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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1905)
AT A MAORI FEAST. An Odd Welcome and a Slip on the Part of tbe Cook. Telling of hra experience at a Maori feast, the New Zealand correspondent of London Public Opinion Bays: Tbe Maori girls did a pretty welcom ing dance, singing and dancing slowly backward all the way till we got to the inclosure around the meeting house (whare purie), where the speeches were to be made. Then the older people cut amazing capers, shouted themselves hoarse and made the most repulsive faces you ever saw by way of welcome to their chief. Chairs were put for ua On the veranda of the whare, which was prettily decorated with beautiful palms. After some time of this and the pres entation of mats, etc., we were Invited Into the whare to lunch. It was laid most correctly on big tables with cloths, but the menu consisted of roast duck, chicken, beef and sucking pig and, so It is said, potatoes, peas and knemaros (sweet potatoes), cooked In a Maori oven. I chose cold duck, with peas and potatoes. The duck arrived quickly, but the Maori girl who brought It said, with broad smiles, "The pota toes aren't cooked yet!" So my lunch consisted of duck, bread and two oranges. Just as I finished the potatoes arrived in pretty plaited green flax baskets. OUR IGNORANCE. That It Is Very Real the Things We Don't Know Prove. After all are we not still ignorant of much which we feel we ought to understand? Apart from the great laws of electricity, light and heat, about which we know something, but certainly not all, are we not almost hopelessly Ignorant of some of the laws which govern the lives of animals? Do we know, for Instance, what is the law which makes it possible for a bee car ried five or six miles from her home, blind in a dark box, to find her way back to the hive? What is the sense exercised by the antennae of the vir gin moth which, set out in a muslin box on a lawn, attrrfcts suitors from woodlands scattered away in all the country round? What is the attraction felt or choice decided upon by the tendril of the climbing plant which turns aside from the smooth wall to catch at and wrap round the nail or the ledge or the projection which Is to help it upward? All that is unknown, hardly even guessed at, and if there is so great an ignorance of what can be seen, is It logically to be argued that there is not a greater ignorance of what is unseen? One thing at least is certain the reality of that ignorance. London Spectator. THE CENTO. What the Word Strictly Means and What It Menu In Poetry. A cento is strictly a coat made of patches. In pot'try it is a piece wholly composed of verses or passages taken from different authors and so placed together as to form a new poem with a fresh meaning of its own. According to the rules laid down by Ausonlus, author of the famous "Nup tial Cento," the piece may be taken from one poet or from several. The Empress Eudoxia wrote a life of Christ In centos taken from Homer, and Al exander Ross used Virgil for the same purpose. The following are modern Instances: I only knew she came and went (Lowell) Like troutlets In a pool (Hood). She was a phantom of delight (Words worth), And I was like a tool (Eastman). "One kiss, dear maid," I said anS filched (Colerldsje), "Out of thoso Hps unshorn" (Longfel low). She shook her ringlets round her head (Stoddard) And laughed in merry f-orn (Tennyson). .M-;v itntn Open Itiver Cuiir .''lore Transpor tation Competition. Competition with both th O. K. A N and the Northern Paci'ij in Kastern Washington and floating the freight it thus secures down the Columbia, by w.ybfthe Portage Railroad, to Port land; shutting out Puget .Sound and insuring the business ot a large newly developed area to this city, the Spokane it Columbia River Railway .'Navigation Company is the first important indepen dent line to result from the open river just secured, says the Telegram. The promoters of the project have P'oceeded cautiously in planning for this coup against the Northern tines, for while the line will tap entirely new territory, it will be virtnally in the zone from which theO. R. & N. draws heavily. In the incorporation articles it is set forth that the road will be built south west from Spokane through the counties of Spokane, Whitman. Adams and Franklin. The capital stock is placed st $4,000,000 and the incorparators named are Edward W. Swanson and W. S. Kyle, of Spokane, and Willard S. Foster, of Cheney, the headquarters to be located at Spokane. Special advice had from Spokane by the Telegram are to the effect that tll preparations have been made to com mence grading from Council this week. The chief engineer and his corps, to gether with the contractors, are now on tbe ground and the line will be pushed to Fletcher, a distance oi about 35 miles, so that it will be fully equipped and in operation within 90 days. The backers of the enterprise display re ticence with reference to their future movements admitting only as much of their intentions as are outlined in the articles filed witn the secretary of state. Even with the first 35 miles the road will tap one of the richest sections in the state, that confined within Adams county in the Rattlesnake Flat district. This locality is a new, but famed wheat locality, which is being rapidly settled and where land has risen from as low as $2.50 to $35 an acre in nine years. Ratt'snake Flat lies west of Cow creek, and its grain is shipped to tidewater by way of Washtucna, Lind and Ritzyile. That immediate neighborhood is not touched by transportation though a line has been projected through it for years. Both tbe Northern Pacific and O. K. & N. draw big revenues from thin vicinity and theBe are gradually being enlarged. Just where the road will come out ou the bank oi the Columbia river is problematical, but as the out let will be in Franklin county, and it is not practicable to build through White Biuffj, it will probably come out op posite Buckworth Island, above Pasco, From such point steamers can easily be operated the entire year through to the portage, and light draft vessels of the character to be used can be con structed for 850,000 each. Must llp All Idaho Slieep. For tbe purpose of eradication scab and other infectious diseases among sheep last legislature passed a law em powering the state veterinarian to caute all clean sheep, whether ranch or range, to be dipped once, and all diseased sheep twice, under state or federal su pervision. The range flockmattters have complied witu this without a single exception but many of the farmers do no; eeom to un derstand thut the law applies to them, and heuoe many small bunches through out the valleys are yet undipped. The yete. in u ian announces that ail owners oi sheep must see to it thai their flocks are properly dipped by Julv 1, otherwise the state will take their sheep in charge and dip tbem at the owner's expense.- -Boise States i an. 1'onlniid Leadi in Lumber. Si.-ce the firBt of Jaurary, this year, Portland has shipped close to 1,000,000 feet of lumber by water, I he exact fig ures beiug 97,713,778. This is a re markable st. owing wnen it is considered hat although business was fairly goo J, the cargo shipments during the entire year of 1904 only reached a grand total of 1:12,497 (101 feet. The value of the shipments for the first tix months is placed at $J,00O,0J0. April leads with he largest fhipmeiits, June coming tlii.d witti 1(,(51 1,449 fee'. List year Portland was the greatest lurnbe- flip ping p-jrt in the world; this ye.tr it is expected to be far in the lead. Arm)' lacki Patriotism. Berlin, July 1. German newspapers discusring the happenings at Odessa and Libau, take an extremely dark view of the situation in Russia. While preced ing events were classified as a revolu tionary movement, these latest inci dents, it is said, constitute real revolu tion. Colonel Gaedke, the military ex pert of tbe Tageblatt, and formerly its correspondent with the Russian army at the front, writing, says: "It would be complete misjudgment of the actual conditions of Russia today to regard tbe mutiny on the Kniaz Po- temkine as an individual occurrence without great significance. On the con trary it is a flashlight revealing to the dullest eye the true situation in the in terior of that wide empire and the dan gerous disintegration of political order." Colonel Gaedke, after stating that St. Petersburg cannot longer rely implicitly on the army, draws on his personal ex periences with the army in Manchuria to show the dangerous possibilities in volved in widespread and profound dis content among the officers and soldiers. He says he never once after the terrible defeats suffered by tbe Manchurlan army witnessed among the offioers the slightest trace of spontaneous patroitism They showed no wounded sense of mili tary honor and no thirst for vengeance. The officers with whom be talked felt neither humiliation nor pain, while many showed undisguised satisfaction at tbe defeats which they said only served the government and bureaucracy right. The officers openly discussed their hopes that these defeats would re sult in the improvement of political con ditions at home. Colonel Gaedke says he found among educated Russians a very general con viction that the army could not be're lied upon permanently to oppose the general national movement. Cost of Telegraph. In order to keep the 30,000 miles of telegraph lines in order in Great Britain aa expenditure of about $25,000 a year is neoessary. In order to keep tbe stomaob strong and the liver active it is only neoessary to take a few doses of Qostetter'a Stomach Bitters. It is the beet health maker and preserver in tbe world and has the hearty endorsement of physicians everywhere. It will re- Domestic Peace in the family is not to be ex pected where a poor cook stove is used. That is only natural. Secure DOMESTIC HARMONY by furnishing your home with one of those magnificent Su oenori 4 STOVES OR RANGES Economical in Fuel, Satis factory in Results, and as cheap and good as a good grade of Stoves can be sold. FOR SALE ONLY BY Gilliam & liista, Heppner, Ore. LEADING DEALERS IN Stoves and Kitchen Outfits PLUMBING A SPECIALTY GIILLIAM & BIsBEE store the HinmtHi to ifs normal condi tion, stimntHtfl the flow of digestive juices hi. 1 prev. nt ih,- bowls from be ooniing olngged. Then yon'll not be bothered with siob beHdaebPR, dizziness, heartburn, indipesMon, dyspepsia, nervonsnens, cramps, insomnia or liver troubles. We n-ge you to give it a fair trial. The (jenuiDe mast have onr private stamp over the neck of tbe bottle. flood Brings Ills; Snakes. New York. June 30. The recent in undation of the Riyer Parana has had strange consequences, cables the herald's correspondent at Buenos Ay res. By the great extension of the River Piatt, the docks of Bunos Ayres and the harbor have been invaded by floating islands of land torn from the banks of the Parana. These have brought hosts of tropioal animals, hundreds of big Berpents, and many crocodiles. Even a tiger cub has been captured within the harbor. Terrific Race With Death "Death was fast approaohing," writes Ralph F. FernanJaz, of Tampa, Fin., describing bis fearful race with death, "as a result of liver trouble and heart disease, which bad robbed me of sleep and of all interest in life. I bad tried many different doctors end several medioinep, bat got no benefit, nntil I began to use Electric Bitters. So won derful was their effect, that in three days I felt like a new man, and today I am oured of all my troubles." Guaran teed at Slooum Drug Co.'s drug store; ! prioe 50o. The editorial pace of tbe Weekly Ore- gonlan gives a broad treatment to a wide rang-e of subject. Majestic Cleared for Action. When tbe body is cleared for action, by Dr. King's New Life Pills, you can tell it by the bloom of t-ea'th on the cheeks; the briKhtnej.s . f the tyen; the firmness of th flem and muec es; the buoyancy of the mind. Try them. At Slocnm Drug Co.'s drnj store, 25 cents- Before You Oi ilpr Tombstones, Marble or Granite Work You will do well to see Monterastelli Brothers and get prices. Thej have a fine stock on hand. MAIN STREET, HKPPNER, ORE. OREGON SHOPJUNE amd union Pacific Onlv Line EAST via SILT LIKE antf DERM TWO TRAINS DAILY- Daily X1ME SCHEDULES Dkpabts . Arrives u Heppner, Or. Fast Mail For 9:00 a.m. East and West Fast MallFrom East and West 5:35 p. m. Express For 9:00 a.m. East and West Express From East and West 5:35 p. STEAMER LINES. 8ak Francisco Portland Routr. 8team sails from Portland 8 p. m. every 5 days. Boat service between Portland, Astorl,, OroRon City, Dayton, Salem, Independence, Corvallis and all Columbia and Willamette River points. SNAKE RIVER ROUTE. Steamers between Rlparia and Lewlpton leave Riparia daily at 10:40 a. m. except Saturday, returning leave LewiBton daily at 7 a. m. exesptt Friday. J. B. HUDDLESON, Agent, Heppner, A. L. CRAIG, MATLOCK & RASMUS Fresh and Salted Meats. Fish on Fridays Highest market price paid for fat stock HEPPNEli, OREGON Red Front Livery & Feed Stables Stewart &. Kirk, Props FIRST-CLASS" LIVERY REGS Kept constantly en i::irl anil can bo. fui nit lies on ehort notice to parties wishing to drive into tl;e interior. First clasa : : Hacks and Buooles CALL AROUND AN!) SKK ITS. WE CATF.R TO THK : : : : : COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS AND CAN FURNISH RIGS AND DRI VFR ON SHORT NOTICK : : : HepDner. Oregon Liberty Meat Market