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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-12-11
Good Farm at a Bargain.

2s6-acre farm, 4 miles from Dallas /;
so acres in cultivation; 10 acres in
hops; good hop house plenty Of fruit /;
well watered by living water; several
springs on place; good pastures, and
plenty Of timber; one mile from Rail-
road house, barn and outbuildings.
A nice home, and great bargain at
SIS per acre. Call on, or address
W. A. AYRES,
Dallas, Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-12-11

You can by Christmas gifts suit
able for every member of your family
without going away from the Bee
Hive Store They carry everything in
stock suitable for old and young. Go
and make your selections early while
the stock is complete and the store is
not crowded with the rush that always
comes on Christmas week.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-12-11
DoIk County Observer

Moss W. Walker was an Albany
visitor this week.
The OBSERVER job Office wants the
printing you are particular about.
City Marshal J. M. Grant made q
business trip to Dayton, Monday.
The Oregon Dairymen's Association
will hold their annual meeting in
Corvallis on December Is, 16, 1903
Ex-Governor T. 7. Geer has ac-
quired an interest in the Salem States
man, and is now Its managing editor
Mrs. W. r. Hollister, Of Portland,
is visiting her son, G. W. Hollister.
manager of the Hub Clothing Store.
George E. Johnson, manager of the
w. w. johnson Lumber Company's
sawmill in this city, was in Portland
on a business visit this week.
DR.. H. L. Toney will go to McMinn-
vile tomorrow afternoon and return
Monday noon. His office will be
closed during his absence.
Mrs. Weaver has beautiful burnt
wood Writing Desk which she now
offers for $500. Call at the studio
and see it before buying elsewhere.
Have you seen the new Lace Collars
at Pollock's Cash Store? Very, very
swell. Special price for two days
only.
The Lewis and Clark Club will meet
at the home Of Mrs. George E. John
son next Tuesday afternoon. All
members are requested to be present.
DR.. Tyler Smith, State Senator from
Yamhill county, accompanied by Mrs.
Smith, visited over Sunday at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Craven.
Mrs. L. B. Grubbs, a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Walling, of Zena,
died while undergoing a surgical
operation in Selba, California, Satur-
day. She was AZ years old, and leaves
a husband and one son.
DR.. H. L. Toney, dentist; a gradu-
ate from the College of Dental Surgery
at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Office up
stairs in the Uglow building. All
work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Office hours, s to 12 and to 5. Ex-
aminations free.
Andrew Holman, who has been in
poor health for several years from the
effects of an attack of appendicitis,
submitted to fourth operation in
Portland this week. Satisfactory re-
ports Of his condition were received
by his family yesterday, and it is
thought he will be able to return
home soon.
George K. Rogers, general organizer
OF the Woodmen of the World, will
visit Dallas Camp, No. 2O9, on Thurs
day evening, December II. Mr.. Rogers
is popular member of the order, and
his visits are always looked forward
to with much pleasure, so it is certain
that he will be greeted by large
number Of Woodmen on the occasion
of his visit here next Thursday.
D. E. Gilman, former well-known
resident Of Dallas, and now engaged
in the real estate business in Heppner,
writes us that the people of Morrow
county are enjoying fine weather.
The Fall was open and mild, with
plenty Of rain to wet the ground to
good depth. A large acreage has
been sown to wheat, and prospects are
bright for a good crop in 1904.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-12-11
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh that
contain Mercury,

as mercury win surely destroy the sense q
smell and completely derange the whole System
when entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, e. the
damage they viii do is ten fold e ths good you
can possibly derive from them. HalPs Catarrh
Cure, manufactured BY =. J. Cheney = Co..
Toledo, o., contains no mercury and - sAken
mucous surfaces Of the yatela. II buying dell
Catarrh Cure be sure you get she fanulne. 4. u
taken internally and Is made IN Toledo Onlol
by r. J. Cheney a Co Ae1ttucnlall free.
~ Sold by Druggists price &c. par bottle,
Hsll's Family Pills are tie best.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-12-11

Lost, in Dallas, letter addressed
to "W. F. Nichols, Dallas, Oregon. +"
Finder will please return to the Post
Office or to Mr.. Nichols.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1903-12-11
At Melser's.

Games from cents up.
Toys Of all descriptions.
German, French and Japanese
China.
Bohemian and American Glassware.
Matted Pictures and Medallions.
At Meiser's.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
HE LOPEs LIKE AN OSTRICH

ginia offers 1t in the country on both
sides Of the Blue Ridge, although it is
not necessary to go so far TO reach
haunts of the fine game. Cupeper
county, where President Roosevelt
hunted, is only short distance from
the national capital and well east of
the mountains.
When a wild turkey IS tracked on
snow he will lead the shooter a chase
of miles. The turkey can hear as
keenly as he can see. A cracking twig
underfoot will startle him more quick.
ly even than it will deer. Often the
man will not be able to get a shot, al
though he may follow flock all day
long Often he will get his shot only
after he has actually walked the birds
down-tired them out by close, patient,
grim pursuit. The man who can do
that is an athlete.
West Virginia contains thousands Of
acres Of hunting country that is in
many respects as wild as it was be-
fore the white men landed in America.
Western North Carolina has turkeys,
particularly between the Blue Ridge
and the Great Smoky mountains, and
thence on across into Tennessee the
turkey hunter can still find surpris-
ingly large tracts of hunting country
where not only turkeys, but deer and
bear, hide In the thickets-- Boston
Transcript
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
You Will BE Happy if Well.
Paine'S Ceier
Compound
Bestows that Health ar
Vigor that MAX
ing a Pie,-~-

II YOU are sick and out-of-sorts, it is in youi
power to make yourself healthy, strong, and
happy.
There is not the slightest reason why
should 90 through life feeling sickly, miseraLle
langud, and melancholc. To be well and
strong, means happiness and true ioy
II you are seepless, rheumatic, o.-.....
dyspeptic, or have the shadows Of ciscast
lowering over you; if you are not as bright
energetic, and strong as you were some weeks
ago, the use of Pane's Celery Compound will
tone up and fonify your whole system, cleanse
the blood, correct digestion, sharpen the
appetite, and conduce TO restlul sleep. lhous-
ands once in a halfdead condition owe their
present good health to the use of Pane's
Celery Compound. Mr. Vim. s. Gibson, OF
Pleasurevillc, Ky, who, through sickness and
suffering, was brought near the dark grave,
writes as follows, regarding his marvellous
cure -
al have been broken down in health and
strength, nervous system shattered, kidneys
out of order, had nervous and trembling spells
of and on for the last ten years. have taken
three bottles of your Panc's Celery Compound
and all of the above mentioned troubles have
left me, and I can now do good days work.
| 90 about my business all day long and it
don't worry me, and now feel better than
have in ten years. | have good appetite,
and can eat and get around on foo, as active
As when was boy My age is 65 years"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
Houses In Fez.

In Fee, the capital Of Morocco most
Of the houses consist Of several stories.
each being provided with light We
randa running round 1t and connecting
the rooms. All the windows and doors
open out into the patio, or courtyard,
the window openings in the upper sto-
ries being covered with close trellis-
work. All the houses have fiat roofs,
with q wall some four to six feet high
running around, and from 4 p. m until
sunset the roofs are given over to the
ladies exclusively, who can then walk
about and take the fresh air without
being seen by any Of the opposite sex.
This reservation is a law which Is
never broken, and no man would be
guilty of being seen on his or on any
other roof during the forbidden hours.
Owing to the fact that the women Of
the house are not allowed to be seen
by any other man than their lord and
master all domestic offices are situated
away from the house proper In many
Of the larger houses, besides the water
fountains, others playing scent or
scented water are to be found. Sec
lions of the courtyard also are slightly
sunk, and these portions are filled with
scented oil, which is used to perfume
tle rooms. The Moors are exception
ally particular in discarding their foot
gear before entering room or cross
Ing q rug or carpet. They even change
slippers before entering the courtyard
from the street Thus the houses are
kept beautifully clean and sweet and
are not, as many people would suppose,
musty or close.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
His Distinguished Uncle.

A young lady, the beautiful daughter
Of western congressman, was intro
duced on her arrival In Washington to
dapper young government official, a
relative Of the late Thomas i. Bayard.
During their talk about the Delaware
statesman she pronounced his name as
1t is spelled giving the first "a" Its
long sound. The young man felt 1t his
duty to correct her, saying that the
name was pronounced "Byard." A
few days later he sent her note ask
ing for the privilege Of entertaining
her and some friends who were visit
Ing her from the west by taking them
to dinner at his club. In the reply TINT
she wrote she said she would have
been pleased to accept his invitation,
only the messenger that he had
"hayard" seemed very "tayard" and
had dalied upon the way, so that she
had entered into another engagement
before the note reached her. However,
If he "desayard" her company at some
future time she would be "alfayard"
glad to hear from him again.-Chicago
RecOrd-Herald.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
Alcoholism and Crime.

Cesare Lombroso, the well known
Italian anthropologist, has published a
new book in which he deals at length
with the subject of crimlnality. He at
tachcs special Importance to the study
OF alcoholism on crlminality and the
great misery It causes. He goes back
sometimes for several generations to
find why man Is criminal. He says
that of ninety-seven children born by
alcoholics only fourteen are normal.
The abnormality may not always show
itself as criminallty, but when 1t does
in one generation some abnOrmallty
can be shown in every generation. or
a hundred crimes alcoholism Is the
cause Of fifty in France and Of forty
one in Germany.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

Why-ah! perhaps you do not believe
me, but l have money, dearest. II will
be yours-yours and-and mine, JUNE.
And we will go away, far away He
stopped suddenly when she hung her
head ana allowed her hand to rest
quietly In his.
"And we will be married. monsieur"
she whispered.
For moment he did not answer. A
dark flush stained his cheeks, spread
quickly to his neck and ears as she
brought her sparkling orbs to bic.
"Ye-es, JUNE"
"And tonight you will ask mon pere,
MONSIEUR
"Juniep His quick tones held sur
prise and pique. Surely, that ISIS
needless. T-this is secret, dearest,
p
"AhemY'
1t was a very loud cough, and 1t
came from the gallery Of masks.
"Y-your father" whispered Nugent,
dropping her hand and staggering a
little on the polished floor. IL will
see you again tonight-tomorrow Ju-
niew And in fash he was gone.
But the door had scarcely closed and
Junie had Just time to snatch up her
work and begin where she left OH
when Dick Hammond, with heavy step
and a hearty voice, announced his well
come presence.
"Mamselle Vernong," he said, play
fully enunciating her name, you said
monsieur might come tonight. and he
is here. Where is mong pere? ] want
to see him. Tonight? Yes; tonight. l
want his JUNE. When he says Our
we will hunt a priest, my dear. The
license, seel" And joyfully he -four
ished pale yellow slip before the
girls dancing eyes.
"Ahem!'
Hammond started, strengthening up
to his full height, which was 9 feet
in his stocking soes. For moment he
stood alert. Then, stepping back a few
PAGES, he stared fxedly at face pro-
truding from the wall above.
"By jimmy, Junie," he gasped, CIV
that amt the cutest AZ ever saw I'll
swallow my collar stud! Jes' look at
I'm. See i'm wink. See I'm grin. jim
inv, JUNE, how much for the skit?'
"Dick, Dick!'
Mamselle was in his arms and shak-
ing with laughter. The grin on the
face was spreading perceptibly, and
the tense features twitched and quiv-
cred convulsively.
GLOW much" persisted Hammond.
"Monsieur, monsieur, eet is not for
sale. Non. non. Eet is a real false
face" gulped the muffled voice against
his breast. "See, now, Get Is gone. Eet
is gone, Eet was mon pere-mOn pere
Gustave Vernon" she cried GREATNESS
", peering round and up as far as his
imprisoning arms would allow.
And Dick Hammond laughed loud
and long. Then, seated on his knee,
mamselle told him the why and the
wherefore of 1t ALL Mon pere had fam
cied Nugent because he had wealth,
and theatrical supplies were not boom
ing Just then. But JUNE would have
none of him. "And why? He is one
scoundrel, Dicky," she explained. True!
Mon perc did not believe 1t So SO she
had devised plan. She had TO do
and the plan was the real
false face.
But now mon pere is satisfied. He
only smiled and said, "Oui; alb, QUIZ
when Hammond asked, May l have
her, GustaveT
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
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Sg1 4 Id
L urkeY
Hunfin@

W. 10, beautiful, brave and wise,
~ the wild turkey is ideal game
81 y for the United States. lie 10
big enough TO satisfy some OF
the material craving Of even the big
game hunter. He eludes the still hunt
er as subtly as the shiest deer. He
gives the cross country rider, courslng
him with hound and horse a run that
often is equal to fox hunting. The
wing shot finds him equal to the occa-
sion. He is the finest game bird in the
world. Not even the royal auerhahn,
sole living representative of the an
Gent big game world Of Europe when
the huge aurochs crashed through the
forests can compare with him.
Hunting the wild bird with hound
and horse is sport for the very select
few, for not only is 1t necessary to find
the birds first. but they must be found
in open country where they cannot es-
cape too readily by flying into cover.
Therefore. coursing is limited to open
country where the turkey, not having
been hunted too feryently, is incau-
tious enough TO feed in farm lands and
open, fiat country. The dogs are sent
in to cut off the retreat to the woods,
and then the mounted men break out
Of their hiding places and pound down
on them.
The wild turkey flies and runs alter.
nately. He lopes like an ostrich. though
not so fast. and whenever he thus takes
to running the dogs and horses gain on
him. When they get unpleasantly close,
up boOms the big bird and flies like n
feathered projectile straight ahead I'M
I'll he has reached a safe distance
when he pitches again and resumes
running
1t is clean sport and exciting enough
to hurry any mans blood But the
true hunting of the wild turkey, with
shotgun or rifle, that tests a mans
strength and cunning and woodcraft
and patience 10 the full is still hunt
ing.
1t may be enjoyed still in some parts
of Pennsylvania, but the best territory
for It is in the southern states. Yir-
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
AN OBSTINATE MAJOR.
Ne Had His Way Even After He Wa
In His Coffin.

In His Coffin.
Many amusing stories are told of
the great Formally blended with hui
morous brusqueness and independence
which characterized%early Revolution
ary days. An incident of camp life Is
related by the author Of Romance and
Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast"
In 1893 the first United States troops
that came down the Mississippi were
0uartered at Fort Adams. General
wilkinson, Colonel Hamtramck, Major
Butler. Captain Green and other OFF,
GERS were merry over their punch one
night, and the general, by some acci-
dent, got his cue burned off. Angry
at the laugh which followed his mis-
hap, he next day issued an order Tor
bidding any officer to appear with
cue. Obedient to orders, all the OIL
GERS but Major Butler cut off their
cues.
THE vain old prig" said the major.
an see him hanged before l cut OH
my cue to crafty him" And he boldly
appeared without changing the style OF
his hairdressing.
The major was put under arrest. but
he declared obstinately that he would
spend the rest of his life in prison be-
fore he would comply with such silly
command. Soon afterward he was tax
en- very i'll, and, realizing that he was
at the point of death, he gave instruc-
tons for his burial, which he knew
would be witnessed by the whole COM
mand.
Bore hole" said he, through the
bottom of my coffin, right under my
head, and let my cue come through IT,
that the old general may see that even
when dead / refuse to obey his or
der"
And these direction were literally
carried out.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
~Tbe WAY 10 Identify Her.

Agnes and Ethel are the kind Of
twins It Is difficult for intimates Of the
family to distinguish apart. They are
four years old and a source of despair
TO mere acquaintances.
A friend of the family met one Of the
twins on the street the other day and
asked:
Nov, which are you, Agnes or
Ethel? I simply can't tell you apart"
T'm Agnes" gurgled the small
maiden. and then she put one Of her
chubby little fingers in her mouth and
mumbled: "You can tell me easy. I'm
the one with the loose tooth. New
York Press.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
Buying a Daughter.

A lady in costly mourning attire was
walking in a street in Vienna the other
day when she saw a beggar woman
with three children. one of them a Cir
OF two. sitting at the foot Of a monu
ment. She sent street porter to ask
If she would give up the girl. The wo-
man nodded, whereupon the lady in
black walked up to her. gave her some
bank notes and took the child to a
store. Half an hour later she emerged
with the same child elegantly dressed
hailed cab and drove away.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
Birth Statistics.

Recently compiled statistics show
that the proportion of twins born as
compared with other infants is one in
eighty births. OF triplets there Is only
one instance In G4O0 and quadruplets
are as one to $4,000, while the chances
of n quintet are even more remote, the
ratio being one in 40,9S0,00O births. A
case Is known of woman who pre-
scented her husband with seven success
sive triplets.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
German ReichstaE Against Drink

Dispatches from Germany state that
the next relthstag will discuss q bill
designed to promote temperance by re-
qulring the sale of food and nonintoxi-
cants in saloons in addition to their
other drinks, fOrbidding the drink credit
system and restricting the employment
of barmaids The Count Douglas agl-
tation In the Prussian landtag and the
action Of the alcohol congress at Brem-
en- have greatly stimulated the tenn
perance movement. The new bill was
drawn up by the imperial commission
selected by the ministers of the interior
and justice.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
Scots Drink Wood Alcohol.

Scotland has always ranked high
among nations as consumer Of spirit
uOus liquors, and the taste seems to be
growing. Recently physicians In that
country have become greatly alarmed
over the increased use Of methylated
spirits. or wood alcohol. DR.. Matthew
Hay, medical officer of health of the
city of Aberdeen, has reported that one
morning he saw no less than seventy
men Oh their way to work stop in at
grocer's to get penny nips" Of this
poison.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

Casey (after Riley has fallen FIVE
stories)-Are yez dead, Pat?
Riley-Oi am.
Casey-Shure, yer such liar Oh don't
know whether to behave yez or not.
Riley-Shure, thot proves Oim dead
Yez wudn't dare call me liar II OF
Wur alOive!-Judge.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

Mrs Feedum-Why do you move 80
lazily? Don't you know that time and
tide wait for no mani
Tattered Tucker-Dat may be all
right about tide. lady; but I'm afeared
dere's q bunch O. time waitin' fer me
de next time I git jugged.-Kansas
City Journal.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

"You spoke very admiringly Of that
mans courage"
Eyes"
'But he was never soldier or fire.
man or policeman"
mo, but he eats mushrooms that he
has gathered himself. "-Exchange.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
Tax Extraordinary.

A tax on marriage is still imposed by
the proprietor Of leading Bombay
hotel. In revised tariff OF prices the
daily charge for a single lady or gen.
tleman is set down as 3 rupees, but
II the lady or gentleman be married
the charge will be rupees each.
No explanation of this singular reguls-
ton IL given.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

"Sir.' cried Mr.. Pecksnlff indignant
ly. How dare you accuse me Of such
things? My reputation, sir, Is spot
less"
"Your reputation may be, sir" re-
piled the detective, "but you're not
We spotted you some time ago."-Ex-
change.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
Home of the Chinchilla.

The chinchilia, the little animal the
size Of a squirrel, is met with only in
the Andes of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
and northern Chile and Is never found
under a height of 1900 or 10000 feet.
The Indians are eager trappers and
hunters Of it for its fine fur. The skins
are well seasoned with salt and made
up into small packages for dispatch to
tie towns, whence they are shipped
abroad.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

The aborigines Of Peru can, In the
darkest night and in the thickest woods
distinguish respectively white man,
negro and one Of their own race by the
smell.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

Successful Fight Against Saloons.
Lagoda, Ind, on Sept. 10 completed a
successful fight against the saloons OF
that place, when the last license ex-
pired. The remonstrance won by near
ly n hundred majority.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

or the worlds hay crop the United
States grows 28,800O00 pounds. This
h about half as much as Germany ana
two.thirds o. much a. NaolaAA
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09

to resist or throw off other diseases.
Men and women who are sick are in
vited to consult DR.. Pierce, by letter, free,
and so obtain without charge the opinion
of specialist on their ailments. All cor
respondence strictly confidential. Adj
dress DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
cFor the past two years have been very
sick woman y writes Mrs Chesley, of los Wood
land Ave, Cleveland, Ohio. ri tried medicines
from doctors and to no avail. At last decided
TO try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
When started was all rundown and had
very unpleasant taste in my mouth. Was
choked up and at times II was very hard for me
to breathe. had severe headaches and cutting
pains in my knee joint. Was so weak could
not attend to my work nor walk up or down
stairs without the assistance Of my brother or
some friend. am now taking the fourth bottle,
and am happy to say feel like myself again.
can 90 up and down stairs and perform my
duties as well as any one. Everything seems to
be brighter. and 1 can assure you that life Is
worth living"
Accept no substitute for cGolden Med
ical Discovery" There is nothing just
as good for dyspepsia or debility.
Biliousness is cured by the use OF Dr..
Pierces Pleasant Pellets.