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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1906)
THE SUNDAY OREGOfc IAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER . 23,, 1906. . 43 WOW. .was . "Si MIL Types of Men who will &mpete for the Vstvderbilt Cap, ml ' y - . r - Mr . ' ;:"&i -Jyj Mx - M i. ' " ' j.R i,;J ' . TV. 1 a11" . 'N. ,W - 7 5 1 ! ft v 4. i !..v. "..v..... ? . 7. . ;. -.-,. ... . o-t... :.. ' " .. v.Xr One The man who got second place In . belongs the distinction of first placing an the Vanderbilt race last year, and the car I American car in an international race, he will drive this year. Joe Tracy and Tracy is an engineer and an automobile his 90 H. P. Locomobile racer. To Tracy I driver, and la not paid for driving. Two A Racer Without a Fly Wheel This is contrary to all rules of mechanics and makes this Maxwell, 12 cylinder, 120 H. P. racer a decided freak. One of the most Interesting cars entered in the cwV the races of this week by J. Fred the best knows American drivers, having race. It is expected that the car will Beti. driven in all the big American races, and travel five miles in -two minutes on a Three-Herbert Lytle, driver of the 120 having represented America In the Gordon beach. This car will be driven In H. P. Pope-Toledo racer. Lytle is one of Bennett race in France. Four Fryar-Mlllar 110 hOTse-power. Air cooled. Car driven by Muscoviti, who Is at the wheel. Car looked ' upon aa something of a freak.' ' ObadiahOIdway and Milking Machines The Hoaxville Philosopher Says If It Works on His Cow, He Will Heartily Commend It. HOAXVILLE, Or., Sept. 19. Mr. Edi tor; I ain't been a-wrltln' to you of late because I was kinder afraid . you'd object to my spellln", for I hain't got on to all them there new tangled no tions as yet. I've been thlnkln' that I'd get a Swede dictionary to help me out a little In readln' gome of them letters you've been a-printin' lately. Don't you reckon that would be a good idea? But to come to what I wanted to say. r want you to manage fo take a lay off and come out to my place. I'm a-goln' to have a party some of these here days, and I want you to come to it. It ain't a-goin' to be ' none of them klssln' bees like the young folks goes to in the Win ter. There may be some dancln' but you needn't join In unless you want to. It's a-goin' to be a party in the interest of the promotion or industry ana domestic happiness. As a general thing I'm op posed to parties, but this one is a-goin' to be a strictly scientific affair, and won't cost much. Manner and John took Becky Ann and Sammy and went down to Independence to the hopyard to pick hops. They "lowed as how they done so well last year they'd better go ag'in. Well, them as wants to can go, but I ain't after the almighty dollar so-fast-as soma folks is, and I ' up and told Hanner so. She said as how I stayed 'to home be cause I dln't know "how to pick hops, and more. of. the same insultln' natur'. The last thing she said to me as they drove away was, "Obadiah, don't you neg lect old Spot. Be sure and keep her milk up, for she's got to be our mainstay till we get some more fresh cows." Well, she needn't to have told me to keeD the milk up. Old Spot 'tended to that herself. Hanner and the children usually does the mllkln'. We've only got two milk cows now and they took old Jersey to the hotiyard with 'em. Old Spot has got a young calf that she thinks the sun rises and sets on, and Hanner's encouraged her in her foolishness. The first night after they'd gone, I made up my mind to wean that calf. It could drink all right if It wanted to, and so I set to mllkln' without any pre limlnariea. Well, dern her skin, I stripped 1 and stripped for about half an hour, sind then just had barely enough to feed the calf. But I was bound to conquer, and so I done without cream in my coffee the next mornin' thinkin', of course, that she'd come to it, and give down her milk like any civilized cow ought to, but I was a-makin' a miscalculation there. I hadn't more'n got set on the mllkln' stool before she lit In to klckln' like blue blazes, and I couldn't touch her. I give her a good whalln' but it didn't seem to help mat ters none, and what wlthv her ' thrashin' around and the calf a-bellerin'. It nigh about drove me distracted. Thinks I, "Old lady, I'll give In this time, but mind ye It ain't for good and alU" I let the calf in and things quieted down. But that evenln,' when I tnjed mllkln' in partnership with the calf like Hanner does, she turned on me ag'in and kicked ' like all possessed. She's - just plumb spoiled as far as I can see, but it's only what a feller can expect when he has to give in and let the women folks have their way with the stock. I'd heard 'em talkin' down to the grocery in town about a mllkln' machine as somebody had seen down to Salem to the state fair, and when it set into rain In' so's I couldn't do much but - chore about the barn, I turned the calf in the pasture with that fool cow, and got on the cars and went down there to see if there was anything to what I'd heard. I got to the fair grounds all. right, but the ticket seJTler wanted to charge me. a half a dollar to let - me in. Says I, "I don't want to see but one thing In there, and you'd ought to knock off some if a feller don't go clear around." ."Can't do it," . says he; "you can see it all or nothln' just as you please when once you get inside, but you don't get in unless you buy a ticket." Of course, there was no use to quarrel about it after I'd come- so far, so I give the money to the publican and went In. "Where's the milkin' machine?" says I to the first man I met. "In the Dairy bulldln'," says he, a-pointin' to where It was. I went in side and asked a feller standin' near the door where the mllkln machine was. "Right here," says he, and he showed me a contraption made out of a lot of rubber tubes Itched to a big milk can. "Sufferln' Moses!" says I, "you don't mean to tell me that's the milkin' ma chine! How does it work?" "Be here at four o'clock," says he, "and I'll show you.'! 1 "I didn't know what time it was, so I stayed right there, for that was what I'd come for, and I wasn't a-goln' to miss It. Pretty soon he fired up one of them there - engines that runs on the same principle as them derned automobiles and smells farther than you can see 'em, and hitched his machine fast onto that. Then he brought out a cow how I wished In my inmost soul ft had been Spot and slipped one of them little rubber tubes that looked like glove fingers over each tit. He turned on the power, and you'd ought to have seen the thing pump. It milked all four tits at once. Well, sir, it was so simple I was com pletely flabbergasted. Of course, it would milk a cow. Won't a pump suck water out of a hole In the ground? Why shouldn't it suck the milk out of a cow? It was just as easy as fallln' off a log. The man didn't do a thing but stand around and talk to me and pat the cow now and then, and the milk just went a pourin' into the tank till It fairly made my mouth water to look at It. I hadn't had any fresh milk for four days and.lt looked mighty good. I thought of old Spot anfl what she'd do to one of them machines if I'd try .to hitch It onto her. Just then' I heard some one ask if they had to have an engine to run the thing, and the man said that it wasn't necessary, as It could be run by horsepower or anything that way. "Mister," says I, "I've got a tread power down to my place that my old horse Sellm runs the chopper with; do you reckon it would do?" "Certainly," saya he. "It will be all right." , - "Then," says I, "you Just send one of your men out to my place and make a trial of It. There's lots of cows in my neighborhood, - and if you're a mind to come out and will let me know before hand when you're a-comln', . I'll have the neighbors in to see' it work. I reckon' there's at least half a dozen others in my community as will do like wise." "All right," says he. "We'll be glad of the chance. We'll be around there some of these days and give a demonstration if you can get a number of farmers to gether." "I can do that very thing," says I. "Everybody knows me for miles around and they know that I don't patronize any foolishness, so they will be on hand If I Just speak the word." He took down my name and address, and said that though it might be some time before he could make arrangements to get out there, he'd not forget, and would be there as soon as he could. He's to let me know when he's a-comin', so's I can be ready. I thought I'd write and let you know about It, so's you could be a calculatln' on eomln'. That's the party I'm a-goln' to have. I'll have Hanner kill the old Plymouth Rock rooster and make some soda biscuits and well have a good time. If that there machine milks old Spot it's a howl in' success, but if she gets the upper hand of it and kicks it all to smithereens the people ought to kpow It, so's not to get swindled into buyln" It. She's the kind of a cow a feller needs a machine for. I ain't tried to milk her none since I got home. I thought I'd let the calf get fat bo I could sell him for veal before" the winter sets in. Tours truly, OBADIAH EVERAT OLDWAT. P. S. Maybe you'd better invite some good doctor to come, too. I don't go much on doctors myself, but the mllkln' machine man may be contrary -minded. Old Spot may not do a thing, and then ag'in she might. O. B. O. Nobody to Blame Bat Yourself. . Minna Irrlniv In Leslie's Weekly. You married a maiden you thought to be rich. And found that she hadn't a dime. And, yoked to a flighty, ' extravagant shrew. Too bewail your ad lot all the time. Tou dream of a girl who was pure as a pearl, And roarulsh and shy as an elf. And think of the bliss that you managed to miss But nobody's to blame but yourself. Tou went into Wall street, that maelstrom of trade, ' To tilt with Its captains of fame; Ton dipped into wheat without waiting a while Till you maatered the points of the game. And you woke up one morning to nnd,--to your woe Tou had neatly been . shorn of your pelf, Like all of the bunbklns that nibble at shares. But nobody's to blame but yourself. Ton try to get into society's whirl. And so live in exoesa of your means. And keep In the stable a carriage and pair. And exist on a diet of beaas. Afraid to remember the 'half of your debts. And with nothing put by on the shelf. With the worry each day you are fast turning gray But nobody1 to blame but yourself. At last, when your gilded and giddy career Has come to an end, and, behold I A trembling and suppliant spirit you stand And knock at the portals of gold. Looking out of a heaven as brilliantly blue As your grandmother's dishes of delf, St. Peter will answer: "Tou cannot come In, ut nobody's to blame but yourseuV Selling of Moorish Slaves at Auctipn Ko Sentimental or Dramatic Situations In Every Day. Commerce at Marrakesh. London Graphlo. ONE by one the great slave markets of the world are disappearing; yet, within three hours steam of Gibraltar, Morocco remains one of the very few countries where the publlo auction of negroes, and other than negroes, may still be witnessed. . Any traveler wb.0 finds his way to the imperial city, Marrakesh,- should make a point of visiting its famous market, which has -recently been. attracting the attention of the pow ers. A century ago It was no uncommon thing for English men and English wo menthe captive of the Ralsulls of that day to pass into lifelong slavery . from the very same yard, large and. squalid, where I have Just witnessed the auction of some 25 natives. It seems hard to believe that while England was waging war with Napoleon the main duty of her Ambassadors in Morocco was to appeal to the Sultan, cap in hand, and with ample offerings of car riages and cannons which the Moors de scribed as tribute for the release of Brit ish crews and their wives, who had had the ill fortune to be captured by the fa mous rowers of Bailee and Rabat. Faith ful records of these transactions may yet be found in the diplomatic and Consular reports of the period. . At about S o'clock on a Thursday, after noon the proceedings of the Marrakesh auction opened with prayer the eight or ten auctioneers formed in line, calling for the divine blessing upon both buyer and seller. ' In this appeal. I remarked, the slaves were not mentioned. Then, leading his chattels from one group of possible buyers' to another, each auction eer went the round of the market, stat ing the amount of the last bid. The pres ence of Europeans is not welcome at these sales; but nothing was said to us. excepting that we were asked, courteous ly enough, not to walk about. For any looker-on to move from his place would, it seems, ' be a breach of slave auction etiquette. No writer in search of startling effects need visit the Marrakesh market. .The whole thing is, as a rule, business-like, not to say humdrum. Naturally enough, the slaves, especially the girls, are dressed in their best, and artistically groomed, and In many cases a change of masters is looked forward to with pleas ure. Somehow or other the horror we have all felt at some period of our lives evaporates considerably . on facing the re ality. It is quite 'obvious, for one thing,. that the average Moorish negro does not want freedom.' 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