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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1911)
DB . Life Too Cluttered. > Our ‘modern life is 'to o cluttered We are everlastingly doing things. W e chatter and work and play, and if we have an hour of leisure we fill it with the rattle of a paper. We are prone and helpless when we haven’t any story to read or person to talk to or thing, to. do. We do not understand the lost art of doing nothing. We earthot, we dare not, just sit down and think. ¿ I N o 0 .0 N ÍC r LSJ 100 YEARS OLE QUICK RELIEF EiE TROUBLES Limit of Trouble. Three times on the run between Worthing and Shoreham the beautiful prima donna’s nearly new car had broken down. Ultimately coaxing it to enter Brighton,- the fair lady-' re ceived in the hotel porch the solici tude of a sister ^artiste who had pass ed her ten -the road. “Much trouble with my car, dear?” she echoed, bit terly. ‘Why, I couldn’t have more trou ble if I- wjls . marrj;edv tQ, the blessed machine!”—Sriortirg Times; Thousands.,of Consumptives-: die .every rear. Consumption r e s u l t - from a neg- ected cold on the lung-:. Hamlins Wiz rd Oil will cure these colds. Just rub it into the chest and draw out the inflammation. ¡ The Nursery Window. If the nursery window is not pro tected by outside bars', hammer a large screw or nail intd- the groove of the lower sash, so that the, window cannot be raised more man six inches/ If the top sash is drawn down,' this is quite enough for ventilation,’/and no matter how ingenious or venturesome the little ones may be they cannot wriggle through the small lower open ing. RHEUMATISM A T r s tir iERE is • a romantic flavor about the! word badger that be longs fo no other of the names of animalk found in Britain. I suppose , it is because, this is their only large carnivorous, genuine M n r iy o n ’ s • R h e u m a tis m - R e m e d y r e lie v e s ly'wild animal? the fox, the only other p a in s in t h e l e g s , a r m s , b a c k , s t iff o r s w o lle n ’ jo in ts ; C o n t a in s n o m o r p h in e , wild beast of anyi size, is in many, o p iu m , c o c a i n e o f d r u g s t o d e a d e n th e perhaps I ought to say most, districts, p a in . I t n e u t r a liz e s t h e a c i d a n d d r iv e s o u t a ll, r h e u m a t ic p o i s o n s f r o m t h e s y s so carefully preserved that it owes te m . W r it e P r o f . M u r iy o n , 53 d a n d J e f f its existence to man/' instead of; like e r s o n S ts., P h ila ., P a ., f o r m e d ic a l a d v ic e . a b s o lu t e ly fr e e . *’ 1 the badger, existing -in spite of man; Then, too.^/the brock" is hardly ever seen alive ahd free, but comes and Quite So,. ! “Why'IsJthe public always bullish in goes mysteriously inthededd of night, leaving but few traces behind it un the marktet?” “That’sjnatjtral enough. It is hard less somebody notices j i teirge do^- ¿¡like track JnAvfce i a nuTtf pown in pV^ce. ' wasps’ aesj^rnas been dl% out, for it revels in the daifity meaT of - wasp grubs. Many a time have I tracked one s from the scene of its night’s work through muddy gateways, and down damp woodland rides, noting how the heavy creature had slipped E m H lC To grow the fln- ■T", H H M ^ m 'e s t flowers and afrd slid, and-’the spots where it had mam U S w war m o s t luscious'’ turned aside to scratch and root Mgy vegetables, plant t h e b e s t ■ r seeds. Perry's Seeds are best among the moss and dead leaves, then W because they never fail i n yield i W or quality. The best gardens A on. to the streamside—the badgers al l ets and farmers' everywhere A ways ford the little brook l am speak 1 know Ferry’s seeds to be the JR highest standard of quality ing of at the same place—and through yet attained. For sale Mam everywhere. MpnA hedgesTtntL across fifelds/ once more to FERRY’ S 1911 Seed Annual plunge into big woodlands, in the heart U;. Fjtee on request of which is the great |earth whe/rein, L i . m . ferry 8 co., many generations have been bred. In 1 » . DETROIT, MIBM these particular holes the badgers are fairly safe. The tunnels are bored in a layer of sand lying between strata of clay and rock, and run in every di rection for hundreds of feet. There are only two visible entrances, which SWEEPING COMPOUND are Inconspicuous holes, without even a heap of soil to distinguish them Cleans and b rig h te n s C ar from surrounding rabbit burrows; for pets. R ugs, L in oleu m s and being situated at the top of one of Floors. A bsorbs the g e rm laden dust. S aves d u stin g the sides of § vei;y steep apd deep val and bea tin g carpets. ley, or dingle, as they are locally P er bbl., 200 lb s ... $5.00 called, the soil all rolls down to the P er bbl., 150 lb s ... 4.00 stream below, where it is washed 75-lb. m etal drum^ 2.50 away. In fact, the sole intimations of ’ O rder by mail o r through badgers are the pathways formed by ,your g rocer. their always taking the same road in their, nightly wanderings, and which T FERRY3 s NO DUST CRESCENT CHEMICAL CO. lead, up to the^ttvo entrances. , Some two or three years ago, a fox, hard pressed by hounds,? took refuge in this earth, and the master and whip, not kpowing the place, sent fo r spades and terriers and commenced opera tions to get him out. To cut a long story short, they dug till late at night, and finally’ hounds Were' taken home; *buL orders had been left with mefi of the district to finish the job next day. These men dug steadily for three days; they re moved many tons of soil, but the further they got into the cliff the more tunnels there were. In some holes they! found nejtt beds oL grriss Viern{ it b.AGT^ be given up.^or theV work was Herculean; it would have required weeks to reach the extremi ties of the various holes. A short time ago I visited the'place, and ap parently the badgers are still there; for It shows all the signs of being used. In the part of Shropshire hunted by the Wheatland hounds badgers are really quite plentiful, though perhaps not so much so as in bygpne times; that is to say, if the tales one hears are to be trusted. Perhaps a better indication is that there , are places named Brock holes and similar names where no badgers are found today. Yellow or sable badgers with pink eyes have occurred in this part, and some years ago ah old female thus colored, together with her two babies, came into my possession. The young ones were the ordinary gray and white, but charming little creatures, utterly unlike their savage mother, who sulkily resented captivity. As soon as they were weaned they were givten bread and milk to eat; occasion ally hits of dog biscuit an d. other/ scraps were added. In the end we parted with them, as the “higher .au thorities” thought they Were not safe- pets. They may not have been; but I tried their temper in every way, ta king the two for walks dragged along by;; a collar and chain, and carried them anout, one under each arm, that is to say. until they got too big and heavy, but they never seemed to mind.5 Another pet badger was fhalf grown when I acquired it; thé poor thing ha'd been caught in a trap, and its leg: was rather badly hurt/3rA keeper/ brought it to me, |knowing that T was always willing to give a home to any stray animal; so I took it, fed it well —I have never had jany animal that could eat so much-r-and did the best I could for it. Grumbles, for so it was christened, had to pose before the camera; but many hours were spent and many plates wasted before I ob: tained any characteristic pictures, for the badger took no interest in the art of photography. It was not like my tame owl, Old Hooter, w h o,! at the sight of the camera, will fly to it and dance a jig on the bellows.. In the end the badgerJwas released, I let it go one evening inxthe woods. It Trot ted off in,//a deliberate way, and . I thought I should never, see him again ;$ but about.*- threej/months la.ter some neighbors coirtplained -‘ of the mysteri ous .way their bulbs planted in the turf were being scratched up and eat en. It appeared they were planting a large number of crocuses in their garden, which was done by removing. With a patent instrument, a sod of grass in shape like a cork, dropping in a bulb and replacing the “ stopper.” The next morning every cork had been “ drawrn” and all the bulbs had disappeared. A badger was eventual ly blamed and the culprit located in a dry drain. It was dug out, put in a s’ack and sent off to me. It gladly gave It a home and hre! i f , turned into a kennel. , Two iaf^r the owner of the : crô'w^r-s* optne up to seé the badger. A ir an went into the place and brought ■brock” out by his tail— this is the orlv part of its body you can hold a b?direr by^-thén I saw the bad *feg,i healed now, th%t my poor Grumbles had ¿suffered from. It was Grumbles home again! I shall have to keep him now. My hope is that by and by I shall be able to obtain a mate fo^him. One of the most mysterious and alarming sounds I know is the cry of a badger heard in the stillness of the night. . I have only heard it once, and then I am sure it was a mother and cubs, for it instantly recalled the cries of the two captive! ones, whose ordinary noises were of the grunting description, but who could, on occà- DOCKSTADER Life Without Food. H<rw long is" it possible to live with out food? We have all read of a case not many years since, where some French miners were entombed for twenty-one days, and rescued alive iong’ after everyone thought they must be dead; of course they were In a very weakened Condition, and re quired the utmost care before they were out of danger. This, however, Is by no means the longest time that a human being is known to have ex isted without food, and in a recent te sue of the British Medical Journal, there Is. the record of. a woman suf fering from cancer, | who could take neither food nor drink of any kind, yet she existed in that condition for fifty-six days, and was, i moreover, quite conscious till her death. In In dia the fakirb include among theii wonderful performances abstention from food for a very long period, but when they do this they put them- Belves into a condition closely resem bling sleep, ' and, of course, during that time the body is called on to perform none of Its usual functions, and wasting of tissue is reduced to a minimum. Negro Minstrel’s Good Story of Joke on His Manager, Jean Havez, and * * Himself. President Taft, ’who admires all hu morists and laugh producers, was con gratulating Lew Dockstader, the ne gro minstrel, on his genius and fame. Then Lew told Mr. Taft a story. Jean Havez was once Dockstader’s press agent and general manager. One eve ning, as the two alighted from a train in a middle-sized town in the west, Dockstader reproached Havez with this; ", “Jean, I’d; like to know what you have ever done for me. Here I am paying you a princely salary, and you don’t give me any returns for it.” “Why, Lew,” objected Havez, greatly grieved, “ how can you say that, after all I’ve done for you?”' “ All you have done,’ said Dockstader, “has been to write a good song for me occasion ally, or give me a little advertising in the newspapers, or dig me up a more or less bum joke.- That isn’t enough.” ‘*Why, Lew,” said Havez, “ I’ve made you the most famous man in the coun W rite T oday fo r P rices THE H. F. NORTON CO. £ 8 1 3 «n à 3 1 5 F ront St. PO RTLAN D, ORE. AND KODAKS KODAK SUPPLIES W rite fo r catalogues’ and literature. D evelop in g and p rin tin g. Malfiorderaf-given p rom p t atten tion P ortla n d P h oto Supply Co. 149 Third S t r e e t ^ ’ ■ a ' v M OHAIR PORTLAND ORE. Send fo r p rices and sh ip p in g tag s. THEO- BERNHEiM CO. 247 A sh S t., P ortlan d, Oré» M O H A I i? W e w a n t all th e g o o d clip s g rd w h in th e N orth w est. Ship us y ou r clip or w rite f o r inform ation. MULTNOMAH MOHAIR MILLS 7 1 2 Couch Building, Portland, Or. Skylights Tanks Gutters Down Spouts Steel Ceiling 7. C. BAYER 204 Market Portland, Oregon I Guarantee A ll M y W ork. I f I Can’t Guarantee. it, I D on ’t D o It. DR. ELOF T. HEDLUND, DENTIST N o w located at fo u rth floor W a sh in g ton B ldg. C o m e r W a s h /a n d 4th S ts. P O R T L A N D , OR. IN S IS T U P O N WESTERN °Sto* K erosen e M A N T L E S -LA. KLEIN & CO., Inc., Distributers 28 F ron t S treet t - A___ Thu Chinese Doctor “ GrumbleS.” sion, cry like a baby. As I said be fore, the badgers of my acquaintance confined their “ conversation” mainly to a sort of grumbling grunt, which sometimes, when annoyed, they turned into a loud snort of anger. F R A N C IS P IT T . London, England. Suspicious. “I notice,” remarked the observant boarder, taking his seat at the table, “ that the conversation stopped as soon as I came in. I hope nobody was say ing anything to my discredit” Then they all hastened to assure him that they had bfeen talking about the weather. Waste of ’Money. Gyer—Young Featherly is awfully extravagant. 1 Myer—That so? \. & , Gyer—Yes. He spent $3 last week advertising for a lost umbrella. y Robinson; “ Don Quixote,” “Aladdin of the Woi der Lamp,” “ Ali Babai” “ Old Moth* Hubbard”—all these i are strange: compared to the English detectiv This is not an expresflpn of opinioi but a statement of fa « § If you dout it, try an experiment, i f we have don with half a dozen urclftns in the stret and see if you can fim one to who: the name of Sherloc k Holmes doe not bring an expres sion of instar recognition.—The Bodkman. Both Wronged. “You have deceive!! me,” she com plained. “You gave me to understand that you were rich.” / “Well, you deceived me, too,” he re plied. “ You caused tne to believe that you would be brave* and cheerful if it ever became necessary for us to get along on a small income.”—Judge. Much B etter. “ Has our new congressman managed to catch the speaker’s eye?” “Not yet, bi^t I understand h« caught the eyes hf a stunning blonde in the gallery,” </ -„. »• j. ? T h is w o n d e fu l m an has m ad e a life stu d y o f th e p ro p e r tie s o f R oots, H e rb s an d B arks, arid is g iv in g th e w orld th e ben efit o f his serv ices. No Mercury, Poisons or Drugs Used. No Operations or Cutting G u arantees to c u r e C atarrh , A sth m a , L u n g , S tom ach an d K id n e y trou b les, a n d all P riv a te D iseases o f M a an d W om en . A SURE CANCER CURE J u s t r e ce iv e d f r o m P e k in , C hina—sa fe, su re a n d reliable. ' U - f a i l i n g in its w ork s. I f y o u ca n n ot carl, w r ite f o r sy m p tom blank and circu la r. I n c lo se 4 c e n ts in stam ps. CONSULTATION FREE The C. Gee Wo Medicine Co. 1 6 2 W First St., co r. M orrison, Portland, Or. , Hands Full With Simple Branches. Good teachers in any public school have hands more than full beating in reading, writing, spelling, /grammar and geography in eight years without wasting time on fads. How many of a model school really learn the above simple branches? ¿Teaching these free Is enough for any city to do. Do any do It? Principals and teachers are good enough; it is the system that seems, to he K*d Alcohol not needed Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is not a strong drink. As now made, there is not a drop of alcohol in it. It is a non-alcoholic tonic and alterative. Ask your own doctor about your taking this m edicine fo r thin, impure b l o o d . F o l l o w his advice every time. He knows. W e p u b lis h , o u r fo r m u la s — ^ u e r s W e b a n is h a l c o h o l fr o m o u r m e d ic in e s W e u r g e y o u to c o n s u lt y o u r I d octor Ask your doctor, “ What is the first great rule o f health ? ” Nine doctors oufrol ten will quickly reply, “ Keep the bowels regular. Then ask him another ques* tion, “ What do you think of Ayer’ s Pills for constipation?” >b y the J . O. A yer C o., L ow ell, Maas.— A .. P ortland, O r & . J I €. Gee Wo Best-Known Fiction Character. We wonder how many of our read ers have paused to think that despite certain undeniable literary shortcom ings, the present age has produced the, most widely known character in all fiction. It is now a little over twenty years since the name of Sherlock Holmes was first introduced through the medium of “ The Study In Scar let,” and today it is a byword to mil lions who have never read any of Conan Doyle’s books and who have not the slightest intérest in the science of deduction. “ Robinson Cru soe,” “ Sam Weller,” “ Mr. Pickwick,” “ Uncle Tom,” the “ Count of Monte M O H A I R w£S,ES“a thorough instructions in driving fork that can be produced, also lathe work, thrill press and forging, finely equippod raachie shop and school room. Tuition fee $35 cash; $40 payments $10 per week. BELMONT AUTO SCHOOL & REALTY COMPANY. East 23d and Morrison, Portland, Or. FAMOUS try; even more famous than the presi- Cristo,” the “ Swiss dent. You can’t go anywhere without people knowing who you are the min ute your name is mentioned. Every body in this country knows Lew Dock stader, and you owe your fame to me.” They wqnt to the best hotel in the town, and Dockstader registered in a bold hand, “ Lew Dockstader.” The clerk looked at him (politely and In quired: “Will you ne©4 a sample room, Mr. Dockstader?” “We have -takert/Hood’s Sarsaparilla for a spring tonic and as/a blood puri fier. Hast spring I was not well at all. When I went to bed I was tired and nervous aqdicould not sleèp well, in the morning -I would feel twice as tired; my mother got a botue* of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which I took. I felt like a new person when Î had fin ished that bottle. We always have some of Hood’s medicines in the house.” Hilvey Roselle, Marinette, Wis. There Is no 'just as good” medicine. Insist on having Hood’s. Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets palled Sarsatabs. BELMONT AUTO SCHOOL ” 526 W ash in g ton St., P ortlan d, Or. MADE Good Spring Tonic » t A jj