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Mica Axle Grease lengthens the life of the fo wagon saves horse- power, timo and tcm T per. Best lubricant in powdered mica which forms a smooth. hard coaling on axle, and reduces friction. If you want your outfit to last and earn money while it lasts grease the axles with Mica Axle Grease. 5 1 AnUflHU OIL COMPANY Latch Kef Suirruire. Over In Knuland tho potsoHRlon of a latchkey hu(lutfly been hold in the courts to linvfl nn Important bearlne on the electoral rights of a man claiming to be a householder. With us the latchkey has crown so unlviranl ns in be no Indication of a man's status, or a woman g either, for that matter. Not so very lone ao the American wom an's right to the latchkey was subject ror jocular argument pro and con, but women s latchkeys are now as common os men's. For nn institution that dates back only about seventy years the latchkey has stormed with some mid dennens Into Its place of a universal necessity. Bostpn Herald. Family Pride. Tommy My papa's automobile Is a mcpr one than your papa V Dicky Beln' nice ain't nothln'. You can smoii my dad machine a mile away cnicajco Tribune. Example in Foil Sight. Teacher There Is a proverb, "All Is not gold that shines." Give me an ex ample. Scholar Tour nose, sir. Meggen dorfer Blaetter. Liberal nflni Unsophisticated Strancpr Oflfi POP VAT1 get a discount on your purchaser at the xxuic sianas, aon t you uwcer uoogan wan nundherd per V1UU I Caution. a weii-Known New York golf en thuslnst said: "When I first learned the game I did not care very much for It One day I was out with my caddie and was making a miserable attempt at playing the game. I said to the cad die: 'I suppose rou have been arnnnii the links with worse players than me, enr "The caddie made no renlv. so again put the same question to hlin In a much louder tone, to which the cad die answered: "'I heard very well what you said the first time, so I am Just thinkin' about It'" Unreasonable. The milkman scowled. You people make more fuss about your milk than any customers I've got, H said. "All we ask," said Mrs. Ferguson, "is war. tne Dottles sliall look clean, and that there shan't be any filth on the stop per." "That's exactly what I'm talkin' about. Nobody else kicks about little things like that!" HOWAHD E. BURTON. Assayer ari Chemist. Leadvllle, Colorado. Specimen prices! Gold. 8llver,L"ad, 1 ; Gold, Stiver, 76c; Ootd, too; Zinc or Copper, (1. Cyanide tents. Mailing envelopes and full price list sent on application. Control and Um pire work solicited, llelerencei Carbonate Na tional Bank. la (tan as Can Rn RnutrM In thi Fast Delivery Much Quicker. Write Its Today BRING YOUR TOOTH TROUBLES TO US Before Going Elsewhere. ' DR. B. E. WRIGHT. , 342 Washington St. Portland, Oregon -f- I Means cash in your pocket, because com fortable cows mean more milk, more cream Killer; It costs less and does more. Sold by dealers. Qt., 85 cts.; gals., (1.00. Made by diss. B. Lilly Co., Seattle, Portland, Ban Francisco. J HOW ENGLISH LIVE Iff INDIA. Club at ISverr Station Servants and Trice at the Market. The Indian club Is a unique Institu tion ; there Is nothing like It anywhere else. In a small stutlon It is the one rendezvous for nil the men and wom en In tho neighborhood. Punctually at 0 o'clock, when tho sun begins to lose Its power, nearly every one moves club ward. Tho glaring white- road, until then occupied only by an occasional bullock bandy with its native driver. suddenly bucomes'tho scene of the ut- moHt uniniution, dogcarts, carriages, ponies and bicycles all following one another la tho sumo direction. 1'luy and chut are at once the order of tho day. While some Indulge iu cro quet or Budminton, others till the ten- Is courts, which are nrovlded with a number of little brown faced boys who run about and pick up the balls. When the light fails, two groups are formed in the compound; the women sit and gossip over their Iced drinks, while the men cluster around the peg table. 'lnally. the club bulldlm; Itself In en tered, ana cards and billiards are en Joyed under tho punkah until It Is time to go home and dress for dinner, coming is more striking on one's first visit to the club, says awrlter In tho Lady, than the extraordinary high spirits one meets on every side. Some say they are forced, others that ihey are due to the lightness and brightness of the air; but certainly such jokes and luughtcr are not heard elsewhere. Tragedy may, lie underneath, but on me surrace an is merriment Almost every one is young, and all are ready for a little companionship and amuse ment after the long hot hours spent In ofllce or bungalow. It is this friendly Intercourse with one another which An glo-Indians miss so much when they first return to England and have to nut up with the aloofness of county society or the limitations of suburbia. Then India Is the Ideal country for visiting. Each visitor arrives at a friend's bungalow with his own ser vants and ponies. Native servants are responsible for their own meals of cur ry and rice, and curl themeselves up in a rug to sleep In any available cor ner, so are no trouble to another Der- son's household. The butler, who knows your likes and dislikes bettor than you do yourself, makes it his special duty to see that no home comforts are lack ing, and Is always particularly eener- ous with a strange "master's" foods. it there are many visitors, the ar ray of smart beturbaned butlers In the uviuiuuucu uuuci n iu ma m Is most imposing, and the : Is done as if by magic. . .. , . .. I ulnlngrooin waiting There are certain advantages In liv ing in a country where houses are cheap, servants are cheaper and meat can be bought for 6d a pound. By a cu rious native arrangement there is no fixed standard of prices for articles of food sold In the bazar. The roem-sa- bib pays much or little, according to! 11.. -1 . . ' iub saiary earnea by her husband, which is always known to a penny. How Shoea Are Made. Fifty years ago the farmers of Nw England made their own shoes, but since the Introduction of machinery the nome-maae article has vanished. ' a lactory employs on an avemsA two nunurea to tliree hundred Deonin. who can turn out two thousand to twenty-five hundred pairs of shoes a day. no single operator makes a complete shoe. One cuts out the soles, another the uppers, and another the heels. One operator will make the buttonholes, an- otner the hems, and another sews on the buttons, each one using a separate machine. A buttonhole machine will make about five thousand holes a day, and It Is calculated that each pair of shoea passes through more than fifty hands before it Is ready to wear. Novellata and Playwright. ' The reason which, far more thannnv other, prevents novelists from writing gooa piayg is tnat to produce a drama which will act Is many times harder than to write readable novels. - As a rule, novelists appear , to think that playgoers are mere children. Thev cnn. struct their plays upon nursery lines, in words or one syllable, as it The cleverness, the observation, the hu mor, which they put into their novels, they leave on one side or else it nJ for nothing because they do not know now to make use of It World, London. Well Shaken. "And you. never get Beaslck?" said the young woman In the steamer chair. "Never 1" replied the yountr man who was leaning against the lifeboat "Stransre! You mm h w . uu UCCU bhaken so often you have become used to it?" . "I should say so. I was shaken hv six girls In one year." Strennona Remedy. "And you have to tret a near tnfn barrel every season?" asked the wind mill salesman In surprise. "Every spring," drawled Farmer Hardapple. "But what becomes of the old one?" "Oh, I wear out all the staves on the boys when thev beimn r l. around with the spring fever." My Hair Ran Away Don't have a falling out with your hair. It might leave you I Then what? That would mean thin, scraggly, uneven, rough hair. Keep your hair at home I Fasten it tightly to your scalp ! You can easily do it with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It is something more than a simple hair dress ing. It is a hair medicine, a hair tonic, a hair, food. The best kind of a testimonial "Sold for over sixty years." by J. O. Ayer Co., Lowell, ; Also manuiaotiirert of lu W KiRUDlDIM 1 tywf O CHEIUY PECTORAL. Horrora of UtiaeUaU. 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When the fifteenth order went down to the kitchen the chef shouted: "That's fifteen orders for Senator Hanna ! He'd better watch out or he'll founder him self." St. Paul Pioneer Press. CT Bt. Vims' Dance ana all Nervous Diseases ill W permanently cured by Dr. Kline's (ireat Nerve Restorer. Hend for FKEE 2 trial bottle and treatise. Ur.it. iL Kline, Ld., 931 ArcbtJU, Millars. The Hamburg-American line is con templating building six small passeniriT steamers intended for tourist service on the Nile. Back to the liar. The foreign nobleman was keenly dis appointed. "I was hoping, monsieur," he sighed, "that you might possibly Install me in your glorious family." The wealthy mine owner laughed. ."Install you?" he echoed. "Why, cer tainly. You will find our family sta ble to the left and if you don't dis turb the horses you may have a stall all to yourself." SPEND YOUR VACATION , AT THE BREAKERS HOTEL North Beach, Washington, the leading resort in the Northwest. Now open. 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