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OOM PAUL KRUGER'S
GREAT TREASURE
His Wife 0oe Woman In More Than
Ten Thousand.
EXAMPLES OF HER VIRTUES
She Is Richer Than Queen Sheha,
But Her Name Kill be Most
famous as Kife and
Mother. .
The wife of Oom Paul Kruger, presi
dent of the Transvaal, Is a treasure.
This by th; testimony of a man who
should know. Through her he hag saved
twenty-five millions of dollars. Oom
Paul, who has the .-eputation of using
few words, and those only after abun
dant consideration, has net Queen Vic
toria down as a troublesome old shrew
and his own frau as an example to all
women.
When, with goat-like board, tinged
with hairs of gold, and his sunken
eyes lit with the light of love, young
Kruger carne a-WKilng, he came not a
bit In the fashion of the modern youth,
who promises his lady love a diamond
engagement ring, a good piano and an
apartment somewhere below the con
fines of Knob Hill.
According to a Boerlsh custom, his
pleasure had been made known. Mrs.
"Oom" Paul, who was then only gentle,
blue-eyed Miss Du Plessls, came forth
timidly to greet him In a gown so sim
ple that she could Burely never have
expected to win a suitor through It.
A n J these are the words she said,
with downcast eyes and cheeks of rosy
red:
"I can bake. I can stew, I can raw, I
can clean, T can scrub," and behold, it
was enough. Her suitor was at hr
feet. He who was then only fltephanus
Johannes Paulus Kruger, esteemed for
his courage and his piety, took her
from that moment to his heart to him
she was the most rarely accomplished
of all women.
Music, art. language, degrees rh
had none of them.
What cared her hero fir apt fiiiK-rs
unleps they could scrub?
What cared he for a voice except to
call the chickens?
Trills and runs an aria from "Robert
ha Dlable," forsooth? A picture In th"
salon? French to chatter In? Italian a.
Men's
Clothing
W..W
You would not think it jkkmoIi', but it
is so. We can sell you a black clay worsted
suit, lined with the best of material we know
of we use no other for $10. These suits
are made with round or square corners.
Ask for lot 7172.
Then we have some fancy worsted suits
also with round or square corners, for $0.75.
These are made as well as our factory knows
how to make clothes, and if you can't get
tittol in tluse, no ready-made clotidnjj will
fit you. Ask for lot ii!".
Here is a .articularly attractive line,
the material is thant and tin: workuirn
sl.ip - superior in every way. Tlu-v mv
cheviot suits f winter weight anl we ask
only $"v0. Ak for lot W.
The foregoing is not the only line of
cheviots we carry. Ask for lot 71 if and see
what they are. You will he pleased with
them ns they are nice enough for anybody
to wear. We have marked the price on
these 10.50 just for a surprise.
an accomplishment? A smattering of
English'' Oom Paul, the ardent suitor;
Oom Faul, the man of Iron nerves,
would have shrugged his shoulders and
gone In serch of that which even In the
i Orange PJver State is rare.
It has a hard sound there, fraught
with V and R's, but It signifies Just
the same sweet virtues that we call
housewifeliness.
Oom Paul's wife has it to a remark
able and unusual degree.
Some women have It In addition to
other Qualities. The Boer women has
it to the exclusion ot all lse.
She Is 11 Mt a wife, jecoml a. house
wife, and third nothing.
The glories of her reign as first lady
of the Transvaal will some day be
chronicled even as the virtues of
put'-'-at Oriselda. Husbands will serve
tP'-r" ac ix.Tiple u their wives all
over the wc .6.
Though thl- -oman a fortune of
! iwenty-flve rr :lions was saved. It will
be her epltu. h. Ph might have lived
j in barbaric splendor greater than Lady
! Curzon s. She might have wrestled for
i America s cup in a yacht all her own.
She might have driven in an equipage
and lived In a palace to match that
j troublesome first lady's of England,
j The things she might have (lone are
1 obviously, even to the mind of the most
I unimaginative, without number. She
would have none of them.
She looked at the black that shone
upon her stove and was happy. Sh
c Muted the Irons that stood In a row
and rejoiced She thanked Ood that
there was plenty of clothesline. She
was ;rareul for the nimble fingers
that enabled her to sew.
What a lesson to other first ladles of
j r;-l:.-r republics! I
i Some women told Mrs. Kruger that'
j their husbands draw yearly some 115,-'
, 000 more Scilary than Oom Paul. She
answered with enthusiasm: "You must
; have Jl'i.OCO more every year to put:
away.'1 Then she asked eagerly: "Do:
, you have coffee money?" j
i Nowhere Is there a democracy equal
l to that carried on In the Transvaal re-;
; public, where the president lives by the ,
aid of his wife on 2.000 a year coffee
money, allowed by the government Ini
addition to his salary of $35,000 a year, j
This has been "Tant.i," or Auntie
! Kruger's ambition ince the great day,
no".v eighteen years ago, when her hus
band was made president of the Trans
J vnal. And she has achieved It.
Multlplv number eighteen by tl'.OOO
and you will have an approximate ldea
of Oom Paul's for'une. Only approxi-
mate, becaujte the Boer president is ai
wise man, arid he has not left the mon-
ey under a floor of his hous- nor In hlsi
wife's stocking under her pillow .r mat
tress. It has been gathering Interest.
He has put It into banks that are solid.
' He has Invested it In land that has,
yearly Increased In value. Then fore,
today the president of the Transvaal
has a snug little fortune variously es-
Young Men's
Clothing
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We are selling hi ire as intuh young
men's clothing this year as we did a year
ago. This must mean 1'iat what we sold
last year suited a lot of young nu n, and
they have been telling their friend" about
it. Yes, and it means that our stock this
year is just new and nobby eiiongh to catch
them anyway.
Ask to Sec Some of These
Singh-breasted suk snits, brown mixed
cheviot, strung or faint plaid as you chooe.
Doubled nvasted sick suit, brown In r
ring'.Mtue cheviot.
Single-hivatrd aek -ii it, fashionable
collar, tloiiiiie-i'H -a-led ve-t. (ir.iv and led
mixed, making a ! -r k n phiid.
Sin-h-brt-a.-ted sack siiii, u ihmble
breated t of gray e. c!i plaid rheviot.
Singfe-'..".i!-t 'I s.-.ek -i;it, with ibmt.le
brejisted vtsl; g.a;. !. vii t with owrplaid of
green.
Singiedire .t? suit, tine eheek
worsted.
Some of the-e are pretty gay, some are
quiet just like ung men.
Street,
timated, never at less than twenty; If the wife of Oom Pnul Is not d.irntng
millions, and sometimes at more. m'ck(ngs she la sure to lie absorbed In
Cn the coffee money which has sup-ja pastime equally Important. Every
ported them for years the Krugers have
entertained dlplomates and travlers of
all nations.' And no one has come out
from that hospitable mansion hungry.
No one could who has a palate for
good cooking. For "Tanta" Kruger Is
one of the best. She Is her own chef.
And furthermore, she Is her own but
ler. Yes, Tanta Kruger. the wife f
the msn whose salary Is J35.0OO a year,
and who recently presented the Pope
with a 41,000,000 diamond.
On occasions when she has guesis
site wears her very bent Sunday-go-to-meeting
black gown. She puts It on
Just before she announces, "dinner Is
served." At 5 every morning the little
Boer household Is astir. It Is a little
houwhold now. for out of the six'ienn
children that this model Hausfrau has
brought Into the world, between wash
ing and cleaning and serving, only
seven are alive. These seven are mar
ried and comfortably settled In and
about Pretoria, where their mother
and father live.
What serves as their white hoiioc Is
a little two-story cottage. It has In
the parlor a nice neat set of black
hor-hair furniture that Mrs. Kruger,
who is not ashamed to acknowledge to
69 years, has made do since she first
became Oom Paul's wife. It has two
marbleHoppKl tables that came with
It. The halls and walls of this Utile
collage are as clean as anyone could
wish them. Once every year when the
hottest weather ifi over they are White
washed from top to bottom.
Three times since their marriage Aun
tie Kruger has had her dlnning-roorn
chairs recaned. That was when the
children were little and somehow would
go through them. Since tin y have
grown up these chairs have stool In
state, except for the ceremony of
charging them about, which goes on
as regularly as In all v.eli-ord v d
households.
Over her little kitchen stove at 5' any
morning Auntie Kruger may be seen
bending Industriously. She has rls.'n
half an hour earlier to light the fire.
Whei: her Oom arrives the aroma of
coffee fills his nostrils. It has been
eaid that the first lady In the Trans
('..public prides herself upon her
coffee. It Is one of her boasts, and she
Is a modest woman. Another is that
she accomplishes her end with less cof
fee than any household wife in Pre
totla. Good or bad, however, her hus
band allows himself only one cupful
ivith a biscuit. As there are no maids
to be fed, and no butlers, It will be seen
that i pound of coffee will lant a long
time.
After Mrs. Kruger has listened to a
Bible reading from the lips of her hus
band she has the dishes to wa.'ih, the
little house to keep clean, the beds to
make, the pots to burnish, the stockings
and socks to darn. '
stitch In every dress she hus ever
worn and every stitch. In the dress of
her daughters for many, many years
this good ludy has sewed. It Is true
however that she did nt have many
dresses.
What for?
This is the question askis-1 by the
president's wife her"lf. She lielleves
In one black dress for ln'St, one for
every day and one for mornings. i5he
has two bonnets. One she wears to
church and one she wears to market.
She loves anfmnls next to Oom Paul.
Here is a story her subjects tell to
j prove It. .
T'tey wert
to her when they yre
erecting a statue to their beloved chief,
t.i nsk her opinion of the sketcheb and
to b' g her to add any si gg'-stion. The
drawings represented him In his black
eouit, old-fashioned top hat and be!
black suit. His wife looked at them
with delight. She thought them beau
tiful. The tears were In her eyes In
the excess of her gratitude and pride.
Then, modestly, she made a request.
She begged that the crown In th.- top
hat might be left hollow, so that the
birds could always be able to drink
from it. And ,to the hollow crown of
the hat catches the rain when It falls
and the birds flutter around It to drink
and to bathe.
This Is a pretty story about "Tanta"
Kruger, and there are others that tell
how her people love her, and how kind
she Is to every one and how she wor
ships Oom Paul. When he dies the
people say she will die too. He Is her
lord and master, hr Idol, her strength.
This man, In whom strangers see
homllness exemplified U an unusual
and almost comical degree, Inspire In
her only the most supreme veneration.
It is because of him that she brews the
best coffee In all Pretoria. He loves It.
It is his approval that Inspires her to
make a tin of condensed milk go fur
ther than any one else. She things him
the very lxt and wlsertt man that
ever lived.
OSiu OF THE EVILS OF PROSPER
ITY. "And now," said the Inspired orator
from Nebiaska, "let me devote a little
attention, If you please, to this prosper
ity that we hear so much about,
f.'nefl of "That's right!" "o on!"
They are trying to make us believe
that, having prosperity, we ought to be
happy and satisfied, f Groans. What a
fallacious doctrine that Is, my fellow
citlz-iis' Loud cheers They forget
thai prosperity may be the worst thing
tlial can happen to a man. A voice:
"Is It?" Ah, I sfe they have sent their
agents here to try to break up this
meeting, l ut their efforts will be fruit
less. I have been paid In advance for
this speech, and I am going to deliver
It. Yes, I repeat that prosperity may
Boys'
Clothing
nVniH
SomelMidv's small boy H going to U
mightily satisfied with himself when his
mamma gets him one of those new capo
coats that have just come. We don't make
any money to speak of on these, but we havo
to do something to stop some p"ople from
bnying cotton. Now, whether he is threo or
fourtivn years of age, he shall have one for
f'.'.IT). I.n't believe it? Well come in
and see, and ask for lot U!.T. ,
Just another word about thehoi I
you want your little fellow to look real .swell?
If so, we have a line cf boys' blue x rge
douiile-lirea.sted suits, nges fmin 7 to I, that
are positively beautiful. Tin's- ,,'pn, in
eluding an extra pair of p in s. we are ing
to sell (Ids week for i'.IM. 'i v-n't tell
volt how we ean all'ordit lor iiie -tci v iioiild
lie too long lor our space. Ak p.n'iie il n ly
for lot 17 is:!.
If the above price is to h'gh, --i-k for
lot I71SJ. These are suits of a gray mix
ture. i'lidiiding an extra inir of ;w:iK for
."i.7". They are dressy and are siuv to de
light the proud little wearer. I . m't fail to
examine them.
be a bud thing, and I shall prove It
to you. Applause and chivrs.J Hen
Is a dispatch In the paper that t hold
In my hand and It is an administra
tion organ, tooA voice: "What Is,
the h:'.tnl?' Hisses and cries of
"shame! shame!" which says that a
farmer at Frederick City. Md., sold his
l.tre crop of wheat at a high price, and
In the night drea ned that robbers
broke Into his house to get his money.
In his fright lie arose, dashed through
a window and fell twenty foet, sus
taining Injuries that may prove fatal."
Tremendous enthusiasm followed, and
the orator received un unprecedented
ovation as he descended from the plat
form. The victory of the Columbia In de
fense of the America's Cup having been
now achieved there Is a clear field for
Mr. Lever, of Lever Brothers, Limited,
the millionaire soap manufacturer of
London, who .has already announced
his intention of trying for It In cow- the
Shamrock fulled.
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prn !. upon hr
irmrr.il liraltl'.
Nine tine in
ti a a noaimi'ii
frn"ril health
is dependent
uusn net local
health in a
womanly way.
It l-i An Ini
poiwitiility for
a woman to be
pretty or at
tractive who
suffers fiom
general ill-
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VV.V J OCHIU. IDE
the eyes, the hair anil the carriage will tell
(he siory when a wmnan i smug. It is
impoH'-.iblc for a wmran to be in i:-od (,m
erai health when ..:.;c local trouble is con
tintuilv naps'if ft lrr ncrvc and disar
rantiKtlie lottui'Ki iiinctionsof every organ
of tiie body IJi. Pierce' Favorite Pie
script iosi ih the Ixnt of all medicines fot
women who suff r from local weakness
nd di-casc peculiar to their sex. It arts
direct!? on the delicate snd important
organs concerned. It makes them strong,
healthy, vigorous and elastic It allays in.
lismiiiiiii'in, lienls ulceration, soothes pain,
tones and builds up the nerves and ban
ishes the unu.il discomforts of the expec
tant months. It makes baby's advent easy
and a'lit.cl painless. It enables every
organ of the botiy to perform its natural
functions without unnatural interf rence
from a pain tortured nervous system. It
corn ' is ;i! irregularities. A woman who
is made well in this way will recover bet
natural beautv of form and feature a.id her
natural amiability of character and temper.
Thousands of women hare testified to its
merits. An honest dealer will not urge a
Ruhmnutt- for u little extra nrofit.
Mrs. jwhcl Clark, of Houlton, Bt. Croix Co.. j It Is a pleasure to grow p'd when the
Wis,, writ's: " I nm in good health since I yenni that bring decay lo ourselves rlp
fcivc t::K-n Mr l-irrce'f Favorite Prescription i ' f,rcMf)priy i, our country.
ijave until u a i ift pound hoy last June, lie j 11
Is six monti,. -Id nuw snd weigh, jo pound.." , ,
How to preserve health and beauty are 1 b M M v Brd. Hnrrlshurg. Pa.,
told in Dr. Pierce'. Common Sense Mecli- : ))f f h pn)M wh)rn .h ,av.
cal Adviser, t is free. For s pap-r-cov- 1 . of 0n(, Mn.
ered copy send at one cent stamps, tow, 7e V"ith Cure. It cures all coughs,
mailing onlv ; cloth binding, 31 stamp. u , . 1 A."", j iiri-
Addres. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. V I "' tPnJer." ,roUblP"-
' ' j For cnle by Charles Rogers.
Overcoats
Our assortment is a surprie, Tort
landers would come down t price and pur
chase these,
LOT 7;'. 10. Men's covert cloth over
coats $U."0. Stylish and astonishingly low
price.
LOT 801(1. Men's blue beaver nvcr
coats, ?!'.O0. If yiu ay on can duplicate
these for the money anywhere -c, it would
be a statement hard to believe.
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'a
Astoria,
loreph Stockford, Hodgdon, Mo., hel
e! a sore running for seventeen jresro
and ciire.l his piles of long standing
by using lvwilt's Witch 1Url H.ilve.
It cores x! skin diseases. Fur sale by
Chsrlc hotter.
The righ. honorable r,.t.ema .. ,n.
d 'tiiei to his memory lor his j-sts ami
to Ms Imagination for his fads.
"When our boys were almost dead
from whooping cough, our d'X"tor gave
Oim Minute Cough Cure. They re
covered rapidly." writes P. H. Belles,
Arglye, Pa. It cures coughs, colds,
irrlppe. and nil throst troubles. Bold
by Chas. Rogers, druggist.
Biography Is the most universally
pleasant, universally profitable of all
reading.
Eat plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia Cor
will dlg-st what you eat. It cum all
forms of dyspepsia and stomach trou
bles. K. R. (Iambic, Vernon. Tex.,
suv. "It rvlelved m from the start and
cured me. It Is now my ever lasting
frh-nd " Sold by Chas. Rogers.
tint's In a name? That which we
call a row, by any other name would
smell as sweet.
"It did me morn good than anything
I ever used. My dyspepsia was of
monti-s' standing: after eating It was
terrible. Now I nm well." writes B, B.
Keener, Holslngton Kan., of Kndol
Dysnepsls. Cure. It digests what you
est. Sold by Chas. Rogers, druggHt.
The best part of our knowledge Is
that which teaches us where knowledge
leaves ofl and Ignorance begins.
President ' King, Farmer's Bank,
urnoklyn. Mich., hns used DeWltt's
Llttlo Early Risers In his family for
years, flays they are ths best. These
famous little pills cure constipation,
bllllousncss and all liver and bowel
troubles. Fold by Chas. Rogers.
No school is more necessary to chil
dren than patience, because either the
will must be broken In childhood, or
the heart In old age.
"1 wish to express my thanks to the
inmiifnetiirers nf Chamberlain's Colic,
cholera find Diarrhoea Remedy, for
t ..... a, iha tYinrkof flileh n wnn-
i .i L ji..i., " anv w W Mas. ! edv his leg would have had to be am
J,; ! 7ZmJ r: Ter.M; Plated. PMn Balm Is unequalled Mr
housnmls of mothers whose children sprains bru-.se. , and rheumatism. For
hnv" been saved from attack, nf dvs-'nMc by Chaa. Rogers.
enterv and cholera Infantum who!
must nlo feel thankful. It 1 for sale, Pe not penny-wise; riches have wings
te, Cltn. Rogers. . and sometimes they fly away of them
Tf dnlna-'what ought to be done Is
mnde the first buslnss, and success a
secondary const lerntlon, Is not this the
way to exalt virtuor
I For mn.iy venrs science has studied
liquors. Result the whole world uses
I whiskey. It has proven the best stlm-
nlant and does not Injure nerves and
tissues like coca wines nnd other drug
ged compounds And Harper Whlskev
Is the Ideal whlskev. Sold by Fonrd &
Stokes Co. Astoria Oregon.
!
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Oregon.
We mint no tliii... but Jllllfenco, for
gie,,i pc r forum w ,
"If you scour the world yuu will
never llnd a rmncdjr equal to On
Mimf rough Cur,"ys Kdl'or Fsck.
u-r, or lh Micanopy, Kin,, "Himtler.
Jf
chitis. ciKUp uud all ihront and lung
troubles. Hold by Chas. Rogers
Moderation Is the silken string run
ning through the pearl chain of all vir
tues. Tie "Plow noy Preacher," Rev. J.
Klrkninn, Belle lllve, III., says, "Aftnf
suffering from Bronchial or lung trou
blu for ten years, I was cured by Ono
Minute Cough Cur. It Is all that to
claimed and more." It cures coughs,
colds, grippe and all throat and lung
troubles. Sold by Chas. Rogers, drug
gist.
Manage nil your actions and thoughts
in hucIi a mariner as It you were going
out of Iho w.irlj.
On the 10th of December, 1SH7, Rer,
S. A. Donahue, pastor of M, H. Church,
South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., contracted
a severe cold, which was attended from
the beginning by violent coughing. lis
sajs: "After resorting to a number of
so-called 'specifics,' usually kept In the
limine, to no purpose, I purchased t
bttle of Chamberlain's; Cough Remedy,
which acted like a charm. I most
cheerfully recommend It to the public."
F.ir sale by Chas. Rogers.
Guilt alone, like brnln sick frensy
In Its feverish mood, fills the night-air
with visionary terms and shapeless
forms of fenr.
During the winter of 1897 Mr. James
Reed, one of the lending rltlr.ens and
merchants of Clay, Clay Co.. W. V.,
struck his leg against a cake of loo
In such n manner ns to bruise It se
verely. !t became very much swollen
und pained him so badly that he could
not wa'k without the aid of crutches;
He -xas treated by physicians, also
used several kinds of liniment and two.
and n half gallons of whisky In bath
ing It, but nothing gave any relief
until he began using Chamberlain's
Pnln Balm. This brought nlmost a
cnnplct" cure In a week's time snd he
believes that had he not used this rem-
selves, sometimes tney must oc sot
; flying lo bring In more.
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' HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Curo,
F, J. CIIENRY & CO., Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F
.1. Cheney for the last IB years, and be
lieve him perfectly honorable In all
business transactions and financially
nble to carry out any obligations made
by their Arm.
WF.ST & TRAtTX.
Wholesale Dnigrdsts, To' do, O
WAI.DINO. KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is tnken Internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Tes-tln-or.lals
sent free. Price, 76c per hot
tie. told by all druggists.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
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