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and home-making habits of the Ameri can poople, we have our moderan pub-1 lie utility companies to thank. These Entered as second class m atter March companies have taken the drudgery 28, 1911, at the postoffice at Aurora, out of cooking and housekeeping by Oregon, under the Act of March 3,1879. placing at the right hand of un told millions of American countless Geo. E. Knapp. Editor and Publisher burden-bearing services all at a cost so j low that when they are compared with the other items in the household budget EDITORIAL they prove to be among the least ex- | Opinionsof the pensive.—Open Window. Th*Aurora Observer ¿server Paying for Experiments A large part ot the business of the world results from trying to prevent people from injuring them selves through their own careless acts. In Chicago is located a unique institution known as the Under writer’s Laboratories. It was es tablished by insurance companies and is for the sole purpose of test ing at cost every form of manufac tured device as to its fire resisting or accident preventing qualities. Here are assembled engineers and chemists who with the aid of every modern mechanical device, aid manufacturers in testing any pro duct before it is offered for sale to the public. After a fire proof door, a safe, an automobile lock or an automobile bumper has gone through the va rious heat and destruction tests which they give it, it has either proved itself worthy of the label issued by the laboratories to ap proved products or it has shown weaknesses which may be corrected by the manufacturer before it is offered for sale. In other words, the Laboratories are rapidly eliminating the days when the buyer paid for experi ments of the manufacturer. In doing this it is safeguarding the public against innumerable risks formerly involved in buying and using untested materials.—Indus trial News. A Go-getter. Ctfas. Gf Dawes doseift stem ^to care so much about hot air and technicalities as he does results. This fact was particularly in evidence throughout his service as purchasing agent for our govern ment in France during the war, and in his work in preparing a national budget system. Dawres struck at the root of the farmers’ troubles—lack of sufficient foreign market—when he framed a reparation under which Germany and all of Europe could revive and and prosper, for in operation, that plan would increase Europe’s ability to buy American farm products. The farmer suffers as much from high prices for what he buys as from low prices for what he sells, and Dawes can analyze the cause in a manner to confound those whose remedy is to hand over the railroads for operation by the gov ernment or adopt other socialistic schemes. As a matter of fact, the Ameri can farmer and business man have much at stake in the successful ac ceptance. and application of the Dawes plan for settlement of the Allied Reparations question with Germany.—The Manufacturer. Original “ Uncle Sam” Citizen of Troy, N. Y. Uncle Sam, of the long white hair, striped trousers and starred waistcoat, who stands for the United States in cartoons, was originally a real person, a citizen of Troy, N. Y„ about a hun dred years ago. The way the terra came to be applied to the United States government happened in this manner: Shortly after the War of 1812, El bert Anderson of New York, who was a contractor of the army, went fco Troy to purchase some provisions. It was Anderson’s habit to stamp all boxes containing the goods with his initials and those of the United States, so that on the end of each box sent out were the letters E. A. and U. S. Before each box went out It had to be Inspected, and one of the inspectors was an old man, popular among his as sociates for his wit and good humor, named Samuel Wilson. Around the inspecting rooms he was known as "Uncle Sam.” One time a new man in the office asked an employee what the letters on the boxes, E. A. and U. S., stood for. The man, thinking to tease Uncle Sam a bit, answered: “E. A. for Elbert Anderson, who con tracts for the supplies, and U. S. for Uncle Sam, who inspects them.” The joke spread, and before long tke letters U. S. became generally ap plied to the name Uncle Sam. When cartoonists, looking for a popular fig ure to Impersonate the United States; beard the tale, they used the charac teristic Uncle Sam of the inspecting room, dressed in flag-1 Ike clothes. W h y African Natives Slay Twins at Birth The other day a paragraph appeared In the Mail describing the murder of native twins in South Africa. The un traveled man must read this with hor ror, and rightly too, though I doubt If he ever thinks of the tribal laws and customs underlying such a seemingly horrible practice—customs which the native had observed for thousands of years before the coming of the white man with his new ideas. Unfortunately Europeans so .. often try to teach th e native mind too quick ly. They expect him to break suddenly from his time-old traditions and em brace immediately altogether different morals and Ideas. They are suprised when he occasionally returns to his barbaric creed, instead of marveling that such lapses are so rare. That they are so rare is a big tribute to the trust and understanding existing be tween black and white. For all these, to our mind, terrible customs were originally Intended only for the good of the race. From time Immemorial, twins have been regarded with horror by most—if not all—savage tribes. I have tried to trace the basis of this belief in many parts of Africa, and the nearest I could come to It was th is: When a woman gives birth she Is be lieved to produce one soul. If, by some terrible misfortune, that soul should be divided, what chance can it have in this world or the next?—Molly Torin in the Continental edition of the London Mall. Love of Flowers Rude sketches of flowers appear In pre-hlstoric caves, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Flowers have been rhap sodized over by painter, musician, poet and prose writer from the days when the first glimmerings of intelligence, and therefore of beauty, were begin ning to penetrate the thick skulls of our ancestors. And that great love has been carried down the corridors of the centuries. Early these flaming masses of na ture’s lovelihess were transplanted from the sunny meadow and the shad ows of woodland to the gardens of men. Men and women wanted them before their eyes without taking the American Women are World’s Best trouble to go far from their homes. Kings and queens filled their palaces. Cooks. Wives of humble peasants brought “ American women are the best cooks them from the wild places and set in the world and American men are them out around their cottages. the best fed mortals, ’ ’ says Miss Ada B. Swan, chairman of the Home Econ Many Flying Animals omics Bureau of the American Gas] In Australia there are at least Association. “ All this talk about get twenty species of animals which are ting the American family out of the aviators. Among them are flying squir restaurants and cabarets and back to rels, flying opossums, flying mice and the dinner table is exaggerated. Never even flying bears. before has there been such an interest The name which applies to them all manifested by women in cooking, serv is “phalanger.” This means that they ing and home-making. Recipes are be have, extending from the front to the ing turned out by the thousands and hind legs, a membrane which enables cook books by the hundreds, yet them to float in quite a graceful way | the supply cannot keep up with from tree to tree. They are not really flying animals, .but gliders. the demand. And modern kitchen The flying squirrel is said to be the equipment is seliing at a rate unpre most beautiful mammal In the world. cedented in the country’s history. It is odd that in the land where many “ There is nothing unusual m this. animals fly, birds often cannot fly at Any one who reads the American wo all. Both the emu and the cassowary man aright knows that she loves home are practically wingless, and have to and family first. She might have depend upon their long and strong wavered a bit in the uncertain days legs to escape from their enemies. following the war when millions of women hecame wage-earners instead Aurora: 60 minutes from Salem; of home makers, but the trend is the other way now. 60 minutes from Portland; 30 min For the present-day home-eating' utes from Oregon City. Timepieces Are Given Mercury Forced From Most Rigorous Tests Ore by Distillation Probably the largest exposed de posit of cinabar, or quicksilver, ore, is that forming the mountain from which the town of Black Butte, Ore., derives its name. There a vein 400 feet wide has been opened for more than a mile along the mountain at a depth of 1,000 feet below the crest. In Europe the chief mines are at Almaden, in Spain, and at Itria, a town 25 miles from Trieste. The process of obtaining the mer cury is called distillation. After be ing crushed the ore Is subjected to intense heat, 1,200 degrees Fahren belt. When the ore has attained the temperature of 680 degrees, the mer cury is driven off in the form of vapor. This vapor is passed' into large wooden or brick chambers call ed “condensers” which are surround ed by water jackets and other devices designed to reduce the temperature. In these chambers the vapor is con densed, the quicksilver resuming a metallic form and being deposited in fine globules on the walls and floors. These globules, as they increase hi size, merge and run out in troughs ready to be marketed. The product is shipped in - wrought-iron flasks weighing fourteen pounds each and holding seventy-six and one-half pounds of the metal, for which the dealer contracts at the market price. Ancient Authors Had Variety of Interests To prolong the life of man for thou sands of years to melt precious stones and pearls and give them de sired shape, size and color, to enable a man to fast for six months or more without losing his health and life; to cause new teeth to grow in the place of fallen teeth—such are some of the benefits to mankind aimed at as re vealed by an ancient library belong ing to Doctor Syed, M. D., Kassim, Jahagirdar, head of the Pasteur hall, Pathargatti, Hyderabad, says the Sci entific American. This library contains rare and valu able ancient books and manuscripts on palmyra leaves, written in almost all the languages of India. Some of them seem to be the works of thè hoary Vedic period. In one book is described a kind of wireless telegraphy In which two stone plates are to be prepared and placed at great distance from each other without any wire connection. It is said that communications can be car ried thousands of miles by means of these. Anyone may send his watch to the bureau of standards for a test to as certain whether it qualifies as a time piece of the highest grade, designated as “class A.” This privilege is used chiefly by watch manufacturers, who are thereby enabled to furnish each tested timepiece with a government certificate. To ascertain the accuracy of a timepiece it is placed in a large glass- front refrigerator, equipped with auto matic devices that keep the tempera ture at a fixed point, in which the watch “runs” for stated periods at va rious degrees of heat and cold. When the regulator has been set, the flow | of cold air from the ice chest above | the watch chamber Is controlled by a thermostatic device, and, when neces sary, -warm air is introduced from the outside. The three temperatures at which all watches undergoing the test are kept are 45, 70 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit. To qualify In “class A” a watch must not vary more , than four or five sec onds from correct time, andr in addi tion, it must be able to repeat its per formance In a-variety of positions and under varying conditions. In all there are eleven specifications in the test, some of them involving technical cal culations. Any variance made by the watches under test from correct time is record ed by means of a chronograph.—Wash ington Star. Italian Genius Came to Aid of British Library The Britfsh museum library Is the first library of the modern world. Like many other British Institutions, it owes much of Its greatness to a foreigner, Anthony Panizzl, a renegade Italian. Born at Modena in 1797, Panizzi became a student at Parma, and then joined a revolutionary move ment in his native duchy. The revolution failed and Panizzi fled; first to Switzerland and then across Europe, arriving in a destitute condition in London. He became a teacher of Italian, received an appoint ment at the library, and came into power as its keeper in the first year of Queen Victoria’s reign. At that time the library, which had been founded in 1753, was languishing for want of intelligent supervision. It contained a valuable collection of some 250,000 books, but the catalogu ing and arrangements for reference were bad. When Panizzi left Its service, some thirty years later, It contained 650,000 volumes, housed under a single dome. This dome, which Is second only In size Famous London Well A fte r being fl’Mflin uuU uWWflt f ior- to that of St. Peter’s, Rome, was one gotten for hundreds of years, the old Of the many clever ideas of Panizzi, well from, which Clerkenwell takes its who was altogether a remarkable char name seems to have been rediscovered acter. - He was knighted some time and laid bare, London Tit-Bits states’. before his death in 1879. If was called “Clerks’ well” because "the parish clerk of London in remote Not to Be Outdone ages annually performed sacred plays It was the last day of school before in front of it.” annual spring vacation and a teacher What is believed to be the “Clerks’ In the junior high school at Anderson well” was discovered recently under a was having little success with a class shop floor In Farringdon road. It was of pupils whose thoughts were bent while workmen were pulling down the more on the vacation than on studies. building that their spades revealed the With the training of a first-rate school well. mistress she feigned that all was well In the well are the remains of a with her, but school children are not leaden suction pump, by which the. wa “fooled” by a teacher. ter, it is said, used |o be conveyed to Jnst as the last class of the day ad the street outside for the use of priors, journed, she made this remark to the nuns, clerks and ordinary folk. students: Close to the well a fine piece of Ro “I hope you all have a very enjoy man wall has been unearthed. So sub able spring vacation, and hope that stantial Is it that It is to be used as when you come back you’ll be in your part of the foundations of a new build right minds—” ing to be erected on the spot “Same to you,” the children replied in unison.—Indianapolis News. The Great Mogul The British territory (India) Is di vided Into six large provinces—Ben gal, Bombay, Madras, the Northwest Provinces and Oudh, the Punjab, and Bnrraah—and eight smaller ones, ad ministered by governors, lieutenant governors, chief, commissioners and agents to the governor general, the whole under the viceroy, who repre sents the king-emperor, and has been described as “His Majesty’s Greatest Subject.” These provinces Include what were once the high and puissant kingdoms of the subahdar of Bengal, the nawab of the Carnatic, the peshwa of the Mahrattas, the emperor of Delhi (more commonly known as the Great Mogul), the king of Oudh, the mah arajah of the Punjab, the king of Bur- mah, and the ameers of Sind.—From “Indian Life in Town and Country.” Squelches Scientist A distinguished astronomer tells of a visit paid by several young women to his observatory. “I had done my best,” he said, “to answer with credit the running fire of questions which my fair callers pro pounded. I think I had named even the remotest constellations for them, and was congratulating myself upon the outcome, when one of the younger members of the party Interjected: • “ ‘But, as it has never been proved that planets are inhabited, how do the astronomers And out their names?’ ” Guard Against Poison His Hard Luck CHARLES GLAZE, d e a l e r in Marble and Granite 2 Cleaning and Re-setting Mon- I uments, and Inscriptions Cut- on Monuments at the Grave' 20 per cent Discount on Marble and Granite Purchases Work Guaranteed Prices Reasonable AURORA* - - OREGON $ s- s r f » -sjf.-SiSi I The UNIVERSITY of OREGON contains: The College of Literature, Science and the A rts with 22 departments. The professional schools of Archi tecture and Allied A rts—Business Administration—Education—Grad uate Study—Journalism —Law— Medicine—Music—Physical Edu cation—Sociology—Extension- M. G. McCORKLE, IVL D. Rectal Specialist Piles Treated and Cured Without Operation 804-6-7-8 Selling Bldg. PORTLAND. Dr. C. 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But don’t delay, for the SALEM, OREGON edition of this book is limited. Physician and Surgeon Final Notice of Executrix RAILROAD TIME CARD Apples, apricots, avocado pears, ba nanas, cherries, gooseberries, figs, Executrix of the last will and testa grapefruit, lemons, limes, pineapples, ment and estate of James D. plums, quinces, melons, olives, oranges Mann, deceased. and peaches are grown In the Union on Carey F. Martin, attorney for es a commercial scale. tate, 413 Masonic Temple Build One of the greatest advantages held ing, Salem, Ore. Jue. 12-Juy 10 by South Africa as a fruit exporting country is that, owing to its geographi cal position, Its products reach the British market In the off season, and may also reach thé United States. The trade has been remunerative de spite heavy spoilage. There are many schemes for mark ing poison bottles, but here Is one of the safest and best. By the simple means of pasting a strip of sandpaper over the face of botties containing poi son. says Science and Invention, the danger of getting a bottle by mistake, even on account of darkness, Is elim inated. Persons grasping the bottle will receive no discomfort, but will get sufficient warning as to Its poison ous contents. Most of the body of the bottle should be covered with sandpaper. A small label designat ing the poison should be pasted some where above the sandpaper. Let us print you some statements. People appreciate monthly statements of their account. Any business. Any one selling anything should have statements. We print and furnish the right kind. They do the work, too.—Observer. is o ften caused by an inflam ed condition o f th e m ucous lining' o f file E u stach ian Tube. W hen th is tube is inflam ed you n av e a rum bling sound or im perfect .earing. U n less the inflam m ation can oe reduced, your h earin g m ay be de stro y e d forever. H A L L ’S C A T A R R H IfE D IC IN E w ill io w hat w e claim for i i - . , d y o u r.sy stem o f Catarrh or D ea fn ess caused by Catarrh. H A L L ’S C A T A R R H M E D IC IN E h as been su ccessfu l in the treatm en t of Catarrh for over F orty Years. Sold by a ll druggists. F . J. C heney & Oo., Toledo, O. To whom it may concern : Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Sarah W, Mann, has this day filed, in the County Court for Marion County, Oregon, her final account as executrix of the last will and testament and estate of James D. Mann, deceased, and that said court has fixed and ap pointed Tuesday, July 15, 1924, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m. of said day, in the county court room, in the county court house, in said county and state, as the time and place for the hearing of objections Fruitful Land to such final account and for the It has been said that there Is no settlement thereof. place In South Africa where some va SARAH W. MANN. riety fruit will not grow and thrive. “Take a chance on a raffle, will ya?” asked the stranger. “ Miss Curlycue,” murmured the of “No, sir,” replied Levi. “I never fice manager to the stenog, “I don’t took but one chance on a raffle and 1 wanna be harsh. Nothing like that, 1 won that time.” really don’t.” “Well, if you are lucky, why don’t “Let’s have the answer,” said the you take another chance?’’ asked the damsel nonchalantly. “What’s gone stranger. wrong now?” “Never will I take another chance on “I Just wanna ask you not to write a raffle,” announced Levi. “The time your young man'during business hours. I I took the chance a man raffled off a Letters are apt to get mixed. Herb & I house, a lot. a horse, a wagon, a cow Blurb report that we have sent ’em | and a hog. 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