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THE s u a 3 W H IS TLER r AT W ES T PO IN T. Lovad Truth and Taofc Punlduiwnt «11 « fo rk M t h , K , FUM i I u m Rather Than LI*. la Highly Specialized. i l At Wear Point waa old Joa, the ne- j*|gro cadet hair cotter. He was never ^ (known to smile or to deviate from r (“regulations." Once a month cadets gl were obliged to have their hair cat b j rjhUu Thin waa a great worry to Whis- K who disliked to part with his pret- I jty locks, so he would try by cajolery .la n d flattery to have Joe let np a little f Jon the length of his hair. But In this - he waa nevar successful. Joe would .(stop bis shears In the midst of a re- „1 monstrance and say. “Mr. Whistler, do (Hyon want me to cut your hair aecord- ;(ln g to regulations or n o t r Of course nl thU put an end to the argument, and J Whin tier would come back to oar -I room», look In the glass and swear ■»bout Joe. Ue loved freak mas, truth and honor. r p u d s wars forbidden In cadet bar- 3 *»<*«. but we bad a peck, end one f night long after “tape” (10 o’clock) we l had been playing, and the cards lay r carelessly aside, when we were ear- i frlaed by the entrance of the Inspeet- , l»K officer, who spied the cards. We knew th at the ofltense waa a serious one against discipline and considered whether we could property ask that the report should read “Cards In poaasa Mon.“ • leaser offense, instead .of “playing cards." as wa were not play ing when the Inspector saw ns. Whis tler said, “No, we had been playing.“ ho we faced the music and as punish ment loot oar cadet furlough« for e summer.—H. M. Laselle In Century. tier, from the fact that when it cornea to Sheet Metal Work excell Experience, the use of the beet materials, equipna .»-all help to make our business improve so rapidly. SHEET METAL wKÉ | » f e F . H . G R I F F I ..................................................................... .... Haif-gaHofl, Iced and Delivered One Gallon, Iced and D e fe n d DIDN'T Q U ITE O . C A LL . . ■ .............. E. L. EVANS, SOI 1st St., Newberg Phone Black 28 Residence Blue 6 the Elder Booth Triod to Eacopo a Man Who Borod Him. Thomas B. Gould admired the elder Booth almost to adoration. The most I minute and Instructive account that ex it» ta of Booth’s acting was written by (him —a book called “The Tragedian”— rand Gould’s marble bust of Booth, a no- Hde work of art (made before the come- Jdlan Flynn broke Booth’« now with a (pewter pot), ta the best likeness of that ■ great actor. Bat Gould’s aasidloas per- laonal attentions to Booth became 1 wearisome to that eccentric man and I vexed him. Peculiar discretion la ■temetlmas requisite to those who would (praise and pleaae eminent persona. I Booth, when acting In Boston, custom- jjhrlly lodged a t an old hotel called the [Albion, situated in Tremont street, at the northwest comer of Court s tre e t “One day.“ said Bid win, “my father Mashed into the bedroom where 1 was Cultura. ’ Cuitare la a alow p row . It come« fitting and., almost breathless with from long and-close contacte. It la the (haste. exclaimed: ’Gould! Coming up! fruit of reflection. of travail of soul (Bay I’m o u t’ and literally dlvod under- and of mind. Grappling with some jgeath the bed. 1 received Mr. GoukL thing until the very essence of It has I who seemed surprised not to find my been extracted I« a Brat «topi Thus th e (Tether (I think be had seen him rush- I tng upstairs), and be talked with me fy. Then follows a growing power to I discriminate, to distinguish nice values, to Judge of quality, to answer to beau ty. to feel the need, that what yon have, though It may be little, may : still be the real thing. This la culture. It la not baggage, like diplomas and de grees. It Is not things seen and heard, miles traveled or books read. Those are the materials for culture. They contribute to It only when they are absorbed by the mind and as really lost In It as water and time, phosphates and ammonia most bo lost In the soil If ji k they am to enrich It and enable It to a profuse perspiration, his pulse Is tncraaae Its yield.—(de M. Tarbell In u/ui ; I cold skin ia covered n th iganini We« a Nervous Wreck After sea riH‘ly to be felt, and when ques a Night ef Concert Werk. tioned on nay subject he answers The following account of Italy’s only in monosyllables. The night catest violinist, Pa, ia coB- after his concert he never sleeps •used from the article which ap- and continues in an agitation which ,-ared in a London newspaper in M>metimes lasts for tfro or ihrae -laya.” « »31: A FAM OUS VIOLINiST, “He has long legs and arms, sad s hands in his playing often sa rnie the attitude of prayer, with in fingers pointing upward. After piece the orchestra be entered xm his celebrated performance on single string, introducing the air ' ‘Nel coy piu sen to,’ in which he iparted a tone so plaintive and isolate that the heart was torn by . In the midst of this he waa so itre (so comic) as to occasion the udest bursts of laughter. This at was uproariously encored. He to put on the three her strings and ended this mirac- oua performance with the richest peggi and echoes, intermingled ith new effects, that no language n describe. Though he withdrew uid a confusion of huzzas and bra- « that completely drowned the 11 orchestra, yet he waa called for receive the homage of the audi- toe and was affected that he mid have dropped had be not ten supported by Labtache and >eta. "There was no trick to hia play- g. It waa all fair, scientific exd- ition, opening to u a new order sounds, the highest of which as- nded two octaves above C in alt. ith a weak organization Paganini one of the most forcible exam- es of the almost superhuman rength which results from the c i tation of the mind produced by niua. When he seises the violin seems that a star descends upon m and inspires him with fire from even. He instantly loses his by ion retired to him; he is another creature, d dunng the musioal action his rength £ more than quintupled, iter having performed a concerto i symptoms are those of a man [der an attack of epilepsy. His h "Can I get a haircut," Inquired the man, with a belligerent em phasis on the singleness of opera tion, “without any shampoo, sea foam, crude oil, scalp massage, singe or any kind of tonio or hair New Ways e f Baying It. “Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel” came from the lips of an old friend aa “Gag a t a straw and swallow a whole load of hay.“ Of a certain girl she said, “She smilee like a frog at the girls and grins like a rag carpet at the boys.“ I have never seen a rag carpet since hot It resolves Itself Into rows of grinning teeth, and as for the drooping smile of the frog. It certainly speaks for Itself, as It were.—Woman’s Home Companion, v 1 The Voracious Cormorant. How a cormorant dive* for aea trout and gets them is told by a writer: “1 bad the cormorant under observation only for the space of four or flvn min utes. and during that abort period it had captured four aea trout, all of cao- stderablo sixe. After being under wa ter for a few seconds the bird would reappear with a aea trofat wriggling In Its bUL But In spite of the victim’s ¿ aspera te efforts to escape it was deft ly «wallowed, and after a few gulps the cormorant would resume Its fish ing operations. One of the sea trout gave It considerable trouble, however, for the Ash struggled violently for some momenta, but was deftly placed so th at tte bead pointed down Its cap- tor's throat, and thus Its own strag gles assisted the bird to swallow I t ” Early History ef Rubber. Bobber is first known to history as a plaything. It was during Columbus’ second voyage that Herrera observed that the inhabitants of Haiti played a game with balls “made of the gum of a tree.“ Even as early as the begin □lag of the seventeenth century, how ever, th e Spaniards need robber to wa terproof tbetr cloaks, bat the tact -at tracted no attention in the old world, and It wqs not until the eighteenth century that the rubber industry be gan. Early writers mention an oil ex tracted from rubber whlcff was taken medicinally with cocoa. aha- Sees him with a shave and mas sage th at are lees than two hours old or the perfect poise of Ms correct tie dM urbed a bnlr*a breadth, hot after ward he cotees to the table with his shoestrings untied, no collar on and a »tubby growth of beard that wonld Play a tone If yon ran It through a û u wW a a OaiW f i a n IHlip i n n ß WIN r a BUMIIIB« n rlm a W the customer sank with a heavy sigh of relief into a ehair. Twenty minutes later s voice He Knew. purred in his ear: *T had a seventy mile drive r aster- "The old methods are out o f date here, dr. Wouldn’t you like a nice day.“ she said enthusiastically. "There ain’t no auch thing.” retorted eleetrodermal stim ulation, a digital the golf player grimly.—Detroit Free cqpvection of the cranial surface, or a telepathic induction o f the hair follicles r — Life. . Som ething Like It. “I beer your hnaband la m a y about his new auto.“ ‘ Man S atln t Creeadllee. “1 should aay so! He’s a perfect au The largest reptile la the man eating Salt water crocodile of southern'A sia to cra t” -Baltim ore American. and Australia. It measures thirty fast In length from odd of none to tip of Fortune cannot rake away what aha tail. . I :i .: - c i , •I’d not gire. Rener« The big lighting ships of our nary are marvels of mechanical ingenu ity, being equipped with every known device to insure safety and efficiency, and each, with its crew of a thousand or more men, consti tutes a small village in itself. The adiqiral in command of a fleet gives him self little specific concern about the individual ships. The vessels in the fleet collectively occupy his attention, and he moves them about like chessmen on the On eaeb battleship the captain is supreme in command. The navi gating officer is responsible for the sailing of the ship. He is provided with charts and maps of every bit of water on the globe, and it is his business to choose the shortest and safest coarse between whatever two points the vessel may be ordered to sail. It is the business of the chief en gineer to see that the engines end the other machinery are kept in good order and that each performs its functions properly. The ord- DODGE. W han When in Need ol a Plumber L I F E ON A B A T T LES H IP . Im a.” Inquired ber Otti« grand- day of her arriv al “did you your race last night T’ rare« not. dear! Why do you Lest Both Ways. you Bet In without your wife you laet night!“ and I didn’t get In without her. either."-H ouston Poet not break a leg. If the fracture is in the upper part of the limb there la nothing for ty but to slaughter the animal and retail its flesh as batcher’s meat. I f the lower part of the limb has been injured the bone is set and held in position by means of splints made of palm branches, which are bound with The iron cross of the German er- y is not a casting, but ia struck itb ateel dies in heavy coining eases. After being stamped out the croaaes are taken to the silver- amith’s, where the soldering ia done, a fine silver border sdded and the finishing completed. The silver border is polished on electrically driven polishing and grinding mo tors. ' )f|rtiiiatli the sea air and the ex ercise incident to a sailor’s life de velop big appetites, and Uncle Sam sees'th at all are given three sub stantial meals every day. Some 3,900 pounds of food are consumed on an ordinary battleship every twenty-four hours. The American sailor is particular about what he eats, and the regulations give him ample protection ip this rekpect I f he should find a fly in the butter, for example, any sailor is privileged to complain, and his complaint ia sure to to the captain, who makes it his business to find out the why and the wherefore of the objectionable combination.—Cleve land Plain Dealer. 8ince April 23. 1S04. the original at the Declaration of independence has been kept in a ateel safe In the library of the state department. Washington. It has been seriously damaged . by many reproductions and much han dling. so that few of the signature« can now be read. It Is kept from the light to try to preserve the vestiges of Ink that remain. McMinnville, Ore. S e p t 21-22-23-24 will bq a prominent feature An Up-to-Date Amusement Company will be sqcured, but nothing of the slightest objectionable nature will be allowed will furnish m ask every day and
