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(Continued from last week)
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Almora, India, July 2, 1911
School closed on the 27th of
April, and on the 1st o f May Ina
and I left Lucknow to swelter in
a heat o f 117 in the shade ant
No one thing will give
176 in the sunlight while we en
so much pleasure, to
joyed the cool breezes and the
so many people, for so
magnificent scenery at Almora in
long a time, at so little
the foothills o f the Himalayas.
cost, as a
Our journey was o f a little less
than 250 miles. The last 39 miles
was on a bridle path through the
G raphophono
mountains. It sounds like an ex
And if you will come in
pensive vacation for a missionary
and sec this “ B K T ” outfit
to go so far, but traveling is
you’ll believe it. A new
cheap in India For our railway
aluminum tone-arm cylin
der machine with flower
tickets for a distance o f over two
horn and 6 records, cost
hundred miles, we paid $3.18
ing $37.10. Plays both
each. I will tell you later on of
2-minute and 4-minute rec
the expenses o f the last 39 miles
ords. Other outfits from
o f our journey. Most o f the
$20 up— and you can buy
them all on easy terms.
time we were on the railroad it
was night, and as we were in
sleeper we slept. We woke up
in time to catch the first glimpse
o f the snow peaks in the distance
and to enjoy the landscape with
its great herons, its jackals, deer,
lumbering elephants, great ox
carts, mud villages, razor-backed
hogs, ugly camels, and scrubby
horses. We reached Kathgodam,
the terminus o f the railway, at
about 11 a. m. on May 2.
At Kathgodam the really in
teresting part o f our journey to
Almora, the road crosses a nar
and he w ill h ave som ething fo r every little b o y and girl present at that
row suspension bridge and all
the rest o f the way is a true
tim e, under tw elve years o f a g e. BE O N T IM E , as S an ta d on ’ t stay
FOREST GROVE PHARMACY
bridle path, there being no
THE UP-TO-DATE DRU66ISTS
long in a p lace— h e’s busy n ow .
wheeled vehicles whatever. Not
one mile o f the way is level. Peo
ple who travel here must walk,
ride ponies or ride in a dandi,
Get Your
(pronounced dandy). A dandi
is a sort o f chair and footstool so
mounted on a framework o f wood
and iron rods as to be carried by
four men. The dandi frame is
boat shaped and over each o f the
pointed ends is fitted something
almost exactly like a neck yoke.
At each end o f each neckyoke
stands a dandi coolie, who carries
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his load on his shoulder. One
Made at
grown person is a load for a
dandi, although a woman and a
baby, or two children may ride
B u y Y o u r D oors and W in d o w s
together. Four coolies work at
a time, but each dandi has . from
F rom T h e M an u factu rers
four to eight coolies who work in
relays, The number varies with
2-0x6-0
5 x Panel F ir 1 3-8
$1.4«
13.00
2-6x7-0
5x
Panel 1 3-4 Fir
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the length and difficulty o f the
2-8x7-«
5x
Panel 1 3-4 Fir
3.10
1
2-0x6-6
5 x Panel F ir 1 3-8
1.60
of Forest Grove, Oregon
3.15
2-
5x
10x6-10
Panel 1 3-4 Fir
journey and the weight o f the
2-0x6-8
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
1.65
3.25
3-
6x
0x7-« Panel 1 3-4 Fir
2-2x6-6
5 x Panel F ir 1 3-8
1.60
load. Six is the most common
Fir Sash Doors No. 214
2-2XG-8
5 x Panel F ir 1 3-8
1.66
2-6xG-6
13-8
3
x
Panel
1
L
t
2.25
number.
The regular wages for
6 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
2-4xG-4
1.60
2-8x6-8
13-8 3 x Panel 1 Lt
2.50
2-4X6-6
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
1.60
2-
10x6-10 13-8 3 x
Panel 1 Lt 2.75 coolies is four annas (8f0
Main St. North
per
2-4X6-8
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
1.65
3- 0x7-«
13-8 3 x Panel 1 Lt
3.00
2-6x6-«
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
1.60
day,
and
they
furnish
their
own
2-€x6-6
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
1.60
Cedar Sash Doors, 4 or 6 Lts.
2-6X6-8
5 x Panel F i- 1 3-8
1.66
2-6x6-«
13-8
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2.40
board and lodging. We had in
2-6x7-«
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
2.00
2-8x6-8
13-8
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2.50
2-8x6-0
ESTABLISHED 1885
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
1.65
tended
that Ina should ride in a
2-SX6-8
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
1.65
Cedar—4 Panels
I
2-8X7-0
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
2.25
dandi, but we found that no
2-0x6-«
1 3-8
1.40
2-10x6-10 5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
2.00
1.60
2-0X6-6
1 3-8
3-0X7-0
5 x Panel Fir 1 3-8
2.25
dandi coolies were to be had. We
2-6X6-6
1 3-8
1.60
2-8X6-8
1 3-8
1.65
also needed some bojh coolies. A
ALL KINDS OF
Cross Panel Cedar 30 cents Extra
2-6X6-6
1 3-8 Cedar No. 214
$2.40
One Panel Veneered Fir
bojh is fifty pounds a legal load
2-8X6-8
2-6x6-«
1 3-8
1 3-8 Cedar No. 214
2.6«
3.20
2-8x6-8
1 3-8
3.3«
o f baggage for one coolie. Some M on u m en tal
2-6x7-«
1 3-8
4.00
2- 8x7-«
1 3-8
4.00
men carry as much as 120 pounds
Estimates given on First-
Fir or Cedar Front Doors
2-8x6-$
1 3-8 Clear
3.00
over
from eight to sixteen miles
Class Work and Stock Only
2-8X6-8
1 3-8 Fancy
3.5«
Oak Front Doors
3-0x7-«
1 3-4 Clear
6.00
3- «x7-0
Bevel Plate
18.00
of rough mountain road in a day. 264-66 Fourth St. Opposite City Hall
3-0x7-«
1 3-4 Bevel Plate
10.00
3-6x7-0
Bevel Plate
25.0«
A man who carries more than 50
PORTLAND, OREGON
pounds gets extra pay. For fifty
Send for cuts o f front doors, China and kitchen closet, sash
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pounds or less a man gets 8 cents Main 8664
and panel doors, store doors and odd doors made to order.
per day; for 50 to 80 pounds 16
Door and window hardware, weights and cord, paints, oils,
cents; for 80 to 120 pounds, 24
varnishes, window glass.
I cents. We had two steel trunk
that weighed 176 pounds. Each
PORTLAND SASH AND DOOR CO M PAN Y
Proprietors
i o f these was carried by one man,
230 Front Street,
Portland, Oregon.
39 miles in 3 days. One other
C om m ercial T ra d e Solicited
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explanation and we will be ready W e have on sale Olympia
Spscial Conveyances Over Wilson River Route to Tillamook
to start from Kathgodam. Moun
tain roads in the Himalayas are and Eastern Oysters : : :
Horses Bought, Sold and Exchanged
divided into marches, one march
being the distance between two
Try us once and if we
government rest houses, called
please you tell others;
C entral L ivery Barns
dak bungalows, and being sup
if not tell us.
Me Namer & Wirtz, Proprietors
posed to be one day’s journey.
As the distance between bunga Located on Pacific Avenue
G en eral L ivery
lows varies from 8 to 13 miles,
and Tillamook Stage Lines.
people frequently make two
The
marches and sometimes even
three marches in a day. Now
Pacific Avenue,
for the journey.
of
Buys and Sella Second
(To be continued)
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