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Ma«oor*clng Figure« Presented
Crusty St. Paul Bachelor.
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••That’s all right,” mused a blond«
young man a few evenings ago, as h<
tilted back bis chair and gazed sadly
at a slip of paper he held in bis hand
••That’s all right,” he said, “but whei
a man is poor I want to know how h«
is going to work it.” A friend stand­
ing near saw the look of dismay on the
young man’s face, and asked him whal
the matter was. “Well, you see,” re
plied the first speaker, “for some tim<
past I have been thinking of getting
married, and had pictured to myself
how nice and cozy it would be to bav«
a borne of my own and a nice little wife
to receive me. But in an evil inomenl
1 figured up the cost of starting in, and
now I shall never propose. I have no)
money enough, and I won’t run in debt
for any thing.”
"Let me see your list,” said th«
friend, The young man then handed
over the slip, the figures on which were
as follows:
K ITCHKN AND DIN I NO-ROOM.
Moves and fixtures ................................... $
China and other fixtures...............................
Knives and forks, etc....................................
Tables
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Cupboard ........................................................
Iceciieit.............................................................
Sundries..............................................................
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21
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14
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HKD-ROOM.
Bed room net..................................
Carpets for houne...................
Tableland chairs..................
Sundries....................................
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PAIU.OR OH RTTTINO-ROOM.
Furniture <
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8tindi..tablei, outside furniture............... M
Mirror and clock............................................. 21
471
Total.,........... .............................................. «704
but 1 don't want any of it. A man on
a salary has no right to marry in the
first place, for he Knows not when he
may lose his head, and in no business is
that truer than in mine. Guess I will
continue to board and live on tough
beefsteak, stale bread and the like, and
let the laundry mangle my clothing for
some time to come. Why, it takes all
my salary as it is to support me alone.”
—SI. Paul Globe.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
MISCELLANEOUS.
My Sea: or lo My Seat;
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Oregonian R. R. Co. limited [¡ne,
CHAS. N. SCOTT, Receiver.
h Lets Talk Business a Little.
—Mr. Talmage’s tabernacle now has
81272 members.— Brooklyn Union.
—The law regulating the government
of Yale College prescribe that the Pres­ OUR MOTTO IS SMALL Prof­
ident of that institution must be a
its and quick returns.
clergyman.
—“No man with a well-balanced
mind would,” says a correspondent,
“send his son to college whose pro­
fessors are unbelievers.— N. Y. Tribune.
—The Military Academy of West
Point is reported as being in a high Upon which we hope to win
state of efficiency. It is suggested that
your esteem and patronage.
the law be changed so that such of the
graduates as are not at once assigned to
Our connections with East­
duty after graduating may be retained
as Second Lieutenants in the army, if
ern and Pacific coast dealers
they desire it.— Troy Times.
and manufacturers are such
—The sale of Bibles, religious books
and magazines through the colporteurs
that we are enabled to
of Mr. Spurgeon’s church, amounted
during the past year to nearly 845,000.
buy these goods as low or
8eventy-eignt men were employed in
lower than our competitors,
the work, and 1,500 towns and villages
were visited.— N. Y. Examiner.
whether general or special
—The boys in Chinese mission schools
usually prefer women teachers, perhaps
dealers. Buying goods in
because these are more sympathetic
greater quantities than most
and patient with them, and there is a
story of one who, in the absence of his
competitors, and when hand-
own teacher, was put under the in­
struction of a man. He seemed uneasy
ling business of any kind the
and unhappy, and when asked how the
volume of business enters
lesson had gone, burst out with: “Me
no likee man teacher! Me want old
largely into the account in
gal?”— Chicago Times.
—An old Scotch lady was told that
determining the profit or
her minister used notes; she disbelieved
margin to be realized out of
it. Said one: “Go into the gallery
and see.” She did so and saw the writ­
it. Therefore all
ten sermon. After the luckless preacher
had concluded his reading on the last
do have an ad­
page, he said: "But I will not enlarge.”
vantage over special dealers,
The old woman called out from her
lofty position: "Ye canna, ye canna,
and the greater quantity of
for your paper’s give oot!”— Christian
at Ivorfc.
goods sold or the volume of
—As an illustration of the value of
business done, the greater
well-directed help to feeble churches in
their struggling infancy, it is reported
that advantage and the less
that eight churches in Iowa have be­
come self-supporting during the year,
the price ought to be. Hav­
and four more will do so soon. Several
ing a full and
churches in Nebraska also enter the
ranks of self-supporting interests dur­
of the following
ing the year. Without aid at the be­
ginning they could not have succeeded.
lines of goods from the lead-
Now they will be not only self-support­
ing dealers and best manu-
ing, but become helpers of others who
yet need aid.— N. F. Examiner.
facurers, which we replenish
—When the wife of Aiderman John
with new fresh goods month­
J. Turner, of Amsterdam, N. Y., reached
ly or oftener as the trade re­
her pew in St. Mary’s Church recently,
•he found a board nailed across the en­
quires, to wit: LADIES
trance. She then went to the pew
of her brother-in-law, Richard Tur­ Dress and Fancy Goods, Gent»
ner, and there found the same con­ and Boy« Clolliing and Furnish­
dition of things. Two Sundays ago ing Goods, Hats and Caps, Boots
Father Mclncrow gave notice from the
pulpit that if certain parsons who were and Shoes, Crockery, Queen*
in arrears on pew rents did not pay in ware and Glass ware.
two weeks the pewB would be nailed
up. Hence the lady’s experience.— and a full line of fresh grocer­
Albany Evening Journal.
ies, so our customers do not
“There it is,” the young man said,
‘•these figtires are as low as they can
possibly be made, and by the time you
get your house furnished $1,500 al
least will be gone. It’s all right to
talk about starting in cheaply, but 1
Would like to know how a man is go­
ing to. If he don’t own the house lie
lives in there is rent to pay. You will
see that those figures only provide foi
the furnishing of three rooms, and a
young couple just starting in wants at
least four. This love-in-a-cottage bus­
iness, where the only furniture consists
of a bed. a pine table, two chairs, a
stove and a lamp, may be all right foi
some people, but I don’t want to mar­
ry any girl and then take her to a place
like that. My ideas are pot at all ex­
travagant, but I do believe in having
things comfortable and to a certain de­
gree nice. I do not think it is just to
take a woman from a comfortable
house anil place her in an nlinost bare
house, where she will have to scrimp
and deny herself every thing in order
that she and her busband will not have
to apply to (he city for aid. It is an
outrage to do so. and no fair minded
man will do so.”
"Many people live on a salary of
less than forty dollars a month and yet
manage to save money,” suggested the
young man’s friend.
"That may be, but in nine cases out
of ten you will find that such persons
do not live they merely exist And
in the other case the parents of the
wife generally stand ready to step in
and make good any deficiency, t
Sup
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sai- i
minute for Colleeting Their Sense«.
pose a man is f drawing a i_2
[New York Sun.]
ary of seventy-five or even eighty
Six minutes is a very short interreg­
dollar« a month. Out of that lie
will pay about as follows,” and an­ num between security and doom, yet
other slip was pulled from the young this is about the average period which
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man
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read ] 1 in — a this
Rent, M.v
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Rant,
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u« seem able to obtain. It is not to be
Qrpcerjcs
Groceries .......................................
.. 15 wondered at that large audiences as­
Meat................
. 1Ü sembled in the great tinder boxes of our
Wear and tear..............
8
Ootbcs ............................................................
18 large towns are panic-stricken at the
Necessary small expenses............
. 8 first hint of dangt r.
But the very nar
SUpe^ear fare for wife .................
I rowness of the margin emphasizes the
Total
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SM need of coolness. !t one of the precious
“Then* you have 814 left possibly, six minutes were consumed in realizing
and many will be the tmie when this the extent and menace of the alarm, the
$14will dwindle Into nothing. other five might stiH suffice to convey
Suppose the husband is afek a lew almost any gathering of people un­
day«, or perhaps a few weeks, harmed out from a threatened structure.
and the domestic purse is low.
The Weekly Reporter, a faithful;
Well—the grocer won’t trust you, and
the butcher will say he must have cash •nd complete compendium of the,
for what be sells. Oh, yrs. this getting week’s news,is furnished for 12^ cents'
married on a small sal ar v is vrrv fin« a month.
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President P.tWVRCo.
General
Dealers
To Portland.
From Portland.
JMclMiiiiiville
LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLES
Complete LOGAN BROS. & HENDERSON.
Stock
have to deal at half dozen
places to supply their wants.
While we do not propose to
be undersold, yet do not and
can not put these goods in
competition with Auction
or Snort Weight goods
sold to the trade by unscru­
pulous dealers. We fear no
honest competition. Thank­
ing people for past patron­
age and favors, will be pleas­
ed to have you call and de­
termine for yourselves what
merit is in our modest claim.
A. J. APPERSON.
----- PROPRIETORS-----
Fine Carriages, Hacks and
Saddle Horses,
And everything in the Livery hire,
in good shape
At Reasonable Rates.
SAMUEL GOFF,
Late of Independence, having purchased the
TEAMS AND TRUCKS
Of Logan Bros. A Henderson, offers his
services in that line to the public, and will
Guarantee Satisfaction
To all who favor him with their patronage.
He will keep a wagon specially adapted to the
delivery of parcels, trunks satchels, etc., for
the accomodation of the public. Orders left
at the stable will be promptly attended to at
reasonable rates.
City Stables.
HENDERSON BROS.,
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Ample room to care for horse«.
Livery
teams at as reasonable rates as any where in
Oregon. New stable Third St., McMinnville.