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About Cottage Grove echo=leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 18??-1895 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1896)
love song of tree crickets ami toads, the you dry. For the rest I must see him deep reed notes of frogs in their patches myself. And I shall not die o f fever, o f marsh, and through ail mingled the , ... , . T u i . t am engulfed and drown deliciously. because I shall get this yacht to take me M a n , W u n d e r. A c c o m p la h td by This ^ ^ uaio> uke „ perfnine> and swret light. heavy diapason of the snrf, from across around to the outside and go from there, U s e fu l In s tr u m e n t. Golden w ith audible odors exquisite. the dnnes, and the forest, and the black and so not have to spend a night ashore Anything that may be penetrated by ! Swathe me w ith cerements fo r eternity. waters of the lake, mellowed by its pas at alL N or w i l l the insects of the fo o d f o r th e s e tv in c ma- Timc is no more- 1 Pan3e' and Tet 1 flee- sage through the purple night. I am the a needle i ^ , | A m illion ngos w rap me round w ith night, swamp devour me, because I own a wide most practical and unpoetical creature chine. It makes loop and chain I drain a m illion pges o f delight. brimmed bat and a large and most ex stitches through cloth o f any kind and [ hold the future in my memory. in the world, as a general thing, bnt the cellent v e il.” I have this garret which I rent, inflr’ c s te 'b i it was too heavy for me. I thickness, heavy duck, wood veneers, Also This bed o f straw and this that was a chair, In an hour’s tim e the two yachts were started on to chat again about the boats, leather, heavy carpets, rubber, ¡and This wornout body like a tattered tent. Etanding ont board and board over the and about women and yachts and books anything that a needle can go through. This crust o f w’hich the rats have eaten part, bar which guards the entrance to Bayon This pipe o f opium, rage, remorse, despair, and the other interests of the outer The button-sewing machine w ill sew This soul at pawn and this delirious heart. Bon Seconrs. There was a romping world, bnt the things fe ll flat, and pres on any kind o f a button—four hole, two- —Arthu r Symons. breeze from the nor’ard, aud we sped at ently the talk died out of us altogether. eight knots past the low shore, where Skyscrapers May Disappear. W e lay there, hung in silence and sen only the tree stems show above the wa suously drinking in what the night gave A prominent Chicago engineer says ter. Then we slipped ont through the up. We must have spent hours without that the great bed of jellylik e mud on channel between Dauphin island and throwing down a word. which Chicago stands is not suited to When ladies go alligator bunting, Fort Morgan, and lifted to the swing of Then Atcheson spoke. “ That is my high buildings, and that some of the they should c ’ early understand that the outer sea, running east along the usual concert,” he said. "O n e gets to skyscrapers in that city w ill become people whom they find and associate g u lf coast. like i t . ” total wrecks, like the government build O f course Miss Wilcoxn did go to see with freely iu an Alabama bayou should I did not answer at once. I could not, ing. The board of trade building has not always be bowed to in Piccadilly. although his words came clearly enough Atcheson. I took her to the island m y settled from to 16 inches, and this This sounds simple— an axiom, in fact— to my ears. A sort o f mesmeric doze self, through au intolerable maze of difference of inches has considerably lakes and waterways, and told the Van but because Miss Wilcoxn did such an pinned me down. damaged the structure.— St. Louis LARG EST SEWING MACHINE MADE. Sciaks that we hoped to slay alligators uncalled for bowing, things happened When I managed to rouse, I fe lt angry Globe-Democrat. hole or “ bar,” and It w ill place them which pnt tw o most respectable fam w ith m yself for weakness and spoke by daylight, which is probably the bald securely on the garment at the rate of ilies in a condition of open fury, and I w ith a sneer. “ You musttind it mighty est excuse a grown man w ith a pretty Yenemaela'« Big Grant. invention ever made. But I w ill give earned dislike as the origin of ev il. As monotonous,” I said. The Veoezulean government has 3,000 to 5,000 a day. the g irl credit for one thing— she didn’t It w ill sew on a tiny shirt button or a matter of accuracy, my yachtmato “ A mistake; an utter mistake. It is granted a big concession of the richest stay talking to the fellow for more than section of Gniana, on the upper Orino one o f those butter-saucer buttons, two j was far more gu ilty than I. He had fu ll of infinite v a riety ; it never repeats and a half Inches In diameter, which gone a-fishing one day in his shirt, and itself, and I know, because I have lis ten minutes. What she said to him I co, to a syndicate of capitalists. don’t know, because my instructions The concession is in a portion of the women put on their Jackets to-day, and had spent eight hours sandwiched be- tened to it now for three years, in calm, were to stay by the boat and see that it country which is not claimed by Great it does not add a cent to the cost o f | tween wind and water, and had natu- in cyclone, in every kind of night which rally returned w ith his legs bitten red God w ill give. It is his orchestra, bnt didn’ t d rift away. But when she came making the garment. Britain. back and we rowed off she found cause I t is believed that it w ill be colonized The demand came fo r a machine raw by the snn. He developed a temper until the taste has grown one does not to comment that Atcheson was a enrious by United States citizens, who are like which would give a larger daily output. in consequence that would have made know this. ” handful. Another pause. Then, “ Are yon going ly to develop its great natural resources. The machines were sewing 2,000 and | him shunned in the pit, and I was driv- “ I told you that before,” I said. to w rite about this Walden pond of 2,400 stitches a minute, but that was - en into a deed of temporary separation. “ N ow you’ve learned it for yonrself, I H O W TO K E E P HOUSE. Our yacht was then in the bayou of yours?” I asked. not fast enough to suit the men who trust you’re satisfied?” “ I am no Thorenu w ith a pen. B e used them. A machine was Invented | Bon Seconrs, which opens off Mobile “ I am entirely, Mac. I hope you are With all the luxuries and pleasures of bay.and ¡be man with the sunburned legs sides, I am selfish and if I could set this which sews 3,500 stitches a minute, and too.” this life, its big enjoyments and its smaller ____ . . . . . j ________ __ ______ _______ does It every minute It works. It is ™id w ith adjectives that move- down I would not. One man in ten But when I got back to town, and to comforts, there Is an effect or antithesis used on irVny fabrics, for sewing un- ment for him was ->ut o f the question, i thousand m ight understand, some w ild my vast astonishment saw Atcheson which we have to contend with in the ■He remarked that ne would stay on the fellow who had lived in the air w ith the form of aches and pains. In some way and derwear and clothing and such work. sloop and fish for gaff tops’ ls (as they things that grow in the air away from there, then a light began to dawn upon Between the double-needle and the by some means every one has a touch of call the catfish), andcavallos and sheep- the pestilence of cities, aud ho would me. He was marching down P a ll M all them in some form at some time. TriUicg 12-needle machines are those which as large as life and very resplendent. as some of them may be. the risk is that sew four, six or more, up to twelve, heads and sharks and whatever else he never lift a book, but the others would Ho had on a frock coat down to his comd get, and said that polite conversa either yawn or deride and I take it this they will grow to so nettling greater and parallel seams at a time. T hey are rack the system with constant torture. tion was a strain to him. Ho stated that is no matter to be profaned. And yet heels, the last g ift of the gods in the There is nothing, therefore, ot this kind used to sew parallel seams on harrlms, our crew (o f one negro) would make a there is nothing new in it at a ll; only way of hat and tie, and a new reaped that we have a right to trHe with. Taken for sewing together the stripes o f flags, chin, which stood out refreshingly white In time, the worst forms o f aches and for running up the sides o f overalls suitable hurt for his future remarks, the old things chang’ d. I have rambled against the rest of his conntenance. He and put forward the suggestions that I over the world and seen and tried most pains are easi'y subdued and permanent^ cured by the free use o( St. Jacobs Oil. No and trousers, and a hundred other should take m yself off. “ Go and hunt pleasures; the sounds here give it all shook me by the hand aud said I was a well regulated household ought to be with things. alligators np the lagoons, and live a sav hack to mo again, only hero it is ideal great man. Then we went into a clnb out a bottle of this great remedy for pain. F or a long tim e manufacturers were and talked for several hours without a One good reason fur this is that some kinds satisfied with the plain, flat bed o f the age in the swamps, and eat crackers and ized. ” stop, and he explained to me how a trout, and catch fever i f there’s any o f sudden pain are acute enourh to oe The spell of tho placo was closing fatal, where the application of the great ordinary machine, with such attach throwing about,” said the man w ith down again aud pinning me. I roused hermit cannot hermitize nnless he has a cure might save life. You want it also in ments and additions as they required the sunburned legs. “ T h at'll be about disease vulgarly known as the “ hump. ” myself w ith an effort and swo;o for re the bouse at all times for hurts, cuts and for special work. But some fellow who “ I t ’s enjoyable enough while you your form. ” So I pitied the nigger and lief. “ Atcheson,” I said, “ IL elie v e yo u wounds, and the house that always has it wanted something done thnt apparent went off— in pale pink pyjamas aud the have that,” said Atcheson, “ but when keeps a sort of insurance against pain. are either the d evil or Circe w ith a the hump goes the bottom's knocked ly was Impossible made his cry for a changed sex. Be merciful and speak no “ Mamma,! saw a dog today that had only tubular, or cylindrical, shaped bed, so ten foot yawlboat. thre" legs.” “ Weren’ t you awfully ttorry for The subsequent sail down the lagoon, more and let me sleep. I f I listen on, 1 out o f the hermit business altogether. Wbat a filthy, squalid brnte I must have h im !” “ Xo'm ; he h&a one more leg taan I that he could stitch around a hollow uDder a brazen torrent of sunshine, shall forget the place from whence I am had I” ______________________ article, such as a collar box or a shoe came as one o f the seven pleasures of come and stay litre aLt) Leconte as one been a ll that tim e.” A T R I N I T Y O F E V IL S . "B u t you liked it w e ll enough?” vamp. life. There was a great w a ll of trees on o f the swine. ” “ I believe I did, in my morbid way. H e got his machine, and then came the landward side, rearing itself from “ I am s o n y ,” Atcheson said, “ and B Untune«», link hesdacbe aud irregularity o! thebco- Is accompany each other. To there- the demand for one which would sew the water’s lip in a hedge of under because I do not want converts or com But i t ’s over and done w ith now, thank tuoval of that trinity of evils Hosutter's atom hollow things lengthwise instead of growth. T o southward, from over the panions I w ill say no more. Therefore heaven, and ‘ I ’ m going to marry Ynm- acu Bitter» 1» specially adapted. It also cures Yum, Yum-Ynm , yonr anger pray tar aynpep-la, rheumatism, malarial complaints, around. N ow there are no less than rambling line of dunes, w ith their sleep yon. ” blliou-n -a, nervousue-s and constipation. The six different styles o f machines for ry ’— Oh, bother, I ’ve forgotten the • • • • * * fringes o f sernb grass and palmetto, most satlsfactoiy results follow a fair trial Ute words. Jove 1 I shall have a lot to pick came the dim bellow of the surf as it It d a i l y . _______________________ The miasma of the lotus was iu my creamed and crumbled on the white veins aud I knew it aud feared. I woke np again.” When a man really loves his neighbor as him “ That’s a fact,” I said. “ Ordinary self It generally turns out that the neighbor la a gu lf sand. And down the silver ripples sullen and suspicions with 'h e first lift pretty girl. ______________________ of the lagoon there blew an air, faintly of day aud get down to my boat. Atche sanity, among other things. And so I believe mv prompt use of Piso’s Cure salt, which chilled the wet cotton against son came after and cried n pleasant, auf you’re going to marry Mary Wilcoxn, after all?” prevented quick consumption —Mrs. Lucy one’s spine. wiedersehen, and I answered with a Wallace, Marquette, Kans., Dec. 12, ’95. “ I t ’s a sure thing. O f conrse her peo The lagoon hayed to an end, and there Bcowl and threw out the sculls. I was opened out another ch arrel to be punted very angry w ith m yself ant! still more ple were mad, because I ’ m not very w ell B E W A R E O P O IN T M E N T S F O R C A through, a narrow winding canal of frightened. I bail b-cu iu that kind of off, don't yon know, and the other John T A R R H T H A T C O N T A IN M E R C U R Y , tw irls and branches through qnakiug temptation before and knew what it was nie’s people are mad, too, at his being As mercury w ill surely destroy the sense of SEWS SW EAT P A D S — 3,500 S T IT C H E S A marsh land, a waterway rustling w ith afterward to wish that 1 had fallen. cut out. But you’re the person they smeli and completely derm g# .he wholn sys em M IN U T E . fish and ablaze w ith yellow lilies. Car Consequently I made up my mind to get can’t get over. I t ’s you they were w ild when e tering it through the mucous surfaces. They w ill persist in it 8u« h a iti les kh uld never h® u*ed except o> sewing up legs o f trousers, high-topped dinal birds peered at one from the bushes, back to the yacht without,a halt and so at principally. p r scriptiom from rtput.ble i»hybiciaii*, ns the that yon were at the bottom of the dam ge they w ill do is len fold to the good you boots, seams o f shirts, fo r sewing the and purple herons thrust out enrions put iu a day of savage toil, anil because Isn’t it deligh tfully fun can p sslbly derive from tnem. fla il's Catarrh cylindrical part o f collar boxes, for beaks from the grass clumps. I', was all the suu above burned like a kettle of whole thing. Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co , To ny?” molten brass and the air baked, the ma backstaying shoes and for many other very peaceable and extremely hot. ledo. O., contains no mercury, and is taken In I didn’t think it funny at all. I make ternnlly. *ct ng directly tu»on the blood aim Then there came a lake w ith islands, terial pain3 of the body gave me other purposes, and new uses are found for mucous ^urfacei of the system. In buying Hall [ a lake o f water called by conrtpsy fresh, matters to think abont. And when 1 quite sufficient enemies off my own bat Catarrh lu r e be sure jo u get the genuine. It is them every day. for personal consumption. And besides, takeu interna ly, and im-de in Toitdo, Ohio, b> Clothing makers shouted fo r a ma which was lemon yellow to look through made out tho sloop’s riding light danc as I have said, i f the other fool hadn’t F. J. i heney <& t;o. Testimonial«* fiee. aDd black to look upon. It swarmed ing cu her frrestuy I knew there was Sold by druggist«*, price 75c per bottle. chine to make buttonholes, and here is got his legs sunburned, I shouldn’t have Hall’s Family Pills are the best. one that w ill cut and make 2,500 to with fish, which took the hook aud were another antidote close at hand. THoman gone off solns in the yawlboat and m ed FIT8-— A ll fits slopped tree by Dr. Kline'» 5,000 buttonholes a day. The first ma supped upon for their sins, and because with tho sunburned logs was a very cat dled w ith Atcheson at all.— C. J. Cut- Great Nerve Restorer. No fits aftei the flrM there was no whisky in the yawlboat for ual and practical sort of person. dey’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and |2.0 chines did good work in a way, but cliffe Hyne in Chambers’ Journal. dilution it served as a beverage in all trial bottle free to Fit cases Send to Dr. Kline Ho received me affably. Ho fed me they did not make buttonholes that HI Arch St. Philadelphia. Pa its snlpbnrons nastiness. Then the snn first with sumptuonsnees, referred to (he could not be told from the hand made. C U R IO U S S P O R T IN C U B A . dipped behind the forests at the back, decrease of his own affliction, and th e » T% t G eb m b a tor breakfast. No one but an expert can tell the dlf- and night followed like the shutting told me that we and the oystermau no Cruel Am usem ents W it h Ducks, Chickens ference between those made by the ma- and B u lls as th e Victim s. down o f a box. One mounted a bullseye longer had the bayon to ourselves. | chine now used and those made by lantern on the hatband, which would “ The Van Sciaks have come in w i t h Cubans of the lower and middle hand. shine down a rifle ’s sights, and pnt ont their schooner,” he said, “ and they've classes indulge their sporting blood in The largest sewing machine in the again iu the boat, paddling stealthily. It a g irl on board who says she knows yen pastimes which would not be tolerated world is eighteen feet long. It is used The iron grasp of scrofula has no in the manufacture o f very wide belts is not always easy to distinguish be- — a Miss Wilcoxn. ” in a country having a Society For the “ A h ,” I said, “ I know her w e ll Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. m ercy upon its victims. This demon and has one needle. It is supplied with tweeu a firefly and the gleam o f an a lli of the blood is often not satisfied w ith corrugated feed rolls which not only gator’s eye, and shots are apt to be enough. We used to see a goodish deal On fete days in the smaller towns and causing dreadful sores, but racks the feeds the material to the needle but wasted and the neighborhood scared o f one another once.” villages which can’t support a bull Bnt on that night fortune held, and the “ I f you mean that you were spoons fight a favorite sport is to hang a sleek body with the pains of rheumatism compress the canvas layers together. lead went home six several times. Then on the lady, ” said the man with the fat dnek by the feet by a w ire or rope until Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures. One o f the oddest uses to which a sew the dead were made more safely dead sunburned legs, “ I guess you’d better stretched between tw o trees or posts on “ Nearly four year« ago I became af ing machine w asever put was for sewing flicted with scrofula and rheumatism. canvas on wood veneers, used for build j w ith the ax, and their slayer laid him forget that. She’s engaged to a Yankee the village plaza. The head of the dnek ! down to sleep on the boat’s floor with man front Massachusetts now, a person hangs just out of reach of a man on ing light, portable houses. The veneer his head beside the centerboard trunk. with cultnro and dollars— heaps of dol horseback, and (be “ sport” consists in is three-ply, and to increase its strength So passed m y first night away from lars— about 10,000,000 of ’em, so I be riding under the poor duck at fu ll speed, without adding weight it is backed the sloop. The morning was occupied in lieve. And being anno aetatis sum 28, grabbing it by the neck aud pnlliDg with canvas and this canvas is sewed the process of skinning, and then once she knows what is a soft thing and is its head off. A duck’s neck w ill stretch on. more on toward the east. There were not likely to chuck it up. Take off those a great deal, aud it requires a firm hold Banning «ores broke oat on my thighs. Then the wood and canvas are soak more lakes and more canals all fu ll of rags aud put on something respectable aud a determined jerk to yank off the Pf»cei of bone came eat and an operation ed in mineral paint and dried, and thus their own new wonders, and ever away and w e ’ ll make the nigger scull us prize. was contemplated. I had rheumatism in made impervious to water and moisture in the distance on the starboard hand across. She said I was to bring you The duck frequently resists the efforts my legs, drawn up oat of shape. I lost ap proof. There are over 300 different was the noise of the snrf as it broke when you turned np. ” of half a dozen riders before parting petite, could not Bleep. I was a perfect kinds ot sewing machines made and where the logs from the gu lf rivers bris “ N ot now. A t present I am going to w ith it3 head. The horsemen sometimes wreck. I continued to grow worse and used in this country. tle in the m ilky sand. In late afternoon turn in to sleep. Probably I shall die miss the dnek entirely, lose their bal finally gave up the doctor’e treatm--.» to I came to a lagoon with a wooded island in the course of the night. It w ill save ance aud roll out of the saddle into the Sage T ak es No Chances. [ in it, and among the trees of the is mo the trouble and pain of kicking m y dust. This furnishes fun for everybody It is a certainty that not a man alive land, when they grew distinct from one self i f I do.” except the duck. will ever get into Russell Sage’s office i another, I saw a man. “ Did you,” said the man with the The game may also he played on the to throw another bomb at him. His I bore down on him under sail, for sunburned legs, “ in the course of yonr water, in which case the line on which outer room is fnrnitured like a bank, there was a spanking breeze coming in wanderings find a place where they sold the duck hangs is stretched between the taka Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Soon appetite and the visitor's card is shoved through from the sea, and when we were within corn whisky? Oh, you’re snoring al masts of tw o anchored boats, and row a small hole in the high fence—just such came b a c k ; the tores commenced to heal. hailing distanco the boat grounded. ready, are yon? Surely i t ’s drunk you boats are substituted for horses. My 11mbe straightened out and I th r e w a hole as that through which the .lay “ Do you want to land here?” be are, my son, because otherwise you’ve In another country game a chicken is awuy my crn tcb es A I am n ow stout and ing teller hands money for an honored shouted. come back very dotty. What rot to go buried alive in the ground to the neck, hearty and am farming, whercs four cheek. Outside o f the fence, against “ I don’ t mind i f I do. ” and live like a hermit all by your lone its head alone being visible. The men year* ago I was a cripple. I gladlv rec the white plastered walls, stands a “ Then shove off again and drop down some. ” ommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla. ’ URBAN who enter the game are blir.dfolded and long bench, upon which visitors sit. H a m m o n d , Table Q ro ve , Illinois. to the ta il o f the island and luff up • • • • • • armed w ith a machete, a long knife sharp where you see a barked tree on Miss Wilcoxn was a young woman used in cutting cane. They are walked H a r d ly W o r t h th e T r o u b le . the beach. There’s no deep water until with a great Dotion of having her own around in confusing circles for a few Sam Jones told the South Carolina you come to Hmre. ” • L a A a «:1 —---- 1 , 1 __ 1 • way. Had I known her less I should minntes and then released for au attack legislators that t * the devil would get I did as he told me, put the boat's most o f them, but thanked God that nose on a small beach o f pebbles and have tried to avoid speaking on a mat on the chicken’s head. The one who he would not get much.—Galveston waited, smoking. I waited half an hour ter which I preferred to keep silence cuts off the head clean in the fewest upon. Being acquainted, as we were, I number of strokes wins the prize. Nows. maybe, and then he strolled np very In default of a bull fight the Cubans did not bring out any futile stubborn leisurely w ith his thumbs in the waist ness. indulge in a bull baiting game on which lathe One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. |L belt of his trousers. I can't say he Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell. Mass. She wanted to know what there was money is wagered. A bull is released in 6eemed overpleased to see me. He asked to be seen in the lagoons and lakes, and an inclosure which is too small to give ■ » _ , , n . , t cure liver with poiDt what I had come for. H O O U S Pills take, easy to I told her, with one reservation, but him mnch play and from which bo can I told him, and then said, “ By the my tale did not quite hold water, and not escape. Any one who wishes may way, you’re a varsity man, aren’ t yon?” she twigged that there was something enter a dog to fight the bull. The dog “ Yes, O xford—the House. You are, left out and demanded to hear what it which succeeds in securing a neck or too, I'v e a notion. ” was, whereupon I shrugged my shoul nose hold on the bull and brings him to “ From over the w ay— Pembroke.” ders helplessly aud told her about Ateh- the ground wins the game. From half a “ W ell, if you’ ve nothing better on, eson, chapter, commas and verse, dozen to 15 dogs are often entered n e v e r yet leave your boat ami come np to my merely lying in the solitary instance of against one bull and their owners bet place. Sorry I didn’ t tumble to you at large sums ou their candidates. A l a personal name. equalled first, but then you don’t look over re “ You say that he is a Christchurch though all the dogs worry and fight the the spectable just now. A re you much down man?” she demanded, when I had fin bull, and consequently all are respon on yonr luck?” sible for his ultimate overthrow, yet ished. “ Oh, I ’m not hunting alligators pro only the dog which actually brings him “ Did I say so?” fessionally. I ’m here for amusement.” “ Yon did, aud yon mentioned also to earth is the winner.— St. Louis Post- VELVETEEN 1 concluded ne was mere because be Dispatch. had got into trouble with the law of the that he rowed against you at Henley's SKIRT BINDING. for the Stewards’ and Ladies’ plate. R > s k in ’n H a n d w ritin g . ith a better understanding o f the land elsewhere, but I did not suggest That fixes him. I f yon’d done me the Simply refuse transient nature o f the many phys this because it is considered rude to The Strand Magazine prints some fac ical ills, which vanish before proper e f touch upou fam ily matters uninvited. compliment to rememher, I was down similes of the handwriting of John Rus- the “ just as good ” sort. forts—gen tle efforts—pleasant efforts— But after a minute he broached the there on a houseboat that year. And so, kin, including extracts from letters i l righ tly directed. If your dealer will not , .. T . h ere is com . fort _ in . topichimself. “ I ’ m here for amusement of course, his name isn’t Foote at all?” lustrated with offhand sketches. The the knowledge, that so many forms of l . ■ , ___ ______ supply you we will. “ Perhaps i t ’s got changed,” I admit sickness are not due to any actual dis- he Sald' Im here Perma' ted weakly. “ M en’s names do, you handwriting may not show spontaneity, tamples shoving labels and materials mailed free. ease, but simply to a constipated condi- neDtly. generosity aud all the other traits which Home Dressmaking.' a new book by Miss By this tim e w e had got into a bit of know, when they climb down the 6cale the expert analyst claims to find, but it Emma M. Hooper, of the Ladies' Home Journal, tion o f the system, which the pleasant as he’s done.” a clearing inside the w ail of trees— a fam ily laxative, b yru p o f Figs, prompt telling how to put on Bias Velveteen Skirt B'nd- “ Hum ,” she said, and pulled down a is certainly characteristic and expressive. Ings sent for 25c.. postage paid ly removes. T h a t is w h y it is the only patch of sorghum, another of sweet po S. M. A M. Co., P. O. Box 69* N. Y. City. rem edy w ith m illion sof fam ilies, and is tatoes, another of corn with stalks that chart of the northern gu lf coast from Possioly it is to be attributed to the ar every where esteemed so highly by all stood ten feet high, and a goodly plant its cleat in the cabin roof. “ N ow show tistic aud expressive. Possibly it is to bo attributed to the artistic tempera w ho value good health. Its beneficial exactly where this hermit lives.” effects are due to the fact, that itis the ing of green tobacco plants, with sham- “ The chart’s a ll wrong. The place ment that varies so mnch from tim e to ■ I l f l L L I I O P E A C E one remedy which promotes internal bling palmetto growth at the back. time, sometimes being beautifully dis there isn't surveyed ” BEIT IN 1NE WORLD. I V C M O C C le a n lin e s s w ithout d e b i l i t a t i n g t h e “ F aith ,” I said, “ you’ ve quee queer no “ Precisely. Bnt you’ve been there, tinct and again barely legible. A re It« wearing qualities are un«urpssFe<E actually organs on w hich it acts. I t is therefore tions of a pleasure resort. ” markable specimen is taken from a let outlasting two boxes o f any other brand Fiee all important, in order to g e t its bene “ I ’m a man,” he said, “ w ith an and you know the lay of it. Don’t be ter written at the age of 9, inscribed from Animtfl Oils. « ► T T H E ( )B ' U 1N K . shy. Your powers, my dear Mac, in that ficial effects, to note w h en you pur FUR SALK BY OREGON A M ) imagination. Consequently I make a with minute care, and in stiff but not f l ^ W A S H I N O T O N M E K C H A N T S ^ I chase, th at you have the genuine arti most comfortable hermit. Come in and direction are notorious. H ere’s a pen ungraceful outlines, somo of the capitals cle, which is manufactured by the Cali and Dealers generally. cil. F ill it in accurately and tell me fornia F ig Syrup Co. on ly and sold by take a hammock. Where’s onr eight on the landmarks from the gu lf side.” and figures being drawn with studied the river?” a ll reputable druggists. “ I f yon go up there aud see this fe l ornamentation. — Springfield Republic- for I f in the enjoym ent o f good health, I told him, and we went on hard at Itching and Blind. Blowing or Protruding Piles yield at once to low and sleep even one night in those m l « r e m e d y , »top. twx- and the system is regular, laxatives or boating shop till the snn went ont. log, BMorbo tuiiior*. A positive cure. Circular# sent free. Price other remedies are then not needed. I f **«• » ’ -MU’. « U L. till. littSANRO. I’ hll»., Pa. N o , N o r F i r i n g T h e m , E it h e r . I began to have a strong idea that the swamps, yo u 'll catch fever aud die; afflicted w ith any actual disease, one man was mad, but I stopped my huDger also the mosquitoes and the sand flies An iron bed for an engine weighing may be commended to the most skillful w ill eat most of you before death comes. ut P i s a ' s c im E -r ifO R ? physielans, but if in need o f a laxative, on his victuals for all that, end then re Don’t be a fool. What more do you want 60 tons was cast in one piece in B alti lUilib rtutKfc ALL ELSE FAILS, lit my pipe aud wen* on w ith the talk. more last week. There w ill be no diffi one should have the best, and w ith the t Cough Syrup. Tvitew Good. Ui In time. Sold by druggists. From the other side of the clearing to kno-v about the man? Stay here, and culty about cnsf 'r g big guns when the well-inform ed everywhere, Syrup o f Figs stands highest and Is most largely came the noises of the night— the chat I w ill tell you.” C O N S U M P T IO N necessity arista.— ¡at. Louis Globe-Dem “ My excellent Mao, I have pumped ocrat. % Med and gives most general satisfaction. ter of k*tv<li<ls and rustle of jarflies, the The New Hen. EL B. Tucker, a farmer who lives four miles south of Sedalia, Mo., had a colony o f 50 Plymouth Bock hens and 5 roosters. The latter weTe all killed last Friday, it being Mr. Tucker’s intention to replace them w ith younger fowls. On Sunday morning, the young roosters not yet having arrived, the entire colony of hens set up a vigorous crowing, almost in perfect imitation of the crow of a rooster, and have continued it each morning since.— St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. T H E SEWING MACHINE. ANOTHER THE OPIUM SMOKER. GRATEFUL FAMILY. Mr. Miller Considers Paine’s Celery Compound a National Blessing. THE HERMIT. ' The shy young man and timid maid In silence wait from week to week. Each wondering, modestly afraid. Whose place it really is to speak. —Washington Star. "H o w was the bride given aw ay?” “ By her complexion.” —Chicago R ec ord. Gazley—“ Is it good to eat at night be fore going to bed?” Lazbey—“ Be def inite, man, is what good to eat?” —Box bury Gazette. Old Bachelor—“ N ow that your sister has married, it is your turn.” Young lady—“ Is that meant as an offer?” — Lustige Blatter. There is no spiing remedy eqt al t i Paine's celery compound. Sufferer* from debility who find their "Thous hast a pretty w it,” quoth the convalescence too slow, are joyously monarch. "A y e , and a dry humor,” re surprised by the brisk impetus toward plied the jester. Whereupon the king recovery that comes from Paine’ s celery pushed the button.—Philadelphia Rec compound. Its healing, nerve-restor ing, blood-makiDg, nourishing powers ord. go so directly to the root c f the trouble A fte r the Ball.—First Sweet Thing— that the progress toward health and “ Jack says Miss Passe didn't look twen strength is steady and uninterrupted. ty last night.” Second Sweet Thin g— N o relapses come when Paine’ s celery “ No. She looked thirty-five!” —New compound has once fa irly begun its York Tribune. healthful action. Corroborated. — N ew -Yorker — “ Are W ith a stronger appetite, sounder Philadelphians as slow as New-Yorkers sleep, and better digestion (results that think they are?” Philadelphian (stir- everyone has experienced who has prised)—“ Do New-Yorkers think we’ re taken Paine’ s celery compoundt, the si j w ?” — Truth. weak and sore kidneys and the tired “ I t is sad,” said one girl, “ that so stomach cease to trouble, and the many men nowadays have a great deal nerves allow one to work unvexed by day and to sleep by night w ithout dis more money than brains.’” “ Yes,” This is what physicians sighed another; “ and so little money at turbance. mean when they say that Paine's celery that.” —W ashington Star. oompound cures nervous diseases per “ K itty , why has our French Revolu manently. tion Club called au extra meeting?” F or disordered liver, and for all “ Oh, Nan. w e ure so bothered; we can't blood diseases, physicians use this great find out whether we’re read tw o vol formula o f Prof. Edward E. Phelps, ume's or three.” —Louisville Courier- M. D., L L . D., of Dartmouth college— Jottrna 1. Belle—“ You know Jack Giddiboy, of T h e K x p a n s lo n o f Ic e . course; dou’t you think lie is Just out Ice never bursts from freezing. As o f sight?” Sadie—“ Indeed lie Is! a very personification o f the old saying, soon as the liquid of which it is com ’out o f sight out o f mind.’ ’’—Boston posed is frozen solid expansion ceases. The cracking or bursting of ice is Courier. brought about in this w ay: When water ’Tis well your heaviest wraps to wear is subjected to extreme cold, ice crystals When you a-skaling go, w ill gradually form on its surface until E ’en though for frost you do not care; the same are covered with a thin coat of They break the fall, you know. what appears to be wet snow. From —Washington Star. “ I understand your daughter has this outer coating of ice crystals all sub given up bicycle riding.” “ Y’ es. She sequent freezing goes downward, the sold her wheel as soon as site fouud out ice thickening according to the degree she couldn’t wear bigli-hoeled shoes on o f cold. The water which is being con it with any degree o f success.” —Chica verted into ice now begins to expand, creating a pressure upon the unfrozen go Evening Post. water below. This pressure is both Hoax—“ Tim ley went to Alaska pros downward and outward, and iu case the pecting for gold, aud found lead in water under observation is in a vessel stead.” Joax—“ A h ! In large quanti the sides and bottom of the receptacle ties, I suppose, aud valuable.” H oax— supply the resistance. "N o ; in small quantities, aud fatal.” — As the freezing process continues the Philadelphia Record. pressure upon the confined water and air Mamma—“ W hat t’ > you mean by in the interior of the bulk increases un taking that piece o f cake? When you til something yields. I f the vessel be asked fo r it didn't I say no?” Tom m y— stronger than the ice stratum that has “ You did; but last night I heard papa formed over the surface, the layer o f ice say that when a woman says no she al w ill be bent upward at the center, that ways mean yes.” —Truth. being the weakest point, on account of D olly—I hear M ary Antique was a the fact that the outer edges o f the con great belle at the dance the other even gealed mass are frozen fast to the 6ides ing. She told me she danced every o f the vessel in which the experiment is dance. P olly—Oh, yes., Mary's just being made. In this condition the center the kind o f a g irl to be a belie at a leap- of the ice continues to rise or “ bulge’ ’ until it bursts from the resistance of the year dance.—H arvard ’s Bazar. water below. Could the vesse. be tap Here’s a motto that’ s as certain ped from below aud the water drawn As that two pints make a quart: off, no amount o f freezing would be Time and tide will wait for no man, sufficient to crack ox bnlge the ice layer Little, big, or long or short. —Philadelphia Item. on the surface.— St. Louis Republic. She—Oh, yes; I know that you think A Q n e it io n o f C o n tr a s t. that woman is a silly creature, whose “ Hot, s ir !” said the engine driver head can be turned by mere finery. He—It is sure to be turned i f some w ith what m ight have been either a other woman passes with the mere shiver or a shrug. “ No, sir, I don’t call this hot. Warm, maybe, but hot, n o f ’ finery on.—Indianapolis Journal. “ W ell,” I panted, “ I should like to Mrs. Greene—O f course, you read all know what you would call hot i f this your husband's stories? Mrs. W hite is only warm. Why, here’s the mercury (w ife o f the popular author)—Oh, dear, climbing npinto the hundred and twen no! They are, nothing to the stories ties, the leaves are scorching on the he sometimes tells me a fte r he has trees, and there isn’ t a breath of wind been out o f an eveuing.—Boston Trans or a drop of cool water on earth. R eal c rip t ly I don’t think y en ’ ll find much hotter Office Boy—There is a man outside weather than th s— at least not in this who wishes to see you. Busluess M an— world. ” Didn’ t I g ive orders that I was not to “ But I have had it , ” he sa d, a trifle be disturbed? Office Boy—Yes, sir; but testily, as though he didn’t quite like this is a very mild-looking man. I the allusion. “ Why, I was driving an don’t think he would create a disturb engine once on a stretch o f line in South ance.—Truth. Am erica where it was so hot that we Maud—I hear proposing parties are used to throw the furnace door open «11 the style this w.oter. The girls do and stand close np to it so as to get that the proposing aud the one who pro side of us cool— cool by contrast, sir. poses the best gets the prize. H ave G oodbyl” Then he sanntered off whistling soft you been to any? Ethel—No; but 1 liad a proposing party come to me the ly and climbed into the cab of his en other evening. H ow do you like my gine presumably to have a warm .— Pearson’s Weekly. ring?—Harper's Bazar. J Cripple J M ade W ell Bellefield—A cynical writer remarks that a wedding alw ays brings happi ness to two, the florist and the •clergy man. Bloom field—H e forgets the fa ther o f the bride, especially if the poor man has half a dozen other daughters on his hands.—Pittsburg Cbronlele- Telegraph. H o o d ’s Sarsaparilla “Just as Good ” Gladness Comes W FRAZER AXLE _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ SURE CUR E PILES 3 4i d :- J “ The natural history class w ill now write down the names o f tw elve A rc tic animals,” said the teacher in mo notonous tones. L ittle Johnnie dashed off the follow ing and handed bis slate proudly to the teacher: “ ix seals, five polar bears and one walrus.” —New York Evening Sun. “ W illie,” said the boarding-house mistress to her young son, " I was ashamed o f you at dinner. You kept your arms on the table during the en tire meal!” “ Yes, mamma,” was the lopeful's reply; " I didn't want to give :he boardere a chance to say there was iothln’ on the table.” —Yonkers States man. One T h in g W e Can’t D ra g Of. However great may be tbe gratifica tion over tbe prospective peaceful settle ment of the Venezuelan question, it w ill not do to assume that Great Britain got frightened at our navy.— Washington Star. Hit St fie. “ M illie, dear, wbat is tbe name of your affianced?” “ Why, C l:«a , don’ t you know? I t ’s Herbert Montague.” “ Oh, bow sweet 1 Is be rich?” “ W ell o ff.” “ And keeps a carriage?” "S evera l of them .” “ H ow nice! And fine horses, I sup pose?” “ Y es.” “ And what is his business, dear?” “ He keeps a livery stable.” “ Oh !” — Strand Magazine. E m b a r r a s s in g . Rich Fiancee— Oh, this bouquet is too costly! You must take it back to the lieutenant ! V alet— Oh, that’s all right, miss. Siree my master is engaged to you be has been able to get things on credit.— i Fliegende Blatter. The Churchman refers to the Protes tant Episcopal church as “ the Anglo- Saxon church in this country, ” which leads The Congregations list to nsk i f the pilgrims were Celts. Paine's celery oompound. It ha* lifted thousands from f-eds of sickness. It does what nothing else ever did for the sleppless, the dyspeptic, and the de spondent— it cures them once snd for all. Here is a testimonial from E. A. M iller of Columbus, O .. accompanying the photograph o f his fam ily. “ For tw o years past 1 have been a oon- stant sufferer w ith severe nervous head aches, ofttim es being compelled to go to bed, when my business necessitated my personal attention. Last week my physician recommended Paine's celery oompound. 1 have taken now four bottles, and have not suffered w ith headache sinoe. This government, in my mind, should pay the discoverer of Paine's oelery compound a sum of money sufficient to keep him snd all his relatives in luxury during their natural life .’ ’ Mr. M ille r is the son of Dr. J. D. M iller. H is w ife is the granddaughter o f the late G o t . Lucas of Ohio. Mr. M ille r ’ s praise of Paine's celery com pound is equaled by that o f thousands of others who owe their health and strength to this greatest of. all rem edies. ERCURIAL M POISON ♦ ♦ b tbe result o f the usual treatment o f blood disorders. The system is filled with Mercury snd Potash remedies—more to be dreaded than tbe disease—and in n abort while Is In n far worse condition than before. Tb e common raanlt la RHEUMATISM fo r which SJ3.S. ig the most reliable cure. A few bottles w ill afford relie f where all else has failed. I suffered from a severe attack o f Mercurial Rheumatism, my arms and legs being swollen to twice their natural site, causing tbe most excruciating pains. I «pent hundreds c without relief, but after taking a few bottles o f I improved rapidly snd am now s w ell m »n_eom plet»- ly cured. I esn heartily recommend it to sny one suffer.ns from this painful disen»-. \V. F. D A l.E Y , Brooklyn Elevated R. R. SSS O ut T rettlw on Blood m d Skin Di«-«wv moiled free to .0» S W IF T SP E C 1 F 1 C CO.. A tla s » , G». FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE SICK or “ Just Don’t Fool W o ll,’» O liver pills »re the On* Thing to use. Only One for a Doe©. f*©w by Drurgiit« at 25c. » ho* Sample * mailed free. 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VO The very remarkable and cert relief s^ven woman by* MOOR] R EVEALED R E M E D Y has git uniformly stico and w e a k n « it the name of Woman’s Friend. It is fu! in relieving the backaches,heada.:hei which burden and shorten a woman’« ---- testify for it. It ~ will give health and atrength women M«~~ andmake life a pleasure. For sale by all druggists. BLCMAUER-FRANK DRUG CO., P o r t l a n d , Agents. Thonaant