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About The Columbian. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 1880-1886 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1883)
BffyiiiiTOj54i'wii;iiiiiii A COUNTRY SCHOOL SCENE. Within ft little Fcbool-bouc, grayish white. OM torfflT winter Hy. If my memory wrves me AmoDKtne wooded hills of old Vermont. homely bceuecame rippling to the front. The chool-room held some three score girls and From thUi sod Tftlo of eery grade and poise IhluKKiHh dolt, the wit. tne wild, the eady. Who Kitntred dally i&uud good Mfctcr Eddy. A famous cls In ireoirraphlo lore licalieu upon toield its dally store. Asrjund and round In turn, the class recite. Wlta ready toogues their qaesUou answer right, Auku. puao. Alfred. Keuben. John ; Hora'io carele then, noes stumb.i g on. and. rubbing slowly o'er bis drowsy pate. H Bires the prttdncta of a southern state At nee and cotton, sugar cane Then adds, 'and bacter." placid as the morn. 'Not right " says Master E.. In tones demure. Tbe southern states no -oacker grow, 1 m sure. My book ays o," Horatio prompt replies, As. bo Jt In hind, across the room he nles. Beneath the master's frsxe be hold the book. Points out the word witu triumph in his look; Ah! that's to-bac-co." Master K. explains. W jta pitying tone f jr poor Horatio's p Ids. And rtlll. In memory I distinctly trace Ihe curiom look upon that itudt-ni's face. As dropped and closed his book, and turned his To bear him meekly back unto hlaseat. . And yet that humble youth a misMon filled More grand than e'er the heart of ( tewr thrilled. Be heard Mr freedom ' call in time of strife. And promptly gave to her his all his life. I one may the rtrs and tri?? In honor wave AboTe that bumoie soldier's grass grown grave; There iay the flowers of each retui n'.ng spring Their fairvst huts and sweateat fragrance bring; . Wolie 1 will learn heuctfortn. to measure man, . By rule more just than any grammar can. WHAT SHE F0U1. Isadore Stafford was a woman to be envied. Why not? Rich, a widow and still voting, or at least far from old, tbe whole world lay at her feet, ana she had but to reach out her hand and take what she wished; everything but happiness; that had eluded her and never seemed farther from her than on this Christmas Eve, when we see her standing by her window tapping impatiently upon it with her exquisite fan. Isadoro Staf ford never forgot her fan. With it she toyed constantly, and those who knew her best could tell from tbe movements of the pretty thing just the statu of its owner's mind. Her fans were as unique as herself, and I could no more describe them than I could describe her moods and thoughts. Her favorites were a pure ivory, whose carving were half an inch in thickness, and executed by Italy's finest sculptor; a black jet, at whose edge swayed to and fro in the air frail lihes-of-tbe-valleys, and one of gold, set with small turquoise stones in heathen ish designs--bat I am not telling the story of her toys, but of the woman her self as she stood that wintry day amid her luxurious surroundings, watching the lazy snowflakes fall on the pasters- "Yes, the old year is almost gone and Via 'pw Ypur will snon bo hfr. WIiv am I not happy? Who can tell? I sim ply know I ara not, and for once refuse to have my bouse thrown open to hun dreds on New Year's day.who bow them selves in - and out with the senseless words, "I witsh you a happy New Year." This woman, envied by all who knew her, nevertheless, vas to be pitied. The world had proved to her. as to many an other, a golden apple of Sodom, out wardly brilliant and desirable, but with in, ashes. She had never known pov erty, never been compelled to toil, never even soiled her tiny fingers with work; but she had missed also the mental dis cipline that results from these, and the love of parents, sisters and brothers even the love that a woman has a right to expect when she marries, for heis had been little more thau a business arrange ment, made and urged by her guardian, lest she should fail into the bauds of fortune-hunters; and when the shackles were broken by death, the sense of relief was so sweet that no thought of marriage Lad since ever entered her mind. Of course she had been sought, and persist ently, but with a charming firmness she had kept her lovers her friends, by the "no" she uttered, and lived the years that came and went, as others weary hearted Lave done. Once only, and that in her school-girl days, Bhe bad felt the thrill of happi ness; but this was now so far away, so faint in her memory, had flashed across her Itfe so suddenly and then vanished forever, that it now seemed a mere dream of her brain. Again she looked from the window. ' The flakes were falling more rapidly; great, soft flakes that tempted one to raise the face to feel the winged things brush against it; and the children, wild with delight that Christ mas so near, laughed and shouted and danoed as merrily as if they were one with the storm. Thirty-two! Life half gone, and all spent in a chase after something that does not exist.. I'll make a vov on this Christmas Eve, and if I fail to keep it may its ghost rise up to condemn me! From this day no thought of happiness shall enter my mind. It shall be ban ished with the fairies and hob goblins I believed in when n child and quite as mythical as they." At this moment her eyes fell on a cou ple of miserable creatures, barely cov ered with rags that fluttered in the storm like flags of distress, as shivering hands found their way from their folds to beg of passers-by foca coin." "There, l9adore Stafford! What have you to say now of unhappinessor misery as long as such people exist in the world? Thirty years! Ten times thirty are three -hundred. If I should live thirty years 1 T 11 - . 1 A. 1 ' I At , 1 1 longer x couiu at least nit, inree iiuuureu Fonls from degradation to humanity, from suffering to comfort. I'll try it! The idea is a new one and pleases me. "Who knOW8 but life will be interesting to me after all? How strange if, after traveling the world over to find novelty, r imiM find my first happy New Year at home!" The inspiration took thorough posses sion of her, and after ordering her car riage she hastily dressed for the street:" "To St. Luke's, John." One would (kink she had oft3n been there to have seen fcer run up the steps and ring the bell; but the matron did not seem to recognize her, and stood in an expectant attitude to hear what her visitor's errand might be. "Are your beds all filled?" asked the aristocratic-looking stranger. "We are over-crowded, madam, and Lave been compelled to decline some patients for lack of room." And what has Ijeen done with them?" "Nothing, I fear." "Could you get nurses for them if comfortable beds were provided?" "Yes, indeed!" "How soon do you think the children could be moved?" -' "To-morrow." "I have come on a singular mission to-night, and I trust you can help me to fulfil it.A wealthy lady has taken a whim into ber bead of opening her bouse on Christmas to some suffering children. She does not wish her namo to be known in the matter, but des red me to see if you oould direct half-a-dozen children that are absolutely suffering for want ot care and comfort; or, better still, send . . . . I A - morrow. She will keep them until benefited, or until you can find room for them here. There will be a lady in charge who will see that they want for nothing. "I should not call the. lady's action a whim, but a most Christian like act. I wish all who have wealth would do like wise, and I can promise you nurses and childen to-morrow." "Thanks! She will be delighted. You will also send your physician?" "Of course.'' "To-morrow, then, at Lexington avenue," and bowing, she passed out into tho shallows, jubilant over her suc cess. "Home, John." As she rested among the soft, warm robes she murmured: "I felt very guilty to bear taat good woman say, 'Christ-like,' when it was merely a whim for novelty, but already I am enjoying the plan immensely. Everything works like a charm. The old world is pasung away; already the new is dawning. What a blessed inspiration! Who knows but that something in the universe I shall find, if not happiness, real blessedness?" "Is she in her right mind, do you think.Mary?" asked Alice.Mrs. Stafford's maid, of the waitress, when the house was electrified by ber plans. "And that's what I've been wondering to myself since I see the change in ber manner. Don't I remember going into her room that very day, before she went out into the storm, and seeing her sitting in her great crimson chair, with her hands crossed and her eyes having that far-away look that is never good for mor tals to have. I see, of course, that she did not wish anything, and thought I would, go down and have a few words with my cousin about receiving calls, and when I came back she was gone and you know how wo fretted about ber for two mortal hours. At last she came back, and ber face shone as if she had been talking with angels; and taking me ofl by herself she told me to make every thing ready in all the spare rooms for company, and to put up an extra bed in the largest. Of course I supposed she was going to astonish her friends by some elegant entertainment, but when I hinted at this she said: 'Oh, no! It is better thau that, Mary. Entertainments make heart-aches, and this is to nitke happiness, I am going to keep the holi days in a new way. Perhaps the New Year will be really a New Year. You see that sounded very strange. What could New Year's be but New Year's anyhow? When she told me it was cripples and children from the hospital who were coming, I knew for certain she must be a little out of her mind, but she looked so beautiful and bright I bad not the heart to oppose ber. Something has happened to her, as sure as I'm a sensi ble girl." Not ouly were Alice am" Mary, but every domestic in tho house was con vinced that their mistress would soou be an inmate of a lunatic asylum, when they saw not one or two, but half-a dozen pale-faced cripples brought into the house and placed in the elegant rooms that had hitherto been devoted to the great and honored ainoDg her guests. Not a thing was allowed to be changed in these rooms. Delicate ornaments, statuettes, pictures, books, all remained as before, and under the elegant counter panes and blankets lay wisttul-eyed, suf fering children, who almost forget their pain in the beautiful world where they found themselves. Nurses cared for them, and in and out moved Isadore Stafford, dressed iu a plain black dress and white cap, not unlike a Sister of Mercy. Every eye brightened when she came in sight with her beautiful face, and as she passed from room to room, smooth ing a pillow here, or patting a cheek there, the little visitors, as she called them, drew a long breath and believed that they had already reached heaven and an angel had ministered unto them. Among these children was oua toward whom Mrs. Stafford felt particularly at tracted a bright-faced boy of perhaps ten years of age, with great brown, lu minous eyes, and a mass of golden brown curls clustering over his head. He told ber his name wa3 Arthur Cleve land; that he had no parents- no one in all the world but Kitty. Kitty was his sister, and was a little thing, whom he was drawing in his little wagon the day on whioh he had been hurt by the run away horse. "Oh, ma'am! just think if it had been Kitty!" said the poor little felloe: "I should have diod for she's all I have in the world.,' "And where is she now, Arthur?" "I have not seen her since. A woman took her home and will take care of her till I get well. When will my back get well?" "Pretty soon I hope. Would you like to S60 her?" His eyes were all the answer she needed, and before night little Kitty was playing on his bed, and a crib near by told that she was a fixture, also. She was not handsome like her brother, but winsome and attractive, with such cun ning baby ways, that Mrs. Stafford, who had never seen much of baby life.thought her a miracle of smartness. The servants had been forced to be lieve thoir mistress no longer insane, but merely giving way to one of those freaks which they hud become accustomed to, though, as Bridget, ihe cook, said Who WDuld ever imagine she d be guilty of turning this iligant house into a hospital full of cripples and nurses and the like?" "Well, if it's her way of being happy, I am sure we need not object. It's all the better for us, for if these cnildren were not here the house 'ud be thrown open to hundreds of gentlemen New Year's day, and then we would have to be in all day," said Alice. "I, for one, am mighty glad she's amused herself in that way, for I want to see my friends at my cousin's." During these days Mrs. Stafford bad not seen the physician, who came and went at regular hours.and who could not quite understand why his little patients were inmates of one of the largest pal aces of the city. The night before New War's at last came, cold and stormy. Mrs. Stafford bad been out all day, ordering flowers and fruits and all sorts of gifts for her guests, and only returned borne when the gai was lighted in the streets. Ruu niog up to her room to remove hor wraps, her cheeks aglow with happiness and health, she went to ber pet's room and found, not Arthur and Kitty and the nurse merely, but a tall, heavily-bearded man, who stood in the center of the room, tossing Kitty like a ball in the air. Such crowing and laughing from Kitty! Such joy and clapping of bands from Arthur! Mrs. Stafford stood for a moment un seen and unnoticed, enjoying the scene, and feeling more genuine happiness than she had known in many a year. Sud denly Kitty turned ami" saw ber, and reaching out her hands u bo taken, sprang from the doctor's into the arms nurses and c-htiuren to uer uouse to of Isadore Stafford, utterly regardless of tbe fact that she was qaoen of society. To Kitty she was a beautiful woman, with a loving heart. Or perhaps she was mere ly the personification of comfort. Cud dling close to her guardian, she turned to look at the doctor and play coquette with him, as babies have done since the days of Cain. Mrs. Stafford also looked ud and bowed. The doctor stood trans fixed. i"Is it possible, Isadore, that we meet thus and over the gulf of years and changes, stand face to face once more? Little I thought that you were the Lady Bountiful who was ministering to my little patients the largest dose of health they could have had. Tell me of your self." I "Come into the library. There is lit tle to tell. You have followed your ideal that is easy to see. I Lave lived a useless, tedious life without aim or profit. This freak that brought you to my door was only a dream that led me to hope for happiness by doing good to others. All selfishness, after all, you see." I "How beautiful you are, Isadore! How well all these elegant surroundings be come you! It is well you did not marry me. A doctor's life has littlo luxury in it" j There was a tone of bitterness in his voice as he spoke, that for a moment blotted out all conventionalities of so ciety, and almost defiantly she said in reply, i "Luxuries and happiness are not syn onymous. I have never seen an hour's happiness since we parted until I brought these children here. You havo had to work, have suffered weariness and expo sure, but havo no doubt bad a happy home to come to when the day was gone." I "Did you suppose I would marry? Did you fancy I was like a woman? lieady to vow to love and honor when I knew it was a lie?" be answered still more bit terly. "It is true, I have been happy, but it Las been iu the line of my duty at least, I have not been miserable. My Lome Las been whereyer sickness and suffering called me, and the yeats have passed quickly because bo full of cares." I "Poor Allen! Mine has been infinitely worse. I have done no good, and the years have dragged their slow length along, each more tedious than the last." j And so the two talked over the years that had come and gone since they parted until the clock on tho mantel struck and reminded him that others were waiting for him to bring comfort and telief. With a long, kindly pressure of her hand, he said "Good-night," and shut ting the door softly, left her alone, j How the memories crowded! They came in at every door, and hung about every picture and corner. They sang in her heart and danced in her. eyes. They blotted out the present and in its place painted pictures of her school-days. Be neath their power life had suddenly be come a beautiful thing, and every hour a blessing. j "Of all strange things that ever hap pened this is the strangest," said the so ciety belle to the young gentleman by her side, a day or two after Easter. "Is adore Stafford married! The heavens must be going to fall! 1 should as soon expect to hear of Mother Mary Augelus being married, for, surely, she is more agreeable to gentlemen than this cold, elegant creature, that has lived so long among us and has never cared for any one," "The fact of her being married is not as strange as the way it was done, ac cording to my notion," replied the gen tleman. "I believe in Cupid; that any veteran he aims at will fall. I always thought she w.mld find her fate some time. These proud icebergs always do; but I never thought she'd marry a doc tor and turn into a sister of charity. To think of the men she has refused!"' "They say he was an old friend, and some one told me he was her first lover. If so, that accounts for everything. Her maid told a friend of mine that it was the strangest ceremony ever seen in Nww York. You know she did not receive New Year's, and everybody was disap pointed, because it had been a favorite house for callers. Well, I happened to know what was going on behind those closed blinds, while hundreds of elegant gentlemen were dropping their cards in her basket. Shall I tell you about it?"' "By all means." "Well, you will scarce believe me when I tell you that her parlors were as brilliantly lighted and as elegantly deco rated, as if she were to sit in them, dressed by Worth, and adored by the multitude and all for what? For a few hospital children to enjoy. They were brought down into the parlor to receive their gifts, and then they were served in the dinning-room to a regular swell din ner. Of course the doctor was there, s.nd they say she looked as happy as a girl. She had only met him the ntght before for the first time since she was a girl. There must be a vein of romance in her nature, or she would never have taken such a freak into her head. Well bred pecple should never have freaks." "Yet this must have done a great deal of good. Think of the blessing to those wretched children. I never thought she seemed happy in socity." "It must have been her own fault then. Worth as much s she is, I (hink I should manage to be happy," replied the fash ionable young lsdy. "You prefer money te friends, then?" "It is our best friend, I think." "I fancy as Mrs. Stafford she fond life rather lonely," was the persistent re joinder of the young gentleman. "I hope she'll be happy." "Never "fear. Late love marriages are always happy," replied tbe belle. "And she was marrid at Easter." "Yes, quietly in church, and she has begun her new life by adopting a little boy and (rirl, who were ber guests. I wonder if she'll give up fashionable life, and we shall lose her nobby entertain ments. I think it will be horrid if she does." Mrs. Dr. Campbell did not forget her society friends; but, after a time, gave a grand reception, to which all were in vited; after which she devoted herself to her home and the wretched and suffer ing, until, not ten a year, but double that number, were lifted into a now world by the power of her woman's heart. "When I gave op Reeking happiness, I found it, and blessedness also," she said. The Pittsburg Commercial, apropos of the presence of Dukes, the murderer at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, advises the citizens not to drive him out of iown. The Commercial man has evidently heard of the Oxford Don who, seeing an obnoxious proctor in the hands of the stndents, cried aloud: "Don't nail his ears to the pump." And they wore nailed! A make-up that would be popular: "Yes," said a man in the theater gallery, "the make-ups were generally fair, but there was one make-up that I would like to see a make up for lost time between the acts. Boston Transcript. Brewery Refuse In JtUk. The enormous amounts of spent grains which come from tbe breweries of this country are all consumed by domestic animals in the neighborhood of the breweries, and by far the larger part of it by milch cows. The volume of milk which a cow will give depends very largely on the amount of flesh-prod uciirg food she can digest, and brewers' grains, which abound in flesh-forming matter, easy of digestion by reason of the treat ment it receives, responds forcibly to thin rale. There are but few food3 which will stimulate a large flow of milk equal to brewers' grains, but there is no butter in it. When used as an exclusive diet, the milk of cows consuming it soon ceases to produce any butter. When used as a partial feed, the butter product will be gauged by the other food used with the grains. As the grains increase the weight of milk and decrease its value for batter production, it is very unfair for patryns of a creamery to feed grains to their cows unless all the patrons do the same. It is an artful way of water ing milk the milk baing watered be fore it comes from the cow instead of af terward. So far as the butter-making is concerned, both modes of watering pro duce exactly the same result?, and, if not the legal, the moral is the same in either case, "it means something for nothing, or to phrase it. more exactly, it means money for water. By far the larg est part of brewers' refuse goes to feed the cows which Bupply with to called milk the city or village in which the brewing is done. Tho people who pur chase the milk expect it will be watered "all it will bear," and it is a matter of little account to them whether the water ing is done before after milking. Cows supplying milk to a creamery should have no sour or fermented food. "How do you like my waflles?" asked a society belle of her guest. "Could not be nicer," was tho reply. "Did you really make these you rself ?" "Oh, yes, indeed. 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SOLE DEALERS, CHARLES KOHIM & CO 44 Front Street, Hnrtlnnd. Or. NORTHERN PACIFIC Land and Immigration Cjinpiny. Oflicet Room 40 and 41 I'ulou Block, PORTLAND, OREGON. P. O. ChrLSTRoM. Frank Owkh, iresidtnt. becretaip. Thi Comnanv ooerites throuchout Orefton, Wa?m- iiiKton, Idaho and Montana. Lands of all kinds bought awl sold. Immigrant Coloni.atiou a Specialty. Headquarters for all land seekers. Tiescriuiion of (iu ernment and otlu-r wild laiills furnished free. Information t;iveti on all branches of business. Correspondence solicited and coinmunicatio promptly answered. 1. O. box H0. -p ba gig H 1.0'JC Ornans. r( t..lllctiif LAND PLASTER, For Mnle by EVE 111)1 NO & FAItltELL, Alder and Front si reels, Fortlnnc-. Orejrf isco. is sal J. A. STROWIIRIDGE, IinKT IMPORTER AXD DKAI.KH IV LEATHER & FINDINGS NO. lfcFBO.T8TUKKT, Portland. .... USE RQSE PILLS. mm. 7-Tf iff "t9 '$A SawMilIa Bests ('IXniOW ltl lJUV nted PernvLiii lUirli) aim ;aniorina uriiu ir Effective liemedv fur Dipsomania ll i:i (8lfiprlfssiifss). o Greater Success lias been recorded, and nothing; ever mtroaucea Try it once, and be convinced. WILM CHAS. KOHN & CO., So o BET I' KB Til A N UOLD. CALirOHniA FRUIT SALT. A I'lfusant and Kflloaelous Remedy. IF YOU HAVE ABUSED YOURSELF By over indulgence In eating or drinking:: nave hIcV or nervous hi-adache; dry 11 ens of the nkln, with a feverish tendency; night sweats and sleeplessness; by all means use ! S'aver.'s California Fruit Salt, And feci voun? once more. It Is the woman's friend. Try It; ?l per bottle; 6 bottles forV Korsaiebv all druKist'. HUIWK; IiAVISA CO., Wholesale Agents, I'urUund, Oregon. . AN UNPARALLELED OFFEIl ! IstOents' Ori'le "(hiard ; usual riee, S7 50; price, 92 Hi. Cut represents s ction, l. Hize. 21 Kleguut brilliant Scarf l";u : regular price, to: 1 50. . :M-Oents' Kliia: fit card over iinqer for size. ?2; usual price, '. Jtli Jireas-pin, n Rem, ?l "); usual price. $.. Mil A beautiful iJosom Mud, very brilliant, $1 5u; usual price. .... (ith-Ij'.dies brilliant Kar Hrr.ps.! 30. usual price. We will return mnw v on any of these Koods if they are not superior to your anticipations, knowing that no Mich offer bus been made hciore Send money or der if possible, and address Till': MOIITON AOKM'V, Portland, Oregon. 1'. O. box DR. SPINNEY, No. 11 Kearny street. 8. Treats all Chronic and Npeelad Dl I YOUNG MEN WHO MAY BE SUFFKRIXO FROM THE KF fects of youthful fo;li;-s or Indiscretion, will do well to avail themselves of this, the Kreatest boon ever laid at Ihe nllar of sulTerintf humanity. PR. SPIXNKY wia K'larantee to for eit f for ei ery case of riemliial Weakness or private diseus.s of any kind or character w hich he undertakes and fails to C"r' fUIIMl.K-AJI'I aiF.X. There are many at the nee of thirty to sixty who are ttr.iUiled with t o ireiiieut evacuations ot 1-k bladder, often accoii'pat.l-d by n sli.-ht sim.rtinK or burning sensation and a .veakei.i.iif of the .svsiem in a manner the patient cai'iiet accimt for. -ti exiuuiniiiit t" urinary depo-i'.s a ropy s.., 1 ime it w:ii often be found, and sometimes small particles of aJbum-r w ili appear, or the color will I)-. , f a ti in in Ikish hue. .(gain clian-iiiK to a dark and toi pid npearuuee. There arf r.ituiv men who die of this e.i;lU ulty, in. raid of th cause, wb'ch is the second staire of srmiuhl v eaknesa. !r S will puarantee a pen'ect l uix nt toll such rases, and :i heultliy restoration of the gciduir unii.ary or Oilice IIours-0 to 4 nod 1". to s. Sunduys from 10 to It A. M. ConsultHii in tree. 1 !iorouh tJtaminatB arid advice, .". ......... . Cuil or a-lore s 1 T1US F.Y V CO . 'o. I! Ui'li-i y -'-f- t.wnn l'rant-.sco, Cji. S1000 JiEWAIlD WILL RE PAID TO ANY PEHSOX FROUL'C ing a more effect nal remedy than - Dr. Keck Sure Cure for tatarrli, Which has stood the test for fourteen years. I'hys! clans, DniRirisls, and all who have used aifd v'nor OUKhly tested it, pronounce it peolOc for the cure of that loathsome disease. Try Ik Your druett has It, price $1. Dr. Keck thoroughly understands, and is eminently successful in the treatment of all rhrwnlc am. difla cnlt dlaeaaes of both win and all ugra. havtnc made a specialty of their treatment for fourteen years He treats Caaeer without iisltic; the knife. Ilia favor. Ite prescription is furnished to lady patients Free. No lady should be without it. Youiik. middJe-aifed or old, male or female, insanity or a life of sutl'eriiiK is your inevitable doom unless you appJy in time to the physician who understands, and is competent ti treat your case. Waste no more time Dor money within competent physicians. Ail communications attended to with dispatch, and are strictly confidential. Medi cines sent to any part of the country. Circulars, testi monials, and a list of printed questions furnished on application. CO.VHII,TATIO FKl'.K. Inclose a three-cent stamp for list and addres DR. J&M&H KJbCK. No. 1S5 First street. Portland. Or. EYE & EAR INE11U1ARY SANITARIUM, OR HOME FOR THE SICK Slut'iidnm ltid, bet. I'orl er and Wood Nt., Siouili l'ortlnnd. Or. Ilr. I'Ukinetou, late Professor of Kye t Knr I'lseoset I'l llie Meiii.-a! );-pni-t:oent of Willamette I'niversii j has erecten a tine l.uiiilin. on a beautifiil elevation 111 the south piirt of the ciiy, and is prepared to wcoino dnte patienls sr.lVennic from ail diseases of the KYK, KA R or '1 II KOAT. Also will pay special al tet't'.on to persons lal'orinx under Chronic Nervous ntVecclons, und to diseases i'culiur to women, and receive a limi ted Milliliter i.t cases cxpectim; co:i!iiieineiit. :The intention is to provide a Hoi.i" for such caocs with all the lies' hygienic agencies combined with tin best medical skill t lr hat in tlie metropolis. tVnisiiStii.fi physician and surgeon Pr. Philip Harvey. Prof, of di.-i ases of women am! children in I tie medical department V.' iili-.metlc C'niversil..-. Also I)r. .1. M. 1'. Browne. Prof, of Physiolocy med. dep't. Wiili'.melte I'niverslty. t or an v nmount of references r.nd circular. mldres 1K. .1. it. I'ltKIXH KO.V, Cor, lt und AVanhlnirton 1'orllntid. Or. 7SyE:8s' Bnro Gnre for Gatairli" J HH'Il' On HP.Y, PRICK iioe; " A TM O's PH K. R 1 C J Insiii'iatnrs." t rit e v-. lrv- Cnr-and Insiii:ia lurs !ii:i!!ca on rcccij-l "price. t I; :i tuM directl'in foi use .etc. S.il. s-K I i ..MOi: !:' Co., iriicyits 1 it Kirsl Hreet. JV-tiHi'd. S,.e 4p-elt;t lr liieN. Plfir.l -,i.t. I USE ROSE PILLS. ' . . . . t.f 11 .. (tne aicouoi iiamu, an mi m ui .uaniuu ifimmv. iiiipM i ihu jiuiu- For sale by Druggists and nine Jlerchants. ERDING & CO., Agents for the Pacific Coast, San Francisco, Cal Agents for the Northwestern Coast, 44 Front St., Portland, Or. mmj gj J 1 1 j ' 11 1 jl I , i , lug- ktti.i.iKi, II, B, Dime. V. t. AkiM, BOSS BOOTS ARE BEST. TIIKY ARE ALL STATED SEAMS. UVV SO OTIIEK. -If f .. .- See that Our me is on Every Talr. Aiii.v. mi:i,li.o fe CO., I'oi-tluitd. Oman, m 17 Third St., l'OICTLANO, OKEGOX. JOHN B. GARRISON, Propr.. AH f1e T.eallncr Sew liifj Marhlnew, OH, Needle. Attachment Hinl tienu Ine 1'urts fur sale. All kliulsof Sewliti? Marliliiea Ilrpalrad ami Warrsmtrtl. OKNKKAL ACiKNT VOIC 1:3 Eons&aSld ani White Ssrag GENERAL AGENT FOIt THE TURKISH mW PA TTERNS. JENi:HAI. AGENT FOR THE UNIVERSAL FASHION CO'S PERFECT FITTING PATTERNS. The ORIENTAL BAZA A R No. OS Monisoa Street, between Third and Fotirtb Portland, Or. Importers and I eul.-iB In t ll.na Waie, Jafsnesw ijiquerWare, Jew. elry. Teas and HI 11c u.KiJsof ail Winds. Manufacturers of Tjidh-H' and Ottnis bite UimmIs, Iji--e, Net k wear and lunc) (tuods. Agent Han Fran- Cisco Boot ud Hioe Factory. Re tail at whole! pllT. P. O. Box exs. Orders from the country tilled promptly. uZr.r M. -rVs7J i--:e JOHN A. CIIILU. 1VALTEK A. (JKADOX John A. Child Kvja and ft DKlJfifllSTS. DEALEliS IM Flue Chemicals, Toiht Articles, KubberOaod aaa DICtOOlnT SfNDMIBH. Special attention en to -JZ.?- Tw iXj V IJ OUDKSI Rjr Mall. 11 Smtnil St., I'orl lnd. Or. Full Set or Teeth for $ 10. Vcit Net, 81ft. rpKCTH 'I l.l.KI) AT LOW RATKH; HATISFAO L. tion guaranteed. )as alministered. Hental grad uates. I'ortland. Orrgon. Room 54. 1'lilon Rlock, Hiark street entrance THE BALDWIN 1 Til P. OX I. Y FI KST CI.A.H Family Restaurant iu rortland. USE ROSE PULLS. i t a .1 ..l ! i rr f . 1 uiuj. a ihum uimikuiiui iouht, mm Riving sucn unqwauned satisfaction . - - - - mmnm ' P5" .i L