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THE NEWBERQ GRAPHIC, January I 9 . < 9 >i
LOOK
Thi r ; hV h* G L A S S E S
DRIVER ANTS.
CANTON’S EXECUTIONER.
LOYALTY OF DOGS.
T h a Ferocious Scavenger« of the J u n -
| I M of A frio a.
He Slieee Off a H u d With On« Blow
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of HI« Big Sward.
Devotion of a P a ir af Spaniel* to T h e ir
Young Maater.
The p u b lic' executioner of Can­
ton, China, takes pride in his office.
He knows nothing o f the electric
chair, co r the hangman’s noose, nor
the guillotine. The criminal con­
demned to death in the Celestial
empire gets short shrift.
Freauectlv he is one of s lot who
are lea to the place o f execution.
One o f them kneels down, ducking
his bead well forward. The execu­
tioner, who is armed with a two
handed double edged flat sword,
takes his place near him. The weap­
on is raised, descends, and the con­
demned man’s head falls. Then the
next steps up for the same summary
treatment.
A New York man who made a
trip around the world met and pho­
tographed the executioner o f Can­
ton.
“ I was ^oing about sightseeing in
Canton with an Australian friend
and A Chinese interpreter,” he said.
“ We had got into a sort o f court­
yard where there was a lot of pot­
tery piled up when the guide duck­
ed behind me.
“ 'W hat is the matter?* I asked
him.
“ T h a t tall man is the execution­
e r / replied the guide, motioning to­
ward a big Chinese who was ap­
proaching.
T looked him over with interest.
He was about three inches shorter
than my Australian friend, who was
six feet six inches, and his expres-
siou was o f great sternness. He
looked to be in the neighborhood o f
sixty. It was with difficulty that I
could get the guide to accost him.
“ He turned out to be quite affa­
ble and readily consented to get his
sword and pose for me. The weap­
on weighed between ten and twelve
pounds and had a razor edge. He
showed us how he did his work.
T h e guide asked him how many
heads he had chopped off and told
ns that he said 300,000. I think the
guide meant 30,000rwhich is a huge
number, but then there have been a
great many executions in Canton.
“ T>oes it ever take more than
one stroke?* I asked him through
the interpreter.
'T h e executioner smiled and
looked at his trusty blade.
„ “ "‘Oh, n o; only on e/ he replied,
'only one.’ ” — New York Sun.
The affectionate loyalty o f dogs
is always pleasant to read about,
even when, as in the instance re­
corded by Mr. Woodgate in the
“ Beiftiniscences o f an Old Sports­
man,” their devotion is a little an­
noying to the master. The story is
o f a pair of spaniels belonging to
Mr. Woodgate’s younger brother.
One day the spaniels accompanied
Gerald and Austin to bathe in the
“ New” pool, the only secluded part
o f the chain o f artificial lakes. The
younger boy, Austin, put on an old
straw hat in the water. It tore to
pieces.
After the bath they separated,
one going to a friend’ s house for
luncheon, the other going home.
Qerald was dressed first and start­
ed, the dogs following him. P res­
ently, observing that Austin was not
following, the spaniel* raced back to
hurry him up.
Meanwhile Austin had completed
dressing and had thrown his tatter­
ed straw hat into the pool, jumped
the mill “ lead” where it was narrow
and ao departed.
The dogs sought for him. The
jump over the “ lead” apparently
foiled the scen t The tattered hat
floated visibly in the pool and seem­
ed to tell a tale o f disaster. The
dqgs plunged in. The hat bad no
one under i t They dived and quest­
ed in vain.
Hours passed and forgemen ob­
served them there at work, and
when forge hours were over rumor
reached the village that drags were
needed in “ New” pool to find the
remains o f Master Austin Wood-
gate, whose straw hat was floating
there and the rectory spaniels
swimming round i t
Gerald went and tried to call the
dogs off. They declined to come.
In such an emergency it was no
longer, in their opinion, a matter of
semores priores.
They stock to
their quest.
There was nothing to be done hut
to. send up Austin to fetch them.
As soon as they were satisfied that
he was no ghost they came home
complacently to their supper.
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White ants in Africa are exceed­
ingly voracious. What looks like a
sturdy fallen tree proves to be only
a mere shell. It has been eaten out
by white ants.
The driver ants are the scaven­
gers of the Jungle. Unlike the
white ants, they eat only fatty mat­
ter. I had brood after brood o f wild
chickens eaten by these tiny insects.
They hsve been known to sting to
death both natives and white men
and to pick their bones as clean as
A . E . W ILSO N , die Jeweler any vulture or jackal. Woe to the
man who awakens not at their first
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ating! He never wakens again.
These ants travel in colonies
amounting to millions. It takes
days ‘ for a colony to pass s given
point. They travel very quickly
and always hsve an objective point.
They hsve generals, captains and
guards, and their march is very
businesslike and intelligent. They
No Emperor—either o f a
dig ditches and build bridges and
People er e f Finance—can
tunnels. They make straight for
their goal— a dead animal, some
buy better food than we
palm oil nuts, a chicken house or
sell you, at prices you usu­
sleeping human beings. Every time
they entered my bungalow I had to
ally pay for good things.
move out, for they never leave until
they devour every bit o f fatty mat­
ter. Their sting is frightful, hut
after they have1 gone the house or
part o f the jungle visited by them is
thoroughly and sanitarily cleansed.
Dangerous as they are to men and
animals, they have their uses.
There is only one effective way to
fight them and to turn them aside.
That is by fire. Their line of march
Is broken up by torches o f flaming
bamboo. The work is tedious. The
little red-brown creatures turn
away helter skelter, only to line up
and resume'..their march as though
Give 11« • chance at that
nothing had happened. They re­
new home. W e would like
turn again and again, and unless the
to put In thoae Bath Fix­
fire is there to check them they suc­
tures, E tc., and do your
ceed in making their intended raid.
plumbing.
One night I was turned out five dif­
ferent times by the persistent crea­
tures, although each time the na­
L E T US FIGURE W ITH YOU.
tives announced that they had suc­
ceeded in diverting their line of
march. Finally so much fire had
to be employed that.the frail bam­
boo walls o f my bungalow were in
danger. Just as the cry o f myriads
o f partridges announced the coming
o f the day the ants were completely
routed. But I had lost an entire
The Jeweler
night’s sleep, was scared half to
death and besieged with the chills
and fever of malaria. I had to
crowd on more quinine, envelop
myself in blankets and drink hot
lemonade, although the tempera­
ture was at least 125 degrees F.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Groceries
J„ L. VanBlaricom
Plumbing!
Bf L. EVANS
C. A. MORRIS
K rap an, a G raat Oxen Raoa.
Blaok Bord«r«d Paper.
Black edged note paper for
mourning has one peculiarity in
these days, when machinery does or
is supposed td do everything' better
than the human hand. The black
border, whether deep or narrow, is
inked' dn to each sheet o f paper sep­
arately and by hand, for, said a
stationer, no machine has been in­
vented to give a satisfactory edging
o f black to writing paper. The work
is consequently all done by girls. A
piece o f cardboard is placed on the
paper, which it covers save fo r s
narrow border all around. A brush
laden with black ink is run along
the edges o f the guide card, and the
sheet o f paper receives its mourn­
ing border. It is a cumbersome
process to describe, but to see.it is
to marvel at the speed and unerring
accuracy o f the workers.— London
Chronicle.
Near the eastern end o f Java is a
small island called Madura, the in­
habitants of which are much ad­
dicted to sport. Every year they
hold a great race for oxen known as
the “ Krapen,” which is looked for­
For Diamonds, Watches, Clocks ward to with the utmost excite­
ment. as a great deal o f money
and Jewelry
changes hands over the result. The
• e e e e * « e e * « e * * e e e e e e e e e e e d oxen used are magnificent beasts
and are decorated in a very striking
fashion. The driver sits on a small
piece o f plank and from this lowly
and precarious position guides and
encourages his steeds. At a given
signal the great brutes leap for­
P«ol«d Th«m.
ward, racing for all they are worth
A
late
party
was being held, and
and traveling a good deal faster
than one would expect. The victo­ as it was a splendid night the cab­
rious driver receives a handsome bies waiting for fares did not ex­
sum o f money, and huge crowds al­ pect to get many. One o f the vet­
ways assemble to witness the con­ eran cabmen, however, was struck
with a brilliant idea. He obtained a
test.— Wide World Magazine.
couple o f buckets o f water, which
h« carefully upset over the pave­
Tha Symbol SpoooK.
ment
in front o f the hall. Then he
Visible speech is the name given
took
up
a position near the door,
to a system of symbols designed to
C o r. F irs t an d G r a n t S ts .
represent all the articulate sounds holding a borrowed umbrella, which
Phone: Replace 5 - 15-1
possible of production by the hu­ he had also carefully wetted. That
Office phone Black 93
man voice. It was invented by Al­ fixed things up beautifully. As soon
exander Melville Bell and first pub­ as the visitors reached the door
lished by him in 1867. According there was a scramble for cabs, and
to Bell, fifty of these symbols are every cabby present got a job.—
E. A E L L IS
sufficient to represent the sounds o f London Tit-Bits.
I P, ELLIOTT
Dealer in
Wood Goal, and
Feed
Cash with order or
delivered 0. O. D.
all languages. The alphabetic char­
acters composing Bell’s system,
thirty o f which are called radical,
Septic tanka built after the
latest approved methods.
are to a certain extent pictorial rep­
resentations o f the organs that pro­
Sewer and Tile Work. Well Digging
duce
the sounds. Curves are used to
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represent consonants, and straight
Yamhill County Abstract'Co. lines are made the basis of vowel
representation, and by this means a
J. H. GIBSON, Mgr.
complete alphabet has been con­
structed.— New York American.
The only Abstract Books in
G e n e ra l C o n tra c to r
Yamhill County
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Tha Uee of Hats.
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CH ASE & LINTON
G R A V E L COM PANY
All kinds o f gravel for con­
crete work, cement blocks,
or wood work furnished on
short notice. Leave orders
at the office o f R. B. Linn-
ville.
Until quite modern times men
usually went bareheaded except
when on long journeys from home.
It was not until after the Norman
conquest that hats began to be used
in England. During the middle ages
the nobles wore headgear of various
sorts, hut the rank and file of the
people, except upon certain rare
occasions, had no other covering for
their heads than the hsir that was
on them. The baldness that is so
common in modern times is owing
to the hst wearing habit, s condi­
tion from which tn« ancients were
largely free.
Thaorroe About Drowned Bodies.
A Remarkable Cloak.
Japan possesses a remarkable
timepiece. It is contained in a
frame three feet wide and five feet
long, representing a noonday land­
scape o f great beauty. In the fore-
ground plum and cherry trees and
rice plants appear in full bloom. In
the rear is seen a hill, gradual in
ascent, from which apparently flows
a cascade, admirably imitated in
crystal. lYom this point a thread­
like stream meanders, encircling
rocks and islands in its windings
and finally losing itself in a faroff
stretch o f woodbind. In a minia­
ture sky a golden snn turns on a
silver wire, striking the hours on
silver gongs as' it passes. Tach hour
is marked on the frame by a creep­
ing tortoise, which serves the place
of a hand. A bird of exquisite
plumage warbles at the close of
each hour, and as the song ceases a
mouse sallies forth from a neigh­
boring grotto and, scampering over
the hill to the garden, is soon lost
to view.
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Post Cards and Post Card
• Albums
Ours is the store recognized as carrying the largest and
most complete line o f Post Cards. Remember we make a
specialty o f the 1 cent cards.
FANCY C H IN A
Before buying your Fancy China we ask your careful in­
spection o f our line. Assortment the largest, Prices the
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W e have in stock a complete line of Furniture,
Paint, W all Paper, Picture Moulding, Glass,
Heaters and Ranges. W e are always pleased to
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T h a F irs t Portarhousa Steak.
The first porterhouse steak was
so named in New York city in the
famous old tavern o f Martin Morri­
son at 327 Pearl street. This was a
favorite resort o f seafaring men. A
steak being called for by an old pi­
lot one night, Morrison said that he
had no steaks, but would cut and
broil for him a thick slice from the
sirloin which had just been pre­
pared for roasting the next day.
Morrison’s place was known as the
Porter House in the neighborhood,
and its frequenters soon got to talk­
ing about the Porter House steaks.
Morrison finally told Gibbons, his
butcher in the Fly market, to cut up
sirloins for him thereafter.
H O U SE C LEA N IN G IS MADE
EASY
W h en you get the
YAM H ILL ELECTRIC CO.
to clean your Carpets, R u gs, Portiers, U phol­
stery and W alls w ith their E L E C T R IC V A C U ­
U M C L E A N E R . See them for rates.
Whara Ha 8hould Hava Bean.
London's Big Ban.
The Rev. Mr. W. was remarkable
for his ready wit. On one occasion
while traveling on a steamboat a
well known sharper, who wished to
get into the clergyman’s good
graces, said:
“ I should like very much to hear
one o f your sermons.”
“ Well,” said the clergyman, “ you
could have heard me last Sunday
if yon had been where you should
have been.’
“ Where was that, pray ?”
"In the county jail,” answered
the bluff clergyman as he walked
away.— London Tit-Bits.
Big Ben, the famous London bell
which strikes a discordant tune, de­
rives its name from Sir Benjamin
Hall, who was first commissioner of
workB at the time the bell was cast.
It weigh* thirteen tons and on a
calm day floods London with a
wave o f sound. Discordant or melo­
dious, however, Big Ben. will al­
ways remain the standard time­
keeper fo r Londoners, who regulate
their watches by it.
Shortly before Napoleon III. ap­
propriated the vacant throne of
France he one day asked a great
lady to explain the difference be­
tween “ an accident” an4 “ a ifiisfor-
tune.”
" I f ,” she said, "you were to fall
into the Seine, that would be an ac­
cident; if they pulled you out again,
that would be a misfortune.”
It was a popular theory in days
gone by that the body o f a drowned
man would float the ninth day. Sir
Thomas Browne alludes to it as be­
lieved in his time, and in his “ PseU-
do-doxia Epidemics” there is a dis­
cussion on this fanciful notion. It
was also believed that the spirits of
those drowned at sea were doomed
to wander for a. hundred years ow­
ing to the rites o f burial having
never been properly bestowed upon
their bodies.— London Notes and
Queries.
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