TIIE 3IORNING ORECOXIAX, MONDAY,
JULY 2t. 1019.
IN EYES OF MOSLEMS
Mohammed, Conqueror, Gave
Monastery Protection.
MOSES HELD TRUE PROPHET
Wonderful Treasures "Within Fort
ress Beside Mountain Where
i 1 0 Commandments Given.
'CopyriM. ir15. by th New York Herald
Company Ail Rights Keser ed.)
(Copyright, Canada, by the Now York
Herald Company.
(Concluded.)
ST. CATHARINE'S MONASTERY, Mt
Sinai, June 15. From ever new angles
one confronts the unique place value
of Mount Sinai and the antiquity of
the monastery. This church citadel
wh k more than half a century old
when Mohammed, whose home was in
Mecca, across the gulf of Akaba, trav
eled these ways as a poor camel driver.
He received the hospitality of the
monks, and it may have been from
them that he learned of Christianity.
At any rate, after he became the con
quering prophet, he gave the monastery
a letter of protection which later was
acquired by a Constantinople sultan
eager for every relic of the founder of
! plain, who left the monks a copy and
a firman of imperial protection. Dur
in the present war the monks had to
show these marks of Islamic favor and
immunity in order .to keep their ser
vants from being drafted into the
Turkish army and possibly also their
own sanctuary from being violated.
Mount Sinai is sacred in the eyes of
Moslems because Moses is accepted by
t fie Koran as a prophet and because
aIpo Mohammed himself journeyed
ftmong these impressive mountains. In
"his famous legendary "night journey"
his camel is supposed to have rested
one foot on Mount Sinai, one at Mecca,
one at Jerusalem and one at Ararat
and in proof of it there is the print of
his camel's foot in the solid red rock
of one of the heights of Jebel Musa!
Moiique "Within a Monastery.
"Safety first" seems to have been a
lifnlung motto of the monastery, for
when Mohammedanism was sweeping
ovfir all of western Asia and eastern
Kuropc in the 15th century the pru
dent monks built a mosque inside the
c itadel! The mosque is now never used
a rid its gQ.ua re minaret serves as a
chicken roost!
What the early martyrs would have
Fa id to this may be surmised. The mon
astery servants all became Moslems and
are such to this day. The monks do no
missionary work.
They distribute bread daily, five
loaves apiece to members of the Jebi
Icyah tribe, which consist of monastery
.servants, and three loaves to other
Arabs. This bread is the size of a base
ball and the color and hardness of a
mud brick. Jt cannot be eaten except
after it has been soaked in liquid. A
modern charitable organization would
gnash its teeth over the pauperization
and ignorance of the Bedouins about
the monastery; nothing is required of
them in return for bread except loyalty
to the monks and their establishment.
lAKc almost everything and every
body else about the monastery of St.
Catherine, the Jebileyah Arabs have a
romantic story. Anybody can see that
they are of different stock from the
ti'ighboring Bedouins. Their features
show it. The explanation is simple.
These people are the descendants of
20 Roman and Kgyptian slaves, with
their families, whom Justinian gave to
the monastery when he erected the cit
adel. To this day their number is only
about 500. They live as do the Bedouin,
although despised by the latter as poor
Moslems, or really Christians. Which
is rather a rase of the pot calling, the
kett le black, for none of these Sinai
Arabs are intelligently religious; they ,
know the declaration and the fast, but j
ihey do not even know the prayers.
Holy Bonf by the Stack.
Originally called the Church of the
Tianpfiguration, this shrine later took
the name of a popular saint. Catherine
was a beautiful and cultivated Alex-
andrian lady of the early Christian
centuries who was martyred for her !
faith. In a dream it was revealed to
one of the monks that her body had
been borne by angels to the neighbor
ing mountain which now bears her
name. Investigation proved the correct
ness of the vision, say the monks, and
now they have St. Catherine's head
and hand in a marble sarcophagus in
the apse of the church to be shown to
favored visitors!
A beautiful enamelled portrait of the
tii int. done within recent centuries, Is
on the cover of a jewelled silver re
liqiuyy in the same place. Within are
kept the magnificent vestments of the
church, some of them encrusted with
jewels as well as with gold and em
broidery. Kelies are abundant, naturally, in an
old institution such as this. Most grue
some of them all, though, are the heaps
of holy bones in the crypt under the
"""chapel of St. Stephan in the garden.
All the monks who have died in the
monastery have their bones stacked in
this place. First the bodies are in
terred in the earth for three years to
get rid of the flesh and then they are
dug up, and if not mummified, as ia
sometimes the case, they are stacked in
orderly piles skulls in one heap count
them, more than 1000! leg bones and
arm bones in another and miscellane
ous bones in still another. Pride has
moved in to this place, for now arch
bishops and bursars are given each a
f-lecial crypt in the wall. Sitting on
g ua rd at t he en t ranee, fantastically
i lad in si i Ken robes given by im
pressed pilgrims, is the figure of St.
Stephan, he who had a lion for a bed
leiluw, and who departed this life in
i he year only to have his bones
made a holy show throughout the cen
turics! lgh!
Monks Oner Men of Letters.
A phrenologist would be quick to say,
after a glance at the top layers of the
heap of skulls, that of late centuries
the Sinai monastery lias not been an
al'Ode of scholars.
In the early part of the Christian
era the monks were men of letters.
That is how there have been gathered
within the strong walls of the citadel
what was. and perhaps still is, the
most remarkable collection of ancient
manuscript books and parchments in
tne world. Later monks so lit tile knew
the value of these that they are re
ported to have used them for fuel.
These old writings, some of them
gorgeously illuminated, are in Greek,
and Syrian, and Latin, and Persian,
and Abyssinian, and Arabic, and Sla
vonic, and Georgian, and Coptic
tongues. Of late years European
scholars have catalogued them all and
translated many.
This was in the hope that another
such find as that of Tischendorf might
result. In 1 67 Professor C. Tischen
dorf, a German on the staff of the
litissian university in Moscow, found
here a complete Greek manuscript,
dating back to the year 400. This made
it the oldest, or next to oldest, copy
of the Christian scriptures in existence,
the other being the Codex Vaticanus.
i n Rome. The importance of such a
discovery is obvious, for all the Chris
tian world is eager to compare the
Bible of today with the translation
nearest the life of the original writers
and to learn that the inspired word has
come uncorrupted through the cen
turies. A Hun trick was played upon the un
suspecting' monks by the German pro
fessor. His spirit was that of the
ravagers of the PeKin astronomical ob
servatory and of the library of Lou- !
vain. For on the pretext that the
library was too cold for his work, he
borrowed the priceless manuscript to
copy, giving his word of honor and a
written receipt, which I have seen, that
he would return the book. Both
pledges were equally valueless, for he
carried the treasure off to St. Peters
burg, where I have seen it as the cen
tral prize of the library. Later the
emperor of Russia made a substantial
gift to the monastery, which was help
less to recover the manuscript. Now,
however, they wonder whether, if the
precious pages have survived bolshevik
depredations, they may not hope for
their return?
The oldest Syrian version of the New
Testament still remains at Sinai. Oth
ers, palimpsest parchments, ancient
manuscript lives of the saints and
martyrs and doctrinal writings, are in
great number. If the library were
more accessible they would all be
translated. It is interesting to note
the remarks of scholars upon certain
ponderous and "beautiful volumes; a
common one is "very recent," meaning
thereby some time after the tenth cen
tury. Sweet Bella Jangled Oat of Tone.
At the cost of infinite labor and
m&ny camels a great chime of bells
was brought to Sina.i in the last cen
tury. (It is to ".:e remembered that
this community of 20 monks and their
dependents are as remote from sources
of supply as if they were on a desert
island. Every pound of flour, every
nail, every pinch of salt, has to be
borne from Ecrypt on camels or don
keys across the mountains. ) These
bells sound twice daily for prayers at
3 o'clock in the afternoon and at 2:30
o'clock in the morning. They are not
piayed as chimes, but rung ail to
gether, most unmusically "sweet bells
jangled out of tune."
When they sound the monks repair to
the church for service. That in the
afternoon lasts for only an hour; the
early morning service continues from
half-past two until half-past five.
There are no seats in a Greek church,
and in this case no worshipers ex
cept the occasional visitors, of whom
we were the first for five months.
Down the center aisle are double rows
of stalls, facing the center, with arm
pieces at the height of a man's shoul
ders, and on these the monks rest while
going through the formal service.
There is something impressive about
the thought of this daily worship in
the full ritual of the eastern church,
so suggestive of that prescribed for
the Israelites, far off in those remote
fastnesses, without congregations, "the
world forgetting, by the world for
got." We attended mass at half-past
five one morning and again at an af
ternoon service.
At stated periods service is held in
the various chapels that surround the
central shrine. Once a month mass is
said in the rude chapel on the top of
Mount Sinai. The archbishop, who had
been absent for the entire period of the
war, was at Tor. en route, at the time
of our visit, and he told me that he
meant to go to the top of Mount Sinai
to celebrate a sunrise mass for the
peace of the world which he charac
terized as "very poetic, very religious,
very beautiful to pray on Mount Sinai
at sunrise for the peace of the world."
Monastery Hospitality Shown.
Wherever in the world I have visited
monasteries, orthodox, Roman Catho
lic, Confucian or Buddhist, I have found
hospitality, which seems to rate high
among monastic virtues. Never, though,
has it been so overwh aiming as at
Mount Sinai. The visitor is given the
impression that he is a godsend to these
starved lives. If armed with the right
letters and otherwise into this citadel
of many treasures there is no admit
tance visitors are met at the portal
by smiling monks and conducted to the
reception room, where coffee, cigar
ettes and arak, or date wine, are of
fered. We were put up in the archbishop's
own apartments, having a chamber
apiece, besides a dining room and a
kitchen; and, what is best, of all, a
wonderful view of the gardens, down
past the hill of the goiden calf, to the
plain of Raha, where the children of
Israel encamped while awaiting Moses.
To find carpeted floors, beds, mat
tresses, couches, desks and even a
rocking chair, here in the heart of the
Mountain of the Law, seemed incon
gruous indeed.
One cannot get away from America.
A horny-handed, gray-bearded old
monk who brought fragrant roses man-
aged to tell me In most fragmentary
English and French that he had once
been in Pensacola, fr la., for a year.
ong. long ago. Another monk. Deacon
Nilus. who is shortly to be made a
priest, a young man with luxurious
hair and beatific face, could speak in
English phrases If given time to pre
pare them. Lsuaiiy we tainea Aranic,
through Professor C. P. Russell, who
accompanied the two Herald representa
tives.
Fruits Are Plentiful.
Flowers, oranges, lemons, almonds.
artichokes, vegetables, and yet more
flowers were sent to us day by day oy
the monks. They also gave us bunches
of hyssop and leaves from the legend
ary tree from which was cut Aaron's
rod that budded, and curious geological
specimens ana little noxes oi manna
from the tamarisk tree, anu loveiy
shells from the Gulf of Akaba and
beautiful gilt prints of St. Catherine.
Bv monastic rule meat may not De
eaten by the monks in the monastery
(though there is a house in tne garaen
to which the meat-hungry sometime
repair for a meal from the flesh pots),
unless the monks are invited to share
with guests. So when a lamb and oc
casional chickens were sent up to us we
made sure that the heads of the monas
tery were our dinner guests. Indeed,
Mohammed, our cook, delighted to
serve from our stores meals of seven or
eight courses, from hors d'oeuvres to
dessert ; and the American newspaper
men will be remembered at the monas
tery for one of Mohammed's desserts,
which so pleased the head of the com
munity that he sent his cook up to
learn how to make it.
Mohammed quickly became a digni
tary in the monastery, with two of the
Jebeleyeh to assist him. He was our
"back stairs" means of communication
with the establishment. When dinner
was not ready one evening at the time
appointed, he simply sent word to the
monks by his assistants that they should
t Mrtin until he called for them! They
would praise him much, tnougn, tor nis
soups and desserts. Their end may be
the bone heap under St. Stephen'
chapel, but while they live they see no
need to mortity tne nesn unuuij.
World Politics at Sinai.
Sometimes table talk was of religion
and the monks showed a comprehen
sive hospitality toward all religious
movements except when the Roman
catholir church or "the Latins." as they
call it. was mentioned, when their 11th
eenturv rivalry flared forth. An Amer
ican marvels at mis perBiaiemze ui me
ecclesiastical controversies which raged
about the shores of the Mediterranean
aees aero.
The "great ideal" of these Greek
churchmen is the return of the Cross to
St. Sophia in Constantinople. They re
turned to it -again and again, and it
clearly interests them more than any
fact about their own monastery. They
see in the present world situation the
opportunity for the realization of this
dream of ages. As the archbishop said
at Tor: "If I could once celebrate mass
in St. Sophia I would die happy." AH the
reasons that prompt Great Britain and
France to support, as is reported, the
retention of St- Sophia by the Turks
were astutely surmised and possible
consequences thereof predicted.
SENATE TO RESUME
TREATY CONTROVERSY
Flood of Speech-Making
Scheduled for Today.
Is
SENATOR McNARY TO TALK
Continued Contest Expected in House
of Representatives Over Measure
for Prohibition Enforcement.
WASHINGTON, July 20. Continued
contents on the peace treaty in the
senate and on prohibition enforcement
in the house are the outstanding: fea
tures of this week's congressional pro
gramme. A flood of speech-making on the
treaty and league of nations Is to be
loosed tomorrow in the senate. x or
every day but Saturday addresses have
been announced.
Conferences between republican sen
ators and President Wilson, inaugu
rated last week throusrh invitation
from the White House, will bo resumed
tomorrow. The names of the senators
who will go to the White House have
not been announced.
Shantung; Reply Kxprctrd.
The senate foreign relations com
mittee tomorrow will renew its study
of the treaty. Reply from the presi
dent and state department to reso
lutions requesting information on the
Shantung clause are expected during?
the week.
Three addresses on treaty subjects
have been announced. Senator Mc
Nary, republican, Oregon, a league
supporter, has announced he would
speak Tuesday. Senator Robinson,
democrat, Arkansas, plans to speak
Thursday and Senator Pittman, demo
crat, Friday.
Controversy to Resume.
House controversy over the prohibi
tion enforcement bill will be resumed
tomorrow with the time of passage of
the bill uncertain. The senate judiciary
subcommittee hopes to report out trss
senate enforcement bill before the end
of the week.
A flurry in the senate over the day
light saving repeal controversy is ex
pected early this week with the calling
up of the 934,000,000 agricultural bill.
minus the rider for repeal of the day-
lght law. The senate agriculture
committee will take up the House
measure tomorrow. Advocates of the
daylight repeal rider are said to con
template dropping of their fight in
view of the two house votes last week
sustaining President Wilson's veto of
the repeal plan.
Hearings to Be Resumed.
The house elections committee plans
to resume hearings tomorrow on the
contest of Victor Berger. socialist of
Wisconsin, for a seat in the house.
The house public lands committee
plans this week to report out the sol
diers and sailors' land bill fostered
by Secretary Lane. House inquiries
into many matters, including war de
partment affairs, also will continue this
week, with investigation planned of
alleged cruelty to soldiers and into
ordnance and construction questions.
Further inquiry into dyestuf f and
chemical questions is planned this week
by the house ways and means com
mittee. Members also are urging action to
repeal the luxury taxes on soda foun
tain and other soft drinks.
Further inquiry is planned this week
by senate committees into objections to
t-cnate confirmation of nominations of
A. Mitchell Palmer as attorney-general
and John Skelton Williams as control
ler of the currency.
AUSTRIA GETS FULL TERMS
fCnnttnufi From Mrst Paif..
army to be retained being; under the
obligation to serve until 40 year old:
those nwly appointed acreeinp at
least to 20 consecutive years of active
service. Xon-commissloned officers and
privates must enlist for not less than
12 consecutive years. Including at least
six years with the colors.
War r'aciorlrn to Re Converted.
Within three months the armament
of the Austrian army must be reduced
accordingly to detailed schedules, and
all surplus surrendered. The manu
facture of all materials shall be con
fined to one single factory under the
control of this state, and other such
establishments shall be closed down or
converted. Importation and exporta
tion of arms, munitions and war ma
terials of all kinds are forbidden.
Paragraph eight reparation: The
allied and associated governments af
firm and Austria accepts the responsi
bility of Austria and her allies for
causing loss and damage to which the
allied and associated governments and
their nationals have been subjected to
as a consequence of the war Imposed
upon them by the aggression of Aus
tria and allies.
Payment, to Laa SO Tears.
V."'t1c recognizing that Austria's re
sources will not be adequate to make
complete reparation, the allied and
associated governments request and
Austria undertakes that she will make
compensation for damage done to
civilians and their p operty. in accord
ance with the categories of damages
similar to those provided in the treaty
with Germany.
The amount of damage is to be de
termined by the reparations commis
sion provided In the treaty with tier-
any, which :s to have a special sec
tion to handle the Austrian situation.
The commission will notify Austria
before May 1, 1921. of the ex ent of her
liabilities and of the schedule of pay
ments for the discharge thereof during
a period of 30 years.
As immediate reparation Austria
shall pay during 1919. 1920 and the
first four months of 1921 in such man
ner as provided by the reparations
committee 4-a reasonable sum which
shall be determined by the commis
sion." Three bond issues shall be made, the
first before May 1, 1921, without in
terest, the Eecond at 2 per cent In
terest between 1921 and 1926. and
thereafter at 5 per cent.
Allies To Deride Amount.
There is to be an additional 1 per
cent for amortization, beginning in
1926, and a third of S per cent when
the commission Is satisfied that Austria
can meet the interest and sinking fund
obligations. The amount shall be di
vided by the allied and associated gov
ernments in proportion determined upon
in advance on a basis of general equity.
The Austrian section of the repara
tions commission shall include repre
sentatives of the United States. Great
Britain, France, Italy. Greece. Poland,
Roumania. the Serbo-SIovene states
and Czecho-Slovakia.
Austria, recognizing the right of the
allies to ton-for-ton for replacement
of all ships lost or damaged In the war.
cedes all merchant ships and fishing
boats belonging to nationals of the
former empire, agreeing to deliver them
within two months to the reparations
commission. "With a view to making
good the losses in river tonnage, she
agrees to deliver up 20 per cent of her
river fleet.
Anatrla to Deliver Animals.
The allied and associated powers re
quire and Austria undertakes, that In
part reparation she will devote her
economic resources to the physical
restoration of the invaded areas. Witti
ng 60 days of the coming Into force
of the treaty, the governments con
cerned shall file with the reparations
commission lists of animals, machin
ery, equipments and the like destroyed
by Austria and which the governments
desire replaced in kind, and lists of the
materials which they desire produced
in Austria for the work of construc
tion. As an Immediate advance. Austria
agrees to deliver within three months
after ratification of the treaty. 4oi0
milch cows to. Italy and 1000 each to
Serbia and Roumania: 1000 heifers to
Italy. Son to Serbia and 500 to Rou
mania: 50 bulls to Italy and 25 each
to Serbia and Roumania: 1000 calves to
each of the three nations: 1000 bullocks
to Italy and 500 each to Serbia and
Roumania: 2000 sows to Italy and 1000
draught horses and 1000 sheep to both
Serbia and Roumania.
Documents to Be Restored.
Austria agrees also to give an option
for five vears as to timber, iron and
magnesite In amounts as nearly equal
to the pre-war Importations as Aus
tria's resources make possible. She
renounces In favor of Italy all cables
touching territories assigned to Italy
and in favor of the allied and associ
ated Dowers the others.
Austria agrees to restore all records,
documents, objects of antiquity and art
and all scientific and bibliographies!
material taken away from the invaded
or ceded territories.
She will also hand over without delay
all official records of the ceded terri
tories, and- all records, documents and
historical material possessed by public
institutions and having a direct bear
ing on the history of the ceded terri
tories which have been removed during
the past ten years.
Occupation Army Cost. Charged.
Paragraph nine Financial: The firt
charge upon all assets and revenues of
Austria shall be the costs arising under
the present treaty. Including in order
of priority, the costs of the armies of
occupation, reparations and oiner
charges specifically agreed to. Austria
ust pay the total cost of the armies
of occupation from the armistice of
November 3. 1918. so long as main
tained, and may export no gold before
May 1. 1921. without consent of the
reparations commission.
Kach of the states to which Austrian
terrltiory Is transferred and each of
the states arising out of the dismem
berment of Austria, including the re
public of Austria, shall assume part of
the Austrian pre-war debt specifically
secured on railways, salt mines and
other property, the amount ot be fixed
by the reparations commission. The
unsecured bonded pre-war debt of the
former empire shall be distributed by
the reparatons commission in the pro
portion that the revenues for the three
years before the war of separated terri
tory bore to those of the empire, ex
cluding Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Iteaponslbillty Laid Pow.
No territory formerly part of the
empire, except the republic of Austria,
shall carry with It any obligation in
respect of the war debt of the former
Austrian government, but neither me
governments of thoe territories nor
the nationals shall have recourse
against any other state including Aus
tria. In resoect of war debt bonds held
within their respective territories by
themselves or their nationals.
The war debt held outside the for
mer empire shall be a charge on the
renublic of Austria alone. All war
securities shall bo stamped within two
months with the stamp of the state
taking them "P. replaced hy certifi
cates and settlement made to ine
reparations commission.
The currency notes of the former
Austro-Ilungarian bank circulating In
the separated territory shall be stamped
within two months by the new govern
ments of tho various territories with
their own stamp, replaced with 12
months by a new currency and turned
over within 14 months to the repara
tion commission. The hank Itself shall
be liquidated as from the day after the
signature of the treaty by the repara
tions commission.
Rights to Re Renounced.
States to which Austrian territory
was transferred and states arising
from tho dismemberment or Austria
shall acquire all property within their
territories of the old or new Austrian
governments, including that of tho
former royal family. Tho value Is to
be assessed by the reparations commis
sion and credited to Austria on the rep
aration account.
Austria renounces all rights as to all
International, financial or commercial
organizations in allied countries. Ger
many. Hungary. Bulgaria, Turkey or
the former Russian empire. She agrees
to expropriate on demand of th repara
tions commission any rights of her na
tionals In any public utility or conces
sion In these territories, in separated
districts and in mandatory and to trans
fer them to the commlsslou within six
months and to hold herself responsible
for Indemnifying her nationals so dis
possessed. She agrees also to deliver within one
month the gold deposited as security
for the Ottoman debt; renounce any
benefits accruing from th c-treaties of
Bucharest and Brest-Lltovsk, and
transfer to the allied and associate gov
ernments all claims against ner iormcr
allies.
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ably will be piven out every two days.
Kx-ervio men receive ballots to fill
out at the time thry obtain their vic
tory medal h. A separate otrtw vote s
being: kept In which civilians can cast
t heir ballots. J udfte Morrow of the
circuit court wan one of those canting
a vote on Saturday.
terious about the old brit k chimney of
the ilia pa hotel, now m t he process
of being wrecked. Jack Urill wondered
when the flue would fall. last week hi
dufr bencat h it and it fell, covering
him up- Ne ikIi horn rrncurd hi in from
the debris, yet. found him unhurt.
Marines anil Sailors Who l-'ought In
A. K. h Can Have lironxc
I ns.nla, I Decision.
A bhipment of II30 silver Victory but
tons. Issued by the government to those
wounded in action, is expected at the
local general army recruiting station
some time today. There is no supply
of bronze buttons. Riven to all those
who were In the service, on hand, but
a shipment of 5000 will arrive some
time during the week.
Marines and naval men who nerved
with the American expeditionary forces
in France will receive the Victory but
tons, arcor4linu to the decision of Lieu-tent-
.'oloii' Sloan, executive officer at
t he recruit in Mat ion. The war de
partment ord r reads that anyone who
nerved with the army is entitled to the
mark of distinction, and on the strength
of that phrase, marines who were in
the 2d dt vision, and naval men who
were in the army artillery, can obtain
the buttons at the recruiilnjr office.
Third and ak streets. Charles I5. Wal
lace of Milwnukie. a marine who was
wounded on the Chanipapne front, wis
the first to draw a siFver button.
Many wacers are bifns made on the
straw vol, now be inn conducted at
the recruiting station. Two well-known
Portland men yesterday bet on the pro
hibition ballot, which at the end of last
week's volitiR. stood three votes in the
lavl for a national state of dryness.
A not her waper which has been la id is
on the disposition of the former kaiser.
Ballots rajtt by the men who were in
France and who suffered the real hard
ships of war. in nine cases out of im
have favored the death penalty for
Wllhelm.
As the count of the ballots mu.-t be
made after the offices have closed for
the day, recruiting officials say that It
1 will be Impossible to render a dally
rnrt. in tne nnure ine resunw pmn.
8. 4fc H. rreea stamps for east.
Holman Fuel Co.. Main 353. A B363.
Block wood, short alabwood. Rock
fiprin&rs and Utah coal; aawduaU Adf.
Read The Orfennlun classified ads.
PROJECT DATA COMPLETE
Grants Fas Irrigation District to
Be Inspoctc-d.
SALKM. Or.. July SO. Special. ) At-torney-Ueneral
Brown today Issued a
Ktatrment to the effect that the data
furnished the state Irricatlon securities
commlKxion by the Uranta I'arn Irrita
tion district, now in course of projec
tion, were the most complete prepared
hy any project of its kind in the state.
The data were received by the commis
sion from H. D. Norton of ttranta 1'ass.
The Clrants Pass Irrigation district
has asked for certification of 160.000
bonds. The mttorney-iceneral and su
perintendent of bank will visit the
property this week to make the neces
sary appraisement.
Wheal I'rot-pccts at Albany .oocl.
ALBANY. Or.. July 20. (Ppec-ial.)
t'onsiderable of the fall wheat of Linn
county Is now cut and threshing will
begin soon. In some sections the ma
chines will begin work this week. The
best yield in this section of the Ftat
In a sreal many years is expected.
Chimney Mystery Solved.
SOUTH BEND, Wash.. July 10. Spe
cial.! Like the hanging gardens of
Hnbyln there was something mvs-
MANY TAKE RIDE IN PLANE
SMrt I - Popu la r in a lent a ml 1 -
Driuinc l,rgc C rowd-.
SALK.M. Or.. July . (Special.)
Lieutenant K. Kransren of Portland
and Harold L Cook f Salem, both
umiir the plane owned by Lieutenant
Floya U&owne. today rc.-umcd flichts
here on a commercial ha Ms. Man
Salem people have contracted to inakr
flights and the aviators were kept busy
durintr the t-ntire day.
Other than beinjj a, commercial ad
vantage to Salem the industry hah
added considerably to the achieve
ments of the Ureal Commercial club,
which was teponMble for obtain. n
the plane and MabltKhtn; Olcott fi :li.
I,lnn' orn Out lmk looi! .
ALBANY, Or.. July n. (Special.)
More corn .- beinir crown In Linn coun
ty this year than ever before. This is
due to the incrcatc in number tf silo
as the corn Is beincr crown for ensilaaxc
A (Treat many farmers have devoted
quite an acreape to corn this year and
generally the pro-pects for a bic croi
are good.
The fir-t American supension bridce
was erected in 1M1 by Jamri FinU
across Jacobs creek. Westmoreland
county. Pennsylvania. It had a pau of
7n feet and eo-i moo
3 1 LB ERT SAYS:
"xou can i iane a va
cation from music if
you want to."
The Language of
The League of Nations
Is Music
There is .no harmony in a tin can.
The most perfect musical instru
ment is a good piano.
PRICE THEM COMPARE THEM
Anywhere and You Will
BUY HERE
More for your money.
hardldsgilbert
! 1 PIANOS
My economy is your economy.
Only One
The
trlour!
Yes, that's all ft takes to do a bit: wash
ine In your own home with a
Electric Washing Machine
This wonderful mechanical wash woman
Rets the clothes cleaner in halt the time
it takes to do them by hand. Pays for
Itself by taviiiff the wages of a laundress
time, labor and wear on the clothes.
There Is tio hand rubbing, no hand wring
Ins the Thor dot? a all the hard work.
Two cents ma aour tor ma eic
trio current.
$10 Down
On these small payments you can afford
a Thor In fact you pay for a Thor at
the name cost as your laundry. Come
tn and see this wonderful machine,
phone Broadway 2 for free demon
tration la your Home.
Smith-McCoy
Electric Co.
t-l WASHINUTOS ST.
S n ' B w W
g snopping mews
for Today
Will Be Found on
w a , 1 '
the Back Page
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Tne QuALrry StoXp of Pcwtlamd
Voa will cnloy cap of
NURAVft TEA
Closset Sc Devers - Portland
- and in NewYbrk
At many important clubs
and hotels in New York.
Fatima is the leading cig
arette. Typical among the
hotels are:
Astob McAlfix
BtxatOHT Netherlands
BrLTMOlB PAC AVF.NI E
Kniceekboceeb Pennsylvania
Manhattan Vandeebilt
"jiu noufk Turkish"