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THE NfcWUEKÜ (JKAPHIC
DUMAS’ TWENTY
FRANCS.
1« Waa Pr**f, H* Said, That Ha Waa
Nat a Spandthrift.
The two Duma* were more like
intimate friends than father and
•on. In fact, the son, with his
more peaceful and reserved tempera
ment, often assumed the position
of counselor to his father. It de
volved upon him to disentangle the
thoughtless knots tied time after
time to the end of his life by that
eat careless, joyous, overgrown
y. This comes out in the “ Remi
niscences of Maurice Dreyfus.” M.
Dreyfus was well acquainted with
both men and has all sorts of aston
ishing and even pathetic things to
relate.
Dumas the younger used to say,
“ My father is a big child in trusted
to my care the moment I came into
the world,” and Dumas the elder
was fond of calling his son “ the
best of my works.” He was just as
roud of his son's successes as of
?
h:
i is own and was brimming over
with delight when, on the first per
formances of his son's plays, his
name, according to the French cus
tom, was proclaimed at the end of
the evening from the stage, an an
nouncement followed by loud clap
ping-
Father and son were both of her
culean build and excelled in all
manly exercises. The elder took
reat liberties with his constitution,
ut it seemed as if nothing could
undermine or injure it.
With all his gigantic industry he
did not succeed in amassing wealth.
The large sums brought in by his
countless popular novels melted
away like snow in the sun.
One day in 1870, at the beginning
o f the war with Prussia, he appear
ed at Puys, near Dieppe, where his
son was taking a summer holiday,
and greeted him with the simple
announcement, “My boy, I have
come to lay my bones in your
house.” A room was quickly made
ready for him. He undressed and
lay down, never to rise again. He
hung his waistcoat over the back of
the chair by his bedside, and as soon
as he was alone with his son he said
to him, “ Alexander, look and see
how much money there is in my
waistcoat.” “ Father,” said the son
after fumbling in the pockets,
“ there are only 20 francs left.” On
which Dumas the elder quietly re
marked : “ Look you, my boy, every
body says I am a spendthrift, and
you yourself have even written a
play about my spending powers.
Now you can see it wasn’t true.
You have read in my memoirs that
I came to Paris with only a twenty
franc piece in my pockets. You
see, it is still there.”
When he died a short time aft^r
it transpired that apart from this
twenty franc piece he left behind
him considerable debts, so that it
cost his son no little trouble and
difficulty to straighten out his af
fairs.— Hamburger Nachrichten.
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Tha Shrinking Glaeiar*.
It appears that, save over a small
area, the glaciers of the world are
retreating to the mountains. The
Arapahoe glacier in the Rockies has
been melting at a rapid rate for sev
eral years. The glacier on Mount
Sarmiento, in South America, which
descended into the sea during the
last century, is now separated from
the shore by a vigorous growth of
timber. The Jacobshaven glacier,
in Greenland, has retreated four
miles since the year 1860, and the
East glacier, in Spitsbergen, is more
than a mile away from its old ter
minal moraine. In Scandinavia the
snow line is farther up the moun
tains, and the glaciers have with
drawn 3,000 feet from the lowlands
in a century. In the eastern Alps
and one or two other small district«
the glaciers are growing.— Harper’s
Weekly.
W h ir« Divoroa Is Easy.
As to easy divorce neither Aus
tralia nor America leads the way, if
we admit uncivilized tribes into t h 4 ‘
competition. Among some Siberian
tribes, for instance, a man need
only uncover his wife’s head and
walk away; and the Eskimo has
only to leave his house and stop
away in pretended anger for a day
or two.
In Nepal a woman can divorce
her husband at any time by simply
placing a betel nut under his pillow
and taking her departure. And two
chopsticks broken in the presence
of a witness are sufficient to divorce
a couple in Cochin China.— London
Chronicle.
Watoh and taa.
A well known horseman describes
a fact in natural history which may
not be generally knows. It is that
all four footed beasts in making
the first movement in walking, run
ning or any sort of forward motion
always employ the left hind leg as
a starter. Even a child if put down
on all fours and bidden to advance
in that position will make the first
move with it« left leg, its hands at
the time occupying the plaoe of an
animal’s fore legs.
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QUEER
STRIPED
MANX LAWS.
bass .
And a Jocular Reading of tba Cast a# Thay Are Quick as a Flash and Will
Fight te thff Finish.
Arms af tha Island.
The Isle of Man presents many
curious features, none of which are
more curious than its laws. For
instance, the legislature is called
the house of keys and was in other
times a judicial body charged with
the duty of interpreting the laws.
Any person so bold as to slander
this house of keys was liable not
only to a fine in the amount of £10,
but to the loss of both his ears.
Two deemsters were once appoint
ed to execute the laws which before
the year 1417 were uncodified, and
these were known as breast laws,
for the reason that they were im
parted to the deemsters in secret,
to be kept by them within the sec
recy of their own breasts as long as
they chose or during their whole
service, though they were authoriz
ed to impart and explain to the
populace as much of these special
laws as should at any time seem
wise and expedient.
Certain of the Manx laws, aa set
down after the codification, are ex
tremely quaint. Here are a couple
of extracts from the Manx legal
ruling:
“ If a man steal a horse or an ox
it is no felony, for the offender can
not hide them, but if he steal a
capon or a pig,he shall be hanged.
“ In case of theft, if it amount to
the value o f sixpence halfpenny, it
shall be felony and death to the
offender, and under that value to
be whipped or set upon a wooden
horse, which shall be provided for
such offenders.”
The arms of the Isle of Man,
which, though it may sound like an
Irish bull to say so, are legs— three
legs bent at the knee and apparent
ly kicking outward from a common
^nter in the midst of a shield—
nave provoked a number of jocular
descriptions, of which the best de
clares that one leg spurns Ireland,
one kicks at Scotland, and the
third kneels to England.
On July 5 of every year the laws
of the Isle of Man are still read
aloud to the assembled people from
the top of Tynwald hill. This is
said to be the most interesting and
archaic legal ceremony observed to
day in Europe.— Harper’s Weekly.
Origin of Papor Confatti.
Years ago a firm of printers in
Paris executed an unusually large
order for almanacs. Each sheet was
unched with a small hole for eye-
r. eting and an immense number of
tiny circles of colored paper ac
cumulated in the workrooms. One
day a workman grabbed a handful
o f these and in a spirit of fun
threw, the bits of paper over a girl
worker who was passing. She re
taliated; others followed the ex
ample of the two, and a miniature
snowstorm was in progress when
the head of the firm entered. Be
ing a man of imagination, he saw
“ something in i t ” Confetti was the
result Instead of destroying the
punched out circles of paper he or
dered new and special forms of ma
chinery for turning out the little
papers that form so picturesque a
role in many festivities throughout
the world. It is said that this firm
alone turns out more than sixty
tons of confetti a week.— Harper’s.
At the aquarium it will be notic
ed that before feeding time the big
striped bass swim lazily and indif
ferently near the bottom, moving
sluggishly, as one often sees big
striped bass swim in the shallow wa
ter just beyond the surf line. No
body who does not know would
imagine then that they are fish of
incredible swiftness.
The food, consisting of live kil-
lies, is thrown in bv handfuls. Be
fore the first handful gets a chance
to sink an inch below the surface
the water is a fizz with the bass,
and the killies disappear so quickly
that the eye cannot see them go.
This is repeated again and «gain
until the first hunger is satisfied.
Then the bass ease off.
Lying on the bottom, they watch
for some particularly tempting kil-
lie. When a bass sees one he is np
and back again almost before one
perceives that he has moved. And
the killie is inside of him.
After watching them for a few
minutes the striped bass angler will
realize more clearly than he could
realize from weeks and months of
fishing how carefully the bait must
be watched and how swiftly a bass
can strike if he feels like it. He
will learn also that it is futile to
expect to feel a nibble first, if strip
ed bass are really hungry. The fish
takes the food with a rush that
would mean a smashed or lost rod if
it were held by a careless angler.
When the angler is rewarded by
the sharp strike, quick as a flash of
lightning, it is nip and tuck, a rush
here and a rush there, and the man
behind the rod is winding rapidly
to prevent the line from fouling on
the rocks which the striped bass is
making for. Shy at first in taking
the bait, he is no longer shy, but a
fighter. He is in the fight to win if
he can. Out into the channel or the
tideway, into the deeper water, be
cause he does not like to fight in a
corner, he will dodge around the
rocks, prepared for a long run, and
with terrific dashes and splashes he
makes the struggle for freedom
from the hook. Now he stops short
— he is sulking. The dash is still
in him, but he stops short with a
determination that seems to ask,
“ Well, what are you going to do
about it ?”
The striped bass is an uncertain
fellow, but in general the fish are
hungriest at late dusk. The largest
fish resort to the rocky shores of
bays and inlets, the smaller ones to
the tideways, and the smallest ones
to the shallow waters.— New York
Times.
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Origin o f Mountains.
When«the Lord was about to fash
ion the face of the earth he ordered
the devil to dive into the watery
depths and bring thence a handful
of the soil he found at the bottom.
The devil obeyed, but when he fill
ed his hand he filled his mouth
also. The Lord took the soil, sprin
kled it around, and the earth ap
peared, all perfectly flat. The devil,
whose mouth was quite full, looked
on for some time in silence. At
last he tried to speak, but was chok
ed and fled in terror. After him
followed the thunder and the light-
j ning. and so he rushed over the face
of the earth, hills springing up
If th# Heart 8tops Beating.
where
he coughed and sky cleaving
When the heart stops the circula
mountains
where he leaped.— Ral
tion ceases, the capillaries of the
lungs become gorged with stagnant ston in “ Russian Folk Tales.”
blood, while the blood in the brain
Evolution o f Broad.
no longer carries away the waste
Unleavened
bread was common in
products and brings the oxygenated
the
days
of
Abraham.
In early Eng
fluid to restore the tissues. As the
blood takes about half a minute to land people had no other method of
circulate through the whole system, { making bread than by roasting corn
it may be taken that at the end of and beating it in mortars, then wet
this period after the stoppage of ting it into a kind of coarse cake.
the heart the arteries would be fill In 1596 rye bread and oatmeal
ed by the last effort of the left ven formed a considerable part of the
tricle, while the veins would be diet of the middle classes. During
pouring their contents into the the reign of Charles I. barley bread
right auricle. In a few seconds more was used. White wheat bread did
the nervous centers would cease to not become popular until recent
act, and probably by the end of the years, when bread baking at home
minute the subject would be prac ceased to become common and bak
tically dead from suffocation, al eries began to thrive.
though reflex muscular action would
W hy Do Plant* Grow Eroct?
probably keep up the appearance of
Exactly why trees and other
life for some seconds longer.
plants grow erect has never as yet
Evolution o f th* Noodle.
been definitely determined. Some
Sewing needles of bone, stone, of the scientists have given it as
glass and bronze antedate all his their opinion that the phenomenon
toric records, but those of iron, of erect growth was and is in some
brass and steel are comparatively manner related to the action of
modern. Bone and glass needles light. That this hypothesis is un
have been found in Egyptian tombs tenable was proved by Dr. Maxwell
that are known to be over 4,000 S. Masters of England, who found
years old, and similar domestic in that sprouts on green posts thou
struments Jof bronze and copper sands of feet underground in the
have been found in the mounds and mines always assume the erect atti
burial cave» of Europe and America tude.
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which are believed to be much older
Th*ir First Falling Out.
than those found with the Nile
The speeding trains came to
mummies. The needle first appear
ed in its present form in European gether with a dull, sickening thud.
countries in the year 1410, but the A moment later the happy pair sat
art of making there was kept a se facing each other in tne cornfield
cret for upward of 150 years after far nwav.
“ Well, whnt are you crying for?”
the date last given. In the year
1680 they were first made in the asked the man. The ladv wept
American colonies, bnt at whet anew. * lt— it is our first falling
point is a mooted question among out,” she sohhed.—Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
the historians.
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TURNER’S AMBITION.
rhs Great Paintar Achieved I« by
Yeare of Self Sacrifice.
Turner could not bear to sell a
favorite painting. He was always
melancholy after such a transaction.
“ 1 lost one of my children this
week/’ he would sadly exclaim. At
a meeting at Somerset House it was
decided to purchase his two great
pictures, the “ Rise” and the “ Fall
of Carthage,” for the National gal
lery. A Mr. Griffiths was commis
sioned to offer $5,000 for them.
“ A noble offer,” said the painter,
“ a noble offer— but, no, I cannot
part with them. Impossible.” Mr.
Griffiths, greatly disappointed, took
his leave. Turner ran after him.
“ Tell those gentlemen,” he said,
“ that the nation will most likely
have the pictures after all.”
Long before this Turner had ma
tured a purpose which continued
to be his dominant idea while life
lasted. This was to bequeath to
his country a Turner gallery of pic
tures and to amass £100,000 to build
and endow an asylum for decayed
artists. It was for this great object
that he denied himself all pleasures
that cost money— all luxuries.
His resolve, once made, could not
be shaken. On one occasion he was
offered £100,000 for the art treas
ures locked up in the “ den.” “ Give
me the key of the house, Mr. Tur
ner,” said a Liverpool merchant,
“ and here is the money.”
“ No,
thank you,” replied Turner. “ I
have refused a better offer.” And
that was true.
By his will he bequeathed £140,-
000 to found an asylum for poor
artists born in England and a mag
nificent art collection to his coun
try. This'latter bequest was, how-
n
l with
i r z the .condition
Z
ever, I coupled
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GRAPHITE AND ITS USES.
Dr. O. A. Eldriedge ; ;
DENTIST
Maxico Suppliaa tha Flnaat Brand sf
This Tranafornjad Coal.
In the centriil part of the Mexi
can state of Sonora, twenty miles
from the mining town of La Colo
rado, is one of the most desolate
spots on earth. A few rude shacks
give sign of human occupancy, and
there are other evidences to show
that mining operations are going
on. Here and there are huge neaps
of some intensely black stul
! One soon discovers, however, that
the black stuff is graphite— not only
that, but it is from this source that
the world gets most of the material
for its best pencils,
i The stuff, oddly enough, is obtain
ed from coal beds which in places
have turned into graphite. In fact,
the same Reds are actually being
mined in other spots for coal. Ge
ologists say that the metamorphosis
was brought about by a plutonic
agency— granite “ dikes” pushing
their way up from molten hot strata
down below and changing the coal
into graphite, which today is soft
and friable enough to be dug out
with pickax and shovel.
On being brought to the surface
it is spread out in the hot sun to
dry, and then thrown into piles to
await shipment. Mules not much
larger than St. Bernard dogs haul
it to La Colorada, whence it is for
warded by rail to Michigan for treat
ment.
Water is so scarce in the graphite
producing locality that it is doled
put in kerosene cans, ten gallons a
day to each family. There is not
enough of it for reckless washing,
bo that the miners look like negroes.
The famous Siberian graphite is
hard to get out, transportation fa-
cilities ------
in that part
of the world
v
that’ his “ Rise” and “ Fall of Car- t*1“ « P°°r> and even the J**4
thlge” ihooM b /h u n g in th .
ta . ■
to be « c t e d i
tio„«l gallery between Cl.nde'i
“ ,e’ " ® g*
“ Seaport" and “ Mill.” - London i o>nety t,me, in order to nd it « t it .
impurity. But the graphite from
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¡Sonora demands no such elaborate
Got a choap Dinner.
¡treatment: Velvety soft and smooth
Verily the duchy of Baden pos- ¡to the touch, lumps of it are easily
sesses a Solomon in the person of crushed in the hand. After being
I one of its magistrates. He is the ground it is “ air floated” — that is to
burgomaster of a village in a street say, exposed to a gentle blast of air.
whereof a cyclist ran over and kill The heavy particles (grit) settle first
ed a goose. The owner of the bird and are thus separated out. Wh%t
demanded 3 markq damages. The 1 remains are parities almost infinite
cyclist thought 2 ample. The case ly small, like soot.
The graphite thus refined is mix
came before the chief magistrate,
who gave his judgment as follows: ed with clay in certain proportions
“ The plaintiff declares that if paid for making pencils. A good deal of
3 marks he will make no claim for clay is used for hard pencil leads,
the dead goose. The defendant, who less of it for s o ft The more day
is willing to pay 2 marks, also makes the harder the pencil. The pencil
no claim for the body of the goose. with a big lead, extremely s o ft such
Defendant, hand me 2 marks, and as carpenters use. has only enough
you, plaintiff, hand me the goose.” clay to bold the partides of graphite
When both had obeyed his com together.
Thi
be largest use of graphite, how
mands he produced 1 mark out of
his pocket and handed all three to ever, is for a lubricant. It is also
the plaintiff. The goose he kept employed extensively in the mixing
of paints to give “ body.” The fa
for himself.
miliar shiny Took of gunpowder is
Hi* Modesty Won.
given by graphite, which furnishes a
A tourist in Japan went to the coating for the individual grains
Grand hotel in Yokohama and sign and prevents them from sticking
ed his name upon the register, al together. Other uses o f graphite
though he was told that there were are in electrotyping and manufac
no rooms to be had. He registered ture of Btove polish.
“ John Smith, Brooklyn.” A man
For high temperature crucibles
standing behind him looked over his the onlv Suitable graphite is that
shoulder and observed what he had obtained from Ceylon, which has an
written. “ So you’re from Brook unusual structure, being fibrous.
lyn, are you?” he said. “ Yes,” ad- I Mixed with clay for a binder, its
mitted the young man. “ And yet ¡gbers interlock, and with expansion
when you re away from home yoUjan(j contraction they work in and
don’t register New 1 ork ? ’ “ No, ■ out, so that the crucible does not
replied the toqrist firmly. ‘ Here, break when heated or cooled. Such
said the stranger, turning to the crucibles are made from an inch
clerk; “ give this man the best room high to sizes big enough to hold gal-
in the house. I’m the proprietor lon8.—St. Louis Republic,
o f this hotel,” he explained, “ and I
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Byron’* Dr*ad of Growing Fat.
come from Brooklyn myself.” — Ex
change.
Byron was a striking exception to
Sir Francis Galton’s theory that
Th* O*tr*oi*m.
notabilities are great eaters, for
The ostracism was a way the Byron, like many less clever people,
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Greeks had of getting rid of “ un had a morbid dread of growing fat
desirable citizens” of note. The and was wont to mortify the flesh
people wrote the names of those accordingly. While at Athens he
they most suspected upon small drank large quantities of vinegar
shells. These were put in an urn and water and seldom ate more
or a box and presented to the sen than a little rice, and at another
ate. Upon a scrutiny of them he time he restricted himself to six bis
whose name was oftenest found was cuits a day. Again in 1816 he lived
sentenced by the senate to banish- on a thin slice of bread for break-
ment Six thousand votes were re- f||9t Rnd #
table dinner> k
j
quired to make the ostracism law- down
hig
h^
n£r(,r
;n
nptw„pnK
down his hunger in Between by
ful. Sometimes the system worked
chewing tobacco. And he achieved
to the detriment of the state, as
his end, for the last time he was
now and then a good man was ban
weighed he went ten stone nine
ished by the spite of his enemies,
pounds.— London Chronicle.
but generally the ostracism was a
good thing and saved the state much
T h * T runkfiah.
trouble and danger. — New York
The trunkfiah is one of the pe
American.
culiar inhabitants of the ocean. It
is
called the trunkfiah because its
Lev*.
back is completely covered witfi
Love is a great healer,
The
bony plates of a regular shape,
worst characteristic trait of a man
forming a complete coat of muil.
and of a woman has been known to
It is protected so completely that it
be cured by it. It is Cupid who in
can move only its tail, mouth and a
troduces you to Hymen, and a pity
Small part of its gills, which pass
it is. How much better it would be
through the armor. It is quite a
if it were Hymen who introduced
.
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,
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,o „ lo Cupid und in riM the little ,m * " fi*h,
m the
fellow to Vermin your *ue.t! lo " r" „ ’ *,er* the *°” ‘ h<irn tr0’ ‘"
the tender relations between men
Hnd women novelty is a wonderful
Two *f • Kind.
attraction and habit a powerful I Peckham— My wife talks, talks,
bond, but between the two there is talks all the time.
a bottomless precipice into which
Underthum— You’re wrong. She
love often falls, never to be heard must listen part of the time or my.
of afterward.
Happy those who wife wouldn’t be with her so much.
know how to bridge over the chasm! — Exchange.
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PHYSICIANS mmi SURGEONS
Office over U. S. National Bank
Office phone Blue 171
Residence Phone Black 115
LITTLEFIELD & ROMIG
PHYSICIANS
A SURGEONS
Office in First Nat’ l Bank Building
Phone, Black 31
l DR. THOS. W . HESTER
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Dixon Building
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Or. H. D. Bower
Drs. Bowers A Bowers.
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P H YS IC IA N S
Graduate* of the A. a O., KlrkavlUe, Mo.
A year’ s post-graduate work in Cali-
forma just completed. Women’s
Diseases a Specialty,
Office, upstairs oppo*ite7postoffice«
Phones: Office, White 75; Res.-
Dr. E. P. Dixon
Dentist
Phone
Office White 22 Res. White 8
Newberg, Oregon
A . E. W IL SO N
O p ticia n
Eyes examined and glasses made
to fit.
Phone Blue 38
202 First St.
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DENTIST
Office over U. S. Natl. Bank
Phone Black 171
W . W . Hollingsworth & Son
Funeral Directors & Emb&lmers
Calls Answered Day or Night
Lady Assistants. No extra charge
Office, White 25
Res. Black 94
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^ TTORN BY -AT- LAW
CLARENCE BUTT
Will practice in all the courts o f the
state. Special attention given to pro
bate work, the writing o f deeds, mort
gages, contracts and the drafting of all
legal papers.
Newberg, Oregon.
O ffice —Second Floor
Bank o f Newberg Building.
WILLIAM M. RAMSE1
Attorney-at-Law
M c M i n n v i l l e ,
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Office in the Elsia Wright Building
Third street
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at K o d s o n B ros. S to re
Cleaning, Pressing and Pratica
Tailoring
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Physician A Surgeon
Quoaic dneaae* a «penalty. Call* anawered
promptly day or night.
Office 213 Main St. opposite Commercial Hotel
Phonra: Office. Black 21; Rea.. Rad 96