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THE POLE COUNTY OBSERVER, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1914.
A CANINE TRAGEDY
HiS CURIOUS , FALL
Slit
trouble Came In Bunches With
the Purchase oi allVatchdog.
ONE NIGHT OF WILD RUCTION.
It Taught the Battered Maatar of tha
'Wrecked Homa'That Undar 8oma
Circumatancaa a Burglar May Ba
Bettor Company Than a Maatiff,
"If a man Is afraid of burglars," said
Quackenbusb, "he can't have a better;
safeguard tban a good watchdog."
"But where is be going to get the
good watchdog?" Inquired Clinken
beard. "Such animal dou'ti grow on
trees, and they are not. advertised by
department stores. .
"Of course, if you go around telling
that you are in the market for a watch
dog every man who ha3 a chicken kill
ing pup he wants to get rid of will
tell you that his critter Is Just what
bu are hunting for. But you'll try
out a million dogs before you find one
tbat will get down to brass headed
nails and do police duty.
"Two or threo years ago there was a
burglar scare out In our suburb:' Sevv
eral houses had been entered and some
false hair and things carried away; So
my wife got so nervous she couldn't
sleep at -night. She was sure some
masked bandit would break in and
steal the 'What Is Home Without a
Mother' chromo from over the mantel,
and just to give her a sense of security
I bought a big mastiff and took him
home and chained him to a tree in
front of the house.
"Along about 12 o'clock at night that
dog got to thinking over his misspent
life, and remorse gnawed at his heart
strings, and he begun lamenting the
past He hnd the most bloodcurdling
voice I ever heard. Every yell he let
out froze the marrow In my bones.
He'd begin with a sort of plaintive
wail and wind up with a howl that
would remind you of a hyena In a
graveyard on a rainy night. My wife
said the uproar would have to be
stopped and I'd better bring the dog
Into the house. He'd probably be quiet
there. - .
"So I slid into a few rag's and went
downstairs and into the yard. Just as
I approached the. dog old Billshaw,
who lived next door, opened his bed
room window and threw an old frying
pan. Of course he meant It for the
dog, but his aim was poorflud it caught
me In the bread basket and knocked
the wind out of me.
"I sat down on the grass and gasped
for breath, and A shower of bottles and
bootjacks and stove wood came from
Billshaw's window, and every blamed
Item hit me in one place or another.
Vhen I finally got my breath I yelled
to Billshaw to let up, for he was mur
dering me, and he said it was Just
what I deserved for keeping such a
menagerie where It would give the
whole neighborhood the horrors.
"After I had rubbed my bruises for
half an hour I took the dog into the
house and went back to bed. I wus
Just dropping off to sleep when I was
roused by the allfiredest racket. It
sounded as though the side of the
house was falling In. My wife was
shrieking that the dog was upsetting
all the furniture and ruining ever)'
thing. So I went downstairs again,
quoting a few passages from Webster's
Dictionary. '' '
"I hnd forgotten about the cut when
Monk the dog Into the house. But the
dog hart discovered the pet and was
chasing It through the house, und you
never saw such a scene of1 wreckage.
Everything that wasn't nailed down
hail been overturned, and nearly every
thing was broken, -Tlie gas light was
burning, and there was the cat hanging
to the gas fixtures and the dog stand
ing on his hind legs trying to reach
her.
"My memories of what followed are
rather confused. I seem to recalt grab
bing the dog by the scruff of the neck
to take liiui outdoors, und lie bit a
sample from my shin, and then we
mixed things on the tloor. 1 managed
to stuff the pincushion into his mouth
so he couldn't bite, and we resorted to
t reco- it o m a n w res 1 1 i n g.
"Then the cat came down from the
gas fixture and took a hand and clawed
most of my scalp off, and my wife
came to the rescue with the poker.
She said afterward that she was try
ing to hit the dog. I reckon I'd hnve
been on lee next day If the neighbors
hadn't come hi with shotguns and prun
ing hooks and such things und pried
up apart.
"That experience was enough for me.
I'd rather have forty burglars on the
premises than one watchdog." Walt
Mason In Chicago News.
It Wedged Him Head Cown in
In a Steep Cliff.
A por.soiwl c:.!,,-, j, ;ii-e ,f ' a hiyli!,
sensational rli:ir;u-tri- is ivio:Ucd by
' H. Savage Lundor in his book "Across
I Jh k no wn Sou t h A inerlca :"
"The forest near the Secundury river
was at first overgrown with dense
vegetation that gave (is a good deal of
work and extra exertion, but after
that, when we got some distance from
the water, the forest 'was fairly clean,
except of course for the1 fallen trees.
We found troublesome ravines of great
depth where streamlets bad cut their
way through.
"In going down one of those difficult
ravines I had an accident tbat might
have been fatal. The ravine, the sides
of which were almost vertical, was
;yery narrow--only 1 about i ten metres
across. We let ourselves down, hold
.Ing.on to a liana. When, we reached
the bottom . we" found . a tiny brook
winding its way between great round
boulders that left a space about two
feet wide for the water. 1 began to
climb the other side, and I had got to
a height of about thirty feet, in order
to go up this steep incline I bad set one
foot against a small tree., and I1 pulled
myself up by a: )una. Unluckily the
liana suddenly gave way. The weight
of the load that I bad on my shoulders
made me lose my balance so that my
body described a complete semicircle.
I dropped down bead first from tbat
height on the rocks below.
"Providence ',once more looked after
me on that occasion. On the flight
down I already Imagined myself dead;
but no my head entered the" cavity
Between two great rocks,: against
which my shoulders and the load be
came Jammed, while my legs waved
wildly In midair. I was forced
hard against the two side rocks that
I could not possibly extricate myself.
It was only when Benedlcto and the
new man came to my help and pulled
me out that we were able to resume
our Journey. I was much shaken and
a good deal bruised, but otherwise
none the worst for that unpleasant
fall."
WEIRD DREAM STORY.
Stationara.
When pens and Ink and other writ
ing materials came into common use
a great many years ago they were sold
by peddlers from house to house. After
awhile a few dealers In writing ma
terials opened stalls and remained sta
tionary at their place of business. To
distinguish the two classes of paper
sellers the man In the stall was called
a stationer, and the goods he sold came
to be known as stationery. Wisconsin
State Journal.
Foiled.
A mother of four daughters, one of
whom bad recently married, cornered
an eligible young man in the drawing
room. "And which one of iny girls do
you admire, might I ask?"
"The married one." the prompt
reply. Argonaut.'-
The aim. if reached or not, make
great the llfe -Brownlu.
The Startling Vision That Saved tha
Life of Lady Vernon.
The following dream story Is told In
"The Story of My Life," by Augustus
J. C. Hare. The story was told to Mr.
Hare in Rome in 1871):
"Lady Vernon dreamed that she saw
the butler, with a knife In one band
and a candle In the other, crossing the
'entrance hall, and she awoke with a
great start After awhile she com
posed herself to sleep again, and she
dreamed she dreamed that she saw
the , butler, with a knife In one hand
and a candle In the other, on the mid'
die of the staircase, and she awoke
with a great shock. She got up. She
thought she could not be quite well,
and she took a little sal volatile. At
last she fell asleep again, and she
dreamed she dreamed that she saw
the butler, with a knife In one band
and a candle In the other, standing at
her bedroom door, and she awoke In a
great terror, and she Jumped out of
bed, and she said, 'I'll have an end of
this: I'll have an end of these foolish
Imaginations.'
"And she rushed to the door and
threw It wide open. And there Just
outside stood the butler, with a knife
In one band and a, candle In the other.
And when he suddenly saw Lady Ver
non In her white nightdress, witb her
hair streaming down her back, he was
so dreadfully frightened ' that be
dropped the candle On the' floor and
rushed off dowp the staircase and off
to the stables, where there was a horse
ready saddled and bridled, on A'blch
he meant to have ridden away when
he had murdered Lady Vernon.; And
he rode away without having murdered
her at all, and be was never beard of
again."
Clews to His Writing.
Sometimes the worst of handwriting
becomes intelligible when one grasps
the rules, for a man's script particu
larly an author's Is frequently made
difficult chiefly by his deliberate or
unconscious Inversion of the nccepted
rules of calligraphy. Henry Ward
Beecher had a daughter who acted as
copyist and she read him with ease
simply by remembering three princi
plesthat in her father's manuscript
no dotted letter was meant for an "l."
no crossed letter stood for "t" and
that no capital letter ever began a
sentence.
ORIGIN OF METALS DR.TOEL
Varied Theories as to How the
Ores Are Formed.
NATURE HIDES THE SECRET.
Science Has For Canturiaa Triad , to
Wraat It, from Her, but Geologist!
and Mineralogiata Are aa Yat Unable
to Agree Upon tha Precaaa,
FOUR YEARS STUDY AT GER
MAN AND SWISS UNIVERSI
TIES AND THE LARGE HOS
PITALS OF LONDON, ENGLAND.
OVER THIRTY YEARS EXPER
IENCE IN HIS SPECIALTIES.
Two Boree.
"Well, dear Em ml, do yon not think
that there is a peculiar marriage state
with our neighbors? He Is always
traveling and leaves ah bis poor
wife alone. That must bore ber terri
bly, the poor woman!"
"Well, it Is Just as one takes It You
are always at borne: tbat la a (till
greater bore." Fllegende Blatter.
Eaaily Settled.
"Pa. the doctor at the hospital said
that be would bare to have a lot of
cuticle to cure Mamie's burns."
"Well, tell him to telephone to the
nearest druggist for all he wants and
charge It In the bill." Baltimore Amer
ican. Drawing tha Long Bow.
Hokus I once saw an Egyptian
smoking an Egyptian cigarette. Pokns
I'm a better liar than yon are. I
once aaw a Turk taking a Turkish
bath. Judge.
Th Missing Cog.
8tra nper Upon what plaa- are your
dty Institutions conducted? ClrJsea
A sort of let George dolt ajjtam
without any George. Puck-
You have read of that legendary In
dian who' while chasing game on a
Bolivian mountain side seized a bush
to prevent himself from falling, and,
the bush being pulled loose from Its
scunty hold on the rocks, be saw Its
crooked roots grasping masses of
gleaming white ore and thus became
the discoverer of the famous silver
mines of Potosi. '' '
You have also read, perhaps with
Itching fingers, of prospectors picking
up nuggets of , gold, worth a thousand
dollars each or opening veins of quartz
all shot through with heavy threads
of the yellow metal.
You know that ores of gold and
silver or of any other precious or use
ful metal are not to be found in every
body's back yard, but must be sought
for in certain favored parts, of the
nrtb.
But has your Intelligent curiosity ever
led you to Inquire bow those ores came
to be where they are and nowhere
else? Have you ever wondered what
makes a gold nugget?
Possibly you think thnt gold and
other metals grow somewhat as fruits
do in soils and climates that are spe
cially suited to them. Well, there Is
considerable truth in that Idea, and
the word "grow" Is, In one sense, sur
prisingly applicable to such deposits.
But there is a great deal more in the
matter than you would Imagine, and
on no subject has science fought more
battles royal than on this of the origin
of metallic ores. I think that there are
some geologists who would rather find
out this secret to the very bottom than
discover the richest lode that the ribs
of the earth contain. If they could do
both that would be perfection, and we
must not forget that knowledge is
power.
Until about 400 years ago everybody
ho thought about it at all believed
thut veins of precious ore were dis
tributed under the influence of the
planets. At that time astrology held
the place of science.
Finally George Agrlcola, a German
mineralogist, who lived about the time
when the gold and silver 'of Mexico
and Peru were making Spain the tem
porary mistress of the world, bit upon
a theory which came In substance very
near the truth. He tuught that water,
penetrating into the earth and becom
ing heated, took up scattered minerals
in solution and afterward deposited
them as ores In cavities In the rocks.
The mineral solutions he called the
earth's "Juices."
A couple of hundred years later the
German geologist Werner set forth
view tbat became very famous under
the name of the "Neptunist theory,"
from Neptune, the god of the sea,
Werner's, idea was that as the earth
cooled down from the primeval nebula
out of which It was formed It was en
veloped In a universal hot ocean, hold
ing In solution all kinds of minerals,
and that when the rooky crust was
formed the water leaking down Into
it deposited its metallic contents by
chemical precipitation in veins and
lodes wherever the circumstances were
favorable.
But a hundred years ago the Nep
tunist theory, which had swept every
thing before' lb" In the minds of men
of science, met its Waterloo at the
bands of Hutton,, the Scottish geolo
gist, with his "Plutonic" theory (from
Pluto, the god of the infernal regions).
Hutton's idea was tbat the materials
which fill the metallic veins were melt
ed by heat and forcibly injected into
tbe clefts and fissures of the strata
from below.
The "Neptunists" and "Plutonists"
had a hard fight, with the lutter hold
ing the upper hand, until their theory
bad assumed a kind of compromise
form, with water again playing tbe
principal role. The American geolo
gist Van Hise, is tbe author of one of
the latest theories, according to which
meteoric water (condensed atmospheric
vapor! penetrates deep into the earth's
crust and, witb steadily Increasing
temperature, takes up mineral matter
into solution. Spreading, as it gets
deeper, the water reaches larger open
ings In tbe rocky crust, in which It
ascends, with decreasing temperature
and pressure,
There it deposits tbe ores, whose ma
terials It has collected In its wander
ings and carried along in solution.
But this is not tbe last word, and in
recent years there bas been a partial
reaction toward the riutonist theory.
Besides, a great deal seems to depend
upon the nature of the ore whose ori
gin is In question. iarrett P. Svrvlss
In New York Journal.
Office: 619 Washington street, Dal
las. Oregon, one-half block east of the
S. P. depot, from 9 a. m. to 12 noon,
2 to 5 p. m., 7 to 8 p. m Sunday 10
to 1 p. m. Telephone 1303.
specialties:
Cancers and Tumors.
No knife and loss of blood. No
plasters and pain for hours or days,
Polypus, Goitre, Piles, Fistula,
Diseases of omen, Skin and Nervous
Diseases, Neuralgia, Neurasthenia.
Gout, Rheumatism, Liver, Stomach,
Kidneys, Bladder, Prostate, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Constipation.
DELIGHTFUL NEWPORT
"Tried and True" is this old reliable outing resort,
with a wealth of natural scenery, healthful drives, a
splendid beach and numerous near-by points of inter
est: Lighthouse, Devil's punchbowl, Seal Rocks, etc.
Special Low Round-Trip Season Fares
Week-End Fares to All Points and Sunday
Excursion Fares from Albany and Corvallis.
Patients from out of the city wish
ing to consult him must inform him
before hand by letter or telephone of
the time of arrival of their trains to
make sure that they can be seen the
same day.
THIS IS
Ha Knew.
Mrs.-Ob. .lark! Dolly told me the
mmt exciting secret and made me
wear never to tell a living soul! Mr.
Well, hurry up with It I'm late to
tbe office now. Cleveland Leader.
Aalem In Economic.
Aa a rale, the money a man doesn't
are by remaining a bachelor would be
mora than enough to support a wife
.ami tea children Chicago Newt.
Ill TIME
We carry a large variety.
The best and purest at
25c A CAN
TOILET CREAMS
Removes that Tan, and keeps the
complexion fresh these
sultry days.
25c and 50c
Come in and let ns talk it over
with you.
Fuller Pharmacy
DRUGS THAT ABE DRUGS.
SUNSET m
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I V ROUTES I I
The Expositi on Line 1915
DOUBLE DAILY TRAINS
Leave Albany, daily 7:30 A. M.
Leave Albany, daily except Sunday 1:00 P. M.
Leave Corvallis, daily 8:00 A. M.
Leave Corvallis, daily except Sunday 1:40 P. M.
Connections made at Albany and Corvallis with S. P. trains.
Special Excursion Train will leave Newport every
Sunday evening at C:00 p. m., arrive Corvallis 10:15
p. m., Albany 10:45 p. m.
GOOD FISHING STREAMS ALONG THE C. & E.
At Elk City, Morrison, Toledo and along the Yaqui
na river, also on the Breitenbush and Santiam riv
on the East End.
For Folders describing Newport ns nn outing place call on our near
sst Agent.
John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland ,Oregon.
SMOKERS, ATTENTION
If you vant "The Best Smoke" try the high-grade
brands found at
THE BELVIDERE
J. V. CHITTY
326 MAIN STREET PHONE 934
BUTTER WRAPPERS
MAKE THEM WORE.
You have noticed the handsome
labels on packages sent out by
leading manufacturers of crack
ers and other similar goods 1 Of
' course you have. Nifty, ehT
Nice appearing labels help to
sell these goods. The label of
the National Biscuit Co. costs
a bunch of money, and if we in
clude the box, reaches a cost al
most equaling its contents.
DOES IT PAY?
You may safely gamble that it
does. A pretty package attracts
attention and makes sales. You
know it everybody knows it.
Well printed butter wrappers
do tbe same thing. We make
them. Butter wrappers in one or
more colors, in quantities trom
100 to 1,000,000, and guarantee
the price. Let's talk it over.
POLK COUNTY OBSERVER
DALLAS
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(Successors to Barham Bros.) for
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Genasco Roofing, Shingles, Brick
and -Tile, Sand and Gravel,
Sash, Doors and
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ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED
All Kinds of Storage Famous Santa Cruz Cement
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WITH ELECTRIC LIGHT
THE PRAISE CONTINUES.
ttt wit boot Induetrj la guilt John
ftoakln.
Everywhere We Hear Good Reports
of Doan a Kidney Pills.
Dallas is no exception. Every sec
tion of the U. S. resounds witb praise
of Doan's Kidney 1'ills. Thirty thous
and persons are giving testimony in
their home newspaiiers. The sinceri
ty of these witnesses, the fact that
they live so near, is the best proof of
the mirt of Doan's. Here's a Dallas
case.
Mrs. C. E. Graves, 121 Washington
street, Dallas Oregon, says: "Kid
ney trouble and rheumatism came on
me and I gradually grew worse, until
I could hardly endure tbe suffering.
Dull pains settled in my back and
across my kidneys. I had sharp,
shooting twinges all through my body.
I tried a great deal of medicine but
nothing gave me much relief until
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
Thev helped me from tbe first and
soon had me feeling like a different
woman. Doan's Kidnev Pills have
benefitted me in every way. They
have improved my appetite and my
weight has increased." -
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't
simply 'k for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same that
Mrs. Graves had. Foster-Milburn
Co, Prop, Buffalo, N. Y.
Semi-Weekly Observer $1.50 a rear.
Electric wlremen now "fish" the wires
walls and ceilings are not harmed
floors are not ripped up except in a
closet or out of the way place
The work is done quickly and at so low
a cost that small incomes can afford it
ELECTRIC LIGHT IS A BIG DIVIDEND
PAYING INVESTMENT
In Convenience
In Comfort
In Safety
In Economy
It will save work save expense in dec
oratingkeep the air purer Increase the
value of your property
Telephone 24, for a cost estimate for
wiring your home
OREGON POWER COMPANY
605 Court Street
YOUR WANT AD.
PLACED IN THE OBSERVER
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