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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1924)
This Writer Objects to | Huge Reservo:r Built i.a ch S h o w ed the W a y Sweet Mannered Persons ■ to Store Flood Waters to du re itiodern M usic A Jantzen KEEPS YOU WARM Splash, Dip, S wim Here’s Health and Fun. Whose afraid of beach shivers when clad in a JA N T Z E N the comfortable, perfect fitting suit that dries quickly and keeps its shape. We have a full dis play of Jantzens for Men, Women and Children in the fashionable 1924¿colors. Come in to see them. JANTZEN -The National Swimming Suit, ,EXCLUSIVELY at Sadler & Kraus HOSIERY FOR ANY AND EVERY OCCASION H. G. ZIEGLER To ordinary human beings few per- sons are so annoying as those with a consistently sweet manner, says a writer in the London Times. The In- variably cheerful are trying In their hearty way; they are easier to bear with equanimity than the invariably sweet. A robust cheerfulness may easily be put down to insensibility. When our own more delicate nerves and senses are suffering, we may wring consola tion and a heartening pride oat of comparing ourselves with those who suffer so little that they can keep up their spirits. But about a sweet man ner there Is always a hint of accusa tion. It lays claim both to suffering more acute than our own and to su periority to suffering. So far from admitting that pituita is molesta— that a cold In the head Is a nuisance— it takes toothache but as a call for more sweetness. Wet through, chilled to the bone, even undisguisably red nosed, It Is still sw eet The fixity of It becomes maddening. The grave, sweet eye, the sweet smile on the mouth, the slight tilt of the head to one side, the measured and sugared voice, the unalterably sweet and hope ful sentiments, all seem to accuse our more natural selves of being creatures of a lower grade. We long to bring the sweet one down to our own level, to irritate them jiomehow Into an exhibition o f com mon human crossness or unfairness. And, falling, we take refuge behind the charge that there can be nothing direct and honest left behind the con firmed manner. Sincerity must obvi ously have long deserved the character that can thus hide «itself behind a mask. The sweetness, we vow, Is all a pretense, a pretty covering for un thinkable depths of guilt and selfish ness and hatred. Only fools, of which there are plenty, could be taken in by it. • DEALER IN Grain, Pototoes, Hay and Feed SEED AND RE-CLEANING OUR SPECIALTY ALL KINDS OF TRUCKING DONE IN CON NECTION WITH WAREHOUSE. AURORA, - - - OREGON If you have anything to be hauled. If you have anything to be shipped, If you have anything to be transferred to or from Portland, Call E. M. HURST Aurora Telephone 615 Portland Telephone Broadway 7660 Portland Office: 73 Front Street Baggage at Dock or Depot in Portiand carefully looked after. RATES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED A U R O R A M EAT M ARKET An Up-to-date Sanitary Meat Market that handles every- " thing b e s t in me a ts fresh and cured. OPEN EVENINGS DURING HARVEST SEASON WURSTER BROS. Aurora, Oregon Don’t W ait Until You W ant to Use Your Onlooker Dreams of the Origin of Round Cheeses The damaged brig has for neighbor a bark of humbler degree, a river barge in course of lading with the round cheeses of the country. Tossed from one to another, they pass with mathematical precision through the hands of three stout Dutchmen, before reaching their allotted berth. The on looker sets about counting them me chanically, till, speculating whose èn- vlably robust appetites they are de stined to satisfy, he loses count. . . Of the quiet, level meadows, he dreams where these golden discs had their remote origin.. From thenee his fancy flies to Alpine pastures, where the cattle feed amid the ceaseless music of their bells. And „then to a vale amongst the ipo»n- tains; it is late evening; he is seated in a garden, In the cool darkness.. And out of the darkness and the distance there comes a faint peal, as of a caril lon miles away. Closer and closer it draws; surely a chime of bells. But how brought nearer? Not a footfall can he hear, but still the chime ad vances. Only when it Is all but abreast of where he Is seated does h* catch the muffled tread of many a hoof upon the road, deep in dust, and know that the kine are pacing homeward, bring ing an echo of the mountain’s music to the bosom Of the plain.—Harry Christopher Mlnchin, In Talks and Traits. When Wood Duck Nests Far from Its natural element, water, and often a mile or more from the nearest watercourse, the wood duck, unlike „ other members of Its family, usually builds its nest. However, the difficulty of transporting the family from the nest to the feeding grounds is solved In a truly remarkable way. No sooner are the tfggs hatched, and the ducklings, about the size. of bum blebees, than each parent bird takes a little one In Its bill, wriggles through the opening In the chestnut tree or white oak which harbors the nest, and, with a quick glance lest some enemy may lurk near, flies swiftly overland to creek or water hole. Here the tiny burdens are dropped gently into the water. Without previous swimming lessons, these newly hatched mites dart over the surface of the water for the cover of marshgrass or lilypad, where they hide until the return of their parents with more of their broth ers and sisters. Highest Points Before you order your repairs but look your Binder and Mower over and Get Your Repairs in Time Hardware ÉÉI G. A . EHLEN ’M N O fESntt STO M I Implements mm I The erratic How of the streams of j the intermountuin desert country of the West makes extremely difficult the I problem of engineering in that region. j These streams are characterized by j extraordinary fluctuations in dis- j ! charge, varying from zero to enormous floods, and changes occur at irregular intervals. Owing to such fluctuations I the constructing engineers who are i building large storage works are forced- to plan types of structures that are not common in regions where streams are more dependable. Out In Nevada the government has built a remarkable dam, known as the Lahontan, In Oarson river, to store the floods for Irrigation. Carson river is subject to sudden floods, which are oc casionally repeated at short intervals. -The storage reservoir does not contain the entire flood discharge, so that pro vision must be made to take care of the surplus. Enormous spillways are constructed at each end o f . the flam, which con verge toward the middle of the river, where a circular stilling pool of con crete has been built In the center Is a concrete amphi theater, into which the floods are turned and stilled. The wiJb steps of the spillways serve to check the down- rush of the floods as they are turned out of the Reservoir to drop back into the river 100 feet below. The capacity of the spillways is 30,000 cubic feet per second, or the flow of a big river. Mine in Sweden Has Been Worked for Over 700 Years The oldest company In the world is that which owns the Falun Mine in Sweden. This mine has been worked for 700 years without a break and has never changed hands. The company is called the Stora Kopparbergs Berg- slags Aktiebol&g, and there is evidence that it was mining copper in the year 1225. In these 700 years the Falun mine has yielded over a ton of gold, 15 tons of silver, and about half a million tons of copper. Now it produces 80,- 000 tons of Iron pyrites every year. The mine is a huge hole in the ground, nearly a quarter of a mile long, half that distance across, ahd some 200 feet deep. Men dig for Iron pyrites 1,000 feet below-lts level and there are 18 miles of galleries containing nearly 8,000 separate chambers. A descent into these depths is a strange and rather terrifying experi ence. First the visitor must don heavy black serge overalls and a wide-brimmed black hat. He is given an acetylene torch shaped something like a kettle. The visitor makes his way down a path of duckboards. The air grows colder and colder, and at the e&d of ten minutes he must walk warily In case he slips on the lee. The galleries are fearsome places with holes 800 feet deep, Into whieh the visitor might fall if it were not for the red' flares burnt by the guides. An Elastic Clientele Some time ago there ' died in Pitts burgh a quaint person who was known as “the nestor of the oil basin ess.” It appears that he was a strange and wonderful compound—self-made, un educated, but a man of great natural force. Once he had a fight on with a great oil company. A conference was ar ranged, and the representative of the company had prepared an imposing ar ray of figures showing this gentle man how badly they had beaten him. The statement Included a paragraph to the effect that the company had 2,700 gas users In a certain town. As a matter of fact, the number was less than 500. The old oil man ran down the list, commenting pithily on the va rious items. When he came to this particular town he ran his finger along | it and said: “Say, If the girl had hit that planer another lick you’d have had 27,000, wouldn’t you?*’- City Star. Still Ahead Grace H., a stenographer, wished to have her hair bobbed. Now her sweetheart, a physician, age thirty- two, objected because he thought that a woman, age twenty-seven, was too old for bobbed hair. But off came Grace’s hair. And when Doctor Jim arrived that evening there was a long grim silence. Final ly she broke It. “Oh, Jim,” she ex claimed, “I feel so young with my hair short—quite too young to go with an old man with a mustache. You’ll just have to shave yours if you keep going with me.” Now Doctor Jim’s eyebrow mustache was one of his prides. But so con clusive was her argument that now he Is going without it and his few friends who are next to the story are complimenting the girl on her rare genius. The maximum difference in the ele vation of land in the United States Is 14,777 feet, according -to the United States' Department of the Interior. Mount Whitney,'the highest point, 14,- 501 feet above sea level and a point in Death valley Is 276 feet below sea level. These two places are both in California and are less than ninety miles apart This difference is small, however, as compared with that In Asia, says the Compressed Air Maga zine. Mount Everest rises 26,002 feet Salt From Earth Floors above sea level, whereas the shores In a Southern woman’s recollections of the Dead sea are 1,200 feet below sea level—a total difference of 30,292 of Civil war times, a novel means of feet. In Europe the difference be obtaining salt resorted to In those days tween, the highest and lowest land Is described. “A common practice,” she says, “on points Is about 15,868 feet. the part of people who sadly missed salt as an Ingredient of their food, was Short, the Tall Man to dig up the earth floors of the smoke “Isn't a lawsuit Involving a patent houses and by a sort of distilling j right about the dullest thing imagin process get out of the earth the salt able?” asked one lawyer of another. that had dripped from the pork and :• “Not always,” was the reply. "I other meats that had been cured in attended a trial of that character not the smokehouses.” This made a fair long ago that was really funny. A tall ly good substitute for the salt that lawyer named Short was reading a could no longer be obtained from the 6,000-word document he called a dosed channels of commerce.—Indus trial Student. brief 1”—Everybody’s Magazine, The t'ouuiuiu source of all was, of •. oui se, limn. When Bach had shown . uu way, the. e was a surge and uprush of pure music in central Europe to wltu-ii in.thing in the history of other arts cun be compared, unless it be the building oi the French cathedrals. It was us if a vast gold mine had been discovered, opening out to those happy mortals who had first right of eii;!-)' long galleries of metal, precious and pure; nor did they waste their mutchless opportunity, but tirelessly worked on, minting In streams a beau tiful clear coinage which was good in nil the markets of the world. Of almost all the great composers of the Nineteenth century fertility Is the conspicuous trait; they were limited only by the capacity of their bands to write down what their invention dic tated. And what they dictated was, broadly speaking, all good. Haydn’s svmphoniess Schubert’s songs, remain. Countless, they still have meaning for us—more meaning than most of the music of the day. The world had not changed, but the human mind had suddenly found means to appreciate it newly, and the whole story of cre ation, all the sumptuous diversities of human life, all the accumulated ex perience of the ages, was virgin soil, u child’s garden, of richness and freshness inexhaustible.—Basil De Sel- ¡ncourt. In “The English Secret.” laboratory of Helsingfors, Finland. Many kinds of metals and other ma terials are in use for the manufacture of saucepans and other cooking uten sils, but owing to the solvent action of some foodstuffs it is certain that chem ical salts of the materials used are ab sorbed to some extent by human be ings. A test was made by boiling, for three hours, two pounds of red cur rants In a number of saucepans of dif ferent materials, and then, by chemical analysis, finding bow much of the saucepans bad been dissolved In the food, says London Tit-Bits. The best figure obtained wds that for brass, which was 250 times better than enamel. Brightly pollsbad brass cooking utensils are used on a large scale In the East. Copper, tin, nickel and aluminum vessels were all found good, but Iron was found to be much more easily at tacked by foodstuffs. Tin, next to pol ished brass, stood out-as the best ma terial for the lining of cooking uten sils. Souvenirs , Almost every tourist who visits Egypt buys a scarab from a native curio seller. In Peru the Qulchua In dians, descendants of the Incas, oc casionally offer for sale small golden Images unearthed from the ruins, which have much value. From the days of the Spanish conquest Pern has been the Mecca of treasure seekers, some of whom have made wonderfully rich strikes. On the plain of Chlmu, near Truxillo, Is a great mound said to Scientists Find Brass contain treasure of fabulous value. Safest for Saucepem Several attempts have been made to An important household question— tunnel into it, but the sand has'always the choice of a saucepnn—has recently pouted down and stopped the work of been investigated at the muntetnat excavation People to Get Acquainted With Oregon for Oregon Ask for Oregon Products BOTTLE FEEDING r will be successful If Dennos, the milk modi fier, is used. Doctóre _______endorse Dennos. At I druggists, Sample on request. OREGON MAKES IT Oregon Industries Deserve Patronage Oregon Everytime you buy an article made in Oregon, you are helping to employ Oregon people in the manufacturing of Oregon goods. You are keeping Oregon money in Oregon. A campaign is on in the interest of ‘ ‘ Oregon Made Goods,”-' and “ Oregon Industries.” It is' more than worthy—an idea that means money to you. Look at the label L DENNOS FOOD CO. Portland, Ore. LOUIS WEBERT NOTARY PUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE REPRESENTING Pacific States Fire Insurance Company Springfield F. & M. Insur ance Company Fire Association of Phila. Patronize Yonr Home Company FIRE &• AUTO INSURANCE AURORA, OREGON Assets ovex $1,000,000 Pacific States Fire Insurance Company of Portland, Oregon ALL KINDS OF TRUCKING O. D. EBY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW at Reasonable Rates Oregon City, Oregon THEODORE RESCH,' Estates, Trusts, Confidential Advice Aurora, Ore. Phone 1115 Will pay highest market price for Hogs. Asquith & Hocken Painless Dentistry DR. E. H. 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