FARMERS
R E A D THE
When the Spanisb-Amertcan war
came on Milton Forester was a lieu
tenant In the national guard. He re
ceived u captaincy In the volunteers
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A K ir t
and marched away «vtth his regiment
Tender, Juicy, Steaks,
amid the plaudits o f tbe throngs who
lined the streets. There was one face
R oasts a n d S tew s,
at an iip|>er window which absorbed
all tbe young soldier’s attention, tbe
Sausage an»^ Bacon
face of his fiancee. Mary Mills. The
look of pride In him and love for him
Ail kinds ol Fresh
that (»earned in her eyes might have
i exhilarated another, but Forester was
I peculiarly sensitive man—a man to
dread a possible failure.
He knew
there were «'ertaln men whose coustl-
i tlonal makeups unfitted them to he
| soldiers, and no man can tell w hether
he Is one o f these till he comes to face
I shot and shell. He dreaded lest he
might prove unworthy
Should he
falter under the terrible strain of bat
tle he would never see Mary again.
Forester thought too much of this j
It Is well for one to realize obligations I
he has taken upon himself, but he
should not permit himself to brood
at
over the matter. Forester worried all
the way to Florida, from Florida to
Cuba and during the campaign until |
the final fighting, which was the first
time he was under fire.
Everybody knows that
It was during this contest about San
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tiago that his regiment was ordered
we keep the best Meats
6 tra n g e C erem on ies T h a t M ark the | forward In the face of a terrible fire.
One’s first fight Is the most trying of
B urial o f a S p anish K ing,
to be had, but this is to
hi range aud almost weird Is tbe cer- all It Is then that the soldier for the
-uuailal will: h accompanies the burial first time hears the ugly stinging sound
remind you to give us a
of .Spanish kings. The pantheon, or of bullet", the rattle of machine guns
royal tom b., ls at the palace o f the and the screech of shells, to all of
call.
its, urial, situated 3,U0U feet above the which there Is tbe background of In
cessant
roar
o
f
cannon.
Forester
looked
let el o f the sea and some distance
A . S A ELEIN S
from the capital. Only kings, queens a little pale, bet pressed resolutely on.
All o f a sudden he beeame eonselous
and mothers o f kings are buried there,
F orest d ro v e , O r«.
the coihns of the kings lying on one of a dizzy, nauseating sensation, his
side, those o f the queens on the other. foot struck something—or he thought
After lying In state for several days It did -and he pitched forward. The
In the throne room in Madrid an enor regiment pushed on. Another line of
mous procession ls formed, accompany battle came up and was p-essing for
ing the body to the Kseurtal. A halt ward when Forester was awakened,
ls made on the way, aud the corpse as It were, by the sound of a voice.
Nathan Burge, an old and tried friend,
rests there for one night.
had seen him. recognized him and
In the morning the lord high chain
berl iu stands ut the side o f the coffin stopped to succor him.
“ Nate.” said Forester. “ I’ ve fallen
and says In loud tones, "Is your majes
ty pleased to proceed on your jour out of the rnuks. I hadn’t the physical
ney?" After a short silence the pro ability to go on. Write to Mary Mills
cession moves on and winds up to the and tell her that I’ll never see her
grand portal o f the palace.
These again. She has loved a coward!”
“ III. you th-re! Move on!" cried an |
Puts up all kinds
doors arc never opened except to ud-
mit a royal personage, dead er alive. officer who was marching In rear to
of Prescriptions
When the casket containing the re drive on stragglers. Without a word
mains Is at last placed in the vault Burge hurried forward, leaving his
with the best and
the chamberlain unlocks It and, kneel friend to his own regrets.
When tbe fight was over Rurge
ing down, calls with a loud voice:
PUREST DRUGS
sought Forester, hot. not finding hi in.
"Senor! Seuor! Seuor!”
After a solemn pause he cries again: supposed that he had hidden his
•Ills majesty does not reply! Then It shame by devprtlnn. He waited for a
time, thinking that the coward might
is true, tile king Is dead!”
lie then locks the coffin, gives the turn up. but he did not Burge's regt
key to the prior and, taking his staff ment was ordered to the coast at the
That’s what you get
of offi. e. breaks It In pieces and flings close of the war and was one of the
them at the casket. The booming o f first to embark for home. When he
when you deal at
the guns and the tolling o f bells an- reached Mon’ attk Point the first per
son
he
met
v
i
s
Mary
Mills
She
had
noum e to the uatlon that the king has
come ns a nurse. She Inquired eagerly
i,-one to his final resting place.
for her lover.
Burge prevaricated. He could not
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QUEER T ELEG R APH POLES.
bear to deMve'- the message with which
he had lieen charged. But Ma
with
M ade o f A d ob e In B oliv ia — G row in g
a w o ir -i's quick eye where love Is
T re e s U sed In A fr ic a .
concerned, saw- that he was concealing
The most original telegraph line In something and assumed that her
i lie world ouce extended from the cap fiance had been killed. Burge would
ital o f Bolivia, Da Par, to the town of much rather have broken such news
Oruro. In tills part of Bolivia there to her than that he had turned out a
"Pioneer Harness M aker"
are no growing trees, and wood Is so coward. At Inst he told her the truth.
difficult to find that even the ordinary Mary Mills went home bowed down
household furniture o f the nntives ls with grief.
Invariably made not o f wihh I, but of
This is the time of year
The next morning she heard one of
dried mud or adobe.
her sisters reading from newspaper
when
heavy work begins
So when the war broke out between dispatches from Santiago She was
Chile and Bolivia and a telegraph line about to leave the room, dreading lest
and you will want good
became urgent It was adobe that was «he should hear that her lover had
strong
harness. We not
chosen for the queerest telegraph poles been ordered liefore a court martial to
111 existence. These pillars were built he tried for cowardice, when his name
only have the largest
on stone foundations and measured was mentioned, hut In a different way
stock in the county but
about five feet square at the base, with from what she had expected:
a height o f a (tout fifteen feet.
our prices will convince
Milton Forester. wounded In the stom -
They were placed at Intervals of ach. Operated upon and expected to re
you that we
about til’d feet aud thus held the wire cover Pro -toted to be captain, vice John
at a height sufficient to clear the only Kellogg, killed.
animals o f the country, the llama and
Fores te- after being left by Burge
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the donkey. The total length of the tried to rise. His object was to push
line was 156 miles.
forward with a view to getting himself |
Among other curious telegraph lines killed. But he found himself too weak
Our Store is overflowing with all
Is the growing pole line erected In to rise. At that moment a surgeon
kinds ol harness, both light and
Pgauda by an Knglisli engineer, who with an ambulance corps came hurry- I
heavy, Buggy Whips, Robes,
could not find any dead wood which Ing on. making hnsty examinations of
would withstand the white ants and the wounded lying on the field. Com- |
Rain Curtains. In fact every
hit upon the kiea o f transporting grow
Ing to Forester, he saw blood on his
thing you want.
Ing bark cloth trees to the side o f the clothing, tore open his coat and said:
roads and using them as poles.
“ A bad wound.”
In the Dutch Fast Indies growing
“ I? Wounded r
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trees are turned to account also, but
“ Yes: in the stomach.”
there a wire Is stretched across the
“Thank G od!"
road between the trees on either side,
The surgeon looked at him with a
and the Insulator Is suspended In Its puzzled expression, but there was no
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middle, aud the line Is thus over the time for words, and after ordering a
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road and clear from vegetation.—Chi
rescue party to take him to a hospital
cago Tribune.
pushed on.
When the boys of '61 were shot In ^
Watch Spring*.
the stomach there was nothing left for j
The watch carrle«l by the average them but to pass the dark portal. Not j
By that ttms
man Is composed o f uluety eight pieces, so In the Cuban war
and Its manufacture embraces more snch progress had been made In aur- j
T r . de M . rss
D e s ig n s
than 2.000 distinct and separate oiiene gery that Forester's stomach was lalJ j
CoevniGHTs Ac.
lions
Imre, tbe wound sewed up. tbe atom- 1
Anvon# tendlng a * ketrh and deeertntlon may
ujeertam on r opini«-» free w hether an
Hairspring wlr«> weighs one-twentl ach put back In place, and In time tho ! qnlokly
Invention ta probably pnientai*!®. Communio*.
tloiia tl rt«t ly roiifldoiitwl. MANU BOOT on P»«nta
eth o f a grain to the Inch One mile of patient was as well as ever As soon
—
Tre«. Oldest aaem y for securinit
ratina patents,
p ‘
as It was safe he was put on a trans- |
wire weighs less than half a pound
“*
Patent* taken tnrour*"
through Munn
â * I'O. receive
ttptrUU notice, w ithout charge, lu th «
port and sent north. When as a con
The balance glv«»s five vibrations ev
ery second. ’Jut» every minute. IS.000 valescent he walked slowly down the
every hour. 4.32.000 every day and 157. gangway to the dock his friend Burge
A tl«naw>m»lr llln .tr.».-1 tTMfclT I.artM t rtr-
W S t lw i " f u n , r.-tentlûc Joiirnnl. T em i» « , a
and his fiancee. Mary Mills, were there
IPS 1,000 every year
rwtr: f.'ur num tb,, $L Sold b y .lt n r * . 1 . » Irr».
The value of springs when finished to meet him.
"What did you mean.” said the for
and placed In watches Is enormous In
Branch Office, CS F SL, W ashington. D. C.
pro|»irtlon to the material from w hich mer. “ by putting np a Job on me like
that?"
they are matte A ton o f steel made up
ell. I'll tell you. Nate 1 once ask
Into hairsprings when In watches 1»
worth more than twelve and one-half ed my father, who commanded a bat
ti o* the table o f the same weight In tery In the civil war. how he felt on
gotug Into a light. He said It mads
pure gold
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blru sick at his stomach. I felt sick,
» » ■ • » I N d T O . .N O TSN TM S T S
and I didn't know I’d been struck.”
Everybody Pleased.
» O O T L .N O . O N I O O N
Deacon \re yon willing to go? Dn-
Mrs. Mary Mills Forester, now a ma §_T\* School Otei w m TEFO R c a t a l o g
rt+ '— Timms « m 4 r - i t a
popnlsr t’ lthten tdtlng>-Oh yes: I am
tron of thtrtj-two, says she believes
Deacon Well. Pm glad yon are. for there Is a good deal of hnmbug about
"the fearless heroes of war.”
that makes It unanimous. -Judge
Biiley will buy your Wool and
UlkKRICK AUGER.
WEEKLY OREGONIAN
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have been one o f our greatest cenerifs:
;nd his life been sparet he might have
•ieen one of our most Illustrious presl
!ents. Concerning these things we can
>n!y speculate. But It was his great
ness as a man that was felt by the
world rather than his especial accom
plishments In any field o f endeavor.
Here Is or.e saving of Garfield’s that
is typical o f the man:
“ Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can
testify, but nine times out o f ten the
liest tiling that can happen to a young
man Is to he tossed overboard and
(impelled to sink or swim for himself,
in all my aenualntanee I never knew u
man to drown who was worth lie sav-
ng.”
James À. Garfield.
B y
J.
St.
E -D C E -R T O M .
From
the tow-
path to the pres
idency is a long
ascent.
A R isk y S u b je c t.
"D o you think, sweetheart,” queried
O tiie poor hoy looking for an in
the young man with the evenly divid-
spiring example the career of
led hair, "that your father will con-
James A. Garfield furnishes un
I sent to our marriage?"
Ideal and an Incentive. From
“ W ell." replied tile fair one. "o f
the towpatli It* the presidency is a long
; course papa will be sorry to lose me,
ascent.
He bad no outward helps
! blit” —
In making that climb, but rose only
"But.” Interrupted the rash youth,
through the strength of his own char
•1 will remind him that instead o f I os
acter. Not only did he rise himself, but
! Ing a daughter he will gain a son."
be formulated n gospel o f taccess and
"D earest." rejoined the wise maid,
gave it to the world. Ue was not with
I "If you really want me you mustn’t
out the qualities that appeal to tin1 In
I ' l l anything o f the kind. Papa has
tellect, hut ho was supreme In the
ihrce such sous boarding with biui
qualities that appeal to the heart. Gen
erous and warm hearted, vet cool and I now, and he’s a little touchy on the
unlmpassloneil. strong without harsh subject."
T
ness, self reliant without boorishness,
righteous without pharlaeelsm, roll
glens without prlgglshncss, witty with
Plays and Players.
out wounding others, possessing good
"Strotigheart" ls now belng u-»ed in
fellowship without letting himself down
to things Ignoble or unworthy. Garfield thè stock compnnles
was great In his goodness. While pos
John C. Ilice aud Sally Cohen «vili
sensing much will power, he was not j star In a new farce called "Just I.ike
rigid and by some was considered a Man.*
weak. He did not overawe others and
The revival o f “ The Bride of denteo."
force his way by sheer ability, tint «chicli James K Iluckeit niaile thls
rather drew men to him and won Uls season, ha» tieen must snccessful
points by |ierauuslve arts. His nature
Marie Duro has achleved a decide»!
while rugged, was not rough, but was succi's* Iti I.omlon
Bolli |iersonally
mellowed by a great kindliness. Ill Ills
nini profet-sionally she ls exceotlingly
presence men felt li^m to ls> greiter popolar.
than the things he did or said. There
Felice Morris, thè daughter of tbe
was In his very atmosphere that Inde
finable something which inspires con lille Felix Morris, «vili appear In vaude
ville In a one aet comedy called "The
fidence anil esteem. Without lieing das
r.iing or superemlnent In any line he Old. Old Story."
did »11 things well. An Inspiring tench
er and minister, a brave and resource
C om p reh en siv e.
fill soldier, a winning and eloquent
“ Ilubby, Is my hat on straight?"
speaker, a broad minded and efficient
"W ell. If your hat Is, your hair Isn’t,
legislator, hp was far above mediocrity
■ind If your hair Is. then there’s some
In every field. Had he remained a sol
dier to the end of the war he iniglii thin'' askew about y ju r hat.” —New
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