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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1912)
THE TIMES . SONG OF THE WHALE. A single dollar down Is the talk of the town; Just a dollar a week Is all that we seek, On the finest of gowns, Either female or male— Come to us—we’ll make the sale That the garments will fit, And are made very tine Is guaranteed by “ It”— SHIPS AS THEY SINK. C o m m e n c in g et Heme. The Humpback la a Littla Mora Musi- Thair T r ip to tho Bottom and What cal Than tha Bowhead. H a p p e n s A fterw ard . Whales are rarely thought of aa vo What becomes of the ship that sinks calists. yet according to Miss A. D. In mldocean? If It is of wood it takes, Cameron In "The New North” they tn the first place, considerable time for really have a distinctive song of their it to reucb the bottom. In a hundred own. or more fathoms of water a quarter of A certain Captain Kelly was the drst an bonr will elapse before the ship to notice that whales sing. One Sun reaches bottom. It sinks slowly, and day. while otUcers from three whaling j when the bottom is reached It falls ships were ’’gamming" over their after | gently Into the soft, oozy bed, with no noon walrus meat. Kelly started up crash or breaking. with “1 hear a bowheud!" There was Of course If It is laden with pig iron much chatting about “Kelly's band.” or corresponding substances or If It Is but Kelly weighed anchor and went to an iron ship it sinks rapidly and some find the band wagon. Every sail fol times strikes the bottom with such lowed bis. with the result that three force as to smash In pieces. Once whales were bagged. sunken a ship becomes the prey of the Among bowbeuds this singsong Is a countless Inhabitants of the ocean. call that the lender of the school, as be They swarm over and through the forces a passage through Bering sea. great boat and make it their borne. makes In order to notify those that fol Besides this they cover every Inch of low that the straits are clear of Ice. the boat with a thick layer of lime. Walruses and seals and all true main This takes time, of course, and when mals that have lungs and live In the one generation dies another continues Mrs. Suffrage—It is woman's duty to water have a bark that sounds strange the work until finally the ship is so correct the crying evils of our times. enougb us It comes up from hidden laden with heavy Incrustations, corals, Mr. Suffrage—Then you had better depths Every lookout from the mast- sponges and barnacles that If wood start spanking baby.—New York Mall. tuaid notices that when one whale Is the creaking timbers fall apart and Btruck the whole school Is ’’gallled” or slowly but surely are absorbed In the stampeded at the very Impact of the waste at the sea bottom. harpoon; they have beard the death Irou vessels are demolished more song. quickly than those of wood, which The sound that the bowhend makes may last for centuries. The only met is like the long drawn out “boo-boo-oo als that withstand the chemical action oo-oo!" of the hoot owl. A whaler says of the waves are gold and platinum, that the cry begins on F and may rise and glass also seems unaffected. No to A, B or even C before slipping back matter how long gold tuay be bidden to F again He assures us that with in the ocean, it will always be gold the humpback the tone Is much finer when recovered, and this fact explains and sounds across the water like the the many romantic and adventurous note from the E string of a violin. searches after bidden submariuo treas ures lost In shipwrecks. Great Northern Tailors Combine 403—400 Swetland Building. JEFFERSON’S BONES. On Payments of H e P rize d T h e m H ig h ly U n til Dr. W ie * tar S a w Them . $1.00 Down $1.00 a Week Merchant Tailors to Men and W om en Suits made to measure from'the finest fabrics, in latest New York styles; a fine line of samples for your seleetion. Our prices are so moderate and terms so easy that you cannot af ford to be content with a “ hand-me-down” suit when you can obtain one made to your order, and therefore perfect fit. from us. Best fitters and cutters in the city. Call and inves tigate. Fourth floor, Fourth-St. entrance. GREAT NORTHERN TAILORS COMBINE 403-406 Swetland Building, Fourth and Washington Sts., Portland, Ore. Y. M. C. A. Snowy White Dainty Clothes Are TROY Laundered Clothes If we could take you through our modem plant, flooded with sunshine and scrupulously clean, with its immaculately dressed workers; if we could show you how thoroughly each gar ment is laundered and inspected, our close at tention to the small details that really make the laundered garment, and some of the refresh ingly white, snowy clothes that leave this laun dry—you would not hesitate long in sending your clothes here. A single trial will prove a revelation in how elothes really should be laundered. A phone call will bring our wagon the same day. EAST 33—BOTH PHONES— B-6118. “ You Can Depend On the Troy. Troy Laundry Co. 201 EAST WATER STREET. D a y and N ig h t Schools. It is said that when Thomas Jeffer son Journeyed from Monticello to Phil adelphia on his way to take the oath of office as vice president he carried a lot of bones In bis baggage. The bones, alleged to be tbose of a mammoth, had been found In Greenbrier county, Va., and sent to Monticello, where they were set up by Jefferson, who. It appears, entertained a somewhat ex aggerated notion of bis attainments In natural history and who stood sponsor for the bones as those of “a carnlcu rous clawed animal entirely unknown to science.” It was not until after Jefferson renched Philadelphia that he wns un deceived. for at a glance the learned Dr. Wlstar saw that they were the bones of the common sloth, several specimens of which he showed the Virginian. Jefferson. It Is related, wns greatly chagrined, especially as his dis covery became known as Megalonyx Jeffersonil. It has been pointed oat that Indi rectly no less a naturalist than the great Buffon mny have been responsi ble for Jefferson's error. It was the Virginian’s practice to send Buffon specimens and Information, and with the subtle flattery of a courtier the French naturalist wrote: “I should have consulted you, sir. before publishing my natural history, and then I should have been sure of the facts.”—New York Sun. EARLY COLONIAL HOUSES. S o m e H a d In n e r Sto n e W a lls to R e sist the In d ia n R aide rs. In America the early colonists had little use for the masou's art, except in the construction of the huge chimney stacks which In any dwelling of con siderable size and any pretensions to comfort formed a very considerable part of the structure. The great kitch en fireplace and oven, with smuller hearths In from two to four rooms on each floor, required a very considera ble part of the material and skilled mbui bestowed upon a colonial home stead In the more northern colonies. In some sections where the dangers of an attack by Indian raiders were Imminent, the wooden walls of tho lower story Inclosed a stout wall of brick or a kind of rubble masonry. Some of these buildings are still stand ing and Inhabited, although dating back (at least so far as the lower stories are concerned) over two cen turies. A very few brick buildings have wholly or In part come down to us from the first years of colonization, and until within the last half century some that preserved the peculiar fea tures of Elizabethan and Stuart types of dwelling and business structures. Much of the brick and about all the great flooring tiles nnd ornnmentnl tiling were at first Imported from Eu rope, but lime nnd brick of good qual ity were soon produced In almost every community.—Charles Winslow nail in National Magazine. NEW TEEM OPEING MONDAY, APBIL 1, 1912. Building, Cor. Sixth and Taylor Sts. Class— Fee to June 1. F o ste r M other. Love W ill F in d a W a y. Algebra ............................................$ 5.00 There Is T h a e story about a hen The young hastened into the Architect, Draft ............................. 7.50 which was Intrusted told with a sitting union station. couple Arithmetic .............................. 2.00 It wns patent that ducks' eggs to batch. When the they were not married. very Automobile Course ...................... 50.00 of They were alto Bookkeeping ...................................... 6.00 young brood went down to the water gether too chummy for that They went Boys’ School .................................... 4.00 she wns frantic with anxiety, but the out onto tbe platform and stood and Business Eng. and Cor.................... 2.00 second year, when her next brood of talked for a minute, when he took her Business Law .................................. 2.00 ducklings went to swim, she was In his arms and kissed her fondly and Carpentry and Woodworking.... 10.00 scarcely troubled at all, nnd the third again hurried away toward n train. Chemistry ........................................ 10.00 year she would fly to a stone In the i Dairying .. ....................................... 2.00 middle of the pond and from her coign i “What do you think of that?" in Electricity & Electric Machinery 15.00 of vantage watch the ducklings swim quired one of the attaches of the sta English for Foreign Men................. 3.00 ronnd her with evident pride. The tion. English Grammar and Reading. . 3.00 looks all right. Why?” English Literature ......................... 3.00 fourth year she was allowed to hatch “That “They do that three or four times a Freehand Drawing ........................... 7.00 her own eggs, and when she discover week. They think that everybody else French ................................................ 5.00 ed that the Infant chicks had no In will think that he Is going away on u Forestry and Lumbering.............. 10.00 tendon of taking to the water she long but he has never got on a Geometry ........................................... 5.00 flew to the stone In the middle of the train journey, yet ne simply walks around German ............................................... 5.00 pond and clucked frantically to them back of tbe train and disappears. He Latin .................................................. 5.00 gets his kiss all right, though.”—Louis Mechanical Drafting ..................... 7.50 to swim ont to her Penmanship ..................................... 2.00 ville Times. C h e e rfu l F o r H im . Pharmacy ........................................ 25.00 Plumbing Shop Practice.............. 15.00 Not long ago a stock of crockery was M in u te n e ss of an Atom . Public Speaking ............................. 6.00 sold at auction, and Mrs. Wilson at Sir Oliver Ixidge ouce gave a striking Rhetoric ............................................. 3.00 tended the sale When she returned Illustration of the minuteness of the Spanish ............................................... 5.00 her face was radiant with Joy. Shorthand ........................................... 6.00 “Yon must Join the cremation so atom. The amount of gold In sea Show Card Writing...........................12.00 although very small, seems con were the first words she said water, Trigonometry ..................................... 5.00 ciety." siderable when stated In atoms, for a Typewriting ....................................... 6.00 to her husband single drop of sea water contains 50.- Vocal Music ....................................... 3.00 Mr W.-What for? atoms of gold That figure, Call or send for Free Illustrated Mrs. W.—I’ve bought such a lovely 000.000 however. Indicates merely one-fiftieth Catalogue. vase to hold your ashes! Yon have no of a grain In a ton of sen water, and Similar schools Seattle, Tacoma, Spo Idea how It will set off the mantelpiece It would take 100 , 000.000 atoms to be kane. visible under a microscope of the high H e r G entle H int. est power. Borem—Rome one must have been W a n te d to Be Prepared. Joking Miss Suburbs about me and told A congressman tells of a little shoot A B a d 8pill. her I owned the street railway system ing party which he attended. a young woman left *500, “More^tban one of the party,” said I here. Porem—What makes you think 000 “Here’s merely for spilling n little sun the congressman, "felt a trifle nervous so? Borem—Why. I was out to call on Into sn old man's life." about a certain young Englishman as her last night and every time she shine “Her experience Is more fortunate he and his gun seemed strangers beard a car she said. “There comes than mine 1 once spilled a cup of Nothing occurred, however, until 1 felt your car, Mr. Borem.”—Judge. coffee Into an old man’s lap and he something poking me In the side as we cut me out of his will altogether.”— crept along. Turning quickly, I found T h e L aw s. the novice prodding me with the muz “I care Dot w ho m akea the conn Louisville Courier-Journal. zle and fumbling with the hammers of try’s la w s.” anld the "s h a r p ” law yer. Satisfie d W ith 8ound. •If”— bis gun. “The man has a wonderful flow of “ HI, Gns.' he whispered, ’before we “If wbnt?" bis colleague asked. language." said the Impressionable get on to the birds you might just I “If they continue to put In verbiage girl. show me 'ow yon let these 'ere trig that may he varloualy Interpreted.”— | “Yes." replied Miss Cayenne. “He Is Chicago Record-Herald. gers downT "—Boston Traveler. one of the people who would rather talk than be listened to.”—Washington Esp e cially. O n io n S o u p and Fam e. 8tar. * The Preacher-We never realize the j Membership In the French academy. . foil value of anything until we lose It. I the hoped for reward of Gallic writers, 8 h e C o u ld n ’t 8»» It. was once c'osely associated with onion The Bereaved Widow—That'» bo . ea- j Miss—You earn *50 a month. Refore peelally If the lost thing Is Insured. soup. During the restoration In France I marry yon you'll have to earn *.V; a • clnb was formed under the title of week. Mister—B hut with yon a month P o o r O p in io n of Papa. “Diner de la Soup a I'Onlon.” This or would seern hut a week.—New York ganizatlon contained twenty members Little Elsie (after being punished»—I I Globe It met every three months, when the think papa 1 » dreadful Was he the j dinner was opened with an onion soup | only man yon could get. mamma?—Bo* Som e tim e s H ap pens. The clnb was to endure until every ns ton Transcript. Mr«. Whyte—I understand «he mar sociate was elected to the academy ried beneath hpr. Mr». Browne—Ye», This was accomplished In 1845, when When the heart say» “Give” the gift the young man In the flat below.—Bom will never tie too »mall the laer hnnnuet was held ervllle Journal “Do you know why all the artists have such long hair?" “Why, of course: so they can have some brushes.”—Le Hire. C aricatured . "I should like to make an attempt at caricature. Can you give mo an Idea for one?” “A portrait of yourself.’’—Puck. And She W as Fat. "I thought you were so madly in love with Ethel?” “ I was.’’ “W el l , w h a t happened?” “You know girls are apt to grow to look like their m o t h e r s after awhile?" “Yes.” “Well. I met her dear mam ma.” Rude. Bird-What are you sqnlntlng nt, yon rude boy? Didn't you ever seo a bird before ? P la y fu l Pusey. i “How did you come by tbose •cratches?” “I was playing with the cat.” "And that bruise on your /orehead?” "8be—she threw a flatiron at me.”— Fliegende Blatter.