•
FasSff'Dickens Gave
•
Bath la a city for which the Dickens
lover <mgbt to have a peculiar affec
tion.
Dickon« stayed frequently In
B ath In hl» early days, when engaged
on reporting work, and his tobacco Jar
eud beer mag are still piously preserv
ed a t the Barm cn’s Head. About six
j miles from Bath Is the tiny village of
Pickwick, through which Dickens of-
ten passed, tnd he bestowed the game
upon his most ft mens er a * (ton . Many
of the scenes in Pickw ick" are. It w ill
be remembered, told In Bath. There la
a t the present moment—or was until
quite recently—!* tru desman In Bath of
the name o f Sno lgrass.—London Chron-
H e.
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The Big Hand
t
r
f
is of two kind*—* mceit and the big head
that comes from >< siek headache.
Does
your head ever fed like a goard and your
brain feel loose and »oar? You can cure
it In no time by a "ng on your liver with
Bullard's Heibinc
I«"’« «» worth trying
for the absolute *< ' certain relief »you’ll
;
get?
T h e O b se r v e r
MORO, OREGON.
FRIDAY........... June
7, 1912
>
F o r m a t T a lk W ith Yqb.
'
At any dmewhsa requested to do so.
the paper w ill be discontinued. But we
expect that ell arrears will be paid before
such request is made. It is easy to ask us
lor a statement, which w ill be cheerfully
rendered at any time.
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Democrats Introduce Cotton Bill
Reducing Duties to 27.06
P er Cent
■eM to have bad her full share or
adventure.
That’s what pretty little Mrs. Nel
lie Carter Downs, w ife of Captain
Frank Downs, skipper e f the Standard
Oil four masted steel bark Juteapolla.
did. and she really enjoyed I t
She landed home In New York after
her year's absence brown as a berry.
Washington.— Representative
Un
derwood at the direction of democrat
ic members of the ways and means
committee reintroduced the cotton ta r
iff revision bill which was passed by
the house and senate at the extra sea-
sion of congress and vetoed by Presi
dent Taft.
The democrats contend that the bill
would reduce the average ad valorem
cotton duties to 27.06 per cent, aa
against an ad valorem of 47.15 par
cent In l t l l and < 1 2 In 1810. The
committee w ill report the bill favor
ably early next week.
The democrats estimate that the
revenues from the bill the first year
of Its operation w ill be about 110.500.- ,
000, compared with >124500,000 In 1010
and >12,300,000 In 191L In lta behalf
they declare that the cost of cotton
ei^thtng to the consumers would be
reduced by >80.000,000.
Throe-Y ear Homestead Bill Faased
Without word of debate, without a I
‘
Sold by Moro Pharmacy.
- 1 M C#c i st the Feast.
As One Wouldn't Say H-
Me. Maklnbrakes. who was one of
the guests at a birthday party, was
offering his congratulations to the
hostess.
“Permit me. Mrs. Jlpee," he said,
"to wish yon many, many happy re
turns of this—er—not too many, of
course, for when one has already seen
—that to to say. the—h ’m -th e burden
of years, yon know—although, to ba
sure, you don’t look half aa old as yon
re a lly -o r rather you do. 1 m egn-
whlch Isn’t st all what 1 was trying
to—In abort, one who didn’t know yon
would never guess— er— because, don't
you know, a« we grow older In years
and wisdom-1 don’t mean that Jou
do, of course—though I certainly do
or rather—havo yon read ‘Clayhanger,’
M rs JlpesF’—Chicago Tribune
An Bngltobmi* >ud a Welshman dto
putlog In whose country was the best
living, the Welsh man said. “There Ip
inch noble
keeping In Wales that
I have k n o t jj< o v e a dosen cooks am
poyed at oevwpddlug dinner."
"Aye.r agswsred tfce EngllshTnan,
“that Was becateje every mah toasted
hla d » n chee»e."-«-Argonaa(.
An
l riok.
“I aerw a mafpetan turn water Into
milk." “H e’s no magician; he's a m ilk
man.”—Houston Post.
You N e v e r C a n T e ll
just the esuae of your rheumatism, but
you know you have it. Do you know
that Ballard'• Snow Linim ent w ill curs it?
—relieves the pate—reduce« the «welling,
and limber« the joint« and muscles so that
you w ill be aa active and well as you ever
were. Price 25c fo e and $1.00. Sold by
Portland Oregon
Thia thoroughly modern Pire-
Pfioof Hotel offers Unexcelled
Service, Comfort and Conven
ience at the moderate price
rates from $1.00 per day up.
Popular Priced Restaurant
in connection.
Auto
meets all trains.’
Bust
R O S S F IN N E G A N
M anager.
1 4 th a n d W a s h i n g t o n S t s . , PofotftCfoL O re g o n
An English critic of American traits,
writing in the Metropolitan Magaalne,
says: "In America the let o f the rich
man to net a vary happy one. H e ¡baa
very little to spend his money on. i '| b ,
England yon might have an income pf
a hundred thousand pounds a gear and
still might possibly feel the want of
money, because the means of upending
M oro ’ s B a r b e r S h o p
Ageni for the Beat Steam Laundry
Shop in Brick Buildiug next Observer Office
®. W .
or five feudal establishments. with
great households e f servants and de
pendents attached to . each, y n ite a b
yacht, a racing stable And a stud gf
motor cars would be as Isolated, lone
ly and uuoccuplsd man. Thsrs -ponld
be no one to play with him. H « might
possess all these things, hot he could
not do anything w ith thorn. ITb«r( do
not belong to any recognised H fo W '
the country, whereas to England .the
man who to barn to such possessions
finds a whole society ef other people
also born to them whom Ilfs Is spent
In admintotsrtng and using them, quite
often with a grave t e W
d q ty . self
sacrifice and public spyrlce whjeb la
beyond the comprehension of any hut
the most Intelligent Americans, tempty
because It to beyond thefr experience"
MORO
W HEN
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IN
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OREGON.
PO RTLAND
STOP
AT
n<r of 7th iad 8tark Strett
.
Moro Pharmacy._____________ .
Barred.
She was not to the least pretty, bat
Evident.
of course that counted for nothing
Smith and - Jones were speaking
against her.
Likewise the fact that she oould not »boat the floe points of their respec
dance or alng or crack Jokaa.
tive sons.
What stood definitely to the way of
“T h a t boy o f mine," remarked
her success was the political situation Smith extravagantly, “to the genuine This liniment also relieves rheumatic gaina
For «ale by all dealers.
In Europe. .
article. H e’s all wool, yon can bet."
“W ith not a monarchy left which a
"Shouldn’t
wonder,"
ctynmentod
girl can hope to be instrumental to
titoqult Gnqft of tbs
Jones. “1 notice that he shrinks from SUMMONS—I«
stete of Oreson for BherssSa dewnty,
overthrowing. where Is the necessary
washing."—Housekeeper.
advertising coming from?” she rea
M. O. Gone, Plaintiff,
1
soned. Bttylug which, with a gush of
Phyaieal Jmpossibility. —
Ells Gone Defendant.
Ü
bitter tears, she abandoned the notion
..." TU - 1 .1 - - - - ' -
“Give ns the bald facts In the case.”
of getting Into vaudeville to America. “Yea; then we can't split hairs over To Ella Gone. the above named de-
fendant—
<-Puck.
them.”—Bal tlxanro American.
In the name of the Stato of Oregon:
dtoaenting vote, the house of repre
sentatives agreed to the conference
report on the Borah-Jones three-year
m is . Down shot o r a l to kxxj *
homestead bill and It was signed by
Speaker Clark. A fter It to signed by hard as nails and, to fact, to such ra
the vice-president It w ill go to th e I diant health that every one who greet
W hite house tor President T a ft’s ap ed her bad to heave an envious sigh.
proval and the general expectation Is | The voyage acmes the Atlantic and
that the hill w ill become a law before around to China was slow, bnt un
eventful. I t was on the first night
the end of this week.
that anchor was dropped to the Can
I f the session of c »igreaa lasts long
ton river that the adventures began.
enough Senator Borah w ill endeavor
Two sampans, bolding fifty Chinese
to get through the house his correlat pirates, who aadb«Hed that Captain
ed bill directing the patenting of Downs and hla crew ‘o f thirty-four, foi
homesteads on government Irrigation lowing usual custom, bad left the ship
projects .as soon, as entrymen comply to see the sights, stole up to the bark
w ith th t homestead law. This MU at m idnight They caught the prong
A Correction.
the above entitled eail.ee er M fore * • taf»
has passed the senate, but has not of their curious bamboo ladder on the
There were some questions In geog
is the only fit description for the man or «lay of the tilge pregerlbed In the ordetf df
been reported by the house commit deck rail and quietly scampered rap by required to the preliminary ex woman who ii crippled with rheumatism. peblieattocH t<>-wit,on or belate the IM h >ay
aminations for taw students who as
tee. If It to ssteoted, homesteaders an aboard.
A terrific fight was the result and pired to adstisalon to the bar. Among Just a few rheumatic twings may be the
government projects oan get patent In
to It M rs Downs took a prominent them was. “Ngme ten animals that forerunner of a severe attack—stop the
three years. Instead of w aiting 10. as
p a rt She to adept with the rifle, and. Mva to the arctic sons." One young trouble at the start with Ballard’s Snow
* a t present required.
armed with one, she ran up on the man wrote; “Five polar bears and five Liniment. Cures the rheumatism and all
. Funds for Lower Columbia Provided deck. Captain Downs, fearing that
pain. „ Price 25c, 50c sad $1 .OCL- Sold by
An appropriation of >200.000 to con I she would be killed, ordered her below,
tinue the Improvement of the Colom but she paid no attention and plunged
bia and lower W illam ette rivers below Into the melee.
Uoetion thereof/«* a |
Portland to carried In the sundry c ivil . Downs had the steam pump manned.
toe weeks in Tit» Bherra
bill reported to the house and to to and with this effective weapon the
Xw eekly newspaper oi
sailors
drove
the
pirates
over
the
aide.
published to Hherjuan
Qetoing
Rid
ef
ths
Qwssticto.
addition to the appropriation of >180,-
nureuanoe to an order *
Two days later the first mate went
“George, dear, am I as fa t aa that
000 carried to ths river and harbor
noha County Jnd«e f<
swimming.
The
cry
of
an
Infant
ar
woman
over
there?"
Wll. The bill also appropriates >>>,-
duly made «■» Ute <
rested his attention, and he saw that
“
Yea.”
he
replied
quickly.
“I
should
191«, and the date of
000 for the Slustow river, where the
thereof te the 31st day
a girl a year old had fallen from a say that yon weigh ten pounds more
engineers
recommended
>115,000, sampan into the water.
Rymonds than she does"
7tm «lJyl91»7)
AM
which would have completed the axlst- quickly swam to the child and, holding
After that she ceased to ask him
keep on throwing until her wreath
lag project
the baby with one arm, started for the the question, and they now go to cafes,
stays to the brunches, and the number NOTICE Off SALE OF REAL PEQPXUT1
In addition to ue foregoing the bill bamboo houseboat from which It bhd theaters and dancing parties to per
o f attempts in supposed to indicate
contains the ft ■owing Waahlngtoa tumbled.
feet peace.-Detroit Free Frees.
In the Oonnty Oonrt of tbefhaH of Qrsgqa,
i4>e number of years she will have to
Items :
Contine lug construction of I As ha approached the sampan, from I
w ait to gat married. When the girls
public butldli f at Bellingham. >75,- which he expected to hear cries of de
A Falsa Alarm.
are thus -engneed the young men of
lig
h
t
his
ears
were
assailed
by
shouts
“Lookout
for
that
girl
who
applied
to
Ima,
>40,000;
Olympia,
000; North Y
the village Stfi.d nround chaffing them
of rage and hto face by long bamboo you today for a Job as stenographer.
MaQoy, Peseas« d
10,000; W i 9 Walla, >20,000; Mount I
when they mtoa. The Maaura are
poles.
She
has
designs
on
yon."
I''
baal
Park.
>5400;
com
Rainier Ni
j a s r W
t i ’i i a w
Poles Who live in that part of Prussia
. A ll along the Uns of sampans By-
“Mbuckal You think every woman
improvement of Grays
plating th
which waa once part of. Poland.
monds and hto passenger were turned
15,000; completing the Bel away. A t length be swam w ith It to I who looks St ms wants to marry me
This girls wants only to be asatoter to
i
rbor project, >52,250; Lake I
the Juteapolla. There he turned It m e’’—Baltimore American.
Poison O ak P o is o n in g
over
to
Mrs.
Downs
She
cared
for
It
I
t canal, >500300; W illapa
•aribed real property bstiiqq^iyi to s*l<>
\ Ballard'« So” « Liniment cures it. M r O
• harbor, >75'?>0O; M cN e ill for several days, bnt Captain Downs I
e* h i t ’a«vsnt(7) of Bloqk Tse (10; 1»
Needed Lather.
H P Corneliu«, Turner, Oregon, writes:
Inland^penitentiary, >4<.ldk
was opposed to bringing It home, so it
“Who to the leather lunged speak
“ M y wife has discovered that Snow L in i
Full A evisio q wV“L«Kd T^Xra Urged- was given Into the charge of the Chi
I
er?'
• * I
ment cures poi«on oak poitoning,. a very ik>ur£ ti Ole?k’«“ ^E«iP
8 < ta tq y "tfew lands, ef Nevada, has nees sailors oh the Standard Oil float
“Some soap box orator."
" I don’t know what they did wi^h I
m ad e i proposal which. If favorably it after we went away,” Mrs. Downs J “Judging from tbe appearance of hto peinhil trouble. She not only cured a
acted upon, may result ultimately to I says, “bnt I shouldn’t be surprised to countenance, be needs a better ac esse of it on herself, but on two of her
hto platform.’’ — friends who were poieoeed by the - »ante
the eolutloa of tho perplexing prob I learn that they had tossed It back Into quaintance with
ivy. Price 25c, 50c, and $1 00. Sold by
lems which bow retard the develop the water. I didn’t learn that they are
est in sod »o Lot Tour 1,4) of Beolion T h irl’
Moro Phartnao
ment of the west, la brief, SOaator capable of such a thing until we were
A Bad Tim e. '
Newland« proposes that the senators several days out on the way home."
“Have yon read anything about thia
and representatives of the west get
Just after leaving Hongkong the Turko-Italian war?" *
Rosemary, the c harming name of the
together as a body or organise a com- , Juteapolla ran Into a typhoon that cost
«Me Meridian, ritnatsd lb th*
“I ’m Just beginning to catch up
lla
n t that’s ter remembrance, Is not
her
two
masts
and
moat
of
her
deck
mlttee of 17, one member from each
with I t They showed poor judgment
of the public land states, and agree fittings. Bnt the rest o f the voyage to getting up a w ar Just a t tbe end of >aly frequently fouiSd to folklorian leg-.
upon a complete and oomprebeaalve was beautiful The bark Just breeaed tbe pennant season."—Pittsburgh Post »nd, bnt has be. n esteemed also from
straight home, making the Journey to
the very dawn of history for Its “ea- from and after Monday M»s ad day
plan of amending the public land lawn
1919, prooeed Io sell st private tele fer tte fc
llfi days.
It was then that Mrs.
wntial ©11," Its «want water” and lta h i hand the above deeenbed teal P*OP« *
Nailed.
National Capital Brevities.
Downs got her sharks, one of which
• t tbe offloe of M id sdmlntotrator to tte
fragrant
dried
leaves
and
branches.
In
Small B rother-A re you going to
Another Important provision to the I was nine and ona-half feet IqBg- 8 k«
W. W. M. Go. Bank at Moro. Bberm^a
he middle period of English history
marry Sister Ruth?
sundrf civil bill abolishes the position shat (ham from the deck and has
h K S d S T S m t
L. BARNUM,
really
don’t
Caller - W h y -e r -1
t was always a upeclal favorite in gar-
of receiver st all local land offices enough pieces o f skin cut from them to
know, you know!
tens and was
ter strewing upon GEORGE M0W b T,_
nod creates the Job of chief clerk at supply everybody she knows with the ' Small
Attorney fee Estate. ' tM uiW I.tM
Brother - That's
what
the floors of dwellings and upon case- i
rqal
thtog
to
pocketbooks.
1 2 ,0 « who will laad le all fuoda sad
thought WelL /o n a rs P -U fa
meats and also, of coarse^ fof' garden j
act fog the reglstdr whqa the register
embelltohment—Lonfion Spectator.
This Nan Lifted a T oil
la ahaead.
l
Net a Romanos.
Richard*}©!, who died May 18, 1743,
Plans tor a nation wide demand for at the syq
“Dear heart" murmured the woman.
I f you are a botpswife yon cannot reason
n lx ty ^ v q n and Is burled
“Thirty cants a pound today," ex ably hope to be healthy or beautiful by w a g
the removal from office of United to B t Peter's eburebyafd. Isle of
ing
dishes, «weeteng »nd doing housework
fltates Judge Cornell ua H. Hanford, Tfcgnet. t f p t . Bnglanfi. was known plained the butcher.
all day, and orawling Into bed dead tired at
5
“In
that
case
perhaps
yon
had
better
of Seattle. Washington, were announc throughout Europe as the “Kentish
nig h t You mite ffte out into Ute open air
ed by Congrv*4|nan Victor I a Berger, Hotoafea." or the ''second Ramson." give me some liver."—Louisville Cou and snulighL I f yon d ° tlkia «vary day *ad
V*
'* • <
.
v keep your stomach and bowela io good order
Wlteti but a youth of seventeen years rier-Journal
socialist representative from Wtecon
dserman w w n .j
by
taking
Chamteslaln’a
Tablets
when
need
be was Invited fo ’J.oudoo *by the king
ed, you should become both healthy and
Total ....................................... $3.00
The war department has rooalvod to give an exhibition In.rem arkable
beautiful. For sal« by aU dealers.
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Meurances that the house oommlttoe feats of strength- Among ti>e teats
of hto more mature years wefe those
Douglas Jerrold.
<m m ilitary affairs before adjournment
of breaking with .hto hands and feet a
O f Doualas Jerrold tha following
w ill report favorably the skWtin pay rope wMh a tensile stxpngth of thirty-
hill, which waa perfected a t a rooent five hundredweight and the lifting Of
conference between the n a tio n a l m ill
following
On All Fours.
tla board and the secrotary of war.
A Barry county minister who quit
To o o tw t the ’ eorporatien Judges”
the pulpit to peddle .fire Insurance has ’ maker's one day ha was look!
on the federal bench, to the object gf
gone back to the ministry. He says Immaculate varptoh on the bs
a r e l a t i o n introduced la the house
vehicle.
...
<*
be found out It to all tbe same bote
>y Representative Martin of Colorado
The aaq»e ludgmsp* ®otB ssraii
"Its polish to perfect now.
nesa—Case
Oonnty
(M
a
t
Leader.
Ooltoth grant and Dated small.
. H e has naked the president to oomplle
"bat the urchin» w ill soon
r and tra n s m it a Judicial census giving
with scratches."
Taking Her Down.
A CalsroiKye
“ Bnt; sir. I can pot on a f<
(ha c o rp o ra tio n antecedents of every
"Mia. Dash Is no longer In ony sat,"
"M y son. rostember this-m arrying
I |ndge n om in ated daring the last 30 on a salary has been the salvation of a —iT“* " ones said at an afternoon tan. that will keep them off.”
“No. To ma a thousand set
so I understand." said another
^
many a young man."
my carriage would be more
Mine days’ leave o< absence tor all
" I know dad. b d t snppooe my w ife
than one on the hand of a to
"Yaa," want on the fiite woman with
te M id e n tla l postmasters la the states
should lose her s a la ry r~ L o » d o n T it-
to whom a stolen Uft might
a haughty d n e a r-“yea, aha dropped
fo Idaho, Washington and Oregon dur
out soma time ago." •
ing the month e | jfehs has bees grant
p “Is that s o r said the other. " I wan
under the Impression that she ellmbte 1
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Portland, Oregon.
Eastern Oregon Headquarters.
P o sitively m o lt centrally
located
F ifth St. cars p a s t
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Popular Priced Restaurant
European Plan. Ratea $1.00 and up
L. Q. SWETLÀND, Mgr,
ESMOND HOTEL
O scar A hdbrson , Manager.
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•
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to
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