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I very patron of The Sentinel is helping to give
“HORSE-POWER” UNIT WRONG
( ottage Grove a newspaper which eminent au-
t.iority has stated to he one of the best country Miatak* That Can Be Definitely
Traced to Jamee Watt Wae Never
newspapers published anywhere.
Officially Corrected.
A Summer Clime—
for your
Winter Outing
th a t’s —
CALIFORNIA
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Like many others at this season o f the
year you are thinking of a trip to a
warmer clime.
California is jnst the place for your
winter outing. Here the days ate
flooded with bright warm sunshine.
You may enjoy all outdoor recreations
or simply relax and rest in comfort
under sunlit skies.
There are noted golf courses, polo
fields, tennis courts, miles o f splendid
highways and countless places of
scenic and romantic charm,
tin now and lake advantage id' Kxeel-
lent Train Service and Through Sleep
ing Cars to San Francisco ami Los
Angeles.
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HOUND T R IP T IC K E TS
NOW ON S A LE
For fares, train schedules, sleeping ear
reservations or descriptive folders, ask
local railroad ticket agents, or write
JOHN M. SCOTT,
General Passenger Agent, Portland, Or.
livery patron of The Sentinel is helping to give
Cottage drove a newspaper which eminent mi
t lority has stated to be one of the best country
1 ewspapers published anywhere.
and
"II. P.," ns you know, stands for
"horse power," and If, therefore, your
motorcycle Is a four and one-half h p.
one, you know that what Is meant Is
that the engine has a power which Is
equivalent to tliut of four amt a half
horaes.
Not sol You would he Incorrect to
the extent of no less than 40,000
pounds, remarks a London Answers
writer.
The h. p. unit of power Is a fraud,
and tlie lute James Watt of engine
fume la responsible. He was a very
cureful engineer, In theory and prac
tice, and tie discovered, by many ex
periments, that the raising of 'J'J,000
pounds one fisd |ier minute was a good
average horse-power.
But "horsepower” today Is reck
oned at X't.nui Ilia, per foot per min
ute— 11,ono pounds In excess! That Is
due to the fusi tliut Watt, In his anxi
ety to encourage buslnesa, offered to
sell engines which would develop 83,-
000 pounds per foot as a horse-power
—a third more than tlie actual.
It would seem tliut he meant ulti
mately to lie honest, hut lie died be
fore that happened, uud so bequeathed
to the world, w lilch lias accepted It,
a false unit measurement of horse
power.
Engineers, of course, know of the
error, and make due allowance for It;
hut the average individual does not.
Your 10 h. p. car Is, therefore, In fact,
hut a 0 2-3 one, and its power Is eqiml
to raising 222, ink ) pounds a foot lu a
minute, and not 333,000.
Constantinople, Nov. 27.— (By the
I Associated
Press.)— Another
human
, tragedy that promises to rival the
i Smyrna fire is developing tu northern
* Asia Minor. The tide of n million
Christian inhabitants is sweeping in
full flood to the fringes of tho Black
soa and tho Mediterranean. The refu
1 gees are clamoring to be saved. The
■ American naval base at Constantinople
is deluged with 8. 0. 8. calls from the
flotilla of destroyers patrolling the
Mediterranean and Black sea coasts of
! Asia Minor, which are crowded with
Christians fleeing from the Turk.
Appeals come from every part of
Anatolia, where whole Christian com
munities are migrating and where the
American near east relief is working
heroically to overcome almost insuper
able obstacles, including the removal
of orphans for great distances to the
sea.
Cryptic radiographs received today
indicated that “ a critical situation
was developing with surprising sudden
ness; the whole interior is blanketed
with snow, adding immeasurably to the
misery of the refugees.”
A destroyer relayed a dramatic ap
peal to the near east relief at Constan
linople from James II. Crutcher, of
Tuscaloosa, Ala., at Samsun, “ Can you
take a thousand mountain childrent I f
not it means their end.”
Ono from tho destroyer latwrenco
came from Americans at Trebir.ond
declaring, “ Wo cannot hold up evaeu
at ion of Trebizond orphans much
longer. Wo aro overwhelmed by ar
rivals from tho interior. Instruct im
mediately.”
Never Saw Their Face*.
The young woman was looking at
a child's book, "The Sunhonnet
Rabies.”
Those Snnhonnet babies
were my delight and my despair when
I was little,” she said, “ because I never
could see their face*. If you’ll look
carefully at every picture you'll no
tice the faces of those babies are
never revealed. Other characters In
the lllustration show their faces, but
never the sunhonnet babies.
"The only Idea you can get of what
sort of little girls they were Is hy their
posture. And I used to peer nud peer
at those sunhonnets. I used to turn
over the pages and look through from
the hack side; I used even to tear the
pages a bit to see If I could not get
Inside of those sunhonnets.
But I
never could.
“ Some day I'm going to write to that
sunhonnet artist and ask If he won't
send me, In confidence, one picture of
those babies with their bonnets off."—
Springfield Union.
Great Authors Write Badly.
All great authors write liailly. That
is well known. At least tlie pedants
say so. Great writers are impetuous.
The vigor of their vocabulary, the In
tensity of tlielr style, the daring of
their phrases disconcert the |iedanls.
To tlie pundits good writing apparently
means writing according to rules. But
born writers make their own rules, or
rattier make none. They change their
manner at every moment as inspiration
dictates; sometimes they are liarinonl
M s . sometimes rug„ed, sometimes In
dolent and sometimes spirited.
3«,
according to the common notion they
cannot write well.—Anatole France.
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te»f oil* flow freely
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Birds Find Sanctuary on Island on
Which Hunters Are Forbidden
to Set Foot.
Eagle* Change Color,
The young eagle is clothed In three
kinds of garments before It reaches
maturity. During the first year It ia
black, tlie second year slate-colureil,
the third year brown and white. It
might lie said that the bald-headed
eagle is not bald. It Is so cslled from
the white ruff of feathers about Its
head. Tlie three different appearances
of tlie young eagle one time provoked
a strange misunderstanding among
bird oliaervers. It was thought that
they were three different species tlis
black, tlie George Washington and llie
bald
The eagle is one of the Fal-
couidae, which Includea hawks and all
similar birds of prey.
I f you saw it first vou saw it in The Sentinel
■ ANOTHER HUMAN TRAGEDY
SIGHTED IN ASIA MINOR
IMMENSE ROOKERY IN LAKE
Set in the middle of Great Salt lake
is Hat island, 12 acres lu area, one of
the most densely populated rookeries
in the world. Its official name is due
lo its shape, hut it is more familiarly
known to westerners as Bird island.
Seagulls and pelicans live there. The
Island is literally covered witli them,
and since hunters are not permitted
to disturb tiie fowls, visitors experi
ence no difficulty in walking about
among them and observing their habits.
The birds have established their roosts
among tlie rocky formations of the is
land, which is surrounded by salt
water more dense than that of the
ocean. The highest point is about 100
feel above tlie surface of the luke.
The strangest sight on the island
is tlie flock of young pelicans. They
uulk about like a drove of sheep.
One acts as leader and the rest fol
low.
Large bodied, clumsy birds they
are, scvi'-ely able to waddle out of
the way when one approaches.
As evening approaches one may look
out over the luke, far to the north
east, and see a cloud of tiny specks.
It Is tlie adult pelicans returning home
from the mouth o f the Jordan river, or
from the Great Bear river, 50 to 70
miles away. They are laden with fish
for their young ones. The pouches
under their beaks are filled with fresh
water fish.
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