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LisIIEPlliRv UMATIUCOUXTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1S1.
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THE GAZETTE
IS ISHUED EVERY THTHSDIT AFTKHNOOK.
by
e J. W. JREDIXGTON,
At
.3ti per ywir, TlAI fur nix month. M for
tliree miml
It if Ml liideiieiident Local PatxT.
wianKAri own until, jmynw IUm'huih on the dol
lar, in run io a UwitimntH butiinpsn enterprise, and
not tm h charity ultop or bnjKUitf inHtitution. It
will wiir tlie collar of nodi(iie, party or faction,
Jmt will work for the bfttt intereMtn of the peuph.
SOCIETY
DIRECTORY.
' DCRIO LODGE, No. 20.'
KNIGHTS . of P Y Till A S,
Mtieta every Tuewluy evening, nt 7:30
sin every TueHduy evening, nt
ik, in (WLri-.'jag. Main St., He
CiierH iu ifolJSrfi and in;' will receii
nor. AH brother iu jrolaiVT and ijik will receive a
o clock. In ( anlLi "law. Main ht.. Heon-
hnnthtly welcome. P. L,. Paine, C. C.
T. Ji. i MLiQv. otrjl. and B.1
WILLOW LODGE, No.
. 0. 'of (). F.,
GO,
Jlwln Wecln-lHV fvoniniw in (hid FpIIowk' Hull
Members of tho Onler are cordially invited to Kt-
IH11U. 9, WA. K.IBK, H.M.
, ( '. W. ToUNfJOKE.', lire. tivK.
HEPPNER. LODGE, NO.
.4, .1. M.,
3U,
MeetMHt MnHonio Hall, Leezer KuildiiiK, on the
H rnt and tluru HuturdHyH nt encli montli, nt 7 if,
M. E. . Sloas, W. M.
HEPPNER LODGE, No.
: . a ofG. T.,
450,
Mtiet bvitj: Friday pveniiiK nt 7 P.M., in Odd
rtuws nan. J. 11. HPEMir, w. l . X.
Hf W. WniUHT. 8er
PROFESSIONAL.
ry ew
WARREN CLARK, "
Contractor and 'Guilder,
IIkppxek, .... Ohegon.
Country Work a Kfieeiidty. If you want any
tliinK liilt, obtain my prictj beforo koiiik vhe
v!nre.
THOS. MORGAN.
'Auctioneer.'
OA. O
Obi)om.
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T HuildinR.)
1lt()MlT aim nn-iirate attention
buainoHR in bin cliarxi).
Kiven to all
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GEOTAV. WRIGHT,
AnORXEV-AT-LlWAXD WAHV lTBLIC.
"IV'tj practice in both Stat atul Federal
M Courttt. Proof cf clainih takitn. TitleHto
Ijmd inventiKatetl. W"") eftate IniKiiiw-tHatteiuliHl
to. Collections and eonveyaneinjf afely madu at
I'HiHonable raten. All lnniitiw enlrueted to mo
will re:eive prompt attention.. Oflice on Alain
troet, Heppner, (rt'Kon. ,.. HMf
W. WILLIAMS, ' ' " ' '
ilffisV rsinlfrr.i'tti'er (jjaiiwr a"' llrainci',
Ileiiimor,' - - ')retroit. "i
IVUKKTniNH in tlm PainUnu Line done with
J iiHiitntuM and diNpaU:h, und BtttisfaotioH
4iuaranteed. i
li. L. McAiiTUfci,
The Ualb, Or.
Mc ARTHUR
(. W. Hka,
lleppner, Or,
IffiA,
ATTOItNE
H AT LAW,
1 1 AVlNtt formed io.iartnersbin
for the
I 1 pmrtice of law in the Circuit Court of tho
Mutt of OivKon for the rounly of Umatilla, all
poiKou who have brntintw in tlie said court wilJ
Fiave tliadvimlJto of Jih1k Sk Aithnr'a amist
uncv in the trial of their casen bjQdacin tliem
in charRi of (t. W. Hen, at'Uoppner, OreKim.
L. wT DARLING,
'Justice -and .Notary' l'ublic-
IxiNU Rock, Wahco County, OitEOoN.
J j AND F1LIN(, llAL PllOOl
Etc., a Specialty. ,
s ioi.ij:ctions
Made, and Doxls anil oilier
V7 l(!id liiKtrumentB drawn.
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T. L. J0HNSTO5,
LAW Y E
I'urpNEii,
Okkoon.
"M ISCELLANEOUS.
M. LICHTKNTIIAIv.
Boot and Shoe Shop,
Main SI.,
1 leiUmei'POivyuH.
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IJiKils'.nul S1hh Made to
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Iiitttinmj .etitl'i EJtcutttt.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
N OT ICE O FIN TENT ION.
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Ui:dO trice at The Pal!.. Or.. Jan. 22, 'N4,
otni- w hervliy aiven tlint thp fiiMiiwiiiir
riMied ttliT huN hlrd notice of bin intffition tt
make final (TtHif in xu(Mort of bin claim, and
Ihalwiid proof will be "lule bvftov Clerk of
Comity Court, lit Heppner, Wir., on March i.
y'u:
Feermtiit (liven.
Homestead No. 1214. for thefy i NK ' K NW
Sit. IU. T US, H Jii K. He nameo the follow
nit witiienn-H to iirovp his com imiuii" rwidi'iipn
upon, and cultivation of, aid lamU viz: Joseph
Keffer, J. M. Worden,' John H'jylrix, Thomas
Nuith, all of lleppner, Umatilla comity. Or.
44-tK . K. L. Smith, Hetriiiter.
Mrs. H. A. Hayman is now prepared
t ) weave carpets, and anyone wanting
mything done in thitt line will plense
five herst
OltEQOX,
i-HEAUCIK
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
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mvurthysf, Cameo and Diamond
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Cold Itiitys, Gold and Silrcr
, Wulchcs.
All other articles nsually kept in a Jew
elry Store.
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REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
vith C. M. Mallory, May Strept. All
giiuranteeiL
vlnl-tf.
PIOWKKR IPBTKK,
Heppner, - - QreijotZ
CHAS. E. HINTON, Proprietor.
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The ILgse for the Farmer.
TliesHouse for the Horseman. '
The Hoiwe for the Cattleman?6
The House for Mie Sheepmai
The Houne tiere all are At Home,
, Hoonm Neatly KuniWiwl.
Tahib aO ats Supplied With thb Bkst
the Market Affouds.
llnviiif; reunied elin w of (bin favorably known
iuhm, and Kone into t.ho hotel btiHinerm aKatn, 1
wonkl bo k'h'I to meot my old friendu, and will
endeavor ui the future, tm in the past, toentujtain
all iu th mom aio'eeublo manner. vliniMf.
giTY meat Market,
Win., J. Mi'Alt'i; Proprietor,
. Hejijmcr, Orcjron.
licef, I'trk 4Mul
an ul 1'casuuu
little.
CIW HOTEL,
It'lneiQ Orctjtm,
. MINOR, Phoprietok.
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Commercial Tmvelers will Understand
thtit this is tho
- ONLY HOUSE -r
That Elkxihhks Sample Rooms.
go to
To Get Your "Wagons l'akhed
Rring
Your Purses along with you,
and don'tVu forget it
SING
Washingand I roning,
HO Cents a Dozfn.
May Street,
HEPPNER, OREGON.
lfomember the Old Stand
-OF --
G. AV. Bwauuart.
IIrppxlb,
OliKOO.
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.wheub Torwii.l FIXO
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Old Judge and
. United ve Stand,
-.4 SPECIALTY.-
'pHK.SK bnitidsar" Favorably known by judge
, 1 of doodl iimor. InMf.
" ling's Live Serd.
The cheapest, the freshest, the purest.
They never fail to grow and give a lib
eral crop. SM flower seeds, 300 vege
table seeds. t5 fields seeds, '20,000 cata
logues to give away, send foj one. Local
agetiU wanted everywhere.
Eked aq, I3araboo, Wis.
Heppnkk,
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THIEF OK TIME.
We'll read
that book, we'll sing
that
Butwhu? Oh, when the days are Ions; I
When thoughts are free audvoioes clear;
song,
Home happy time within tlje year:
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The days troop by with noiseless tread,
The song unsung; the book unread.
We'll see that friend, and make him feel
The weight of friendship, true as steel;
Some flower of sympathy bestow:
But time Bweeps on with stetidy flow,
Until with quick, reproachful tear,
We lay our flowers upon his bier.
And still we walk the desert sands,
And still with trifles fill our hands,
While ever, just beyond our reach,
A fairer purpose shows to each.
The deeds we have not done, but willed,
Remain to haunt us unfulfilled. ' '
ON A SLEEPER.
"Never was so amused in my
life," said calmly the old traveler,
"as one time when I was traveling
in the western part of " the state.
There wgrtwo awfully stunning
young lailies in the sleeper who oc
cupied the seat next to mine. They
were traveling with the father of
the older ong, and he and his
daughter had the whole section on
the opposite side of the car, and
the other had the lower berth op
posite that one, and coESetJiWiMjjQ
next to mwe. I sat with my back f r
to them and heard them decide to
sleep together that nig!t in ' the
berth next mine, and they said
they were so gladthat top berth
wasn't occupied, because they
wouldn't be disturbed by having
anybody climbing up there for any
thing iu the world, and then it was
such a lovely place to put their
thiiJJor the night "Well, every
thing seemed propitious for their
plans until, just as they were pre
paring to retire, a fellow got on at
a s)!trn?HeMifaif&.t
would-be mashers, vou know
regular swell. He cot the top
ffljerth of theirs, it beinc the onlvJ
one m the car that was vacant, "uid
the porter came and told them
they'd have to taj:e thehwraps and
their hats, and all their othor
thingjteput of it
"Inn't that just too horrid!" 'said
.... " i
one of the young ladies.
"ihe masher was close behind
the porter, and he got up a most
delightful Bmile and said:
" 'I really trust, ladies, that I
shall not be very disagreeable.'
"Well, they treated to the
shadow of thcupamit's wing, and I
heard one of them say: 'He shan't
think he's made a conquest of us,'
I don't believe he did think so the
next morning. He went to bed in
the top berth, but not to sleep.
The two young ladies were uutler
neath, and, the stern parent slept
in the top" berth opposite. Suffer
ing Mosesi how that stern parent
did snore. "Why' I never heard
anything like it Then the torture
of that unfortunate masher began.
'Oh, do just hear that horrid man
"up above us snore,' young lady No.
1 would say, in a perfectly auiMble
tone, as her father cave vent to a
wirticular violent burst oJLmusk
Oprhen the masher would .cotih to
show tlfct he was awake and guilt
less, and the young lady, perfectly
aware who was making the noise,
would remark: 'Poor papa! He
can't get to sleep uPeause of that
awful snoring any inure than we
can; oh dear!' The masher Would
cough more violently, and then his
fair tormentor would say: 'I de
clare, if he. don't stop- snoring I
shall rap on the bottom of the
berth with my shoe.' And ure
enough she did, and they lay and
giggled half the night about;it
And you should have seen liow
lamb-like and inoffensive tfcat
masher was m the mormnc. 1 wis
really sorry for him." '
SETTLER'S RIGHTS.
Some of the apologists and de
fenders of the railroad land-grab-
ueia tun itiiemptuig w oppopc
rmssace or me onis in concretes 10
forfeit these lands back to the pub.
lie, by setting up a cry about the
rights of settlers under the license
of the railroad. This is a false cry
gotten up purposely to deceive.
There is not a single bill now' be
fore congress to forfeit any of
these grants but what contains
ample provisions " to protect the
rights of all bona fide settlers un
der the railroad contracts or deeds.
Let no one be deceived by this
lame attempt at deception. When
wolves protect lambs then we will
expect railroad companies to pro
tect tlie rights of the settlers,
Congress will give them the pro
tection the land crabbers have re
fused
TEXAS CATTLE HEX.
John N. Simpson owns the bet
j xx A n 7 AT
-n-uverall, ot Loleman, is an ,
ter p?
fjpi 'xissounan, xie is repuiea to
, TT ? Ill
bo worth 2.000.000
in
cattle and
land.
Lane & Millett own about 125,
000 acres of land and employ , (!0
cowboys, all tfee time. ; II.. H.
Campbell, of Motley county, rep
resents $2,000,000 in land and cat
tle. C. C. Slaughter, of Dallas, is
lvvortk $750,000.
iWGeorgo V. "West, of Live Oak,
owns one pasture containing Izo,
000 acres, has over 20,000 . head of
cattle0and considers a check for
$100,000 a rather small transac
tion; Senator N..G. Collins, who
hadn't ten cents to begin with, is
worth $1,000,000, .made in cattle.
L. 13. Harris . is much like him.
The latter has one ranch in Tom
Green county embracing 65,000
acres, which is a half day's ride in
leith, and takes in 10 to 15 miles
of the Colorado river.
Dick King is ' literally king in
the business. He has 650,000
acres of land in'olie body, 40,000
in another at St Gertrude's, anoth-
extent, and many smaller tracts, ml
his opinion hardly worth mention
ing. ,
' A. "W. Tierce, of Matagorda, was
a cowboy, but now ovgiiiCCne jys
tiye from the gulfJ the Colorado
river, 6-4 miles tong, L&ssdes 10,
000 acres of caney land ' on Mata
gorda bat. He is a great wag and
story-teller. .
E. C. Sugg, of Gainesville, Tex.,
has imiiensg herds in , Indian Ter
ritory and Wyoming. He came to
Texas at the close of the war, . a
-pnnrybw. He is now worth about
iLauOOin cattle.' ' ;
'' PEOPLE'S LANDS.
The people's lands must be
fought for toothe bitter end. Let
Semtor Slater remember, and let
the House CtSilmittee on . Public
Lands take, notice, that the Port
land Board of Trade does not rep
resent the people of Orecon, nor
the sentiments or wishes of the peo
ple. I3ut on the contrary, the peo
ple of Oregon are bitterly opposed
to the Portland Board of Trade on
nearly all questions, and especially
on this railroad question. And
besides this, these Board of Trade
resolutions not represent the
disinterested judgment of a single
man in Oregon. This Rtmrd ot
Trade is composed of Portland
Sjerchants, every single
ma
which has in his pockex
a spi
contract which euabhs him to ship
his freight over the Northern Pa
cific railroad for from thirty-three
to fifty per cent, less charges than
is charged to the lfierchants of
Salem, Albany, The Dalles, Walla
Walla, and other places mitside of
Portland. Thigajy&aril of Trade isJ
simply passing iaie resolutions
which its patron and master de
mands of it And the resolutions
the Board passed to have the peo
ple swindled out of their lands are
entitled to no more respect'or afH
ttQtion at the hands of Senator
Slater and other members of Con
gress than if they had been
adopted by a meeting of the fire
men, brakemen and section bosses
in solemn convention assembled at
the railroad shops in Albina.
TOO OLD..
The Boise Statesman is eminent
ly correct when it says: An ex
change mentions the recent ap
pearance of a poem on Arizona bv
a bard who has probably iwver vis-
ited our sister Territory. The poet
cives a vivid picture of a herd of
"long-horned cattle" stampeded by
IndifSis, who shoot the herder with
a "feathered arrow." This idea of
Arizona is obsolete. It was good
c,tor twenty years
ago, before the
Inditm agent had sold the gentle
savage the latest improved breech
loading riflesaUd S?e best ' ammu
nition. Now an Indian in Arizona
with low af?d arrows is as great a
curiosity aa a man who refuses
good liquor or the prospector who
has not struck it rich and made
and lost a half-dozen fortunes in
five years. The "feathered arrow"
must be laid away with the stories
of the good Indianvho never got
drunk, or the gentle savage who
nobly refused to scalp the white
man whj) had fed him.
Christopher Columbus was the
first ruanto "go west" About
that time, Mr, Bighead Bishop was
discovered,
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It is difficult to
lmacme thatJ
wnai w now tue lair ana populous j
fctate of Kentucky should have i
been only fifty years ago the dark
hunting-ground of the Red Indian.
Indeed the sufferings and hard
ships of Daniel Boone and his fol
lowers have hardly been sufficient
ly realized. Imagine what must
have been the life of the handful
of men, women, and children, who
were right in the middle of a ter
ritory where Indians came not to
live, but to fight The Indians of
the South came to fight with the
Indians of the North. A touch
ing story is told ( the storys touch
ing because it is true ) of an Amer
ican mother who w as surprised by
Indians while doing the week's
washing. She had one hand in
her wash-tub, and she wa? ladling
out some hot soft-soap with the
other, when she espied the face of
an Indian peering in at the window.
Quick as thoulhf"slthrew the
whole contents of the ladle full in
to the red man's face. The brave
howled with pain. He had
never been so highly flattered be
fore. The other Indians, however,
ereatitetlriilobsSb
their satisfaction in such expres
sions as these.; "Good squaw! Ugh !
ugh! Plucky squaw!", They fur
ther testified thjiiyippreciation by
spaing her life, and by taking her
and her child CiO captivity
with ..them. Through the long
winter nights the mother nursed
her poor babe in the Indian wig
wams. But the life was a distress
ing one. The food was bad, and
t3 smoje of the wigwam .rru ft tlft
SOFT SOAP.
child cry. The mother, fearful"?- colors the Cceur d'Alene mines
lest the duels would wecome
irn-
patient and kill her child outrfgW
:. it. j.. :i i ,i:.V4
woiuti" croon io ii in ti pietiumy
v"oice: "Dou'fPljo cross, honey;
don't be cross." Death soon came
to the poor mother; the child,
however, lived, grew up to be a fine
girl, and was adopted by the tribe.
With bungling pathos her Indian
foster-father called f?eO"Cioss-
Hovtey." .The devotion of the
American mother had touched even
the Indian heart
CORRUPTION FUND.
The San Francisco Chronicle
publishgs a copy of a confidential
circular issued by the Railroad
Shareholders' Association, signed
by John Livingstone, president, of
2ew York. The circular sets forth
thafthe object in view is to raiss
an immense fund to defeat legisla
tion on railroad matters, to secure
the repeal of existing laws, and
the abolition of railroad commis
sions in all States where such ex
ist. All railroad shareholders are
invited to contribute to the fund,
and the amount of the subscrip
tion expected is named in a confi
dential letter accompanying, tbe
circular. ' Two . California share
holders, not 4ftffif?
have been called on for $100 each
It is understood the demand on
in... : f"..:ii i, i, ,
wetuuiy uuc3 ui uc in mo buui
proportion. It is well known that
great eastern roads have allied
themselves With the Central Pacific
to raise this fund, and it is predict
ed jji the circular that enough will
be subscribed to defeat congres
sional action on land grant bills.
It is to, be hoped, that some of
these men who are scheming to
prey upon the people may be ar
rested for bribery and conspiracy.
"What kind of a horse should
the all-purpose horse be?" was
asked Coleman, of Illinois, and he
replied, "It should be a horse 16
Wiands high, with good, serviceable
bodv and limbs, and thensthe more
style he has the better, dif he car
ries a fine head with a well-arched
neck, if he has a long, busy tail
and an active way of going at the
walk, or the trot, or the run even,
all the better. Such a horse is
larce enough, and not too large.
He is just the size for the plow or
the wagon, for the saddle, buggy
or carriage. He is readyand suit
able for 'any job of work on the
farm or off of it. If lie is for
sale his owner will find plenty of
buvers. If he has the size am
qualities spoken of, and is in addi
tion trotting bred, so much the bet-
, p 1 Ml , rtU
ter, ior ne win comuitiuu bo muui
the bter price.
The shrinkage of Tulare lake;
Cal., uncoed a prehistoric set
tlement stone buildHigs, traces o
canals, once bordered with treef&
and other evidences of occupation
by an unknown race, being cleerly
defined as tho water guusiui.'
LEGS
OFF.
At Lewiston a niNliLIe-nr'pii mim
waiKetl into the olhce of an attor-
ney amrtook a seat, w hen the fol-
lowing conversation took plac?
SAW MY
"I called in to see about gittin'
a divorce from my wife." .
"Ah! what seems to be the dif
ficulty?" "W elh me and Jinny are always
quarrelin', and I think it would be
better if she would go bat k to her
folks and I stay where I am. Sheo
ken take the three children with
her." i . .
"On what grounds do you want
the divorce?"
"Well, you see, it's just this way:
Jinny's the most skeeriest woman
of tramps ye ever seen, and soewa
wh'en we go up stairs to bed she
wants me to look under the bed for
a man, when I know ther' an't no
man there. So you see that I get
mad, and then she gets mad, and
then ther's a fuss, and I don't have
no peace and can't get no sleep,
and I'm a hard-working man."
"You can't get a divorce on thoso
grounds, sir."
I can't?"
"No. sir." o
rfivlgtcjpli
j. ii go jtomo huh sfiw ui legs uu
the beirclose up so a man can t get
under. If I had thought of that
sooner I might have saved all this
time coram' in rfieiip fiftm Camas
Prairie."
A MALICIOUS t CIRCULAR.
A cimfidar has been issued from
the Northern Pacific railroad office
at St Paul, which pictures in glow-
The circular is evidently designed
to increase the passenger traffic of
the road, and as its ultimate effect
will be to caust an influx of ad
venturers which in time will be
come a burden on charitable peo
ple, we feel it a duty to condemn
the same as retarding rather than
advancing the interests of the
Nortbt As the mines are but
little prospected, it would Vie noth
ing less than a wild-cat scheme to
leave employment even in unre-
mote quarters to attempt to earn a
livelihood, and even should the
New Eldorado, so-called, prove as
rich as its most ardent proprietors o
claim, there are plenty of broke
men there to work them. Boj,
some of you may get rich by going
there, but inethe long run you will
find nrore real richness in the dirt
of the Heppner Hills.
'"
Up to Kirk &, Houston's Willow
CreelSawmill is the place where
they will soon jdank in big wet logs
and turn them into cash as quick
as a railroad man can draw his sal
ary out of the pay car. The log is
held on a carriage by means of
iron dogs while it is being worked
into lumber. These iron dogs are
aryramibn(jf0lifo those we see, on the front
lltiluolibil,! , . lvrmvnKffrie frnnt iw.
casionally. I hey are another
breed of docs, ihe managing ed
itor of the mill lays out the log in
his mind and works it jnto dimen
sion stuff, shingle bolts, slabs,
edgings, two by fours, two by o O
eights, two by sixes, etc., so as to
use the goods to the best advan
tage, justRis?! woman takes a dress
pattewi-jand awitsit so she won't
have to piece the front breadths,
and will-still have
enough
left to
make a polonaise for.last summer's
gown.
'Gentlemen," said the professor
to his medical class, "I have often
pointed out to you the remarkable
tendency to consumption of those
who 'play upon wind instruments.
In this case now before us we have
a well-marked development of lung
disease, and I was not surprised to
find that he ia a member of a brass
band. Now, sir," continued the
professor, addressing the consump
tive, "will you please tell the gen
tlemen what instrument you play
on?" "I blays der drum," said the
sick man.
A Pizen Gulch correspondent
sends in the following interesting
items: "I have no material change
to note in the stateof the weather,
except that Miss Mary Smith is
engaged to be married t" John
Jingledoodle. Ulysses S. Jo8es
is building a chicken coop, which
will be the finest affair ever seen
this side of the French (.ount.s.
ranch. Our pastor was obligedsto
throw away the remnants of his
last donation party, and we are
sorry to sa&the boynleft very few
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