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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1915)
GHOSTS IN FLANDERS WHY NOT 9 K C is pure. K C is health ful. It really does make lighter, nicer biscuits, cakes and pastiy than the old fashioned single acting baking powders. And you pay only a fair price for it. No ba king powder should sell for more. JACKS, JENNETS & HORSES for SALE Nl«tv brnrl r>f ihr Marfa md 'I <4>lta, Int liMllntf tl t<» ft y*ar «>11 G»klir>itn, bred fur Mathilfta mim J K im I i «« Will cunaMcr trad* ih <h«-«v laixl Forty head >>f extra larire JenrwU with an <• levant Jack fur h«-rd hcadrr. DAISY FLY KILLER • II fil»a. N«|, tissa, udtauienlai, <.•■*••- ient. .leap I astiali assavn . M a <la ol UMtsi, « 4SI't spill ar ttp »'»•» I will a<«t soil «NT Injurs « n y I h i n <. I.uszaataad effe-tlvs. V q LI By dealer». or 4 sen» by eapscas paa- fssld fl. ■▲BOLD «CMXBI. IM DaEUb Av« . Break I ya, ■. T. A Bargain for a Short Time (' mum * for M»|lintf la the herd law in Morrow county and thr tranafbrmiiur of my M>U acre • U m k farm into a wiwat held 1 muat rloaa out thia at«M k Will conakjer trade. What hare > » hj not? His “Daughter-In-Law.” My husband and 1 had just been married and my small brother-in-law overheard his mother refer to me as 11 F. BWAGGART, Prop. "my daughter in-law." A short time Ix*xington, Oregon. after that the little fellow visited me tn my new home, and upon sending him to the store the groceryman. see Hsr Criticism. ing ho was a stranger, said: “Well, lit Wee Mabel had a little disagree- tle boy, I have never seen you before. meat with her grandmother one day. I><> you live In this neighborhood?" Rhe waa relating the affair next morn "No, sir,“ said the child, “but my ing to her parmta and In conclusion daughter-in-law Ilves across the she aald with a sigh, "Well, drandma street and I am visiting her.” la certainly a very tweer lady." Odd Wedding Cuetom. In northern Africa they have a way Wanted Point Remembered. When little Billie was visiting at of providing for the wedding of their lunch one day he had strawberries daughters that Is Interesting. When and there were but a few on each the guests arrive a man at the door one's plate lllllle looked at the small receives the pence they give, and assortment at hla place, then whla writes It down In a book. This means pared' ''Remember. Aunt Marie that when any of these guests have a wedding the host will give each of that I’m company." them just wbal they gave him. As it is, the guests pay for the wedding, and each one has either already re ceived as much as ho gives or will receive it later on. REMARKABLE CASE of Mrs. HAM Declares Lydia E. Pinkham*« Vegetable Compound Saved Her Life and Sanity. Optimism Not Always Reassuring. "I read with intense Interest,” said Noyes E. Brewmore, "the story of the boy with a smile who worked his way up rung by rung until he became pres ident of a trust company. Personally, however, whenever a man with a smile approaches and gives me the glad hand, 1 feel Instinctively that I am duo for a touch.”—Kansas City Star. Shamrock, Mo.— "I feel It my duty '■ OWN nnt GtilST WILL TELL YOU to tell the public the condition of my TOt Try Murine Kje itriurdy for Red. Weak, Watery health tmfore using K>ea and (irattn'ated Kyeiid«*; Nu Mm art i nr— Kye Comfort- Write for Book of the Era your medicine. I had |u«U by uaaH Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. falling, inflamma tion and congestion, Human Nature. female weakness, It la human nature to want to throw pains in both sides, something. The babe of yesterday backaches and be tir which started In by throwing Its dishes ing down pains, waa on the floor Is today throwing a ball, short o f memory, tomorrow he will lie throwing a brick nervous, impatient, and it won't be long before he is a man passed sleepless throwing the bull.—Philadelphia In nights, and had nei liter strength nor quirer. energy. There was always a fear and Buying "On Tick.” dread in my mind, I had cold, nervous, Buying "on tick" is not new slang, weak spells, hot flashes over my body. 1 had a place in my right side that was but goes back to the seventeenth cen ao sore that 1 could hardly bear tha tury. It Is stated in a letter dated weight of my clothes. I tried medicines 1661: "The Mermaid Tavern is late and doctors, but they did me little good, ly broke, our ticks amounting to and I never expected to get out again. £1500." And In another document a 1 got Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable little later It Is said: "Every one Comjiound and Blood Purifier, and I cer runs upon tick." tainly would have been In grave or in an Stone That Is Elastic. asylum if your medicines had not saved There Is a stone that is as flexible me. But now I can work all day, sleep well at night, eat anything I want, have as rubber and that when set up on no hot flashes or weak, nervous spells. edge In a thick plate, sways to and All pains, aches, fears and dreads are fro In the wind like a piece of leath gone, my house, children and husband er. This stone is called ttakolumite, are no longer neglected, as I am almost am* the Scientific American says it entirely free of the bad symptoms I had Is the mother rock of Brazilian dia before taking your remedies, and all is monds. pleasure and happiness in my home.”— Dally Thought. Mrs. J osie H am , R. F. D. 1, Box 22, What we want Is tho old spirit of Shamrock, Missouri. the firm conviction' It you want special mlvice write our forefathers; not by criticism, but by sympathy Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co., that we must understand; what we want is (coulidcutiul) Lynn, Mass. more reverence, more love, more hu manity, more depth.—F. W. Robertson Satisfaction In Work. All thinking men snd women get the main sntlsfsctlons of life, aside from thn domestic joys, out of the productive work thoy do.—Charles W. Eliot. ? Nervous , Emotional Dizzy Depressed e Ain. AMU Curtiiogor, of CMor St., Coin, III., wroto Doctor Pltrvt •• Mhm t ~1 «end SI cent« for your Tom- mon Sense Medical Adviaer’ for my daughter who hua recently married and I k now the bonk will be of much value to her. I hav« read and uaed for 25 year« tha valuable treatment« contained in the 'Medical Adviaer* and have taken many bottle« of Dr. l'ierce’« Favorite Prescription, and have been restored to heal th each time I uaedit. It ha great remedy for women a« a «trength builder. Ana for the nerve« and general health.’’ P. N. u. Wasted Energy. Some day the people who are con cerned In conserving energy are go Ing to turn their attention to the man who alts up all night working out chess and checker problems. \X70MEN who are restless, with v ’ constant change of position, fidget iness,” who are abnormally excitable or who experience fainting or dizzy spells, or nervous headache and wakefulness aro usually sufferers from the weaknesses of their sex. DR. PIERCE’S Favorite Prescription is the soothing, cordial and womanly tonic that brings about an invigorating calm to the nervous system. Overcomes the weakness and the drag ging pains which resemble the pains of rheu matism. Thousands of women in thejiast forty years can bear witness to its benefits. Your dealer In medicine« «ella It In liquid or «ng«r> coated tablet form; or you can «end 50one-cant «tamp« for a trial box of Dr. Piare«’« Favorita Prescription tableta. Addra«« Dr. V. M. Pirres», Invalid«* Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. T. iiiimiiiiiiiiNiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiu Dr. Fisre.'a Pl.SMSt Prll.ti Rrgalats ssd Iavi(.r,ts St.ia.rh, Liter and Bnw.li, Ss(,r-C,slrd Tiny Grasal«,. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiimui No. 22, 1S1« Some Truth In Thia. “Ff some men," said Uncle Eben, "sot up as late o’ nights thinkln’ at dey does playin’ cards dey’d go an* tell de doctor dey had Insomnia.” HIS HEAD IN SHARK’S MOUTH Black Diver Claims to Havs Had Re markable Experience With Sea SURELY OLD SOLDIERS REVISIT Monster. SCENES OF BATTLES. Writing In Harper’s Magazine of his visit to Thursday island in the Torres Fivs Centuries Ago English Warrior« strait, Norman Duncan narrates some astonishing tales of the adventures Fought Over the Territory That of the natives with the savage tiger Is Now tho 8cene of Euro sharks of these waters: pean Warfare. “It is said that the coastal aborigine is not greatly afraid of a shark—that I think that old ghoets must be astli he is a match for a shark, Indeed, in in Handers, now that an English army fair water, when not taken unaware. Is encamped there again, with Edward He may lose a leg or an arm, or be prince of Wales, on the headquarter« may be carried off bodily; but in any staff. Out of the mists of time ther« event tbe damage will be due rather must surely come some of those Eng to the cunning approach of the shark lish gentlemen and men-at-arms whe than to the limitations of the diver. more than five centuries ago cam« Fairly warned, he will dive to the bot with another prince of Wales, callee tom, roil tbe water, and thus elude Edward, to fight against heavy odds the attack; and if he is pugnaciously In and about all those towns In Bel disposed at the moment (they say)— glum and France which, again, hav< if the shark impolitely Interrupts him become familiar in our mouths at at a critical or deeply Interested mo household words—St. Omer, Ypres ment—he will give fight. It is true, Arras, Solssons, Reims, St. Quentin of course, that the naked divers are Gravelines, Dunkirk, Calais and Abbe accustomed to escape by roiling the vllle, Ulle and Arrnentieres. water; such instances are common; Perhaps “Eye-Witness" knows the but I have no stomach for the tale names of those silent ghosts, though that any man will go out of his way he has not yet written about them ic to challenge combat with a twenty his dispatches, owing to the severity foot tiger-shark— oven when angered of the censor. He knows, 1 am sure by an untimely interruption. that among those who watched th* ”1 recall two stories of narrow es destruction of Cloth Hall were Sit cape. The one concerns a young Jap John A'bundos—"the flower of knight anese diver a ho was taking a crayfish hood"—and Lord Thomas Percy, Sit to the surface, and all at once found Godfrey de Harcourt and Lord Begin himself in a furious engagement. It aid Cobham, Lord Thomas Holland was Incautious of the diver to have a and Lord Delawarr, Lord Robert No crayfish; and this Indiscreet diver vllle. Lord Thomas Clifford, Lord came out of the consequent encounter Bourchier, Lord Latimer, Sir Walter with a lacerated thigh and one arm Manny—"sans peur et sans reproche” missing. Tbe other story Is hardly —and many other knights and squires, credible, related far from the scene; "whom," as old Froissart said, "I can I cannot vouch for it, at any rate, hav not now name.” ing had no means of authenticating The ancestors of British officers who it; but as I have not hesitated to swal are now fighting in Flanders rode un low It whole, and have been pleasant der their banners over the flat marsh ly moved to shudder and thrill and lands, they banqueted In many of the exclaim aghast, I will tell it for what grand halls which now lie In ruins un it is worth. It seems that a black der the German eagle, they stormed beche-de-mer boy, swimming, naked at the gates of many towns which are and abstracted, close to the reef in now filled with British soldiers, their search of slugs, awoke all at once to lances glittered down many of the an amazing situation. It was not that roads where the winter sun now glints the shark was near—not that it had upon the lances of French dragoons; turned and was darting; but that bis and with the chivalry of medieval head was actually in the shark's wide- knighthood they did many acts ot open mouth. The black boy acted courtesy and valor and heroic adven sharply; he withdrew his head in a ture upon the same ground where the flash, having at the same time men under Sir John French have up 'punched' the shark (as they put it) held the old traditions of their breed to distract attention from the matter with no less courage. Also, according tn hand; and he rescued himself after to the way of war they, ravaged the a brisk tussle, and lived to prove the countryside through which they adventure with a scarred cheek.” passed, burned farmsteads and peas ants' cots, swept it clean of all food, Mexico Land of Cathedrals. looted its treasures, and laid it waste, The distinctive characteristic of so that there was desolation and fam Mexico Is a land of cathedrals, which lne where the English army had like the scattered beads from the ros passed. ary of some Franciscan monk, are It was Ix>rd Henry Spencer, bishop strewn from the Bravo del Norte to of Norwich, who undertook the siege where the winds from the tropics waft of Ypres in the days when English the palms. Previous to disestablish arrows sung with a shriller note than ment of church and state, the treasures the modern shell. and wealth of these old monasteries “Day after day." writes Froissart were fabulous; and though Juarez, “the assault continued, but the place the full-blooded Indian who is looked still held out. At last the English, find upon as the emancipator of Mexico, ing that they could not take the town seized church property and confiscated by storm, and that they had expended much, yet.the buildings still stand all their artillery, resolved to have a as monuments to a colonization that quantity of faggots collected with was ardently Catholic, and are won which to fill up the ditches, so that derful types of the Spanish renais they might advance and fight hand- sance. With huge domes, half-orange tohand with the garrison, undermine shape (so designated in Mexican archi the walls, and, by throwing them tecture, "Media Naranja”), these stu down, effect an entrance.” pendous buildings are decorated with Every road and dyke round Ypres wonderful specimens of wood carv was moistened with English blood in ing, where solid mahogany beams those old days, and now, fighting side form the joist in many cases. Mexico by side instead of against the French lavished the interior of these edifices and the Flemings, English blood drips with onyx columns, marble altars, sil down to the same soil, which is mixed ver chancel rails and gold taber with the dust of heroic bones, of Eng nacles. lish arrowheads, of steel breastplates The woman worshipers in their man and richly chased casque, and of all tillas and rebozas are in keeping with the panoply of medieval knighthood, the old world atmosphere and taper now dissolved into the chemistry of lights.—Cassie Moncure Lyne. the earth's graveyards. If ghostly warriors keep the watches Bad Habit. of the night. Sir Charles Chandos. Sir Emerson Keough, the governmental Walter Manny, Ixird James Audley. Ixird Reginald Cobham, and a thou efficiency expert, said in an address sand other knights of old renown, sa on efficiency in correspondence be lute the men who challenge death for fore the Denver Y. M. C. A.: “Why shouldn’t business corre England. The Black Prince raises his visor and kisses the sword hilt to Ed spondence read as easily and grace ward. prince of Wales, who Is walking fully as a personal letter? Well, effi the same fields of fame and blood.— cient business correspondence does so The world is tired of the old-fashioned Ixmdon Chronicle. business letter with everything re versed, like—• The Spaniard in Mexico. " 'Yours cf 11th ult. to hand, as per When Cortez landed at Vera Cruz and tn honor of the day being "Good duplicate order inclosed, for shoes, Friday,” gave the place the sacred high, laced, vicl, eight dozen, shirts, name, he set the style of Mexico for assorted, calico, two dozen; socks, the land to be called after saints and black, wool, sizes assorted, four sacred things rather than people. The dozen.’ “They say that one of these old-fash glory of the spirit of Crusader ap pealed more to him than perpetuating ioned correspondents who reverse his own name as the cognomen of everything went into a restaurant one country. Following in the wake of day and ordered his dinner like his: “'Pudding rice one; tomatoes one; this warlike Spaniard came troops of friars, some of them pious and truly po ditto ditto; steak beef one; soup noble, while others were no more hu le turt mock one.’ ” man than the average type of men of Not Dead Yet that day and generation. A Catholiq priest, Hidalgo, occupies a prominent Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, at the Ger place In the calendar of the country’s man-American chamber of commerce liberators; while dreams and visions in New York, said about Turkey; actuated others to explore the country "They called Turkey the sick man and act up the cross. of Europe. Now they have taken to calling her the dying man. Well, Tur key may fool them yet. She may fool Bink’s Good Luck. Blnks—Isn't it about time out them like the dying man of Dussel daughter began to think about getting dorf. “A Lutheran pastor called on a dy married? She Is getting on and she'll be an old maid the first thing she ing man in Dusseldorf. Duping the conversation that ensued the pastor knows. Mrs. Binks—Yea, but she’s me all noticed that the dying man kept put over again. I was the same way un ting his hand under the bed, whence til my mother warned me that if 1 he carried to his mouth something was to marry at all I had no time to that he ate with appetite. ** 'What are you eating, my good lose. friend?' the minister finally asked. Blnks—Um—er—I suppose so. “ ’My funeral biscuit,' the dying man Mrs. Binks—Yes, indeed. I made up my mind to take the first stick answered, with a loud, bitter laugh. that offered, and that very evening 'While my wife's out I'm going to fin you came. lsh them up.*” ROYAL SHOt CO., Between 1st and 2d. 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At this point Mr. Einstein jumped Independence.—Houston Post. up and hollered: "Say, boy, vat ini tials?"—Everybody’«. Dalles-Columbia Line Tribute to the Ancient Romans. The Avezzano region was not un known to the Romans and the old Roman roads across the mountains may still be traced in places. A man beside the way of whom the distance was asked, replied: "By the Roman road it is so far.”—Thomas Nelson Page in Scribner’s Magazine. Her Way of Putting It "When I proposed to Blanche she asked me if 1 was a new recruit." "What did she mean?” "She wanted to know if I had ever participated in an engagement befor“.” — Boston Transcript. Wise Kid. A confirmed tippler remarked in the presence cf his little son that at one period he didn't touch a drop for two years. "Pa." said the little fel low. “was that your first two years?” íKOVERALLS' I ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Keep Kids Kleen Tbe moat practical. healthful, playtime firmest« ever invented for children 1 to 8 years of are. 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