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OREGON PITY , OOIIRIFR, FRIDAY, 19 1904
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NEWS OF THE COUNTY d
BEATXS CBEEK.
rs. Cooper and her siBter, of Port
. troont several days with their
her and family.
jgust Bluhm has finished his new
house which is quite an improvement
in his place.
Mrs. LizzieBohlander, who is work
ing in Portlnnd, is visiting with her
brother for few days.
The Shannon Brothers have closed
their sawmill and have started out
with their threshing machine.
The Sohuebol base ball team played
Cams- last Sunday, tut our captain
was to d 'cply interested in other af
fairs that it was impossible for him
to attend, thn victory going to Cams.
Mrs. J. B. Scoggins and daughter,
of Porland, are spending several
weeks with relatives and friends.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. S. New
comer, of Seattle, a pair of twin
boys. Mrs. Newcomor was formerly
Miss Tillio Ilenrici, of this place.
Urs. Mat. Smith and children,; of
Bandon, Oregon, are visiting with
her parents Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boh
lander.
nvr ska.
Mrs. Criswell, of Troy, Montana, is
visiting her parents., Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson of this place.
Mr. Levens and family recently
from Astoria, moved onto his new
possessions known as the Harris place.
Miss Anna Oldacro, of Portland, is
spending her vacation with Miss Hazel
Slyt.or.
Mike Bowman is building a fine
house for Mr. Dundas.
Geo,. Hyatt, of Goldendale, Wash-
igton, is visiting his mother, of this
place.
Robert Montgomery is building an
addition to his house. Newt Criteser
is doing the work.
Goo. McCormic mashed one of his
toes Tuesday while working- .in the
sawmill.
SOLAR MOTION.
?unl Koethe,
of Milwaukio, was a
in Beaver Creek last
pVi'nnt caller
Sunday.
Miss Holhcimer, of Beaverton, and
Miss Iloakoly, of Portland, spent a
wcok with (JilL consin, Mrs. J. Wolf.
Misrci Katn and Lizzie Sawyer, of
Portland, are- visiting witli Louisa
and Aim!" Stiner.
Hour Ilrurlo.i and family attended
tlio plouia r.: Canby last Sunday.
Mijjf io Herman wont to Ilwaco,
WnBh., :ir.t wfek to spend a week
with her sistur, Barbara.
' Maple Lane.
The hum of tho thresher will soon
be a thing of the past in our burg.
Oibbs & Co. started out with their
baler week before last, and report the
hay emp very light generally.
Win. Oas'jday and wife left recently
fur Sjntern Oregon, where he expects
to go 'tito the wood business. Wliilo
here no did considerable work with
a steam wood saw.
A. M'i'-is is ly improving from
the 'iiuises he received in a' fall from
the roof of his son's barn, on which
he was working.
Mrs. Gluddcn is in Porltand this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ketchem entertained
number of their friends from town
ast week, Saturday.
Mrs. Gilbert Noe and baby, of
Needy, wore the guests of Mrs. Gibbs
and Gaffney several days this week
Mr. Ilondrickg has been on the sick
list.
Misses Jessie and Lotha Jackson are
working in the teasel yard at Cams.
CLACKA1IAS.
Many people are preparing to go
to the hopflelds to earn bags of money
and on neglect the fun,
Au ice cream social was given Mr,
and Mrs. Garrets on Tuesday evening
of last week. Tho largo number pres
ent seemed to thoronghly.enjoy them
selves. East Clackamas is being greatly im
proved by the building of several new
houses. Mr. Errickson is building a
large house and a neat one is being
built, by Mr. Inghouse.
The young people welcome to their
circlo the Misses McCliesney and Lun
dy, wiio have lately come to our
burg.
Our young peoplo turned last Satnr-
.T . . . . 1 . j ; ' j -in;
uujr iiiuu lignum piuniu uay. rive
full wagons, two buggies, also plenty-ft
of ico cream and eatables found their
way to the old hatchery. The day
was spent in playing baseball, tennis,
banting forns, bathing, eating, etc,
Liaco in tnu evening with songs on
their lips, tho picnickers returned to
their homes aftor having a very en
joyablo time.
Our people are talking motor line
again, very strongly this time. Meet
ings are to be held in the surround
ing burgs for that putpose.
A Lawn Tonnis Club lias been gotten
np by our young people. All are iu-
vitod to join the club.
OMNIVOROUS MAN.
j Meadowbrook,
i Owing to sickness in the neighbor-
hood Mr. Wingflold called in his ap
pointment to preach hero Sunday.
Mr. Russell in company with Mr.
Hunt, succeeded in killing a largo
brown bear a few days ago. It will
, be remembered that they are the same
parties who captured the crazy man.
The people of Meadowbrook can now
sleep nnder their own vino and flg tree
whore none dare molest nor make
afraid. Selah.
Miss Anna Noyer roturnod home
Saturday from viaiting her sister, Mrs.
Sagor, of Oregon City.
Wo hear that Meadowbrook will
soon be supplicdwith R. P. D. mail.
Miss Larson of Portland, daughter of
! Olo Larson, is visiting her father this
week.
Troy Kay, of Ostrandor, Wish., was
called to see his sister, Mrs. Sraudhi
ger, who is Tory sick.
Mr. Wait and wife, from Easern
.Oregon, aro visiting with Mrs. Stand
ingor, sister of Mr. Wait. They re
turn homo today.
And now m tho fourth year of tho
reign of Teddy the First, and in tho
; eighth month (which by intorpreta
i Dn moaneth, in our language, Ang
it) on the third of the month, there
1 Mit forth a decree from James the
icond, who ruloth over tho Province
2 Jamestown and a part of the coun
try that . lieth toward the rising sun
whoro the almond-eyed Jap baiteth
the Russian Bear that tho inhabitants
thereof should connect themselves by
telephone with the country that lieth
off in tho direction, toward which the
star of Empire traevloth, which is
partly inhabited by the half tribe of
the Coopers and other aliens and tho
work goeth oa apace.
Reptile Are Eaten With Eigcnni
All Over the World,
Reptiles are eaten with eagerness all
over the world. Neither wunt of beau
ty nor abundance of venom protects
tnem from omnivorous mnn. Although
they suggest to us by form and motion
all that Is false and unfair, hideous
and horrid, eveu God's curse of the Ber
pent does not shield It, und from the
humble frog of the pond to the colosrfal
crocodile of Egypt they are all only so
much food for men. Old Mexicans
loved the speckled salamander and ate
It with Spanish pepper. The Spaniards
learned the odd fashion, und the habit
has not entirely died out. Vipers are
a favorite dish with Italians. The 11k
ards of this continent are a most deli
cate dish, and the Iguanas of the An
tilles were carried to South Carolina In
great numbers, the rice fields of that
Btato being well suited to them.
Snakes dud a ready market in many
eastern countries. The giant of Java,
which Infests the pepper plantations
and whose venom Is fatal, is a favor
ite. The huge boa constrictor furnishes
nn exceedingly fat meat.and the negroes
of Its native country prefer It to the
daintiest food of the white man. The
anaconda of Brazil supplies the table
of the poor, though the Portuguese use
only the rich fat It produces., South
The Little We Know About Wliero
the San I Golnr.
Can we find out anything about the
motions of our solar system? The old
astronomer, before the invention of
spectroscopic methods, could attack
the problem only by a consideration of
certain stellar motions. It bag been
found that these motions are not alto
gether casual in character, as wc
should expect, but there is a tendency
to a grouping of the motions an ar
rangement other than fortuitous. It
appears that the individual stars form
ing the so called constellations on the
eky are slowly closing up near a cer-1
tain point of the heavens and as slow
ly opening out near a point diametric
ally opposite. This is just what we
should expect if the solar system Is ap- j
preaching the point where the stars
are opening out. The phenomenon has
been compared to what we see when a
regiment of soldiers marches toward
us. At first there Is visible a confused
mass of men only, but as distance di
minishes the ranks open out until each
individual becomes at last plainly visi
ble.
In this way it has been possible to de
termine approximately the position on :
the sky of the "apex" of solar motion, i
or that point toward which our solar'
system is at present traveling. It 1b in !
the constellation Hercules. We are!
obliged to assume that our path is for
the moment a Btralgkt line. But we
mean that moment" which began'
when James Bradley commenced the
first stur catalogue of modern precision,
about 1750, and Which will erid loug
after present generations of men have
passed away. So mighty is the orbit
in question that many centuries must
come and go as moments before we can
hope to detect the orbit's curvature.
We are like travelers in the famous
"corkscrew" tunnel of the St. Gothard
railway. Trains enter on a low level
and after going around a huge curve
cut in the mountain emerge from the
tunnel again on a higher level and at n
point almost directly above the cn-
rance. Passengers while In the dark
tunnel often amuse themselves hv
watching the needle of a pocket com
pass, which makes a complete revolu
tion during the passage. But without
the compass they could not know wheth
er the train was moving on a straight
or curved track, and so we passengers
of the solar system, too, cannot know
by observation whether our great cos
mic track is straight or curved until,
like" the compass, the astronomer's In
struments shull tell us the truth. Har
old Jacoby, l'h. D., in Harper's Weekly,
CHAMPION
BINDERS
Write for Factory Cata
logue showing Superior
points on the Champion of
Champions.
The Soldier's Idle Time,
Military life Is necessarily made up
largely of loafing. You cannot keep a
man continuously at drilling, marching
or any other branch of military train-
ing for eight hours a day and five or
six days a week. You have to Invent a
great many other Jobs for him, even to
make a pretense of keeping him occu
pied. But these JobB are nearly all
"loafln" jobs, and when it is all done
the soldier has a great many more idle
hours on tils hands per diem than any
other man in the same rank of life. I
do not know whether it is possible to
arrive at any remedy for this, but, if
It is, the direction in which I should
look for the remedy would be to make
every soldier work at some other trade
for a certain number of hours each
day. The number of hours might bo
shorter In the summer, when there la
more opportunity for training and mili
tary exsrclse, and longer In the winter.
If this were practicable, no doubt It
would make nn enormous difference to
the value of the soldier jis a citizen
when lie leaves the ranks. London
Truth.
THEIR ADVANTAGES 0,VER ALL OTHER BINDERS ARE BRIEFLY THESE
Force Feed Elrvatir. Eccentric Sprocket. Gain of Power at the time when Power is needed.
Relief Rake keeps inside end of platform clear, a fault with all others. The above three features
and many others make the Champion The Only Champion.
. . rorce ,Feed Elevators do not thresh the grain a;iinst the binder cover, nor lee It stop at the top of the binder
, I . Uell,Yfr 'f positively to the packer arm, flisre is no choking at the top of the elevators. There is no grain
lost between the elevators and binder deck
othe hinder30""' Elevator 011 tn Champion Binder is warrant id to aste less grain than the elevator on any
Ask us for prices on Binder Twine, Bale Ties and Rope.
Fairclough
Bros
Agents
Oregon City.
s $i iti m
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FIRST AND TAYLOR STS.
PORTLAND
DISARMING THlGrJBB7
Catbirds and Illark Snake.
A writer in the Scientific American
says: I witnessed a pair of catbirds
making a bold defense against a black
Bnake bent on devouring the contents
of their ni'sts. At first the snake was
inclined to disregard the distressed
birds; as they fought to drive it away,
but the blows of their wings and bills
became so annoying that the thief had
to seek refuse in fliirht. On reaching
American natives eat almost every kind tne roota of tbe tree- frora which the
of snake, and vie far west hns taueht
many a fastidious palote from over tho
sea to relish the fatal rattlesnake of
our own country. Snake eating Is more
common in the United States than one
would imagine.
river had washed the dirt, the snske
started to climb, only to be driven be
neath them and then out to nn old
stump, under which tho baffled and
beaten reptile took refuge."
A NERVOUS WAIT."
Weird Senantlan When the Church
Became Totally Dark.
"I went to a Fifth avenue church la3t
Sunday night," said a man who is good
once a week, "and quite unexpectedly
got a new'sensatioH. The church was
brilliantly lighted, but something went
wrong with the electrical apparatus,
and all of a sudden most of the lights
went out Midway In the bulldlne two The island of Jamaica and the Wont
The lofnl Banana.
Immense fortunes have been made
out of tho banana business. Revenues
do not accrue alone from the sale of the
fruit, for the leaves are used for pack
ing, tiie wax found on the underside
of the leaves ia a valuable article of
commerce, Manila hemp is made from I
the stems, and of this hemp aro made
mats, plaited work and lace handker
chiefs of the finest texture. Moreover,
the banana is ground into banana Hour,
Bow Chlneae, Janaaeae and Hindoo
Boys Prepare For School Life,
Among the eastern nations the begin
Bliig of school lite is a critical time for
the .child. The priest or astrologer
must be consulted to chooee a lucky
day. Every precaution must be taken
to avert the jealousy of the gods, whose
Malice la especially directed against a
fine boy.
The Chinese father who adores hla ! time limit
ion will ta"ke the utmost pains to con
vince the power of the air that tho
boy Is of no account. Thfechild may
ve given a desptcable name, like flea
or chiitze, a pig, or, more insulting
still, he may be given a girl's name.
The boy may be started off to school
wearing a girl's dress and one earring,
and if the deception is complete this
will be the most effectual of all, for
even the gods do not care for girls Id
China.
The Japanese schoolboy wears bang
ing from his belt a little red bag con
Seduced Jtrttts to St. Loui
Exposition
The Southern Pacific Co. will sell round
rip tickets at greatly reduced rates to t he
I J a i . r-.
t
St. Louis and Chicaeo on account of the St,
Louis Exposition, on the following dates
June 16, 17, 18: July 1, 2, 3; August 8, 9,
w; septemDer a, 0, 7; uctoDer3, 4, 5.
Going trip must becompleted within ten
days from ate of sale, and passengers will
be permitted to start on anv dav that will
enable them to reach destination within the
rim limit Upturn limit nlnit Hqi !
' mt later than Dec. 31. 10O4.
For full information as to rates and routes
call cn Agent So. Pac. Co.
tainlng a brass tag with his name and
hts parents' name and address upon it.
He must have his paper umbrella and
his fan, and in a gray bag upon his arm
Is a Jar of rice for his luncheon. This
quaint little fellow has probably made
his offering at his own private shrine
to TenJInsen, the god of penmanship.
When the Hindoo boy has found an
auspicious day to begin school he Is
taken to the god of learning, Sarasva
tl. Here the little supplicant presents
his offerings of rice and betel nuts and
repeats the letters of the alphabet after
the priest. Thus he is entered Into the
ways of knowledge In the very presence
of the god. Everybody's Magazine.
Private -V y to Loan
Six and seveu per cent. Amount" on
land $100 to $3000 Also tonue on chat
tel and personal security.
For sale : The Ruasel Homestead six
mili SE of Molalla at IB an acre; the
Philip Marqusra Homestead eight miles
B of Marquam at $6 nn acre. - Plenty of
fine water a. id koihI soil on both tracts.
Also hlo k 119 Oregon Oitv. eiuht full
j lots 68x105 feet, fishily builoing place
an ior f ww,
John W. Lodbb,
Att'y. at Law
Stevens' building, Oregon City, Ore.
Ths World's Fair Route.
Those anticipating an Eastern trip, or a
visit to the Louisiana Purchase Exposl.
tion at St. Louis, cannot afford to overlook
the advantages offered by the MISSOURI
PACIFIC RAILWAY, which, on account of
its various routes and gateways, has been
appropriately named 'The World's Fair
Route."
Passengers from the Northwest take the
MISSOURI PACIFIC trains from Denver
or Pueblo, with the choice of either going
direct tnrough Kansas City, or via Wich
ita, Fort Scott and Pleasant Hill.
Two trains daily tram Denver and Pu
eblo to St. Louis without change, carrying
all classes of modern equipment, including
electric lighted observation parlor cafe din
ins; cars. Tendailv trains between Kan.
sas Citv and St. Louis.'
Write or call on W. C. McBride,
General Agent, 124 Third street, Portland,
for detailed Information and illustrated
literature.
Fi'ut Ti-eet.Vinea, Rones, Etc.
O. W. Swallow, Oregon City, R.
F. D. No. 3.
Now is the time
the Courier.
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Tear In Bnd Taate.
"That young vixen told me she wept
over my column."
"You ought to feel flattered."
"Idiot! It's a funny column "-Cincinnati
ComniPrclnl Tribune.
Force without Intelligence Is like a
locomotive without a truck or an eugi
ne Schoolmaster.
or three bunches of bulbs continued to
Shed n sepulchral twilight, but tho pul
pit was shrouded, iu darkness, and nerv
ous members of the congregation boun
to fidget.
"This condition of nffairs lasted for
some minutes until the choir had fin-;
lshed an anthem. Then the preacher
arose and requested the people to re-
main quietly seated for half -a minute !
In total darkness, when the church'
Would be fully illuminated again. With '
the words the few remaining lights
went out, and for a space' darkness like
that of a coal hole prevailed.
"It was the weirdest, most uncanny
wait I ever hud. Every man and wo
man of th 800 or 1,000 in that church
was as still as death almost. I sup-
pose the darkness dd not last a mtnute,
but It seemed to me to be an hour.
When the lights again leaped ont there :
was a sigh of relief frora every person
in thn church. I guess they an felt as
queer about it as I did." New York
Frcss.
Indies generally
this useful fruit.
yield great crops 'of
Never Weary of the IlenrlnK.
"I overheard him telling her a story
Inst night which I know she has heard
fifty times before, but she didn't stop
him."
"She Is long suffering, surely."
"Oh, I don't know. He told her she
tvns the prettiest girl he had ver
een." Clneinnatl Times-Star.
Phil Mnya Hnhltn.
The all night and next diiy habits of
Phil May, the artist, have furnished i
material for many a story. Joe Tapley,
tho singer, said that lie came across
May one night and heard that the hit-:
ter had not been to bed for four nights
and days. He .reiiionstr.ited, and May
said: "Never mind. Joe: we'll make a
bargain. Don't you lose any sleep on
my account, and I. promts? that as soon
as I feci tired I'll go to bed!"
The Ponton Girl.
yon marry me?"
he asked
"Will
bluntly.
"No," replied the Itoaton maiden. But
she added coyly: "I am not endowed
with sacerdotal power, rut your ques
tion properly. Ask me if I will become
your wife." Philadelphia Press. ,
Making- Chllla I'aefitl.
Mrs. Newwed My husband ha tn
chills and fever, but' they corn's in
handy.
Mrs. Old wed How so?
Mrs. Newwed Whenever he has a
Jhtll I put a rattle In his hand, and It
amuses the baby. Chicago Journal.
An Eloqnent Ohjertlon.
Mrs. Newlyblessod Rut you certain
ly don't object to such a wee little baby
us that? Jiinitnr-Oh, it ain't the sl.:e
as counts, mum It's the principle uv
the thing! Exchange.
Idleness and poverty always dwell
togethen and misery and crime are
their natural offspring. Maxwell's
Talisman.
The Limit.
"no's a mighty mean man."
"In vliat way?"
"Why, he's stone deaf, and he npv.T
tells the barber until he Is throujh
shaving him." Life.
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