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I MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS BY USING A S U P E R IN T E N D E N T ’S T H E POLK COUi STO RY . 0 THURSDAY, V. P. FI Itemize! , one year In at With Weekly Oregonia With Oregon Woodma ’PHONES: BEL,-I Office, 2Ô Resilience, 11 The friends of this paper » ill please hand us in news items when they are fresh. We prefer not to publish a birth after the child is weaned, a mar- riage after the honeymoon is over, or the death of a man after his widow is Preaching hours at 11 and 8. M. K.LTIIKCH [Original.] I'm a self made man. 1 started as F o r Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Fowls. They are made from the active principle or the fireman on a locomotive, passed ten condensed essence of the drug. They don't contain Sawdust, Ashes, Chop Feed or Bran. A re just years us engineer and rose to be gen as good when 10 years old as when 10 days old They com ply with all pure drug laws. Ask for and try once S K I D O O Condition Tablets, o r S K I D O O W orm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera, eral superintendent of the road. Blister, Cathartic, Heave. Fever, Hog Cholera, Distemper, Pink Eye, Colic tabletsor Louse Powder, Now. there is a vast difference lie- Spavin Cure o r Barb W ire Liniment. Distributed by T H E B L U E B E L L M E D IC IN E C O . , tween a fireman or euglneer and u gen iucorporated; Capital Stock $300,000.00; Watertown, South Dakota, U. S. A. eral superintendent. But I didn’t get For Sale by RAY & CO., Dallas, Oregon the big head. 1 never considered my self or any of my family any better for my sitting in a revolving chair tapping a bell for some one to wait on me than when 1 had my hand on the throttle, and when Torn Mlllikln. a locomotive engiueer. came courting my daughter Susie I didn't turn him down because he drove an engine. But what I want ed for Susie was a man of nerve, strength and character. "Tom,” I said, "you may have Susie on one condition. We want a man to take a new passenger limited through in the night. The distance is 300 miles, and it must be done iu five hours. The average must be sixty miles an hour, which means as low as fifty and as high as seventy. Do the Job, and you shall have Susie.” Tom thought a long while, then said: "I have always supposed, Mr. Mc Mullen. that you'd never ask a man to do what you would not do yourself.” "I wouldn’t." "W ell, suppose we put it this way: You take the train through first. If you succeed. I take it through and get Susie. I f you don’t succeed. I get Susie without making the attempt myself.” The fellow knew how to handle me. 1 was very proud of my knowledge of railroad technique and had carried trains often since my promotion. I at once acceded to his terms. I shall never forget the experience of that run. Twenty minutes before train « iY A W A Y iT A T in n a t a t a t a t a t a t a t ^ time I appeared In overalls at the en gine, which was standing ready on the ELECTRICITY fOR LIGHTING IS ONLY EXPENSIVE track, to make my own inspection of her and do my own oiling. When we TO PEOPIE WHO ARE WASTEFUL AND CAHEIESS. pulled out I felt like a bird let out of a TO YOU, WHO ARE NATURALLY CAREEUl, cage. I was still, though fifteen years f£> older than when I left the cab, in full IT DOES NOT COME HIGH. vigor of nerve aud muscle. I had fig # ured carefully just what time I must make on different parts of the road and It is economical becausejit can be quickly turned off when not was in every way prepared for the needed. With gas or kerosene there is the temptation to let light trial. I had never driven an engine for burn, when not needed, to save bother of lighting and adjusting. any length of time over fifty miles an In some homes the electric light bill amounts to only about $2 per hour, and up to that point there is no month. You can probably get some kind of artificial light for less great strain ou an engineer. I did not money than electric light, but does it save you anything when it realize that an average man can’ t limits opport uni ties for work and recreation, ruins your eyesight, stand many spurts at sixty-five miles smokes your walls, mars decorations and increases household work. an hour and in some places I must do You can probably save a dollar tomorrow by going without your seventy. meals, but it-wouldn’t be economy. It is not so much what you I got on pretty well for the first three hours, though I had made a num save, but how you save, that counts. W e are always ready to ex ber of my fast paces, but after that I plain the “ ins and outs” of the lighting proposition to you. Call began to suffer. Looking straight on us or phone to us. We are never too busy to talk business. ahead continuously, seeing at the same time things out of the corners of my eyes whizzing by me, made me feel as if something was pulling my sight nerve out through the sockets. Some of ray fastest spurts came in about this time, and every few minutes I was frightened half out of my senses. E. W. KEARNES, Manager The first thing to rattle me was seeing something black on the track dead Office on M ill street, just north of the court house Dallas, Oregon ahead of me. I thought It was the rear Phones: Bell, 421, Mutual, 1297. end of a train with no lights out. If it had been there would have been no time to slow up, but it was gone before * f i f i w i m ? m w i * v t I could have done so anyway, aqd then I realized that it was the shadow of a bird flying across the headlight. This had the effect on my nerves of an es cape frofn a sudden plunge into death. I had always been quick to adopt im provements on the road aud had put on electric headlights. This made all the shadows look like big black things, solid as masonry. The shadow of a telegraph pole cast ou the track as it sometimes would be at a curve ahead looked for all the world like the trunk of a tree. The worst scare I had was from something that wouldn’t get out of the way. It was a big round black bowlder that appeared a few hundred feet ahead. This was the only scare I put on the brakes for. As I slowed down I noticed that I got no nearer to It. Finally I stopped short, went ahead to the pilot, and, turning, there on the glass before the headlight was a little moth. An hour before I was due to arrive I had made up my mind that, though I could make an engine to do the trip on schedule time. I couldn’t make a man to run her. But I had a lot of pride and continued the struggle, though my falling nerves rendered failure almost a certainty. When I had the last forty miles to go and only thirty minutes to do it In I gave up and turned the throttle over to my fireman, with directions to take his time. As I left the engineer’s post I staggered to the sent on the other side of the cab. and it was all I could do to hold on when I got on to it. I felt as if a dozen men with ham mers had been pounding on every nerve in my body» When we reached the station 1 called a carriage and went to a hotel, and if I hadn’t been too proud, or, rather, if I hadn’t feared It would get out. I ’d have called a trained nurse to take care of me. The next day I went back In the pres ident’s private car and the morning after appeared in my office and sent for Tom Mlllikln. He came in. looking curious. I said to him: “ Tom, you needn’t perform your part of the contract It would be no use. for I ’ve made up my mind not to put the train on. You’ve won.” “ I ’d like the privilege of doing the trick once,” he said, " If you don’t Blind.” I gave him permission, and he took lie train through on time. ROBINSON M’BRIDE. < I ■, i i W IL L IA M S ’ The life of all commercial enterpris es leads in the expansion of business b a p t is t A dm itted to the second class o f mail matter. THURSDAY, NOV. 1«, 1908. V. P. FISKE. ( Itemizer, one year in advance.......................................... $1 50 SUBSCRIPTION -] With Weekly Oregonian or Semi-weekly Journal............ 2 00 ( With Oregon Woodman................................................... 1 75 Beautifully linished in nickel mental anywhere The brass lonl ing heat for 9 hours. It is ligl carried Irom room to room. Eve F IF T E 15% Discount ’ PHONES: i Office, 257 BELI ( Residence, 113 M UTUAL j Office, 11 ( Residence, 1401 Patronize One Another for the Upbuilding o f Town and County. ; the roef. Archdeacon Orooin, wno was I a pupil of ids, tells a story in illustra- ! tion of his prowess. One of the boys had been flogged by the redoubtable dominie, and the lad’s father came to complain. j "Sir,” said Valpy to him, “ 1 flogged ! your son because be richly deserved it. I f he again deserves it, I shall flog him again, and,” rising, "If you come here, sir. Interfering with my duty I shall flog you.” The parent fled. Why We Are All Mimics. ,4I f we did not cough In church, the human race would not exist.” And the professor, twiddling a piece of chalk in his hand, regarded the sophomores with a quizzical smile. “ What I mean,” lie continued, “ Is that the cause of coughing Is the cause of our survival. That cause is mim icry. Mimicry is a better life preserver than tieetness or strength. For by mimicry we manage not to attract at tention, and in prehistoric times they A Famous Architect’s Trick. who attracted attention were hunted When Sir Christopher Wren was down by the tribe and .roasted for din building the town hall of Windsor, a ner or hunted down by the saber tooth fidgety member of the corporation, so tiger and taken raw. the story goes, insisted that the roof “ Since those dark days mimicry has required further support and desired been instinctive with us. Mimicry is tlie architect to add more pillars. In what causes us to follow the fashions. vain did Sir Christopher assure him It causes us, when in England, to say that the danger was imaginary. He ‘cawn’t’ and ‘lawf.’ If your friend knew better. The alarm spread, and yawns, you yawn—that’s mimicry. If the great architect was won-led into he laughs, you laugh—mimicry again. adding the desired columns. I f he snutiles, you snuffle—mimicry. Years passed, and in later times, And if he coughs in church, straight when architect and patrons were dead, way you and all the rest of the con cleaning operations in the roof re gregation cough, the reason being the vealed the fact that the supposed addi same one which saved our forefathers tional supports did not touch the roof from extermination.” —New York Press. ' by two inches, though this was not per ceptible to the gazers below. Famous Floggera. By this Ingenious expedient did Wren Among English schoolmasters whose pacify his critics, while vindicating his names have come down to posterity own architectural skill to future gener with the dubious reputation of great ations. (loggers Dr. Busby of Westminster It All Ucpenes. school is the generally acknowledged R in g ru le m a y bn a m aiden ’ s whim, chief. A nd to It she m a y tru e be Of him it is recorded that, one of his If backed up by the p rop er "him" head boys having insulted a young A nd u diam ond o r a ruby. —D e tro it Tribune. French viscount who came to the Bchool to demand satisfaction, he flog Up to the Old Adage. ged the viscount first for the blood She—Some men haven't much to say. thirsty Intentions and next his friend He—Yet It is easier to talk than to who was the bearer of his challenge. 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