Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19??, April 26, 1919, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text: ja ( LSOiWlLLh POST ' Oifi:ial Paper ai the City at Jacksonville Oregon A w ; rkly ne wap ip >r published every S. lur :ay at the county eat >>t Jack.- n D. W. B agshaw , Editor and Publisher County, Oregon Entered as seconi-clas3 matter June 22, 1307, at the post office at Jacksonvtt Oregon, under Act of C ingress of March 3, lA». SATURDAY. APRIL 26. 191!) SUBSCRIPTION: One year by mail $1.50. Advertising rates furnisheu o- i application. HOWCLE ; NEEDLEMSMD ’ G ’ TH r> ' Vx i 0 New Process Invented to Pre serve Surface of Monolith in Central Park HIEROGLYPHS Rigors Pioneer of Southern Oregon Passes Awav. Submarine Chasers to Lie tn Coast Yard*. of Khedive’s OBLITERATED. Western Gift to Climate Caused Disintegrate. MADt UNIONS Painting Ancient Obelisk With Special Preparation Stay ed Decay—Ruined Por Grants Pass, Or., April 24. —In the San Francisco, April 19. — Ten s fa- death of William M. Hannum on April marine chasers, including N >. 2 ;7, < n 1 i, 1919, at his home rear Murphy, in which 10 men we’e injured in a gar- Josephine county, Southern Oregon oline explosion, Monday, arr.vtd ’ost one of its earliest pioneers. He here from San Diego today, All of was born August 28, 1832, in Chester the chasers saw service i i tie w ar eou-itv. Pa., and in 1851 following the zone. t de of emigration, crossed the plains F.ve of the chasers wi l remain hete by ox team and landed in Oregon. The and five wiil be station d at Seattle, ensuing winter was spent on the the navy department annoutc ■ I. Santiam river and the next spring he was one of the first to reach Jackson ; county, where he successfully followed j VARIED “VOICES” GF FROGS mining for several years. 1 Mr. Hannum took part in the In-1 Man Who Has Studied I Subject As- dian wars of 185’-56, serving as a serfs He Can Tell Different lieutenant. In 1862 he eidisted in a Species by the Notes. I California battalion that was attached The first vertebrate creatures to to the 2nd Massachusetts cavalry, and served for three years in the Army succeed in producing vocal soumis of the Potomac under General Sher- were tin» amphibians, anil, although there has been little variety in their i Ian. In 1857 Mr. Hannum married Mary individual repertories through th*' ages, they have »llligehtiy cultivated Black, a native of Douglas county, to their powers. Dr. Frank Overton, in which union were born eight children »th account of tlie frogs and the toads seven of who.n survive. of Long Island, describes their dis tinctlve calls and songs. The common toad of Long Island has “fl combina tion of a low whistle and a monn”; the common toad of tlie mainland ut ters “ ii sweet, thrilling whistle”; tin* spadefoot makes a squawk “like the Berlin, April 25.—Almost as suddenly groan of a deep-voiced man who is as the recent strikes began here, there having his tooth pulled”; the chorus and everywhere, Germany appears to of the cricket frog “heard at a dis tance sounds like Jingling of small be quieting again. The coal miners in sleigh bells,” and close by “like the the Ruhr district are returning to work rat th» of small pebbles poured upon a an 1 yesterduy those in the bushburg cement pavement.” The common tree and Muehiheim districts, as well as frog utters a loud, musical trill, and halt a dozen other places returned to now and then a note “exactly like the the collieries. sound make by u hen turkey that Is Tns men are resuming work though calling to her mates.” The spring communists have urged a continuation “peeper” whistles shrilly; the leopard frog says “croak” very slowly, “in nn of a strike. I A big factor has been the distribu- extremely low-pitched bass voice”; tlie pickerel frog makes a soft sound tion of American food. like “n gentle musical snore”; the In Brunswick the authorities have wood frogs heard at a distance “sound been able to lighten regulations inci like a Hock of barnyard din ks duck dent to martial law. Hamburg is al ing, not quacking”; the note of the most the only city with the exception green frog “resembles that made by of Munich where matters have nut plucking a string on n harp or a bass violin.” The bullfrog has a voice that quieted. in volume corresponds to the size of - 1 ■—— .(Mr»----------- —— his body, which is more than eight inches long. “The sound ri'sembles the bellowing of a bull.” Doctor Overton can pick out the speiles by their voices and the notes.—Youth’s Com panion. Washington, April 25.—General cold wave, with snow flurries and freezing temperatures prevailed today over CARPET WEAVERS OF INDIA nerrly all of the territory east of the Hard to Imagine Work More Monot Mississippi river. onous Than That in Which They Although no April reco-us were bro Pass Their Lives. ken, the eokl was unusual and will nut b ’gin to shade off before tom irrow Carpet weavers of India work in a a id Sunday. Much crop damage was long, narrow shed. straw tliati liod. f eJicted. without any walls, open to sunshine The weather man said it was entire i ami the fitful breeze that .stirs tile ly too cold for baseball. Many cities swaying plnmellke leaves of the slen in the south reported that it was i mote tier palm mid coconut trees retiring their tall, proud heads above It. Font like football weather. or live or even more boys sit on wood The cold will not reach Florida. en boards on the mud Hour in front of the old fashioned loom, their feet H resting in a shallow pit underneath It, dug especially to receive (hem. In one corner squats a man, his buck probably turned to the weavers, his eyes dreamily gazing Into space or Spokane, Wash., April 25. Eight quite shut, droiiing: “Three inagent, Spokane residents made Hights this two green, the blue, one orange, ,’’ and afternoon with aviators of the Victory so on. His sleepy sing-song sounds, Loan “Hying circus” here. They in to one unfamiliar with Ills language, cluded two women, Mrs V. B. Kayem, like the babbling of one talking in secretary of the five local Liberty bond Ills sleep, or like muttered prayers, aampaigns, and a representative of a But lie is neither dreaming nor per forming his devotions, lie is dictating local newspaper. to the lioys nt the loom the colors of the thread that each respective work Burglary at Monmouth, er Is to twist about the particular Monmouth. Or., April 19. —No clue strand on which he is working. The has been t lund regarding the bur- lads obey Ills commands as inechan- glury of the Miller Mercantile coni- lenlly as If they were automatons. puny’s store here Tuesday night, En- None of them knows aught of the trance was gained through a rear scheme of the carpet, nor Is any of them conscious of the progress that window wh re the iron bars were Is being worked out on the other side bent. Suit-cases, hats and silks to of the carpet from that on which the the value of $300 were the principal weavers gaze. goods taken, The robbers left no clue. Why Navy Blue. Strikes in Germany brok en by American Supplies. Eastern States in Grip of Winter. Spokane ornen Ely for the Victory Loan ----- . - T IU------------------- The blue color so prominent In the uniforms of almost all marines Is of hoary origin. Vegetlns, iu Ids llftli Sp. ,i . tV i. Ii., Ap"tl 22. C. W book on the military affairs of the Ilo limns, traces the origin of tills color liuiton, the third victim of what is (le to the Veneti, an ancient people dwell ctured by physicians to h <ve been Ing near the const of Biscay and well ptomaine poisoning from eating spoiled versed In aeiiiminslilp. It was custom canned beet, died early todav. ary among them to pnlnt their outgo His son, W. H. Button and Smith ing ships ns well ns the nuists and sails Hilliard, the father of Mrs. W. H. with a blue color: also their soldi, r- Button, died last week after having and sailors wore blue uniforms. Ac cording to our author, the I.atin word eaten of the same beets. “Venctiis." which was both the nume of the color and that of the people Í N points tn Ita origin, From the Ven etl the custom was adopted by the l:<> April 24 T.l.do, O : mans. Thus the son of Pompeliis af JO Wil* Will i-Ovvrla i (’ • ter defeating Caesar's fleet In a nni: M ! battle, wore the navy blue. nlthou:.-b plot« i s today run ive I $4 Nl f Ietititlisl to the purple. The Venel in th« c««mpany s lit*-, nip.. the profits under the 50- -50 profit were subdued by Caesar after a St- rharirg plan announced last January. vere maritiipe war In 56 B. C. 3 Ptomaine Fatal to Ihrer. too OOO Profi Shared. tions Restored. New Yorkers awoke one morning Io find In their breakfast headlines tin- news Hint a zealous park employee had discovered signs of disintegration on the surface of the city’s most treasured antique—Cleopatra's Needle. Photo graphs revealed that the monolith was peeling, large pieces of sandstone hav ing fallen from the tall shaft, carrying with them part of the prized hiero glyphs. London’s twin sister of Cleopatra’s Needle was reported as resting com fortnbly mid enduringly on the banks of the Thames, and the rival port won dered whether a preparation would he found to stay the attacks of their harsher climate. Such it preparation was soon forth coming. A new .'nlnt combination as a preservative for stone was Invented ] 'Just Like 'Dad's ! i'M Union-Alls “Dress up We have them for every!) dj THE OBELISK Tlie Obelisk was present nr] to the City of New York by the Khedive of Egypt. Lieutenant Coin- V;: mnnder (Jorrlnge. U t % S N.. after a ihr. years’ effort, obtain e«l pos.-t-ssion of •• ,t nd n o • i It to a pi« seat poait Ion. al i> mi «•M«ens«’ <•!’ nearly s $ 1 «««*.< no. It was Ii »ally bwni Into i•«» s.tion al noon. Janu a-y 22. IXXI. Th • height of this monument, from bas< to tip. is CJ feet. 2 Inches. The mens* urement of t tic l.ase. ■Í square through its '■A- axis, is ? test. IK The entire Inches. weight of th o niono- li'.h is 21!''« tons. * i Since it was quar ried near the torrid z zoc.e. it has traversed ■ r tho entire length of k\ypl, most of that X' ol the Mediterra nean Sea and the width of th«* Atlan */ tic (».can--a dis tance of 6. <no miles proving Itself a first Í- rate traveler for one whose age j has ex- •*t ’ ■ tj c e e d e d thlrty-tlve t ’T'.v.ï centuries, In the r course of Its exist ■4 ence It I iría seen I < Pharaoh and his host going to their do st rm i ion In the Red Sen. Shishak march ♦ Í* ■ ing to the Conquest l' of lericalrm. Cam- Lyses dcstlatln” the I a n d. i lerodot us >•**> I’latoand other Greek rf students engaged in pursuit of Egyptian lore. Alexander the Great on his victori f ous e x p e d I t ion through the land of Y Goshen, six and a half centuries of Roman sovereignty and Christian strug J at \ ■ • .imliii.« t «•i! i ru :s sine« & < ’allph Omar; and ■ iow . leaving all«» :«• her Its nativeland it stands looking up on (he million dwell- is in this metropolis, whose site was un- (it'-w i to th • I astern worhi at a time when he < )be!Hk ha<l been in existence for two thousand years. Jno.M. Williams Co lhe People’s Store. CYcgcn JacksGiivUe, o : ’ Daily rh.’ught. Ho wlo is l'ulse Io present du! breaks u ihren«! In tlie looiu, and will lind tlie flaw’ wlien he inay have for gotteu tlie cause.—Henry Ward Beech er. Î00PRLclüüs' TO DIVULGE If Man Ever Really Learns How ta Manage a Wife He SeliLli.y Keeps It to Himself. ’ ■> ' Eugene Prt mists, Well Kept, Will Draw Cash for Owners. Cedars Flourish in Full Vigor at Alti tudes Surpassing Height of Most Mountain Peaks. Eugene, O'-., Ap’il 22. — Prizes to 'he am runt of $125 'o be d.isti ibuted in $25 sums each mon h beginning Muy 1 will be given for the best-kept premisi a Eleven thousand one hundred feet al I titude above sea level Is some distance luring the summer by the civic im above the clouds for the habitat of a provement organtz ition recently form spis ies of a great tree which attains ed with I he purpose of improving the n circumference of 16 and even IS feet. appearance of the city. Ten dollars The tree is the western mountain ce wil be given to the best appearing din’, and it Is found growing in full premi es, $> to the second, $3 to the vigor tit elevations of from 8.000 to third and $1 each to the seven next in over 11.000 feel in the southern portion order. A “Clean Up week” has been of the Sierra Nevada and where this proc'aim d by the mayor on order by huge mountain chain merges over Into the city council, to begin April 58. the Sierra .Madre. running down into Mi xlco. In most of the mountain re gions of the Vnited States 11,000 feet Awarded GRAND PRIZE at the P. P. I. E. is nt or above timber line, but In these outhern Sierras are many genial high valleys and | toekets where huge trees are found at altitudes which surpass file height of most mount: In peaks flic >now covers the peaks and slopes for a great portion of the year, but KnVEPAulS with the earliest melting the trees start growing and in the cine of the mountain cedars make nti even greater UY SWISS «10 annual growth tlmli many of the low vwnwe:itB.cn land trees whore the want of water eoeipcN g short grow ing season. These lit e mountnln cedars are close cons Ils to the great cedars of Lebanon tfWRftTHtSUBEU from the timbers of which the temple at Jerusalem was built. The American e. durs, however, are more upright in grow th than the cedars of tile Old World. It Ims come to be almost a tradition that mtn give advice, not take it. A l»le; ant novelty appears in Good Hou ‘l.eeping in the shape of pungent pliiK sopliy «ai (he marriage question wi'j.en by Dorothy Dix. “1 papéis is full of hcarl-to heart talks i:» wives ’bout how to keep young un’ willowy, so as to retain deir bus bauds’ ulYection, but dere ain’t a word in ’tin, from kiver to kiver, to men ’Lout how to keep de hair oil dall I ai.i ; :.if fr«,m gitliu’ to look Ink bevi kv ; eu s:/ds iu order to preserve .■ dell wives’ love. “Au v. hili a gal is gwine to git mar rich, her ma, an’ her married s’sters an’ her con j : , an’ her auu«s take s h.u oil to one side an’ d *s tills her up wid U m !ul hints ’bout gittiu’ oif on de right ¿oct. and’ strikin’ her husbiuf f« r his pay ci'.telop hefo’ he gits well enough acquainted wid her to (last to refuse ) I ii< r. an draw in’ tie lint* at mo’d n on by Dr. William Kuekro, chemist of the •ve n’n* out a week, an’ d* odder mat Metropolilnn M tseuni of Art. Many t( i s dat Iu Ips a woman he de fust \<nrs previous coating with piirntlln tin... r in her house. 'mil been tried. Imt tile application had “Lilt you never heah of a fathe r, nor ot entirely accomplished Its purpose, a I roihe'r, nor a friend w hut’s passed Educational Problems in India. rhe new painting process, however, tin« ¿ ’Ii de tribulations of matrimony The Girls’ school nt Kntra. Allnhn- •roved a success. Disintegration was h< n.giif up any red hint« ans as d. (igei ailed and the damaged parts restor signals for any odder man dnt’s about bed. I’lin iiccomniodiite but few Hindu girls in the boarding department be ed. New York breathed easily again. to start on de matvrmonial ’scursion enuse of the difficulty ef caste. One Nnwm, ef a man ever finds out how to Brahman girl who was very anxious manage a wife he keeps <le snap t< to enter the school hail to be refused PAINT PROTECTION AND ITS ECONOMY. hi.--c!f an leaves ev’y oddem man to bectmse she could not do her own woik cut I.is own salvation de he'd he cooking mid take the full course, and tun.” h< could m>t because of caste regu The preservation of structural ma lations ent at the clubs with the Chris terials. w hich may be obtained through tian girls. A woman was found who the application of paint, constitutes a Î, would co<>k for her. but this woman nost > ltal means of furthering the con- refused to w:i h the dishes, beenuse -erviitlon of our niitural resources. It • i. p ,relia; ing to do so would make her l ereinonlally is, moreover, the most economical :i.,r,'S. unclean. A second woman said she method of sustaining the appearance would wash the dishes. Imt she couldn’t von what Every little hit added to and general upkeep of any commu cook for the Brahman girl beenuse she Get have makes Just a little bit .11 ire. nity. was of such a low caste tlint the girl A structure coated with sheets of In the Thrift Stamp habit! would not eat Iter cooking. As It was Impossible to take In two extra wont dia rubber would not be as w ell protect If you want to !>■ successful, learn en besides th,, girl she hud to be re ed from decay as a structure coated to s: ve. Acquire the habit through fused. The Continent. with n good oil paint. Tills Is due to purchasing W. 8. 8. re.totally. the fact tlint n sheet of rubber is not so durable or ns waterproof ns a thin The “Evil Eye.” Fishing for Dyeo. dried film of pnlnt. The latter mnte- Tin* evil eye was the power stip- It is not generally known that there rlal when applied dries to a continuous In the Mexican gulf a half- post d to be possesM il by certain envi elastic film containing finely divided bn»ih»r to the etittlefl di of the Indian ous pe.s.ms to bring woe and misfor- particles of metallic, wear resisting from whir h formerly the tt tie upon the prosperous and happy plgmenls. A square foot of such a I j oceiin, world’s supply of India Ink was oh- 1 y in- ans of a malevolent glance. It tllni upon a wooden surface costs less I v.as II belief that spread Itself pretty ball a penny, yet It will beautify and i tfl’.m d. well over n place even In minds of the ’ l'lu* Indlnn cuttle, when pursued by . rmeet a dollar's worth of surface for b .rhest caliber. It Is odd that Bacon, many years. This Is a low rate of In sharks or other birds of prey, exudes who conceived and explained n new a bl; pitshdike s:d stance, which dis- surance. iyst( i of philosophy. cou!d seriously Dwellings, barns, outbuildings, sheds, , «-.dors the water in its wake, blinding consider a piece of nonsense like that it« pursuer, nnd. screening itself from pests, fences, stock enclosures, wngons, of the evil eye. yet he emerges u mo implements, windmills and other strttc- view, nutkes Its escape. This (»xudence ment from the charmed realm of • lives, whether of wood. Iron or cement, grat’p-pv comes to the surf nee in n knowledge to say; "Envy, which Is should be preserved, through tlie use ' r i and Is eagerly gathered by the nth s, who kn« :< I It. dry it. press ft enlb d an evil eye. seems to emit some of pnlnt. from rapid decay. Highgrade nfo cakes, ready for the market—r.l- ti’ellgn. nt mid poi-enotis spirits thnt paint limy be used successfully for »11 take hold of the spirits of another; \a\' ciuii.mndip_r a good price. such purposes Col red p i lit - will be Draughtsmen have for two or three and Is sold likewise to be of greatest found the most sevhenl >, the coloring force wlun the east of the eye Is ob mailer iu the paint adding from two •entttrh's used India Ink because of lique." to three year» to the lite of the coating. its deep copy and indelibility. I _ A ‘1.-- tile siill-tVEMfflt a new suit iftlwy rip --- BEMWOFIMUAIIONS If your dealer cannot lupplv you. we will aendlhem, charges prepaid, on receipt of price, $1.50 each. Levi Strauss & Co., San Francisco Idaho Highway Assured. Boise, Idaho, April 22.—The final link in the north and south highway between New Meadows and Whitebird, in Adams and Idaho counties, has been approved by th* fedeial government highway department. Wt-en it is built, which will be this year, there will be a dii-ct au'.omul.'le route between Boise and Lewiston, cot necting north and south Id ho. Construction of this 1 nk will cost $649,000, half of which will be fur nished by the government, the state an 1 counties through which it passes furnishing the balance. Head River Apples on Ilun Ranks of Rhine. Hcod River. Or., April 24 - Hoed Ki ver aj pies have reached Colenz, on the Rh’ne. where members of the army ot occupation are new feasting on them. A. W. Briggs, former Port land traveling salesman, has written, using a Re>l Diimond wrapner for his iter paper, to R B. perigo. a local fri. I, telli-g ‘ im of the treat he h"d of eating Hoed River Newtown». Lo rd fruit s des concern »..¡J a total of ernment f< r distribution to the over seas forces.