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V 14 m » ,'sV V « -AT-LAW B U T T UNDER 1 VOLCANO ^ TH E C. R. CHAPIN LAW YER P.F. HAWKINS D E N T IS T Office over First National Bank Phone White 3-1 DENTIST DENTIST Office over U. S’. Natl. Bank Phone Black 171 when a babble, black as n igh t crowd ed Itself out o f the broken end o f the mountain, which we knew was a pot o f molten stone, twenty miles away. The bubble, so dark that w e could see It plainly, swelled like a grow ing puffball and then, pushed out from below, rose like a giant umbrella, with Incredible M eed, Intn the sky. Behind It came a straight tubular column o f smoke, such smoke as that o f which the bubble was made, black and thick and ominous. Up, up, ap, rose the bubble, riding. It seemed, on the column below I t I t ap peared to hang like a huge blanket a thousand feet In the heavens; then slowly, like some great octopus feeling its way along the bed o f the sea, the FHTSKIAM amd SURGEON bubble flattened and began to spread ou t Probably ft moved miles every O ffice over U . S. N ational Bank minute, but it waa fa r aw ay and so O ffice phone Bine 171 monstrous that w e conld not Judge It j Residence Phone Black 116 X by ordinary standards. It seemed that tbs town below us •OWOWOftO^OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO heaved a long sigh. The thing fo r which its ten or tw elve thousand in habitants had been w aiting was about to happen. The m ighty drama w m about to be enacted before their eyes, as It was before the Spanish conquis- tadores set toot on Mexican soli. Yet to them the spectacle was ever excit ing. for Its end might be death, might be destruction o f their town, as It had O ffice in I t a ( t a t i B u k B U * been the destruction o f the many sm all Phone, Black 81 er towns clustered more closely round the skirts o f the gloomy peak. The roofs filled with people. H ere and there a woman screamed: many, both men and women, prayed; queru lous cries a id questions from children D R . TH O S. W . H ESTER rose on the night air, and the bells In the churches began to ring, slow ly at Physician and Surgeon first and then more rapidly, as the fire Office in Dixon Building god began to play about the crest o f a —..I OfHeffi Whit« 22. Ra«. BI m SO Colima. ■ Like a waterspout on the crest o f a N E W B E R G - - OREGON lofty roller at sea. the smoke column and Its spreading top rested fo r a mo ment on the volcano and then, w ith a thunderous outruth o f air, which must TXWXXWXStMÆ USL have been heard for at least a hundred miles, vanished Into thin air. , A col D R . S A R A H E. SM ITH umn o f Are took their place. No ordinary Ore waa this. No flame Ph^acian and Surgeon ever kindled by human bands burned O ffice in C ity H all so w hite as that tow er o f luminous bits o f lava and sand and atone and super Office Phone— W hite 147 heated gaaes that shot upward from Residence Phone— Blue 58 the mouth o f the crater. NEW BERG OREGON I gased at It spellbound as the light o f day spread round all over the valley and the city. A constant roar, came from the volcano, a roar so Insistent so monotonous, that I could not hear D R . FRED H. W IL S O N | what the old hotel keeper wbo stood at my elbow waa saying. I bent my ear to him and beard: “ Not so bad as last Osteopathic Physician and year. Mayhap w e shall not be harmed." 9 W W t o im t o 1 »l » » to to »M I : Dr. E. P. Dixon i DENTIST Dr. John 8. Rankin Littlefield ft Romlg PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS Surgeon •06 1-2 F irst S treet N ew berg « oniM stMk in, v ... n.<t s t o t o ft o lt o W I W t o lft o t t o : DR. O. E. STUART ; Physician an d Sturgeon a ipadshy. 107 S. Mata S t Calk Paese Rad 96 C H A S E A L IN T O N G R A VEL COM PANY All kinds of gravel for con crete work, cement blocks, or wood work furnished on abort notice. Telephone White 86 T ee Modest Sir W . 8. G ilbert’s own story o f his first experience as a playw right Is In structive. H e took hla maiden attempt to a manager, who read it carefully and offered to accept i t “ Now.” said be to the overjoyed dram atist “ wtult do yon expect me to pay yon fo r thlaT" The young author, not likin g to be too forward, modestly suggested 80 guineas. The manager Im mediately w rote out a check fo r the desired amount and. presenting it to G ilb ert •aid: “ Young man. let me g ive you a word o f advice. N ever aril so good a play fo r such a small amount again.” A Curious Trial. The records o f K irby Matseard church In Yorkshire. England, men tion a curious trial which took place la the church In the seventeenth ceotnry. A woman was tried fo r stealing a skull out o f the churchyard. H er defenos was that she took the skull to pot un der the pillow o f a sleepless friend as a charm to make her sleep. She was reprimanded ’fu d ordered to pot the skull bock. ■PC MIXED METALS. ef tha Curlews Results Various Alleys. In the beginning o f man's ¡f£ *£ C drafting o f all A Town That U ves In Persimi*' •nee with metals ouly the.softer such ss copper, gold, silver were mined aud worked up Into Dread of Extinction. tils, weapons, etc. It was early rovered that an alloy o f copper COLIMA'S CRATER IN ACTION. produced a reasonably hard metal id bronze, which was suitable tor ting Instruments and. although Itta a Solemn Speotaele Per the Dwell- hard as flint, was easier to work Practice in all courts; Probate, Deeds, ate In the Shadow of the Qleemy did not break. Then began tha land all legal papou. Ab- Peak-When “Old Faithful" Kapledee. sge o f history. An alloy la a compound o f as It Deee Regularly Once a Year. more metals. A lleys generally It la atngular bow Indifferent to S properties vastly different from persistently threatened danger human parent metals. For Instance, bringa can become, even when the dan the moat ductile o f all metals. It ger la o f a deadly nature and may be drawn Into the finest w ire or Imperil their very Uvea. Harry H. Into a transparent film liner than Dunn, In tha Montreal Herald and thinnest tissue, and yet mix the Star, tells o f a caaa la which s whole eat quantity o f antimony with go townful o f people lie under the con It la oot ductile at all. Copper stant threat o f extinction by a volcano. mixed together produce an alloy The roof o f the little boxlike hotel In ■ higher specific gravity than Celling, capital o f the state o f Colima, Its constituents, and the sam in Mexico, was freshly drenched with w ill occupy leas bulk. Copper and w ater In a vain effort to light o ff some tlmony produce a beautiful violet o f September's beat. 1 think there were alloy. eighteen o f us gathered there In the By m ixing together eight, parts by DR. A M . D A V IS cool, gray n igh t The almost silent weight o f bismuth, five parts o f load town lay like a black and w hite check and three parts o f grain tin an a llo f ;|g erboard a t our fe e t produced which w ill m elt at so low a T w en ty miles away, across a valley temperature that a spoon made o f It still green with the rains o f summer, w ill melt when It la Immersed In hot rose a conical mountain, almost soli tea. and yet the m elting point o f each tary. Even by night It looked sinister; o f Its components la at least tw ice that by day It waa terrible, with Its barren, of boiling water. lava coated sides. Its gas exuding cone A small quantity o f m angaam » shunned even by the vultures which haunted mountain and plain. It was makes Iron almost Indifferent to m ag the volcano o f Colima, the “ Old Faith netism. w hile a bit o f tungsten w ill In fu l” o f craters, which explode« regu crease Its m agnetic pow ers Copper la larly once a year—and It waa almost a good conductor o f electricity, hot I f a little arsenic be mixed with it it ba- due for an exhibition. comes almost a nonconductor. A little “ H e should begin soon.” droned the hotel keeper. “ Maybe today, maybe to tungsten makes steel very much hard morrow. maybe not tor a week, but It er. Lead and antimony are used tor Is the middle o f September, and it is making type metal because the alloy has the peculiar property o f expanding The rid man had scarcely finished aa It co ols—New York W orld. coarta o f the U OKA — i W IL L E. P U R D Y Swinburne’s Odd Adventure on the Coast of Normandy. FACED A MADDENING DEATH. t Peritene Peat That P er a Tim e t u tore bed Him In e Narrow Tunnel a f •elId Reek and Carpa Near Putting a Premature Knd to H ie M ertal Career. In hla youth 8w lnbom e waa a fa- moua swimmer, and to r yaars ha uaed to retire hi M a in a r to the picturesque little village o f Btretat. on the Nor mandy coast, there to braaat the w avs« and to waodar about the chalk m a e One day ha mat w ith a atngular ad venture. which has never |>een told In prin t and cam e near putting a prema ture end to his m ortal career. ▲t one point o f the coast a vast natu ral arch nearly 100 feet In height la form ed by a flying buttraes a t righ t an gles to the general Hue o f the Cliffs, which plants its fo ot below high w ater mark on the shingle beach. The cen tral mass o f this buttress fe ll or waa eaten aw ay by the w aves in prehis toric ages, leaving a pointed gothic doorway o f remarkable symmetry and m ightier than any ever built by man. It Is a famous landmark o f the coast and is to be seen In countless marine pictures painted In the U tter h alf o f the last century. The outer springer or pier o f this gigantic arch Is submerged a t flood- tide. but when the w ater recedes It is seen to be pierced by s sm all hole or tunnel, also o f natural form ation, peas Ing clear through the substance o f the chalk from one side to the other. This bole U partly choked up with the flint pebbles o f which the beach*Is com PLANNED TO LASSO A SHIP. posed. but space enough remains tor a man.to craw l through. The passage la about sixty feet In length, but U bent In Its course, so that when halfw ay through daylight cannot lore may Interest you. When w ar had be seen In either direction. It w as a been declared against M exico and the local fea t o f the athletic young fisher irrtval o f the American hosts was dally men o f the region to w riggle their w ay expected In southern California, 8 t ' through the tunnel a t low tide. Agnes waa In a tremor. O f coarse, Swinburne bqd witnessed one o f not o f fear, but o f excitem ent these performances and made up his One day the news came that a United mind to attem pt the passage him self. States vessel o f w ar waa approaching He cboee a day follow in g one o f the the harbor. A council o f the ancients tierce storms o f late August When be o f the city was Im mediately convened reached the spot the sun a and many plans o f offensive and de and the beach waa deserted. H e did fensive action were proposed and dis nut tbtdk It worth w hile to rem ove any cussed. and Anally the follow in g one, h o f the rough tweed outing garments designed by a Frenchman, whose that be wore, bat got down on bln brother had commanded a crack ragi- I bands and knees and began worming ment under the great Napoleon, was him self into the darkness o f the adopted; A t first all went w ell, bat as he pro H e was to take his spyglass and th e ' ceeded the passage narrowed and tha only available artillery that S t Agnes : slim y w alls o f the chalk rock so ' Im afforded—a small brass cannon, which I had been used alternately with anvils peded hla movements that be waa un to lire salutes during religious and civic • able any longer to use his arms freely, processions (1 am unable to say how , hot conld only posh w ith hla fe et and many o f a pounder it wasl—to the top ! undulate hla body. H e had reached o f the mountain, a distance o f tw elve the bend o f the tunnel and the dark m ile« in a bee line from the ocean neoa waa absulute. H e still pressed on. beach. In the m eanwhile all the ex bat only to find him self wedged in yet pert vaqneros. the moment the vessel more tightly. was sighted, were to conceal them- i A minute more and be realised with horror that he could no longer move selves and horses along the beach. When the ship bad anchored and the j an Inch either forw ard or backward. proper m om ent In the Judgment o f the i The waves had heaped the pebbles up French commander, had arrived, be I. in the center, and he was now firm ly was to Are the cannon from the top o f embedded within a hundred thousand the# mountain, at which signal the tons or solid rock. It was evening. There was no vaqueroe. were to rash through the snrf apd lasso the masts o f the ship, chance o f any one’s coming to hla res capsize It into the breakers and har cue. No one had seen him enter the poon the soldiers and crew as they tunnel, or bad been Inform ed o f his endeavored to escape to shore. This purpose. Hla presence there m ight not brilliant coup d’etat was not carried be discovered In days or weeks, and out, only because the ship never came. m eanwhile the tide would have risen —From “ Romance on El Cam I no Real.” and fallen many times, and be would by Jarre T . Richard«. have been helplessly drowned in black darkness, powerless to stir, be must lie and w ait fo r the certain end. The recession and rise o f the tide would take, be calculated, not lees slow speech, which j than six long b oon , and hla best hope into a summer, i was that madness would render him >nally they use the Unconscious long before the end came, ile in explaining a : 1 But as be lay there a sound came I to hla ears that chilled hla nerves with >rt ov way Martin j a fresh terror. It waa the sound o f a It’s ss I f be tuk the \ w ave breaking at the farther month o f the tunnel. The tide was rising and In a few minutes it would begin to fill the narrow passage. The realization o f this fact paralyzed T e Make Colored Fires. him for a moment; then it stimulated T o make red Are; M ix one part o f him to almost superhuman effort. sulphur, tw o parto o f sulphate o f Forcing him self on hie left aide, he strontium and tour parts o f chlorate succeeded in getting bis right arm out o f potash beyond him. It gave hla body a little To make green Are: Mix equal paita more play. o f sulphur, chlorate o f potash and B y desperate but system atic w rig nitrate o f barium. glin g« and tw istings be was able to T o make blue Are: M ix 200 grains o f work aw ay from beneath him some o f chlorate o f potash, fifty grains o f sul the loose shingle, and to gain a little phur and flfty-nlne grains o f sulphate forw ard. The exertion was tremendous o f copper.—S t Louts Post-Dispatch. and f i r beyond bte natural strength, but be was working fo r life or death. Nitroglycerin and Guncotton. It was a race between him and the Guncotton—discovered by Pelougl in 1838—consists o f cotton steeped In The end was sadden. Tb s tunnel equal ports o f nitric and sulphuric seid abruptly enlarged. H e could now and dried. Nitroglycerin Is a , pale craw l on bands and knees. As he yellow oily liquid, about h a lf ss heavy scrambled forward, trem bling and again aa w ater N itroglycerin was dis gasping, a rash o f w ater met and sub covered by Bobrero. an assistant in merged him. but 1« carried him with It Pd ou gl’s laboratory. In 1847. as it receded. It flung him forth Into the open a ir like a wrack o f ate weed, H is M isfortu n e. braised, choking and exhausted, hot “ H ave you beard o f the terrible m is alive, with the Messed sky above him. fortune that baa befallen BonesT” B0- Another w ave caogfat him' and drove son said to a friend. him up on the beech, and he retained “ N o r said the friend. “ N o r font sense and strength enough to “ Bones, poor fellow ,” said Boron, scramble np a little farther, beyond “ baa sloped with my w ife.” —S t Louis Immediate danger. “ 1 know.” he said afterw ard, “ the feelings o f a soul saved from hell."— Easily James W elton Gray In S t Louis Ra- “ What a polished talker Jobeon to.” poMlc. “ Isn’t be? I suppose that*« the n a he slips np on so many o f Ids argum ents."-Roffiton Transcript. A Caaa o f Quick Thought and t psedy Action l(i Latin America. H a lf a doaco'm cn In the lobby o f a Now York hotel ware discussing the frequency o f revolutions and assassin- atlona In M a x *» and otbar Latin Am er ican countries A abort dampy little Eagliahmsu, wbo had a cold, gray a y * told tbta: i In a country which w e wlU call Du- mala there waa a preaidant whom we wlU call Harare. B e bad made It the custom, by official proclamation, for the guard o f honor, which conalatod o f ooua o f prominent famlUoa o f bin coun try. to preaent anno whenever ha emerged from the preatdentlal palace. W hile the ■ ■ ■ and officers presented am a. tha standard baarar raised tha g n a t dag and axclahnsd: “ V iva H a rerar People wbo wanted Harare put out o f busi usas bribed the standard bearer and six members o f the guard o f honor to assassina to him. The plan waa that, ' O f N ew berg, Oregon Non-Partisan Candidate fo r Governor I f I am elected Governor o f Oregon. I w ill indorse the good bills sod the good laws o f all tha political parties, and I w ill oppose those laws and bills that are not good fo r our people, regardless o f the political parties that indorse them. I w ill bew to the line and let the chips fa ll where they may. W ill E. Purdy. - P a id Adv. W . W . Hollingsworth A Son F u m f k I Dir actors A Embalanart Calls Answered Day or N ight Lady Assistants. N o sxtra charge Office, W hits » Res. Black M N c w b e rfl, J. H. G IB S O N . O r«. Mgr. The only Abstract Books in . Yamhill County flag, shout “ Viva D u m aU r and throw Yamhill County Abstract Co. the heavy banner ever the president M c M u w v iu jl O regon W hile be was knocked down and blind ed by the folds o f the flag, the six traitors were to shoot a t him. A t the appointed tim e Harare came ou t The standard baarar, holding his flag a lo ft shouted “ V iva D u m alar and burled the banner over the president the folds o f ft enveloping Mm »r»a throwing him. The traitors, seeing him helpless on the ground, flred at his head m.der the banner. That was where the plot went wrong. As Harara went down under the w eight o f the fa llin g flag, be bad the presence o f mind to lie flat os bis back and bold one o f bis arms straight op from him. thus supporting the Wag and givin g the impression that his flst was his heed. The only wound be re ceived was one bullet through his hand The traitors, having figured that six o f them shooting rft him would be sura to kill him, did oot have extra car tridges. When he stood up sod threw off the flag their companions arrested them. “ You must have your band dreseed.“ suggested one o f the officers, seeing the blood flowing from the president's wound. “ TO do that.” said Harara. “as soon as these traitors have* bean executed.” H e bad them lined up in front o f the palace and gave the word that result ed In their death from a volley by baa added e their companions. A fter that be went Into the palace and bad his wound dressed, all o f which indiestas that V the gentle art o f being president In Latin America calls tor quick thought and speedy action.—Popular Magaslna. The New.berg Transfer Co. REO TR U CK to their eqaipnfent which enables them to handle lone distance work with dispatch Tennis as s Test. Picnic Parties a Specialty Tennis la a aura rsvaaler o f charac ter. Three sets with a man suffice to Office phone _ Black 100 Residence phone (R ed 79 g ive one a working knowledge o f hla moral equipment; six. o f hla chief mental traits, and a dozen, o f that most Important and usually veiled part o f him. Ida subconscious personality. Phona Bleek 14 Young people o f opposite sexes are . Call on sometimes counseled to take a long railw ay Journey together before decid ing on a matrimonial merger Bat f would respectfully advise them rather to play “ singles" with each other be f o r W indow s, D oors tc G en eral M ill fore venturing upon a continuous game W irk , 4#3 N . M a in S treet o f doubles.—Robert H. Schaoffler In Atlantic. Newberg: Manufacture ng Sc Construction Oo. Qeeeeberriee aa a Tonic. A supposed authority strongly recom mends gooseberries, cooked, o f course, aa a tonic better than the finer berries generally In the market. The gooseber ry hag an arid not to be found In other small berries, or perhaps It Is a s a lt Anyhow, they are good and health giv ing There we go follow ing a custom o f England, where the gooseberry has been the main feature of tarts, famed In son* and story.—Cincinnati Com mercial-Tribune. oooooooooooooooooojoooooaoo " D ETM ER W O O L E N S * fo r fa ll and w inter have arrived at Mueller THE* T A I L O R ’S Come early and g e t first choice aoooooooooooooooooo-. Kris as Feed. The eeTs food value is g n a t and In some countries It la staple. The Eng lish consume millions, but' tha Scotch would quite as soon eat snakaa. So in the ancient times, while the Ro mans consumed large quantities, the Egyptians would oot touch them. A great many o f oar people have this same aversion to the eel. though a great many others era fond o f It.— Cincinnati Enquirer. One Way. “ Mr. Interlocutor, can you tell me bow one may make Ice w afer without The only way to gat the genuine leer “ No, Mr. Bones. I cannot W ill yon tell us b o w T “ Peel an onion, and that w ill make yonr eyes water.” — Cincinnati En quirer Brasil’s Coffee. - A Portuguese. Joao Alberto Castrilo Branco. Is said to have planted the first coffee tree U Rio de Janeiro In 1700, and from this small beginning has de veloped the Industry which has mads Brazil the gres test coffee producer o f the world. What Did He M eent Gibbo—So you send your w ife a brood for three months every year. Its groat to bare money. Dibbo-Yen. money la certainly a great blearing.—Stem ford Chaparral. There's no slipping up bill again and oe standing still when yon'vn bagna to slip down -G eonre Eliot M le ’ bey the mac hin with die sane N E W i HO M E os the ana j ani io the legu i TkJ. machine 1 , È I No other like it J f J p M I No other as good | Til New H omi Sewing Mietila« Cospiny, ORANCI. MAM.