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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1915)
tyJK&EA. 11M SNOWBALL'S SEA TRIP. One day Snowball's master drove down to the wharves, where the big ships came In, and after he went into one of the large buildings Snowball lamped up on the seat and looked around. He never before had seen a ship, and wondered what they were, moving about as the waves washed against them. "I believe I will find out," said Snow ball, and he Jumped out of the wagon and ran up the gangplank. "ThU Is Just like a house," he said. "I wonder if there is a cellar?" He ran down the stairs and found his way to the bottom of the ship. ' "Well, well," he said, "here is work for me;" for there were rats running all around. Snowball became so inter ested In catching them that he for got alt about his master and the team. "It will take more than one day to clear this place of rats," he said. "I must go back to master or he will be gone." He ran to the upper deck, but all he could see was water, and he could not find the plank where he came aboard. "It must be on the oth er side," said Snowball, running In that direction. But no; all he could see was water, and in the distance he could see buildings. "What can have happened?" said Snowball; this house must be floating away." Just then he saw a large black cat, who saw him at the same time. He looked very angry and humped his back, but Snowball was not afraid and walked toward him. When the other cat, whose name was Toby, saw that Snowball was not afraid, he dropped his angry manner and asked, "Where Ild you come from?" "I want to know first," answered Snowball, "where I am." "You are on a ship," answered Toby. "So this is a ship," said Snowball; "where Is this ship? When I came here " "Aboard, you mean," corrected Toby. J "Well, when I came aboard there were buildings on one side and my master's team was there, too, and now all I can see is water." 1 "Of course," said Toby. "We are sailing away now." "How long shall we sail?" asked Snowball. "Three weeks, If we have good weather; If It Is rough, we will be gone longer." "Three weeks?" gasped Snowball. "I cannot be gone as long as that. I must get right off." "You'll have to swim a long way," said Toby. "Come over here and look." Snowball looked; there was water everywhere. "You may as well make the best of It," said Toby. "You cannot get back until the ship returns. Come with ..me; I will take you over the ship." "What Is the matter with this ship?" asked Snowball after awhile. "It tips terribly; I cannot walk straight, and I feel so queer. Oh," he said as the ehlp lurched again, "my stomach is trembling in the most uncomfortable manner." j "Come over here and He down," said Toby milling. "Is Yhis what you call sailing?" asked Snowball. "I think I am going to die," he said as he crawled under a coll of rope. "Oh, you will not die," Bald Toby. "I wish I would, If I am to feel like this for three weeks," Bald Snow ball. "What are you laughing at?" he asked. "Don't you know what Is the mat ter with you?" asked Toby. "I only know that I want to die," Bald poor Snowball, turning on his Bide. "You are Beaslck," said Toby. "You will be all right In a few days." "I'll be dead In a few days," said Snowball. "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!" he cried, "I wish this ship would stand till for a minute." "In a few days," said Toby, "you will be eating flying flsh and" "Don't, don't," said Snowball; "I tiever want to even think of anything to eat again, and rats Oh I never want to see another." The fourth day out Snowball recov ered and was walking on the deck with Toby when the captain saw him. "Where did we pick up this new Bailor?" he asked. "And all in white, too." He looked at Snowball's col lar. "1 know who you are," he said. "You belong to the vegetable man tn the city, I wonder how you came aboard this ship?" Snowball rubbed against him tn the moBt friendly man ner and they became fast friends. "What are these queer little birds?" aBked Snowball one day. "They fly close to the water." , "Those are not birds," said Toby; "they are flying fish." "I didn't know that flsh could fly," said Snowball. "Yes," said Toby, "and sometimes they fly around the ship and I catch them." . "I wish they would now," said Snow ball. "I am tired of chasing rats and looking at the water, although the water ia very pretty, it is so blue. I do not see any gold In It; you told me I would see the golden Carib bean." "That U what they call it." laid Toby, '"but I never saw any gold, either. "I'll be glad when I get on land," said Snowball. You'll be there tomorrow," said Toby. The next morning Snowball was uj bright and early, for he did not wish to miss anything. "Isn't this a pretty place?" asked Toby. "What are those queer little build ings?" asked Snowball. "Houses," said Toby; "the people here do not live In tall houses." This place looks like a florist's shop," said Snowball. xes, tne trees and Bowers are prettier here than in your country. I like it better, too. "Is this your home?" asked Snow ball. "Oh, no," said Toby, "I live on the ship; I never go on land." "Never go on land!" said Snowball, "you do not know what you miss. I am going to get off the ship and look around." '.'You had better stay here," said Toby; "this is a queer country." But Snowball Jumped off as soon as the ship was at the wharf. The little colored boys around the wharf saw him and chased him, and Snowball ran until he came to a tree, which he started to climb, but he saw the strangest looking long head with bright eyes and he did not stop a second. The boys had gone back to the ship to dive for pennies, and Snowball thought of Toby's warning and scampered toward the ship, but Just before he reached the wharf he saw another queer-looking creature with more than two eyes. Snowball did not feel sure how many he saw and more legs than, he could see, Snowball felt sure, and the creature could run faster than Snowball, ever saw anything move In all hlB life," "I do not like this country," he said; "home Is good enough for me." Toby was waiting for him. "How do you like It?" he asked. "Not so well as my country," said Snowball. "And what very hot sum mers they have here!" he said, look ing for a shady place in which to rest. "It is like this all the time," Toby told him; "they never have winter here." "No snow?" asked Snowball. "No," said Toby; "it Is always nice and warm here." "I like the snow," said Snowball; "that is, I like to see It," he said, thinking of his narrow escape when he was lost in the snowstorm. "They have queer-looking animals In the trees here," he told Toby. "I saw one with a very long head or tall, I did not stop to see; it was twisted around the tree, and I couldn't see where its tail began; it looked like a head on a very long tail." O-o, that was a Berpent!" cried Toby in alarm, "He would have eaten you If you had gone up that tree." I wouldn't care to live as you do," said Snowball one day when they were nearly home. Why not?" asked Toby. Nothing to do," said Snowball, "but look at the water." I wouldn't care to live on land," said Toby; "there are too many dogs." "You are like Puff," said Snowball. "He Is afraid of dogs. I am not. I fight them." 'I don't think I should care to fight," said Toby. "You must get all scarred and hurt." "Didn't you ever fight?" asked Snow ball, looking at Toby with disdain. ' "No," replied Toby. "You certainly have missed a lot. living on this ship," said Snowball. "Oh! I do not think so," said Toby. I have good things to eat, and I sleep all I like. And that makes me think," he said. "The captain gives a dinner tonight, and I think the cook is going to cook a flying flsh for you and me. He brought some back for this dinner, and you can tell the cats on land you have eaten flsh with wings." I have had a good time," said Snow ball, "and I do not want you to think I do not appreciate your kindness, for you have been most entertaining and hospitable, and I am very glad I came. I wish you would go home with me and see Puff and Kit." "Oh! I couldn't leave the ship ," said Toby. "They would not sail without me for fear something might happen. I am the mascot of the ship, you know." "We are almost home," said the cap tain to Snowball Just before they reached the wharf; "are you going to leave us? he asked. . "Me-ow," answered Snowball. "Well, take a trip with us again," said the captain, "and here Is some thing that will make you remember us, he said, tying a ribbon around Snowball's neck with the name of the ship on It. "You will have to stretch your neck if you keep on gathering ribbons," he told Snowball. Snowball Jumped to the wharf as Boon as the ship was near enough, and there stood his master. "Well, sailor boy," he Bald, "you went to sea, did you? They told me here that you went aboard this ship and I was afraid you would Jump overboard, but I think you are a good sailor, as well as a good watchdog." Snowball Jumped into the wagon aud they rode home. Most 8evre Punishment. "The Idea of sending children to bed early to punish "em," exclaimed Mrs. Corntossel, who was discussing her city relatives. "That ain't any way to correct 'em." "Of course It ain't." answered her husband. "If you want to convince 'em that you mean business make 'em get up an hour or so earlier in tbt morning." FINALLY GOT HIS INTERVIEW Death of James Creelman Rec-lls Re markable Exploit of News paper Man. James Creelman's death In Germany while still in the prime of life recalls an exploit of which any newspaper reporter might be proud, observes the Wall Street Journal. He was In Lon don at the time of the Baring crisis in 1890, and performed the unheard-of feat of securing for the New York Her ald an exclusive interview with the governor of the Bank of England. It is a matter of history how the gov ernor, the right Hon. William H. Lld derdale, handled that crisis. He lived to see the Barings successfully liquid ated and stronger than ever, with the financial situation in Argentina re stored, the 3,000,000 gold which he borrowed by means of acceptances from the Bank of France returned In due course with the seals of the pack ages unbroken. The London market was tided over a desperate emergency with the minimum of disturbance, al though there were some forty failures in the stock exchange. Lldderdale died not long ago, leav ing an estate valued at only 2,000. He was a strong man and an honest one. But the idea of Interviewing him was so remote that only an irreverent American would have thought of it. Creelman had no pass key or letters of introduction. He simply went to the Bank of England, and starting with the astonishing "beadle," worked his way up. He was sent from depart ment to department, to the secret amusement of various heads, until he actually found himself In the pres ence of the governor. But the Joke failed to explode. Lld derdale was a long-headed Scotchman, much too intelligent not to see the value of publicity at such a time. He was no slave to precedent. He gave Creelman an excellent interview of a frank and reassuring characterwhich was published in the following Sun day's New York Herald. It was a great scoop; and the London papers spent money frantically on cable toll getting facts on their own situation from New York for their Monday morning issue. A precedent was set, and since that time English financiers have been more approachable. It may be said also that publicity there, as in Wall Btreet, has done much to clean up ad mitted evils, and to set honest finance right with publlo opinion. The story is well worth recalling, for it has an obvious moral which should never be forgotten. New Telegraph Code. A new form of code chart for sim plifying the teaching of the Conti nental telegraph code has been evolved by a Chicago Inventor. In place of the usual method of repre senting the different telegraphic equiv alents for letters and figures in the form of dots and dashes, the charac ters are indicated by small and large letters or figures; the former repre senting the dots and the latter the dashes. For instance, the letter "A" is represented as "a A," meaning dot dash. The letter "B" is shown as "B bbb" or dash dot dot dot. Thus, by this simple method, the Inventor has eliminated the great confusion arising from the dash-dot representations of the various characters. The letters and figures are fixed In the memory of the student as large and Bmall characters Instead of In the form of a complicated mass of letters, figures and combinations of dots and dashes. It Is stated that this chart has greatly simplified the learning of the code. New Subterranean Fauna. Deep mines present conditions like ly to evolve a new subterranean fauna from animals accidentally Imprisoned and having sufficient endurance to sur vive the change. At a depth of 750 feet in a mine of the Midlothian Coal field, Scotland, Dr. James Ritchie has found 13 animal forms, and he con cludes that many others may be car ried into deep underground workings. These animals were away from any ventilating shaft reaching the surface, the main shaft being a quarter of a mile distant. They are supposed to have been introduced mostly on the props of Norwegian flr and with the horse fodder, but some may have been drawn in by the suction of the venti lating fans. The species noted were the common mouse, the brown rat, the house sparrow, the great slug, a small spider, two beetles, two files, the sprlngtall or pit flea, two earthworms and a mycetozoon on the pit props. Reason for Drier In Paint The linseed oil in paint naturally resists the drying effect of the atmos phere, and because of this it is nec essary to add something to the paint mixture to overcome the resistance. Drier Is prepared for 'this purpose, Us function being to absorb oxygen rap Idly and convert the film into a hard, insoluble product. During this proc ess the linseed oil 1b changed into llnoxyn, and the drier continues its oxidation until the paint film is eventu ally destroyed. Drier is made by adding salts to a certain amount of linseed oil which Is heated up to about 600 degrees F. The temperature Is allowed to drop and turpentine or a mixture of tur pentine and benzine added. Domtstlo Discipline. "I'd like to tee you one of those marching suffragettes." "Would you? Then Just come out to the parade where Tm one of the marshals, and object, if you dare "My, dear, didn't I Just say I'd liii to sea your iam-v ffllwrami 1 nnuiyi iimfinHill t inn mi I A Village 'on T HE Dardanelles, known in clas sic times as the Hellespont. Is the golden key to the door of Asia. The Btralt, which con- nects the Sea of Marmora with the Aegean sea, is approximately for ty-five miles long and varies in width from four miles to a mile and a Quar ter at Dardanelles, Its narrowest point. It was Just at this part of the Btralt that, according to the ancient verses ascribed to Musaeus, the serv ant of the muses, a legendary poet supposed to have lived about the fifth century, the enamored Leander, resid ing In Abydos, the Asiatic town, wooed and won the beautiful Hero, one of the priestesses of Venus, at Sestos, exactly opposite on the Euro pean side. Galllpoli, the ancient seaport, a vi layet of Edirneh, Turkey, on the pen Insula of Gallopoll, is, next to the city of Dardanelles, the most Important town on the Btralt. It was known in classical times as Callipolis, and in the middle ages, it is said, was a large commercial center and valued highly as constituting the "Key to the Hel lespont." The town of Dardanelles is situated on a flat point opposite the European fort of Tchanak Kalesi, which guards the entrance to the strait from the Aegean Bea. Two famous forts known as castles defend the Dardanelles, the one in Asia, Tchanak Kalesi, or Earth enware Castle of Asia, on the site of the ancient city of Abydos, and its mate opposite known as Khtlldi Bahar, "the lock of the sea," which is built on the sides of a steep projecting cliff. Its castle, however, is of less Importance than its neighbor. The Turks have a romantic story of their own regarding Abydos, now known as Dardanelles. It seems that a firm resistance was offered to the Ottomans who besieged It under the command of Orchan, the son of Sul tan Othman. The city at last was forced to yield, owing to the treachery of the governor's daughter, who had fallen in love with a handsome young Turk. Her treachery alone occasioned the fall of the town, which to this day has remained one of the most prized strongholds of the Turks. In the town the sight of a foreigner and the sound of the English tongue is a matter of much comment, even in the best of times. Just after the so-called bombardment of the Darda nelles reported to have taken place by an Italian warship during the war over Tripoli, the writer had the unique experience of being one of the eleven foolhardy passengers on the first Austrian Lloyd steamer from the port of Piraeus, Greece, willing to take the risk of attempting to pass through the Dardanelles. A Hazardous Journey. At the Aegean end of the strait, after a long wait and much uncertain ty as to whether the steamer would be permitted to make the hazardous Journey through the Dardanelles, known to be thickly sown with mines, a little grimy Turkish tug took the long line of shipping in tow, which had for some time been awaiting a convoy to proceed on its Journey to Constantinople, or the ports on the Black sea, a Journey Interrupted by the false reports of an Italian bom bardment, which very fortunately, as tt "happened, had not actually taken place. The passengers were filled with trepidation and fear as they anxiously watched the little snorting tug labori ously twist and turn in an amazingly Intricate and tortuous course, first close to shore, and then by a sharp turn, making apparently tor the op posite side of the famous channel. It was a wonderful sight to see the little craft ahead, each of the others follow ing as closely as they could the stern of the preceding vessel, Imitating most faithfully the antics of the small Turk ish convoy, lest it be blown up by missing but one of the labjTlnthlan twists and turns, and to look back and see the five ships behind, as dili gently playing the same game of fol low the leader, while on each Bide of the narrow waterway an almost con tinuous line of fortifications, hidden breastworks, bristling batteries and until near at hand, cleverly concealed armaments, proved how thorough were the preparations for war. On arriving at the little wooden dock at the port of Dardanelles In one of the huge Turkish flatboats which come out from the shore to take off passengers and freight from the steamer, the tourist's passport is de manded, even before he is permitted to alight on the dock, If being dragged up bodily by two villainous looking bandits who stand on the dock, sec onded by two equally ferocious ap pearing gentlemen in the swaying and bobbing boat some sis or seven feet below, who expedlts matters by none i-rr.u. ' ' the Dardanelles - too gentle pokes and shoves, may be designated by any such mild appella tion. , Meet Scowling Looks. Once upon the dock the tourist Is conscious that it is a long, long way to the steamer, which lies some dis tance out from the shore, as the con fused babble of tongues greets the ear and the scowling looks cast upon the visitor make him well aware that he has left civilization and safety behind him in his characteristic American de sire to "take in the whole show," it 1b usually described. It is almost with a sense of relief that an individual is seen approach ing. He bows obsequiously and glibly announces: "I spik Eengleesh; guide." At once his services are gladly se cured, but unfortunately it is Boon evi dent his knowledge of the English lan guage is limited to the few phrases with which he introduced himself, and his French, the traveler finds, is as ex ecrable as his own. However, when one is in Turkey, and in Asiatic Turkey at that, it is the part of wisdom to take things as they come without making any un necessary commotion. The glances cast upon the "glours" are usually far from friendly or reassuring, and the visitor to Dardanelles becomes soon convinced of the foolishness of his ac tion in insisting upon going ashore in the face of the Just warning from the captain and officers of the steamer, who frankly advised him to remain on board, as it was pleasanter and safer to view Dardanelles from the deck of the steamer. But once ashore it is impossible to leave for even if the voyager was able to request to be taken back to the steamer It would not be wise to do so. Consequently the best thing to do is to appear to enjoy the Bights of Dar danelles immensely, and show as great appreciation as possible for the mar- velously hideous earthenware manu factured in Tchanak Kalesi and sold in the dark, little Turkish shops of the town. As every visitor to Turkey well knows, the sultan's subjects man. ufacture almost nothing, for which no regret is felt when the awful speci mens made at Dardanelles are seen, Like a Greek Town. The better part of Dardanelles has much the appearance of a small Greek town. The hotels, shops and open-air cafes all have signs printed in Greek, and the principal street is known as "The Street of the Greek Church." Ox teams are often encountered, lumber ing slowly along, and there are num erous mangy curs of the same fierce mongrel type which formerly infested Constantinople. They are half starved and snap menacingly at strangers, so a promenade In Dardanelles is rather too exciting for comfort. The streets are filled with children, some of whom look like miniature men and women, tiny puppets In baggy green silk trousers or In full-flounced, gorgeously colored silk dresses, the eons and daughters of the well-to-do Turkish officials, but the far greater number are forlorn little creatures, ragged and dirty, who look not only neglected but half famished. A warning blast from the steamer tells the voyager it is time to return. A hasty return is made to the dock, but the official with the traveler's precious passport is nowhere to be seen. At last, after what seems an endless delay, the gentleman is found, and when, after a diligent search through innumerable papers, he final ly discovers the missing document the smiling gentleman is gladly given a generous gratuity for all his trouble by the anxious traveler, who gives one long sigh of relief when once mors safely aboard the steamer. Scotch Bill of Fare. Several readers write to say that surely the English holidaymakers in Scotland who protest against the Scottish bills of fare at the boarding houses and hotels are unreasonable. If one goes to Paris," writes one correspondent, "one rather enjoys eating the food of the place and ac cepting its feeding, hours and meth ods. It Is a welcome change to have only coffee and rolls at the hour when Brixton and Balham are gorging them selves with thawed eggs from Siberia and bacon that is all gristle; and l'heure verte Is a great idea, also a big Improvement on the brandy-and- soda interlude in the city before one catches the train that takes one toward home and dinner." London Chronicle. What She Looked Like. "Did you see that hussy who sued our son for breach of promise?" "I did." "What did she look liker "She looked to me like a son-Ust lemon." Judge. AVOIDINDiGESTION It is a sure enemy to health, strength and happiness. It robs you of your appetite, causes constipation, bilious spells and a general rundown condition. You can help Nature conquer it by the timely aid of HOSTLTTER'S Stomach Bitters It will help you bring back the appetite, aid digestion and promote health in a gen eral way. For over 60 years it has enjoyed public confi dence. Try it Today. Avoid Substitutes Use for 'Anthologies. The mistake Is In thinking that all poetry is for all readers. On the con trary the realm of poetry Is as wide as the world, for the very- reason that each man may find there Just what he needs and leave the rest. The thing 1b to discover the poetry that was meant for us, and perhaps the best way to do that is to turn over the pages of some well-made selection, and see where our eyes get caught and held. Richard Le Gallienne. Constipation causes manv serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One laxative, three for cathartic. The Vast World. A student of Erfurt, desiring to sea Nuremberg, departed with a friend on a journey thither. Before they had walked half a mile, he asked hiB com panion whether they should soon get to Nuremberg, and was answered: " 'TIs scarce likely, since we have only Just left Erfurt" Having repeated, tha question another half mile farther on, and getting the same answer, he said: "Let's give up the Journey and go back, since the world's so vast!" Luther's "Table Talk." Got His Answer. He "Why are you women alwayi going to bargain sales In the hope ol getting something for nothing?" She "For the same reason you men are always going to your poker clubs." Dallas News. i Some Indication. Mary "I'm positive Fred loves ma and intends to make me his wife." Helen "Why? Has he proposed yet?" Mary "No; but he dislikes mother more every time he sees her." Liver pool Mercury. All the Difference. "In India a lac of rupees is a foi- tune." "And in America a lack of dol lars Is a misfortune." Boston Tran script. Dally Thought. The gods will give what is most suitable rather than what is most pleasing; man Is dearer to them thaD he is to himself. Juvenal. Another One. "What are the two sexes, Alec?" asked the teacher. "Masculine and feline," answered Alec Woman's Home Companion. WOMAN WOULD NOT GIVE UP Though SickanJ Suffering; At Last Found Help in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound. Richmond, Pa. " When I taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable compound I was in a dreadfully rundown state of health, had internal trou bles, and was so ex tremely nervous and prostrated that if I had given in to my feelings I would have been in bed. As it was I had hardly strength at times to be on mv feet and what I did do was by a great effort I could not sleep at night and of course felt very bad in the morning, and had a steady headache. "After taking the second bottle 1 no ticed that the headache was not so bad, I rested better, and my nerves were stronger. 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