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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.
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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
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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
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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
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