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B K B G O K A P H 1C 010 F 0 RU 0 LT 0 N Now Ntw York’s Famous Aquari um at the Battery. ONCE NAMED CASTLE GARDEN. TI m Historic Building In Its Day H u Hs«r«l *ha Klaqu.no« 0f Daniel Wab- eter, the Nary Oratory of Keeeuth and the Divine Veiee at Jenny Lind. A SARTORIAL NIGHTMARE. The "Colleg« Togs" • ported by Har vard Students In 1$8$ ■ The old time "college toga" worn by ‘ he Harvard students back in 1886 was an amusing sartorial creation, or may be It would more properly be classi fied as the result of the dressmaker’s art Of course, no one now living remembers i t but the ancient "toga'' Is described In the annals of the col lege. and> the present Oxford cap and gown are very simple and sober things In comparison. As described by a writer whose curiosity bad been aroused by stories concerning the gay festive "college toga," even the togas worn by the old Roman senators were negligible quan tities. In 1866, when Harvard cele brated her two hundredth anniversary, this fanciful summer garment was much In vogue, and for at least two seasons It was in high fashion with the undergraduates. / It was made of gingham and o f s color and pattern to suit the taste of the wearer. It was a loose fitting gar ment reaching to the knees, was gath ered at the neck and also at the waist behind. It had a turned over collar, a small cape rounded la front and a belt o f the materia) o f the divas. The sleeves were either booked or buttoned at the wrist It was trimmed with a long tnsseled white fringe. The accom paniments o f this dress were a low crowned, broad brimmed straw hat. secured by a broad ribbon under tbs chin; trousers and silk or thread gloves o f a color In harmony with that o f the toga, and usually a heavy cane. It Is not known to whom the distinc tion belongs of having first conceived the “college toga." , Like Jupiter. It came Into being complete in Its match lees-grace and adornments. It was probably due to the creative genius and skillful fingers of “ Ma’am” Dana, the college talloreas o f that day. who was probably the sole manufacturer o f the strange garment This estimable woman presided over a bevy o f sewing girls, a! vays care fully curtained from the public gase. in the lower story of a small wooden building opposite Wadsworth bouse, at that time the official residence o f Presi dent Quincy.—Exchange. It la well to think well. It Is divine to act well.—Horace Mann. ■ a s. i cause he likes blonds best” “Oh. I see! 8he’s positively dyeing for him.” —Baltimore American. OLD ROMAN HOTELS. Hew They Treat the Blue Dirt In ths Kimberly Region, Iff here On# Could Oat Tiger o r Lisa ’, »tow, but Ns Credit For G o o d n e s s S a k e Writing to bis monthly f^om Jo The traveler who is prone to hannesburg, E. W. Howe tell* bow eomplain of sleepless nights spent tig.- diamonds are taken from the in uncomfortable hotels in this ifly,the country may find some solace in mines in South Africa. Briel tonds is this account o f the Roman hotcla in process o f finding the diamoi at follows: "■ " - '/ J R the days of the late republic and the The blue dirt in which the .'dia empire: monds are found is brought to, the Most o f the ho«tallies and tav surface precisely as cog] is htfisted erns of Rome, says Humbert de ted in about the same way. Qallier in “ Usages ei Moeurs d’ Au and mined It is then pieced in little iron'cars' trefois,” were situated along the d, wi where it Appian way. Some o f them were and hauled to $ level field, is spread over the surface > to a depth passable. It was' at one o f the bet o f two feet. This is done i to permit ter ones that Cicero used frequent the weather to disintegrate tty dirt ly to stop and write his letters. and render its washing easier. .To G U A R A N T E E D Q U A L IT Y The most interesting hostelriea, day I saw a field o f 4,000 acres cov however, were near the circuses ered -with this blue d irt It wiH re and amphitheater# -The shrewd D elivery E veryw h ere P hone, W h ite 2 6 main out in the weather a year be and generally dishonest owners had fore it is treated in the washing a double purpose in selecting that milla. ? : situation. It was well chosen for You might pause a moment and the patronage of the huge crowds think of that 4,000 acre field, cov that went to the circuses on holi ered to. a depth o f two feet with the days to see the fights between wild blue dirt in which diamonds, are animals and the gladiatorial com found. The 4,000 acre field 1 saw bats. and the landlords could buy represented the output o f only one conveniently and reasonably those mine; there are eight in the fCim- animals that had been slaughtered berly district, only two o f which are during the day, to be served on is largely a matter o f good sanitation. The known to be dnffers, as they say their tables. here— that is, o f little value.. best modern plumbing fixtures are designed not only Thus a merrymaker might wit And you may rest assured that ness a battle between a lion and a to look well and to wear well, but also to afford this 4.000 acre field is carefully tiger in the amphitheater in the aft hygienic conditions o f the highest possible standard. guarded, it ia surrounded with a ernoon, and if he went to a nearby barbed wire fence fourteen feet hotel might find parts o f the aame It is impossible to secure high, and on the top o f the fence lion or tiger id his stew for dinner. good sa n ita ry conditions are four wires spread out in such a A bear’s steak was considered s with cheap plumbing. Fine way that no one could possibly great delicacy in Rome. climb over. At night the fence is plumbing fixtures and good The furnishings o f the common illuminated with electric lights, and room, which in these hotels served workmanship are expensive, « there ia a patrol o f armed guards ' as dining room, parlor and taproom but the far-sighted house day and nigh t But you might be were severely simple. A few wood holder chooses than because turned loose in the 4,000 acre field en tables, a few wooden benches they afford a f e e l i n g o f and not find a diamond in a year. and a sort o f elevated throne were The process o f finding them is very the only pieces of furniture. On the sanitary security that ia in intricate, expensive and difficult, raised chair or throne sat the owner estimable. v Many o f the natives who work in of the inn and watched over hia the diamond mines have never seen guests arid probably hia belongings. You want only the best plumbing for your home, a diamond; they see only the bine A large number o f the hostelriea and you may obtain it by having us install dirt. displayed upon the ceilings o f their guaranteed fixtures. After the blue dirt has lain out in common rooms a painting repre the weather a year and been plowed senting a rooster. The painting up at intervals with steam plows bore an ipscription, the spirit of that all portions o f it may haT# a which wilt never grow o ld : “ When chance at the sun, it is washed in ’this cock eyows, then.We will give T i n n e r a n d P lu m b e r enormous mills and reduced in the prédit.” r-,\ proportion o f 1 to 4,00d.000— that 'M à i is the one link that binds is, for every pound o f diamonds the crude, uncomfortable tavern o f i -w r ------------_____________ : found 4,000,000 pounds o f blue flirt ancient Rome to the elaborate ho are mined, hoisted, exposed in the tel o f the present day. field a year and then ran through ‘ >* * Names Of DanoSa. the washing mills. T he position token by the dancers In these washing mills the blue dirt is first crushed between rollers gives the name to the “ quadrille” — and „ then run through shaking literal English for “ V little square’' You will always find here a full snpply o f family medicines, washing pans three different times. in the French tongue. From the the people everywhere believe in me and I am i glad to say aay that tr have been ray firm friends every since I started in business. I What-is left is then taken in cars French we get also “ country dance,” sit my store for all kinds o f Drugs, Medicines to another mill called the pulaator. which, as a matter o f fact, haa no and here the precious dirt is again reference to rural frolic# “ Contre and Lowney’ s fancy candies and in fact every thing carried by an washed three times. Finally the danse.” which haa reference to the up-to-date Dtug Store. Don’t forget the R&xal) fine, everything guaranteed. I make prescription work a specialty. diamonds, and the heavier pebbles ’ position o f the couples, opposite ----- . Y ou Are Alw ays W elcom e at the Rexall Store remaining after six washings go in each other, is readily corrupted into a stream o f water ovhr a shaking “ country dance.” The “ pelka” is i ¿ .Y 2 V 2 V B o F E R G U S O N pan. the bottom o f which is covered Polish dance, the name being deriv 302 First SL Prescription Druggist Phone Black 106 with vaseline. The diamonds stick ed -from the Bohemian word “ pul- CkKiattaoac^oaoaogagDaoaoaogoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaoaaaaa to the vaseline for some reason yet ka,” meaning half, and refers to the unexplained, while the pebbles roll half step which occurs in this meas The “ wait*” is German- away with the water. The diamonds ure. — aaaaaaaaasaaaa a sffu sssia a a a i on .th e screen are then easily col waltzen, meaning to revolve— the circular motion of the couples lected and sorted. easily explaining the connection. ; Suieide as a Luxury. Tlie “ reel” is suggestively obviou# Suicide has often been regarded “ Jig” is o f course from the French as a luxury, and,Marseilles, France, gigue. colonised from Miletus in ancient Olaeiere ef the Alaskan Coast. days, preserved a custom and a pris on for many years under Roman i t is very probable that more rule. A dose o f hemlock and aco American travelers are familiar nite .was allowed to any one who with the picturesque fiords and gla could show sufficient reason why bff ciers o f Scandinavia than have should deserve death. “ This dia viewed the incomparable scenery af tom 7* says Valerius 'Maximus, forded by the coast of their own “ comes from Greece, particularly Alaska, where the somber inlets are »wweerawrwwwasra r ié é s e »t a s s i IM IM III M IM W M I from the inland o f Qeoa, where I bounded by sheer and towering ■■■"■'ma saw an example. It waa a woman cliffs and where the great fields of o f great quulilv, who., having lived slow moving snow ice lose them vqrv happily ninety, years, obtained selves in some bay or inlet or pitch leave to die this way, lest !by living off suddenly into the ocean itself. longer she should happen to see a The stream o f visitors to this splen change o f her good fortune,” did American scenery is annually increasir. in numbers, and to those ~ { Mere Important. who ¡lia rs e the “ See America ; Mrc Ehfcstifa did not approve o f First” program Alaska offers a mag f.W son’s choice o f a wife and waa nificent field. trying to persuade him to see things A Perilous Pet. as he did. ■ An English major with a pen “ Yes, you arp quite right, fa ther,” said the son. “ Mabel has her chant for entomology asserts that Overland Model 09T defects, she is vain, full o f preten the hornet is “ a gentle, inoffensive sions and grand ideas, with a very cqeature, very suitable for a p e t ’’ OVERLAND 30, fully equipped including $50 Warner speed difficult character. But, father, in This reminds one of an incident in ometer, self starter, presto tank, tire irons, top and top foot, clear the life o f the late Lord Avebury. spite o f all, I simply adore her. I Traveling one day on a railway vision windshield................................$1100 F O- B. NEWBERG can’t live without her,” “ B ut that ia not the question, my train with a pet wasp in his pocket, CADILLAC, fully equipped, very much improved, equal to boy,” said the father. “ Can you live he hurriedly thrust his hand into any car o f any price. his pocket to get his ticket, and with her?” — L ip p in cotf# the wasp stung him. He did not Let S. A. Mills tell yoa about either of them. Nat a Cass ef Sympathy. blame the wasp, however, as his Teacher— Willie, did your father hum ed action had frightened the F IR S T C L A S S S H O P W O R K whip you for what you did in school creature. Wasps have frequently yesterday ? become peta. but the major ia said Willie— No, ma’am ; he said the to be the first to turn the hornet licking would hurt him more than in to one. me. ss - A Walsh Verdiet. Teacher— What nonsense I Tout father is too sympathetic. Welsh juries were formerly ac Willie— No, ma am ; hut ha's got cused o f giving their verdict in ac O ur B u ild in g M a t e r ia l» a r e th e B e s t rheumatism in both anna cordance with their liking for the rival counsel rather than on the Our prices are right, and we shall be pleased to have you call and give Aoeidontolly. ua an opportunity to furnish you with anything you need in our line. merits o f the case Sir Francis Pal- “ 1, wonder how so many «an y forest grave tells o f a Merioneth jury fires catch?” said Mrs. McBride. whose foreman, when asked for a “ Perhaps they catch accidentally verdict, replied: “ My lord, we do 408.North Main St., Newberg, Oregon from the mountain ranges,” sug not know who ia plaintiff or defend gested Mr. McBride. — Christian ant. but we find for whoever is Mr. Register. Jones’ man.” » e o e o w o w c o< BUILD WITH Spaulding’s Lumber And Be SATISFIED Forever Home Health E. L. E V A N S T h e S t o r e o f Q u a lit y I L IG H T A N D P O W E R H O U SE W IRIN G A N D E L E C T R IC A L SU P P L IE S Yamhill Electric Company The Newberg Auto Co. Newberg M fg. and Construction Co. laiufacturers of Doan, fiiim anil Otter BniMiai Materials êêéêééé Before New York's famous old build- in# at the Battery became the Aquar- lucp It had changed from fort to reeep- , tton hall, from chief amusement place of the city to gateway o f the promised land. Long before It became ¿he home of the finny tribe the building resound ed with shouts for Lafayette. Andrew Jackson. Tyler, Van Buren. It beard the eloquence o f Daniel Webster, the fiery oratory o f Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot and the divine voice o f Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale. When the building was new It stood on a little island separated from the v mainland by some 200 feet o f water, and was reached by crossing a draw bridge. A great part o f Battery park was then water, and It was the filling In o f this stretch that made the aqua rium a part o f the mainland. The rea son for building It on an Island away from the main shore was disclosed In a government order to Colonel Jona than Williams, who hsd charge o f the construction o f the proposed fo rt This order said to construct the fortification - so that the guns could be trained on both the North and Bast rivers. “ A foundation should be made around the bastion o f the old Battery, where the flagstaff Is placed, extending forty or fifty feet from the present and upon this foundation a battery should be constructed In such manner that the run on the right will take In the North river, while that upon the left will range along the courtlne o f the old Battery.” Such were the orders the govern ment gave Colonel Williams. But Colonel Williams said it was Impos sible for guns to command the en trance to the North and Bast rivers If SATURDAY BATHING. they were placed at the old. Battery. Two hundred feet out from the shore A Custom tho’OScidsnt Borrowed From was the least distance at which that the Orient. result could be accomplished, and some Most barbarians, judged by modern time afterward the secretary o f war standards, were anything but cleanly authorised the colonel's plan for the In tbelr personal habits. In England. fort's construction. Prance and Germany bathing was an In 1822. eleven years after Its era- almost unknown custom until after tion. when the military headquarters the Crusades. The pilgrims from the was transferred to Governor's island, east brought home with them ideas of the federal authorities ceded Port Col the bath as help In the treatment of ton—as the preeeut aquarium was then disease, and bathrooms were gradually called—back to the city. Throughout Introduced Into the hospitals. Prom the war o f 1812 not oue shot ha«J been the hospitals the Ideas o f bathing fired at an enemy from this fort, nor spread generally. People who had ’ has one been fired since. The em- been treated there saw the value of ‘ brasures for the thirty and tlllrty-two keeping the body clean In order to re pounders that were never used against sist disease. The great plague that >an enemy cau still be seen In the nine swept over Europe In the early years foot outer wall. o f the fourteenth century helped to ,It was then that the former fort be teach this-lesson. came a place o f amusement and re By the fifteebtb century there was ceived the name of Castle Garden, a scarcely s large city that did not.pos name which it retalued for three quar sess well patronised public bathing es ters o f a century. Two years after the tablishments. although it was not until shifting of soldiers to Governor’s Isl the seventeenth century that the Turk-: and Castle Garden was the scene of a lab bath was Introduced, and not until great reception given to General La the eighteenth century that sea bath fayette when be visited America in ing. so common among the American 1824. It was also the scene of a great Indians, was tried experimentally. memorial service when be died ten Saturday was chosen as bathing time years later. and the reason Is not difficult to Im It was there that 8amuel P. B. agine. On Sunday everybody was com Morse. Inventor of the telegraph, first pelled to go to .church, whether he demonstrated the possibility o f control- would or not As the Moslem In the Ing an electric Current in 183f>. During east bathed before entering the mosque those early years, too. It was the so did the medieval man before enter scene of the receptions given to Ameri ing his church, only be must take his can presidents when they visited New bath on Saturday afternoon In order York. Jackson. Tyler and Van Buren to be clean the following day. There . were received there, and later on the was even a distribution of bath money Prince o f Wales. There also many to the children whose parents were great political meetings were held. unable to pay for their baths.—New Some o f Daniel Webster's greatest ora York Post tions were delivered there. Castle Garden was widely proclaimed Dssp and Shallow Diamonds. as the first real home of opera In In buying a diamond see to It that America. The great auditorium, now jou r stone Is neither too deep nor too occupied by fish, ordinary and extra shallow. If It be too {leeg the “ table” ordinary. was then packed nightly at the top o f the atone wilT have a dead with people who gathered to hear those look Instead o f showing as much colSr famous artists o f the middle nineteenth and tight as at the edge,, where the century: Mallbran. Soutag. Mario. diamond la cut thin to receive title Qrlsi. the members o f Jullen’a orches light. You are simply paying for ex: tra and—best known of all—Jenny tra weight that adds nothing to, bnt lllnd. whom all the theatergoing public rather detracts from the appearance o f o f the United States and Europe wor the gem. The shallow.¿efope. on 'th e shiped. The first night la I860 that other hand—which ia technically known the Swedish Nightingale appeared at as a fish eye—has a glassy look. Some Castle Garden, under the management people buy them because they appear o f P. T. Barnum. the choice seats sold bigger than they really are. but the for several hundred dollars. Her tre bargain Is a poor one and to be avoided. mendous popularity was made open greater when she gave to local char Optimism. *. Ides the $10,000 which composed her Cheer up. old boy. don’t dump your share o f the box office receipts. joy because the day Is glum; pick ont The next year Louts Kossuth, the the best and dump thé rest, let's bear famous Hungarian patriot came fmm you start to ham When In a jam England to the Ualted States and made don’t cusa and slam, bnt grin and wait an address to a vast and enthusiastic It out: the joys love hope. It’s power throng In Castle Garden. ful dope and puts tbs glooms to rout This was one o f the last great recep So don't despair, turn down dull cars tions held In the historic old building. and lyave hlnB to the mob. The nun Four years later It was converted Into ain’t dead, he’ll leave his bed and an Immigrant station for the port, of soon he on the Job. — Cincinnati En New York and from then until lflBO. quirer. when the Immigration office was re moved to Ellis Island. It served as the Another Illusion. gateway through which 8.000.000 of 'Had an interview with a farmer Just people entered to work out their des now." said the poet, “ which gave me tinies In the new world. In 1806 It be quite a shock.” came the aquarium.—New York Sun. “ How was thatr “ He told me that new mown hay had The Far H arisen. no points o f superiority whatever over Little Arthur, taking part.In a geog hay a year old.” —Pittsburgh Post raphy examination, should be award ed a prise for his definition of "horl- A Proof. son.*' which ran as follows: ’Does Emily dote so on that young "The horison Is where the sky and man of heist” water meet—only they d o n 't” —W o "Doss she? At this moment she is man’s Home Companion. changing her brown heir to golden be DIAMOND MINING.
