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DAI.LAS OREGON JANUARY 31 .902.
VOL. XXVIII.
L. N. WOODS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon,
Great Slaughter Sale j¡P
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Dalla«, Oregon.
T- V- B
EM BREE,
D ALLAS,
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O REG O N
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Olii -e over bank.
J K. SlKJT,
u. C. «»»i».
S IB L E Y ók EAKIN,
A. t loriieyn-n t- L u w.
W* have the only *et of abatr-«.* book* In Polk
MnVy. Kvliablu atittrauts fur*l*li*d, and Mumajr to
■Mu. N* « oiuuiìmìoii charged on loan*. Hoorn* *
nd A WiUot»'» block. Dalian
J. L. COLLINS.
Embracing An Opportunity
Utorney and Counselor at Law,
In addition to the hun­
dred of grand Clearance
Sale bargains, we have gone
through many departments
and picked out some at­
tractive merchandise afr
prices that will he the won­
der and delight of all who
participate in these rare
offerings, we guaran t e e
this saje to eclipse all for­
mer efforts. Yours truly
R. E. Bryan £ Son, Dallas.
Solicitor in Chancery*
Ha* been III practice of lit* profession in this place
ii ab»ut thirty year*, au«l will attend to all buair«***
otrusted to hi* care. Office, corner Main and Court
• I* Dallas, Polk do, Or
J N. H aut
J. II. T ownhknd
TO W N SEN D à IJ A UT,
L U T H E R & CO-16
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Office •psUir* in Odd Fellows’ new | g f
block.
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OHKOON.
E. A L L A S ,
A 'T 'T '
«REAL ESTATE
OSCAR H A YTE Ä.
A .t t o r n e v a t 'L i a w .
Office upstairs in Cunipbi IV s build­
ing.
DA LLA S
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OREGON.
Timber and Ranch
Lands a Specialty.**
We are prepared to locate you upon some of;
the finest timber claims in Oregon, oi if you?
want an improved ranch or fruit farm, we can j
show you just what you are looking for. Call l
and see us. All correspondence promptly at- <
tended to.
LU TH ER & CO., Dallas, Or. \
E F. COA U
N. L. BVTLKK
B U T L E R & LOAD
Office,
A TTO RN EY-A T-LA W
Oregon City
C LYC LO N E AT F A L L S C ITY
Since the Luckiamute Mill Company
Have received their fall and winter stock of
Robert A. Miller,
Oregon
Room 3, Weinliard bn lding
Opposite Courthouse.
Laud title« and Und office business
a specialty.
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Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Etc.
We defy competition. We buy evarything. We[
sell everything. We keep nothing. Cumtux.[
Bring on your produce, 50 dressed hogs wanted
Remember wo have 500,000 feet of No. fencing i
at $5 a M, also a full «took of all kinds of rough!
and dressed lumber, shingles, etc.
Ex-R«gister Oregon City land office.
A .. - I . M A R T I N ,
L U C K IA M U T E M ILL C O M P A N Y
LUCAS & DODD, Proprietors.
P A IN T E R ,
House, sign and ornam ental, grain-
second titiie u a hji speda is uinut*
Replying to this adverse opinion,
through Ohio Farmer, another man
says:
•‘As a young man I learned to shear
In Australia and could, with four good
pair of hand shears, without cutting,
ihenr an average of eghty a day. I
was taught by nu expert, and the se­
cret is not in shearing, hut In holding
and In knowing that the skin must be
kept tight and the bottom blade flat.
Now that I have got used to the ma­
chine. 1 will never use the hand shears
again. To say that the machine is not
an Improvement on the hand shears is
to say the grain binder Is no improve­
ment on the hand sickle/*
.Still another Ohio sheep grower testi­
fies in the same paper: “I have had my
sheep sheared three years now with a
machine and have nothing but praise
for it. Every one who buys the ma­
chine wants the grinding stone also.
Any good mechanic can grind the
shea rs.”
ig, kalsoming and pajier hanging.
ALLAI.
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OBROOS
MOTOR TIME T A B LE .
mth Iad*penden«e for Monmouth and \irlie — SH E EP SHEARING MACHINES
lam
J:30 p m
m in lnd.iandnee I f
Monmouth and D»I1 m - T H * H a n d P o w e r M a r h l o « — O p in io n s
l6. ra
7:15 |im
o f S h e e p M en P r o a n d C on .
■ear** Monmouth for Airlie -
) a in
3.50 p m
As there ha.s lately been Rome dis­
■Mtvee Monmouth for Dali*»*—
cussion of the merits of sheep shearing
ID a in
7:S0 p m
•are* Airlie for Monmout > and Independence—
machines, a cut of one of these—a
J» in
5pm
eaves Dal la* for Moninoirh an ' Line >*nd^n;e — small hand power machine Introduced
) p m
S 30 p in.
Into this country several years ago—Is
here reproduced from IturnI New York­
R. C . C R A V E N
B. K. WILLIAMS.
er. Sheep shearing machines are used
P re s id e n t.
C HRhler.
W . C . V A S S A L I , a s s i s t a n t C a s h i e r on the lurge ranches of Australia and,
U ALLA S
CITY
KAMK It Is claimed, with satisfaction. As
may he seen, one man or boy Is needed
OP DALLAS, OREGON,
to turn the machine and another to
Transacts a general banking ousi- hold the clipper. The Rural says that
u«ss in all its branches; buys and sells farmers write that It Is much faster
•aehange on principal points in I lie and easier to ojierate than the old
A Dlarreet Jn*gp«lloa.
United S tates; makes collections on all fashioned sheep shears, while there is
j While the unloaded pistol goes on
point« in the Pacific Northwest; loans
slaying its thousands and the ever
money and discounts paper at the best
loaded oil can its tens of thousands
rates ; allow interest on time deposits.
there Is something else that appears
. equally ns innocent and unassuming
! that claims victims every year and
causes much financial loss and exqui­
v is it D R . JO R D A N ’ S
m c a t I
site suffering among men and animals.
’MUSEUM OF AMATUHTi
The Instrument of death and suffering
! referred to is the upturned rusty nail
-so common around the average farm
and in the backyards of country stores.
It may seen a very small and simple
act to stop and break off or turn down
a nail, but that small and simple serv
Ice may he the means of saving a Ilf»*
or of preventing the roost acute suffer
Ing the human body can endure.—
CMMRttatiM f»*« •••« ■»ri'-Sy
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I M I'? •» b v l * t t * r
A t —U tm O ut « in ev ery c a ts ▼
Home and Farm.
■ lin k ..
W r u e for R <■» P H I L O S O P H Y m t 1
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IR M ItC K .
M a I L I O M U .
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v a lu e 's
0ft JORDAN ft CO.. 1081 Market S t. *
F. H. MUSCOTT,
L a te F a l l P a u ln r f F o r Nhe^p.
A R U E E P S H E A R IN G M A C H IN E
less danger to the sheep in the band*
i of a careless man. It Is estimated that
D a lla s : O re g o n
! it would need a flock of 73 or 100 good
sheep In order to make the machine
A fair «bun* of patronage solicited pay for Itself. By putting in another
set of knives It can be used for dip­
s a i »11 n-dera promptly filled.
ping horse«.
On the other hand, a well known
sheepman, writing In Ohio Farmer. Is
of the opinion that a hand power ma­
chine 1« not very profitable. He finds
that It takes a man (not a boy) to turn
all day. that the knives soon j e t dn’.l
— A l.L KIND S OF—
and most !*» sent to an expert for
sharpening and that, although a lamb
1 can be shorn very nicely and smooth
Repairing Promptly Done. i !»y taking jwilns. one cannot shear fast
I enough, and the wool must be cut a
TRUCKMAN.
Dallas Foundry!
IBON WORK TO ORDER-
ID. BIDDLE,
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PROP.
MISTAKES THAT NEED ONLY COMMON
SENSE TO CORRECT.
F u tility ef Chooalsg a Hoad Commli-
•luner Who Has No Knowledge of
the \\ ork—Faulty B d I1<U» k e f Rend
CelYerte—Widtk of Highway*.
Two Circus Feats.
“A great deal of unnecessary sym­
pathy Is wasted upon the circus mao
who stands up proudly In spangled
tlgbts and lets another circus man
brlug down a sledge hammer upon a
“ I have made a moat thorough
rock placed upon his head with fores
trial of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral and
enough to break It.” says an old circus
am prepared to aay that for all dis­
man. “This Is siiectaculsr, but Is en­
eases of the lungs it never disap­
tirely painless and calls for no gerat
points.'*
strength or endurance. Upon the cra­
J . Early Finley, I ronton, O.
nium of the strong man Is pot an Iron
contrivance weighing a boat 150 pounds
and provided with cushions both above
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
and where It rests npon the bead. A
wont cure rheumatism;
pretty good sized rock Is used, and the
we never said It would.
hammer Is a heavy one. so you can see
(hat the blow that cracks the rock Is
It won’t cure dyspepsia;
really a serious one. But most of the
we never claimed it. But
force Is takeu up by the rock and the
it will cure coughs and
rest by the Iron and cushions, while
the only sensation felt by the subject
colds of all kinds. We
Is a gentle tap.
•
first said this sixty years
‘‘No more difficult than this Is the
ago; we’ve been saying it
act whereby the hero of the canvas
tent permits a rock to be broken upon
ever since.
his chest with a blow from a sledge
Ttm .lie.: 25c., Me., II. All iretfMs.
hammer. So long as the subject's hack
Consult your doctor. I f h* saya taka It,
Is free and docs not rest against any
th*n do aa ha a*ya. I f he telfa you not
solid object the trick is perfectly sim­
to take it. then don’t take It. He know*.
Leave it with him. Wo »re willing.
ple. A little Illustration: Take a board
J. C. AYER CO.. Lowell, Mas*.
up and let It lie freely in your hand
aud hit It smartly with a hammer. It
from outside of ditch would be ample. Is difficult to hurt your hand, aud the
A roadway of this width properly grad­ thicker the board the less the sensa­
ed, with sufficient height and slope to tion. But now put your hand on the
drain quickly, with storm water quick­ table and hit the board. Hurts, doesn’t
ly disposed-of in the side ditches, should It? Well, !t‘s the same with the rock
give drainage and a dry road except on the chest"
during storms.
In his annual report to the Maine
board of agriculture for 1900 J. A. Rob­
erts called attention to some mistakes
in road building which are apparent in
nearly if not every state in the Union.
Among other things he says:
There is one mistake that is made,
but 1 hardly know how it can be cor­
rected except by using our common
sense and not letting our selflshness
run away with us. This mistake is
the appointment of the wrong man for
road commissioner. The common sense
view of the ma*ter to me Is this: You
should select the man in town who
knows the most about It. Any man
who has done anything in any line of
work ordinarily knows more about it
than other meu who have not. He
knows what the difficulties are; he
learns something from his experience
which no liian cun learn In so thorough
a manner from observation.
It seems to me that in the choice of
our roud commissioners we should al­
ways have In view the best man for
the work whether he belongs to your SILOING T H E SUGAR B E ET .
R o w O a r A n c e s to r s Q u a r r e le d .
party or to my party, whether he is a
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particular friend of mine or not and
to give the Impression that the princi­
K e e p F o r S o m . T i m e In R i c k * .
without regard to whether I am to get
pal part of the life of the people wns
It Is the custom In some localities to spent In quarreling or In the commis­
a jol) or not. In many of our towns
men are apt to use their influence for haul sugar beets to the fnctory If pos- sion or prosecution of offeuses. Our
the man that will give them a job on sible when harvested, and If It Is not ancestors certainly were a very liti­
the roads.
possible to do this they are gathered gious and a very disorderly people.
Another mistake that I find is in the uml placed In long ricks or piles ou the The records teem with Instances of men
matter of drainage. Men will build a surface of the ground. The base of and women drawing knives against one
good appearing road all right in shape
these ricks or piles Is from 3 to 3% feet, another, of breaking luto bouses, of
and put good material into it, but they
with a height of 3 to 4 feet, tapering to­ prosecuting one another for slander.
| forget to uuderdrnin it. and the drain-
ward the top. Along each side of these Then we have such entries as these:
! age is ns essential as the drainage of
‘‘It Is ordained liy common consent
rleks several furrows are run with a
! land upon which you raise your crops. «ttrrinfe plow In order to loosen the that all the women of the village must
' If you take a piece of land and culti- dirt. The ricks are then completely refrain their tongues from all slander­
I vate it and do not drain it, you are apt
covered with this dirt by the aid of ing.” ‘‘Thomas, son of Kohert Smith,
to get poor crops. The light and air shovels.
is fined 12 pence because his wife Ag­
and heat cannot get in. But if you uu-
This covering Is put on to the depth nes beat Bmma, tbe wife of ltobert.
derdrain the conditions are changed,
of about six Inches, occasionally air the tnilor, and ltobert, the tailor, six­
and that may prove to be your most
spaces or ventilators being left on the pence because his wife Emma swore at
, productive land. The same holds true tops of ftc ricks. which are usually Agnes, the wife of Thomas.” “It Is en-
of a road. If it has not proper drain­
made by the us*' of tiling or small elon- Joined npon all the tenants of tbe vil-
age, this should be the first thing to be
gan*d wooden boxes or simply straw, lage that none of them attack any oth­
considered. .
the purpose being to prevent fermenta­ ers In word or deed, with clubs or ar­
Another mistake I have found is in tion.
rows or knives under penalty of paying
the construction of the waterways. I
Storing the beets In this way Is call­ 40 shillings.”
have seen men make a little crossway
Such entries, frequently occurring. In
ed siloing, anil the ricks or piles are
for the water to run through that a
called silos. Those silos are closely addition to the Innumerable Instances
woodchuck could hardly crawl through
watched, lu order that no heating may of Individual attack, slander, petty
when It needed one that was two or
occur and enuse fermentation, which theft and other Immorality seem to
three feet each way. A little waterway
show a community of fnr from perfect
like that will answer the purpose of a lessens the sugar coutent of the beet, virtue.—Llppiucott's.
and
they
are
opened
occasionally
for
dry season, but in a wet .time It soon
this purpose.
becomes obstructed, and the danger is
Italian* Love Tomato**.
It is the aim of the grower, as al­
that there will be a washout of greater
Italians' more than any other people
ready
stated,
to
get
his
beets
to
the
or less extent, and the road builder
factory as soon us possible, but this value tomatoes, and each one that
must spend more or less money in re­
comes to perfection Is as carefully tend­
will
depend on "Ills turn.”
pairing that road, when if lie had taken
ed as though it were nu apple of gold.
In
case
lie
Is
delayed
In
this
way
un­
the same money and made his water­
til cold weather comes on, these silos Not only do the housewives delight lu
ways large enough to meet nil condi­
the fresh vegetables themselves, but.
tions he never would, have had this are covered with straw manure, straw generally speaking, those home teuded
or something of that sort, anti then uu
washout.
nre better ttinn any purchased nt the
I believe there are thousands of these additional amount Is thrown on the mnrkpt. and so each one Is Jealously
straw covering.
waterways in the state of Maine today.
In this way It has been found that saved to make tomntoe snore for the
I know personally of a great many of
the
beets will keep In very good condi­ spaghetti, without which no Itnllnn
them in roads over which I have travel­
tion
until the Inst of January If neces­ Sunday would be Sunday. One aonphox
ed. I think one of the great mistakes
gardener one season sold enough toma­
sary.
that our roadmakers are making today
toes to give her quite a little pin money.
is that they are not putting Into the
No one who knows the Italian well will
HARDY GARDEN STU FF.
runways for water size enough, and,
be surprised to learn thnt many of the
further than that, I find that some men Protection That Lengthens the Sea­ boxes nre devoted to peppers, for they
do not build these waterways as they
In truth furbish much of their spice of
son of Vegetables.
would put in a foundation for a build­
Frosty nights usually com • with Oc­ life, and even the little Itnllnn girls
ing themselves. If they were to build a tober. Tender garden stuff must he kuow how to stuff aud cook them In a
large barn, they would make the foun­ taken cure of In good season if wc dozen different ways thnt tempt the
dation solid and secure, so that It wish to save It, but we have quite palate.—Boston Transcript.
might stand there ns long as the barn, a list of things that will not only eit
but they arc careless about these cross­ dure a frost unharmed, but even make
C o lo r ín a o f F lo w e r s .
ways and put them In In such n way the best growth after the tender things
A florist says that the law governing
that oftentimes within five years they outdoors are all killed. Winter rad­ the coloring of fiowers makes a blue
have to l * taken out and new ones put ishes. turnips, lettuce and cresses, rose Impossible. According lo Ibis Inw
In at an added expense.
spinach, hardy onions, kale and slinllnr
Since the advent of the road machine things all have ti good chance yet to
I find another mistake. I have in my make considerable growth.
mind’s eye today a road made this year
Rut there is a limit even to this.
Why it it that the firetborn child i* so
that is exceedingly narrow. The first When the real cold weather sets In
often the healthiest of a family of chil­
thing that will come to your mind as
with November, severe eold sis-lls are dren ? The reason seems to suggest it­
you go upon the road is that It is an ex­ liable to occur, and even such hardy self. As child follows child the mother
ceedingly narrow road, and on each
crops as spinach and kale are put In has less and less vitality; often not
side Is a deep ditch. We could endure
danger. Here we usually leave them enough for herself and none, therefore,
the narrow road—wide roads are not
In open ground unprotected nntll De- for her child.
Expectant mothers who use Doctor
necessary In most parts of the state
Pierce’s Favorite Pre­
where there Is simply carriage trav el-
scription find that it
hut this road has ditches of such depth
lcee^H them in vigor­
and its shoulders are so square that by
ous health. They eat
going
a
foot
or
two
to
either
side
the
I
well, sleep well and
I wagon wheel will f»e ofT In the ditch,,
are not nervous.
and
you
run
considerable
risk
of
being
When
baby comes its
I
advent
is practically
tipped
over.
I
have
traveled
over
that
'
painless, and the
! road considerably since It was made. I
mother is made hap­
and I know that when two carriages
py by the birth of a
meet It is a difficult matter for them to
nenlthy child. If you
pass without their being disturbed In
would be a healthy
their position.-and If « carriage meets
mother of healthy
a tomb'd team It is Impossible for the
children use " Favor­
loaded team to turn out without risking
ite Prescription.”
" I will be very glad to
tipping ori*r. It cannAt do it on ac­
r itO T B > T I O !f F O B LA T E V B O K T A B L B I.
aay * few kw>rd* for Dr.
count of the shape of the road. If two eemlier, but toward the latter part, or Pierce • l**vorite Pre*ct i|>-
loaded teams should meet on this road. even the middle, of November It is 11 * >12. w r i t e s M n P feb
Dougl*». o f Mausotiville,
I hardly see how they would get out of liable to freeze up solid, and If It does Brome
Co.. O'tehee. «D u r­
ing the fir«t four month*,
the trouble.
we will get no more spinach, lettuce when 1 Im k H forward to
Another mistake that the roadmak
and other hardy vegetables from open becoming a mother. 1 buf­
ers are making is In the material that ground. I like to have at least a little fered very much from tt«o-
and vomiting. *nd I
Is put Into the roads. I saw a road row of parsley, lettuce and one of kale *r*
felt so terribly tick I could
built this year with a road machine In surh a shape that I can get a little ■rareefy ent or drink any­
thing
I hated nil kin<t*l
which passed up one side and down Hie picking or n mess from opm ground o f food. At thl* time I
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other and drew Into the renter of the for some time In early Winter, writes wrote to Dr Pierce, and he told me to get hi*
’ Favorite Pre*er1t>uou and a bottle o f * tioldea
road nil the sods which were the result T. Greiner of Ohio to Farm and Fire­ Medical Discovery ' I cot a bottle o f each, and
when I had taken them a few day*. I felt much
of the growth of the grass there for a side.
better, and whe* I had taken hardly three part*
number of years, nil of tl»e lenves and
f each bottle I felt wcH and could eat a« well a*
My plan to secure that result Is o any
one and could do my work without any
dead grass in the ditches and the worn- shown In the above Illustration. Him-
trouble (I could out do snythtag before)
I feel
out soil that had once been a part of ply nail two wide boards 'ogether to very thankful to Dr Pierce for hi* medicine,
I tell all who tell me they are tick, to get
the roadbed, but had I kwti blown or A shape and place this trough over the and
theae medicine* or write to Dr. Pierce •
earrled by the waters to a little dis­
low to lie protected. In mild weather i Those who suffer from chronic die*
tance. Such material is a detriment to the trough Is to be taken off. but even eases sre invited to consult Dr. Pierce,
a road.
All correspondence
during a severe spell In the fore part of by letter, free .
Address Dr. R. V.
winter by keeping the protecting , strictly private.
Wlfttk of C*«Mtrr Rood*.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
boards
on
1
will
tie
able
to
gather
some
The width of the rocdway should be
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure bil-
determined by the travel. On on Unary fresh parsley, lettuce, spinach and kale iouanees end rick headache.
from
tpdemes
t
L
tbs
^o«rd«.
country roads a width of twenty feet
i
Attorneys-at-Law
DA LLA S, OREGON.
Will practice in a li coitus.
over bank.
MAKING TOOK ROADS.
NO 7.
It Is advisable to keep some frerh
pasturage for late fall feeding. Exor
rise in the fall is conducive to thrift in
winter and healthy lambs in the spring.
In the northern climate sheep are
housed too much at l>est. The eeres
may-obtain more ft*>d than, would Is*
supposed from a field of fresh blue
grass pasture that has been in part re­
tained for them.
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R n rn m e fe r.
A curious barometer is said to be
used by the remnant of the Araucanian
rare which Inhabits the southern most
province of Chile. It consist« of the
castoff shell of s crab. The dead shell
is white In fair, dry weather, but the
ap|»roach of a moist atmosphere Is Indi­
cat'd by the apjiearanre of »mail red
spots. As the moisture In the air In­
creases the shell becomes entirely red
and remains so througheut the rainy
season.
THE FIRSTBORN.
the three colors red, blue aud yeuow
never all appear In Uw same species
of flowers. Any two may exist but
never the third. Thus we bare the red
and yellow roses, but no bine; red and
! blue verbenas, bm no yellow; yellow
and blue In tbe various members of
the viola family (as pansies, for In-
1 stance), but no red; red and yellow
gladioli, but uo blue, aud so on.
lis h b t i I*last*.
Many plant growers become annoyed
becaose tbe older leoret at the base of
tbelr rubber plants turn yellow aud
fall off. This la a natural process. It
does not ludlcale any defect In the
plauh It Is simply the ripening of the
old foliage, which cannot be retalued
Indefinitely. Sometimes, however, (lie
loss of foliage results from tbe want of
root room, but Ui such cases tbe plants
refuse to grow.
R a ilr o a d T e l r g r s a a .
When a traveler In tbe grand duchy
of Baden, Germany, wants to send a
telegram while be Is In tbe train, be
writes the message on a postcard, with
tbe reqnest that It be wired, puts on a
stamp and drops It luto tbe train letter
box. At tbe next station tbe box la
cleared and the message sent oat.
M a t r l a n a r a a d Ryes.
An old man was rallied by bis friends,
on hla marrying a young wife, on tbe
Inequality of tbelr ages. Ha replied,
“She will be near me to doss my eyes.”
“Well," replied a friend. “I ’ve bad
two of them, and they opened my
eyes.“—E l i Punge.
S w a rt d irt.
Her Mother—Edith, don’t yoo think
yon are getting too old to play with
little boys?
Edltb—Nok mamma; tbs older I gat
tbe better 1 Ilka them.—Ttt-BIta.
T h e C o a s a lt a t le a .
“My wife always consults me about
every article of attire she buys—frocks,
hats, shoes, gloves, everything.”
“My wife does, too—that Is, she asks
me for the moDey.”
The KelSTcr Pear.
It Is true that the Kelffer has a great
many enemies, but It has a great many
warm friends. It I b grown In the state
of New Jersey to a greater extent than
I any other frntt excepting the Ben
Davis apple. It Improves In quality
Btid Is far superior to the pear that
was first planted. I think ita quality
Is equnl to a great many other iiears
that we have In the market today.
They used to can It when It was not lit
condition to do so, and for that reason
It wus hardly' worth putting on the
market. I would rather have my little
Kelffer pear orchard of l.iiOO trees to
make money out of than the rest of my
farm of 224 acres. I could slio # you
the figures from the time niy orchard
has fruited up to the present time. My
Kelffer orchard In 1000 yielded me
over *100 per acre clear of the expense
of marketing. I would favor buying
cheap sandy land In New Jersey and
setting It to Kelffer pears. I planted
a little orchard two years ago. I would
select laud thnt was a little sandy ami
try to overcome the rusty coat on the
|>ear8. What sells the Kelffer pear Is
the color or the beauty of the pear.—
D. D. Denise.
Ir r ig a tio n P ra g re a *.
Irrigation enthuaUsts will go before
the next congress with renewed energy
and a strong proposition. The present
season has demonstrated beyond cavil
the profit In artificial watering. All
who have seen the splendid crops on Ir­
rigated and the poor ones on un watered
land adjoining are convinced. They
will unite In asking for national legla-
latton which will make possible stor*
age reservoirs and more uniform Irriga­
tion laws, says Orange Judd Farmer.
A W la * P r o p h e t.
“Ou the whole.” said tbe aged weath­
er prophet. “I have found that the saf­
est course Is to predirt had weather."
“Why?” asked the neophyte.
“Because iieople are much more ready
to forgive you If the prediction does
uot come true.“
U se S is*.
Young Man—I want an engagement
ring.
Jew eler-Y es, sir; about what size?
‘‘I don’t know ezaetly, but sbe can
twist me round her finger. If that Is
any guide.”
F a r tlv
A e e o i a t e l F or.
Blzzer—Where does that man Film*
mer get all his money?
Buzzer—Well. 1 loaned him five dol­
lars two years ago.—Ohio State Jour­
nal
It Is claimed thnt deutlstry prolongs
life. As hns been snld of matrimony. It
certainly makes It seem longer.—Louis­
ville Courier-Journal.
No man ran build ehnreeter by trying
to rese that of others.—Nashville Ban­
ner.
s ir H r o r ,
I r r t » « '.
H in t.
During Sir tlcnry Irving's perform­
ance of “Thu Merchant of Venice” at
the Theater Itoynl. Belfast, much an­
noyance was esnred to frequenters of
the s I h II s snd circle by Indies who did
not remove tbelr lints, with the result
that the management at last decided to
give the fair ones a gentle hint.
Prior to the commencement of tbe
first set s curtain was displayed on
which wss (stinted tn large letters the
following: "Madam, will yon kindly
take off your hat. its T am sitting Imme­
diately liehlnd yon snd cannot sre tbs
stage T'
The hint was sufficient, for all bata
aud bonnets disappeared.