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TUESDAY EVENING. THE OTTAWA DAILY REPUBLIC. THREE. ANSWER JTJOUESTLY Arc the Statements of Ottawa Citizens Not 3Iore Kellablo Tlian Those of Utter Strangers. 1 forty cows have submitted to a milking'.

It is the custom with exhibitions of the kind to give an after shpw. The writer has been engaged to do the circular act at this aftershow, which is to say the revolving of the crank on the separator. This after-show lasts about half as long as the main show. But the shortness thereof is more than compensated for by the great expenditure of muscular energy necessary to operate the separator. There are two daily performances.

The morning show commences at four o'clock sharp, and this morning performance is as good in every respect as the afternoon show, concert and, all. have well more money. Now this lady of culture has a son, aged thirty, and his name is Andrew. Andrew is her foreman and general manager and you may rest assured that he and his two hired men stand not idle. The position of hired man, therefore, upon the ranch is by no means a sinecure.

There is wood to cut and split. The fences are to mend. The hogs the ever hungry hogs that seem always on the verge of breaking from, their pen are to be fed and receive their daily allowance of sour milk. There is a scow of hay to pull across the slough, after which sixty head of cattle must have their hay. The manner of getting hay to these cattle surpasses all understanding.

A pitch-fork commonly serves the purpose of lifting hay from the ground to the wagon or of throwing hay from the wagon to the ground as the case may be, but This is a vital question. It Is fraught with interest to Ottawa. It permits of only one answer. It cannot be evaded or Ignored. An Ottawa citizen speaks here, Speaks for the welfare of Ottawa.

A citizen's statement is reliable. An utter stranger's doubtful. Home proof Is the best proof. Mrs. Ellen Tenor, of 118 South Food for thought Mil Food for work Food for brain Supper being over and the hour be ing after ten, Andrew and the two hired men go up-stairs to bed.

In the a I I yet fOJll morning, she, who. has been described, calls out from below in no very low sweet voice: "Andrew! Andrew! It's puttin nightfour o'clock by' this clock down here. Its time you boys was a-gittin' up to milk them cows. You'll be late if you don't mind." Andrew, having thus been startled out of his sleep, heroically raises nere a pitch fork doeth as a wagon to convey hay to these cattle. The hired man, having stuck a folk down into as much hay as he can, exalts the hay above his head and then "packs" it along pretty much as he would an umbrella.

And thus he The most nourishing of all wheat foods. fft In dust tight, Never sold in bulk. VMr ft Oak Ottawa, says: "Last winter my kidneys commenced to bother me, and as spring came on I got worse, a dull heavy pain In my back annoyed mo, more especially at night, but during the I was by no means free from it for any work requiring the least exertion brought it on. I was obliged to rise and was distressed with a severe scalding sensation accompanying them. My ef.

forts to find relief by taking different remedies were unsuccessful until I used Doan's Kidney Pills which I procured at C. L. Becker's drug store. I noticed a change for tho better In a short time and finally my condition was so wonderfully -relieved that I can recommend this remedy with confidence to the citizens of Ottawa." For sale by all dealers. Frlco'HO cents.

Fostor-Milburn Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. II BARN R0BBED LAST KIGHT At A. J. Doran's Cedar Street Homo a Coat ami Some Tool 3 Were Stolen.

NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY himself half vertical in bed, strikes a match and then looks at the little clock that sets ticking away on a table near by. He perceives the hour to be exactly three. He, therefore falls back upon his bod, turn over onto his right side, and a few "cuss words" having escaped his lips, he immediately begins to slumber on. But he has lain down not to pleasant dreams. Hostilities have been opened and will be continued until poor Andrew is completely routed.

The guns of the enemy are kept trained upon him. Every five or ten minutes a shell is dropped in upon his slumbers. She comes to the foot of the stairs, and this time in a voice expressive of real anger, cries out: "Andrew! Andrew! It's time you boys was a-gittln up from there. You come mighty nigh missin' the boat jesterday. Now you lie thare a while longer and you boys can't milk them cows in time if it was to save your lives." Andrew replyeth not.

Neither mak-eth he any move to get up. And thus the bombardment continues for some LIFE ON AN laboriously moves along for more than forty rods and the road over which he travels is so steep and rocky that to walk thereupon without a load would be hard enough not to mention the two gates that are to open and shut. Sometimes the hired man must assist at the butchering of the little calves. As the mathematician might express it "work is a continuous quantity on the rach." To hurry along with each task in the hope of finding time for rest between jobs would be a form of folly which could find its perfection only in the fool; for, verily, the doing of work on the ranch is like unto the industrious little mill which, having cracked a grain of corn, immediately starts in on another. But all this is as the side show to the big show.

Promptly at three-thirty p. m. the big circus commences. A few of the main features are as follows: The novel performance of compelling a wayward cow to stick her head into the tanchion and then stand still and submit to a milking; the humane process of yankling the calves away from their mothers, and forcing the calves to go, much against their will, to a place where they do not want to go; the binding together of hind legs by means of a rope or strap to prevent their owner from operating said legs greatly to the discomfort of the milker. The rare spectacle of a man in a boat essaying to drive a swimming cow across the slough which cow conceiving divers doubts as to which side of the slough to land upon finally decides to land on the wrong side where several men with clubs and unkind words do their utmost to prevent the same this, however, it not a part of the regular free show being done only occasionally.

Time and space forbid the mentioning of more than a few of the many startling acts that continue without intermission from the time the first cow brute enters the arena until OREGON 00W RANCH ft; lit a 4 J'! Hi. I i i i i 1 i "By a Hired Alan. Thieves broke Into the barn of A. Doran on Cedar street last night and appropriated some of Mr. Doran's wearing apparel and carpenter's tools.

Mr. Doran spent yesterday on his farm, making some necessary repairs, and when he returned home ho left a blue serge coat and some of his tools In his spring wagon. The door to tho barn is a divided one and tho upper half was left unlocked. Through this door the trespasser gained access. Under Sheriff Latimer was notified this morning and arriving on tho premises found the following to bo missing: Blue serge coat, one Jack plane, one chisel, one claw hammer, one saw, one brace and several bits and ono hitching strap.

There is no clue to tho thief. clay pipe with the reed stem that is so often seen in the mouths of ancient female smokers, but she smokes a genuine brier-root pipe with a curiously knotted and twisted stem. No man however proficient, could give her lessons in the noble art of swearing. The reader is not to infer that she ever debases the delightful accomplishment of swearing merely to embellish her ordinary conversation, as do so many of the sterner sex, for she does not, but she reserves her swearing for occasions which she deems worthy for instance, a calf falling from the ferryboat into the river, the breaking out of the hogs, the killing of stock by the cars and the like. In her milder and more refined moods she uses such good old-fashioned expressions as "I seed him," "I never seed no good in attemptin' anything that won't pay." The writer heard her say that she must run her ranch more "saviner." In a word she is one of your plain practical women who believe that the only object of this life is to make monej not in order to have the nice things that money will buy, for she has none of these, but in order to across the "Willamette slough to the main land or betake themselves to the high places on the island.

The cows are ferried across to the main land, for where the natives are there are. the cows also. By the latter part of July the surface of the island has usually become free from water, excepting a pond here and there in the low places, and then a luxuriant growth of grass springs up as if by magic. Thousands of cattle eat this grass and grow fat. But a description of the island is not the writer's object.

He has a subject that suits him better. Not long ago the exalted position of hired man on an island cow ranch was tendered to the writer. Owing to the earnest solicitation of his financial condition he felt an inclination to accept and he yielded to it. His employer is of the feminine gender. She is a relic of early Oregon, having made the island her home since 1851.

Her face shows symptoms of having once been pretty, but now it would be very difficult to say whether her face is the wrinkleder or her teeth the snaggeder. Her pipe is her constant companion. She smokes not the little time without resulting in any material advantage to either side, the strength of the attacker continuing unimpaired, and the strong hold of the attacked remaining intact, and all this in spite of the fact that each outburst surpasses in violence and determination the one just before. A very fierce and stubborn assault now being in progress, the alarm bell on the little clock, as if seeking an alliance with Andrew's energy, suddenly begins to ring with all its might. This is the charge of the Imperial guards.

Poor Andrew is now hard pressed and shows signs of capitulation. He hums, and haws and stretches and mutters and then rolls out, long-legged and sleepy-eyed, just one hour from the beginning of lios-tilities. The two hired men also roll out. The preliminaries are now over and the sixteen-hour-day's work begins at once. In the state of Oregon not far from the chief city of the Oregonians there is an island whereof the "name ap-peareth not The natives maintain themselves almost entirely by the profits derived from the cow.

Steamboats come to their very doors and pick up their milk cans. As the River Nile gives to Egypt her annual inundation, so the Columbia river annually puts under water the greater part of the island. At times the natives who dwell on that part of the island which is thus submerged, either paddle themselves Broiler-Barret Broiler Buffet Observation Car service has been established on the Missouri Pacific between Kansas City, and St. Louis trains 7 and 8. Thl new feature should be greatly appreciated by our patrons.

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Commencing Saturday, we buy produce and pay the highest price for butter, eggs and chickens. We deliver goods bought in any department promptly to any place in the city. Visit our store and see what bargains we have to offer without a special sale. Look at our line of Wash Goods in Lawns, Swisses and Batistes. Our line of Ginghams can not be beat.

Percales, Calico, Muslin Underwear, Domestics and Sheetings. Table Linens and Napkins. Come to our store Saturday, prepared for a shock to your nervous system, when you see how cheap fine goods can be bought. If you buy at our store and afterwards find you could have bought the same thing somewhere else for less money, bring our goods back and get your money. Don't forget, whatever you want, even if it is the lowest price, JONES HASIT.

lJ(Q)oe C(Q) Everthing to Eat and Wear. Jones Hasit Quality Quantity Price. Bff (Q)(Q) off t-.