HE ¡SofSESfifelB®®SeJSJE®3.'EHESTffiETC.WE Looking Forward Looking Backward Many a tirm that now says ••there i» no­ thing in Newspaper Advertising for us.” will find within the next few years that there has been much in it for other* in the same line. Is not now vour optiortunity? Manv a tirm that nevergavesueh an ex­ penditure a serious thought a few years ngo. now counts Its Newspaper Advcr- tising appropriation as one of its most ne<-e««nry (and most profitable'' outlay». Is there a hint here for yon? . Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That oi Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County IEL e V hoh E Established lune. 1886. Consolidated Feb. 1,1889. M c M innville . O regon , T hursday , march 12. 1891. VOL. III. NO. 6 most remarkable by a Russian engineer 5 ering of thick hair and ívool to protect enabled to give it a seriousness not com­ down oil the agency books as Jesus,and pursuit, but there are other ways of named Ben Kendorf, in 1846. He was ’ it from the rigors of the cold. The mon in his work, and to abstain from it was against that name that the ra­ getting a wolf than by running’ him engaged in surveying the coast of the j head of the monster was large and the comment. Nothing can be more true tions and Nankets he drew was enter­ down. The painter, paper hanger, kalsominer and decorator can be found during the day bard THE TYN-SCHU OR GIANT RAT OF mouth of the Lena and Indigirka riv­ nose armed with two tusks, one of and more humorous than the narrative ed. Sample rooms in connection. They sent a dozen women and chil­ at work, and will be very willing indeed to ers, and his story is so striking that I which was enormous, being nearly four of this outcast boy, with a heart natur­ He assisted at the burning of the dren to the most isolated ranches as a give estimates and furnish designs tor all CHINA AND THE MASTODON. o------- o give it just as it Ls taken from a letter feet long and large enough to be used ally good, with a conscience torn be­ mission and the killing of the priest bait. Then in the night some of the ■ lasses of work. On June 1, a shop will lie tween the teachings of his world about some years later. opened opposite the Cook bouse. 15-St written to a friend who was then in as a club by the natives. Is now fitted tip in first class order. soldiers Joined the women, and then Professor Charles Frederick Holder’s If you can picture an ordinary rhi­ slavery and the promptings of his na­ Baek be turned into the mountains. they waited. Germany. Accommodations as good as can be Strange and Interesting Tales of the »■ » Afterward we landed on the noceros a third larger, or perhaps half ture. In one point Mark Twain is For a week or two he waited to hear Three days passed before Jesus and ound in the city. Lore and Reality of Prehistoric Hunters new shore and surveyed the undermin­ as large again, covered with reddish Homeric, probably without knowing from the rest of the band, but no ridels his comrades came to the bait, and dur­ —Capturing the Monsters in the Pale* S. Ê. MESSINGER, Manager. ing and destructive operation of the hair and an undercoating of wool, with it. In the Odyssey. Odysseus frequent­ came back. He would wait until ing that time not a man showed him­ oroic Ages—A Whale on Ice. wild waters, that carried away with ex­ a tusk four feet in length, another two ly tells a false tale about himself to ac­ spring, then some of them would surely self outside of the adobe house. i M c M innville traordinary rapidity masses of soft peat feet, some idea can be had of the strange count for his appearance and position break away frow the reservation and When the first European visited Chi­ and loam. While we were all quiet we creature tiiat roamed the country with when disguised on his own island. He take the war trail back into Mexico. Just at dark on the third day they ELSIA WRIGHT. na and began to obtain information re­ beard under our feet a sudden gurgling the elephant and perhaps fought with shows extraordinary fertility and ap­ Old Geronimo and Chatto aud the rest came—not with a rush, but crawling Carries the Largest Assortment of garding the traditions of the country and stirring, which betrayed the work­ it, as these animals are known to do in propriateness of invention, wherein lie always broke away in the spring. He and sneaking until only the space of Harness and addles and also the CARI.IN & HIGH. Proprietors the dooryard separated them from the Hood» of all descriptions moved and care­ LARGEST STOCK IN YAMHILL COUNTY. they learned, among other things, that ings of the disturbed river. Is equalled by the feigned tales of didn’t know that the incomprehensible houseful of women aud children. Then Africa today. ful handling guaranteed. Collections will in the natural history of the people was The big rhinoceros is also well known Hucklclierry Finn. The casual char­ white men would send the bad chiefs “Suddenly our jager called loudly Harness of all kinds Made to Order, lie­ be made monthly Hauling of a 1 kinds an enormous subterranean rat called and pointed to a singular and unshape­ to the Chinese; its horn is supposed to acters met on the way are masterly; oft’in the railroad train so far that they they started up boldly. The Apach* pairing Neatly Done. done cheap yell of triumph was still in the air Robe», Whips and all the Necessaries tyn-schu. ly object which rose and sank through be the tooth of a big dragon or unicorn, the woman who detects lluck in a could never get back. when the soldiers flrod. Each bullet The rat was five or six times as large are Kept In Stock in Endless the disturbed waters. I had remarked and whep ground up forms a valuable girl’s dress; the fighting families of So Jesus started but alone. There fouud an Indian and all fell, and when Variety. as a horse, had terrible teeth and lived it, but had given it no attention, con­ item in irredicine. Shepherdson and Grangerford; the ho­ are not many people about the Sierra i soldiers came out to make sure of i I Call and See Stock. Store on Third Street, chiefly in the northern country, where sidering it only driftwood. Noiv we In the Chinese Repository is the fol­ micidal Col. Sherborne, who cruelly Madre, but lie knew a trail where the the IvCt. Taloor. their work there were six dead Indians McMinnville. Oregon. forced its way beneath mountain ranges hastened to the spot on the shore, had low from the pen of Dr. Lie She Chan, shoots old Boggs, and superbly quells prospectors sometimes traveled, and in the dooryard. So the soldiers went -Portland's Most Benutlfnl Suburb- so that when a tremor of an earth­ the boat dratvn near, and waited till a distinguished authority on medicine the mob of would-be lynchers; the var­ he loitered along this trail. At last he away, and the holy sister of Nt. Gene­ quake was heard in China the parents the mysterious thing should again in his time, on the subject of dragon ious old aunts and uncles; the negro Fur the treatment of Nervous Diseases, saw a mounted man against the sky- vieve, who had come with the other espeoially those st.tiering from nervous ex would turn to the child and say. Jim; the two wandering impostors; the on top of a hill. He knew it was not women, prayed until far into the night show itself. Our patience was tried, (rhinoceros) bones: haustion and prostration, chronic diseases, “My son, behave yourself. The tyn- but at last a black, horrible, giant-like Carries the Best Line of Choice Meats in and nil tho*e who need quiet and rest, good “The bones are found on banks of hateful father of Huck himself. Then an Indian, even at that distance, be­ for the dead. While she prayed she nursing, massage and constant medical lhei itv. Game and Fish in Season. Poul­ schu is burrowing Ireneath the moun­ mas thrust out of the water and we lie- rivers and in caves of the earth, places Huck’s compliment to Miss Mary Jane cause Apaches do not ride along a ridge heard a voice from out of the moonless care. At Mt. Tabor will be fon d pure air. try, hides, etc , bought for the highest mar­ Your tains, making the earth tremble.” absolutely free from malaria, good water, ket price and cash paid for same held a colossal elephant’s head, armed where the dragon died, and can be col­ whom the thought of aftermards "a where their silhouettes can be seen night—a weak, dying voice—and it beautiful surroundings and magnificent attention is called to the fact that we al­ Thus it came to be believed by all with mighty tusks, with its long trunk lected at any time.” many and a many million times," how- from miles and miles away. So Jesus pleaded and liegged for water. ways serve the best meats to be found. view*. Ample references given if desired that the big tat was nn actual fact. No moving in the water in an unearthly We need not go so far back to find excellent it Ls! "In my opinion she simply slipped behind a rack and wait­ “Agua! Agua!” For further particulars, address the physic­ Your patronage is solicited H. M. BOND. one could lie found, however, who had manner, as though seeking for some­ animals preserved in the ice. Whalers had more sand in her than any girl I ian in chsrge. ed, and the man with his packed burro The voice was growing weaker. OSMON ROYAL, M. D„ met with the tyn-schu, until a hunter thing lost therein. Breathless with as­ tell of gigantic whales which have been ever see; in my opinion she was just 107 Third 8«., Portland, Oregon. trotting ahead came on down the trail "Agua! Augua!" M c M innville national bank . from the far north was discovered who tonishment I beheld the monster hard­ seen entombed in icebergs, and several full of sand. It sounds like flattery, and passed the rock behind which the It was almost a whisper- a hard, rat­ I said he bad seen one, and here Ls his Corner Third and <’ street.-, in Bralv block. ly twelve l’ect from me, with Ills half authentic cases are on record where big but it ain’t no flattery. And when it Indian hid, and when he had passed tling whisper from a palate blazing and story. open eyes, yet showing the whites. It whales have been observed thus im­ comes to beauty—and goodness, too— Jesus rested his Winchester across the from thirst. m ’MINNVII.LE, OREGON. * “I am a fisherman, and some years was still in good preservation. prisoned, held aloft and floating around she lays over them all.” No novel has rock ami shot him fair in the middle of The good sister could not listen to it. ago I travelled in Northern China and Transact« a General Banking Business, Watchmaker “A mammoth! a mammoth!” broke at the whim of the Arctic currents.— better touches of natural description; Siberia, following up the rivers to the out the Tschernoniori; and 1 shouted: Charles Frederick [folder in S'. I'. the starlit nights on the great river,the the back. The man rolled oft, of course, The words of her prayer came back to and Jeweler. President................................J. W. COWLS northern ocean, One winter the cold and Jesus watehed him struggle and her—her plea for divine marry for the "Here quickly!” chains and ropes!” As Examiner. storms, the whole landscape, the choke and die, and then cut the Ixxly poor savages. Dealer in All Kinds of Watches. Jewelry. Plated Ware Vice President ..........LEE LAUGHLIN had been more severe than usual, and ------------ — —■— Clocks and Spectacles. McMINNVILLE. OR. the animal again sank we waited sketches of little rotting towns; of the and crushed the features with rocks. Cashier.......................... J. L. STRATTON "Dios mt manda," «he luumicred, we started down the Lena before the for an opportunity to throw the ropes woods, of the cotton-fields, are simple, Then he caught the dead prospector's “God-sends me.,' MARK TWAIN IS HOMERIC. Sells sight exchange anil telegrni>hi<- ice had gone. It was still very cold, JOHN DERBY, JESSE EIHTABD«. natural and visible to the mind’s eye. horse. He did not need a horse, so he She filled a canteen from the cool ofto over his head. This was accomplished transfer" on Portland, San Francoaml New but we kept on, hoping to secure many after many efforts. We then threw a York. An Englishman who Delights in Huckle­ The story, to lx1 sure, ends by lapsing simply hamstrung the animal and left and stepped out into the night. She Collections made on all accessible poinL«. fish to dry and carry into the interior chain around his tusks, which were into burlesque, when Tom Sawyer in­ him to die of hunger and thirst. He could.not see, but the hoarse voice of berry Finn. Interest allowed on time deposits. later on. about eight feet long, drove a stake in sists on freeing the slave whom he could have killed the horse with less the dying Indian guided her. She Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p m. Proprietors of The McMinnville "One day we were passing a high the ground about twenty feet from the knows to bee free already, iti a manner trouble, but that would not have been stumbled over something in the dark Mark Twain. If you praise him cliff that was partly undermined by a shore and made chain and rojic fast to accordant with “the best authorities.” TILE ! turn in tiie river, when my comrade it. The day weut by quicker than I among persons of culture, they cannot But even the burlesque is redeemed by­ in accordance with what he had always anil iCmadc her shudder. She reached TILE asked mo if I had ever seen a tyn-schu. thought for, but still the time seemed believe that you are serious. They call Tom's real unconscious heroism. There done, and the Apache is a creature of tbs side of the form from which the faint cries for water came, a form with J S HI BBS. - - • Proprietor. I replied no. ‘Well,,’ said lie, ‘there is long before the animal was secured and him a barbarian. They won't hear of are defects of taste, or passages that to habit. Situated at the Southwest corner of the him, they hurry from the subject: they The murder of the prospector would a great bleeding, mortal wound in it, Fair Grounds. All size- of Fresh Meats of all kinds constantly on one coming out.’ the Avater had loosened it. The soft pass by on the other side of the way. us seem deficient in taste, but the book of course be discovered, aud men would through which the soldier's bullet had hand. Highest price paid for Butcher’s ‘‘I looked up, and there, about forty First-Class Drain Tile peat, or marsh land ou Which he had Now I do not mean to assert that Mark remains a nearly flawless gem of ro­ come to liunt him. Jesus, from long gone, apd stooped over to put the can­ stock feet from the beach, was a big black kept constantly on hand at lowest living stepped thousands of years ago gave Twain is "an impeccable artist,” but mance and of humor. The world ap­ experience knew this, so he maimed teen to its lips. T hird S treet , M c M ixxthae , O r . mass of something. 1 could see two prices EPWABD8 A DERBY, way under the weight of the giant and he is just as fur from being a mere preciates it, no doubt, but •'cultured and mangled the dead man some more As she did so the right hand of the long teeth; a long tail and his shaggy 41- Mi-Mi inville, Oregon critics” are probably unaware of its he sank as he stood on it, feet foremost, fur, and it was evidently struggling to incapable of saving himself, and a se­ coarse beffbon. Like other people, he singular value. A two-shilling novel to show his derision and contempt and dying mail shot up, and the holy sin­ has his limitations. Even Mr. Glad ­ went away. What he found in the ter of St. Genevieve fell backward with get out, as the ice cliff was cracked. 1>!L J. C. MICHAUX vere frost came and turned him into stone, for instance, does not shine ns a by Mark twain, with an ugly picture pack was welcome. He got drunk,and i a knife driven through her heart. For Gates & Henry, Props. “ ’When he sees the sunlight,’ my ice, and the moor which buried him. Biblical critic, nor Mark Twain as a on the cover, “lias no show,” as Huck he ate till he could cat no more, but he ' Jesus was an Apache.— Charles \fichrt- comrade said, ‘it will kill him, and McMinnville, - Oregon The latter, however, grew and flourish­ critic of Italian art nor as a guide to the might say, and the great American did not celebrate his triumph this way I »on in S. F.Examiner. Practicing Physician and Surgeon, j when we come back we shall find him ed, every summer renewing itself. Pos­ Holy Land. I have abstained from novel has escaped the eyes of those who until he was back in the high mottn- ---------- - ------------ dead.’ Sure enough, several months sibly the neighboring stream had heap­ reading his work on an American at watch to see this new planet swim into tains again. IJ.fAVr.TTE, OREGON- ; You’ve tried Dr, Pierce’s Favorite after wheu we went back, there lay the ed over the dead laxly plants asid sand. the court of King Arthur, because here their ken. And will Mark Twain never So Jesus lived alone in the moun-! Prescription have you and you’re dis- I Jan. 21, ’S3. monster on the lieach, dead. It bad God onlj" knows what cause had work­ Mark Twain is not and cannot be,,at write such another? One is enough tains. He did not molest the ranches,) appointed. The results are not iiume- crawled out of its hole and died in the Everything New ed for its preservation.” the proper point of view. He has not for him to live by and for our gratitude exeept to steal a horse or a cow for food, I diate. sunlight, and was mostly eaten up by S. A. YOUNG, M. D. not enough for our desise.— Andrew when lie did not