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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1919)
* • I t 4 • * ê % 0 * i **« m Denver Discusses the “ Evil-Eye” Hope Diamond D TDM IK y V i DEÀRL * OIL J XL Oil M oten, j C’o o k Jti/VOJ '■ 6 ' Lamp.* ri 1L ENVER. -This city ha* talked Inns unil variously shout the death hy accl- di-nt o f Vinson Walsh M«-L< on the $200,000.000 baby," at the Washing ton country mansion o f the McLean*— and about the Mope diamond. For Mrs. Kdwnrd Ileal McLean In the daughter o f the late Thomas \Val»h, ■ millionaire mine operator o f Denver. Walsh was one o f the most noted min- ' lug rnen o f Denver. lie wns the dls- {((/ & | eoverer o f the famous Camp Hlrd mine In the Man .liiun district, lie took I many millions from It und then sold the control o f It to a London syndicate j fo r $10,000,000, A t one time King Iwopold of Belgium was a psrtaor In _ the mine; at the birth o f Vinson the *#*■' Belgian ruler sent the eblld a gold cradle. Kvelyn Walsh M 'Leun Inherited a large portion o f thu estate o f her father. This fortune was supposed to he vast. Hut at the time o f the pro- hutlng o f the will It was found that ther.e wus hut $0.210,1X10 to be divided between the two heirs o f the McLean marriage— Vinson und John Ii. McLean, Jr. No the “ $2iX)/S*M*X> baby” bnhlile wns exploded. I ’erhaps, however, the Imnver gossips talked most o f the famous or In- fnmoiiK Hope dlninond. As everybody known, Mr. McLean purchased the I stone for bin w ife to wear at a hall In 1011. And the superstitious o f Denver point to the grim history o f the noted gem find speak o f Its “ evil eye.” Death and disaster have followed the atone since Its arrival In Franca 1 from India In 1038. p? /«ir < A clean, comfortable kitchen all year ’round • W ith a good oil cookstove and P earl O il you w ill cook in com fort all year ’round. Gives all the convenience o f gas, without the dust and dirt o f coal or wood. Bakes, broils, roasts, toasts— econom ically * * * Lights at the touch of a match. No watting for fires to come up, no unnecessary work, no waste. Concentrates a steady heat on the cooking— leav ing the kitchen cool and comfortable. Pearl Oil, the Standard Oil Company’s kero sene, is a most convenient and economical fuel. Easy to handle. It is refined and re-refined by our special process which removes foe impurities. It is clean burning. • Pearl Oil is for sale in bulk by dealers every where. It is the same high-qualfty kerosene as the Pearl Oil sold in five-gallon cans. There is a saving by buying in bulk. Order by name— Pearl Oil. W e re co m m e n d N e w P e r fe c tio n an d P u rita n O il C o o k s tov e a PEARL OIL (K E R O S E N E ) HEAT AND LIGHT I f you are in t h e market for B New Furniture 0 come in and let me give you prices Puritan Perfection and Bon Ami Oil Stoves ----- 1x2x3 Burner CHARTER OAK RANGES YOUR OLD STOVE T A K E N IN EXCHANGE B u y ', Sell and Exchange all Kinds of Furniture, Stoves etc. You Will Always Get a Good Deal at Richter’s F rank F. Richter 377 Court Street, Salem. Oregon STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CA.EI F O R N I A) R. II. Campbell, Special Agent. Salem, Oregon LITTL E KNOWN OF ST. MARK F acti as to History of Evangelist Hava Been Lost In the Passage of Years. MOHAIR WOOL Bring your wool h i <*1 mohair to the Woolen Mills. We will pay you more 8|K»t cash than you can prêt elsewhere, When we say MORE we m >an what we sav. ----------------------- TRY US •o * • Wool Sacks and Twine gnd Mohair Sacks for sale TC ¿ a «A» •i* Wilbur Woolen Mills Co. ❖ S tayton , O regon J * * i-* $ * * i* * i* * il* i *$•*$•*$♦*$•♦$♦ »$» *$• *5**$**$* *» • * ■ * * * * * > * '* * * * * * * * . « '• * « » « m u »»» 'r r r r * r r r * * * * r * * * r * * r » > » » r i REFRIGERATORS 1/4 of f Salem, Oregon Four Stores 4 4 4 A 4 4 « i ; 4 4 A 4 4 4 4 4 A *< * 4 < a * « U K l i A < IA A A < IA < I4 A A < I4 < I< IA 4 A 4 4 St. Mark, (he evangelist. Is helleyed to hnve been horn o f Jewish parents, deriving their o rigin from the tribe of Levi. Me Is also thought to have been ‘‘sister's son'' to the upostle St. I'eter, though M it in 1 lune cotifouuded him with John, surnuiued Murk, "sister's son" to St. Barnabas. He was prob ably converted by St. Beter. and was hts Constant nttemhint In his travels. Me Is i rmllllonally said .to have found- id the ehnrch In Aqulleln, ttml there lo have vrltten tIi.■ go-pel which hears Ids name. St. Merk 'iills m l on April ¡.’ö. though the certa a year o f Ids mar tyrdom Is not precisely determined hy the iiiielents. X . Mark's symbol Is the lion, heemise he Ims set forth the royal d.gully o f fiir ls t ; or, according to other writers, on account o f his begin ning wlrti the mission o f St. John the Baptist, which Is figured hy the lion; or to it legend that was popularly be lieved 111 tile middle nges, that the young o f the ] lou was horn dead, and after three d u .» « a s awakened hy the volee o f its sire, symbolical o f the res ti rreetlon. No Novelty. "M ow did you find the feller that runs the Busy Bee si ore '?" inquired an iii-ipmintitnee. | "1 just rummaged around till I un- ! earthed him,” replied a citizen of Sandy M itali. Ark., who had been shop- j ping In Tutnllnvllle. “ Yes, hat 1 hoerd that he was in ! mighty hut] health'?” "Mehhy «>. H e tuny have been puny, but 1 didn't notice it. 1 found hltn - asleep In the buck rem i setting on a ' keg. and wlteik I asked him if lie laid i iin.v avle grease he 'lowed he Ip'd; hnt , «an tp il to know If I couldn't just as w ell come a round Inter, «lie n he'd 1 proh'ly be standing tip. Nope. I didn't see anything peculiar about him.— Kansas City Slur. Muscular Music. "Thank goodness, now the linn has shown himself 1 iw Ills true colors, our ears art1 no longer slitytereil with the noisy tiutsle o f Hlehnrd Strauss." The speaker was Handel Booth, sec retary of this Denver Philharmonic so ciety. "I know a chap,” he went on. “ who saltl to his music teacher: " 'Professor, I'd like to take tip the study of Strauss with you. What will • It cost?' “ Dot, mein friend!.' said the old professor, ‘till depend on »how many tim e« tier piano will have to bo re b u ilt.'” CAMPERS We are now prepared to furnish your camp outfit complete with the most compact fold ing equipment that has e.ver been put on the market. You can carry a complete outfit in a very small, space. Canvas Folding Chairs Canvas Folding Tables Canvas Folding Cots TENTS. C AM P STOVES and Everything you need in Camp furniture. There is nothing mnsr that adds more pleas ure to camp life than a Victrola We are the only dealers in Salem handling Victroias and Victor Records exclusively. W .W . MOORE You (Jet M ore fo r Your M oney at M oore's SALEM , OREGON M LEARN KW FACTS Writer Criticizes Modern Teach ing of History. Important Happening* Recorded With, out the Event* Leading Up to Them Being Set Forth— Makes Heads Spin. --- • Take English history a » It la taught In an English school. We liegin with Celtic Britain. Killer Caesur and a Koinati boat.' From where? We never learn. II. O. W ell* write* In the Salur •lay Evening Post. Who la tills < Cae sar and wiry did he com«? Why <U4 he go? Why did the Botunua not ro u e again for the better part o f a century? Evidently something much more impor tant was going on elsewhere. A little way on in the »tory certain Angle*, Jute* and Saxon* rush In— aa inexplicably. Whence? Why? Later com* the Dane*. The history o f Kag land ha* the effect o f something going on upon a doormat In a pannage «Hit- side a room full of events, with severaA other d«iors. The door opens, the N«»f- tnan kings ru*h out o f the room, re *- «pier the country hustily, *ay no «no thing about some novelty o f which we have learned nothing hitherto, the C k » aadea, and exit to room again. From which presently King Klehard return* dejected. He ha* been fight ing the Snracen*. Who are the Sara cen*? We never learn. What br- coin«-» o f them? W e are never tohl. So It goes on. The broad hack of hla- tor}' is turned to Kngland throughout. It* face and huml* are hidden, and wo make what we can o f the wriggling o t It* heel*. The Amerl<-an «tory I* «till more In comprehensible. An Innocent continent 1* amldeniy inundated hy Spanish. P o r tuguese, French, Dutch and British, who proceed at once to pick up the thread o f various conflict*— Initiated else« here. Someone called the i>ope be seen to be «lividlng the n«w continent among the European power*, t ’olnnleu are formed. Wliut are colonleu? These colonies. In what I* apparently a strenuous attempt to simplify history, break off from their unknown «-oui»- ♦rie* o f origin. A stream o f Immigra tion begins from west an«! east. Tho American mind establishes a sort o f Ht- telleetonl Monroe doctrine arpl deelarea that America has n<* j<ast, only a f»- ture. From which sublime <lr«»nm W la • presently rouard to fin«! something off unknown origin cnllo«! Europenn impe rialism wrecking the world. What la this Imperialism? How did It begin? The teaching o f history In ii'c*t <>thw «*nuntrii»s !s after the same Cushion. Everywhere the teachers present more or h-ss similar histories o f passage* and «loormnts. Ori-nt events— the Ora- ■ d e g , the Reformation, the Industrial revolution—come in with a bang and go out with a slam, leaving no clew, •leaving our jioor bends spinning. Is It pny wonder if history falls hack fo r a little human touch upon «-hihlisli anec dote* about Alfred and the «-akea. the |icerlcss beauty o f Mary Queen o f Scots, and King Charles and his span iels? • 6,000 John Smiths. The claim* Hnd record otilce o f the ministry o f labor at Kew, KtiglamL which 1« now dealing veitli million* o f forms in connect!« n with unemploy ment pay, h-s eh'ctricjilly driven ,i«c- «viuntlng and tahulnilng machinery. Figures are tn n s fe m d to specl-1 enr«|s hy holes punched in certain p«V sltions and the curds are s«»rted t>r machine into group*. These group* then puss through n machine which prints the details from each card os rolls o f paper, at ah«» same time accu mulating the figiti. « and producing a total at anv given point. An alphabetical index, consisting o f looseleaf registers o f all Insured work- «>rs. con»nrrs tn.otvt«»»« names. 1 «»f wlrich th<«us:i::ds are Identical. There are 0JXM) John Smiths. 2.000 .Telia Browns, 2.000 W illiam Brown*, IJUtt? W illiam Join s, I. iksi John Macdonalds anil 1.000 William Da vie*. « Eye Drill for Flyers. The royal air f«,r«'e o f England has Instimi«'«! nn eye drill that lias -nsde many spfet.dld pilots out o f nu»n who would otherwise have been useb-ss. It wns discovered that a Inrge percentage of men only use one eve at » time, and in the early days pilots were not test ed for eye balance. Many men were then pc.-o «I Into the air service who could never land correctly. When thi'se deficiencies were i|%cover« «l a school was fr.’-tn< I and under an eye special ist twice a day airman undergoing the cur«» were |wm«lt'«l ¿or eye «Irlll an«l taught Itow to it««' both their eye* at the same time. The result wns that 'd.% j*er .rent o f the men who w«*uld have been htid i>llnts became good ones la a little while. JB ! (If!1 W HEN you have a bilious attack your liver il'ils to perform its functions. Y o u becom e con stipated. T h e food you cat fe merits in your stomach instead o f digesting. Thu, innamss the stomach and causes nausea, vo m itin g and a terrible headache. T a k e Cham berlain’s Tablets. T V y v / i l ! tone up your liver, clean out y e a r w ill soon be as w e ll as ever. T h e a i;. tM 1 you zv. ' -T V «* i 4» V * 1 Immigration Statistics. Between 17!*> nn«l tsttn the e«tlmnt- ed number o f immigrant* wns while the ln <^n «e In pnpulaiinn fr«>ia other source* was fl^?22.2.".4: l'CW-ML Immigrant* 604.12". otlu'rs tl.tJ02.i10S; tSd<Vf«0. hum I grant*. l.SI 4.2*«“ , oth.-ra 4 ,J 0 S.lik;; 1 S.W 00 . Immigri'to*. 2.508- 214, other* 5#£>.'I,23J : ISOO-w Immb grunts. 2JH 8,824, others 4.7'.t«.22fl; 1870-8«t, rmmlgranfs. 2,812.101. nth«»r* 8,285.221 : 1880-00. Inuidgninls. ÓJ244,- ttltl, other* 7.230.8 5 U 181X1-BXXI, Imn»V grants. 3,844.420. others. P.527JB»; 1000-10, Immigrants. ;t.s«t«..-tos, otb«»rr 1.171 408. F ilili TSÓt! nil Sllea ;>iisf*»a- gcr* «»nlertng the t ’ nlfrd Stn'i w en elassed as Immigrant*, hence the fig ures until this «Iute ilo not take Into account traveler« ami are In couimc svi^ueuce iuuceurule.