OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, DECEMIER ST, 107.
Selections
SEASONED WOOD.
Remarkable Gal In Strength Dry
net It Attained.
The effect of water In softening or
ganic tissue, as In wetting a piece of
paper or a aponge, la well known, and
ao la the stiffening effect of drying.
The same law applies to wood. By
different methods of seasoning to
pieces of the same stick may be given
very different degrees of strength.
Wood In Its green state contains
moisture In th pores of the cells, like
honey In a comh, and also In the sub
stance of the cell walla. Aa seasoning
begins the moisture in the pores Is first
evaporated. This lessens the weight of
the wood, but does not affect its
strength. It Is not until the moisture
In the subsMnee of the cell walla la
drawn upon that the strength of the
wood begins to Increase. Scientifically
this point Is known aa the fiber satura
tion point From, this condition to ab
solute dryness the gain In the strength
of wood Is somewhat remarkable. In
the case of spruce the strength Is mul
tiplied four times. Indeed, spruce In !
small sites thoroughly dried in an oreu
la as strong, weight for weight, as
ateeL Even after the reabsorptlon of
moisture when the wood Is again ex
posed to the air the strength of the
sticks Is still from DO to 150 per cent
greater than when It was green. When
in drying the fiber saturation point Is
passed the strength of wood Increases
aa drying progresses In accordance
with a definite law, and this law can
be used to calculate from the strength
of a atlck at one degree of moisture
what Its strength will be at any other
degree.
Manufacturers, engineers and build
ers need to know not only the strength,
t. . U - , . . . , . .
uui mc uranness, ot me materials mey i
use, and for this reason they are quite
aa much Interested In knowing bow
timbers are affected by moisture as
they are In knowing how thev are
weakened by knots, checks, cross grain
and other defects. It Is obvious that j
where timbers are certain to be weak
ened by excessive moisture they will i
have to be used In larger sites for '
safety. So far engineers of timber !
i .u, wunc Knowing mm smaii pieces
gained greatly In strength, ilo not ad
vise counting ou the same results In the
seasoning of In re? timbers, owing to
the fact that the large timbers usually
found In the market have defects which
are sure to counterbalance the gain
from seasoning. '
The forest service has Issued a pub
lication entitled "The' Strenirth f
Wood as" IntluciK-rd by Moisture." In
which nre showu the strength of rep- j
resentative wo,ls in all the degrees of '.
moisture, from the green state to abso- j
lute dryness, and the effects of resoak-'
Ing. Washington Star. !
Army Desertions.
Published records of desertions from
the t'nited States army In the last year
wo :d seem to show that the cavalry
arm Is responsible for most of them.
The coast artillery corps and the In
fantry are next In order, with the field
artillery showing a amaller proportion.
The engineer corps reports a few iso
lated cases of "French leave," and the
signal corps is happily free from the
evil. Of course the men In the two
last named branches of the service are
not so numerous as in the three prin
cipal arms, but proportionately they
stand as above. The number of de
sertions from the four negro regiments
In the army Is less than that from
white regiments,
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i. Gambling Houis Profits.
The statement Is published of the
profits realized by the gaming tables
at watering and seaside resorts during
the past season. The total sum which
passed from the pockets of the gam
blers into the croupiers' tills was 405,
000 odd, 13 per cent of which Is to be
claimed by the state. Vichy heads the
list with a profit of 87,000, and Alx-les-Balns
comes next , with 04,000.
Trouville netted over 47,000, Dieppe
27,000, Boulogne a little less and Dl
nard nearly 9,000. Even Calais, which
one bad never looked npon as a wild
gambling resort, made upward of 4,
300 out of visitors. London Telegraph.
Tilted tha Earth.
In a bulletin printed In Japan Pro
fessor Oinori reports a singular phe
nomenon which attended the passage
of a cyclone near Tokyo. There was a
tilting of the earth's surface In one di
rection as the storm approached and
In the other direction after It bad gone.
Both movements, registered at the pro
fessor's selsmological observatory, In
dicated a sinking of the earth where
the atmospheric pressure was lowest
The expert accounts for It by suppos
ing that suction at the storm center
raised the level of the adjacent sea,
and thus Imposed an abnormal burden
on the bottom of the ocean.
Word That Means Volume.
Italians who can speak very little
English when questioned through the
court interpreter (or, as he is more fa
miliarly called in the criminal courts
building, the court Interrupter) almost
always say "sure" Instead of "yes" in
answering in the affirmative. A per
son interested enough to make some
Inquiries discovered that the first word
that an east side immigrant learns is
"sure." It seems to answer the pur
pose of more words than any other one
in our language and Is equally adapt
ed to trade and social communication.
-Nsw York Jt're.
, . . Arabian Hypocrisy,
Writes a traveler: 'The noblest and
the basest Arabs are agreed that to
obtain as quickly as possible all the
available cash they can lay their hands
ob la by no means degrading. But
tven here subtle dialectic comes into
play. The Arab must always have
right on his side, for In studied and
complex hypocrisy he has nothing'
to learn from us. If an Arab would
rob his guest I am speaking from per
sonal experience he will first talk at'
length on the subject of honor, hospl- j
tallty, and so forth. lie will gradually !
work the matter round as to why you
are traveling, throw out suggestions
that spies, enemies and intruders can-1
not claim hospitality, suggest that he
himself Is poor, question himself aa to
whether he ought not to detain you as
a prisoner, again atate that he Is in
want, and thus shift from blackmail
to cajolery and from gentle requests
to threats, until he has extorted a
sum of money which in his curious
brain he might describe as the least he
could accept with honor or the most
be could extract without danger to
himself." .
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The Spanish Galleon. '
Primarily the galleon was but a
peaceful merchant ship, but by the
Irony of fate she became, almost from
her Inception, a center of the fiercest!
fighting. Square rigged and high of
stem and stern, broad of bow and low ,
of waist, with massive bulwarks and
forecastle, and poop three and four,
decks high, she possessed a picturesque
appearance, but little of sensible naval ,
architecture. The stem was clumsy,
broad and blunt and smashed heavily ,
through the wavea to the great detrl-!
ment of speed. This and the towering
stern presented such a surface to the
wind that the difficulties of steering
were quite formidable, and six or eight
men at the wheel were not unusual. J
The method In this apparent madness
of marine construction was the land
lubber's instinct, still strong in men of
the sea of those days, to reduce all
naval maenuvers to the stand up and
knock down tactics of the land fight on
a common platform. John C. Fltzpat-
rtck In Scrlbner's. '
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Bluffed tha Parson. j
The former Lord Elphinstone'a par
ish minister was a very scatter brain
ed theologian and In his sermons of
ten knew not the end from the be-1
ginning. One Sunday his lordship, la
his customary sleeping, gave vent to an
unmistakable snore. This was too
much for the minister, who stopped
and cried, "Waken, my Lord Elphin
toner A grunt followed, and then his lord
ship answered, "I'm no sleepln', minis
ter." "But ye are sleepln. 1 wager ye
dlnna ken what I said last," exclaimed
the pastor.
"Ou, aye," returned the peer. "Ye
said. 'Waken, my Lord Elphlnstone.'
"Aye, aye." said the minister. "But
I wager ye dinna ken what I said last
afore that"
"Tuts," replied the nobleman prompt
ly. "I'll wager ye dlnna ken yer
sel'." Dundee Advertiser.
Instead of Cutting Corks.
After withdrawing a cork from a
bottle the former rapidly expands, and
when one wishes to replace It one fre
quently finds that It has become too
large for the purpose. The usual reme
dy In such cases Is to pare pieces off
the side. This, however. Is seldom sat
isfactory, for the cork, as a rule, is far
from airtight, and In some cases will
not even keep the liquid In. A better
way is to place it on the floor and roll
It backward and forward with one's
foot, putting a certain amount of pres
sure on it After a few minutes of this
persuasive treatment it will have be
come fajrly soft and. can be inserted In
the bottTelthout difficulty.
A Rare Complaint
"Isn't it strange," asks the first man, '
"that so many men, after years of
ruthless commercial practices, plraclea
one might almost say, after they have
climbed to the very pinnacle of suc
cess, should have softening of the
brain 7'
"It would be stranger yet, infinitely
stranger," replied the man with the
corrugated brow, "if any of them
ever had softening of the heart"
Puck.
Sex and Beauty. !
Why are men better looking than
women? It is a problem which must
perplex and pique modern women, for
taking them in the aggregate men now
adays leave women behind in point of
personal beauty. London Gentlewo
man. I
Navar Before.
First Lecturer I've a great story to
tail you one you never heard me tell
before. Second Lecturer Is It a real
ly good stdry? First Lecturer It cer
talnly is one of the best Second Lec
turerThen I'm sure you never told it
before. Lyceumlte and Talent
Ona Way to Ba Happy.
The onlv wav to he hnnnv Is tn tubs
every loaf of bread at Its face value
and every pound of butter for sixteen
ounces, for the sure road to discontent
la to inquire more closely into such '
occult matters. St. I'aul Dispatch.
Why Marriage Failed.
"Have the Tlmberllnes separated?"
"Yes, I understand she has left him.''
"Why?" . j
f "She married his Job and he lost tho
Job.' St Louis Post-Dispatch.. ,
. Those who are compelled by us hate
us as If despoiled of something, while
those who are persuaded by ub love ua
Ins If they bad received a favor.
Xenophon's "Anabasis."
The
Unfailing
L(IW Vk'ght
HASS0S.
Copyrighted, 1WT, br ltomor Spnmua.
We were crossing I.ong canyon on
our way to Mussel rocks, little Made
line and I.
I took her hand to help her down
the steep side of the canyon.
"It Is such a little hand," I said
fondly, "It ought to be a wee bit
longer, though, for Its width."
"What a funny boy you are, Jamie!"
Madeline laughed. "What a compli
ment Why didn't you say, 'It Is a
beautiful band and a perfect one? "
"I suppose it Is my Scotch bluntuess,
girlie," I auswered. "If I had said
that you would have thought I was
flattering. I didn't mean to find fault
with the hand, though. It Is a pretty
hand."
We clliubed the other side of the
canyon and started along the trail, nar
row as It skirted the sand hills and
hard to follow. At Its end Madeline
was pink cheeked, and her hair was
blowing about her sweet face In dusky
little crinkles.
"I can't explore the rocks and the
caves and all the wonders of the deep
tilt I get my breath," she declared,
dropping on the sand.
"There's plenty of time," 1 answer
ed, comfortably sitting down by her.
"We have the whole long day before
us."
"A whole long dayT" she repeated
musingly. "And after the day, what
then?"
My pulse .leaped. If 1 had my de
sire I knew what would be after the
day another day and another and a
day beyond that till life was done, all
filled with love and peace and Made
line. "And how that your dredger did not
prove a failure you are a rich man.
Jamie," she remarked presently, for I
had been silent with my thoughts.
"Yes," I answered, turning my head
to listen to the throb of the engine as
It came to me faintly on the sea breeze.
That was the sound which spelled for
me "success." By the engine's work
"JAMIX, LET MI HELP Ton START AGAIN."
the tiny particles of gold hiding In the
black sand were being taken, out as no
other device had ever brought them
out, and the invention was the child of
my brain. Terbaps my Jubilation had
made me oversure.
"To one who understands the law
the demand for something creates the
supply. I have success and riches, but
neither Is sufficient," I remarked arro
gantly. . "Madeline, you are the girl for
me. I want to change the gold that the
Band gives up to me Into laces and
silks and fine linen for you, dear, into
Jewels to sparkle In your little pink
ears and at your white throat and on
yeur pretty hands. I want to spend
my gold for you as a king would give
to his queen. May I, Madeline?"
"Why, Jamie!" Madeline was look
ing up at me, laughing, though her
dark eyes held no hint of laughter.
"Why, Jamie, you will turn poet yet
That was a pretty, pretty speech."
A breath from fc -ea, piercing cold,
struck me.
"But you haveti-v aswered my ques
tion yet dear, " -yi haltingly.
" The demand wr something creates
the supply,' you said, Jamie, but I
don't llleve It is always true not In
this case anyway. It Is good of you to
want to buy things for me, but I must
decline, with thantss."
"But, Madeline, you have to work
now, and, I could no everything for
you."
The little head was raised so Inde
pendently, "I am proud to earn my own living.
I thought you "understood me better
than that"
The unkind breath of the sea struck
me again, chilling my body even as her
words made cold my heart . .
"If you could change your mind," I j
began, "I could wait tlll-till"
"Till sour grajies become sweet and
the mullierry leaf satin," she smiled.
"You would tire of waiting. But w,o
won't talk about it any more. Now
Pro rested shall we explore the caves"
I rose at once and helped hereto her
feet. Without animation and almost In
silence we looked at the different col
ored ledges of the cave celling. "We saW
the little sponges on the locks, we
Viewed the curious coal tar f Vmatlons,
and then we took the narrow trail
homeward, k
"The day has grown so cold," Jamie,
that it won't be pleasant to stay as we
bad planned to do," she said, but her
dark eyes evaded mine as she said It
I understood. It was not the change
of the day that bad come to us, but the
change lu ourselves. In our relations to
each other. , ,
Next day brought news of a storm at
sea. The sun was shining, but the
waves were running Immensely high.
Standing tu the door of my cabin,
twelva feet above the sands, 1 saw Jt
and realised my finish. My bouse and
tho bouse which sheltered Madeline
and the other houses ou the bluff were
probably not lu danger. Hut luy dredg
er! When a man stands twelve feet
above ocean level and cannot view the
open sea because of tho height of the
breakers, he clearly understands the
fate of a gold dredger or any other
object lu Its very path.
In the court) of hours It was all
ever. Looking at the deceptive calm
one never would have Imagined the
destruction .the sea hud wrought. I
stood ou the beach and viewed the
wreck of my fortune.
Fifty thousand -feet of lumber which
had once been the boat lay scattered
along the shore farther than tho eye
could reach. Ten thousaud dollars'
worth of machinery which had been
the motive power of the boat lay hero
and yon In millions of pieces, burying
themselvea lu the saud, wjlle the work
of brain and toll of bauds bad been as
nothing to tho sea lu her madness.
As I stood there a voice came sweet
ly to my ears, and a hand was laid
timidly on my arm.
"It seems such a pity, Jamie, such
a dreadful thing to have happened,
but I do believe everything that hap
petis Is for the bent if we can only look
at It right I'm so sorry, but you
aren't entirely discouraged, are you,
Jamie?"
My pulse leaped at the sound of her
voice. If I could have had her, what
would I have cared for any other loss
lu the whole world?
"There are many worse things in
life, girlie," I answered, smiling at
ber. "I shall do tho work again;
that's all. It wouldn't do to let my
self grow discouraged."
Then a most surprising thing hap
pened. My little Madeline, with a
wonderful look In her dark ryes, stood
on tiptoe ami raised her face to me.
"Jamie, let me help you start again.
I was such a little fool the other dsy.
You didn't tell me you loved me. You
Just talked about spending money on
me, and you seemed so sure of me
that I thought I knew you meant It
right, too, but I-I the demand does
create the supply, Jamie. The law la
unfailing."
It was such a halting little voice
and such a delicious little pink fnce
raised to mine. I kissed the trembling
lips with one long, thankful touch,
and when I let the llttlo girl go from
my embrace she laughed, though a lit
tle shakily.
"Would you rather have lost the
iwnii ifaujji-, unit iifuiui fmr iwrn
heart?"
And I answered, "Another dredger
can be made, but In all the world
there Is only one Madeline."
Breaking It Real Gently.
There Is a man In congress who Is
renowned In the city ho comes from
for his Imperturbable calmness on ev
ery Imaginable occasion. They tell of
him that one day be strolled leisurely
Into the office of a friend.
"I have Just had a chat with your
wife," he said by way of beginning. '
"Why, I didn't know she was down
town," said the friend.
"Oh, she wasn't downtown.? replied
the congressman. "I called at the
house."
"I didn't know she was receiving to
day," said the husband, with some
surprise. "I thought she had a bead
ache." "She didn't mention It to me," said
the congressman. "There was a crowd
at the house."
"A crowd!" echoed the husband.
"Yes," went on the calm man. "They
came with the engine."
"The engine!" gasped the husband.
"Oh, It's all right," went on the calm
man. "It's all out now. It wasn't
much of a fire, but I thought you'd like
to know It."
Nstion of Noises.
In China night is as alive as tha day
and is filled with whoops, noisy con
versation, the singsong accompanying
work, boisterous repartee and every
other unmusical sound. In addition,
the darkness is one long howl of dogs,
cackle of geese, braying of donkeys,
croaking of frogs, the squealing of
pigs, the drumbeats of the policeman
and even, as some one has said, "the
singing of the stars." Individually the
people are full of varieties of unsup
pressed, violent demonstratlveness, and
collectively they are only a terrific
tribal turbulence. One most appropri
ate name for China has never been
given it. It has been called the Yellow
Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Ce
lestial Umpire, the Pigtail Nation, the
Sleepy Giant and others. No ono of
theso is more applicable than the Na
tion of Noises. Noise Is seemingly the
first element of Chinese life and has
lccn cultivated for centuries by Chi
tiese talent, and in conception, develop
ment and execution presents not only
new varieties, but scores of new spe
cies. Cor. Montreal Standard.
' Alona? .
Aunt And have you been all that
long way alone? Niece Yes, auntie,
Aunt Then how Is It you went out
With aa umbrella and came back with
I walking stick ?-Lon ton Punuh. ,
Banker Morgan,
Great Financier, Who Pre
scribed for Wall Street's
Ilia and Fouolit Afalnst
the Fi ver of Distrust.
' 3S3
Ol'T of tlu tuhis i f distrust anil
punk lu luif invent crisis 'lu
Wall street one figure loomed
large and stroug-ihat of the
great banker, yachtsman and art con
noisseur, J. rterpotit Morgan, It was
Morgan to whom the lesser financiers
turned when the tide of misfortune
and ruin deemed swooping against
them, It was tit his mansion and art
gallery that they git tiered for confer
euces extending far Into the night in
efforts to devise means of reussurtng
(lie public and preventing solvent In
stitutions from being forced Into bank
ruptcy through lack of power to reallxe
fast enough on their assets to meet the
demands of depositors. When the tide
of mistrust seemed stayed aud the
first week of the punk passed without
the serious results to finance and busl
ties that tunny had feared. It was to
Morgan that the chief credit was given.
When the stink market was disturb
ed last spring Mr, Morgan did not take
any hniul lu the sltuutlou. lie left the
Standard Oil coterie to go It alone, re
iiicmbcrlng grimly the treatment he
hud received at '.'(I Broadway during
the troubles of four years ago. , The
stock flurries of the summer months
did not fe:ixe him In the least. He
himself hud more cash than stocks
and it whs tuidcrtrad he had prac
tically given up Motive work 111 "the"
street." lie ileicr,.( mm-h time to bis
i. I'lKIU-ONT IIOIU1AS.
rubber of whist at the Metropolitan
club. He went to Europe and bought
more pictures, and when be returned
be spent t'.txX) or so In rout for two
or three weeks of a Virginia mansion
as bis home while a delegate to a
church convention. But when the
storm broke and real disaster to gen
eral business seemed Impending the
stern vlsaged survivor of many finan
cial tempests no longer refused his
aid. He was not the possessor of the
moat millions. In that respect at least
NEWSPAPER
FIRST PRINTS
DIRECTIONS TO PREPARE SIMPLE
HOME MIXTURE.
THE DOSE TO TAKE
Tells You How To Overcome Rheu
matism with .8lmple .Recipe,
Which Is Easily Mixed.
A well-known authority on Rheu
matism gives the readers o a largo
New York dally paper the following
valuable, yet simple and harmless pre
scription, which any one can easily
prepare at home:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon, ono ounce;
(impound Syrup Sarsanarlllu, three
ounces.
Mix by shaking well In a bottle.
and take a teaspoonful after each
meal and at bedtime.
Ho states that the Ingredients can
be obtained from any good prescrip
tion pharmacy at small cost, and, be
ing of vegetable extraction, are harm
less to take.
This pleasant mixture, if takon reg
ularly for a fow days, Is said to over
come almost any case of RheumatlHm.
The pain and swelling, If any, dimin
ishes with each doao, until permanent
results are obtained, and without In
juring the stomach. While there are
many so-called Rheumatism remedies,
patent modlclnes, etc., some of which
do give relief, few really give perma
nent results, and tho above will, no
doubt, ho greatly appreciated by
Imany sufferers here at this time.
Inquiry at tho drug stores of this
neighborhood elicits tho Information
thut these drugs are harmless and
can be bought separately, or the drug
gists here will mix tho prescription
for our readers, if asked to, ,
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Pine salve Carbollsed acts like a
poultice, draws out inflamatlon,, and
poison. Antlstptle, healing. '"'Por
chapped hands, Hps, cuts, burns. Bold
by Huntley Bros.
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Panic Doctor
Captain of Industry, Art Lover
and Yachtsman, Who Had
More Cash Than Stock
When Crash Cama.
a half dosen men stood higher up than
be, but it was generally recognised
that be was the only one possessing
the brains, courage and other quali
ties necessary to flusnrlal generalship.
Mr. Morgan hates publicity as to hla
domestic and private affairs, and for
that reason pictures of blm and hla
family and data about them seldom
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mm. Mumu.
get Into print. Ills wife Is said to ba
an estluiiilile wiiiuiin. Uit the world In
general knows little nlxmt her. Her
pliotocmpli. from which the accompa
nying pit lure Is reproduced, w as tnken
while she nut Mr, Morgan were abroad
recently, and she was staiullng at tha
time with bor friend, the Viscountess
Esher. Mr. Morgan Is-fore her mar
riage was Mis 1-rsinfs Umlso Tracy
and Is a daughter of Charles Tracy, a
noted lawy er, due son and three dr. ligh
ters have I i-oii Imni to Mr. and Mrs.
Morgan, ntnl then" are several grand
children, of nli'iin the veteran tlimu
cler Is enfedlunly fond. As Illustrat
ing his aversion to rumors artists. It
la related 'that on his return from Eu
rope on one iHvtilo:l he wns greeted
by s buttery of aUmt twenty photog
ra pliers, and one of them stepicd up
and asked:
"Excuse me, Mr. Morgan, would you
mind If I took your picture?"
The financier stepHi from the group
of friends with whom he bad been
talking and replied; "What! Take my
picture? I'd rather lose a million dol
lars." WhorpuHu line of the other camera
men sM.ke up and said: "You've lost
$ t5.iMNi.iHm already. Mr. Morgan, for
we have nU.ct tirteeii pictures. " And
Mr. Morgan Joltioil hi the In nub.
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Long :
But are never short when It
comes to showing a well-stocked
store of
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Goods
You can go further and fare
worse, but as to wholesome
standard Groceries here Is where
you'll always find them fresh
and In assortment Have us for
your' grocer and yuu'll . never
lack for pure food stuffs.
Special for:
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New Crop Almonds
20c per lb.
Christmas Candles
8c per lb. and up
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