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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1916)
Wondrous Ways of Cupid No Masculine Heart Is So Stubborn That It Cannot Be Tamed Into Subjection By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY (Copyright, 1816.) Who shall say where love begin, How lta subtle way It wins? Gods, who love the race they frame. Cannot tell whence springs the flame, Man may reason long and well, But can never break the spell. No man should rail at or sneer at the remark that married life Is the happiest In the world, for the single man never knows at what place or time he will meet the one woman who will cause all his de termination and theories to melt like fog before the sunshine. Even the men who are the most strenuously opposed to. matri mony have their secret ldeuls some one type of woman interests them more than others do but they are frank enough with themselves to scout the Idea that their ideals can be met with on this mumlune sphere. , It Is equally useless for a man de liberately to refuse to go to a place Which women frequent or refuse poiiitblank to be introduced to the sex for which he bus no use. Cupid does not tuke him into consultation when he luys his pluns, Jotting the name of this man and that woman whom he purposes to pair off down upon his ref erence book. It's all cut and dried (or him. A man may balk and run away, but ho is caught and rounded op another day. Mo masculine heart Is so stubborn A FEW SMILES Going Too Far. "A man should try to have a good opinion of himself," "Perhaps." "I menu a certain amount of self respect." "Oh, that's nil right, but some people don't seem able to distinguish between self-roWpeet and self-admlru-tlon." A Close Shave. "Don't tell me you can"t find work," said the hnrd-faced house keeper. "Well, mum," re piled the tramp at the door, "It's true a man offered me a Job only las' week, hut I could not take It." "And why not?" "I wujs para lyzed." "You seem nil right now." ' "Yohsuiii. Ye see, I wuz purulyzed wld fright," j" A Matter of Pride. ' "Motoring is enjoyable, but It Isn't the best form of exercise," said the Iiculth expert, "What do you consider the best ex orcise?" "Walking." "The chief objection some people have to walking Is that they have no way of indicating to strangers as they hike along that they could ride if they wanted to." Feminine Diplomacy. "I spoke a few words with Mrs. Pub walte this morning," said Mrs. Gad der. "And what did you say?" asked Mr. Gadder. "Oh, I raved about her gown, and told her how well sho was looking." "My I" "If I am not Invited to the old frump's next receptlou It. won't be my fuuli." i Took It Coolly. "You proposed to Miss didder In a canoe t" "Yes." "That's danger ous." "Why 80?" "Well er an embrace or a kins under such cir cumstances Is apt to upset the boat." "There was no danger 1 u this case. She didn't even do me the honor to stop humming a little tunu while I wus proposing to her." Political Strategy. "1 have Just discovered that our can didate plftya tho plH! organ during his leisure moments." "It would never do for the other side in get hold of that" "Whut steps must we take 1' "Well, If the truth leak out, we'll square him with the voters by saying It Isn't a pip organ he plays, but a mouth orgau." mm or fractious that Cupid cannot tame It Into subjection in his own unique way. The one unfortunate part of It is that Cupid gives no hint or sign that might put a man on his guard or warn him to be In readiness. Men meet their future brides when they least expect and they are not always duly Im pressed with their future heart mate at that. One young man who had to be fairly coaxed and dragged to a ball, accompanying his chum, saw there a young woman so plain of face that he marveled why the good-looking young man dancing with her should be eager to secure her for the next waltz, the next and yet others. During the course of the evening, the young man who had fought so hard against coming was introduced by the friend he had ac companied to the very plain young woman. She looked up with a smile and that smile so radiated her whole face that her new acquaintance looked upon her In wonder. It charmed him, Interested him, made her almost beau tiful. Her gracious personality, sweet ness and wholesomeness captured the citadel of his heart In that first mo ment of meeting. He could not for get her or the sound of her voice or the touch of her hand. He who had laughed at matrimony and the notion that It took a woman's love to make a man really happy and life worth liv ing was manly enough to confess that he had erred In his Judgment, when he thought the careless life of a bachelor free lunce was happier than that of the man who had placed himself In the hands of a good woman to be loved and cared for In the married state. Cupid very often allows a man to go a great length ere he halts him. He can only run the length of his rope- finding the matrimonial noose at the end of It. "If we live, we love." "Little Orphant Annie" Says "Jim" Riley Was the Meanest of Boys Many will be surprised to learn that there ever was a real "Orphant Annie." Orphant Annie" Is now Mrs. Wesley Gray. Although not a great many miles from the poet's birthplace, Green field, Ind., Mrs. Gray's farm Is situated In the real, old-fashioned back coun try. It wns a raw, bleak day when little "Orphant Annie" wns brought to the Itlley home. She came from a primi tive country settlement In a rough wagon, riding on a heavy board laid across It for a sent. . . . She re called the happenings at the Itlley home with amusement and delight. "Jim Klley," she declared, "was the biggest tease and the meanest boy I ever seen. I used to wonder how he learnt It nil; how In tho world n boy only twelve years old could be so full of mischief, and such an awful, tense. "He would draw ugly pictures of us and write mean things beneath 'ein, and I tell you, he Just nnchurly worried the life out of us. Then he would make his eyes red by rubbing them, and pretend he was sticking gun caps In them. Then he'd pull the gun caps out of his nose. You can't guess how he scared us. "Then ho had a hateful way of do ing u trick that a circus mun tuught hliu, with a button and a handkerchief, hv folding the handkerchief around the button, and then undoing It, and the button wasn't there. That made us awful curious, and we made him do It again and again, until one time he dropped It out of his sleeve." Lu dies' Home Journal. To Curl Feathers. Try this method of curling your feathers. Take a round stick and hold the feathers close to It lengthwise and fold the down carefully around the wood. Next slip over It a closely fit ting bag of any material; this bag should be n trllle larger than the curling stick. Hold this bag In the steam of a k.ittle uutll thoroughly dampened, after which place In a warm spot to dry. When the bag Is removed It will be found that the feather Is nicely curled. Wise and Otherwise. Time may be money to everybody but tho loufer. And often the shoplifter finds It dif ficult to take things easy. Iend men tell no tales, but some of their widows may draw pensions. As long as a man can keep his tern per he Isn't his own worst enemy. A bachelor snys that mutrlmony Is one of the blanks In love's lottery. A woman's Idea of an entertaining man Is cue who nays notblug and lis tens. Spendthrifts may be so called be cause they have nothing In common with thrift A girl's best Insurance against trou ble Is to make a confidant of her moth er. It's s woman's natural faith that en ables her to believe only the things she wants to when she knows she NATURE PROVIDES FOR BIRDS Perfect "Cold Storage" System Ob served by Ornithologist In North ern Russia and Siberia. For a long time human ingenuity has been devising systems of cold storage for food products; but for an unknown number of ages such a sys tem has existed in natural form In northern Russia and Siberia. It was discovered by the famous ornitholo gist, Henry Seebohm. In the course of his travels he vis ited the Petchora river, which flows from the Ural mountains Into the Arc tic ocean opposite Nova Zembla. Along the lower part of that river stretched the tundra, a dreary, unin habited, treeless swamp, covered with Ice and snow. Nevertheless, he found that this unattractive spot was the summer home of almost half the bird population of the old world. The naturalist reached the region In early April. Forest and tundra were as devoid of life as the desert of Sa hara, but a change was near. Sud denly summer broke over the scene; the ice on the river split and disap peared ; the banks steamed In the sun; and Innumerable birds of all sizes and colors appeared within 48 hours after the first warmth. The frozen tundra became a wide moor, diversified with numerous bogs and lakes. It wns cov ered with moss, lichens, henlthllke plants, dwarf birch and millions of acres of cloudberries, cranberries and crowberrles. The perpetual sun of the Arctic summer causes the latter plants to bear In wonderful profusion. But frult-bearlng must follow blossoming, and blossom and fruit cannot be per fected In 48 hours. The birds were arriving In thousands. The fruit would not be ripe until the middle or end of the summer; if the birds hnd to wait until then they would starve. It soon appeared, however, that na ture had made due provision for them. Beneath the snow lay a whole crop of last yenr's fruit, perfectly pre served In nature's cold storage. Each year, when the berries are ripe, and before the birds can devour many of them, the snow descends upon tho tundra; it covers the crop and pre serves It In perfect condition. Then comes the spring sun to melt the snow and uncover the bushes, loaded with ripened fruit, and the ground beneath covered with the fallen provender. The berries never decay beneath the snow. Coffee With or Without. Evidently the Germans do not take kindly to black coffee, for we are told tfiat on the day when the sale of milk Is forbidden In Munich the coffee houses are almost empty. Yet for many years after coffee wns first drunk In Europe neither the Germans nor anyone else thought of mixing It with milk, any more than the Turks nnd Arabs do now. The use of coffee au lalt seems to dnte from 1087. Mine, de Sevlgne, writing to her daughter In that year, said that a doctor much In vogue "has taught to, mix sugar and milk with our coffee. They made a most delight ful compound, which will help to sup port mo through the rigors of Lent." In a letter written seven years ear lier she had mentioned as an eccentric proceeding on the part of Mine, dc la Sabllere that "she drinks milk to her tea." Readers of "Unbeaten Tracks In Japan" may remember thnt one of the Alnus thought It disgusting that Mrs. Bishop should drink milk and pol lute her ten with a fluid having no strong a smell nnd taste. Manchester (Eng.) Guardian. Her Henri Not False. ITelen awoke with a start. She dreamed her Henri was making love to Nora. "How absurd !" she mused. "Henri and Nora ! Dreams make quaint combinations. Henri, her Henri, the latest sensation at the Met ropolitan, and Norn, her maid!" She smiled to herself as she turned around to sleep, but suddenly sat up. She heard Norn's voice In the adjoining room and strained to listen. "I dare you to, sweetheart." Helen's blood froze I Henri her Henri was there ! Ring ing softly, tenderly. Just as he sing Inst night when she permitted the lirst kiss I She wanted to scream tear strike ! Tongue nnd limbs were para'yzed. Ab ruptly, the singing stopped What agonizing silence! Then Norn's voice nguln. "Jim, dear, our mistress will be so happy to honr Monsieur Henri's first recordi!" Life. Bird Fountains. The Interest in bird protection that has this year led to the placing of pretty bird houses In many private gardens Is also bringing Into promi nence the bird drinking fountain as a garden ornament. These fountain are usually shaped like a flat-bowled vase. They hold cither n little smooth pool of water or one troubled daintily by a tiny foun tain that wells from the ceu of the bowl. The fountains come In wrought Iron, In stone and In cement. Often their beauty Is enhanced by water plants Hunting In the bowls. Stone Implement Found. Chief of l'ollco llolter of Whlteflsh, Mont., found n strange relic of past ages, about eight feet below the sur face, near the rifle range, west of town. It had the appearance of a pestle, an Instrument used by pharma cists In the compounding of chemicals. It evidently was hewed from a stone. The Implement may have been used to grind corn or grain. - QIJMJ 9TRIXT SCENE c IUDAD JUAREZ, the scene of the recent Important events in connection with the trouble with Mexico, Is situated on the right bank of the Rio Grande, direct ly opposite El Paso, Tex., and 1,223 miles north of Mexico City. The very name of the city of Juarez sug gests noteworthy events In the history of the southern republic, and the con ferences which have been held there recently by the representatives of the military forces of both the American 'and Mexican governments add another Interesting chapter to the community's annals, says the National Geographic society bulletin. I For more than 200 years Juarez was known as El Paso del Norte (the pass of the North), and It was not until 1885 that the city was renamed In hon or of one of Mexico's greatest states men and patriots, Benito Juarez, who established his capital here during the troublous times when Napoleon III of France was abetting the Ill-fated Max lmlllun In his effort to found nn em pire in the western hemisphere. Juarez, a full-blooded Zapotec Indi an, born In an obscure village near Oaxnca, succeeded to the presidency of Mexico when Comonfort, weary of the internal strife, "quit the Job" and went to the United States, leaving af fairs in the hands of his chief Justice. Immediately Juarez was embroiled In civil war by the assumption of the ex ecutive office by Zuloaga. It was while trying to displace his rival that the Indian patriot endeavored to bor row money from the United Stntes and, as a part of the bargain, he agreed to a treaty the terms of which brought forth a storm of protest from England and France. By this treaty, which was never ratified, the United Stntes was to have a perpetuul nnd un restricted pnssnge ncross both the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the north ern states of Mexico, nnd the right to employ American troops to enforce these rights as well as to protect American citizens against levies and loans. Start of Maximilian's Attempt. A short time later Juarez precipi tated an International crisis by his de cision to suspend for two yenrs the payment of Interest on the national debt. England, Spain and France sent fleets to Vera Cruz to force payment, but England nnd Spain soon withdrew, while France, her soldiers once on Mexican soil, decided to press her claims, and gradually Napoleon's scheme for a western empire began to assume definite form. Ills scheme eventuated in the abortive attempt to establish Archduke Maximilian of Aus tria on the throne of tho Montezumas. It wns during the famous defense of the city of Puebla against the invad ing French trmy that a young Mexi can soldier, who wns to become the most conspicuous figure In the history of modern Mexico, distinguished him self by his bravery nnd his exception al powers of leadership. This young hero was Porflrto Diaz, now known to 'fame as "the strong man of Mexico,1 1 It was In the center of the Interna tional bridge which connects Juarez and El Paso thnt President Taft and President Diaz (he who had been .Tunrez's military right hand) met In 1010. upon the occasion of the cen tenary celebration of Mexican Inde pendence. The traveler who passes through El Paso on his way to Juarez may choose any of four times by which to set his watch Central, Mountain, Pacific and Mexican. Mountain time is an hour slower than Central, while Pacific Is an hour slower nnd Mexican Is 2-1 minutes faster than Mountain. Famed for Its Bull Fights. On account of Its bull fights and cock fights, Juarex has loug been a city of feast-day pilgrimage for Americans In search of a new sensation. The Span lards, who became addicted to the bull fight habit In the twelfth century, dur ing the occupation of the Ibortuu pen insula by the Moors, Introduced this sport Into Mexico shortly after their overthrow of the Aztecs. The fights in Juarez are not so elaborately staged as those In Mexico City, for native bulls are used customarily, and these have not the ferocity of the animals Imported by the capital from Andal usia at a cost frequently, of $1,000 (Mexican) each. On Important bull-fight days the population of Juarei tops the 10,000 mark, while there Is relative tem porary decrease In the slse of the fifth UAREZ i- IN dUAREZ city In Texas, El Paso, which had only 736 people In 1880 but which had grown to more than 39,000 In 1910. Nuevo Laredo Is Important Another center of Mexican popula tion along the frontier is Nuevo Laredo, the border city of Tamaullpas. It Is one of the most important gate ways to the southern republic, not on account of Its population, for El Paso and Juarez constitute a hyphenated city more than twice as large as Laredo (American) and Nuevo Laredo (Mexican), but because the latter is the northern terminus of the shortest railway route to Mexico City, the dis tance being only about 800 miles, com pared with 1,200 miles by way of Juarez and 1,000 miles through Cludad Porfirlo Diaz (Eagle Pass). With 8,000 people, Nuevo Laredo Is a little more than half as large as the American town at the other end of the 900-foot international bridge which spans the Itio Grande at this point. The two towns were one up to the time of the secession of Texas, the set tlement on the left bank of the river being captured by Texas rangers In 1846 and occupied by United States troops under General Lamar a year later. BLOCKADE IS ALWAYS DEFIED Brave Sailors Have Ever Been Found Capable of Eluding Any Cordon of War Vessels. Blockading and blockade running Is not a young war measure by any means, a writer In Munsey's says. One of the earliest authentic Instances of the practice dates back two centuries before the Christian era. Marcus Claudius Marcellus, commanding a powerful Roman army and nn efficient fleet, laid siege to Syracuse, a rich city on the Isle of Sicily. Carthage, Rome's great rival on the north shore of Africa, one of the great sea powers of that time, wns not at all pleased with the Idea of Rome cnpturlng Syra cuse, a free city and probably a source of great revenue through trade with Carthage. Syracuse was a well fortified city, and there seemed to be no Immediate prospect of Rome taking It by storm, so Marcellus deckled to starve Its In habitants Into submission. He put a cordon of ships across the entrance to the harbor nnd arrayed his army on the land side so that no succor could come from without. But he hud un derestimated the boldness of the Car thaginians. There was no question of contraband In those dnys conditional or other. In their swift, onr-drlven galleys the sailors of the African city easily eluded the ships set to watch the port nnd carried provisions, water nnd war material Into the beleaguered city. So successful were the Carthaginians In getting supplies Into the city, running the blockade that had It not fallen through trenchery It would have been enabled to hold out Indefinitely. While blockades probably had been estab lished before on a small scale the blockade of Syracuse Is one of the earliest Instnnces where the efficiency of a blockade by sea wns of vital Im portance In determining the success of war on nn Important seaport Greatest Master of Chest, In 1858 during a trip to Europe, Paul Murphy played eight games, blindfold ed, with the best British chess players, winning six, losing one nnd drawing oue. In Paris he played blindfolded simultaneously against eight of the strongest French players, winning six nnd drawing two. This feat he repeat ed on several occasions while abroad nnd after his return to this country. He was educated for the law and final ly gave up chess playing In order to devote himself to the practice of law, but lost his mind and died In 1884. Ills fnther wns attorney general of Louis iana nnd afterward Judge of the su preme court of that state. He was ac counted a good chess player, but the son gave him odds and bent him when the son was only twelve years old. More Effective Now. In 1815 there were 1,240 sugnr mills In Louisiana nnd their output averaged that year 171,005 pounds per mill. The operation factories numbered 153 In 1013 and averaged 3,820 pounds of such each; while the short crop of 1013 was handled by 130 factories, the average of each being 2.022,000 pound I Royal D-Lite Comfortable LADIES SHOES No o r A N. 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"Oh! was the reply, "It was a very modest affair beef, wine and an egg." 'Beef? Where did you get the beef from?" i "Oh," was the reply, "that came from the bulwarks." "And the wine, how about that?" "Oh, that came from the port hole!" "Oh, oh!" laughed the listener. "Good, very good! But tell me where did you get the egg?" "Oh, that was the simplest of all," came the reply, "The captain gave orders for the ship to 'lay to,' and he gave me one." Pearson's Weekly. . Deep cuts should be healed by Han ford's Balsam. Adv. The Penalty. Little John is a confirmed sleepy head. One morning when he was more than usually averse to getting up, his mother reasoned with him by calling his attention to the flowers. "Why, the little flowers have been awake for hours," she told him, "and here you are at 8 o'clock still in bed." "Oh, well," was the reply, "look what dirty beds they have, and how nice and clean mine is!" 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