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THE NEWBBKG ORAPHIC, x a x x x x x m r ’fc. D R . G E O . L A R K IN £ D entist WHERE CHESS RULES. A PRAIRIE AND A LAKE All the People, Yeung and Old, Play the O m w In 8trohbeok. S w ifU im i It la tha One and Santa- tlmaa tha Othar. Chess is king in the German town of Strohbeck. All the inhab itants, young and old, men and Office over First Nat’1 Bank women, boys and girls, play at the ancient game with a skill and as Both Phones siduity that are more than remark able. Youngster» absorb the in tricacies o f the royal game just as they learn their A B C , and the Strohbeck child is ever a match for the average player elsewhere. DR. A . M . D A V ' IS Chess is taught in the schools of Strohbeck, and the pupils carry D E N T I S T chessboards as the American school child carries his satchel o f books. O ff»o s I « U nion B took The whole town breathes an atmos BO TH P H O N E S phere o f cheea. Visit any local shop and the shopman will lay ankle his chess board in order to attend to your wants and pick it up the moment L ITTLE FIE LD & RO M IG these are satisfied, to renew his at tention upon some problem or to . PHYSICIANS A SURGEONS continue an exciting game with his aistanl At the cafes and other places o f refreshment chessboards and chessmen are provided for the Office in P in t N at’ l Bank Building entertainment o f visitors. Phone, Blndk SI Should you visit one o f the old inns o f the place called "T he Chess board” the genial landlord will show you, should yon appear worthy o f the honor, a set o f chessmen pre sented to it in 1650. Two princes, the story runs, played upon this board and with these chessmen. The inscription on the board itself confirms all the town’s privileges, so that in a way it may be said that the charter o f the place is en grossed upon a chessboard. The extraordinary popularity o f chess in Strohbeck is accounted for by a tradition concerning a certain Graf Gunnelin, who was imprisoned o S p e c ia lty . C ali | in the tower there in the year A. D. 1011. He chalked out a chessboard on his dungeon floor and made some Bod» rough pieces. In time the jailer be came interested in the G rafs ma Dr. Alieo C. Bowen Dr. H . D. neuvers on the checkered field, and the two played together. The jailer ultimately taught the game to oth O S T E O P A T H IC P H Y S IC IA N S ers, and it won a popularity which Graduates of the A. A O.. KlrkarlUe. Mo. , A veer’s post-graduate work in Cali it has never lost in the quaint Ger fornia joat completed. W om en’s man town. I DR. G. E. STUART Physician A Burgeon Drs. Bowers & Bowers Diseases a Specialty. Office, upstairs opposite postoffice. Phones: Office, W hite 75; Res------------- DR. T H O S. W . HESTER Physician and Surgeon Office in Dixon Building NEW BERG - - OREGON W . W . Hollingsworth & Son Fansral Directors St Calls Answered Day or Night Lady Assistant Both Phones N e w b e rg , O re . ^ T T O B N E T -A T -L A W CLARENCE BUTT Among the strange things to be met with in Florida is a section oi country which changes with the seasons and is alternately a prairie and a lake. It ia two miles south o Gainesville, and at certain strangers wonder why it ia called s “ prairie,” for they look out upon s broad stretch o f water so deep tha ; a storm churns its surface into roll ing whitecapped billows. At timei the commerce o f the lake is done by steamer, while at other you can go over the same route in a stage, from the wheels o f which clouds of dust roll. On the edge of the prairie, half walled in by rock and dense with immense trees draped in long fae- toons o f moss, is a pool o f water called “ The Sink.” Its depth has never been sounded. From it an underground river flows and makes its way no one knows where. Some time an acre o f land, trees and all, will fall into the underground river, and then the drainage o f the prairie becomes ob structed and the prairie goes dry. In a year or two the river will sweep around the obstruction and the prairie becomes wet. There are a number o f these sinks in the neighborhood o f Gainesville, all o f them as round a dollar and averaging from a q< ter to a half acre in extent. A little way north of Gainesville ia a pretty and mysterious spot called the “ Devil’s M illhopper." A large stream o f water cornea down hill with considerable force and disappears in a pool that has no visible outlet. Near Brooksville there is an other pool very similar to the Devil’s Millhopper. A stream o f water pours into it and is swal lowed up in a whirlpool in the cen ter. Throw a log in it and it will be carried around the pool many times, gradually drawing nearer to the center. When it reaches the center it suddenly disappears. The people in the neighborhood do not dare to go too near the Brooksville pool, and it would be a very bold On to Hi* Job. man who would launch a boat and Railroad men are telling this inci trust himself upon it.— St. Louis dent as having occurred on a Kan Globe-Democrat. - sas train some time ago: The rails spread and the engine, tender and A Hidden Warning. baggage car left the track, but the It ia recorded in history that jar was not hard enough to disturb when DariuB, king of Persia, invad the sleepers in the rear Pullmans. ed Scythia the ruler of the latter In the last Pullman the porter was country, Idanthuras, sent him a shining shoes and, thinking the message consisting o f a mouse, a train was stopping at an unusual frog, a bird, an arrow and a plow. place, he went ahead to see about The wisest men of the army puz the difficulty. He was told that zled over the meaning o f it, which within a couple o f hours the engine was conjectured to be that the em could be put hack and the track re pire was surrendered. It waa sup paired. So he got busy with his posed that the mouse signified the shoes again. dwellings, the frog the waters, the Suddenly a head popped out o f bird the air, the arrow the arms and one o f the berths, and a man the plow the land. But it turned shouted: out eventually that the interpreta “ Say, porter, what are we stop tion intended was that unless Da ping here fo r?” rius and his soldiers could fly like "Oh,” answered the porter, “ we birds, burrow like mice or betake had a wreck!” themselves like frogs to the water “ A w reck? Wowl Oh-oh-oh-wow- they would never escape the weap wowf My neck! My chest! My ons o f the Scythians and make their back! O h-oh -oh!” — Kansas City way out o f the country. Journal. _______________ W ill practice in all the courts o f the átate. Special attention given to pro bate work, the writing o f deeds, mort gages, contracts and the drafting o f all legal papen. Tha Scottish Thistle. Newberg, Oregon. The origin of the thistle as the O m c s —Second, Floor national badge o f Scotland is thus Bank o f Newberg Building. given by tradition. When the Danes invaded Scotland it was deemed un- Babt. W. J o n « Herbert J. Flag g warlike to attack the enemy by Mnaleival and Highway Engineering. Examination« and Reporto, Land and night instead of in pitched battle Mineral Snrrera Mapa, Plane and 8pecl- 11 cations by day, but on one occasion the in vaders tried a night attack. In or der to prevent their tramp being CIVIL ENGINEERS heard they marched barefooted, and >-10 they had succeeded in creeping close McMinnville lenk Building up t o ' the Scottish forces unob ▼tile. Oregon served when one of them stepped on a thistle and uttered a err of pain. The alarm was given, ana the attack was beaten off. Out o f grati tude the thistle was adopted as the o f Scotland. — London MCMINNVILLE, OREGON insignia Chronicle. JONES & FLAGG WILLIAM M. RAMSEY Attom ey-at-Law Office in die Elsia W right Building Third street Nine out of ten travelers would tell inquirers that the rougeat piece o f water is that cruel stretch in the English channel, and nine out of ten travelers would say what waa not true. As a matter of fact, “ the wickedest bit of sea,” says a «hip ping journal, ia not in the Dover strait or in yachting, for example, from St. Jean de Luix up to Pauil- lac or across the Mediterranean “ race” from Cadiz to Tangier, nor ia it in rounding Cape Horn, where there is what sailor* call a “ true sea.” The “ wickedest sea” ia en countered in rounding the Cape of Good Hope for the eastern porta of Cape Colony. Cheerless Palacea. ; SI Silence it the element in which great things fashion themselves to E. A . ELLIS gether, that at length they may emerge full formed and majestic into the daylight o f life, which they Septic tanks built after the are henceforth to rule. All the latest approved methods. considerable men I have known Sewer and Tile W ork. Wall Digging forebore to babble of what they were (Testing and projecting. Nay, in thy own perplexities do thou Yamhill County Abstract Co. thyself but hold thy tongue for one day; on the morrow how much J. H. GIBSON, Mgr. clearer are thy purposes and du Tka only Abstract Books in ties; what wreck and rubbish hare these mute workmen within thee YaaBtuD County ■wept away when intrusive noises M c M in n v il l e , O s b o o p were ahut out!— Maurice Maeter linck. General Contractor t i The Wickedest Bit of Sea. Palaces lacked what are now or dinary comforts even in modern times and especially for a period prior to the reign of Louis X IV . in France. They were magnificently decorated, but the windows were small and not well placed, and the rooms were filled with magnificent but not particularly comfortable furniture. Fire« were seldom light ed in the immense, beautifully sculptured marj>le fireplaces. Usual ly the only fire waa to be found in the bedchamber at the end o f a suit of rooms. At Versailles in 1695, it is reported, the water and wine froze in the king’s glasses at table. Sept, al, Ipil Hollingsworth & Sons — — — — — —T H E S T O R E O F Q U A L I T Y » — — — Complete Furnishers o f Home and Office, Liberal credit extended all home furnishers; lowest prices A B ig Carload of A Representative Iron Beds Showing: We have just placed on our floor a car load o f Iron Beds. All the new ideas in designs, as well as the very latest finishes, are to be seen in them—the most artistic combinations that have yet come to our store. In the finishes the “ Vernis Martin” is unquestionably the most popular, although there is good variety o f other attractive finishes and combinations ia oora o f furniture fo r the dining room. The de mand o f every dining room no m atter what pro portions or schemes o f decoration or what ia set aside to bo furnished it will be met bare. Quaint craftsm en’s designs in waxed oak continue to gain favor with artistic home furnishers. Pedestal style din- , ing table FULL SIZE BEDS AS LOW AS $ 2.85 BIG S T O C K R U G S AND C A R P E T S Fall styles in Carpets, etc. we are showing are B eautiful, S plen did and C h eap . We have all sizes, large and small, and you will regret any purchase you make before see ing our beautiful and complete stock now ready. Besides, WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY W. W. HOLLINGSWORTH & S0NS-500 First Street = s • r - Midsummer Clearance A large line o f Lawns, values to 15c per yard <a now ............................ I \ J C India Linens, special India Linen, special ‘J Q q ^ 2 iC India Linen, special <| Q q India Linen, special ^ Q q These are the best values we have ever offered The balance o f our Summer Goods, Lawns, Dimities, Silk and Silk Mixed goods at a 25 Per Cent Discount Ladies Linen and Cotton Suits Values up to $5.00 at $1.98 Values up to $8.60 at $2.49 Shoes! Shoes!! We are offering the best val ues we ever offered you. L oti. Children’s Shoes, values S*.**:"... $ -5 0 Lot 2. Boys and Misses Shoes, values to $2.00 <| 0 0 Boys, Ladies, Misses 4 c a shoes, value to $2.50 Ladies Shoes, value o f\ r\ to $3.00..................t . U U Ladies Shoes, value o C A to $4.00.................^ O U 25 per ct o ff on f.adiea, Men’s, Misses. Children’s Oxfords J. C. Porter & Company Go to O V U K A M C noO C L M □ Newberg Auto Co. For a Good Automobile. Shop W ork Vulcanizing, Oils, Supplies, Gasoline, Storage, etc. Oaf ’ Km Mixed. Knjaying Sad H ealth. G. O . KEENEYS Pressing P a rk is Phone Suits Cleaned paired. Lediee’ SOS 1-2 First, Black 82 Pressed and Re work a specialty. opp. Poetoffice “ There goes Mrs. Whinger. She loys bad health.” d I understand you to asy aha ‘enjoys’ bad health?” "Exactly. Nothing gives her more pleasure than describing her avmploma.” — Birmingham Age- Herald. A nervous looking man walked into a grocery with his baby on one arm and a kerosene can on the other, placed the can on the coun ter and said, “ Sit thare a moment, dear.” Then, holding the baby up to the dazed clerk, he added, ‘T ill thia thing up with kerosene.” Francisco Argonaut. College S tre e t B etw een le t end 2nd NEW BERG, ORE. 4 )
