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All early French documents have Ouisconsing or Misconsing. Down on the Farm. "The only worker I ever knew who would work when the boss was away was the old-fashioned American hired man," declared a professor at Grand Rapids. We have known a couple of them to sit on a fence at such times and work until their jaws were totally exhausted. Already Free. During the Sunday School lesson the teacher made reference to a pas sage of Scripture reading, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." A little girl in the front row exclaimed: "I'm already free. I'm free and a half." One Way to Reduce. A rather robust woman recently asked a doctor what she should do to reduce. "Take a certain kind of ex ercise," said he . "What kind do you recommend?" she asked. "Push your self away from the table three times a day" replied the doctor. Topeka Capital. Meat Distribution. Two-thirds of the live stock used for food is raised west of the Mississippi, while two-thirds of the consumers live east of the Mississippi. This accounts for the 1,300 packing houses occupied in converting live stock into meats and transferring them to markets. Remark Left Impression. A man and his wife were buying a horse. "How could such a lovely creature have a temper?" asked the woman. "My dear, that is exactly what passed through my mind when I married you," answered the man, and he has not heard the last of it yet. Word for the Cyclone. About the only good thing that can be said about cyclone is that it doesn't cost the taxpayers anything for an investigation as to who was to blame. Des Moines Register. Slight Accident Fatal. A young man in London who was struck on the head by a chicken bone used as a missile died of septic pneu monia set up by the slight scalp wound he had received. Final Adjudication. Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. Oxalic Acid in Rhubarb. Rhubarb, when eaten in excess, has been known to act as a powerful poi son on accpunt ot its natural content of oxalic acid. Science Service. Must Move Fast. The lowest speed at which It is pos sible for an airplane to fly is 31 miles an hour. Mankind's Duty. Life Is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem, right or wrong. J. Q. Adams. You Want a Good Position Very well Take the Accountancy and Business Management, Prta,U Sacrstarl- al, Calculator, Comptometer, 8tenoa-r-phle, Penmanship, or Commercial Teach ers' Course st Behnke-Walker The foremost Business Cohere of the Northwest which has won mors Accuracy Awards and Gold Medals than any other school in America. Send for our Success Catalog Fourth Street near Morrison, Portland. Or. Isaac M. Walker, Pr . P. N. U. No. 24, 1925 IT WAS A PRIVATE QUARREL By WILLIAM T. DAVANT ( by Short Story Pub. Co.) DEVIL ANSB CANF1ELD gazed quietly at the man before him. His thumb fumbled the ham mer of a brown rifle, a nervous trick which had worn the steel smooth. "So ye want work?" he drawled, presently. The man to whom he spoke was clad In overalls. His smooth-shaven face was tanned darkly. His upper lip had the peculiar puffy effect which be trayed the fact that a mustache had been sacrificed. "Yes, I do." "Whur're ye from? Whut kinda work kin ye do?" The stranger met the searching gray eyes for the first tim. "Stranger," he said, frankly, "to be square with you, I ain't going to tell you where I come from. I'll say this much : I ain't always worn these kind of clothes and a look at my hands will show you that I ain't n laboring man, although I'm willing to do anything that will pay my board and keep for a month or two." The case was not unusual. The country is well suited to the needs of men who have come under the dis pleasure of the law. On one side of Tug river Is West Virginia, on the other lies the state of Kentucky. Hills, valleys, valleys and more hills ; the landscape presents a monotonous ruggedness which discourages pursuit. Once across the river, the fugitive Is safe until the slow process of extra dition Is gone through with. Anse fumbled the hummer of his rifle, always keeping the muzzle di rected toward the other. "I'll take ye, furriner," he pro nounced, after giving him due consid eration. "Whenever all ye be ready to go to work?" "I'm ready now." He picked up a bundle of clothes and prepared to follow his employer. The old man wheeled like a cat. "No ye don't !" he snarled, his eyes red suspicion. "Ye go fust." Without a word the younger obeyed. At a clearing Canfleld halted him. "Troy I Hey-o-o, Troy !" he shouted, his voice resounding In the typical mountaineer's call. A tall lad appeared noiselessly be hind them. On his shoulder was the Inevitable rifle. "Want me, dad?" "Fetch this man a crow-bar an' shovel. He's golnta grub th' pastur'." When the Implements came, he set the stranger to work in the gruel ling nfternoon sun, uprooting stumps In the clearing. During the operation he sat on the rail fence, an embod' ment of somber menace. With his head sunk into his bowed shoulders he was never at rest. His keen gray eyes under shaggy brows darted now this way, now thnt; his beaked nose seemed to sniff the air suspiciously, his curly brown beard, shot with white, failed to hide the nervous twitching of a cruel mouth. And al ways he kept his rllle pointed in the direction of the worker. At the mellow call of a horn, he slid to the ground and called his employee. "Supper," he announced, laconically. They filed to the house, the stranger In front. An elderly woman met them at the door. "My new hand," the Devil said, by way of Introduction. The woman murmured something and led the way Into the kitchen. A'nse played the part of host with a hospitality bred in the bone of the mountaineer. He pressed fried chick en and squirrel and all the viands which constitute the highland menu npon his guest. But the stranger no ticed the boy, Troy, sat In front of the stove with a rifle across his knees and never took his eyes from his face. The meal finished, the host escorted the laborer Into the living room. A certain look of constraint seemed to leave him as he picked up his rifle and fumbled the hammer. He caught his guest's eye and chuckled : "Somehow I don't never seem right unless I'm totin' ole Betsy." "I reckon there are some pretty tough men In these hills," the other responded, looking with concern at his blistered palms. "They's five thousan' dollars reward fer me In Kalmuck an'1 I hafter be keerful. I hain't one uh th' McBees. My men knows 'em all an' they hain't one uh 'em could cross Tug river alive. Whut I'm nervus about Is these here smart. Jack deetoctlves. They hain't nothln' to heuder 'em from comln' to me, like ye done, fer a job, an' waltln' fer a chanst to cap ture me when I hain't on my guard." "That's why you carry the rifle with you all the time," exclaimed the hired man, In sudden enlightenment. The Devil brooded In portentous silence. The other busied himself pricking with his pocket-knife the wa ter blisters caused by his strenuous afternoon. "Hit's tills away," Anse fumbled, suddenly, "I hain't never harmed a soul whut hain't fust harmed me. I wanta live In peace with my feller man. but things has happened, which they won't let me. ' Them McBees butchered my broth er. He wux my pal, my playmate. They filled him with lead an' cut twenty-five wounds In hli body all on ac count uh some pigs, which they wa'n't wuth a dollar. "I hain't never harmed th' state uh Kahituck. All I've did is to kill ev'ry man I c'n find whut helped kill my brother. I hain't hurt none uli them th' state sent after me, although they wuz meddlin' in a personal mutter whut Is jus' between th' McBees an' Cantiel'g." He got up and faced his listener. "Whut ye got to do with hit, Bill Hardin? Whut blsness is hit uh yourn?" A vein of raillery ran through his next words. "But I for got. Ye didn't come fer me. but jus' wanted a Job. Hev ye got enough uh grubbln' stumps?" The detective sat quietly In his chair, his eyes half-closed. "Anse, you've caught me with the goods." "I reckernlzed ye as soon as I seen ye. Shavln' off a mustache hain't much uli a disguise, Bill." "Well, Anse," Hardin arose and met his eyes fearlessly, "what you going to do about It?" "Ye know whut I oughta do. But I don't want no trouble with th' state. Yo've et my grub, ye kin sleep In my house tonight. Tomorrow I'll drive ye to th' station In time to ketch Number Four. But don't never come back out here, Bill." "Is that threat?" "Take hit as a warnln', Bill. Ye're squar' an' ye've got nerve. 1 don't want nothln' to happen to ye In my country." The detective yawned. "I think you said something about a bed," he sug gested. The feudist lighted a tallow-dtp and pointed to the steep stairway. Hardin took the light out of his hand and started to climb upstairs. "Wait a minute, Bill," the Devil called. "Less have ev'rything straight between us. We uns is awful light sleepers an' mighty nervus. Whenever we hear a soun' In th' night we shoot fust an' look afterwards. Gin ye walk In yer sleep ye'd better fassen th' door so's ye can't open It less'n ye're wide awake." The next morning Anse presided at the breakfast table with his homely grace. Hardin ate a hearty meal, ex pressing his appreciation by the keen neRs of his appetite. A gleam came Into his eyes ns he got In the buggy beside his host and no ticed that the brown old rifle liud been left behind. The mountaineer was by nature a taciturn soul and the law officer was busy with his thoughts, therefore the drive was finished in silence. As the train pulled in, Anse reached in his pocket. "Bill," he drawled, a humorous light In his deep-set eyes, "th' Good Book says that th' laborer is worthy uh his hire" ; with the words, he dropped a sliver dollar In Hardin's blistered palm. The detective readied buck to put the coin In his pocket. His hand flashed up holding a revolver. "I don't see any reason why you shouldn't take the trip with me," he remarked, cheerfully. The old man shook his head gloom ily. "Put hit back, Bill, I'm disap pointed with ye. Ye'd oughta know me better. I don't trus' no man further back than a fust cousin an' I expected this." "Cut that out," Hardin snapped tri umphantly. "Get aboard." For answer the outlaw whistled shrilly. Half a dozen loafers on the platform were transformed Into alert mountain men. They bounded toward the detective and surrounded him with leveled revolvers. Anse chuckled at the changed expression of Hardin's lace and waved them away. "Ye see, Bill, they're my people. They'd die fer me like I'd die fer 'em. Ye bin buttin' In on a private quar'l an' ye don't deserve to git awny. Jump on yer train an' go back to Roanoke whar ye belong before I change my mln'. An' don't never come back !" The officer shrugged his iboulders and thrust his gun hack in bis pocket. "Good-by, Anse," he called from the platform of the last coach. Devil Anse Canfleld stood and watched the train disappear In the East. His thumb felt vainly for Its wonted occupation; a look of fear sprang Into his eyes. "Troy, Tro-o-y!" he yelled, shrilly. The boy ran to him. "Whur's Betsy?" The lad handed her to him. The feel of the cold steel reassured him. With a sigh of relief he turned to his buggy, his thumb twiddling the worn hammer as a dog licks bis master's shoe. "Come on, kid ; less go home," he drawled. Firet in Forests It Is not practicable to equip for ests with lightning rods. No remedy Is now In sight for disastrous forest fires due to lightning, such as have occurred on a vast scale In the west ern states during the last season. When lightning strikes a tree the ordi nary result is to splinter the wood or strip off bark through the sudden gen eratlon of steam. In the great Inujor Ity of cases the tree is not set on fire. Nevertheless the aggregate number of forest fires started by lightning is, in many parts of the country, greater than the number due to all other causes combined. Odd Way to Pay Tax A southern Ohio taxpayer, being assessed H cents as his federal in come tax, originally mulled postage stamps covering this amount, but was informed that stamps were not ac ceptable. Then the collector received a small block of wood, in which a hole had been bored and 8 cents secreted A corn cob was used as a stopper to bold the money In place. JOHN LISKA WROTE BEST ROAD ESSAY John Liska, Wisconsin Rnplds, Wis., wrote the best essay In the 1924 na tional good roads essay contest for the Harvey S. Firestone four-years' univer sity scholarship. The subject of his essay, which told In simple form the epic story of a country crossroads, was "The Relation of Improved Highways to Home Life." Liska Is the fifth high-school student to earn this honor and award. The contest is conducted ench year under the auspices of the highway education board, Washington, D. C, of which the United States commis sioner of education is chairman. It Is strictly educational In character and In the several states Is sponsored by one of the leading universities, or by the state department of education. Mr. LIska's essay follows: Isolation is the primary cause of the ignorance so evident in rural com munities. Poor roads, more than any thing else, have forced the farm home into a demoralizing Isolation. The Im provement of highways, making the consolidated school and social center possible. Is injecting new life Into homes formerly hopelessly isolated. Home life Is broadened and enriched. Boys are willing to stay "down on the farm." Girls cease to envy their city cousins and to leave home for "the bright lights." Just a few minutes of travel, on a particular road leading out of the city of Wisconsin Rapids, will convince the most doubtful skeptic of the value of good roads and their Influence upon home life. About two miles from the city this road branches. One branch Is called "the left rond" ; the other "the right rond." The left road is almost always In a deplorable condition; the right road Is hard-surfaced. The homes on the left roud are dilapidated, the front yards scarcely recognisable among the tangle of broken machinery, old wire nnd various other objects placed "out of the way." The land has been cropped until It Is Impossible for even quack grass to flourish. The stock, descendants of some grand-dad's icrubs, Is now so degenerated that scarcely any characteristics of a high producing, profitable animal are evi dent. Can you expect the boy or girl to remain on the farm under these con ditions? Not one boy or girl living on this road has any education above the eighth grade, and very many have pot even progressed thnt far. These young people, many of them lying about their ages, have bad to seek a "Job" at the slore, mill or fac tory, instead of completing their edu cation. Can home life be pleasant and happy where these conditions exist T The road to the right leads through land slightly more fertile, but more fertile only as n result of better farm management. No farm home on this road, for a distance of twenty miles, Is without at least one modern con venience. Several fnnns are equipped with every modern convenience, both In and out of the home. The esthetic influence a good road exerts Is very evident. Often It stimu lates Intent self-respect into practical expression. These people are con tinually ndiiing some Improvement In an honest attempt to beautify their home surrounillngfl. Through diversifi cation and rotation of crops they have succeeded In bringing their land to a high degree of fertility, resulting In a more stable Income each year. They are sending their children to high schools, agricultural schools and universities. A better education Is teaching these children to realize the value of a true home. In a large mejisure, on the rond to the left, the average fanner hu. lost his self-respect, has allowed his home to fall below the standard, and has failed to keep In stride with the times. He Is considered inferior to city peo ple. Fanners, such as those on the right road, are again placing the farm home upon the pinnacle where It should rest, "The True Home of Man." How necessary to that home is a good rond I What a relief It must have been to those simple folk In Whlttler's "Snow Bound" to have the roud opened and the floundering car rier bfcng the village paper to the door ! The left roid may be compared to the snow-bound road, Impelling prog ress, forcing Isolation. The right road may be compared to the opened rond, offering new opportunities, new possi bilities and new happiness. The right rond Is. In the true sense of the word, the "right road." We must build more of them. Until this Is accomplished home life In isolated sections will, In the future, Simply exist; but when all roads are "right roads," these sume communities, these same homes, will live. PORTI ANT OFFERS A MARKET 1 Vl 1 LilllL FOR YOUR PRODUCE Much Road Building An Interesting feature of this year's rood building Is the evident willing ness of both counties and states to assume building through Issuance of highway bond Issues. Sixty millions of dollars have been spent slnee 191S on the Lincoln hlghwiiy alone for im provements, and many millions more will be spent during the few years Just ahead on this great .'(.100-mlle transcontinental road, which stretches from the Hudson river to Sun I- an clsco bay. fCoiOiiuiDUS ltol5.U. lMllu- Ees. NMr. S 1 rv. aaG5 113311 Mate! Balliit liI Is Select Residential & Transient JlW H iV! J 1 ITsTIT 16th and Yamhill, Portland. Oregon. fy . 'i 'A E lliuliU'l V M,t,,rn Fireproof - American Plan JJ;"$ J ' RATKS MODERATE litfuJual Ship to Mutual Creamery Your Check Returned Promptly Better Franklin Service Storage and General Repairing J ANDERSON & RICE, HRo.idw.iy 5709 Pr y-r 1 11 il five 404 H.iyt Street at Ninth 1 L-ilIHl, UI t' Purely Myth. The belief that the tail of a snake after the head Is cut off or the rest of the snake is killed lives until sun set is merely an old myth. Owing to the reaction of the snake's nervous systom its tail will continue to wigglo long nfter the snake Is otlierwiso ap parently dead. I!ut then; is nothing to th notion that it will continue to wiggle until sunset and then stop. Sometimes It will stop beforo and sometimes after sunset. Pathfinder Magazine. The Dependable Man. Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom wo know wo can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faith ful and true, the adviser honest nnd fearless, the adversary just and chival rous -in such a ono there is a frag BMBt of the Hock ot Ages. Dean Stanley. INFORMATION DEPARTMENT DKa. CHAN LAM 0HZKB8I MRDTCINB CO.. T JORMSF.D PHYSICIAN. lUaMUM frti stomach, disorders, kidney, bladder troubles, pull itonei, roimtipntiuii, appendicitis Ind all ftnuln romplninta. Yon cad take treatment at borne If nrn ferred. U9 Second Ht., cor nwr Aldnr, Portland, Ore. CUT FLOWERS & FLORAL DESIGNS Clarke Bros., Florists, S8? Morrison Bf. Twins Had Same Idea. Probably tbo most remarkable and authentic story concerning twins is that of A., a twin, who bought a set of champaign glasses in a town in Scotland as a surpriso for Ml brother, B.i who at the same timo bought a set of exactly the same pattern in England as u present for A. Founded by Champlain. The earliest founding of any Cana dian city was that of Port Hoyal, now Annapolis Hoyal, in Nova Scotia, founded by C'liamplain ami his asso ciates in 1C05, but this colony was withdrawn a couple of years later. The Port Hoyal that appears In tbo later history of old Acadia was found ed in HV.W by D'Aunay Chnrnlwiy. Reaching the Top. The men who reach the top seldom watt (or a lift. They are climbing While others are waiting for a boost. The higher they climb tho more room they have, for then 's always room on top, though it may be ever ho crowded n! the bottom where all must start.-- fjrlt Rush for Home Sites. Had Many Successors. "Pinafore." was first introduced in, When Oklahoma was thrown open to the United States at tho Standard while settlers after the federal gov- theater in New York city la 1789. Mrs, eminent had purchased II from the Thomas Whlffen was the original Ml- Creek Indians in INS!), ii i ; cslir.iah-il tic Buttercup. Cannibalistic Spiders. Spiders were found by the Mount. Everest expedition 4,ouo feet higher than any vegetable growth. Tho spiders are believed to feed upon ono another. What Job Escaped. Another thing old Job escaped - and It in probably one of tho reasons ho was so patient was having someone Come smiling around as ho sat there among the ashes, scraping hlniKelf wilh a potsherd, and telling him Just to think tho right thought and he'd soon be perfectly well and happy. Ohio State Journal. that 100,000 persons look part in Hie rush lor claims, WA HI Nd ION avtr May or Juiia hatched W. L. Oiirki fit a JiiO. A l(o H $17. 100'i hvt- delivery guar a nt Writ for ie la! yrm M leghorn. K, I Hi-fi or ltsrrl K I'rJtlcU CsUlOK free CfU r.N HATCHERY- tie )bj IATTLE ' High Price, Considering. Pallor "I had no idea that your Stndles would cost so mm h!" Son "They ought, not. to father. I don't sludy very much!" Pep! Mrb Paris. Flattery's a Compliment. Flattery pleases greatly. in tho., first place, the flattarer may think what ho suys to ho true, hut, in tho second place, whether he thinks so or not, ho certainly thinks l hose whom he flatters of consequence enough to bo flattered.- Doctor Johnson. Classifying Peanut. Thf peanut is a pVa rather than a nut. and belongs to the same group of planls as do beans and common gar den pojis, differing only In that it pos sesses tie: character of blooming above Hi-omul anu niaiunng us iruit or pod beneath the surface of the soil. ROOT AND HERB REMEDIES If taken In time, prevent oiwr ati'ir. fur DiahHes. Catarrh. Aattima I.unir, Throat. Liver, I Kid rmy, KhHtunatiarn. Itl'l. Stmutch and allfemal dia opjVm. Hladdi-r Truublsta. The C. Cc3Wo Kemcdka are harmleu, at no drug, or iMriion are ud. Qtmixned of the tttobvst medicinal roots. Iterbi, hudt and hark, knnorted try ut from far away oriental coun tries. Call or Write for Inform ation C Gee Wo Chinese Medicine Co. New location 202'4 Alder St.. S. VV. Cor. Third. Portland. Ore. Katauhihod ''. YsMtrain i or u n. I 4l. Wo Specialize in Hides. Pells. Wool, Moberr, Tallow, i i,m, Oregon Gap Root, Coat Skins, Horse Hair WriUifor Shipping Tuici & laSnl PltSS Lift Portland Hioe & Wool Co. 1M UNION v(HU( NORTH, PORTLAND., QM80N. branch at I'tteatallo, Idaho wi4refl