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Sale is On Bargains throughout the house. Our entire stock of • ‘ Men’s and Women’s Wear is Reduced from I 2 0 to 5 0 °|o Only first-class merchandise is offered to the public. - - NAYBERGER Successor to R. Jacobson A Co. McMinnville, Oregon — loose on the plains, said tbs with the uncontrollable habit as be wiped the oomer of hie mouth, "the prairie deg Is the deaf» edest. At least he ie pretty tolera ble dang. “A knowin' little feller In some ways—a dang knowin' little feller! But, like every other knowin' feller, he's got a ’weak p’int in his organi zation that a keerful, patient chap kin take advantage of an’ put th’ dots on him. - means of blasting, holes being bored “Many’s the time I've stood dost into it with steam drills. With der to a dog hole an’ shot at a big, fat ricks hoisting chains the rough old prairie dog settin’ up on end slabs and to the edges of the lookin' straight at me an' not movin’ {(tarry, are and lifted then they are rolled on an eyelash. But did I hit him ? Not trucks to the shanty of the splitter. though I bad no more wabble to my The slate forms naturally mitt in them days than th’ rock o’ and the splitter, following in the layers, JibbSkaltar. All I seen was a twin or “ribbon” with a large chisel, grain kle o’ heels an' tail, and when th’ urates the blocks into strips of se; smoke cleared away they wasn’t no proper, .thickpesa for roofing slate. prairie dog layin’ dead beside th’ Then th.ejri|te passes tifeough a’ vestibule of his palayshal abode. or triiLUning machine, where Neither was they none layin* dead t by utting the cfc a heavy »knife the laid low irregular blows inside, as I found out if I lai piece# cut into rectan long enough an’ seen ’is sassy nose gular “shingles?’ are Boys often oper light ag’in. ate this trimrnjqg machine. come pokin’ up to daylight , “Smart fellers, them a prairie pra dogs, ward the elates are piled After np in even if they are dang fool animilos. squares, each pile containing The weak p’int of a prairie dog is to cover 100 square feet of his curiosity. Fight him on any enough roof. other line, an’ you'll keep your re In the neighborhood of the Penn spect fer 'im. Quickness, keen sylvania quarries one will find smellin’, good hearin’ an' eyesight— houses whose walls are entirely of he’s got all them; got a diplomv slate. The blocks which they are from Prairie Dog university in all made are smoothly of sawed, and the them branches. But he ain’t even walls are exceedingly substantial. in his freshman year when it cornea A Pennsylvania factory where to resistin’ that curiosity o’ hia’n. various articles are manufactured It's a fright. from slate contains three horizon “So th’ feller that wants e prairie tal saws twelve feet in length, each dog an’ don’t care f wait a few which is furnished with seventy- years till he can shoot one an’ git it of cutting diamonds. Probably without diggin’ up a whole town five these are the most expensive saws ship has only jist to take advantage ill world, for each one costs $5,- Porter & are too busy with of the prairie dog’s weak p’int an’ 300. the There are also in the factory he’s got 'im. jigsaws, s circular saw, their annual inventory to write any “Take a baril an’ cut a hole in diamond four planers th’ bottom big enough t’ set over ing machinery. and other slate work announcement for this week’s paper th’ prairie dog’s hole an’ set it over. The huge horizontal saw that Then lay down beside that baril an’ works on one of the blocks of alate wait. Th’ little feller hears some is lowered by a ratchet at the rate thin’ goin’ on around his front of a quarter of an inch a minute. stoop, an’ he wonders what it is. The saw would cut iron or steel at As soon ad he begins f wonder he’s same rate. Water is played on a goner. If he could just keep from the the saw keep it cool and wash the startin’ t' wonder he’d live free till slate dust to from next week for the greatest bargains the cut he died of old age. But he can’t. After the sawing the block is Curiosity ain’t no trait with him— planed by being moved back and ever heard of. Everybody will go to it’s a disorder. by machinery under a firmly “No sooner does he hear that baril forth fixed chisel. it is polished, chunkin’ an’ tankin' around up much as marble Then and granite by there an’ no sooner does th’ noiso means of a rapidly revolving are, disc stop than he scuttles right up there of cast iron, called a rubbing bed, to see what’s doin'. First thing, he is kept covered with a sprin scrabbles through that hole in th’ which kling of fine sand continually sat bottom o’ th’ baril! urated with water. The slate is “Th’ feller beside th’ baril hears bored 'im scuffin’ round, an’—zip!—he’s drills. by means of diamond pointed shoved that baril aside so th’ hole in . Slate land was once so little val th’ bottom ain’t over th' hole in th’ ued that the tract on which the fa ground no longer, an' Mr. Dog mous quarry in Pennsyl can’t git back, an’ he can’t climb th’ vania Chapman is situated was sold for a pint rides o’ th’ baril nor nothin’—jist of liqnor. Its subsequent ownen goes rampagin’ round, wonderin’ have taken millions from it.—Pitts how it happened he got took in that burg Post. a-wav. “So while the prairie dog, as I Women and U m brella*. said in the lieginnm’, is right peart “If the is for a gentle- an’ hard to bamboozle in most ways j * A “ umbrella sst that it be cheap,” the he’s a easy mark fer th’ chap that cjei^ “For a lady, knows ’is weakness an’ takes advan the umbrella the better. the costlier If you are thinking of Roses for your garden write, call or come to tage of it.”—Chicago News. “Ladies, you know, never loee umbrellas, never leave them in cars W asp and Its Pray. East Side Greenhouse or never carelessly allow As Dr. Darwin was walking one them shops, to be swiped. Why, there are We have what you want in the shape of a large collection of day in his garden he perceived a gold and silver handled umbrellas, fine strong plants at prices that are right for YOU. wasp upon the gravel walk with a i the property of ladies, that have For your room adornment some beautiful ferns in many vari large fly nearly as big as itself, ¡been coming back to us for repairs eties, also other potted plants. which it had caught. Kneeling for forty years. To make your garden beautiful Spring, Summer and Autumn down, he distinctly 6aw it cut off “But men—dear me! Men are plant hardy flowers. We have them. the head and then, taking up with to lose an umbrella the first its feet the trunk or middle portion liable they take it out. Phone Blue 202 JOHN GOWER of the body, to which the wings re day “For a man, you say, sir? Then mained attached, fly away. But a 1 recommend strong and serv breeze of wind acting on the wings iceable article this at 74 cents, reduced of the fly turned around the wasp from 98.” — New Orleans Times- with its burden and impeded its Democrat. progress. Upon this it alighted again on the gravel walk, deliber Sotting th * Vsrdict A rig h t. ately sawed off first one wing and Years ago an elderly and brusque then the other, and, having thus re jurist from used to hold moved the cause of its embarrass district court Sandusky in Cleveland, on ment, flew off with its booty.—Lon one of his visits a beautiful and young don Qlobe. woman was tried before him and a jury on a charge of stealing $85 Not th* Qard*n*r. from a She was clearly proved When in 1883 Professor Freeman guilty, man. but the jury, impressed by was examining Battle abbey he her youth and beauty, found a ver found himself dogged by a person dict of not guilty. who, as he thought, somewhat offi-. “Mr. Clerk,” remarked the old ciously obtruded his offers of as judge, “pay the $85 to the prosecut sistance. After vainly trying to ing witness, it having been clearly shake him off he broke forth with: proved this court that the de “I don’t want your assistance. The fendant in stole from him. and you Duke of Cleveland promised that I may also pay it these fools should not be interfered with by the their fees and let them twelve go.” gardeners.” “Exactly so,” was the reply, “I th * Tow n Rad. lope they have obeyed my orders, The Painting expression. “Painting the am the Duke of Cleve leveland.” OVERLAND 30, fully equipped including $50 Warner speed town red,” has been traced to “The ometer, self starter, presto tank, tire irons, top and top foot, clear Divine Comedy.” Dante, led by Inconsistant. Virgil, comes to the cavernous “What an inconsistent fellow depths of the place swept by a vision windshield...............................$1100 F. O. B. NEWBERG Jack is?” mighty wind where those are con CADILLAC, fully equipped, very much improved, equal to “How so?” fined who hare been the prey of any car of any price. "He wrote in Blanche’s suto- their passions. Two faces arise gTaph album that he wished her s from tne mist—tho faces of Fran- ife of happiness.” Let S. A. Mills tell you about either of them. ’osea and Paolo. “Who are ye?” “Wasn’t that all right?” jrics Dante in alarm, and Francesca “Ï suppose it would have been if replie* FIRST CLASS SHOP WORK sadly, “We are those who ie hadn’t turned around and within have painted the world red with three months married her.”—Kan aur sins.”—Argonaut. sas City Indépendant AN EXTRA SPECIAL J. C. Cor Watch Our Ad it * ' T h e Store of Q u ality You will always And here a full snpply of family medicines. I am glad to say that the people everywhere believe ip me and have been my firm friertds every since I started in business. I that you visit my store for all kinds of Drugs, Medicines anS'chemicals; Perfumes, School books and Stationery; Li Liggett’a and Lownev's fancy candies and in fact every thing carriec ed by .an up-to-date Diug Store. Don’t forget the Rexall Gne, everything guaranteed. I make prescription work a specialty. You are always welcome at the Rexall Store LYNN B. FERGUSON Proscription D ruggist 802 FIRST STREET PHONE BLACK 106 PORTER’S Rose Bushes! Closing Out I hereby announce a bona fide closing out sale of everything in the store AT COST The Stock includes furniture, paints, wall paper, heaters, ranges, etc. C. B. Cummings, Newberg, Or. i LIG H T AND POW ER HOUSE WIRING AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Yamhill Electric Company The Newberg Manufacturing and Construction Co. For the Best Prices on the Best Window*, Doors, Inter ior and Exterior Finish, Mouldings, Building Stone, Cabinet Work, Store Fixtures and General Mill Work Patronize the progressive merchants —regular advertisers in the Graphic The Newberg Auto Co.
