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THE NEWBfcRti QBARHIC OUR FIRST NAVAL FLAGL H h n ( Pin» TraS and tha Mott a, «An RUQ SUPERSTITIONS. IVORY AND BL000. Tha Tusk Is Whit» In Calar, hut Its Many Oriental Waavara In Conatont Appaal to Haavan.” History la Nad. Draad of tha “Evil Eya.” Tha United State« nary as it ap pears today wss but dimly foreshad owed in tile floating batteries which In September, 1775, were launched on the Charles river, Massachusetts, and in October opened fire upon Boston. They were two in number, says the Bluejacket, scow shaped and were made of strong timbers pierced near the water line for oars and along the sides, higher up, for musketry and light. A heavy gun was placed at each end and upon the I top were four swivels, their ensigji being the pine tree flag, which appears to nave been the favorite flag in the New England colonies. Colonel Beed, writing to Colonels Qlover and Moylan, Oct. 20, 1775, and speaking of the six schooners first commis sioned by General Washington, •sjs: "Please fix upon some particular color for a flag and a signal by which our vessels may know each other. What do you think of a flag with a white ground and a tree in the middle, the motto, ‘ An Appeal to Heaven 1* This is the A** of our floating batteries." Colonels Glover and Moylan re plied the next day, saving that Broughton and Selman had sailed that morning, having nothing but their old colors (probably the old English union ensign), and they had appoin tad as the signal by which they could co be known- to their friends the ensign at the maintop. The suggestion of Colonel Reed seems, however, to have been adopt ed, for the Franklin, sailing in Jan uary, 1776, carried the pine tree and Commander Samuel Tuck er wrote to John Holmes, March 6, 1818: “ The first cruise 1 made was in January, 1776, in the schooner Franklin, o f seventy tons, equipped by order of General Washington, and I had to purchase the small arms to encounter the enemy with money from my own pocket or go without, and my wife made the ban ner 1 fought under, the field of which was white and the union green, made therein in the figure of a pine tree, made of cloth of hex own purchasing at her own ex pense.” The London Chronicle in Janu ary, 1776,-describing the flag of a captured privateer, says: “ There is in the admiralty office the flag of a provincial privateer. The field is white banting. On the middle is s green pins tree and upon the oppo site side is the motto, ‘ An Appeal to Heaven.’ ” April, 1776, the Massachusetts council passed a series of resolu tions for the regulation of the sea service, among which was the fol lowing: Ih e ivory market of the world is to be found in London— in Mincing lane, in fact—and there you will find stored all the ivory that enters the London docks from time to time. Sales are held periodically, and prior to a sale tne ivory is placed on view for the benefit of prospective buyers. The elephant, for the most part, supplies our ivory, and each year, it is stated, some 50,000 elephants have to be. secured. The fact is, however, that a great auantity of ivory is taken from deaa elephants — animals that have died naturally and have not fallen before the hunter’s gun. When large herds of elephants roam a district you may be quite sure that an elephants’ cemetery is to be found somewhere in the local ity. To this cemetery all ailing ele phants repair, and very often there they die. It is a great stroke of luck to dis cover an elephant«’ cemetery, for a fine haul of ivory is certain to be secured. But ivory is found lying in the forests from time to time. The animals shed tusks now and again, and of oourae these tusks lie as they fall, ready to be picked up. At tbg present time there is a great shortage o f ivory all over the world. The demand is always great er than the supply. But there are big stores o f ivory in the universe for all that. In several ports of Africa the chieftains of savage races have big stocks on hand, hut these chiefs quite understand the commercial valne of ivory and never at any time do they put a large quantity on the market. It is doled ont in small parcels, so to speak, so evidently these chiefs have a good idea of what a “ corner” means in the com mercial sense. Ivory is white in color, but its history is red. It has an evil past, most particularly the ivory that em anates from the storehouses o f sav- chieftains. These chiefs have often come by their ivory in no rec ognized commercial way. Usually each piece of ivory added to the store means the loss of human life. These chiefs will commit murder in cold blood in order to secure a tusk t Those in the ivory trade will tell yon that ivory, or, rather, the gain ing of ivory, has cost more human lives than war, and that is saying a good deal.— Philadelphia Inqnirer. The little- cottage oriental ruga often made by girls who are shortly to be married in Turkey, Persia, on the Armenian plateau and in A f ghanistan carry with them all tha poetry and mysticism of the orien tal girl’a mind as aha is just bud ding into womanhood. She weaves into the rugs almost her very thoughts— so much is rug weaving a part of the oriental life and so little is it a purely commer cial pursuit. Time is not counted of value in the east when rugs are made. Consequently Americans have found it impossible ‘ to com pete with the orientals in the man ufacture of these practically ever lasting products. In some parts of the oriental rug countries it is considered wrong to have the rugs aeen in the making by Christiana. I f such an accident occurs and one from (he western world views one of the rugs the workman offsets the suspected in jury by weaving a small white spot in the rug, to keep sway the “ evil eye. Sometimes, when the rug is not made for sale, but as the dowry of some girl at the time of her mar riage, and when something inaus- icious has happened, a little reak is left in the border of the rug, by which it ia hoped that the devil may escape from the house hold. .Were the border continuous the orientals believe thst the devil would run around and around the rug and never leave the house.— Suburban Life. l U w l n t T h at the uniform o f the officer» t o green and w hite and that they furnish themaetree accordingly, an d that tha col- era t o a w hite Has with a green pine tree and the Inscription t o “ A n appeal to Not Past H - “ My deer old father came to visit me last week,” ssys a friend whose name we omit. “ He’s one great old scout, my dad, but of course he’s a villager, and he can’t see this easy- eome-easy-go method of getting rid sf money. He had to be there with a little advice. Saya he: “ ‘Son, I hear you’ve been losing s lot of money on fast horses.’ “ ‘ Father,’ I came back, ‘ that iust shews how news will get twisted by the time it arrives at the old town. It is true that I have risked some coin at the track, but it wasn’t on fast horses. What lost me my mon ey wss quite the opposite, dad— quite the opposite.’ ” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Thoaa Youthful Prodigies.” “ Will wonders never cease?” said Jones to his wife. “ Here is the ac count of a six-year-old boy who can work the most difficult problems in algebra.” “ Remarkable!” admitted Mrs. Jones, “ but I know of a four-year- eld girl that knows Greek. Where does your little wonder live?” “ In Boston. Where does your lin guistic marvel reside ?” Mrs. Jones gazed ont of the win dow with a faraway look in her eye as she answered, “ In Greece.” —Na tional Food Magazine. g>»»rwm«at Anatomy. “ Father,” inquired the small boy ■taking his first visit to the army post, “ what house is that over there?” “ That’s the government’s head- quarter«, Jimmy.” A long puzzled silence, then: “ Father, where are ita bindqnar tsra?” — Exchange. |««i*Wiln| That Was W \ friend once wrote Mark Twain f-tter saying that be was in v e n 1 health and concluding: "Is •re anything worse than having •fhache and earache at the same i t ?” Twain wrote beck, “ Yes; mmatism and 8L Vitus' danes.” { Diad of Suparatition. Princess Like! ike, daughter of Eapaakea and mother o f Princess Eaiulani, died on Feb. 3, 1887. She had not been seriously ill, but a lava flow from the great volcano Kilauea, in Hawaii, which occurred a few days before her death, was to her mind a sure sign that a chief- tainees was required by the goddess Pele, that heartless old deity sug gested to the children of nature in the ages of volcanic terror«. So firm were Likelike’s convictions that the wrath of the furious Pele bad to be appeased by her death that she lost heart and never rallied. The night before her death there was a halo around the moon, and when she saw it she abandoned all hope and speedily died. A few years late? Iikihiku heard that he was being prayed to death by an enemy, aided by a sorcerer, a deadly method of warfare, so he simply lay The Australian Aborigines. The tribes of central Australia down and died of despair. are among the last of the primitive Forgatfulnaaa That Raid. races. They are nomads who stray Old Peter Smith, who for yean through the huge and deserted tracts of this great continent, hunt kept a grocery and general store at ing with spear and boomerangs. Beechwood, Mass., became forget They are with few exceptions can ful during the last of his business nibals. liv in g in huts made of the life. One day a man called and got boughs o f trees, they have no house a barrel of flonr on credit and car hold utensils. They connt on their ried it away on hia wagon, and fingers only and only to the number Peter could not remember who the of ten, but they decorate the rocks man was when he came to charge with rude attempts at drawing and up the flour. Being a shrewd old make efforts to ornament their man, he thought of a way out of shields. Their art is determined and the trouble. Peter charged a bar distinct, but inferior to that of the rel o f flour to each of the yearly ac western European epoch of the counts he kept with his customers, reindeer. Their most singular char all hardworking farmcn. thinking acteristic is their social convention that every one except the man who ality: they have fixed prejudice« really had the flour would kick when the bills were rendered. On concerning marriage. ■....... . 1 ....... .. 1 i Jan. 1 old Peter sent out the bills to all his customers, adding in each Standing tha Taat. To test a sentry an officer after case a barrel of flour. Nobody kicked! Everybody paid! the salute said: “ Let me see your rifle.” The re Applying tha Cura. cruit handed it over, whereupon the A hard drinker was informed bv officer said in disgust; “ You’re a hia doctor that he could be cured if fine soldier! You’ ve given np your every time he felt that he must rifle, and now what are you going to do?” The young fellow drew out have a drink he would immediately a dangerous knife and exclaimed, take something to eat instead. The “ Give me that rifle or I'll cut your man followed the advice and was cured, but the habit of asking for heart out!” The officer was more than con food had become so fived with him vinced that he would, and hastily that he was once nearly locked up handed the weapon back.—“ A Lit as a lunatic. He was stopping at a tle Tiger’» War Diary,” by C. W. hotel and, hearing a great commo tion in the room next to his, he Bardeen. peered over the transom to see what i ------------------------- the matter was. He saw, and How to Praaarva Old Photo«. A unique way to preserve old rushed madly down to the office photo« is as follows: Put the photo and shouted to the clerk: “ The graphs into clean hot water; very man in 153 has shot himself! Ham soon the pictures loosen and may and era sandwich, pVtse!” — The be easily removed from the cards. World Today. When dry, either trim down to Whito Afrioan* economize spsce or carefully cut That race in northern Africa away the background entirely. known as the Berbers is whits, and Mount them in a scrap book or a book made especially for kodak pic if they dressed like our own people tures. You will then have a book and had the habits of Americana or with which you can spend many Europeans they could easily pass happy moments looking over famil for such. The Berbers are believed iar scenes and faces.— National to be descendants of the white in habitants of ancient Europe. Tney Magazine. are Mohammedans. Blue eyes, fair hair and rosy cheeks are quite com Tha Ruling Paaaian. A gambler on his deathbed, hav- mon among them, and many of the taken leave of his phy- women are strikingly handsome.— who told him that ht could Harper’s Weekly. not live beyond 8 o’clock next morn Out sf tha Mouth* of la b—. ing, exerted tha small strength he Father— What a boy yon are to had left to call the doctor back, which having acompliahed with dif ask questions. Johnny! I never used ficulty. for he could hardly exceed a to aak so many questions when I whisper, “ Doctor,” said ha. “ I’ll bat was a boy. Johnny— Perhaps if you you 5 guineas I livj till 9.” — Lon had you would be «Ms to answer mine now! don Tit-Bits. For Sal«. Artichokes, beat w inter hog feed on earth, one; acre w ill keep 3 0 h og s fat all w inter. F ou r sack lots, F . O. B., D ayton , a t Dr. L ow e, M arch 9 t o 4 $ 1.00 per sack. A lso one horse, o ’clock. harness and t o p bu g g y cheap. F. A. C raw ford , F or S a l e —Good milk cow .— .21 P . O., Dundee. J. T . Everest. tf m $5 ,0 0 0 o r $ 6 0 0 0 t o invest in a bearing orchard. Address b o x 561, Newberg. T p g 19 A big cut on som e broken lines o f granite and enameled w are for next Sat., Feb. 27, a t Christen son & L ark in’s. W atch ou r big w in d ow . L ost — Australian shepherd d o g w hite sp ot in left eye. One d o l M o n ey T o L oan - - S ee A tty . B. Fruit Ti lar rew ard for inform ation as t o A. Kliks, McMiunville, Oregon. his w hereabouts.—A. H . Dean, Lam bert and R oyal Ann cher , It F or R ent —T w o furnished Rex, Ore. ries. T o p grafted on tw o-year- rooms a t 4 0 6 N orth School St. okl stock. S. C. B row n Leghorn eggs $1 I t pd. Fred K incaid, for 15. S. C. White Leghorn and tf Springbrook , Oregon. S eed P otatoes — Burbanks at B .P . R ock, $1 5 0 for 15. All choice a d ollar a hundred.—J. W . Bar- birds.—E. A. H all, 1262 E. F irst Wanted. Street. Phone Blue 89. 21 pd croft. 19-tf We are in correspondence w ith m any parties in the east and middle w est w h o w a n t t o buy farms, tim ber and fruit lands and some large tracts. W e a lso have Portland property t o trade lor small farm s in the W illam ette Valley. W e solicit correspond ence. Fisher and Hillier, 513 and 1 4 Selling B id. 19 P ortlan d, Oregon. F o r R en t — Small farm 1 mile n orth o f to w n . B o x 383, New- berg. 19-pd Seed p o ta to e s and garden seeds o f all kinds a t Z u m w a lt’s Feed Store, I hatch all kinds o f eggs in in cu b a tors successfully—3 0 0 0 hatched last year.—G. Everett, Vt mile east o f N ew bcrg. 1 6-tf F or S a l s —6 0 sacks B nrbank seed p o ta to e s.—J. R. Smith, Ew Hama af Many Phone Red 36. I t pd. A TOW ER O F R O M AN C E! Litorary CaltbrKias. Historic London is rapidly disap pearing, but now and then one runs aero— soma relic of the middle ages that still preserves much o f its original character. Such a survival is Canonbury tower, standing in one of the northern suburbs of Lon don. It began life in 1360 aa the country residence of the prior of 8t. Bartholomew. In more recent days it became the home in turn of many literary celebrities. Oliver Goldsmith lived there from 1762 to 1764, though the actual rooms that he occupied are uncertain. It was there he commenced “ The Vicar of Wakefield.” Another tenant at the same time as Goldsmith was New- terry, the bookseller, and it was in his rooms that the impecunious Oli ver often took refuge from his cred itors. ' In the rooms general’ y reputed to have been inhabited by Goldsmith tired Washington Irving some time of his life which he in his “ Tales of a Trav- ,** Other interesting folk who lived there at different times were Samuel Humphreys, the author of ■ I who died there in 1737; her Smart, the “mad poet;” Dr. Johnson of dictionary fame; William Hone, who wrote ‘T h e Ev- eryday Book;” Woodfall, who print ed “ The Letters of Junius, and Robert Horsfield, one of Pope’s booksellers. Canonbnry tower is now the prop erty o f the Marquis of Northamp ton, and an interesting romance is told of his ancestor through whom it came into his possession. In 1594 it belonged to Sir John Spencer, a lord mayor of London. He had a very beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, who was also a rich heiress. She loved and was loved by Lord Comp ton, bnt her father refused to sanc tion the match, so the lover had to resort to strategy. He dressed him self np as a baker’s boy, called at the house and eventually left— with his lady love in his basket. Sir John was furious and refused to see his daughter after the mar riage, but a reconciliation was ef fected about a year after by that most cunning o f women, Queen Elisabeth. She invited the angry baronet to become sponsor to an infant, whose mother, she declared, had behaved much as his daughter had. Sir John consented and then announced that he should adopt the son as his own. At this propitious moment the queen revealed her lit tle plot and the incident closed in the time honored way by the old man “ bles*-you-my-childering” hia soa-in-law and erring daughter. It was through this cuild that the Marquis of Northampton inherited the tower.— Exchange. Matter Owe— Really Livad. Mother Goose, whose name has been bestowed on many panto mimes, was a genuine personage, originally known as Elizabeth Fos ter. She was born at Charleston, in Carolina, and resided there until her marriage with Isaac Goose, when she became stepmother to ten children and went to live in Boston. To entertain her charges Mrs. Goose used to invent stories in prose and verse, and these were in course of time collected by a Bos ton printer who married one of her stepdaughters. They were published in 1719 with the title, “ Songs For the Nursery, or Mother Goose’s Melodies Kof Children.” The book proved a huge success, and Mrs. Goose was one of the lions of Bos ton until hlr death in 1757.— Ex change. ! f, . F ob S a l e —Brow n Leghorn hens and pallet».—S. W . M orse. Phone Black 82. • 19-20 F or S a l e —Six hole Good a s new , cheap. Black 59. range. Phone 20 * Am erican W onder Seed P o ta toes for sale. Enquire o f W hite (St C om pan y. B uff P lym ou th R ock eggs for hatching a t $ 1 .5 0 for 15.—E. H. W o o d w a rd ; W a n t e d — 10 0 0 cash orders for mill w o o d b y .th e Spaulding L o g g in g C o. F or S a l e — American black cap raspberry plants.—L. M. C ary, S p ringbrook. ~ 1 7 -tf S. C. W hite Leghorn eggs for sale. Phone W hite 51. B o x 687. — Warren Jones. 18-tf P ittsbu rg perfect fence for law n, garden, h o g and field, all heights. H a rt’s H ardw are. 11 t f F or S a l e — M anger raspberry plants.—rC. E. Newhonse, Spring b rook . Phone No. 24a 35. tf H a y F or S a l e .— C lov er and clover and o a ts m ixed, $ 1 0 per ton . Phone Blue 196. 19 pd. Men w anted t o cut 1 0 0 cord s w o o d a t $1 per cord .— A. W. Ellis, R. F. D. 3. Phone 23a3. 1 7-tf F or S a l e —Golden W yandotte eggs for hatching, $ 1 .5 0 for 15. L. T , Price, 704 N orth Street. 2 0 pd. T yp ew riters G iven A w a y . ■ . . .y ' - i The Em erson T yp ew riter C om p an y of W ood stock , 111., have re cently given a w a y ov er 4 0 0 o f the highest grade, w h olly visible Em erson T yp ew riters m ade in the w orld . T h ey have g on e in t o every state and territory in the United States. There m a y be som e in y o u r to w n . T h ey a re- giv in g them a w a y every where t o men, w om en, b o y s and girls, p v e r . 1 8 years o f age, on surprisingly liberal conditions. I f y o u could m ake an y use o f a $ 1 0 0 .0 0 typew riter, p rovid in g it did n o t co st y o u even one cent, then in a letter o r on a p osta l card addressed t o Frank L . Wilder, President, W o o d - stock , III., sim ply say, “ M ail me all y ou r Free Offers,” and b y re turn m ail y o u w ill receive their Free Offers, the names of over 4 0 0 w h o have recently received typew riters free, and y o u w ill learn o n ' w h a t easy con d ition s y o u can get one o f their ty p e w riters free right a w a y . The Em erson T yp ew riter is one of the highest grade, w h ollv visible typew riters m ade in the w orld . M an y w h o have used the “ Em erson” and oth er m akes pronounce the “ Em erson” supe rio r t o an y $ 1 0 0 .0 0 typew riter on the m arket. It is a w h olly visible machine, has every new, u p-to-date feature, look s like other high grade $ 1 0 0 .0 0 typ e w riters, th ou g h it sells regularly for less and on term s o f $ 1 .0 0 d ow n and 10 cents a d a y until paid for. The “ Em erson” has every new im provem ent, uni versal k eyboard, back spacer, ta b u la tor, tw o -c o lo r ribbon, everyth ing the best; is the ideal machine for beginners as well as for the m ost expert typists and stenographers; ju s t the typew riter for the smallest o r largest office. . I f y o u could possibly m ake anv use o f a high grade typew riter, even though it didn’t cost y ou one cent o f m oney, then be sure, on a p ostal card o r in a letter addressed t o “ Frank L. Wilder. President, W ood stock , 111.,” say, “ M ail me y ou r Free Offers.” 27 WANTEd —Calves when a day o r t w o old. Inform O. M . H an son, R oute 3, N ew berg o r phone 515-11 Schools 18-pd F or S a l e — H orse, bu ggy, har ness, 11 inch p low , Jersey co w , heifer ca lf and brood er coop . Apply at Graphic Office. F or S a l e . —5 ,0 0 0 American black cap raspberry plants and 15,0 0 0 G old D ollar straw berry plants.—E. R. Garner. tf. Notic«. There w ill be a meeting o f the Ladies’ Auxiliary t o Pacific C o l lege, Saturday afternoon a t 2 :3 0 a t the College D orm itory. All ladies invited. M rs. W. E. Croxer, Secretary. For Sal«. 4 0 a. A bou t 32 a. slashed; ol straw berry plants and Calif. stumps w ith some of them pulk Privet hedge plants.— H ow ard ou t; balance in g o o d tim be Near Newberg. $3,000 , one-ha W alton, phone 17a3. 18 tf. cash o r $ 2 5 0 0 all cash. B ook s containing sixty trip 160 a. o f g o o d land, 2 mil. tickets t o and from Portland from one station and 4 mill can n ow v f be parchased a t the from each o f t w o others. 1 0 0 1 Southern Pacific station for o f this is easy t o clear and lev $23.50. enough t o cultivate. S p ots o f F or S a l e — A n A. 1 Cyphers to 10 a. can be plow ed a t pre Incubator. 1 4 0 egg capacity. ent. Abundance o f grass c Price $15.— A. N. M aynard, place; bedding ground o fa b o t Route 2, B ox 29, Laurel, Ore 5 00 g o a ts and is well fertilize! G ood spring on each 4 0 a. Pri< gon. • 20 pd. $ 20 per acre. W hy w alk around w ith that 40 a. near Newberg; 3 0 a. cu hungry look on you r face when tived; a b ou t 15 a. heavy tim be y ou can get a g o o d meal for 25c N o buildings. Price $ 1 5 0 a a t M odel Restaurant, North acre. See W hite & Cotnpan M ain St. 20 705 First Street. F or S a l e — S tron g G old D ollar
