- F ”* ’ . v*; THE W EST ‘ . j YOUR HOHE PAPER’’ f S L P fC K T FT S FLORENCE, OREGON, FRIDAY, Dec L. IX. ■NERAL D IR EC TO R Y T R A V E L E R S ’ GUIDE. TR A V ELER S' GUIDE ram -------------------------- ST A T E O F F IC E R S S T E A M ER " M I N K / '' o — W ill m ake’*------- o REGULAR r of S ate.............H. R. Kincaid. jr ......... Philip Metchen blic Instruction.. ..G. M. Irwin. nter........................ W. IL Leeds ¡General........... C. M. Idleman. ( ................. R. 8. Bean Court < ...............F. A. Moore 1 ...C . E. Wolverton cond District. .J. W. Hamilton Ing Attorney. .Geo. M. Brown _____________ D A IL Y JL P H D I3S T E K in S T A O K L.INB3. T R IP S -----B etw een ------ Florence and Head of Tide. . H . B a rre tt, P ro p ’r, Flore nc* Mondays, i.Wcdnes- d n j-sVfltLErid a y a. Arrives nt Florence Tuesdays Thurs days and Saturdays. Connects with Steamer and Scotte. burg Stage Line for Draw. Also with Stage Line for Coos Buy. Charges reasonable. MIENS ON WARSHIPS. — e ------ JUPERSTITION» WHICH GOVERN OLO SALTS OF THE NAVY. P a in ? W h ic h M a y W o rk A ll /-> th a B a c k ? Then probably tho Liineys. , t . i th o G h o s t? I Then probably the lungs. « i.i Sort« o f M a .t Bo Evil. ’ on C a re fu lly H oard and W h ic h O oardod A sataat. Tho T a tto olD « H a b it. S The most picturesque superstitions of the seas are those which govern a mod- ru man-o’-war. Every old salt iu the tavy believes in hoodoos and spells which may work all sorts of evils on bis ship and must bo carcfnlly guarded «gainst. The powers of a ship's hoodoos com mence before the ship has entered the water. It is a generally accepted snper- R Itition that if tho first blow which is iU N T Y O FFICERS- Crock the keel brings sparks the ship la destined to suffer from a raking flro & from the enemy. E. Bangs, Proprietor, i Tho old time practice of stealing * piece of wood and imbedding it iu the Stage leaves Eugene daily e x - ! f ....... . .. W. T. Bailey prow for good luck is, of course. Impos jbners -< . H. D. Edwards sible iu the case of steel ships, though cept Sundays, at 0 a. nt., arrivin g ; it is considered lucky to have a piece of ......... E. U. Lee ! at Florence the day following stolen wood on board. Sleeping Cars . W. W. Withers ■ Another old superstition is satisfied at 10 a. m. j Elegant by placing a silver coin in some crevice .A. S. Patterson R eturning-stage leaves F lo r - ; of tho fighting top of the mainmast or Willamette St., E D ining Cars .. ,D. P. Burton some place below docks where it touches ence daily, except Sundays at 2 the steel mast. Originally it was a very Eugene, foerintemleiit .. W. M. Miller Tourist common custom to imbed a silver coin, Sleeping Cars p. ni., arriving in Eugene the day j Immediately afterapplying it yoa B}.................. . . . ,C. M. Collier and preferably a Spanish coin, in the Lane Co., Ore. feel its soothing, warmin», strength following at 9 p. m. 8 T . PAUL W. P. Cheshire wooden steps near the mast. ening power. Figureheads have been in high favor M IN N E A P O L IS It quiets congestion; draws out {¡Peace ........ . ..C . H. Holden inflammation. with sailors from remote antiquity. Single fare - - - - 85.00 DULUTH . . . . E. A. Evans Originally they were carved to repre It fa n new plaster. Round trip - - - - $9.00 FARGO sent some god or saint. Even today a O RANO FO R K S Tickets for sale at E. B angs’ sailor would hesitate to sail on an iron TO A re v combination of new GRAVE O F PATRICK HEN RY . clad without such protection. remedies. Made after new CRO O K STO N 00»] livery barn, Eugene, and a t O. W. ■ T Y O FFIC E R S. methods. Entirely unlike any The ceremony of launching a ship is Gtutrlotto, tor 20 years k tt la W IN NIPEG ether plaster. merely a concession to an old supersti H u rd ’s office in Florence. much W h e r e H e U v e tt. T'..e Triumph c f Modern Medical tion. The various formalities of ship H E L E N A <unt Every now and then we see in some He wi Science. christening have been followed with W. H. Weatherson The Perfected Product of years of newspaper the query, “ Where is Pat who had been BUT TE T h e F u n k & W a g n a lls little variation for tenturies. Tatient Toil. trade. They O. IV. Hurd In the early days of shipbuilding it rick Henry buried?" and tourists in father, in tol Placed over tho che’ t it is a Richmond constantly ask to be shown Win. Kyle was the custom for the captaiu and tho powerful rid to Ayer's Cherry Pec Trustees pleasure at L. Christensen crew to eat their first meal stowed away his grave, with the mistaken idea that said be oould toral in tho treatment cf ail throat TO M. Morris C H IC A C O and lung ejections. in the mold loft. Their meal invariably it is in that city, whore innch of his just as well as -j. Of The riacej evor the stomach, it stops consisted of eggs and sulphur From public career was passed. Few people “ U m -m P ’ M id .John H. Morris W A S H IN G T O N nausea end vomiting; over the this custom has come the present day comparatively know that the man who enme to say tl E N G L IS H LA N G U A G E acquired the title of “ The Tongue of bowels, it controls cramps and colic. P H IL A D E L P H IA practice of providing cakes and wine piece, bnt I’ll Placed over the small of Ihe back, for the crew. And the old libation the Revolution" lies in a quiet grave betwtet those ,G.*C. Campton N E W Y O R K it removes all congestion from the COM PLETE on the estate in Charlotte county where which the priests used to pour over the kidneys and greatly etreajtheos just the right BO ATun AND A LL prow of the ship as she slipped into the he formerly lived. Over it is a marble good job, h a t weakness. S U C C IE N T For sale by all Druggists.* -Jk water has been replaced by the break slab inscribed with one line, “ B isfam e be needs, be P O IN T S E A 8 T nod 8 O U T H his best epitaph. " >RET S O C IE T IE S . J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. ing of a bottle of champagne A U T H O R IT A T IV E For information, tim ecard., maps and ttekela The estate lies on Staunton river, 88 eay nothing a The modern man-of-war dashes into "If I was etc., call on or write from the town of Lynobbnrg, near IlfcfeUNhlABNhHl&l&Sbh. the water with (lags waving from evory miles and wanted n the border line which separates Char Florence Lodge No. 107. masthead. In order to gratify this old R.IW c M u r p h e y , know them ’d be so »r comittmiieation on secouai General Agent.- Rooms 2 and 4, Shelton Block, 301,863 V ocbulary Terms superstition It has been necessary to ex lotte and Campbell counties. It derived Th ere I t W as. its namo of Red Hill from the peculiar it without 1 947 Editors and Specialists Saturdays in each month. EUGENE, OREGON. It was rumored that tho relatione be pend hundreds of dollars for tho chris color of the soil in that vicinity. When hammer. 533 Readers for Quotations O. W. H vbd , W. M. tween Stubbs, Sr., and hie wife were tening of a single ship. Eut no one be Patrick Henry bought the place, it com •BntC yl" added A. D . C H A R L T O N , 3000 Illustrations ra, Secretary. nob of the |ileaeautest, and Johnny grudges this extravagance. In a way it prised about 8,500 scree. The land is | with a snap of Assistant General Passenger Agent. is necessary. Cost over >960,000 Stubbs had doubtless heard many a . rich— there was a saying in the ueigb- of a hummer ~ 255 Morrison 8t. Cor. 3d. Appendix of 47,468 Entries family dispute. Tho father’s strongest: The good or ill Inck of oertain days ; borhood that poor land and Henry could H e ’d have F o r tle tn c l O r. is still a belief among the sailors. Fri point against Mrs. Stubbs was that she never be mentioned together—corn that box eneral Lyons Post, No. 58 was a Ilickt when he raised her to her day is a day of ill omen, and Bunday is grows there as high as a man on horse to it. 1 expect jnd and fourth Saturdays usually a lucky day. present title. Mrs. Stubbs would then i The full number of words and terms In at 1:80 p. ><i. A superstition about women la a relic back ; there is a general air of smiling ahead of Ed all J Tw enty years lte sit different dictionaries for the entire alphabet is collapse and tearfully rejoin that such a j of tho old belief iu witchcraft. It is fields and abundant prosperity rrEttPtKLD, Commander. • * remark was all that could be executed 1 uation id early times was very remote of the ¡fvords, I L. F i ’ esish , Adjutant. as follows: S tobxonth , 50,000; W orchkster J . I . B U T T E R F IE L D , P ro p rieto r thought that »woman by throwing sand from one of the low lived Htnbbses. . _ . - Neighbors were few, one of the nearest “ made 105,000; W khhtkk (International), 125,000; C en One day Johnny took his fish pole and *u B’r ou shipboard can produce the eelebrated John Randolph of er is *tdl F T o re n o e . O re g o n . tury , (six volumes. complete,) 225,000: '*knAi’A")u to-fhe stream that ran near j «»orms. Not many years ago Who lived in his ,'hoeeu soli- Yontirig STANDARD, over 300,000; 'A e house s i boh for eels- Just its he some women who traveled on English milcs away. Perpetua Lodge, No. 131, warships were tortured during a stori was fairly settled down to the sport and OUR A IM —To furnish tho best j — ----------------- fi I s now owned by Henry’s Iry 1st and 3d Saturdays was exciteu i,y bis first nibble he beard to make them quiet the waves Members and visiting i accom m odations A fter y grandson, W illia m W ir t Houry, a a t reasonable ............Sample Pages Free,— These barbaric beliefs, however, his mother’s voreo calling loudly for 1 standing are cordially olever, cultivated gentleman of the O ro H fo r a pnrtially compensated by the supeqfli- 1 ' L„J. J. A nderson , M. W. him to come in. . “ old sohool. ” He has iu his possession terms w ith i t I prices. “ There it is I" said tho disgusted tion which sailors have held for centu some most interesting relics of his oels-1 When ord«- ries that beautiful children bring a yonug fisherman. “ The roinuit the ACENTS W A N T E D . brated grandfather,,^including the desk Harden to tha Stubbses begin to fish tho Hickses begin blessing to a ship. The Neck waa a 1 ceta Lodge No. llfTmefets handsome boy with golden curls. It is I »«ways used, w hiih still ooutaius btr to holler. ”—New York Bunday World. o f T id e H otel* sday evening in Lod^t said that he is always accompanied by ; letters from Lafayette, Washington, Oregon. Brothers 1 1 1 r w a black lamb and carries with him a 1 Madison and other great men of early W . W . N E E L Y , P ro p ’r. P atablU hlna s Style. E. D. BRONSON & CO, Invited to attend. days; the large, round backed chair in ‘So yon tbiuk you understand the golden harp. Our old salts have especial which Patrick Henry died and a portrait SOMAS J . B oren , N . G . Tables furnished w ith all the Pacific Coast Agents confidence in a ship which is christened H. V asdxrbvko , Sec. i theory of establishing^ style or fashion o f him by the elder Sully, under which by a child. S A N FRANCISCO , C A L . I for women, do you?" delicacies of the season. W ild The average sailor Is superstitious hangs a yellowed slip of paper, signed “ I know 1 do. I have qualified by 1 9 3 3 M a rk e t S t. by Chief Justice John Marshall and game, fish and fru it in season. Best __ _______ _ I marrying four time«. All you have to about the ringing of the ship’s belli». several others of his friends, testifying we did net D IR EC TO R Y ’ do is to demonstrate conclusively whati In olden times the bells were blessed to the faithfulness of the likeness.— u u tit one to accom odations for th e traveling T '/'h l'l C fhf-1 i l 1 women ought to wear and then lay Iu a ! before they were used. At present, if a W e had 1 U llo v P l I<XI I a t IU1 O. rtopj, of everything that is the exact mistake is made in striking the boar, Philadelphia Prase. IAN CHURCH, Florence, public. Charges reasonable. not go ou board ( the sailors insist tbat the bells at once • « | opposite of it ,” bbath service; Sabhatli- Tbe moon had Cf course be was engaged without be struck backwards to break the spell, READING SEALED L E T T E R S . out from tk a. m. Preaching 11 ♦ * * * * * * « * • 7 p. 111. Sacrament of further parley as a man who understood and if by any ebsnes the wind should A T l.rs ta ■ e e te n tM Shews H o w T h is Mag those < catch the bells and swing them all the er on 1st Sabbath of the sex.—Chicago Post B a A aaa aip lteh ae. the Ceylonese I M A R IO N M O R R IS Pro p. way around, or if they strike nine bells, July and October, It is not generally known tbat sealed tbe outrigger it is believed that it w ill Le the last of eicotne to all the services. H a ir and ’A ir. letters may in many oases be read with and O riental ; Christians to make Twentv-three Shaving . . >S < A baldheaded professor recently de that ship. in . AU good warships go to tho “ shores out opening the envelope« or doing them ing its auefa livered a lecture entitled “ The Air We H a ir C u ttin g . . 38 I. G. K notts , Pastor. got on tbe qn M iles W est Breathe" before uu East London audi of Fiddler's G reen''as a final resting tbe least injury. It was discovered by a Razor Honed . . • 35 ence. In the course of his remarks bo place. Just where this mythical harbor German physiologist by tbe use of an lin er went by of Eugene. Scissors Ground . . >5 said, “ It is quite impossible for any is situated no geographer has yet decid embryoecopo, or egg glass, tbat the lights glearni ed. It is in every way the antithesis of shells of eggs were of very nnoqnal I i t passed ont person to live without air. ’’ rO R N E Y S of the I O re g o n . At this a small boy called ont, " ’Ow “ Davy Jones’ looker." A worship thiuknoss. It occurred to him to make expert-' ena, standing straight « which goes down in battle with her ON EUGENE AND about yerself. guv’ucr?” —Tit-Bits. flagc flying, as occurred several times ments iu order to ascertain bow many ‘ and it waa as b rìi WOODCOCK, A B orm aM School. FLORENCE during the civil war, goes to "Fiddler's leaves of ordinary letter or official pa- : as we had bren lod l per mast be laid above aud below a The uproar was like tbat of a run Green." STAGE ROUTE. “Atl Bai away engine tearing through u tunnel. The tattooing habit is, of course, very written leaf iu order to muku it Illegible M A D E and R E P A IR E D . The floor was littered with yonngsters commou in the navy. It ts believed that to a highly sensitive eye In tho d irect' A naval off lying on their stomachs, and all bawl an arm or a leg decorated with the de sunlight He ioaud that after be bad realistic “ A ll O re g o n -----BY------ ing with an energy indicative that sign of a gun or a sword or some such rested l)is eye in a dark room for 10 or I drill: “ Two Money Saved and 9 McLaren’« Building, somebody was hurting them. Long, design w ill never be lost In battle.— 10 winntes he cold rcad-apiece of writ- j been peteed ^ v e u to collection« an# pro- By slim, scratched upon slips of palm leaf, Bon Francisco Call. Ing over tho mirror of the embryoscopg 1 from lte the equivalent of books in Burma, that had been covered with eight layers m in ate lai m o re n o e , O re g o n , Patronizing it. A K m U C to p l*. of paper. « were spread before the scholars. Making : : : t t t » Dunwich, Moroton bay, Queensland, POTTER. the lads shout U the approved method He called in other ebaerrers to con elementary instruction. When the consists of about 1,000 inhabitants. Iu firm thia The lettega, however, that Prop. Good W’ork Done at Reasonable Prices. of rney-at-Law.................... Geo. Hale master discovers any lagging iu lung four years there have only been two con hl thus be dcciflmrwl uwvo written exercise, a long switch begins to sing births and two deaths. In dark ink tut ono side of the paper i INE, OREGON, L ife I . Colorado. There are no streets, no omnihnses or only. It fonr written side» were folded through the air QuieL serious study ts A person in this country no sooner trains, no soldiers, no police, no shops. j the Court Houae. explixled. The Burmese educationists together, aud especially U there bad N O TA R IES. _ gets through shoveling oo«l and carry arguo that so long as a l.iy ts shouting There is a beautiful theater,*nnd every been crossing, it was bard to make out command ‘ku boats are hnule(Xuwu> ing out the ashes than he has to sprinkle his mind is occupied. When lie tssilent, one is admitted free. Clothes are free, tho drift of the writing, aud there are his grass and push the lawn mower. be is certain to bo scheming mischief. aud so are food and lodging.^ \jgty few some kind« of writing which, when dred feet from tne do» BENEDICT, A. R. BUTTOLPH, 1 Tho mare coel he shovels the more ashes Therefore the best shouters are the best do any work, aud there am no hotels folded twice or thrice, admit too little she rides without a bn. her. often, when t b e . 1 be carries, and the more water he »quirts pupils.—Travel. Very little money la required, aud med light for the purpose of decipherment. J k T - L o A 'W . through in mido ical attendainx- is free. the harder he baa to pash the lawn Iu this way possibly many of the per- landsman would i ; mower. It is ever thus.—Longmont There is a lockup, but that is net formanceeof “ clairvoyants” may be. ex “ Then the w ord' : Oregon. I (Colo. J Ledger. Kpanish officer» an well as men gener used. There is also a poetotih-e. und if plained. By means of the egg glues it and within 4 abort of money the letters are stamped ally incline to cruelty and treachery ta, m a rule, easier to make act the con all band« i O rm so n . What Sh. Waa Dolnc- Here 1« a story m point, told by an ex free. There is also a free hospital and tents of tetter or telegram without tbe but every boat has b “ You seo, Phyllis had to stop to fix cellent authority: library.— London Tit-Bits. slightest tatuperlu.q w ith the envelope! «uvita, "'» O N . ♦ her hair"— “ In Alcala, ihe Guardia Civil—that than i t is to detect the movement« of “ Arrange, child; not fix. Fix menu» is, one of the crack troop«—was after a Hto I ho embryo in tbe egg robber band, rine of the robbers was Bhlppen Clark (to his employer, leav- to make f a s t " SapjMne the w rite r of a billet, tbe “ Weil, that's what sho was doing. It caugbt Being pr, mimed a full pardon, ing tha office >—Ok, Mr By.tem, h avtn 'l conteute of which ate known only to R E G O N was coming loosa. Indianapolis Jour he gave away his ixsnradca This man you forgotten your umbrella? It • ruitt- Itlu ra lf, lets I t out of his baud and loses had no sooner signed the paper that ing. nal. sight of tt for five m inutes I t may be served os his d>-ath warrant for his late Mr. System—Can't help It. I bar» According to the authority of an friend« wiien the officer in charge said, made a resoluiion 10 have one here aud readily carried either into the insect visited a English magazine Great Britain con * W . w ill begin with him. * The robber one at home, to provide fur »11 emer- sunlight or Into electric or magnetdnm trols 21 out of every IDO squsre miles was immediately shot iu the back of his genci«« Now, ii I take this one, they ’U lig h t and be read by the aid of ‘tbe egg placing of a piece of car- ing thorn of the earth's surface and »4 out of '■ V in the envelope or the col ew ry IllO aqnare mils« of irg ia -The oring of it black is a means of defense “ Yua, ;p»t North und South Aiuem-a. lu 18*0 Japan was visited by a terri \ S ^ t hand. ble epidemic of smsllpos, winch alti mantel decimated Yokohama. Va ''bere Is an S u ìu im u I at Limon, IhI« M»'» U> n isn re. nur Im-I«»»- in ' wir », made compulsory in 189# ' 'loo. I t is called i «p<1 nrarl.y remote«. It I. »«I«'« »«9 r wn reixtocte»! »t home. “« ’.»» «traleht •» • sre «iid to <w se»t in th e e v e r «nS esi»en»e«—AeSnl»». hr.»«8He. r.. that pockmarked fa j nn iem «USh Mnnlhlr «7« pf<e-».»^-. I ri.». wlí»uMre««.A «t»m.r ( »nvn|»pe^B»F X jw eu iH>aMsu. » . »S te. FlCSL. DSU» M. Ä J ORTHERN Pacific, Ry. EUGENE-FLORENCE ; STAGE LIN E. th a J o in ts ? Then probably rheumatism. N, Ho matter where it is, nor what kind; you need have it no longer. It may be an hour, a day, or a year old; it must yield to Dp. Ay CP’S C h erry pectoral Master 1.... WE DEFY COM! RESPE! J. V. KAU] I Blehmottd. bat la A B..... T H R O U G H TICK ETS S tandard MORRIS D ictionary HOTEL, E l k P r a i r i e H o te l. Florenoe, >y a t Law, O LE MYRIND, Cram I Spaniards. Notary Public, Surveyor ILIC. It is W«»TZr»—.SVSSÀl. T»l)rt»„»tKV