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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1914)
NT0 RATTLER'S EYES Plain, Tailored Utility Coats CANADA'S FAMOUS RAINBOW 8TONE MUCH ADMIRED. MAN LOOKED WHILE CLINGING. TO LADDER IN MINE. Why Reptile Refrained From Strik IS OF RAKE BEAUTY Oil ing It Something of a Mystery, . Though Ite Precarloui Posi tion May Explain It. There Is a savins: down on the hrnad ""WW THE long, protecting "rain or shine" coat, made to meet the exigencies of travel or life In the out-of-doors, is cut on simple lines. One of the most practical of these coats Is pictured here. It hangs straight on the figure. The needed fullness at the bust line is provided for by two small plaits on each shoul der. This is taken up from the swell of the bust down In a stltched-ln plait at each side of the front, the plaits extending below the normal waist line for at least six Inches. The coat la open at the throat, but without revers. The neck Is flniphed with a small sailor collar and the aloeves with turnback cuffs. Bone buttons are used for fastening and as a decorative feature on the cuffs. Coats of this kind are made with skirts to match. The latter, severely plain and straight, are worn with blouBes of thin wash Bilk, pongee or sheer wash fabrics. These coats and Bklrts require flrmly woven rainproof .goods In quiet staple colors. Either can be worn without the other, and the coat is designed to do duty wher ever a separate coat Is needed. In some of the new models these Small Girl's Outfit for Cold Weather SHOPPING for the requirements of (he little girl develops the knowl edge that she may be provided with almost as ninny dress accessories as are designed for her mother. In anticipation of wintry weather the little maid in the picture Is about to be outfitted with warm clothing In which she may defy the cold for one thing and look pretty and well cared tor, for another. In outside garments she Is first sup plied with a heavy, close-knitted weatercoat. It la finished with turn back collar and cuffs and a knitted belt and Is almost as warm as fur. The color Is a rich red, about the best choice and the most pleasing to the lit tle wearer. The collar may be rolled tp about the neck and the cuffs brought well down over the hands to protect the wrists. For dally wear tfcla Is the Ideal garment. The little Scotch cap to be worn i 1 'i'A aswraaaRai coats are cut with a. flaring skirt set onto a shorter bodice in the style of the Russian coat. Others, of heavier fabrics, are cut double-breasted, in long-walsted designs having an invert ed plait at each side to give a slight flare to the skirt part. In these the sleeves are large and straight with tunnback cuffs. Turnover Collars that may be brought up snugly and tight ly about the neck make this a warmer garment than open-throated models. This Ib best for the automobile. One of the most modish of coats belongs In the redlngote class. It Is constructed with an easy-flttlufc long sleeved Jacket to which a plaited skirt Is set on. This terminates at each side three Inches, or a little more, from the front of the jacket, to which It Is attached under a belt of folded satin. There Is a rolling collar of velvet and narrow cuffs of It, both finished with a silk braid. The jacket is fastened with large barrel-shaped buttons at the front When a skirt to match any of these utility coats Is needed It Is cut In the straight-line style and the requisite fullness given with Inverted plaits. JULIA BOTTOM LEY. with this or any other coat Is of black and red velvet bound and trimmed with black Bilk braid. The crown Is a long puff of black velvet, and the bands about It at each side are of red lined with black and finished with a binding of black silk braid. These bands are extended at the back, where they are cut into two tabs which are turned down and fall over the hair. At the front the bands are also turned back and the points tacked down. Small bows of the black Bilk braid used In the binding are placed at the middle of the front and back. Knitted caps or hoods for school and for outdoor play and mittens to take the place ot the muff, are to be provided. Freedom to play keeps an active child warm In ordinary cold weather without the fur sets which are not expected to stand a great deal ot hard service. JULIA BOTTOM LEY. Mixture of Colors and Its Capacity for High Polish Are the Two Qual ities That Have Brought It Into Prominence. The gift to Sir Thomas Llpton of a model in serpentine stone of his new racing yacht has revived interest lu this beautiful stone, which some yean ago was much In rogue. Serpentine is often found In con Junction with asbestos. Canada pro duces about nine-tenths of the world's production of asbestos, which Is large ly used for insulating purposes and also for weaving Into fireproof cloth. In the province of Quebec are to b found the largest asbestos mines in Canada. The production Is large, and it Is interesting to note that whereas In 1909 the exports of crude asbestos were valued at $1,758,057, in 1913 the figures had increased to $2,486, 769. And In the- same province are also to be found some of the world's most beautiful deposits of serpentine. It was in 1846 that Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, when on a visit to Cornwall, England, were shown specimens of serpentine, which they admired so much that several large pedestals made of this stone were ordered for Osborne house. The patronage thus secured brought serpentine into considerable fashion, and among others who at that time favored it were the duke of Westmin ster, who ordered a pair of Luxon obelisks 14 feet in height; the Hon. Pemberton Lee, who bought the first and finest chimney-piece ever made In this material; and the then duke ol Devonshire, who had several large pedestals and pilasters, unequaled for beauty and color, made for his sculp ture gallery at Chatsworth. During the rather short-lived boom in serpentine which followed, a man ufactory on a large scale of a great variety of household and domestic or namentB, etc., was Btarted at Pen zance, which afterwards passed into the hands of a London company. Ser pentine was exhibited at the exhibi tions of 1851 and 1862, and was awarded medals on both occasions. Serpentine, , it may be mentioned, gets its name from the variety of the cq!nr 'vhioh It presents. TheBe colors are of the most beautiful and varie gated description imaginable, black and green, perhaps, predominating, with a frequent mixture of diallage; but the choicest sorts are generally considered to be those which show the greatest number of tlntB, and chromatic com binations are as various and many as the figures in a kaleidoscope. Some when cut and polished shine with a metallic green luster on a red dish base. Then there is a rich jet black, a purple, a brown, a red, crim son, and bronze, and a cream-colored, striped, dappled, or variously inter i mixed and blended with one or other tints. It well deserves the name of rainbow stone. Several of the finest bank and other buildings In Canada are beautified by columns, pillars, panels, or floorings of thiB beautiful and vari-colored stone, which takes a perfectly exquis ite polish. Decision on "Recall" Law, A suit to test the Washington law for the recall of officers was heard by the supreme court of the state In Pybus vb. Smith, city clerk, In which the plaintiff, a councilman of the city of Wenatchee, sought to have the city clerk enjoined from calling a special election to submit the question of his recall to the voters. It appeared that the charge against the plaintiff was that he agreed to and did trade votes with another councilman on matters pending before the common council, but the plaintiff contended that the charge was not one for which he could be recalled. The lower court dismissed the plaintiff's suit and in affirming tht judgment the supreme court said: "Whether this appellant could be convicted of a misdemeanor In oui state upon the charge here made may be regarded as somewhat doubtful. But we are, however, of the opinion that the facta here charged against the appellant, If true, do constitute mal feasance In office on his part, within the meaning of that word as used In our constitutional and statutory recall provisions, and form sufficient legal cause for submitting to the voters of the city the question of his recall and discharge from public office." Keeping Fish. The very best way to keep fish In camp (or anywhere without ice) is to scale, clean and behead them; then string them by a cord through theli tails and hang them, downward, in a dry, breezy, shady place. No fish Bhould be eaten that have been lying in the sun or that have begun to soften. It is tn neglected fish that ptomaine poison forms. Do not put fish on a string to keep in water until you start home. It is slow and painful death to them. It you have neither live-box nor net with you, kill and bleed every fish as soon as caught. The flesh will be much firmer and far more palatable. Fish and meat should be hung high In the open, for It Is a curious fact that blow flies work close to the ground and sel dom bother food bung over ten feet from the ground, while tt is claimed that game or fish suspended at height ot 20 feet will be Immune from blowflies. riEUSE RIVCR THE Meuse Is a river singularly symbolical of, and wedded to, the three groups of peoples through whom the three great phases of its life as a river run. Its part In war also has corre sponded to all three, and since It first entered recorded history, 2,000 years ago, till today, when It is so apparent ly the obstacle surmounted by the German Invasion of France, it has checked or aided 50 generations of soldiers. All its first course goes through that essentially Gallic coun try of Lorraine, of the Three Bishop rics and of the countrysides thai bound the Barrols. On its very up per waters, where It Is no more than a clear meadow stream, you will find Domremy and the house where Joan of Arc was born. In the midst of that same stretch where already the Meuse is a fiver stands the great Gallic fortress of Verdun, the town upon whose fortunes so many invasions have depended. Further upon its course see the somber name of Sedan; and In all this long French rising and flowing of the river there is upon either side that mass of rich meadowland and vine yard, low, rounded hill and strictly ordered woods, which make up a French landscape. It Is this Btretch, too, that runs all the earlier and higher part of italong and behind these "Cotes de MeuBe" which are the stretched line of defense between Toul and Verdun; which make a wall of forts from Commercy at the gates of Toul to the Verdun ring. Merges Into Dutch. Similarly, all the lower reaches, from the Roman crossing at Maastricht to the vague marshes, flat mud Is lands, dykes and confused shallows whereby it mingles with the Scheldt and with the Rhine and passes to the sea, are quite Dutch, not only in the language spoken upon either side of the river, but In the broadening flats and sluggish waters and in the very sky. For the skies of the Nether land plain are different from anything else in the rest of Europe. They seem to be lit from beneath and their clouds supply the accident and con trast which the earthly horizon lacks. All this lower stream is full of such wars as the seventeenth century fought to withstand Louis XIV. The duke of Marlborough owed his title to the clearing of the Lower Meuse rolling up the French garrisons as far as Liege in 1702. Between these two peopled, wealthy sections, the upper and the lower, the broad seaward reaches and the In land meadow streams, the Meuse by a curious accident experiences a fate not promised by Its origin and hardly remembered at its end. It runs through gorges more bold, and In parts more deserted, than those of any western river. The trench "which It thus occupies Is the more memor able to those who have followed it, from the breadth, the depth and the silence of the Btream that flows through it between the very steep walls of wood and rock upon either side. These are 500, 600, 700 feet above the stream, and In places 1,000 feet, but they give an Impression of far greater height from the uniformity of their coloring and wooded cloak, from their sharpness of fall, and from the way In which they run parallel, supporting each the effects of the other upon either side of the dead, flat floor of water between. This ac cident which the Meuse suffers, this exceptional landscape coming after the easy pastures of Lorraine, coming before the great sea-flats of the Neth erlands, makes the course of the Meuse comparable to the life of some man whose youth and manhood were merely prosperous, whose old age was spacious and at ease, but who fell by some fate in a few yards ot middle life upon surprising adventures. And this gorge, though less mixed with the history of war than what lies above and below It, has fortress at its gates and in Its midst corresponds to his tory of war. All these three sections, then, cor respond to something In the history of war. The wars to protect the Netherlands against the ambition of the French concerned the Dutch Meuse; to possess Maastricht, ulti mately to possess Liege, was the ob ject of the defenders and of the at tackers. The upper reaches through iMXZll WW Mi INI WIN III I ' AT DINANT" Sedan, through Verdun, on against the stream Into Lorraine, were a mark ol obstacle against Invasion, a line of bases for counter-Invasion; a string of names big in the story of the perpetual come and go between civil ization and the barbaric marches of the Germanles. Upon the Meuse was the capitulation of Sedan; upon the Meuse the surrender of Verdun in 1792 threatened the survival of France perhaps, certainly of the Revolu tion. The Gaulish river rises in those high, rolling lands near Langres. But the central exceptional piece, the high land country through which the Meuse has cut its way, or has had a way opened to it by nature, has had less place in the story of arms. The wars have passed to the north of it, over the Belgian plain, and even In this, the greatest and perhaps the last of the struggles between the confirmed West and the uncertain Germanles, the central gorge of the Meuse has been no highway. Its bridges, not its line, have. been the matter of conten tion, ar I when It was abandoned In the retreat the German columns passed, in the main, on either Bide of the trench; not along It. From Liege to Namur going up stream the valley, growing though It does more striking, is yet not fixed In character, and In many pl.ces the solemn heights of the Ardennes upon the south overlook an easier land to the north. But between Namur and Givet the ruggedness of outline In creases. At Dinant the valley is al ready strikingly profound. Between Givet and Mezieres Its majesty, depth and isolation make one remem ber the Sierras or the Pyrenees and forget the too easy north. This gorge singularly corresponds in Its aspect and spirit both to the legends that have risen round it and to the obscure but enormous nnrt which the little Prankish tribe and the Carbonarian Forest played in that great transition of Europe between the Pagan empire and Christendom. The Franks lay all around that val ley; Tournal at its edge Is the Roman tomb ot their king: a Roman officer. The Ardennes is the very forest of tne Franks. And the auxiliary Frank ish troops a Belgian people which the Roman empire had raised unnn the lower valleys of the Rhine and of tue Meuse, those auxiliary troops wnose captains were later to as sume the government of northern Gaul, had, It would seem, for their legendary place and for the center of their national dreams, this strange cleft running tortuous and alone through the heart of the ereat wnnda It Is from one group of its fantastln rocks that the four sons of Aymon, in tne carolingian Doem. smirred fhel horses, and another group of Its bare pinnacles of Btone Is. In nonnlar fraM. tion, their castle; while those highest aommatmg cliffs, which are called ine L,aaies or the Mouse " ar thought of by the populace as a gate to a aenie which may lead to mysteries. all Motor Fuel In War. Some years ago more or less wnn der was expressed at the army re quirements that a motor be capable ol using three different fuels gasoline ubuiui ana aiconoi with the same carburetor. The present war, with its snortage Of fuel, has demnnntrateil how essential It Is to be able to use one or the other. There are places in the zone of activities where onlv hen. zol can be had; at another place alco- nol only is available, and at a third gasoline Is on hand. It was a wise precaution that made it inrnersilv that a motor be capable of using one or an or tnese fuels. Saving the Day. "This Is disgraceful. The score la 22 to 0 in the fourth inning. What will we do?" Better quit playing, I say, and let the umpire forfeit the game. That will reauce it to 9 to 0, and that ain't bo bad. Kansas City Journal. Serene Indifference. "What is that doe's namr? "Dat's what I been trvln' to fln' ' out ever since I owned him." replied Eras- tus Finkley. "I dun called him all names a dog kin have an' ha nav aa much attention to one as he does to another," Mojave desert, where the burning sanas conceal many dangers, that no true son of the greasewood wastes will pass up a rattler. Strong as la tne lure of gold which so Irresistibly holds the prospector on his search. there 1b none who will not stop an hour or half a day to kill the deadly le of the gold hunter. There is a story which will bear telling and It la comparatively new. Happened in San Bernardino coun The man to whom the exnerlenne came is noted the desert over for hla truthfulness. He has been bitten twice. His name Is George Branch. Quiet, unasBumlng, with a laugh at what he termed a Joke on the snake, he told " the story on a recent trip to San Fran cisco: "I was hiking along with Jack and Jennie and Joe, my three burros, when 1 ran across an outcropping that looked good and In a country I knew was among the best there is on the desert. So ) we rour struck camp right there and began sinking a shaft to get a look at tne inside. "I had little timber, but managed get enough over to the workings put down a good ladder and keeD the shaft open. The grub ran short and I bad to hit the trail back for more. It took about a week. When I returned I started down in the mine to do a half day shift, hitting into camp a little before noon. I wasn't Davlne much attention to anything except get ting aown tne ladder. My candle shed a pretty small light for all the dark ness at the bottom of the hole. "I was passlne the last set of tlm. bers and when they were oDDosltn mv shoulder I flashed my candle to the left to see If there was any sign of Settling. Just as I was turnln? arnunri to look on the other side I heard, about three incheB from my ear, th buzz of a rattler. Tt sounded more like a bell rattle than I ever heard them before. It was so close it almost scared me Into los ing my grin on the ladder. ' In thn half Becond I stayed there I saw ev ery scale on the snake and hla wicked little eyes and his fangs and darting tongue. Maybe it was the light of the candle that confronted him and may be it was something else that kept him from striking. But all that lad would have had to do was to reach out a couple of lnchea to get me on the cheek and I would have had no chance to stop the poison from doine its work. "I asked a colleee Drofessor after. ward just how he thought I did it. I don't remember. But in about two skips of a flea I was out on the sur- race and listening to the rattler buzz away down in the shaft. The nro- fessor said there was something that always made a man in an emergency ao just the right thing. "I got a stick and poked him off the timber and killed him bv dronnln? rocks into the shaft. He was four feet long and had sixteen rattles. He had slid down the incline of the shaft and rolled on a ' four-inch beam. I think he was afraid of falling or he would nave struck." Slip of the Key. When Frank Mandel first anhmlt. ted the manuscript of his play, "The High Cost of Loving," to A. H. Woods, it was entitled "The High Cost of Living." It did not take the theatri cal manager long to discover that ine High Cost of Llvine" was well worth the price. He saw Lew Fields In the star role, and as the Dlot un- folded he saw greater possibilities and within a few minutes after he had read the last caee he was diktat. lng a letter of acceptance. Perhaps jar. woods was still laughing over the funny situations when he was dictat ing that letter. It may have been that the letter "o" is next tn "t" nn the typewriter keyboard, but be that as It may, when the manaeer came tn sign the epistle his quick gaze detect ed the fact that the title of the nlnv "High Cost of Living" was chanced tn "High Cost of Loving." It seemed like an inspiration, for no title could have been more appropriate, and tlen and there the new play was christened "The High Cost of Loving." The Electric Era. This Is the electric era. Rank In the centuries that are past we had the stone age, the Ice age, etc., but the electrical age is purely the utilization of natural forces by the genius of man. In the 25 years last cast nrohahiv greater progress has been made in electrical power development than In any other sphere of human activity. This has been done by scientific con version of power represented in the flow of water to an invisible current to almost everything that required power, light br heat. Twentv.flvn years ago there were no trolley cars, no street cars propelled by electricity. This silent but potent force wag known, but little used. In a ouarter of a century It has come into general use. Naturally, the first development oi eiectric power was at the source ot the greatest quantity of nower on. where to be found on earth, the FalU of Niagara. "Harnessing Niagara and Tunneling Catskllls," by Edward Ti Wllllami, In National Magazine.