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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1921)
-â- TURKS STILL POLITE ■Courtesy About AU Ws Havs Left” Says Ruler’« Heir. Official and Wealthy Turk Retains Qrank Mannar Which Marked Paepla far Agaa Back. Couatantlnopla.— The e'en treat be tween the manners of the Turk aud the people of the western nations who ■ingle on tha streets of this ancient eapltal is striking. Courtesy to a stranger is a quality still preserved from the ruins of the Ottoman empire. “Courtesy is about all we have left and we still try to hold oo to that," said Abdul Medjld Ktfendl, belr-pre- aumptlve to the throne, who Is himself a model of quiet kindness and distin guished manners. The official and wealthy Turk re talus still a certain grand mannet which would have belonged to auuther age la western Europe or the United States. He carries himself with dig nity, if not with modesty. Deep la the contrast between him and the soldiers and civil Ians brought here by the allied occupation of Con stantinople or seeking trade or adven ture. These tramp up and down the afreets, sometimes sober, sometimes drunk, depending on the time of night, elbowing, fighting, swearing, brawling, as It suits their humor. Stamboul, the Turkish quarter, be comes a sedate place at nightfall, while Peru, the European quarter, drops Its daylight garb of trooping throngs and reckless drivers and be comes a city of Immense capacity for evil, (»ambling dens, cafes and dance balls open and nation from the (leeta come ashore and declare they "will mot go home until morning." L|KE PAGE FR0M JEST B00K sh o uld do more w alkin g C o lle g ia n ’s Expenses In 1839 A p p e a r U n r e a l in Th ese D a y s o f U n iv e r sal H ig h P ric es. College days when more affluent students paid as high as $2 a week for board while others got a $1.25 I rate are described in letters received at Williams college, Williamstown, Mass., from its senior alumnus, Rev. Edward Ixird, who has rounded out a full century of life. Writing from Clifton Springs, N. Y., by his own hand, Reverend Mr. Lord says that when he entered Williams, in 1839, tuition was $9 a term, and, with room rent, fuel and washing, the total yearly college ei- pense of a student ranged front $98 to $130. The faculty at that time consisted of only eight persons. Mark Hopkins was president, “ not a cold, dignified man, but easily ap proached and always ready to assist and encourage students.” When he left his home in Danby, N. Y., near Ithaca, for college the young subfreshinan rode across country by stage to Utica, a distance of 100 miles. “ It was a wonderful sight to see the stage drawn by four horses,” he writes. “ It was to me a greater wonder than the airplanes that now sweep across the sky. Prom Utica I found the railroad just com pleted to Albany. From Albany it was only by stage that I could reach Williamstown. About that time Morse was spending a hundred nights inventing the telegraph.” CHANGED HIS MIND MIKE IS CHAMPION RUNAWAY Mow York Youngster of Ms R - from Forty-fifth Spasm ef W a n d e rlu s t. Now York. — Six-year-old Michael Clemend, the hop-a-wagon, steal-a-rlde and runaway champion, la back home after having been rescued from his forty-fifth spasm of wanderlust. In ten months Mike has disappeared from home at least once a week, his father told the police. Sunday after noon Mike was absent at meal time, and Papa Clement! notified police headquarters. Mike turned up the next morning In the Coney Island station. He was Maimed by bis fatbar and mother, taken home, than started to school. He hopped a wagon, rode to a sub way station, elnded the ticket agent, rode to Manhattan, climbed atop a Fifth avenue bua and hid himself un der a saat. A policeman hanlod Mike from the bns, and tha dosing scenes of the forty- fifth episode were a police station and • woodshed. Mika answered roll call at school today. SZSSä? / f' "45 ## Judge— What is your plea I Guilty or not guilty? Prisoner— I intended to plead guilty, hut after talking to my law yer I’m convinced that I’ m inno cent, so 1 plead “ Not guilty.” SPARROW S Treated as - Daughter Bines Shs Was BI m — I s Mads Be Legally by Nsw Yarfc CsurL New York.— Miss Mary Shsrwssfi, who at the age of six took the place la the family and affections of Mr. and Mrs. Henry CL Webb which had bean occupied by their only daughter, who died a few years before, has re ceived the right to legally use the name her footer parents bestowed on bar forty-four years age aad by which aba has been known ever since When the Webbs first took her Into their home In 1877. Mrs. Webb be stowed upon her the name of Malniee 8. Webb. During the long yearn that followed they never thought to take out formal adoption palters. Keeently. however. .Surrogate Foley at Mr. Wehh's request affixed hi» signature ta the paper that ensured tha fifty- year-old woman her legal atatua as tbs daughter and heir ef her footer father. FURNACE AS IC E B O X . The mail who has atill a private stock was frankly glad that a fire ia no longer needed in the furnace, for it now serves as an icebox for the BLACK CAT UKES JOY RIDES precious bottle«. “ During the winter,” he said, <fI Insists an Mounting te Top af Automo could have a good part of the ice bile Every Tima Owner box in the kitchen because the wife Laavaa Hama. used to keep things outside. But Haddonfleld. N. J.— Whenever Dr. A. lately I haven’t had any place at K. Wood backs hla sedan out of tha all. The furnace is an ideal place, drive alongside his home members of the cellar being cold, anyway. It i* tbs family are ebllged to make aura And none of my that "T ea ," tha black feline pet. Is not ' big enough, too. perched on top of tha car. Insisting j friends will be able to discover the upon a ride. stock.” Several times lately tha doctor baa been obliged to atop somewhere down tha «treat because soma ana haa dis covered the pet aaraaaly holding on. despite ths smooth surface of the top. Bullet*Proof Man Triad Vainly to KM Himself After Bring twe .SK-rallber bullets Into his forehead and twe more Into bit body, Walter Stew art. a farmer of Hartland Hai- low. Conn., decided that the sui cide rout* was a hard road He was walking about the bouse, siuoklug a pipe, whea (hr doctor arrived Asked why lie bad tried te end his Ufa. he replied that ha was dlecv>uraged Hla failure, to kill himself made him more discouraged, bat ha do dared ha would never try tha gun rente again D IF F IC U L T Y IN » IO H T . “ I’ll have it understood,” je - marked the boat, “ that my will ia law.” getting on difficult “ You’ re ground, * rejoined Senator Sor- ghttra. “ Whenever a man says that lie inay a# well expect considerable trouble with the enforcement fa- eilitiee.” B U IL O 1.000 B R I D O B S . According to the Japan Adver tiser, a scheme at an estimated coat of 1.100.000 yen is planned bv the municipality of Tokyo for the con struction of a thousand bridgse Three hundred of the bridges now of wood are to be replaced by iron framed structures. TIME CARD j Valley & Siletz Railroad Y e u n g t r F o lk » A m o n g th a J a p a n e s e B a i« ta E v in c e K e a n A p p r e c ia tio n e f to a “ J a * * .“ Vacation Trips Back East Net Easlbound Week End and Season ROBBED THE DEVIL OF FOOD NOT A WASHINGTON C y n ic a l C a rib b e a n C h ie f T e lia of A p propriating S u p p lie s Left far H ia S a ta n ic M a ja a ty . • No part of the W est Indies ^ecoia to have'escaped piratical visitations. The Uaribbee islands, inhabited solely by redskins, who knew noth ing of gold or bad habits, ware fre quently called upon. Eaquemeling. the chief of pirate historians, tells of the ('aribbee customs, notably that of the widowed Canbbee wom an, who was obligated by custom to carry choioe foods to the grave of her husband for 12 months and aft er that dig up the bones, scrape sad polish them and carry them on her back for another year before she could marry again. It was the popu lar belief, says Eaquemeling, that the devil ate the food, “ but I my self, not of this opiniou, have often times taken away these offerings and eaten them instead of other victuals. To this I was moved be cause 1 knew that the fruits uped on these occasions were the choicest and ripest of all.” — New York Tribuna. V A N I S H IN G . Robins are once again hopping over the Ihwna in the suburban dis tricts; the advance guard of the crow blackbirds, their natural and inveterate encmiea, have reappeared, though not as yet in sufficient force to give battle, and those who watch these things are again pondering the question, "What has become of the English sparrows?” Census figures are not available, but to even the most casual ob servers it is plain that they are fast disappearing from city and country alike, while the native birds are com ing into their own again in corre sponding degree.— Boston Globa. W ORK. “ How did that pretty book agent manage to get an interview with | Mr. Wadleigh f ” Motor Leaves Independence Daily "First of all, she let him catch s 10:60 a. m. The desire among the Japanese to glimpse of her face and figure Motor Leaves Independence Daily I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedes- learn Occidental ways is steadily in through the door of his private of Except Sunday 4:10 p m. Motor Arrives Independence, Daily tnanism, or our need as a people to creasing, one gathers from the fice.” 9:50 p. a> “Well r cultivate the aft. I think it would Tokyo Times and Mail. Languages, “ Then she said «he wanted to ask Motor Arrives Independence, Daily tend to soften the national manners, school systems, military and naval Except Sunday 3:50 p. m. to teach us the meaning of leisure, tartics, engineering, music ami nu ing advice about something. He Freight service daily except Sunday, doesn’t know yet that he signed on merous other things have been mas to acquaint us with the charms of Leave Independence 7'30 a. m. dotted line.” — Birmingham the open air, to strengthen and fos tered by them, and now the younger the L. B. WATSON, I ter the tie between the race and the folks are taking up dancing— and Age-Herald. the older persons, too. land. The fox trot, the waltz and all No one else looks out upou the world so kindly and charitably as fanciful steps are being learned to the pedestrian; no one else gives the so-called “ tune” of the ja/.z mu and takes so much from the country sic. And with the coming of the lie passes through. Next to the la dancing fad the conversation turns N o* 's the time to plan a visit back east to your old home town, or an outing to your favorite resort by the seashore or in the mountains. borer in the fields, the walker holds to jazz and te steps, and to music. the closest relation to the soil; and The dancing craze has swept over he holds a closer and more vital re many countries, and all have been Low Round Trip Tickets One-way Pares lation to nature because he is freer, enthusiastic, but Japan’s young peo THROUGH and his mind more at leisure. Man ple appear more enthusiastic than THROUGH takes root at his feet, and at best he all the others. They can do the air California California is no more than a potted plant in plane dip and the tail-spin dive with are now on sale at will be in affect his house or carriage until he has as much grace as any Parisian. To Reduced Fare June 10 and dally, tharaaftar the girls, the kimono and zori are established communication with the Final return limit round trip tickets, three months from sale date not soil by the loving and magnetic as comfortable to glide around the exceeding October 31at. Stop-overs permitted and choice of routes. touch of his .soles to it. Then the dance floor as the costume of the On your back east trip, see Crater Lake, Lake Tahoe, Yoaemite. Se tie of association is born ; then American girl. A dancing teacher quoia National Tark, Carriso Gorge—a grand and highly colored car.yoa spring those invisible fibers and is now as much a necessity to the seen from the car w in dow s-or the Apache Trail and Roosevelt Dam. rootlets through which character Japanese student as a person well comes to smack of the soil and acquainted with, the grammar of a language— and dancing which make a man kindred to the foreign are now on sale to spot of earth he inhabits.— John seems to be included in the curricu- Tillamook County Beaches Newport lem of most well-educated Japanese. Burroughs. W is e O ld J o h n B u rro u g h s U rg e d P eo p le te C u lt iv a t e th e A r t a f P a d a a tria n la m . TO ADOPTS WOMAN OF 50 YEARS SM OOTH OANCE TO EUROPEAN STEPS S A V E C H IN C H IL L A .' “ In view o f the fact that it ia de sirable to conserve the species of useful wild animala in the republic of Peru, and that the chinchilla is one of the animals whose extermina tion is threatened,” reads a resolu tion recently passed by the govern ment of Peru, “ the hunting of these animals in the territory e f the re public, as well aa the sale of skins and articles made from them, is pro hibited.” In fact, the provisions of the de cree of October 8, 1921), referring to the skins of the vicuna apply also in the case of the chinchilla. Dealers who import skins made from thia animal shall be obliged to certify u to their origin. P E R T IN E N T S E E IN G Dally train leaves Portland Union Station 8:15 a. m. leaves Portland Union Station Satur day 12:45 P. M. Special wcek-aad train Electric trains leave Portland, 4th and Stalk Sta., 1:16 P. M., connecting with week-end train at Hillsboro. No baggage han dled on electric train. T H IN G S . “ Oregon Outdoors,” our new Summer booklet, graphically de scribes the different resorts in Western Oregon, and includes hotel and camp information. Copy free on request. 10th. Yoaemite National Park— Tickets on sale, daily, on and after June 10th. Teacher— Where are your sums? W illie— W hy, teacher, on de way to school I was attacked by a big tiger an in de scuffie dev got lost. POW ERFUL M A C H IN E A gigantic machine, with jaws which open to lake in timber or as sembled wood sfructures 30 feet in height and which can crush them like egg shells when the jaws close together again, has recently been erected at the forest products lab oratory of the United States De partment o f Agriculture at Madi son, Wis. This machine is to be used for testing very large wooden columns. It is possible to exert a force of a million pounds with it. and it is built to crush a wooden post a foot square. Its great range of testing speeds enables it to apply its tre mendous load with the fatiguing slowness of a building settling on it* foundation timbers or with the speed of a train dashing onto a wooden trestle. Architects and en gineers have very little data of the kind which this machine will supply to the scientists at the laboratory. NEW P E N O L O G IC A L ID E A . The official* of a penitentiary are trying a new experiment by re painting the four cell-blocks and al lowing each prisoner to select the color he likes for his own cell, for the psychological effect it has upon the malefactor. The corridors of the cellhouses are being painted a light brown. The cells are being painted in attractive tints of yellow, blue, brown, buff, etc. None of the cells, the warden explained, is to have somber settings, but are all to be bright and cheerful. The peuoto- is always an optimist. TASK FO R A SOLOM ON. P U P IL . “ Mr. Jibway is not in his office.” “ H e’s serving on the jury.” Old Mr. Few lux— Don’t you think “ Important case?*' in time you might learn to love me ? i “ Very. He and 11 other good men Young Miss Onldlox— Well. if I j had a nice young tutor I nught and true are trying to appraise a broken heart ' learn the theory of iL a? D a ily Train Service Mountain and Other Resorts Mildred, age four, had been to G ID D Y Y O U T H . the country for a little visit with her grandparent«. When she re Mother— By the way. Ruby, your turned home she said: father and I are going out to din “ Oh, papa, I saw a s olive at j ner. Can’t you and Jack call for us grandma's as big as a waternu-ion ‘ on your way back from the dance? Her papa laughed aud said : Ruby— Oh. no! mother. We don't “ Surely not.” think you ought to sit up Bs late as Mildred replied : “ Well, it might that!— Iiondon Mail. have been a squash.” APT A delightful seaabqre resort an Yaquina Bay and the Pacific Ocean. An ideal place for tha family. Large natatorium and salt water baths— various forms o f amusement. Detroit (Breitenbush Hot Springs, Mt. Jefferson Country.)—Ticket« now on sale. * McCredle Hot Springs Tickets now on sale. Josephine County Caves -T ick ets now on sale. Crater Lake (a lake in the extinct crater of a volcano)—Ticket* on sale July 1st. Shasta Mountain R eso rts -T ick ets on sale, daily, on and aftar June IN Q U IR Y . An elderly lady was trying to overcome the reluctance of her little niece, who was viJitmg her, to go to bed. '• Being six years old,” she said, “ you should go to bed at six. When you are seven you will be able to stay up till seven, and when you are eight you can keep awake till eight.” The child did a little mental arithmetic and gazing at the wrinkled old face and white hair of her aunt, she said: “ Then I sup- . pose you never go to bed at all.” —- I Boston Transcript. A particularly attractive trip acroas the Coast Range Moun tains. These beaches include Rockaway and Garibaldi Beach Resorts, Nean Kah-Nie, Manza- nita and Bayocean. Excursion Tickets For particulars as to passenger farea, routes, train schadulaa or sleeping car reservations, inquire o f any ticket agent of SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES JOHN M SCOTT, General Paavengar Agent Mr. Barnes, U. S. Wheat Director Says: “EAT MORE BREAD And reduce the high cost of living.’ ' H0LSUM BREAD IS THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE MOST WHOLESOME ON THE MARKET TODAY. BUY THAT EXTRA LOAF Y o u r Grocer Has I t C h e r r y C it y B a k in g C o A Piano Bargain Awaits You You can have a piano installed in your home tor a cash payment ot #10. Sub sequent payments just as reasonable. This is a bargain you cannot afford to miss. For full particulars Address AY 367, Polk County Post, Independence, Oregon