THE N K W b K K O G R A P H IC
AMERICA REASSURED
BY GREAT BRITAIN
Prime Mlnlsttr Asquith Declares
Political Intervention of
Mexico Not Intended.
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London.— Prime Minister Asquith
discussed the Mexlcsa question In his
annual speech at the lord mayor’s
banquet
“ Our Interests In Mexico,” said the
prime minister, “call tor vigilant care.
Mexico Is still In the throes of a civil
war, but there never was and nsvsr
has been, any question of political In
tervention by Oreat Britain in the do
mestic concerns of Mexico, or in the
Central or South American states.
“There- have been rumors that after
the United States had adopted a line
of tholr own in regard to Mexico we
took a line calculated deliberately to
thwart America. There Is not a vest
ige of foundation for such a rumor. *
“ We have recognised President
Huerta, because, having neither the
will aor the power to Intervene, we
were bound to deal with th^ de facto
government, and, because of Informa
tion then In our possession, there ap
peared to be no element except that
of Huerta and his supporters which
offered any prospect of the restora
tion of the stability and order.
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THAW’S EXTRADITION SIGNED
Writ of Habeas Corpus Prevents His
Removal to New York Stats.
Concord, N. H.—Governor Pelker of
New Hampshire signed the extradition
papers returning Harry K. Thaw to
New York at the request of Governor
Glynn. Thaw’s extradition resulted
from a charge of conspiracy in con
nection with his escape from the Mat-
teawan asylum. This decision, it is
said, does not Mean that Thaw will
be returned immediately to Mattea-
wan.
Beiliss Not Guilty of Ritual Murder.
Kiev, Russia.— Mendel Beiliss was
acquitted in the famous “ ritual mur
der" trial.
The trial of Beiliss, a Russian of
Hebrew faith, for the alleged murder
for purposes of “ blood ritual” of An
drew Yushinskl, a Christian lad, be
gan on October S. The case caused
an Immediate sensation which stirred
the whole of Russia.
Sulxor Asks October Pay.
Albany. N. Y.— William Bulser as
serts be is still governor of New York.
In a letter to the state treasurer and
the state controller he demanded his
full salary for the last half of October,
ISIS.
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MEXICO REAUZES
SITUATION DELICATE
Mexico City.—-Government officials,
foreign residents and the people of
Mexico realise that the relations be
tween this country and the United
States are strained almost to the point
o f war.
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If General Huerta is anxious re
garding what may develop, he does not
betray i t Although he has sent to
the diplomatic representatives of the
foreign nations a note, which in ef
fect is a defiance of Washington.
In his formal statement to the diplo
mats General Huerta said it was now
foreseen that the recent elections
were void, as too few preblncts had
participated in the voting and that
therefore the new congress would an
nul the elections.
New elections
would then be called and he would
continue his programme of pacifica
tion.
President Huerta’s backbone has
been stiffened by the receipt of suf
ficient funds to operate the govern
ment until the end of tbe present
month and the Implied promise of
further financial aid if tbe new con
gress should act favorably on certain
old land concessions.
INVENTION OF THE DYNAMO.
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LOFTY MOUNT M’KINLEY,
Duo to tho l+fls Experiments of a Six Wondrous Outlook That Burets Upon
teen-year-old Boy.
the View From Parker Pass.
The electric generator or dyna
mo was actually due to an experi
ment by a six teen-year-old boy.
Professor Henry, a scientist of
fame in the first half o f the last
century, had experimented exhaus
tively in electricity, endeavoring to
get from chemical batteriea a cur
rent that could be commercially
used. But he could not sufficiently
reduce the expenee o f the chemi
cals.
He discarded a group of
revolving magnets as useless, giving
it to his son as a plaything.
After the boy had amused him
self with twirling it and adjusting it
in accordance with his own ideas, he
secured one of the little testing in
struments— a galvanometer — used
by the professor for detecting the
electric current, and, hooking on
the wires in the way he had seen
hia father attach them, he continu
ed twirling the magnets.
While be Was doing this the pro
fessor entered the room and was
astonished to see the needle o f the
galvanometer drawn to one aide,
showing the existence o f an electric
current.
This bad never before
been produced by such magnets
without the use o f a chemical bat
tery. Within two hours Professor
Henry had attached the discarded
magnets to a lathe, and, by quick,
steady revolutions, produced a cur
rent and an amazing spark. The
true dynamic generator had been
discovered!
When it is considered that every
electric power plant, every electric
lighting plant, and every electric
railway in the world are based upon
that boy’s play hour revelation of
the possibility o f making an elec
tric currept without the use o f
chemicals, this little known instance
o f what boys have done for the
world ia entitled to a very high
place.— George F. Stratton in SL
Nicholas. r
Rossini and tha Drum.
When Rossini’s “ Gazza Ladra”
was performed for the first time
the drum in the orchestra not only
excited much comment, but caused
the enemies o f the composer, whom
they denounced as a “ foolish in
ventor o f unmusical novelties,” to
threaten Rossini with bodily vio
lence. One young man, a pupil of
Rolla’s, gained admission to the com
poser’s presence and declared that
art had been so violently outraged
by the innovation that he must kill
the offender. He drew a weapon,
but consented to listen to argument.
He had been a soldier, and when the
composer asked him why there
should not be a drum where there
were soldiers he sheathed his knife.
“ Promise me, though,” he said,
“ that you will put no drums in your
future music.”
Rossini promised,
but forgot.
Tree« Are Fed Prom Top Soil.
Does a fruit tree get nourish
ment from the subsoil ? Try scrap
ing the top soil from a small patch
and planting a garden on it. Avail
able plant food is usually found
only near the surface, where air,
sunshine and fresh rains have
worked on the soil and where plants
have decayed to make humus.
A tree sends its roots deep chiefly
for water, not for food. The feel
ing rootlets are near the surface,
and unless the surface soil has the
food elements in available form,
[ >lus the humus, the crop will be
ess than it should be.— Farm and
Fireside.
The Parker pass is the most
splendid coign of vantage on Mount
McKinley except the summit. From
an elevation o f more than 15,000
feet it overlooks the whole Alaskan
range, and tbe scope o f vision to the
east, to the southeast and to the
northeast, is almost uninterrupted.
Mountain range rises beyond moun
tain range until only snowy sum
mits are visible in tbe great dis
tance, and one knows that beyond
tbe last o f them lies the bine aea.
The nearby summits, red with gran
ite or black from shale, and gullied
from top to bottom with snow and
ice, the broad highways o f the gla
ciers at their feet carrying parallel
moraines that look like giant tram
lines, stand out with vivid distinc
tion. Mount Hunter raises its bead
above the lesser peaks. The two
artns o f the Muldrow glacier, right
in the foreground, display their
course from thqir head to their
junction and from their junction to
groaning tributaries from every
evacuating height. The dim, blue
lowlands, now devoid o f snow,
stretch away to the northeast, with
threads o f stream and patches of
lake that gtill carry ice along their
banks.
Turning around and looking up
ward, the slabs o f granite are like a
gateway through which the Grand
basin opens to our view. The ice o f
its glacier sweeps with almost a
cataract curve to its precipitation,
4,000 feet below us, and the Grand
mits, rises with progressive leaps
o f jagged blue serac for five or six
miles, until its upper rim is about
4,000 feet above us. On the right
are the sheer dark cliffs o f the
north peak, soaring to an almost
immediate summit 5,000 feet above
the pass. In the midst is the bro
ken, heaving, glittering ice o f the
[lacier, eager, as one fancied, fo r its
all. On the left is just visible the
receding horned snow dome o f the
south peak, the highest uplift of
the mountain. And all this splen
dor and diversity yielded itself np
to ns at once; that was the most
sensational and spectacular feature
o f it.— Hudson Stack, D. D., in
Scribner’ s.
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Church Within a Church.
A church built within a church
seems a very unlikely arrangement,
yet such is the case at Covehithe, on
the coast o f Suffolk, England. The
church at present in use is built
within tlfe nave of a ruined church
which must in its day have been
very fine, since the present chnrch
scarcely fills half o f the old nave.
The old tower remains and is a
landmark for sailors.
Doubtless
there was at one time a large popu
lation, but the old village or town
is now at the bottom o f the sea. The
church ia only a third o f a ,n»ile
from the sea, from which it is said
to have been at one time three-
quarters o f s mile away.
Take a sharp knife, follow chalk
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A m We Journey Through
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I t was a clear case o f unrequited
affection, but, despite numerous set
backs, Blinks persisted in his calls.
T b e lady's name was May, but her
attitude toward him was December.
Her ten-year-old brother Billy re
ceived poor Blinks tbe last time he
And Be S A T IS F IE D Forever
GUARANTEED
“ Is your sister at home?” asked
the suitor.
“ N o, she’s gone out.”
“ A h! so I ’ve come tu the cage
only to find the bird baa Down.” ,
“ No, you ain’t,” retorted Billy.
“ But you’ re like the month of
June.”
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“ How’s that?”
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“ Every time you come in May
goes out.” — Fun.
Delivery Everywhere
Q U A LITY
Phone, White 26
“There Is a. House With, g Bathroom’
d m « calculated to arouse
interest, but n ow , conditions
Physical Exercise Sweeping.
are entirely different. T o
build a bouse w ithout a bath
room m erely raises a ques
tion as to the g o o d ju dg
m ent o f the builder. P eople
know that ha has either n ot
considered o r else m isjudged
the im portance that an up-
to-date bathroom has in
increasing the value o f the
house, both as to renting
and sellin g value.
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F or the finest plum bing
« uipm entat reasonable cost
w e recom m end 'S ta n dard'
plum bing fixtures and w ill
be pleased to show you the
many artistic designs in
which they ase made. A sk
fo r illustrated b o o k le t
Mother— I’m sick, and you’ll have
to do the sweeping today.
Daughter— 1 can’t, mamma; this
is the day I take physical culture ex
ercise.— Chicago Daily Newa.
Unusually Intelligent.
“ T on saw this horse?”
counsel for the defendant.
asked
“ What did you do ?”
“ I opened his mouth in order to
ascertain how old he was, and I said
to him, I said, 'Old fellow, I guess
you’ re a good horse, y e f ” —
At this juncture opposing coun
sel leaped to hia feet. “ Y ou r hon
or,” he cried, “ I object to the state
ment o f any conversation between
the witness and the horse when the
plaintiff was not present.” — Our
Animala.
L IG H T A N D P O W E R
HOUSE WIRING AND
His Busy Day.
“ Busy day ?”
“ Terribly busy. I got to the of
fice so late that I almost missed a
very important luncheon engage
ment. Luncheon kept me so long
that 1 nearly forgot a golf match,
and when I got through with that I
barely had time to get ready for a
theater party. Still, I don’t mind
having to hustle. It takes activity
Yam liill Electric Company
5 Our B u i l d i n g Materials are the Best
£ Our prices are right, and we shall be pleased to have you call and giv
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ua an opportunity to furnish you with anything you need in our line.
i Newberg Mfg. and Construction Co.
Fitness a f Things.
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+08 North Main S t, Newberg, Oregon
Stenographer— The old man says
to order him a carriage.
Bookkeeper— What kind o f a car
riage does he want?
Stenographer— I don’t know, but,
to be appropriate, it ought to be a
sulky.— Somerville Journal.
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Manufacturers of Doors, Windows, ini Other Builtun Materials
Catching a Baseball Fan.
Smalleet Bask In tho World.
The smallest book in the world
was made in Italy. It is not much
larger than a man’ s thumb nail. It
is fonr-tenths o f an inch in length,
a quarter of an inch in width and
contains 208 pages, each with nine
lines and from 95 to 100 letters.
The text consists o f a letter written
by the inventor o f the pendulum
clock to Mme. Christine of Lorraine
in 1615. .
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B U ILD W IT H
Life Let Ue Laugh
by the Wajr.
C ru .l Retort.
Tw o ladies during a friendly
meeting on the street g ot to quar
reling about their ages and used
very strong language toward each
other. At last, as i f to end the dis
pute, one of them turned away and
•aid in a very conciliatory tone of
voice: “ Let us not quarrel over the
matter any more. I, at least, have
not the heart to do it. I never
knew who my mother was. She de
serted me when I was a baby, and
who knows but that you may have
Spurgeon’s Sermon«.
A wonderful sermon maker was been the heartless parent?”
€ . H. Spurgeon. He had no need to
Origin of “Grata Widow.”
repeat himself for his powers seem
Grass
widow means “ grace” wid
ed inexhaustible, and, moreover, he
ow,
as
opposed
to “ death” widow.
made repetition impossible by pub
lishing his sermons week by week. The Latin is vidua de gratia; the
The weekly issue began in 1861, French, veuve de grace. A smart
and, though the great preacher died discrimination is “ grass” widow and
in 1891, he left behind so much ma “ sod” widow. It is said that the
terial that the publication has con early adventurers in California had
tinued till this day and is likely to the practice of alluding among
¡jo on for at least another dozen themselves to wives left behind as
rears. No other published sermons “ out at grass,” and it is sometimes
J. J. Hill Urges Lower Land Values. ever attained such popularity as suggested that the use o f “ grass
Portland, Or.—Better farmers and Spurgeon’ s. One sermon alone «old widow” came this way into exist
ence.— Kansas City Star.
lower real estate values wore held up over 300,000 copies.
by James J. Hill as the hope of Ore
Tho Way to Cut Fur.
gon and the northwest at a compli
In the Woman’ s Home Compan
mentary banquet tendered to himself,
J. M. Hannaford, the new president ion a contributor tells as follows
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of the Northern Pacific, and a nurhber iow to cut fur:
of other distinguished visiting bank
“ Lay fur on table, fur side down.
ers and railroad men at the commer Lay on pattern, or, better still,
mark off cutting lines with chalk.
cial club.
For Goodness Sake
Police Department Stirred by Charges ines and cut through pelt only,
A Nurse's 8uccesa.
Portland, Or.—Charges of gambling jift gently, pull apart. There will
“ I ’ve just returned from abroad,
on the part of certain members of the je no damage to the fur aa when
u know. How is your poor fa-
police department has led to perhaps using shears.”
the most sweeping Investigation by
When • Glass Stopper Stioko.
Slus Stocking«.
the municipal civil service commis
"Dear, dear!”
When the glass stopper of a bot-
sion ever nude in Portland. Involved
“ Bine stocking” originates from
“ Yes, the nurse married him
In these charges are high officers and ,le has become fixed and will not n Mr. Stillingfleet, who was a favor <Cleveland Plain Dealer.
move, if it is sonked in vinegar for ite member of the literary gather
•bout 20 patrolmen.
a few hours and (hen worked gentl) ing in the time o f Dr. Johnson and
No Trouble About Sticking.
it will come «wav quite easily, and who always wore blue stockings. If
Pleasant Session fer T. R.
First Drummer— Confound it
Buenos Ayres.—Colonel Roossvsli there is no danger o f breaking it.
he happened to be absent all asked. Talf the sales 1 make don’t stick.
Never try to force it or yon may “ Where is our blue stockings ?” and
attended a session of the Argentine
Second P r'm m eT — Get into m;
congress and listened to eulogies of cut your’ hand severely. — Rural from this th« term for ladies of ine and y rv ‘” '--ive no troublei
himself and the United 8 Utes.
Farmer.
literary p -
' ’ «ns was derived.
sell muciln’-
>ston TranacripL
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Cinerarias, Calls Lilies, Heleotrope and many others. Hardy
Perennial Plants in great variety. Don’t forget that we are
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