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AUCTION SALE
REAL ESTATE
CHRISTMAS IN
NEW YORK.
Sy JAMES A. EDGERTON.
OF
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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.
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A m e r ic a n P ra a a
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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
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A CHRISTMAS NIGHT
IN CALABRIA.
Saturday, December 23 j
...... ...... .
Beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., at
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tuesday Morning,
By PAUL LOUIS COURIER.
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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.
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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.
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V . G. V A S S A LL
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It. C. Craven, I. N. H och M M. Rllis
W. t i. Vassall. K. K. William*,
R. H. McCallon. P J. Craven.
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gamed daring many years of contn.no. «
service and growth.
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