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Endurance Counts Most
i HEN your sheds are full of machines
and one or two are crowded out into
the open, which is it that invariably
stands outside with the sun and the
urinrl hpntincr nn it PVPfV dV. dri'inff
and warping the wood, or with rain rusting the
iron? It's the wagon. Other machines are
stored away, dry and covered, yet many of them
work for short seasons only. The wagon works
the year around, is always under the strain of
heavy burdens, always getting rough treat
ment. It can't stand the strain of such a life
for many years unless, like I H C wagons
Weber
Columbus
New Bettendorf
Steel King
it has built into it the utmost of endurance,
toughness, and sturdiness. f HC wagons are
built of wood of very best quality, every bit
as good as they look. Look them over, you
don't find any cross grained, knott)', split, or
faulty timber. Every stick oak and hickory
for the wheels, yellow or bay poplar for box
sides and long leaf yellow pine for bottoms, is
selected from first grade lumber and carefully
inspected. Every stick is toughened and sea
soned by two or three years of air-drying.
All steel and iron parts are chosen .with the
same end in view greatest durability and
longest life. Experts test and verify every
part. Before the wagon is ready for you it
must pass many thorough inspections. The
timber, metal, shaping and fitting, painting,
every detail must be just right.
Buy one now, .watch its steady service on.
your farm, and mark this your future reliance
will be on the I H C wagon. That future order
is our ultimate aim. Columbus and Weber
wagons have wood gears; New Bettendorf and
Steel King have steel gears. See them at the
dealer's. Get catalogues from him, or, write the
International Harvester Company of America
(Incorporated)
Portland Ore.
Remember that 432 is the phone
number, so if you are in need of
printing use your phone.
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It's not the mechanical perfection
of any one part of thes Ford it's
the perfection of all its parts
working in perfect harmony
that makes it the car of univer
sal and unprecedented demand.
Iietter buy yours today the
rush will soon be on.
"Everybody is driving a Ford" more
than 200,000 in service. New prices
runabout $523 touring car $00
town car $300 with all equipment,
f. o. b. Detroit. Get particulars from
ALBERT BOWKER,
Local Agent, at
HEPPNER GARAGE
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Elmer Beaman
FUEL DEALER
Fir, Oak, Pine and Slabwood,
Lump Coal and Nut Coal.
PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE.
From now on my business is to be strictly cash;
leave money with your orders. Orders left
either at yard or with Slocum Drug Co. will re
ceive prompt attention.
BIRDS KEEP US ALIVE.
Exterminate Them and Man's Year on
Earth Would Be Few.
Birds live to eat. It is lucky for
men they do, for if the birds did
not breakfast man would not dine.
Some years ago a French scientist
told tho world that if all the birds
should suddenly dio man would
have only a year's life left to him.
The Frenchman proved his point to
the satisfaction of other scientists,
but laymen laughed and tho usual
proportion of them kept on killing.
It always has been my belief that
the sin of bird persecution had its
beginning with other sins in the
garden. Adam probably saw a robin
picking away at a cherry and in
stantly said, "The bird is a thief."
Then Eve very likely saw a scarlet
tanager sunning itself and straight
way coveted its plumage. So it is
that the hand of man and the head
of woman have been raised against
the bird ever since.
Why should not a robin or a
cedar bird or a catbird or any other
bird eat an occasional cherry ? Their
dinners of cutworms, caterpillars
and other things noxious make
cherry dessert their due.
How much does a bird eat? Take
the robin as an example. It eats
at certain seasons of the year about
double its weight in insects and
worms every day. A man in order
to satisfy an equally well developed
appetite would have to eat about
300 pounds of food all told at his
Hirr-P (Liilv meals. To do this he
would need to be thirty feet tall,
ten feet thick from front to back
and about five feet across the shoul
ders. The bird's dinner hour begins at
sunrise and ends an hour after sun
set. Any legislation looking to the
shortening of its hours of labor,
which are coincident with its hours
of eating, would bring famine. All
the song birds and all the silent
birds give their service to man and
they ask no pay for it except to be
let alone.
And the farmer who is wise will
let the old shotgun rust out before
he turns it on his best friends the
birds. Edward B. Clark in Country
Gentleman.
Scientific Shoveling.
For a first class shoveler ther.e is
a particular shovel load at which
lie will do his biggest day's work
with no increase of effort (to. his
part. To determine what this load
is a series of tests was made at
the works of the Bethlehem Steel
company. Experienced shovelers,
who could be depended on to do
trustworthy work, were selected
and tests were made with shovel
loads varying from five pounds to
forty pounds, with the result that a
load of twenty-one pounds was
found to be the one giving the
greatest efficiency. With the twenty-one
pound load a shoveler will
do as much as 20 per cent more
work than with loads that are a
.(Treat deal more or a great deal less
than this and with less effort.
Popular Mechanics.
His Ordinary Method.
Professor Sawyer was a deliberate
man and accurate as well. No
amount of rheumatism could change
him in either of these particulars.
His wife, who had left him groan
ing and apparently crippled in his
room, was startled to see him limp
painfully into the kitchen an hour
later.
"Oh, professor," she cried, hurry
ing to meet him and provide a
comfortable resting place, "how in
the world did you get out of bed
and down here?"
"By de-grees, my dear," said her
husband, his brow drawn with pain;
by dc-grees. l outli s Companion.
BRITISH CONSOLS."
Gladstone's Sleepless Nights,
Mr. ( lad stone once confessed
that only twice in the whole course
of his career he had been afllicted
with sleeplessness. The first occa
sion was during the formation of
his first cabinet, when he lay awake
me night trying to think out how
'ortain ministers would ngree with
one another. His second sleepless
night was due to a gale of wind,
lie had almost cut through the
trunk of a large chestnut that after
noon, but had left the tree standing
in order that Lord Napier who was
coming next day might see ii.
Hearing the wind, he lay rpeculat
ing what were the chances of the
tree remaining standing.
Good Excuse,
"You wish to be relieved from
pry duty," said a certain judge,
"but you haven't given a good rea
son." "It is to save money for the peo
ple," replied the unwilling tales
man. "I have dyspepsia, judge, and
never agree with anybody. If I go
on this jury there will be a dis
agreement and the county will have
to go to the expense of a new trial."
"All right," said the judge short
ly. "Excused."
Origin and History of This Feature of
English Securities.
Almost all tho debt of England
consists of the funded debt, so call
ed, and tho greater part of this is
made up of "consols," which is
an abbreviation of "consolidated
stocks," and tho price of consols is
tho financial pulse of England.
Consols were created in 1752 by
statute 25 of George II., chapter
27. But no scrap of paper ever rep
resented a consol until, to facilitate
commerce, in 1870 a statute wa8
passed allowing the government to
issue certificates to represent them.
The property that all tho world
asked the price of every day was
unrepresented by any monetary se
curities until 1870, and even now
very few certificates have been is
sued. Now, this is a consol, and this is
its history: Originally some one had
loaned the government 100, and
the government had caused his name
to be enrolled on its books as a
creditor, from whom it had received
that amount and to whom some day
it might, if it chose, repay it. It
need never do so, but until it did it
must pay him an annuity of 3
that is, he received 3 per cent on hia
money as long as the government
chose to keep it, but the govern
ment could pay it back at any time
it chose to do so. This creditor
then owned a consol that is, he
owned such a debt from the govern
ment as just described.
If he wished to transfer what
rights he had that is, his 3 per
cent per annum and the right to
his 100 when, if ever, the govern
ment chose to return it, ho could go
to the Bank of England with his
transferee and receive the purchase
price from him, and the stock would
be transferred to the man paying
the consideration and that man's
name would be placed on tho gov
ernment's books in the place of the
former owner and thereafter the
transferee would receive the 3 a
year and the 100, if it was ever
paid back. But no paper passed ex
cept the receipt for the purchase
money which was given by the buyer
and which the bank official checked
with a red mark.
These receipts were not certifi
cates of ownership and were seldom
preserved, never except for pur
poses of identification when tho new
owner went to draw his first divi
dend. After that they were de
stroyed. It is true in old times the
owner of a consol was given a tally,
which was nothing but a block of
wood with notches on it split in two
so that a portion of each notch
should be on each half, and the gov
ernment kept one half and the own
er of the stock the other.
These showed the state of the
account between the government
and its creditor, but this was an
antiquated system of keeping ac
counts, brought down from the days
when writing was little known, and
at last they were abolished by act of
parliament and burned. There were
so many of them that when they
were thrown into the furnaces these
became superheated, and tho parlia
ment houses bnrncd down, which
perhaps served the authorities right
for keeping the antiquated system
so long.
She Wanted to Know.
Among the interested visitors of
the marine barracks at Washington
on one occasion ther.e was a party
of young girls from a Maryland
town, friends of one of the officers
of the barracks. They proved very
much interested in everything per
taining to the life and discipline of
the post.
"What do you mean by 'taps?'"
asked one young woman.
"Taps are played every night on
the bugle," answered the officer. "It
moans 'lights out.' They play it
over the bodies of dead soldiers."
A puzzled look came to the face
of the questioner,. Then she asked:
'WKot An vnn rlo if von haven't a
dead soldier?" Harper's Weekly.
Tactful.
An old lady invited some friends
down to pass the week end at her
little country cottage.
Her guests arrived in a tre
mendous downpour of rain.
"Dear, dear!" exclaimed the host
ess as she welcomed them in; "what
a day! I'm glad you've come, but
do hope the weather will clear up,
or you won't enjoy yourselves
much."
"Oh, but my dear Mrs. Jones,
replied one of" her guests politely,
"we didn't come to enjoy ourselves;
we came to see you 1" Exchange.
Curious River Tinto.
Extraordinary qualities are pos
sessed by the river Tinto, in Spam.
It hardens and petrifies the sand of
its bed, and if a stone falls in the
stream and alights upon another in
a few months they unite and be
come one stone. Fish cannot live
in its waters.
Wafers and Crackers.
Have been demonstrated, not
only in our store but in your
own homes, the past ten
days.
We hear nothing but the
highest praise for
their goodness.
When in need of more, let us
know, as we carry the larg
est assortment, and al
ways fresh, in the city.
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COMPANY
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Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal,
SUGAR CURED HAMS
Try Some of our Sausage.
Hot Tamales, Chili Con Carnie, Campbell's Pork
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In Fact, A FULL LINE OF LUNCHGOODS
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