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Harney Val ley Items. VOL. 19. BURNS. OREGON. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1903. KLLPING A HOLIDAY. .MARRY IN SECRET. How Hhall We Flaa lo Uei irom It All ilia flood II t oo Ul«e? What la aura to mak. it a red-letter day? Whet la the very but way to spend It ? flow shall we plan to get from it nil that It can ghe? To make the very most of a single day, a holiday, a day thut we ara at liberty to spend oa we like, may be something ot a puzzle. It suggests the question—what do jou care mo»l nbout doing with nil your lime? Tim« is the stuff of which life is made, and just to I* sure of w hat we care moat to do with it is worth thinking about. Moat young people, and In fact pretty much all persons, ha»« some favorite oecu|wtion or study, or both ill one. some special direction in which they nre strongly drawn, that Iles outside ot the dally necessary routine of work. For those who have ordinarily but lit tle leisure (and In thia busy woik-a-flsy world thia Includes th« majority), the Indulgence ot this private liking is a capital use for at least a port of the nd. Have One» Cent holiday. It may lead to Important re Buy a |>osial card and send lo The New York sults or It may not—th« thing w« nre most eager to do may tic a mere amuse Tribune Farmer, New York City, for a free ment of which we soon tire, or it rnny be «(teciiuen copy. , the thing that we were mad« to do, The Tribunr Farmer is a National Illustra the real serious business of our Ilves, which circumstances have hthik I to ted Agricultural Weekly for farmer» and put beyond our reach, yet w hich per their iauiiliea, and stands at the head of the severance will enable us to achieve. However that may be, there I k no agricultural press. Tlie price ie • ! 00 per question about the pleasure of doing year, but if you like it you can secure it with the thing one likes beet It rtay I" your own favorite local tiewapaper, The nuslc or history, or football, or wood carving, or w hat not — there is certainly I ITEMS, at a bargain. Both papers ♦! 50. a very keen satisfaction in following [ Bend money and older to The ITEMS. one's own personal taste. And th« -hnncea are that if you arc enough in ■ artiest, something worth while will, come of It. Too much i* made of th* motive of making money. It is well t<> I L> •<!<• K>lr»<*»ry. professional cards remember that there is unothcr kind of | •ntlsfactlon In good work, in every kin« , R vums Ixrou« No. 70, K of 1*. of employment, done for its own sake. Mortaavorv Fbursday night. It does not make much difference wb»t1 MAN ACER WANTED — Trust F M Jordan. C. C. the work is. Any kind-of useful or worthy lady or gentleman to man l>euutlfiil thing done, in the measure 8. Motlier.liead , K of K B. age husineee iu thia County and n which the heart is thrown into It. io’ng one's very l»e,t for the sake ot Hl’RNN CHAFFER. NO. <>. O. E. 8. adjoining territory for well and eeir.g it well done, is gootl and satisfy- .Meats sreoad and fourth Moadav of favorably known Hour« of «olid ng. Time spent in this way is well each m.Hitli in Másente h «II, Vosgtly I »20.00 ztraighl ivnt. building Mrs M «ygi > Irvona, W. W financial »landing there is nny such thing as a secret Mrs. Runic. Tlioaipsati, H im . cash salary and rxpenee«, paid each >f If happiness, it is surely this— nr*kc | M Monday by check direct from head- >thers happy. And all gool work la BCRNH LODGE. NO 97. A F. <k A M. Ex pen re money ad- •n antidote (nr selfishness. Not only Meet« Hutur.lay on or before full moon quarters. hat. but it is one of the rurr«t. mo-t Qn.liHed l.nAliera fraternally Invited, vancrd; |>oaition permanent. Ad- ist ng .and rightful sources of con E Krnyon. W. M. F. S. Rieder, idress, Thomas Cooper, Manager, nuni happiness. To talk alxiut work Secy. ns the brat plnv—the best resource- - I OSO Caston Bldg., Chicago. for enjoying a holiday, rcetns on the HVRNN LODGE, NO. M, A. O U. W surface a contradiction. But th« I k st Meets st Brown hall «vary Friday eve- play ia not Idlerrsa merely. To I* Vlsitinu brother» fraternally in- north having, it must l>e sone kind of H McMULLKN. TI kih Majers, W M Chas. N activity, and to be really delightful, it Cosbrsne, Recorder must lie something loved. To make the tnort of n holiday, then, it :s quite fair PHOTOGRAPHER HARNKY tOIHIK. NO 77, I O. O F. to do the very thing that you car« for Meets everv Saturday evening, B nan's, personally, however unimimrtant it mny hall Vimting tirothi-r. fraternally in , Burna, Oregon. appear to somebody cl e. vitad Franko Jaikson, N.G. Something is due to the day itself. Minn At —opposite Bank C. G. Hmi'h, Heeretsry. Is it Thanksgiving day? Are we not more rendv to give thanks in sincerity TUI E CIRCLE, NO If». WOMEN <>l for material blessings, for abundant Woodcraft. Meet. 2nd and 4th Tues- food and rich dress, prosperity in the ; da« at Brown’s hall. Mrs Tillis .Ionian. M ARMPIN A OKARY shape of money, houses and lands, than .Mrs. lone Whiting, Guardian. for better culture and richer gains in Clerk. W L M«r»4.n, John W. Osary.X building up our own characters and lives? Yet these arc worth more. Pbyiirian» <C Surgeon». Cliureh AniKHiiiccinrntM. Is it Christmas? 1^ we think of it Burns. Oregon. aa a time of gifts, of merry making, of Munday 8ehool at Harney the unusual gayety aud «elf-indulgence, or J^OIfirr st residence. ‘Phone 20. do we can' first fof its higher mean first StHidav of each month st 10 ings? Do we make it a time of good oc'ock, A M. On the second, will toward all, a time for earnest third and fourth Sundays of each thought and generous deeds to pro mote the welfare of those w hoin we love, I’rcach- glows a moos month at 3 o'clock I*. M first, but also, so far as wc may. of all ing service» every eccond Sunday our human brothers and sisters? J. W Birf*. Dalton Btgga. at 8 P. M Even on n holiday, and perhaps moat Attorneyii*at*Liv\ on n holiday, when our time is free from Al the Preahyterian church ordinary claims, a little honest discus IM'im. ORKGON. sion with one's self of the very best Burna, Rev. A. J. Irwin pastor. Office in Bank building, uses and objects to which we can de Divine services the third snd fourth vote n little of our time w ill not conic Hundsys of eaoli month at 11 a. tn. miss.—Country Gentleman. _ / • I.HO I’rr Y mf . Six Hou th* 75 («-ut». iHE ABODE OF GENII’S. Strang« Custom of the Mountain A U&lquo Farm Ln Now York tor People of tho Foutb. In von terra. VVrddluiKs f » Hardware ol Every Description can be found here Arr < onilnctnl AA Itbosf A*> ( eresio*) uñé There Are Yu l>ai(|Pfa or Çongraia- Ilona. Everything Arrange*! veblruce of TlMM iu brtlrntiflc Rcnearch Queer Inst itulion. In the heart of i'ew York state, -be yond tiic reach of the merely cunoa ., yet open to a!! of a scientific turn ot mind, is the only inventors* farm in the v.orld. There is doubt Jr* i no st ranger i Lice anywhere, for it is a farm where I al loons are ‘•raised," aerial schemes are tK.tchcd end air sir pi arc I mh . Ho fur um the place at 1'rankfort. L< rkinwk county, N. Y.. k surrounded by fields and groves which give rx>EUg- grstion of city life, it is a farm, bu* its products are those of which the or dinary fo.nncr knows nothing. For thewr products arc flying much inc«« bal loons, strange wliij * «hat—in tljcoty at least—d.irt through the u ror skim the ground like a bird. Prof. Carl E. Myers, who has estnl/- li.dicd the unique farm, is like most iijen of purely scientific mind in thut be js most conscmitive in his Ideas cf publicity, and ib content «-> Eve in the midst of v/ouder» v.ith h's ass’stant^ and thos * who. from time to time, ¡.re n«i»ocfated with him. If an inventor has an idea that he will )>e able to cv: rrorcc the forces of net ire and courtract a mechan ical bird, it will no longer be nec- e:.>-.Try for him to spend fori tint s to work out Ids ideas or die without cc- cum ¡dishing liiw life’s object. AU h? j risis t » do v.ill I m * to go to the inven tors’ farm »nd find there willing I nn Is .nd fruitful brains, as well as ail ap plkinces of this electrical age tOLSsi-.t him. Almost in the renter of the big f irm a modern country house, standing mid many smaller building*, in which ,r? to be found the materials for every ferm of experiment connected with uTMwiit1 The lower portion of the ’arge house is given over to ¡¡ring loom«, vbile a thied story and att cex- tcnd’ng tire length of the building and Occupied by balloon apparatus, iicres- sories »nd wonderful devices for the construct ion of air ships. The farm was especially selected for iU natural advantages. There are I stretches of lc-el j*rotin«). gently ris ing slopes and f trong declivities. Thus it doe-j not matter at what stage of work the inventions vnoy Ire, u suitable grade can always be found on the farm at nhicJi trials ran be made. If it be an air ship that has l*en constructed jx I m » re there is a doubt ns to the exact nature of its workings, it can be tested on the slight grades, so that there will be ns alight a riak us possible to humun life cr to the ship. Cloire to the main house, in a gicn. is situated one of th»* n:ost important fea tures of the rami. I his : the spot de signed for the making of fabric for ali manner of flying machines i-t.u balloons. On this half acre of ground, which is skirted by the higher ground and : rees. the fabric is stretched to receive the coatings of gasproof varnish. For this application of varnish a special machine has been invented ami constructed by Prof. Myers, so contrived os to supply a complete coating of thick varnish ¡¡nd then to remove the coating u ith th?ex ception of an exceedingly delicate film, difficult to be measured by instruments. Ono section of the attic of the big house is a workshop containing all tools necessary for the construction of ap- ¡ aratus from wood, metal cr textile, in cluding lathes of verious and original designs, steam eng nes, nil classes of wood-working machinery ar.d kindirtl rppnratus for r.akirg c n.puati^? i tests. This is the section in which is constructed the material for the fuli- i siz.etl machines of th? air after working models have been tested. Another sec tion cf the attic is given over to space ■ and machinery for rhe construct‘on of and 7:30 p. tn. S«hbath school at . models especially of kites, nercplircs, i* • A CASE OF "GIT." ^yn.LtAMs a rnzock.«LD wind-borne or self-propelled n ot'-rs. 10 a. tn. everv Rahbath tnortiing. Why the Family l.vtt the Country Wlth- w inged apparatus \ otftvd by hand ¿nu M. Fitzgerald, out Delay. Preaching services at the Baptist Thornton Williams, feet, gas vessels propel led by screws or Attorney at Law, Notary Publie. A family, consisting of man and wife ,‘crving to support other devices for ehqrcb every 1st and 2nd Sundays, a 3 four or live small children, were safe trial by their inventors. Lor, Notarial and Real Estate morning and evening. Sunday ’ itig nlong in n wagon loaded with In the little buildings scattered over > • goods, says the New York the farm are located the gas engines and school every Sunday at 10 a. tn. Practice. ,!■«.. . v' non an old fellow camo to the The Indrogbphic office has issued a tanks for practical experiments, th»» prayer meeting every Thursday Burna, Oregon d'->i . ala cabin and shouted at them: new chart, showing the limits, accord < hevnieal chambers and several furnaces ■ lle'ln, Bam—who r be you folks n- evening. ing to the numerous reports received at mnl retorts. Sc -me of these last arc so Office in Masonic buildin gittin* to?” the I’nitcd Slates hydrographic office, strnotre and unusual tlu»« their ap We’re a-gittin' out o’ the kentry," TOT KNOW WHAT TOT ARK TAKING of the enormous ice tields encountered pearance suggests tnc lauurmurj vt some i eplied the man on the wagon as lie| hv mariners in those waters during the old-time alchemist rather thana Nine When you take Grove’s Tasteless sited his horse. exceptionally severe years of 1892 and teenth century workshop.—N. Y. Her "What nre you n-gittin' fur?” Chill Tonic because the formula is M Joaius. 1893, says the Washington Star. All of ald. “Girtin' 'cause tho vigilance commit these reports agree in describing the plainly printed on every bottle tee told us to git." icc’cc.gs seen during these years us co Practical Land Su ; - Absent-Uln de«!. rhowii g that it is simply Iron anti "Whar’s your two boys, that the; lossal in height and extent and lieided toiessor (after having been txb- Bara*» sm. halut n-gittin' with you?" so closely together (hut any nttctupl M*rl>e<l for liours in a |Hle of rare nihhu- Quinine in a taetelcan form. No "They got plgened afore they could to foree a pnssafre through the main seVipta) ’ l.et me s«e. I was going to do Cure, No Pay. 50c. git." body of the drift was attended by grave something—what the deuce was I go "Do vou mean pizened bv n snake danger, mnuy vessels lining more or lose ing to do, anyway? (After thinking g W MILLER. bite?” damaged by collision and two lost. half an hour.) Oh, yes, now 1 reincni- "No,' lead. They will n-gittin' too Don't make any mistake, but reruem Some of the bergs nre high and per* I ht , I w anted to go to bed.- Fliegendc i ninny good horse« and got allot." pcndicular, and are regnrded ns ot re her the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. K ilme- Notary Public ■■•■r’. .cer, lllaetter. "Wai, s'loDg, Sum," called the old fel cent origin. Others nre known to lie Swamp-Root, and the address, Bingham I Tnkin«r Order*. Mort KM«". needs, Etc ' ' 4 • t ■ I d. low in the doorway. "Sorry to sei' you old. Their character is such that they ton, N. Y., on every liotthx. Mn». Brown -l)i*l you know that Mr. could not have been formed on low, Office at Store. I’ u < ■ «, Oregon« a-gitiin' but reckon, you gutter git." “S'long." answered the other, nnd flat land«. Scientists believe there nre Veatnwnt is going- into the ministry? Mrs. Greene—No. You surprise me. gathering up the lines he shouted to high niouiitaiiis in the Antarctic con 4- I thought he wn* going to be a waiter his horse: tinent. Bought in %n eating house. His mother told "Git right up thar', tlurn yer ole hide, For a bili ,i> i > t ike Cham* n:c he wns going h> take orders, yet: ’cause we gutter Is* o-gitt!n' a git on us berlain’s St. ; «-ii . ,i Liver Tab am) git into the next county as Ci*t as know. Ttobtdn Transcript. CABTOTIIA. lets and* ritii certain we kin git!" Bron tk? j*11,9 ’M Ha'9 BiliSH And they got. IFYOUARE A FARMER . 1 J For sale l>y II M. Horton, Burns; Fred llai llu.i.ey. i NO. 50 i There nre few places and few grades of life, in either the rural or the urban world, w hei r the word "wedding" is not a synonym fur Joy and festivity. Only the cynic or the misanthrope protest« gainst the wedding celcbraticn. VV>- • ear out m >«t customs, but the wed- ling fe-i't rcmainr. Wh le very likely not the only phice in the world, the only place in my experience where there i>: any general conccalmeut ot proposed connubiality and rupGal !nt< i;t !s in •he mountains >f the sov.t!i. I maybe «•r.rrelly knc>wn that "Zeb" is ••l ecj- Ing regular eonipany" with ''I.’ze." Iirddenly th« town will Le apprised of the loot that “Zeb and L ie rlci’O R.l married last v.-hat tn'ght urprix?. SctrcfTnea in the large settlement due notice will Le given and the wed ding lake pine in the bill ■ church or in the building nre I 'n comrrjcn for all pablie purpose- —rclgiens reivieer. school, political gatherings end !t’mo unt shov.w. Ti’at praet'ce K however, generally con fin «I ta the cl’te of th- community. Inn place’n my experi ence the papular icsort for the perform ance ot the ceremony was th? broad platform In the rear of a local saw mill. I could discover no ground for the popu larity of the spot. Some tint <•».”■ few inti mate friends w ouiJ h* invited loatctad. Sometimes none was observer rave the causal pa«*cr-l>y. More frequently there were no witnesses rave the run alrovc the lumber-piles around. Concerning that rpo* a I real irngis- trwte tells an amtrs'r g story. A certain mr.n had been urfortunatc in the lon gevity of h:s eciccf.cn». had been twice married ami tv.icc bcrtaveil. He called U(wn the magistrate to effe'ate ot a third cercnKEy. As the happy pair took their places before hiui. upon the mill platform, to pledge their faith ai.d love, he u'.J to the groom: "Move u tittle further over thta way, John. Tee up to that I nc. That is where rcu'vc always stood before." And there was no proceed.ng unt il John had “tcep up." A man who w as doing seme work for •ne came to me otic day ct noon and •eked permission to be ubrent unt'l ' quartering time," ?:3o o'clock. He sa:d noth i.g to me or to h:a asaociat -s f h'.s purpose. Tie returned promptly on time, to announce, in a co nal and indifferent manner, thut during bis uL- sence he had been married anil, wita the little fumHure posse-««d by the pair, had settled in a cabin of his ow n. Again and ugttin have 1 seen the same I Inn followed in other cases. The ground for sogrrerul observance of secrecy I could r.ot discover. It bclds w ith both the intention of marrisgenud Hie precise tjnc uf the c.-icmo’iy. I think it is <hm in considerable measure to fear of tliat horrcw’ng performance known ns the charivari- in the i.i or.1. “sliivarce.” To those unfamiliar with that entertainment I can only describe it as a must excruciating pam'cmoni.m. i If cot cd by combinations cf pots and pans, horns and howling. It t ikes tbi form of an evening secer.r !c to the newly wedded pu'r. The cffic uting mi'.siciana cotnpri c all the young t~.cn and boys for miles around. I have been the unfortunate auditor of crc or two -in li |>crforninnoes, nnd if 1 knew that one were to lake pl..ce around the walls cf iny dwelling if I married I should choose to "live a lxu'htMor.'' I l»I.i:i ' no man for retaining his secret to avoid the experience. The poorer daises, with whom the concealment is a gcncrc.l praet'ce. have r.o money to spend for the entertainment of their friends. Not infrequently, there is r. > tn mi y f >r even a ncv. gow n for the bride. Th« aff lir then becomes n s’mplc natter of mutual agreement: the 1 iisincss in dis patched without fuss rr features ?• .1 the jnurnev to pnradi.»« is taken by the most direct route. N. Y. Post. 4 I Symuo’h'.ze wikh n e, general, I f >r.i:d a prray ba r in iry head Uiis n.«n niiig- He- (ongratulate ire. madam. 4 found a black one in m’ne.—-Pohch. Order». I v.rot*- a i een». ’Teme I r.ck to 34c',' I thcurht ’«world trie* in rold, Eut I y r-:tum cf j.cat 1 fouud It did aa it was told. -X. Y. V.’crU. L.... . rlGEU»., tiore Vuca a 31 lo Fails a JSioatc In a ttecent ¿'slul. Aided by a aoutkerly ».¡rd and a per fectly clear :.!»y. the first test of too p'g:. . '• ch arc to repr;r-. ut th? ilra-i ('lilt. ™o ’ c: :ing club in the Xstiomfi fedctiti'on races this year was a most 1:.it able success, says the Chicago (lira..- icic. The trial v.as rvmc.rkaLle n moio th- n cne feature. Two hundred a :-) eighty-on" birds, the larpext rur. bcr which tb du > L:-s <cor l ie rt«J frerr one racing elation, made the t.!/, an.d of that somber every bird was repiech g peacefully in its ’oft by one c'clovi; in th* cf’- rr.oon. The time made by t'.re first birds to arrive home was the fast est ever made over the course, end rrp- re.-ents a speed of more than a mile a minute. Tlie birds were r.oc-raf. • at Mo.* c. 12 miles away frezn the nearest loft, at 7:30 o'clock,and White W-ings.owned by L. Vcrschuctyn. ttepptd bark in its loft nt R:14>k. While Wings waa closely followed ty nearly half tlie Hock, ar.d 5n arrivals w ere reported betw een 8; 13 and S:17. Inasmuch as every bird spcy.t at least ns much as five minutes in circling before stert'ng cn a line for home, the ape- <1 show n is materially more than a mile in each CO rcconds. As an illustration of how lit'le evrn the best fanciers arc al.-le to Jmlge c-t the merits cf the'r own pels, it is iir- tcrcstht» to net? that White Wings had been cons’dcrcd rlmost worthier«. Only n month ego he was flown frerj Sixty- first street, a distance of eight m les, to his loft, m l took If.days to irr.be the journey. That was Ills first trial, anil ho was sent to Monee Saturday quite as z*.':«’: 'he hope that he would be lost as for arg other reason. A HOUSEHOLD WORD. Ludicrous Ill tinder VtWch W1« 3Iade by a 1'residlnsr Otircr. The Washington correspondent of tire Chicana Tinirs-Heraltl relates n laugh* able incident in the career cf Mr. Tare* ncy, of Missouri, who was until lately a member of congress from that stato-, but v.as unseated by the house. The ov.’urr. nee, it should be explained, took place some years ago, when Mr. Tarsncy v. rs not so well known i.* he is at pres* cy.t. It v. ?.» in th? midst of a political cam- paign, ar.d Mr. Tan noy, who had pror.r to New York rtate in the service of h=a party, x.» announced to speak in a country town. The chairman cf the mcctlug. a local celebrity, was properly minded to give the gentleman from Mis« souri a handsome reception. “i.:. ics a:.d gentlemen." ho said, Mwe ha c with us to-night one of the ’a—cat* est state: men of the great west, a.» ora- • bout th Miaaiaalppi valley, a gentleman where name is to you a household word. Permit me to introduv' to you Mr.—Mr.—” Iler? the flow of his eloquence was checked, nnd leaning toward the orator of the evening, he whispered: ‘•What did you say your name was?" '•Tarsney, of Missouri," whispered tire orator. "l'ellow'-citizoiis," resumed the chair man, **it rs my proud pleasure to intro duce to you Mr. Larceny, of Missouri." TT»r TTcit of Risks. Life Insurance Manager (in ¡iFfonish- ment) What under the sun ever mn»te you take a risk on thisiian’slife ? Why, be swears he has b»xm a confirmed in valid for live years. Agent--One of the l>est risks, sir Confirmed invalids never die of ang ling but old ogv. —Tit-Bits. A W 1st». “Turn backward—turn backward. oh, tlmre in thy flight: Make me a child again"- yen, that i% riyM, For If you do thia why then I can sneak Out of paying that bill which falls due nett week. —N. Y Jornal, i * » X — •