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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1920)
mt Scott fierald Prcctica Punctuality. No mau can be successful who la for ever late. The habit la bom with some. Others acquire It by trying to Published Every Friday at Lanta save time. They say : “Oh, the others Station. Portland. Orason. won't be there,” and so continue the thing they are at until they think GKO. A MctRTHl K........................... Proprie«» Now C. W. SMITH . AMUleet Manager everybody else Is on the job. that might be excused If the one late Entered as second-class mall mat were so tm|H>rtant a person as to Jus ter February 14. 1414. at the post tify his being late at the expen«e of office at Lents. Oregon. under act of all others. But who is that Important person? We be*eve that appolutnustts Congress, March I, 1ST». should be kept io the minute If Subscription price • - *1.00 a year possible. You have uo right to squander another’s time while try ing to save your own. An observation 4*11 Ninety-second Street shows that as a rule It is not those Phones: Tabor 7*24. who are really Inqtortant who are forever late. Big men have just es timates of time and try to live up to MICKIE SAYS then,. It's the little fellow who wants to impress you who ctuues blowing In after the preliminaries are over, can't afford to develop a habit will discount your welcome. “Ki«t of Whittle«” The first organ ever used iu a Scotch Presbyterian church was built by the famous Inventor, James Watt. It was a small chamber affair set up for tils owu use. V|>on going to Rlrmingliam to live he left it behind him iu Glas gow. There It came into the posses sion of the minister of St. Andrew'* church. For some time the organ was used for weekday choir practice only. On a Sunday in August. 1807. however, an organist of the Episco palian faith earned that denomination the name of the “whistling kirk." The shocked presbytery declared the use of the “kist of whistles” contrary to the kirk law. and It was ignominious- ty cast out after a single service. Not until lMkt was the organ tolerated In St. Andrew’s. The ancient instrument ejected by the l‘r. .«byterv of St. An drew’s Is said to be still In existence In the house of a Scottish squire near Biggar. Maybe the o verni Is suggest "Who's pantaloon? now?" How long has It been since you san a patch on a pair of pants? Nothing pays sin-h huge dividends as die gullibility of the public. TTie war on profiteers in Germany has failed. Just like everywhere else. This wireless music won't be so bad If you can turn it off when you don't want It Another reason for shipping by . truck is that the driver does his own switching. About al! that's left for poor old D'Annunzio is a job on the Chau tauqua circuit. What has become of the optimist who used to remark: “It's a good old world, after all.” Not even a war profiteer can get na much joy out of life as a small boy out of the circus. Among modern conveniences is that of being able to d -miss argument by calling It propaganda. Nobody feels caller] upon to reduce the price of anything on account of the scar ity of money. African's Attitude Toward Work. The African male has peculiar ideas of his own dignity w here work Is con cerned. He will v.ork for a white man but he will never do anything for him self if there are any women about. It Is beneath his dignity to work, lie will fish and hunt, make nets and crude im plements and canoe«, or pass away his time «¡noking strong tobacco and doz ing. but he would not think of lending his wife a helping hand. He compel« her to cu. down the trees for firewood and for his dugout canoes, and when they arrive at the spot In the forest or jungle where he decides to build his town the women must clear .away the tangled forest. To civilized minds tree felling, wood carrying and jungle clear ing are certainly laborious work for women, but an African woman knows nothing else, yet hers are much more healthful tasks than the white wom an’s. Inventions Suggested by Nature. The ram of the modern man-of-war Is the device of the swordfish of the Indo-l'aciflc ocean Its upper jaw ha« a long beak or ram by means of which ft can pierce not only fi«h but the shies of timlter-biiilt ship«. Even the plants have forestalled human inventions. Nearly everybody perhaps has won dered why the steins of nearly all plants and the trunks and branches of trees are round Instead of any other shape. The existence of tall plants and trees depends largely on the wind force. And a tree with a square trunk and branches would offer so much re sistance to the wind that It would be continually having Its branches «napped. It Is for the same reason that engineers build tali chimneys ami piers for bridges round in section tn preference to any other form. Not Appreciated. At one of the chaplaincies abroad the chaplain was a somewhat dour elderly Scotsman who persistently re sented an innovation In the service. What has become of the old-fash- A generous and wealthy member of loned diner who used to say: “I have j the congregation, thinking It would had a great sufficiency.” be desirable to have the lesson read front a lectern Instead of from the Bonebead was never as brilliantly prayer desk, presented the church descriptive as “numbskull," but the with a handsome brass one In the latter la nearly obsolete. form of an eagle. The minister, how- ever, did not take kindly to the lee- “Certain grades of coal advance.” tern, and declined to n«e It the first the uncertain grade« already having morning, but toward evening he re been high enough, no doubt. lented, and at the close of the service he astonished and entertained bls con While the war Is over, profiteers gregation by colemnly making the fol have yet to make je-ace with their lowing announcement: “I give notice conscience and with the public. that on flabbath next the gospel will be read from that burred."—Edinburgh Pirates robbed two American women Scotsman. • on a French ship, proving that you Short Ration*. can’t escai>e them on land or sea. Tn an English school the penny sav Hie man with a garden can afford ings bank bad been Introduced to en to 4x- somewhat Indifferent to the per courage thrift among the children. Mrs. Higgins had given little Arthur plexing problem of moving Ute crops. 3 cents to put In th • bank, but on Perhaps the peak of high prices has the way to school Arthur had been been reached, but there appears to be tempted and had fallen. On his re a disposition to hang round the peak. turn home his mother looked at the “Why, Arthur, entry and I said: — The way to get ahead of the depre- there’s only 2 cents marked down elation of your Liberty bonds is not here; how's that?” “Aye, mother, to sell them until the price goes hack said the boy. ‘ "th-that’s all the In'.- the teacher had!” to par. Chrrity covers a multitude of sins, but it has nothing on the so-called law of supply and demand. SEE-SAW! l-p and Down! Ilow do you stand? One always associates the “u|> and ut It” people with those who save and hunk their money. These persons know they can HANK" on the future—no "downs" for them- -always “up und up." Multnomah State Bank Lents Station Portland. Oregon SQUARE DEAL CANDY STORE CANDIES MADE DAILY SATURDAY SPECIAL CHOCOLATE FUDGE 50c per pound 5814 Ninety-second Street Lents * ■> - Come! Try Mr. Edison’s Realism Test See F. B. MILLER for Plumbing Fixtures 14/^- HAVE some slightly used Toilets YV which we have taken in exchange for new ones and will make a reduction to parties desiring same. Get Scientific Evidence Whether or Not The New Edison Has Perfect Realism Test the New Edisdn’s Realism against your emotions. See if it causes you the same emo tions as does the living artist. Test it triply. See if you don’t feel and hear the living singer —the actual instrument, or the magnificent strains of an entire orchestra. Th«1 Proof If so, you have proved the New Edison’s Supreme Realism to your own satisfaction. You know that the New Edison can give you music that makes you sense the presence of living artists, as though they performed in your sight Buy at Present Price»! You must ask alxiut our Budget Plan, the thrift spending system. It buys your New Edison now, while prices are still down. They may go up—for the New Edison has gone up less than 15% since 1914. MT. SCOIT DRUG CO DroP in and see them B. I. MILLER S226 92nd St. Shop Phone Tabor 5642 Residence Tabor 802 k________________________ y r Office: East 320 Plant: Tabor 4N2 Paving Materiata Macadam Roads CityMotorTruckingCo.,i><. 291 Hawthorne Ave, AUTO TRUCK HAULING CONTACTORS CRUSHED ROCK, SAND and 6RAVEL P lant: Kelley Rutte, 94 and Division Sts., PORTLAND, ORE. PORTER W. YETT, Contractor. J --------- P. B. KENT < ar|H iitcr Cor. 9004 Woodstock Ave. and 90th Street For EXPRESS AND MOVING < nil Tabor 3<MIV I«n iI mid long Distance Huuhng of nil kinds. ALL KINDS REPAIR WORK I.cuve Orders at Perfection Confec- Agency Itlght-Grndo Cedar Shingle« tlonory, cor. 92nd and Foster Road. In any quantities. 'hone: Lents Kit. 1721 JOHN 1. DEARDORFF States' Quarrel Adjusted. In 1907 a suit was brought by tjie state of Virginia against the state of West Virginia In the United Slate« Supreme court to compel the latter state to assume Its proportion of the state debt created prior to 1861. when West Virginia separated from the oth er state. The suit was landing In the Supreme court until June, 1915. when that body handed down a decision holding that West Virginia should pay Virginia *12,393,929 as Its net share of the debt In addition West Virginia was required to pay *8,178,000 In In terest. The court held, however, that West Virginia was entitled to a share of the assets arising from the original principal debt, and fixed that amount at *2.906.000. "Anatomy of Melancholy.” This was written by Robert Burton (1577-1640), an ecclesiastic, a recluse, an eccentric. After 30 years of read- Ing and study. It is said that h< wrote to amuse himself, and It Is an enormous medley of Ideas, mnslcnl. medical, poetical, mathematical and physiological, every page garnished with Lutin, Greek or French from rare and unknown authors. It Is the only book which Interested the famous Doctor Johnson to such an ex tent that he arose two hours earlier than his wont In order to read It. The Herald Does Good Leaflets Label* Note* Sale Bills Checks Briefs Envelopes Blank* Poster* Price Lists Notices Coupons Hand Bills Folder* Circular* Time Cards Blotter* Pamphlet* Note Heads Placards Statement* Letter Heads Dodgers Catalogue* Window Carda Receipt* Bill Heads Business Cards Program* Milk Ticket* Admission Tickets Invitation* Meal Ticket* Wedding Stationery Post Cards Calling Card* Envelope Inclosures Menu Card* Announcement* Birth Announcement* Legal Blank* Shipping Tag* 5812 92nd Street Wholesale Prices on Odd Tires If you need a Good Tire we can give you a startling price on some 32-4 and larger sizes. DON’T MISS THESE Why be without an Auto when you can have a good one with a EAGLE GARAGE small payment down and a payment each month. We have a good IN THE CENTER OF LENTS 1916 Chevrolet in good condition and a good Ford that we will sei] Phone: Automatic Lents - - 2011 way below value. It is no trouble to show these. Come and SEE TF