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The Pally Reporter. HINTS ON TRAVELING. Secrets of Comfortable Travelln< to Bo Fouad la Light Luggage and Simple Habit*. A DAKOTA LAND-SHARK. He Cheerfully Relate. How He Ha. Pros pered Owing to the Misfortunes of Others. On an east-bound tram the other day, writes a Watertown, Dakota, correspond ent of the New York Sun, was a well- It only takes one railroad trip to teach fed and comfortable-looking man, who a woman that she can’t travel with announced that he had been attending bundles and enjoy herself. Freight and to business very strictly for three or postal rates are so cheap and amiability four years, and that he was then on his so rare a charm that it is hard to under way to the seashore for the purpose of stand why the gentle race will econo having a little recreation. His wife was mize on baggage at such enormous ex a plump, fresh-looking young woman penditure of temper. It does not pay several years his junior, who, besides to make a pack-horse of one’s self for being fashionably dressed, had an air the sake of a pot of fuschia or a cage of business about her which is met with full of canary-feathers and bird seed. in the fair sex more frequently in this The pets are only permissable when part of the country than elsewhere. “Yes," the tourist said, after settling there Is a maid or messenger boy to himself back in his seat in the smokers' look after them, and if the officers of the Humane Society were as ubiquitous section. “I’ve been attendiug to busi as they should be, the hundred odd ness mighty close. In fact, I’ve had to. women who carry birds, owls, squirrels, I’m a banker. When I came out in this dogs and kittens from one State to country I had just about $4,000 clean another would be arraigned before a cash. Down where I came from every justice of the peace on the charge of body said $4,000 wasn’t enough to put in your eve. It might do to buy a cruelty to auimals. All any woman wants, unless she has home with or get a team, but as far as a family of small children to care for. business was concerned it was only an is a single hand-bag and possibly a aggravation. I had heard something shawl-strap. The bag will only pro I about Dakota, and I made up my mind vide for night-robes, handkerchiefs, that I would show some of the «mart collars and cuffs, oue or two vials of men whether $4,000 capital was good medicine in case of accident and such for anything or not. I went west along toilet articles as are deemed indispens with the immigrants, set up a little able. One vial should provide for a office, put out a sign ‘Money to Loan,’ cordial or stimulant of some sort, for at and sat down to await custom. “I put my money out in small sums no time is the system more likely to be disturbed thau on the road. A second principally. A settler would come in bottle, filled with rose-water and glycer and ask for $50 or $100. I would asx ine, will be found invaluable by women him what he had. Well, he might who have a care for their complexion, have an equity in his land, or he would and what woman has not? Veils may have some household furniture, farm be worn, but unless they are smother machinery, or horses and wagons. I ing in thickness will not keep oil' the would let him have the money, and take dust and soot. The water usually pro a mortgage on all that he had, deduct vided bv railroad companies is either ing my interest, at 10, 12, or 14 per too hard’ or too meager for general use, cent, in advance. Plenty of them would and a wash of rose-water and glycerine, want a little money for a month or two in the proportion of 3 to 1, will be found months, aud I’d always sock it to these fellows. I’ve had $10 for the use of $50 soothing and refreshing. Don't hope to be neat or look nice for thirty days many a time. A good • without a duster of some sort, and never many of the settlers were Scandinavians, be tempted to break in a new gown. and I could not talk to them in their There are plenty of nice cotton goods, own language, nor could they speak to such aS canvas, etame, and satteen, me in mine, but I got up a printed form which make admirable traveling dresses, which they could understand, and in though hardly as serviceable or satis that way we managed to do business factory as a light cloth would be. Sum very satisfactorily. “It requires a very clear head and mer silks are a drug in the market and incomparable for this purpose. Beside good judgment to do a banking busi being cheap they are cool, light, and al ness out here. Particularly is this true ! in a new settlement in the winter time. ways pretty. In this country it is hardly possible to I've changed my location three times get a toothsome railroad lunch. The since I’ve been in Dakota. After a station meals are execrable and the township has been settled for awhile it dining-car bills of fare do not begin to is not much good to men in my line. be tempting. Usually there are buffet When I have moved I have always gone lunches which cost little and however into a new country. The people get simple have the charm of being palat along first-rate for a few months, but able. The menu includes very good the first winter fetches them. They tea, ales and light wines; cold meats have to have money, and a man who such as game, tongue, beef, ham and stands by ready to help them is a sort poultry, occasionally a salad; fruits in of public benefactor. I have had at season; cheese ad lib, and an excellent one time and another mortgages on the quality of bread and butter. It is a stuff belonging to several hundred mistake to count on heavy meals be farmers, sometimes taking mortgages cause there being no exercise the body for sums as small as $10 or $20. In is not in a condition to digest readily fact, they are the ones that nay, as the men who give them are usually on their any great quantity of food. The book was intentionally omitted last legs, and about all that you have to from the satchel. Illustrated papers go do is to wait awhile and then gather in unchallenged but no traveler who has their stuff. “I have come into possession of some a proper regard for his sight will abuse it by trying to read on a flying car. It of the best farming land in Dakota in is good to get acquainted with one's this way. A man might get hard up self occasionally and there is no more and come to me for $1(X) for six months. opportune time than on a journey by When the time was up he would be worse off than he was before, and by If you desire to make an impression I stretching the mortgage a little I would for good sense, keep quiet; ask no ques give him another nundred, the whole tions; don’t try to take in the whole thing to be paid in three months. Then scenery from one window, and under i he might come around and make a ;>oor no circumstances cultivate acquaint mouth, and ask for an extension, and ances. The quiet traveler is usually the all that, but you see that wasn't what I cosmopolitan. If you know where you was out there for. My capital wasn’t want to go, ana have intelligence very large, and I had to keep it moving, enough to comprehend a railroad map, and then, too, there is no sentiment in questions are needless. As for making business. I’d have to take the farm. acquaintances, don’t—because the peo In some such cases I have sold it back ple who are anxious to meet you you to the man at 12 or 15 per cent interest, may not care to know, and those you on condition that he would pay me would be proud to meet are too well- monthly, but he usually gets tired of that bred to be presumptuous. “Only the other day I was thinking It will be a saving of physical strength about how much I had made out here, not to travel by night, unless time is a •ryuowwi qniv qwar-rpoaoja loq ¡pi no consideration. *3*3pom v qoo; pax j»q o) jr j Never venture on a journey without •Xeuom joj am o; amvo eqs o* pu* qjoq* an umbrella and rubbers. ikm ana inotnXwd « »xwni oj jan joj That is the'kinffdf ffeaTS I like 16 make. If you can get one of those girls for a customer you are liable to have a farm after a while dirt cheap. “Well, when the note fell due she couldn't pay it, and I gave her an ex tension at 12 per oent 1 usually get 15 in such emergencies, but I took pity on her. Then that came due, and she had no money, and so I foreclosed on her. That made her mad. She wanted to make a compromise, and after a while I patched up a bargain with her, but a* I repented of it I told her the place aud all the things would have to be sold. A friend of mine bid them in for about the sum of my claim, and the girl got notice to leave, which she didn’t ao. Not much. She just staid there, and one day when I rode out to see if she had gone she opened on me with a ride, calling me an old shark and thief. When I tried to get some help from the people round about they intimated that they would see me hanged first, and, by thunder, the girl had me. She was in possession, and there wasn't law enough in that county then to get her out. ‘•So after awhile I came to the con clusion that I would have to reason with her. It was getting to be about time for me to climb out of there, but I couldn't bear the idea of losing the farm. Then I got a man to negotiate with her for an interview, and after a while I called on her, making myself as agreeable as possible. The upshot of it was that I asked her to marry me, and she consented. I’m pretty well satisfied with the deal, for to tell you the truth I would never have got that farm if I hadn't taken her along with it.” NEW TO-DAY. JOHN J. SAX. Has his Feed Chopping Mill In Running Order, —AND— Will chop Feed for $2 per ton or one-tenth toll. --------- (o>---------- Farmers and others having grain to chop oan oome to my mill, and attend to any business in the oity to hotter advantage than driving two mile9 oat of town to get their ohoppmg done. JOHN J. SAX. McMinnville, Or. The tail Hotel, Dining Station of the 0. G. R. R. McMinnville, Oregon. F. Multxier, Prop. (Late of the St. Charles.) This Hotel has just been refitted and new ly refurnished throughout, and will be kept m a first class style. The table is supplied with all the market affords, and guests can rely upon good olean beds, and comfortable rooms. Speoial accomodations for oommeroial travelers. SEVENTH ANNUAL A Shying Horse. To the inquiry, Why does a horse shyP the National Live Stock Journal re plies: Because ho sees something which he does not understand, and is tilled with a greater or less degree of fear, something as the boy feels when be shies at the burying ground, and goes around.to keep clear of it. It may be some new or unusual object that the horse sees, or it may be an imperfect view of it Even a familiar object, if it comes to view suddenly and unexpect edly, will cause a horse to shy or jump, just as an unexpected object or sound causes a nervous person to start When a person is so startled, how much would it improve the matter to be scolded at or given a cut with a whip? Just as much a* the same treatment would in the case of the horse. Harshness only aggravates the matter. The more the horse is scolded and whipped, the more nervous he gets; and every time he passes the placo where the fright and whipping occurred, he will recollect the unpleasant affair, and he will begin to prick pricx up his bis ears and fidget, ready for another jump. Give him the lines, and he will go by in a hurry. The proper way is never to strike or scold a horse that is startled or frightened. Speak to him coolly, calm ly, and kindly; give him time to see and collect his scattered senses, and mako him feel that you are his friend and protector. When he sees that all is right, there is an end to all further trouble. We have seen a horse retuse to cross an unsafe-looking bridge; but when the driver took him by the bits and walked ahead, the horse cautiously followed. Next time he required no coaxing or urging to cross the bridge. He might have been whipped into it at first, but was not the milder course, although a little trouble, the better one? The horse showed his confidence in the driver ever afterward. Garrison Opera House, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, February 22d, 23d and 24th, 1887. LIST OF PRIZES. There will be prizes given on the following named exhibits: 1st and 2d prize for best and 2d best ex hibit of Kensington painting. 1st and 2d prize, for beat and 2d beet ex hibit of Kensington embroidery. 1st and 2d prize, for best and 2d beet ex hibit of outline work by a child under 14 years of age. 1st and 2d best, for best and 2d beet ex hibit of work of any kind by a boy under 14 years of age. 1st and 2d prize, for beat and 2d best ex hibit of oravon work. There will also be a prize given for the heaviest, lightest and prettiest baby under 1 year of age. Following is a list of prize* offered: For the Erettiest baby, gold necklace; lightest and eaviest baby under one year of age, eaoh a ?;old ring; outline work by a child under ourteen years, first prize, ear rings, second prize, scrap book; kensington embroidery, first prize, napkin ring, second prize, box writing paper; kensington painting, first prize, inanioure set, second prize, bracket; orayon work, first prize, paper holder, second prize, pitcher; boys work, first prize, paper holder, seoond prize, inkstand. The lofty wooden spires of the churches of Mattoon, Ill., have been pieroed in hundreds of places by wood pecker* looking for food or for place* for nests. The holes in the Methodist church steeple bocame so unsightly that a man was employed to shoot the bird*. Then bees took up their abode within, Parade of Firemen Tuesday af and their honey drips from the hole* ternoon. and smears the steeple. The Congrega tional church steeple is well filled with houey and so are steeples in neighbor Door« will be open at 7 o’clock, p. m. dally, during the ing townB. Six swarms of bees were Fair. seen to quit the spire of a Paxton ohorsh — All are invited to Attend— in one day. _________ ’ Now is the time to subscribe. Admission 25 Cents. By Order of C ommhtee .