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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1915)
CENTRAL COMMERCIAL COLLEGB. A Hoderm Business Training School." Thorough radical, expert, reliable. New building, large, well-righted rooms, complete modern equipment Writ for free lesson in Bookkeeping and Short hand. Central Euilding, Portlaad, Ore. TOVNG MAN. BE A BARBER. Learn a Trade. Be Independent. Trade taught in eight weeks; toels free. Commissions paid while learning; positions secured. Write for free catalog. MOHLER COLLEGES, Portland, 4S N. 2nd St.: Spokane, 226 Main Ave.; Seattle, 109 Main St. FARM HELP SUPPLIED to Ranches, Hop Yards, Berry and Fruit Farms. MilkerB, land-tfiearers and wood choppers on short est notice, Phone or write Hanky Employment Agency, 28 N. 2d St, Ptrtluti, Sr. rW tUa 727 ud A22M LEARN AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING AND DRIVING at the best equipped, most up-to-date and only practical Automobile School in the Northwest L.& M. Auto Repair Co.. 369 Uiwllwnie An., Peruui Ik FARMERS, ATTENTION Used automobiles and tracks to trade for horses, eows and hojrs; we will take livestock in full pay ment or part payment on most any of our used ear or trucks. Write what you have to trade, riving price, and get our list of used cars and trucks. Address Desk E Gerlinger Motor Car Co- 694 Washington St, Portland, Or. BICYCLE BARGAINS ALL MAKES The only strictly Bicycle Salesroom and Re pair Shop in Portland. Price list on applica tion. Write 108 13ih St., Corner Washington. SCOVILL'S CYCLERY Do You Want to Sell Your Farm? We are exclusive farm dealers, and our long experience makes our facilities for finding purchasers unexcelled in this section. If you desire to sell or trade your farm lands, write us, giving full description and location of your property, best price and terms, and just what you want in exchange. We have a party wanting a stock ranch up to $00,000, and will trade 1363 acres of timber, containing fifty million feet of timber. Submit proposition. HARGROVE & SONS, 122 N. 6th St., Portland, Ore. Coincidence In Death. It was an odd coincidence, but I striking one, that the greatest gentui ef England and the most masterful man in Spain passed from earth on the tame day. Shakespeare and Cer vantes both died April 23, 1(11, thi former being only fifty-two year old, and the latter sixty-nine. One Thing He Had Observed. Mrs. Toggerblossom "Vain man! Did you never observe that desigaerf take a woman's head to adorn man of your coins?" Mr. Toggerblossom "No, but I have observed that design ers take many ot my coins to adorx a woman's head." National Monthly. Wouldn't Be 6nubbed. A man who visits my home quits frequently was wont to tease my two- year old niece. One morning while she was breakfasting at my home he came in and paid no attention to her. She felt rather slighted, and aftei watching him for a few momenta re- marked: "I'sa heah." Exchange. HOWARD K. BURTON - Aeeejer anil rjhemlrt, Lemiville, Colorado. Specimen prices: Gold, or Copper SI. Mnlllne envelopes a id lull price lias Bent on application, ixrotrol ana umpire worses; Uoited. Iwiereaoei uarbonate national , Hard Job. An Atlanta wife sues for a divorce because her husband it a gambler, but reading the entire Btory we find in the concluding paragraph that he generally loses all his money. It Is hard for anybody to love a loser. Houston PoBt. Interesting Facts. If you shade your eyes yon weaken your sense of hearing. If you sip a glass of cold water you will Increase for a short time your power ot Tlsion, If you fill your mouth with water yeu will greatly strengthen your sense of smell. Natural Law, Every man is his own ancestor and every man la his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past Exchange. TYPHOID I no more neceaaary thanSmallpox, Army experience bu demonstrated the almost mlraculoui effi cacy, ind harmlessness, of Antityphoid Vaccination. Be vaccinatrd NOW by your physician, you and your family. It ts more vital than house Insurance. Ask your physician, druggist, or lend for "Have you had Typhoid?" telling of Typhoid Vaccine, fcsults from use, and danger from Typhoid Carriers. iHt CUTTfH LABORATORY. 6MI.CLCY, ML. nuui vacuum aiauua undki v. a. ov. ucuai DAISY FIT KILLER ilrtcta aid kill iM.U. Neat, clew. snA ornamental. cm '-u."jh-l lent, cheat. I.aitsill nt LrtiBna pre peid lot 1. (aJtOLS IOIlESS, 130 PeKalk An., IrMklra, I. T. JACKS, JENNETS & HORSES for SALE Sixty head of th. Ilneat bred Mares and ColU. Including a to i year old Gelding, bred for Saddlera and Racine. Will consider trad, in cheap land. Forty head of extra large Jennets with an elegant Jack for herd header. A Bargain for a Short Time Cause for selling (s th. herd law in Morrow county, and the transforming of my WOO acre stock farm int. a wheat field. 1 must ekwe out this stock. Will consider trade. What bar. yon got? R F. SWAGGART, Prop. Lexington, Oregon. p. n. u. No. 23, 1919 OTIIEN writing ta aaVertieera, alaaet smb. ' tie. thi. aaaer. l-Jfr'S-lit'JShtB o.er; Mil not Ml or tf-t1'T'W' 'iMr'si llreaatlat. l5-V.??SV?,a Sld bv deal m N visiting a new country it Is al ways the surface differences that Jump out at you first. Then If you stay long enough, foreign places get to be familiar and their people begin to seem like home folks. So in these South American lands It is the surface difference in dress and in the way of doing the little daily things that amuses you and makes you feel that you are seeing a strange land, writeB a correspondent of the Chicago Dally News from Entre Rios, Argen tina. The first thing, as I have said, that you notice here Is the high walled gar den and the terrible absence of open, trim lawns. Next you are impressed by the pleasantly slow and easy pass age of traffic In the streets. You are dazzled by the lavish display of gold braid and the ever visible soldier and policeman. The strong whiffs of per fumes you find less pleasant. At the Front Door. In the cities there are doorbells for calls, but the delivery boys bringing meat, bread or vegetables to the house announce their presence at the front door by loudly clicking a pair of casta nets. In the country districts all per sons desiring to enter a house clap their hands for a signal and wait pa tiently at the front gate. None dreams of Btepping into a yard until either the master or a servant cornea to open the gate for them. There is only the one door through which every one and everything that comes into the house must go. Even the garbage is taken out this way. Of course in the richer and more modern houses there is a rear entrance. At first the big, long and viciously sharp knife, the handle of which pro trudes murderously from each peon's AVEMIDA Df- NPXO, broad cloth belt, bothers you. But after a while you grow used to it, and when you learn that the knife 1b not merely a weapon but a tool, you see that it is as necessary and proper for the peon to don his knife every morning as to don his shirt. Without this knife the man could neither work nor eat in com fort, especially If he Is living and work ing out on the monte or "camp." Life out on these plains is very primitive and tools and baggage are reduced to the mlnmum. The gaucho has only hii knife with which to eat his meals. Forks and spoons are, he feels, wholly unnecessary. He lives almost entirely on meat roasted over an open fire, so his knife la his all In all. With it he cuts the wood for his fire. With it he kills the steer or sheep for his meal and with it he eats. The first time you see this gaucho eat you shiver with uneasiness. You see, he cuts off a generous Blab of the roast, takes a firm hold of it with his teeth, and, holding It so, proceeds to trim off a bite at a time, close to Cathedral, Buenos Aire. his lips. Every time that big, vicious knife sweeps upward you feel sure the man will slice off a part of his nose. But you need have no fear; the gau cho ts an artist at carving, even when It comes to his human enemies. Here In the Argentine country I have seen dramatized the old Bible phrase, "He took up his bed and walked." These people are particular about their beds. Every servant girl comes to you with her bed under her arm. t'sualiy this is Just a folding 1 SINGULAR. ft - .1 i V- l aiafr i ii n lnVlrni pirn I canvas cot, but often a substantial iron bed. On the road you will see gauchos riding with their bed and all worldly possessions tied to their saddle. Little children going out to service go through the streets carrying their beds with them, while every river steamer carries the cots of its passengers who are on the move. Courting here is done in the open street. The houses stand close to the walk and at the twilight hour you may see the gallants standing at the low windows or at the half-open garden gate talking to their dark-eyed sweet hearts. If the father and mother ap prove of the young fellow he Is given a chair or more often invited in. If the parents disapprove the girl is called from the window and sometimes abused for talking to her caller. Revel In Grief. These people are very emotional. Color, muBlc, tragedy, comedy they must have in the crude lump and lots of It. They revel in their Joys and aleo in their griefs. Mourning is here car ried to an almost horrible excess. Not long ago a native mother died and ev ery one of her seven children, even the new-born baby, Is swathed in black. Not only are the top dresses of the little girls black, but also their little petticoats. The most dismal sight in these tiny town streets are these crowds of black-dressed children. I know a servant girl who drapes herself in heavy black crepe even when she goes to hang out the wash ing. Crepe is fearfully expensive In these countries, and this girl, whose relatives are delicate and much given to dying, is many pesos in debt for Just crepe. I went to the theater in a small town to see some native plays. It was not BUE.N05 AIRES the humorous bits of acting that brought the storm of applause. It was the touches of pathos, of despair, of horror, even though these were crude ly, clumsily and foolishly done. HAD HIM ALL RIGHT, BUT It Was a Question Whether Hunter or Hunted Had the Best of a Bad Situation. A party of choice spirits from the Mount Ephraim section, where col ored folk reside, had gone Into the river bottom well provided with coon dawgs. It was not long before a trail was struck and soon after that the quarry was treed. The next move naturally was to climb the tree, so as to ehake down the varmint coon or 'possum as might happen. Lemon, a very black and venturesome youth, undertook the Job, while the others men and dogs assembled under the tree. It was night time, of course, and Lemon swarming up was able to distinguish dimly the figure of an ani mal perched In the crotch where a large limb branched out. The fore feet embraced the trunk, and Lemon was on the other side from the crotch. He grabbed the forelegs and held on so that the creature could neither escape nor hurt him. But there proceedings stopped. The rash hunter was afraid to let go; the men on the ground were shouting their impatience, and the bob-cat (for that was what the varmint was), was yowling fearsomely and tearing vi ciously at the bark with Its hind claws. "What de matter up dar?" called up a voice from below. "Is you got 1m, Lemon T The voice In the tree replied, "Reck on I Is got him dat ain't de trouble; what I wants Is fo' somebody to come up an' be'p me tu'n him loose for a leetle while. Experience vs. Superstition. Mr. Hopeford The date you have set for our wedding comes on Friday. Friday Is supposed to be an unlucky day. Mrs. Lakeside (from the West) So I've heard, but It can't be any more unlucky than the other days. I've tried all the rest. New York Weekly. MR. MUGGINS LIKED HIMSELF Justly Deserved Rebuke He Received From Stranger Who Had Greeted Him Cordially on Train. Old Muggins had a great opinion of his own importance, principally owing to the fact that he had started life with half a dollar, though how he had managed to raise the first 50 cents was a fact he had never divulged. One day In the train a gentleman got in and directly he saw Muggins, smiled and shook him warmly by the hand. Why, bless my soul! How are you? he exclaimed, uiaa 10 see you looking so well and prosperous now!" The cheerful stranger, being of a somewhat seedy appearance, Muggins thought ho had better assert his dig nity a bit. "I don't know what you are talking about, sir! I have never seen you be fore in my life!" quoth he, swelling under his waistcoat. "I beg your pardon, sir, I'm sure! answered the stranger. "I have evi dently made a mistake and must apolo gize for complimenting you on your appearance, which was a mistake made in the heat of the moment, if there is anything else that I said I was glad about I can only say I am sorry for it! Good morning, sir!" Denied Them. "Pa, what is meant by "divine af flatus?' " "It's a high-sounding name for en thusiasm, son, the kind of enthusiasm that people who dig ditches and do other rough work don't know any thing about." Trained. "How do you like your new English butler?" 'He's a gem. Positively refuses to recognize me when we meet outside the house." The Reason. "Don't ever argue with a dictionary expert." "Why not?" "Because he has such pronounced opinions." Keeping It Dark. "She loves her husband." "But why is Bhe so furtive about it?" "You can't blame her for that. It might injure her standing in Bociety if it got out." 'Miss Queer is one of the most singular women I have ever met." "I never noticed that she was ec centric." "When I told her I was going to Europe she didn't ask me to smuggl in any gloves or Jewelry for her on my return." His Only Possession. Colonel Gruff You seemed to have a good appetite. Hungry Hawkins Ah, sir, that's all I have left in the world that I can call my own. Quite True. "A writer In this newspaper dlS' cusbbs the baby crop. Not much room there for diversification." "You are mistaken. No two babies are alike." Catty. "What part of the club paper Emmellne going to look after?" "Well, Bhe's such an expert on the subject that I suggested she atten' to its make-up." Costly Bluff. Crawford Is he sorry he boasted so much to his wife about his income Crabshaw It should say he was! She is using It as evidence against him In her suit for alimony. Judge. Looked 8usplclous. "That cat must think she's prettier than I am." "Why bo, VanesBa?" "She'a always after me to have my picture taken with her." His Definite Status. "The fellow who married your daughter " "He Is my son-in-law now," grimly replied Grout P. Smith. "I don't know what he used to be." A Proof. "The life of these moneyed young fellows Is all froth." "Yes, I notice, for example, that young Spendit has Just bought a new 'bubble.' " A Great Principle. "Forgive your enemleB," said the earnest man. "That's good religion." "Yea," replied Senator Sorghum; "and sometimes it's good politics, too." rS Wm mm $ Ik .A- l fo PORTLAND'S LARGESTV V CsSN It vvW shoes Who!e FamiIy iflll At Fire Sale Prices! 4 fl fy ROYAL SHOE CO, 229 Morrison Between 1st Purity Guaranteed under all State and National Pure Food Laws. You can pay a higher price, but you cannot get a baking powder that will raise nicer, lighter biscuits, cakes and pastry, or that is any more healthful. Your money back if K C fails to please you. 1 ry a can Art Connoisseur. Mrs. True Genteel "Good morning Mrs. Carrots. Going to New York to do a little shopping?" Mrs. Gusby Car rota (whose husband has acquired sud den riches) No, I've Just returned. 1 bought a nice Rubens this morning and I declare, when I called at mj husband's office he told me he has bought a Rembrandt by the same artist yesterday afternoon." Wash lngton Star. To Breal: In New Shoes. Alwavs shRke In Allen' Fnnt.iaRa- ft nnwder. ft cures hot, sweating, aching, swollen feet, Cures corns, Ingrowing nails and bunions. At all druggists and shoe uteres, 2.ric. Dont accept inv substitute. flamplemalledFREiM Address alien B. 'Jiimteu, noy.n. i. Unquestioned Antiquity. We never did like the mother-in-law Joke, but have learned to respect it because of Its great age. The Joke was a distinguished contemporary ol Methusaleh, and as we all know, hai survived that ancient citizen by some thing more than two thousand years. New Orleans States. AreYoiTr Boils Biliousness Malaria Ems Constipation Dn Pierces Golden Medical Discovery Perhaps this ccse may be similar to yonn . Waltu Tilly of (Box 673,) Selma. Cut., urltui Gentlemen:-"lt gives ma much pleasure to bo able to send you a tcBlimoniul, If by its reuching soma snlferor your Dwdicines will do as much for him as they have fur me. At the age of fourteen 1 was troubled great deal with mulariaand biliousness, accompanied With the worst sor'iof large boils. 1 was persuaded by my parents, who hnve always been stronr believers In Dr. Pierce's remedies, to try th. Golden Medical Discovery. I took one bottle ond th. boils all dis appeared, but I did not stop at one bottle, I took thre. and the malvla all left m. and I have had no mora boils to this day, thanks to the 'Golden Medical discovery' for my relief. "Followlnr an operation for apnenrllrltls two years ago I wis troubled vary much with constipation and f have bean trying Dr. Pierce's 1'l.uwiDt Purgative Pellet and tliey hav. ria me of tha troublesome gas and Have aided me In conquer ing tile whole trouble; think, airelti for tha 'Pellet.' and for the ailure I have obtained from The People's Common Hone. Uedica, Adviser." Send only St eenta 1 01 this 10QS page book. Devil's Nickname. Why the term "Old Scratch" means the devil Is not plain until you ex amine the Swedish, where the word skrat means devil. In the middle high German the word schrate, scratze means fiend or ghost. Mysteries of Rheumatism Practieaily SoSwed Actus ia he Tissues of S. S. S. 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Proved by Experiment One of tba young ensigns who wa acting as teacher on the battleshlf Texas asked the queBtlon: "What are the two principal parts of a sen tence?" expecting to get the answer; "Subject and predicate. " An old aaU' scratched his head In perplexity, ant at last replied, "Solitary confinement and bread and water" The Sailor' Magazine. Burroughs' Birthday Message. " 'Keep cheerful and mind your ow business.' I may say that I have fol lowed that rule myself not unsuccess fully, and in these trying days, when there Is so much foolish talk an4 hasty, violent action, It might be worth the while of others Just to give it a trial." John Burroughs. I Influence of Fine Thoughts. It is not possible to know how fat the Influence of any suitable, hones( hearted, duty-loving man flows ou4 into the world. Dickens. , for over forty years has been lending its aid to just such cases as this. In our possession we have thou sands of testimonials of like character. 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