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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-
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application.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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‘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.