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THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER M c M innville , July - - O regon . - 23, 1891. HOW TO WRITE A LETTER DON’T MAKE EXCUSES FOR NOT HAVING WRITTEN BEFORE. Don’t Tell Your Correspondent About Himself or Herself—A Piece of Sticky Fly Taper—Try to Learn to Gossip. Don’t Fill the Measure with CliafT. ¿Copyright, 1891, by American Press Associa tion.] I suppose everybody who is in the way of receiving many letters has often no ticed how many of them are, in one way or another, very unsatisfactory letters, and wondered why they need be so. Of course this comment must most often arise in the minds of literary per sons, especially of those whoso business it is to consider and decide upon the products of other people's pens, and as my experience lies in these latter lines I am only too often led to wonder why persons who can write well for the press, or, as one may say, for the public, write so very poorly for their friends or for an individual reader. Perhaps the greatest wonder of all, in my mind, is that I don’t write better let ters myself, for I assure you, dear friends, that I understand my own shortcomings quite as well as you do; but remember, if you please, that there is a large class who “know the right and yet the wrong pursue,” and so far as letter writing goes rank me among them. After this bit of salntary meekness let me proceed to rehabilitate myself by pointing out some of the most common faults in tho letters I peruse, some of which faults I confess as my own, and somo others of which I indignantly deny, and please don’t anybody intimate that I----- Compound for sins I am inclin'd to, By d~ing those I have a mind to! In the first place let us consider letters of friendship, especially those occurring in a correspondence. How many per sons begin these with apologies for long silence, “I don’t know what you have been thinking or saying about ine all this while,” or, more artlessly, “I sup pose you are provoked at me for not writing,” or some other form of depre cation of wrath, and then follows a string of apologies and minute explanation of tho reasons why the letter has not been written sooner and promises of doing better in the future. Now all this is very conceited and vain, since it takes for granted that one's letters are of great value and havo been watched and waited for, whereas, in point of fact, your correspondent has very likely been just as busy and just as preoccupied as you have been, and has not had time to notice that your letter did not come, or even has been glad that it did not, because it has not demanded an answer. One of tho sad lessons of life is that we are not of as much conse quence to anybody else as we are to our selves, and that very many of our friends do not much care whether they receive a letter from us today or this day week. My own dearest and oldest woman friend and I correspond very seldom, and never accuse each other or excuse ourselves concerning the gaps between our letters, and yet we love each other more and more deeply as the silent years go on. The next most common fault in friendly letters is filling them with discussion of the person to whom they are written, advice and suggestions about that per son's movements or affairs, and ques tions as to his or her health, opinions and domestic circle. Of course, between intimate and familiar friends all this has its place, and there are plenty of occa sions when tho very object of writing is to Ad vise or question, or in some fashion express one’s mind about the person to whom one writes, but in the ordinary friendly letter this is not advisable. When ono takes up a letter in a familiar handwriting one says to one's self: “Ah! here's a letter from A. Now I shall hear all the Washington gossip;” or, “Now I shall get a little rest from all this worry and bother of business.” But lo and behold, the friendly letter is simply a raking over of all the things which fret and weary you tho most: How arc you getting along with your lawsuit, or is there any chance that those bonds or stocks will recoup themselves? And how is your neuralgia, and did you ever hear of this or that remedy, gener ally remedies that you havo thrown aside long ago; or how you must miss your dear little dog, and can’t you trace the thiet? Or perhaps the letter is filled with ad vice upon some matter whoso “true in wardness” nobody understands but your self, or some course upon which you havo deliberately made up your mind and fixed your resolution, although you have not announced it to the world or even to your correspondent. No! In a friendly letter don't try to avoid egotism, but rather cultivate it. Your friend knows all about herself and her own affairs and surroundings; what she wants now is to know something about yours; somo brief, bright little ac count of something you have done, some person you havo met, some amusement whereat you have assisted and where you have met acquaintances mutual to you and your correspondent. Perhaps you live so quiet a life that you havo no social anecdotes to relate; perhaps it is so uneventfnl that you have done nothing and seen nothing worth repeating. Well, then, fall back upon the things not worth repeating so loag as they are vividly in your mind. One of tho very most amusing letters I ever read in my life was from a young girl living a very, very quiet life and mak ing no pretension to literary ability. It was all about the adventures of a piece of sticky fly paper on a windy day, end ing with her father setting his silk hat down upon it, and then, while nobody could speak for laughter, snatching up the hat, clapping it upon his head and rushing out of the house in masculine contempt of the senseless hilarity of his family. A very trifling occurrence you will say, and a very silly letter, but all the same it gave mo a good laugh and a marry mood, and I have had a pleasant thought for that girl through all the years that have rolled between that day and this. If you have nothing whatever to tell about yourself, find some little bit of news about other people; not tho affairs of nations, which are generally stupid, or of public characters, which every one may read in the newspapers, but of the people around you. As for instance, 1 "We have a new Biddy, and when I told her in making coffee to put in an egg ‘and the shells,’ she actually used an unbroken egg and at least half a pound of cocoa shells.” Or tell of Miss Brown’s appearance at tho polls, or Miss Smith's astounding new gown, or in fact any little incident that could make one smile or give one a new view of hu manity. Perhaps somebody remarks in a town full of “Prunes, Prisms and Propriety,” “That thing is gossip, and I never gos sip!” To such an one I say, then you'd bet ter learn, my dear, for I contend that gossip, that is to say, good natured, truthful, charitable gossip is a very use ful element of social success either in conversation or letter writing. It takes one’s thoughts off of one's self, and off of that perpetual question as to life being worth the living and off of those darker problems concerning tho sin and misery and needs of those around us in a great city, which, like the Sphinx, are always threatening to devour ns if we do not guess their riddle. Yes, it is a great thing to some of us brain workers to have a bit of amusing gossip presented as an attraction to our overburdened lives, and I for one am always thankful to a correspondent who presents it to me. Another very frequent fault in friend ly letters is the want of proportion be tween value and space; that is to say, three-fourths of the sheet will lie cov ered with either those exenses for not having written sooner, or some lamenta tion over a mistake already corrected, as, for instance, “I was so sorry I thought you said three instead of two, but as I told you when we did finally meet I was thinking of the last time you called for me, and you remember that was three,” etc., a couple of pages utterly use less and uninteresting, since the friends had already come to an explanation by word of mouth. And then on the fourth page comes, “Oh, I must tell you I have at last made an arrangement to sell my house and go abroad, but I have no time to tell you about it now, as the bell has rung for dinner.” How many such letters we all receive; yes, and unhappily so many of us write! Letters filled with what might just as well be left out, and omitting or mini mizing the most important subject at our command. It is always better before one puts pen to paper to cast a little com prehensive glance over what one has to say and select the one thing that must be said to begin upon; give the best time and attention to that in the very first place, and then if there is still room and the dinner bell don’t ring, fill up your letter with as many “frills” as you like. Another very provoking kind of friendly (?) letter is one I too often re ceive. It is a very brief and scrawly kind of note, written merely to say that the writer has no time for a letter, although she has a thousand things to say and loves me very dearly. To such an one I havo sometimes replied, “If you have no time for a letter, wait for a few hours until you have, and if you love me show your affection by making a little time.” Yet another irritating sort of letter is a half confidential one: “I had such a strange interview with you know who! If I should tell you about it you would — well, I don’t know how you’d feel nor what you’d say, but I ought not to tell you nor anybody else, so I won’t. It wouldn’t be right to let you see how far —well, there, wo won’t say any more about it. Have you heard Patti this season?’ Now if one’s intimate friend under takes to talk in that fashion face to face, one can soon shako tho whole story out of her, or if she is too exasperating can say, “Pray don’t tell me if you don’t want to; I really don't take any interest in the subject.” But when the friend is miles or even oceans away, it is not worth while to slap at her in this fash ion, and of course one wouldn’t choose to urge for a confidence, even if quite sure it would come in the end. So much for friendly letters. As for business letters, their merit, like tliat of wit, lies mostly in their brevity. A per son who has a business proposition to present or a business question or a busi ness reply to make should have a math ematical capacity for extracting the “square root” of the matter and giving that to his correspondent, pure and sim ple. I always distrust a business cor respondent who indulges in fine language or .graceful verbiage; tho truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth should be the criterion of business letters, as well as of legal testimony. You have something definite to say—a proposal, a petition, a question, a reply, or whatever it may be—well, turn it over in your own mind for a few moments, get at the pith of it, the “true inwardness,” and then clothe it in simple, straightforward languago and sign your name to it. Of course there are somo little forms of courtesy to be observed, but uon’t gar nish your plain roast beef with paper frills or carrot flowers; it will go down better without them. There is ono kind of business, or semi business, letter which every editor re ceives only too often, and is more or less grieved thereat, although it seldom ef fects its object It is written by some poor soul who has been left a widow with little children, or has a sick mother to support, or is struggling to get the means for a collegiate education, or from some other highly respectable cause is in need of money and has persuaded him or herself that it may be wrung from the hand of a sympathetic editor in exchange for a manuscript, accompanying tho let ter. Of course if the manuscript proves available the hope is fulfilled and all goes upon velvet; but, unfortunately, it generally isn’t available, for few persons who havo the gift of authorship find it out for the first time when misfortune comes upon them. One must have learned to use one's weapon before the hour of combat arrives. Now, editors are but men and women, and are often moved by these appeals to a very considerable extent, but if they aro honest editors and good business men and women the sympathy leads to no results. The editor is the servant of the public, and is bound to furnish his employer with the best wares that are in the market so far as he can obtain them. The editor who prints a trashy story or poem because the writer is un fortunate and needs money fails to carry out his contract with the public, and the public will very soon show its resent ment by withdrawing its patronage. No, the plaintive appeal only frets and annoys the editor and very, very seldom pro duces any other result. Once, to be sure, I was so betrayed by my weaker nature as to pay for a MS. story immediately thrown into the waste basket, but I was thoroughly punished for my folly by an inundation of worth less matter from the same writer, who was grievously offended and rather abu- sivo because none of it was accepted. There is one more class of letters, namely, love letters, of which I might speak, but— “the dinner bell rings, so good-by!” A Simple Piece of Furniture. The foundation for this couch, at once comfortable and ornamental, is a frame work of wood so simple in its construc tion that it can be made by any carpen ter with ordinary skill. The legs are square and solid, the stretch of couch above being broad pieces of wood with an upholstering of springs and a cover ing of muslin, or a substantial support ing frame, with a wire webbing across, on which is a well fitting mattress filled with excelsior or hair. The head cush ion has a firm, light modern back, with an extension strip on each side holding it to the sides of the couch in the man ner shown in the cut. The back is a long square rod resting on a short sup port at each end, with an ornamental knob as a finish. This rod has a padding of excelsior with muslin cover to soften the edges over the top. AN ARTISTIC COUCH. PAY OF FRENCH TEACHERS. The Compeusatiou Educated Women De* ceive in the Schools of France. In France the teaching profession is much overstocked. For private teaching no diploma i3 required, but practically it is needed, for a teacher with a diploma i9 always preferred. Ladies are sometimes attached to large scholastic establishments solely for the purpose of receiving the re latives of the pupils. For their services they are paid fifty francs a month and their board. Secretaries and readers are paid from 10C ($20) to 300 (IGO) francs a month. Their hours are long and their dut.es fatiguing. Interpreters get two francs an hour. For the post of interpreter the candidate must get herself into good relations with the hotels, for it is here that their services are chiefly required. In a lower class of life respectable women can earn ten or fifteen francs a month by taking children out for a walk every day and thus relieving hard worked mothers and saving them the expense of a nurse. These women are not, properly speaking, teachers, but they often talk some foreign language, and are often required to do so in order that their little charges may gain practice. The public schools are divided into pri mary, secondary and superior. In the pri mary the best posts to be obtained are those of inspectors. There are five inspectors of boarding schools and five of infant schools. The salary is a minimum of 4,000 francs ($800) a year, and a maximum of 5,500 francs (fl, 100), with a bi-annual rise of 500 francs ($100). The inspectors also receive 500 francs ($100) a year for extra expenses. In Paris itself there are six inspectors of girls’ primary schools and three of infant schools. The salary is 6,000 francs ($1,200) a year, in cluding expenses. There is also an inspector of the class for bookkeeping and modern languages, in which the salary, together with the ex penses, amounts to 7,200 francs($1,440), and one post of inspector of schools for dress making and cutting out. These schools are in the suburbs of Paris, and the salary is 3,000 francs ($600) a year. The applicants must be thirty years of age at least and thirty-five at most, and must hold the high est diploma. They can all receive pensions, calculated after the rules applied to the employes of the prefecture of the Seine, that is, after thirty years’ service they have the right to a pension equal to half their salary. This sum is deducted from their salaries at the rate of 20 per cent. The teachers in primary schools must also hold the highest diplo mas, except in the infant schools, which re quire a simple diploma and certificate of aptitude. Here the salaries for the teach ers are from 1,500 ($300) to 2,500 francs ($500); for the directresses, from 2,750 ($550) to 3,800 francs ($750). Promotion can only be obtained after three years of service, and becomes a right after five. Good posts are those of adult school teachers, there being seventeen schools for adult women in Paris. There are sixty drawing schools throughout Paris and the provinces, but the salary of the teachers here is not fixed by government. These schools are excellent, and very good places in which to begin the study of art.— New York Sun. An upper covering of tapestry cre tonne, in some one of tho artistic and cheery shades of blue, tan, old rose or olive green, on a white ground, with a trimming of velvet to match about an inch and a half in width, and held in place by a close studding of large gilt or silver headed nails, is the finish for the whole. When the framework is in proper and substantial shape it is easy work for the handy housekeeper who wishes to add this attractive piece to her sitting room, hall or bedroom to fit the upper cover. The stuff should be drawn tightly and fastened along the edges with small tacks, which drive in easily. The velvet ribbon is then added; the bright heads of tho tacks will need a piece of cardboard held over them in striking to protect from the bruise of the blow. Tho curtain at tho back is a drapery or vallance laid in box plaits, with a pretty fringe along the lower edge. Covered with velvet or plush, this is a new and handsome design, and with a fur rug in front will fill the place creditably wherever it is put. Instead of the vallance at the back there may be a festooning of silken drapery to correspond with the tone of the couch. Upon the face of the cushion, if the cover material is of one tone, a handsome monogram embroidered in silk wrought in outline with gold or silk cord may be put with good effect. A small, oblong rest pillow filling the corner between cushion and couch will lend itself happily to tho proper adjust ment for ease and luxury. An ordinary pine table, where the legs are square, and solid, with the addition of a lower shelf is in proper shape for a like covering which will present it a handsome and substantial rest for lamp She Got a Scat. and books. There is no ^difficulty in the It was about 11 o’clock, on the elevated covering save a required nicety in fitting the corners, but this is easy enough if road—and elsewhere. At Twenty-third street two pretty young one thinks a moment or two before using women in good clothes came aboard. the scissors. The morning rush was past, but still the F lorence E. T yng . car was full of comfortable business men studiously devotee! to their newspapers. Not a seat was vacant, and not one was offered. One of the young women hitched herself to a strap with an air of familiarity with the process; the other looked on and at the men with an expression of intellec tual curiosity, not unmixed with scorn. “You’ll see Wall street running right up against old Trinity,” said she of the strap: as if continuing a previous conversation, “then I want to take you through one of the big office buildings, but we’ll have to wait till papa”---- “Will we have to stand all the way down theah?” asked her friend and evident, guest irrelevantly, in soft, clear tones and un mistakable southern accents. “No; not all the way,” replied the New York girl, and then, chaperoning her sex instead of her section, she addedsotto voce, “some of these brutes will 1 ave to get out before Rector street—they’li have to give us a seat whether they want to or not.” “No, I don’t think they will,” said the southerner in the same soft, audible tone, and casting a meditative look about her; or six boxes, obtainable at a druggist’s or “I think by their looks they 11 stay aboard stationer's. The boxes must be uniform and lose money to keep us out of one.” in size and color—white being prefer A gentleman sitting on one of the cross able—and so made that the inner part seats with his back to them now rose with slides within the outer. Glue them to an amused expression, saying: “No, no; we’re not so bad as that,” and gether to form a solid body, and tie his seat, whereupon his vis-a- around it a ribbon as broad as the length surrendered vis succumbed ruefully to moral suasion of the boxes, making a bow on top. If and gave up his. When the girls, with there are six, put in one a supply of elas smiling thanks, were seated, the southern tic bands, in a second glove buttons and er winked merrily at her friend and said: in the third hooks and eyes. The rest “If you nawthin gyuls understood man may contain safety pins, shoe buttons aging yah men they’d behave bettah. The iron hand in the velvet g'.ove; that’s a and black pins. A sample of the con tents of each box is fastened on ono end south’en woman’s fo’te.”—New York Her for a handle. This is a most convenient ald. A Place for Everything. A little convenience designed to en force the rule of having a place for every thing, and everything in its place, is here given. It consists of three, four, bit of bedroom furnishing to place on bureau, table or mantel. Tho Largest Gas Tank in the World. The erection of an immense gas holder- said to be the largest in the world—is now under way for the East Greenwich station in London. Some idea of the magnitude of the structure may be obtained when It is stated that it will have a capacity of 12,- 000,000 feet of gas; that it will be 300 feet in diameter, with an altitude of 180 feet when at Its full height; that its total weight will bo 2,200 tons, of which 1,840 tons will bo of wrought Iron, GO tons of cast iron and 320 tons of steel, and that it will require 1,200 tons of coal to fill it with gas. For the reception of the gigantic gas ometer a concrete tank 303 feet In diameter aud 31 feet 6 inches deep has been made, at a cost of $75,000, the greater part of the work having been done by the stokers, who would otherwise have been discharged during the summer months. The cost of the holder alone—its manufacture, erection and completion—will be $205,975.—New York Telegram. Sign Language. A gang of laborers were relaying the tracks of the Pine street electric line/and in charge of one squad was a burly Irish man who walked to and fro picking up small stones. Curious to know why he gathered the pebbles and did not move the big stones, a bystander asked him why he carried his handful of little rocks. “Thim’s me ordthers,” was the prompt reply. “Does the company tell you to pickup all the small stones?” “No, no, no, ye don’t understand me. Them’s me instruchtors. See me now,” and as he said the word he threw one of the pebbles at a stooping laborer, striking him sharply in the side. The man looked tip, and as he caught the eye of the boss another pebble struck two feet to his left. Without a word he began digging his pick into the macadam where the pebble fell. “Now, do ye understand me?" remarked the boss, getting ready to hit another la borer. “Are the men deaf?” he was rsked. "Are they dafe? Not a bit of it.” “Then why don’t you talk to them?” Chicago Jails Preferred. “Talk to them, is it? It's a foine time Civic patriotism expresses itself in re I’d have tryin’ to make thim see the pint. markable similes. In Gotham it was Them’s Eyetalians, every mother’s son o' Chauncey M. Depew, or at least so the thim.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. story runs, who exclaimed that he would rather be a lamppost in New York than a A Snake Up a Tree. king anywhere else. In a similar manner, Recently J. C. Richardson cut down a doubtless, have citizens of our other large bee tree. The honey was located in a limb towns declared their undying affection for that had two hollows that were fifty feet their peculiar place of abode in part ¡cuter, from the ground, the tree being three feet and their scorn for all other places in gen in diameter. When he went to get the eral. The legend has its varied shapes hi honey from one hollow a large chicken Boston and Philadelphia. snake ran its head out of the other hollow. Here in Chicago the sentiment has prob The snake was promptly killed and meas ably been expressed often enough in one ured six feet long.—Atlanta Constitution. way or another, but hardly as forcibly as A Ntw Belt of Camels* Hair. did a diner in one of the down town res A new belt, which is claimed to be more taurants the other day. From amid the clatter of knives and forks and the chatter durable and kss liable to slip than leather, of diners there floated out suddenly into while at the s uae time no more costly, is the hearing of almost the whole assembly woven with cotton warp and camels’ hair this remark, uttered in a fiercely aggressive filling. Th** fabric is then subjected to tone, accompanied by an emphasizing . chemical treatment, and when dry the belt thump on the table, “Yes, sir; I would is given H’v< re tests.—New York Journal. sooner be in jail in Chicago than a free Of the twelve largest cities in the world man in any other place.” three are in Japan. If that didn’t express the essence of pa Twelve hundred commissions are vacant triotic self denial what does?—Chicago in the English volunteer army. rT'v»i lui r»x» The Thiers Tracks. ODDS AND East and South ENDS. —VIA— The queen of Italy has twenty strings of pearls of fabulous value. Never tear lawns or cambrics; it rolls . the edges. Draw thread and then cut the widths. Of the 17,000,000 wage earners in this country 7,000,000, or 44 per cent., are en gaged in farming. It is said of American ladies that they ■ love large diamonds and that they wear more jewelry than any others. Spots of grease may be effectually re moved from the most delicate fabric by the application of dry buckwheat flour. Many of us have two standards, one for onreelves that reaches the clouds, while the one which we give to others trails low in the dust. Lime water is good for chilblains. Use it both strong and hot. A saturated soln tion of alum in water, used hot, is also very efficacious. The system of riveting by hydraulic power is being successfully applied to the shell plating of vessels in course of con struction on the Tyne. One of the happiest moments of a young man’s life is when he notices for the first time that his mustache has grown so long that he wets it when he drinks. In Germany the ordinary speed of passen ger trains is only about thirty-five or forty miles an hour, and this is probably about the average rate of speed in other Euro pean countries. Experiments on the artificial production of r^in are to be made in Kansas. Balloons filled with hydrogen and oxygen gas will be sent up and exploded by a wire con nected with an electric apparatus on the ground. Deep River boasts that it is the home of the most philosophical man in Connecticut. A few days ago he was leading a Durham bull, of which he thinks the world, when the animal, becoming angry, knocked his owner down, trampled on him and finally left the poor man lying on the ground with two broken ribs, a broken leg and a hole in his thigh. Neighbors went to his assist ance and finally succeeded in bringing him back to consciousness. He opened his eyes and, smiling proudly, feebly whispered, “Didn’t I always tell you Custer was a highly sperited bull?”—Boston Herald. Reasonable Questions. Facts, taken all by themselves, are often open to a ludicrous interpretation. A young man just home from college, wishing to inspire his little sister with awe for his learning, pointed to a star and said: “Do you see that bright little luminary? It’s bigger than this whole world.” “No, ’tisn’t,” said she. “Yes it is,” declared the young collegian. “Then why don’t it keep off the rain?” was the triumphant rejoinder.—Spare Mo ments. ________________ This is the time of year when the shrewd father olserves to his children: “Now, boys, think it over. Which would you sooner have—a nice, longstick of candy and a fine fish horn, or—or go to the cir cus?” Presented in this way the boys decide on the stick of candy.—American Grocer. SHASTA LINE. Express Tyains Leave Portland Pailv IB* VS. for Infants Children. and lt<**eburg Matt Dally. Castoria cures Colic. Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. 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I^eaveAlbanvl2:20 pm[Leave Yaquina 7 uia “ 'orvalis 1 :<»3 pmi “ CorvallslOiSS am Arr’vYaqnina4 :35 pm| ArrivAlbanyll lXam O. &.C. trains connectât Albany nnd Cor vallis. The above trains connect at Y aquina with the Oregon Developement Co’s. Line of Btenni- shins between Yaquina and San Francisco. N. B.—Passengers from Portland and all Wil- amette Valley Points can make close ceaaec- tion with the’ trains of the Y aquina R outs at Albanv or Corvallis, and if destined to San Francisco, should arrange io arrive at Yaquina the evening before date of sailing. Sailing Dates. The Steamer Willamette Valley will sail FROM YAQUINA. FROM SAN F1IAN<ÏRUO Mav 7th, May 3d, “ 16th, “ 12th, M 24th, “ 30th. “ 31at. •• 28th, Passenger and freight rates always the low eat. For inloimation, apply to c. c. notïüF., Gen’l. Frt. A P ish . Agt., Oregon Pacific R, ° Co., Coi val'is, Oretron. W B WEBSTER Gen’l. Frt. A PasH.j Agt., Oregon Development (> Montgomery street San Franciaco. 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Beginners are earning from $2.» to #50 |><r week and upwards, and more alter a little experience. We can furnish vou the em ployment and teach vou i'llKE. No space to explain here. Full infbrinatiou EREE. ‘TRUE &CO.. ALfilsTA. 31A1XE. (Successor to E Johnson. ) Keeps on hand a fine stock of foreign and domestic wines, liquors anti cigars Also the celebrated Weinhard Lager, always fresh and cold. Give him a call It is positively the shortest and fin line to Chicago and the east and south and the only sleeping and dining car through ine to Ouiaba, Kansas City, and all Missouri Hirer Point. Its magnificent alcel track, unsurpassed ;rain service and elegant dining and deeping cars has honestly earned for it the J tie of From Terminal or Interim- Points lh( Threshing Outfit for Sale. And on easy terms with good run of thresh ing. one thirty-six inch Case separator, one ten-horse Russell engine, all in good run ning order. Enquire of II. 1’. NEWTON. St. Joseph, Or. is the Line to Take To all Points East & South It Is the DINING CAR ROUTE. It runs Through VESTIBULE!) TRAINS Every Day In the Year tn J. B. ROHR, ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO House, Sign, and Ornamental Painter <No Change of Cars; The Only Sign Writer in the County. Composed of bl.MAG CARS Homes fitted up in the Neatest and Most Artistic Style. Designs furnished for Decorations Ornata, Kansas City, Chicago, ST PAUL. Remember Paper Hanging and Intnde Fur nishing a Specialty. Work taken hv Contract or by the Day. Ex perienced men employed. ST. LOUIS. AND ALL POINTS East, North Third Street, McMinnville, Oregon. South, — AT--- fCOCO.00 a year I. bHng made by John R. Good« ln,'l roy,N.Y.,at work for us. Reader, you niny not make ns much, but we ran li you quickly how to earn from fa to f IO n day at the Mort, aud mor» as you go on. Both rexer, all ages. In nny part of America, you can commence at home, giv ing nil your time,or spare momenta only to the work. All in new. Great pay NlltK for <\< ry w« iker. start you. furnishing - lythin;:. I.ASII.Y. SPEEDILY learned. I’A lU'lt I. LAILS FREE. Address at once. w m we ," The Hoy al JRoute G. LUENBERGER, There is a certain frankness of tone in this sentence from a recent article by Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, “One advantage of a large wedding over a small one, and there fore, in mo^ttafies, of a church wedding, Is that the bride is likely to recclvd B greater number of presents.” -THE- NOTICE is hereby given, that, pursuant to the order of County court of State of Ore gon for Multnomah county, duly made and entered in the matter of the Estate of <Jeo. L. Woods, deceased, the undersigned wilt <>n Friday the 71li day of August ispl, at the tuny lyiutnle.but uune can Aurpa.s it hour of one o’clock in the afternoon, at the Uber, Our motto !« "ulwAy. on time." frontdoor of the County court House in Be sure uu<1 usk ticket «gent» for ticket» McMinnville, Yambill county, Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder the ri. thte celebrated route and take non4 xlmra. W H MEAD, G A undivided half of south half of Donation landclaim of Caleb Wood ami wife in Yamhill Ite. * Waabl jijton etoMt. I'ortiaad, Or county, Oregon. That said property will be sold subject to a mortgage thereon for$1415. ami interest from November 17. 1KM at 8 per cent, per annum, and the right of the tenant on said property in the crop for the current year, Terms of sale; ten per cent, cash, on day of sale and balance on confirmation of sale ami delivery of deed. A.G WALLING, Administrator of the Estate of Geo, L. Woods, deceased. June 2; 27. Advantage of a Big Wedding. PORTLAND, otr ., GEO. S. TAYLOR’ Ticket Agt Corner First and Oak Sts. I ( ummrpar'Hed ) ITIlMIMliinWIMi lililifl SLEEPERS (Of Latest Equipnu-nt,) T01IÎ 1ST SLEEPIJG (ARS Best that can be constructed and in which accommodations arc for hol ders of First or Second-rjaws Tick ets. and ELEGAST DAY CDAIHEN. A Continuous Line connecting with all lines, affordiug direct and unin terrupted service. Ptillman Sleeper reservation, can be secur ed in advance through auv event of the road I lir«»ufrli Tickfix 1,1 "",1 ,rn,n ','1 , ® >n America, Enzland end Europe can l>r purchased at anv ticket office of tnia ccnmany. i Full information concerning rates time of trains, routes and other details furnished i on application to any agent, or A <O., i(»R7LAM), MAISK. Kidney Disease A D CHARLTON. —is the cause of no end of suf fering. A safe and certain remedy is THE OHLY TRUE DR. HENLEY’S Oregon Kidney Tea. Asst General Passenger Agent °®«« Of the Company. Nn, 1»1 First St.. Cor. M nbiogton, Fortand, Or. LION TONIC I I bad been troubled many years with disease of the kidneys when kind Providence sent Dr. Henley with the Oregon Kidney Tea to my hotel. It had an almost miracu lous effect and in a few days I was anew man. G. A. TUPPER, Proprietor Occidental Hotel, Santa Rosa, Cal. Four druggist will tell you about it. Ask him. 8:00 a nt Roseburg. . 5 40pm 0:20 a tn,Portland .. 4 :U0 p m Portland. 7 :.T0 a iniMcMinn' 10:10. ni McMinn' 10:10 « in Corvallis . 12:10pm Corvallis 12:.V> p in McMinn' 2:Mpni McMinn’... t p in| Portland. 5-tOpn. At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of Oregon Pacific. Express Train Daily, except Sunday, HEWITT BROS. I It has cured thousands; I why not you ? To-mor- j row may be too late. Portia 1<1. Roseburg. Mail Train Daily, except Sunday. JUb ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street NEW YORK. □ UC It can do you no harm. It may do you much good. Here is the testi mony of one sufferer who has been made a “ a new man. ” ABE1VE. LEAVE. LEAVE The poor as well as the rich enjoy the fruits of the wealth heaped up by Augustus Ely's Cream Balm is not a liquid, snuff or powder. Applied into the nostrils it is — quickly absorbed. It cleanses the head, allays inflammation, heals _ — Hemenway and left to his widow and ■ I .-» the sores. Sold by druggists or sent by mail on receipt of price. L 11 n children. Mrs. Hemenway is supposed to be the richest woman in New England, ner husband came to Boston a poor lad, began as a boy in the East India house of that noted merchant of old, Benjamin Bangs, soon became confidential clerk and then a proprietor himself. At his death he left $22,000,000, the largest estate ever ad ministered upon in this city. Mrs. Hem enway occupies one of those solid old houses on Mt. Vernon street, a few steps back from the common, in that section of the city which retains its ancient fashion able distinction, though some distance from the new made social center of upper Commonwealth avenue. Not far from her house, but in the front row, so to speak, is the home of Mrs. Anna Cabot Lodge, facing the common and offering a glorious view from this crest of Beacon hill over the trees and the pond of the historic breathing spot of the city. Her husband, the scholar John E. Lodge, left $3,000,000, so it tis understood. Then there are Mrs. Nevins, the mother of David Nevins, who is a millionaire in her own name; Mrs. Thayer, the widow of THE LOWEST ERICES. Nathaniel Thayer, the banker, for whom Thayer hall at Cambridge is named, and Mrs. John F. Andrew, also one of the Thayer family and the wife of the young statesman, the son of Massachusetts’ noted war governor. There, too, are Mrs. John L. Gardner, who possesses a fortune of her own and w ho claims kinship with New York by be ing the daughter of one of the members of that great sugar firm of the metropolis, R. & L. Stewart; Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, tho daughter of Professor Louis Agassiz, who gives the tidy little sum of half a hundred thousand dollars every year to aid the kindergarten work for the blind; Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, whose floral exhibits are always features in the horticultural shows Soon Lota will be scarce and Command a Higher Price, and for whom a noble chrysanthemum has been named, and the daughter of Edward Wigglesworth, the lineal descendant of that eminent divine who wrote “The Day of Doom.”—Cor. New York Commercial Price Ranges $50 up. For full particulars apply to Advertiser. There is to be a wedding in the west end soon which will be the sequel to a rather romantic introduction. One night about a year ago a daintily attired little lady got aboard one of the Seventh street cars on her way home from her day’s work in an up town office. The car was well filled, and the young lady was compelled to swing on the end of a strap for many squares. She was a little bit of a body, and she had to stretch her arms considerably to reach a strap for support. The car gave a lurch as it turned a corner, and a white band made its appearance about the little wom an’s waist. As it slowly grew larger broad smiles made their appearance on the faces of several of the male passengers. Feeling something was wrong, the young lady glanced down at her waist and at once blushed crimson with embarrassment. A young mechanic on his way home from work was in the car, and seeing the young lady’s dilemma he proved himself a true gentleman by at once coming to her assist ance. Stepping between her and the other passengers he said: “Pardon me, miss, but if you wish to ad just your skirt I will screen you from the over curious eyes of these other passen gers.” The little lady accepted the proffered aid with thanks, and after that they met near ly every evening on their way home. Their acquaintance ripened into something stronger than friendship, and the closing act in this “romance of a car strap” will be the wedding of these two.—Cincinnati En quirer. AKK1VE. Portland 7.00 |> tn S.nFrarn isco 8.15am San Fran. 9.-00 p m Portland 0.35 ant Above trains Stop only at following sta tions north of ltosebnrg: East Portland Oregon t'itv, Woodburn., Salem, All>anv' Tangent. Sftedds. Halsey, Harrisburg. Jun! ction city, Irving. Eugene * ‘Castori a is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.” II. A. A uchek , M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Boston's Wealthy Women. A giant thief who was compelled to cross a bed of clay was observed carefully cover ing up his tracks with sand from a bag which he carried for the purpose. “Why do you that?” he was asked by an officer who was hiding near by. ‘‘Because,” he answered, “I scorn the cheap notoriety of present defection, caring only for posthumous fame.” An Elaborate Luncheon for Children. Twenty centuries afterward, when some One of the favored small folk of this op degenerate workmen of the period where ulent city was the recipient not long ago of excavating for the penitentiary which with a luncheon which must have been a de great propriety was to lie* erected on the light to her and the other wee ones who spot, they found his tracks, the sand having graced the feast. The guest of honor was blown away and the clay hardened to stone. a lovely four-year-old with golden hair and —San Francisco Examiner. big brown eyes, and the dozen little ones asked to meet her counted their years, the A Remedy for Bujjii, eldest of them, not more that: twice as To get rid of croton bugs take an ordi many. For this company of tender age nary paper bag, such as flour comes in, the table showed «a bank of variegated hya and bait it with almost anything from cinths through its center. Wax lights cold hominy to potato skins. Lay the bag with shades to match the parti-colored on its side, and in a few minutes the bug;? flower^ added to the brilliancy so pleasing will begin to flock into it in great num to the childish eyes. bers. When you think it is about half At every plate stood a miniature pot full approach the bag noiselessly, as swathed in a Chinese napkin in which was though drawing up on a fiock of canvas growing a small hyacinth, and by its side a backs, quic kly tip the bag icto a standing lovely doll, whose gown exactly matched position, draw the top together and the hue of its companion flower. This thrust the bag into the kitchen range.— kaleidoscope of color and gifts brought ad Detroit Free Press. miring “Ohs!” from every separate small girl as she took her seat. The sensible mother who provided the He Had Nerve. One of our citizens went to considerable luncheon deserves record for the menu, which included bouillon, creamed oysters, expense recently to appear in a dress suit at a ball at the opera house. Of course he broiled chicken, colored jellies, ice cream, was anxious to appear in the grand march, 6mall cakes, not rich, and chocolate. The for there was where he could sport him last course was a Jack Horner pie—this self. He arrived at the hall, however, just one showing, to match the harlequin as the march was over. Nothing daunted luncheon, a top gay with many colored he walked up to the management and re fluffs of tissue paper, each of which duly quested them to have it over again.—Bel resolved itself into a “plum” of acceptable shape to its delighted possessor.—Her Point fast (Me.) Age. of View in New York Times. The Ruling Passion. Southern Pacific Route a (111 or Others,wnowtsn xoexarrur»» flUlUll I IwCllw th s paper,or obtain estimitcs on advertising space when in Chicago, will find it on filo at the Advertising Agency of LORD&THOMASr TONIC a aafe and speedy cure. Given «clear, thy complexion. Frequent attempts at counterfeit* ing only add to the popularity or the original. Do not experiment—get the OKIGISAL and BIST. /Dr. HARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILL6L ■ Cure Constipation. Livet Qpmplaint and Sickn ■ Headache. 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