Weekly Chemawa American., October 13, 1911, Page 9, Image 9

THE
CHEM A W A
SIGN OF THE PAWNSHOP.
Few persons seeing the signs of the
vast wealth of our av u n cu lar relatives in
most thoroughfares in London pause to
consider their origin. Of course it is the
hall of gold to which we refer.
Not only m ay they be tak en as in d ica­
tions of w ea'th hut as a sign that pledges
are received. But the halls do not in d i­
cate what they really are. They are
the arm s of the Medici fam ily.
\\ hoever has visited Florence will re
call the three halls altern ated with the
red lilies. But how comes it th a t the
decorations of the T uscan palace have
fouml th eir way to London?
T he first gold changers to settle in
London, as in Paris, were the F lorentines
or Lom bards. They chose Lom bard street
as the place were they would carry on
their business. These early settlers are
perp etu ated todav b y the bankers.
In the early «lays the in h a b ita n ts
counted am ong th eir num ber some of the
Medici fam ily and to inspire confidence
they exhibited th eir fam ily arm s, to which
they had a perfect right. The fam ily of
Medici is extin ct today, but. th eir arm s
survive them , the present users th in k in g
the respectability of the origin too great
to be dispensed with. — Ex.
W O R LD ’S 0 L I)E S T N E WS PA PE R
The T ching-Pao, th e official gazette of
Peking, recently celebrated its one th o u ­
sa n d th an n iv ersary and claim s to be the
oldest new spaper in the world. E v er
since its conception a copy of each edition
has been carefully preserved in the a r ­
chives of the Peking palace.
A love for accuracy has evident lv been
the keynote of its success, a ml in order to
firing about this happy state of affairs it
is affirm««! th a t a num ber of jo u rn alists
AM EH 1C AN
on its staff have paid the p en alty with
their lives for the responsibility of m is­
takes p rin ted in its colum ns. This, of
course, was carry in g things rath er far.
In any case, it must have required no
little courage in those days to em bark
upon such a perilous vocation.
LO C ALS
A ndv W alker is again at the school,
having arrived from his home in Tacoma,
W ash., since our last issue.
Lillie, Rov and R alph Braden arrived
at the school on Tuesdav evening from
th eir home in E astern Oregon.
President Taft was in Salem for a few
hours yesterday and n atu ra lly there was
an enorm ous crowd of people in the cap­
ital to see the chief executive of the n a ­
tion and hear him speak. According to
our inform ation ids rem arks on this oc­
casion were confined largely to events
of world-wide im portance, such as the
building of the Panam a C anal, the move­
m ent toward universal peace, etc
The
vast m ajority of the stu d en ts of Chema-
wa and m any em ployes went to Salem
on this m em orable occasion and joined
in honoring, by th eir presence, the first
man of the land.
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S O C IE T IE S
The Reliance L iterary Society conven­
ed last T h u rsd ay evening, October 5, in
the school chapel and reorganized the
society and elected the following officers:
President, Jam es M inesinger; Vice-
President, A lexD avis; S ecretary, L uther
Clem ents; Treasurer, Thomas
Powers:
Sergeant-at-A rm s, F rank P a ra tro v ic h :
Reporter, W illiam Bassett
After the
election of officers the house adjourned.
W illiam A. B assett , Reporter.