MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1902.
SEEDS!
All Kinds of Seeds,
Alfalfa,
Timothy,
Broome
Grass,
Blue
Grass
and
White
Clover.
Orders for Tany kind
of Seed Solicited
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THE HARDWARE MAN.'
Who Sells Field heace ia all heights,
as well as every variety of HARD
WARE, Barbed Wire, &c
WOOD! COAL!
WOOD!
COAL!
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SELLS BOTH.
Kemerer Coal. First Class Wood
Orders Promptly Filled
Telephone, Bed 401, or call on
W. 0. MINNIS,
Office Main Street, just opposite Hans
ford & Thompson's hardware store.
Proprietors
Old Dutch Heorv
Feed Yard.
Cavalry Horses for Sale.
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TEAMS OVER NIGHT
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SEALS!
Notary and
Corporations
$3.50 to $5 Delivered
Order of us and save money.
Orders for Rubber Stamps
also solicited.
EAST OREGON1AN PUB. CO
DYSPEPSIA
"For lx jreara I warn a victim of dy
yepeia in lis worst form. 1 could eat nothing
Cut mill: toast, and at times my stomach would
not retain and digest oven that. Last March 1
began taking CASCARETS and since then I
have steadily improved, until I am as well as I
ver was in my life.
David 11, Muhpht. Newark, O.
PlMMtnl. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Bo
flood. Merer 8laken.,Weakon, or Qrlpe.lCc.36e.Me.
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CHIPS
By Homer Lee Smith
Copjrlsht, 1001, bj A. S. Rtchnrriflon
Among the Cubans who were ready
lo receive the munitions of war as the
steamer was backed In a little cove at
midnight after successfully dodging
the Spanish gunboats was the outcast,
lie was an American and, though In
ragged uniform and having a disrep
utable look, was evidently much re
spited by the rebels. He was In
charce of the party unloading the
'arms and had the energy of sis: ordi
nary men. when tlie hoxes were safe
ly ashore, he said to the live of us who
had volunteered for the Cuban service:
"Xow, boys, come ahead. If you had
known what you were going Into, you
wouldn't be here. As it Is, you'll have
to make the best of It. The Cubans
want help, but they won't give an out
sider, a fair show, and if any of you
happens to be taken prisoner I'll guar
antee that you won't live ten minutes.
There's some little patriotism about it.
enough to make you want to shoot
straight, but the whole thing is a fam
ily row, and one can't say enough bad
things about either side. My name's
Chips, just Chips, and I came ovr
here simply to get shot."
Chips was a scout, a spy and a sharp
shooter and had little to do with the
rank and file. He could have given
any Cuban general spades and cards
on how to conduct o campaign. He
was thoroughly disgusted with the
style of lighting and the cruelty prac
ticed on prisoners, but he offered no
criticisms.
We had had two or three skirmishes
with the Spanish and had been amazed
at the reckless mnnner In which he ex
posed his life. He was a dead shot
and perfectly indifferent to the ene
my's bullets, and I honestly believe that
in the year he was with the Cubans
he inflicted at least half the loss suf
fered by the Spanish. I hnd heard him
coughing at night in a way to make
me wonder if consumption had not
taken a firm hold on him, and I
couldn't help but notice how thin he
was and how little appetite he had. It
was one day while we were scouting
within n mile of the Spanish lines and
were lying in a thicket with the land
crabs nipping at our clothing and the
mosquitoes hovering about us in
clouds, that he snid:
"Tes. there's a story behind nil this,
but I don't care to rake it up. You can
.HOT A MAX OP UB HAD THE SLIGHTEST
hope.
tnke it that I come from a good fam
ily, hove had all the advantages of
wealth and education, nnd that it's my
fault that I am today a family out
cast. I'm not blaming mother God
bless her and Pm not blaming poor
old dad. It's all my fault. They can't
know whether Pm living or dead, but
I hope they have done grieving for me,
I was a fool and worse. Now it's too
late to talk of reconciliation. Camp
life has brought on consumption, and
ray days are uumbered. It would only
be going home to die, and I'd sooner
do that here. I came over here for
reckless adventure, and I'm going to
play It to the end.' All I'm afraid of
Is that I shall be laid up the last three
or four weeks of my life und ille like
a dog in his kennel instend of putting
up a decent finish."
I asked Chips no Impertinent ques
tions, but I thought It out for myself
a rich man's sou, Yale or Harvard,
debts, reproofs, dishonorable affairs,
disgrace nnd expulsion. That was
probably the worst nnd only what has
befallen many a young man. Chips
might have done foolish things, -mad
things, dishonorable things, but he was
not a criminal. He wns above that I
didn't even try to deceive him as to his
state of health. He -was a doomed
man and fully realized It Words of
cheer or sympathy -would have 'been
useless. Hnd he told me nothing I
could have known from bis reckless
scouting that day that he wanted to'
die the death of a soldier Instead of an
invalid.
Another week passed, and twenty
five of us were sent to tweak through
the Spauisb lines and bring up more
ammunition. Chips was looking gaunt
1 -J
and feeble, but he responded with alac
rity. He realized the danger and per
haps intended to make it his Inst light.
It was entirely the fault of the
Cuban colonel who commnnded the de
tachment thnt wo were led Into n trnr.
and the entire command made prison
ers without having a chance to lire a
gun. it wns a neat stroke of business.!
on the part of the Spanish, and they re
joiced over It for hnlf nn hour and then
prepared to reap the fruits that is. we
were brought before a general who had
no more feeling of mercy toward a
rebel than for a rat In the gutter, and
lie proceeded to try us by court mar
tial. He 'called in no other officer.
There wns n standing order on both
sides to take no prisoners, and It wns
disobeyed only by accident. A court
martial was merely the preface to be
ing shot and wnB so understood by
both sides.
It wns n beautiful morning ns we
were drawn up in line before nn old
sugar house which hnd been turned
Into n headquarters, and the Spanish I
general began business. We were dip- j
armed, nut not Dounrt. Tlie enemy
were ten to one and hemmed us in on
three sides. The first mini on tlie Hht
of our line wns the first one willed be
fore the "court." Inside of thirty sec
onds he had beeu charged, tried, con
victed, sentenced nnd led away to be
shot.
He was hardlv out of our sight
( he wns a dead man. The gen -
ueiore ne was a uenu man. Tlie ge
eral wns no man to dally. He went
through with It ns he would a drill,
and it wns not long before our line hnd
shortened up to ten men. Tlie five
Americans of us were on the loft, el
bows touching, nnd not a man of us
had tlie slightest hope In his brenst j
when Chips uttered his first word. I
"Hoys," said he In a low voice, but
plainly audible to every one of us, "the
general Is sending souls to kingdom
come by express, but I am going to in
terrupt his little gnrae. Now, pay
strict attention to what I say and make J
no comments or suggestions. As the
last Cuban is called ip I nm going to
make a dash for thecuptain directly
in front of me. I'll reach him in three
jumps, and before he can straighten!
up I'll have his sword and drive itt
through him. Then I'll put my back
against thnt tree and die ns I have
been hoping to. I won't. Inst long, of '
course, but I'll get two or three more'
of them."
One of the two remaining Cubans
wns taken, and as he entered the house
with a prayer on his lips Chips con
tinued: "Steady, now, and don't miss a word.
Nobody is to follow me. There on the
right flank their line Is the thinnest
and the jungle thickest. As I mnke
limy rush for the contain vou rush for'
the flank, break through and tnke to.
cover In the Jungle, lou'll all cet
away. Get ready!"
"But we" I began, when he Inter
rupted me with:
"Silence, fool! Hnven't I told you 1
want to die? There is no use throwing
other lives away. If one of you dnres
to follow me, I'll turn the sword on
him instead of the captain. They nre
coming for the last Cuban now. Fetch
n long breath und when you move
make a regular
f,'tball
rush of it.
, NoV, then, hurrah!"
; Chiira sprang forward, and we wheel
ed to the right and made our rush. It
I was a complete success. Before the
soldiers at "parade rest" could bring
up their muskets we were upon and
over them, und, though a shower of
bullets followed us into the jungle, no
one wns hit.
Even ns we rushed we knew that
Chips had won his first stroke, for the
officer screnmed out ns the steel was
wrenched from his hand and found his
heart.
It was months luter before we knew
all, before it was told us thnt our com
rade stood with his back to the tree
and laid about him till he bad killed
two others and wounded four. He
wns fairly riddled with bullets before
he went down nnd the cheer on his
lips turned to a death rattle in his
throat. Could his weeping mother nnd
stern hearted father but know they
would say thnt the outcast son had re
habilitated himself.
Father of Modern Jnrlapradence,
Louis IX. was practically the founder
of modern jurisprudence. About the
yenr 1241 he noticed the abuses which
were caused In France by men taking
into their own hands the work of re
dressing their own wrongs nnd pub
lished a proclamation establishing the
quarantine du roi. This forbade pri
vnte redress for wrongs for the space
of forty days after the injury wns com
initted. .During that time the Injured
person must seek redress and satisfuc
tlon In the king's court, and if his
wrong were uot righted at the end of
forty days he might then take Its rec
tification into his own bands.
This proclamation made justice
speedy and tolerably sure, although, of
course, its administration was in u
rough and ready way, and unless the
records are at fault some law of this
kind prevailed in Louisiana at the time
when Missouri was a part- of the
Frencb king's possessions.
What IIeDl.
CJassidy 01 hear Flanagan called ye
a lolar.
Casey He did so.
Cnssidy An' pbwat did ye do?
Casey I did Flanagan. Philadelphia
Press-
MRS. JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
A Society "tVoiunn Who In Devoted
to Athletic Sliort.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is one of the
most beautiful of New York women.
Klnce her entry Into New York society
ns the wife of Colonel Astor In 1S01
she has naturally been a conspicuous
figure. As Hiws Alva L. Willing Mrs.
Astor wns a leader among the young
women of her generation in Philadel
phia. The women of the Willing fami
ly have been noted for their exception
al beauty since colonial days. It was
In 1SS0 that this lovely daughter of Air.
nnd Mrs. Edward Willing came out in
to the foreground of society. She nnd
Mr. Astor met nt Newport thnt sum
mer, lie had left Harvard two years
before. In February of 1S01 they were
j married in Philadelphia in the Willing
mansion, with five generations of Wil-
- ! lin?s lookin
down on them from their
portraits on the walls. William Astor,
father of Colonel Astor, died soun aft
erward, and Colonel Astor became the
i "mle hcad of tue American branch of
1 tue fmous fnmiiy. In 1393 William
UBS. JOHX JACOB ASTOB.
Vincent Astor was born to Colonel nnd
Mrs. .Astor. He was named after ids
great-grandfather, William Vincent As
tor, son of the original John Jacob As
tor. As a hostess Mrs. Astor has been
generous and hospitable, an able sec
ond to her mother-in-law. Mrs. William
Astor. Mrs, Astor is devoted to outdoor
annrt si.o i ,, Unft .,nn,n
and one of the besttennis nnd golf
players among the summer residents of
Newport. In her manner of entertain
ing Mrs. Astor bos introduced some
features new to New Tork society. In
her house parties at Ithlnebeck she fol
lows to some extent the organized
methods common 16 English house
parties. Her dinners nre among the
hnndsomestthnt mark a winter season
in New York or a summer season at
Newport.
The Baby's BIk Table.
I have found it much easier to give
my baby a bath and to dress him since
I ndded a big kitchen table to the fur
nishings of bis room. I hnd tried set
ting the tub on a low table at first and
found the bath to be a tax on my back,
while dressing the baby in ray lap was
a tax ou my agility. The table I now
use measures about 2Mi by 4 feet, has
four solid legs and a long drawer that
opens easily and no leaves. There is
room on it for the tub, soap, towels
and other accessories of the bath, while
the drawer is near, wltb contents of
ointments, powders, surgeon's cotton,
bath thermometer, extra safety pins,
nnd so forth. I keep the table bare, of
course, but the clean wood top is not
unsightly in the nursery.
I and it much easier to stand for the
ten minutes of the bath than to lean
over a lower tub. It is of course Im
possible to dress the baby on the table
while the tub is there, so I take him
out of the tub on to the underflat of my
big double bath towel apron and pro
ceed to dry nnd dress him ou my lap.
This after bath dressing, by the way,
is quickly done, as the baby wears a
nightgown during his noon nap. Most
mothers dress a child for the day at
that time; but, finding that my baby
sleeps better in bis nlghtclothes, I re
serve two nightgowns a week for the
noon naps.
When the table is free and the dress
ing can be done on it, the baby is de
lighted. I draw my chair up to the ta
ble, where he sits and submits to tffe
ordeal very gracefully. He seems to
like sitting up high, and his enjoyment
of It, combined with the relief to my
back, makes the process .a pleasanter
one for life and a quicker one. Good
Housekeeping.
Bajrls- Chin.
A very large amount of china is not
a necessity for a really dainty table.
In selecting, where one has to make a
limited quantity do duty for all occa-
lions, there should be very little deco
ration and almost no color. A plain
white china, thin and of good design, Is
very good choice for the mainstay.
To this add a few dishes with gold
decorations, and If color is wanted sup
ply it by flowers, cakes and desserts.
Too much color in table appointments
Is very wearisome. It ?q well to heal- j
i i
tnte before buying a complete set of
chlnn. For one thing, some pieces are
sure to be broken, nnd if they can be
duplicated It will be expensive to do
po. Then one set of dishes constantly
used Is very tiring both to ourselves
nnd to our friends.
Some will probably be fortunate
enough to have a few quaint old pieces
of chlnn, either thnt with n dainty nnd
qnnlnt little flower sprigs or else with
odd gold tracing. To those I suggest
the plan of supplementing these treas
ures lti such a way that the newer chi
na will serve as a background to bring
out the full strength nnd beauty of
these rare antiques. Before haying
consider if the best results will not
come from getting china for the
courses instead of the complete set.
There nre sure to be too many pieces
of one kind and not enough of another
in a set In serving in this way a very
effective scheme is to start with little
or no color and decorntlon nnd work up
to the elaborate designs nt the lest.
Cnre or tlie Complexion.
Soap and water daily are not good
! 1 -ominuAion.
' i i
a nvrv is iu uuuui unu lining c.iisus
I of roughness of the skin of the face
come from too much washing. It is
n good thing to rub the face witli n
soft, clean, dry towel two or three
timon a day. If. In addition, water is
nscd In the morning and nt night the
skin will lie kept in n sounder, smooth
er nnd healthier state than if, as is of
ten the case, soap and water are used
three or four times n day.
Never under-any circumstances use
hard water for washing the face. Dis
tilled water is best, and next to this
comes pure, clean rainwater. If nei
ther of these can lie obtained, the hard
water must lie softened by artificial
means. Where the skin is hypersensi
tive it may lie cleansed by gently jub
bing In n little cold cream nnd washiug
afterward with oatmeal water, made
by pouring a pint of boiling water over
n dessertspoonful of flue oatmeal tied
in a piece of muslin. Allow the water
to become lukewarm before using, oc
cnsioually squeezing the muslin ba
during the cooling process.
Oriental Itoom Not Expensive.
According to an authority, the fitting
up of nn oriental room or a cozy corner
does not necessarily require the ex
penditure of a email fortune, although
thousands can easily lie expended if
thousands nre available for the pur
pose. But there nre reasonable priced
materials that are used with excellent
effect in the ndorument of a Moorish
or whatever style of room is desired,
t a,m u ,b lo ue "u at tue arrange-
T II I A 1... J 1 . i
ineut of these draperies is more Blmple
than formerly, nnd therefore the ma
terials are not so npt to prove dust
traps. An advantage in the cotton
goods is thnt they can be easily clean
ed, nnd if draped artistically the effect
Is ns good ns if the more costly mate
rial had been employed. The arrange
ment of light is one of the important
adjuncts in connection with the fitug
up of nn oriental room, andr whatever
be the method employed, tlie light
must.be so tempered ns to produce the
mellow effect that is half tlie charm of
oriental draperies, whether costly or
inexpensive.
The Gentlewoman.
It is a fine gift to be quick and
bright in understanding things, but it
is far more important to be kind heart
ed and gentle. When you go out in the
world, no one will ever ask or know
whether you got good grades in alge
bra and Latin. If you have done your
best It Is -wrought into you whether
your best Is very good or only medio
cre. But be sure of this: Every one
who meets you will know without put
ting you through an examination
whether you are a gentlewoman or
not It Isn't practical to quote Greek
or disuuss psychology or read Shako
Bpenre wjtb every one you meet but
you can always speak kindly and listen
courteously nnd quietly look out for
the opportunity to do the little deeds
of kindues that mako our lives so
much more worth living. Uniou Slg
nnl. PnrciitH.
Parents may sometimes be tyrnuts,
children sometimes rebels, but home
life would never be n failure if Thack
eray's doctrine of the double duty were
recognized "Honor thy father and
mother" nnd "Honor thy sou and
daughter." As the same kindly philos
opher, so often miscalled cynic, said,
"It is only in later days, perhaps, when
the treasures of love are spent and the
kind hund cold which ministered them,
thnt we remember how tender It was,
how soft to soothe, bow eager to
shield, how ready to support and ca
ress." The Value of Good Roada.
Good roads, like good streets, make
habitation along them most desirable.
They economize tlmo and force in
transportation of products, reduco wear
and tear on horses, harness and vehi
cles and enhance the market value of
real estate. They raise the value of
farm lands and farm products and tend
to beautify the country through which
they pass. They facilitate rural mall
delivery and are a potent aid to educa
tion, religion and sociability. Charles
Sumner once said, "The road and the
schoolmaster are the two most lmpor
tast agents la advancing civlllMttOB."
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Excellent Cuisine,
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