text: Aftstsmd R.©<äl Tag Sai« Lm<L) W®@Ik ©f IR.®<al Tags But one that's to be crowded full of the stores best Bargains. Giving each day many extra special offerings will be made that will bring you to this store to supply your wants in. thing to wear and use. Our January Sale of Embroideries something the people of Lewiston and vicinity are looking forward to, with greatest interest, is delayed on account of delayed freight shipments caused by heavy snows blockading the tracks, we hope in a few days to inform you of their arrival and you'll wait if you want the greatest Embroidery values ever brought to Lewiston. We promise you the most phenomenal values ever sold in this or any store anywhere. 1000 yards to choose from. Wait we'll tell you more about it in a few days. Attend many sales this week you'll save. G.A.KJÓ J. W. WILKINSON & R. HATDEN & I Stites and Grangeville Livery and Feed Stable WILKINSON & HAYDEN. Proprietors. Light rigs leave St. and Grangeville daily. LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE, Grooming Trading Co. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in General Merchandise Grain and Produce. GRANGE, IDAHO. Bulk and Package Garden, grass & flower Garden Teels, Spray P umpe, Eto. CHARLES H. LILLY'S POULTRY SUPPLIES Ground Oyster (shell. Ground Bone. Holly Chick Feed. Bene Millet and Incubator. R K MEANS Phone Main 2. Wholesale and Retail Lewiston, Idaho. The TELLER 50 cents a Mo. THE END of A GAY SEASON [Original.] Madge Chapman was the belle of the Village. Madge was not every man's girl, but every man belonged to Madge. That is, they all wanted her—at least, all but Cyrus Weatherby, who didn't seem to want any girl. He was a shy, solemn, plodding sort of fallow, seldom taking any part in the amassment of the young people who were the gayest of gay farmers' sons and daughters. If there was one among the swains who was considered to have any better chance with Madge than the others, it was Tom Hatch, but this was rather on account of his superior audacity than any special encouragement Madge had—at least, publicly—shown him. As Madge could have had any of the young men, so Tom could have had any of the young women. There was only one of them that he wanted, and that was Madge. The winter was a gay one, and the young people of the neighborhood, copying from their city cousin, resolved to end their festivities with the beginning of Lent. When a number of them were together one evening someone of the party suggested that they should wind up the season by a grand frolic. "Suppose," said Cyrus Weatherby in his usual serious tone and manner, "we have a mock elopement." There was a burst of laughter at the sedate Cyrus making such a proposition, which caused him to blush red as a rose, followed by a universal assent. Tom Hatch, as he usually did, took the lead, resolved that if he had not made the suggestion he would be at least the moving spirit in carrying it out. He suggested Madge as the feminine principal in the runaway and that she was to choose the masculine principal. Madge accepted the role and said that since Cyrus had made the proposition he should be the man in the case. There were laughter and clapping of hands at this, and since it was evident that no refusal would be accepted, Cyrus blushingly consented. The plan when completed was this; Cyrus was to call on a certain night at Madge's house with the saddle horses. Madge was to descend by a trellis, and the two were to mount and dart away. One of the pursuing party was to be stationed at the bridge, half a mile up the road, and when the elopers crossed it he was to give a signal and the whole party was to ride after them. The elopers were to make for the Washington tavern, ten miles away. If they got there before he fell, they were to be considered as having escaped and been married. If not, they were considered to have been captured. All were to partake of a supper at the tavern—a mock wedding supper. At the appointed hour Cyrus made his appearance under Madge's window. She descended the trellis, mounted, and the two sped away like the wind. When they dashed over the bridge, a mounted man beside it fired a shot which rang out clearly on the still air, and a merry party of boys and girls gave chase. Cyrus and Madge had not gone far before it became evident that Cyrus, if stupid in other respects, had had the sense to secure a couple of thoroughbred horses. A full moon shining on snow fields made the road light as day. The elopers rather held in their steeds at first; but, having traversed half the distance and hearing a clatter closing up behind them, they loosened their reins, to reach the goal fully ten minutes before any of their pursuers. Tom Hatch had the next best horse to the fleeing couple and rode up to the tavern before any other of the pursuing party. A couple of steaming horses, over each of which a blanket had been thrown, stood at the tavern door. Dismounting, he entered the living room and saw the eloping couple standing at one end, a man in a white necktie opposite. Tom was just in time to hear the words; "I pronounce you man and wife." It did not take Tom long to get the situation into his head. There was a "We've been sold! They're married!" As the party came up in couples, the up to the young man and wife, who had ready to receive congratulations. And new-laid landlord said one of the men, "being on the supper." A pair of folding doors were thrown open, and there stood the father and mother of the bride, one at each end of a well-loaded table. In some way," said the father, "at the Informality of this wedding, by our Lady always was a madcap, and we were obliged to come out to this arrangement. She and Cyrus Weatherby have been engaged for some time and were to have been married shortly, in only a little ahead of time. Come in. Mends, and partake of the marriage feast." There was a merry supper, during which everyone was joyful but Tom Hatch, who could not be expected to be joyful. When the supper was finished, the pursuing party rode back to the village, leaving the bride and groom at the tavern. It was early morning before the last one who had joined in the chase had gone to bad, and when all awoke it was Ash Wednesday. Lent had come. VISTILATION OF THE ETON. In the Teller bring results. WIDOW and WIDOWER [Copyright. 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co.] They looked upon Aaron Turner at the family hotel in Paris where he was stopping as something of a curiosity. He did not look at all like the man who travels. On the contrary, they set him down as a tiller of the toil and wondered how he had ever found his way across the Atlantic. He was slow moving and slow spoken, with what seemed a religious torn of mind. They had looked to see Mr. Turner register as "judge" or "general," and they had expected him to boost of his herds of cattle in Montana or his oil wells in Texas, but he had disappointed them. His name went down as plain Aaron Turner. After a week or so it came to be understood that he was a widower, having lost his dearly beloved about a year before. When, plain Mrs. John Gates arrived at the same hotel a few days later than plain Aaron Turner, who also proved to be something of an enigma. She had no diamonds and no style. She was dressed in mourning and was often found with tears in her eyes. In due time, which in this case meant two days after her arrival, the widow Gates was sought out by plain Mr. Turner. His first excuse for presenting himself before her was that both were Americans. His second was that both had lost their beloved partners and that there should be a bond of sympathy between them. The tearful widow dates was also communicative. She had made the trip with her husband in the hope that it would improve his left lung. It had been hard scraping to get the money together, and the last $10 had been raised on the family sewing machine. Just as the lung seemed to be growing better, her dear departed had been taken off with typhoid fever and buried among a race of people who drank absinth instead of buttermilk and who shrugged their shoulders instead of swearing right out. She resorted to tears as she finished her plaint Mr. Turner spoke consoling words. He reminded her that in the midst of life we were in death and that human nature was so constituted that it could not go on grieving forever. As a matter of fact, the widow felt quite chirked up when he took his departure, and during the next two weeks they were often seen together. They became quite confidential before the widower decided to trust the widow with a secret. He wanted to do something for the minister and the Sunday school class at home. Deacon Pegram would be expecting some sort of a present, and there was his sister, who kept house for him. Taken altogether, he would be expected to make a score of presents. While none of them would be of great value, each one would be cherished for the sake of the giver. As the two were going home on the same steamer and as he had only a small trunk with him, would the widow kindly take charge of the packages as he brought them to her? The widow would and did. While she was financially hard up, she was also buying a few presents, and all could go into her trunk together. The two did not go out together or shop together. For some reason they didn't propose such a thing, although it would have been perfectly proper. The Frenchmen realized that it would have been proper, and when it didn't occur they shrugged their shoulders and muttered something about American eccentricity. By and by sailing day came, and the widow and the widower took the train for Havre and found themselves on board of their steamer. They were hardly settled when the widower made a proposition. There was nothing matrimonial about it. He had discovered that there was a passenger on board who knew him, and if he was seen acting as escort to the widow there would be talk about it at home. He therefore proposed that they should seem to be strangers for the voyage. The widow was agreeable. She also had a reputation to preserve. On landing in New York she would go to a certain hotel, and the widow would call there and say farewell and receive his presents. As neither had brought a bug anything dutiable, then would be no trouble at the customs house. Things were settled this way, and no one aboard came to know that plain Mr. Turner and plain Mrs. Gates had spoken words of consolation to each other on the soil of France. It was only when the steamer had sighted Handy Hook that the widow looked at the widow in a peculiar way. She interpreted it to mean that the customs house officers would soon be aboard and asking for declarations, and she returned his look with one calculated to put him at ease. Plain Mr. Turner was one of the first ones ashore when the steamer docked. He had nothing to do but to disappe a part. As the widow Gates had a mournful and innocent look, the inspector passed her baggage after a perfunctory inspection, and then she disappeared. Two hours later, the widower called at the hotel, agreed upon. There was no widow there. He called again and again. He called until he learned from a clerk that the customs officials were after a woman who had smuggled $915,900 worth of laces and silks on her own account and $30,000 worth of diamonds on account of a "pal," and then he made himself scarce. He was on a still hunt for the woman for the next three months, but he didn't find her. They were both liars and deceivers and smugglers. It was a case of dog eat dog, and the big dog had been stolen. M. QUAIL Toller "Want" ads bring results. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET LOWER Corn Shows Strength, Oats Are Weak and Pork Very Lively (Furnished The Evening Teller by C. V. Cummings & Co.) CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 28.—Trading in the wheat pit was a rather tame affair today. The market opened off %c on lower Liverpool cables and favorable weather reports from the winter wheat belt. It was a dull and featureless market all day long. May opened at 7814c to 7814c, as compared with 78 %c, Saturday's close. There was no disposition on the part of the bulls to attempt raising the price, as a consequence the market drifted easily to 77%c, where it closed at a lower figure than Saturday's final figures. Corn, to the face of a weak oat and wheat market, corn showed wonderful strength today. The buying of this commodity is gilt edged and Much higher prices are predicted. May opened at 48½c and closed at 45½c, same as Saturday. Oats. May opened at 38½c, a loss of 1½ from Saturday's close. There was very little trading, and the market was stationery up to just before the close, when a few selling orders forced the price up to 37½c, where it closed. Pork. Heavy buying of pork by packers boosted May pork 80c above the shoeing Saturday. The market was active throughout the session and closed at the extreme high point $18.92½. The Range of Quotations. Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. May.. 78½ 77½ 77½ 77½ July.. Corn— 78½ 78½ 77½ 77½ May.. 45½ 45 45 45½ July.. Oats— 45½ 45 45 46 34 May.. 38½ 88½ 37½ 37½ 37½ July.. Pork— 85½ 35½ 35½ 85½ May.. 1687 1692 1692 1693 Puts and Calls. Puts—May wheat, 77½c. Calls—May wheat, 78½c. Puts—May corn, 45½c. Calls—May corn, 45½c. Liverpool Wheat Market. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 28.—The wheat market closed 6s 4½d, %d lower than the opening. LOCAL BRIEFS. Engineer Jerry Blunt, who for the past six months has pulled the Owl Spokane-Lewiston trains, has taken the run on Nos. 9 and 10, the day trains. The position taken by Mr. Blunt was made vacant by the death of Engineer Brant, which occurred in the wreck near Garfield. W. G. Houghton has taken the run on the Owl train formerly held by Jerry Blunt. There is a contest hearing at the land office today between S. B. McComas and Randolph C. Whitman to determine the priority of settlement on land opened for filing December 18. On account of the fact that Register Bartlett once acted as attorney for Whitman, he is disqualified from sitting in the case and Special Agent Payson and Receiver Garby are hearing the evidence in the case. Tha members of the Lewiston Busi ness College Debating society make the announcement that they are not yet ready to accommodate visitors, but will be In & few days. C. P. JAEGER TO BURY THE DEAD OP COUNTY. (Continued from Page Ona.) a quarter, and 20 cents a mile when he goes outside the city limits. The other physicians who bid for the work were Mrs. T. J. Coetello, F. 8. Sterling, J. L. Perkins and C. W. Shaft. Clarkston News Notes. A. E. Fraser of Seattle Is visiting in the city for a short time. He expres ses himself as well pleased with the Cl&rkston country. G, C. McAllister was in Clarkston yesterday from Pulman on a bustm trip. When trou make y«wtr not tost* r n night, ask your grocer for ~Marv»r Flour. He *81 know v«o ire wtaa Centennial Seif-Rating Panoaks Fleur at Russel fa Graser*. , Oregon SH orçr une «en union Pacific ONLY UNE EAST WlA SALT LAKE tad DBNYBR TWO TRAINS DAILY TIME SCHEDULE RIPARIA, WAWi PAST MAIL—Fer Fe rnerer. Walt atmrg. P a yton. Walla Walla. Pendleton, Baker City and a|) points took. parta daMy ..............UtUpsk FAST MAIL — From all potato Boat, Baker City. Pendleton, Walla Walla* Dayton. Waltohnrg. Pora erey. arrives dally.......8:ffin» to EXPRESS tor Portland, ana Franotooo. Baker City end all potato Boat, departs... l:Hgn, EXPRESS from all pointe Baot. Baker City. Baa Francisco, Portland, ar rives dally ..............1:19a.m. ■eat Stovtre en Snake Rim Steamers leave Lowtataa T a. to dally, exeept Friday; leave Btototm 1:49 a. to, exeept Saturday. O OININQ AND PULLMAN STAN#» ARD AND TOURIST SLk YPERO , OM ogg. MAIN LINE PASSSMr SER TRAINE. STANDARD SLEEPERS ON NOE. 11 f AND 12, PALOUSE BEANOH Passenger S c h edule tor Lewietong "Ko. 9—Spokane and Palouee. «rtvra —.........8:98 ». m 'Jo. u—Spokane find Palouee. arrives ............7:89 a. m Yo. 17—From stlteo and dear water pointe ......... ....................19:49 a. m No. 81—From Culdeeae, ar rive«. .8:90 p. m. (Kx. B «allay 1 Ho. 10—Palouee and Spokane, > | (aparte ......... »..9:10 a. m Nfo. 18—Palouee and Spokane, departs...........11:99 *. m <o 18—Fo> BtHen and Clear- water pointe .,....... ! ----...1:46 p. m. (Ex.Sna(am No» 99—For Culdeaao .. ..... ............ 8:06 fBx. HimDyE TWO TRAINS A DAT TO KANflCffi JIT Y, VIA. THE NORTHERN BA /me. BILLINGS AND THE ÄHU GINGTON. Train No. 4 leaves Bpa Vane at 10 .15 p. m, daily, equipysA with through chair car. standard PuB nttan and- Tourist Sleepers. fiiiaOg iret-cJasa. Dining car service. CluM •onnectionn made at St Joseph tor Bfi. Louis. For further information. opR >n or phone W. J. JORDAN, Agent, 1 A. D. CHARLTON, A. G. P. A* Portland O regem. Ren in hmlb Chicago and New Yi LAKE SHORE—NEW YOR.t TRAL. f. Lt. Chicago daily........*...9t(9 A ». MOw York telly........9:99 i Lv. Naw York dally..,...*.9i99 i Ar. Chic ago (ally..........9:99 O MOST COM PORTABLE PAST SERVICE NOVT1 IN AMERICA nul ST. PAUL* MINNEAPOLIS» DULUTH. CHICAGO AMD 111 points bass. DAILY «. m .*%, U THE FLYER FAST MAIL AT SPOKANE Train tkdii. THROUGH CARE CLOSE CONNECTION PALACE SLEEPING OARS DOra^CURTV«« OBSERVATION CAM Fair rates and full tnfnrm Ban, or a call tram ear De day Agent write E. A BLAIR, General Sanaa, "task.. 