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In Nineteen Spasms
Continued from page 8
as the time was limited.
This put a kink in the schedule
of Captain Polhemus and he put
up a loud protest The captain
of the boat got his Dutch up and
a pepetition of the European war
seemed imminent but in the
midst of the hostilities the launch
slipped away. It was understood
however that a truce was struck
by an offer to take the caDtain
across the river to a telephone
office from which his orders
could be transmitted by tele
phone. The launch in which we navi
gated the Siuslaw would not have
stood inspection by federal offi
cers, especially in regard to the
number of passengers carripd.
WORLD FAMOUS SONG. M
W. Not In Poverty When Ho
Wrote Horn, Sweet Horn
It it more than ninety years lince
Home, Sweet Home," was written,
but its popularity U still worldwide,
and wherever the English language
spoken it is known and IovpH .
cause it appeal to thut deep lying
uum.-i, m uumanjty wtuch u the
basis of family life.
Many stories have been written of
jt origin, most of them more or
less inaccurate and tomlinr A.
tort reality by a mass of pleasing
utuuu,
llovinr word nirtn rpfl Kova Via An
drawn of the starving author in hii !
6uvi, ana illustrations have been
published of the original 'lowly
luaicnea cottage " for which he was
supposedly pining, both affecting
and interesting, but not in accord
ance with the facts. Although he
had periods of failure and hardship
as well as possibly briefer periods
of success and prosperity, it was not
while suffering from poverty that he
wrote "Home, Sweet Home," but
during a time when he was livinr
1
I
She was loaded tt the untor'o
o - b u "W nucu UC WHS living
edge and on certain co :rs;s where comfortably in Paris in the Talais
.i .i . . r..i i . , . .
tne wind made the waves choppy ! 1 B1IU liavins considerable suc-
considerable water was splaskd "m his dPimatic w?rk- . ,
0unQrj 1 here is also no evidence to mdi-
8D0ara- cnte that the "lowly thatched cot-
We first made for Florence taSe" bad any existence outside of
where the depot at Cushman was the autnor'8 orain n spite of the
called up and the agent there iTl7 htt8 becn built UP
..-;0j u i 1 . about the Easthampton cottage,
promised to hola the tram not to Throughout his life Tayne had a
exceed fifteen minutes. Away deep affection for his native land,
we went and without anvthincr bis friends and his familv. from
worse than an occasional srjlash
I arrived at Cushman with a few
I minutes to spare.
I Our eighth change was to the
I cars at Cushman in which we
i ambled ontowards Eugene, at
whom he was for many years widely
separated. His letters frequently
allude to his longing for the society
of those he loved and his apprecia
tion of the home and domestic life.
He was only fifteen years of age
when necessity forced him to begin
nis Dattie with the world, a preco-
I
t- , fL ' u im uuuie wllD llie woria, a prec
times thro nc-h n ranvnn n not, ...... i . i . .'. '
0.. .v Ul HaoL uious, Dign spintea, impulsive, sensi-
valleys where the settler is cut- five, ambitious boy, conscious of an
ting a homestead from the for- intellect above the normal, restive
est. Sometimes from the grade ?ndor restraint. ,uic to take of-
the course of a foaming stream ft1' htr T' ?'
, . i . j , , 0"cai" Luquer, Payne s Grandnephew, in
could be seen down below and Scribner's. '
again through tunnels where the
right of way cuts through a
ridge.
Watch this Space
Next Week
Monmouth
Mercantile Company
ons on file amount of expansion he
ouims the bridge so that it has room
to grow a little longer in the sum
mer,
Highest Tides.
Navigators state that thp highest
tide in the world is in the bay of
Funily. between Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick. ' The tide Mip
sometimes rises to the height of Rev-
It Wis Familiar. -
Dan Beard, artist and naturalist,
ine cratty news asrent on thp Mnrk Ti in In tho Intra rf tli a
train called our attention to the old Aldine club, when it was located 1 ty-one feet, and tlie increase is oc
"Old Man of the Siuslaw" and next to tlie ol(1 Kensington hotel, I casionally as much as a foot every
when all had figured out the con- at l' Tv "treet'nldlft?
fmii-Afito rn i i pi nue' New 'ork' anJ before tt had
tour of its face, (it looks like a merged its identity with the Up-
toothless and venerable yankee town association, Dan was entertain-
and the features of his face are 'ng Twain in the club, and after-
exceedingly plain) when we had ffard .the? 8trolIt'd UP Fifth avenue,
recognized the face, the agent
tried to sell each a photo souve
nir and did a good business.
i( As we passed through the
Coast range and neared Eugene
; the proportion of fenced in land
' became In
f ...... u .uniuisi mi. viciucuB miufu Biuwijr, gazcu uiympus, and the Graces loved to
f levelness of the land commanded at the intruder and drawled, "I can't ; twine themselves together by a band
f our attention. i reca11 yur name aD(1 yur face is , of these queenlv flowers
five minutes.
- it.-
Th Ross In Ancient Days.
Old Greek writers extol the rose
above all. other flowers. The I?o-
mnna flnnioni4nl tkl. nn.. n
i I I 1 "rf-ivMitu inio iiiiwit equally
ouuTiu6 w uiiu uu me tumer mine , as mucn as the lireeks, and accord
Twain was waiting for a Fifth ave- j ingto Athenaeus. Cleopatra had the
nun kno il i ... r
uu uuo- noor covered with rose a foot and
A man who was a total stranger hnlf twt v. ; j .j
to Mr. Clemens approached them, j as having spent some thousands of
Biaj-pcu Mi. viuinL-us ou me uaus pounas in roses at one feast alone
and cried: "Hijllo, Mark I How are Anacreon relates how the breath of
yu?" roses used to nerfn
Mr. Clemens turned slowly, gazed Olympus, and the Graces loved to
Continued next week
1 Monmouth Heights
, j
entirely unknown to me,, but your
.a 1 i ti
mauuer is siraugciy lamiuar.
Fun In the Class.
The late Professor Key, when
head master of a larce London
Accidental Discharge of Pun.
A capital pun may arise bv pure
accident, as recorded in Bucke's
"Book of Table Talk:"
"A Mr. Alexander Gun was dis
missed from a post in the customs
I Carl Pollpn nnH Will W A neaa master oi a large London
, """" V1 school, was one of the most genial : u,1Kseo- iro pot in the customs
1 Monmouth were working the ! gentlemen that ever filled that posi- !' Edinburgh for circulating some
, vui llllK 1UU1 11UUIJ Ifl.-tl. I LIU 11. 11K WilH 1UIJU 11 r. 111:1111 III I' t II tJ
I week.
J James Goodman and Mrs. E.
I Clarke of Monmouth wereThurs
f day visitors at the home of Chv
, buthndge and family.
1 Charles Frost of Crook county.
j Oregon, was here to see Milt
j Bosley on business last Thursday.
A number from here attended
j the funeral of Verl Yeater on the
I Luckiamute last Friday.
I Mr. Comstock was in Salem
I on business Thurshay.
Mrs. George Swearingen and
children are training hops for
I Geo. Rose near Independence.
I P. L. and H. R. Fishback were
I on the Luckiamute on business
last Saturday.
I wre. ceiie w under or inde
; pendence passed over the Heights
8t Friday.
Mr. Warren and wife of The
! Dalles have moved to this vicin
ity to reside.
i George Sheldon of the Luckia
,rnute country passed over the
.Heights to Monmouth Saturday.
fun in his bovs and was not averse
from recounting occasionally during
class time, when anything prompted
! it, the manners and customs of
countries he had visited. On one
occasion he was telling his class
about Spain and said:
' "Do you know, boys, that when a
man attains to eminence there he
is not called 'sir,' but is given the
title of 'don?'" -One
of the bovs here called out:
"Then, I suppose, sir, they would
call you Don-Key r
The gravity of the class was com
pletely upset for the remainder of
the afternoon.
Bridge Expansion.
. Bridges expand or get larger in
the sun or in the daytime or in the
summer' and shrink in the shade or
at night or in the winter. The rule
is that heat makes everything ex
pand and cold makes everything
shrink. Cold is nothing but ab
sence of heat. So we may say that
everything contracts or expands ac-.
cording to the amount of heat in it
Metals have a most noticeable way
of changing their size under the in
fluence of heat. So when bridges
are built of iron and steel the engi
neer has to allow for the charge in
the bridge's length. After he reck-
false rumor. The dismissal is said
to have been thus noted in the cus
toms book at the time. 'A. Gun dis
charged for making a false report.' "
The British Constitution.
In England there is no such thing
as a constitution as we understand
the word in this country. The
British constitution is merely a
mass' of law consisting partly of
statutes and partly of decided cases
and accepted usages, in conformity
with which the government of the
country is carried on from day to
day. l he constitution of the Tin t-
ed States is written and can be read
in twenty minutes' time, while the
British constitution is unwritten
save as it is contained in hundreds
of volumes of statutes and reported
cases.
SILOS
Heartily endorsed by
users in every section
of the country. Built
of good clear, straight
grained lumber, such
as we handle, a silo
will last a life time and
the ensilage will always
be right as lumber
won't taint the flavor.
Come in and see the
difference in silos be-
WilLmett, V..U, Soft Yel. Sw'llTS
low Fir and Hemlock and believe w can
, save you money as.
Lumber well as a lot of trouble.
Willamette Valley Lumber Co.
Phone Main 202. . . Monmouth, Oregon
i
A Five Passenger Ford Car
wai recently added to my equipment and is for hire
as well as Rigs and Horses.
All Kinds of Transferring Done Promptly
and on Short Notice
Livery and Feed Stable
GORDAN BOWMAN, Proprietor.
Monmouth, ' . Oregon
Where He Wat Week.
"You say, Mr. Smith," said the
girl in a low, thoughtful, this is a
serious matter sort of tone, "that
you have loved me for five years and
have never dared to tell me so until
tonight r
"Yes." he replied.
"Well. I cannot be your wife. A
man who has no more courage than
that would feijn to be asleep while
a mirgiar stole his babrs shoos."
Chicago Herald.
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