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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1905)
" ' - CIaaalfle2, Hie society reporter was away on his vacation and the horse reporter had been delegated to write up a wed ding. "But," protested the editor, glancing over the report, "you failed to men tlon the bridegroom's nnme." "It wasn't necessary," explained the equlno authority. "He finished among those who 'also ran'." J)ny to Jle Remembered. "I dread to think of my thirtieth birthday," began Miss r'assay. "Yes," replied Miss Pert, "something dreadful must have happened to you then or you wouldn't remember It this long." Philadelphia Ledger. Cable Tolls to Japan. It costs $1.76 a word to send a mes sage to Japan, and, with war raging in the Far East, the cable tolls for war news are something tremendous. But as the people will have the war news in connection with their morning dish of Fillsbury's Vitos, the cables are kept busy day and night. Crab Shell Barometer. The Inhabitants of southern Chill are Bald to foretell the weather by means of a strange barometer. It consists of the cast-oft shell of a crab. The dead shell Is white In fair, dry weatber, but, Indicating the approach of a moist at mosphere by the appearance of small red spots, as the moisture in the air Increases It becomes entirely red and remains so throughout the rainy sea son. To Get Acauainted. The Boarder Is this Harriet Simp kins really us pretty as people say she is? Farmer Stubble You'd think so If you knew how many of the city fellers alius manage to have their ottos break down right smack in front of the Slmpklns' house an' go in an' borrow monkey wrenches an' things. Detroit Tribune. Nearly every Chinese can read, but about 00 per cent of the women are en' tirely uneducated. Why not marry whn you can. Roln our society and meet Hint correspond with reputable persons In the NorthwpHt who wish to marry. We have hnnilreds of members of both sexes, many wealthy. Write tor December Matrimonial Kegluler; price 10 cemn. nox ww, roiuanu, urcgon. MALLEABLE IRON STUMP PULLERS Fantntf 1 1 nh test and ntron(fst Stump Pullnr on th iiiHrkot. 119 Horn power on .lie sweep with two homes. Write for dnitcriptlve caiiilt) ftud prices. . KEIKRSON MACHINERY CO. Foot of Morrison Street Portland, Oregon A New Organ Delivered to any Rail road Station or Boat Landing in Oregon $46 Hare Is a picture of one of the most perfectly AniBhed organs now manufactured. It Is the Pacific Queen, made especially for Eilers Piano House. Choice of fancy walnut or selected oak cases. Hue, very large beveled plate mir ror, perfectly finished ; an ornament to any mansion. Numerous new and valuable improvements are embodied In this organ, making it at once one of the best and most durable organs man ufactured in the United states. Built with special regard to Pacific Coast eilmate. Besides the regular reed tone, this instru ment also has several octaves of the regular pipe effects, to be found in no other make. Special Introductory offer. To Introduce this Organ we are making most exceptional concessions in our prices and terms and will deliver a perfect and fully guar anteed Organ freight paid, to any railroad sta tion or boat landing in the state of Oregon for 146, on payment of $8 down and 4 a month. The fancier styles $62. f6. etc., on same terms. Write us today, as this offer is limited only to the first 100 instruments. PORTLAND, OREGON V Largest, Leading and Moat Responsible West ern Dealers. v Washington street, corner Park, Portland, Oregon. fiprague ave. and Post at., Spokane, Wajh. 614 Market street, Ban Francisoo, Gal, p. it a N. 49-1905 VISUM writter TV maMa kl to dTSTtlMH PlM tkU papar. SPIDERS ARE MALIGNED. Their Itltea Are Buld to Bo Far Lea Duniceroua thuu la Supposed. When in doubt, charge it to a spider. That alight creature, Bays the Brook lyn Eagle, has been held responsible for deaths and illnesses wherewith it hud nothing more to do than the United States has to do with brigand age in Morocco. Yet the familiar newspaper announcement, "Killed by a spider," is before us again, and we read how the suffering Mrs. Wilson, of Knoxvllle, died ia twenty-four hours as a result of a spider bite, her body being swollen to twice Its normal size before she regained consciousness. If we. are to believe the entomolog ical authorities in Washington, who are paid by the government to know, we have only one kind of spider that 1b really poisonous enough to hurt, and that is a little fellow marked with red and black, and not all black, as the Knoxvllle alarmists declare. Until last year the total number of deaths actually traceable to spider bites ,in this country was one. Possibly it may now be enlarged by two. Wo cling to our superstitions and that of the dendliness of spider venom is one of them. A spider has en6ugh of this acrid chemical to kill a fly when thp web is not strong enough to hold it. but the human subject has on various occasions sometimes with out knowing It been subject to her surgery without other result than an irritation considerably less than is in flicted by a mosquito. When death results from so slight a cause it does not signify that the spider is danger ous. It means that the subject was in so perilous a condition' of health that a pin scratch would have served as well to end life as the spider's trifling wound has done. Not many years ago the tarantula was regarded as sure and sudden death. The southwestern miner who turned In without his boots and found that half a dozen of these giant spiders had got into bed before him made his will on becoming cognizant of this fact. Now he merely brushes them , off, uses a little language and goes to sleep again. Even the rattle snake has his apologists. And it Is well to know these facts, not merely because we permit some useful animals to live who are doing their share to rid us of insect pests, but because we can amble about the world with freer mind than our fath ers could who suspected death in every moving form to which they were not accustomed. The spider has killed, we will say, two out of the many millions of human creatures that have inhabited this country, and has destroyed countless hosts of flies and mosqultos, bearers of germs which, but for her interference, might have poisoned '100,000 of us. Observe the spider, then, with equanimity. She will not harm enough to hurt. MAKING A DREAM USEFUL. All the Waking Honrs Should Be Spent In Profitable Poranlta. A. E. Gibson presents an exhaustive analysis of the physical and psychical basis of dreams. He sums up his views in part as follows: To sum up tho argument, dream and waking dif fer in degree and form of manifesta tion only, not in principle and essence. Like waking consciousness, dream re veals, but does not create. The same world that surrounds the waking in dividual surrounds the dreaming, only the viewpoints and media of observa tion are changed. As the life experience of an individ ual in his waking consciousness re ceives Its character and value by and through his power of response to en vironment, so In a similar way the value of a dream depends upon the power of the ego to respond to con sciousness in Its various forms of emo tions, ideas and feelings which consti tute the environments of the subject ive or dream plane. Waking or dream ing the individual is, or becomes, what he chooses to be at any given moment of his existence. The background for ordinary dreams consists of undigested remnants of waking life. Hence ordinary dreams are merely undigested life, being made up by longings, desires, anticipations, idle hopes and miscarried realizations, which, occupying the mind during the day, are overtaken by sleep before hav ing reached their fruition. Hence the mixture, in most dreams, of the sane and the insane, of truth and delusion. On the other hand, the life lived out and tsslmilated in a purposeful exist ence becomes absorbed in the forma tion of character and leaves no residue to form the bizarre staging for the confused dream. And to such an in dividual the Intuitions of dream life, with their . dazzling imagery, will In troduce symbols which, properly Inter preted, may carry the significance of prevision or prophecy. Therefore, to turn dreams Into useful, intelligent and Intelligible factors we must fill our waking ' life with deeds anl thoughts of universal usefulness and freight the train of events with an un flinching devotion to duty and virtue. k'edlcal Record. . It Is never too late to unmend In the divorce court. A Natural Remedy. T ML.l At- 1 I- -w.nM.--. I mat me renieuy i buiubiuucs worse than the disease is again shown by an incident chronicled in the New York Times. A prominent politician has a wife who is a model of lomestlc care fulness. She has a talent for making bread, and takes great pride in having her loaves turn out well. One evening she had set the batch of dough, to rise in tho kitchen and was reading in the parlor, when her C-year-old b'oy came funning to her, crying, "Mamma, mamma, there's a mouse Jumped into your bread-pan!" The fcood woman sprang from her seat. "Did you take him out?" she asked, frantically. "No'm, but I done Just as good. I threw the cat in, and she's digging after him -to beat the band!" Christian Science, In the United States there are about 400 Christian Science churches, with about 100,000 adherents. According to Mrs. Eddy, its founder, the church is making tremendous strides in popular ity, in which respect it resembles Pills bury's Vitos, the popular cereal food. Should Be Dished. "There are three beautiful words in the English language," said a peraegrl natlng philosopher as he sipped his morning glass, "that ought to be cross ed out of the dictionary. "The first one Is 'honesty.' No one is absolutely and perfectly honest. If you give orders to say you are not at home, when you are In and don't want to be disturbed, that Isn't quite honest. "The second word is 'satisfaction.' No one is perfectly 'satisfied.' Suppos ing you had, by a long stretch of im agination, $10,000 a year, you would want twenty. "And the third word Is that beauti ful monosyyable 'if.' On that I need not comment." Tainted Tin. "Can I get in?" asked the new ar rival. "H-m-m, that depends," replied St Peter, doubtfully. "I never drank, smoked, chewed or swore. I gave everybody a square deal, I " "Cut all that out," was the terse re ply, "and tell me what was your busi ness?" "I was an expert accountant." "Sure, you can get in! You're what we have been watching for. You see, we are expecting Rockefeller now at almost any time and all of our account ants are working overtime.' We want to be able to hand him an itemized statement when he applies for admis sion." "A statement of what he did with his money?" "No; a statement of how he got it." HoustonPost. ' Fooling; Hobby, "Let me show you the new novel for married ladies," confided the clerk in the book store. "Novel!" echoed the prospective cus tomer. "Why, that is a cookbook." "No, it is a dashing, breezy novel with a cookbook cover. You. see, when your husband walks in and finds you reading what's apparently a cook book he will feel so tickled he Is liable to hand over the price of a new fall hat." JaTfback Wlna. Mr. Jawback I'm going to get a life Insurance policy. Mrs. Jawback You're foolish. It's all a graft. , Mr. Jawback But what would you do if I'd die? Mrs. Jawback Marry again, of course. Mr. Jawback You couldn't If my life hadn't been insured for a good, big sum. Cleveland Leader. STIFF AND SORE from head to foot? Can't work today, but tomorrow you can, as the Old-Monk-Cure St. Jacobs Oil will soften and heal the muscles while you sleep. It Conquers Pain Priest, 25c. and 50c. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Calor more foods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and h imranteed to give perfect results. Ask dealer, or we will aend post fiaid at 1k a package. Write far frae booklet how to dye, bach and mix color. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionvllla, Missouri. More Every Year UOUHCESM priced ECC 'tW vf HICAOO. ,(1 costs powder quality, and makes healthful baking. Send postal for " JAQCJES It Was No Ue. Dick Come on and go down the street with me, Jack. Jack All right, old man wait till I finish this letter to my dad. Dick Oh, if you're writing to him, don't come. I'm broke, too. Cleveland Leader. Submarine Cables. There are 876 submarine ableB in the world, the length of which amount to 178,919 miles. Most of these be long to private parties, only 25,000 miles being owned by the various gov ernments. All, however, bring daily orders from every land on the globe, for Pillbsury s Vitos, the all-day food. Beartrara in London. It is calculated that 4,000 persons make a living in London by begging and that their average iocome amounts to over $1,500,000 a year. Last year 1,925 persons were arrested for beg ging in the streets, of whom more than 1,500 were sentenced to terms of im prisonment varying from one week to three months. Many of these objects of charity were found In possession of sums of money and even bank books showing very handsome deposits. Beware of Ointments lor Catarrh that , Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell ana completely derange tne whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles si.ould never be used excepton prescriptions from reputable phy sicians, as the damago they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., containsnomercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testi monials free. Bold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Fills are the best. Lucky Ghoat. And it came to pass that the Ham let troupe was stranded at a water tank twenty miles from the nearest farm house. A roving tramp crept out of the shadows and, approaching the leading man, said in awe: "Mister, are you really Hamlet?" "Yes," replied the barnstormer, "but I wish I was the ghost." "Why so?" "Ghosts don't get hungry." Colum bus Dispatch. riTQ Permanently Cured. Kofltsor nervousness II 10 after Hrstdny'suseofDr.Kllne'sOreatNerve Restorer. Send forFree2 trial bottleand treatise. Dr. It. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Lincoln's Hay Crop. The stories that Kansas newspapers are now printing of the big corn crop recalls Lincoln's story of the big hay crop in southern Illinois. "What," in quired a visitor, "do you do with such a big crop of hay?" "We stack all we can on the ground," replied tho vet eran story teller, "and the rest we put in the barn." Detroit News. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. Wanta a Holiday. ' Mamma So you want to give your dear teacher a present? I Tommy Yes, ma; I'd, like to give' her some of that cheap candy like I had the other day. i "Why, Tommy, that was what made you so ill." "Yes, ma; I know it was." Chicago Journal. 1 We dn o -own and brldgework without pain. Our IS years' experience In plate work en ables us to lit your mouth comfortably. Dr. W. A. W Ise has found a sale way to extract teeth absolutely without pain. Dr. T. P. Wise Is an expert at gold rilling and crown and brldgework. Extracting lrae wbau plates or bridges are ordered. WISE BROS. DENTISTS Falling Bldg., Third and Washington Sta. Open evenings till 9 o'clock. Sundays from 9 to 12. Or Main Itm. tew DR. W. A. wise Converts Every day in every year that comes, more housewives are giving up their exhorbitant Baking Powders and turning to K C, the honest and reliable, which has stood so well the test of years. They are find ing out that BAKING POWDER one - third the price of anywhere near K C better, purer, more 25 ounces for 25c. Book of Presents." MFG.. 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