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Cannot Cast the Future. A man may presume to know much of what Is rasslng, but he dare not predict what part of the passing show shall disappear, as a fashion does, In time. It must follow, as no man can pretend to place his finger unerrlnglr on Just that particular part, then no man can begin to tell just what man or woman living today will be revered In time to come. To Remedy Corrosion. Corrosion in metals Is said to be prevented by the passage through the metals of a weak current of electric ity. This Is a "like cure like" treat ment, for the pitting of metals la said to be due to the local electrical action, that Is, feeble current developed by the acldular water on dissimilar met als, often Impurities In the metal It self, at the rtrt if corrosion. The Greatest Social Force. The middle classes are the prepon derant social force of today In repub' lies as well as In monarchies In Eu rope or In America. Everything Is everywhere subordinated to the neces sity of satisfying them as speedily and as thoroughly as possible. Fer- rero la Paris Figaro. Mothers wtn find Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup luc tx st romedv to use ioi their cilUma luring toe teeming period. Don't Let Old Age Come. Let us have a movement against mental surrender to old age at any time. Such a movement would make for sane moderation .in all things, a cheerful spirit, appreciation of the joy and delisht of living. Such a move ment would dwell on the marvels and beauties of nature and the grat pos- siMilties of good in the lowest of men. THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING. Talk No. 9. This common article fools many Think of it, large bottle, little pinch of blue, fill it up with water. There you are. Does it look good to you? Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUE, a pare blue. Makes beautiful, clear, white clothes. You will like it. Large package 5 cents. ASK YOUB GROCER. Ph ilips on ....... i.i cny. The late David Graham Phillips had, like many bachelors, a cynical view of matrimony. Mr. Phillips, at a re union of Princeton's class of '87, at the Princeton club, said of marriage: "The Persians have a proverb that every young man should consider well before proposing. It runs: 'He that ventureth on matrimony is like unto one who thrusteth his hand Into a sack containing many thousands of serpents and one eel. Yet, if the prophet so will it, he may draw forth the eel.' " Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar- coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bow els and cure constipation. The Wealthy Ones of Earth. Taking Into account Australia and all of the islands of the tropical seas, the world may have 10,000 million aires, outside of North America and Europe, Russia excluded. The United States alone must have more mil lionaires than the total for continents which contain two-thirds of the peo ple in the world. Manitoba's Fish Industry. Fish from Lake Winnipeg are now sent down south as far as Maryland. Most of them are not white fish, but cheaper grades. The fishi wheat as a commercial asset. MAN HASN'T MASTERED HER ! Characteristics and Peculiarities of American Woman Due to This, Says Marian Cox. Few books in recent years have cre ated a greater stir In America than "The Crowds and the Veiled Woman," a masterly study of psychology which has just puzzled and surprised the thinkers across the Atlantic. Its writer. Miss Marian Cox of New York, who Is spending a few days In London, is a dreamy-eyed woman al most a girl, with an amazing imagina tive faculty and a depth of thought which one might guess was bottom less. Discussing the American woman generally, she expressed some inter esting views. "The emotional imagination of the American woman," she said, "la starved in the utilitarian civilization of her own country, and this explains why she flocks to Europe for her chief enjoyment and interest. From the excess of leisure with which the American man's Industry has dowered her she has developed both the virtue and the vice of leisure, imagination and curiosity. And no where can they be satisfied but in Europe. "A true Eve, she Is primitive enough to hunger after, all the fruits upon the tree of knowledge and is civ ilized enough to desire no one but her self to enjoy them. She desires to shut out everyone sometimes even her husband from her own little epi curean garden of success. For her life is a calculated egotism. This Is the cause of her famed snobbishness, hard ness and self-assertiveness. With American women action takes place of emotion; experience takes the place of sympathies. She Is a born adventurer on whom is engrafted a caste-worshiping Brahmin. No matter If she can trace her ancestry to the Mayflower and all ambitious Americans do she has the emigrant instincts in her in stincts which have made the Ameri can men the bravest and most Initia tive in the world, but have made her the most restless, striving, sensitive and audacious woman In the world. "She Is incapable of feeling fear, and so Is incapable of deep love or religion. She adopts sects and cults because of her ever-mobile vitality and curiosity, as a substitute for her lack of religion, and she plays the game of love' better than the woman in any other nationality, for she loves with her head and not with her heart. 'She Is eternal celibate coquette, who is never won, but is always bent ou conquest. And all her character- sties and peculiarities issue from the fact that the American man has never mastered her," she added with' a puz zling little smile. London Morning Leader. UteiE Huron (sir mu umt "Jaws old pfo.ee, I hond my haf . If ame,&Qeet Jfcm' fo. w HAT is a "gay cat?" Per haps you have never heard of him, though you know torn cats, wild cats and fem inine "cats." He is an in teresting combination, and his spe cies Is numbered by thousands. He is half-tramp, availing himself of all the hobo's expedients for gadding about the world without paying for his trav els, and half-man with a trade, the goal of whose rambles Is always a Job. An Ominous St. Louis Siqn. He nas aI1 tne Dum 8 philosophical There is a sign in St. Louis reading contempt for the man so "easy" as to Hellrung & Grimm." At first one merely smiles at it and passes on. But the thing haunts you. There It is "ride the velvet," which means to pay railroad fare. But he also Incurs the "bum's" astonished disdain because of n great yellow letters sulphurous let-, hls Incorrigible habit of looking for apu n n a ia.L- o-rmiTi rl of fflnnnitf WOlK. black. For a time you content your- "We travel from wanderlust, from self with saying that one is Hellrung 'ove of adventure." explained an ex and the other is Grimm, but even- eat" who had Jlned tne "home guard or those wno have ceased from rambling. "When I was a youth I ually the personalities fade and you consider the statement as a whole. It 1 s almost profane in its direct asser tion of n ronrHHon And not a theory. We assert that this sign is the most ' ?ood. trade and wa3 u7,n at home wanted to see the country, and see it right. I wanted excitement. I had a Shake Into Tour Shoes Allen "s Foot-Ease, a poder for the feet. It curoa painful, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Make new shoes easy. Sold by all Drucreists and Sho Stores. Don't accept any substitute. Samplt t'REE. A'ldr A s n'rv,?prf 7 Roy, N. X. A Ulb.'w.OU IICBOlli A certain English family owns a stiletto which inspires every one who holds it with a horrible and almost Irresistible desire to kill some wom an. This weapon belonged to an an cestor whose wife deceived him and drove him mad. He 6wore revenge against the whole sex. and with the dagger killed his wife, his wife's sister and another woman before he was dis armed and secured. HOWARD E. BI'KTUl - Anwrer an1 Chemtrt, Lead villi-. Colorado. HpMeiuien price!!: Ou'nL Hilmr. Lead. . li.il.i. Silver. Vai; Gold, one: Zmc or Copper. SI. Mnilin-r ovelniM a id full price lint "lit oa appl iciHion. lomroi am imnir" wurKW led. How Good Heaith Tells. Poor physical health handicaps many girl workers and prevents the highest development of their powers An anaemic brain produces poorer work than one that is nourished by blood rich in red corpuscles. The dys peptic girl Is Irritable, seedy, and out of sorts when all her vitality li called on to make a special effort In her work. "Nerves" may make all the dif ference between success or failure. To keep her health up to a good standard ought to be the aim of every girl who wishes to make something of her life. Too many girls allow themselves to drop into poor health, which It so apt to become chronic un less the tendency is checked at the be ginning. A girl owes a duty to herself to keep fit and w ell and attend to her digestion, her muscles, her breathing. The habits of breathing properly, chewing the food thoroughly, dally ex ercises out of doors, are all small mat ter; but one or two rules of dally conduct occasionally broken contrive after a time to affect physical health and personality both. Once let a girl make her mind up to cultivate a habit of self-development, and she follows these rales almost automatically. Each detail may be unimportant In Itself, but the turn of them la not They are the points that tell In the making of what should be every glrl'i aim to obtain health and oersonalit obsessing in the country. You will not be able to forget It. At this mo ment you may pish and pooh, and say it is all nonsense, but before you go to sleep tonight "Hellrung & Grimm" will clatter and clamor through your brain like a set of brazen bells fall ing Into a heap of dlshpans and cym bals. Tomorrow you will try to shake It off, but by that time It will begin to whisper to you a sly, shuddering sort of whisper. Day after tomorrow It will assure a grim (there It goes again) a grim, cacophonous cadence, and the next day It will rumble through your thoughts as persistently as the refrain to Poe's "Bells." There Is something Dantesque about it. It tempts weird rhymes. It sounds like a warning. Let us see now what its effect will be upon you. How Little She Saw. "I thought it was a pretty fair sort of telescope for one that wasn't very big." said the squir:, "I rigged It up In the attic by the high north window and had It fixed so it would swing round easy. I took a deal of satis faction In looking through It the sky seemed so wide and full of wonders; so when Hester was here I thougrt I'd give her the pleasure, too. She stayed a long time upstairs and seemed to be enjoying It. When she came down I asked her If she had dis covered anything new. " 'Yes,' she says. 'Why, It made everybody's house seem so near that I seemed to be right beside 'em, and I found out what John Pritchard's folks are doln' In their outkitchen. I've wondered what they had a light there for night after night, and I Juet turned the glass on their windows and found out. They are cutting ap ples to dry folks as rich as them cut tin' apples!' ' "And, actually, that was all the woman had seen! With the whole heavens before her to study, she hai spent her time prying Into the affairs of her neighbors!" Had Unique Tombstone. Maspero, In his "Dawn of Civiliza tion, tells of a rich Egyptian noble who lived more than six thousand years a;o and whose splendid fruit flower and vegetable garden, formal ly plotted and laid out, was described upon bis tomb. but the lure of the road called me. "I could have paid car fare and rid den In the railway cars, but you can't see the country that w-ay. What man looking through the windows of a Pull man car, knows anything about the regions through which he has passed? You must travel a few hours at a time, on a' slow freight, and be thrown off at the most unexpected places by brakemen, to see the country. You want to mooch (beg) a handout at backdoors to get acquainted with peo ple. You even learn something when some 'fly mug' (detective) gets so cor dial that he insists on your staying In his midst for 30 days on the rock pile. What dude In a palace car can learn as much about his native land as I did In 14 years as a 'gay cat'?" The Wanderlust Never Dies. This man was a miner by trade, and had followed the profession from Pennsylvania to California, and from California to Alaska. He never begged save In an emergency of hunger, and usually had $1,000 or so tucked away In a bank In this city or that. But It was only after many years of wander ing as a knight errant of the pickax and shovel that the wanderlust of his youth was quenched and he settled down to be a prosaic hotel clerk. In the shabby sitting room of a 10 cent lodging house In St Louis there lounged recently half a dozen weather beaten and hardy men, self-confident of mien and monosyllabic of speech. In their short words was none of the whine of the professional beggar, and In their straightforward look was noth ing of the hangdog. They had trav eled to most of the countries of the globe, and, ignorant of alien languages and customs, had supported them selves by the sole resource of their own hands. They were confident of taking care of themselves in any situation. Who would have thought that the squalid parlor, into which the warm sun filtered, was a place of dreams? But so It was. The taciturn little En glishman in the corner, who was born in South Africa, was gazing Into space upon the yellow corn fields of the Ar gentine Republic, upon construction camps in the Andes, and upon broad roads leading by gentle stages through the pampas from one hospitable ranch to the next. Aroused from his artic ulate vision by a question, he stated In a matter-of-fact way that he would be In Argentine next fall. l ne booted, gigantic Swede was thinking of logging camps In Minne sota, of perilous drives to the lakes, of flst-to-fist battles between champions among the snows. Another, in bis mind's eye, beheld the sunny orchards of California; another Imagined him self helping build steel bridges in Mexico. The sap of spring was rising in their veins, and, like birds of pas sage, they were impatient to be off. A few more weeks would see them scat tered to the points of the compass, ensconced in box cars and on blind baggages, but all bent on the quest of their "golden fleece" the perfect job. Some would fall by the wayside mangled or slain beneath the wheels of trains, and would be burled -In the pauper graveyards maintained by the railroads for their vagabond victims, But of these the army of wanderers would take no heed. The "gay cat" believes that his con stitutional right to the pursuit of hap piness Includes the privilege of rid ing on trains without paying fare. The most he will do Is to pay 50 cents to a "shack" (brakeman) for permission to ride unmolested over his division. Frequently a supposed vagabond crouching painfully In a brake-beam has $100 In his pockets and a bank book for several hundred more. But he would have suspicions of his own sanity should he spend any of his money for the comforts and re spectability of a seat In a railroad coach. The "gay cat." In an emergency. Is not abashed at begging a meal at a backdoor. But as he has more self- r&spect, he usually employs greater art and skill In his "mooching" than dose a "bum." One roving mechanic accosted an astonished housewife with the question: "Madam, have you a hatchet?" "WThat do you want with a hatchet?" she countered, suspiciously. "I want to knock my teeth out," an swered he with solemnity. "Lands alive!" almost screamed the woman. "Why should you knock your teeth out?" , "What's the use having teeth If you have nothing to eat?" was the re sponse. The "gay cat" obtained one of those rare feasts known in the ver- nacular as a "sit down." ORIGIN OF THE CALENDAR. The Julian year consisted of 365l4 days and exceeded by 11 minutes 13.95 seconds the solar year of 3G5 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. In con sequence of this the equinox In the course of a few centuries bell back considerably In the time of Julius Caesar It corresponded to March 25, and by the sixteenth century it bad retrograded to March 11. It was at this time that a physician of Verona named Gblraldl proposed a plan for amending the calendar. He died be fore he had opportunity to carry It forward, but his brother presented It to Pope Gregory XIII., who assembled a number of learned men to discuss it. It was passed upon favorably and adopted, and thus was given to the world what has since been known as the Gregorian calendar. In 1582 Greg ory Issued a brief abolishing the Julian calendar In all Catholic coun tries and Introducing the reformed one. The reform of the Gregorian or new on the Julian or old consisted in drop ping ten days after October 4, 1582, so that the 15th was reckoned Imme diately after the 4th. Every one hun dredth year, which by the old style was a leap year, was to be a com mon year, the fourth century, divisible by four, excepted; that Is: 1C00 was to remain a leap year, but 1700, 1800, 1900 were not to be reckoned as such, while 2000 is to be so reckoned. In this calendar the length of the solar year is taken to be 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds, the differ ence between which and the truo length is Immaterial. SUBSTITUTES FOR MATCHES. A pocket lighting device Is exten sively used in France by smokers In preference to matches, which are ex pensive In that country, their manu facture and sale, like tobacco, being entirely monopolized by the govern ment. The most popular lighter la a nlckle-plated box, containing a res ervoir, filled with gasoline or ben zine, communicating with a wick at the top. By pressing a button the lid opens, producing a flame by the friction caused by a small wheel com ing in contact with a piece of fer- rocerium. Most of these devices were made in Germany. One lighter will suffice for 1,500 Ignitions without re newing the Interior parts. These lighters became so popular that the government has decided to permit their manufacture and sale in France under very strict regulations. When you need a tonic, appetite restorer, a real digestive help and a preventive of Cramps, Diarrhoea, Costiveness, Malaria, Fever and Ague, take nothing but HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS It has clearly proven its right to be called "the best." A Tonic, Alterative and Resolvent, ine best remedy for Kidneys, Liver and Bowels. Eradicates Pimples, Eruptions and Disorders of the Skin. Purifies the Blood and give Tone, Strength and Vigor to the entire system. Skylights Tanks Gutters Down Spouts Steel Ceiling . C. BAYER 2u4 Market Portland. Oregon SEND FOB CATALOGUE. 8almon Roe for Caviar. Owing to the diminishing supply of sturgeon caviar, Siberian fishermen have been experimenting with salmon roe, a commodity that was formerly thrown away as valueless or even In jurious to health. HOW NANTUCKET SLAKES THIRST. ITS There Isn't a stream or a brook In the Island of Nantucket, off the New England coast, but there are plenty of windmills, which pump water to tanks and thus supply community needs. Also, Nantucket possesses what Is be- ieved to be the oldest windmill for grinding corn In actual operation In America. Nathan Wilbur, a Nan ucket sailor, who had seen the busy windmills of Holland, as he sailed abroad, built it out of timbers of wrecked ships In 1746. There has never been a day in, all the 165 years since that time when the mill has not been busy. There Is always a wind to turn Its outstretched wings. THE CHINESE "YANKEE." The Chinese are said to have Invent ed spectacles as well as to have been the originators of the chief of all arts, printing, the mariner's compass, pe culiar stoves, chain bridges, silver forks, India ink, chain pumps, winnow ing machines, and, sad to say, It Is charged that Instead of wooden hams originating in Connecticut they aro also monuments of Chinese Ingenuity, and one writer long ago said, referring to the wooden products, "they are so adroitly constructed that numerous buyers are constantly deceived, and frequently it Is not until one Is boiled and ready to be eaten that It is dis covered to be nothing but a large piece of wood under a hog's skin." SWISS FUNERAL CUSTOMS. Swiss funeral customs are most pe culiar. At the death of a person the family inserts a formal, black-edged announcement in the papers asking for sympathy, and stating that "the mourning urn" will be exhibited dur- ng certain hours on a special day. In front of the house where the person died there Is placed a little black ta ble covered with a blnck cloth, on. which stands a black ar. Into this the friends and acquaintance? of (he family drop little black-margined vis iting cards, sometimes with a few words of sympathy on them. The urn is put on the table on the day of the funeral. Only men ever go to the churchyard, and tbey generally follow the hearse on foot. OWES HER xii HEALTH To Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Scottville, Mich." I want to tell you how much good LydiaE.l'inkham'3 V e get a Die uom-. pound and Sanative Wash have done me. I live on a farm anl have worked very hard. I am forty five year3 old, amj am the mother ofl thirteen children. Many people think: strange that I am not broken down with hard work aDl the care of my fam ily, Diit I tell them of my good friend, your Vegetable Compound, and that there w ill be no backache and bearinif down pains for them if theywilitaku it as I have. I am scarcely ever with, out it in the house. "I will say also that I think there is no better medicine to be found for young girls to build them up and make them strong and well. My eldest daughter has taken Lydia E. Pink, ham's Vegetable Compound for pain, f ul periods and irregularity, and it haj always helped her. "I am always ready and willing ti Break a good word for the Lydia E. rinkbam s Kemedicg. I tell every ona I meet that 1 owe my health and hap. piness to these wonderful medicines." Mrs. J. G. Johnson, Scottville. Mich.. E.F.I). 3. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, made from native roots anil herbs, contains no narcotics or harm. ful drugs, and to-day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of female diseases.. A Barber-out Idea. In Chicago a voice has been raised against the cat's whiskers, which are alleged to carry microbes. The future may develop barbers for cats, for It Is not to be supposed that in this age of enlightenment and fads cats will be permitted to go about with microbe laden whiskers. Judge. VACUUM CLEANERS MINES. IN COAL Vacuum cleaners are said to be lh means that will In the future be u?ed for the purpose of cleaning coal mines of the dangerous coal dust that ha often been the cause of so much ex plosion, and through which many min ers have lost their lives. The ma chines are stationed at a suitable dis tance from the scene of operation. Two men, each holding the "suction cleaners," then go over the mice, drawing the dust from the top, sides, and bottom through the hose Into a car or truck In waiting, which Is then taken out of the mine and dumped. Expert mechanics are of opinion that 3 tie machine could thoroughly clsao i half-mile of entries In one night. Destroys Hair Germs Recenidiscoveries have shown that falling hair is caused by germs at the roots of the hair. Therefore, to stop falling hair, you must first completely de stroy these germs. Ayer'sHair Vigor, new improved formula, will certainly do this. Then leave the rest to nature. Poet not cfionee the color of the hair. A Formal withjMoh bottl y their It to your Aak h.m .bout It. tba do m h Hri yers Recent discoveries hive also proved thit dsndrulf is csused by germs on the scalp. Therefore, to cure dndruff, the first thing to do is to completely destroy these dtn drulT germs. Here, the tame Ayer'sHair Vigor will give the same splendid results. ir i -' " -p"- ' i lTm i 1