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.... I—<r THE NEWBEKG GRAPHIC, February 9 , I91! BCCN’S LICK ROAD. Tka Famous Highway Was tha Father of tha Santa Fa Trail. j i SEASICK ON LAN D . S O U T H EY ’S G U ILLO T IN E . ——T---- A Fast Locomotive Did For Him What .4 Did Not Sarva tha Purpoao Far Which It Waa Made. a Ship Couldn’t Do. The most famous iuylnvuv in .he “ This world hands out 6ome fun- central vest was the Boon's Lick nv things,” said a former “ patriot** Tnud. Ah Keyed in 1 S i5 from St. , who served his country in Cffba and Charles, twenty-five miles west of the Philippines during the war with St. Louis, to Old Franklin, Mo., 150 Spain. “ 1 was thinking about my miles farther west, it turned immi- trip from the islands when my time gration toward central Missouri expired,” ho went on. “ The trans- and six years later brought Mis- port encountered some rough souri into the L’ nion as a state. weather, and nearly every one on I t was the road that made Mis- i board was seasick, but not I. souri, says the World Today. It When 1 arrived at San Francis was the father of the Santa Fe co I was fortunate enough to meet trail, which, extending west from friends, and we journeyed home to Old Frankfln, brought commerce gether. A fter we bad crossed the w d immigration to Kansas, Colo- mountains it was suggested to me rado and New Mexico. The making that I *might like to try a ride on o f roads means the building of com the engine. I had been telling some monwealths. The Boon’s Lick road of my experiences, and as one of is a notable though almost forgot the party was a railroad official it ten example. was arranged that I should ride In 1804 two sons of Daniel with the engineer from Topeka, Boone, the great pioneer of the, Kan., into Kansas City. west, Daniel and Nathan Boone, “ I t was several hours after dark made salt at salt springs found in when I mounted the engine cab, central Missouri. The country was which seemed miles above the then a wilderness. The Boones and earth. The engineer was a pleasant their companions were the only chap, but one of few words. He white men in the territory west of motioned me to a seat behind him St. Charles. They boiled the spring where I could look ahead. As water in huge iron kettles, and the l i f t Topeka and swung into the crude salt which formed the residue country the big electric headlight they floated in hollow logs down the cut a wide path through the dark Missouri river to be sold at the ness, lighting the rails far ahead. French village of St. Louis. Suddenly the raffs disappeared, and Deer had come to the salt springs I gasped in horror as we tore for to lick the salt. The place in west ward toward a place where there ern pioneer slang was a “ lick” and seemed to be no track. I wanted to because the Boones there manufac yell in terror, but I couldn’t. tured salt the locality was named “ Then the big wheels of the en Boon’s Lick, The Boones spelled gine struck a curve, and as we their name indifferently with or swung around it the cab tipped at without the- final “ e.” a perilous angle. As we righted Two . years later a settlement of ourselves and rushed onward I be- HP ®**j$*“ speaking men and women „gan to notice the swav of the iron ■ r na » . . i.., 1 1 n U n T « — 1 - n, l 1 1,1 , . was made near . Boon’s Lick, and horse, and the sensation was not a shortly afterward The town of Old pleasant one. I t rocked from side Franklin, twelve miles distant, u ipon to side in a fashion far worse than the Missouri river, was foun ded. the pitching and rolling o f a trans Then arose the necessity for a high port, and it was not long before I way between Old Franklin and St. was suffering from a genuine case Louis and St. Charles, the large cit of seasickness, with more than a ies of the new west, each with sev thousand miles between me and salt eral thousand inhabitants. The water. The train was a through one Boon’s Lick road was the result. and made few stope, and I had to I t was not much o f a road as sit in that cab, clinging weakly to a roads go now. I t was not macad stanchion as we rushed through' the amized or paved or graveled. In night at a speed o f sixty miles an deed, it was little better in its early hour until we reached some town days than a mere “ trace” or hint of important enough to halt our prog the road’s direction. ress. I never learned the name of The two Boones, with surveying the place, but i f ever I get rich I parties, ran a line that followed the shall hunt it up and endow a li ridge or watershed between the brary.” — Chicago News. Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The smaller streams were forded. A Naw Naval M m iic h On the large rivers were primitive During the summer o f 1907 the ferryboats, hollow log canoes locked German armored cruiser Bremen together. There were no bridges. visited Montreal, remaining a week The signposts were the blazes or or two, and many citizens took ad marks cut in the forest trees along vantage o f the opportunity to see the roadway. The road machinery what this sample o f Germany’s sea consisted of a rifle, an ax and a going fighting machinery looked grubbing hoe. Among them was one o f Canada’s Waiter's Idios/iterasy. budding civil engineers with a com “ I f madame would like s special panion. They were particularly im dish that is especially good I would pressed by the massive and wicked recommend venison stew with looking solid steel ram that project noodles,” said the waiter. ed from the bow, coming to a point Madame said very well, she would just at the water line. try venison stew with noodles. They stood staring fo r some mo “ Why,” said the man, “ you hate ments at this terrible beak, one of noodles.” them pacing off ou the wharf the “ I know,” she sighed, “ hut I I length of the ram. Then as they would rather eat something I hate i sauntered away the young engineer than to make that waiter hate me. voiced his pent-up feelings, “ My, I expect to eat here again, often. that would tear a fellow’s pants, Maybe he will wait on me. I can’t wouldn’t it? ” afford to make him hate me. But he would hate me if I should de Tw o Groat 8oldiors. cline venison stew with noodles. Lack of petty jealousy is one of That is the way of waiters. They the distinguishing marks of the always hate people who refuse dish great. T o be entirely frank in the es they recommend, and every appreciation of a rival is better than chance they get they take revenge.” to win a battle. Lee and Jackson, — New York Press. the two great generals of the south during the civil war, were absolute Got His Answor. ly free from even a trace o f rivalry. Born in China and edneated at Theodore A. Dodge quotes a re Yale, the editor of the Chinese mark from each in his article on World of San Franciaco was long Chancellors ville. known as a wit and humorist as well “ He is the only man I would fol as a wise man. He dressed as an low blindfolded,” said Jackson of American. One day a drummer Lee. came to him with the expectation When General Lee heard of Jack o f selling a certain grade of paper. son’s wound he exclaimed: Thinking to be smart, the drummer “ He has lost his left arm, but I began his conversation by aslrini have lost my right!” the impudent question, “ What kirn o f a ’nese are you— a Japanese or a Part of tho TalonL Chinese?” A church,once gave a charity con The editor smiled kindly and cert where the best talent volun bowed with great courtesy as he re teered— the city’s leading singers, plied, “ First please inform me what elocutionists and actors. A t the kind of key you are— a Yankee, a end of the concert the chairman monkey or just a plain donkey?” —■> went up to the organ loft and said New York Tribune. to the little boy in patched clothes who had blown the organ: Statesmen In Thsir Cups. “ Well, Freddie, what do we owe The deep drinking which was a you for your work this evening ?” social custom in the time of the The little boy looked at the chair younger Pitt had its influence oc man in genuine astonishment. casionally on the minister, whose “ Why, sir,” he said, “ didn’t the habit it was to indulge liberally with rest of the talent give their serv his friends when free from the oc ices v* cupations of state. An epigram of ' Tha Beautiful. the time gave the following- dia I am of opinion that there is logue between Pitt and his col league and boon companion, Henry nothing so beautiful but that there Dundas, afterward Viscount Mel is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and ville: P itt— I cannot see the speaker, expression— a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, Hal. Can you? Dundas— Not see the speaker, the ears nor any of the senses; we Billy? I see two!— “ Anecdotal H is comprehend it merely in the imagi nation.— Cicero. tory of Parliament.” . Ft i Lord Southey once in a fit*of dis gust with life had a magnificent guillotine erected in the drawing room of his magnificently appoint ed house in the Rue de Luxem • bourg, at Paris. The machine waa an elaborate affair, with ebony up rights inlaid with gold and silver. The framework was carved with great artistic skill, and the knife, of immense yveight and falling at the touch of a spring, was of ornamen tal steel, polished and as sharp aa a razor. The spring which liberated the knife was placed within easy reach of any one kneeling upon the Bcaf- fold. In fact, every detail was ar ranged with a view to the conven ience of the would be suicide. The day that the engine of death was entirely finished Lord Southey com pleted his testamentary disposi tions, shaved, had his hair cut and, clothed in a robe of white silk, knelt upon the platform under the knife. The guillotine was placed before a large mirror, wherein the person committing suicide could see his J . L H O S K I N S , P ra u d e a t J. C COLCORD, Cemhier own image until the last. Murmur S . U P A R K E T T , V ic e P r c L W. E. CROZER, A m L Cedi. ing a short prayer, Lord Southey placed his head in the semicircle and pressed the spring. The next morning he was found calmly sleeping in his bed. The spring had failed to work, and after C O LO R B LIN D N ES S . several fruitless efforts Lord South rufger lot 7 Hobson’s Eruitland ey waa compelled to relinquish his Huaa of tha Rainbow That Are Invla- subd $1. attempt upon his life. Thoroughly ible to tho Eye. Maud K c I sq & hub to Bert & T h e hom e o f G. W . W orden cured of his spleen, he presented “ I f we look at a rainbow or the Edith Hoyt 40 acres sec 33 t 2 r the guillotine to the Glasgow mu w aa made happy on M o n d a y by aolar spectrum produced by a prism seum, whence he made an annu&l 5$1600. we, see the waves arranged in a reg the a r riv a l ot a little daughter. pilgrimage to see it until the end Ellen M Massey (by Shrf) to J ular series— red, orange, yellow, G randpa K eyes has returned of his life. green, blue and violet. W r-also from an extended v is it w ith his A Young nwVi of swVi sec 14 t 2 know that there are larger waves r 4 $4.48. Tha Pumpkin. children in Salem. below the red and smaller waves Minnie & Ira J Millard (by Despite the fact that the pump M r. and M rs. Austed, o f P o r t kin in all its forms has found its above the violet, but these are in shrf) to John Whalen lot 11 blk fullest meed of popular apprecia visible to the eye. Persons possess land, were Sunday guests a t Ot- 5 Bibee’s addition Sheridan tion in the United'•States, it is by ing very acute color perception can terbrook . $327.96. no means certain that the plant had recognize seven colors in the spec D on ’t fo r g e t the d a y m eeting Edith M McMahan & hub to J its first home on this continent. trum,” aaya a writer in the Strand o f the W. C. T . TJ. a t the church B Rogers Jr. all int in 120 ac in Some authorities claim that it did Magazine, “ but I have never met and produce evidence to show that a person who could see more than this com in g F rid a y , F eb ru ary 10. J R W alling d 1 c see 23 tp 5 r 4 P rof. J. P . P o w e ll visited in w $600. the aborigines of North America that number. Therefore, though planted it among their maize. Oth there are really millions o f waves, M cM in n ville a fe w days la st M J Mash to R Nelson small ers contend that it is of Asiatic each differing, we can see only six week. tract in Hopewell Or Sec 32-5-3 origin, and still others point out or at moat seven definite points of $500. difference. M r. and M rs. Renzan m ade a that pumpkins have been cultivat “ Since below ^the red and above business tr ip t o P o rtla n d la st Rudolph Nelson & w f to A C ed either as a curiosity or as an ar the violet there are other waves o f W ednesday. ticle of food in England since the M ay Belle Gibson tw o small year 1570. Even today we have a similar character, but invisible, A v e ry p leasant d a n cin g‘p a r ty tracts in Hopewell, Oregon, sec not a monopoly of pumpkin culture. we should expect that people would 32 tp 5 r 3 w $2000. The orange hned orbs of joy are differ aa to the points where they w aa held a t G ro th ’ s hall last Jerry Obyan & w f to Arthur N first recognized color, just aa they S a tu rd a y evening. grown in various European coun differ in their ability to recognise Maynard neVi ex roadw ay sec tries, notably in France, where the W . J. G ord on w e n t t o P o rtla n d market gardeners in the vicinity of very low and very high notes. 25-2-3 $640. “ This is the case. While one on bnsiness la st Tuesday. Paris go to the trouble of sowing William Osborne to F R Dan- M rs. W i l l i a m W i l s o n and their pumpkin seeds in A pril in a person will aee the whole of the red nahover 4-5 interest in sw% of hotbea under glass and nurture (or the violet) in the rainbow, an d au gh ter, A lid a, are v is itin g in sw (41.76 ac) 397 ac in sec them carefully until they are trans other will aee only half of it, the re P o rtla n d . tions 24 and 25 tp 4 r 6 w $10. planted in May.— Christian Herald. mainder being totally invisible. In T h e seventh b irth d ay oi Pauline other cases the visible spectrum Herbert V Perry to Merchants commences at the orange. A per P o w e ll and the filth o f h er little National Bank of Portland nV4 _____ Greatly Changed. —— “ In a little town where it is still son o f this kind will look at a red cousin, Sal one W oisk y, w ere cele sec 36-4-8 $1. the custom for the residents to at light which is aimplv blinding in b rated on W ednesday the first o f H F Baird et al to R F Shier tend the funerals of those whom its intensity and declare that the F eb ru a ry a t the hom e o f Alfred nwVi of nwVi (40 acres) sec 5-3- they may have seen only a few times room is absolutely dark. “ T h e second class of the color W o is k y . T h e tw e lv e little foiks 2 $ 1 . in their lives, regarding the event i a sort of social function, the un blind are those who aee five or leas present spent a m erry afternoon Ira C Barber & w f to Ehren- dertaker was somewhat puzzled at colors in the Spectrum instead of and enjoyed the d a in ty l it t le ” tea rich Syendson e% of swV4 sec 27 the actions of one woman, who six. In the first degree of color p a r ty ” a t its close. Pauline and 6 eV4 of nw sec 34 t 5 r 9 (160 gazed in the coffin, shook her head blindness fire instead of six distinct Salone received several useful acres) $1000. sadly and returned to her seat, say colon are seen, .orange having dis g ifts besides the sh ow er o f p re tty Geo R Barringer & w f to Wil ing, “ How changed!” only to re appeared aa a definite color. In the next degree only four colon p ost cards th a t the d a y ’ s m ail liams Hoaglin lot 7 Hobson’s peat the process several times. A fter this had been gone through are seen, blue being no longer rec held fo r them. Fruit Land snbd & .687 of an three or four times the undertaker ognized aa a distinct color. Per- . acre in M Hall d 1 c t 2 r 3 $800. realized what was the trouble and, sons included in the above two de- j Joseph Bixby w ft o J o h n P stepping up to the caller, said: grees may for all practical purposes & Mary Eberhard 45x79Vjft blk be regarded aa normal sighted. “ Madam, I think you must have ’ “ In the next degree three colon made a mistake. This is John Saw- Lucius G S tafford & w f t o Fred 20 Hurley and Larges add New- er that we are burying from here. only are seen. Yellow is not recog & Effie L y m a n 70 ac in D B berg $1200. [aria Brown’s funeral is being held nized as a definite color. It ia call R L Rice to Johhn Walen lot 7 M a th en y d 1 c t p 5 r 3 w $3850. from a house on the next block.” — ed greenish red. A penon betongu Sheridan Sm ith Stephens & w f t o W al- blk Original town ing to this class of the color blind New York Press. $ 2000 . told me that a red clover field in nut H ill W a ln u t H ill p lat Always tbs Orator. full blossom had to him an exactly William Andrews & wf to R o b e rt H S tro n g & w f t o G D The following is told of a federal similar appearance to the yellow of C a rter 43.02 ac in eVa of seVi sec James A & Emily B Clarke 90x official, formerly a senator of the the spectrum. 100 feet block 2 Original town 34 tp 5 s r 7 W est $10. United States from Kentucky. In “ The green disappean in the McMinnville $1850. Jessie T h n rb o r & h u s b t o L lo y d , the days of his youth the Kentuck next degree, only two colors being William H Arnold wf to J D ian was asked by a friend to second seen in the spectrum, or rainbow. G entry 6% ac in W m Branson d him in a dnel. He consented, and Lees and less difference is seen be 1 c sec 1 tp 6 r 7 w est $1. Morris lot No 1 (1 acre) sec 6-3- at sunrise the parties met at the ap tween any part of the spectrum in . S P T im b erlak e e t al t R F 4 $125. pointed place. Now, it was this Ken- increasing degrees of color blind C W Byers & w f to C W Corby Shier nw *4 of nwVi (4 0 a c ) sec 5- tnckian’s duty to say the last word ness until only the ends o f the spec lot 21 Chehalem Orchard homes 3-2 $1. touching the terms of the duel. trum are recognized as being differ tp 3 r 3 $10. G eorge Vincent & w f to James But, although he faithfully per ent. Finally the spectrum appears Phillips Case to William Dent formed this duty, the duel never one uniform color, the individual W halen & John W halen 39.97 ac took place. being totally color blind.” acre in M Matheny d 1 c tp 5 in sections 4 / k 5 t p 5 r 6 w $10. A murmur of “ Why not?” inva M a r g a r e t E Vessey to F H r 3 $175. Gone Before. riably 'goes round whenever this C W Corby & w f to R F Shier A detective boarded a train, and M ou ld in g s.16 ac o f eV6 of nVi of story is told, whereupon the answer just before the train started a sol neVi and rig h t o f w a y section 26 lot 21 Chehalem Orchard homes is as follows: 3-3 $1. “ For a very simple reason. When emn looking man got in. The de tp 2 r 4 $1500. Joe finished speaking it was too tective was in pursuit of a crimi- R C Crosby & wf to George E I M & E C W a rd to Ross & n.il who had traveled by a previous B ertha F a rr 1.19 ac in Joseph Waggoner lot 9 blk 26 Dundee dark for a duel.” — Harper’s. train, and he took out a photo Q R o g ers d 1 c tp 3 r 2 w $1800. $50. Tha Lambkin«’ Chiaf Charm. graph of the fugitive and studied it L D Dunzan to J I & Myrtle H M W illiam s et al t o R F One fine day in spring Sir Wal intently. This attracted the atten ter Scott strolled forth with Lady tion o f the solemn man, who pres Shier nw V i o f nwVi ( 4 0 ac) sec 5 Gilbert 30 ac in Wm Buffum d i e Scott to enjoy a, walk around A b ently observed: sec 27 tp 5 s r 4 w $1200., t p 3 r 2 $1. “ You have perchance lost a dear botsford. In their wandering they James C Duncan to Nettie P S S Wilkins & w l to-John passed a field where a number of friend?” Whalen lo t 11 blk 5 Bibee’s add Sbofield sVfc lots 13-14-15 and “ Dear? Yea; very dear, indeed,” ewes were enduring the frolics of balance of lots 10-11-12 except Sheridan j$1000. their lambs. “ Ah,” exclaimed Sir answered the detective. E lm ira S W o o d et al to John E 100 ft from River st blk 55 Ed “ Take comfort; he has but gone Walter, “ ’tis no wonder that poets from the earliest ages have made before,” continued the solemn man, R ogers Jr 120 ac in John R W a ll wards add $300. Jared Emmeraon to Josephine the lamb the emblem of peace and who was not a little shocked when in g d I c » e c 2 3 t 5 r 4 w $1200. Thoads 5 ac sec 31 t 5 r3 $900. innocence.” “ They are, indeed, de be got for a reply: John W o rtm an (tru stee) to “ Yea, bang him, and got three lightful animals,” returned Lady J W Fletcher & w f to Francis boors’ start of me, but I ’ll follow Charles S Jones 29.44 ac in John A Fletcher 12.41 ac in lots 15-16 Scott, “ especially with mint sauce. him, ¿van if it takes ma to Hong- H B erry d 1 c tp 4 r 6 w $441.60. in J W Fletcher’s 1st addition —" A Century of Anecdotea.” Jessie H ob son t o G eorge R Bar- Dayton $2500. Iron*!” — London Tit-Bits. Untied States Tfati'onai ¡Sank ===== OF NEW BERG = = = = = = = = = = = Paid Up Capital $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 Surplus &. profits $ 1 4 ,0 0 0 Resources 4 0 0 ,0 0 0 Banking in all its branches. Interest paid on Time Deposits. Safety Deposit boxes for rent Accounts of firms and individuals solicited. 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