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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1913)
TWO CLOCKS START IN RACE POULTRY AND GAME P u n le le to Find Out W hether Tim e piece of G randfather S tarted Ahead of the Alarm. Cmn « e t you fan c y p r ic e , fo r W ild D u ck s a n d o th e r s a m e In season. W rits u s fo r c a sh o ffer on all k in d s o f p o u ltry , pork. e tc . Peareon-Page Co., Portland Machinery ____ „at- acts sud àula all Aita. Neat, dean.or namentai, convenient, cheap. L a t t a a l l a e a a o n . Ma,le o l flirtai, < aii'tspillortlp over -, will not » .il o* lu] u re a n y th in g . Guaranteed effective. Bold by dealara, or 6 cent 1 y expresa pee- paid for f 1. lá M Il bOMlEA. IM Datais A t *.. Brooklyn. M. M. &. M. SCHOOL of TELEGRAPHY 633-&S5 C h am b er o f C o m m rrrc B u ild in g PO RTLA N D . OREGON A school fo r th e tea c h in g o f T e le g ra p h y u n d e r Uie p e rso n a l su p e rv isio n o f th e p ro p rie to r. A. E. M yers, e x p e r t te le g ra p h e r. D ay and n ig h t sessions. T E R M S: C o u rses in e a sy m o n th ly In sta llm e n ts , e n a b lin g you to ta k e up a w ell- p a id p ro fe ssio n a t little co st. W rite fo r fu ll p a rtic u la rs . H ours, 10 s. m. to 6 p. m.. or by a p p o in tm e n t 15714N DR. JOSEPH ROANE Chiropractor SPINAL ADJUSTMENTS Scientific T r e a tm e n t o f all A c u te a n d C h ro n ic D iseases. L icensed P ra c titio n e r. S u ite 424-5-7 ^ r c s d e j i u i i d i n g . S e a ttle . ^ T im e Is Som etim es K ind. Father Tim e is not alw ays a hard parent, and, though he ta rrie s for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly Upon those who have UBed him well, m aking them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and sp irits young and in full vigor. W ith such people the gray head is but the im pression o f the old fellow ’s hand in giving them his bles sing, and every w rinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a w ell-spent life. — From B arnaby Budge. St. Helens Hall P ortland , O regon R e s id e n t a n d D ay S c h o o l fo r G irls I n oharge o f Slater» of H t-John b a p tis t (Episcopal) Collegiate, Academic and Elementary Departments, H aile, A rt, Blocatlon. Domestic A rt, Domestic Science, “ asiam. F o r catalog address— T IL E S IS T I H S U P E R I O R , O ffice 30 S t. H e le n a H u ll Sound Education in Finland. In the rudim ents of a sound educa tion the Finnish people are unsur passed. Practically every m an and woman in the country has a w orking knowledge of reading, w ritin g , and arithm etic, and every child of school age receives careful instruction in these studies. Every adult has a vote, and although 53 per cent of the in h ab itan ts are women, th ere are only seventeen of th e ir sex in the Finnish d i e t ________________ Irritatin g Skin T roubles, so prevalent In sum m er, such as hives, poison oak, chafing, sunburn, eczema, etc., are quickly relieved w hen T y ree's A ntiseptic Pow der Is used. 25c. a t druggists or sam ple se n t free by J. S. Tyree, W ashington, D. C.—Adv. How Does It Get Across? A t a certain eastern u niversity one o f the professors was conducting an exam ination in physiology. He asked for a description of the circulation a t the extrem ities, m eaning, of course, the capillary circulation. The youth he called upon evidently did not know much about the m atter, for he replied th a t the blood w ent down one leg and up the o th e r!—Y outh’s Companion. W ashington, D. C.— Demand for an Yesterday m orning two clock» investigation of S ecretary McAdoo's started a race. The alarm clock went charge th a t New York bankers had so fast that It gained one m tnute an | conspired to depress the price of gov hour, while g randfather's clock ran ernm ent bonds was demanded in the so slow th a t It lost two m inutes an house by R epresentative Henry. hour. The picture shows the alarm j clock to be one hour ahead a t th e fin In the senate th ere was a demand ish. But who can tell the hour when by Senator W eeks th a t Mr. McAdoo Investigation Under Way 2 Years the race started ? m ake public the inform ation on which Finds Company Makes 136 G randfather’s clock lost two min he based his charges. Per Cent Annually. utes every hour and the alarm clock Mr. H enry is one o f the so-called gained one m inute every hour, so It la “ in su rg en t” D em ocrats on the house evident th a t the alarm clock In every com m ittee. He m ade a ho u r’s tim e gained three m lnutea San Francisco—The S ta te Railway currency upon the other. sta te m en t calling on Mr. McAdoo to j commission, of C alifornia, has ordered appear before the house com m ittee Therefore, In tw enty hours It gain ed sixty m inutes and from the picture reductions in the express ra te s of and give all the fa cts in the case. “ The secretary of the treasury W ells, F argo & Co., am ounting to a cut o f $760,000 from present annual should be summoned before the com revenues. Every ra te of the company m ittee on banking and currency in in th is s ta te is abolished by the order, sta n tly and reveal th e fa cts to the ■ which is effective October 1, and more Am erican people as th e ir a g e n t,” said than 3,000,000 new rates devised by H enry’s statem en t, "a n d the head of I the commission on a 10-mile zone every g re a t bank in New York should | basis are ordered effective a t th a t be sent for a t the e arlie st possible mo m ent, placed on the stand before the | tim e. In its ruling the commission re com m ittee and grilled most thoroughly j quires th a t the W ells-Fargo company in order th a t the Am erican people shall operate fo r a period of six may know the ex act facts about this m onths under the scales of ra te s fixed j controversy. The secretary can and by the commission, which is approxi doubtless will dem onstrate exactly m ately 15 per cent under the present how these men m anipulate the m ar rates. If the company feels a t the ket, put up and down prices of U nited Clock Race Puzzle. end of the period th a t the commis S ta te s bonds and control the financial we saw th at the race m ust have beeD sion’s ra te s are not justified it may destinies o f the A m erican people.” then subm it a sta te m en t o f its e arn on tor tw enty hours. HEAT RECORD AGAIN BROKEN During the tw enty hours the alarm ings. I t is se t forth th a t the investigation clock gained tw enty m inutes upon correct time. T w enty hours previous of the commission has been in prog- Mercury Climbs to 110 in Central to tw enty m inutes of 8 Is eleven ] ress for two and a h alf years and it West—Chicago Has 99. hours and forty m inutes, or tw enty has been found th a t the company Chicago —The h o tte st w eather of m inutes of 12 In the m orning ot the | m akes a n e t yearly profit of $842,097 on a property valuation estim ated a t this Bummer visited Chicago Wednes- day before—the tim e when the $613,232, or 136 per cent on its in- | day. On top of the Federal building started. | vestm ent. The ru lin g characterizes inn, the coolest spot in the downtown the company as “ a p a rasite on the d istric t, the tem p e ra tu re was 99 de- HIGHEST AND LOWEST POINTS ra ilro ad s,” and suggests th a t ra il grees, b u t in o th er sections i t was roads, instead of appealing to the In j three or four degrees hotter. The Mount W hitney Is 14.501 Feet Above te rs ta te Commerce commission for h eat wave, however, was relieved by Level of 8ea— Point In Death Val perm ission to change ra te s would “ do brisk winds, and there was not the ley le 276 Below. well to look into th is express situ a toll of death and p rostrations which tio n .” _________________ w ere caused by the hot spell of ten The maximum difference In eleva days in the early p a rt of the sum m er. tion of land In the U nited sta te s la U , COAL TRUST IS UNDER FIRE ! Only a few p rostrations were reported. 777 feet, according to the United The forecast was for continued warm S ta te s geological survey. Moun< Anthracite Supply Is Declared to Be w eather. W hitney, the highest point, 14,501 feel I t was the h o tte st day on record in Under Railroad Control. above sea level, and a point In Death | G alesburg, III., the therm om eter valley is 276 feet below sea level. W ashington, D. C.— Investigation reaching 104 degrees. John A. Miley, T hese two points, which a re both lr of the hard coal tru s t was proposed in j a team ster, is not expected to live, California, a re less th an 90 miles a resolution by R ep resentative Mur and several others are seriously ill, as apart. This difference Is sm all, how ray, o f M assachusetts. It calls on the a re su lt o f the heat. The therm om e- ever, as com pared with the figures foi dep artm en t of commerce, the d e p a rt 1 te r registered 122 degrees in the sun Asia. Mount E v ere tt rises 29,002 feet m ent of labor and the In te rs ta te Com | in the afternoon. above sea level, w hereas the shores m erce commission for inform ation as It was the h o tte st day of the y ear a t of the Dead sea are 1,290 feet below to th e ow nership o f a n th ra cite lands Dubuque, la ., the governm ent th e r sea level, a total difference In land by railroads and as to prices of cost of m om eter re g iste rin g 99 degrees a t 5 heights of 30,292 f e e t Mount E verett production. o ’clock. In m any factories workm en In a sta te m en t accom panying the w ere forced to q y it work. has never been climbed. resolution R epresentative M urray de T he g re atest ocean depth y et found H ot w eather records for several Is 32,088 feet, a t a point about 40 miles clared fa c ts in possession of the de years w ere broken a t Des Moines, partm en ts would prove one of the north of the Island of Mindanao, In the when the governm ent w eather bureau Philippine Island. The ocean bottom m ost com plete monopolies in e x is t therm om eter reg istered 101 degrees. ence. a t this point Is therefore m ore than B urlington reported a tem perature of “ I have every reason to believe,” 110 degrees, officially, while D aven 11 Vs m iles below tbo sum m it of Mount he said, “ th a t th ere is now in the exe p o rt’s w eather bureau registered 101. E verest. The difference In the land heights cutive dep artm en t enough d a ta to O ther points in Iowa reported sim ilar show th a t more than 90 per cent of I high tem peratures. In E urope Is about 15,868 feet. the available a n th racite and betw een The m ercury clim bed to 101 a t the 85 and 90 per cent of th e an thracite Peoria, 111., Btation o f the governm ent OLD SPELLING SCHOOL TRICK shipped yearly is in the control of the bureau. I t was the h o tte st in the his- seven railroad system s which form the | tory of the Peoria station. One of the Moet Interacting and Puz only m eans o f tran sp o rtin g the coal to zling of Deceptions W hich Can m arket. CLAIMS MUST BE PRESSED Ba Oona W ith Carda. The “old spelling school" trick la one of the m ost Interesting and baffling of the m any which can be done with cards. All the cards In any suit are required for the trick, which consleta In “stacking" the th irteen cards In such a m anner th a t when held In the hand, face down, and changing a card from top to bottom , with each letter spelling the num ber o r nam e of the card, the one desired will come out In regular order. One cornea first, then two, and so on to Jack, queen, king. In placing the carda In position the fourth from the top of the pack as held In the hand, face down, m ust be the ace, o-n-e; the eighth, the two spot. W ho can tell how to a rran g e the re m aining eleven cards so that, placing a card a t bottom for each letter, three, four, five, up to the king, come out? It will be noted fifty-two le tte rs are required to spell the num bers and nam es of all the cards In a s u i t M o th e rs w i n f in d M rs. W in slo w -« S o o th in g B y ru p t h e b « e t r e iu e d v to u s e t o r t h e i r c h il d r e n d u r i n g t h e t e e t h l u g p e r io d . Lucifer Matches Date From 1834. L ucifer m atches — tHat is, m atches tipped w ith an explosive substance th a t bursts into flame on being struck — were first used about 1834. Many Im provem ents have been m ade in m atches since then, the m ost im port a n t o f which was the invention o f the sa fty m atch, strik in g on the box only. Faith. By our own fa ith we can only move m ountains; by the fa ith th a t others u t in us, be m ay move the w orld.— arah Grand. RIDDLES. g Why a re T hey are Boiling a piece of glassware in a seen. weak solution o f salt in water, and allowing it to cool gradually will make W hen la tion? i t less brittle. W hen he To Strengthen Glassware. Skin Troubles R em arkable Rem edy T h a t W orks W onders A gainst Eczema a n d All Rash I f y o u h a v e b e e n f i g h t i n g s o m e b lo o d tro u b le , s o m e s k in d is e a s e , c a ll I t e c z e m a , lu p u s , p s o ria s is , m a l a r i a , o r w h a t y o u w ill, t h e r e Is b u t o n e s u r e , s a f e w a y t o g e t r i d o f I t. A s k a t a n y d r u g s t o r e f o r a $1.00 b o t t l e o f S . S . S . a n d y o u a r e t h e n o n th e r o a d to h e a lth . T h e a c tio n o f th is r e m a r k a b le r e m e d y is J u s t a s d ire c t, j u s t a s p o s it iv e , J u s t a s c e r t a i n in i t s in flu - e n c e a s t h a t t h e s u n ’ r i s e s In t h e E a s t . I t is o n e o f t h o s e r a r e m e d i c a l f o r c e s w h i c h a c t in t h e b lo o d w i t h t h e s a m e d e g r e e o f c e r t a i n t y t h a t i s f o u n d i n a ll n a t u r a l te n d e n c ie s . T h e m a n n e r in w h ic h It d o m in a te s a n d c o n tr o ls t h e m y s te rio u s t r a n s f e r e n c e o f ric h , re d , p u r e a r t e r i a l b lo o d f o r t h e d i s e a s e d v e n o u s b lo o d Is m a r v e lo u s . O u t th r o u g h e v e r y s k in p o r e a c id s , g e r m s a n d o t h e r b lo o d I m p u r i t i e s a r e f o r c e d In t h e f o r m o f i n v i s i b l e v a p o r . B e n e a t h t h e s k i n is a f in e n e t w o r k o f n e r v e s , a m y r i a d o f t h e m in w h i c h 3 . S . S . w o rk s w ith u n t ir in g e n e r g y to p r e v e n t th e f u r t h e r d e s tr u c tiv e w o rk o f th e a c id s a n d b lo o d i m p u r i t i e s . T h ese a re s c a t te r e d in to th e v e in s to b e d r iv e n fro m t h e s y s te m . T h e lu n g s b r e a th e it o u t, t h e liv e r is s tim u la te d to c o n s u m e a g r e a t p r o p o rtio n o f im p u r itie s , th e s to m a c h a n d i n te s tin e s c e a s e to c o n v e y in to t h e b lo o d s t r e a m t h e c a t a r r h a l , m a l a r i a l g e rm s ; t h e b o w e ls , k id n e y s , b la d d e r a n d a ll e m u n c to r ie s o f th e b o d y a r e m a r s h a le d I n to a f i g h t i n g f o r c e t o e x p e l e v e r y v e s tig e o f e r u p tiv e d ise a s e . T h e r e is s c a r c e l y a c o m m u n i t y a n y w h e r e b u t w h a t h a s i t s liv in g e x a m p le o f th e w o n d e rfu l c u ra tiv e e ff e c ts o f B. S . S. G e t a b o t t l e o f t h i s f a m o u s r e m edy t o d a y , a n d i f y o u r c a s e Is s t u b b o r n o r p e c u l i a r w r i t e t o T h e S w i f t S p e c if ic C o ., ISO S w i f t B l d g . A t l a n t a . O a . T h e i r medical l a b o r a t o r y is f a m o u s a n d i s c o n ducted b y r e n o w n e d e x p e r t s i n b lo o d and Secretary McAdoo la Pressed for Facts by Congress. New Schedule Ordered for Wells- Fargo bg R. R. Commission. S eco n d -H an d M achin ery b o u g h t, sold and — e x c h an g e d : e n g in e s , boilers, saw m ills, e tc . T h e J . E. M artin Co.. 83 1st B t , P o rtla n d . 8 e n d fo r 8 to c k L ist a n d prices. DAISY FLY KILLER EXPRESS RATES CUT DEMANDS FULL STATEMENT real friends Ilka ghosts? often heard of. but seldom • a a a sick m an a contradic is an Im patient patient. • a • W hen Is coffee like th e e arth ? W hen It Is ground. • • • W hen Is a baby like a b reak fast cup? W hen It Is a tea thing ><teethlng). • • • W hat roof covers th e m oet noisy tenant? T he roof of the mouth. i • • • W hen le a serm on like a round shot? I W hen It comes from a cannon's i mouth. | s e e ! ; Commerce Commission Rules Out New Y ork—A cting on the re|>ort of Delays in Prosecution. the ap p raisers. S urrogate Cohalan has fixed th e am ount which the beneficiar ies under the will o f Colonel John Jacob A stor will have to pay the sta te of New York under the inheritance tax law. The total am ounts to over $3,- 400,000. The am ounts received by the beneficiaries and the am ount of tax e s w hich they will be forced to tu rn over are as follows ; V incent A stor, $88,958,599.80; tax, $2,741,883.99. John Jacob A stor VI, th e posthu mous child of Colonel A stor and Mrs. Madeline T alm adge Force A stor, $2,- 917,672; ta x $100,000.88. Mrs. M adeline Force A stor, $7,673,- 896; ta x $290,455.84. M uriel A stor, $4,861,768: tax $177,570.32. Move Aimed a t Judges. W ashington, D. C.— A constitutional am endm ent proposed in the house by R epresentative H ull, o f Tennessee, would provide th a t congress shall have the power to abolish any in fe rio r court of the U nited S ta te s and remove a judge of any in ferio r court of the U nited S ta te s from office by resolution if concurred in by tw o-thirds of both houses. H e continued; “ The ancien t procedure o f im peach m ent which has come down to us from another cen tu ry is so prolix, involved and cum bersom e as to render it m ost expensive and difficult o f u tilization. It has become m an ifest th a t a sim pli fied su b stitu te method of procedure should be m ade a v ailab le.” Drouth Oppresses Kansas. T opeka— The m onth of July, 1913, was the second d riest m onth since the local w eath er bureau was established, 3ft years ago. The total rainfall for the m onth was 1.57 inches. In 1887 the total ra in fa ll for the month of 1 • Ju ly was 1.08 inches. K ansas stream s change his th a t have never been known to go dry are dry now. More than 30 Kansas one fp o t < to towns have been compelled to shut off ; all w a ter for lawns, and a dozen towns have hardly enough w ater for dom estic m an «like a purposes. The K ansas riv e r is the low est ever known, 3.3 feet. w hen »he Is W hen does a leopard spots? W hen he movee from another. • e # W hy la a cigar loving * tallow candle? Because he will «moke going o u t s e e 1 W hy le a w atchdog bigger by nlghi than by day? ! Because he le let out at> n ig h t and taken In In the morning. • • • W hat chief virtue does < th e north pole rem ind you of? T J u s t ice, th a t's all. j! • s e W hy are tedious talk e rs like very old people? | Because they dilate (<dle late). • • e Why le a law yer’s m outh lik e a tollbar? B ecause It 1* seldom opened h u t for money. s e e W hy Is a historical event Ilk* ,a parcel untied and tied again? Because it le re-corded. tr j 1 As tor Family Taxed $3,400,000. Plane High in Air Burns. Chicago W hile nearly 4000 fe e t in the a ir, a m onoplane driven by W. C. Robinson, o f Chicago, caught fire S a t urday when a fuse on the engine blew out. Robinson extinguished the flames w ith a hand extin g u ish er while de scending, and reached the ground safe ly. He had gone up in an a tte m p t to break the new Am erican* a ltitu d e rec ord. Ja m es Irving, o f San Jose, Cal., who accom panied Roy Francis, a San Francisco aviator, on a trip here, dropped in a parachute from an a lti tude o f 4000 fe e t and descended safely. Hail Ruins Olive Trees. Rome—T he Brindisi d istric t was d ev asta te d S aturday by a g re a t hail storm which destroyed olive trees and vineyards, causing dam age estim ated a t $4,000,000. OLD TABLET FOUND Bible Account oí Noah and Flood Eonnd on Stone. Standard Policy Wanted. Steel Earnings Growing. New Y ork—The q u arterly sta te m en t of the U nited States Steel corporation for the three months ended Ju n e 30, ju s t issued, was a lto g eth er sa t isfactory, in th a t earnings, am ounting to $41,219,813, and n e t income of $31,920,611, were well in excess o f the m ost favorable estim ates. The q u a rte r shows a gain in total earnings over the »receding period of $6,024,256, and n n et income of $6,156,686, while the surplus is increased by $6,280,636. Compared w ith 1912, total earnings are increased by $16,117,648. i Confiarated Egg« Good. Trenton, N J . —The frozen eggs seized some tim e ago by Federal au th o rities as unfit for food, which have been the subject of litig atio n , were released for sale by the s ta te hoard of health. M embers of the board ate foodstuffs w ade from the eggs and gave the product a clean bill o f health. R ed Crcoa Ball B lue w ill w ash double a s m any elothea a s a n y o th e r blue. D o n ’t p u t y o u r m oney in to a n y o th e r. Slab Oldest Ever Dug U p — Gives Duration of Rain as Seven Days—Names Many Gods. [RAISES the DOUGH I B atter th a n o th e r pow der*— J p ro d u cin g light, d ain ty , w hol*. r some cake* an d p a s trie s— [CRESCENT BAKING POWDER h ig h g ra d e and I f m oderate in p r ic e — I f 25c lb. tin a t grocers, f f Cr*s>—t Mf*. Co.. Seattle I He Had a Vote. “ I t ’s all very well for educated wo Intelligent Dutch Cows. men to v o te,” said an ardent anti to “ C attle unaccompanied by a drover Mrs. Belmont, “ but think how te rri Philadelphia — The Bible story of ble i t would be if your cook had a are forbidden to cross this b rid g e,“ Noah and the flood is confirmed in v i te .” “ He h a s.” replied Mrs. Bel runs the inscription on a signpost near many details by nieroglyphics w ritten mont, w ith a smile. H aarlem , Holland. a t least 4000 years ago by a historian who lived in ancient Babylon, accord ing to announcem ent made by the U ni v ersity of Pennsylvania. The w ritin g on a tab le t— an epic of g re at length purporting to reach back to the creation of the world— has been I n t h e l o o k in g - g la s s a w o m a n o f t e n s e e s w r i n k le s , h o llo w c ir c le s u n d e r e y e s , deciphered a t the museum of the uni ^ ‘c r o w 's f e e t , ’' —a ll b e c a u s e s h e d id n o t t u r n t o t h e r i g h t r e m e d y w h e n w o r n v ersity by Dr. Arno Poebel, the an d o w n w i t h t h o s e t r o u b l e s w h ic h a r e d i s t i n c t l y f e m in in e . B ackache, h eadache, nouncem ent says. The tab le t, said to p a in s , l a s s i tu d e , n e r v o u s n e s s a n d d r a i n s u p o n v i t a l i t y —b r i n g u n t o ld s u f f e r in g be the oldest ever recovered from ob ‘t o w o m a n h o o d a n d t h e f a c e s h o w s i t. T h e n e r v o u s s y s te m a n d t h e e n t i r e w o m a n ly m a k e - u p f e e l s t h e to n ic e f f e c t o f livion, was dug up in N ippur several years ago by a museum expedition. In strange symbols so finely w ritten th a t the en tire poem is contained on seven inches square, the prim itiv e his I t a ll a y s a n d s u b d u e s n e r v o u s e x c i t a b i l i t y , i r r i t a b i l i t y , n e r v o u s e x h a u s t i o n , a n d o t h e r d i s t r e s s i n g s y m p t o m s c o m m o n ly a t t e n d a n t u p o n f u n c t i o n a l a n d o r g a n i c torian harks back to the beginning of d i s e a s e s o f t h e f e m i n in e o r g a n s . I t in d u c e s r e f r e s h i n g s le e p a n d r e l i e v e s all things. Then there w ere several m e n t a l a n x i e t y a n d d e s p o n d e n c y . K n o w n e v e r y w h e r e a n d f o r o v e r 40 y e a r s gods, chief of which w ere Anu and a s t h e s t a n d a r d re m e d y f o r t h e d i s e a a e s o f w o m e n . Y o u r d e a l e r in m e d ic in e s s e l l s i t in liq u id o r s u g a r - c o a te d t a b l e t f o r m ; o r y o u c a n s e n d 5 0 o n e - c e n t Enlil, and a goddi-s, N intu, the tablet (sta m p s f o r a t r i a l b o x o f D r. P i e r c e ’s F a v o r i t e P r e s c r ip t i o n t a b l e t s . A d d r e s s says. N intu was t.V* goddess who Dr. R . V . P i e r c e , I n v a l i d s ’ H o t e l a n d S u r g ic a l I n s t i t u t e , B u ffa lo , N . Y . created m ankind, whom she called “ my creatio n s.” D R . P IE R C E ’S P L E A S A N T P E L L E T S R E C U L A T E A N D IN V IG O R A T E L ike the first chapter of Genesis, S T O M A C H . L IV E R A N D B O W E L S . S U G A R -C O A T E D T IN Y G R A N U L E S . the Babylon poem opens w ith a recital of the creation. N intu, godm other of humans, is lam enting th a t the other gods seem bent on th eir destruction. Chicken Race War. Origin of Present-Day Games. “ A t th a t tim e N intu wailed like a “ A sectional issue has arisen in our Though we g e t our gam es of tennis woman in tra v a il,” reads the tra n sla “ Before from the E astern countries, m ost of tion. “ The holy Ish ta r wailed on ac tow n,” said the com m uter. count of the people. E nki, god of i t is settled I am afraid the civil w ar our gam es of bat and ball come down R ing wisdom, held counsel w ith Anu, Enlil will be fought all over again. Any to us from the ancient N orth. and N intu over the proposed destruc how, our Southern friends are sure to games and gam es in which lig h t ob indulge in some fire-eating language. jec ts are thrown come also from forest tion o f m ankind. Ziaguddia, high “ A resident of our village, who un countries, where the spear was a fa p riest of Shuruppak, m ade obeisance to the gods and prayed, p ro stra tin g dertook to raise chickens, received a m iliar weapon. B ut all of them alike crate of fowls from a South Carolina appear to re v ert in origin to early ex him self in h u m ility .” The Ziaguddia of the Babylons, it is farm . W hen the neighbors learned periences of the race by which they believed, was the Noah of the H e where the chickens came from they worked out th e ir salvation. brews. The ta b le t tells o f Ziagud- raised a row. “ ‘I f you m ust g e t chickens,’ they d ia ’s learning from the g re a t god, Few Keep Perfect Time. They Enki, th a t m ankind was to be destroy said, ‘g e t N orthern chickens. One very peculiar idea which pre don’t crow nearly so much as Southern ed “ by a rain sto rm .” Then comes a vails about a w atch or clock is th a t description of terrific wind and rains. chickens. T here is som ething in the when i t is being regulated and the clim ate down there th a t m akes a “ A fte r seven days the rain storm chicken crow four tim es as often as a hand are moved forw ard or back to set had passed over the land and carried chicken brought up in any other p art it, if a little too much is gained the away the huge boat. tim epiece will continue to gain or of the country. ’ Then the sun god came forth, shed “ T hat peculiarity of Southern chick lose, w hichever th e case may be. ding light over heaven and earth . Z ia ens was news to the am ateur poultry- Simply m oving p ast a certain hour guddia opened the roof o f his ship and man. H e noticed, however, th a t his often seem s to s ta r t the tim epiece to the lig h t of the sun god was le t in .” chickens really did crow more p e rsist running fa ste r o r slower, as the case This version differs in respect to the ently and more vigorously than any may be. B ut few clocks keep p erfect duration of the flood described in Gen O .her chickens he ever had known, and tim e. A tm ospheric and m agnetic con esis. T here i t was said to have lasted when an experienced poulterer assured ditions seem to in te rfe re in m ost in 40 days. him th a t they always would, because stances. W hen the w a ter subsided Ziaguddia Southern chickens alw ays do, he sold prayed to the gods w ith a loud voice, them and bought New Jersey chickens Work Falls to Women. the poem continues, and sacrificed an instead. Now he is in hot w ater with In Zuiuland th e women do m ost of ox, a sheep and som ething w ith “ a the Southern fam ilies in our town, the manual labor, w hile th e ir hus g re a t horn. ” T hrough the interces and heaven only knows how the squab bands, fathers and brothers laugh and sion of N intu the gods forgave the ble will te rm in a te .” — New York sing. surviving human beings and gave Tim es. them im m ortality, which they did not possess before the flood. | When Your Eyes Need Care Dr. Poebel has announced th a t he T r y M u rin e E y e R e m e d y . N o S m a r t i n g — F e e l* will m ake public la te r a lite ral tra n s F i n e — A c ts Q u ic k ly . T r y I t f o r R e d , W e a k , lation of the epic. From o th er tablets W a te r y E y e s a n d t i r a n u l a t c d E y e lid s . I l l u s t r a t e d B o o k in e a c h P a c k a g e . M u rin e is found by the expeditions, it would ap I com pounded by o u r O culists not a “ P a te n t Mod- icin e ” — b u t u sed in s u c c e s s fu l P h y s ic ia n s ’ P ra o - , pear the announcem ent says, th a t I lic e f o r m any ye a rs. Now d e d ic a te d to tb o I’ub- a n d sold by D rug g ists a t 25c a n d 50o p e r B ottlo. 460,000 years intervened betw een the ’ lit, M urino Kyo Salvo In A se p tic T u b e s , 26o a n d 60c. creation and the flood, although one M u rin e Eve R em e dy C o ., C h lo a g o epic w rite r asserts w ith p ainstaking I t is fa r b e tte r to give the accuracy th a t the exact tim e was 32,- Rule for Candles. Stomach, L iv e r a n d Bowels 223 years and some m onths (exact An old rule calls for as many candles som e help a t th e beginning num ber undecipherable) and 18 days. on the table as th ere are guests about t h a n t o k e e p puttin g it off The p a rticu la r tab le t from which it, and it is a rule th a t m ight be fol the story o f the flood was translated, until sickness overtakes you. lowed w ith in te restin g results. There the announcem ent states, m ay be as Be wise, and keep is so much v a rie ty shown nowadays in old as 4,400 years, and is reasonably the way in which candles are placed certain to be no m ore recent than the on a table th a t the candles could be reign of H am urabi, about 2100 B. C. put one in fro n t of each guest, in a I t is regarded as th e w orld’s m ost an circle or oval or oblong about the cient historical w ritin g and is in fairy ’> floral centerpiece. good s ta te of preservation. A WOMAN’S PROBLEM D !L P IERCE’S FAVORITE P RESCRIPTION; “ Better be Safe than Sorry 1 W ashington, D. C.— Shippers who file inform al complainta w ith the In te rs ta te Commerce comm ission in the fu tu re will be called upon to prosecute th e ir claim s on the com m ission's form al docket, and those who abandon such claim s will not be allowed, until a fte r five years have elapsed, to re vive the com plaint. The commission laid down th is rule hi dism issing the claim o f the Dillon Coal & T ran sfe r company, of Dillon, Mont., ag ain st the Oregon Short Linp railroad and other lines for reparation on coal shipm ents. In Septem ber, President Sets Fashion. 1907, the coal company abandoned its claim, a fte r the com m ission's refusal W ashington, D. C.— P resid en t W il to consider it inform ally, and recently son is becom ing the Beau Brummel of W ashington. As he dresses, all others sought to have it adjudicated. ____________ clothe them selves. Little Dealers Are Helped. W hite duck is now th e vogue. Chicago— E xcept for the help of the T hirty -th ree and a th ird per cent of ¡ N orthw estern Lum berm en’s associa all the m ales in W ashington w ear suits tion, small retail lum ber yards every of th a t cloth, because P resident W il w here would have been p u t out of bus son w ears it. It was in the first hot week in July iness by the mail order houses, accord ing to the statem en t o f W. G. Hollis, th a t the P resident of the U nited S tates Now all the secretary o f the association, in the first appeared in w hite. Federal su it against the so-called lum men in official W ashington w ear e ith e r w hite suits or w hite trousers and dark ber tru st. “ The help given the little fellows , coats, but it is all light-w eight m a has been all th a t kept the control of terial. P resident W ilson is the m ost con the lum ber business out o f the hands o f a few big houses,” he said. “ The siste n t w earer of w hite. H e w ears it a ctiv ities of the association have to his office, to play golf and to the helped in keeping the consum er from ball gam e. He also w ears it when he frequently goes to th e a te rs to see being placed a t a disadvantage.” stock company production. B urlington, V t.— An argum ent for the adoption by all sta te s of a stan d ard insurance policy was m ade a t the opening session here of the convention of the N ational Association of In su r ance com m issioners by P resident F. H. Hardison, insurance comm issioner of M assachusetts. Such a policy, he said, “ would be devoid o f u ncertain or am biguous language and would compel com petition along the lines of m easur able benefit.” More than 30 sta te s are represented by th e ir insurance comm isisoners. New Kind of Work. C ynthia, a young negro cook, who had recently given up her employment in order th a t she m ight try her luck at the easier profession o f cateress, met her form er m istress on the street. (This is from L ife). “ Good morning, C ynthia,’ said the lady. “ W here are you w orking now ?” “ I isn ’t w orkin’ nowhere now, m a’am, ” replied Cyn thia coyly; “ I ’se capering for a con gressm an.” John D. Still Boy a t 73. Cleveland, O. — “ I ’m still a boy,” John D. R ockefeller, 73 years old, told Ebenezer R oberts, 105 years old, as the two m et Sunday m orning a fte r services a t the Euclid Avenue R aptist church, of which they are both mem bers. The old man saw his older frien d first. H e rushed up to him. Mr. R oberts greeted him cordially. “ I once was a boy, too, but I ’m an old man now ,” he told the oil man. Mr. R ockefeller laughed and replied; “ Well, I once was a boy and I am still a boy.” Thirteen Die in Mosque Fight. | R ed Crons B all Blue, all blue, b e s t bluinsr v alu e In th e w hole w orld, m ak e s t h e lau n d re sa sm ile. For the Congregation. One Sunday a dim inutive preacher exchanged pulpits w ith a pastor who was a g ia n t in sta tu re . The pulpit was unusually high and was reached by a w inding stairw ay. He ascended very slowly and for some tim e disap peared from sight. A t length the congregation saw a little bald head i raised above the pulpit, so th a t only j the eyes w ere visible, while the preacher announced his te x t in a high, squeaking voice: “ I t is I ; be not a fra id .” handy and tak e it prom ptly. It helps overcome all Stomach, Liver and Bowel Ills, also pre vents M alaria, F ever and A^ue “DIDN’T HURT A BIT” it w hat they all say Constipation causes and seriously ag g rav ates m any diseases. I t is th o r oughly cured by Dr. P ierce’s Pellets. | Tiny sugar-coated granules. Painless Methods of H xtractin* Teeth. Today. Do not let us w a it to be ju st or p iti ful o r dem onstrative tow ard those we love until they o r we are struck down by illness........................L ife is short, and we have never too much tim e for gladdening the hearts of those who are trav e lin g the dark journey w ith us. Oh! be sw ift to love, m ake h aste to be kind!—Am iel. Played for Place. Harold and Mary (th e little girl next door) had been playing together in the yard. Suddenly Mary began to cry and said th a t Harold had h it her. H a r old was called into the house and asked why he had struck the little girl. “ W ell,” he answ ered, “ she h it me second. ’ ’ C alcu tta—The dem olition o f a por Similar. tion o f a mosque a t Cawnpore for Bacon—“ Huxley said th a t an oyster s tre e t im provem ents, which had is as complicated as a watch. ” E g caused indignation m eetings to be held b ert—“ Well, I know both of them run in m any p a rts of India and Burm ah, down e a sily .” led to serious rio tin g a t Cawnpore. A procession o f natives, carry in g black flags, v isited the mosqa* and began replacing the bricks of the p artly de m olished edifice. An a tte m p t, to dis perse the g a th e rin g resulted in *a con may be either a transient or per flict w ith the police, who fired s volley manent affliction, arising from into the crowd, killin g 13 persons and some error in diet or as a result w ounding 30. CONSTIPATION of constantly weak digestion. Tolls Act Not to Blame. For temporary a n d o b s tin a te c a s e s I-ondon—The Standard and Chron the b e s t re lie f is icle, in editorials Sunday m orning, w arm ly repudiated the idea th a t the Panam a canal tolls act had anything to do w ith G reat B rita in ’s decision not to p a rticip a te in the Panam a-Pacific exposition a t San Francisco. H OSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters OK. W. A. WISf. P n iw ier Mietei* O u t - « f - t o w n p ifv n le c a n h a v e t h e i r p l a t e a n d b rid g e - w o rk fin is h e d in o n e d a y if n e w iS H r y A n a b s o lu te g u a r a n te e . b a c k e d b y !» v o a r* in P o r t l a n d W ise Dental Co. orricc HOURS: 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. S u n d a y s 9 io 1 P h o n e s : A 202«»: M ain 2 0 2 9 . EalHng R id * .. T h ird a n d W a sh in g to n . P o r tla n d OUT O f TOWN PEOPLE can rec e ire n ro m p t tre a t ment* of Non-Pol annona. C. GEE WO th e Chineoe doctor. Try once m ore if yon have i-een doctoring with th is one and th a t on« and have not oht*ined per m an en t relief. I-et thin great n a tu re healer dia*- nnee yonr cane and preecril»« some remedy who*« action in quick, sure and oafe. Hi* prescription* a re compounded from Room. Herl>*. Rnda and Hark* th a t have been gathered from every qnar- t e r o f the alol*e. T h e *ecret* of these medicine# a re not known to th e outaide world, but have t een handed down from fa th e r to con in th e phycielane’ fainilie* in China. CONSULTATION F R E E . I f yon live out of town and cannot call, w rite for •yr.ip'om blank and circ u la r, cncioain* 4 cent« la ■tamp*. THE C. GEE WO CHINESE MEDICINE CO. 162J firs» S»„ Cor. Morrison P o r tla n d . O re g o n .