Will throw in a cook stove and all the household furniture, consisting of a frying-pan handle and a broomstick; also a cow and a yearling calf; also one bay heifer; also 8400 lbs.

of hay, minus what the above-named stock have consumed during the winter; also 64 bushels of oats, subject to the above-mentioned diminution.

If sold, we shall have left on our hands one of the driest and ugliest-looking old bachelors this side of the grave, which we will cheerfully throw in if at all acceptable to the purchaser.

Old maids and rich widows are requested to give their particular attention to this special offer.

Don't pass by on the other side.
* * * * * HOME, SWEET HOME! Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home! We still have a few more "Sweet Homes" for sale, consisting of, etc., etc., etc.
[Illustration: pointing finger] Title perfect--a Warrantee Deed from the hub of the earth to the top of the skies, and Uncle Sam's Patent to back us! A further-reaching title one could scarcely require.
I don't know where I got the belief that the Columbia was a second-rate river.