LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
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S. A. THOMAS,
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3, 1879.
THURSDAY MAY 2, 1907.
s NOTICE
The best way to build up' your own
' tcwn is to do your trading at home.
Patronize your home merchants. If
they succeed the chances are you will
succeed. When you send a dollar to
a mail order house vou have the goods
. and they have the money. Trade at
,home and we keep both the goods and
the money.
B. F. SWAGGART
B. F. Swaggart is another of Mor
row county's citizens who grasped the
golden opportunity- and has "made
good" in this county. Mr. Swaggart
first carneto Morrow county in 1871
With a band of sheep.' He remained
here one year and went to the Palouse
country with 12000 head of sheep, he
remained there two years and lost
his entire band. He says it snowed
there 103 days in the year for two
years.- He quit - the sheep business
and returned to Umatilla county in
1875 practically broke. He pre
empted 160 acres of land and went in
to the horse and cattle business on ' a
small scale. He raised some crops,
which he had to haul to Walla Walla
to market. 1 .
Success crowned his efforts there
and In ,1882 he came to Morrow county
and homesteaded the ranch he Is now
living on." Today he owns about 4000
acres of land, has about 900 acres in
cultivation and expects to break about
1030 acres mora within the next year.
Mr. Swaggart Is devoting his attention
i
to raising jacks, mules and horses.
He has ; named Jiis ranch the East
Oregon Jack Farm and he is becom
tt widely'known as a breeder" of first
c!as3 stocks ' . ;
.ThaUr.e Lexington creamery makes
butter, sedond to, noni on . the, .market
and better than most of It can be vouch
ed foryby the Times, who acknowledges
receipt of a brick of the first run made
by this creamery. It is a matter of
some' pride to the people of Morrow
county that this Industry has at last
" been started Into operation. On Wed
nesday of 1 last week the creamery
made It's first run, turning out 42
pounds of butter from 101 pounds of
cream. Since then several runs have
been made with even better results
than' at first. Heppner Times. ' '
In using a cough syrup, why not get
the best? one that comes highly recom
ended Is Bees Laxative Cough Syrup,
contains Honey and Tar and is superi
or to other cough syrups In many ways.
Children always like It because it con-
tains no opiates, i3 a laxative and is
guaranteed to give satisfaction "or your
money refunded. Try it. Sold by W.
P. McMillan. '".',.
TIIK DOOM OF VENICE
IT MAY PE TO LIE IN THE BOSOM OF
', THE ADRIATIC.
Tlie Famous Iiolix of SI. JinrVs Ufa
Toll on Ocean's l.'c;ith Like Those
of Old I'ort Uoy;.l Tiie Sunliou
Cities of the World.
It s believed by ninny that Venice
Is slnljlns into tlio Adriatic nnd that
she gradually will dli-iapnenr beneath
the waters of the groat lagoon from
which her palace crowned Islands
arise. Other cities have gone "that
way before her, and ships now sail
over spots which were once teeming
with a populous life.
At the entrance to the harbor of King
ston, Jamaica, the 'original city of Tort
Royal lies fathoms deep beneath the
blue and sunlit waters of the Carlb:
bean sea. A narrow strip of land, on
which are a small settlement and a
fort, Is all that Is left of what was.
once the richest and wickedest town in
the West Indies. It was the resort of
pirated, who rested there from their
depredations and made the city hid
eous with' their revelry. But these pi
rat'es brought great stores of their loot to
the city, and its commerce grew and
flourished. Palaces and churches were
built, a pirate often striving by a rich
endowment of a church to square his
accounts with heaven.
Throughout the greater part of the
seventeenth century uo town in the
western world was so magnificent as
to its buildings or so luxurious as to its
habits as Port Royal. Then one day in
1092 the anger of the Lord shook the
island of Jamaica, and the greater part
of Port Royal sank beneath the sea,
carrying with it hundreds of Its In
habitants. Towers, churches, palaces
mid forts went down, many of them
not tumbling In ruins by the shock,
but sinking "bodily beneath the waves.
On a bright day, sailing over the
6pot where Port Royal ouce stood, one
can look far down through the clear
water and Bee the remains of the city
still standing there on the ocean bot
tom, with fishes swimming about
amoug Its towers and geat tropical
seaweeds waving from' Its sunken
walls.
The negroes of Jamaica and some
white people, too will tell you that be
fore a storm the sunken bell of the
grpat cathedral which went down with
the city on that awful day in 1002 can
be heard distinctly tailing below the
waves, rung as a warning by the
ghostly hands of the spirits of depart
ed buccaneers which haunt the subma
rine city. People who do not believe In
ghosts, but think they have heard the
tolling of the bell, say the explanation
Is that when the city sunk the great
bell of the cathedral was not thrown
from its place, but still hangs as it
origiually did. The coining storm be
fore It reaches Jamaica stirs up the
waters of the Caribbean and sends in
upon the shore deep waves, which roll
through the sunken city and set the
bell a-tolling.
-Another sunken city of renown Is
Baiae, that splendid resort on the Ital
ian coast where Xero and Caligula
"reveled nnd drank deep." A strag
gling village and heaps of marble ruins
still stand upon the shore and bear the
name of Baiae, but the greater part of
the city lies beueath the waters of the
Mediterranean, and tourists from Na
ples go out there to gaze ciowu Into the
waters and try to catch a glimpse of
the submerged city.
The resort of all the wealthy nobles
of Rome when Rome was mistress of
the. world, Baiae was a marvel of Ins
urious splendor. Palace after palace
was built on the shore, and architects
designed magnificent structures ex
tending out Into the sea.
When Rome decayed and the Goths
ravaged Italy, Baiae was sacked by
the Invaders. Soon after the city be
gan to sink. First the buildings which
had tlwlr foundation In the water sub
sided beneath the waves, nnd then
the sea made fin attack on the land.
Gradually the shore line receded, and
the Mediterranean flowed through the
streets where' Hadrian had driven bis
Imperial chariot and Horace had walk
ed thinking of tlis next poem.
These promontories, crowned , with
grand towers and "gorgeous palaces,
were undermined and toppled into the
deep until at last the major part of
the splendid city was submerged.' Its
disappearance was not sudden, like
that of Port Royal, and duo to some
convulsion of nature, but Baiae went
down to its death gradually, as Venice
Is said to be going.
In Holland; the subsidence of the
land has brought It about that many
towns once populous are now covered
bytho son. , The old Roman camp at
Biittonbnrg, after sinking beneath the
waves, emerged ngiln In 1520, only to
disappear, nnd its remains now He In
deep water opposite the town of Kat
wljlt. The original KatwJk Itself now
Is beneath the waters, as" also are the
original towns of Schevenlugon, Dom
burg and Egmoiid. In fact, a succes
sion of towns bearing these names Is
now it tbo bottom of the sea., for they
If-' :
8 -SPRING
We are receiving our line of Spring Goods,
consisting of Lawns, White Goods, Cace, Errbroid
ery, Ribbons, also ajjjie of Ladies White waists.
LEXINGTON,
repeatedly nave ticrm retmilt rartnor
Inland as the land sunk and the waves
come In to take possession.
The Goodwin sands, large and dan
gerous shoals r? the southeast coast
of England, were onco above the wa
ter and formed a flourishing estate,
the property of Earl Godwin. There
was no city on the Godwin estate when
It subsided beneath the sea, but sev
eral small villages went down to" the
deep when the tract of country grad
ually disappeared beneath the waters.
There are legends which may or may
not be trae of lost cities sunk at the
bottom of Swiss lakes.. New York
Mall. ' '
Ths Magic Bcod Eox.
Procure a large pill box end push
the bottom in a little way; then gel
oro gum and stick a small portion
ef ctnary or other eee'd on the bot
tom to as to make it appear a full
box. Obtain a imall hag with a little
leed in it and pretend to fill the box.
but instea.d of doing so only bring
out a little seed on the bottom. Aft
erward rub the loose seed off, and
the audience, seeing the seed that i.
fast on, will naturally think the box
is full. Then take the box in the
right hand, a cap or hat in the left
hand and cover the box and show
the empty Bide. Again cover the box
and say: "Presto! Ccme back!"
Turn the box and show the full side.
WONDKRFUL KCZKHA CURK
"Our little boy had eczema for five
years," writes N. A. Adams, Henrietta
Pa. -"Two of our home 'sioctors said
the case was hopeless, his lungs being
affected. We then employed other
doctors but no benefit resulted. ' By
chance we read about Electric Bitters;
bought a bottle and soon noticed im
provement. We continued this medi
cine until several bottles , were used,
when our boy was completely cured."
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.Don'i ' be afraid of ' a t. $ ool
teacher.. A young man called on .an
Atchison sch'oojteacher, and in ex
plaining some previous neglect said,
"If I'd V knowed you wanted to
went I'd.'aV came and took you."
And she" married hin in spite of .it.
Atchison Globe!
Modern Methods.
The Contractor What in thun
der is the matter with that new hod
carrier you hired ? He's let another
hod of bricks fall to the pavement.
The Foreman Oh, he learned hia
trade byx mail from the Hod Carriers'-
Correspondence institute
Brooklyn life. . 1 ' ',
. ' So Much Saved.
McJigger So old Stinginess is
dead, s Qf course he hated to die.
Thingumbob No ; his death was
quite a happy one. In another week
the annual premium on his life in
surance would have been due. BaK
timore News. ' '
Try The Wheatfleld for Job Work.
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A NAKKOW KSCAPK -
G. W. Cloyd, a merchant, of Plunk,
iMo., had a narrow escape four years
ago, when he. ran a jimson burr into
his thumb. He , says:" The doctor
wanted to amputate it but i would not
consent. I bought a box of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve and that cured the dan
gerous wound." 25c at' W. P. McMil
lan's Druggist. (
Blind to Signals.
A brakeman retired to a farm an5
started to lead the simple life. Hav
ing a piece of new land to break,
he hitched up a team of mules,
wrapped the lines around his waist
in farmor fashion and started to
work. He had gone but a, short
distance when he saw a stumo. ahead
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anl immediately began giving the
tailroad stop signal with both
hands' ' The plow struck the stump
and the brakeman went head firs
over the plow. Ticking himself up
ho ran angrily to the mules am
f roared, "You flop eared scoundrels
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