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r < wm¿ %m ' Æk.1 yJ M Down * It may be, ‘aa phynifciane and pre fetto!* o f pbysicáí cuitara do not Uva. tail to toll ue, that wen o f forty arc now old and decrepit because they do not play enough, b tt most o f LIQUID FIRE. them look younger than did men o f that age fifty or titty years ago. N o one can ftx a n u n t& e portrait» o f 180M O , knowing the i m o f the subjects, .without seeing that they depicted eery young men who look ed Very old. The fact is that until times paratively recent young men si ed the airs, dress end appearat age, and perhaps profited t They carried themeeiree with p a rity and dignity, especial tile presence o f youth. Beards were more in togue than they are today, and in other respects men o f forty or fifty, whose likenesses,are pre served to «S, wer# m ow venerable figures than are their eons o f sixty or seventy today. It was a custom , too, half a cen tury or more ago fo r men o f middle age to speak o f themselves as old. Awaham Lincoln died at the age o f fifty-six, and yet a letter o f bis written when he was in his forties mentions A speech that brought tears to hie «old eyes.” He was call- ad «O ld A be« alien he was still young Abe. Although General Grant was only forty-three at Appom attox no one regarded him as yonthfaL The eld young men e f this era are told that they must play, relax, teat or die. The young old men o f the fifties did not play. They were very serious persona, and many o f them were cu t off at an early age. I f men of forty now are actually old perhaps it is because they are Mying to look like mtm o f twenty- fire or thirty, to dress like them, and in business and pleasure to bold their own with them. T o look young but be realty old at forty is net da* arable, but it may be n o worse than to look old and he old also at that age.— New Y ork W orld. Into Kilauea’i n ¡linn of D Doiiiny LIKE A PIT OF princes# falling into the strait dur ing an aerial flight which she was making and being drowned in it ; hence HèUew-pontus. T hé name Dardanelles relates to an ancient city celled D erdania,-situated near the Hellespont. The aneiant fort' o f this city, built by Dardanua, was called o f the Dardanelles, and final ly this name was applied to the en tire stra it— Philadelphia Pram, • 1 1 — i— p reaCttMMg Welsh. While learned professors may d if fer as to tha correct prononciation o f English, it is a com forting re flection that our language off e n no obstacles equal to those which have to be surmounted by students o f Welsh. One o f Dr. Owen’s prede cessors in the see o f S t David’s, who set about learning Welsh as soon as he was appointed, told his chaplain that he feared he would never succeed in mastering the gut tural “ 11.” “ 1 will tell von how you have to do it, my lord, was the re ply. «P ut the tip o f your apostolic tongue in the roof o f your episcopal mouth, and then him like a gan der.«— London Chronicle. The common pimpernel, “ poor man’s weather glass,” nas tha disad vantage o f being a native plant and has been almost com pletely expelled from our flower gardens in fa vor o f exotics which are rarer, but lack orach e f being as pretty. The pim pernel is a charm ing little flower which opens about 8 in the m orn- ing and closes late in the afternoon, hot has tile remarkable peculiarity e f indicating a com ing shower by shutting up its petals. AMI if Y m Cant I m I Yaw N *// ' bar Dant -Knaatr Him. ¡ . tiare'» a little rula which help you and haip your neigh In speaking about anybody put kood word l a j p Don't tay *N e bor dom a is publie spirited, PU «H ello, Qrimshaw! member your old sid I hi som ething o f « barrier, a experience o f à jnagiati itrol in the Gwoira range i illustrates the difficulty in erreras sim plicity o f the aa ide o f mind toward reaaom on the good trait rather than tha bad one. ,v Or, better still, when you hear aomebody'e name mentioned and itV on the tip o f your tongue to refer to some blunder or failing you know about, just try choking it down a times. (earing lea few times, it unsaid, and see if you don’t feel better inridfe Then next tim e g o a little further and try speaking o f some good deed be has done instead o f mentioning the tim e he made i mistake (even though you youreelf have never made any m istakes), and see if you don’t feel happier still. I f the farm ers in any neighbor hood will begin to boost one anotty- «r*s w orth? deeds they will soon find themselves living in a better neighborhood than ever before— Central Am erica, it is wonderful how easily the residents becom e ac customed to earthquake sboeka, which do not com e, however, wholly without warning: Y ou im sitting on a piama on a hot afternoon chat ting with your friends whan sudden ly the sky seems to grow hasy and the crows stop cawing. Thera is a general rush, and, though yon naty not know what is tha m atter, you cannot help feelin g uneasy. The nativas say, a little shaki O f all the strange modes o f salu tation the most extraordinary is the «daaoe o f ceremony** current in the west A frican kingdom o f Dahomey. Whenever any Dahoman chief or official o f rank oomes to pay you a visit he always opens the interview by dancing around yon with vari ous queer contortions <extrem ely suggestive o f hie having ju st upset a kettle o f boiling water over his knees), which you are bound to im i tate as closely as possible. It is even reported that one o f the native m inisters o f the terrible K ing Gera owed bis rapid rise at the Dahoman court wholly to his superior skill in cutting these strange capers and that be thus literally as well as fig uratively jum ped to preferm en t In O ctober, 1900, Pietro Giaeoni and Marie Bonelli w e n tried at Rome on a charge o f sextuple mur der by poisoning com m itted thirty- one years before. In England Eu gene Aram was hanged fo r th e m ur der o f Clarke fourteen veers after the offense. A man named H orne was executed for the m urder o f his child in the eighteenth century no lees than thirty-five yean after the offense. There is also the well known case o f Governor Wall, who was executed in 100« fo r a murder com m itted in 178*. Sherward was hanged at N onrieb for the murder o f his «rife after a lapse o f twenty veers.— Exchange. *,**• s» ■ **It seems that the natives o f the Gwoira range had in some way per suaded themselves that they oould swallow the white man’s ballets and thus escape damage. The m afia- happy chance be unable to ‘eat* ttys bullet it would surely kill him. « ‘ Now, open your mouth,* ha continued, *und I will shoot tha bul let down your throat* !• i.-r «T h e native opened hie mouth— all unconcerned. T o demonstrate tha affect o f a discharge the magia- trate shot the ballet through s l o g and trium phantly indicated the dev astation. The native examined the aperture o f entrance and the aper ture o f e x it Undoubtedly the mil let bad gone clean through the log. T he magistrate once m ore leeded his rifle. . - ' «'N o w , open your mouth,” m id he, And swallow tha ballet if you dam .’ And the native opened hie mouth. i «N aturally, the magistrate, ou t raged and nonplused by this amas- ing perversity and appalled by its im plications, concludes his story with the inquiry, 'W hat in the world is one to make at each people— what is one to do with them?* t v Eyas That F#U#w Van. You probably bava noticed that the oyes in some portraits follow you whither you go. I t i « « bit un canny to move about a m om and ham the eyes o f a picture always ’fifes M did fa She first bow mudi la at «30.000.000 will It beT Special The beet fam ily daily paper in the state and your own , ,i .v • weekly p a p er for The Daily Portland Telegram The Newberg Graphic both one yoar for $ 3.75 be in the m iddle o f the eye will seem to be loo tid es are at onoe splashed with a solution o f salt and nitrate o f am monia aa incom bustible costin g is form ed. T his is a preparation which can be made at home at a trifling cost and should be kept on hand. D issolve twenty pounds o f common salt and ten pounds o f nitrate o f ammonia in seven gallons at water. Pour this into quart bottles o f thin glass, and fire grenades am at hand ready fo r use. These bottles m ost be tightly corked and sealed to pre- rant evaporation, and in o n e o f Are they must be thrown near the flames so as to break and liberate the gas contained. A t least two doaon o f these bottles should be ready fo r an emergahey. Mere Witty Ttw T he Maas in drei te draw a picture o f progress the teacher saw that C hari«» bad drawn the picture e f the borne only. ,>»' i The teacher asked, “ Why have oot com pleted rour picture P* which the boy gave the som e what p en . h ot nevertheless witty reply; “ Oh, the h on e ean draw the wag- Oae o f the shortest speeches re corded in forensic annals is that o f Taunton, afterward a judge. Charles Phillips, an Irish orator, had made a flowery speech in an assault case. Taunton, who was fo r the defend ant, reid in reply, «M y friend’ s elo quent com plaint amounts, in plain English, to this—that his client has received a good, sound horsewhip ping— and my defense is as short— that he richly dmerved it." Crede Leal« It is told o f an East Indian law student that he once threw his examiner»* into confusion* b§, de claring matrimony to be an fllagal state. "H o w e o f How e o f« he was asked by the perturbed exam inen, many o f them married men. The student smiled beatiflcally. «M ar Away with daisy. It always tajuree riage." quoth he, “ is a lottery, and tore whn are prepared.-L oca s. lotterie« are forbidden by lew ." key Are Cannibals Vat Tbay Ara «a ■an FranMbYe Proa# That “Manar la H ": - :#b»la re CbWrraa f..„, ef a frali«# Natura.* “ Papua, the Britiah New Quine« á After pabUablntf bla "Poor B le b ««’» [ recent time» and unaarory maní- AJtuaaac"* for iwt-nty-fiv# yaan and girla« thirty-two yaaro nata aa thrift is still a cannibal < laacbar o f bis coos try npaJawM frank- • Norm a« Duncan In Ite pat tata Ma win a provujon to d o » and the author oootnto tbo power o f acew tdated #av- r H u s o ffe r w ill b e in fo r c e i t om n ow u n til J u ly 15, 1915 an d m ay b e taken a d v a n ta g e o f b y n ew a s w ell aa old su b scrib ers. S u bscription s a re fo r o n e y ea r cash in ad van ce. O ld su b scrib ers to th e G raph ic in o rd e r to par ticip a te in th ese ra tes m ust pay o p a ll a rrea rs due and th e $3.75 in a d d ition w ill p a y fo r b oth pa p ers on e y ea r in a d van ce. Good Only Until July 15, 1915 YOU MAY STOP 10 D A Y S San Francisco and 10 D A Y S a* LOS A N G ELES Jmrn vlr *" 1 > y E n rou te to th e E a s t W h y n ot see C a liforn ia and its T w o W orld E xp osition s on you r w ay E ast T Mrs. Goodsole (rem oving her wraps)— P vt owed you a call fo r a long tim e, you know. I hate te be ffi debt, aUd 1 just felt that 1 couldn’t rest easy until 1 had flic- charged my obligations by coating to aee you. Mrs. Sliptung— Why, my dear Mrs. Goodsole. voe should nlot have felt thet wav at Chicago Tribune. Call on n earest A g e n t fo r fu ll in form a tion , litera ture, tick ets, reservation s, tram sch edu les, e tc. S O U T H E R N P A C IF IC , m John M. S c o tt G eneral P assen ger A g e n t P ortland ■ Vi* . If ïgA a l i n 'è
