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Show SHUNS WATER SIXIjl YEARS, THEN BATHES OREGON a "ORIGINAL UNWASHEt." DREAK8 a-IFETIME HABIT FIGHTS HARD AGAINST IT I Durly Asylum Attendants For. Woodsman Into Tub After Unpr aedented Period of Total Ab- stinante from Aqua Pure Portland ()re-fter ballllna ra llantty for three reiuro with four tiurlt men Jake Pol Oregon a original unwaahed. who for mote than ") tears baa ehunned water aa Ihoudi tt weie emiie iolsnliils rluld to touch which meant Instant death la un washed no longer In his great Hullg nation, aged Jake has Iteen forced lo bathe Vm 0 yeara of more Jake Vox erstwhile trader trapier and wagon maker dwelt In peace on the sunnv banks of the Calapoela river at luiM) Ore VII hough he liver iikiii Iht very hanka of the stream l'o had no use for the contents of the biook and declared an effectual bovmtt on aqua pure both aa to eiterual and Internal appllcailoii Jakea alHHle waa M little raliln In in Iwdateil spot nai the eilge of the Ullage and he was on object of tr nir lo the youngster who need to peas that way ami or dlaguat to tne more cloanlv neighbor thereabouts Many InelTeclual allempta were madn by the good aople or the town to prevail iiHiu Jake to remove at least 1 few pimte of dirt which was the uc i iniimulalloii of yeara. but he won! I have none of II, and turneil a deaf ear iihiii their phMdliiga Dresseil In butksklii even In the latter day of hi resilience In the town which he hail eeeit grow Ironi a rnmaroad lo a thriving little illy, old Jake Cox made a -rullar figure aa he iaased along the alreeta 8ur prlaed lomlata si a nil at him In imaaemenl aa he stalked by and many allempta were made to serum hla photograph Ihilr attempt were .maiiccesafiil. luiweri r aa were thoae if Hie townspeople In their effort to get him lo Iwllir At all attempts Foi wind. I draw himself up to the full hWglit of slv feet three Inchea and with a acowl of llaapproval mutter Imprecations and stalk away Thle whim did not laat long as did his anil water ortiaade, for during the leal raw year of hie life he wae prevailed iim by n friend to alt for a photograph lie went to the arllst a studio and hud the nemitlte lliken The phn-W.ItUefKrluledlwo phn-W.ItUefKrluledlwo (.'" idetoree ind, piillliiKi one carefull) nwny, shoMod the oilier lo Jnke With a in "f rnu' lln old lrapp "ho by this time had repnlelTifr move selti d upon the bit of paatolrd and ton It lo shreds then hKlitterptl l lie photographer a plate lip (Id not howivcr know of tho remain!' print, whl h la the ultly editing fUure of hi in todav t It was sad when the loncltofox began be-gan showing iintnlatnkolile Rigla that h was gradually losing hla mild Tho aulhorlile deeldcd that lie "Sistl bo taken cam of as they .feared that In I . " I 'IBgSPi Jake Was Bathed After a Three Hour Struggle. hla disordered brnlu he might revive the old daya or Indian flghla and aomi night aall) forth artneit lo the teeth and do his iiclghlxira damage lie was adludged Inaane atsl sent to tat am linn at Halem Hen- It waa that his iiHTtltlon of egra lit liorrftr of water waa lo lie broken When he arrived at the liiethutlnn the alteiidauta looked at him kt dl inn) 'I hey had aeen dirty ratrtnls I but never one who could IMtt this I They rushed III in to the UatftKoim ami here, after lime hour t the hardest struggle lhe had overlap-rleiued overlap-rleiued Jake Kin was iMthed g The old man was heart bmkecSnii I the same lialtle I eviwrleneelann a week which, under the ruin litti. Inellliitlon 1e the Interval fortthi lialh of each wtlenl mid there J?ft little hnpe'tlmt during Ids life TO iut give Up and suhintMlvel) tste " pluiign of hla own nccord I |
