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THE NEWBERG QRAPHIC, February 33, lpt1 OLD ROMAN EPITAPHS. 6dm * Curiouk Inscription* Noted the Anciont Tombs. HUGGED THE SKELETON. Ml }• “ AS CRAZY AS A LOON."' THE BU R N E Y S T O N E D Cerkoniant Sosm to Hava a Goad Rea- aon For Not Kissing It. Old Phr*a* 8**mingly Not • Lib*l on That Eccorttric Bird. * A wife’s inscription on her “ sweet A picturesque account o f the in- j The best known trip from Cork is I usbamlV' tomb: “ l put this tomb spiration sought by Chopin for the the one to the blarney stone, which under the protection of l ’luto and composition o f his famous funeral you will find at the very top o f the o f all the infernal gods, who are march, afterward inserted in his 180 foot castle nine miles out from looking after i t If a mortal dam piano sonata in B fiat minor, is told Cork. A fine old castle it is, too, ages it, opens it or carries away by the venerable painter, M. Ziem, once a stronghold o f the McCar- thys. The country all about it is something from it 1 wish that he in the Annales. M. Ziem, who is now aged ninety, beautiful, notably on the way out, may not find soil to walk on nor sea to navigate in and that all his race relates that when little more than a around the pretty St. Anne Shan* be destroyed, and on him fall all the boy, after a dinner party in a don church, where for a sixpence or maladies and evils that can "fall on friend’s studio, he had the idea, in a shilling to the sexton you can hear man or beast. Who dares to pro-i j i fit o f high spirits, to bring from again fane this tomb must fear the wrath a cupboard a skeleton. The Prince The bells o f Shandon that sound so armad on de Polignac, who was o f the party, The pleasant o f the gods.” waters o f the river Lem On'the tomb o f one Mr. Emilius: insisted on placing the skeleton on Now, to kiss the blarney stone “ This tomb has been prepared foi a music stool and guiding the bones you should be o f a thin, wiry build. myself, my brother and my wife; o f the fingers over the keys o f the Stout people find some difficulty be- fo r all my freed men, their women piano. This was in the romantic ! cause o f the bending required, and children, except Hermetes, to thirties, and the savor o f the exploit which is why one well known pastor whom, owing to his bad life, tht was much appreciated. over in South Boston admitted to Not long after Chopin called on entrance to this place is strictly for his congregation that the best he M. Ziem to seek respite after an ap bidden.” could do was to put the handle of One epitaph informs us that the palling night passed in a struggle his umbrella to the stone and then I’V. man buried behind it “ died poor be with ghosts that had stroked him, k™ Uw umbreU*- T ou ,hould * " * cause during his whole life he had twined round him and .ought to remove your coat and jacket and entice him to the underworld. The been very dissolute.” anything that is likely to fall from On a woman’s tom b: “ I f a per recital o f his nightmares recalled to your pockets when you are held up fect woman ever existed I am that M. Ziem the piano performance by side down (women seldom attempt one, fo r I was honest and virtuous, the skeleton and the Prince de Po the feat), because if you do not they but fate has- not rewarded me. lignac. will drop down to the-.moat below. Chopin shuddered; then he asked, Alas, I am unhappy because I rest And be careful o f your movements, far from my mother and my hus “ Have you a skeleton?” M. Ziem fo r they will show you even now the band. They did not love me, but had not, but promised to obtain one tree that broke the fall (and the my children did, and they also think that very evening. head) o f the last man who slipped. “ Then,” he goes on, “ what had much o f me.” I f you should fall, of course it Over a lady killed by robbers who been only a frolic became some means death. sought her jew els: “ If you love thing grand, agonizing, terrible. Two fellow tourists will grab you your wife do not make her many Pale, his eyes burning with fever, by your ankles; then you will sit presents, especially in gold. Give Chopin wrapped himself in a long back like a woman washing a third her dresses only, and always refuse winding sheet and as he sat at the story window on the outside and to give her splendid and precious piano held against his bosom the bend down, clutching two parallel jewels, which draw the covetousness skeleton, the.specter o f his sleep iron bars set in the granite, until o f brigands and attract too many less nights. your head is hanging as low as it “ In the lugubrious silence the flirts.” can hang. Your head by then Tw o uncomplimentary tributes to notes streamed from the piano, should be in the embrasure the top departed spouses: “ On the day of broadly, slowly, overwhelmingly— stone o f which is the blarney stone. her death I celebrated a sacrifice of an unimagined music— the funeral Y ou will forget, if you can, what thanks to the gods.” “ To Cecelia march l It was created there before will happen to you if you slip, while Metrodora. The husband: Only our eyes, and it dragged our souls you apply your lips to the top stone. happy when he regards her tomb.” into its unholy rhythm. Then your sing out and your tourist “ Then the strains died down. — Roman Mail. friends will pull you back by your We rushed toward Chopin. He had ankles. put forth so prodigious an effort Marriage In Burma. Frornthen on you are qualified to In Burma marriage is civil, not that we thought he had faintqd in hand out the blarney, fo r into your religious, and is regarded as a sim his winding sheet.” ’ speech in future will com e a beguil ple partnership which, if not happy, ing quality that was not there be He Had to Pay. may be dissolved at any time. After fore. A farmer, calling at the village marriage there is no outward sym But do the Corkonians kiss the bol like a wedding ring on a Bur school, was asked by the master if blarney stone? I put the question he would like to question the schol mese woman. She does not even to one man there. A twinkle came adopt her husband’s family name, ars. So he said to the class: “ I f either into his eyes. but retains her own. The husband “ Sure,” said he, “ what is the has no right over the property o f you can tell me the weight o f good at all to be kissing an owld which his wife possesses before mar the moon, the depth o f the sea and gray stone when Cork is full o f riage nor over the property which what I am thinking about I will pretty girls waiting to be kissed ?” she might acquire after marriage. give a prize o f sixpence.” Something in that, too, we There were twin brothers in this The Burmese woman can appear in thought as we hurried fo r the train law courts to represent her husband. class named Sam and Joe. Now, that was to take us to K illam ey.— In contracts with a third person she Joe put up his hand, and the farmer Thomas G. Connolly in Boston and her husband sign their names said, “ Well, Sam, what is your an Traveler. swer?” • - together. They can borrow money Joe replied, “ The weight o f the on joint security. Both husband On* W ay to K**p Accounts. and wife can sign deeds and lend moon is fou r quarters, the depth o f In a book o f accounts found on money. And when there is no long the sea is a stone’ s throw,” and then the premises o f a bankrupt dealer er any love between a married cou he paused. in a city in the west o f England The farmer responded, “ Well, ple they can get a divorce with alac were the following names o f cus Sam, what am I thinking about ?” rity. tomers to whom credit had been “ Why, you are thinking you lire given and which would have puz talking to Sam when it is his broth A Dish o f Peacocks. zled all the official receivers in the A Roman dinner at the house o f a er J oel” — Ideas. kingdom: Woman on the key, Jew wealthy man consisted chiefly of woman, coal woman, old coal wom “ W olf Monoth.” three courses. All sorts o f stimu an, fat coal woman, market woman, January, the month with the lants to the appetite were first pale woman, a man, old woman, lit served up, and eggs were indispen Latin name, had a grimmer name in tle milk girl, candle man, stable Saxon England. Richard Verstegan sable to the first course. Among man, coachman, big woman, lame the various dishes we may instance in his “ Restitution o f Decayed In- woman, quiet woman, egg man, lit the guinea hen, pheasant, n ig h t telligence In Antiquities,” a curious tle black girl, Jew man, Mrs. in a published in 1<!’ 1673, writes ifigale and the thrush as birds most book w~ 'lr ~" W 1 , ™ cart, old Irish woman, woman in in repute. The Roman gormands “ The month which we now call Corn street, a lad, man in the coun held peacocks in great estimation, ‘January4 our Saxon ancestors try, long Sal, Mrs. Irish woman, called ‘w olf monat’ — to wit, ‘w olf especially their tongues. Macrobius Mrs. feather bonnett, blue bonnett, states that they were first eaten by moneth’— because people are wont green bonnett, green coat, blue Hortensius, the orator, and ac always in that month to be in more britches, big britches, the woman quired such repute that a single pea danger to be devoured o f wolves that was married and the woman cock was sold for 50 denarii, the than in any season else o f the year, that told me o f the man.— London denarius being equal to about ' for that, through the extremity o f pence of English money.— Cham cold and snow, those ravenous crea Tit-Bits. ________________ “ One often hears the expression 'As crazy as a loon,’ and yet 1 won der,” says a writer in St. Nicholas, “ how many realize how peculiarly fitting it sometimes is. O f all the birds and animals that have come under my observation 1 know of none that in any degree approaches the loon for sheer craziness or weirdness, “ Evening seems to be the loons’ favorite time for their peculiar be havior. They collect in the middle of a lake, and when they have sum moned all o f their kind within hear ing the ball commences. They raise their bodies half out o f water by furiously flapping their wings, at the same time making a most ter rific splashing. “ They then propel themselves backward and forward, half swim ming, half flying, all the while screaming at the top o f their vbices. They keep this up from ten to fif teen minutes and seem to get a great deal o f satisfaction oat o f it. In the calm o f a summer evening and aided a bit by the echoes a half dozen loons esn make the fellows in a college cheering section hang their heads for shame. “ The loon is not only crazy act ing, but at times is very aggravat ing. Perhaps— for instance, after a hard day— you are sitting by the campfire, quietly smoking and at peace with the whole world. Sud denly there breaks upon your ears the most bloodcurdling scream, fo l lowed by heartrending cries.. Your first thought is that there is a child .being murdered or a woman in dis tress, and you start to your feet. Then you realize it is only a loon. - “ Or perhaps, having turned in, you are sleeping the sleep that comes only in the pine scented north. Again you start and wake as you hear a long, mournful cry echo ing through the forest and involun tarily exclaim, ‘W olves!’ There is a grunt, and the sleepy voice o f your guide comes from the depth o f his blankets, ‘ Non, m’sieu’ ; loon.’ “ In the morning a hunter arises bent on vengeance for his broken repose and resolves to destroy the- fiend as he sits mirrored in the lake. Although the modern cartridge rifle gives no warning o f the shot, as did the old fashioned flintlock with its ‘flash in the pan,’ nevertheless the loon nearly every time seems to know when the bullet is coming and dives just in time to escape. Imme diately after the discharge o f the ri fle the loon is serenely up again, his mocking laughter being but an add ed irritation. On the whole h,e seems rather to enjoy the perform ance. “ As a diver the loon excels, and naturally, for it is his sole means of livelihood. Not only is he marvel ously quick, but he can remain un der water for a seemingly endless time. In swimming under water he uses both wings and feet and can go fo r several hundred yards in this fashion. The loon, like many other water fowls, sleeps on the water with his head tucked under his wing. “ Several summers ago a friend of mine while camped oil Lake Kia- mika was out t n an early morning paddle. It was just after dawn and very still. Out on the lake he espied a sleeping loon, and by dint o f care ful paddling be actually succeeded in approaching and capturing him. Proud o f his -capture, he took the loon ashore and tethered him to a stake. The loon struggled at first, but after awhile seemed to become reconciled. All went well nntil nightfall. Then the loon set up such a hideous outcry and kept it np so persistently that before morn ing he had earned his freedom.” bers’ Journal. The Admirable Crichton. To speak of any one as an “ Ad mirable Crichton” is to credit him with being very learned and accom- plished, since such a person lived in the sixteenth century. His name was James Crichton, and he lived in Scotland from 1560 to 1585. A t the age of seventeen years he was the reputed master of twelve lan- guages and had been given the de- gree of master o f arts when but fourteen because of his great learn- ing. In addition to his accomplish- ments as a scholar he was poet, mu- sician, sculptor, artist, actor, recon- teur, a good horseman and an ex- pert fencer. Anything to Oblige. The conductor o f the old fash ioned, slow going London horse bus turned to the driver. “ Look ’ere,” he exclaimed dis gustedly, “ a bloke’s just got in that wants yer to pull up at the next 'ouse after the fourth lamppost w ot’s got yeller blinds!” “ Orl rite— orl rite!” responded John. “ People ain’t wearin’ out their boot leather, I don’t think! Jest go an’ arsk *im which part o f the ’ouse ’e’d like to be druv to— inter the parler wi' the family, at bup to Is room in the hatticP— I /indon Answers. V-------* / And Than Chopin Compoood His «noua Funoral Marsh. tures could not find other beasts A Corner In Candle*. sufficient to feed upon.” — London As an example o f trusts and mo Chronicle. nopolies prevalent even in that early day it may be mentioned that Browning’s Modesty. in 1750 one Benjamin Crabb ob The only son o f Robert Brown- tained the exclusive right to make ing and his illustrious wife was a sperm candles in Massachusetts for diligent art student when he grew fourteen years. to manhood. He was believed to A year later, however, a factory have a promising career, but once was started in Providence, R. I., when the father was showing a and within the decade there were friend some of his son’s pictures he eight factories in New England and expressed a fear that he might suf- one in Philadelphia. Their output fer from the high hopes built upon greatly reduced the price o f can him. dles, which not long before sold for ! “ He is placed at a disadvantage,” 5 shillings a pound. In those days said Browning. Then he explained $1.25 was worth fully three times further, in a phrase as modest as as much as it is now.— Designer. any ever uttered by a great m an: Barbarous. “ People expect much from him, you see, because he has such a clev A barber’s remarks are always to er mother.” the point— interrogation point. It is the bald barber who invari The Subtlety o f Him. ably has a cure for baldness. “ John, dear,” said Mabel as her All the world knows the inner lord and master entered the house, workings o f a barber shop. Every “ I’ ve just had a letter from mother, body is next some time or other. i and she is coming to visit us. It is Frequently barbers have double a pretty expensive trip for little chins, both o f which are devoted to muddy, and I’ve wondered if we conversation.— Purple Cow. couldn’ t help her out a little.” Both Ugly. “ O f course we can,” said John, He (relating his adventures)— giving his wife a generous kiss. “ Just you write and tell her that And starvation stared me in the I’ll be only too glad to pay for her face. She (who does not admire him)— railroad ticket back home again as soon as she decides to go.” — Har Equally unpleasant for both of you, I should think.— Illustrated Bits. per's Weekly. How to Light a Solid Body. Cadogan Morgan was the first electrician to experiment with elec tric light in solid bodies. This was in 1785. He first inserted two wires into a stick o f wood and caus ed the spark to pass between them. This had the effect o f illuminating the stick a beautiful blood red. An ivory ball, an ofange or an apple may be lighted in the same manner. Some experimenters prefer the lem on for this purpose, it being very susceptible to the electric discharge, flashing forth at every spark as a spheroid o f brilliant golden light. The wires used for this purpose should be brought within about half an inch o f each other inside the lemon. Generous. United States Natl- Bank o f Newberg COM PARATIVE ST A T E M E N T Resources January 5th, 1910 ** February 5th, 1910 ** March 5th, 1910 44 April 5th, 1910 44 May 5th, 1910 June 5th, 1910 July 5th, 1910 44 August 5th, 1910 September 5th, 1910 44 O ctober 5th, 1910 November 5th, 1910 Decem ber 5th, 1910 January 5th, 1911 February 5th, 1911 $281,563.91 301,531.04 305,794.83 340,611.71 343,382.11 351,466.77 353,173.01 3 5 3 ,2 4 8 3 0 357,45331 393,592.57 404,466.46 40 4 ,4 0 8 3 0 400,636.60 404 , 762.63 We respectfully solicit your account believing it will be to our mutual advantage for you to open an account with us. J. L. Hoskins, President S. L. Parrett, Vice President J. C. Colcord, Cashier W. E. Crozer, Asst. Cashier txxxx: T h e Newberg Manufacturing and Construction Co. For the Best Prices on the Best Windows, Doors, Inter ior and Exterior Finish, Mouldings, Building Stone, Cabinet Work, Store Fixtures and General Mill Work Branch o f the W. C. T . U. w ith M iss Edna Everest, president; A Genius That Touched the Lin* Di M iss Laura H ockett, vice-pres viding 8anity From Madness. ident; Miss M yrtle W alon , secre I f ever there was a genius it was tary, and S. W . Atkinson, treas Paganini, the violinist, and proba urer. . PAGANINI. bly no one has ever approached so near without crossing the border line that divides sanity and mad ness. The stories o f his antics and eccentricities are endless. His up bringing was atrocious, but it will not explain everything. At sixteen he was a gambler, a roue and— a genius. Everything seemed to turn to gold under his marvelous fingers. Money ponred in upon him like wa ter. Yet he was at one time reduced to the point of selling his fiddle. He had got down to his last 30 francs. He took them to the rou lette table, staked the whole sum on one fling and— won. The violin thus opportunely res cued came into his possession very curiously. When he was a lad, Par- sini, the painter, came one day to his father’s house and, putting into the lad’s hand a priceless Stradi- varius and the score of a concerto o f great difficulty, said: “ This,” indicating the violin, “ shall be yours if you play this,” in dicating the sheet o f music, “ at sight without a fault. “ Y ou have lost your instrument, sir,” said the youthful Nicolo and proceeded to play the concerto through. Here ia a pen picture o f the great violinist by one who was present at one o f his triumphs: “ H e looked,” says this eyewit ness, “ like an indifferently dressed skeleton. His figure was o f aston ishing ganntness and angularity and his walk shambling and awkward. But his face, lit up by a pair o f great, dark, flaming eyes, was of a pallor quite extraordinary, even ghastly, and had a look o f almost eagle sharpness, sometimes varied by a sardonic grin or a look o f al most demoniacal fnry. He came on to the stage limping, having run a nail into his heel. At all times odd looking, his appearance in these cir cumstances was ludicrous, and there was some tittering among the audi ence. “ As he stood, he settled himself on one hip at a gaunt angle, and one found oneself wondering how he could hold his violin, much less play it. Just as he began a candle fell on his desk— more laughter. Presently his first string broke— more laughter. But he played the rest o f the piece through on three strings, and now the laughter was changed into tumultuous applause, which as the evening wore on be came simply frantic.” Verily, great wit is oft to mad ness near allied.— London Family W ife (who is playing chess with her husband)— Don’t you know that today is my birthday ? Husband (abstractedly)— Is it? ' “ Y es; aren’ t you going to give me anything as a birthday pres en t?” “ I had forgotten all about it. Certainly I ’ll give you eomething, Herald. mv dear. I ’ll let von take a pawn.” Butler’s Barred Rocks Bred to Lay If popularity is measured by the number bred their is no breed so popular in this country aa the Barred Plymouth Rocks. They are popular with fanners, commercial poultry men and fanciers, because they have made good as all round utility birds. My winnings at the recent shows again proves that my stock has the right quality for the fancier or farm er. Egg* for hatching after Feb. L C. F. Butler, Newberg, O r. 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