| sistence had been annoying, and beg names in the list of candidates ged pardon if such was the case, as it for local offices in the District of There are many estimable people was done unwittingly, and through D. C. IHEI.AM) A CO. RUBLIHHKRS. Columbia. But there are fifty in the world who would not be guilty her love for her niece. Subscription Hate*. By Carrier per week.......................... 10 cents of a discourteous or impolite action To that letter she has never had an eight applicants, personating (Payable on .Saturday.) or speech, who are too well bred to answer, though almost a year has twenty states, for judgeship in Single Copy........................................ 2 “ offend even a stranger or mere ac passed since it was written. Being the territory. This is illustra By Mail U) oeuts per Month (In Advanoe.) quaintance, and whose love and esteem sensitive, she feels it keenly, but can tive of “the go west” idea. for relatives, and friends would pre not tell whether it is meant as a slight, Kate* for Advertising Will i>e made aatufHOtory to all applicants. vent their treating them in a slighting or is only thoughtlessness. Two brave sons of Rt. Rev. or indifferent manner. Yet many of To the young people “the boys and Bishop Morris, of Oregon, nearly McMinnville, Or. - - Jan. 24, 1887 these same persons will ignore or neg girls” we would offer a little friendly lect the correspondence of loved advice on this question of letter writ lost their lives at a lake near The best way to induce hens friends and often near and dear rela ing. If you agree to correspond with Washington city recently, while to lay at this season is to provide tives and not imagine that they are a friend or acquaintance, endeavor to rescuing another boy who had them with warm quarters anc doing wrong. Postponing indefinitely keep your part of the agreement, and gone through the ice. The or neglecting for month after month feed meat three or four times a to answer a letter, is as much a breach always write promptly. Answer let-* Bishop’s sons would surely have ters by return mail, if possible, or, if day. of etiquette or politeness, as refusing you enter into a compact to write drowned had it not been for the .Jones & Co. will furnish al to reply when spoken to. Then, too, "week about,” allow* no trivial excuse heroic action of his brother, the fencing materials the pub if the correspondent on the other side to prevent your keeping your word. Willie. Thos. Farquhar, a 13 always prompt, and supposing If some unavoidable circumstance year old boy of the party, lost lic may need, next summer, to be there must be some good reason why go with the fence machine sold his letter is not answered, writes again when you write, that your friend may his life. causes a postponent, explain fully by Burgess. and yet again, and finally, after the NEW TO-DAY. know that the delay was unintentional. East Oregonian: Mrs. Fred- lapse of months, receive a short, un If away from home, have stated satisfactory letter with little in it but Page Tustin left Saturday even excuses for not writing—"so busy etc, days to write to father and mother, BOCTORS and let nothing deter you from attend ing for McMinnville, where she etc"—would it be any wonder if he LITTLEFIELD &, CALBREATH, goes to assist in the final settle should soon get to believing that his ing to it promptly. Think of your mother’s anxiety, if several days or a ment of her father’s estate. letters were no longer welcome and week elapse over the time when she Offloe over Braly’s Bank. ---- ---------------------------- would soon decide to withhold them should have heard from you ! Her ITIelVIinnville, • - - Oregon. Senator Siglin makes his own altogether ? loving heart will conjure up all sorts able defense in the senate against We will give a case in point. A of fancies. She will be sure you are the personal attacks of a venal friend of mine became very sincerely ill, and need her care, and is almost A. H. & 0. 0. HODSON and mercenary press. He moved attached to a relation by marriage—a on the point of going to you when the Dealera In for an investigation, and a com niece of her husband. This niece delayed letter arrives. In it you give made them frequent protracted visits, mittee was appointed. and the two ladies became very dear some frivolous excuse for your neg lect—you "had been to a party, or HARDWARE, Hon. Chas. Lafollett, in a friends, the affection between them you had company”—or something being as deep apparently as if of near note to the Reporter, under date er kin. Of course when they separat equally unsatisfying to that dear TINWARE & of the 19th, says that by advice ed they must correspond. This was mother who merits only your deepest of his physicians he did not at kept up with tolerable regularity for consideration and love. tend the assembly last week, but several years, the older lady being the Dear young friends, your charact Agricultural Implements, Pumps, er is being formed in this, the bright that it is now thought by both more prompt of the two, and frequent spring time of your life. Let habits Pipes, Etc. himself and physical!, that he ly chiding the younger for occasional of promptness in all things become so neglect to write at the proper time will be able to attend the future Time passed on and the niece married, fixed, that, as the years, one by one, Alli of whioh will be sold as business of legislation until the and moved with her husband to the are left behind, and you become men Low for Cash- end of the session. extreme eastern portion of the state. and women, you may be such in the full sense of the word. Have all the As thy times will allow, B. Clark of this place, will Being so far distant visiting was now fun and "good times” you can, with next to impossible. But the letters hereafter represent the North came and went tolerably promptly out infringing on the right, or tramp Iron and Tin Roofing, west Fire and Marine Insurance for several years, though the younger ling on the feelings of others. But Galvanized iron Gomioes and window caps. In fact we do anything that comes in Company of Portland, and a lady still wrote with less promptness let right and duty—which may both our line with neatness and dispatch, and be rendered pleasant provided they never tell you it oan’t be done. Bring on company that does not belong than the older. This carelessness are your designs and we will cut your pattern, executed with willingness be par and do your work, to any compact or combination gradually grew upon her, until after amount to every thing else. awhile she would allow'several months The Daily Reporter. Letter Writing. Stoves and those desiring insurance will do well to call on him before looking elsewhere. The appoint ment was made by R. R. Roper yesterday. A foolish and infatuated girl named Van Zandt, wanted to marry the condemned anarchist Spies so bad that she persists, after threats of disinheritance from rich relatives. The sheriff of the Chicago jail put a stop to it by refusing to admit her to the cell where Spies is confined. The world is astounded at the idea that the parents of the girl allowed -her to visit the criminal at all, but they are perhaps tvs weak minded as herself. The grandparents, who hold the purse strings, do not see it in that way, and discard the en tire family. C ousin S alute . at a time to elapse without replying to her aunt's letters. The latter would Referring to the east Portland often write two or three times before receiving a reply, which, when it came, discussion about the ringing of lowever, would usually be bright, church bells in that city, the cheerful, affectionate, and full of Astorian says: The ringing of apologies and excuses for her neglect. a bell is like italics in a news This went on for some time, until paper. Both are insults to the finally, letters from the younger lady only came at intervals of half a year intelligence of the people. Time or more. They would have ceased en was when no one but princes tirely, had it not been for the persis could afford a time piece, but tence of the older lady in keeping up now, when a clock that correctly the corres|xmdence. marks the hours can be had for Gradually she came to think, how ever, that perhaps her perseverance^ a trifle, the average bell is only was annoying to her niece, and, a nuisance. The bell is a relic though she disliked to give up*the of barbarism and superstition, correspondence, she nevertheless de- , and is out of place in these days cided to do so if the other wished it. of popular intelligence. The About this time she was taken ill. and bell is of use and necessity in her usually prompt letter was delayed •otne weeks on account of it. But as the ease of a tire alarm, when soon as she was able to write, she did the fire is in this world. so, stating that, hereafter, she would Washington territory makes write but one letter in reply to each one of hers—that she feared her per- but a beggarly show of three And Don’t You Forget It. South east cor. 3d and C streets, MoMinn- ville, Oregon. A. H. & O. O. HODSON. AT THE St. Charles Hotel, MoMinnville, Oregon. Monday, February 7th. Will be sold at Publio Auotion to the highest bidder, a fine large Kitchen Range almost new, suitable for a large family, a hotel or restaurant. Beds and Bedding. CARPETS. Kitchen and Dining Room Furniture, Lampe, Tables and Chairs, and a thousand other things too numerous to mention. TERMS OF SALE: AU sales under $10. Cash. All sales over $10, eight months credit, with approved notes. This is a positive and peremptory sale. F. MULTNEK.