East Oregonian : E.O., March 29, 1902, Image 6

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1902.
SEEDS
A 11 Kinds of Seeds,
Alfalfa,
Timothy,
Broome
Grass,
Blue
Grass
and
White
Clover.
Orders for any kind
of Seed Solicited
"What the mischief Is this for me
1 thought It was some newfangled dud
of yours. What did yon buy It for?
1 bare about half a dozen of such
things In some traps not yet unpack-
ped."
TALBOT'S
T PRRON
awaww t I Ana poor josepnine, aimosr in uys
... By MARY FRANCES 9 ! terics, nearly cried her eyes out after
0 Jack had gone to his club to see about
... w x- A a. cob without giving her the wrappings
i or ner unger. uui, ueiuj a :
I cplrlt, she sat up later In the afternoon
"Jack, dear, yon haven't said a word J and said: "Walt till next Christmas.
about Christmas. What shall we do? J Jack Talbot, and I'll settle with yon '
Here are the Clendennlns asking us to for thlsf ,
come out to their bouse .tatl j '
thought If we asked Molly and the at off
children to dinner and had a Christ-. Jac. Talbot Mt 00!, 8I.0klng
mns tree it would be" , n ,s 0ce when the noon mall came
"What in the world are you talking I jn am among the letters he spied the
about. Josephine? Christmas! We can Allahabad postmark and the writing
nave Molly to dinner at any time, and of Hugh Tracy. Breaking the seal, he '
what do you want a Christmas tree read:
. r. Dear Old Man Ton are a loekr fellow, ami I 1
tor. congratulate yoc on jwir Chriitinu under rota
"Why, Jack, what do you mean? For cwn xlsa and fij tree. I'm glad you're settled
the presents for the children, of course, ' D3 nn vam ahare your
, ' Ctmataaa Jots I hare lent yon u a present lor
and then we Could have a little party, -,, dunn., wu. an ivory BMha, older by .
and" ' hundreds cl years than yon or ax, and if she wiil (
"Josephine! 1 really thought you ' V Pjayer to Mm for me HI come home next 1
.. . , , , , ., . . year and celebrate all the holidays in the calendar
were a sensible girL If there s a piece ' lnindm . hm , th tbf
of nonsenw? on the face of the earth.
it's this row about Christmas nothing
burgnin.
Goodby. old fellow.
I with yon both a lery
! o o.o inn hh lpft lemmas, aao. witn oerowa regaroa 10
, ut u. ou,. " JJ"J Z , Mra. Talbot. I sas, aa ever, yours ettmallr.
Ilrcn.
TAYLOR.
THE HARDWARE MAN
Who Sells Field hence in all heights, '
as well as every variety of HARD
WARE, Barbed Wire, &c j
WOOD! COAL!
WOOD! COAL!
WOOD! COAL!
W. C. MINNIS
SELLS BOTH.
Kemerer Coal. First Class Wood
Orders Promptly Filled.
over! And the silly custom of giving
presents is n relic or vossais paying bonder If he's had the fever," nius-
tribute. I'm surprised that you' Jacbt -.(. he went down to 1
"Oh, Jack"-she was almost crying- the cnstom house. The bUl rather!
"don't you give presents at Christmas? Btaegered him. It's a long way from !
Allahabad to ew York, and Hugh (
did not seem to have prepaid all the
charges. Jack settled tliem and order
ed the god sent to his office.
Before the week ended Talbot had
received letters fairly bulging with
Christmas from his friends in most of
the Inhabited portions of the globe,
and by some curious coincidence they
had all sent gifts to his wife. 1
Vinton De Witt sent a case of price
less embroideries from Persia, Tom
Macy a stuffed tiger and a pair of
boars' tusks from the heart ot Africa.
Major Norton jewels from an old Hin
doo temple, Fred "Bayllss a chest filled
with rare bronzes, lacquer and inlaid '
' work, and Gordon Taylor an array of
rugs and tapestries that won Id make
a collector turn green with envy.
Suave officials presented him with due
bills for goods thaMind come half way
around the world, and other officials
suggested that he settle with Uncle f
Sam for tariff rates, and so it came to
pass that he spent most of the week .
before Chrlstmns in the custom house
settling with the appraisers and curs-,
' lng the robbery of the transatlantic l
companies and the tariff rates of the1
1
Telephone, Bed 401, or call on
W. C. MiSTNIB,
Office Main Street, just opposite Hans-
I UMBER
Gray's Harbor Com. Co.
HE SPIED THE LCSCKIOCS DBSSSBTC OOWy.
Wemade ko llhltnth(ao.
1 couldn't bear not to celobrnte, and
t
this Is our first anniversary since we
were married too."
"My dear, celebrate it anyway you
like. If It's our first wedded Christ
mas, it won't be our last, you know.
Go and get anything you like and have
United State!
1 j 9Li.JIl?LiiIhristmas be
. 1 was In hTsomee footing un the bills
when a Idea came to him. He'pullecl
out a private drawer and carefully
compared the dates of all the letters.
Then he looked at the accumulated
amount of the bills, exactly SG14.29.
Again he thought harder than before.
Slowly a light began to dawn on his ln-
the bill sent to me. tint rlnn't pnnnt nw ' OCT consciousness.
I In on any of these tiresome festivities. ' Jove, but it was clever.1" he Bald.
I 1 . . ... . . . , . ' 1 n fl tl,tnU . V. . f -
sixassofts TO
A. C. SHAW & CO.
Being one of the largest man
ufacturing plants oa Puget
sound are able to sell you
lumber. cheaper than anyone
else. New lumber coming in
every day. They also make
all kinds of boxes, including
Apple, Pear, Peach, Cherry,
and Plumb and berry crates,
and are prepared to make you
prices either in small lots or
BY THE CAR LOAD
SKA JUS!
Notary and
Corporation
$3.50 to $5 Delivered
Order of ui and save money.
Orders for Rubber B tamps
j After a fellow's knocked about the
world as I have, loafing down the Nile
I In Egypt, shooting elephants In Africa,
I hunting tigers In India, Christmas and
j other holidays dont mean nnythlng
l to mm."
"Jack Talbot, do you actually mean
to say that you don't Intend to cele
brate Christmas?"
"My dear. If I don't that is no reason
why you shouldn't celebrate all you
want to."
"But If you don't celebrnte how can
I? You know we have always had all
our pleasures together."
Jack Talbot looked calmly and half
And to think that I never suspected
anything when 1 gave her all those ad
dresses." After which he put on his
hat, went up town to a fashionable
furrier's and bought a dream or a
sealskin Jacket.
"Got any er any engagements for
tomorrow, Josephine?" he inquired
that evening at dinner.
His wife looked BereneJy across the
table at him and arched her eyebrows
delicately.
"Tomorrow, dear? No. Why? Do
you want to go to the office earlier
than usual r
"Office! Well no! The fnrt 1. i
coldly at the flushed, beautiful face of ! thought I'd take a day off tomorro-o-
his wife across the table. It was 10 o'clock the next morning
jipuiiif, 1 reany nope you are not j " "c" a n bdoui me size of an apart
WHAT IMPRESSED BJX.
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Millionaire: "I was rather struck wltn tnai young uoru .
think I shall let Evadne marry him."
Mrs. Millionaire (doubtfully): "H'ml Did he ask how much money
you had?"
Millionaire: "No; he asked me how I got It"
THEY CESTATfTLT DO
Hcaoturttrsfor, Tra?cEng !,
Conmiodkms Simple Rooms.
Rates $2 per da?
'
r . . A m jM
special TKicmwy wactc er nosta m
Excelleat CHisine, c "
Evwy n4eni CoBveHt
Bar and Billiard Room in I
Only Three Blocks from
GOLDEN RULE HOffl
Comer Coart mm& Jeanson Btnea,
Pendleton, Orenon, ,
M. F. Kelly, Proprietor.
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"All Things Come to Him Who Walts."
tVi&zzii M A TBUFUSQ OFFEKSE.
going to be foolish. Oo ahead, but I
must really draw the line on these
domestic roundups for myself. If you
nave .Molly and the children, let me
ment nouse arew ud In front nf rh
Talbot residence. An hour later, amid
the gorgeous scenic effects of
Jewels, bronzes, Ivories, Indian dra-
EAST ORFmvi a v otto ! thlng t0T 00118,11 Saran- Whnt yon i
JVAOl UK.LGONIAJV PUB. CO suppose would suit that old frump? f
aiucai. ici luv 1 - iruiiu. iiuu an r nt.
know In time, so I can en nnt tn tv. perles and curirM nf th. fA. t
Harcourf s stag party at West Chester. ' Phlne looked artlessly Into her bus-'
..uureiuuci were uue ax ue opera to- ' uuu bqiq:
nIKbt-'' ! "How perfectly ravishing they all
Josephine, her brain in a rkt of ; are my dear, and bow nice to have
anger and distress, sought the neclu- tbea Clven to us by our friends so
slou of her room, Just as Molly was ! the' didn't cost anything
ushered in. j Words failed Jack Talbot. He silent-
"Put on your hat, Josle, and come j V drew from Its hiding place the seal
down town with me. I'm flnlshine un 1 "kin Jacket for his wif
my shopping, and today's the last day j dipped into it and with a little femi I
I m going to be caught In that mob. 1 ' cry of delight felt Its liiTrtnn- '
nearly bad my .clothes torn off my back warmth she thought:
yesterday, but I've got to get some-1 "Pr old Jack! But I had to ,in if
9112.600 for a Praaermtinn
Tfe-UrjeataumeTer paid lor prweription
ii moMitT inreiTed la coin and iiock
tm&a and tii paid by a party 0 boalnea
lor a apeciflc lor Brigbfi Piaeaae and DU
aeiee, hitherto incurable dbeae.
They commenced the careinl InTMtifation ol
11!" Koer IS. 1K0. Thej Inter
ewlicorealtheenr.dand tried It oat on
amihTVl . pUUInf 0Ter xhn da caae.
"w- were eitner weU er
9(Teatlnr lavorablf
Taere beln, but thirteen p cent ol lallare..
!rtlWe",,M,fled elodth.trana
ZZ?u J? 5nTedln the InreaUfating
aaiauttoe and the clinical porU of tieteat
., . . ruuvm JOM-
'''"W-aaaJraadieo.Cal.
Anlmah That tv v. a
She makes me sick, but of course we've ' Darwin states in his "Vorace of a '
got to keep on the right side of hr. nn : Naturalist" flint lirtlaca '
she s taken such a fancy to Harold." or wild llamas, of Patagonia drink salt 1
"Look bore. Molly," said Josephine er ln many localities they mC '
suddenly, "do you really think It's any drink none at all. The lanre nn,i
?nx Pinter j croup of sloths are alike in never
"Josephine Torringtou! What on drinking. A rmrmt i .
earth Is the matter with vou? For n : lived in the zooloH.i t T
girl who always got about a cart load i Park, for fiftv-two i.i..f. .
of presents every Christmas von nu,-),t ilron of watpr.
to be nshnmpfl nf rnnKoin t..i. 1 1 r."2dP" - zsr-
. v m. uuo
spoiled you, giving you so much. What
uave you got ror blm?" - - -
Josephine bad an inspiration. Bhe
Jumried up.
'Holly, I'll go with you. I-I Just
remember what Jack wants."
Jack Talbot was half way through
bis toilet on Christmas morning when
he spied the luxurious dressing gown
fit for a nabob, that Josephine had laid
out for aim.
Ceolosr and DIolorr.
Geology is the complement of blolo
fcy. As soon as one has mastered the
.nidiments of botany and zoology and
if the distribution of life forms in
jpnee the range of his thoughts should
e extended to take In the orderly buc
Jession of lire in past ages and the evo
.utlon of modern specialized plants
infl animals from the earlier eener.
alized types.
1
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Of mC.ndl"; ,CwueJ'hrt'-weachaw, You have wobbed
venjf , had taken the who., of ,t It wouId n
Helen:
me of my peace
than oattv laraan
othlng won
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