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V BEAVER STATE HERALD, FEBRUARY 22, 1907 Milwaukie Gramjefs Will Dedicate. (Special to th. Herald ) MILWAVK1E, Ore., Feb. 18, IH07 — Milwaukie Grange, Patron* of Husband ry, will dedicate its new hall Satunlay, March Id, with appropriate ceremony. At the maeting of Saturday, February 1ft, it was decided to have the dedicatory ceremony at that time. The program has not been arranged (or, but will la* at the night meeting, a week from next Friday night. Erection and completion of thia hall shows what may lie done by push and energy. After exhausting plans ami ap parently coining up against a stone wall, suddenly the Milwaukie grange took new courage and before the member* could tell what had happened. A lot was bought, foundation laid and build ing underway. Richard Scott sold the lot on long time ami agreed to let the grange have money to proceed with the building. Much money haslx-en raised, ami the women are lifting with all their jiower. The hall is two-story, 3t*x06, well arrange! and will lie one of the liest grunge hall's in the state. Muds of the credit of this building rvsts with Monroe N've, who showed the grange that it could build, beside* he is push ing construction. He gave to the fund. Then' are few such men in the organisation, and when one is found lie is wen up ami doing. He Whistled His Way to Mv Heart I They said he was Imd ’Twas enough To interest me in the taiy ; They called him unmanly and nmgh, While the aged he liked ts> annoy One day. as he whistled with vim, While he »total from the others apart, 1 was watching and studying him, When he whistled his way to my heart. it Thru I the hid for n And I found to my comfort mid joy. While in miitchief he oft might excel, ’Twas the mischief alone of n tx»y. lie whs bad in the night but of those Who think imy* with their boyhood should purl; But in my g«M*l opinion In* rowe A m he whim led hit way to my heart. t hr K i* WHAT IS IT WORTH f Some time ago Mr. James Russell Lowell asked, "Have you ever right ly considered what the mere abllltv to read means? That It the key that admits you to the whole world cf thought, fancy and Imagination, to the company of saint and sages, of the wisest and wittiest at their wis est and wittiest moments? That II annihilate* time and apace for u*—It endows with shoes of swiftness and the cap of darkness so that we can walk invisible and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence c.- London, accompanying Caesar on hla marches, or look in on Cataline In council with his fellow conspirators or Guy Fawkes In the cellar of St. Stephens." financial SI gtt I III 'it nt among the weather signs for l'JO7 Is the fact that so mauy Intelligent business men are watching for traile reaction, Till* Is apt to mean cautious and prudent sail Ing—unless Indeed the speculator gets a firm scat again In the saddle and ride» his race with the encouragement and backing of high 11 nance. A T kach ** —Thu ( February ' School and Home. The Lana Mower. The lawu mower Is generally much abused by the majority of those who use It. Wbeu nicely adjusted aud In g sid workiug order It uiuy be kept so by a hair's breadth turn of the adjust ing screws or I ki I is . and li > one sh mid be allowed t i tmsldlo with them* part* unless lie fully understands them. The blades of the luwu mower str lie tile cutting bar lit such a mauner us to be largely self sharpening, and no ma chine, If well oiled and adjusted, will maxi sharpening unless It Is run Into stones or oilier bard substances that may dull or bend the knivan. The or dinary machine oil used upon larger machines than the lawu mower, on wagon*. etc.. Is too heavy for the lawu mower, except In very hot weather, and should Is* thinned with an equal amount of kerosene. No machine will keep In imrfevt working order for a great length of time without cleaning, and the lawn mower, which Is run through so much dust und dirt, should lie taken apart once or twice every sea son, ea< h part carefully ch-amxl aud Supplement wl|>ed and then freshly oiled. The ma chines with large wheel* and ball bear lugs run mom easily than uiauy of th* older (tatterua. but the latter If kept In perfect order will run with cotnpara- 11 ve ease aud will do good service for mauy years Kuburbuu IJfe. I Wnnderrnl r.lstls*.. It m*y not l<e generally kuowti, per il a p*. that the highest price paid for a picture has uot bsen la modern time*, but was at ao remold a period a* that of Alexander Uio Great, who gave Apelie* a auui equal to 9'Jll.tUU for painting hl* |>ortralt. The king wa* rvpreaeutisl holding thunder, which. Fllny says, was so lifelike that the hand seemed to come out of the pic ture. Alexander wan delighted with the |Hirtralt. had It placed In the tem ple of 1 Hana, at Epbeaua, aud forbade auy one but Apelles thenceforth to draw hla llketie*. Apeilea attempted another portrait, which at first sight did not please bln royal patron, but while It wua Iwlng Inspected, say* the veracious Pliny, a horse laiaslng by neighed nt the horse represented In the piece. aup|>oalng It to l>e alive, upon which the painter re marked that the horse was a better judge of paintlug than the king, Th* Twin Datlroycr*. Football will have to get btiay, for 11» > hlef rival In making the human race look like high grail* MUaare- th* automobile-- ban bram busy ull auuimer ami has l>een mnklug u allowing that w ill be hard to e<|uul. That 1« where football la handicap- ped. ’¡he xeua.m la ao abort for It that It must work overtime unleaa It want* to come In nt the finish very much dis couraged amt disgraced. \\ lint a trrmeudou* dismlvniitnge our heroic forefather* labored under. When they got a notion that the world wna In danger of overpopulation mid want e<l to d > kome aklllful thinning they were obliged to get out with a club or a iMittlenx and hack nwiiy. We have reduced the thing more to a aclence. With the luiae football aeaaon for abort but effective work amt the automobile for the long puli we have the problem solved, alth >ugh Fourth of July doee help out some. General Kuropatkin, the Itusalnn commander lit Manchuria, sometime* fought nobly and again ran away Now the cMr's government Ims sup prt-ssed tic* book In which the olil sol dler tried to explain the why« and the wherefores of these deviations. Indications are that when the accond Hague peace confercm e meets In May It will lode out on a (•rarefili world. The first cougreas of lNSKl was followed by wars, and the world was not reali/ Settled Uytll the mhlillt* of 11XM1. 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