An Absnrd Custom Denounced. Old Maids and Old Bachelors. “Just Like a Boy.” THE WESTINGHOUSE THRESHING MACHINE, Every well-regulated family should A number of “influential member»” Old maids are useful. They can cook, of the Brooklyn Club recently held a sew and take care of the children, nurse have a boy about 14 years o’.d, and a lawn­ meeting, at which the system of what is sick people, and generally play the piano. mower, and grass enough to set the boy THE GLUTE & CO., PORTABLE ENGINES. denominated “treating” was denounced Old bachelors are useless. They do not to work for about half an hour after school. _____________ in the most vigorous terms. A circular even know how to drive nails or split It is an interesting study to see a boy shoving a lawn-mower around. Off comes was prepared for distribution among the wood. members of the club, in which the Old maids arc amiable. If one wants coat, vest and hat as he goes out, and he By request of the manufacturers we have accepted the Agency for this State and practice of treating was characterized as anything done that requires patience and vividly realizes, that President Hayes got the adjoining Territories of the above justly Celebrated .Machines. “one of the most foolish, pernicious kindness of heart, a single lady is sure to his first star: by cutting half an acre of grass before breakfast, and it was cut very We have satisfied ourselves that the above are really SI PERK>R Machines, and habits that ever cursed society. ‘ It be the one to do it. Old bachelors are ill-natured. Thev poorly at that. No boy can strike a bee probably originated during the period of are reeommended by farmers who used them last season as THE BEST Ma our frontier civilization, when our an­ snub children, despise babies, and hate line with a lawn-mower. He starts out chines they have ever seen. cestors, snatching a few moments’ relax- young mothers, and are always so busily to do it, but he sees a dog on stilts up the J^FSend for Catalogues and descriptive Circulars. tion from manual labor, met together employed in seeing that other people take street, and he steps to rest. He has just and discharged what they conceived to good care of them, that they have not a started off again when he sees a boy with Agents wanted in every county’ in this State and the Territories. a ball down the street, and it is also time l>e a sort of rough-and-ready social obli­ moment to give to any one else. Old maids are nice looking and “ young to oil the mower. He has just braced gation, at the same time that they gave for their years.” Old bachelors generally himself for a new effort when a stray dog their weary bodies needed rest and re­ havered noses, rheumatism in their knees, comes trotting along, and it is that boy’s freshment. Under the circumstances it ju 3-tf . Portland, Oregon, was a natural and proper thing to do, bald heads, and mouths that turn down at duly to watch that deg out of sight. lie turns and shoves the mower along for and they doubtless returned to their the corners. about ten feet and then he must have a Old maids can make a home of one toil both m^htally and physically bene­ drink of water. If the old gent is at home little room and cook delicious meals for fited by it. But the custom should have ceased when the surroundings changed, one over the gas-jet in cunning little tin a boy can drink a gallon of water and get and the fact that it has not is a disgrace kettles, besides making their own ward­ back to the mower in about twenty min­ robes. Old bachelors need an army of utes, but all depends on circumstances. to our boasted civilization.” The gentlemen responsible for this tailors, waiters, cooks, distant relatives If he gets back he stands and wonders circular make the points that the system and hotel landlords to keep thtm com­ whether it is a right or left- handed mower, complained of is pernicious, for the rea­ fortable. When old maids are ill they and why it wasn’t made to run itself. If a rap on the window admonishes the tie upiheir heads in pocket-handkerchiefs, sons: 1. That it encourages excessive drink- take homoeopathic pellets out of two bot­ boy that procrastination is the thief of tles, alternately, and get well again. time, he buckles right down to business ing. We have on baud and are constantly receiving 2. That it encourages a spirit of reck­ When old bachelors are ill they go to bed and rushes the mower over four brick bats, and send for four doctors; have a consul­ a hoop and several coal clinkers, and then Steam Engines, Flour Mill Machinery, lessness and improvidence. comes an examination of the knives. tation; a mantel-piece full of black bottles; « It encourages “sitting around.” Uill Stones, Portable Flour and Saw Wills, Belting ( loth, Smntters, Separators, Let a boy get in the shade with a good Leather and Rubber Belting, and General Mill Furnishing*. 4. It practically deprives a man of one and the amiable married men who belong brace for his back, and he can examine a tc the club to sit up with them at nights, k&.S<>le Agcnta'for the Celebrated Recker Brush Machines; Ediiee and Victor Water Wheels All.s’ of his most sacred rights, viz: that of Corliss Engines and Allis’ Saw Mills. Send for Prices and Description. besides a hired nurse; they telegraph to lawn-mower from basement to garret in selecting his own associates. apr 11-tf No. 10 North Front Street, Portland, Oregon. about half an hour. At the end of the 5. It leads to extravagant and loose their relations, and do their best to im­ second cut across the sward it is a boy’s press the world with the idea that they habits of conversation. duty to scan the heavens and see if any are dying. If you are going to paint your house, While it may be true, as stated, that When an old maid travels she takes a kites are up. barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder­ those engaged in this movement have sandwich, a piece of pound-cake, a bot­ A good boy can do this in about fifteen ful Imperishable Mixed Paint is surely taken action entirely superfluous as far tle of lemonade, in a hand-basket, and minutes, and he can put in ten more look­ as they are concerned, still the stand lunches comfortable in the carriage. ing across the street at a whitewashed the best, for it is warranted by their they take in behalf of their fellow-man When an old bachelor travels, he orders fence and a cat. By this time he feels agents in your own town not to chalk, peel or blister; to cover better and deserves consideration. The habit of a dinher in courses at the station, and hungry, and when he I as hunted the house crack, work easier than any other paint. Tne Imper­ treating indiscriminately is undoubtedly raves because he has not time to eat it over for cake it is high time to go around ishable Paint was awarded the first premium, all other paints, at the California State absurd, but as it is peculiarly an out­ before the “ fifteen minutes for refresh­ the corner and see if that Smith boy has over Fair, 1S7S and the Gold Mf-dal al the Oregon State Fair, 187*. Get a circular from their 1 growth of the social conditions of this ments” are over. finished that bird trap. Agent, which explains this wonderful dlscov- 1 country, it will not be abandoned readily. cry. Try tne paint and you certain y would Old maids drink weak tea, and it cures have no other.___________________ The New Yorker abroad who finds their headaches. A Realistic Supper. tio not be Induced to endanger your life by that he is able to place himself en rap­ Old bachelors drink strong liquor, using mercurial “blood purifiers,’’they may port with a stranger through the medium which gives them headaches On the occasion of the one hundredth dry up old sores, bul leave a death sap in the system. Buy Pfander’» Oregon Blood Puri­ of a social glass, will be apt to .regard Old maids are modest; they think their perfoinianeo of the Assonimoir, the fier, wlrich is a purely vegetable one, and. in this movement of the Brooklyn club youth is over and their beamy gone. If, ghastly realistic play of which every one tact, will remove, by continual use, nil mer­ curial poison from the blood. IMPORTERS ! men with anything but favor. after a while, some autumnal love is given has heard, a festival and supper was I ........... VNP......... Among such clubs as the Brooklyn, I them, they take it as a sort H miracle, and I given at the Elysee Montmartre, a vast rrunder’s Medicines are made from Oregon M hoiesale and Rviail Dealer* ¡1» hei bi and barks, and are not patent however, the anti-treating movement is ' hope people will not laugh at them for hall with gardens attached. Since the roots, medicines, bnt purely vegetable Family rem­ likely to receive a cordial support. But ‘ marrying so late in life.,’ French metropolis was founded there edies. General Merchar-dis.-! ! before it makes any headway in the Old bachelors believe that all women ; was never another so curious affair. m making nn.v ¡inrolin««- or iu hotels and saloons of the country a new are in love with them, and that they must I Hundreds of brilliant authors, actors, H r//.* style of bar will have to be introduced care ul'y guar.’, themselves from traps ' painters and sculptors went attiied as wrltl».’ i.i response to any advertise- Goods Sent by Mail men! in thia paper yon will |ileane men­ I'arno. —a bar with box stulls, in which. Brown, laid to inveigle them ;nto matrimony. ' workmen in blouses and low caps, and tion the name of the paper. who has been treated a thousand times They abo fondly cherub the be ief that 1 with their hair combed over tinir cats in by Jones, may unseen take his solitary : should they eventually become married real Belleville fashion. Scores of pretty drink without exciting the enmity of the men, the world expects them to exhibit I actresses were present in the guise of LIFE IN A BOTTLE! AU kinds of Produce Bought and Sold latter. great taste in women by their choice, and washerwomen or chambermaids or ser- or Sold on Commission. That the members of the Brooklyn that the other fellows” will laugh if their I vants in humble positions. A zinc Tha Most Valuable Medical Discovery Club are dead in earnest is demonstrated portion be not tender youth and beauty; ' counter, such as one sees in ordinary Known to the World—No More Use Litters promptly answered. Country peo­ .by the closing paragraph of the citcular, also, tnat when they marry, many women 1 wine shops, was erected in one corner, for Quinine, Calomel or Mineral Pois­ ple will save by corresponding with us. in which they— will expire of jealousy: and there Brebant, the great restaurant­ ons--Life for the Blood, Strength for “ Beg to suggest that the list now in keeper, served the finest Bordeaux and the N erves, and Health for All. possession of the steward in which the Freezing a Wife. champagnes until morning. The supper Ol’l X LETTER TO THE PUBLIC. signer pledges himself not to drink at tables, at which one thousand )>ersons No. 100 ld by wholesale and retail druggists and by the assertions of the temporary bride­ heart like arrows, y’ou.sleep, sleep on, until he was insensible. He was then S country D. W. PRENTICE CO., merchants, or sent by express ou re­ groom that he would not permit her to unmindful of its physical suffering or her taken to the store, restoratives applied, ceipt of price, fl per bottle, or six bottles |5. Music Dealers, ortland reiroiil For certificates of wonderful cures, see my large be ma’ried to anyone else. As it turned weariness and anguish even if she call and soon he was in fighting trim. His circular aiound each bottle of medicine, Read DILL DvBOlS. W. B. KING. out. no attempt at interference wrs made, you anon more loudly each time, until mouth *was then forced open and an and judge for yourself. US, Ask your druggist or merchant for FRAZ­ and the precautions taken were, therefore, in despair she gives up all hopes of ounce of hydrocyanic acid forced down IER’S ROUT BITTERS, the great Blood Cleans­ OuBOIS & KING, and take no substitute he may recommend needless; but that they were even thought arousing you. Continue to follow these his throat. Instead of being instantly er, because he make* a larger profit. to be necessary indicates an amount of G. W. FRAZIER, Discaverer, killed as all expected, the snake did not Superior St., Cleveland, O. of uneasiness which no one wou d care instructions ten years, and if y our wife’s seem to mind the dose at all, but sprang ► or saje wholesale by heart is not as cold as an iceberg toward to lightly assume. Buu Francisco, Cal. Ad vantes Made on Couslgninents. you at the end of that time, you may from the box he had been placed in and Redinstou * ■■■..... ■' — . . — » was ready for a fight. Mr. Scott then 10$ FRONT ST., til WASHINGTON ST., rest assured that she has a spark of in­ His Own Executioner. San Fra-jciseo. Portland drawing his pistol shot him deud. One ,Y. A. ^TROWBRIDGE. sanity’ in her composition. drop of prussic acid placed on the tongue Direct Importer and Dealer in A remarkable case of lynching oc- of a dog, it is said, will produce instant Circular* and other information regarding the Wool curred at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the LEATHER AND SHOE FINDINGS, The Wicked Book Agent. Market furnished ou application to our Portland House, death; in this case an ounce had no effect 12th instant. A man named Dug Xo. 141 Prout 61. .Portland.Or may 12-1111 Reed, obnoxious particularly to the citi A clever fellow, an expert in the call­ on the snake. It is an interesting sub­ zens, was taken out of jail. Then, with ing, rang the door bell, and soon the ject for investigation.—Quincy, Fla., GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. unusual courtesy, the lynchers allowed lady of the house was before him. Said Star, May Sth. Reed to select the method of death most he, “ Will be kind enough to take this “Is this sweet engaged?” asked a young White Leads, agreeable to him, and when he stated book and give it ----- 1” “ I guess not, fellow of a young lady in a car. And he Dealers in White Zincs, that he would prefer to be hanged, they : to-day, sir,” said she, closing the door. said it so handsomely, and with such evi­ Doors, Windows, Blinds and Glass Linseed Oil, went still further and allowed him to be [ “But, madam, vou don’t undeistand. I dent admiration, that she took her bon­ WEIGHTS, CORDS AND PULLEY’S, Turpentine, his own executioner. He took the rope only want you to give it----- “I can- net-box off the seat and let him sit beside I2H Front »L. boti Washington A Aider, Brushes, jet lm PORTLAND. OREGON. in his band, climbed a telegraph pole, i not possibly to-day, sir, I'm very busy.” her. And-but we anticipate. Colors, fastened one end round the top, and “Why, my dear madam, the folks in the Varnishes A Valuable Medicine. formed a noose on the other end. Then next house are away; won’t you please Benson’s Capcine FOR SALE BY D r . F razier :—“My constitution was iA he made his last dving sneech, which hand it to them when they return I It's FOROUSPLAST’R Hodge, Davis & Co., very much broken down for years. My was short, being no more than “Good­ a valuable work, and you will save me A Wonderful Remedy! W"Holcsnlo □Dr’LLKsistia. digestion, bowels and nervous system bye, boys,” and jumping off’, was many’ steps and also oblige the lady very ian iH-tf Tfiere’lf no comparisos between it an«! the common slow acting porous plaster. It is launched into eternity. Some coroner’s much.” “Oh! oh! certainly, sir; ex­ were in a very bad condition. My sys in every way superior to all other external juries might find this to be a case of cuse—I thought—you see we have so tern was not properly nourished. After remedies, including liniments an d the so- called electrical appliances. It contains suicide; but, to some extent, the crowd many----- ” “ I see, madam; don't fret eating I was distressed, and my food new medicinal elements which tn combin­ ation with rubber, posessee the most extra­ at the foot of the }>ole must lie consid­ ■ yourself; but can I further trouble you would not assimilato properly, so that I ordinary pain-relieving,strengthening and received little benefit. I was weak and ered as aiding and abetting. for a pencil to write the address on the curative properties. Any physician in your own locallly will confirm the above book I” “ Most certainly, sir,” she said, most miserable, but on trying your Root statement. For Lame Back, Rheumatism, Bitters I seemed to be wonderfully acted A “professor of ventilation” down throwing the door open; walk in. I hope, Fsmale Weakness. Stubborn and Neglect­ IODIDE OF POTASSA ed Colds, and Coughs, diseased Kidneys, east, being put into a room at a hotel sir, you will excuse my mistake.” “I upon, and they have given me great Whooping Cough, affections of the heart, with another guest, asked the latter to will, but I can’t help feeling hurt,” said comfort while using them. Enclosed and all ills for whiah porous plasters are The Best Spring Medicine and used, it is simply the beat known remedy. raise a window at night, as the air was he, huskily ; “but the lady is anxious to find $5 for six bottles, which please ¿end Ask for Benson’s Capcine Porous Plaster J. J. S pinning , and take no other. Bold by all Dsuggisls. so close. “I can’t raise it,” said the get it, and no wonder—just see the en­ me soon. Beautifier of the Complexion in Price 25 cents. Sent on receipt of price, by Cincinnati, Ohio. guest, after working at it for a while. gravings ; only $7. Shall I not add Seabury A Johnson, 21 Platt BL, New York, use. Cures Pimples, Boils, D r . F razier :—“I have had a splendid meh 25-lm “Then knock a pane of glass out,” said your name ro the list i” She was power trade on your Root Bitters. They en­ Blotches, Neuralgia, Scrofula, the professor, which was done. After a less ; he got it. tirely ’ cured one of my customers, a wo ­ while the professor knocked out another Gout) Rheumatic and Mercurial ZD-wJBOXS K.HXTC3-, An Indianapolis man is the last in­ man, of Dyspepsia, who had used all pane; then he was able to sleep. But General Agents, Pains, and all Diseases arising in the morning he discovered that he ventor of a flying machine. He hasn’t kinds of medicines without any good re­ Commission and Forwarding Merchants, sults. A. J. M iller , Druggist, done any flying yet, but he has started had only broken into a book case. from a disordered state of the 108 Front street, -411 Washington street, a company and wants to raise $50,000, 284 Southwest street, Indianapolis, Ind. Portland,Ogn. San Francisco, Cal d NOLO or Liver. attention given to the sale of Wool, One man enjoys what he has. Anoth­ when he promises to astonish everybody See advertisement headed “ Life in a Special BY all DRUGGISTS. Flour, Grain and Produce In Portland and San apl81m —especially the stockholders. Bottle” in another column. er suffers what he has not. Francisco, feb 19-lm E. J. NORTHRUP & CO., And Mill Furnishers ! <30., IDDDD | Pcri’.and, Oregon. OFFER FOR SALE AT LOWEST FRIGES, A FULL LINE OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Sole Agents for the BUCKEYE MOWER % REAPER, Tlic I.eatlinu Ilarvcslitis Maclaine of the World. So largo a portion of the Gross ud Grain Crops of the Pacific Coast have been cut by tho BUCKEYE, that no far­ mer hero can ba ignorant of its meritsi or require argument to convince him ol its superiority; as it is too well and fa­ vorably known to need comment. It is the perfection of all Reaper and Mow­ ing Machines. lie call especial attention to our hleut and Perfected FITTS q A3STTOTT TSRESSS8, New In detail and rvii . erat feature. niSTIMCTIVI-: and PECVLIAlt, and it now stands the • MPIOI THRESHER Of THE WORLD. Threahermcn who havo used or employed this new stylo of Thresher, nil unite in testifying; that they are the C17LT FZBim m£3ES2 IN U3Z; It is designed and built expressly for Oregon and Washington, by ono who thoroughly understands tho require monts of the country, and the difficulties to be overcome. Agents for HAINES’ (Genuine) SINGLE GEARED HEADER, Specially Improved for this Season—Ten or Twelve feet cut. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE OLD RELIABLE Schuttler Farm, Freight, and Spring Wagons. Studebaker Wagons, Studebaker 4 Spring Hacks. Regulator, Wind Mills, TT.e most complete windmill in use. Elward Harvesters, Vastly superior to any other hand binder Harvester in market. 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