Entered aw Second Claw Mail Mailer at Lenta, Oregon, August ¿5, 1911
Published Every Thursday at l.euta. Ore., by the Mr. S cott PvaLiauiNu Oo
H. A. DARNAI.L, E ditor
Office Phone: Home 1111.
and
M sxaubb .
Residence: Tabor 2S13
A FARM BOY S WISDOM.
EPORTS have been pretty
generally circulated over
the state that the State Grange Rural
is School, He Saya. Should Be So-
cial Centers—Teach Agriculture.
promoting or at least supporting
the proposed referendum on the
“God knew how to make a man,
State University building fund.
The State Grange has never de writes one of the students of indus
clared its intention of doing any trial journalism, * when he put a hand
thing of the sort The grange on each side of him and a head on
is in favor of supporting the I top These factors must work to
University liberally if we are to gether and must be educated together
have such an institution. Many "Modern education demands a new
of the members of the grange sort of a schoolhouse By uniting a
districts the patrons could afford
personally believe that the addi a few much
larger building Not merely
tion of a few branches at the a building with more rooms in it, but
Agricultural College would re one furnished with laboratories and
lieve the state of the necessity apparatus that would enable the
of maintaining two schools. But pupil to-do much better work than is
most of those persons do not posable under the present method
The schoolhouse should be the social
consider the additional expense center of the community, and one way
to be assumed in providing for to make it so is to have a building so
the 700 students that would thus large that the second floor could be
be transferred. Teachers and used as a hall in which to hold public
buildings and other additional meetings, socials, etc Every com
has enough land so that it can
accommodations would have to munity
laboratory or experiment
station
be provided. Would the amount afford a few acres fo; an agricultural
saved be worth the risk of im where the pupils could carry on ex
pairing the efficiency of either periments with growing crops
"For a school of this sort it would
school?
R
Mrs. McKinley on Tuesday of this week. which extended half an inch lieyond the
There will l>e no meeting next week. usual sole mi both sides and was slanUsi
On the we« k following Ml Scott I’nioti hack from within an inch of the toe no
will meet with Mr» S-h.-unnan, Third as not to iiihrirrv in walking, making
Ave., near the street ear line, at which lli<- entire ihiekneM nl sole ispial ap
time a reception will Is* tendered Mr». pan ntly. to the thickness of the heel.
Enright who lias recently moved to Feet wearing Midi a »ole the»« damp
la>nts from Salem. Refrvshiiie tits will | .lavs would Is* high and dry.
Mrs, Enright, who ia to lie tendered a
be served.
The president of the University of Ore rweplion by Mt. Scott Union on April
gon rolled into ISirtland last Saturday
si the home of Mrs. Seheiirman, is a
wearing his most genial »mile and a iintisl W C T. U. worker, having Isvti
style of shoe sole that ought to I»' in- state Su| er'iit, nd, nt id the Franchise
vestigated by our health department department last year. She is a public
The perfectly curved ami finished »hoe -peaker and enthusiast generally, along
sole was supplemented by an added sole the num) activities of W C. T I work.
be necessary to have a new sort of
teacher, one that could not only teach
the subjects now commonly taught,
but who could teach also the pro
cesses of nature, explaining t/e
growth of plants, etc.”
It follows, too, that there will be
a new sort of farmer Instead of rnral
life being a drudgery it will be
of enterprise, intellectual energy
interest—Industrialist
Commission Government has
grown so common that it goes
without comment any more. Re
ports from various parts of the
country are not so numerous as
they were a few months ago.
hence the necessity of referring
to matter that was written on
some past date. Attention is
Schillar’s Revenge.
directed to an article about the
When Schiller was a boy at school
history and success of the sye- he was tormented by a Swiss tutor
tem in various parts of the coun named Kuplig. who came from the
Grisons canton, Years later, when the
try in another column.
poet wrote "The Robbers, he reveng-
ed himself on Kuplig and the Grisons
Introducing this little speech: "To
“Love Lyrics of a Driveling by
be a scamp you must have genius.
Idiot” are appearing in an east Moreover, a special climate is needed
ern paper. This is the time of for the growth of scamps, and to
this I recommend you to visit
year when such effusions are to prove
the Grisons canton. It is the verita
be expected.
ble Athens of modern rascality." In
the later editions of “The Robbers"
this quaint bit of spleen does not ap
PARKINSON’S SPECIAL ’ELECTION pear. It is suggested that Schiller
was not moved to expunge ft by any
remorseful feeling, bnt by a very forci
It looks as though we wouidjhave a ble protest froas the residents of the
special referendum"eleetion in Novem ■bused canton against this calumny.
ber. The ejection will cost about}! 100.-
000. It is to be called by Harry J. Park
On tha Way to Mecca.
inson of Portland, an attorney-at-law
The bishop of London has published
and some other things. The purpose of an account of his visit to the Sudan,
the referendum which will bring]abont which included a morning walk ’«tn
this special election is to deprive the the very middle of native Africa.” A
University of Oregon of a building ap native boy whom he saw standing
propriation of $175,000, madejby the near a well "was on bis way to Mec
legislature. Since the difference Iietweeh ca, having traveled already 2.000 or
3,000 miles, which had taken two
$100,000 and $175,000 is $75,000, the or three years His father had died
amount which Mr. ParkinsonJ.hopes to on the way, and when I asked him
save the tax-payer is clear.
bow be would manage be said quietly.
It is six years since theXuniversity has Allah will provide.’ and It never en-
ha/i a new building, though thejfstudent tered his mind to ask me for any
attendance has increased from about ;400 thing. Five minutes afterward we
to more than 700. Such a condition of came across three women—an old
congestion does not exist in any other woman and two daughters The eld-
state university in this country. Al est daughter was twenty-five, They
were coming back from Mecca, but
though the state carries no insurance
they had started off, she said, when
and has much valuable property that she was a little girl about twelve."
money could not replace, yet there is
not a fireproof bui)ding"on the campus.
Electric Sterilizing.
There are other conditions of neglect
An
apparatus
that sterilizes milk by
and deprivation at the state university
electric light has been invented in Hol
for which we an- indebted|t<> Mr. Park land It contains a mercury vapor
inson, who has elected himself to undo lamp, so arranged that a tbln stream of
what the legislature has done.
milk may be made to flow over the
But we must give this spokesman for surface of it. The ultra violet rays
the people credit for botlilindustry and from the light quickly destroy all bac
consistency. Having a small practice in ' teria In the milk. Demonstrations were
law he finds petition-making} both easy first made with water containing vari
and remunerative. He secured, vouched ■ ous kinds of bacteria The water was
for. and tiled over 5000 names that were purified in a few minutes with but
proved forged or fictitious, most of! slight Increase of temperature. If this
method of sterilizing milk without heat
which were admitted as such by his ing proves to be practical it will have
own counsel in the famoilsXuniversity a wide field of usefulness.
referendum case.
But for many of
these forged or fictious names he received |
from 7 to 10 cents each, besides other
fees collected from hie backers. But in
all this work he was consistent, tor when
Following the announcement that the ;
tie failed to organize a labor union in
Eugene three years ago he promised to Liggett chain of drug «tores is to discon-,
“get even’’ through attacksjoii the uni ■ tinue the sale of liquor comes the news '
versity
He has been keeping (bis that the president of the Druggists’ As-
promise, and so tfie Parkinson »[»-cial ' sociation of West Virginia. Hon. J. R. I
election of 1913 is to be called in No- I Elson, spoke in favor of the bill which I
vember. It will cost $100,000. I.nt it is prohibits the »ale of liquor in drug
a privilege which will not be denied j store«. West Virginia has had a great |
those who have the motives and money prohibition victory, and it is gratifying |
to buy the signatures for the petitions.— I to know that the druggists of the state
endorsed the legislation
Spectator.
Canada's Minister of Militia say- "The
cantwn is the greatest blight a camp
Valuable Advertising Suggestion
can have.” The Canadian government
An advertising tip, one with the ex will not become a liquor seller while
perience: “You can always please one Col Hughes remains minister of miiyia.
man by now advertising; that’s your and the Montreal witness »ays the peo
competitor.”
ple of the country are with him.
A misprint in the calender resulted
Read the ada in the Herald and pat- in an out of date announcement last i
ronaze Home Merchants.
week. The union niet at the home of'
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