THE
CHEM AW A
AM ERICAN
and four kernels of corn 1 1-2 inches deep near the top center.
This will show how they
Moisten. Let grow
behave planted deep or
4-corn 4-beans
shallow or just right.
All the seeds will be
c
b
tested in a like manner,
c (g lass sid e)
b
dividing them among the
c
grades. The upper grades
will also make a few other
important tests as to size, gravity, color, etc.
(Continued next issue)
STORY OF OREGON
THE
B R ID G E
OF
THE
GODS
Bedecked with all the panoply that hangs about an Indian story, with
the real red men participants, “ The Bridge of the Gods,” the story of
the early days of Oregon, when the great stone arch that stretched
across the Columbia River at the Cascades crashed into the river, will
transplant the audience tomorrow and Wednesday night at the Multno
mah Field into the actual scenes that surrounded the downfall of Indian
domination in Oregon.
The forefathers of the very redmen who will be seen in the great
drama were, perhaps, spectators of the crash of the natural stone bridge
that followed the pouring on it of millions of tons of molten lava from
erupting Mount Hood. Their legends tell of such an experience.
The scene-setting shows this great mountain towering over the heads
of the audience, its snow-capped top apparently many miles distant, at
its base flowing the Columbia. In front is an Indian encampment, while
to the right and left can dimly be seen hundreds of tepees, smoke trick
ling from their woven roofs. A stranger can be seen struggling over the
trail, and hundreds of Indians bearing torches in their hands head home
ward from the chase. Just at this moment the drama has its inaug
uration.
The story tells of the coming of the white man; it shows the fire and
and torture stake, Indian council camps and the smoking of the peace
pipe, grim Indian threats. While the story weaves itself about the
tragic life story of Wallula, daughter of Chief Multnomah, the Indian
in all his native dignity, in his color panoply and mounted on a magni
ficent Indian pony, has his place in the tale.
The medicine man and soothsayer tells of the ending of Indian rule,