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n e w b e r q q r a p h ic
SpiwgiDijfefj Goods and Ginghams
come in and inspect them .
W e have ju st received our new Spring
Dress Goods and Gingham s and want
to extend to you a cordial invitation to
A ll the newest fabrics, pretty designs at prices lower than you ever expected to get them
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We quote prices on just a few
of the new goods. Come
in and see them.
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H eavy mixture 5 4
Jfr iT T
inch A L L wool
. Rajutta silks, all colors, at 35c
at $ 1 .2 5 per yd
Goods, all colors, special values
at 5 0 c and up
Silk thread Y oile at 25c
Bourette Y oile at 15c
Our Parisiana Corsets
Madras Cloth at 2 0 c
Silk Gingham s at 25c
W h en you get your new spring
French Gingham s at 25c
Chambray gingham s at 15c
Corset try
Dress gingham s 1 0 and f 2 i c
are undoubtedly the best corset you
Bordered batiste at 10c
can get for the
Percales, all colors, 3 0
and
36 Jn .
wide at 10 and 121c
Hosiery Department
Dress goods, very popular,
See our complete line of W ool Dress
Sumida silks, all colors, 2 5 c
BAIRD’S
a P A R IS IA N A .
money.
them to fit any figure.
They
W e have
The prices
range from $ 1 .0 0 up.
In this department we take special
pride, having as we believe the very
best values to be had for the price.
Space will not perm it o f us quoting
prices.
W h a t we want you to do is
to come in and inspect them for
yourselves.
o f Steel Cut
cents
Groceries
W e carry the m ost complete
line of staple and fancy grocer­
ies and vegetables of an y store
in Newberg. It will pay you
to get the habit of buying your
Groceries at Baird’s.
WE WILL PAY CASH FOR
| was spent in a social way while
the hostess served very nice re­
freshments.
W. R. Vaughn brought to this
The morning service at Che-
•office Thursday an egg that
halem
Center Church next Sun­
knocks the spots off any other
day
will
be given to the subject
•that was ever laid on any other
•editor’s table on the Pacific o f temperance. The Woman’s
Coast, or any other coast. This Christian Temperance Union is
egg measured 10 3-4 inches arranging for this service in com-
% «round the lofig way and 6 3-4 meration of Frances Willard’s
inches around the short way, and work. Some special songs will
inside o f this egg was another be used, and the pastor will give
■egg o f greater than the average a temperance sermon, including
size, both being perfectly devel­ his oration on the subject: “ The
oped eggs, shells and all. The Saloon in Society.” Sunday
hen that laid this egg was a School at 10 and after service at
thoroughbred dunghill, not vain 11 a.m. All are cordially in­
and proud of ancestry, but vited.
Mrs. Perkins, o f Carlton, who
promising and hopeful o f an
was
on her way home from Port­
honest and fruitful posterity.
land,
visited over Saturday and
We have said it before, and we
say it again, Ilwaco against the Sunday with her daughter, Miss
worldl “ Woodie” has traded Perkins, o f Chehalem Center
an interest in the fortune he ex­ School.
Frank Johnson returned home
pects to realize when he secures
the release o f the uncle o f a hand­ from Corvallis last Wednesday,
some maiden from a Spanish having taken the short term
•dungeon for the curio, and will course at the 0 . A. C.
preserve it in alcohol—the egg,
* o t the girl.—Ilwaco Tribune.
BOY SHOOTS OTTER
SOME EGG
CHEHALEM CENTER
The North Plains Sentinel says:
One day last week a 13-year-
The Ladies o f the W. C. T. U. old lad, who refused to give his
met with Mrs. Maude McGuire name for fear o f getting pinched
Wednesday the 7th. There were for killing acquatic animals out
quite a number o f the ladies pres­ ot season, shot an otter ip &
ent uot withstanding the rainy stream near the Brogden ranch,
day. After the devotional and just east of Hillsboro, which
the business ot the meeting was measured five feet from tip to tip.
satisfactorily arranged, there The boy was standing on a 1» g
was an evangelistic program ps lying across the stream, when
follows: Song by Miss Elsie Tan* , glancing down, he saw tw o
gen, answer to roll call by a text! great, shining eyes staring at
from the bible and Mrs. Helen! him from the water below, and
D. Harford gave some very in­ to use hisoneexpression,he“ was
teresting and helpful remarks op scart stiff,” and he could not
“ Our E v a n g e l i s t i c W ork.” move a muscle or utter a sound.
Mrs. Harford kindly invites Gradually this feeling wore off,
the union to hold the next meet­ and taking aim with a gun he
ing at her home on the 8th of was carrying, shot the otter in
March. It will be an all day’s the head; killing it instantly.
social gathering for old and The lad says he don’t know
and young. Mrs. Alma Strait whether he shot game out ot
became a member o f the W. C.- T. season or not, but he sold the
U. also at this time. At the skin tor $15 and has the money
close of the meeting some time to prove it.
DAYS IN A YEAR.
Th* Numktr Diptnd: U|mi What Kind
of m
Yoar la Conaidarad.
Reduced to simple numbers, we
say that all years contain 365 days.
And unless one is a time specialist
one would say that all years begin
the first day o f January. It depends
on what kind o f year is considered.
The lunar year, for example, haa
-354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes and
36 seconds. In this year the moon
makes a journey around the earth
twelve times. As you will see, the
lunar year is eleven days shorter
than the solar year. The Jews make
their calculations on this year. It is
their period o f time. They under­
take to correct this defect by add­
ing a thirteenth month o f thirty
days every third year, but this doca
not bring their year up to the solar
by three days. Those who compute
by solar time say that it consists o f
365 days. The exact time is 365
days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46
seconds. In this time the earth
completes one journey around the
sun.
Then there is the sidereal year,
which haa 365 days, 6 hours, 9 min­
utes and 9 1-3 seconds. In this year
the earth goee round the sun and
returns to the same position with
respect to the sun and a given fixed
star. Next there ia the anomalistio
year, which has 365 days, 6 hours,
13 minutes and 48 seconds. This
year is that in which the earlfli trav­
els from perihelion back to perihe­
lion again.
Any boy or girl who has had
scholastic advantages knows that
leap year belongs to the solar year
Bystem. Those more advanced know
that civil and astronomic time are
made equal by adding a day every
fourth year and that this makes
leap year. But everybody does not
know that the year ia eleven min­
utes and twelve seconds short of
365 1-4 days. The result of this
showed a long time ago that every
four years civil time became faster
than solar time by the amount stat­
ed. T o be exact, this was only a
small fraction o f a year. The man
who is a stickler for splitting hairs
will tell you that this is .00778 o f a
day. But thia little bit figured up
considerably in the course o f centu­
ries. After l,t0 0 years o f this time
had been consumed an Italian as­
tronomer, Aloysius Lilius, discov­
ered that the error amounted to ten
daya. That is, civil time was ten
davs before the aolar time.
Thereupon Pope Gregory X III.
J?creed that ten davs should be cut
«a t. This made Oct. 5 show up on
tiie calendar as Oct. 15. Then, to
prevent future errors, it was or­
dered that every hundredth year
should not be counted as a leap year
unless the number o f the year waa
divisible by 400 without remainder.
That explains why 1600 was leap
year and why 1700 and 1800 were
n o t And so 1900 was not leap year,
but 3000 will be.— New York T rib­
une.
Napoleon on Washington.
By Napoleon’s order Washing­
ton ’s death was thus announced to
all the troops o f the republic:
“ Washington is dead. This great
. man fought to overthrow tyranny.
He consolidated the liberty o f his
country. Hia memory will ever be
dear to the French people aa to ev-
other freeman in both hemi-
erea and especially to French sol-
! diers, who, like him and the other
soldiers o f America, are fighting for
liberty and equality. The firat con­
sul, therefore, orders that black
crape shall be draped on all the
flags and pennants of the republic
for ten days.”
3
Flew In the Reasoning.
Mr. and Mrs. Chuckster were en­
gaged in oae o f their frequent ar­
guments.
“ Now, Amanda, see here” —
“ Get that right, Oliver,” she in­
terrupted. “ The proper form, as
you will see if you think a moment,
ia ‘ look here.’ ”
“ What’s the difference?” he de­
manded. “ You can’t look without
seeing, can you?”
“ Oh, yes, you can. Everybody
says you and I look alike, but it’s a
notorious fact that we don’t see
alike.” — Chicago Tribune.
Shoop Vsrsus Cloud*.
A struggling voung artist of San
Francisco was not long ago afford­
ed an opportunity to do a bit of
work for a wealthy man o f that city.
In a week or two hia wife had her
frst glimpse of the painting in
hand.
The wife sighed delightedly. “ It’s
just lovely, dear,” she said, “ lovely!
But don’t you think those sheep
look— well, just a hit like clouds—
that is, o f rourae. darling, unless
they are clouds!” — Lippincntt’s.
Changing th* iubjoot.
Elderly l^tdv (who has been re­
tailing at some length her domestic
troubles)— And now, Mr. Jonee. I've
worri<*d yon about my domestic af­
fairs: let’s turn to a more cheerful
topic— when are vou going away?—
1
o f one raise tooth, 0 cents. They
oae
corrosive sublimate to deaden
>
WATER CLOCKS.
the pain, then poll the tooth with
Curious Littlo I not rum** to That Asa the fingers or a pair o f pliers. False
Uaod In Sahara Daaart.
teeth are attached by meant o f a
A man’s wealth in the Sahara ia wire.— Exchange.
calculated almost entirely by the
Misunderstood.
number o f camels or palm trees
She
was
a
plump widow, with two
which he owns and by tne amount
o f water to which he ia entitled. charming daughters. She bed been
Water in the desert is so scarce that a relict jnst a year and was begin­
the ownership o f it is most jealously ning to wear her “ weeds” lightly.
guarded. In “ A Search For the All the same, when the new curate
Masked Tawareks” the author says called upon her she sighed:
“ Ah, I feel the loss o f my poor,
that in buying a palm grove it is al­
ways necessary to stipulate for so dear husband very much. I never
many sa’aa per day or week. A sa’a, have any appetite fo r anything
literally “ an hoar,” is the amount now.”
The curate was all sympathy and,
o f water which will flow in an hour
through an opening the width o f a in the endeavor to cheer her by
ointing out what a com fort to her
man’s fiat in the side o f a segia.
er daughters must be, replied:
The main segias, or channels, as a
“ I can quite understand that, but
rale follow the roads o f the oasis,
form ing a sort o f ditch at the side. you are solaced in” —
“ S-i-r-r!” interrupted the indig­
A regular time table is kept, show­
ing the hours at which the owners nant lady. "A llow me to inform you
o f the different plantations are en­ that I am not laced in at all.” — Ex­
change.
.
titled to draw water.
The time is measured by a very
Th* Rlvor Clydo.
curious little water d eck , consisting
The
river
Clyde has been brought
o f a metal cup, made usually o f
up
to
its
present
draft for ves­
brass or copper, with a small hole
pierced in the bottom. At the com­ sels o f large capacity by a system
mencement o f each hour this is o f dredging, and the diligent Scots­
placed in a basin o f water. The man ia justly proud of it. A party
water gradually runs through the o f American sightseers were one
hole until at the expiration o f the day on the lookout for wonders and
hour the cup sinks to the bottom o f passed some caustic remarks on
the basin. It ia then taken out, the river’s insignificance.
“ Call this a river? Why, it’s only
emptied and set again to measure
a
mere ditch compared with tha
off the next sa’a, and so the process
is continued throughout the twen­ Mississippi, the St. Lawrence,” etc.
“ Aye, mon,” said a patriotic by­
ty-four hours.
stander.
“ ye can thank Providence
This instrument is usually kept in
for
your
rivers, but we made thia
the village mosque. In order to pre­
vent all interference with it a ane ooreels.” — London Answers.
watchman is set over it, who noti­
That Oil of 8orrow.
fies the expiration o f each hour
Small Ralph was fond o f helping
from the minaret o f the mosque.
with auch little repairs and adjust­
At the end of the sa’a the open­ ments about the house as he could.
ing in the side o f the segia through
One day hia mother suggested that
which the water flows is closed with
he should oil the squeaky rollers
clay, and the water ia cut off and
under the library chairs.
allowed to flow down the main chan­
“ Please give me the kev to the
nel to the next plantation.
l edicine closet, mother,” he said.
“ The medicine cloeet? What
Dontiotry In China.
Dentistry is not new in China. fo r ? ”
Ages ago their dentists discovered , “ Why,” exclaimed Ralph in real
that toothache is due to bugs. The surprise, “ isn't that where you keep
dentists proved it by inserting in the castor oil ?*’— Lippincott's.
E
the month s spatula with a worm
attached under thin paper. The pa­
per moistens, the worm drops ana is
picked up bv the dentist and exhib­
ited to the patient, o f course. This
enhances his reputation and in­
creases his fee. Rut there hasn't
boon a dav for a thousand/veara
when you couldn't buy a scl of false
teeth in China for 50 cent*; price
Utilising Hia Rolf R.apoet.
“ 1 should think.” said the woman
o f the house, "you would have too
much self respect to make your liv­
ing bv begging.”
“ latdv,’* protested Rnffon Wratx,
straightening himself up. “ self re-
i<t wot 7»its me. I wouldn't do
this fur no other tuan on earth” -