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STORIES PUBLISHED
‘ ‘ Lumberjacks ’ ’ Have Told
These Stories For Years.
(PAUL BUNYAN IS HERO
Introduced By Ida V. Turney;
100 Copies to Be Sold.
The only genuine American folklore—
the tales that have been told by word of
mouth from generation to generation of
husky lumberjacks—has just been pub
lished on the University of Oregon cam
pus. Who has not heard snatches of the
thrilling adventures of Paul Bunyan—
not the Bunyan of Tilgrims’ Progress
fame, but the other one, the one who
made Spencer's Butte, and dug Hood
Canal?
Miss Ida V. Turney, of the English de
partment, has put into narrative form
these wierd tales which were collected
by students in the cjass in narration, and
illustrated by Miss Helen Rhodes’ class
in normal art. A limited number of cop
ies of the book have been printed by the
University press, under the direction of
Dean Eric W. Allen, and 100 of these
will be on sale in front of the library
today at one dollar each.
References to Paul Bunyan have crept
into literature, and some of the stories
concerning him have been published, but
as far as is known, these particular stor
ies which are connected with this locality
have never appeared in print.
“Paul Bunyan Comes West,” as the
narrative is cnlled, is a unique and ex
ceedingly original book. Successful at
tempts were made in its publication to
create the atmosphere of mystery and
quaintness which pervade the stories,
and this effect is brought.about through
the use of a rough, unfinished paper, and
clever and entirely fitting linoleum cuts
which were made by some of the stu
dents in the art classes. By doing the
printing on dampened paper, the type
has been given a rough, antique appear;
nnce which has greatly aided in accom
plishing the desired result. The cover
design, full-page illustrations, and the
page borders are all carried out in a
manned characteristic of the Bunyan
tales.
Foreword Fascinating.
Bliss Turney’s foreword to the book
introduces Bunyon in an interesting and
fascinating way and tells the origin of
the tales as it is known. She. says, in
part:
“The tales of the doings of one master
woodsman, Paul Bunyan, were first told
l>y ‘lumberjacks’ who ‘go to the woods’
in the long winters, and ‘on the drive’
when spring unleashes the rivers to car
ry the logs in foaming jaws to the saw
mills towns in the valleys. They told
them wherever of evenings they gathered
about the ‘deacon’ set in the bunk-slinn
ty, dank with the steam of mackinaws
strung to dry above the red-hot stove
and reeking with Peerless and Star. And
later they passed them on to the ‘gangs’
that followed the line of the ‘clearing’ as
it veered westward from New England
to Alaska—opening mines, piercing
mountains with steel rails, taming the
cattle of the hills, or flinging bridges over
rivers and chasms. . . . The frag
ments here strung together in a contin
uous narrative—a method never used in
the oral telling—are western adapta
tions of this Gang-lore, put into the
mouth of a survivor of the ‘airly’ days
—one ‘Yank.’ still living in the valley of
the Willamette.”
W. C. Dalzell Discovered “Yank.”
'Bliss Turney says that the discovery of
“Yank” undoubtedly the only living wit
ness of the doings of Paul Bunyan. be
longs to W. 0. Dalzell. of the school of
law. The students who aided in collect
ing the tales are Irene F. Dalzell. Kath
erine Watson, Marvin I{. Eby, Allarick
llaglund and Paul BIcCullough. The ill
ustrations found throughout the book
were made by Glen McGonegal, Helen
Ball. Wilhelmina Beksted, Mona Logan.
Florence Hartman, Lucy B ander Sterre,
Helene Kuykendall. Lucile Garber. Cath
erine Anderson, Louise Irving and Ger
many Klemm.
CAMPUS PLANTS ARE
DESCRIBED IN ARTICLE
(Continued from rage 1).
tore building and B’illard. It has dropped
its blossoms, and is now leaved oi t. Ev
eryone knows the deep pink, rose-like
flowers of japonica, which is so common
in the yards in Eugene. Still another
bush which blossoms early, and without
leaves is the forsythia, a bush of which
was covered with four-petaled, yellow
flowers, on the President’s lawn about
Easter time. Two other hushes of for
sythia grow west of B’illard, one almost
under the lilac bush there.
The shrubs which are now covered
with small umbels of white flowers, out
on the hank near the northwest corner
of the architecture building, are spirea.
There are many other clumps of spirea
on the grounds. Another nursery stock1
bush which is in bloom now, is the wei
gelia, which has flowers in all shades of
pink. There is a variegated one in front
of Deady—both leaves and flowers are
variegated. There are several others in
the clump at the end of the Y. M. hut,
and at other places on the grounds; they
are easy to recognize once you know
the characteristic long-throated flowers.
Weigelia belongs to the honeysuckle fam
ily. Hydrangea, which is the flower re
sembling the snowball, now in bloom on
the campus, is also a product of nursery
cultivation, and not a native wild shrub.
Everyone remembers the striking blos
soms of the two trees in the clumps on
“Hello Lane,’’ about the time of Easter
vacation. Those are tulip trees, members
of the magnolia family.
If you should walk up University street
from Thirteenth, you would notice on the
President’s lawn, between a holly bush
and a flowering haw, a large bush that
has branched out in a very round form.
It has leathery leaves, and a very ag
gressive color. You may be able to tell
by the odor, if not by the appearance,
that the bush is a ba.vberry, commonly
shortened to bay. The flowers of the
bay are not noticeable. The bush pro
duces a little berry, also unnoticeable.
which is used medicinally. The botanical
name of the bay is myrica ealifornica.
If you return to University street, and
walk on past the curious knob pine, you
will see a clump of tall bushes that you
will recognize ns ocean spray, the feath
ery, graceful blooms of which ore found
in such profusion in the woods in this
part of the state. Just at the foot of
the ocean spray bushes, is a bright,
shiny-leaved bush of a spreading growth,
with feathery white flowers. This is
mountain lilac, caenottius velutinns. It
has little resemblance to the cultivated li
lac. though the bush there is hardly a
type bush, as it was recently winter
killed to the ground, and the present bush
is a group of shoots from the stem close
to the ground.
The last bush to your right as you go
along that walk is a quince tree. It has
a few blossoms, which resemble a wild
rose slightly.
If you cut across the President’s lawn
north of the rose trellis, you will come
to a clump of tall bushes, some of which
you will recognize as mock orange. The
other tall bushes are ninebark. A little
farther around the clump, you will notice
a lower, more spreading bush with tough
shiny leaves, and what appears to lie
dried tassels hanging on the tips of all
its branches. That is a tassel tree, some
times called quinine bush because a sub
stance like quinine is made from its
bark.
The small red-leaved bushes recently
set out near the sundial are Japanese
maple. In the fall, they become a more
brilliant red. The small flowering bush
es, south of the walk that leans around
the administration building are vibur
num tinus, laurestinus, (orrmonly called
arrow wood.
As for the roses on the campon which
are so temptingly pickablo. the pink ones
are Caroline 'I estout, and the vhito ones
are Frau Karl Druski. The grass-like
plant near the northwest corner of Vii
lard is a tuft of pampas grass, which will
later send up tall silvery plumes. Every
one has '>t:ced the ferns at tl e east en
trance of Villard, and perhaps all knew
that those on the south side of the porca
are common sw rd fern, and those on the
north are maid' n hair fern, or ndiatium.
The vines that adorn several of the
buildings on the grounds are such well
known ones that they should need no
identification. That on Deady is the
evergreen English ivy. Iioston ivy sheds
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its leaves in the fall after they have
turned to brilliant reds and yellows. The
west side of Villard and the east side of
McClure are covered with Boston ivy.
The other vine on these two buildings is
Virginia creeper. It has divided leaves,
and clings less flatly to the concrete. The
Virginia creeper foliage assumes Brilliant
fall colors, also, and as an added beauty,
it has blue or purple berries. The vine
that covers the side porch of Friendly
hall, and is now bearing gracefully hang
ing bloom is a wisteria.
A plant of decided tropical appearance
grows by itself in the court of the archi
tecture building. It is a yucca, or Span
ish bayonet. In the summer it sends up
a central spike of white flowers.
Relic Dug Up Near Spencer’s
Butte, Is Second Discovered.
Another indication that the country
around Eugene was once under the sea,
and was later a part of an ancient shore
line, was the discovery of a mammoth’s
tusk, of the pleistocene, or glacial age,
j in the rock&.three miles south of here.
On Wednesday, Delmer L. Powers and
I Ford E. Wilson, students in the geology
department, were doing some mapping
work a mile north of Spencer’s Butte,
three miles south of Eugene. At a dis
tance of six feet underground, lying hori
zontally at a break between reddish yel
low shale and overlaid by gray clay, they
found the middle portion of the mam
moth’s tusk.
j The tusk was dug up near the bank of
a stream, and a few miles north of this
place, say the students, were fossils, in
dicating the presence at one time of a
large body of water. Farther down the
stream, two more fragments of the tusk
were found.
This is the second mammoth’s tusk
found in this locality. The first was dis
covered by Prof. W. A. Beer and a pic
ture of the tusk, fastened in the rocks,
may be seen in the Condon museum. The
tusk just found has also been placed
there.
U. OF O. TENNIS MEN
TO MEET 0. A. C. TEAM
Aggies Junior Week-end Games Will
Include Five Oregon
Players.
Coaches Larremore and Warner will
take five tennis players to Corvallis, Sat
urday, to cross racquets with the Aggie
net champs as a feature of the O. A. C.
Junior week-end program.
Although Oregon came out ahead of
O. A. C. in the standings of the teams
in the Pacific Coast Conference tennis
tournament, the work of Maberly and
Joy, and their victories over W. S. C.
assures the Lemon-YellowT a hard fight
if they are to leave “Aggieville” as vic
tors next Saturday night.
Considerable discussion was made over
the choice of a team and it was not until
yesterday that the final lineup was chos
en. Smith and Westerman will make up
the first team and Williams, Garrett and
Jue will probably have a chance to make
their letters. Coaches Warner and Lar
remore will play a number of matches
with O. A. C. faculty members. The var
sity will play four sets of singles and
two doubles.
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Combined Shows
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Rastus, the Tired Mule
Dodge, the Football
Pony
Midget Horses
Yuma Fire-Fighting
Rescue Horse
Aerial Baboons
Clown Monkeys
Riding and Leaping
Dogs
Military Ponies
1921 Model Whip
Captive Sea Planes
Sky Whirl
Hawaiian Village
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Steel Guitar and
Ukulele Soloists
Hula Hula Dancers
Fattest Girl
Tliinest Man
Mysterious Frog Boy
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Dog and Monkey Hotel
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