M A D E FAM O US B Y
M c K i n l e y .
N E W B E R Q Q R A P H IC .
Dear reader w e can't tell a tie.
The Weather on Tuesday, the date
o f the anniversary o f Washing
ton ’s birthday was a whole lo t
more like w inter than we like to
see a t this season o f the year.
The talk o f numerous public
buildings being erected in tow n
is good for the hotels, to say the
least. Note the swarm o f Port-
W ith the building o f three or
more good substantial brick
business houses this season, a
high school building, a college
building, as w ell as many new
residences, there w ill be Some
thing doing in Newberg.
“Ah, but one«, a Jong time ago,
'When ra j jacket * a a bright and
dean, when m y face was smooth
and free from care,“ the bill
trembled and its face seemed to
grow a shade darker, “ I brought
misery in to a happy, joyous
home. It was indirectly, and I
was powerless, to be sure; I
I belonged to a gentleman, and
he bartered me for whiskey, but,
ever since I have felt th at it
would have been better if I had
never existed. I turned golden
hair to silver grey; and rosy
cheeks I faded white: sighs and
groans took the place o f laugh
ter, and instead o f smiles there
were bitter tears ever falling. A
trusting, loving, devoted heart
endured untold suffering, and
Casper S. Yost,- poet, editor,
humorist and philosopher, is the
author o f “ Colonel John Sneed's
Conversations on D o m e s tic
Problems, a series o f bright,
w itty articles th at are ju st the
thing to read and laugh over ami
chat about after dinner around
the fam ily circle. M any readers
w ill recall the popularity w on by
Mr. Y ost in his former philosoph
ical observations entitled “The
M aking o f a Successful Husband’ ’
and “ The M aking o f a Successful
It was about ten years
ago that M r. Yost, then assistant
managing editor o f the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, was brought
into prominence by a poem he
w rote. The lines occurred to hicn
as he was w alking through the
grieve apd grew very still for
St. Louis streets, and on enter
hearts break, sometimes, you
ing the office he jotted t6em
know. I brought a noble man I
down under the heading “ Our
down to the low est depths; I
Destiny” and printed them in a
taught him to give curses for
com paratively obscure corner/of
blessings, cuffs for caresses, and
the paper, But they chanced to
scorn and hate for love. I
fall under the eye o f W illiam , Me
nerved his arm while he struck
Kinley, who was then preparing
out a life that had only just
an address to be delivered a t a
learned to breathe. I led him on
dinner in honor o f the layin g o f
from bad to worse, and his home
the cornerstone o f the new federal
which was so like Heaven, I
building in Chicago. He w as so
made like hell.. Oh! I was help
impressed w ith the beauty o f the
less, yet it was all through me.
lines that he quoted them in his
I have travelled much, have con
speech, thus im m ortalizing poem
tributed to much happiness, but
and author. The first three
the w oe I once caused lea n never
stanzas read as follow s;
forget. A ll over the land there
T ia God Who leads us on. Our destiny.
is scarcely a bill, scarcely a ten He holds within the hollow o f his hand,
cent piece, th at hasn’t been com And all the armies, all the fiesta of
pelled a t one time or another, to
cast dark shadows over human
lives. Oh, if men would never
osition for a new college build-
m g succeed do your best now.
I t is the fellow s w ho are going
to do something “ after while”
th a t make it hard w ork for the
ITT ' - i li
been p r a c t i c a l l y unanimous.
Newberg stands for the best
educational facilities th at money be happier too. Are there not
tittle bare, cold feet that would
will obtain. -
be clothed and warm, i f it was
Fru it grow ers o f the communi not for the first glass? Are there
ty are vita lly interested in the not little forms that shrink aw ay
in terror from a father w ho
should call forth only love and
confidence? Are there not chil-
dish voices th a t grow hushed
wife, mm
O f liberty three hundred years ago.
H e wanned it with Ms Meath. V
human tears
He watered it and from the sterile..
Brought forth a tree whose fru it a
ripe should be
8boaid m*ke lt
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for
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To lead the world to liberty and him.
And «hall wo draw back now? Shall
.
w sit down — -—.- t ~ —
And mat content with what we have
and board
Our bleating« aa the miser hoard# Ms
gold?
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I f he baa spread our land from coast to
A few days ago I received tw o
one dollar bills, one whs crisp,
and bright, and new, evidently
ju st from the bank. The other
was old and than, and worn, and
wrinkled, and dirty. “ See w hat
you are coming to ” I exclaimed
tacking B ill No. % in m y parse.
“ Had rather a hard time haven't
yon?” i nintinnsd, as I stretched
No. 2 on his back and gazed
dow n into bis broad countenance,
«in'll a
a hard
han! time
tirrw myself,
m vsp lf”
“ Not such
responded Bill, to my surprise,
“ Bat T v e brought hard times to
oth ers.”
‘‘Impossible” I re
plied; haid ittmee w ithout
but never w ith you.”
Bill sighed; but brightening a
little, “ i ISfpt three little chil
dren from starving, “ I kept three
' * tittle children from starring,
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160 A.— 50 acres fenced and in cultivation, 1 i miles from
church and school. $1800 cash.
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320 A. —250 acres in cultivation and in crop.
I. assured Bill that in the
future I would never loose an op
portunity to use my voice o r pen
or the cause o f tem p era te and
while the promise is fresh--in
memory, I ask each one to weigh
the subject carefully, î torget
probabilities in studying to pre-
Vfeflt possibilities,
r Remember
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this; if it was not for the first
glass there w rraMn’tb e a drunk-
ard in the w orld, and saloqps
would he nhknown. It is not
hard to refuse the first glass then
for your own sake, for the sake
o f you r fhmily ,for che sake o f the
world and your influence m it do
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Edward E lliott, of Boston,
who filled the fourth number o f
the lyceum coarse on Tuesday
night, in which be gave “ The
Lion And The Mouse,” gave an
entertainment th at w ilf not soon
be forgotten by those w ho beard
him.
Those who have seen the p H
given by some o f the best stage
performers on the road say they
they consider E lliott aw ay ahead
at twilight o f any they have ever heard.*■
Few speakers have ever held
the attention o f a Newberg
audience more closely through a
long performance,and E lliot tw ill
lie greeted by a crowded house
it he ever comes this ftaT again.
The fifth and last numbor of
the coarse w ill be given A p ril 1,
when Laurant, the magician,
w ill entertain a Newberg audience
tor the first time. Mr. E lliott
said, “ Boom Laurant all you
want to, for he is the best
magician of them all.”
$30 acre,
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W heat lands in Alberta, Canada. I B !7 an acre, one-tenth
down and 9 years on the balance at 6 per cent.
120 acres to trade for Newberg property, all good farm land
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W H IT E & N IC H O L S
Brice Robison, o f North Yam
hill, visited his brother, Roe
Robison last week.
Mrs. J. P. Pow ell has returned
from M cM innville where she has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
D. H. Turner.
Mrs. L o ttie Decker, o f New-'
berg, is visitin g relatives and
friends in the Red Hills.
Sunday evening at the church
the ladies o f the W. C. T. U. held
an impressive Frances W illard
memorial service.
M r. and Mrs. Frank Keyes
have been visitin g in Salem for a
The Misses Edna W atkins and
M edora Greer, o f New’berg, spent
W ashington’s birthday at Otter- '
brook.
Mrs. John Crawford has re
turned from a visit a t Portland. .1
M r; and Mrs. W. J. Gordon •
spent Tuesday in Newberg where
they . attended the D akota re- .-J
The petition to the Southern
Pacific R. R. Co. asking fo rJa
telephone a t the Dundee station
is a t the store o f A- A. Parrett.
Dundee residents please take
•notice and do not fail to sign
We have nót heard oFariy boy
cott on the meat companies o f j
this section but notice that
the Dundee M eat M arket has
changed to a barber shop, which
looks as though C. H. P a rro t
were taking time by the forelock
and preparing for a vegetarian
The burdens which Ma leadership en
Public Sala.
tails?
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No, no!
W e could not eren if we
I w ill offer A t Public Sale at
would.
Tho hand that led us to our present place one o ’clock, Saturday, February
W ill not relax ita grasp till we have 26, ’10, a t W erth’s Feed and
“'fhat was kind, 1 am sure.”
“ And once I procure^ some
beautiful flower* for a * * U d > ”
^ “ Unselfish fellow, always w ork
ing for others."
“Another time a lot of t»s fel
lows helped to trim a ball drees,
too, and the wearer received the
praise of every one. and an offer
of marriage .fironf fi>prinfc in
wealth.”
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“ Once I bought a Bible for a
rich woman w ith a proud heart;
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in ? Eastern Oregon
Farm. Lands—
L ivery Bam , Newberg, Oregon,
the follow in g described property:
12 cows, 7 givin g milk, 5 w ill be
fresh soon, 1 spring heifer and
1 two-year-old Jersey Bull, 3
good w ork horses, w agon a*d
harness, also 1 hack. These are
a chofoe lo t o f cows and any one]
can get the test as a herd at the
Newberg M ilk Condenser. M y
reason for selling is that I have
sold my larm and have to give
possession a t once.
Terms o f sale: Bight months
w ill be given purchasers girin g
bankable note bearing eight per
cent interest. Five per cent dis
count for cash.
G uy W a l k e r , Proprietor.
L. M. S m ith , Auctioneer.
School Mooting.
There w ill be a School Officers
and Teachers’ Convention held
in the Newberg rfigh School
next Saturday, February ^26.
Make an earnest effort to attend
this meeting, as you w ill be bene
fited thereby. Free dinner and a
general good time.
Your* for Better Schools,
H. H. B e lt .
is enroute from S t Louis consigned to us. These jobs
are bought direct from the manufacturer with no job
bers profit added and no expense paid traveling men
fo r selling. They are^the cream o f the buggy world
and are bought fo r cash, and owned here by us at
price, quality considered, that w ill give our customers
the mostlfolTtheir money. They are not new to us fo r'
we have sold the line fo r eight years and have had ex
cellent success with every job. In the car are Spring
Wagons, Top Buggies, Surreys, D riving Wagons, Carts,
Regular and Long Body Road Wagons and extra poles
and shafts. L et us show you.
A few hundred dozens clothes pins.
A good tin one gallon oil can fo r
They are in the window. On sale Saturday only
at that nrie*
For Your Baby’sSake
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buy a W A G N E R Quick Ì
Folding Go-Cart.
We hsve b stock a full Une of new models. ~ <
them. You won’t be obliged to buy.
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The WAGNER is sa*,
st is so placed that the can
quality leatherette.
The WAGNER has an
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W . W . Hollingsworth A ,S o n