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stock in the company. Some propo
sitions were offered by the Bell com
pany, but they cannot be taken up fol
a while. MIR. Wood Of Hood River
representing the Bell telephone com
pany, was present at the meeting.
j. P. Cooper spent last week witt
his brother, j. T., on the latter'i
place near The Dalles, where they
expected to drain a lake and antici
pated having great sport catching the
fish afterwards.
Joe Demick and his family have
moved from Dee, where Joe has been
working in the logging camp, to his
place on Main street.
M. Dumas and family spent Sunday
at the Fredenburg home.
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Select high Grade Berry Plants

Phenomenal Berry
Great money maker; as high as 81 400
per acre has been realized from sin
gle acre here the last season. Fruit OF
enormous size, varying from one to
two inches in length; a brilliant rose
red color, dellciousy favored: ex-
ceedlngly productive; very firm and ~
good shipper. Price, per 10, Sl0O; per
100, $50; per 1000, $500.
New Mammoth Blackberry
Cross between the Crandall Blackberry
and the Calf Wild Dewberry. It Is
the very largest berry fruit Of anything
known in the world today. The fruit
averages from two to three inches IN
length and iB produced In the greatest t
abundance. The highest favored and
most delicious OF all blacKberries.
They ripen three weeks before any
dewbcrry or blackberry. Agreat ship
per and money maker. 500 per 10,
$500 per 100, 5000 par 1000. /.
A famous berry, now being widely
planted all over the country Fruit
very large and handsome dark red
color; exceedingly, productive. and
One OF the best canning berries known.
80 cents per 10, $3.50 per 100, SIS per l00O.
Him AlayAn Giant Blackberry
Will yield 100 quarts of fruit IN a plant
during season. Berries ripen In
July and August; they are nearly an
inch in diameter: Jet black, round and
OF exquisite aAvor. sl.OO per 10, $500
per 100, 5000 per 1000. /.
New Golden Blackberry
Fruit . glowing golden yellow, In
tensely highly favored, very produc
tive, and In size as large as the Ear
Harvest blackberry. rs cents each
500 per 10, $500 per 100.
Match1sss Blackberry
One of the finest favored and most
productive OF all upright growing ber-
ries SlO0 per 10, $3.50 per 100. &.
Rogers Early Oewberry
Earliest OF all dewberries; large, very
frm, great shipper. so cents per lU,
$3.50 per 100, 5000 per 1000.
Mayes Hybrid Dewberry
The largest and best dewberry in the
world. Ripens 10 days after Rogers
Early; great ship er; berries Jet
black and OF the highest flavor; enor
mously productive. so cents per 10
$3.50 per 100, $500 per 1000. :.
Mexican
Best all-purpose strawberry on earths
the largest strawberry known, and one
Of the most deliciOusly favored: gives
three crops year; will succeed any.
where. 25 cents per 10, Sl.O0 100, So %
per 1000 :.
r ALL PLANTS ARE SHIPPED PREPAID AT
=. ABOVE PRICES.
S. |. WATKINS, Grizzly Flats. Cal.
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ODELL
WILLING TO DEBATE
HIGH SCHOOL MATTER

BY Roswell Shelley.
Odell, East Hood River Valley, Feb.
2S.--Judging from the spirit of enthu.
siasm manifested at the high school
meeting last Saturday at Hood River
It would appear that there would be
little trouble in getting majority
vote for consolidation when the time
comes. We regret the fact that it
seemed necessary to drop Crapper DIS
trict from the list. But as the ma
jority should rule, and 1t seemed that
they we're not ready TO take the mat
ter up, and a failure on the part OF
one district to vote the measure would
kill the whole thing, 1t is best to al,
low them to withdraw, yet we feel
that when the good results of central
lied work are demonstrated they with
other and more remote districts will
be glad to come in. 1t appears that
all along the line wherever this plan
has been tried that it has proven a
decided success, and to the writer
there is only one side to this question,
and with this opinion firmly fixed W..
l.. Carnes, ii. S. Galligan and Roswell
Shelley hereby challenge any one or
party of three to debate the following
questions, the parties making the
challenge assuming the affirmative
side of the question.
Resolved, That ii is to the inter
est OF the people Of Hood River valley
TO consolidate the school districts OF
lower Hood River valley into one dis
trict with one central high school,
the pupils to be transported to and
from said high school, outside the
two mile limit, at the expense OF the
district. =
The parties making this challenge
being all residents of 0dell district,
would prefer having the debate at the
Odell school house, yet W uld meet
their opponents at any one OF the i've
districts In this consolidation move.
ment.
Absence from home last week inter
fered with writing the usual grist Of
notes last week, and as there IL al
ways somethin. doing at Odell worth
recording, found on my return that
the sins of omission are about as bad
as those Of commission, for several
things | have been reminded Of the
fact of no notes last week and asked
for reason why. This failure on my
part is regretted by the writer from
the fact that there was an opportunity
to write up the drama put on the
boards here at Odell on the 10th
which was worthy of special mention,
and by more gifted writer than the
author Of the Odell notes. During
the entire season of 0dell's splendid
entertainments that was the red let
ter day. The very best talent had
been selected and with patient and
prefect drilling on that memorable
evening was flashed behind the foot
lights and before the four hundred of
Odell the most brilliant entertainment
ever presented to the good people of
Odell. The role of characters was
we'll sustained, every one of whom
we're worthy of special mention. The
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Trust to Nature.

A great many Americans, both men
and women, are thin, pale and puny, with
DOOR circulation,~ because they have ILL
treated their stomachs by hasty eating
or too much eating, by consuming alco-
nol1e b OF Dy soo close nd e oe
sequence the stomach must be treated
in q natural way before they can rectify
their earlier mistakes. Inc muscles N
thin and thin-blooded person, do their,
work with great dimcuity. As q result
long TSa tor nrsrisis aso aid IS
ahead of the supply. To insure perfect
health every Tissue, bone, nerve and
tain materials and return to 1t certain
others It is necessary to prepare the
stomach for the work of taking up from
rich, red blood We must go TO Nature
for the remedy There were certain
roots known to the Indians Of this
which later came to the knowledge of
the settlers and which are now growing
rapidly in professional favor for the euro
These are found to be safe and yet GER
tain in their cleansing and invigorating
effect upon the stomach, liver and blood.
root, Stone root, Bloodroot, Mandrake
root. Then there is Black Cherrybark.
The medicinal principles residing in these
crime as a solvent make the most reliable
and efficient stomach tonic and liver in
vigorator, when combined in just the
right proportions, a. in Or; Pierce's
is bankrupt vitality - such as nervous
exhaustion, bad nutrition = and thin
blood, the body acquires vigor and the
nerves, blood and all the tissues feel the
favorable effect Of this sovereign remedy.
Although some physicians have been
aware of the high medicinal value of the
above mentioned plants, yet few have
used pure glycerine as solvent and
usually the doctors prescriptions called
for the ingredients in varying amounts,
sUith alcohol
The Golden Medical Discovery" is q
scientific preparation compounded of the
glyceric extracts of the above mentioned
vegetable ingredients and contains no
alcohol or harmful habit-forming drugs.
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Discount for Shortage.

A couple evidently from an exceed
ingly rural district recently presented
themselves at the home of a Buffalo
minister and announced that they
wished to be married. The would-be
bride was of a LONELINESS to cause
one less pity for the blind, but the
groom seemed satisfied, and as they
possessed the necessary license the
minister proceeded to perform the
ceremony.
How much dew that come to, par
SOM" the man inquired, bringing a
handful Of silver change from a deep
trousers pocket. Name yer regular
fgger that you charge tn swells. I'm
a-goin' tn limit, by jinks-'
"Oh, have no regular charge" the
minister said; lust give me what you
think it is worth.
The groom turned and eyed the
bride in speculative manner
. She's good gal, eff she amt much
on looks" he said, thoughtful1y, IAN
I'll be gosh derned eff she amt wuth
a dollar an forty-f1ve cents,"
He was about to hand over the sill
yer, when the lady caught his arm,
and deducted the five cent piece from
the sum.
wait, ST." she said. "Take back
this nickel; you don't know it. but
when 1 was a child 1 chopped off two
toes with tn Ratchet. "-Harper's
Weekly.
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PHYSICIANS KNEW EACH OTHER
"Good Thing" to Be Allowed to Re-
main Undisturhed.

"Good Thing" to BE Allowed to Re-
main Undisturbed-
Listeners said H Clay Pierce,
the oil magnate, in New York, -sel-
dom hear good of themselves. This
is especially true if the listeners hap
pen to be rich.
There was a rich old lady in st.
Louis who had been ailing long
time. She liked and trusted her ply
stefan, but. becoming alarmed finally,
she asked him to call in a famous
specialist for consultation.
THE specialist came. He charged
$500. He examined the rich old lady
carefully and gently. Then he went
downstairs to partake with the fam
lily doctor of a sumptuous luncheon
that the patient had provided.
Now the patient, a brave woman,
wishing not to be deceived about her
health, wishing to know the worst at
all COSTS, induced her maid to hide
in a closet in the dining room so as
to overhear and report to her the
physicians discussion of her all
mentS.
''The maids report was that during
the luncheon the specialist and the
family doctor had talked of nothing
but the Panama canal. Finally, drain
ing his last glass of champagne, the
specialist said as he looked at his
watch:
4'But I must be off. My train
goes in twenty minutes
Then the family doctor said:
But how about the old woman
upstairs? You must remember she
is a good source of income to me-
as he slipped on his overcoat, L
won't interfere. The present treat
ment is an excellent protracting
one"
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The man had genius, the woman had
hope.
He lived in a cheap boarding house
and kept soul and body together by
doing the work of a literary hack
Sometimes he did little desultory
tasks for newspapers, but never sue
ceeded in connecting himself with a
pay roll Once he had been given a
commission to write little skit for
vaudeville stunt, and this was his I'M
doing-if so sorry a failure could be
undone In working it up he had found
1t necessary to familiarize himself with
the technique of playwriting and 1t
fascinated him. Then the stunt was
a decided success and the man who
wrote it not only realized more money
from it than he had from any other
literary effort in his life, but also saw
the possibilities of dramatic express
sion both in an artistic and a hnanclal
sense. And so he came to be a slave
of the pIaywright's itch. And he
wrote and wrote and wrote and
starved and pinched and still wrote
But his skits were not accepted and
his plays were returned by the mana
gers and their readers.
He became more seedy and more
gaunt and more impossible-finally he
became unconsciously hopeless. But
he worked on because he was the
slave of Genius and was compelled to
Ho1low the law of his being.
} She was the child of love and hope
Her mother was the wife of Hinckley,
the shoemaker around the corner, the
most patient, Industrious and hopeless
of the relics of bygone time before
ma oh hod n
lies of their kingdom. Perhaps Hinck-
ley was her father. Most people be-
llieved not There were rumors of a
gallant stranger who had sojourned
for short time in the neighborhood
and looked with glowing eyes upon
the shoemaker's wife. And she, who
never had had her romance, had it
then, SO the gossips whispered. And
the handsome stranger faded away
into the realm of dreams and after
time a daughter was born to the
shoemaker's wife. The daughter was
SO different from the shoemaker and
his pretty wife that more than one
doubt was whispered as to her pater-
nifty. But the shoemaker never doubt
ed and she grew up as Nora Hinckley
the apple of his eye.
In the very prime of her splendid
beauty-a beauty enhanced and chas-
tened by the very essence of optomism
she crossed the path of the strug-
Cling playwright. Some deep chord
in her nature drew her to him as the
needle to the north. She was an occa-
sional helper for Mrs. Simpson, who
kept the cheap boarding house where
he lived. She entered his life as a
ray of sunshine. At the lowest ebb
of his fortune she brought warmth
and hope and cheer She laughed at
the hopeless clouds which overhung,
and she believed in him and his aspir-
atoms. Recognizing a sympathetic
spirit his starved nature unfolded un-
der the warmth of her appreciation,
and he discovered to her depths and
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Forgive.
The air of scented pine floats DER the
stream.
The day is done and shadows fall
One by one the stars appear,
One by one, as in dream.
My thoughts go back and say
Forgive
The night is long, the way is steep,
The pathway narrow, We lose our way
In wrong or right, we plod along,
Perhaps to laugh and oft to weep,
Perhaps to linger little while
And say, forgive.
The soft dew falls in the eventide
On the river, field and stream,
Just a word from the lips OF one
Who begs and pleads in world so wide,
That you may hear it somewhere,
The word, forgive.
BY some mistake. perhaps my own.
Some petulant word or look, may be.
The boat went drifting to far on isle
Where discomfort and feud are sown.
Oh, If some one would tell you why
And say, forgive.
By some miSchance or bitter word,
A needless action born of strife,
Some impulse needed but too late.
Some rumor rankles. a scandal heard,
Some lie repeated, breaks the heart
Forgivei Forgive.
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Why He Liked Venice.

Marion Crawford gave recently a
dinner in Rome and during the din
ner the talk turned to Venice.
There is a young lady from Du-
luth,'' Mr. Crawford said, whom L met
one bright October morning in Sorren-
to. She told me that she was touring
Italy with her father. She said her
father had liked all the Italian cities,
but. especially he had liked Venice.
".Ah, Venice, to be sure said L.
4 can readily understand that your
father would prefer Venice, with it's
gondolas and St. Marks and Michael
Angeles
".Oh, no. said the young lady, st
wasn't that. But he could sit in the
hotel, you know, and fish out of the
window"
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The Barley.

The Barley.
The grain stands bonny where the cliffs
are sheer
And the blue North sea is sleeping:
The stocks yellow in a golden ear
With their shadows inward creeping
The tide lies silent on the sands below
And the autumn miStS hang early
To fade in heaven Ger the distant row
OF the long red roofs beyond the barley
o late last harvest-time. when days were
long,
Worked men and maids by the stealing;
And gulls sailed landward in a screamins;
throng,
To the river pastures heading.
Soft was the foostep that beside me trod
In the dew of morning early,
For Love walked there beneath the smile
And the high blue sky above the barley
The stalks fall mellow to the sweeping
blade
With their weeds laid shorn beside
And eyes meet stealthily as lad and maid
Glance over where TIE stocks divide
them;
But mine turn ever while I work alone
Through the long day. late and early.
To a low mound lying by a standing stone
Where the wall shuts out the barley
Where the Neither Kirk is gray Janet.
BY the long blue sea beyond the barley.
Violet Jacob. in the Outlook.
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shoals and angles which other persons
ever had seen or suspected
AS she beheld these revelations a
great awe and a great love entered
her heart and soul. She saw his great
and heroic soul naked and free from
the sordid limitations of his life, and
she bowed down and worshiped with
the devotion given only to women of
her type And under the spell of her
appreciation and understanding, the
shackles dropped away from him and
his genius held full sway.
All this involved many We ~ months
and when he realized fully the great
love he bore the blithesome lass, the
great Joy of the discovery turned at
once into sharDest pain as he real
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lied the hopelessness of his passion.
How was he, who could scarcely keep
his own body and soul together, hope
to care for another and to assume the
responsibilities of a family?
But she never despaired. For her
always was the golden day in sight
when his genius would be recognized
and their dreams be realized
with a new and great play. 1t was a
drama which touched all the chords
of human nature and inspired laughter
and tears alike. 1t lifted every auditor
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Her Perquisites-

E. z. Gross, the mayor of Harris
burg, Pa, was condemning the fees
and unfair perquisites which swell
unduly the salaries of many unimport-
ant Office holders
Fees and perquisites," he said.
"tend to cause unjust dealings Even
in the kitchen that is So
"A butcher told me the other day
that a young woman, the cook in a
prominent family hereabouts, came
into his shop and said:
"-Gimme a fine large roast o. beef
with plenty o. bones
PLENTY of bnnes?' said the
butcher in amazement-
Yes answered the young woaaa-
Bones is my pc, urisite.'"
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"Aunt Lizzie" Aiken was in Men,
phfs when Gen. Forests raiders in
vaded the city, and a battle was
waged in the streets. She performed
many noble acts after the blowing up
of the steamer Sultana, at the Mem
phis docks, with 1000 discharged
Union soldiers on board Her only
respite from her labors was a short
visit back to her home in Peoria,
after which she returned to her post
and served in the Memphis hospitals
until after the war had ended
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.Aunt Lizzie's. ThouohtfuIness.


She seemed to have no thought for
herself, says a veteran, and in the
thick of her work she herself fell
victim to exposure and was a patient
in Memphis for four weeks.
1t was a narrow escape from death,
but the moment she was able to work
she put on the harness and attached
herself to the star of the general hos
pitfalls. She was assigned to the Over
ton hospital, which before had been
the most fashionable hotel in Memphis.
and her sister workers we're six wom-
en- of the Holy Cross and six Protest
ant women There were LOO wound
ed men piled in the Adams block from
the fight of the Forest They were to
be moved, and the men feared they
might lose their watches and little
valuables in the transit. They asked
for AUNT Lizzie and Mother Stur-
gis,' and these two- women, standing
at the door, took all the contributions
from the soldiers. The money was
rolled in packages and the watches
were fastened to belts and strapped
arouni the waists of nurses The
treasures were thus dangling when
she had word from a courier that the
Colonel of her own regiment had fall
en- In an engagement about mile
from town. She forgot that she had a
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First Russian Parliament.

Called the douma.
Election of members begins April z
First session May TO-
Ignoring of vote will give peasants
small representation.
Most election places will be under
martial rule.
Leading legislative topic will be
finances.
One bill places heavy tax on salaries
of corporations officials.
Vast foreign loan to be sanctioned.
Parliament will be asked to act
strongly against violation of property
rights.
Early steps to be taken against
Poles and other dependent peoples.
Bill prepared gives peasants right
to buy realty holdings on easy pay
ments.
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Was One of Grants sodyquard.

Frederick NJ. Treat, 81 years old,
one of Gen. Grants bodyguard, died
at Great Darlington, VT, Feb. "a. of
gangrene. He was born in West
Stockbridge. He enlisted in Com
pany d, 22d Connecticut, and served
four years. The Connecticut 1egisla-
ture presented Mr.. Treat on July 4,
1867, with testimonial in grateful
remembrance of his patriotism. He
was a charter member of D. G. Ander-
son post, G. A. R., and had been
twice its commander.
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to the heights of ideality and car
There was no false note and all the
lection of the piece.
And up and down the land the
critics asked, 'eWho is it that has
done this thing?" and there was no
answer. For the play was produced
under a nom de plume, and the clever
est work of the newspapers failed to
disclose the real identity of the au-
thor.
After the play had been a success
for many months and had brought a
great harvest of shekels to manager
and playwright, a fire occurred in a
great Office building wherein the man
ager who produced the play had his
Offices. A reporter hurrying to the
fire was enveloped in cloud of smoke
and cinders and after catching his
breath found charred piece of paper
blown across his face. CHANGING at it
he saw that it was a contract and
upon further investigation it proved
to be the veritable contract between
the author of Loves Last Surrender
and the manager who purchased it.
The controversy as to the authorship
of the play had been waging so fierce
ly that the reporter recognized in
stantly the value of the information
he had He went on with his fire
story and on the following day sought
out the man whose name was on the
priceless contract the gods had sent
into his hands. He found him-a thin,
hollow-cheeked man with eyes in
which burned a fire almost uncanny in
its intensity. He was lily dressed and
bore none of the marks of the success
full author.
What was the inspiration of this
great work." asked the reporter.
Come with me" replied the man.
Following him silently the reporter
went with the man by trolley car and
walk until they reached the great
cemetery by the flowing river The
great author paused beside a grave
surmounted by a simple shaft but
heaped high with priceless roses.
The inspiration lies here" said he
solemnly. THE play is the very es-
sence of the life and love and devotion
of the marvellous woman who lies be-
| meath this mound 1t is the warp and
wool of her heart-throbs and mine
| That is why 1 have never let my au
/
| fame her love and mine. You, sir
have discovered the secret You have
it in your power to do this act OF
dissertation Do it, sir, if your con
science will allow. 1 cannot prevent
it-but forbid it in the name of every
holy and generous instinct
| He turned abruptly and went AWAY
well. did you get the story?" de
| manded the city editor eagerly as
! Holmes entered the office
No. replied Holmes soberly. tear
ing piece of paper into bits and
throwing the bits on the floor Moth
| ing in it; false alarm"
well, of all FOOLS" remarked the
city editor in disgust, land you'v,
wasted whole afternoon. Get bus,
on that Hill graft case. Keep it il
two columns"
Holmes occasionally meets ON tn,
street grave and solemn gentleman
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Had the Advantage.

Browning had just completed ''The
Ring and the Book
There is only one thing I don't
understand about it," remarked Eliza
beth
But you should remember wife,"
replied the author, that you are far
above the average person In intel
ligence.-Kansas City Drovers Tele-
gram.