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SENTENCE OF OEATH.
THANKSGIVING SALE
T ra g ic and Pathatio C lim a x T h a t Cam*
In a M urder T ria l.
Y O U W ILL BE TH ANKFUL
“ One of the most tragic scenes
I ever witnessed,” said an aged law
yer, “ occurred in a small town. The
judge was a man of sixty or more,
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in the tim e o f need if you now have a m oderate sized
and in addition to a most venerable
and constantly grow ing account with our Savings D e
and dignified appearance and man
partm ent. Y o u r dollars m ultiply here by reason o f
ner he was the saddest faced man
I ever 6aw. He had come to our
the fo u r per cent interest w e allow . It’s a com fort
towu ten or a dozen years before
ab le feelin g on e has w ho know s his m oney is sa fe
from the east, and we knew little
of him except that he was an able
here and w ill grow into m ore cash against the tim e he
lawyer and jurist and that his wife,
needs it m o s t
who was the only other member of
his family, and himself had some
great sorrow.
“ One night our town was all torn
up by a robbery and murder and
the capture of the killer and thief
almost in the act. For a wonder
he wasn’t lynched then and there,
but he wasn’t, and as soon as day
N C W tC R Q , OREGON
light came proceedings were insti
tuted against the prisoner, and I
was appointed, with another young
ster, to defend him.
“ Really there wasn’ t any defense,
and I was frank enough to tell him
that he mi^ht be thankful if we
could save him from a lynching. He
was a stranger in the town, evident
y
ly led there by some stories he had
M ost com plete and up-to-date line of Confectionery
heard of an old miser we had among
Cigars and Tobaccos in the city. W e also serve
us, and was a man of perhaps thirty-
three or thirty-four, with a most
unprepossessing appearance, greatly
accentuated by a week’s growth of
rough whiskers, years of dissipation
and hard living. In those days and
in such cases the law’s delay was
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not much in force, and by 6 o’clock
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of the second day the prisoner was
standing before the judge to receive
sentence. As he stood there that
day a harder looking customer I
think I never saw.
“ ‘Have you anything to say why
sentence of death should not be
pronounced upon you ?* said the
judge after 'all the preliminaries
T H E
S T O R E
O F Q U A L I T Y ”
E informed about Plumbing and when
were over.
Comer of First and Howard
5 0 0 First Street
•*r you build know that this important part
“ ‘I have, your honor, if you are
to pronounce that sentence,’ replied
of the house, the plumbing system, is as per
the prisoner with an air of almost
fect as honest workmanship and experienced
impertinence. ‘ At least,’ he added,
supervision can make it. Those who desire
THE SCARRED WRIST.
dreamed that he was dead and in half apologetically, ‘possibly under
BmiUTHIC AREA
the circumstances you might not
that kind of plumbing will also appreciate
consequence became so violently ex
r u m Story Connected W ith
care to pronounce it.’
GROWING Qu**r D tho
cited
as
to
injure
her
wrist.
In
the
'¡Standard* plumbing fixtures which on ac
Borosford Fam ily.
“ This was entirely out of the or
morning she bound it up so tightly
For three generations the Beres-
dinary, and I touched my client on
count o f th e ir
An increased area ot bitnlithic ford family has handed down as that in course of time the sinews the arm and was about to remind
excellent design
pavin g, or a new aw ard-w here substantially true a remarkable shrank and withered.
him of the customs of the court
and c o n s tr u c
when the judge requested me to
it has n o t been used has com e t o j dream story which is connected with
T h * F irs t A rm o rtd Ship.
jiece
of
leave
the
prisoner
to
him.
a
pie
be recognized th rou gh ou t the a small pocketbook and
tio n a r e t h e
According to the best authorities
of a mem- on curiosities of the navy and war
“ ‘ Will you be kind enough to ex-
N orthw est as a sign o f progress black ribbon in possession a ol
c h o ic e o f th e
. plain?* he said in a strangely ex
her of the family. So well known
and prosperity. It indicates that and so well authenticated was the fare in general, the first armored cited tone.
w ise b u ild e r .
vessel was launched in 1530. It
the citizens and taxpayers a r e , gtory that a member of the Beree-
“ ‘Well, your honor,’ responded
was one of the fleet manned by
W e u se th e s e
w ide-aw àk e and- alive t o their ford family printed for private cir the Knighta of St. John and waa the prisoner without a quaver of
fixtures on. ou r
interests and t o the welfare o f culation a short account of the facts, entirely covered with sheets of voice, ‘as I’m your only son’—
“ But the judge heard no more.
their hom e city, and w an t a of which, without impugning the lead. The accounts of the times
sincerity of his relatives, he endeav leave ns in darkness aa to the thick It was evident that he knew the
high-grade , econom ical p ayin g
ored to give a simple explanation.
ness o f this lead armor, but they prisoner was telling the truth, for,
th a t will stand the strain o f hard
The narrative is a love story as are very positive in the statement with a groan, he threw up his hands
traffic, and require the minimum well as a dream story. The heroine that they were of sufficient strength and fell forward across the desk
of it is Nicola Hamilton, the young to “ successfully resist all the shots in front of him, dead, a little stream
expenditure for repairs.
wife
of Sir Tristram Be res ford. of that day.” At the aiege of Gibral o f blood trickling from his lips. The
The recent aw ard a t W ilkin
This young lady appeared at the tar in 1782 the French and Span excitement was terrific, and in the
son. W ashington, has placed th a t
midst of it the prisoner dashed
breakfast table one morning very
city in the lon g line o f bitulithic agitated and pale and with her left iards used war vessels which were through a window andjrould have
armored with “ light iron boom
boosters, and general satisfac- gfnst bound with a piece of black proofing over their decks and to the escaped, but a timely shot from a
tion is expressed because o f the ribbon. She replied to her hus water’s edge.” The very first prac rifle in the hands of a man on the
selection made by the city au band’s inquiries by entreating him tical use of wrought iron plates as a outside settled him forever. And,
to ask her no questions. She then defense for the sides of vessels was best of all, his mother never knew.
thorities. The aw ard w as m ade
She lingered a few months after her
said that her brother, Lord Tyrone,
only after a close investigation of whom she had been very fond, by the French in the Crimean war husband’s death, and the entire
in 1853. _______________
population of the town considered
ol the merits o f the various kinds had died oh the preceding Thurs
it to be a sacred obligation to lie to
Th* Be*t of tho Carlyles.
o f p avin g proposed, and a t the day, which subsequently proved to
her
about the whole affair.”
“ A Book-of Scotch Humor” illus
earnest solicitation of the ta x be the case.
3 0 4 F IR ST S T ., N E W B E R G , OR.
It seems that in the night Lady trates anew of a native of Annan-
payers interested.
“ H oodlum .'’
Beresford had dreamed that her dale the saying that a prophet is
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In San Francisco some years ago
brother sat by her bedside (although not without honor save in his own
there
was
a
notorious
character
KEEPS STEP WITH PROGRESS she declared that he had indeed sat country. “ I ken them a’,” said the
there) and, after telling her whom rustic, speaking of the Carlyles. named Muldoon, who was the leader
of a gang of young ruffians. They
The taxpayers, the men w hose her child should marry and that her “ Jock’ s a doctor aboot London.
husband would die before her, warn Tam’s a harem scarem kind o’ chiel were a terror to the community and
m oney pays tor civic im prove
ed her with the utmost vehemence an’ wreats book an’ that. But Ja about as tough a lot of citizens as
ments, are the men w h o are in against marrying the second time.
mie— yon’s his farm you see owre you could find on the coast. A re
terested in gettin g their m oney’ s
“ If you do remarry,” her dream yonder— Jamie’s the man o’ that porter who had been assigned to a
w o rth . When a p avin g p rop osi visitor had said, “ you will suffer family, an’ I’m prood to say 1 ken story in which they had figured un
dertook to coin a word designating
tion is under consideration, they i
jour^husbandjs ill treatment him. Jamie Carlyle, sir, feeds the
the gang. He reversed the name of
until
your
death
at
forty-seven.
Re
best
swine
that
come
into
Dumfries
t o o , are d oin g som e investigat
the leader and referred to them as
sist every temptation to a second market.”
ing, as well as the city authori marriage.” Requiring some proof
“hoodlums.” The compositor mis
took the ‘n’ for an ‘h,’ and as hood
ties. As a rule, wherever bitu of4her brother’s reality, he had, at
Doubtful Consolation.
“ Mary,” complained the husband, lums the words passed the proof
lithic aw ard s are made, it is af- her request, touched her wrist with
ter a th orou gh investigation ot hi* hand, whereupon the sinews had “ why do you suppose it is that peo reader. “ Hoodlum” is a recognized
oeoeo 8 cœeo 8 o 838 c 8 ceoeoeoeoeoeo»ceo 8 oeoeo 0 ceoeoeo»
ple all say I have such a large word.— Pittsburgh Dispatch.
tbe m erits o f the various p a v shrunk and the nerves withered.
head
?”
She showed her wrist, bound with
ings under consideration, and black ribbon, but declared that it
T h * U n it of Host.
“ I don’t know, I’ m sure, John,”
CHASE & LINTON
We
cannot,
-of course, measure
upon the urgent request ot the had been forbidden her to uncover it. said his wife consolingly, "but nev
GRAVEL COMPANY
taxp a yers, w ho, ifth eym u st pay
When Sir Tristram died Lady er mind; there’s nothing in it.” — heat by yards, pints or pounds, but
the
unit
of
heat,
the
standard
meas
Exchange.
to r city im provem ents, desire the Beresford, in spite of all remon
ure of that phenomenon, has been
All kinds o f gravel for con
kind th at will w ithstand heavy strances, immediately sought abso
agreed upon by those whose busi
is prepared to transfer
Ab**ntmind*d.
lute solitude and retirement. But,
crete work, cement blocks,
traffic, and keep the repair bill
life without friends proving unbear
Benson— 1 have a literary friend ness it is to philosophize on that
your goods anyw here,
or
wood work furnished on
d o w n t o the minimum.
able, she consented to exchange vis who is so absentminded that when subject to be that quantity which
short
notice.
any
place
any
tim
e.
Such was. the case at Buckley, its with a single family of the neigh he went to London recently he tele :an raise a pound of water one de
W ashington, w here the recent borhood. In this family was a son graphed himself ahead to wait for gree. Now, to turn a pound of wa
Telephone White 85
ter into a pound of steam requires
Prices R easonable
a w a rd met w ith the hearty and whom, after a time, she strove in himself at a certain place. Smith— 567 of these units of heat— that is
vain to regard with indifference. Did the telegram have the desired
practically unanim ous approval
Office phone Black 100, or
Her love grew and overpowered her. result? Benson— No; he got it all to say, if we boil a pound of water
o f those m ost interested.
When the young man declared his right, but he had forgotten to sign until it all goes away in steam we
residence (Black
passion she consented to a private his name, and, not knowing who it shall have used in doing so a quanti
phones
Marriage
Call i
union. All turned out as the dream was from, he paid no attention to ty of heat which would have raised
9J7 pounds of water one degree
had foretold. In a year or so her it.— Pearson’s Weekly.
higher in temperature.
Echel E. Daniels, age 20, to husband’s conduct was so bad that
Caught.
Archie F. Persens, age 20.
We have m oney t o loan on
she had to separate from him. At .
O n th* Saf* Sid*.
forty-seven
she
died.
After
her
She
—
I
had
an
argument
with
first m ortgage on im proved
Alda Metcalf, age 23, to J. B.
They had been engaged for fully
death her wrist was examined and Alice this morning over the proper
farm security in Yamhill coun
Stil well, Jr., age 28.
use of "shall” and “ will.” Perhaps thirty minutes.
found to be as she described it.
ty, from three t o five years
“ I have a surprise in store for
Louise Jones, age 18, to Arthur
The most remarkable of the facts you can tell me which is correct.
Fruit
Farm
w ith attractive r e p a y m e n t
connected with this strange story— “ Will vou marrv me?” or “ Shall you you. Alfred, dear,” she said. “ 1
Bates, age 23.
-an cook as well aa I can play the
privileges.
.
the scarred wrist— is explained bv marrv tne ?”
Apples, Prunes, Plums, Peaches,
Ruby Chambers, age 17, to
the writer of the pamphlet referred
He— I should sav “ Will you marry piano.”
Cherries,
Grapes in their season.
A. H. B1RRELL A CO.,
Charles Van Horn, age 27.
“ That being the case, darling,”
to above as follows: He considers me r
She — Then why in the warld he repl ilied, “ it will be well for aa to J. WATSON BAKER, Prop. 202 McKay Bldg., 3rd & Stark
Edna M. Hill, itge 20, toV ilo that Lady Beresford, who knew that
boera.”
Portland, Oregon
her brother. Lord Tyrone, was ill, don’t yon?— Boston Transcript.
D. Sherwood, age 21.
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