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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1912)
Don’t Be A Ready-MadeMan f“ LOCAL SPORTING GOSSIP WEBB TWIRLS NO HIT NORUN GAME GIANIS IO Mtn PORTLAND COLLS The Portland Colts, the fastest semi- professional team in Portland, will meet the I Ants Giants on the local diamond, and there is every indication that l^nts fans will have the opportun ity of witnessing a scorching good game. Although the locals will Ire com pelled to do without Webb, Boland baa secured the services of two g<xxl twir- lera and will Ire prepared for all emer genciee. The locals have a g<xxi line-up for Bunday ami will give the Portland Colts a good run for their money. The game will Ire called promptly at Grimm, At The First Station, Sacked 2 :30 p. in. All of Them Best Portland Eagles Could Do Was to Secure Nine Goose-eggs. Owing to InoMsant rains Haturday night most lienta people thought there r would be no ball game Hundsy but those who were so fortunate as to ba there saw Kincry Webb, the well known Ix'nta twlrler pitch a no hit and no run game, giving the l^ntaliianta a 4 to 0 vietory. Webb's record also indue«« 22 strike outs, a record seldom equaled. Ills work waa remarkable and served as a lilting celebration upon hia return from Tillamook. < Inly 30 men faced him dur ing the contest This feature of hi« re cord is a (cal that is seldom equaled. Hack of Webb's etttoient twirling, waa llie licet balanced team that Boland has had this season. They landed for a sufficient numlwr of safe hits to register four scores. The first run came as a result of two-bagger by Battin, followed by 1‘roebsten and Gulliford who singled, Tlie «core in the third came after two men were out. Grim singled and regi«tervd on ‘'Billy'’ Boland's double. F A two-bagger l>y Baltin ami shingles by Barnett and Procbatel and a »acritte by Gulliford netted two runs in the sixth. Thl« ended tlie «(siring. The locale lined up as follows: Link c; Webb p; Grimm lb; Wrn. Boland 2b; Al. Boland 3b; Battin «a; Barnett 1«; I'roebstel ct; Gulliford rf. 10 SHOW INTERESTING PRISON PICTURES Isis 1 heater to Display Scenes In Con nection With Salem Prison, (lov er nor West's Honor System, Tracy I tec ape, Etc. The manner in which the Oregon IHinitentiary ia being conducted under Governor West ia causing much ex cited discussion pro and con all over the United States, and even in Europe, leading magazines of the East, the y Outlook, Colliers and others, have sent S|>ecial representatives to thia stale to investigate, and the Oregon prison is continually In the limelight of the news papers. Even the people of England have become familiar with Governor West's prison policy through tlie dia- custiona of this subject by the great London dailies. The motion picture houses, to’, have taken up the matter, and recently a series of splendid pictures has been pre pared, covering all Interesting phases of convict life In the Oregon prison from the receipt of the prisoner at the station in Salem, by Warden Curtia, to the convict’s final liberation. The interesting thumb-print system, the fsscinating Bertilion measurements, the convicts at work on honor in differ ent part« of Oregon, the notorious Tracy escape, etc., are fully shown by clever, I snappy talk and special pictures taken e«pecislly to show the "Oregon system" Elmo H. White, a well known newe- 4paper man of thia state, has these pic- 'hires in charge, and will show them throughout the East. Before starting on thia extended trip, however, they will be shown at I ha lais theater in Lents, next Monday and Tuesday, June 3rd and 4th. Electricity on ths harm. A recent demonstration of the eco uornlcs effected by putting electricty to work "doing the chores" of the fnrm showed that electric power can supplant human muscle In this field quite ns well ns the electric light can aupplant the old. oil dripping barn lantern. The generator, driven by an oil en glne, supplied current to an outfit of motors for an automatic pump for the farm water suuply, a centrifugal pump for Irrigation and available for fire purposes also, a dairy Inatallatlon (free from the dual thrown by belta and shafting) consisting of a refrigerating machine, a milk cooler, a cream eepa rator, an automatic churn and butter worker, a bottle washer, an Ice cream Yreczer, an electric truck, a large thrashing machine, corn shelters and food choppers, laundry machinery, milking machines, allo filter, flexible shaft sheep shearer and horse and cat tie groomor. ventilating fane and household equipment, Including cook ing devices.-- Scientific American. The governmeht la again taking up the fight againat the amall beetles that have been ravaging tha foreata of eaatem Oregon. Thia year, how ever. the official In charge of the work expecta to have a much eaaier taak than laat sesaon. when more than 915,000 waa expended In the war on tha little Insects The Coat That Fits the Dummy Was Never Made For You. Webb's Curves Aa They Appeared To ANCIENT SURGERY. "A Eagles.” (A|xiligies to Bud Fisher) They Used a File In Trepanning Op- 10 PtNDLETON sratisna In Hippocrates* Time. LENIS LEAGUERS PLAY DAMASCUS SUNDAY The Ixmta A. W. league team will play Damascus Sunday on the latter's diamond, owing to the fact that they have no regular scheduled game. The last and deciding game of the A W. league will lie played one week from Sunday. The winner of the pen nant will be decided when Lenta meets the Crescents. The Crescents lead the locals by one game and should they de feat lxsnta they will be the undisputed leaders. Should Ix-nts win it will re- quire another game to determine the championship. HANGING HAND SAWS. A Hole Drilled In the Point Saves Timo and Preserves Tools. Hand sans are usually hung up by the handle, Involving a very awkward operatlou every time they are taken for use or replaced on the pin It usually requires both hands to go '''rough thia performance, so common io every woodworker that Its awk wardness la not appreciated, and WLU not lie until be has his saws intelll gently hung up by the point, with the handle within reach. Then he will wonder why he didn't have that bole drilled In the point long ago, says Blacksmith and Wheelwright. By the way, drilling that hole Is the only difficulty In the matter, but any ma chinist knows how to drill a saw of ordinary temper. Don't tie contented with a small bole, but make It five eighths of an Inch or three-quarters of an Inch, although the inacblulst will doubtless drill a small hole first. When you have your saws thus prop erly sus;>endcd. you will hang them up a dozen times a day where you now law them down for a few minutes until you want them again. Besides, this method has decided advantages to the saw Itself. Ita handle la not scratched and marred by being con stantly placed nnd replaced on a rough nail or screw, and Ita blade la not corroded by the sweaty bands of the workman, as Is necessarily the case tn the old way. It would lie a decided boon to wood workmen If saw-makers could tie induced to put this hole in the saws when they are made. SPRING FOR A VISE. Simple and Effsctivs Contrivance For Holding Smell Bolte. The accompanying sketch shows s spring vise In n vise for the purpose of bolding very short center shank head bolts, machine screws, etc. it Is constructed from a buggy or wagon spring of from one and one quarter to two Inches In width and alxiut twelve Inches In length. When made from two inch steel It should lie drawn wider at A In order There is uo doubt that some rough form of surgery must have existed I from very auclent times,* but it Is strange to find that so complex aud delicate an o|>eratiot> as trepanulng la one of the oldest. 8o far as actual records go, Hippo crates gives us the earliest account. He wrote treatises on fractures, dlslo cations and wounds of the head, iu which be described the method of pro > edure to lie followed In the case of a fractured skull. 1 ills direction was to cut away u piece > of bone so that the pressure on the brain might be re- lieved. There are also records nbout this time mid later of a tile being used for this purpose, which at a time when anaesthetics were undreamed of must have been, to say the least, painful. According to Dr. T. It he Holmes, the o|ierntion of removing pieces of bone was performed long before historic times. The effects on the skull are easily seen after death nnd nre visible so long ns the bones are preserved. From liiH|ie<'tlon of certain skulls of the later stone age in ancient Britain Dr. Holmes has come to the conclusion (bat some of these bad undergone the o|ieratlon, which must have been per formed with a stone implement. Lon don Standard We use the famous Detemer Wootens-pure wool every inch of them. We use the new style of cutting. Schweitzer & Manz Tailors That Satisfy Cor Main & Foster Lents, Ore . Emery Webb, the reliable Lents twirler, left ye«terday lor Pendleton, where he expects to remain during the summer and follow hia trade of brick laying. His departure is a hard blow to the Ixinte ball team and is regretted by all. Hia place can be filled, but it will require a salaried man to do it. Only the Finest Quality Ice Cream, Sodas, Sundaes and Soft Drinks served at our fountain. The only exclusive Ice Cream Parlor in Lents. Try our famous Home Made Candies. SCOTCH TERRIERS Thomas Bros. Their Origin and tha Conditions That Made Thom a Necessity. ClgarH and Tobacco» Waiting Room Lent», Ore. In ancient times each district in the highlands bad its “todbunter," whose duty it was to see carefully to it that the then flourishing flrm of fox, otter and company did not do a too prosper ous busliiesn in lamb and poultry. Sometimes these todhunters were of “the laird's men,” sometimes they were supported by the whole community of «mail farmers and grazers, but always «hey were bx-al digultaries. There was honor and considerable profit in tbeir office, mid in time it came to be more or less hereditary. Their duty was simple. They waged a war of extermi nation against the vermin, which, how ever, was a very different matter from the good old English sport of fox bunt ing. Laziness a Disease. In the rough country horse and l.azlnesa should Is* regarded as a dis hound would have been worse than ease when no organic cause of 111 useless, and Iteynard made hia den In health exists, and iieople should be such rocky ground that he could not be com;>elled to get through their allotted work as they would have to take their dug out. The sole solution was a dog amall enough to follow the fox or otter powders of quinine If they were suf fering from Influenza. There are or badger or wild cat into his lair, acores of self pitying loafers on the strong enough to bring him out dead or sick list of every doctor who need, not alive and game enough to do both. A drugs, not “treatment" of any sort, dog develoiHxl from this necessity, and but simply work. To prescrlls* rest that dog win the ancestor of the pres cures for this type Is directly inciting ent day Scottish terrier. — William them to a lacy life, when their dissat Haynes iu Outing. isfaction, general seediness and lack VERY WELL INVESTED of vitality are the direct outcome of having too little to do already. It Is A Loan That Carnegie’s Old Kinsman not more rest that they require, but Didn’t Want Repaid. compulsory, methodical, regulated work Andrew Carnegie told the following six days out of seven. Work Is the atory will, great relish. When his fa ls»st medicine In the world, the Ideal ther was leaving his native country to stimulant, because It leaves no III ef settle In America he borrowed £20 from fects.— I«>n<lon Express. a relative. The family had an uphill battle on tlie other aide of the Atlantic, Qtuttons of the Ssas. but when the tide of prosperity turned The pike's reputation for cruelty and with the son he rememliered his fa voraciousness la such that It has lieen ¡»opularly dubbed the "water wolf.” ther's Indebtedness and determined to clear It off. together with Its accumu It is probable, however, that many s;>eeles of sea fish are equally, If not lated Interest. He started by remit a great deal more, rapaciooa. I .arge ting the sum of £20 and for several dogfish, congers, pollack, cod and bass years sent the same amount, a divi dend equal to exactly 100 per cent. are especially ferocious, while halibut Returning to Scotland, the Pittsburgh will very often seize and kill other ironmaster met Ills old relative. large fish. An English angler was "Well," said Mr. Carnegie, "having “playing” a large conger when a hug»» ;>aid up a good deal of the interest, I halibut «««in up to and savagely lilt should like now to dear off the princi at It a proceeding that coat the halibut pal.” Its own life, for on Its making for the “Ay, ay, Andrew, dinna ye fash yer- wounded conger a *e<xmd time the sei' aboot the loan! A'm pairfectly boatman contrived to gaff and haul It satisfied with the Interest." altoanl. There have been many ex “Oh, but I'm rich enough now. I amples of pike lielng found dead, chok think, to clear off the principal!” r< ed by tlielr own specie*, and these tlsli plied the millionaire. not Infrequently atttack another pike "Dinna mind the principal. Andrew, that has been hooked by a fisherman. said tlie relative. “It's very weel in vested as it is!"—London Family Her Meteors. ald. The frequency of meteors is at its highest toward the end of July and the beginning of August. During the first six months of the year the total num- her of meteors observed on a clear, moonlesa night is only about six an hour. At the beginning of July the fre quency Increases and attains Its maxi mum. alxty-nlne an hour, on Aug. 10. The mean for the entire year la twen ty-four meteors an hour.—London Standard. Benefit Show The Isis Theatre JUNE Progressing. “I understand your boy Josh Is ex perimenting on the lines of ix*n>et'ial motion." ‘‘Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “And I feel aome encouraged about It. I thought for awhile that the only thing Joab was going to take In wax perpetual rest."—Washington Star. z THE MARKETS. Cleaning Brisk Walla. Portland. A solation of about two ounces •f Wheat—Track prices: Club, 96c; muriatic acid to five gnllons of water bluestem, 91; red Russian. 96c. makes a good wash for cleaning brick Oats—No. 1 white, $40 per ton. walla. Thia wash should be applied Hay—Timothy. 917; alfalfa, 912. • id the wall scrubbed down with n Butter—Creamery, 27c. wire brush rande for this purpose, Eggs—Ranch, 20c. Cere should be taken to keep the aolu Hope—1911 crop. 38c; contracts, 25c. tlon from touching the hands or Wool—Eastern Oregon, 18c; Wil- clothes. California's Moras Produetion. lamette valley, 19c. California la the only state which Yellow Rests the Eye. Mohair—32c. makes a commercial production of bo It baa lieen found, according to Cos rax annually. The output for 1910, ac mos, that yellow paper la very restful cording to the United States geological to the eye. and It la therefore recom Seattle. survey, waa 42.3^7 abort tons, valued at mended for use by writers, students, Wheat—Bluestem, 99c; Club, »5c; 11.201.842. Izeaa than four tone waa Im engineers. In making long and compll red Huaaian. 94c. ported. About one-half of tha borax cated calculations, etc. Paper of green Oats—139 per ton. consumed la used In the enameling In color wonld be still better, but has the Butter—Creamery, 27c. dustry for muklng kitchen and sanitary disadvantage that writing In Ink on It Eggs—21c. ware Rack year aome now use I* soon assumes a reddish hue and be Hay—Timothy, 117 per ton. found for the mineral comes Indistinct to give It euough spring motion. The face of the Jaws It should be made as shown at C, so as to have a firm hold on the bolts. The pins l> are supports to prevent the vise from falling down from the larger via*. The spring Is strong and Inrge enough for small work.—Blacksmith and Wheelwright Have your summer clothes made by a reput- able merchant tailorto your own order and individual measurements. Pick your own style, select your own fabric suited to your taste, then have your garment tailored with personal care. Benefit LVFD