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G OATS A N O IN S U R AN C E. O REG O N STATE FAIR Baptist Praarhing everyg.Suuriay at*l 1 ■. in and *17:90 p. m. Iiy fU v. A. C. K*t on. Sunday school at 10 a. m., A. J Caldwell, aupt. ii Y I* U at 6:90 p. m. Mr*. Eaton, president. SEPT. 2 to 7 , 1 9 1 2 (Fair Grounds) Catholic SALEM, OREGON CHI'ROH o r TilK lMM*rUI.ATB C oacxr- tion, Htavton; Kov. A. La lurk prieal in charge. High innaa aeriind jnurth and lif'.li Sunday« 8:30 a. m , Prieat'a addrnaa: HuhlimUy, Oregon. T. BoNiraca'a C a t ih u . uj G h u b c h , HuM i !■> i i y . K«v A. I.alnck, rrctorj le i» maaa K a. ni., high m «»« 10:30 6. m., Oral and third Sunday« in the month; high ina»« 10 30 a to., »!•<•• i ml, lourth and tilth Sunday«. V »» par« at eventide. Christian Service« will be held every Sunday. Preaching at 11 a. m., and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 10 a. m., Mr» W. H. Hobaon. auperintvndent. Y. P. S. C. K. at 7:90 p. m., Mr». K. L. I>unn presi- dent. Ladlea Aid aociety meet* each Wedneaday at 2:90 p. m., Mr». G. D. Thorn«», president. R. L . Dunn Paator. Methodist THE Make Special Low Round Trip Fares ONE and ONE-THIRD FARES from ALL Methodiat Episcopal Church, order of aervicea: Bible achool at 10 a. m., A. 8. Pancoaat, auperlntendent- Prearhrng at 11 a. m. and 7:90 p. m. Midweek Prayer and Bible Study, Wedneaday, 7:30 p. m. Epworth I-eague, Sunday, 6. p. m.. Clark Mace, Prea. I.adiea' Aid Society, Thuraday afternoon, Mr». J. K. Gard ner, Pyea. Paator o f the church, E. Sutton Marc. ------------— POINTS IN OREGON ' Livestock, agricultural, hor DAILY HUPS Downing’ « park train will make daily trip* from Detroit to the Hot Springs during the summer. Special tripe to the lakes. For further information w rit« J. M. Downing, Detroit, tf* H. A. BEAUCHAMP, M.D. Physician and Surgeon STAYTO N. OREGON ticultural, poultry and textile exhibits. Special exhibit tor school children. SURG EO N Tickets on Salo August 29th to September 7th, ine., with F i n a l Return Limit Septem ber 11th. For further information relative to fares, train schedules, etc., call on nearest Southern Pacific Agent. John M. Scott, S t a y t o n , O reg o n Dr. Frederick Andersen P H Y S IC IA N events. Big special features daily. C. H. BREWER, M. D. P H Y S IC IA N .A N D $28,000 i n purses for big r a c e G EN ERAL PASSENGER AG EN T Portland, Oregon. SURGEON and P H O N E IM 4 S TA YTO N . OREGON 6. F. KORINEK, ¥. S , B. V. Sc. Veterinarian A GREAT C lu b b in g O ffer Treat« all domeatic animal», alac applica the Tuberculin teat. Telephone 3x7 O ff/«» ml Stayton Stablea S TA YTO N . . . . OREGOf Wilbur N. Pintler, D.M.D. DENTIST Semi-Weekly Oregon Journal, one y e a r ............................... $1.50 T h i Stayton Mail . . . $1.50 T o t a l ...................................... $3.00 Both Papers One year, $ 2.00 Office over Deidrich’s Store Phone 2162 Stavton, Ore S. H. HELTZEL Th< Weekly Oregon Journal Publishes the latest and most complete telegraphic news of the world; gives A TTO RN EY-AT-LAW N O TAR Y PUBLIC Abstract» and Probata Work a Specialty reliable market reports, as it is pub liahed at Portland, where the market Office Over Stayton State Bank news can be and is corrected to date W. A. WEDDLE CONTRACTOR BU ILD ER and for each issue. It also ha» a page o f special matter for the farm and home, an entertaining story page and a page or more of comic each week, and it Plan» and Specification« Made and Furn- goes to the subscriber twice every iahed on all Contract Work. week—104 times a year. Room 4 State Bank Building STAYTON : STAYTON : OREGON STABLES The Stayton Mail Mountain Rank Yau’d Hardly Think tka Two W ar« Re- And tbe Anolent Shrines of the Storm Clod latad, but They Ar*. There la a theory which finds tb* Everybody know« something about lnaursncs. Almost everybody carries fll>lre o f tbe New England meeting some—Ufa, accident. Ore, fidelity, plate bouse In the mountain peaks o f Ara glaaa, partnership, burglary, marine bis. Tracing beck tbe process o f evolu or « b a t not—and many occasionally tlon. w * com* first to London, where find tbs payment o f tb" regularly re currtng premiums a heavy ta i, how tbe clean sweep o f the great Ore g a r* ever greatly they may appreclat* tb# Hlr Christopher Wren hie opportunity to experiment In steeples, and then advantages o f boldlug the policies Everybody knows aometlilng about Vanlcs, where the campanil* la a «bln Ing example o f a tower beside a goats, but f t w would think of sumo elating goats wttb Insurance er o f ac church, but aeiiarat* from It, and then quiring goats wttb a view to reducing to Alexandria, where tb* famous llgbt- tbe amount o f their premiums Yet bou«e on the Isle e f I’haros contribut a large contracting firm In Kansas« ed to tb* religion of Mohammed both City keeps a herd o f Angora goals for tb* form and tbe name o f tb* minaret, and then to tb* tower o f Babel at | that very purpose. Tbe company's yards cover many Horslppa and tb* ilkknrats o f the acres o f ground, and the buildings and temple* o f Babylonia and Assyria. A other equipment tbereon represent an alkkurat Is a huge quadrangular maaa o f brick, rising In diminishing atorles— Investment o f several hundred thou sand dollars. When tbe yards were as a child places a big block on the first established the weeds and other floor and puts a smaller one on It and on that a smaller s tlll-a n d ascended vegetntlon on the property were con aldered by lbs underwriters to be dnti- by a winding balusiraied stair to a geroaa fire hazards, so mnrb so that shrine on top. This, according to the theory, was the rates charged were almost pro blbltlve. It was agreed, however, that tbe ritual equivalent o f a mountain. If the weed« were Icept down tbe 1 Into tbe flat land« between (be Tigris and Euphrates came tbe ancestors of premiums would be greatly reduced But tb* cost o f mowing tbe weeds tbe Babylonians and Assyrians out of and cutting down tbe undergrowth tbe mountains o f Arabia. There they would bare been In itself no Incon bad worshipped tbe storm god. who siderable Item In tbe yearly budget dwelt upon tbe heights among tbe Tbe company accordingly bought a clouds, with whom they communed, flock o f Angora goats and turned them like Mosea. by climbing up and maxing loos* In tbe eitrahazardoue yards. their offerings and saying their pray And because Tbe goats now keep tbe yards cropped ers upon the summit as close a* a mowed lawn and not there were no inountnlns I d tbetr new only aav# tbe firm a large amount an country they erected beside every Lem nually tn Or* Insurance premiums, but pie a little mountain In the yard. thrive so well on the objectionable Thus the alkkurat, sad then tb* min vegetation and multiply so abundantly aret, and then the campanile and then that they bare actually returned a con tbe steeple o f tbe parish church.— alderable profit on tbe amount o f tb* George (lodges In Atlantic Magazine. company's capital that their purchase represents.—Detroit Free Tree*. DYNAMITE ACCIDENTS. la m e e f the Stuff May Remain A fter a C har,* Is Exploded. “ It 1» generally supposed that when a charge o f dynamite has exploded It la all over—that tbe entire charge baa been consumed,” said a •'bard rock” man wbo baa worked In mines. In river tunnels and other places where high explosives are used. “ Thla supposition, however, la not correct," he continued. "Sometlmo* particles o f dynamite will be blown out with the broken rock Then H becomes a menace to tbe work men. It la a favorite practice o f men wbo are waiting or resting to alt on a pile o f *muck,‘ as the broken rock la called, and to Jab Into It with a pick or a candlestick or some other steel thing, much the snme aa a. Yankee will whittle while be talks or thlnka if tbe steel strike« one o f these bits of dynamite that has not gone off, tie- cause the glycerin In tt baa started to run or becanae a fragment o f It bna been crystallized, there will be an ex plosion. The chances are that not one o f tbe group o f men sitting around will escape Injury. “ Another frequent cause o f acci dents la that sometimes when the dy naiulte explodes and tears out tbe rock a amall quantity o f It will he left In tb* bottom o f tbe drill hole, unaffected by tbe shock. I f the drill hole that re- mains happens to tie pointed In the right direction a laxy drill runniT Is likely to take ndrantnge o f it and start bla new hole tn the old one In order to make a record or save time. Tbe In stant bis drill commences to thud on tbe unexploded dynamite It goes off. Tho ateel Is driven back through the barrel o f tbe machine, wrecking It and usually killing the drill runner. This explains many mysterious deaths that have been attributed to ‘missed shots.’ " —New York ITetis. —Sure. mum, he’* a restin' me.1" - Lon don Tit Hit*. THE S TA Y TO N M A I L TANGIER ISLAND. Where the People Do Without Jelfk, L a w y e r», Horses and Cows. There Is a little lalaDd In Chesapeake bay. 126 mile» south o f Baltimore, where the world baa stood atill for more than a hundred years. Tangles Island la five miles long and much less than a mile wide, but more than 1,600 people live on It. There la only one street nine feet wide, without aide walk*, and tbe houses are all built along this street with narrow canals of tbs deep water o f tbe bay between each tw o house* Thera ts only one church, pteslded over by a Mewodlst minister, and only one doctor, and there la no cemetery, tbe dead o f eacb fam ily being buried In the yard. There la no newspaper, no Jail, no lockup and no lawyers nor any need for them. Everybody la deeply religious, and pro fanity la punished with a fine Imposed by" tbe deacon o f tbe cburcb. Tbe men go fishing and crabbing In sailboats early on AIMtdny mornings and do not come borne until Saturdays, when they have marketed tbelr sea barvesta In towns on tbe mainland. There are no gnrdcns. no boraes or cows, but plenty o f cblckens ara rais ed Fuel ts supplied to tbe Islanders by sloops, which come very month or so loaded with wood and anchor off Tangier, sending Bmall boats plied with j rordwood and kindlings to every bouse by means o f tbe little canals. Tbe wo men wear sanbonnete and go barefoot ed. and there ta an organ in nearly every borne. Tangier wns first settled by white people tn 1000 and before that time waa occupied by tbe IudlaDS. —Exchange. Barring the Evil Spirits. Tbe Chinese believe that evil spirits are able to move only In atraTgbt fines and that they cannot penetrate through solid matter; therefore the problem o f keeping them out o f a dwelling or a garden seems to them a simple matter. On passing through the entrance o f the Original ef Sam Waller. ordinary middle class borne tn China It The original o f Sam W eller was ts necessary to turn^to the right or left 8am or Samlvet Vale, who waa well becanse o f a fixed scrqpn. the purpose known ns a London comedian wbo act o f which, according *to Popular Me ed In tbe farce called "T b e Boarding chanics. la to keep evil spirits out House" and subsequently at Oovent Likewise Just at the back o f tbe en Garden theater Snin Vale wns noted trance to a walled garden may some everywhere for bis Wellerlsms, aucb times be found another wall erected as "Come on, as tbe man said to bis for the same purpose. tight boot." “ I'm down on you. as tbe extinguisher an Id to tbe candle." L ev* Match*«. "W here shall we fly, as tbe bullet said " I argued and wrangled about lora to the trigger," and "L e t every one matches wltb Miss Marie Corelli one take care o f themselves, aa the don whole day In her old fashioned Strat key observed when dancing among tb* ford home.” said a prominent woman chickens" Sam Vale died In 1S48. magazine writer, "but »he rather got tbe better o f me at the end wltb an Clean Monday. epigram: Clean Monday Is peculiarly a Gre " 'Sb# wbo marries for Hove,’ M l » clan Institution It Is tbe day tbat ush Corelli anld, ’enter# heaven wltb her ers In the great Lenten fast at Athens, eyes abnt She wbo marries without and the people go holiday making to love eciera bell with them open.' “ eat Lenten rare on the hills around tbe city, while the shepherds and country Mixed Metaphor«. people dance the ancient Greek dances "Jorklns certainly did get all mixed In tbe old temples Thla practice ta up wben somebody asked If be hadn’t termed "cutting the nose o f L e n t" some unpleasant fam ily seeaata bid den.” "W b a t did he say?" Earning a Spanking. “ U e said he wns ready to admit bla Host’s Youngest—Don't your shoes feel very uncomfortable wben you family had tbelr skeleton In a closet walk. Mrs. NurycbeT Mrs. Nurycbe- aud would make no bone« about It ei Dear me. wbat an extraordinary quea- ther."—Baltimore American. tlonl Why do you oak, childf Host’s Perilous Comparison, Youngest—Ob, only 'cos pa said tbe “ Now,” eald tb* professor o f astron other day since you'd come Into you* money you'd got fnr too big for your omy. wbo waa trying to he entertain ing. "the moat baautlful star 1 know boots.—London Telegraph. of I«"- ” Bo careful, professor." whispered Musical Trouble». Little Harold had Juat begun the tbe hostess, “ tbe lady to whom yoo study o f music, and a visitor asked •re speaking Is a prims douna.” — Washington Star. how he wns getting along Gives all the local news and happening» and should be in every home in this RIGGS A NENDEL, Proprietor* vicinity. 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