T E L L S HOW TO MIX IT.
Directions To Prepare Simple. Yet Re
markable Home Mixture.
A
That Fearful and Mystic Visita
| tism
tion of Olden Days.
IT FOLLOWED IN WAR’S WAKE.
In th « F o u rte e n th C e n tu r y It S w e p t the
W h o le of E u ro p e , K illin g 25,000,000
In T h re e Y e a r s — T h e P e stile n ce In
London.
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t u
o
well known authority on Rheuma-
gives the readers of a large New
York daily paper the following valuable,
yet simple and harmless prescription,
which any one can easily prepare at
home:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-halt
ounce; compound Kargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces.
The plague or pestileuee, that myste
Mix by shaking well in a bottle, and
rious and fearful visitation which has
take a teaspoonful after each meal and
moved Its hosts in the walte of armies
to slay more than war Itself, Is sup at bedtime.
He states that the ingredients can
posed to have tirst originated among
the dense masses of i>eople who crowd be obtained from any good prescrip
ed together In the great cities of Asia tion pharmacy at small cost, and, being
uud Egypt or who formed the encamp
of vegetable extraction, are harmless to
ments of Xerxes, Cyrus and Tamer
lane the Tartar. It probably sprang take.
from the impurity which must have
This pleasant mixture, if taken reg
existed in the midst of such vast gath ularly for a few days is said to over
erings and In part also from leaving
the unburied dead upon the held of come almost any case of Rheumatism.
battle. At any rate, the germs of this The pain and swelling, if any, dimin
fearful human poison htve always ishes with each dose, until permanent
been most active where conditions
similar to those have prevailed. It results are obtained, and without injur
has always been war and the march of ing the stomach. While there are
armies that have spread It broadcast many so-called Rheumatism remedies,
over the world from time to time, and patent medicines, e tc., some of which
as war became less frequent and less
worldwide the frequency und extent do give relief, few really give perma
of these ravages have lessened also.
nent results, and the above will, no
The first recorded outbreak of the doubt, be greatly appreciated by many
plague In Europe occurred in the six
teenth century. It chme from lower sufferers here at this time.
Egypt. This was the first lapping of
Inquiry at the drug stores of this
the wave that reached into the east neighborhood elicits the information
again, there to stay Its movements, so
far ns the west wns concerned, until that these drugs are harmless and can
544 A. I>.. when the returning legions be bought separately, or the drnggists
of the Emperor Justinian brought it
here will mix the prescription for our
again Into the western world from the
readers
if asked to.
battlefields of Persia. Constantinople
wns the first place it attacked. Here
In a single day as many as 10,000 per
TALLOW SALVORS.
sons are said to have fallen victims to
It. But the plague did not stop with
Constantinople. It had found a too The M e n W h o S k im G re a se O ff th»
S e a at L a u n c h in g T im e .
congenial soil In Europe, which was
One of the most anxious moments for
little else than one great battlefield at
the time. It wns carried Into Gaul, battleship builders arrives when a new
where it followed close In the wake of vessel Is launched. And, by the way of
the Frankish armies, and from Gaul compensation, tills is the time when
It moved into Italy, with the Lom the tallow salvors are joyous.
The day fixed for the ceremony of
bards, nnd so devastated the country
as to leave It entirely at the mercy launching Is reached, and, ns usually
happens when a battleship is to be
of the Invaders.
The various crusades, which extend launched, a big crowd assent bice. The
ed over a space of about 200 years, no battleship rests on "slipways.’' down
doubt did much to hold the pestileuee which she will glide from the dock
in Europe, for they served to keep yard into the water. The only thing
open the channels of intercourse be that prevents the ship from sliding in
tween the east and the west. Periodic to the water before the projwr time is
epidemics were common during their the “dog shores"—large pieces of wood
continuance, und these seem to have that keep In position the era die upon
culminated in the fourteenth century which the battleship rests. When the
with what Is known in history as the cord that releases the dog shores Is
black death. The black death was cut the battleship glides down the slip
more fatal to human life than any ways into the water amid the cheers
other single cause since the world be of the spectators and the playing of
gan. The hutoc of war was nothing |iu> bund
The slipways have to N* made ns
in comparison to it. It swept the
whole of Europe, leaving In its path smooth and as slippery as it is pos
such misery and destitution as the sible to make them, so that nothing
world had never known. It killed in shall prevent the battleship from gild
three years some 25,000,000 people. ing into the water saJely. It is the
Such figures stugger the comprehen greasy substance with which these
sion, but the records of the time can slipways nre covered that calls forth
not be doubted. The entire population the Joy of the tallow salvors.
Since the slightest mishap at the
of Europe is estimated to have been
about 100,000,000, kept down as it was launching would almost certainly prove
by the constant warfare, and of these to be a very costly inntter, no p.llns
are spared to Insure that everything,
at leust a fourth perished.
The ravages of the plague in Italy, including the ship, goes smoothly, and
where It came In the track of the war the greasing of the sllpwayu Is prop
of the Guelphs and Ghlbelllnes, was erly regarded as an Important tusk.
The material used In the process Is
particularly disastrous to mankind. It
raged with terrible fury In Naples, generally tallow mixed with linseed odl
where 00,000 persons are said to have or soft soap, and this Is smeared on to
died. It fell upon Pisa, and Beven out the ways to a thickness of about two
of every ten perished. It utterly and Inches. Every Inch of the ways must
forever destroyed the prosperity of be covered carefully, and a host of
Siena. Florence also suffered severely, men are employed In the 'fork . First
while 100.000 of the inhabitants of of all the tallow Is spread on with
Venice were literally wiped off the trowels, so as to give a smooth and
face of the earth. From Italy it moved flat surface, and then the soft soap
Into France, where the mortality was or linseed oil is poured on top. Be
almost as great. In Paris alone 50,000 tween one and one arid a half tons
people died from I t One of the worst of the mixture is used In the case of
features presented by the history of a battleship, and the cost of launch
the black deuth was the cruel persecu ing amounts to a good sum, something
tion It aroused against the Jews. They 1 like £800 or £1,000.
were supposed to have infected the air
The tallow salvors get ready to reap
In some mysterious manner, and they j the harvest.
were accused of having poisoned the I Crowding the water Just where the
wells and springs. In Strassburg 2,000 ship is to be launched will be seen a
of them were buried ailve in their own number of small rowing boats belong
burial ground.
ing to the tallow salvors. As the ves
The order of the Flagellanto arose sel glides Into the water the tallow
at this time, coming from the belief which has clung to the keel and bot
that the sins of the world bad at last tom plates from the ways becomes
brought down the wrath of heaven. It loosened and floats to the water's sur
was the beginning of the so called face in great masses.
hundred years' war that carried the
Then the tallow salvors swarm
black death Into England, where In around. Bared to the shoulder, they
Ixmdon its victims numbered 100,000. reach over the sides of tl-«tr boat»
IVhen at last the plague had worked and proceed to gather in as much oi*
1» ravages It doubled back over Its the floating tallow as they ctm. Some
course to disappear in the east. Later of them even have small band nets
on it appeared again in England, to help them, but In any case It Is only
first among the soldiers of Richmond a question of a few minutes tiefors
after the battle of Bosworth Field, the boats are covered, both Inside and
and when the victorious army marched out, with the slippery, oily mixture,
to London the plague went with them while In the center small ts-aps of
to work Its havoc there. As long as It fat gradually arise. No ordinary per
lasted the mortality was a s great as son could remain in the boats, but the
that caused by the black death half a tallow salvors are not at all particular.
eentury before. Five thousand people
They row off with their loads and
died in five weeks, and then the plague
dispose of them to the local soa.o-
left London as suddenly as it had ap
makers. Sometimes as much as £2 < <r
peared there to sweep over the rest of
£3 can be made by a very agile tallo\ v.
England.
salvor.—London Answers.
In Scotland the plague of 1508 came
immediately after the battle of I.ang-
P o e ’» D e v o t io n to H i s Wife.
side. when Queen Mary was dethron
No picture of I ’oe In I'hlladelphia
ed, but no records of the mortality It
occasioned seem to have tieen pre would be complete, writes E. P. Ober-
served. The plague visited London In boltzer In Book News, if we do not
1675. This followed after the civil war remember bis poetic attacbment for
which ended with the death of Charles hia girl wife and his love for bigh lit
II.. but so many years intervened th.it erary ideal», so faithfully evidenced
It Is Impossible to trace any connection in his own writing and in his criticism
between the two events. In modem of the work of other men. "HU lov»
wars danger from the plague seems for his wife was a sort of rapturous
gradually to have lessened perhaps as worship of tbe spirit of beauty which
a result of better sanitary conditions he felt was fading be ft, re hU eyes."
Mr Graham wrote after the poet'»
maintained by the armies of todry.
death: "I have seen him hovering
around her when she was ill, with
the fond fear ami tender anxiety of
a mother for her firstborn, her slight
est cough causing in him a shudder, a
heart chill that was visible. I rode
out one summer evening with them,
and the remembrance of his watchful
eyes eagerly bent upon the slightest
change of hue in that loved face
haunts me yet as the memory of a
sad strain." Recollecting that when
she was gone honest sorrow mingled
with the poverty that hung about him
like a thick cloud through which no
sun shone, we can afford to forgive
much in those last misspent days.
M o u n t M c K in le y .
In mountain climbing the world over
the climber usually arrives fresh and
unfatigued at the base of the peak he
wishes to storm and, as a rule, begius
his ascent at a high altitude. On Mount
McKinley, as described by a writer In
Outing, it Is the opposite. There are
twenty-five miles of rugged foothills
and glaciers to be crossed—with heavy
packs—before the base of the mountain
is reached, and then the climber is con
fronted by 18,000 feet of rock and Ice.
W a r s * S till.
*'A visitor to see you, sir.”
“I ’ll bet he wants some favor,”
grumbled Senator Greathead.
“It's a lady, sir."
“Ah! That means half a dozen fa
vors.”—Philadelphia Press.
F o r e ig n
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GREETINGS
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The undersigned wishes to take this op
portunity
to wish his m any patrons a
Merry Christm as and Happy and Prosper
ous New Y e a r.
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Since opening our store
a b o u t tw o months ego we have experi
enced a wonderfully large trede which en-
encourages us to the exten t th a t we will
B o rn .
English Girl—I hear you've been vis
iting tbe States. What did you think
of tbe native American? Englishman
—I didn't meet any. I spent all my
time In New York.—H arptt’s Weekly.
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endeavor to improve our store and stock.
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W e take this opportunity to thank th e
a
Washinqton s Valuation.
Following is a summary of the as
sessment roll of Washington county,
is finally equalized by the county
board of equalization:
Asi'd Valuation
Tillable lands, 195,006 acres « 5 ,2 7 2 ,1 0
Non-tillable lands, 3 5 1 ,2 1 3
acres............ .................. 6 ,5 9 6 ,8 3 8
Improvements on deeded or
patented lands,............ 1,236,350
Town and city lots...............
462,050
Improvements on town and
city lots........................... 492,475
Improvements on lands not
deeded or patuented. .
6,625
Fifty miles of railroad bed. . 562,620
Railroad rolling sto ck ..........
3 4 ,0 0 0
Telegraph and telephone
lines 132 m iles............
24,775
Stationary engines and manf.
machinery'......................
172,695
Merchandise and stock in
trade.................................
307,400
Farming implements, wag
ons, carriages, e t c . ..
174,010
Money, notes, accounts and
shares of sto ck ............
226,685
Household
furniture,
watches; jewelry, e t c ..
232,160
Horses and muies, 6013 . .
420,095
Cattle, 1 4 ,1 9 3 ......................
320,230
Sheep and goats, 1 1 ,9 7 7 ..
36,220
Swine, 2 ,1 2 7 .........................
15,236
Dogs, 9 .................................
200
□ ihe day at
at Cornelius
Pi
iced majority,
g!
portance crept
»rx
it is possible
BZl rill go “ dry’*
all over the
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is the coti-
íes to the tem-
thrifty town,
h of the two
n on the vote
, for in each
et” candidate
« m e number
,<! e license can-
aed 54 votes
t candidate got
ï. Fitch, the
!?’ 49 votes and
the “ wets”
.-iresult of the
people o f this vicin ity for their liberal pat
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FURNITURE
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Forest» G rove, * Or. ¡R * ,
K ia
•), who is a
*1oint senator
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HOWt'S OKEKVATMS.
secu rit0' Lincoin'
md Yamhill
(red in this j
— Money to loan on farm security.
W. H. Hollis, Forest Grove.
Climbing 195 Steps to Church.
Tbe only way of reaching the old
The best luck that can happen to a
parish church at Whitby, In York
doctor is to guess right.
shire, from the town Is by means of
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Try Schultz's ground bone for
190 stone stiqifc prol ably ns curious
your
hens. It will make them lay.
It is noticeable that when a man is an approach to a pine i* of worship as
The church
unusually accurate, he likes to tel! any In the kingdom.
stands on the cast cliff some 2U0 feet
about it.
Notice of City Election.
above the sea level, and to watch the
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In nr cord;» nee with the provisions of th« C ity C h ar
crowd of wondiI|M*rs before and after
‘ He’s so bad that he would corrupt service threading Its way up aiul down ie r . the annu al ele ctio n o f the C ity of Forest G iov e will
t„- held .it the c it y H ill on M onday. Ja u u a ry 13. 1W 8,
a reform school,” declared a police the winding stairway Is u sight to he h e m j’ the second Monday o i Ja n u a ry , at w hich Uni l.C
1er
there are to he ch osen : a m ayor, three co u n rllm en for
Total valuation,................. « 17,7 5 6 ,7 7 9
lu ll term * <>i two y e a rs, one co u n c ilm a n for term of one
man this morning, in describing a remembered.—Loudon Strand.
yt .r to fill v acan cy , a reco rd e r, a treasu rer and
The board of equalization reduced tough boy.
m arshal.
Forgetful.
polis w ill open n! 0 o 'c lo c k A. M. a r d close at 5
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this amount « 1 ,1 6 4 .0 0 5 , leaving the
P e lls w ill rlo se at from I to 2 o ’clo ck w hile
“Tommy,” said his nudltcr reproving 0 »> M
, tion o ffic ia ls c o to lu n ch .
Talk
to
any
woman
who
has
a
son
total valuation at « 16 , 5 92 , 774 .
ly, "what did I say I'd do t.'> you If I
Hv d ire ctio n ot the C ity C o u n c il, an o fficii 1 ballot w ill
he used and nam es of n om inees to se cu re a p la c e on
with naturally curly hais, and she will ever caught yon stealing Jam i.'gain?"
•.aid ballot must he M ed with the city recorder on or
Tommy thoughtfully scratch, xl ,liM
I S u n d a y . January u , I « « , al 12 o ’clo ck nonn.
tell of how she cried when her son’s
, i ¡ 1 « conditions for h av in g a nam e placed on the bal ot
head with his sticky Ungers.
nre the svm e as are requ ired f« r p re c'n c t officers In a
curls were cut off the first time.
"Why, that's f anny, mu. that j ’0"
r ,« rat < le c tio n , e x cep t as to tim e of M ing.
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WALTER HOOK,
should forgot It too. Hanged if I c, ■* ' 25 3
City Recorder.
The wives of farmers say that two or remember." Everybody's.
A Woman Finds All Her En
three men travel with every threshing
ergy and Ambition Slip
c a
* It
outfit who do nothing but eat.
pone flided wilhin
¡n la y .*he h« bee»
o. He has
l u w c r house
lower
n-
chair
n
hair man
of
the
last
th
b irr 13 . I ' e n u . i i
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„hict , cqualntance
gjve him
»U nrllnrajU
l
of
J» term
I
ur «• «
” r ■d
WHEN HER BACKACHES
ping Away
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Forest Grove women know how the
aches and pains that come when the
kidneys fail make life a burden. Back
ache, hip pains, headache, dizzy spells,
distressing urinary troubles, all tell of
sick kidneys an warn you of the steal
thy approach of diabetes, dropsy and
Bright's disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills
permanently cure all these disorders.
Here’s proof of it in a Forest Grove
woman’s words:
M rs. J . V an Donel^n. liv in g on P a c ific
G rov e, O re ., say s:
A ve., Forest
“ i was g re a tly benefitted by the use
o f D o an 's K id n ey P ills .
I su ffered from th is com plaint
for som e tim e and m y back fln aity becam e so weak and
p ain fu l that 1 was s c a rc e ly able to do my household
d uties.
M y kidneys w ere disordered, the seretio ns very
unnatural ca u sin g me great difficu lty and annoyance at
tim es.
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Every man gets mad when he sneaks
to the pantry just before bed time, and
finds only cold potatoes.
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If you are called up on the tele
hone before 6 a. m., you can bet it
is a farmer, who wants to talk to you
before going ot to his woik.
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There will always be people who
will visit in a business office, the same
as there will always be others who will
talk loud when the baby is asleep.
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It is not so easy to make a living as
it is to make love.
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I tried two or th re e d ifferen t kinds o f rem edies,
Many attempts to benefit the people
simply annoy the people.
trouble has e n tire ly left me and I am now enjoying
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good h ealth . I w ish all women su ffe rin g from kidney
The more some women spend on
com plaint to uae D oan's K idney P ills and they will be
w ell satisfied with the results obtained ”
their clothes the worse they look.
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For sals by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
If you will hand a friend a lemon
New York, sole agents let the United follow it with sugar and the squeezer.
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States.
t e l found no r e lie f u n til D oan’\ K idney
P ills were
brought to my atten tio n , and I procured a b o *.
Remem ber the name— Doan’s
take no other.
T he
and
Possibly you are often a bore to po
lite people when you do not show it. *
Real Estate Bargains
Twenty-two and three fourths
acres, two miles west of fiatem,
under good fence, 1000 cords
good wood «2500.
Forty six and 14-100 acres, 38
acres in cultivation, 4 miles
north of Forest Grove, telephone,
R. F. D. on milk route, good 8
room house, large barn, brick
cellar, good out buildings, wood
shed, wash room, good wells, at
house and barn, orchard. Price
4300. 230 bushels of o"ts, 60
of wheat, barn full of hay, good
team horses, cows, new hack,
wagon, horses, mowing machine,
and all tools necessary to run
farm, wood shed full of wood.
Everything «5000. Terms.
Three hundred and fifteen
a -res 1-2 mile of RaHston. 220
actes in cultivation.
Balance
pasture and timber fair house and
bartv, running water, telephone,
R. F . D.
Price «27.50 per
atre. Terms.
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Wright, Cornelius
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fifteen
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farrr.nnin* «
pronao
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that is
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Oregon
P u re s t G ro v e
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Two hundred and forty acres,
dcs of Dallas 3 J of Mon-
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140 acres in cultivation
mouth,
lice, balance in pas-
all under i
t , fair barn J mite
ture and timb
in , well watered.
from railroad stai
farm.
grain
Good stock and
Reasonable
Price «20 per acre
terms.
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