Penetration of Light.
Experiments Hhow tbut llcht ran be
Imn tbrouKh a i-lran cut opening of
not more than one forty-thouKandtb of
an Incb. This fact wui determined by
taking two thoroughly clean straight
edges and placing a piece or paper be
tween the surfaces at one end. the op
posite end being allowed to come to
gether. 'J'bo straight edges being placed
between the eye and a strong light In a
dark room, a wedge 'of light was per
ceived from the ends between which
the paper was plnced and the opposite,
which were brought , together. Tbo
thickness of the paper being known,
the distance apart of the two edges of
the small end of the wedge of light
was easily calculated.
Self Deceiving Male.
Many a man passes for wise because
be asks questions which cannot be an
swered even by himself. Life.
THE DAY8 OF CATTLE TICKS.
By Fred G. potter.
The day of cattle ticks have come,
When hatching nits appear.
And canyon wide and mountain' aide
Proclaim "The '.&. la here."
And cattle scratch and hor3C3 rub,
While ail are looking "bun,"
And men begin to grab the shim
And cry, "The tick has come."
Each mother strips her cherished
child
And with an anxious eye
Doth carefully scan her little man
A ,wlched tick to npy.
The rancher would protect his herd
And labors, long and hard
And aays to ticks, "I'll spoil your
tricks
With kerosene and lard."
As mothers, and ranchers refuse to
be
By cattle ticks beguiled,
O, labor hard, from EVIL guard
The heart, the home, the child.
Promise, Ore.
Paid Advertising.
You know what a good teacher
means to a community, and espec
ially to a child. The Normal School
Is where the teachers are beat train
ed. You have a valuable plant at
Monmouth worth more than $100,
000.00., Don't abandon, this, but vote
Yi3S, for .Monmouth and sustain, the
Normal School. The cost U four
ceuts on a thousand dollars. 99bl
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Beggary.
King Cophetua, as the story runs,
had wed the beggar ninid and was
suspecting nothing when to his con
siderable uneasiness he discovered
that his wife wub worth $10,000,000
In her own right
"What faux pus have I been unwit
tingly guilty of?" exclaimed his maj
esty, for he was very scrupulous.
The queen tapped his cheek roguish
ly. "In Pittsburg, where I was
.... T .1.. I . . 1 . . ln I 1
viuufeui up, sue r&iiuiucu, a gin
who has only $10,000,000 Is to all prac
tical purposes a beggur."
And If he thought with regret of the
Ideals of a former age it was too late
to Insist on them. Puck.
The Midnight Oil.
A hush Is over all. The noisy town.
Wearied of strenuous work, is gone to
rest,
To sleep, childlike, upon Its mother's
breast.
While silence, like some huge and somber
crown,
Upon the peaceful night comes brooding
down.
Anon there echoes from the neighbor
ing dark
In answer to gay rolstehers the bark
Of honest watchdog. In a shabby gown,
With locks unkempt, the room in disar
ray. All heedless of the rapid flight of time,
Working while others sleep in broken
chair
That mournful creaks to his frail body's
sway,
And Angers moving to a merry rhyme.
The poet darns his socks, his only pair.
Judge.
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TWILIGHT LEAGUE
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A number of Enterprise baseball
fans are agitating the question of
dividing the town, into four sections
the division, lines being River and
Main streets, and each section is to
have a representative team in
league, the official same of .which
is to be the Twilight League.
It is planned to have the game9
called at about 6 o'clock In the even
ing and continue until too dark to
see. No games have been arranged
as yet but it la the object of the
promoters to have the season open
for this league about the middle of
May, or a soon, as the boy si can
get in shape.
Below ,we give a few of the tfreat
many would-like-to-be stare, and as
several more players will undoubted
ly turn up soon, we are liable to eee
some fast ballplaying when the sea
son, does open.
Those figured on playing tei the
Brooklyn, or the southeast division
team, are: Pace, French, Clarit,
Fleener, A. C. Miller, A. I. Miller,
Chas. Zuroher, W. W. Zurcher, Joe
Bauer, Cramer, Lockwood and Roe.
The aspirants for honors in the
Alder View, or southwest division,
are: Hug, Savage, Marvin, Will
Bauer, E. Rodgers, Poulson, Olmsted,
Kerns, Browning and Gaily.
Alkali Flats, or the northwest
division, will have: Bllyeu, Pidcock,
Conoway, F. Sheets, ,W, Sheetfl,
Bradley, Boatman, Burnaugh, C.
Riley and Oakea.
The Hay Diggers, or the northeast
division, will have to pick from:
Crumpacker, Lee, Hall, Ault, Odle4
Craig, DeBoie, Boswell, I. Jackson
and L. A. Jackson-.
As there eeems' to be more players
In the first three dlvlalbna than In
the last It may, be necessary to draft
one or two players from those sec
tions to make a complete team for
the bunch that the "Hay Diggers"
will put in the field.
Official umpires, Score keepers and
bat and water carriers have not yet
been appointed, but the promoters
of the several teams are already
beginning to talk about what they
will do to the other fellows.
First Bed Ever In City.
S. T. Daggett delivered a swairm
of bees to J. D. Halsey, Thursday,
which he says is the first stand of
bees ever In Enterprise. Mr. Dag
gett reports that his bees came
through the winter In fine shape.
Call and see our new lines of
drygoods, Notions, and Ladies and
Misses Roady-to-Wear Suits, Skirts,
etc. No two suits alike. E. M, &
M. Co.
DEATH RECORD.
Mrs. Loretta Davis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Surber of En-
i terprlse, was born Feb. 14, 1869,
! In Warren county, Iowa, (where she
' grew to young womanhood. She ac-
cepted Christ in early life and Join
ed the Methodist church of which
, she was a faithful member. She
was married to William Davis in
1 1892 and to this union were born
GOODS
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eight children, four of whom are liv
ing, two girls who a re, with the fath
er in Missouri and two Uttle boys
who are at the home of the grand
parents where the mother brought
them last July in iopes of benefit
ing her health, and at which place
ih passed away, Tuesday morning,
April 12. Besides er husband and
children she leaves her parents, five
brothers and seven sisters to mourn
her loss. Funeral service were
held at the cemetery Wednesday at
12:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. C.
E. Trueblood.
Newsy Items From
About Swamp Creek
Sod Eteing Broken On, New Home-
tejada Large Sheepsheda Erect
ed by Bowlby.
Swamp Creek, April 12. A box so
cial was held at the school house
Friday night.. It was well attended.
Some of the boys bid high to get the
teacher's box.
Sod is being broken on, a number
if the new homesteads. John, Gross,
John Rand, C. O'Nell, Mies Fischer,
and Reuben Kerns are aU breaking,
and Harry Hough, EmiL Gaertner, T.
E. Gossett, H. F. Fischer and Ira
Pratt are preparing new ground. A
number of these are also building
"ence and setting trees.
Dan Dozler filed on a hometsead
lest, week
Mr. Rand, senior, has been Quite
feeble this winter, but feels better
as the warm .weather approaches.
Ira Pratt and H. F. Fischer, have
he contract to haul the wool from
he Makim plant.
Mr. and Mrs. Qulnn are preparing
o put up a house on, their home
stead.
Chesley Williams Is herding sheep
?or Mr. Bowlby, and sticking to the
iiomestead. Fred Carrol, from. Big
Sheep, Is also working for him.
E. R. Bowlby has had aheepBheds
put up for lambing. Dan Dozler did
he work. Mr. Bowlby ie getting
-hlngs in fine shape for business.
Mrs. Lorenzo Roberts, who was
Miss Weaver, the popular teacher,
iiae again taken a school, as teach
ers are scarce.
Page Sells 1,000
Acres In Imnaha
Choice 8t,ock Ranch Bought By Stjev
ensqnj and Davis of Joseph
Joseph News.
Joseph, April W A tig land deal
was consummated this week when
L. G. Page sold his 1,000 acre stock
ranch in the Imnaha to Stevenson
Sc. Davis of Joseph. In the deal were
Included 225 head of cattle, work
Jorses and Implements.
This, ranch is one of the choicest
itock ranches of Wallowa county
ind the purchasers are considered
lucky la securing it, as there were
Aree other partiee figuring on it.
The sale price is not made public,
but it Is reported to have been) over
$15,000.
Mr. Page has moved to Joseph and
will erect a new residence soon.
Mr.' and Mrs. L. L. Lloyd came la
from Imnaha this week, so that, Mrs.
Lloyd could have medical attention.
They are attending the horse show
at Enterprise today.
Wesley Duncan and Dr. Thompson
are showing their fine driving mares
and saddlers at Enterprise today.
The four bids for the new school
building all exceeded $30,000 and all
were rejected. The architect ;was
asked to revise the plans to bring
che cost within $30,000 and bids will
again be called for. The date for the
opening of the new bids Is May 4.
J. W, Kerns has been engaged to
teach the 8th grade of the Joseph
schools next term.
Joseph will have a stock show on
April' 23. Wesley Duncan and J.
M. Mitchell of Joseph and Clat
Shackelford of Enterprise are the
managing committee.
. Gorsllne & Gorsline brought in a
carload of .Jerseys Thursday to be
sold out later.
DASHE8 FROM HOT LAKE. '
E, T, Schluer, of Joseph, was a
gueat at Hot Lake last week, Mr
Schluer says that while le does not
look like, an, Invalid he finds that he
feels better after taking a few baths
about once every bo often.
W. E, Ward, of Enterprise, arrived
at the Hot Lake Wednesday and wWl
remain here several weeks. He saya
he will have plenty of time to get
well, and accustomed to the use of
water.
A. Price, of Enterprise, who baa
been a Hot Lake patient for several
weeks,, ia rapidly recovering and ,wUl
soon b able to return home.
SIRES AND SONS.
James L. Davenport, commissioner
of pensions, lias been tn . the pension
office twenty-eight years.
Wilson Foster. Klondike prospector,
has presented the Dominion museum
in Ottawa with 10.000 specimens of
minerals secured in the Klondike re
gion, gold, topas, opals, etc.
Henry Pntnaru of Mil ford is proba
bly the oldest brown tall moth picker
in New Hampshire. He Is ninety years
old. No tree is too hard for Mr. Put
nam to climb, and he says that he
greatly enjoys the exercise.
F. L. Anten begged to be excused
from Jury nerrlee at Los Angeles be
cause he was eighty-nine years old.
Judge Wilson looked him over and re
fused to excuse him, saying, "Why,
you may live to be 100, young man."
Thomas Lawley of Skowhegan, Me.,
has a razor, strop made of foxskln.
The strop has been used In the family
for more than seventy years. The ra
ter that Mr. Lawley uses was made
by his uncle many years ago from the
blade of an old scythe.
W. Cameron Forbes is the fifth and
youngest governor general of the Phil
ippines since the L'nlted States instU
tuted civil government in the islands.
Governor Forbes was born in Milton,
near Boston, in 1S70. Ills mother was
a sister of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
General Leonard Wood, now chief of
staff, Is the youngest American gen-,
eral officer, with the exception of Gen
eral Funston. He still has thirteen
years of active service before hlin.
Only two general officers of 1906, Miles
and Merrltt, are living, and they are
both on the retired list
The Writers.
Harold MacGrath. the author, la at
Malta on his leisurely way around the
woria.
William Llghtfoot Vlsscher. author
and actor, was born in Owingsville,
Ky., sixty-seven years ago. He car-'
rled a guu four years In the civil war,
has written over a thousand poems
and has done editorial work on scores
of newspapers.
William Watson, the English poet
who has attracted to himself the at
tention of the world by his poem,
"The Woman With the Sernenfa
Tongue," has been a prolific writer
since 1880. Some years ago he went
into retirement as a result, it was com
monly said, of a mental collapse.
Although it is the Swedish academy
which awards the Nobel prizes, Selma
Lagerlof is the first Swede to receive
the award for literature. Mine. Lager
lof is characterized by one writer as
"the creator of a new school of lit
erature in Sweden the optimistic."
Her personality has been described as
"radiating sunshine."
How Tropical Fruits Are Protected.
It may have struck you that most
tropical fruits have thick or hard or
nauseous rinds, which need to be torn
off before the monkeys or birds for
whose use they are intended can get
at them and eat them. Our northern
strawberries, raspberries, currants end
whortleberries, developed with a sin
gle eye to the pretty robins and finches
of temperate climes, can be popped
into the mouth whole and eaten as
they stand. They are meant for small
birds to devour and to disperse the
tiny undigested, nutlike seeds in return
for the bribe of the soft pulp that sur
rounds them. But it is quite otherwise
with oranges, shaddocks, bananas,
plantains, mangoes and pineapples.
Those great tropical fruits can only be
eaten properly after stripping off the
hard and often acrid rind that guards
and preserves them. They lay them
selves out for dispersion by monkeys,
toucans and other relatively large and
powerful fruit eaters, and the rind is
put there as a barrier against small
thieves who would rob the sweet pulp
but be absolutely incapable of carry
ing away and dispersing the large and
richly stored seeds it covers. Cornblll
Magazine.
Army omcers' Pay.
The pay of officers in active service
in the army is: Lieutenant general,
$11,000 a year; major general, $8,000;
brigadier general, $0,000; colonel, $4,
000; lieutenant colonel, $3,500; major,
$3,000; captain, $2,400; first lieutenant,
$2,000, and second lieutenant, $1,700.
From colonel down the payment Is in
creased every five years.
Unpleasant Attention.
In Russia photographers are in the
habit of calllug attention to any cus
tomer who refuses to pay up by hang
ing his portrait upside down in a con
spicuous position of their shop.
Chinese Ladles,
No Chinese ludy goes auywher with
out her powder box or falls to touch
her face with powder whenever Bbe
catches sight of herself in the bit of
mirror to the lid of her box. When
she is going out for a formal call or
A wedding party or a dinner she is apt
to paint her face with a paste made of
wet rice flour
A Vat Operation.
I saw something today that pushes
the limit" said a young married man
who had Just returned from the cat
and dog hospital. He bad heen there
to take his wife's pet cat, that had
broken her leg.
"What was that?" naturally the wife
asked him.
"A cat that was being treated for a
mole on its nose. There wasn't a thing
on earth the matter with the animal
except that it bad a tiny mole. The
owner of the cat, a fashionably dressed
young. woman heavy with furs, said
It spoiled the animal's beauty. Who
ever heard of such a thing? Torturing
poor cat Just to have a mole removed
from Its nose." New York Press.
German Gleanings.
The industry of making lebkuchen,
or honey cake, is worth to the German
city of Nuremberg about $1,000,000 a
year.
In Germany marriages by any for
eign consular officer are stricUy pro
hibited except where there are special
treaty stipulations.
A feature of the new German sys
tem of telephotography Is that the
wire used to transmit a picture may
be used for telephoning at the same
time.
A new Are alarm box tried at Kiel
has a loud speaking telephone trans
mitter and receiver in place of the
usual clockwork mechanism. This en
ables the central station to make nec
essary inquiries about the fire.
Closing Exercises
At Colpitis School
Pupils and Patron Enjoy Basket
Dininer and Appropriate Closing
Program.
Promise, April 9. Mrs. Clemens
returned recently from Wallowa
vhere her children Susie and Dale
have been attending school. The
children expect to attend school
now la their own district (Sunny
side) as there are yet about two
months of school.
Mrs. Fleshman is visiting with
her children in La Grande for a
few weeks.
Fred G. Potter closed a success
ful term of school in the Colpitis
district Friday, April 8, with appro
priate and interesting last day ex
ercises. The patrons of the dis
' .ot. were all present, as well as
pupils from neighboring districts. A
basket dinner was an enjoyable feat
ure of the day. Robert Colpitts) i
worn the prize in spelling ini one I
class and Anna Colpitts in the oth- j
er. Anna Colpitis also deserves
mention for perfect attendance dur
ing the whole term
Gordon hats, the best. 13.00. at W.
J. Funk & Cos.
F. A. RatcllXf of Salem came Sat
urday for a visit with bis son, G.
I. Ratclif.
A Chines Trick of War.
A curioui nrtlfice of war was adopt
ed by a Chinese Junk when attacked
by a man-of-war. The crew threw co
coanuts overboard into the sea and
then Jumped in among them. Nearly
all escaped, for it was impossible to
tell which were beads and which were
nuts.
Autumn Grass.
The growth of grass that comes In a
long, mild, moderately rainy autumn is
said to be far more nutritious for cat
tle than the spring grass. It la richer.
WHITE FRONT
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable
R. L,. DAY,
Good Rigs Fair Treatment Horses Bought and Sold
Special Attention to Commercial Trade
Rates for Regular Boarders Bus to and From Trains
Best of Help Employed Home Phone
Open Day and Night. One Block North of Hotel Enterprise
293 acres Alder Slope, $23,000.00
80 acres Alder Slope, $ 8,000.00
160 acres hill land, about six miles out, $2,000.00
320 acres, 12 miles out, $3,200.00
City Lots, $100 to $300
Residence Property, $6SO to $3,000
Fire Insurance Surety Bond Live Stock Insurance
W. E. TAGGART The Pioneer Real Estate Man,
ENTERPRISE, : : : : OREGON
Cartfui Banking Insum tht Saftty of Deposits."
Depositors Have That Guarantee at
WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK
OF ENTERPRISE, OREGON
CAPITAL 150.000
SURPLUS $50,000
We Do a General Banking Business.
Exchange Bought and Sold on
All Principal Cities.
Geo. W. Hyatt, President W. R. Holmes, Cashier
Geo. 8. Craig, Vice President Frank A. Reavls, Asst. Cashier
DIRECTORS
Geo .8. Cbaio Geo. W. Htatt Mattie A. Holmes
J. H. Dobbin W. R. Holmes
CLEAN-UP DAI IS
GREAT SUCCESS
ALL OVER CITY BUSY PEOPLE
UNITE IN. CLEANING AMD
BEAUTIFYING.
Clean-Up Day was even a bigger
success) than the promoters antici
pated . The people responded wKh
enthusiasm to the call of the Im
provement league to get busy. From
the hills surrounding the city piles
of tin cans could be seen In every
direction. The wagons were kept
busy all day hauling off the raked
up trash. The little bonfires with
clouds of smoke must have remind
ed the old settlers of Indian days.
The only regret felt Is that U had
not been, wo days instead of one.
Everyone could find so much, to do.
One lady of the league who is de
cidedly an active) member and full
of good Ideas, suggests having box
es nailed to the telephone poles
every two or three blocks for the
convenience of people who have
scrap paper, orange peelings, eto.,
to throw away on the street.
The spirit of neatness and order
that Clean-Up Day has given ev
eryone is worth the whole price
of admission.
There is not a town on the map
that takes as much pride In progres
sion in all directions as doet Enter
prise and that Is the reason of Its
steady growth.
New Pastor for Christian Church,
The Christian church of thlsi city
has extended a call to Rev. Clif
ton Ernest of Creston, Washington, .
and It Is probable the call will be
accepted.
Grading Water 89-eet.
Marshal Hug and a force of men
are doing effective ,work with the
road grader on River street. This
Is one of the prettiest streets In
the city as well as one of the inost
traveled.
0. J. ROE 8ELL8 20 ACRE8 OF
FINE ORCHARD LAND
O, J. Roe, proprietor of the well
known Mountain' View Fruit ranch,
has sold 20 acre j of cultivated land
to Walter E. Sheets, who recently
came here from Des Moines, Iowa.
Mr. Sheets will Immediately set
his new possession In fruit trees.
The Roe ranch Is Ideal fruit land,
as It lies In a sheltered position and
Is not readily affected by late frosts.
The deal was made through L. B.
Payne.
' Jap-a-lac at Keltner's.
Proprietor
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