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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1904)
CANAL IS 2,500 YEARS OLD. A NEGRO AND STEAMBOAT. C At Least the Corinthian Was Under Biver Man's Beason for Believing Colored Man Good Roustabout Superior to Whites. Contemplation as Long Ago as That. LOVE DIES. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says there comes a time in the course of married love when "the thrill goes out of the hand clasp and the kiss at times, and it is then that husband and wife may be susceptible to other magnetic personalities." The rea-f.-ir this condition of affairs is often the fault of the husband, but how often is it not due to the wife's nervousness ana lrn taniiitv due to some trouble with the or gans peculiarly feminine the wife under such circumstances teeis langum aua spir itlessshe suffers perhaps from headache and sleer-lessness. 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One little " Pellet " is a gentle laxative and two a" mild cathar tic. They never gripe. Nothing else is "just as good." PILES OF TOY TRUMPETS. Tbe Oreat Variety Manufactured Now-a-days for the Holi day Trade. "Among the many articles now produced in celluloid," said a tor dealer to a New York Bun man, "are children's toy trumpets. "Toy trumpets of celluloid are made in a score or more of styles, including the familiar straight trumjets and truznpets fashioned like French horns. "You didn't know there were so many styles of toy trumpets, al together? You thought a toy trumpet was just 11 toy trumpet'? "Why,, toy trumpets, including those of brass, and those of tin and taking into account the dif ferent sizes and shapes and man ner of finish and of ornamenta tion, in which they are turned out, are made in 500 styles. "You see a small boy walking along the street Mowing a penny trumpet the day after Christmas and you think you've seen all there is to be seen in toy trumpets. But if you were to look through the stork of a big importer of toys you would find when you came to where the toy trumpet sample were displayed more toy trumpets than you had ever dreamed of, lit erally hundreds of them; and of all these toy trumpets no two are alike. "You see, the toy trumpet is an article of universal sale. At a cer tain aire in his life every child must have a toy trumpet, and so the number of them sold every year is enormous. The toy manu facturers try, of course, as hard to produce novelties and attract ive goods in this line a in othr lines, for the toy tnmj. t trade is something worth cultivating. "And now, as you have seen, there has been added to the ma terial of which this ancient toy is made the peculiarly modern ma terial of celluloid, making the as sortment in which these noise makers are produced more varied now than ever. Oh. ves, there's something in toy trumpets." "Speaking of canals," said the engineer who had been talking about Panama, "a very interest ing canal, and one not much heard of, is that connected with the gulf of Corinth and the gulf of Aegina in Creece. "It's some older than any we have in the western hemisphere, also, for IVriander. tyrant of Corinth, proposed to cut through the isthmus as long asro as 600 years before Christ. Superstition stopped him, however. "Julius Caesar and Caligula took it up again when Rome had hold of Greece, but it was too much for them. Then came Nero and he went at it with vigor, but the work stopped when he died. "Others kept pounding away at it for the next several hundred years, but it was not until 1881 that real work of the 2sero en ergy was put upon it. Then Gen. Turr, aide-de-camp to Victor Em manuel of Italy, organized 'a com pany and worked on till the raon ey gave out in 1890, the chief ob stacle being some kind of flint which dynamite couldn't break. "About ? 10,000,000 was spent up to 1800, and then Mr. Syngro took hold, organized a new com pany, with $905,000 working cap ital, and finished the job in 1893. It is only about four miles long but it is 69 feet wide at the but torn, about 80 feet wide at water line, 26 feet and three inches deep in water, and it is cut nearlj all the way through solid rock. rising at some points for 269 feet above the canal. "It is like a canyon, and ships do not take kindly to it, the entrance being bad, a strong wind blowing through it as through a great air shaft, and there is at times a strong reverse current. "It is an interesting trip through the canal, and it saves 123 miles of very rough water and 20 hours of time; but so far skippers prefer to go through the jieninsula rather than through the car though with some changes wTCMs will be made it is believed canal will become of general nse as soon as a few ships begin to use it and remove the prejudice now existing against it." "The suggestion came out of St. Louis the other day that white labor had replaced the negro on the wharf and that after long service the black roustabout was about to enter upon the decline of his sway," said an old river man, according to the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "All of which, I may add, I accept with a grain of salt, as the saying goes. Some how I can never think of the suc cessful and really valuable rousta bout as anything but a black man. "The negro seems to have been born to the calling. He is, as a rule, fond of the steamboat, and naturally takes to steamboat work. He has always hovered around the river. Of course, you will find negroes back in the hills and scattered around in the higher altitudes, but the vast majority jf them you will find quartered in the lowlands of the country, and on the rivers, where he can hear the flutter of steamboat wheels, rhere is one other fact to be men tioned in connection with the ne gro's peculiar fitness for steam- boating. "Did you ever hear the steam boat mate talking to the 'rous- ters' say, for instance, when the boat was a little late in pulling ut and during the busy season? Ilast not, eh? Well, there is some thing in store for you, something und and forceful, and something that will force you to run the tramut of the emotions. The point is that the negro is stimulated md urged on to quicker work by this kind of talk. Profanity is an ?ssential in the mate's calling, rhe negro needs it. I was just wondering if the white man would ever get used to it. Maybe so, but I have my doubts about it." 1 Queen Mary 'a Harp. The harp of Mary, Queen of Scots, has been bought by the So ciety of Antiquaries of Scotland for $4,500. TELEPHONES FOR PATIENTS. PhUafleSphl Hotlal Mekee It Pee- Ibl for Melt Oaa to Ylaat with Distant VrUeai. SCOURGE Of THE AMAZON. Dread Moequltoea Render People Along the Or eat Hirer miser able at All Times. It ! not a pleasure to live in the wild regions along the banks of the River Amazon. The Indians of that region ill suffer martyrdom from the mos juitoes. Nobody In eren the worst mosquito regions of the United State can imagine what the mosquitoes of the Amazon region are like. They actually drive the Indians, hardened as they are, from their villages at times. The people drag their women and children Into woods and uplands on such occasions, fleeing in headlong terror, and they do not venture back to their homes until daylight. Smudges and other similar means for fighting the pest are of no use in the Amazon country when the mosqui toes sally forth for a "night out." They appear then in such hordes that the masses foroe themselves through smoke and even fire. 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