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Show 'FREE OREGON HOMESTEADS Large tract of good valley farming land just thrown open for free settlement in Oregon. Over i 200,000 acres in all. Good climate, rich soil, ' and does not require irrigation to raise finest crops of grain, fruit, and garden truck. For large map, full instructions and information, and a plat of several sections of exceptionally good claims, send ?3.40 to John Keefe, Eugene Oregon. Ore-gon. Three years a TJ. S. surveyor and timber-man. timber-man. An opportunity to get a good fertile free homestead near town and market. The late Captain Charles Barr, the famous yachtsman, was almost as famous for hlB neatness as for his sea-'manship. sea-'manship. As the story goes, Captain Barr one summer took a cottage In tho country. It was a marvel of neat-ness neat-ness velvet lawns, bright flowei- beds, red fences and the cottage was snow-white, with green shutters. An sarcastically. He said nothing. But a little later he got up and hurried down the neat white path and out of the gate. He was gone over a quarter quar-ter of an hour. "Where the dickens have you been?" said Captain Barr uneasily, on his return. "Only just down to the hollow," said George, "to spit in the river." Argonaut. i Me Zafa? Region Above Brighton old shipmate was invited down in August Au-gust over .Sunday. On Saturday night, after their wholesome supper of hot brown bread and bake beans, the two friends sat on green wicker chairs on the tidy piazza, smoking good cigars. The visitor,, on finishing his cigar, tossed the butt down on the grass. "What did you do that for, George?" said Captain Barr. "Look at it w smouldering down there. Don't it look nasty on the nice green grass?" George turned red. "I don't think . anybody would notice a little thing like , 'that," said he. "George," said Captain Barr, "it's just these little things that make neatness and order, and neatness and order are a big part of success." George, who had never been a very successfu' man, smiled 1 . |