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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1902. SEEDS! All Kinds of Seeds, Alfalfa, Timothy, Broome Grass, Blue Grass and White Clover. Orders for any kind of Seed Solicited T1VI AD THE HARDWARE MAN. Who Sells Field hence in all heights, as well as every variety of HARD WARE, Barbed Wire, &c WOOD! COAL! WOOD! COAL! WOOD! COAL! W. C. MINNIS SELLS BOTH. Kemerer Coal. First Class Wood Orders Promptly Filled. Telephone, Red 401, or call on W. C. MINNIS, Office Main Street, just opposite Hang ford & Thompson's hardware store. LaFontaine & GarrisoD Proprietors j Old Dutch Henry Feed Yard. Cavalry Horses for Sale. BEST OF CARE TAKEN OF TEAMS OVER NIGHT GIVE US A CALL. Notary and Corporation $3.50 to $5 Delivered Order of us and save money. Orders for Rubber Stamps also solicited. EAST OREGONIAN PUB. CO BEST FOR THE 'OWELS If you haven't n rcirular, healthy movement of the bowels every day, jou'ro 111 or will he. Keep youi bowels ueii,uni be well. Voice, In the gliaiieof vlo lenti'liyMoorilil poison, Is dangerous, 'J'lio smooth' t,ualent, mokC perfect way of keeplnir tho bowelf clear and clean Into talto EAT 'EW LIKE CANDY MVr RicVnti Wan kble, VoUnt. T&ituOood. Do Hood ttkeii.or Utlpe. 10, 23, and 60 centl Mr box, Write tur iur iro mmpie, and booklet on TKUM&U ltKHVnr rnitvv nnK.rA .. - 77 KEEP YOUR BLOOD GLEAN SEA I By & Hair's Breadth i By D. H. TALMADGE Copyright, 1001, by I. U. Talmmlse It once happened that a boy wander ed away from his home, thus produc ing distraction therein. He was a lit tle boy, and his years were few. no was gone for hours, many hours, of daylight and darkness, and during the interval between his going and his coming, for he returned safe and sound at last, his mother was prostrated with nervous apprehension and Ids father's face aged plainly. The alarm bells were rung; the community postponed its business affairs and joined in the search; the schools were dismissed, and children vied with men and women to find the missing, but they were un successful. They found upon the river bank tracks made by the boy's small shoes; they found his straw hat floating upon the surface of the stream In a heap of driftwood; they found, trampled in the sand of the shore, a paper bag bearing the name of a local confectioner, who testified that the boy had purchased a penny's wortli of caramelG that day. And suspicion became conviction the boy had been drowned! The river was dragged until the night came down, and one boatload of determined spirits worked grimly with the chains and hooks by the flickering light of lanterns until the clocks struck 12. Then, discomlited, they retired to await the sunrise. That was a night long to be remem bered In the town. It was a night of speechless agony In the boy's home and of sorrow broken slumber in the homes of other boys. There is something pe culiarly sad In the thought of a child's form alone in black waters under a starless sky or and this was the faint est of hopes in the thought of a child wandering alone In the darkness, cry ing out his terrified little heart, stum bling here and there, not. knowing which way to turn. Tears were many in the town that night, but none flowed in the boy's home. Eyes were dry there and hot. Lips there wore dry and burning. Hour after hour the father paced the floor, looking neither to the right nor to the left, his sweat cold hands clinched, his breath bursting from him as from one who strives to the limit of endurance at some manual undertak ing. . The clocks struck 3. The front door opened and closed with a bang. A cry indescribable was sounded. The boy was in ills father's arms. At daybreak the good news went forth, and the story was told and told HKltAN TO TUB FOKM AND KNEIEUESIDE IT again how the boy had gone to the river to fish and had crawled out upon a log the better to get his ridiculous bent pin of a hook within reach of tho big, big fish. Thus he told the fale himself. The log had not been fasten ed securely, and It had sailed away with him, far, far away, miles and miles, almost to Europe, he thought. Ho was not frightened much. It was fun until tho river ran between high bluffs over great stones and tho log dipped and pitched and rolled. Ho fell off at last, and a man who had been watching him from a cavo up In the bluff enmo rushing down and waded and splashed and swnm after him and pulled him out, and turned him upside down and spanked him to got the water out, and carried him to a cave, and built a Are and dried his clothes, and fed him some luscious dried !u.r and crackers, and finally, long, long alter uark, put him upon his back and gave mm a tlandy ride home. "He was a real nice man," said the boy In concluding the account. "He told mo stories of kings who had heaps of money and of queens who had so many jewels they didn't know what to do. I told him I'd bet they didn't have any. more money than my papa or any more Jewels than my mamma, and he seemed greatly Interested, no didn't come clear to the house with me, Ho put. nio down at the comer and told mo to scoot, and 1 scooted." "Heaven bless hlinl" said the boy's parents fervently. "We should like to see him and thank him for the great service ho has rendered us." "I wish you could," returned the boy earnestly, "no was such a nice man." One night about two weeks later the boy's father was awakened by the sound of a rising window sash, and he crept from ids bed and took a revolver from a bureau drawer. Softly be passed down the stairs, but not so soft ly that he was not heard by a man standing by the sideboard In thn dining room. The man fired a iilstol, and the boy's father fired In return. The first shot had no effect. The second had. When the boy's father turned on the electric light, the mnn was lying upon the floor bleeding. "You've tlxed me, I guess," he said, grinning in a ghastly sort of way. "You've hit me in a nerve center or something. I'm paralyzed. I can't wiggle." ,, "Serves you right," grimly comment ed the father of the boy, and ho tele phoned for the police. But before the police came there was a sound of swishing garments upon the stairway, and the boy entered the room. His eyes were wide with won dor as he looked from his father to the form upon the floor. Then with a lit tie cry ho ran to the form and knelt beside it. "Hello!" he said. "Hello!" was the groaning response, "How are you, kid?" "Real well," replied the boy. Then he turned toward his father. "This is him," he announced simply. The boy's father was much affected. "What!" he ejaculated. "Him! Oh!" lie also knelt by the wounded man's side; saying nothing, only trying to stanch the flow of blood, and while he worked the police arrived. He arose, confronting the officers. "I have made a terrible mistake," he said to them. "I thought this man was an enemy to my household, and he was not. You are not needed. I'm sorry I put you to so much trouble. If one of you will step to the telephone and tell Dr. Bigley to come here at once, I shall be obliged. After that you may go." The burglar was nursed back to health in that home. Ho was there three weeks. Ho should, for the sake of the story, have gone Into the world a better man, but ho did not. Six weeks afterward ho was arrested lii another city on a charge of burglary, convicted and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. A short time prior to his arrest the boy's father re cefved a letter from him, inclosing $15 in currency. It said: Dear Sur Here3 for my bord durln my plcsant stay at yure house. Ido like to square the docs bill to but Ime flyin to lite. Regards to kid. Yures truly, James Urockles. The father of the boy read the letter Feveral times and pondered much, "The man's bad tendencies," lie told himself, "outweigh the good by only the fraction of a hair. Poor fellow!" Oonlon'H Way. Lord Wolseley used to tell of three subalterns who were In tho trenches before the Redan Wolseley," Gerald Graham and Charles Gordon. When they were relieved at night, the gigan tic Graham, tho perfect typo of the sworder, used to pick himself out of tho trench and walk straight to his tent, careless of the fact that he was making himself a cock shot for tho Russian marksmen. Evening after evening the Russian soldiers used to gather more and more thickly, but Graham would take no advice. He wnsn't going "to bother about those fellows." Garnet Wolseley, with ambition even then to be one day tho commander in chief, used to crawl through the very slush of the trench on his hands and knees for a hundred yards or so before ho got up and made a bee lino for his tent. Ho did not mean to bo shot if he could, help It. "And Gordon?" tho listener asked "Oh, Gordon," said Wolseley; "Gordon was funny. Sometimes he would crawl with mo and tho very next evening got up, hook arms with Graham and go off talking eagerly." Candid Friend. Two EspreNRloitN of Peel, Was there over a more mordant nnd sardonic stroke of description than that O'Connell gave of Peel's blood lessuess? "Ills smile was like tho sil ver plate on a coflln." Less scathing, hut less witty also, was his description of a lady of a sim ilar repellant teniperament, "She had till the characteristics of n poker, ex cept its occasional warmth." Ills Lntln. "Why do you. put so many Latin quo tations Into your speeches?" nsked the friend. "I'm sure most of us don't un derstand them." "That's Just tho point Misery loves company. I want to bo sure there h some one besides myself who doesn't know precisely what I am talking abont.'l-Washlncton Star. Itnliert Toontba' Advice. A lawyer sent to Robert Toombp once and asked what he should charge i client In a case to which Mr. Toombs had Just listened in tho courthouse. "Well," said Toombs,, "I should charge $1,000, but you ought to have $5,000, for you did a great many things that 1 would not have done." i JUDGING FROM yoo Customer (looking in at door): "Oh, I'll call again later." Barber: "Come in, sir. Won't keep you a minute, sir. This won't take me long, sir." COMPULSORY. "Willie Jones' mother makes him go to Sunday school every Sunday." "Why do you say she makes him go?" "'Cause he goes." WO MIXED Judge: "Did the prisoner Indu Ide Prosecutor: "No, sir; I never knew WOMAN'S EVOLUTION APPEARANCES. DBINKS. In nhlllrnntlnnc9 him to take anything but whisky." FE0M THE BIB. 'HOTELS. HOTEL PENDLETOB VAN DRAN BROS., Props The Best Hotel fn PendlctoJ anq as good as any. Headquarters for Traveling Men, Commodious Sample Rooms. 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