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Peculiar Belief About
Monstrosities in Erin
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Entered at the post office at Willamina, Ore. on, as second class
matter. August 24. 1909, under act of Congress ot March 8, 1879.
G. G arland S ittser ,
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WORLD SWAYED BY EMOTIONS
By RT. REV FRANK E. WILSON. w*r Chaplain.
We hear a lot today about modern civilization being founded on mer
ciless selfishness. My own experience tells me such is not true. We think
we are hard, but as a matter of fact were are painfully soft. Popular
magazines are pouring forth sentimental mush because it is what the
public wants.
The moving pictures present prolonged appeals to your most watery
emotions. The air is filled with speeches consisting of flowery rhetoric
which doesn’t attempt to say anything but only to make yon feel good
Public sentiment vaporizes over anything that touches its softer
sensibilities. One of the scandals of our day is the way juries rendei ver
diets in accord with their emotions rather than the dictates of justice
I would guarantee that if all the newspapers of Chicago collaltornted
in presenting some wholly unworthy cause embroidered with quantities of
sob stories the public would forsake its judgment and pour in thousand*
of dollars for something which ought never to be done. Our great dangei
lies not in a settled spirit of cold indifference, but in unreliable outbursts
of emotional insincerity.
'Millions Thrown Away
by Wasteful Methods
How much water Is wasted by a drip-
Ing tap? An answer was provided
when New York decided to levy a fine
of two dollars for every tap found
leaking. In two years 40.000,000 gal
lons of water were saved. It seems
absurd to worry about the amount of
steam wasted when a locomotive blows
a whistle. But Doctor Foley of In
diana university has calculated that
2,434,028 tons of coal are consumed
annually In generating steam to blow
United States locomotive whistles, and
that if the whistles were moved slight
ly forward and adapted to a single
high-pitched note, more than 1,000. in >
pounds a year could be saved. But
this loss is small compared with that
involved in throwing Into the dust
bin cinders that would still give a lot
of heat It is estimated that a third
of the cinders thrown away retain
from 50 to 70 per cent of their heat
tug value.___________ ____
original Chautauqua
The first
Chautauqua
assembly,
known as the Sunday School Assem
bly, was in session August 4-18, 1874,
as the result of a plan formed by
Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, and
Rev. John H. Vincent of New York.
The assembly plans widened rapidly
in successive years. In 1879 a school
for teachers in secular subjects was
opened. Probably Chautauqua is best
known In connection with the plan
of systematic home reading. The plan
was proposed and explained in 1878.
The first year 7,000 persons were en
rolled and from that time readers
varying in number from 8,000 to 25,-
000 have joined the circle per sea
son. There are now throughout the
United States and Canada more than
550 local assemblies modeled after
the original Chautauqua Institution.
Old Roman Road in England
Writer Would Go Limit
in State Abbreviations
The abbreviation used for Ohio Is
“O.” Apparently Oklahoma and Ore
gon do not object. Rut there are six
states whose names begin with letters
which are not the first letters of the
names of any of the other states.
These states sit : Delaware. Florida.
Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and
Utah. Why not use D, F, G, L, P and
U for the abbreviations in those case«?
Also, West Virginia Is the only “West’
state. So why not simply use “W. V.”
instead of the usual “W. V«.“? The
only reason for abbreviations In the
first place Is the desire to save time
and space. Then why not save all the
time and space possible, or else use
the full nume? Why fuss with “Pa.”
and “Penn." and “Penna.” when “P.”
would fill the bill?—Worcester Tele
gram.
Mankato is the Minnesota town flint
was bought seventy-five years ago by
the first tailor in HL Paul for a small
barrel of pork and some Salt. This
tailor was Parsons King Johnson and
bls purchase was made from Ubief
Sleepy Eye. The site on which Man
kato stands is rich in historical In
terest, says the Kansas City Star. In
dian mounds have shown that savages
dwelt there 500 years ago, burning,
glazing and decorating pottery, weav
ing cloth and raising corn. Mankato's
first regular minister rode all the way
from Wabash, Ind., on horseback in
1854 to open his church there. The
first Scandinavians, led by Rev. John
Tldiand and John Randall, arrived In
1853, and a German colony from St.
Charles, Mo., arrived in a covered
wagon the same year. In 1855 a Web b
colony from Wisconsin swelled the
population.
Impenetrable Disguise
Miss Shirley Moor, the first woman
The old Fosse way, which is to be
reopened in Its Warwickshire section. graduate of the Yale Law school, was
Is the early English name for the criticizing the modem girl.
Two modern girls ornamented the
Roman road that ran from Lincoln to
terrace of a country club the other
Exeter, writes “Looker On" In the Lon
afternoon. They wore boots and riding
don Dally Chronicle. Practically the
breeches and bowler hats—a groom
whole of the original Roman line Is
had Just le<} off their horses—and as
still In use, although In parts It has
they waited for their cocktails to be
dwindled to a lane.
served they smoked cigarettes in long
From Lincoln Its course may be
amber tubes and swaggered up and
traced through Newark and Leicester
down in mannish fashion.
to High Cross, where It Is Intersected
"Oh. by the way,” said the first
by another famous Roman road, Wat-
llng street, at a point known as the one, “what about the masquerade ball
next week?”
“center of England.’’ Then It proceeds
The other tapped her leg with her
through Cirencester and Bath to the
crop stick. “Well, what about It?"
half-forgotten Roman encampment ef
“What shall we go as?”
Ilchester, though the road itself Is
“Let me think. There! I’ve get an
here In fine condition. After Ilches
Idea.”
ter, the Fosee way crosses the hills
“Spin It”
near Chard into Devonshire and then
“We’ll go as girls ?”
enters Exeter.
It Is affirmed that one doee not have
to go to equatorial Africa to hunt
mysterious lake-dwelling monstere—
such monstroelthw are talked of In
Ireland, an Armagh correspondent
writes: “I know nothing of Oeutrul
Africa, but 1 know Ireland very well,
and there I have encountered the be
lief In monsters, which are usually de
scribed as snakes of snomoos slse. liv
ing In the depths of lakes In various
remote places of the island. It Is a
curious belief, because there are. as
is well known, no snakes in Ireland.
Tn the wild western parts of the coun
try, from north to south, this belief
exists.
The dwelling place of the
monster Is usually some small, dark,
mountain lake, lying under overhang
Ing cliffs, and far from human dwell
Ings. One such 1 can mention by name.
It is known as the Hag's lake, and la In
a wild spot called the Hag’s glen, ly
ing under the crags of Carrantunl. In
Kerry, on the northern side of that
mountain. A youth who lived In the
poor hamlet nearest to this spot as
sured me that the great ,aen>enl’ which
lived In that lake was well known to
exist. 1 asked him If he had seen It.
He said ’No,’ but his grandmother hud
seen It very early one morning when
she was out on the mountain looking
for a beast which had strayed. ’We
don’t go near the lake In the dark.' be
added.”—Montreal Family Herald.
The Black hills constitute one of
the richest gold mining districts In the
United States and have yielded over
1100,000,000. Silver, copper, tin and
Iron ores also occur within their lim
its, besides coal, salt, petroleum,
mica, gypsum and building atone
About one-third of the area Is cov
ered with dense dark forests of pine,
whence the name, while deciduous
trees are abundant The climate Is
salubrious, the soil fertile, and the
hills are well adapted to grazing pur
noses.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Gowen left
Monday 'ora few days at Rouae*
velt and^other coast Resorts.
Mr. Chae. Collins and daughter
Esther spent Sunday at Roose
velt By the Sea, the day being a
beautiful one. Two earoplanea
from’Corral I is were on the beach
cany Ing passengers.
Mr. and Mrs. . Alexander of
Portland were visitors at Roose
velt Sunday.
Mr. and Mrr. W. Bunday spent
Sunday at their home at Otis.
Among their callers were Mr. anH
Mrs. C. Thoms of Portland,
who were spending the week end
at their summer home at Devils
Lake.
Six boy scouts with their Mas
ter, Royal Mumford and assist
ant Kenneth Fender, spent Fri
day night and Saturday at De
Poe Bay. Saturday they went
Deep Sea fish’ng. For some
reason, all thought, after lanc
ing. that they would feel better
by going home. They caught
about 18 fish. The boys are
John Baker.
Thomas O’Neil,
Stanley Beeson, John Fraque,
Donald.Fink and E. Dodson.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gowen,
Mrs. C. 1). Haynes. Helen Dor- i
thy,.Violet Voltner, and Walter
Gowen spent Monday at Roose
velt.
City Dweller Need Not
Fear Loss of Hearing
A woman's club bulletin, hist out,
has an article on aolae. The ium I oiu -
ery port of article b> Momeboily or oth
er who prophrairM Hint becauao of the
pn-aHure of city life, subway roar ami
rivet gang sxm|>b<>nlea our semes are
degenerating.
He exprensee Ida aad
Iwllef Unit In another 20 yearn Mam
hattunitea will be aa myopic and deaf
as the stone lions In front of ths li
brary.
Wo are not alarmed, no; only bored.
Nobody with aense bellevea anything
like that. The Holomon I al a miens, who
listen for druina 100 mllea off, are attp-
posed to have the acuteet ch re In the
world. Maybe, but New York has a
million persona who can detect In the
loudest din a click that Indicates trou
ble In their auto engine«.
The I’atagimlun can are an ostrich
bead al the distance of 85 mllea. Hut
it would blind him to pore over thia
page for an hour, and he would see
nothing hut a blur. Vet a eliort-slghted
proofreader, peering through thick
glansea, could spot a single error on
It In a few secomK
It would lie netirer truth to a. y that
mutt's senses are exactly uow a" they
were In the Stone age. And I' ore Is
somclhing to he said even for the sub
way roar. In war time we do not be
come abell shocked so euslly,—New
York American
All Are Remembered
At Arlington on Memorial day fay
fragrant bloaeoma are he«|H*d around
ths cold gray bases of Imposing mon
uments to generala, and they also
blanket the modest last coating plni-aa
of the heroes of the Maine, where the
little while headstone« are aa alike ae
the uniforms of the Bulloni who went
down in Havana harbor so many
years sgo.
MCMINNVILLE FOLKS
VISIT AT BEACHES
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Farnham
spent Sunday at DePoe Bay, deep
sea fish in jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Pfiel or the Stan*
dard Soda Works were business
visitors to the various beaeh
towns as far south as DePoe Bay
the first ot the week.
your
California
Vacation
EACHES are the most popular
fruit in cans
Do you know
why?
Perhaps you will give as the
reason for a larger quantity of
peaches being canned tliar any other
single fruit, the fact that peaches
are lowest in price or that they
combine so well with other foods
or that they taste so good. Well,
you are right in every answer—
absolutely so, when you refer to the
taste.
From Orchard to Can
If yon could follow peaches from
the orchard to the can, you could
easily see why they taste so good
You would see only the largest,
yellowest and most tender-fibred
peac!
picked for canning—peaches
that will retain thei> form size,
flavor, color and aroma. And It
must be fruit which has ripened
evenly from the surface to the pit
tc pass the canner's inspection.
You would see these peaches which
are picked in the orchards during the
day, remain in the orchard during
part of the night to coot, so that
they will not become bruised in
rushing them to the cannery. You
would also see a constant sorting
of the fruit, from the initial “door
test,” which is the canner's most
powerful inducement to delivery of
high-grade fruit, to the final in
spection, where women who fill the
*eKregate any blemished or
inferior fruit which has escaped the
previous sorters.
So rigidly are
they inspected that from a ton of
selected peaches, an average of less
than a thousand No. 2% cans are
obtained.
And any one of these cans of
peaches, millions of which are con
sumed annually, is the best answer
to the question—why is the peach
is only a day away
Your vacation need not be
limited to just one place. En
joy the full sweep of Califor
nia's charming playgrounds
on a Soudiern Pacific vacation
ticket.
Here, randy beaches, lofty
mountains, famed resorts are
all closely linked by Southern
Pacific.
Your vacation starts when
ymi board the train. In rest
ful comfort you speed over
the spectacular Shaila Routt
—mile after mile of scenic
splendor. Refreshed, you are
ready for play at your destin
ations.
A ticket to any one of these
destinations includes stop
overs and permits side trips
to the many places you'll
want to yisiL
Southern
Pacific
V. E. Fraker
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AU thoughtful men will admit that the bank is
entitled to a fair remuneration for its services ren
dered and to cover expenses.
Therefore a sufficient balance must be maintained
to provide a surplus for investment or the account
causes a loss to the bank.
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