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DOMESTIC Feeding ECONOMY. Fivs on $4 Family of Week. "Mv lu:r!ia:id." said the woman with flic rptiiiiistic face, "gives me ?4 week for keeping un the table for our f.':milv. and it is Pimply wonderful Iiew we do it." "I should think so." observes the wo- yh.hi with the crrim smile.. "How bis a family have you?" "My husband, myself, three boys nnd one cirl." "And vou keen up your table with ' $4 a week? What do you hare?" "For breakfast we have a cereal, fruit, coffee and sometimes bacon and CFjrs; for luncheon cold meats or cro quettes or something made of the left overs from dinner the night before and a simple dessert; for dinner we have a soup, chicken or roast meat, two vegetables, a salad, cofTee and a des sert." "My goodness! What prices do you pay for groceries and meats?" '"Mercy me! I never ask. I just tel ephone to the grocer and meat man and tell them what I want and my husband gets the bills the first of the month." "But I thought you said he allowed you only $4 a week?" "So he does, and by charging nearly everything, do you know, I actually save ?S or $10 a month from that al lowance!" Judge's Library. THE ENGLISH NAVY. Fichting Ships Used to Be Hired Out In Times of Peace. In the earliest times of the British navy there was practically no distinc tion between the merchantman and the man-of-war. In the rare times of peace men-of-war traded as merchant men, while merchantmen always went armed. Thus in time -of war the trader became the warship, and vice versa. From the time of the conquest and probably earlier down to the days of Elizabeth this was the ordinary practice. Elizabeth hired out ships of the navy for all sorts of purposes, from piracy to slave trading, taking cr share of the profits when the ven ture was successful and disclaiming all responsibility when it wasn't k Henry III., who may be described as ifie originator of the navy as a special fighting force, hired out the ships spe- (dally built for the navy in times of peace and even anowea tnem to oe taken away from their appointed sta tions provided that the hirers depos ited due security for the return of the chips with their tackle and all equip ment in a proper state of efficiency. The practice ceased after the repulse of the Spanish armada, when the fight ing ships, as such, became distinct from the trader. London Globe. HOUSES OF SCUTARI. A Possible Reason Why Their Wi." dows Are Iron Barred. Of all villainous roads those outsid of Scutari are the most depraved Thev are not roads nt nil, but just washes and wallows and ditches and stone gullies. I have seen bad roads in narts of our own country, roads surveyed by George Washington and never touched since, but they were a dream of luxury as compared with these of Turkey. Our carriages bil lowed and bobbed and pitched and bumped themselves until 1 got out and walked to keep from being lamed for life. And then the houses the villas I had expected to see dear me, how can I picture those cheap, ugly, unpainted, overdecorated architectural crimes They are wooden and belong to the Jigsaw period gone mad. They sug- gest an owner who has been too busy saving money for a home to acquire any taste, who has spent his savings for lumber and trimmings and bad nothing left for paint Still her man aged to reserve enough to put Iron bars on his windows that Is, on part of the house, the harem every man becoming his own Jajler, as It were, remarked: I suppose that Is to keep the neigh bors from stealing their wives." But the horse doctor, wiser and more observant, said: 'No; It Is to keep a neighbor from breaking In and leaving another." Albert Bigelow Tnlne In Outing Maga zine. AMOY'S GRAVEYARDS. ' Plant Misers. All leaf buds, whether underground or on the bare branches of winter, are plant savings put aside from the su perfluity of summer against the pro verbial rainy day. The starch of .which such organisms consist is to the plant what his savings are to the pru dent man, and the common potato is one of the greatest misers of the vege table world in this respect for almost the whole of the tuber is made up of Btarch food, left as a legacy to the young plants represented by the eyes." This is true of all plants that grow from bulbs. Some go further, for they run a sav ings bank In the shape of a taproot .which, if left undisturbed, grows lar ger year by year, to be drawn upon In seasons of drought when other means of subsistence are exhausted. Among these are primroses, carrots, beetroot and turnips, and with these three' last this faculty of saving has been devel oped by man to make the plants a source of profit to himself. ! History of Anatomy. The way In which we are so "fear fully and wonderfully made" was largely a mystery to the ancients. It may be said that anatomical science iwas practically unknown prior to Aris totle, 384 B. C. Before that date near ly all that M-as known of anatomy was derived from the dissection of the low er animals. Aristotle did something In the way of science, but It was not until the time of the famous Alexan drian school, a century before and a century after the birth of Christ, that the anatomy of man began to be fair ly understood. The Ptolemies were jrreat patrons of the science and were the first who enabled physicians free ly to dissect the human body, thus frustrating the Ignorant superstition which had been so long compromising the welfare of humanity. Exchange. The Holland Primrose. There is n nlant in Holland known ii". the evening primrose, which grows to a height cf five or six feet and lear3 a profusion cf large yellow Sow ers fo briilhnt tint they attract i;u mediate attention, even at a great !;s tance, but the chief peculiarity about the plant is the fact that the flowers, .which open just before sunset burst Jiito bloom so suddenly that they give me the impression of some magical agency. A man who has seen this Hidden blooming says it Is just as If tome one had touched the land with a wand and thus covered It all at once .with a golden sheet. A Terrible Threat ; Customer That tea service costs 60 Jnarks. That Is more than I can pay. His Wife (whispering) If I should Jh:ve a fainting spell among all this hina It would cost you far more. Xllegende Blatter. : Living will teach yon how to live better than preacher or book. Goethe. The City and the Cemeteries Are Hope lessly Intermingled. . The city of Amoy is on an island of the same name. For upward of 1.0(10 years it has been an Important trading place. The population of the island is estimated nt over 400,000. and it has been said that there are something like 5.000,000 dead bodies packed in its soil For many centuries the hillsides of the city have been used as a burying ground. Now the city and the ceme tery are hopelessly mixed. The graves touch one another at every point and form a solid white surface of rock, brick, porcelain and cement, covering mre than 1,000,000 square feet. Near one of the joss houses 30,000 bodies are buried vertically to save space. They stand on a plot of ground of as many feet square. Th.e wells from which the city draws its water supply are shallow and are sunk oh the edge of graveyards and even among the tombs themselves. The water is muddy and is colored by the perpetual turning up of the soil It has no sewers, and the streets vary from two feet to six feet in width. No wheeled vehicles can use them. Here and there is an" open place or plaza. dug out so as to be a huge receptacle into which the streets discharge their refuse. Filth abounds, and its twin sister, disease, flourishes. The atmos phere is laden with noxious smells, and the burial of the dead goes on at an alarming rate. The Zulu Diamond Miner. As showing the loyalty of the Zulu diamond miners Sir William Crookes described an amusing Incident which came to his knowledge when at Klip dam. The Zulu had been superintend ing a gang of natives on a small claim at the river washings. It yielded but few stones, and the owner sold the claim, handing over the plant nnd the small staff, the ulu remaining to look after the business till the new owner took possession. In the course of a few months the purchaser became dis satisfied with his bargain, not a single diamond having turned up since the transfer. One night the Zulu came to his old master in a mysterious manner and, laying a handful of diamonds on the table, saHd: "There, boss, are your diamonds. I was not going to let the new man have any of them!" King and Common. King James I. of England, although keenly alive to his own divine right yet recognized the power of the house of commons. Sir Robert Cotton was one of the twelve members to carry the famous declaration against monop olies to the king of Newmarket. When the king caught sight of them he call ed out, "Oh, chairs, chairs, here be twal' kynges com in'." His majesty mounted his horse on one occasion to find his usually quiet steed in a restive mood. "The de'il 1 my saul, sirrah," said the king to the prancing brute, "and you be no quiet I's send you to the 500 kings in the house of com mons. They'll quickly tame you." Crossroad Burials. Formerly it was a general custom to erect crosses at the Junction of four roads on a place self consecrated ac cording to the piety of the age. Sui cides and notoriously bad characters were frequently buried near to these, not with the notion of indignity, but in a spirit of -charity, that being ex cluded from holy rites, they by being buried nt crossroads might be in places next in sanctity to ground actu ally consecrated. Westminster Gazette. Like a Woman. "If you'll notice." said Flnnick, "the poets invariably say sbe' when refer ring to the earth. Why should the earth be considered feminine?" "Why not? Nobody knows Just how old the earth is." Earned. She He was desperately in lore with her. Why. he sent her costly flowers and presents nearly every day for two. years, ne Did he Anally win her? She No; he earned her. A POOR JUMP. It Cam Near Being the Death ef ! bey, the Painter. Napoleon Bonaparte, as is well known, was In the habit of walking with his arms crossed upon his chest and his head slightly bent forward. Isabey, the painter, was at Malmal son, and he and some of the first con sul's alds-de-qamp were having a game of leapfrog on the lawn. Isabey had already jumped over the heads of most of them when at the turning of a path he espied the last player, who. in the requisite position, seemed to be waiting for the ordeal. Isabey pur sued his course without looking, but took his flighty so badly as only to reach the other's shoulders, and both rolled over and over In the sand. To Isabey's consternation, his sup posed fellow player turned out to be Bonaparte, who got up, foaming at the mouth with anger, and, drawing his sword, pounced upon the unfortunate artist. Isabey, luckily for himself, bet ter at running than at leaping, took to his heels and, jumping the ditches di viding the property from the highroad, got over the wall and never stopped until, breathless, he reached the gates of the Tuileries. Isabey, it was added, went Immedi ately to Mme. Bonaparte's apartments, and she, after having laughed at the mishap, advised him to lie low for a little while. An THE ADAM'S APPLE Helps to mportant Organ That Protect the Brain. One of the most remarkable pieces of mechanism In the human system, a device which anticipated several of our modern patents. Is the Adam's ap ple, which for ages physicians consid ered a sort of freak of nature with out any material use In the human economy. But how differently this little device Is considered today! If we had no Adam's apple there would have been more deaths from apoplexy and brain disorder than ever chronicled in history. Instead of be ing a useless organ this article serves as an important storage system to protect the brain. For instance, when we are excited or too animated the heart pumps the blood up to the brain a little too fast. and if it could not be stopped by some automatic device death or brain dis ease would follow. The Adam's ap ple is the blood storage cistern which intercepts the rapid flow and holds the surplus blood. Again, If the supply from the heart runs short and the brain is likely to suffer from an Insufficient supply the storage cistern gives up its surplus of blood. Thus this organ acts au tomatically to check and Increase the flow of the blood to the brain, protect ing that organ from damage through our temporary excesses. fearson s Weekly. Sedan and Bath Chairs. The sedan chair, so called from hav ing been made at Sedan, in France, was introduced into Englund in the time of King Charles I. Often this chair was most ornate without and luxurious within, for an ancient poet sneaks of one Covered with velvet red, And cloth of fine gold about your head. With damask white and azure blue Well diapered with lilies new. Seated in their sedan chairs in all the glory of paint powder and patches, the belles and ladies of fashion of the eighteenth century were carried from rout to rout by two stout lackeys In livery. As all people who love their Dickens are aware, these chairs were still in use in the days of the Pickwick club. The origin of the bath chair is 'wropt In mystery." We are told that it was "much used by the inhab itants of Bath," probably for the pur pose of getting to and from the pump room. -Nowadays the use of the bath chair is confined chiefly to invalids. London Mail. Pigeon Whistles of Pekln. The smallest musical Instruments In the world are the pigeon whistles of i'eklu. They are made of thinnest bamboo and tiny gourds scraped to paper-like delicacy and fastened beneath the tail fen t hers of the carrier pi geons. As the birds fly through the air these instruments emit a weird neolian melody like the harps of fairy land. Every morning and afternoon the vault of Pekln's sky Is swept by these sweet mournful notes as thH birds fly to and fro, carrying messages to the bankers, the merchants, the law yers, invitations, letters, stock quota tions, a system older than the tele graph or telephone or the oldest letter service, as old ns time Itself. There are some twenty different kinds of pigeon whistles, some of them simple bnmboo tubes with but one top and some as elaborately constructed as miniature organ pipes. They are all of featherweight lightness and when held in the hand and swept through the air emit the same delicate whis tling notes as when borne through the upper atmosphere by the carrier pigeons. A Diplomatic Official. During the reign of Emperor Napo leon HI. be and the empress visited Normandy and had arranged to spend a couple of days at Evreux. M. Jan vier de la Monte, who was the prefect, learned that the revolutionaries Intend ed to hiss tlie sovereigns as they pass ed, and so he summoned the leaders of the movement and told them that he knew of their plot "If you carry out your plan," said he to them, "you will get six months In prison. If you do not your friend3 will accuse you of cowardice and treason. As a way out of the difficulty 1 propose to lock you up at once until the emperor has gone." The conspirators accepted the terms offered them, and so the em peror was greeted only by cheers, as the revolutionaries, frightened at the arrest of their chiefs, had not dared to utter a sound. After the emperor and empress had gone the prefect went In person to release his prisoners, who had had such a pleasant time that they greeted him with cries of "Long live the prefect!" to which M. Janvier de la Monte, who was a man of wit re plied, "My friends, do-uot overdo it." 3 NNv km m Af r Vi -7 The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne tho signature of and has been made under his per- ffii. sonal supervision since its infancy 'CCCcA44&i Allow no one to deceive vou in this- All Counterfeits', Imitations and" Just-as-grood"are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotio substance. Its age is Its guarantee. It destroys Worm and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. ' The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. TMI CINT.UR COMPANY, TT MUV STUCrr. NEW YORK CITY. Settling a Matrimonial Dispute. Mme. Sada l'acco. the 'famous Japa nese actress, who had been a friend of the assassinated Prince Ito from her childhood, told the following amusing anecdote: "In my frequent quarrels with my husband we sometimes asked Frlnce Ito to judge between us. One day when we had had a more than usually violent dispute at Chigasaki the prince came1 in unexpectedly, and 1 asked him to decide the question. But he declined, while proposing the follow lng solution: " 'Go down into the garden, both of you. and fight it out like sumo tori (wrestlers). The one that wins will naturally be the one who is In the right. "No sooner said than done: In a trice Kawakaml and I were in wres tling trim. By good luck my husband was just recovering from a serious Ill ness, and as he was very weak I soon threw him to the ground. This amused the prince enormously, who, of course, had foreseen the end of the unequal match." An English Election. Remarks the London Chronicle: The worst of election expenses is that the candidate can never be sure what sort of pig in a poke he is buying. The parliament may run Its full -term or it may come to an end after a few months. Even if it lasts the game may be decidedly not worth the can dle. Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff gives a poignant little incident of the weari some struggle over the coercion bill in 18S1. 'When things were at their dullest nnd deadliest Stuart Hendel beard a man as be rolled oft his seat the extremity of. weariness say. And to think that I should have paid 7,000 for thisr ' " in Her Proof. Just think of it: One person in every thirty -seven in England is a pauper." ' "Why, John," she returned, "it isn't so. I met more than thirty-seven peo ple In London last summer ruvself. and there wasn't a pauper In the lot." London Tit-Bits. Cemeteries Where Women Gossip. Friday, the Sabbath of the Moslems, when all true believers of the mascu line gender make n point of going to church, their wives, sisters and daugh ters resort to the cemeteries and wall for the dead. But all their time is not spent in weeping, and so -tow Is not the only emotion they display, on these occasions. They take with them bunches and garlands of flowers nnd decorate the graves of their relatives and pray and weep over the dead for a time. Then when this pious duty Is performed they gather In little groups and have a good time gossiping about the living. Thus the day of mourning is very popular among the Moslem wo men. It gives them almost the only opportunity they have of cultivating the acquaintance, of their neighbors. He Was Right. My doctor told nio I would have to quit eating go much meat." Did you laiiph him to scorn?" I did at first. But when he sent in his bill I found he was right." Wash ington Star. His Style. Tom (who takes his 'meals at a ho tel) Do you like your meals served table d'ho(e? Dick (who patronizes a treet wafHe wagon) No. I generally take mine a la cart. Baltimore American. Ambition is bat avarlcs on stilts and masked. La ndor. The Lion and the Unicorn. The unicorn came into the royal arms with James I. It belongs to the royal arms of Scotland. The signet ring of Mary, mother of James, is in existence, having a unicorn on it. in the royal arms, therefore, one support er represents England, the other Scot land. The Hon and the unicorn occur also In ancient Buddhist scriptures, placed together as supporters. Both of these animals also are seen playing draughts together In the well known Egyptian painting. But the oldest connection of the two Is In the Messing of Jacob and of Mofes. London Notes and Queries. Second Thought. "Dear Mr. Hicks," t:I;e wrote. "I am very sorry that what you ask I can not grant. I cannot become your wife. Yours sincerely, Ethel Barrows." 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