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POULTRY AND GAME Can get you fancy prices for W ild Ducks and other game in season. W rite ua for cash offer on all kinds o f poultry, pork. etc. Pearson-Page Co., Portland For Sale or Trade— For Ore. or Wash. Land. 40 a. all cult., near Cedaredge. Delta Co.. Colo.; house, barn, outdldgs., 7-a. orchard, etc. ________________ E. W. Stolte.Cedaredge, Colo. For Sale—820 a. near Colville, Stevens Co.. Wash.; 40 a. cult., bal. timber; 4-r. house, barn, outbldgs., 2-a. orchard, stock, machinery, etc. __________________ L. E. Hedrick. Cohrilla, Wakh. For Sale or Trade for Western Property— 320 a. in Lee Co.. 111.; 125 a. cult.; 12-r. dwelling, m idem barn, outbldgs. sheds, etc. I. P. Clarke, Frsnklin Grove. 111. Second-Hand Machin ery bought, sold and exchanged: <nfrines. boilers, sawmills, etc. The J. E. Martin Co.. 83 lat St.. Portland. Send for Stock List and prices. Machinery BANDMEN: M HOLTON and BUESCHER band instruments. The most complete stock o f Musical Merchandise in the Northwest. W rite for Catalogues. HEIBKUUNG-LUCAS MUSIC CO. 134 Second Street Portland. Oregon HUNTERS! TRAPPERS! Deal direct with manufac turer. W e pay the highest prices for Raw Furs. W rite for free price list and shipping tags. V N. M. UNCAR CO., FURRIERS 191 Sswa* Strwt r PORTLAND. ORL A Toy for Cat* THE C A T N IP B A LL l _ . W ** THE EXERCBU For fun and health. A t drug, toy and department stores. W rite DR. A. C. DAN- ILLS. lie.. 182 MA SI.. BsUos. M am . for book on Cats. RAW FURS WANTED HIGHEST n ia s . QUICK KUUKNS g »• H. LIEBES & CO. J. P. Plagemann, Mar. MANUFACTURING FURRIERS 298 M ott isos Si. Corbett Bid?. Rot Fed Nati Bask. taitlasd.Ora. T h e W ro n g B u rn s. A t the town of Ayr, two miles out of Glasgow, stands the cottage built by William Burns, in which h s son Robert was born. A Californian, who was in Scotland recently, was asked if he would like to see the cottage oi William Burns. "Sure, I ’ll go,” re sponded the American, “ but I ’m blessed If I see how ‘he finds time to live there very much.” P u ttin g It D e lic a te ly . He was a stage aspirant, and had contrived aomehow to gain an Intro duction to a well known manager, who agreed to flx a date for a trial. This duly came off, and expectantly the aspirant awaited the verdict. "W hat do you think of it?” he asked, after a deep silence. “ W ell,” the man ager replied slowly, "all I can say is that If ever you are put In prison for acting it will be a grave miscarriage o f justice.”________ E rra tic T r a v e le r . Opportunity is the slowest thing In the world when it is approaching you; but when it is going in the other di rection It t r a v e l . f-«te r than light. Leisurely. "The hired man fell off the fence down in the meadow lot just now !” "Had he hit the ground when you left?” —Louisville Courier-Journal. NURSERYMEN WILL ATTEND SOME QUEER TABLE MANNERS Annual Rose Show in Portland to Be Great Évent. In A n c ie n t T im e s P eople W e re T o ld N o t to P ic k T h e ir T e e th W it h K n ife o r F o rk . Portland, Or.— The National Nur serymen’s association o f America will hold its annual convention in Portland next June and a la ge major ity o f the 3000 delegates will come to Portland in time to take in the Rose show and Rose festival. The Rose festival week comes June 9 to 14, and the floral exhibit will be one o f the greatest drawing cards for the first three days o f the celebration. The National Nurserymen’s association is the most important floral organization in the United States tnd in the mem bership and among the delegates who will be here will be the foremost pro fessional rosarians in the country. Special attention will be given to their entertainment while here and the judging in the Rose show compe titions will probably be done by some o f these experts. BEST PLACE TO KEEP FRUIT Space B etw een Beame P ro v id e e D r y Sp ot the M o lt F itte d fo r It* P ro p e r P re s e rv a tio n . “ Until the middle of the seventeenth century," writes Rose M. Bradley In the English Housewife, “ forks were a luxury, treated rather aa toys, elegant, with Jeweled handles, wherewith the ladies might pick daintily at their sweetmeats." Before the carving fork was Introduced paper covers were placed over those portions of the meat which had to be grasped with the left hand. The paper frills sometimes seen nowadays on cutlet bones are Were not made to do Machine Work, but said by the author to be a survtval of there ia a machine made to do Women'« the old custom. After smarting under Work, and it doea it quicker and better than it'« ever been done before. foreign criticism on their table man ners, Englishmen turned to French “ Rules of Civility," and others were compiled in English. Readers were warned “ not to wipe TAKES TH E W OKK OUT knife or fork on bread or the cloth, OF W ASH DAY. but on napkins." They were also re Free illustrated catalog sent upon receipt quested “ not to pick their teeth at o f the coupon below nr postal mentioning this paper. table with knife or fork.” “ Lady “ Lady Rich’s Closet of Rareties.” pub PORTLAND, OR. lished in 1653, begs each gentlewoman to "observe to keep her body straight, Send me your free Meadows and lean not by any means with her Washing Ma elbow, nor by ravenous gesture dis chine catalog. cover a voracious appetite." Nor must she talk with her mouth full of meat nor “ smack like a pig,” not eat spoon meat so hot that the tearB stand in her eyes. "It Is very uncomely," the author adds, "to drink so large a draft that your breath la almost gone and you are forced to re O ld e s t K n o w n P re s c rip tio n . cover yourself. Throwing down your The oldest prescription In the world liquor as Into a funnel is an action Is In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Utter for a Juggler than a gentlewo It is on a piece of stone 3x4 Inches in man.” size and was probably written 3,500 years ago in Egypt. The prescription takes up both faces of the stone and FUNNY MAN AT PICNIC PARTY Is written in the old cursive charac ters, the compound being a remedy W o o d e n H o rs e C an J u m p as H ig h a i E iffe l T o w e r , H e S aye In S p in that was used for a fumigation. WOMEN THE MEADOWS POWER WASHER Where person* have a house with eight or ten-inch beam* on which the floor 1* laid in the first story, the spaces between the beams make an ex* I cellent place to keep canned fruit In the cellar. Boards can be nailed firmly to the underside or the beams, forming shelves on which the fruit can be set. Wide boards are best. The air Is dryer In this point In the cellar than at any other place, and there is a freer circulation, too, keep ing the fruit in a more even tempera ture and better atmosphere than Is possible In a fruit cupboard or on shelves built along the side walls. In erecting such shelves care should be taken to secure the boards well with nails. A good plan Is to saw the Liquid blue la a weak solution. A ro ld it. Day M Cross Ball Blue, the blue that’s all blue. Aak boards to fit a certain place, allow R your eroeer. ing the ends to be Just even with the sides of the beams. Then a small Aw ake. board can be nailed firmly on the end "That man talks a great deal, but of the shelf and. when In place, nail you must admit tha( he's wide awake.” ed to the outside of the b^ams. "W ell," replied Farmer Corntoasel, re flecttvely, “ you couldn't expect a man Mothers w ill And Mrs. W in d o w *« Soothing Syrup t: e bast remedy to uaolur th eir ahlid m . 1 to fall asleep during one of his own ? urlu g .he teeth in g period. speeches.” ___________ M e d d lin g Stage D ire c to rs . In a recent lawsuit regarding the ownership of a play a stage director testified that In thirty-two years' theatrical experience he had never heard of a play being produced as originally written. "The chief duty of a stage director,’’ he said, "is med dling with manuscripts. I have even heard of stage directors who tried to Improve on Shakespeare by revamp ing his works.” Pettits Eve Salve Not Many. "Women are living longer than the did a generation ago,” says a statli tical authority. Yes, but will the own up to being any older?—E j change. Happy? No thoughtful person uses liquid blue. It's s pinch o f blue in a large bottle o f water. Ask foi Red Croua Ball Blue, the blue that's all blue. My Symphony. T o live content with small me&nB, <o seek elegance rather than luxury, tnd refinement rather than fashion; •o be worthy, not respectable, and veal thy, not rich; to study hard, think julckly, talk gently, act frankly; to lsten to stars and birds, to babeB and longs, with open heart; to bear all iheerfully, do ail bravely, await oo- saslons, hurry never— in a word, to et the spiritual, unbidden an<f uncon- icloos grow up through the common— :h!s Is to be my symphony.— Chan ting. __________________ I t ’ s r e a l l y o n ly a n o th e r w o r d f o r per fect digestion — active Km — bowel regularity. S ic k ness a lw a y s b rin g s d is c o n te n t and “ th e b lu e s ,” b u t w h y r e m ain s o? G e t a b o t tle o f H O S TETTER ’S Stomach Bitters O N L Y ONE "BROMO Q UININE” , That Is L A X A T IV E BROMO Q U IN IN E . Look I fur the elgnature o f E. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold ; in One Day. Cures Grip In Tw o Days. 25c. D ire c t H in t. 75 YEARS OF PUBLIC APPROVAL PILES CURED IN « TO 14 DATS Your druggist will refund money i f PA ZO OINT M E N T fails to cure any case o f Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding : Piles I in 6 to 14 days. 60c. W a s Even FOR C O N S T I P A T I O N a n d a ll fo r m s o f D IG E S TIV E D IS O R D ER S M ore U p se t. " I can’t understand bow you have the presumption to think I would permit my daughter to become your wife.” " It does seem rather surpris ing. I suppose: but cheer up, You're not hslf so badly upset as I was when she suggested it to me.” PUZZLE OF SPINNING WHEELS O b je c t Is to F in d S m a lle s t N u m b e r of S t ra ig h t L in e s In W h ic h E ac h W h e e l M ay Be E nc lo se d. What Is the smallest number of straight lines which can be drawn REFUSE S U B S T IT U T E S Poetry and Music. I f I had to live my life again I would Save made a rule to read some poetry ind listen to some music at least once «very week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus Save been kept active through use. The losa of these tastes is a losa of Sappiness, and may possibly be inju rious to the intellect, and more prob- sbly to the moral character, by en- ,'eebllng the emotional part of our na ture.—Charles Darwin. S p in n in g W h e e l P u zzi* . within this square so as to Inclose each of the wheels within separate boundaries? This diagram shows that the seven wheels, which spin so merrily when the paper Is rotated In the hand, can S a nd C u rs f o r F a tig u e . One of the moat efficacious cures for fatigue from overwork consists in walking barefoot in sand. The nerves D ISTEM P ER fOR C A T A R R H A L FEVER of the sole and heel are slightly irri A N D A L L NOSE tated by coming in contact with the A N D T H R O A T D ISEASES grains and accelerate the circulation Cares the sick and acts as a preventive for others. Liqaid of the blood in ell parts of the body. ffiven on the tongue. 8afe for brood mares and all others. Best The effect produced is highly Invig kidney remedy; 50 cents and $1 a bottle; $5 and $10the dozen. orating. Besides this, the monotony Bold by all druggists and horse goods housi or sent, expp of an ample extent of yellow sand ex. paid, by tne manufacturers. S o lu tio n o f P u zzle . SPOHN MEDICAL C O .. Chemists. Goshen. Ind. •retsea a soporific effect on the brain which Induces sleep— Harper’s Week- be divided off Into separate Insloeures by only three straight lines. S a v in g o f M en. W hile solving this, rotate the paper Men are led away from threatening in your hand and see the wheels spin. destrucUon; a hand is put Into theirs which leads them forth gently toward! The North P«cific College was estab Knew What to Expect. lished in 1898. It has departments of j a calm and bright land, so that the) A small boy who attends one o f the Dentistry and. Pharmacy. No school in look no more backward, and the hand America has better facilities for the train ■nay be a little child's—George Eliot grade schools was vaccinated recently, and after the arm had been dtesaed ine of young men and women for success- I Love as Form of Religion. the attending physician suggested that fui professional careers. The annual see- ( Lovo at Its highest point— love sub he place a ribbon with the word sion begins October First. An illustrated catalog o f information will be forwarded lime. unique. 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PINK EYE North Pacific College of Dentistry and Pharmacy Registrar, North Pacific College PUTNAM L to d a y . I t w ill m a k e th e “ i n n e r m a n ” s tr o n g an d h e a lth y and p r e v e n t S tom a ch Ills, C olds, G rip p e an d M a la r ia l D is o r ders. B o y ’s Idea o f th e V e it. They had been talking as they walk Little Burney attended a wedding ed. She had remarked pathetically: where the bride wore a veil. While “ Oh, It must be terrible to a man to going home he said: "Mamma, when be rejected by a woman!" "Indeed It you married did you wear curtains?” must," was his response. Then, after a while, with sympathetic ingenuous ness, she exclaimed: “ It doesn't seem that I could ever have the heart to do 1L” And there came a silence bo- tween them as he thought tt over. FOR EYE DISEASES ET u s put aside the official g o g ing Chinese were scattered here and gles of Peking and the jere there on the hulk, and If the vessel miads of Chinese worthlessneea. sailed before the game was finished I t and notice some of the ripples made little difference to the traveler—- stirred by the little white stone he simply waited for the next boat of western progress that has been Scores of coolies In their eagerness dropped Into the well-nigh stagnant to make a few "cash” In unloading the pool of Chinese thoughL The point cargo of rice sacks, tea, flour, cotton of impact Is small, but the„rlpples are goods and bales of silk, leaped from expanding. the hulk to the vessel before It cams Geographically, almost in the very to a standstill, and I was told thab heart of the yellow empire, nestles a some were drowned In the effort to ba beautiful summer resort. The lovely, first Little attention Is paid him who white bungalows, imposing churches and school buildings, telephones and thus falls Into the water. A rope la telegraphs scattered over this garden sometimes thrown, hut before this valley 5,000 feet above the level of life-thread can be availed of the vessel the sea, seem as though dropped from often closes In and he is heard of nor the hand of some giant fairy, and the more. more so when we consider that a The Chinaman's Idea Is that tba hundred years ago there was not a dragon wants those who are thus un Protestant Christian in China, writes fortunate, and It la tempting the de Thornwell Haynes in the Philadelphia mon's Ire to Interfere with his de Record. signs, not to speak of the responsibil But during the hot, trying days of ity of the rescuer for all the future every year at this summer resort of life o f the rescued. Kullng. just off the great yellow — When the cargo~ls~handled,- mails Yangtse, over 100 miles below Han exchanged and the passengers aboard, kow, the “ Chicago of China," some the eteamer pushes itself away from 1,500 foreigners, consisting mostly of I the hulk and twists Its nose on up missionaries. Interspersed with Amer river, paBt every conceivable kind of n in g L a te s t Y a r n . ican, English and German government craft. T h e P agodas. officials and tourists from all over the Being a funny man, he was at tt Farther on up the river, on the east, gather for two or three months again. Seated on the grass In the to regain depleted strength and store north side, was passed Nanking, the mtdst of the picnic party, he was spinning the latest yarns. "I say," he remarked to those as sembled, " I bet you can't answer this riddle.” 'Weil, what Is it?" asked a chorue of voices. “ Can you name an animal that has eyes and canont see, legs and cannot walk, but can jump as high as the Eiffel tower?” All racked their brains and there was a deep silence for a moment. “ I don't know,” remarked some one. " I give it up." The rest of the party also signified inability to solve the riddle. “ The answer,” said the funny man, "is a wooden horse. It has eyes and cannot see and legs and cannot walk.” "Yes, but how does it Jump as high as the Eiffel tower?" came the tri umphant shout. “ The Eiffel tower," said the funny man as he made preparations for hur ried departure, ‘‘can't Jump at a ll!” — Tlt-Blts. FADELESS DYES A Chinese ap energy for another year’s on slaught against Chinese apathy. All travelers to Kullng must go by way of the Yangtse to Kluklang, the river port, whence they go over and up the hills toward the south for sev eral miles to Kullng, and these Jour- news to and from that Mecca of health are as Interesting and helpful aa the residence there. Luxurious Boat*. While American conaul at Nanking I took this Journey. "Lazy John” had begun to bespeak the coming o f the hot summer months, and one early morning of June found myself at Hslakwaa. the port o f Nanking, the old southern capital of China, await ing the up-river steamer toward Han kow. These boats are models of luxury, the staterooms are large, the bertha resemble beds, your servants are al lowed free passage, wine Is served free at meals, electric bells, fans, lights vie to be nearest at hand— In fact, every convenience and lnxuary abounds When our vessel docked at the hulk, native passengers began crowd ing on board, and luggage-carrying coolies were clamoring for pay Groups of card playing, opium-amok- Pö-godA capital of Nganhul province, which contains one-third as many Inhab itants aa the United States. Just at the water’s edge Is a beautiful pa goda, a most Interesting type of that peculiar class of buildings that rise three, five, seven, nine— always an odd number— stories high In the form of a narrow and polygonal obelisk, which Is tenanted mostly by Idols and hats. The stiffness of the lines of this pagoda has been toned by time; de cay has thrown off a brick here and there; the lightning and winds have robbed It of several corners, and Na ture has dropped seed on Its roofs which the fierce tropical son has Warmed Into maturity. A t ao frequent Intervals on both tildes of the liver are seen these pago das that they seem almost a natural feature of the landscape. From them magnificent blrdseye views of the sur rounding country are obtained; but not all are open to ascent The purpose of erecting pagodas Is the same as that for which we more civilized nations Install systems o f sewerage. The pagoda secures health, old age and prosperity. The winds may blow, but they bring no harm, floods may come, but they cause so dam az a v j