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ftv- — AUCTION SALE REAL ESTATE CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK. Sy JAMES A. EDGERTON. OF ON best— or Its worst- he cun nee It here Fashionable dames in rhelr turnouts from uptown, women carrying l a hie* from the lower downtown sections, wives of oonmiuier* from up rl;e dud son. from Connecticut. from Long Island, from Staten Island aud from Jersey, here charge and countercharge» swarm through the aisles, crowd the elevators, scramble to get to the counters, overflow Into the street and | sweep In eddies and currents, here, there and everywhere, a never ending human stream. (Copyright b y A m e r ic a n P ra a a tio n , 1IU.J A s s o c ia OST o f tha S.OOO.OOO peopla llv. lng within the twenty-mil* radius of tbo American me tropolis “ »it sip and take no tlc*M on the approach of Christman. They do more. They sally forth In great droves, buying things to give away, to eat, and what not. They make life a burden to tbe expressmen, the post men and tbe department store clerk*. The feminine New Yorker Is especially In evidence. Sometimes she goes It alone, sailing Into tbe bargain counter scrimmage« like a regiment going Into battle. At other times she drags along her bored looking husband or some otner male member of the family, who execrates all shopping und who swears under his breath or looks as If he wonted to. In companies, battailous and divisions goes Forth the shopping army, marching through the streets, deploying up aud down the aisles, making attacks and counterattacks upon tbe candy department, the mil linery department, the toy department and everything else In sight. Sales men grow haggard and wan under tbe onslaug.it. aud great wagon trains haul away the spoils c f battle. Christinas In New York Is pretty t-ucb ns It is In all other titles, except that there la mure of it. There Is so much o f It, In fact, that the figures which make up the holiday statistics stagger and wabble under the load. Big figures never did have to hear up under such burdens ns they do lu American statistics, anyway. They carry millions on their broad shoul ders. millions of population. pr< duo- tion, wealth and. by no menus least of all, In Christmas outlny. But figures are not tbe only things that stngger at Christmas. Tbe poat office department staggers, the express companies stagger, the dray horses stagger, the store munagera stagger, and ' even the old man's pocketbook «tuggers. Tbe only reason the shoppers do net stagger la because they are wedged In so tight they can't Alto gether It Is a staggering holiday, and tbe ancient, ruby and athletic 8. Claus staggers most of all. Tbe only ones who do not stagger are the small folks. They have all the best o f It, aud tbe older people forget their weariness in the Joy of the little ones. Tbe winter solstice is hardly the time that one would look for blossoms, yet at about that season the streets of New York bloom with holly and evergreen. There are festoons o f ivy and wreaths o f mistletoe. The green Is in the win dows und over the awnings. The street venders are along the curbings with all the iHtest novelties to gladden the heart of the small boy. Last year's dolls are trotted out Into show places, and the toy stores do a land office busi ness. Even the east side, where con gregate all the nationalities o f the earth, is not without splotches of color. The Chinese quarter. It is true, doe* uot show much more than the usual animation. About the only lime the Celestials break out Into holiday attire Is ut the time of the Chinese New Year, but then they so riot in color and sound thut they make up for tbe rest of the year. A trip through the east side a fpw days before Christinas furnishes an interesting side light on tile universal ity uf the holiday. Here peoples of all luuds will he found preparing for ihe celebration of a common festival. Hus sions at home, because of Ihe difference In tbe calendar, du not hold tbelr Christmas until some time srter onrs, but Russians In New York nre coming more and more Into American custom! and nre adopting our time In place of tlielr own. The same Is true of those from other Slavic couutrles. As for the Germanic and Ijitln nations of northern and southern Europe, L)ec. 25 Is their day for celebratinn ithe Na tivity. so that no change is necessary with Immigrants from those luuds. The vust numliera of these peoples In our chief city may be realized when It la reflected that last year over n million foreigners came to our shores mid n vast portion of these stopped on Ihe east side In New York. Because of poverty Christmas with tbe tenement dwellers Is not what It Is with the middle classes and those better situ ated. yet the day passe* In few even of tbe poorest quarters wllbout eome token of reinemhrunce. The omnipresent street vender 1» present In the east side as elsewhere. For Ihe most part lie has laces, rugs aud wondrous fabrics for sule. lint on Christmas week toys are also in evP dence. Mechanical dancing tieara, lighting cocka and prize spnrreru are made to do tbelr evolutions on Ihe pavements und ure offered for a nickel M A CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN CALABRIA. Saturday, December 23 j ...... ...... . Beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., at 1 D A L L A S , POLK COUNTY, OREGON On the Premises WHHHHHMHHHHMHHHHHI**»* One hundred choice lotn, 50x100; also 2 blocks containing 28 very choice lots; one 9 room house, large basement with fine furnace, windmill and tower and large tank. This is one of the finest houses in Dallas. Phe elevation is 60 feet above the main portion of the city. Also 40 acres of the finest fruit land in Oregon, which will be sold in 4 and 5 acre tracts, with streets 60 feet wide, so that you will have a road to each tract. This property is known as City View Addition to Dallas and is located in the Southwest part of the city and is very choice property. Come one, come all, come everybody. Come Farmers and buy one of these fine homesites, for some time you will want to come to Dallas to live, for I think Dal las has a good future. Young men, come and buy one of these choice lots and give it to your best girl for a Christmas present. Mr. Wilkins, the owner of the tract, can* be found at the Hotel Gail with maps of the property, and will take pleasure in showing you this very choice addition. W ill give you abstract with perfect title Notice to Speculators and Real Estate men. Come to this sale and you will have an opportunity to get some property that will bring a good profit. Tormc n f Cain* down and $10 per month, with interest at 8 per m m Ul ddlC. cent. The acre tracts will be sold one-half cash and the bal ance in ¡3 years with interest at 7 per cent. The blocks and house $1,000 cash, the balance on payments, to be paid in three years with interest at 7 per cent. Notice to the Public: F very person from Portland or way stations coming to Dallas on Saturday to attend this sale and buying one or more of these lots, or the house or one of the acre tiacts will have his railroad fare deducted from the price paid for the lots. Come Everybody Prospective purchasers are urged to select their lot before the sale as our time at the sale will be limited. W. M. WILKINS W ill trade some of these Lots for a good Auto or a”good team of Horses O Î C 'Î C Î O ÎD TEC H N IC A L WORLD M A G A Z IN E ;| iii -Siiw Pu/ í le \>t KíritiiiPfV . \ mi i tros * L e V l »'liiçditins Teat Innq-ÉsçMpt1 from line T H R »VA ^ E mmsm- & . . r V . »V - r V . -V E THINGS YOU ..NEED.. F ir »t— Polk County Item izer A virile, n ew iy newspaper with the Interest o f the entire community at heart. Iasuea o f the day are handled without fear or favor. You w ill find in this paper an up-to-date depart ment fo r each member o f the family. Clean, honest, straightforward — it is a paper your family should not be without. Second— Technical W o rld M agazine la the one magrazine that not only entertains in a fascinating manner, but which also instructs. I t ia the magazine fo r the busy business man. or fo r the person who wants to lull away • summer’s afternoon, and be agreeably informed at tha same time. I t is profusely illustrated, and tells in a simple and interesting way o f the discoveries o f scientists, the achievement* of inventors, the feats o f engineers and explorers, and the opening o f every new field o f human endeavor. What Jack London saj/s.— *’I have just chanced upon my first copy o f T E C H N IC A L W O RLD M A G A Z IN E . There isn't anything like it. I want more, and I cannot w ait fo r lA«m to come, so I am sending you herewith check fo r which please enter my subacripti^a and send me immediately the last two years’ back numbers." T h ir d — A Fine Atlas This one is just off the presaaa. This la the year to obtain a new atlas. just been completed, this atlas contains the official figures. 128 pages o f 3 color maps brought right down to date—every map giving the results o f the moet recent surveys. A ll railroads are shown and named and m i aps o f all large cities are included. There are 21 double page maps showing in detail portions o f the U. S. and Canada. Dimensions 10S*xl3X*. Bound in stiff linen—Silver L e a f Title— printed on heavy plate paper. Sella regularly for $3.00. A splendid gift. Tha 1910 C OF Why Do You Buy Your Candy at a Grocery Store ? ? When a confectionery store is in better shape to handle it? It is al ways fresher, nicer and better when pur chased here. Look at the cheap sugar can dies in the window of the grocery store, and then come and look at a T O L U S T E E R S H rP R E H R A T SA VTA i , i Ä c L o îc -îo ic îc îç îc NE day ( was traveling In Cals brla 1 bad as compaulon a young man who had had leaa experience than I had la tills little known part of Calabria. He was one of the most careless and happy persons In tbe world. In thee« mountains the roads seem to be precipices, down which our horses slid and plunged dangerously. My comrade went first, taking a path which seemed to him to be ehorter and easier than the regular mad, which, however, could not have boeu worse. In doing this we heenme lost, and night was fast approaching. We bad hoped to reach the railroad which would take oa to civilization, as 1 termed It, where we could spend our Christmas more pleasantly than we now expected to. As long as It was light enough we struggled aloug. and suddenly. Just as It grew too dark to see anything twenty feet away, we nunc to a but black and low. It looked alulater to me. hut Jules was so glad that be Just shouted. In auswer to his shout the door opened, and we saw a whole family gathered around a table on which wa* a white cloth. “ Come In, cotae In." said the oldest man of tbe parly, but his looks were far from being cs Inviting as bis Line of Sweets, handle a line of mm ( L A CO. 26 th We Start Our An nual Clean-Up Sale Our entire stock of Bis hop’s Ready Tailored Suits and Overcoats will be offered the public at a 20 per cent Reduction This includes every suit and overcoat in the store, nothing reserved. On acconnt of the mild winter we have had we find ourselves really overstocked with w inter clothing. The result is, you get your pick of a great stock of new and up-to-date clothing a t the lowest possible price. W hether or not you really need a suit or overcoat you cannot afford to pass this chance up. MARCHE We Home Made Candies Made by the ladies of Dallas. .. Give us a chance to bid on your Christmas order. Call and see h /// > **, P L A C ID T H K IIt I , r r r i. H WOODEN *110X3 B T THU SI UK O F T H R C H I U N KT. words. He was black with the pen etrating bluckuesa of dry charcoal, but as we were very weary and hungry and our horses worn out we accepted the Invitation There were flue enhhage soup, baked |>otallies and before placing your a chicken fricassee, with home baked bread such as falls in one’s bauds but Holiday order. too rarely. For dessert wu hud some chocolate, while tbe children were hurried off to bed after having placed tlielr little wooden shoes by the aide out, ejaculating with each squeeze, o f the chimney. The horses were well taken care of, ‘Benin Clawss—fer Chrlssmass tree." T w o organizations lu evidence at and Jules wa* laughing and singing all times, hut more so tlmu ever ut with the children until they were the Christmas season, nre the Sal taken out. mid then he gave himself vation Army and the Volunteers of up to telling the men, of whom there America. These are rivals. In good wero four, o f our adventures. One works and otherwise, so wherever one man in particular struck me on ac has out an alms pot the other Is gen count of his somber silence. He spoke erally found but a few feet away. to no one nnd eyed us In a sort of The representatives of the Salvation sullen enmity. This was a charcoal burner's borne, Army have on the regulation caps and stand beside a kettle. Invitingly open and the man who owned this bouse for smnll contributions, under which was the one who seemed so somber Is the Invariable legend. "Keep the Pot Tbe old man was his father. The wom Bolling." The Voluuteer reprenentu an finished her work aud brought out tlves each have a chimney with a s few eheap toys and tome bonbon* small hole In Ihe top for receiving the snd a few other Uttle things such as coin* of the passershy. Christmas week these Volunteers nre dressed to represent Santa Clnu*. The omnlpres cut small hoy. dirty nod bareheaded, as usual, pauses beside one of these. “ I know n belter Snnty Claw* as you." he says. "My pop’s got you skinned fer a Snnty Claws." The Salvation Army and the Volun teers feed thousands each year at substantial Christmas dinners. Otbei ebnritahlc organizations Innumerable also spread elaborate feeds for the poor and homeless, thus m i l k i n g the day one o f good cheer "even to the least o f these." The newsboys have a veritable feast on Christmas day. SALEM WOOLEN MILLS STORE SALEM O REG O N Largest Clothing Store in the Valley Boots Kersey T H E OH N lP R K S g '.T S T R T R T V B R D gR . to whomsoever will buy. IHHIa of the poorer qnallty are placed In tempting array. Christmas tree ornaments srs arranged In glittering profusion. The*« daxale the eye* of tbe bareheaded and dirty urchin* that are at thick is flies on th« streets. Here a eon of southern Europe, master of a toft and sibilant broken English, squeezes a no» a rubber ball from which a figure springs December A ssocia “ I SAW IS H IS H IO H T H A N D T H E O LX A M O F A LORO K W IT S .” Send or Bring in Your Order Today B Pres. BON Special arrangement with Technical World Magazine and the publishers o f this Atlas make this offer possible. But it is very strictly limited. You must act immediately. A ’- * 7 A m erica n tion. m il TH E Only F*«4j"Av»'Ar, » T " » - by O THF. W O RLD A L L THREE Tuesday Morning, By PAUL LOUIS COURIER. (C o p y rig h t m HAMMOND'S MODERN ATLAS Annual Clearance Tha holiday gives most everybody In New York th chance for at least oue square meal, even If be does not have ■ «other during the entire year. emerging from the swnrmlng ten« tnent dl**rirt by th# croastowu route, th« festooning Increase* as one ap proaches tbe shopping area until at Sixth a venue It growe * perfect r(0t of green and red. i»ero ere th« great department stores. Unlng both sides of tb# thoroughfare from Fourteenth •treat to shove Twenty third. I f one would see Christmas activity at Its mothers msusg« to find no one knows w h ere or bow . The little shoe* were tilled, aud we saw that all were sleepy. We, too. being so weary, were willing to retire, so tbe old men took us up a ladder to a loft above the room where we had been silting. To reach our sleeping room w « i ’inbed a ladder and there found • I sort of pallet of straw, c lo u , and with sufficient corering. In this stile I saw by the feeble light afforded hy a homemade candle quan tities of dimly outlined things hanging Irom the rafters, but could not make ; out exactly what they were. In th» i dimness I thought they looked like men hung along there. There were ret* for 1 aaw oue. I hare a horror » f rat*, and tbe thought that one might run acroae my face kept me awake. Even had my mind been free | from other fears I should «till hav» lain «wake long after Julee was sleep ing heavily. I could not sleep, so i Shed was my mind with the racollac tlon of the tales 1 bud beard of tbe lawlessness of these charcoal burners, who were but brigands after all. I lay close to the chimney, which made the place quite warm, and soon I found the voices of those helow could he distinguished clearly hy ly ing near the crevice. I heard the sul len mun and tbe woman talking. They seemed to he discussing some thing. The discussion wua almost a quarrel. The man taJd: "Bo, then, must we kill them both?” “ Yea.” Then they apparently slept. That Is more than I did. 1 grew cold from heed to foot. 1 must have looked like a dead man. Even today 1 grow cold when ' think of It all— the little children put to bed with tbelr hearts flllcd with Joyoua thoughts of the expected visit of the I ’etlt Jeans, then ten or twelve lawless men and the bloodthirsty woman, and we shut In that attic, from which there wns no escape and almost with out means of defense. 1 did not even dare to try to waken Julee. for they would have beard na below, and that would only bare precipitated our death. And. even If we could have got out of th# window, there were dogs—big. heavy ones—helow. No: we bad no possible chance, and I expect ed death each Instant. At tbe end of the longest qnarter o f an hour that I ever lived through I heard steps on the bidder and In a moment nlore saw tbe light which was carried by Ihe sullen man from below. I saw In ala right hand ihe gleam o f a long knife. Ills w ife came behind him, and ahe took the lamp from his hand. He wns barefooted, as well as the woman, and she bid tbe light o f tbe lamp from my face hy shading It with her hand. I ley there too overcome by fear. I admit, to move What conld ( have done In any case? Whispering softly, the couple pass ed by Where we lay and on to where I bad seen the ehnpelese masses banging to th# rafter*, and they nn covered n sack tilled with hums—their provision for winter, as I now know, i They cut two slice* from one of the hams and disappeared again down the I ladder with cantlon not to rouse us. I After this, while saying to myself that I rouet not let O'yself sleep, for | this might hsve been s febit. I did ! go to sleep snd knew nothing more until Julee mused me. “ Noel, Noel!" be shonted and ran Idown the ladder to Ihe room Iwlow. where tbe children were doing a* oilier children do on this day. examining and comparing their presents and eat lng a lot of sweet stuff not at all good 1 for them. I soon followed and liad a pleasant greeting from alL After a good breakfast o f ham snd | eggs snd coffee our horse* were ; brought. They had been well cared i for and danced abont. All the little company of men, the children and the woman were dressed In their holiday garments to go to ihe village down helow to urns*. When we offered to pay for our lodging no one would ac cept It. And. more, there had been j one chicken for breakfast, and as we were starting another was brought ua all cooked to take along on our Journey. The little girl said to me In couttdeuce ns she ant on my tup showing her poor little toys: “ I like chicken too. We had only two. hut mother hud to kill them for you. I don't know what I'll do with out my Plekey. Tbe other belonged to Joseph. Joseph la my brother, who died but month. My father loved him so much.” Here was the key to the riddle. The only thing they had that might be considered e luxury had been sacrificed for strangers, and what I had thought sullen roguery was bur a father’s hope less grief over the death of his first- lioro. Lodge Directory. Tarda under this heading cha ged for at $3 a year. will be Dallas A s s e m b ly No. 46, U N I T E D A R T IS A N S ( Meet* every first And third Monday evening» in Woodman hall. J. K M IL L F K . Master Artisan, W IL L IS SIMOXTON, Secretary Dallas C am p No. 2 0 9 , W . O. W . Meet* every Tuesday at Woodinsn hall, c *rnor of Washington and Jefferson street»*. Visiting neighbors welcome«]. T K A C Y H T A A T 8 , Consul Commander, W. (J. VA8SALL, Clerk City Express & Transfer Co. LON MC SCOTT, PKOPRIKTOR All kinds of hauling at reasonable rates. Phone orders promptly at tended to. Headquarter« at W'eb- ster’i confectionery. ! Phones. Hell Mutual 254 Barn Phone Mutual 245 DALLAS CITY BANK Dallas, Oregon. R.E. WILLIAMS • • President V . G. V A S S A LL • - C u h i« DiROcmas: It. C. Craven, I. N. H och M M. Rllis W. t i. Vassall. K. K. William*, R. H. McCallon. P J. Craven. This hank is pleased t«> placa I I I » lisposal ol its ’ uatomer» the laridti*« gamed daring many years of contn.no. « service and growth. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Curca Coida, Cro a » « ad W h& péag Cough.
