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Yet Town on Island of Tutuila, in
American Samoa, Io Worth Atten
tion of Touriste.
l'ago l’ago, on the Isliind of Tubs
Ila In American Samoa, would prob
ably lie an easy winner In competition
for the least known town of
under the American flag.
Most Americana never heard of l’ago
Pago; yet It lias an excellent harbor.
Is an ini|Mirtnut naval coaling Ktnttnn.
mid Is governed by American naval
officers.
The Island of Titillili Is one of six
little tropical ntols which constitute
American Samoa. They are all moun
tainous and are picturesque with their
Jungle-covered steeps and their great
palm groves sheltering little white na
tive towns.
These natives are n peculiarly at
tractive people, as any American
Jackie who Ims spent n while at l’ago
Pago will tell you. They are kindly,
hospitable, and fnll of fun. while some
of the women, especially the half-
castes. are really beautiful.
The fuvorite native diversion,
strangely enough. Is cricket, which was
taught the SamiMins by British mis
sionaries long ago. und has well nigh
supplanted all the really Indigenous
sports. But the Samoan has made of
cricket a thing after his own barbaric
heart. He plays with 40 or 50 men
on a side, so that a grand scrimmage
la Inevitable; he roots with tomtom
aud with Intense excitement : and the
winners always perform a “serpentine,”
which has all the characteristics of
a savuge war dance.
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HUGE CHICKEN SNAKE
now penetrating the atmosphere that
SATURDAY, JANI ARY 10, 1MU.
has surrounded the east, and directs
Swallowed a Copperhead That Carried
vision toward the land of the even
Many Little One*.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
ing sun. The following Is the edi
A sure enough snake story comes
♦
OREGON WEATHER
♦
from Buckusburg, Calloway county,
♦ torial comment of the Journal fol
♦
Kentucky, and Is reported by F. H.
lowing
the
Oregon-Harvard
game,
its
Tonight and Sunday, fair and ♦
Guler and non Dentils, whose record
♦
♦ continued cold with easterly ♦ caption being "Football and National for truth and veracity cannot be quet»-
♦ Unity;”
tioned.
♦ winds.
While the two men were suekering
“According to Mr. Kipling. East is tobacco one day their attention was at
TAKING AN ACCURATE CENSUS East and West is West, and never tracted by the'farnlly dog barking and
making a peculiar alarm. They went
It is no easy matter, this counting the twain shall meet; and that may to the dog and saw the anlniul grab
be true in the sense that he intended. a big snake and begin shaking It.
of the people of the United States,
In doing ao young snakes the slae
But the twain certainly met at Paea-
in the few days given for the aceom-
and
length of a lead pencil began to I
dent on New Year's Day, when Har
plishiuent of the task. Jt is almost vard played the University of Oregon scatter about him. The men examined TURN TO PRIVATE CURRENCY
the young reptiles and found them to
like trying to count a flock of sheep at football, and 35,000 spectators be copperheads, hut the snake which People of Siberia Satisfied With the
as it rushes pell mell through a lane, from all parts of the country flocked the dog attacked was a big chicken
Trade Checks That the Merchants
snake four feet long.
an impossible accomplishment unless to witness the match. ,
Have Issued.
They were not satisfied with this
the sheep will aid. The people must
Private trade-cheeks. Issued by firm«
"There have been many objections strange condition and on further ex-
aid those w ho are now doing duty as
amination they found that the chicken and wealthy Individuals. Imve largely
raised to long athletic Journeys of snake had swallowed a copperhead
replaced the national currency In Si
enumerators, else many errors will
the sort the Harvard team was com snake two and a half feet long, which beria. Tilt- ruble—In any form outside
find their way into the 1920 census
the metal disk—la too unstable to be
piled to take in order to compete in contained the little snakes.
to be carried through for ten years
Seven of the youngsters were found,
the Tournament of Roses. And pos hut there might have been more in the accounted of real value and the work
man who finds himself with pockets
before they can be corrected. Un
sibly an event of this sort does put lot that were scattered about when full of "Omsk” or “Kerensky” cur
fortunately, the directors of the cen
rency need hold no fear of being con
a disproportionate emphasis on un the dog began to shake the big one.
sus have not made as much effort to
sidered a plutocrat. For the ruble, up
dergraduate rivalry. But on the oth
to a few months ago worth Imlf a dol
ward informing the public in regard
BORN IN AUTO
er hand, it Is worth a good deal for
lar In exchange, has diminished to
to essential facts concerning the tak
somewhat less thnn four cents, face
, the people of the Atlantic seaboard to A Twin Soon Followed It and
ing of the census as might have been
value. True, the green paper variety
Added to Family.
get. through the medium of the
labeled “Kerensky” conuimnds a high
advisable. The enumerators had lit
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Ruthbun of er premium tlmn do the yellow-backed
I game and its attendant incidents a
tle time to become familiar with all
Grover. Pu., started the other day with
new glimpse of the Pacific Coast, and a neighbor on an automobile ride, bills of Omsk; true, again, the tender
the details of their exacting job. and
of the former Is worth more thnn
j for the Pacific Coast in return to When they returned home twins had either of the two aforementioned. But
now there must be the •beet of co
hear “Fair Harvard” sung to the ac been added to the family.
for all practical purposes the people
operation else the 1920 census will
The party had gone only a few mile«
companiment of a lusty band in the from home when the driver, who had of Vladivostok receive and demand
be a comedy of errors. We know
quite ns a mutter of course the quaint
Pasadena grandstand, to listen to the paid no attention to his friends In the slips Issued by their tradesmen. En
One
enumer-
errors are being made. Luc cuuwci-
cheers of the Crimson adherents and rear of the car. was asked to stop. terprise on the part of the merchants.
ator refused to record the son in a ,
Turning his head he was startled to It may be observed, keeps pace with
to be brought Into touch, if only for
find Rathbun holding a new bom the times; for example, one Vladivo
family where the young man had left '
a day. with the athletic and academic baby wrapped in one of the automo- stok restuuruteur Ims hail his ■ hecks
for school since the first of the year,
bile robe«. He drove to a farm house, made to reud : "American Grill. Two
life of the East.
his home still being maintained in
into which the mother and child were Rubles. Not Good for Ever."
"How much did the East know carried.
Grants Pass. He would certainly not j
Swordfish a Fathead.
Before an ambulance could tie called
be recorded In his school town, for about the University of Oregon be-
to take the woman home «he gave
It surely would l><- liupruiknl to nd-
I
fore
this
game
’
Perhaps
It
does
not
he did not arrive there in time. As
birth to a second child. The first twin dress that formidable creulure, the
the other extreme, another enumera- know very much now. The fact is was a boy and the second a girl.
swordfish as Fathead, yet the leriu
would be quite appropriate.
did not record the names of two that we have been very provincial
The head» of one hundred average
ladies, teachers in the local schools, in this part of the country, just as
PAYS FOR COOKIES
swordfi«h will yield slxty-flve gallons
making Grants Pass their home for the people In other parts have been.
of an oil lImt Ims high market value.
Conscience Stricken Person Sends »1 Refined and sun blenched, it Is indl«
many months past, the enumerator We know a good deal, here in New
After Many Years.
tlnguisliat’le from whale oil, and fetch
going on the theory that they would England, about Cam'bridge and New
About 24 years ago Louis .Michaels es the same price. In fact, commer
be recorded at the home they had Haven, but practically nothing of the drove a wagon for a candy company cially. It is whale oil.
Whale oil is obtained on n much
left many months ago. There are college towns of the Far West, or In Milwaukee, Among the wares he
sold were cookies, one day a boy stole larger scale from halibut heads, which
the
colleges
themselves.
two angles to a question, and cer
a handful of cookies from the wagon, nre treated in the same way as the
va» but Michaels thought no more of the swordfish bends—I. e.. cooked to n
"The University of Oregon
tainly both were not properly solved
by the enumerators. There are many founded In lR7fi. It Is a state insti prank until he received a letter In- pulp with steam nnd pressed. A short
closing $1.
ton of them will yield forty gallons of
problems of a like nature coming up, tution. with a student attendance of
That the mail had apparently be- oil. Boston and Gloucester (.Muss.)
and it will require careful watching 2.000. Eugpne, the seat of the uni come cunsclence stricken ns a result annually produce twelve thousand gnl
and the rendering of every possible versity. was settled in 1854 and at of religious studies Is Indicated by the Ions of rotim-fl whale oli troni halibut
iticlosure of pamphlets on theology and beads.
assistance on the part of the people the last census was the fourth city a copy of his letter:
Away biwk In the '70s soltielwely ill«
to guard against error. There is yet In size in the state.
I “Inclosed you will find a dollar bill covered that salinoli he»¿s were rich
"To most people in New England In payment of theft committed 24 years In oil, and since tlo-n the production
ample time for the correction of such
ago for a handful of cookies. of It Ims been n considerable Industry
'
these
facts are perhaps uninterest
errors as may have crept in to this
Jesus .says no thief, liar, deadbeat or in connection with the Pacific salmon
ing. A good many of us flatter our murderer of a person can get into the fishery, lh 1X95 rhe uuiiuul output
date.
selves that we care only for the kingdom of heaven unless he repents hud ri«»’h to fifty fhoiiHuiid guMoun.
for his sins.”
“FOOTBALL AND NATIONAL
things worth while,' and remote col
His Ide ltity.
UNITY”
lege towns do not come within that
see you hii ve a new professional
SECRET
JOBS
PAY
WELL
In town,” snld the picture en-
It is of record that a few cen 'category.
But at Eugene a great
f. who visited liie Iminlet suffi
turies ago wise men came "out of 'host of young Americans are being German Officers Getting Rich Driving
Garbage Wagons.
the east.” There is still argument prepared for their life work, as oth
Rather than enter a store or office
for belief that in more recent times ers are at Seattle, Portland, Berke
where they would receive only 400
it has been wisdom that has impel ley, Palo Alto, Los Angeles and Clare I marks n month, two German officers
led men to leave the east and find mont. And we are narrow-minded have become garbage wagon drivers In
Vienna. <'minting the tljia they receive
abiding place in the great west. But' I if w<- fail to develop a healthy inter from hmi- i'll,dders they get more than
it ds true that to the mass of the est in the higher edti’ation of that 1,000 tnnrks a month.
The nature of their work Is kept n
population in the east our beloved , j -ection of the country, even if it is
Canada’s Fuel Resources.
secret
from their old associates, while
west is a long, long distance away. ; 3,000 miles away.
The fuel resources of <ii(i!i<hi
I
the high [iilee enables them to mingle sltuiiled in tin- extreme > n«» and west
Not having crossed the continent/ "Every intersectional game like ¡ more or leas in aristocratic circlet.
ami the western part of Allu-rta; the
the intervening miles seem intermin-: the one at Pasadena on Thursday
lignite coals are situateli in |i. prov
Lovers
Blow
Themselves
to
Atom*.
able to these dwellers alon-i the \t- helps to strengthen our spirit of na
inces of Alberta amt SaskaIJ-ln-iviin.
Thirty five pounds of melonite, set but lying between the limits of these
lantic, and it takes something out of tional unity, to make us conscious off by a detonator, whs the means em
deposits Is a great stretch of terri
the ordinary to break down this’ that we are socially, industrially and ployed by Adrien Thumerel nnd his tory devoid ol coal .measure of eco
sense of distance. Such a happen politically bound to the people of the flam-< to end their lives at Chateau nomic vnluc. The I'J.noo square miles
Thi' i ry l-'rnnce. Thumerel was charged
ing as the Oregon-Harvard football i farthest states, and that, in spite of with lln- theft of some hams from of peat bogs an- situated In this area
game Is “out of the ordinary.” and i neighborhood prejudices and Inter stnr< - d< -fined for war prisoners. The
Refused to Make Money.
it has had its influence in breaking ests, what affects one part, of the explosion was heard for miles.
"Have we any currency left?" asked
the liolsl.evfst premier.
down the sense of isolation that has great republic affects every other.”
“Not enough to paper one snmll
made the easterner feel that the west
r-xHii," n pl <-d the minister of ilniince.
of his own country was as a foreign
with n bolshevistic snicker.
In His Line.
' Then we'd better print some more.”
land.
TnK DIAMOND BRA.M>.
A
f.Sdv of the House (1,1 th' 'I'll fur)—-
"Tlmt's wlmt I think, but the print
Ladle»! A»k your Dr aegis t for AX
From Providence, back in the New Tm ■•> glad you
A
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Diamond
RrandZAX
"tor.
er ri>fiisc to lift a hand until we pay
ZdAfi
1*111« II« Rrd »nd Gold rndalllc
boxes, sealed with Blue Riblion.
England state of Rhode ¡aland, there •tom»- uiK-vnccled guest« I live iirrl’ '-<1
them off In real money." Blrinmgliam
athrr Buy of your ▼
snd the butcher hn«n't turn’d up.
A« k for CUM'lfKA-Tm f
Age Hern hl.
comes to the Courier a copy of the Would you mind killin’-’ il roupie of
D BIUW) Pll.l.te, fov M
years known as Best, SMest, Alw»yx Re! labte
Journal of January 3rd. The Journ- ehlcken« for me?—I’l-nrs'iti's Weekly.
Mining bliinka—Courier office.
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