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E. B. HENRY CIVIL ENGINEER and SI RVEN OR Kl.AMATH FALLS STORIES OF THE CAT. Legend* and Fact* About th* Still but Half Tamed Animal. "There are few tales of cat fidelity All kinds engineering and draughting and many of dog. yet one thinks no I worse of the cat for this." says an ob server. "Ilia very nalependetiee com pels respect. lie walks ‘by his wild DR. WM. MARTIN lone, waving his wild tail, through the wild wtxxls.’ as an iuspinsl modern DENTIST writer has set forth. All the genera tions have not served to tame him. •md the most domestic of the race will revert amurr to a wild life at 'tin* call of th«* blood' than any other friend of man. It Is thus scarcely surprising to flud that the most famous cat lovers have been drawn from the ranks of politicians ami poets, those whom rea sons of state or a sensitive tempera COUNTY SURVEYOR inert hive rendered averse from trust. Ing their fellow creatures and who con sequently beetow all their affections Upon tiie ‘tin-side sphinx.* We are in LAND SURVEYOR. vited to believe that the moat fatuous of all cats, lie who brought fame and fortune to bis master. Dick Whitting KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON ton. was no four legged animal at alL but merely the French word ‘achat’— to buy and sell nt profit and that the DR. C. P. MASON great merchant made a pet only of his merchandise from the very beginning. Thus in later years do the Idols of our DENTIST youth topple alxmt our heads. Office in American Bank and Trust Com •’But oilier legends—nay. facts—are pany’s Building left us. Cardinal Wolsey, for Instance, OREGON when acting in his official capacity as KLAMATH FALLS. lord chancellor Is said to have bad his favorite cat always seated beside him. and another prince of the church. Rich WILL A. LEONARD elieu. found his only relaxation lu keeping a number of kittens in his pri DENTIST vate cabinet and watching their gam With row-At el hase Building bols during his spare moments. We cannot really reckon Richelieu as a true lover of the race, however, for di rectly the kittens grew to three months PIERCE EVANS he had them sent away and replaced ATTORNEY AT LAW by others. Lord Chesterfield left in his will life penslous to bis favorite cats OREGON KLAMATH FALLS, and their kittens. Victor Hugo's great cat Chanoine always sat on a large r<x! ottoman in the center of his salon and I received his guests in state, showing LC. F. STONE marked displeasure If any one failed ATTORNEY AT LAW to caress or praise her. “Tasso wrote a sonnet to his favorite OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE cat. and Petrarch had one he loved as dearly, we are told, as Iuiura. No doubt she was the confidant of many of his trials and consoled him for much of the fair lady’s disdain, and when pussy died the poet bad her embalmed In the Egyptian fashion and carried her I mummy about with him everywhere. Baudelaire, the French poet, n very shy man. was always ill nt ease in any new house be entered until the family cat was brought up and lntnxlueed t > him. after which, with the eat ou bis knee, he was perfectly happy in bls silent poet fashion. MELVIN D. WILLIAMS Civil and Irrigation Engineer, East Main St., below 4th Klamath Falls, Oregon ‘•Traditions reapecting cats are. of course, legion. From time Immemorial they have tss>n regarded ns somewhat uncanny, omens of weal or woe. Ix'lnga to be either conciliated or crushed. The cat worship of ancient Kgypt mid. Inter, the ltomnn creed that the ent was sacred to Diana speak of tliu one; the wild charges of witchcraft — or concern in it rife during the dark ages of Europ«' will attest the latter. But then' Is auotber popular belief de serving also of mention, that which set« forth the old maid as the cat’s only friend, n legend arising in the mediaeval nunneries overrun with mice. when' one or more cuts were always kept and were no doubt much petted by the good uuus." — Chicago News. A Hard Burial. Rome few winters ago a gang of ear- rtage washers was engaged washing carriages on one of our northern rail- wavs when on«' of them remarked to his mat«', an old soldier who was fa mous as a long bovvlst, ‘'It’s awful cold this morning. David." "Cold! This | h nothing." said David. ‘1 remember when I was In Canada tn ISC— one of our mates died, poor clittp. Mid you will have some hien what <ort of frost It was when I tell you It rore the laxly so stiff and the grouud «o bard that we hail to get hammer and chisel, make a nick in the ground and then drive him In with a pile driver. That was th«' only way we could give the |xx>r ehtip deceut burial."— London Answers. Notko KLAMATH COUNTY BANK Commencing January I, HMI7, the Klamath Fall* Jersey Dairy will charge the (oilowing price* (or milk delivered : Al. EX MARTIN, I Preaident I'er quart, S cent*; pint cent* ; ,x«r Bird S. l.ooxlev. gallon JO cents. KLAMATH FALLS, ORHIION E. R. REAMES. Vue l’resiileiit The Pioneer Bank of Klamath County GOING IO KLNO? <1 \ I F MENI’ DEC. 31, I imm . - from the Mammoth KI.NOI' I« I M SOCIETIES OE KLAMATH I ALLS A.O. t’.W Linkeille l < meets in t lie A. < >. I . W Tuesday evening. Visiting way* welcome. John Ya< J . \\ . Meinens, Recorder. I I MH I HIK* Evangeline Lodge Xo. SS Degr,........ Honor l.,xlc<‘ meet« in the \. <>. I'. W. lialleVMiv recoml and fourth I'liursdays in the month. Nance N. W liite, C. vi II. Jesse .Marple, liecofder. W. 0. W. Evvauna Camp. No. 7’W W. II. W.. meets everv Tuesdav evening at 7 : o’ckx’k at Sandeisoli's ¡mil. All nelgliboi s coni tally tn v tied. C. K. Brandenburg, Clerk. A. F. A A. M Klamath I. sigv No 77. Meets Miturday evening on or !*• fore the full moon of each month in the Masonic Hall. W. I'. Miivv. W. M. W. E. Bowdoin, ¡secretary. (I E. M— Aloha Chapter No.bl, meet* in the Masonic hall every second and rartli ruesday evening« in sack m< Bih. Christine Murdoch, W. M. Jennie E. Kearnes, Secretary. Using the Eyes. I. O.o. F.— Klamath l.'slge Xo. 137 A scientific writer quotes Hehnholts meet* everv Miturdav evening in the aa saying that in his work lie could A. <•. F. W. ball, w : IL North, N.O. Geo. !.. Humphrey, Ss-retary. only liken himself to the mountaineer, painfully and slowly climbing, often E wann a Encampment No. 4»’>, I.<U LF otdlged to turn backward, lighting lat Encampment meet* secoud ami fourth er on new traces lending forward, nud Saturdays in the month in the finally reaching the goal. only to find A. o. F. \V. hall. C. C. Brower, C. P. to his confusion Hint u plain road led Geo. !.. Humphrey, Scribe. thither. If he had only had the eyes to 1‘rosperitv Rels-kah Lodge No. I 101 see. Darwin said he thought he was I. O. O. F. meet « III the A. O. I . 1 W. superior to the common run of men In hall everv first ami third l’hursday« in noticing tilings which easily escape at tiie month. Francis E. Boyd, N. G. tention and in observing them care- Frankie Umilinomi, Secretary. fully. K. of P.— Klamath Lodge No. thi Har Reasoning. meets in the A. O. F. W. hall eve Wife (at the costumer's Which Monday evening. Bert Bamlx*r, C. shall I have this coat nt «1 marks or John Hamilton, K. of R. ami S. that one at 70? Husband I have only M. W. of \.—Lodge meet« in t 40 marks with me. Wife Uli. well. then, we’ll buy the seventy mark coat A <>. I . W. hall every first and thi _______ in the month. on credit, and then you can buy me a Wednesday \V. B. .McEiughhn. Consul bat with the 4<> marks I.tistlge Bint- W. A. Plielps, Clerk. ter. Foresters of America—Ewatina Camp, u. 61, meet* in the A <>. I'. W. hall Crushed. erv second and fourth Friday* tn the “If I conl.l only di- ami leave yon onth. C. D. Wilbon, C. R. well off." he s id after they had had their first quarrel, "I would Is- glad to go." “Uow," she cruelly asked, "could you die and leave me otherwise than well off '/"—Chicago Record-Herald. • 00-000000-00-0-0 o-o-ooo-oo-o-oo-oo • t ? Ô o I To the Retail Liquor Trade: Having opened branch houses in Merrill, Bonanza and Bly, I am now prepared thus saving you time and expense KLAMATH Depot One Hundred an Twentyfive Dollars FOR A LOT 50x120 FEET You are Can you find a better investment in the city? paying the present value price and will thus secure the benefit of the increase ♦ 4 d* FALLS, ORE. Ô- $ • 0-00000 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO • i A ? ** C. D..WILLSON Buy a Lot in Mills’ Addition Just Hast of the to fill all orders for supplies from these points, ; J. » ..... » FRANK IRA WHITE