Gold Hill news., July 12, 1928, Image 2

GOLD HILL NEWS, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON
Mercury*« M a n y U t e t
Where President Coolidge Will Spend the Summer
Mercury le a heuvy, silvery white
liquid metallic •Icm eiiL It Is used In
tfMruiuetere and thermometers aud for
other scientific purposes. Il Is also
used for extracting gold and sliver
from their ores (nmalgumullon proc­
ess). Its compounds are used In med­
icine as purgatives, alteratives, Slid es­
pecially as autlsyphllltlcs.
H A T the cat washing her face la today In the world has some method
a sign ot rain la a superstition for the magic control o f rain based
common all orer (he country. But as exactly upon thia same homeopathic
pussy Is much given to washing her or Im itative magic which Is supposed
face. I f It rained every time she did to operate In our current supersti­
so Noah's rain of forty days and forty tion of pussy washing her face. The
nights would be as nothing to the re­ Alnoe o f Japan wash th eir tobacco
sulting deluge.
The superstition Is boxes In a stream and the Toradjns
modified In various parts of the coun
of Central Celebes dip rice spoons In
try to read In various ways. In some w a te r; other tribes throw w ater over
places the rain comes only If the cat certain stones and In some places
washes her face before the fire ; In boys or girls, clad only In leaves and
others I f she performs her ablutions flowers, go from house to bouse and
In the p arlor; If as she washes her have w ater thrown over them—all to
face she frequently puts her paw over bring on rain by homeopathic magic.
her e a r; If she washes carefully be­ Our method Is simpler and equally
hind . er ears, etc. But. however, the effective— we Just let pussy wash her
superstition may be varied It Is, nev­ face.
l A fc r M cC lur« N v v n o p s r S v n dlcst«.)
ertheless, but a manifestation of the
ancient belief In the connection be­
W asted E nergy
tween rain and the cat which existed
President Coolidge selected Cedar Island lodge, on the Brule river In northern Wisconsin, for his summer
No goose In history has ever saved
of old.
There are two underlying
W hite House. The Illustration shows part of the lodge with the spacious veranda, and Inset the little Congregational
Ideas In the current superstition with Its down by hissing.— New Republic.
church In the village of Brule where U r. and Mrs. Coolidge probably w ill attend Sunday services
regard to the cat as a rain brlnger.
F irst there Is the cat’s connection
thing else you would like to tell me I"
with Isis— the moon— the source of
“1 believe I forgot to tell you the
all moisture and the sender of the
most Important thing of all." suld U r.
vivifying rains. Added to this Is the
Yuk
power of homeopathic magic— the
“ I belong to the oxen fam ily. And
“like causes like” theory.
Pussy
o f course, perhaps I should not be
wetting her fu r causes by this act
boastful about not being a weather
the rains to wet the earth. It Is by
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grumbler on the cold days when oth
observing the customs of peoples living
today In prim itive state that we get an o y E S . I ’ve been asked to tell my
him to show him thst we think he don't like at alL And we're happy In era are complaining, for when Yaks
are free and wild they live near placoe
Idea of the customs of our own far-
-
story," said H r. Yek, “and I ought to go down bef in us.
the too
where (here Is always snow.
off ancestors and every savage tribe am Indeed glad to oblige.
" B u t for the most (a r t we're very
"W e believe that lace and all sorts
"W ell," said Billie Brownie, " I like
" I like to think that people are In­
of wonderful things have been made
the wlnte.' too, and now that we're
terested In knowing »bout me, and I
from our hair, and you wilt admit
speaking of It I w ill sing you my win­
always like It when children come to
that It Is handsome balr.
ter song which I made up un my way
the zoo and when they ask what I am.
" It has been said somewhere that
here this afternoon. I do ho|-a you
women had bountiful hair, but good­
“It Is nice to have .wopte Interested
will like It. and If you do It w ill be
ness me, Yaks have beautiful hair, too.
In one.
a great honor if you w ill allow me to
“Now Methuselah, the Giant T o r­
“O f course It Is nice to have peo­
toise, shows a good disposition.
lie dedicate It to you.
ple Interested In two or three, but
“T hat means, M r. Yak. that I would
enjoyed the Inst snowstorm we had
when I sold that It was nice to hare
Immensely,
lie didn't complain and like to put on the top of the song that
people Interested In one I meant It
l: Is T O U Y GOOD F IIIE N D H it.
>ong for other weather.
the way I ve heard creatures talk — I
“ King Cobra Is changing his skin YA K ."
meant that It w >s nice to have people
"Oh. Indeed, such a compliment,"
for a new one, but be Is so cross. Last
In te in x e d In me I said ’one* * because
year when he did this they bad a said U r. ” ak.
that sounds better and more superior.
“W elt until yon see I f you like the
horrible tim e with him.
“ Well, we come from Tibet and Cen­
"The old skin didn't come off across song," said Billie Brownie, and then
tral Asia, and we are hitched to wag­
tils eyes and the keepers tried to help he sang this song:
ons In the home country and carry
T
Infant Spared by W olves
Carried off by wolves from Ils home
at Chandlpos, near Kuluuga. India, a
year-old child waa laler recovered from
the Jungle uninjured. When the wolves
were seen wllb their prey, villagers
started off In pursuit. They found
the child on the ground w llh (wo ani­
mals standing over IL
“ Thunder" Stolen
“Stealing the thunder" was coined
In an early English playhouse. The
material placed Inalde a cylinder Io
simulate thunder was taken out. w llb
the result that the ominous sound was
lacking when the cylludcr waa rolled.
Some one bad "vtolen the thunder."
W a itefu l Ancient»
Modern gold mining companies are
finding It profitable to work over the
tailing piles of ancient gold mines. In
Greece have been found tailings In
which tbs ancients left most of the
gold. O riginal ore bodies hsd been
exhausted hy them.
{ Story About Mr. Yak s |
K
" I f you know what 1 mean," says
Soliloquizing L ll, “the little bit of bad
in the best of us makes the worst of
us when It gets the best of us."
people about In these wagons or carts.
“W e also carry bundles and we pull
plows. We do a lot of work at home.
“Yaks give milk and from our hair
splendid ropes can be made, and be­
cause they saw us hitting flies so suc­
cessfully w ith our tails many of our
mils have been made Into fly swatters.
“I f we meet an enemy we fall on
“W e Come V ro m
Tibet and Central
Asia."
good nntured. W eather doesn’t bother
us.
In fact we like the cold, cold
weather which soma of the animals
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• Trusting in the Maher '•
-By F. A. WALKER-
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’T 'H IN K IN G , trying, tolling and
* trusting in God is all of my bi­
ography,” was the laconic telegram
which John W anamaker once sent to
the Young Men’s Christian associa­
t e o f a small New Jersey town which
wanted him to give a sketch of his
life.
h
The words seem simple because
they are such short words, because
they are words we hear from the lips
of preachers and preceptors every day
and every hour. But when they come
from the lips of a man who has mode
the m ultifarious details of one of the
biggest retail businesses In the whole
world his life work, for the better
part of a century, they take on new
meanings.
“Thinking," was M r. Wanam aker’s
Brst suggestion. It was the most Im­
portant of the group at th a t
Some people find thinking the hard­
est work in the world. They get the
habit of working without thinking In
their early years. The text books say
IL the regulations proclaim It, the law
abjures a thing and we do It without
regard for the reasons that are In
back of IL
W e learn at school to do a certain
thing a certain way. We memorize a
rule and follow IL Somewhere, awny
back In history, that rule was drafted
by a man or a woman who did a lot
of preliminary thin kin g But II Isn't
so with ns. T he rule works and we
use It and yeL If we forgot the rule
and lacked the power of thinking true
and straight, we would be completely
undone.
We seek and find employment and
the chief clerk or the foreman or the
head bookkeeper Informs ns of the
regulations of the establishment and
blindly we follow them the best that
we can.
Probably we never become a really
Inferio r jmployee; doubtless we will
Noted American Author and His Bride
I
come In time to earn a reputation
for a modest sort of efficiency; but If
we simply assimilate the regulations
on faith and do not stop to think what
Is back of them we w ill never be In a
position to w rite regulations our­
selves.
In our dally contact with our fellow
citizens we obey the law. T he statute
books say we must, or we must not,
do thus and so, and without stopping
for one moment to analyze the under­
lying reasons for the law we "take It
on faith ."
Perhaps the law Is right. Most laws
were w ritten by men who had the
betterment of government for their ob­
ject but It Is not Infallibly nor In-
vnrlably true.
It would be Just ns well for a citi­
zen to think about the law sometimes,
not with a view to breaking It hut
with a view to helping amend it If
you find It faulty.
So H r. Wanam aker’s first habit of
life seems to us to have been quite
important enough to ju s tify leaving
the consideration of the other three
to our renders.
"Tolling" that Is the consequent of
thinking and trying.
“Trusting In God," a co-ordinate of
the preceding three, for I f we think
before we try and then try, and trial
brings toll and the toll Is worth
while, there w ill be small time left
to do much trusting In anything less
Important thnn the Maker.
<(£) by M cC lure New spaper S y n d ic ate .)
him w ith It, but gracious, he'd try to
attnek them, and they had to keep on
their guard.
"As It was they ran great risks In
what they did. But they were brave
and splendid about IL
“King Cobra didn't really deserve
such attention, for they were trying to
help him and be was ready to kill
them I
"W ell, they forgave him and pul
bushes with twigs and underbrush In
hts cage so that he could rub agnlnsl
these and help pull off tils skin, but he
wasn't grateful In the leasL
“ H e Is certainly a bad creature.
“But here I am, a good creature,
end many of us have given rope, and
food and luce and cloth and fly swat­
ters. and nu eno of gifts to people, as
I ’ve said.
“I am grateful for my happy home
In the zoo."
“W ell," said B illie Brownie, who
had been listening to M r. Yak's story
as you may Imagine. "1 do like you.
U r. Yak. I like your name.
I like
everything about yon. Is -here any-
tng.
Sinclair l-ewia, noted American author, and his bride, who was Dorothy
Thompson, American newspaper woman, as they appeared In their caravan
at the start of their honeymoon In England.
The fact that every so-called “crime
wave" Is widely discussed puts an
end to It a fter a whi'e.
Through the newspapers the offl
clals and lawmakers heed the voice of
the people.
In the people they recognize their
masters, and by and by they are
stirred to activity, and the bandit
fnds his trade no longer safe.
E arly Am erican N ew t pa per
T nere Is record of the existence of
n newspaper In Hie United Stales prior
to 1728.
The earliest wns entitled
Public Occurences. It was Issued In
the year HUM) In Hie form of a small
quarto sheet.
And Mr. Yak thought the song a fine
one I
(Coprrlsbt-t
A ik Him, He Know»
Ask u mnn for Information, says a
woman critic In the American Magn-
slne, and no matter wlial (he subject
nine out o f ten o f them will hare a
beautiful time enlightening you on It.
N ew Brougham Sweep» Clean
"The new broughnm, fresh from the
factory, skidded," says a Jersey Jour­
nal story, "and plunged Into a cluster
of pushcarts, sweeping them over oue
by one."— Farm and Fireside,
4/
L egitlative “Steerer»"
<& by M o C lu ri N ew spaper S y ndic at« .)
In the senate there are 8-1 and In
the house 43 standing committees. It
Is usually the case thnt every member
shall l>e placed on one or more com­
mittees.
About Good Soups
By N ELLIE M AXW ELL
amwamamsaaauawBaamtcaam
O M A K E delicious Imperial soup
take four cupfuls of w hite stock,
two cupfuls of stale bread crumbs, two
•tGlks of celery cut Into bits, two slices
of carrot cut Into cubes, one small
onion, three tablespoonfuls of butter,
a sprig of parsley, two cloves, one-
h alf teaspoonful of peppercorns, a bit
ot bay leaf, blnde o f mace, one tea-
spoonful of salL one-half breast of
boiled chicken, h alf cupful o f blanched
almonds, one cupful o f cream, one-
h alf cupful o f m ilk and two table-
spoonfuls of flour. Cook the celery,
carrot and onion In one tablespoonful
of butter live minutes; tie In a cheese
cloth w ith the parsley, doves, pepper­
corns, bny leaf and mace; add to stock
w ith salt and brend crumbs, simmer
one hour, remove the seasonings and
rub through a sieve. Chop the chick­
en and rub through a sieve; pound Si­
monds to a paste, add to the chicken.
T
B letted b y N ature
then add the cream. Combine mix­
tures, add milk, reheat and bind with
the remaining butter and the flour
cooked together.
Very Good Potato Soup.
F ry two or three onions In two or
three tablespoonfuls o f butter until
soft, but not brown. Cook six me-
medium-sized potatoes In boiling salt­
ed 'water and when partly cooked and
the onions are soft, add a h alf cupful
or more of the potato water, nddlng
more as It cooks down, until the on­
ions are cooked to a shapeless mass.
Drain the potatoes and If a half cup­
ful o f wnter la left, ndd that to the
onions. Scald three cupfuls of milk
and add two tahlespoonfuls of butter
and two of flour cooked together until
smooth; mash the potatoes a id all
once without straining.
(® . 1 1 » . W eatarn N aw apapar Onion )
One o f the best things about mod­
ern life Is constant discussion of nil
Important happenings—and for that
the world has to thank the newspa­
pers which keep them Informed about
these happenings.
Any wrong thnt can be kepi secret
Is dangerous.
Any evil, discussion about which Is
tabooed, w ill spread.
Bui let everybody have h it way, let
families talk around the flreslde and
men across their desks, and women
at afternoon tens, and by nnd by the
evil wil! be removed.
Often public discussion of every-day
events sounds like Idle chatter, but
out of thnt Idle chatter comes thought,
and thought brings results a fter a
while.
• • •
Public talk and exchange of Ideas
have righted many a great wrong;
brought about many a revolution
against tyrannical rule, and Improved
Madagascar, off the east coast of
Africa, Is the only Island, except, o f
course, the Green Isle, characterized
by an absence of poisonous serpents.
I t’» H ere
A
scientist tells us thnt broadcast­
ing of heat la a possibility. I f he
means hot air. It Is olrendy here.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Bo»»’ Faux P a t
I
Employer— I have called you In.
Brown, to say thnt when 1 run not
here you are the laziest nmn In tha
office.
Soaring
A child la certainly a fine Invest­
ment. Its deeds form the strongest
bonds and yield the ¿rentes! InteresL
O belisk Set R ecord
Tho Egyptian obelisk Is prohnbly
tl.e best example of n large rock quur-
rled and moved by mnn.
No E tcape From Toil
By JOHN BLAKE
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F T H E outbreak of crime which fol­
lowed the w ar had been regarded as
perfectly natural, and excited no com­
ment, civilization Itself might soon
have disappeared.
But people will talk.
And their talk, even If It Is gos­
sip. or has to do only with scandal.
Is an effective force In the world.
The discussion o f modern plays—
which mny be pernicious and may
not he— will bring people to consider
them carefully, and that will settle
the problem by and by In the way It
ought to be settled.
Not Edible Shellfish
Clams found In the rivers of Wis­
consin are chiefly used for the com­
mercial production of pearl buttons.
These are large clams am) are cot
edible. They are also used for com­
mercial clam meal.
And w e'ra happy th at tba w in te r lim a
w a'ra facing.
The Saving Power of Talk
I
Learn to H ate r e a r
I vehemently linte these miserable
fears; they do not arise from the
greatness of our distrust. Why should
we fear the conquered world, when
wo have the conqueror on our aldol—
Luther, to Melaucthon.
M r. T a k , th t P olar Hear and I.
A ll taal so vary, vary spry.
Fo r wa Ilk a the cold which la so brao-
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In th e “Good O ld Tim et"
In 1078, when a patent was granted
for "a new spinning engine" one o f tha
advantages claimed for It was that
w ith It a child of three or four years
o f age could do as much work as a
child of seven or elghL— Exchange.
I f you want knowledge, you must
toll for It ; food, you must toll for It :
toll Is the law.— Kuskin.
the conditions of life since the begin­
ning of the world.
8omettmes the talk Is led hy a
speech or a book hy a great reformer,
but more often the reformer gels his
Idea from the inlk he henrs, nnd mere­
ly gives II point nnd effectiveness hy
his superior use of words.
It wns a wise statesman who dis­
covered that the suppression of the
right of free speech wns dnngerous.
T he IlrlHsh government has acted
wllh great Intelligence In permitting
people to talk as freely as they like
In public places.
Il Is common enough to sneer at
talk nnd talkers, nnd to believe thnt
nothing wns ever settled right by end­
less palaver.
Yet talk has been the stabilizing and
sane force In human history always,
and the more liberally It Is employed
the sooner will we discover the way
in which we must go to be saved.
(CoprrlgbL)
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