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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1905)
f FULL We have made the most elaborate preparation for the Fall and Winter trade. Our store is al ready crowded but* there are yet* hundreds of Suits, Overcoats and Top Coat*s, yet* to come. These goods are all New and Fresh from the best eastern manufacturers. From now on it* will pay you to keep our st*ore in mind for our prices and qualit*y o f goods will mean a great* Saving t*o you. Buy where you have an exclusive st*ock to select from and you ’ll never regret it. We are not* selling any old and shelf worn goods but* every garment* is new and positively up-to-date. Í Watch this Space for Future Announcements. / IT WILL PAY YOU CHICAGO CLOTHING COMPANY, W HOUSMAN, Proprietor FOREST GROVE, A SK THE AGENT FOR TICKETS VIA AN INHERITANCE [O r ig in a l.] Ì To SPOKANE, ST. PAUL, MINNE APOLIS, DULUTH, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS. AND ALL POINTS EAST AND SOUTH. 2 Overland Trains Daily 2 The Flyer: The Fast Mail S p l e n d i d S e r v i c e , U p t o D a t e E q u ip m e n t , C o u r t e o u s E m plo y es . Daylight trip throught the Cascade and Rocky Mountains. For tickets, rates, folders and full information, call on or address H. DICKSON, City Ticket Agent, 122 Third St., Portland, Or. I S. G. YERKES, A. G. P. A., Seattle, Wash., Comer First Ave. & Yesler Way. We Give Expedited Service on Freight. Route your shipments Great Northern. via Full information from Wm. H A R G E R , General Agent; Portland. Oregon. ( Farmers & Merchants BANK Of Forest Grove, Oregon C A P I T A L $28,000. A General Banking Business Trans acted. Drafts sold on all the principal Cities in the United States and Europe. Correspondents Wells Fargo & Co’s Bank. Directors: Richard M. Dooley, J. E. Loomis, John W. Shute, and Frank E. Dooley. Accounts solicited. My boy, I have sen t for you to make a very im p o rtan t announcem ent. Since th e E arl of B allincorne is dead, child less, you are the rig h tfu l heir to th a t earldom. No, don’t sm ile incredulous ly. th in k in g your old gran d m o th er to he w andering o r in h er second child hood, b u t listen to w h a t I am ab o u t to tell you. I w ish I could m ake you un d erstan d th e difference In th is early p a rt of the nineteenth century, w hen Mr. S tephen son has succeeded in d raw in g coaches by steam , and th e m iddle of th e eig h t eenth, w hen coaching w as in its prim e and we w ho rode had th e excitem ent of an occasional robbery. T he high w aym an w as not th e b ru te wiio now m urder" first and robs a fte rw a rd , but w as often chivalrous, especially to wo men. W hen I w as a girl of tw en ty I trav eled from London to York w ith my fath er, and on th e road w e m et one of those gentlem en. W e w ere passing a lonely p a rt of th e road in th e d usk of th e evening w hen w e heard an order to th e coachm an to stop. A m asked m an rode up to th e coach window, holding a pistol in o u r faces and de m anding o ur valuables. H is voice w as so ft and musical, his hand w as w hite nnd shapely, and I noticed th e lace th a t fell over It w as of th e finest tex tu re. My fa th e r had b u t little money w ith him, b u t did have a valuable snuffbox th a t had been presented him by t h e : king him self. H e told th e high w ay m an th a t if he w ould send It to our ' house in York his m essenger should re- \ eeive five tim es its value and no ques- j tions asked. T he ro b b er scarcely seem- j ed to h e a r him, so in te n t w as he upon me, not th e w rinkled old w om an o f to day, b u t w ith as fa ir a skin, as blue an eye, as golden a head o f h a ir as any girl in England. “Good sir,” said th e robber, “ I w ould not ta k e yo u r snuffbox b u t for the opportunity it gives me to ta k e It to your house m yself, and If I decline the price you p u t upon it please se t the fact dow n to th e influence of th e young lady beside you, w hose beau ty and in nocence p rev en t my retain in g any a r ticle of yours. I have th e honor, sir, to bid you a very good evening.” Raisin«? his h a t w ith ail th e gTace of a conr _r he tu rn ed aw ay, directing th e coachm an to d riv e on. T h a t w in te r w as a gay one In o ur set In town, and a fte r a tte n d in g num erous en tertain m en ts a t th e homes of our frien d s w e concluded to re tu rn the civilities by giving a m asked ball. Our house w as lighted w ith a thousand candles, and th e costum es' of th e guests w ere o f th e richest and w ildest variety. One of th e gentlem en personated a highw aym an, w earing a brace of pis tols in his belt, w ith an ugly looking knife to m atch. H e cam e up to me and asked me to daps*. The mom ent he spoke I recognized the m an w ho had robbed us on the road from London. I perm itted 1dm to lead me in the m inuet. lie danced so gracefully, ills figure w as so sym m etrical, he w as so courtly In Ills m anner th a t every one noticed him. W hen th e dance w as finished lie led me aw ay to a window w here w e stood p a rtly screened behind th e cu rtain s. Then he handed me my fa th e r's snuffbox. •‘IIow did you d a re come here?” I asked. “ I w ould have d a red a n y th in g to see you ngain,” he replied. “Go a t once.” I said. “You w ill be caught. Every one lias noticed you.” “ I w ould w illingly hang fo r th e pleas u re I h av e gained in one dance w ith you.” D espite th e d an g er he ran w e talked to g eth er so continuously th a t w e be gan to excite attention. A stra n g e h ap piness thrilled me. T his fuseinating highw aym an had cau g h t th e fancy of a young girl n atu rally full of rom ance, and to know th a t he w as rlsk.ag ids life to be w ith me w as suprem ely de lightful. I feared fo r him. b u t could not b e a r to let liim go. F inally I saw ray fa th e r coming to w ard us w ith flash ing eyes. I knew by th e w ay lie look ed a t my com panion th a t lie laid got some clew to ids id entity. We vanish ed In th e crowd, slipped through a door into th e garden, nnd my highw ay m an passed off th e place in safety. L ater, w hen my fa th e r found me. I gave him th e smifTbox. H e sen t out to n otify th e police th a t th e highw ay man w as in tow n, b u t he w as never caught One sp rin g m orning I w as sittin g In th e g arden in th e re a r o f th e house w hen above th e w all I saw th e head of a man. I w as ab o u t to scream when he spoke. I recognised th e voice of my highw aym an lover. H e persuaded me to m ake an ap pointm ent w ith him In a wood n ear th e city, and th ere w e m et on several occasions. H e confess ed th a t he w as the second son of a no blem an w ho had tak en to th e road from a keen love of adventure. H e finally persuaded m e a t one of our m eetings to go w ith him to a m agis tra te and be m arried. I n e -e r returned to my home, blit sailed to F ran ce w ith yo u r gran d fath er. D on't sta rt, do n 't bend y o ur head for sham e, a t learning th a t you have d e scended from —I w ill not say a high w aym an—a noblem an w hose love for a d v en tu re blighted his life and made him an exile. My husband w as belov ed by all w ho knew him and w orshiped by his w ife and children. Even in those youth fu l escapades he never ben efited by a shilling dishonestly, nnd m any a person w hom he stopped on th e highw ay aDd found In need he helped. T he E arl of Ballincorne, bis brother, dying, th e title and e sta te s descended to his only son. w ho died childless yesterday. H is death leaves yon tb s next In line. H ere a re th e papers con firming you in tout claim OREGON D E S f G N IN G A H EA D. An In te re N tln a ; T n ^ s o r l a l O p e ra tio n b>- t h e F n n i n u H W h i s t l e r . "A m azing:" the favorite ejaculation of the b rillia n t and eccentric artist, Jam es M acNeill W histler, is the w ord w hich seem s best to fit tlie curious com bination of personal peculiarities— m ischievous w it, tricksy jests, gay qunrrels, harm less vanities and rem ark able a rtistic perform ance—revealed in Mr. M ortim er M enpes’ recent recollec tions of his “M aster.” The eccentrici ties of W h istler’s ch aracter w ere m atched by those of his appearance, for be never dressed like anybody else, and he hud. Ju st over his left eye, a single lock of w hite h air am id a m ass of black curls. Ills own in terest in his nppenrunce w as great, for lie re garded th e composition of costum e and coiffure w itli the name seriousness w hich he w ould have bestowed upon th e com position of a picture, and in deed the resu lt w as unm istakably pic turesque. “C ustom ers ceased to be Interested in th e ir ow n liair,” say s Mr. Menpes of W histler's entrance into a barber's shop. “O perators stopped th eir m anip ulations; every one turned to w atch W histler, w ho him self w as suprem ely unconscious. H is linir w as first trim med, but left rath e r long, W histler m eanw hile directing th e cu ttin g of every lock as he w atched th e b arb er In th e glass. H e, poor fellow, only too conscious of th e delicacy of ids task, shook and trem bled ns lie m anipulated th e scissors. T he clipping completed, W histler w aved the operators im peri ously on one sida, nnd w e observed for som e tim e the re a r view of ills dapper little figure, stepping backw ard and forw ard, surveying him self in the glass. Suddenly lie put his head into a basin of w ater, and then, half drying his hair, shook it Into m atted w et curls. W ith a comb lie carefully picked out th e w hite lock, w rapped it in a towel and w alked about for five m inutes, pinching it dry, w ith the rest of his h air hanging over his face—a stag e w hich m uch am used the onlookers. “Still pinching th e tow el, lie w ould then bent the rest of his h a ir Into rin g lets (combing would not have given them the rig h t quality) until they fell Into decorative w aves all over his bead. A loud scream w ould th en rend the air. W histler w anted a comb. This procured, he would «tomb th e w hite lock Into a feath ery plum e an d w ith a few broad m ovem ents of his hand form the w hole Into a picture. T hen he would look beam ingly a t him self in th e glass and say b u t tw o w ords, ‘Menpes, am azin g " an d sail triu m p h an tly out of th e shop.” C it r o n lo . “Jones Is grow lin’ a t th e world •g ain ." “W hy. I th o u g h t he w as doing well." "So be U. b u t be w a sn 't expectin' his good fortune!*’—A tlan ta C onstitution. EAST INDIAN M E TH O D S . “ Look out, salilb; som e one h as beén m eddling w ith th a t lock!” T hey exam ined th e keyhole and A tra d e Journal tells u story of an found traces of w ax. W hen they adventure w hich nearly cost one of opened th e case tlie m erchuut found its correspondents in India his life. The ev ery th in g ap p aren tly untouched. Five Indian m erchant w as a w ealthy mnu boxeN of cig ars w ere unopened. H e hud w ho had got on w e irw ith th e natives, opened th e six th before be w ent aw ay but tw o of ills serv an ts had bad a und rem oved a few cigars. As he took quarrel over a girl whom they both th is box up lie noticed on it the m arks tvooed. T he m erchant Interfered In the of fingers. The cig ars looked us If they had not light. The unsuccessful suitor, LaJ, began to m ake trouble, nnd his rival, been dlsturlied. H e w as ubout to tak e tin* husband, w arned the m erchant one w hen he noticed th a t som ething uguinst him . N othing happened for w as w rong w ith the head. A second som e m ouths. T hen th e m erchant an d a th ird w ere like tlie first. In each » c u t aw ay on business. On Ids re a sm all, alm ost Im perceptible rose tu rn lie w as told th a t LaJ had been thorn had been Inserted, nnd ou It w as a dab of brow n slim e still m oist the caught in ids bedroom and locked up. In the cast th is m eunt trouble. The sam e color as th e cigar. "D o not touch them , sahib," said the m erchant culled his serv an ts and had a thorough search m ade of th e house. Indian. "They a re poisoned.” T he m erch an t su t dow n and w rote a They exam ined every tru n k , bureau and bedstead, every picture, sta tu e uud note to th e police. Iu h alf an hour an crevice in the wall and crack In the officer ap p eared w ith LaJ under guard. floor, expecting to find a hooded cobra T he m erch an t sta te d th e case to the or other poisonous reptile. They sent- j officer and, ta k in g one of th e clgara, tlnized every knob, bundle and g a r - 1 bunded It to LaJ, w ith th e com m and, m ent to see if it had been sm eared “T ake It and sm oke It.” w ith poison o r w ith Juices w hich at- \ T he m an tu rn ed gray nnd refused. tracted venomous creatures. Then H is guilt w as proved. they sea relied the w ine cellar, the pan try and the storeroom . B ut they found nothing. I 'r n c f f e a f . Tlie m erch an t w as tired and a fte r “D o n 't you som etim es envy th e old eatin g w ent to th e cabinet w here he tim e g ia n ts of statesm an sh ip th eir gifts kept his cigars. It w as a large case of for rhetoric an d o rato ry ?” teak und plate glass, w ith a n old fash “ Som etim es," answ ered S en ato r Sor ioned sliver Indian lock. ghum . "T he only difficulty is th a t As he w as about to insert th e key in th ese g ifts nre liable to lead a m an to the keyhole LnJ's successful rival, who th in k up speeches instead of schemes Wul.-Kt'K .ncJlifi-JU .tlie JSSMXfo,. cried. for m uking m oney.”—W ashington S tar. A S e r v a n t 's S u b t le lin t 1 n s u e e e s a f n l h d ir m e F o r H e v e n g e . Sound and Solid The Oregon Fire Relief Asso., Gives protection against loss by Fire at purely mutual rates. No better or cheaper Insurance can be purchased. Strong and conservative business management has placed them at the head of insurance com panies ir Oregon. J. F. WOODS, Agent, Call at News Office. F O R E ST GROVE, OR.