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"Like Putting Money in a Bank."
IS THE PURC1TASE OP VOim riw.m.
PROPOSE TO , ABOIT m J1W Tm, WE 1 "" ' " DO WE
II DO, WE OWR VOLl'ME " " ITS THE TI'RN-OVEK OF
"-iin, nn jiik Kli IMtOtTTS.
20 Cases Catsup II inrwiw.n.iw.. II II
- wi nu II I
Snlilcr's and Blue Label brands
regular price 86c per bottle. Special
price
25c. Per Bottle
10 Cases Malta Vita
Regular price 15c per package; spe
cial price
12 l-2c- Per Package
250 Cases Corn
Regular price 12 l-2c per can. Spe
ciul prices:
I can corn jqjj
II cans corn $1.00
I cane corn 12.15
Ilegular price 25c' per package.
Special price
20c. Per Package
10 Cases Force
ISegular price 15c per package.
Special price
12 1 -2c. Per Package
150 Cases Tomatoes
Regular price 12 l-2c per can.
Special price
I can tomatoes i(0
II cans tomatoes mi
1 case tomatoes $2J5
Give us
a Trial
10 Cases Olive Oil
CROSSE A BLACKWEI.L'S.
Special price
Pl 45c
Quart 80c
Beans
White or Pink.
5c PER POUND.
300 Boxes Laundry Soap
Golden Star, Diamond C or Silks
brands, Bpeclal price
I oars for 25o
20 bar box for too
12 Cases Bottled Olives
DIAMOND W BRAND.
Speclnl price
Hegulur $1.25 size it oo
Itegulnr 75c size o0l.
Regular 40n slue 8o0
Rice, No. 1 Japan
Regular price 10c per pound.
5c. Per Pound
10 Cases Fels Naptha Soap
THESE ARE OXLV A EEW O, THE BARGAINS WE HAVE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. IP YO WILL CALL AND LOOK THROUGH OUR LARGE STOCK VOU W I F,V
SAVE MONET ON EVER. ARTICLE IN THE GROCERY LINE. INCREASE VOUR BANK ACCOUNT V ,U VINO VOURgTocES "
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I 823 MAIN STRET.
Educational Methods in
Darkest China
Education in China Is lar different
'rum the Intellectual process which Is
associated with the term In America,
for in nil but exceptional caseB the
Chinese student alms only to enjoy
tlie honors and emoluments of offi
cialdom; knowledge for ltBelf has no
value. Every three years 10,000 or
more students assemble In Klunchow
lor the official examinations. These
conslHt In large part of mere Juggl
mltted to memory and hus little re
mitted to memory and have little re
lation to what we call knowledge.
One of the Chinese teachers told a
representative of the Presbyterian
board of foreign missions that of the
10.000 who take the examinations
trlennfully, not more than one-third
can read unfamiliar matter and not
mere than one-fifth can understand
what they read.
" hen the examinations are In pro
gress the town becomes a veritab'e
fair ground. The lO.tjOO students are
accompanied by 60,000 friends, mer
chants, etc., and the place is a human
beehive, with a hundred people In
every space which In America would
be deemed crowded with 10. The
men returning from the ordeal of the
examination are languid and slow as
Ihey pass through the streets laden
wlth their waste-paper baskets, man
uscript bags, lamps, fans, umbrellas
nd other Impedimenta, and the new
comers hustle about to find lodgings
4"d get ready for their turns before
he examiners. Book stores from Can
ton, and blue-curtained gambling
houses from everywhere occupy every
available spot. .
This gathering of the "educated"
affords an opportunity for the
American missionary to work with
he class, and the work takes, natur
ally, a much different form from that
followed In other Chinese fields.
Meetings held, as described by a Pres
byterian missionary, resemble a de
bating society. The room In which
they are held Is too small for the pur
pose, and hopes are entertained that
rger an(j more au(able quarters
nay soon be obtained. One hundred
or more men crowd In and the street
outside Is filled with hundreds of
others unable to find entrance ex
"Pt to tnke the places of those who
leave.
Jhe walls of the room are hung
n placards bearing passages from
be Blhle and extracts from the teach
f Confuolu8- The most of the
Jen are anxious to argue with the
missionary, and he does not tell them
"at the Confucian system Is wrong.
ut rather that although they pro
e It they do not follow it He
"ows that the Chinese student sac
ntice everything to material gain,
tv? do not observe the teaching of
J-onfuclus to "Be earnest and truth
"' Overflow In love to all. Make
"''" good." Arguing with them
co Kround It la not dlffioult to
"ruse them and the good feeling
audience la apparent by their.
I readiness to loin In the lnntrh nn
those who are worsted.
There is more tolerance of western
ideas thun was formerly the case,
because some brunchfcs of western
learning are now included In the
examinations. But the ethics of
those taking the examinations -are
shown by the fact that the required
essays on these western subjects are
In most cases furnished to the stu
dents by well-informed men from
Canton who either go in person to the
examination halls In the places of ac
credited students, or surreptitiously
pass Into the hatls essays which the
students copy as their own. At one
.time an observer saw some six or
seven men on the roofs of the halls
engaged III this business, notwlth
standing that It Is a capital crime.
was simply a child's way of Impaling
two coats of arms on the game shield
by the primitive method of cutting
each in half and taking the dexter half
of oue and the sinister half of the other
and placing them back to back, as It
were. Strange two headed beasts nat
urally resulted, as, for Instance, when
a lion and an eagle were halved and
Joined together. The griffin is sup
posed to have been evolved from two
lions rampant by dimkllatlon. It robs
the two headed eagle of half Its ter
rors to know that It owes Its origin
to this sort of child's play
The Haulier's Hreath.
The old fnlile of the siren has its
duplicate In one of the uiost deadly of
modern weapons. The whistle of a
bullet otlLrlit to lie u deadly sound; It
In surpriRinK to be told that It is a
beautiful one. .Mr. 11. F. l'revost Bnt
lersby says lu Ills South African notes
called "In the Web of a War:"
The Mauser's most melodious period
Is from SIKJ to lSUKKi yards. Over that
distance Its note is I lie most exquisitely
lovely of single sounds. "The silky
breath of the Mauser" Is u phrase that
adequately describes It.
lint there is something more ubout It
than Us beauty, something St range and
baleful. It goes by like the singing of
u wondering soul that can find rest on
ly by bringing death to another. It is
a sighing so iudescribabiy tender and
sad and sweet that every sound of hu
man lips seems without charm beside
It
After lying for a time uudcr that
silky breath, one has even to resist a
desire to lift his head and tnke the
next puff of it in bis face.
Jokal'i Jake.
At a banquet held In bis honor In the
town of Tordii. Muurus Jokul, the lluu
garian writer, was culled upou to pro
pose the toast of "The Ladies." He
made nu excellent speech, during which
he continually toyed with the brown
curls upon bis forehead. Finally he
said: "I raise my glass in honor of the
gracious ladles of Torda. May they all
live until my hair grows gray." His
audience drank to the toast, but It was
easy to see by the faces of the ladies
present that they did not think much
of the compliment. Jokal rose again
from bis seat nnd took from his head
a maguiflcent brown wig, showing an
entirely bald head beneath It. "My
hair." be added, "will never grow
gray." And the ladies, who had not
known of bis baldness, were more than
pacified.
Two Heated Symbols. -
Both Itussia and Germany display
two beaded eagles on their standards.
Yet this symbol Is considered by aome
, i.i- ... murelv the result of the
uvruiua iu w ...
heraldic practice of "dimldiuUou. TUu
Childish Cariosity.
Little Florence, aged six, bad been
spending the afternoon with a neighbor
who had just lost a near relative, and
who was working very hard to get
some mourning gowns made. Florence
had been very good and asked no ques
tions, but when Bhe returned home her
InqulslUveness asserted itself. Her
mother explained as clearly a she
could, and for a few moments Florence
sat In deep silence. Then:
"Are all her gowns going to be black.
mother?"
"Yes, dear."
"And is she going to wear black
nightgowns?"
"No, dear."
"Well, doesn't (he feel just as bad
in the night as abe does in the day?"
Brooklyn Life.
"laered LaarMras.
' Among the insects that can be claim
ed as friends of the market grower
probably none are more useful than
tbe ladybirds. It Is said that In
mediaeval times this Insect was sacred
to the virgin, hence Its popular name.
"Although In these prosaic times we
may," says the Fruitgrower, "have got
over the superstition regarding the In
sect's aacredness so far as tbe virgin
is concerned, for the good they do they
should be sacred to every market grow
er. Perhaps the most beautiful of all
the family Is the eighteen spotted lady
bird that Linnaeus named Cocdnella
octodedmpunctata.
!? PotMalasr.
Country Life says that all the drags
In the world will not prevent a bad
case of poisoning from poison Ivy or
sumac unless one does something as
soon as tbe telltale Itching begins.
When the pustules break open, there
Is nothing to do bnt "grin and bear
It" Tbe remedy advised Is extract of
grindella, which should be always kept
in the bouse. Rub on tbe affected parts
every live minutes till the trouble la
averted.
Bn Clrlkewd Wars.
"Yon must not expect me to give np
my girlhood's ways all at once,' said
the happy bride.
Oh. I won't" be replied. "I hope
you'll keep right on taking an allow
ance from your father Just as If noth
ing bad happened." Superior (Wis.)
Telegram.
How It Happened.
The Pig My cousin, Porker, always wished to be cremated after
death and he was! .
The Duck How was that?
The Pig Why, the cook let him burn to a crisp.
PORTLAND
BUSINESS
COLLEGE
PARK AND WASHINGTON STREETS,
PORTLAND, OREGON
Established In 186. Open all the year. Private or class Instruc
tion. Thousands of graduates in positions; opportunities constantly
occurring. Jt pays to attend our school. Catalogue, specimens, etc.,
tree.
A. P. ARMSTRONG, IX.B, PRINCIPAL.
For Christmas. Give Him
A BOX OF
Christmas Activity
OHEAT ACTIVITY AT TUB PEN
ULETON WOOLEN MILLS.
The near aDoroanh nt nh.i.tm.. i.
evident If one will but go up to the
uuien miiis. There everything Is
bustle and nntlvltv tt.-u u,
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In the mill Is belnv wnrlrnri n ,.
capacity to fill the rush orders that
nuve come in. . -,i
On one order alnim frnm ii.m iM
Gallup, New Mexico, it will require
iiuu ruues.
The monev snent in aitvufiuin
past few veara Is lust hHnnin
how returns and the Christmas trade
mr mis year will be the largest In tbt
history of the Institution.
The requests for catalomoa anI in
formation rerardlna thoaa fumnn.
goods come from all over the world,
and It Is a common occurrence . to
have to call an express wagon to
take the day's mall to the postofflce.
The number of thaaa rohaa hln
forwarded on InillvMiml .
is sufficient to prove that these goods
are more popular than ever for
Christmas. These orders come
from points where the goods
cannot be found In th lns.nl
and when these are added to the
large numbers being distributed over
the counters of th vni-lnna
throughout the country, Pendleton
peopie can see wnat an Interest has
been created in the nrodunta of lha
local mills.
The garments have not been shown
tn the trade at large, yet the demand
for this new line has far exceeded the
capacity of the machines now In
stalled. At the present time more orders
for these garments are on file than
can possibly be turned out before
Christmas.
Mr. Phillips, treasurer of the Root
Newspaper Association, publishers of
The Dry Goods Economist, The Dry
(loodsmnn. The Dry floods , Reporter
and the Pacific Merchant sailed at
the mills or.t day this week and upon
seeing th Bath Robes, Lounging
Robes, Smoking Jackets and Tobog
gon Coats now being manufactured,
predicted a greater success for thaw
garments than even the Indian Robes
had been, and said If they were Bias
ed before the merchants next year he
aid not think the present mill would
be able to turn out even cloth enoush
for the garments alone. .
In making op Christmas lists Pen-
dleton people should Include some- -thing
from our home towa and thus
help In a way to advertise not only
the local Institution, but the city of
Pendleton as well. '
Milwaukee has her beer; Orand
Rapids her furniture, and Pendleton
her Indian Robes and Blankets. -. -
Tla East Oresmilan is reel as Am,
(on's reprctiHittui paper. It leads
and tbe people appreciate It and sbow
It by their liberal patronagn.. it fa
th sdvartlalBs; of tots eaotkei.