5ecd jiver Slacier.
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, IS97.
9 he.expenditures of the present con
gress foot up far past the billion dollar
point. - Every where is heard the cry
for more revenue through tariff taxa
tion, but seldom is u voice raised ask
ing for the cutting down of expenses,
or in protest against such a reckless ex
penditure of i he public money. The
late administration dispensed with a
few u n necessary pension agencies, and
up went, u howl from the office-holders
denouncing the action of the president.
The Louisville Courier-Journal fitly re
marks, "If this Is not a govenment of
cflice-bolders, by the office-holders, for
the office-holders, we might as well
hung out I lie red flag and set the auc
tioneer's tf II going."
Yesterday President McKinley was
inaugurated, and we are now living
under a new administration. Outside
of Washington City, where the cere
monies attending the inauguration
were on a grand scale, there was no ex
citement and the change was not
noticeable except probably in the sale
of a few more newspapers on that day.
The change is' really-fett only by the
outgoing officials of the government,
who are now relieved from the cares of
office, and the new officials who have
assumed Die responsibilities of office
and will shape the destines of the re
public for the next four years.
LINCOLN AND HIS ERA.
Address Delivered by H.K. Nines, D.D.,
at the Lincoln Day Celebration in
. Hood Kiver, Feb. 12, 1897.
Comrades of Canby Post of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Ladles of the
Relief Corps of Canby Post, and Fellow
Citizens: There are, in human history
days for which other days seem made.
They are lifted out of the sea-level of
-common time uy great events, or sig
nalized by the birth of those who be
came dominating personal factors in
the history of ages. Such a day, in our
great republic, was the 22d day of Feb
ruary, 1782, which gave George Wash
ington to the world's history. Such a
day was the 12th day of February, 1809,
which, In a lowly Kentucky home,
gave to humanity a personality who,
take him for all in all, when he passed
out of this mortal life 56 years, two
mouths und three days thereafter, his
tory must record was tiie most poten
tial and beneficent personal force of a
thousand years: Abraham Lincoln.
' We are met, on this western verge of
our republic, on the 88th anniversary
of that day, in glad and patriotic com
memoration of what he was and what
he did for us and for all humanity. As
incident and narrative are to follow by
I hose who have personally looked upon
.his form and into his face, I have
chosen to spend a little time with you
in the study of tome of the facts and
principles that account for and inter
pret Abraham Lincoln to the world.. '
The human race has furnished but
few ideal characters. It has furnished
great u ii mbers of men of single qual
itlt a with a wonderful growth and wide
development, which have given their
fortunate possessors eminence, and even
fame; but Ithey have not become ideal
men. Many have become great as war-
jriors, legislators, orators, financiers,
and yet have been very far from being
ideal characters. It is proper to write
their names in the almost numberless
list of.greut men, but impossible to hold
them up before the gaze of the world
of Immunity as fit models after which
to fashion (lie hopes and mould the des
tinies of the race. Such a character is
, a growth out of the profoundest.- es
sence of humanity as well as out of the
richest substanceof the individual soul.
It matures like fruit from the vital
fluids of (he tree. It requires time
ears, and perhaps ages for its devel
opment una crystallzation. It is never
achieved but by the slow processes of
purification melting in the fires of
fiul, dissolving by the chemistry of
loe and tears, hardening under the
pressure of responsibility, kindling un
der the fierce light and heat that beat
upon the fused and flowing nature un
til it is changed, "born again," into its
new and higher life. The distinctively
und commonly human seems to melt
away towards the divine as the culmi
nation of these lengtuenea testings ana
refi.nings, until the character takes on
ideal form, and the man is forever ped
estaled as an Ideal Life, one of God's
men; not more, not even so much, that
that God has chosen him, but that he
has chosen God, and his choice of God
lias determined God's use of him in His
Infinite ministries to the human race.
Huch-men to use the beautiful and
Impressive language of Lord Brough
am, of England's Iron Duke "never
advance except to cover their arm's
with glory and never retreat, except to
eclipse the glory of their advance."
Only such growing out of a whole hu
manity, and embodying and express
ing the highest and widest excellencies
of humanity In all the virtues that
idealize thai humanity, produces "ideal
men." Such men are the special prod
uct of republican sentiment and life. A
republic is a government founded on
abstract theories of human equality,
mid demands that idealism-as a first
requisite for her citizenship. Its au
thority and excellence flow from this
wide, deep and pure fountain. The
Diiritv of that fountain is shown bv the
characters which it lifts to the highest
pinnacles of its love and honor, which
it recognizes and proclaims as the high
est expression of Its citizenship.
In the American republic the great
est the sun ever shone upon but two
names have been lifted to such a moun
tain height that their light can be seen
by the voyagers on every sea and the
dwellers In every land: Washington
and Lincoln. ,
In studying the history of the Amer
ican nation the thought of the philo
sophic student is arrested by the fact
tliat. amidst tne moving chaos or even t
and personalities, the two great epochs
of that history accreted at last around
these two colossal personalities, eacli of
whom, if he did make, embodied and
dominated it. The epoch of the Rev
olution of the birth of the nation
was personified in Washington. '1 he
epoch of the Renovation of the second
and higher birth of the nation. -was
personified and etnl odied in Lincoln,
in all history, preceding epochal events
there have teen periods of agitation, of
indecision) of vubtcrfiiges,. of evusions
i nd compromises, delaying or acceler
i ting ultimate issues, r-'o it wa in 'the
opening of the era of Washington so
it, was in the era of Lincoln. Limited,
passionate, low-visioned . men, com pre-
bending neither the issues nor their
philosophy, stepped in the'subterfuges
'( and evasions. These two great, calfu,
i introspective men, whose souls touched
I God in deepest and highest points of
contact, saw what others did not see,
knew tar beyond the thoughts of oth
ers, and so became God's prophets and.
priests of the two transcendent epochs
of the history of the American republic.
It seems u's well to contemplate, for
a moment, the ideas and sentiments
that based and inspired the first epoch,
before we advance to our broader study
of the last. They were parts of a
whole, not yet, perhaps, completed.
Without this careful study of these
master men and master times of na
tional construction, we cannot take tip
and worthily complete what they so
masterfully begun.
The Purituns were the patriarchs
of liberty. They opened a new world
on the earth. They cleared a new path
for the human conscience. The leaven
of their free, brave thought wrought in
the whole lump und heart of the Eng
lish commonwealth until British roy
alty clearly saw that, to save its top
pling dynasty in the old world, free
dom in the new must be destroyed.
Relentless right and relentless wrong
always have met, and always will meet,
upon, a battle field. Freedom is the
highest instinct of man; slavery his
profoundest abhorence. The first vo
tary of Freedom that fell before the rifle
shots of tyranny at Concord, on the
19th day of April, 1775, was John Jack,
an houest African, whom death thus
freed from slavery. Here was issued
the first, emancipation proclamation.
Its opening lines on the Concord mon-v
ument tell the wtiote story ot the era oi
1775-84, as well as that of 1S60-65:
"(lod wills ns free; man wills us slaves. I
will as God wills; Uod's will be done."
Let us lingera moment, brothers and
comrades, among these older memories,
for they will relume the later recol
lections of many of those who stand
before me today. Emerson,, celebrat
ing, in epic strain, the deeds of that
19th day of April, 1775, sang:
By this rudo bridge that arched the flood,
Their flu to April's breeze unfurled;
Here the embattled formers stood
And tired the shot heard round the world.
From Concord to Bunker Hill, from
Bunker Hill to Saratoga, from Sarato
ga to Monmouth, from Monmouth to
Yorktowu we pass as with an eagle's
flight of thought. Then came inde
pendence achieved, fretderu secured,
nationality established. . In all this
Washington was. the presiding and di
recting embodiment of the hopes, pur
poses and, achievements of this, his
own era. In the calm, judiciul estimate
of a century of study of his place and
work, the nation has long since accept
ed the eloquent and comprehensive
words of Richard Henry Lee, as de
scriptive of his place in that era: '-The
man first in war, first in peace and first
in the hearts of his countrymen."
When Washington died his spirit
went abroad, imprisoned und free, to
mould 'the best heart and highest
thought of the nation he' had cre
ated. Perhaps he was more our
guardian and guide and defender
then than he . had been in all his
life. Who may Bay that the poetic
prophecy of Robert Treat Paine was
not fulfilled in many a perilous
hpur when the surge of battle dashed
against the portals of Freedom's .tem
ple in the later era : . :
"Should the tempest of war overshadow our
laud,
Its bolts can ne'er rend Freedom's temple
asunder:
For, Unmoved, at Its portals will Washington
stand
And repulse with his breast theossaults of the
thunder.
His Bword from the sleep ol Its scabbard will
leap
And conduct with Its point every bolt to the
deep." . ,
The republic of Freedom, based on
the declaration ."all men are created
equal" triumphed, but, strange anom
oly, slavery remained. Opposd to it,
even denouncing it, the Fathers of the
Republic could not destroy it. Frank
lin said that Virginians could not in
voke the name of God retaining slav
ery. Jay said that all the prayers that
America sent up to heaven, while slav
ery remained, were blasphemies. Mason
mourned over the payment that his
descendants must make for this great
crime of their fathers. Jefferson traced
the geographical line where the black
wave of slavery should be stayed as
though eternal right and eternal wrong
could ne divided ny legislative enact
ment along a degree of latitude. Slav
ery still remained, still grew, reaching
out every where tor conquest. Armed,
defiant, intrenched in law, supported
by wealth, sustained by intellect and
oratory unequaled, oh 1 how the
banded forces of slavery were hurled
against the bared bosom of Liberty.
. Now followed a half century of
change, and drift,; and commotion-.
Parties contended Opinions battled.
Purtizans struggled for . ascendency.
Sections wrangled foradvantage. Am
bitions roared about the capital. But
still the republic grew. It stretched
out northward, westward and south
ward. Its trackless prairies became
cultured fields and fruited vineyards.
Its frontier posts became great cities.
Its three millions of people became
thirty millions.. Its primitive rus
ticity became a great' civilization, an
advanced culture. States were found
ed, capitals were Jbuilt, homes were
erected, mines were opened, churches
were reared, school-houses were planted
commerce was established, and still the
nation grew and still slavery grew.
In all this growth all farsighted seers
discovered the separating and marshal
ing of forces, intellectual and moral,
that must, at last, on some field, meet
to decide supremacy and test domin
ion. Should it be the field of peaceful
argumernent or should it be that other
field , where arguments are cast into
cannon balls, and princip'es are ground
into the sharpness of rapier and bayo
net. As the history of the nation
from' 1800 to 1851) woie more and more
stormily on, these separations became
more and more cleurlv defined. The
lines, of battle were drawn, but the
skirmishers between the lines hesitated
to bring on the fight. Flags of truce,
with suggestions of compromise, passed
to and fio from camp to camp. Both
sides welo determined, but neither side
was ready for the battle. A million
lives a changed history anew nation
and a new world, werer suspended on a
word somebody's word but who that
somebody should be who would speak
that word only God knew. -
. j-T'lifbe, of us" here today whose mem
ory goes- back and lakes in the pain,
uahd yet. the thrill,' of those days of
waiting, or expectancy, win recall now
the eyes of a nati'.m of freemen, wan-
' dered over the land from shore to shore
! in search of the Hero who should lead
the epoch now clearly dawning on the
land. New York, New England, Penn:
sylvaniu, Ohio, indeed all the land was
brought under the strong search light
of the burning eye of Freedom. The
old epoch had passed;, the new was at
hand; but it seemed an epoch without
a ruler. The Man had not come.
At that date the prairies of Illinois
were wrapped in the mysteries of their
illimitable distances. Scarce more than
a single name had risen high enough
above their far and low horizon to fix
the eye of the nation. 1 need not tell
my countrymen that that was the
name of Stephen A. Douglas. He was
concededly the most brilliant debater,'
the most versatile politician, the most
powerful Individual personality in po
litical life in the United States at that
time. He lacked nothing in ability for
leadership,' nothing in personal power,
nothing in opportunity. He stood at
the very gate of an unrivaled kingdom
of power, and fame, and glory. The
gate was flung wide open before him,
and the genius of Freedom besought
him to enter in and assume the king
dom. God never before nor since gave
a man the chance He gave Stephen A.
Douglas; but lie turned away to palter
ing compromises and the gate of the
kingdom was shut in his face.
VVe have come now to where we can
date an epoch, where we can identify a
crisis in history, where we can recog
nize the man of history. The date is
June 17, 1858; the place the city of
Springfield, the capital of Illinois. The
Man is Abraham Lincoln. The
words with which he identified and de
fined, though he did not make, the
tesue of his epoch were these: '
"A house divided against Itself cannot
standi I believe this government cannot en
dure permanent!,, half slave und half free. I
do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do
not expect the house to fall, but I do expect
that It will cease to be divided. It wilt be
come all one thing or all the other. Either
the opponents of slavery will arrest the fur
ther spread of Hand place It where the public
mind will rest In the belief that it is In the
course of ultimate extincticn, or fts advocates
"111 push it forward until It shall become
alike lawful In all the states, old as well as
new, North as well as South."
No words so startling, so daring, so
unequivocal, had ever been uttered by
any man of America since Thomas
Jefferson engraved in the Declaration
of Independence the eternal truth that
"All men are created equal." These
words of Jefferson were a noble recog
nition of an abstract truth, hurled into
the face of tyranny in the body of a
revolutionary document. These of
Lincoln were the reduction of that ab
stract truth into concrete political ac
tion and statesmanship. They embod
ied a supreme idea, vitalizing a party
and making it heroic.
Here the issues were joined, never to
be changed, but to be fought out to thf
end. Thus was introduced the Era of
Lincoln the Epoch of th'e Renovation.
All that followed, all that is following
yet, was and is the unfolding and rip
ening of itself.
Of course, It will be impossible for me
here and now to measure, step by step,
the growth of our national history
through that' epoch. You, comrades,
some in one place, and some in an
other, saw it all, lived for it all, were a
part of it all. Your memories will read
it better than my tongue can speak it.
Lincoln grew as .his epoch unfolded.
Had he not, his era would have over
whelmed him. He had that rare ca
pacity, that genius of greatness, that is
capable of rising to any demand that
human events can make upon It. The
invisible foundations of his character
were abstract if not mystical, more
moral and spiritual than of any man's
in history. Out of them all radiated a
prophetic insight and intuition that
comprehended causes and issues that
were beyond the scope of the compre
hension of one in ten thousand of the
great actors of history. This raised him
through the commonest average of life
to a peerless exaltation of character
and power. The mists of warring op in
ions, the clouds of prejudice and pas
sion, could never rise so high that Liin
coln's brow did not lift into the clear
light above them. It - was the intui
tions of tight and righteousness as
making for universal weal, not the ego
tism of self sufficiency, that held him
faithful to his truest faith, even against
the tearful solicitations of. his most
trusted friendships, as well as against
the bitterest malignings of his foes.
This required the highest moral cour
age, sustained and fed by the eternal
truth on which it grips. Without this
he could not have been the Lincoln of
1858-65. He might have been any one,
or like any one of a thousand we could
name, who were almost but. not alto
gether great; but he. could not have
been the synonym of his epoch, the
immeasurable, the incomparable man.
It were impossible to tell how Lin
coln's soul marched on, keeping even
step with the providence of God and
the hearts of the American people,
through these years in which God's
providence was bringing the struggle
between ' freedom and slavery to the
decisive arbitrement of war. It breath
ed its beseeching tendencies in inaug
urals, in proclamations, and In his al
most infinite wooings of the estranged
and embattled men of the Southland
to return to the embrace and fellow
ship of the Union. Father never plead
ed with a prodigal son more tenderly.
"We are not enemies but friends," tie
said. "We must not be enemies.
Though passion may have strained, it
must not break the bonds that bind us
together. The mystic chords of mem
ory stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every living heart
and hearthstone all over this broad
land will yet swell the chorus of the
Union, when again touched, as surely
they will be, by the better angels of our
natures." A great heart's prophetic
hope was never set to more tender syl
lables when a lover spoke than these.
At tEe same time that his love for his
misguided countrymen so intensely
prayed them to reconciliation, his god
like justice sent the tramp of his coun
try's conquering power through the
laud.-ns the hosts of the Grand Army.
of the Republic marched through the
revolted South. Me incarnated him
self in that matchless volunteer army,
the like of which the world had never
seen and may never see again. He
and that army deprecated the war. yet
accepted it and fought it out, not that
the South might be conquered,butthat
the Union might not be destroyed.
They met on a thousand battlefields
the armies of rebellion as brave as
themselves. They also deprecated the
war, but yet accepted it and fought it
out that the Union should live. Once
the issue was joined, nothing remained
for either side but to end the argument
of right, and solve the question of des
tiny on the battlefield. How it was
j fought, ho-v it was finished, all the
world knows; but from that 11th day
of April, 18(11, when the devouring fire
of treason smote against the iron walls
of Sumter, 'to that 14th day of April,
1805, when the soul of this Matchless
Man went to the bosom of its God,
Abraham Lincoln was the' type and
incarnation of American nationality
and universal freedom.
I know, comradesof the Grand Army
of the Republic and fellow citizens.that
1 need not remind you today that it
was not alone the masterful statesman
ship of Lincoln and his great counsel
firs in the cabinet, nor yet, added to
that, the unrivaled military genius of
Grant and his great lieutenants, like
Sherman and Mead, Sheridan' and
Thomas and Logan in the field, that
saved and consolidated the nation for
its thousand years of increasing great
ness and glory.' These could only carry
out their great and patriotic devising,
and become what they did become in
the council and on the battlefield, be
cause, behind them and around them
were the millions of hardy yeomanry,
each with a freeman's ballot in his
hand, on the oaken hill slopes of New
England, on the verdured prairies of
Illinois and Iowa, and among the white
and golden mountains of Oregon and
California. Nor must we forget that
they were found, too, on the green
swarded soil of Kentucky, and beneath
the laurels and magnolias of Tennessee
and Georgia. They became what their
epoch made them., and what they made
their epoch, because of the millions of
freedom-loving hearts that beat behind
the bayonets and throbbed under the
banners that flared and thrust at Don-
felson, at Shiloh, at Vicksburg, at Get
tysburg, at Chattanooga, at Atlanta,
down through the bloody wilderness,
at Petersburg, at Richmond, and at
Appomatox. That splendid yeomanry
of America, those magnificent soldiers
of Freedom, those who lived and those
who died, alike, are the great, even if
unnamed, heroes on whose deeds of
valor und of duty rests the imperisha
ble structure of our nation's glory.
Lincoln was but the incarnation of
their universal spirit of freedom, the
personification of the true democracy
of the Universal Biotherbood of Man.
February 12, 1809, and April 14, 18b5,
between which dates the earthly life of
Abraham Lincoln run its.unparalled
career of being and doing, must ever
remain, in the memory of mankind, as
monumental as'thedays that celebrate
the birth or monument the death of
Washington. If one, under God, was
the revered Father, the other, under
the same God, was the beloved and no
less revered Renovator and Saviour of
what ihe other created. And forever
their names and work will be thus
blended and intertwined in the ora
tions of patriotism and the songs of
Freedom.
As it belonged to Lincoln, by the call
of God, to initiate the eooch of the
Renovation, and embody it, both in
speech and personality, so it belonged
to him to lead Uiat epoch to its corona
tion in making the whole land free.
Who could have thought, could he
have believed, on that 17th day of
June, 1858, when he uttered that pro
phetic sentence at Springfield, that in
a little more than four years, his own
name, as the most potent magistrate
and ruler of the world, would tie signed
to that Emancipation Proclamation
that broke the shattered manacles of
slavery from 3,000,000 human souls and
bade them stand forth in their new, '
self-owned manhood, free as God had
made them free? "And, upon this act,
sincerely believed to be an actof justice
warranted by the constitution," said
the great Emancipator, "I invoke the
considerate judgment of mankind and
the gracious favor of Almighty God."
Surely, that invocation has had mar
velous answer both from "mankind"
and "God." And thiB new Moses, born
in the solitude of the desert, where are
forged all great and obstinate thoughts;
monotonous like the desert, and .like
the desert sublime; reading scarcely
any book but the Bible, the book of
great soriows and of great hopes, dic
tated often by prophets to t he sound of
fetters they dragged through Ninevah
and Babylon; this child of. Nature, by
one of those miracles possible and com-,
prehensible only among free people,
ascends the capitol, the greatest moral
height of our time, and that nothing
might be wanting in the forces and
achievements and . providences that
should lift him to the lofty and lonely
pinnacle of. unrivaled triumph,, dies at
the very moment the whole world was
proclaiming him victor..
Lincoln's death was a translation'.
When his providential task in natiou
building was done, so far as his mate
rial band was to fashion and pile the
blocks that were to construct and ce
ment our nationality, there was little
need that his bodily presence should
linger on earth. His up, ritual domin
ion could not be thoroughly inaugu
rated over the hearts of his cou u try men
until the bodily limitations were sev
ered, and his soul had been freed from
their narrow boundaries. ; Then he was
no longer the head of a party, the lead
er of a theory of politics, however lofty
that theory might have been. He was
an all-pervading spirit ot patriotism
that touched the hearts of all parties
and all politics from rim lo riurand
from center to border of the nation he
had saved. . This was his translation.
and here he became the ever-living and
omnipresent representative and type of
the men and spirit and purpose that
dominated the era or the Kevoiution.
And, in the married calm of this duai
unity these two names, Washington
and Lincoln, are forever enshrined as
first in the hearts ot their country
men." Ot him it might well have
been said, as, perhaps, in the poet's in
stinctive prophecy of the Lincoln to be,
it was said: ,
"O Iron nerve to true occasion true;
O fallen at length that tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that
blew! -His
work Is done;
But while the races of mankind endure, .'; .
Let his great example stand
Collosal seen of every land,
And keep soldier firm, the statesman pure;
Till in ull lands, and through all human
story,
The path of Duty be the way to glory."
Comrades and fellow citizens: We
celebrate, but we cannot consecrate
this day. It is consecrated by that for.
which we celebrate it. ' It is rather for
us, on this day, to be dedicated anew
to that great cause for which Lincoln
lived, and for which he died the "new
birtli of Freedom, and thatgovernment
of the people, by the people, and for
the people, shall not perish from the
earth." Let us, then, .
" Unite heart and hand, '
'" Tike Leonidus' bund,
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That ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves
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SHOE REPAIRING
In the best and most artistic styles at the Old
Reliable Shoe shop one door west of post office.
Indies' fine work a specialty. All work war
ranted. C. WELDS, Prop'r.
Taken Up.
cayuse mare and colt. Bay mare with blazed
face. No marks nor brands. Owner may
come and prove property, pay charges and
take them away.. fl2 . JEROME WJSLLB.
To Lease on Shares.
Five acres' of No. 1 strawberry land to lease
on shares for a term of five years. Land
f ilowed, harrowed, leveled ready lor planting
n spring; with refusal of five acres more in
rpring of 1897. Plenty water free. Keferences
sequired. Apply at this office. - n27
WANTED SEVERAL FAITHFUL MEN
or women to travel for responsible estab
lished house in Oregon. Salary ((780,payahleS15
weekly and expenses. Position permanent.
Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped en
velope. The National, Star Buildlng.Chlcago.
Implements,
OREGON
. BEOS.,
The Glacier .
BARBER SHOP,
GRANT EVANS. Prop'r,
Post Office Building, Hood River, Or.
Fruit Ranch for Sale.
Sixty acres of land on the East Fork of
Hood river; 8 acres cleared; 500 fruit trees In
full bearing, 11 years old; plenty of water for
irrigation; good house ana barn. This place
is in the apple belt; no pests on fruit trees.
Apply to I). B. COOI'EB,
... Mt. Hood P. O., Hood Kiver Valley.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon, Feb. 25,
18OT. Notice Is hereby given that the follow-
Ing named settler has tiled notice of his In
tantion to make final n roof in sunnort of hi
claim, and that said proof will be made before
Register and Kecclver ut J. he Danes, Oregon,
on ApriUO, 1897, viz:
NEWELL HAKLAN,
Hd. E. No. 4329, for the north northwest
section 11, township 2 north, range 11 east,
W.M.
He names the fallowing witnesses to prove ,
his continuous residence upon and cultiva
tion of, said land, viz:
Wm. Watson, E. J. Hnskey, Frank Weld- 1
ner and Thomas Harlan, ull of Mosier.Oregon.
f26a2 JAS. F. MOORE, Register.
Paper Hanging.
E, L. Rood, whd has hud 8yenrs'eperlenfce
in the businessof paintitigand paper hanging,
is now prepared to do this kind of work for
citizens of Hood River. He can ftirnlsh the
paper and put it on your walls at Portland
prices.
Lessons in Piano Music.
Miss 'Anna Smith has resumed the teaching
6f Music. Her prices 'are 00 tBt a lesson. J10 .