Dayton tribune., May 21, 1920, Image 3

OfiEGÓN NEWS HÔTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor*
matlon of Our Readers.
Auto tourist travel through the Wtt-
lamette valley la under way already.
The Union Livestock association wilt
hold Its twelfth annual show at Union,
June 2 4.
The ninth annual conforaaoo of tbs
Deechutes Baptist association waa hold
at Redmond.
It Is reported that hop vlnoa la the
Independence district are making a
th rifty growth.
A large cougar last week killed a
calf ou the farni of Ooorge Leedy, four
utiles north of Toledo.
A dairy and sheep extension school
was held at the North Craft farm In
Douglas couuty Friday,
McMIunvIlle Elks to the number of
600 will attend the state convention to
he held at Balent In July.
A gain of *1,616,H6k.36 In deposits In
the three banks of Eugene has b< n
made during the past year.
The high price of sugar has caused
a slump In the demand at Hood lllver
for strawberries and cherries.
liuder the auspices of the Jack-
son county 'farm bureau a twoday
dairy school was held In Medford
Merlin Gold waa Instantly killed at
llamntoud Luml»er company, Camp No.
10. near Clatskanie, by a flying log.
Union high school district of Madras
has voted to Issue *60,000 In bonds for
Immediate construction of a building.
Both bonds and special tax for a
new high school gymnasium carried
In the special election held at M o o
mouth.
Three airplanes w ill be sent to
gene from Mather Fl«ld, Bacraine|jm
for the a ir ctrous to be staged tb « M
May 20.
In order to oonservo fuel for spray
rigs the Hood River Appto Orowera'
association |s urging conservation of
gasoline.
Because of lack of patronage, service
of the Portland Navigation company
between Salem and Portland has been
discontinued.
The Alsea River Lumber company
has shipped a carload Of fir logs to New
York to test tbejr adaptability for Ve­
neering purposes.
Scores of email fires In the hills
around Eugene have raised a pall of
smoke. The fires are caused by farm­
ers burning brush.
The Corvallis Commercial club baa
gone on record against the Specific
gravity test for gasoline and In favor
or suspcnd'ng the law.
The laying of the six miles of sub­
marine telephone cable to connect the
Tillamook rock lighthouse with the
shore, has been completed.
A tract of 34 acres partially within
(he city lim its of Albany was purchas­
ed by the Linn county fair association
tor permanent fair grounds.
The Astoria board of school direct­
ors Is calling tor bids for a new gym­
nasium for the high school to cost
when equipped about *60,000.
The twenty-ninth annual session of
the Southern Oregon Medical associa­
tion was held at Roeeburg. I t was de­
cided to hold the convention at Grants
Paas next year.
The state land board has received a
total of *644 In royalties from three
Portland sand and gravel companies
tor sand and gravel taken from the
bed of the Wlllamettfc.
Albert Meaders and W. J. Jenkins,
who escaped from the prison wood
camp last Saturday nlgtit, were cap­
tured at M ill City by Cherry James, a
guard at the penitentiary.
More than 160 plumbers and their
wives, from all sections of the state,
gathered In Salem tor the nineteenth
annual convention of the Oregon Stats
association of master plumbers.
W ill R. King of Ontario, former dem­
ocratic national committeeman for
Oregon, bus resigned as chief counsel
for the United States reclamation serv­
ice, to become effective June 16.
Shortage of gasoline Is becoming
acute at Klamath Falls and may result
ill the closing down of all sawmills
which are supplied with logs direct
from the woods by motor truck.
A movement has been started among
Marlon county taxpayers to Introduce
a bill in the legislature at Its next ses­
sion prohibiting the catching of moun­
tain trout during the spawning season.
The state desert land board will ask
congress to extend the contract be­
tween the state and federal govern­
ments relative to the W alker Basin Ir­
rigation project In Deschutes country
tor a period of 10 years.
Statistics show, according to the war
department statement, that Oregon’s
enlisted strength for Its national guard
Is 2162 men, of which 1346 have been
enlisted. During the month endlnp
May 1 there were enlisted In Oregon
two companies of Infantry, two com-
panics of coast artillery, oue company
of en-lneera with 117 men and four
office w , atia one quartermaster detach-
bn nt of 24 uirn, compost d mostly of
Sommisktoiud «rflcsie,
i OCEAN CASTS UP OLD SHIP
Identity of Ancient Vessel Found on
Rockaway Beach Uncertain —May
Bo Historic Pirate.
Rockaway B i - ik -I i I imn soother sensa­
tion. the Brooklyn Eagle stales. Not
content with washing up hundred« of
thoUHuuds of crabs, Inhalers and c h illis ,
the greul tide recently dug no ancient
iK'eaillc relle mil of (be sands and left
It In bleu>b In a winter*» sun. like
■ o llie skeleton of a departed iPuioaur.
According to I ’lipi. Joseph Meade of
the Koekaway const guard slallou, It
Is an old sloop u’ war.
Not indy knows Ils history. From nil
appearances tills washed nut corpse In
an ocean graveyard was once a saucy
war vessel, uiouiillug nine guns. In­
cluding Hie old lime bow chaser that
used Io bark with ferocity ul pursuing
veligen nee.
The ship Is bluff-bowed, her spikes
are liuad wrought, her ribs are of sfvml
oak and her bowsprit, broken short
at the cup Is a mighty headstone on a
sandy grave.
The old salts who are experts on
such matters say the burled bull Is
an old British sloop. During Hie war
of 1812 privateers manned by adven­
turous Yankees frequently bung about
Jones’ Inlet, towing In their prizes for
anchorage «ml running to shelter
when British inen-o’-war, out for re­
venge. Imre down upon them.
Another tradition unearthed from
Hie old skippers of cllpjier ships, now
conic to anchor on Hie Rockaway
shores, In is It Hint Cnpt. Jones, for
whom Jones' Inlet was mimed, nt one
time | ii « i prior to Hie ItevoluHoniiry
war, pursued ii profitable trade In eon-
iriibiinil In Hie vicinity, unknown to
the British enstoms. The liandwrough!
spikes and the general shape of Hie
rotting wreck plainly Indicate that
she was an oldtlmer, very likely of
Revolutionary times.
NUT ÍRUEJENIUS’
“Wonder Children” Merely Intel­
lectually Precocious.
In Most Cases They Are Possessors of
an Abnormally Retentive Memory
— Do Not Necessarily Dis
Young.
A few days ago there appeared an
account of (lie doings of Hamuol Resch-
evskl, n wonderful chess player, eight
years old, who la confounding Berlin
with hl« uncanny knowledge and skill.
Theae “ wonder ehlldreii“ always
arouse especial Interest, and, aa many
explanations are put forward to ac­
count for their apparent genius, there
are gloomy forebodings us to their
meeting with an early death.
There have been many "wonder chil­
dren" In the past, and It Is strange,
though true, that quite a large propor­
tion have lived to the average nge.
In recent years there have been a
number of child evangelists who have
startled Hie world by their eloquence
nnd theology. In the United Htatea a
few years ago a boy nine years old at­
tempted to convert Hie whole country,
and when ten yeurs old tie was actual­
ly appointed minister of a church In
North Carolina.
In Great Britain there arp records of
n child twelve year« old who preached
In a Baptist church nt Porthcawl, and
n small boy who, at the tender age of
three, began preaching to crowded au­
diences and continued to do so until
well after ten years old.
In the case of such prodigies, their
talents consist chiefly In an abnormal,
retentive memory and, provided that
tlielr temperaments are not emotional,
they stand the mental strain exceed
Ingly well, though there Is, of course,
the danger nttnehed to the excessive
Village Within Extinct Volcano.
physical strain which they frequently
"Bottom** Is Hie paradoxical iiiitne
undergo.
of a little village perched on the peak
To this type belong those children
of mountain which comprises the
who leurn rapidly hy heart such things
'sinnd <>f Saba. In the Caribbean sea.
as the tunes, words and numbers of all
No other spot In the world Is quite
hymns In the ancient and modern
like Saba; of all the Iklands of Hie
hymn-book. It Is such children, with
tropical seas. It ts the strnugest, the
s high development of one faculty, who
nost forbidding. Sheer conlcnl. frown­
most often meet with early death, and
ing. this Island rise« from tlie waves,
tnnylie It was In such cases that old
its topmost pinnacle veiled In drifting
saying. “The wise die young” had Its
clouds 3.000 f's'l nhove the sen. Its
origin.
roust rock-bound and precipitous. It
But the child chess player in Berlin
Is seldom sighted by ships, but those belongs rather to the type of Intellect­
who <lo pass It would never dream ual precocities, such as the learned
'hat It woo Inhabited.
chlhl of Lnheck of the early part of
The mountain Is an extinct volcano the eighteenth century.
This child
and the town of B o tlo in rests In Its could recite the whole of the Old and
crater. No harbor breaks Saha’s New Testaments before he wns two
•oa’ t ; theca Is no safe landing place years old. and a little Ister he was an
or anchorage, and If one would visit authority on religious history and dog­
Hie town one must step ashore from a ma.
He mastered also nnclent and
.mail I mu H and climb n steep stairway m clem geography and history and Sev­
of hundreds of stone steps or toll up ern! lunguuges before his death at the
a narrow, difficult trail. Every article age of four years.
brought to Satin from the outside
A contemporary of this wonderful
vorld must lie carried up the heights child was fluent In five languages be­
I’lic Inhabit ants are sal I ora, mt they fore he wns five, and translated the
mve been since Hie earliest times, and Hebrew Bible Into Ijitln and French
though they sail the seven seas they nt Hie age of eight. He survived un­
always return to tlielr Islund home.
til he was nineteen.
Historical nnd clinical evidence are
T h rift In Chile.
'»olh definite In showing that “wonder-
The Scots nnd Hie French had better
•hlhlren" are no more liable than other
look to tlielr laurels ns saving peo
htldien to d’e-young, to r Is It found
plea. Chile tilds fair to rival them
lu ll children who assimilate knowl-
During Hie Inst ten years savings In
•dge readily anil retain It show Hny un-
stltutlona have risen considerably In
lin - «Ig n s o f fa tig u e .
number. In 1910 there existed In the
The g n a t point In the rn«e of chll-
entire country but a dozen Independ
Iren marked by special brilliance Is to
m t Institutions carrying the ncmtmt*
tv o ld any attempt at making the hrll-
of some 200.000 persons; their com
'litnee apply to ever.vHi'ng, for In so
plete savings umounted to only 64.
doing the existing hrllllan<*e In the one
(KN1.000 In American money. In 191* special direction may tend to disap­
deposits rose to 110.000.000 Chilean pear. In the same way those who are
pesos, which would equal about one
Intellectually brilliant must not he
fourth as many American dollars. To forced to become Industrious in a
'Ills , In the year 1918. were nddisl 60,
practical way, for such Interference In­
iMIO.OOO more Chilean pesos. T I ip tin
variably brings on over-strulu and
Hon has encouraged savings, through breakdown.
stamps and other substantial induce­
ments. Incidentally It Is worth while
How’s This, “ Pedestrians?"
noting D ia l lotteries are not permitted
It was nn Inky black night and we
'll Chile; down there they believe III were rlillng along a country road,
getting rich slowly nnd surely.
when . we saw a railroad crossing
abend. We stopped about a hundred
8oundcd Like a Curat.
feet from the tracks and peered
A aplnster of almut forty years or a through the brush and trees that lined
tilt more recently hud n house to rent.
the m u ’., There n;i the track we saw
Now her last tenant hud three healthy a light moving toward us. The driv­
American sons nnd they hud done a er wished to move on, hut I, being
great deal of damage to the house
very nervous, objected loudly, so we
o she hud firmly declared lliut she walled nt least five minutes.
The
vould tolerate no children this lime
tight kept drawing nearer, but the
So when a man responded to her ad
driver In disgust Instated upon cross
vertlsement, she askisi him whcthci
Ing, saying It was probably a sin«
he had any children. ‘‘Seven,’’ lie re-
freight. But again I shrieked loudly
nrned and then went on to tell how
for I knew train lights were so de
.'cod they were.
eelvlng nt night nnd It must he nearly
But the spinster Informed him timi
upon us hy now. We continued wnlt-
■die would not rent her house to a 'ng In the darkness for the train to
family In which there were so many
puss, and iis the light drew nearer
children.
Angrily the iiiirfi turned
we discovered our locomotive to be
away, hut retorted over Ills shoulder:
nothing mor» than a man eotnlng
“1 only hope some day you'll have sev­ down the truck with a lantern.—Chi­
en children. Indy, nnd can't find n cago Trlbiin».
house, either.”— Indianapolis News.
Th« “Lion D’Arras."
Humor In a Bank.
A Paris d snutch announces the dis
The first day I worked In the bank
appearance A* one of the Inst of the
In which I nm employed I was given
war newsphoers— the Lion d’Arrns
ii sealed package marked “$1(1,900 In
Thpse war :
sheets, which did so
gold." which was In the form of f,
much io ch« •* and encourage the In
hrlck. I presented It to the down
habitants ol »he stricken towns nn«'
countryside, "»II he looked upon In
town bank for payment and was sent
from one teller to the other, each oni
the future t « one of the most Inter
eating product« of the war years. The
keeping his discovery to himself, nn
ill I got sore because of the fact that
Lion d'Arrns appeared In the elt.v at a
time when H>a enemy was within a
they had me going nround In a drch
few hundre.» yards from the walls
and discovered I was the goat.
I might add that II was not a gob'
The fottnile’ of the paper wns thi
brick— It was n red one.
C. B.
Ahhe Guerrin. who continued Ils ed
P. 8.— Don't yon think a d— n foo
Itor during the 172 weeks of Its ex
like me earned a dollar!— Exchange
latence.
Farther Awsy.
Mrs
I ’ iiw les--l've dct'ltled the
Billth -hull I'ttvs her voice trained in
Eli f t
D ie in- » 'ib tiilh ly ; hilt Isn’t the.-'
«mm o ''iii' ii . Asia*- Boston Tran
scril'L
The Difference.
Little Ethel— What’s the leap year
custom, mother?
Her Mother— It's the custom that al
lows it wnntah In propose to a man In
sinnd of ptlttlhM herself to the rruabt«
of Ihhklfil» the thltli priiflota'
Little-Known Race.
In the extreme north of the Russian
province ut Archingel dwells "tie of
the queerest ami least known races of
mankind. These are the Kamoyedea.
the wandering tribes of the vast froz
an marshes which extend In these re­
gion« from the forest belt to the «bore»
of the Arctic ocean. They worship
Idol« and tlielr «ole wealth consists In
reindeer. Living, the reindeer draws
the sledge which transports Hie Hutno-
yede and his belongings from N|M>t to
«pot In search of the game and fish,
which constitute Ills principal suste­
nance.
Dead. It provide« him with
meat In timer; of scarcity, and with
akin for Ida family lent.
With Its
sharpened bone« he tips his wooden
fishing tiurpoons and hunting spears.
Ils sinews he usea to sew together
the shirt, breeches, and boota of seal­
skin. which are the attire alike of the
Huinoycde men, women and children.
And now the papers are printing pic-
Robert Fields who has been ID In g in
tures of Villa,a w ife. It is said he is the Grand Island country took h it de­
ft murderer. I f we had to have a face parture Tuesday morning for Bickleton,
like that opposite us at the table every Washington, whete he has been employ-
day we’d feel like murdering -lomehody, ed the last two years during the sum-
to°-
mer season,
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M o to r B o a t R e g a tta
N e w b e r g , O reg o n , J u n e 4 -5 -6
Friday A fternoon
Ball game, Band Music, and Street Jubilee.
Saturday Forenoon
Industrial and Military Parade; Dedication of
new bridge; Coronation ceremonies.
Saturday 1:30 p. m.
Chinese Ingenuity.
The Inhabitants of the flowery land,
It seems, are not Immune, any more
than the natives of less-favored coun­
tries, from tlie attention« of certain
very active Inaects; hut they are much
more Ingenious In dealing with them,
says London Answers. They have In­
vented a kind of little trap, which they
place lu their beds and elsewhere. The
main principle of this trap is that It
contains a sticky surfuce, which effec­
tually trammel« the feet of the strong­
est and most active Insect that ven­
tures upon It. Thera are charitable
societies In Chinn. Instituted for the
piiqiose of supplying these traps to
poor people, and many persons gain
tlielr livelihood hy calling round regu­
larly to renew the sticky surfuce« of
the traps. They have a regular round
of clients.
Motor boat races, Canoe races, Hydroplane
races, Diving contests, Surf boat riding, etc.
Sunday Morning
>
Motor Boat Club leaves for Portland.
V
“ Move Up."
Life Is opportunity no matter where
It ts located. The right Inner stimulus
gives vision and the right expression
of vision is toll. Learn to see life
through Its vista of possibilities and
you get the unquenchable Incentive to
move up. Grumblers and coinplulners
will move aside to make way for your
progress while you rub shoulders with
men and women who make living
worth while. Each In his way min­
isters to his fellows and the iintolllng
rabble lives on the crumbs that drop
from their abundance.
Envy and
criticism may grow loud and abusive
These hut test the bigness within. The
truly big have no time tor retort, but
with giant strides move on.
Catbird Imitates.
The cathlrd Is so called because the
note by which he Is most commonly
known Is like the meow of a ent, but
as a matter of fact he Imitates almost
every other sound he hears, says the
American Forestry Association of
Washington. It has been said that the
catbird can Imitate anything from a
squawking cartwheel to the song of a
thrush. He sings along apparently
without knowing what he Is going to
Improvise next. In color this bird Is
rnther somber, being dark gray with a
black cap. He Is one of the most
common birds throughout the United
States, although rare west of the
Rockies.
Unsatisfyinq.
The serious and responsible life of
an ordinary prosperous man. fulfilling
the requirements of our soc I r I organ­
ization. fatigues, nnd neither- coin
pletely satisfies nor completely occu­
pies.
Still less does the responsible
part of the life of a woman, of the
prosperous classes, engage nil her en­
ergies or hold her Imagination. And
there has grown up a great Informal
organization of employments, games,
ceremonies, social routines, travel, to
consume these surplus powers and
excess cravings, wh!"h might other­
wise change or shatter the whole or-
der of human living.— H. G. Wells.
Family Mixup.
Last year I asked my best girl to be­
come my wife, and she said “No!"
But 1 got even with the girl. 1 mar­
ried her mother.
Then my father
married the girl. Now 1 don't know
what I am. When I married the girl’s
mother the girl became my daughter,
and when father married my daugh­
ter she was my mother. Who in the
dickens nm I? M,v mother's mother
(which Is my wife) must lie in.v grand­
mother, and 1 being my grandmother's
husband. I am my own grandfather.—
Pittsburgh Cllronlcle-Telegrapli.
Birds of Prey.
The rapacious birds breed slowly,
only one brood being reared h year.
Hawks nnd owls mate tor life and
their domestic history Is full of hap­
piness nnd Interest.
They are com­
plementary to each other, the hawks
hunting hy day. the owls by night— the
work of one supplementing that of the
Other. The eye of the bird of prey Is
the most perfect organ of sight that
exists, and were It not for this class of
birds the hilly districts would soon be
overrun with harmful rodents.
Revenge.
Revenge Is wrong. Let alone that
the wisest nnd best of nil Judges has
condemned It. It blackens the heart-
of men. It distorts tlielr views o'
right.
I? sets them tn devise evil
It muses them tn think unjustly m
others.
It Is mu the noblest retnn
for Injury, not even the bravest wm
of meeting It. The greatest courage
—Is tn Utuit iierseciHlon. not tn answer
when Jfntt it1» reviled Hint when i
wrung hn« la-eu dons you tn forgivtk-
TliiK’kera#'
igna, judging their houses and buildings by general
ppearances only.
t is good business to make regular inspection of you»
roperty, and to use paint of good quality, which is the
■rest preventive of decay.
h ro u g n the varying conditions of weather in all their
xtremes, FULLER Paint has proved both its preserv-
ig and beautifying qualities—a Pacific Coast Product
or Pacific Coast requirements.
I years of paint manufacturing experience are back of
very brushful of FULLER Paint.
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FLOOR PAINT
PORCH and STEP PAINT
SHINGLE STAINS
SILKENWHITE ENAMEL
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etc.
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