Hosier Items. Mower, May 12. Captaiu Minnie McGregor of Walla Wallu la the guest of bcr father this week. The Mimes Ethel and Lois Taylor of iui:i me vmiung lueir grand mother, Mrs. M. J. Mosier. The Friday Niglu club gave its final up at me resweuce ot A. Root, on Fri day night. , Charles Stark was a passenger on Fri day for The Dalles. 6 Pete lleuuingxeti and wife relumed, raiuiuujr, inpui roruanu via I He Dulles. iney spent tne past month in the met ropolis. Mrs. E. Cobb returned from Hood uiver baturuuy evening. The Mosier base bail nine sneut Sat urriuy afternoon in general athletic piacuce preparatory for a uiateh game. J. N. Mosier was a Dalles visitor paiuruay. Mrs. E. C. Shaw visited in Hood River the hist of the week, returuiug George Smith, who has beeu the guest of h Is sister, Mrs. V. A. Vroniati, for some time past, has returned to iioou iviver. Mrs. E. V, Phillips and daughters of ruruuim are me guests or relatives. Mrs. E. A. Gibert returned home from Pine flat, Monday, afiei an absence of several weeks. Fred Evans has returned from a brief visit in The Dalles. Alice Guuuing of The Dalles is visit ing at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. L. J. Duvet) port. The Regulator company hag a force of men at work on their dock, which is being built at the mouth of Rock creek. Miss Maybelle Boorman spent Satur day with her parents at Hood River. Mrs. VV. Long of Portland is the guest of her mother this week. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hunter have re turned from Portland after an absence of several weeks. Mrs. Robert Deusmore and son Clar ence were Dalles visitors during the week. Mrs. M. J. Mosier visited relatives at The Dulles during last week. G. L. Davenport of the Davenport Thompson company spent Sunday at home, returning to Portland Monday morning. B. Eben, sr., returned from Portland, where he has beeu under medical treat ment. ' Mrs. D. A. Sturglss returned from Portland, and will make a brief stay at home. Mr. and Mrs. M. Dichtenmuller of The Dalles were guests of friends on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dichtenmuller were former residents of Mosier. Mrs. A. Watt returned from Portland on Sunday. Mrs. Watt has been a pa tient at St. Vincent's hospital for the past month, and returned much im proved. Pine (jrovc Meanings. II. D. Slater is expected home today from Portland, where he has been vis iting with his sou Charles and family. Miss Church of Belmont is visiting at Mrs. Hunt's and also with the Sproat families. A son of regulation weight was born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Thorn. All are getting along nicely. Mrs. MoC ill loh and children have re turned to their home at Regina, Can ada, after spending the winter here. Mrs. McCulloh is a sister of Mrs. Boyd Sproat. Her brother went with her and will remain during the summer. W. V. Johnson has let the contract for building his new house to E. A. S'Uile. He is going to build on his 40 acre ranch, opposite Peter Mohr's, and will occupy the house us soon as com pleted. Mr. Sieverkrop hus hauled several loads of apples from Dr. Watt's orchard to the Sehaetzle place and is having them made into cider for vinegar. Mr. Brock, sr., and family expect to move upon the place recently pur chased of S. H. Harbison. They will try camping until a house can be built. Dukes Valley Items. May 11. We are having dry, warm weal her for this time of year and would all rejoice to see a good rain. The farmers are all about done with their spring work. There has been aboutoOacres of clover sown this ppring in our little valley. Our school is progressing nicely under the watchful care of Miss Norman. J. F. Dodson and J. 8. Carnahan are still tearing out the grubs, although the ground is getting dry. There will be a bnsket social at the Dukes valley school house Saturday night, May lb, and all are invited to at tend and enjoy the evening with us. There will be a short programme and as line a supper as Dukes valley can afford. The proceeds are to go toward a library for the school. Lust Sunday the good people of Dukes valley met at the school house and or ganized a Sunday school, and next Sim day will be our tirst attempt to hold a Sunday school in this place. We would like to see the house lull of both young ami old. 1 here is enough here to have a Hood school and even body is invited out next Sunday at 2:30 p. in. Come ami join with us. 1. K. 1. (Iiciiuwctli New. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tubba desire to thank their kind neighbors w ho gave aid and sympathy in their recent bereave ment, in the death ol tlieir clulU LielDen Merril. A. J. Hay nes, the Cheuoweth mail earner, was called to Portland Saturday infill bv a telegram stating that his father, L. S. I lay lies, was very low witn heart trouble amt other complications. During his abi-clic, Will Underwood is currying the mail Irom Hood hiver. Arrangements are being made for a dance ami supper at the null camp on the night ol -May oil. Mrs. Eurl Kevs arrived last week from the East to join her husband. It is current report herethat the Wash ington Lumber company has bought out the Oreiton Lumber company. The facts ju the case are not obtainable at present, but it is the general belief that i he transaction has been made. Odell Notes. An entertainment and basket social will be given by the Dukes valley school Saturday evening. May IS, at the Dukes alley school hou.-e, proceeds to be ap plied toward purchasing school library. Kverylxnly cordially invited. A camp has Iwn established at the old James English place by the Idaho ditch people. A small force is engaged in cluaring the right of way, preparatory to putting on a large force of men on the ditch worK. Dr. Whitney, who is connected with . the Portland. "-anitarinni, is at present the guest of C A.Wynian. She is accom panied by a lady friend. Mrs. Ivi D vis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Wymau, i also sojourning at Odell The roa N arc lined a ith lumber Vag ons and much improvement is manifest here. A fine barn is just about com pleted on the Charles Ehrck place, a half-mile southwest of Odell. The work wag done by Belieu & Rea of Hood River. James Eggert has a five-year lease on this place. The new bridge which is being built at V mans' across Hood river, proves to , ou uaiaii Liai structure. Ine lumber is oeing lurnislicd by Davenport Bros, from tlieir mill near Odell. A small wing was added to the little w w store last weelc. Another wing will soon be built on, and then if it does not fly it will not be for a lack of wingx. o ??VC" A- Wyman'a lectures on the Sabbath are well attended, and are the subject of much discussion. To the writer it matters not so much what day is observed, as how each day is lived. It is fruit we need, not professions nor promises. W.II. Sears has recently done excellent nui" lut-Ker nui. tie win take up the wurn Mi' it i n rnmnrrnu; and nrhon ns-.r. ut ed it will reflect credit on Will as a super visor ana prove a comtort to those passing that way. The grader should have been rillf on lh.A rnnita a mnlK anAM 1 U1UU,U CI ".III. I l I here are clouds of dust now, because it was too ary when the roads were worked. But that was not the fault of Sears, but on account of the grader being in use elsewhere. A picnic will be given at the park at the little white Htirft nnwitnv nof truck See posters. Manv f.lnvnr floUta hava Mmntlv Kaan J ' " " ..H.w 1 VV.VIIV1J UWI sown here and the work of irrigation is nOW On. The recent, rlntnanrl and orvnH prices for hay has prompted this. Clo ver meauows pay. C. L. Ropers has ointil 9( atroa nt ant on Willow Flat to a gentleman from Spokane, so report has it. Willow Flat is far-famed and much development is going on there. Don't be a Knocker. A well-known Portland merchant is do ing some much needed missionary work among the knockers this spring and Bummer oy geiung out several thousand "anti-knock" cards, says the Oregonian note and comment man. He keeps a supply of the cards on his counter, and as the opportunity occurs, he passes them out to people with hammers. The cards bear his advertisement on one side and the following pertinent advice on the other: "Don't Knock If there is a ch anpe to boom business, boom it. Don't be a knocker. Don't pull a long face and get sour on your stomach. Hope a bit Get a smile on you. Hold up your head. Get a hold with both hands. Then pull. Bury your hatchet. Drop your toma hawk. Hide your little hammer. When a stranger drops in tell him this is the greatest town on earth. It is. Don't get mulish. Don't roast. Be jolly. Get popular. It's dead easy. Help yourself along. Push your friend with you. Soon you'll have a whole procession. Be a good fellow. "No man ever helped himself by knock ing other people down. No man ever got rich trying to make people believe that he was the only good man on earth. lou can't climb the ladder of fame bv stepping on other people's corns. They're their corns not vours. And they're tender. ' Keep off the corns. ah men are not alike. Once in a while you may find one who is very much alike. But some are different. You're not the only shirt in the wash. If vou don't like their stvle let 'em alone. Don't knock. You'll get used to it. 1 Here's no end of fun in minding your own business. And it makes other people like yon better. Better have oth ers get Bltick on you than get stuck on yourself. iNouody gets stuck on a knocker. Don't be one. Be good." Ten Helpless Liars. Baltimore Herald. Rev. Sam Jones on one occasion de livered his sermon called "Wives and Husbands" before an immense gather ing in Birmingham, Ala. He dwelt particularly on the beauty and utility of mutual forbearance between hus bands and wives, and then, as though desirous of showing the rarity of that quality, said: it mere is a woman in tins vast gathering who has never said an un kind word to tier husband, she will please stand up." A woman arose, as though she had been challenged, and Jones, beckening her with both arms, called out: "Come here, sister! Come right up to the platform!" The woman did as hidden, and when she reached the preacher's side was pre sented to the throng as the "most lieautitul woman in liirniiiighaiu." Joneb, continuing his address, asked any man who had never spoken an un kind word to his wife to make himself known. Promptly arose ten big strap ping, self-conscious chaps, who started for (he platform without further bid ding ami with an air that suggested the anticipation or praise Irom the preacher, who, as they neared him, said: "That's right, my men! Come right up! I want everybody here to gaze on leu of the most helpless liars in the United States." A Startling Test. To save a life, Dr. T. G. Merritt, of North Mehoopany.Pa., made a startling test resulting in a wonderful cure. He writes: "A patient was attacked with hemorrhages, caused by ulceration of the stomach. I had often found Elec tric bitters excellent for acute stomach and liver troubles so I prescribed them. The patient gained from the first, and has not had nil attack in 14 months." Electric bitters are positively guaran teed for dyspepsia, indigestion.constipa tion and kidney troubles. Try them. Only 50c at Chas. N. Clarke's drug store. An Advertising Pointer. Sun Jose (Ol.) Mercury. A few years ago it was said that 40, 000,100 advertising calendars had been given away in a single year at a cost of ?1. 000,000. This car, it is stated, most of the lending establishments will not distribute calendars, preferring to add the sum they would cost to their news paper advertising appropriations. Nearly all Fchcme for publicity are worth something, but it is undeniable that the very best is newspaper advertising. President KmiseVrlt at Portland. For the aUive occasion O. R. & N. Co. will sell round trip tickets to Portland, trains 3 and 5, May 21, at one fare for the round triji fl.tK.; good returning, May '!. l'.H)3. Children between 5 and 12 years of age, 95 cents. E. W. Quarles, Agent. In accordance with the law passed al the last session of the legislature, the eoiiiiiii-f inner of hortietiluire has no tified all nuoervnteii of the provision of the law which requires theiu to de posit n bond of $.1,000 with the state lie fore they can continue to do business in the state of Washington. The home concerns may furnish the ordinary bond required in such chs, but out side nurserymen mint furnish a bond as provided by certain approved secur ity cnmimide. These Umds are re quired so that the pommimioner may take action avainst any concern tbat may not comply with the provisions of the nursery law. uiyrnpia Kecoraer. A JAPANESE GARDEN. Follow This Beclno a Yoa Will Ban One Complete. The classical garden, like a sonnet, ii governed by special laws of harmony and rhythm. It must have its five hills, Its ten trees and its fourteen atones. You can get along without the hills, and yoa can get along without the trees, but' you cannot get along without stones. Indeed the perfect type of the flat garden is notldng but an archipelago of rocks In a sea of white pebbles. The stones must be the foundation; the rest are mere ac cessories. Speaking stones are what Is wanted stones that suggest moods and passions for the Japanese recog nize tbat there are sermons In stones. Each stone has Its name and relative place to the composition. There is the guardian stone In the center and opposite It the bellevlew stone. Across the cascade is the moonshade stone and so on. The hills unmask each other by rule, The principal bill has its two foothills, Its spur hills, Its distant peak, seen through a valley, and the low hill that must stand on the op.ioslte side of the lake. As there are a principal stone and a principal hill, so must there be a "prin cipal tree," the shojin boku, around which the Tree of Perfection, the Tree of Evil, the Tree of the Setting Sun, the Tree of Science and the Tree of Solitude bow their lesser heads. These are the essentials. Now, add one pond, one Island, two stone lan terns, three bridges and mix thorough ly, garnish with lotus and serve with goldfish and mandarin duck. There Is a recipe for a Japanese garden. Wil liam Verbeck lu Country Life. A SMALL LIBRARY. The Principle of Selection on Which It Shoeld Be Baaed. I think that a limit of three books will usually allow a very fair repre sentation of a novelist. For instance, Thackeray is very fairly represented by "Vanity Fair," "Henry Esmond" and "Pendennls" and Dickens by "Pickwick," "David Copperfleld" and "Martin Cbuzzlewlt" Walter Scott would not suffer by one choosing "Ivanhoe," "The Bride of Lammer moor" and "The Heart of Midlothian." "Tom Jones" would suffice for Field ing and "Pride and Prejudice" for Jane Austen, "The Mill on the Floss" for George Eliot and "The Ordeal of Rich ard Feverel" for George Meredith. Taking only the great outstanding fig ures, Tolstoi need only be present with "Anno, ICarenlna" and "War and Peace" and Emile Zola with, say, "Drink" and "The Dream." "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Christo" would suffice for Alexandre Dumas and "Les Mlserables" and "No tre Dame de Paris" for Victor Hugo. It is harder to say of the vast mountain range of Balzac on what particular peaks our choice should fall, but prob ably here again the most popular books will prove the most typical "Le Pere Goriot," "Eugenie Grandet" and "The Ass' Skin." I am not, It must be understood, malt ing a list of books "without which," as the booksellers say, "no gentleman's library Is complete." I am only taking a few standard authors for the purpose of illustrating a principle of selection which must perforce operate In a small library. If our library does not or can not contain the best books, It must cer tainly contain some of them, and, how ever Idiosyncratic of its owner, It must bear the stamp of a general distinc tion. Richard Le Gallienne in Success. BETTER THAN PILLS. The Qrmnaalnm Hats Cared Many a Cavse of Drepepslav. William H. Evarts used to boast that be had never even looked into a gym nasium, which was his way of saying that in his opinion gymnastics were all nonsense. "People say to me, 'Mr. Evarts, you're hale and hearty when you ought to be thinking of your grave, and they wonder how I do It." Of course the secret of the haleness and the heartiness was temperance moderation, says the New York News. No man who goes to bed on a supper of mince pie and Welsh rabbit and wakes up for a breakfast of sausage and buckwheat cakes and then spends most of the day twisting from one side of a desk to the other can long avoid the prescription of hot water thrice a day before meals. "Temperance" is one of the words that are ridiculed un til they impress themselves upon giddy humanity with the effect of a branding iron. Some happy mortals like Mr. Evarts have no use for a gymnasium, for they find gymnastic apparatus everywhere. The street Is their half mile track; the two flights of steps or maybe ten flights are the lung developers; the free and vigorous swing of the arms and the throwing out of the chest are as good as parallel bars. There are men somewhat Intemper ate In their temperance, displaying too much of the good thing. They crack your knuckles when they take you by the hand; they pound you on the back, as If a fishbone were stuck In your throat, and say, "Brace up, old man; you'll be round shouldered if you don't take care." But there is this to be said in favor of the gymnasium It has cured many a case of dyspepsia and to that extent has made the world sweeter. DOING A GREAT DEED. How Phllltpa Brooka Sobered Down n Too Aanlrtnc Yonth. When Boston's great preacher, Phil- Hps Brooks, was a student at college, he decided to enter the ministry. HW Instructors advised him against this step because of an Impediment in speech. "The professors had all the argument on their side," said the fa mous clergyman years after when by patient effort be bad gained control of bis voice, "but naturally I could not protest, for words tailed me." To this preacher's study there came one day a youth, physically perfect, ambitious for honor and looking for a short cut up the road to success. He Intimated that be wished to do some great thing better than It could be done by any one else. Phillips Brooka wrote tepidly upon a piece of paper while bis visitor was speaking, sealed it In an envelope and then uexeeted.uaijAf Bote be read il he Offers the and Country Property. 80. Forty acres, finest of apple land; all can be cul tivated, near Tucker's 4,000 79. Twenty acres, half cleared; house of G rooms; free water; 120 three-year-old apple trees; 18,000 young nursery trees; good berry land 1,750 7o. 40 acres in upper valley; 5 acres in orchard and clover; 20 inches free water; 5 room house.. 850 73. 160 acres oak land; fine spring; good apple land; f 20 per acre. . 72. Fourteen acres, with good new house, close in on East Side; bearing berries and apples 2,800 00. 70 acres on Washington side; bargain at 800 67. 80 acres in Upper Hood River valley; 2,000,000 feet saw timber; good apple land G.'O B. New house and barn, 10 acres of finest land for berries or clover; all in crop; 3 miles out; beautiful home for some one 4,500 4. House with 11 rooms; good locationjfor 10 days, $1,000 14. Two-story house and 2 lots; house plastered 900 3. Seven-room house on State street 1,400 22. House and lot close in, on Sherman ave 450 18. House and two lots, Blowers addition 1,500 30. Five-room house, two lots, Park street, close in 1,600 Lots in Coe's addition from .$175 up; finest resi dence property in the city. 81. Forty acres, all under cultivation but 3 acres; 3 acres in berries; 4 acres in apples; rest in clover and alfalfa; 4 miles out 6,000 The Man who SELLS to wnen rne man reached home. The let ter read: "Stand in the moonlight and you will cast a shadow. No man can cast a shadow Just llktf It" The young man realized that the preacher had made his honest ambi tion seem ridiculous, but made another attempt On the original letter he wrote, "Possible, but I desire that the deed I do be of benefit to my fellow men." Back came the original letter, with these words added: "Then stand in the sunlight and permit the worklngman to eat his lunch in your shadow." All Happens In n Second. A second is the smallest division of time in general use, and when we con sider that In one year there are about 31,558,000 of these periods It would certainly seem as If it was enough for all practical purposes. But, after ail, a good deal can happen in the fraction of a second. A light wave, for Instance, passes through a distance of about 186,000 miles in this length of time. A current of electricity has probably an even greater speed. The earth In Itself moves in Its orbit at a rate of about twenty miles a second. A tuning fork of the French standard vibrates 870 times per second to pro duce the note A on the treble staff. May mmi December. Our great-grandfathers had a way of announcing marriage ceremonies which would hardly find favor nowadays. The following cases in point have been unearthed: "On Aug. 22, 1782, at Bath, Captain Hamilton, aged twenty-eight, married Mrs. Monson, an aged lady of eighty six, but possessing rank and much wealth." "Robert Judge of Cooksborough, Ire land, aged ninety-five, to Miss Annie Nugent, aged fifteen. Bobert Judge was an officer in BUng William's army and was wounded In the nose." Lon don Express. Oddltlee of Lots. He I don't know how It Is, but I've noticed it Is the girl who puzzles all the other girls "what be could have Been In her" who is the first to get mar ried. She And It is the man that the girls say they wouldn't have if he were the last man on earth who has his pick of all the pretty girls In town. Boston Transcript tmaerstlTe. Schoolmaster Now, Jones, give me a sentence, and then we win see tr we can change It to the imperative form. Pnntl The horse draws the wairon. Schoolmaster Now put it in the im perative. Pupil-Gee up! Chums. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than Straightforward and simple Integrity Is another. Cotton. Always the Mode. Vrai Ann't pare much for disnlaTT" "Not much," replied the very wealthy man. "Yet there is some satisfaction In not beine wholly out of style," "That ! the Doint exactly. The things that money buys go out of fash ion In a few moaths, but tne money it self becomes more siyusa every cen tury."-WashIngton Star. Real Estai Following LIST your Foretells Death by Sense of Smell. There's an old superstition tbat a howling dog in front of the house of an III person portends death. One prominent physician believes absolute ly in it This physician has a wonder fully acute sense of smell. Frequent ly, he says, he can foretell the coming of death within forty-eight hours of a patient's demise. Within two days of death, he says, a peculiar earthy odor becomes noticeablo about a person about to die. lie tells of one case where he became aware of the pe culiar odor while talking to an ap parently healthy man. That night the man dropped dead of heart disease. The physician Is far from attributing the peculiar manifestation to other than physiological reasons. His own sense of smell is abnormally acute. New York Press. Hotel Bllla In Enartaad. The author of "Portugal Old and New" finds fault with English hotel keepers for using a printed form of bill on which the plain requirements of a simple traveler are lost amid a multi tude of Items. The result Is that when a guest pays for a day's and a nlghfs lodging he Is positively almost ashamed at finding due registry of his having wanted neither liquors nor stationery nor warm baths nor douche baths nor shower baths nor pots of Jam nor the hotel hairdresser and is apt to reflect what a poor shuffling impostor of a guest he is to have had so few require ments. Followed the Example of Cao. In the first year of the last century London affected great admiration for Cato's suicide, the feeling being arous ed by Addison's play. A gentleman named Budgell, after witnessing us performance, threw himself into the Thames on his way home. His body was recovered, and on it was found a scrap of paper with these words: "What Cato did and Addison approvea musi needs be right" Slightly Different. "Dat were a very excitln' Jackpot I won las night on a bluff," said Mr. Erastus Pinkley as he tilted his cigar and dropped his hat over his eye. "Did you raise the opener?" asked Mr. James Coliflower. "No, sah; I opened a razor." asn Ington Star. She Helped. "Did she help you to propose?" "Well, rather! She asked how many boxes of candy would pay for an en gagement rtng."-Detroit Free Press. Creel Perversion. She Do you recall the day we were married? He I wish to gracious I couldl fonkers Statesman. Ratnral Seaaenee. "Yes," concluded the medical racon teur, "she became iusane through ex cessive dancing." "One might say she was bopping ad, I supposer gurgled the cheerful idiot Baltimore American. A Difference. The Friend Is your daughter hap pily married? The Fatner Well, happily she's mar ried. Kansas City Independent. Good ordet Is the foundation of all good things. Burke. Bargains Property Property with. SEXTON & WALTHER, The Dalles, Oregon, Agents for the Celebrated Smith Grubbing Machines. We also carry the best Steel Wire Cable for Stump Pulling; Rope Shorteners; Snatch flocks; Grubbing Hooks and extra Rope Hooks. Write for Prices. Free Delivery. Phone 571. O. B. HARTLEY, Hood River, Or., -DEALER IN- Groceries, Fruits and Wood. Ii. R JOCHIMSEN, Real Estate Dealer, Has Lands of all kinds in Hood River valley for sale at from 5 an acre up to $400. Strawberry land, apple land, Meadow land and Timber lands. Also, Town Lots and Blocks. See Him for C. T. RAW80N. HOOD RIVER NURSERY. We respectfully announce to the public that we have for the coming planting seasons a hue lot of trees of all kinds. Thrifty, Smooth, and True to Name. Orders are now being booked as received and varieties furnished as long as they last. This season will witness larger plantings of single sorts than any in the history of this valley, and to get what you want will necessitate early orders. We would also state that we are prepared to furnish for next season's planting anv number and ANY VARIETY, GROWN ESPECIALLY FOR YOU. Long experience in the nursery business enables us to guarantee satisfaction. Nursery on East Hide, at crossingof Neal creek. Orders solicited. RAWSON & STANTON, Hood River, Or. THE NEW FEED STORE. On the Mount Hood road, South of town, keeps constantly on hand the best quality of Hay, Grain and Fenl, At Lowest Prlre. dt l. f. LAM AR. Prop. THE Barber Shop, On the Hill, S. C. JACKSON, Proprietor. Will do pirture framing In connwtion. Kxm niolilingn and all kindaof ptmireand window f lBcnilmly on band. Cll and Hm pics of wall paper. Phone THE- New License, Manahutored In Hood River by A. White bee i. A better risar tb.n lit obtainable else wbera !r tne money TRY ONE. iWlan, in Town is the Man Bargains. ap! F. II. STANTON. L. C. Ilayneg James K. UeBor'i BON TON BARBER SHOP. The place to get an easy shave, an up-to-date buir cut, and to enjoy the luxury of a porcelain bath tub. L. H. RICHMOND, Contractor and Builder. Plans furnished and Estimates given on Buildings. Juyl Contractor and Builder Plans and Estimates Fcbkishkd. S. H. COX.