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4" . f 1 . - . .v .1. - . ; i POULTRY and Dairy rroduce of all klndt wanted. Write for oar CASH OFFER Pearson-Page Co. PS$.D SECOND-HAND MACHINERY BonirH o)d end exchanicd; engines, boilers. mw mills, etc Send for Stock List and Prices. " THE J. E. MARTIN CO., W lit St.. Portland. Or. utt and kills all lilt, Neat.dcan.or tunwatal, con tt nieot, cheap. Laitl all Ba&SOn. Made of metal, can'ttpil I or tip over Trill not soil DC Injure anythlnr. Cun ran teed elf active. Bold by dlen, off A wot by expreupi paid ioi jt. UOttMliUUllMfSaKaibATa Brooklyn, . t OPPORTUNITY IS HERE TO LEARN CHIROPRACTIC. Citbf hot. radic Csvsiraclk fjlksc, 418 Cnaasntslls Kit, Partlus, On. SALESMEN WANTED Liberal TermsWrite for our Proposition. Everything for the Orchard, Farm. Garden and Lawn. , YAKIMA AND COLUMBIA IIVER NURSERY 00. . NORTH YAKIMA, WASH. YAKIMA CROWN U Ibe BEST GUARANTEE TYPHOID i la no more necesssry than Smallpox. Army experience ha. demonstrated the almost miraculous effl. cacy, and harmlesiness.of Antityphoid VaccloaUoD. -Be vaccinated NOW by your physician, you and four family. It Is more vital than bouae Insurance. Ask your physician, druggist, or send for "Have you had Typhoid?" telling of Typhoid Vaccine lelulta from use. and danger from Typhoid Carrier!. THE CUTTEH LABORATORY, BUKCLCV, CAL William Walker Smith, United States consul general at Santo Do mingo, to the amazement ot the Waldorf-Astoria employes In New York, came down from his room on the sev enth floor with a big Belgian police dog, which was given to him when he was in Europe. It is said to be the first time that a dog of this size has even been above the first floor of the hotel with the consent of the manage ment. However, it was explained tn everybody that Mr. Smith's police dog had a room all to himself in the Wal dorf, That's another thing which the dog can boast about In Inter years. "That dog," said Mr. Smith, "saved me from drowning," and he intimated the dog had a right to the best there is. He said that the animal was a wonder and that he was very, very fond of him. If Looks wt Any Figure. I often have felt, in strolling about, In fact I have given it thought, How few homely men woulu hold the big jobs, , If appearances counted for aught The guy with a (igure of statuesque form Off his guard would never be caught; AH of the white hopes he'd quickly knock out, . ' If appearances counted tor aught. The recruit looks tha part In a uni form neat, Although In the bush he Is taught; He should shut out the team with never a hit, If appearances counted for aught The maiden dolled up In her modish new frock EarnB her pay in a laundry so hot, But might be an heiress with money to burn, It appearances counted for aught The dubs would be dukes and the dukes would be dubs, With all of their bally old rot. And hashers would shine in society gay, If appearances counted for aughtl MUCH GOOD IN SALAD APPETIZING AND HEALTH-GIVING AT ALL 8EAS0NS. , Shake Into Tour Shoes Allen. Foot-Ease, a rjowder for the feet. It cure. painful, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Make. new shoes eajiy. Hold by all urutrR-iiueana rnos Stores. Don't accopt any substitute. Sample bitEH. Address A. s. Ulmsted. Hoy. n . i. In' Better Condition. One afternoon a stranger happened Into a country town, and while at tending to some business in the cor ner grocery an old man rambled in. The stranger became interested and asked him his age. "I am just 100 years old," answered the old man, sitting on a packing box. "Is that so?" Jokingly responded the stranger. "Well, I'll bet you don't live to see another hundred." "I don't know about that," was the smiling rejoinder of the aged man. "I am a whole lot stronger now than I was when I started on my first hun dred." Philadelphia Telegraph. Thomas Hade, 35 years majordomo In the Astor family, has been retired and, according to report, pensioned for life by Vincent Astor. He was em ployed by the late Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Astor, John Jacob Astor and Vin cent Astor. There is probably no one whose features are more familiar to the society people of Europe and America and some dignitaries than ThomaB Hade, because of long service In this noted family. His affable and kind manner made him a general favorite In Newport, as well as In New York, and many other places where the Astor family resided. The highest point In Nevada Is Wheeler peak, which, according to a chart published by the United States geological survey, Is 13,068 feet above sea level. QUIT CIGARETTES With the aid of ARGENITE. an improvement on the S1LVEK NITRITE treatment as used by Industrial Schools and Juvenile Courts. At yout druggist or send CCc for full treatment post paid. ARGENITE CO, Dept 4, 451 1-2 Morrison St, PORTLAND, OR. fflStSSEEEBEBCff BSOaaaaS'aacKEI RUPTURE IS CURABLE By wearlnir I BKKLGY BPKKMATIC BIIIKI L) TKlTfig. No worrying or dan ger of an operation. Rupture Is not a tear or breach, aa commonly supported, but la tha stretch. nr, or dilation, of a natural oneninir. Thta BKrXKY BPKKMATIC BHIKLD appliance cIosim this oLo.it-.irin ludayn In moit cuea. If you enn't coma, write for measuring blank and , toratur. 8oki only by LAUE-DAVIS DRUG CO. Third and Yamhill, Portland. Or. Who are This Experts and Exclusive State A iter, la fur this appliance. SICK? TIRED? WEAK? If this describes your present con dition you should immediately get a bottle of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS It will help Nature overcome all Stomach, Liver and Bowel Ills, restore the appetite, promote health and vigor. v ( : Housewife Who Is Proficient In Their Making It a Treasure to Her ( Family Three Recipes That . Are Excellent , By LIDA AMES WILLIS. One of our readers delights In her skill In salad-making. She declares she can prepare salads that are her own and her family's greatest joy and sat isfaction In this life, It not their salva tion In the next Another reader ex- horU us to preach salads to the outer barbarian who will not adopt this higher phase of development Virtue lies in the harmonious combination of a salad, the beauty and health-giving qualities that nature has Imparted to the delicate, tender 'green vegetables, the oil of the olive, and other choice ingredients used. Though salads vary with the season, happily there is no month In our year during which we may not obtain fresh materials In greens or vegetables for the production of choice salads. The American cucumber, hot-house or out door grown, should be eaten In all Its pristine freshness, sliced Into Ice cold water-Hsi -TWiCt It tender and crisp, but no sal added. : j Dutch tftmuwrhe minced fish sal ads originated with the Dutch, who were famous for compounds of fish, Cheddar cheese, and various roots and herbs. A herring salad Is made with two broiled herring, skin and bones removed and meat shredded; put in a salad bowl a bleached head of endive; add to the fish and two anchovies cut up a dozen minced capers, two boiled and diced potatoes, two boiled and pickled beets cut In shreds, and Borne minced herbs. Pour over all a plain salad dressing; toss lightly together and serve. French Salad. Trim, wash and cut up a bead of endive; drain perfectly dry. Rub your salad bowl with a cube or crust of bread rubbed with garlic or onion. Put In the endive and cover with a dressing made of olive oil, tar ragon vinegar, salt, pepper, a little anchovy paste, pinch of celery salt, and toss lightly together and serve. Spanish Salad. Not to Franco or sunny Italy are our thanks due for the glorious tomato salad. By the law of eternal fitness It belongs to Spain, that land of vivid romance. Blend the to mato with the ripe Spanish olive, a few waferlike slices of Spanish onion, and shreds of green pepper, and cap all with a crown of golden mayonnaise, and you'll find joy In the eating thereof. At Our Boarding House. Things would be all right only there Is nobody with any horse sense. We would be lucky dogs If the sly old foxes who ran the place weren't jeal ous cats who act like gossipy old hens every time one of the social Hons makes eyes at the chickens across the table. A couple ot stupid asses, who may be bears at home, are decidedly lame ducks with us. Some of us have to patronize loan Bharks to keep the wolf from the door and the slippery eels play hog with our goats. If It weren't for so many snukes In the grass we might be permitted to do the bunny hug, only it's old-fashioned, and when somebody suggests the grlzzly- bear the wolvos In sheep s clothing set up a roar and there's nothing left for a bunch ot lobsters to do but close up like clams, snenk out Into the mud like a bunch of suckers and hike to the restaurnnt stalls and act like a lot of coltB. Even then a harness bull Is apt to come along and dump us in the pen. At any rate we'd all be bearcats If they didn't tnke us for squirrels and feed us on nuts. Dr. Grace Fcder Thompson's Korek tonik for men and women is a NERVE FOOD and SYSTEM BUILDER; $1 for one month's treatment. Address 1MB Post street, San Francisco. Never Do This. "India, my boy," sold an English man to a friend, on his arrival in Cal cutta, "Is just the finest climate under the sun, but a lot of young fellows come out here, and they drink and they ent, and thoy drink and they die, and then write home to their friends a pack o' lies and suy it's the climate that hai killed them." Sacred Heart Kevlew. Keeps Blood loving Drives Out Impurities True to Nature in Its Action and Welcome to the Stomach. All Motion Throughout tha Universe, It there are ilirnl ot Mood Impurities be- fin ualnir ft. B. H. at mice. You need- It. J bla wonderful litood nurltler It all action, I; starts Into motion billions of evils In the I'ver, luting anil throughout the body. Iirerythhiu; la kept on tlie move, flushes your blood, (tin, your entire hloeej clrcula ron a Hue ihorootrh bath. It just natur a.ly and In a twinkling Irrigate every aLitq Id your hotly. It rushes Into every cell, causes every bone, muscle, liirameut, 1 noon, mucous surface and every nerve to t rill with fr I.im, with health, with new- liiuiid aiu-lntrlni-ss. And best of all. P.. M a. thoutrh a power ful. seiLfchli', wvurthdUiUiai auuuiy to diss. ease la aa pure as the dew m a peach blossom, aa powerful aa the heroic works or nature, aa eearctiirui as the peremptory demand of the moat exact science. Ask for aud Insist upon retting; 8, S. R-. i ue worms cure tor ail uiaoruers 01 lua blood. For private, personal advice on stubborn chroulc rheumatism write at once to the Bwlft Specific tV. 253 Swltt Bulldtul. At lanta, tie. Their medical department If ramout on all blood diseases, and la equipped to make personal blood tests, ap proved by the M-rheat medical authorial i uul a bolus e( b. . a. today, Meat Pie. Select a couple ot pounds from loin of pork, and a pound of nicely sea soned sausage links; rinse quickly and put to boll gently In sufficient water to cover It. The water should be cold to begin with, and salted. Add eight to ten potatoes which have been peeled and halved. Stew gently until all Is tender, adding water if neces sary; rub a little flour, butter and pep per to a paste with a little of the meat broth. Line a pudding or bake dish with a rich cniBt, turn In the stew with the thickening, cover with a but tered crust, leaving a hole In the cen ter for steam to escape.- Bake in a rather quick oven until crust Is brown and flaky. , When You 8weep. For sweeping a room neatly there is nothing like newspaper aid. Take a page of newspaper or other paper convenient, wet in hot water and squeeze It until it ceases to drip. Tear Into pieces the size of one's hand, cast them all over the carpet, then sweep, and most of the dust In the room, If you use your broom judi ciously, will be gathered Into the pa pers. After a velvet or other heavy pile carpet Is thoroughly swept, a sponging with ammonia and water will preserve its brightness wonderfully. Eaglets Choooltte Cake. Cream one cupful Bugar, halt cupful butter, one large teaspoonful salt, one cupful milk or a little more if needed one and a halt cupfuls pastry flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, three tablespoonfuls ot powdered chocolate or cocoa, one teaspoonful vanilla Cream sugar, butter, salt, chocolate and a little milk to make It creamy, add flour, baking powder and vanilla. Butter tbe pan well and try cake with straw, . Angel Toatt A delicious and wholesome food for the children and to serve with after noon tea Is angel toast Here Is a recipe: Cut bread Into thin slices, butter evenly and well and cover plentifully with sugar (brown sugar being pre ferable). Toast until brown In a me dium oven. The top will be covered with a delicious sort ot caramel or candy. This la nice for the children's tea. Brlde't Cake. Sift three-fourths cupful of pow dered sugar and cream with one-fourth cupful ot butter; sift twice one and one-bait cupfuls of flour; at the sec ond sifting sift with It one teaspoon ful ot baking powder and a pinch ot salt one-bait cupful sweet milk, whites of two eggs beaten to a foam. Flavor with lemon. Beat the mixture from 20 minutes to halt an hour. When Roasting Fowl. In roasting any bird place the breast tn the pan first when put In the oven. By so doing tho juice will run out ot the back Into the breast making It more juicy tustead ot the lutces from the white meat settling in the backbone, as happens when a bird It placed back down in the pan. For Removing Stains. To remove stains from mattresses, make a thick paste by wetting starch with cold water. Sprend this on the stain, after first putting the mattress In the tun. Hub this off after an hour or to, and repeat, If necessary, until tain la entirely removed. . . SANDWICHES THAT ARE FINE With a Little Preparation They May Be Made Choice Mortela Fit for Any Afternoon Tea. An ingenious woman who prides her self on her sandwiches bakes the bread In round tin cans from which she has removed vegetables. When she wants an especially small and dainty sandwich she uses large-sized baking powder cans. The slices from the round loaves make dainty sandwiches. To make perfumed butter sand wiches, both the bread and butter must be scented. The butter pats, wrapped in thin cheesecloth, or the thinnest of cotton, are put in a china bowl lined with blossoms of flowers. More blossoms are then heaped over the butter. Then the cover is put on se curely, that It may be airtight, and the bowl Is put in a cool place. The loaves of bread are also treated In tbe same fashion. Take crisp new potatoes, slice even ly, and spread over them finely minced celery and mayonnaise dressing. Place this mixture between triangles ol homemade bread. . , Prepare a French dressing and dip Into It slices of cucumber peeled. Lay these between slices of thin white bread, buttered. Prepare these sand wiches only a short while before they are to be eaten or they will become eoggy. A sweet pepper sandwich Is a deli cate bit to serve for luncheon, and Is made by spreading between slices of bread a filling made of peppers and Neuchatel or cream cheese. Chop the peppers very fine and mix them with cheese and a few drops of olive oil or with a little rich sweet cream. Use In the proportion of one-third pep per to two-thirds cheese. Use thin slices of wheat bread, but tered, cut In heart shape. Between each two slices place a layer of Neuf- chatel cheese mixed to a paste with equal quantities of cream and salad dressing, and cover with chopped olives. Take the left-over bit of potato Balad, add to It some minced cold boiled ham and spread it beween slices of buttered bread. Lettuce with a layer of horseradish on either side and placed on well but tered bread makes an excellent sandwich. USE FOR FIRELESS COOKER Breakfast May Be Prepared the Night Before and Enjoyed In the Morning. Nobodv annreclates better than the man or woman - forced by circum stances to make an early start of mornings, the convenience and com ifort of a flreless cooker. It Is dis heartening to most folks to go out In the morning say at seven or even at six and snatch breakfast en route. With thn aid nf a flreless cooker a very small one will do and a perco lator, a breakfast may be enjoyed lux uriously In one's bathgown. Oatmeal, brought to a simmer the night before and tucked cozlly to bed In the flreless cooker, will emerge In the morning steaming and dellclous ly cooked. Coffee and water placed in the narnolator before retiring need only the touch of match to alcohol wick during the morning process of dressing, to be ready, hot and steam ing, when the oatmeal is placed on the table. Rolls and a bottle of cream. left by baker and milkman outside the door, will complete a breakfast with perhaps an orange thrown In Hint, will sustain the average worker comfortably until the luncheon hour comes around. iw i.i uj ijiwiLjanniisBsHl, n.ii I I ins is..aiiiuiw.a).. i.uii ' ''T"'''!ijr,'lir!j r 1 4i Great, aren't they boy? Wade is doing a lot for us when V . 'iPf Jti'if he furnishes these free Blue-Prints, made up just special for V . ..jj5ssMj the size barn we figure on building. .-..i :. .-.-jjjfl it shows us how t , r , mmv "PORTER'S PERFECT" ;. 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Ore. xIkI l P fn m ' ' UPOn FREB BARN B- a it i fsEggl SSI 0lde8t and Largest Independent JHW ulpmttioiua. f a "i tjT jxjr 1 Wholesalers of Farm Mach in- Mi Jii I Wy the f acific Northwest V lyr Wain 1 ! Mm- mm THE- BUSINESS' MAN in a hurry, often requests his stenog rapher to take his dictation direct on the typewriter, no notebook being used. This requires a knowledge of Touch Typewriting, taught at this school. Such a stenoghraper is worth a high salary, and gets it! Write for catalog. A position guaranteed. BEUTEL BUSINESS COLLEGE Tacoma, Washington. ; Among the silver masters of Shef field, England, it . is rather, an estab lished practice to encourage the em ployment of families. It is more the rule than otherwise that a father working In the silver trade will ap prentice his children to that trade as they arrive at working age. Typewriter Clicked On. "How does the battle go?" asked the Mexican general. "Fiercely," replied the press agent. "We have just had three devastating paragraphs, and we're now advancing several columns of fierce description." Washington Star. Paradoxical. "So Jack Intends launching out on the sea of matrimony." - "That's a singular way of putting it, seeing he's just been landed." San Diego Union. Merely Ornamental. He What candle light power has your electrical fixings? She Oh, those aren't real candles on that chandelier; they're merely make-believe. Baltimore American. To Destroy Ants. Thn warm, damp days always bring ants. Tho only way to get rid of these InsectB is to destroy their neBts. But It is often difficult to locate them. A o-nnrl nlan is to Dlace little mounds of coarse ground sugar around. The nnta will each take up a grain and make their nest with It, so should be watched. When the nest Is found, rieonoh It with kerosene or a strong solution of carbolic acid. Ants dis like the smell of camphor. This scat tered around will keep them away, but as they are usually around food, camphor Is scarcely practical, because of Its strong odor, which the foods may absorb. In such a case try sprink ling with red pepper. Linen Closet. t.tnon ..tared In a closet warm and nnnriv ventilated will become yellow and will crack earlier than If stored otherwise. The properly constructed unnn ninaot nhmilil be In a cool, dry place. Each shelf should be covered with linen slips fastened up with araw i nlna. Have the linen silos broad enough to fold back and cover the contents ot the shelves. Old sheets may be used for this purpose. Glazed Carrots With Peat. Wash and scrape carrots, then out In strips. There should be four cups. Cook In salted boiling water to cover fifteen minutes; drain and return to the saucepan with one-half cupful but ter and one-half tablespoonful sugar. cover and cook very slowly until ten der. Add one can French peas, drained and cooked In boiling water ten min utes, thne seasoned with butter, salt and pepper. T ... Curried Egg Sandwiches. Mash the yolks of four hard boiled eggs and finely chop the whites; add two teaspoonfuls of curry powder, a pinch or two of salt, a teaspoonful of Worcester sauce, a teaspoonful ot to mato sauce or chutney, a small quantity ot paprika, and a squeeze ot lemon juice. Mix these ingredi ents thoroughly and spread between thin slices of bread and butter. Serve with radishes or watercress. . Separating Honey. To obtain strained honey by sep arating the honey from the wax at It comes In the frame, place the frame In a bowl tn tho oven just warm enough to melt the honey and wax; then remove the frame and let the honey stand until cold, when tbe wax may bo ekirrmed oft the top without any trouble. In Good Old Eden. When Eve held forth In Paradise, She found much pleasure In it; For when she did her Monday wash, It only took a minute. . . Milwaukee Sentinel. And when the washing blew away, .. Eve didn't fret or whine; She merely sauntered forth and picked New garments from the vine. ; r Springfield Union. And n'o complaints from Adam came, Their happiness to wreck, Because of collar edges which Sawed nearly through his neck. Youngstdwn Telegram. Their life was one of homely bliss, Unknown to them was pain; But soon as they got Abel -they dot busy raising Cain. Spokesman-Review. Sunlight Intensified By Reflection from Ocean Beach and Detert Sand unrelieyjed by Foliage. Winds and Mineral Luileri, Poisonous Dust, all bring Eye Troubles in their wake Granu luteu Eyelids, Red, -itching, Burning, Tired and Watery Eyes, Impaired Vision and Eye Pain. Reliable Relief is found in Murine Eye Remedy, Mild and Harmless. If you Wear Glasses, Try Murine. Doesn't Smart. Feels Fine. Acts Quickly. Is an Eve Tonic compounded by Oculists not a ''i'atent Medicine" but used in successful Physicians' Practice for many years. Now dedicated- to the Public and sold at 50c Per Bottle. Murine Eye Salve In Aseptic Tubes, 25c and 50c. Sold by Drufrgnfltfl, For Books, write, to Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. : , Phonetic Spelling. Willie was struggling through the story In his reading lesson. "No, it was not a sloop. It was a larger ves sel. By its rig I judged it to be a " The word was new to him. "Barque," supplied the teatiher. Still Willie hesitated and looked be wildered. "Barque! Barque!" repeated the teacher, thlB time sharply. Willie looked as though he had not IT MAKES SICK SKINS WELL No matter how long you have been tortured and disfigured by Itching, burning, raw or scaly skin humors, just put a little of that soothing, anti sceptic resinol ointment on the sores and the suffering stops rignt mere: Healing begins that very minute, and in almost every case your skin gets j well so quickly you reel asnamea ot the money you threw away on tedi ous, useless treatments. Resinol ointment and resinol soap clear away pimples, blackheads, and dandruff; great for sunburn and inBect bites, Sold by all druggists. Adv. In these days ot domestic science and manual training it is interesting to know that sewing and knitting were tanght in the first frame schoolhouse erected In Farmington, Me., more than a century and a quarter ago. Putnam Fadeless Dyes make no muss. Mrs. J. W. Meserve of Barr Mills, Me., has a cat who makes a regular practice of ringing the front door bell when he wishes to be admitted, reach ing up and pulling the cord with his forepaws. On the municipal rolls of Copenha gen, Denmark, are 9S89 men and 4994 women. With their families they con stitute 7.3 per cent of the population. YOU OVVfJ DRUGGIST WILl TELL YOU Try Murine Eye Remedy for Red, Weuk, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelide; No Hmartiug I use. Eye Comfort. Write for Book of the Eye ly mall Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. Identified. Howard A fool and his money are soon parted. ' Mrs. Howard (clapping her hands) Oh, John! How much are you go ing to give me? Columbus Journal. Up to the present time no less than 31 aeroplane pilots have looped the loop. Of these, Hamel, an English man, and Gilbert, a Frenchman, have looped the loop with passengers. In their experiments with the pro duction of steel by electric methods the United States Steel corporation has expended more than $300,000. In the vaudeville game of lite you may never stop the show and you will be lucky if you never get the hook. Don't drink doubtful water, says the health officer. Some men have doubts about all water. The plum crop is- said to be a fail ure. That sounds dismal for the polit ical offlceseekers. HOWARD K IirllTOII - Mm anit meralrt, LssUvilte, Colorado. Spwiuiea price! Uold, Sliver. Lead, 8. Hold. SUver. Uo; Gold. Uo: Zina lopes a ra ran price usi or Co.pr, 11. Mailing envelopes a id fall price I fast oa application. Control and Pmplre work GelteA, Befaieooat Osrhonst. National Baiua. Prepare for Emergencies! It may be neceaary for yoa to take s position tomorrow. Are you ready? Our training will fit yoa for businees life. . , COURSES IN, , Business, Shorthand, Telegraphy BUSINESS COLLEGE. L 11. Waiksr. frt. Portland, Oreron HI OlAltANTU rOSrfBSS TO Ml U OtlKUTES. - Slips That Pass In the Night. Belated City Man (after second un successful attempt to stop passing fire engine) Orl rite then hie keep your bloomin' chestnuts. The Tatler, Thirteen was the sacred number of the Mexicans and ancient people of Yucatan. Their week had 13 days, and they had 13 snake gods. Mrs. Lorenz Smith of Bransford, Conn., has Just begun her one-hundredth year in the same house In which she was born in 1815. Nine mines In 10, the world over, are richer In the first 1000 feet than in the second, and few are worth operating below 3000 feet. This seems to be the open Beason for street speakers. Talk Is cheap when you can get a speaking permit for nothing. wnen tnings go wrong in UHMeutui, , Ha nlwnvn earn hist humna. He's raw and green and heartless ' Our poor old friend, tbe umps! Somebody always Is taking the Joy out of life. Just as the Indians hit their stride a new bunch of. umpires Is wished onto the league. BEAUTIFUL CUP & SAUCER FREE! Send us $1.44 for 5 lbs. of the great ARCADIA BLEND Fresh Roasted Coffee and get a beautiful cup and saucer ab solutely free. Instead of paying sal-1,; aries and commissions to agents we give our customers premiums. You try the Coffee out. If you don't think it is the best value for the money you ever got, just keep lite Cup and Saucer for your trouble and send the coffee back to us at our expense. We will refund your money at once without question. PACIFIC COAST COFFEE CO. 308 Pine Street. ; Portland, Oregon U i o A Good-Manners Week. "What Cleveland needs Is a better manners week," says- the Cleveland Leader. That is true for other places, too. We need weeks for the virtues of all kinds. We need a swat-the-lie week, a simple-life week, a good-language week, a nonprofanity week, a help-your-neighbor week, a closed-muffler week, a nonsolicitlng week, a. cherry pie week, a clean-movie week, a 5-o'clock getting up week, a picnic week, a going-a-fishlng week in fact, we need weeks of all kinds to refresh the soul and stimulate the Intellect. A commission might be appointed to divide up the whole year into weeks devoted to our happiest aspirationB. Why not? What's the sense of grovel ing along tn loafing and trading and working? What's the sense in making things worse than they are? Why shouldn't we live up instead ot down? Columbus (Ohio) Journal. : , ill 1887 TO 1914 27th TEAR HOLMES BUSINESS COLLEGE The school that sets you a good position. Thousands of Graduates NONE IDLE I FREE INFORMATION I OLDEST Washington us 10th Sts. I ""j?' PORTLAND, ORE. I mUULIW '! I'll What Happened to Mary. The maid-of-all-work in the service of a provincial family, the members whereof are not on the most amicable of terms, recently tendered her resig nation, much to the distress of the fitly of the house. "So you are going to leave us?" Halted the mistress, sadly, according ti Tit-Bits, "What's the matter, Mary? Haven't we always treated you like one of the family? "Yis, mum," said Mary; "an' I' shtood it as long as I'm goln' to!" Convention speaker sees an opiu less umna Dy izu. s sureiy a lojrg bop from ail nop to no nop. Because hubby embraces a pretty girl wifey gets a divorce. The court felt the man was doing more than his duty embraces. Patriots do not want tbe Liberty bell removed from Philadelphia. If the original patriots had been as un liberal there never would have been a bell. . Premising. "Your nephew is quite a promising young man, isn't he?" "Well, be hasn't done anything else as yet." California Pelican. Well-known sayings of unknown men: "Step up in the aisle there, please." , Someone Is advertising for a well digger. What would anybody do with a sick one? v Pull may accomplish something In politics, but it gets a man nothing while he is operating a lawn mower. St. Louis trapped 6,634,000 flies in a month. That only goes to show that somebody failed to swat in time. The firemen have no desire to paint the town red even if their apparatus is done in that shade. I California leads all the other states ' In the number of automobiles In pro ! portion to population. Liquor may have no place In a party ; platform, but tt frequently lubricates j street-corner politics. ... , COULD NOT STAND ON FEET Mrs. Bitker So Weak Could Not Do Her Work Found Relief In Novel Way. Adrian, Mich. "I suffered terribly ' with female weakness and backache and got so weak that I could hardly do my work. When I washed my dishes I had to sit down and when I would sweep the floor I would get so weak that I would have to get a drink every few minutes, and before I did my dustinglwouldhave to lie down. I got so poorly that my folks thought I was going Into consumption. One day I found a piece of paper blowing around the yard and I picked it op and read it It said ' Saved from the Grave,' and told what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound has done for women. I showed it to my husband and he said, Why don't you try it? ' So I did, and after I had taken two bottles I felt better and I said to my husband, 1 don't need any more,' and he said 'Von had better take it a little longer anyway. So I took it for three months and got well and strong." Mrs. Alonzo E. Baker, 9 Tecumseh St. Adrian, Mich. Not Well Enough to Work. In these words is hidden the tragedy of many a woman, housekeeper or wage earner who supports herself and is often helping to support a family, on meagre wages. Whether in house, office, fac tory, shop, store or kitchen, woman should remember that there is one tried and true remedy for the ills to which til women are prone, and that is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It promotes that vigor which makes work easy. -The Lydia E, Pinkham Medicine Ce. Lynn. Mats. . Jr-m yea rgff (, ft 1 n P. N. V. No. a, nu WHEN enrltiac te " tins this paper.