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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-07-02


Legal Blanks for sale at this Office.
We can sell your real estate. VAN.
oRsDEL 4 BARHAM.
Dr. G. A. Mock was in Dayton. Sun.
uay' returning 10 Dallas Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Y. Morrison .,
Portland, are visiting relatives in
Dallas. :"
nave on display nice assortment
OF 'spalding's" sporting goods. All
guaranteed. W. R. ELLIS.
The new Krys-TOl glass at Hove,s
is selling fast. Come In and see II
before the fine pieces are gone.
Mrs. Eugene Hayter and children
arrived home Saturday from a three
weeks visit in Lane and Douglas
counties.
Harold Hart, son Of Hon. j. N
Hart, formerly of Dallas, is visiting
relatives here, and expects to remain
over the Fourth.
Hon. George Fl. Hines, Of Portland.
was in Dallas, Saturday, returning
from attendance at the commence
ment exercises in Monmouth.
The Pioneers Picnic tomorrow will
doubtless cause the attendance of Polk
county teachers at the convention in
Salem to be somewhat scanty.
Mrs. Fred Rich has returned home
from several weeks visit In Browns
vile. She was accompanied on the
homeward trip by her mother, Mrs.
Cynthia Gray.
We have just received a shipment
OF handsome and serviceable decor
ated Chinaware. You are invited to
call and examine it. Boyd & Son,
Corner Grocery.
We make our own ice cream. No
danger of getting anything but the
pure article, and no possibility of the
supply running low. Give us a trial
tomorrow. Johnson Bros. Confection-
cry Store.
l have secured competent help and
am prepared to do all kinds of quick
repairing work. Horse shoeing a
specially. Bring your work to my
blacksmith shop, next to Lee Smiths
Cyclery. CAL HUTTON. tt
The city has cut down the large oak.
tree which stood in the center of the
street at the entrance to the park.
There is no occasion for sentimental
ones to waste sympathy, for this tree
was Of poor shape and really
obstructed the way.
The Willamette Valley Lumber
Company is building a new plank
foot-bridge across the back water in
the west end of their mill pond. The
old bridge was so low that the water
came up over the boards and rendered
it almost impossible at times.
E. L. Collins, an electrician in the
employment of the Pacific Electric
Company, of Portland, is visiting at
the home of his father, Hon. ]. L.
Collins. He lately suffered a serious
accident falling from ladder while
engaged in work on a roof and
breaking both arms.
Those who work on the floats for
the various business houses and
lodges of Dallas are studiously keep
ing all facts concerning their progress
in the dark. No sight of the floats
can be obtained and few ideas as to
the plans pursued in their con-
struction. Hence the grand parade
is bound to be filled with surprises for
all who attend the celebration.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-07-02
Henry 0lanfleld, of Salt Greek, vas

Henry Clanfleld, Of Salt Greek, was
in Dallas, Saturday.
Skating Saturday night, at the Col
osseum Rink, from to IL.
The Baptist congregation is having
the church partially re-roofed.
Miss Edna Hayes attended the com
mencement exercises at Monmouth
last week.
Cooking like mothers. That is
what you get at the Dallas Hotel-aIl
white help.
Colosseum Rink. Saturday night.
Skating from to II, with band in
attendance.
Flags OF all Nations something
entirely new in souvenir postal cards
at L. d. Daniels.
If you love your wife, don't ask her
to cook Sunday dinner these hot
days. Take dinner at Dallas Hotel
home cooking, white help.
The Salem Statesman says that the
riding of bicycles on the sidewalks is
a nuisance and marks Salem as
"iay" town.
Peter Greenwood, who has been
attending school in Seattle, returned
to Dallas, Saturday, where he will
spend his vacation.
V. %. Launer will finish his work in
the store Of S. M. Daniel, OF Mon
mouth today, and return to Dallas on
the morning of the Fourth.
Miss Edith Niles, former special
writer on the Portland Telegram, is
spending a few weeks in Polk county
in the interest Of Sunset Magazine.
Miss Hazel HolIister, who has been
suffering from severe attack Of ton
silitis, is able to take up her work in
the Bell telephone central Office again.
Misses Nellie and Ednelle Collins,
alumni Of the 0. S. N. s., attended the
commencement exercises and alumni
reunion of that institution last week.
Two large new boilers with their
fixtures have been brought to Dallas
and will be installed in the plant of
the Willamette Valley Electric Com
pany.
]. A. Lynch has added his share to
the general holiday display Of red,
white and blue, by placing a large
new barber-pole in a prominent posi-
ton before his place Of business.
The sawmills in Dallas and Black
Rock will be closed on July and A,
SO we may look for large delegations
Of laboring men to turn out and help
make the celebration all that it should
be.
Misses Mama Forbes and Ella Car
penter went to Salem, Saturday, to
attend the Teachers Convention which
is to be held there this week. Miss
Forbes will go from that place to her
home in the East.
Frank Gillian, of Airlie, was a
Dallas visitor, Saturday. Mr.. Gillian
said that the rain storm last Friday
was quite heavy in the vicinity Of
Airlie, so much SO that the roads were
covered with water in some places.
A double wedding was solemnized
at the Baptist parsonage yesterday
afternoon, when William H. Munson
and Bessie McTimmonds, and Chester
A. Erickson and Florence Turner,
were united in marriage by the Rev.
G. Fl. Davis. The contracting couples
are residents Of Falls City.
Mrs. Mary Martin fell down the
stairway and fractured her right
collar bone while visiting at the home
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20
A SMALL SECRET.
Couldn't Understand the Taste OF
His Customers.

Two men were discussing the var.
ious food products now being supplied
In such variety and abundance
One, a grocer, said, 81 frequently try
a package or so of any certain article
before offering it to my trade, and in
that way sometimes form a different
idea than my customers have.
For instance, thought would try
some Postum Food Coffee, to see what
reason there was for such a call for it.
At breakfast didn't like it and supper
proved the same, SO naturally CON
cluded that my taste was different
from that Of the customers who bought
it right along.
"a day or two after, waited on
lady who was buying a Csc package
and told her / couldn't understand how
one could fancy the taste Of Postum.
81 knew just what is the natter
she said, you put the coffee boiler on
the stove for just fifteen minutes, and
ten minutes Of that time it slmmered,
and perhaps five minutes it boiled;
now if you will have it left to boil full
fifteen minutes after 1t commences to
boil, you will find a delicious Java.like
beverage, rich in food value Of gluten
and phosphates, so choice that you
will never abandon II, particularly
when voli soc the great rain in health
Well, | took another trial and sure
enough Joined the Postum army for
good, and life seems worth living since
| have gotten rid Of my old time stom-
ach and kidney troubles"
Postaul Is no sort o, medicine, but
pure liquid food, and this, together
with relief from coffee worked the
change. There's a Reason"
Read 1.-THE Road to Wellyille,' IN
pkgs..
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scALY ERUPTION ON BODY.
Doctors and Remedies FruitIess-suf,
fered 10 Years - Completely
Cured by Cuticura.

Small sores appeared on each OF
my lower limbs and shortly afterwards
they became so sore that | could
scarcely walk. The sores began to
heal, but small staly eruptions ap.
peared. The itching was so severe
that would scratch the sores until the
blood began to flow. After l suffered
thus about ten years | made renewed
effort to effect a cure. The eruptions
by this time had appeared on every
part of my body except my face and
hands. The best doctor in my native
county and many remedies gave no
relief All this was fruitless. Finally
my hair began to fall out and | was
rapidly becoming bald. A few months
after, having used almost everything
else, | thought l would try Cuticura
Ointment and Cuticura Soap. After
using three boxes I was completely
cured, and my hair was restored, after
fourteen years of suffering and an ex-
penditure of at least $50 or $50 in vain,
ly endeavoring to find a cure, b.
Hiram Mattingly, Vermillion, S. Oak,
Aug. Is, 1906"
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LINGERS In MEMORY
MARK TWAIN RECALLS STUNTS"
OF BICYCLE DAYS.
His Efforts TO Tame the Wild and
Unruly "ordinary"-Deserved
Compliment Paid Him by
His Teacher.

Susy's next date is Nov %, 1855.
the eve of my fiftieth birthday. 1t
seems a good while age, l must have
been rather young for my age then,
for l was trying to tame an old-fash-
Toned bicycle nine feet high. 1t is to
me almost unbelievable, at my pres
ent stage of life, that there have real
ly been people willing to trust them
selves upon a dizzy and unstable alti-
tude like that, and that was one of
them. Twichell and | took lessons
every day. He succeeded, and be-
came master of the art of riding that
wild vehicle, but | had no gift in that
direction and was never able to stay
on mine long enough to get any salts
factory view of the planet. Every
time | tried to steal look at pretty
girl, or any other kind of scenery, that
single moment of inattention gave the
bicycle the chance it had been wait
ing for, and | went over the front of
1t and struck the ground on my head
or my back before had time to real
ize that something was happening l
didn't always go over the front way;
| had other ways, and practiced them
all, but no matter which way was
chosen for me there was always
one monotonous result-the bicycle
skinned my leg and leaped up into
the air and came down on top Of me.
Sometimes its wires were so sprung
by this violent performance that it
had the collapsed look of an umbrella
that had had a misunderstanding with
a cyclone. After each days practice
arrived home with my skin hanging
in ribbons, from my knees down. |
plastered the ribbons on where they
belonged, and bound them there with
handkerchiefs STEPPED in liniment and
was ready for more adventures next
day. 1t was always surprise to me
that | had so much skin, and that 1t
held out so well. There was always
plenty, and | soon came to understand
that the supply was going to remain
sufficient for all my needs, 1t turned
out that | had nine skins, in layers,
one on top of the other, like the leaves
of book, and some of the doctors
said it was quite remarkable.
| was full of enthusiasm over this
insane amusement. My teacher was
a young German from the bicycle fac
tory, gentle, kindly, patient crea-
turc, with a pathetically grave face.
He never smiled; he never made re-
mark; he always gathered me tender
ly up when | plunged off, and helped
me on again without word. When
he had been teaching me twice a day
for three weeks | introduced new
gymnastic-one that he had never
seen beforehand so at last a compli.
ment was wrung from him, a thing
which l had been risking my life for
days to achieve He gathered me up
and said mournfully: Mr.. Clemens,
you can fall off bicycle in more diff
ferent ways than any person | ever
saw before. Mark Twain, in North
American Review.
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MAN AND HIS WAYS.
Fertile Brain Has Evolved . New
style OF Cradle.

A new cradle has been invented
and by man. Which latter state
ment is dedundancy-for no upto-
date woman would really ever think
of inyenting anything so pernicious to
her infants welfare. Has SHE not be-
come enlightened to the dreadful Ills
of that time-honored institution or
our ancestors? Dare she imperil the
intellect that is to sway the TWEEN
tieth century by untimely Juggling
in its embryo stage? Poor modern
babe! When colic's gripes assail, it
may not know the luxury of steady
tramp swung across fathers shout
der-strange to say, men do not jeer
at this diCtum of the new mother
hood-much less will 1t experience the
bliss of being lulled to rest in a
wooden-slatted cradle or fluffy bassi-
net, swayed by the foot of a won
drous being who swings and croons,
swings and croons, till baby woes are
merged in blessed sleep. Its maker
claims that sideways rocking is, in
deed, injurious to babykins but to his
eyes, not his brain. Therefore has he
constructed a cradle that swings
lengthwise, and is shaped like boatl
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20

! was once teaching a class of small
pupils in physiology in a rural school
and asked the class what name was
given to the bones of the head as a
whole. A little girl raised her hand
What is II, Lpcy?" | asked.
Skull" she answered.
Correct said /; but what other
name has it?' expecting some one to
answer Uranium" All were silent
for while, then a little fellow who
seemed to be in a deep study quickly
raised his hand, his eyes sparkling
and a confident smile spreading on
his face
What is It, Henry?' l asked.
"Noggin," was his immediate reply.
Judges Library.
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Her Aim.

A man who runs a truck farm in
Virginia tells Of the sad predicament
In which a colored man named Sam
Moore. who is in his employ, recently
found himself Sam had had consid-
cradle difficulty in evading the on.
slaughts Of a dog from a neighboring
farm, Finally the dog got him, as
Sam kicked at him
Sans wife, hearing a tremendous
yell, rushed to the rescue Of her hus.
band, When she came up the dog had
fastened his teeth in the calf of Sans
leg and was holding on for dear life.
Selling a stone in the road Sans
wife was about to hurl it when Sam,
with wonderful presence Of mind,
shouted.
Mandy Mandy! Don't frow dat
stone at de dawg! Frow it at me,
Mandy Youth Companion.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20

When the steamship Arabia arrived
at Tilbury, England, recently, four
cases of undistinguished appearance
were handed over to four men EN-.
ployed by tourist agents, Each man
guarded his case wit& particular care,
never releasing his hold upon it dur
ing the train journey to town.
On arrival at Liverpool Street sta
ton the four men, each hugging his
charge, entered van, sat on their
cases, and were driven to Ludgate cir
Gus, where the cases were immediate.
ly consigned to the safes.
The mysterious boxes contained the
hereditary jewels of the Maharaiah Of
Bikaneer, who arrived in London a
short time ago. The jewels which
are valued at about G25,000, were
guarded in India by an armed escort.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20
SAVED FROM DREAD FATE.
Kind Womans Assistance Meant
Much to This Tramp.

A certain lady, noted for her kind
heart and open hand, was approached
not long ago by a man who with
tragic air, began:
"A man, madam, Is often forced by
the whip of hunger to many things
from which his very soul shrinks-
and so it is with me at this time. I'm.
less madam, in the name Of pity, you
give me assistance, | will be com
PEELED to do something which | never
before have done, which l would
greatly dislike to do
Much impressed, the lady made
haste to place in his hand a fye-dol,
lar bill AS the man pocketed it
with profuse thanks, she inquired:
And what is the dreadful thing
l have kept you from doing, my poor
MANI"
Work" was tho brief and mourn.
full reply.-Harpers Weekly.
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Another Nature Fake.

In 1884, says Henry Z. Warner l
met Mr. Joseph Mulhatton, a journal
list of wide repute. and went with him
to South Africa, where we studied the
habits of Beers and other wild ami
mails for two years. Among other
things, we took with us a pocket
piano, on which Mr., Mulhatton used
to make beautiful music, to the great
distress Of our dog, which howled
solos at every performance, We cap.
tured a monkey, an anthropoidean
quadrumanous mammal with prehis-
toric feet and a long tail well known
to the natives. We trained him to
wait on the table and perform other
domestic services. One day Mr. Null
hatton got out his piano and was
about to play Give My Regards to
Broadway" which had not then been
written, when the monkey stepped up
gravely pushed him aside, and picked
the tune out himself with both hands,
both feet, and his nose. He played
many times for us. but always labored
under the disadvantages of not being
able to stretch an octave.--N. Y. Sun,
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NO CHARGE FOR 1T.
The Laundry Man Gives the Bachelor
Man a Little Lesson In Nerve.

when I came to open my bundle
of stun sent home from the laundry
this morning, said the bachelor
man, 81 found in II, sent back washed
but not ironed. one shirt that had
pinned to it a ticket reading like
this:
We are returning ,his shirt on &C,
count Of il not being in condition
to withstand ironing,
This was a new one to me- but
when l came to open up the shirt and
looked It over l didn't wonder that
they hadn't tried to iron it; one arm
was all but torn from its socket and
there was hole punched through one
cuff, with a tear extending from this
hole for an inch or two up the sleeve.
The shirt was sure not in condition
for ironing, but how did it get so?
81 certainly never sent it TO the
laundry in that shape. I'd have had
hard work tearing the sleeve out of
the shoulder the way this enc was
torn, and l couldn't have made that
hole in the cuff without some sort of
sharp and big punch. Clearly the
shirt had been torn and mangled in
that manner by being caught in the
laundry machinery, and so | wrapped
it up in a neat little bundle and took
it over to the laundry office, intending
to make a claim for the value of It, |
spread the shirt out on the counter
and called the clerks attention to it
and told him that ! couldn't have torn
the shirt in that manner it must have
been done in the laundry, and how
about it?
"'Well' says the clerk, we made no
charge for it.
"As the full significance Of this
came upon me-they had torn my
shirt all to pieces, but they didn't
make any charge for it'll staggered
back, and l kept on staggering that
way until had got out of the door,
81 shall never make any further
claim for the shirt l got back far
more than its value in that lesson in
clear cold nerve"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20
Missouri Mystery Cleared Up

Thousands of hogs in southeast
Missouri are fattening on a crop that
was planted II years ago-a crop of
17-year loCusts,
Since early spring the hogs of the
farmers in this section have been get
ting fat on something they found in
the woods, and each farmer secretly
wondered whose corn crib his pigs
had found, for they came home each
night not squealing for their food, but
only to Sleep and every day they
brought home layer of bacon and
lard added to their once lean and
hungry bodies.
The rail splitters" of South Mis-.
souri, and Arkansas were fast being
turned into prize Berkshires and
Polands by what or whom the farm.
err did not know until few days ago,
when the woods were filled with the
song of the 17-year locusts.-Kansas
City Journal
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20
SOMEWHAT OF A REFLECTION.


A charming hostess of one Of the
big houses as they are called by
those who are welcomed into them,
has the added beauty of premature
white hair That which seems to her
contemporaries an added charm may
appear to the crudely young a mark
Of decline, at least so it appears in
one instance of which the hostess her
self tells with enjoyment.
The lady is a connoisseur of an
tiques At one of her teas a dcbutante
rich with the glow Of youth, but sadly
constrained with her sense of novelty
was handed a cup Of tea; the cup
was beautifully blue and wonderfully
old. The hostess desiring to light
en- the strain on her youthful guest
by pleasant diyerting remark, said;
THAT little cup is hundred and fiji
ty years old"
ooh" came the debutantes high
strained tones: How careful you
must be to have kept it so long,"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20

No people on earth observe family
ties so closely and hold so many
family reunions as the Chinese. The
Scottish clans have no closer bonds
of union than the families in China,
In America it is the individual, but
in China it is the family. No i'm
portant step is taken without a fam
ly caucus. If one member goes
wrong, the disgrace rests upon the
whole family to the remotest degree
of relationship. The disgrace often is
felt so keenly in case of a heinous
crime that the offender is taken away
by permission of the courts and the
Geath penalty inflicted by members
of the family. That's the way the
family purges itself.
The feature in the family life in
China is the big reunion once every
two years. One member of tho fam
lily acts as secretary and enters in
a big book the new additions to the
family. In this way is kept com
plete biography of every person in
China.-Kansas City Star
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20
ENTIcED eY THE BAR.
Strenuous Actions Mildly Explained
by the Minister.

Many stories arc told OF the &C.
centric daings and sayings Of an
old clergyman who lived in Maine
some years ago At one time there
had been a fight among some men,
one of whom was seriously hurt. A
trial took place, and the old minister
who had seen the ARRAY was =s4i
moned as a witness.
What was Salson doing?" was
the first question.
"Oh, he was slashing around"
"WeI, sir, Just what do you mean
by that?'
why, he was knocking about him
here and there"
Now, sir, kindly tell us plain
ly what Salson did to this man"
"Why, he-he enticed him. said
the old minister slowly. He enticed
him with a crowbar. He used the
crowbar to persuade the man-to en-
tice him; and by series of pokes
and blows he succeeded in doing il"
said the minister, mildly.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20
WEGTERN MEN IN NEW YORK.
Brains of Mountain and Prairie in Do
mand in the Financial Center.

Ever since the early days, when D.
o, Mills, J, b, Haggin and James r.
Keene "emigrated" from California to
New York, the metropolis has been
drawing largely on the west and south
for its supply of men who do things. "
theodore P. ShontS, both a southerner
and westerner, who has undertaken to
solve New York'S great transit prob
lem, is the latest importation in re-
Spouse to the call of the east.
The promptness with which Thos F.
Ryan, of Virginia, turned the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society over to
its policyholders, who now elect a ma.
jority of its Board of Directors, and
Invested himself of the control of the
stock which he bought from Jas. H.
Hyde, and the success of the new
management of the Society under the
direction of President Paul Morton,
have created a demand for the strong
men of the south and west that is
greater than ever before Under the
Morton management the Equitable has
made a better showing than any other
insurance company in the way Of i'm
proved methods, economies and in
creased returns to policyholders.
E. II. Gary, head of the greatest cor
potation in the world-the U, S. Steel
Co,--John w Gates. Henry c. Frlck,
Norman B. Ream, VIM. II. Moore and
Daniel G. Reid are other westerners
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1907-07-20

The duke of Devonshire, now in
his seventy-fifth year, and very i'll,
is simply name in the dispatches
to the average American of the day.
To the Americans of As years ago,
when he was the marquis of Harting-
ton. he was the most offensive travel
er in thaUnited States. He made an
open display of his secession sympa.
thies in a particularly offensive man.
ner. He narrowly escaped assault on
one occasion, but when he visited the
White House President Lincoln's
only rebIke was to address him as
Lord Darlington" - Boston Tran
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Goinu Them Several Better,

An Engiishman, an Irishman and a
Scotchman were one day arguing as
to which of the three countries pos
sessed the fastest trains.
Well" said the Englishman 1--WE
been in one of our trains, and the
telegraph poles have been like
hedge"
i've seen the milestones appear
like the tombstones," said the Scot.
BE jabbers!" said Pat, Il was one
day in a train in my country, and we
passed a field Of turnips and field
of carrots, also field of cabbage and
parsley, then pond of water, and we
were going that quick / thought it
ives BROTH"