do all kinds of Job Printing Lettet Heads, Note Heads, Bill Heads, Envelopes, Posters, Le8al Blanks, Wedding Announcements and Invitations. Give us your rfext order CALL OR PHONE Unexpected Candor. In court martial trials in the United States army the attorneys are selected from among the ofllcers at the post re gardless of their lack of legal training or their inability to handle a case. Ono young ofllcer, a surgeon, whose Ignorance was bliss, so far as the law was concerned, found himself appoint ed "counsel for the defense" at his new post, and when ho entered the court his only legal knowledge was that he had a right to "object" to the tactics of the other side. According ly, when one of his witnesses began to bo cross questioned, he sprang to his feet and shouted in a voice of thunder: "I object!" "On what grounds?" demanded the prosecuting attorney. "On what grounds?" echoed tho sur geon. "Ou mighty good grounds. Why, if my witness tolls tho truth when ho answers thnt question it will inlii my case!" Llpplncott's. Tho Archdeacon's Slip. In his "Reminiscences" the bishop of Rlpon tells of an archdeacon who was speaking at a temperance raeetiug and wlio adorned his speech with sev eral humorous anecdotes. At length it seemed to Httlko him that he had per haps been n little frivolous, ho ho pull ed himself together and endeavored to dose his speech In a fittingly serious vein. "But, my friends, to be serious, the sum total of all I have been sny lug niuy bo told In a Blngle word Train up n child In the way he should po, and when he is old ho will not de part from it.' Train up a child to ivold the bottle, nnd when he is old he will not depart from It." . A HUMBLED PRINCE r Hi Performed Hie Talk and 8qUared Himself With HI Bom. Perloy Shcehnn told tho other day of tho end dnya in Tnrla when ho was a member of tho Herald's staff thero and under tho personal supervision of Com modoro Jnniea Gordon Bennett, says a New York letter to tho Cincinnati Times-Star. There wcro days when nothing happened in that office, but there were more dnys when everything happened. Sometimes things happened that simply could not happen at nil. "The commodore had n bunch of titled gentlemen working for him," said Shcehnn. "Our copy boy wns a Mar quis de Something or Other. If he had possessed the commercial instinct ho could have peddled that title of his on this side of tho water for ns much as n million and n quarter in Iron dollars. Not having it, he pulled down 40 franca per wcek-whlch is $8 and wns often reduced to tears by the profnno demands of the American barbarians thnt he eliminate the dignity from his walk and got In a little more pace. J'vo often thought that I should have abducted that boy and brought him to N'ow York by force. I could have sold him to almost any well to do family with marriageable daughters. "One of tho attaches was a prlnco whoso titles filled a couple of pages in the Almnnath de Gotha, while his fam ily's record took up olmost tho space ullotted to a prize winning Hereford in tho Ami'iican cattle book. He was of a most impressive and magnificent ex terior, he had been educated in the most aristocratic establishments of France, he had the entree to every house of fashion in the city, and he had the intellect of n small pig. Com modore Bennett ordinarily used him as a sort of major domo. When the com modore was indisposed the prince did the honors of the establishment for him. "Once." said Sbcehan. "the commo dore wjis about to go cruising on his yacht. The two most Important mem bers of that crew are dainty littlo Al derney cows, about the size of Shet land ponies. They furnish the commo dore the fresh cream he Insists on. The prince had made some sort of n faux lias which angered the commo dore Just previous to sailing. " 'Is there nothing vat 1 can do zat I may. vat you call square heemself?" begged the prince, with tears in his eyes. " 'There is,' said the commodore. 'You can lead my cows down to my yacht' "And that Inheritor of two pages full of honored titles, weeping bitterly into a small ribbou of beard, led the two Alderueya to the yacht through the streets." Reversing the Seasons. When little Tommy Snow went to school one morning last summer his face beamed, and ho rushed up to teacher to tell her that another new baby had arrived at home. "Well, Tommy," said the teacher, "that's splendid! And how many havo you now?" "Oh, he's tho fourth," replied Tom my. "We generally havo a little Snow every summer, as father says." Phil adelphia Times. Pastime Oflrfll MADRAS I UUI IIUII OREGON TUCKER & CULP, Proprietors ,gN & & Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery S Smokers' Articles, News btand 6 6 T. S. Hamilton, Pres. E. H. Fiiknch, Vice-I'res. J. W. IIOECH, Csnr. i ' I EASTERN OREGON Banking Co. FOREIGN EXCHANGE B UHT AND SOLD DRAFTS ON ALL PARTS OF THE WOULD Cop tal Stock, $50,000 Deposits, S2S0.000 SHANIKO, OREGON t X1 23l. 32 k Shamroe TOMMY McCORMACK. Prop. ;. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars FURNISHED ROOMS New and Up-to-Date Quarters ialfour-Guthne & Co. For ROLLED BARLEY Took Ker Order. Frank A. Munsey, tho newspaper nnd magazine publisher, frequently visits his big plants, exhibiting particular concern that tho furniture In the build ings shall be kept in good and neat condition. One morning as he wan leavlug an office in which a girl was working he stopped at her desk and put his finger on an ink stain on the wood. "That won't do at all," he said. "Tell the Janitor to wash that off right away." As ho went toward tho door the young woman said calmly: "You're go ing out In the hall. Tell him yourself." The big publisher stopped, gulped and then went after the Janitor. New York Tribune. P. W. Ashley, Agt. Phone Your Orders Short and Direct Route to Portland and Other Western Oregon Points From Bend, Redmond and Central Oregon Via the Deschutes Branch Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company Through Car Service Between Bend and Portland' Easier to Carry. There was an old Scotchman in Glas gow who was moving from ono house to another on the same street Being of an economical turn of mind, ho had moved his bits of furniture on tho wheelbarrow himself. Tho last thing left for him to carry was one of thoso "iiuy yniuiKr.' a watoii." old grandfather's clocks. It was rathor heavy and awkward to handle. As ho toddled up the street to his new homo with grand father's clock over ula shoulder ho met n friendly Scot who lind been Imbibing. "Talc ma' ndvlco," said the Intompernto ont, "buy yorsol' a watch." ... DAILY TRAIN SCHEDULE Leave Bend " Deschutes " Redmond " Opal City " Metolius " Madras Arrive Deschutes Jet. " The Dalles 44 Portland 6:30 a.m. 6:53 a.m. 7:21 a.m. 8:00 a m. 8:30 a.m. 8:45 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1 :55 p m. 5:45 p.m. Leave Por'land 7:50 and 10 . ' The Dalles 12:40 44 Des.-hutos Jet. 1:30 Arrive Madras 5:45 " Metolius 6:00 " Op 1 City 7:06 44 Redmond 7:45 " Deschutes 8:15 44 Bend 8:35 a m. p. ip p.m p.ir p.m. p.m p.m. p.m. For further information call on any O.-W. R. & N. Agent, or write to WM. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon l Time Hangs Heavy W 1 A BAG IN THE BANK IS WORTH TWO in the HAND Xisr s. JHANV. on ycur hands you will (Wit profitable iu uvur my mrgu unu attractive as sortment of high grade jewelry, includ- k Buiu nuu ouvur waicnes, wedding and engagement rings, chains, charms, cameos, broockns, lockets, pendent-, silver plated toilet and manicure seb' nnd military brushes, also a' full line of Community silver knives, forks, spoons. A. E. Peterson Jeweler Madras, Oregon Don't be criminally foolish and keen your sav nc-s hidden ... i. ""P. carry them about with "youf W at IrZ lection have you against firo or thieve?? ...Tm "V" ueP0Ru yor Hurp ua cash with us. wfcoro itwilf be positively .a Si Ask your fri.entlrt but ourrS tions.y 88 com'ared ter iniUitu. 'farm loans and insurance Madras State Bank I r I (3 , ;4 14 4 91 ft 1 1 4i 1 t r