THE POLK COUNTY POST
Published every F r id a y at Independence, Oregon.
lu ltn id u second c U m m aliei M arch ¿8, 1018, a t the postodlce at
Independence, Oregon u n der the Act of M arch 3, 1870.
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W ORLD HEARS NEWS QUICKLY
omm ur i Icatlon.
T h e Vosslsche Z eltung. founded In
1704 and th en , a s now, th e lending
G erm an dally, con tain ed no notice of
N apoleon’a d eath un til Ju ly 14, and
th en It m erely copied th e London
T im es P riv a te Individuals living In
th e provinces, reg a rd le ss of th e ir
sta tio n In life, received th e new s m uch
la te r. It w as not conveyed to Goethe,
then living at W eim ar, until the very
la s t of Ju ly . H e received It In a
le tte r b earin g a Muck seal.
T he C om pass P lan t.
On th e p ra irie s an d plains of U tah,
T e x a s and so u th ern M innesota th ere
grow s a w onderful p lan t which has
proved useful to tra v e le rs w andering
o v er th ese vaet tra c ts of country,
ft
is called th e com pass p lan t, o r pilot
p la n t, bacause of a p ecu liarity In th e
grow th of th e leaves, which grow a l­
te rn a te ly along th e stalk , and point
p recisely n o rth an d South ! The In ­
d ian s follow ed the d irection given them
by th e se pointing leaves, and told the
w h its men ab o u t it.
T h is plant b e­
longs to the fam ily o f th e C otnposltae,
and looks very much like the su n ­
flower. It has a strong, resinous
odor, som ew hat like tu rp en tin e, and
som etim es goes by th e nam e of “tu r ­
p en tin e
p la n t." — C h ristian
Science
M onitor.
TA K ES 800 MILE TAXI RIDE
L ondon.—A tax lcn b ride of 800
m iles w as m ade by an eld erly S cotch­
w om an who, d esirin g to visit re la tiv e s
In B raen iar, Scotland, decided th a t It
w as too w arm to trav el by train . So
she stopped F red erick C larke, a ta x i­
cab driv er, as he w as driv in g past h er
honse and had him ta k e h er to th e
N orth o f Scotland.
C la rk e picked up passen g ers for
s h o rte r hau ls on his way hack, so th a t
h it e n tire Journey o f 1,000 tulles,
w hich he covered w ith o u t even a pttnc
tu rs, w as decidedly profitable.
Be­
sides a su b sta n tia l fare, th e elderly
w om an gave him s $fiO tip.
5 0 good cigarettes
for 10c from
one sock of
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TRY HYGIENE
The ladies of the Christian
church will hold a cooked food
Fresh Air, Ice Water and Bath sale Saturday.
Make Their Formal Debut
1
in Republic.
Tseng, who la said to have brought
A few hours a fte r C aruso died th e |
civilized w orld knew of It and w as In
m ourning A h u n d re d
y e a rs
ago
N apoleon died, on May 5, 1821—and
It waa exactly .six ty day s before th e
w orld received th e news, th e New York
E vening P o st states.
T hough th e E nglish w ere expecting
his d eath a t any m om ent and had made
every p re p a ra tio n to have w ord tra n s ­
m itte d from St. H elena to E ngland
w ith all possible disp atch , It was not
until Ju ly 4, th a t th e new s reached
London, h av in g been brought th e re by
th e ta ilin g vessel H eron. In accor­
dan ce w ith the sp irit of the tim es,
th e m essage w as not given out on the
a rriv a l of th e vessel, b u t wus first con­
veyed to th e colonial office, an a ct
w hich req u ired ap p ro x im ately tw o
h o u rs in Itself.
Ju ly 4, 1821, fell on W ednesday,
On F rid ay , Ju ly 0, the new s reached
P aris. M essengers w ere d isp atch ed
from P a ris to G erm any, w here th e
n ew sp ap ers com m ented on th e d eath
Of “G eneral B su a p a rte " for th e first
tlm s on July 12, sixty-eight d ay s a fte r
th e event had tak en place. And th is
n o tice w as In a p a p e r published at
Ifay en ce, then v irtu a lly a F ren ch
The Baldwin Sisters were the
Kueats of relatives in Portland
this week.
j
R ut On* H undred Year« Ago the Horae
Woa the Only M eant of “ R apid"
D E N T IS T
SSi.r’i,..
LWerty. Sts. SALEM, ORE.
OLD CUSTOMS HARO TO BREAK
New U niversity City W ill E xperim ent
In E ffort to O vercom e th e T ra ­
d itional A version to Anglo- S ax­
on P rin cip les of H ealth.
P a ris.— It will d oubtless req u ire
num erous decades to eonvlnce F re n c h ­
men th a t A nglo-Saxons who sleep at
night w ith open windows, d rink Ice
w ater m any tim es a day and ln-
sl-t on room s and living a p a rtm e n ts
with b a th s a re not a trifle queer. F o r
countless g e n e ra tio n s th e F rench peo­
ple have “know n” In stinctively th a t to
drink w a te r undiluted with w ine Is
highly d angerous, tliu t opeu w indow s
a fte r n ig h tfa ll let In dam p, cold a ir
which b reed s pulm onary trouble, rh eu ­
m atism an d m any of th e Ills th a t th e
hum an ra c e Is h eir to ; th a t to Imbibe
Ice w a te r Hnd iced concoctions u p sets
the stom ach.
But th e re are signs today th a t
France Is changing. One of the g re a t­
est signs o f la te h as been th e revolu­
tionary an d radical pronouncem ents
of such Hi t a u th o rity on hygiene a s the
celebrated P ro fesso r G arlel of th e
P aris A cadem y of M edicine, who la
now ndvlslng his fellow countrym en
to forget th e aged tra d itio n s. T h e
pro fesso r p o in ts to A m ericans and
B ritish ers to uphold his “ rad ical"
contention th a t one may drink w a te r
In plenty, e a t Ice cream , b rea th *
plenty of fresh a ir rig h t aro u n d th e
clock and. In fact, do all th e things
In F ran ce th a t Anglo-Saxon fo reig n ers
do la th e ir ew n countries.
G reat Initial Victory.
It will ta k e longer, In th e opinion of
F ra n c e ’s new "school of fresh a ir hy­
giene,” to w ean the F ren ch aw ay from
closing all th e w indow s and s h u tte rs
w ith th e first d am p of evening and
keeping them closed u n til th e sun
comes up again. H ow ever, th e g reateet
Initial victory comes w ith th e plan s
w hich have been Jointly ado p ted by th e
F rench p arliam en t and th e C ity of
P a ris fo r th e new “u n iv e rsity city ,” a
d istin ctly hygienic In stitu tio n to be
built n e a r M ontsourls p ark , w ithin the
city lim its. FYench schools up to now
have not been noted fo r fa c ilitie s of
hygiene
T h e new “u n iv ersity city ”
will consist of houses th re e sto rie s
high, w ith law n s and g a rd en s laid be­
tw een, and In the very c e n te r of th e
a rc h ite c tu ra l group will be a large
b uilding contain in g sh o w er baths,
sw im m ing pools, a gym nasium , m usic
sn d lto tiu m and lib rary . R tudents at
p resen t cooped and crow ded In th e
ag*d. u n sa n ita ry stu d e n t q u a rte r on
th e left bank of the Seine will have
In th e “u n iv ersity city ” all th e fa c ili­
ties for living, stud y in g and sleeping
In all th e fresh a ir th a t th e high
M ontsourls region and m odem hy­
gienic p rin cip les can give them . They
will be encouraged t s sleep w ith opeu
window* facing spacious places p e r­
fum ed with flowers end plants.
Under Protest.
T he price fo r etudeut lodgings In
th is m odern city of learn in g will be
about $40 a year. A lthough a general
d irecto r will bo appointed, his a u th o r­
ity, It Is announced, will b* lim ited.
S tu d e n ts will not be tre a te d as p en ­
sionaries. nor cloistered m onks. B ut
w hether the stu d e n ts will be allow ed ||
by th e hom efolk to b rin g th e ir u n iv e r­
sity fresh a ir tra in in g Into th e old
hom estead Is yet to be seen. If Is
m ore probeble th a t fa th e r and m o th er
will let son or d a u g h te r c a rry on fresh
s ir ta c th ’s u n d er p ro te st, w hile the
elders lock th e ir bedroom window*,
d a m p rhe s h u tte rs tig h t and sleep us
th e ir fa th e rs and g ra n d fa th e rs, m o th ­
ers and g ran d m o th ers b a s s been doing
fo r centuries.
SAY NEW RELIGION SPREADS
Chinese Reported ts Take Is Mixture
ef Christianity, T aelsm , Can.
fuolantem . and Buddhism.
It Is rep o rted th a t a uew rellgloa
term ed th e "T at-l-chtao" h a s been es­
tab lish ed am ong th e C hinese |ieopla
of th e up|>er and m iddle clsasea sa d la
rapidly gaining ground. T e a c h e rs of
th e new creed s ta te th a t It l i I r s
llgtou com prised of B uddhism Con­
fucianism . T aoism and R om an C ath o l­
icism and o th e r C h ristian beliefs
T he god. w hich Is th e object o f w or­
ship. la Tal-I-Jen, a figure o f Im agi­
nation. St. Mary and th# raonfc. S ea
B uddhist sc rip tu re s to C hina from In ­
dia In th e T an g d y n asty , a re also w or
shlped.
T he sc rip tu re s, which tak e
th e p lace of the B ible lu C hristianity,
a re th* Book of Lao-tze.
T h is new religion Is now prevalent
th ro u g h out all provinces In China. It
was p ro p ag ated In S h an tu n g by, It is
said, a fo rm er p rem ier, Chlen Veng
hsun, and he now h as th e follow ing of
m any high and Influential people. The
believers hold th ree re g u la r m eetings
a week, an d go th ro u g h cerem onies
which req u ire m ore th a n fo u r hours
fo r com pletion. In P eking, the rellg
Methodist Services
Ion Is said to he gaining ground among
th* official* connected w ith the gov­
Sunday Sept. 11, 1921.
ernm ent. A part from new religion*
P reaching services in th e morning a t
rep o rts have been com ing from dlfTef-
en t places for some tim e e f a revival 11 o'clock. Evening a t 8 o ’clock.
Sunday school at 1U a. rn.
of B uddhlain, and not a little money
E pw orth League a t 7 p. m.
1* being spent In re d eco ratin g tem ­
P ra y er m eeting W ednesday evening 1
ples and Im ages.— N o rth C hina H e r­
ald.
a t 7:20.
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