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Wben you stop making terranee ly through the direct urn o f this mighty I t K M i Like a MuU and Can Swallow agw»t- ' When younger and freaber homes In • Snaki Whole. The rarest and moat rateable bird* th year Une cease starting ep. When you would rather have your the New York cool osteal garden are the strange pair o f secretary birds quar own way and fail than take advice tered la the ostrich boose. “ Secretary and win. birds" they are called because o f the «rent o f long dark plumes that rises Rupee by Which Vessels May from the back of their beads, giving Their Torpedo Attacks. them the appearance o f a clerk with a It la the surprise attack which 1n betneb o f qnUI feathers behind his ear. nearly every css*- enables a submarine an aristocratic name, but the thing to torpedo a hostile ship. Thera art that makes the secretary bled valuable several maneuver* by means o f which la not bis leeks. The natives o f South a ship can trick a submarine. Several I M c a love him because be can kick vessels have diverted torpedoes by B kea arala. swinging round their stern until It Into hit cage a snake, no matter points In the direction o f the ondereea vlriooe, and the fight begins tm- c ra ft In this way the wash o f the The bird cautiously ap- propellers has deflected the torpedo • snake with wings wide- from Its coarse and It baa aped harm to oocape the sodden lunges *by lessly past Ita mark. Another success it I f necessary. Once, twice, three ful ruse la to stoke up the furnace« of perhaps the snake lunges. The a ship chased by a submarine, and darts back, waiting his chance, thick, black smoke belches from its i t last It cornea, and one o f those long, funueto and envelops the vessel In a hard legs shoots out like the hoof o f a protective shroud. 1c this wky the sub mala, landing squarely on the snake’* marine gunners are confused and can hand. It reels and tells back ¿tunned not perceive the correct direction In to be knocked out completely by a which to send their torpedo. end blow. And then Its victor pro- A s|>eedy ship which follows an er coed* to swallow It whole ratic. xigxag course presents a poor In South Africa the bird* are regard mark to a submarine. When a torpedo ed as a great protection. They are af Is dispatched against a test traveling fectionate mates and always* travel to- vessel It la directed to a point Just Wben pursued they spread ahead o f ita mark, and the craft lib wing* and make off over the ermliy runs into the death dealing de with the speed o f a running vice. This obviously cannot happen, Week. however. If a ship la swinging rapidly from side to side and alternately point ing the narrow expanse o f Its bows or INDIAN SUM MER. stern to the ondereea marksmen. A submarine seldom attacks a vessel TH* Term May Hava Had Its Origin In If It la not alone, for It can only attack the Par East. The origin o f the term “ Indian sum one at a time, and while it is launching mer,’’ like that o f the word "blixsard." a torpedo at Its first mark the second has been the subject o f much research. vessel has an excellent opportunity of I t has been traced back only as ter as ramming the submarine, which can be the latter part o f the eighteenth cen located by Its telltale periscope.—Pear- tury, and It did not become common eon’s Weekly. THE SECRETARY BIRD. ENGLAND’S ‘ until after the first decade o f the ntne- Many explanations o f the name have been offered, all o f which assume that d ie term “ Indian" used tn this oonnec tion refers to the American Indiana. A recent note In the Monthly Weath er Review calls attention to a totally different use o f this term, tn which the Is not to the American In but to Bast India. Under the British board o f trade reg stations one o f the load lines marked e g ships bean the Initials -1. S„” this the maximum depth to which can be loaded for voyages dur big the “ Indian summer"—L e.. the tine season In the Indian seas How long has the term "Indian sum mer" been used In this sense? It la not recorded In any dictionary nor ap patently In any work on meteorology la It possible that our autumnal In dian summer was so named by sailors or travelers who sgw In . It a resem- to the fine weather' attending In In dia! te Stop Advertising. A s English Journal requested a num ber o f the largest advertisers to give their opinions concerning the best time to stop advertising, and the following replies ware received:. When the population ceases to mul tiply and the generation that crowded m after you and never beard o f yon stops coming on. When you have convinced everybody a buse life will touch yours that you have better goods and lower prices' ' than be can get anywhere else. A* On* of the Heirs to h, to* Emperor Is Very Remet*. In answer to th* question. “ Was emperor o f Germany ever an heir to the English throne and Queen Victoria have a law passed exclude him from the succession ?” Philadelphia Pram say a: “Th e possibility o f th* German a peror ever succeeding to th* throne England to ao very remote aa to cans* little thought Thar* waa more or lem talk on the subject at the Orna o f the marriage o f the kaiser's mother to the heir to the German throne in 1808, but we a n unable to find that any parlia mentary action was taken even then. “ A fter King George come his five eons and one daughter and their chil dren. If any: then King George’s sis ter Louise. Ducbeee o f Fife, her two daughters and the son o f the elder: then Princes# Victoria, than Queen Maud o f Norway and her son. making thirteen at present living In the Una o f succession. A fter that tbs succession reverts to the descendants o f tbs late King Edward’s brother. Alfred, duke o f Edinburgh; Arthur, duke o f Oon- naught. and Leopold.-duke o f Albany As tbeee all married and had numerous children and grandchildren, there to a long line o f heirs to the throne before the succession would come to th e’ de scendants o f the oldest sister o f King Edward, the late Empress Frederick of dermany. the first o f whlcb line to Em peror William.” A small boy bad been coerced Into making an afternoon call with hto mother. He had rebelled vehemently over the calling business, saying: “Aw. what you want to make me go there for? She hasn't any boys, and It won’t ba any fan." But. dressed In his best salt, he had put on hto company manners and had behaved very well Indeed, and when their hostess served refreshments he began to feel glad that he had THE ENTRANCE H A LL When It came time to leave be Make It Suit Net Visiters, but the Oc out hto band, saying gallantly: “Goodby; I’ve had a good time” — and cupants o f th* Home. la anything new to be said about the then, right while hto young mother entrance hall? The smallest room tn was beaming her approval, he added most house«. It Is usually given In the honestly— “ a whole lot better time plana an amount o f attention that than I expected to have.” — Indianapo lis News. might seem out o f all proportion to the rest o f the bouse. And yet the ordi A Benevolent Refusal. nary entrance, whether It be a mere “ Senator. I wish yon would give me vestibule, a spacious hall o f the colo a Job as your private secretary.” nial style or. as tn our present day “ Oh. my boy." responded the oily fashions, a pert o f the living room set senator, “ don't get mixed up with the off by an archway. Is quite unsatisfac government service. Nothing to I t tory. It la unsatisfactory for this rea Rains a young man. Resides. I have son—that the entrance way la designed promised that position to my and decorated from the standpoint of Kansas City Journal. the impression it makes on visitors, whereas the Impression we should seek CyntosL. to not that made upon guests, but upon “ la be a good after'dinner speaker?” ourselves, the occupants o f the house. “ I f there to sorb a thing as a good Too often we give the entrance a se after dinner speaker 1 presume you’d vere treatment that lmpreeses the stu call Mm one.” —Detroit Free Press. -S . dent of-, beauty or that atnaeee the lees discriminating visitor by the other ex Naturally. treme o f lavish display. Bat bow does “ 1 saw Mabel buying rouge th* other either o f tbeee two types o f entrance day.” ' affect thoee who come Into the bouse “That gives color to the report that many times every day. the good man she paints.” —Baltimore American. and kl< good w ife and their children? Is It a room that by Its suggestion or Men’s Adventurous Side. rest and repose tempts one after s There to always a temptation to hard day’s work at the office to drop Into the first easy chair that comes ernes a bridge which has been con along, or does it irritate the nerves and demned. man being an adventurous at heart.—Atchison Globe. keep one going, restless and uneasy, wandering from the entrance to the The confidence we bave in ourselves living room and from the living room to the study and thence to the attic by gives birth tn much o f that w e have in dbers.—La Rochefoucauld way o f th* basement ?—Good Health. “I Feel lik e A Real Day’s W ork” Most men do who have good digestion, steady nerves and a clear brain. Right living — particularly right eating — makes for energy VICTIM S OF LEPROSY. In Whioh the Its Progreso. itead of the diagnosis of lep- being equivalent to a sentence death by painful and lingering is, within a few months or at the outside, fully half if tvo-thirds of its white victims r recover, with only a few sears or s numb spot or two to show for their experience, or reach a stage of arrest in a fair condition of com- and efficiency, or live ten, or twenty y e a n until they die of something else. The average life, even of cases which are sufficiently w ell advanced and dearly marked to be discovered and sent to leper colonies, is from ten to fifteen years after their ad- ’ on, and over half the deaths ich occur in our l a m modern leper hospitals, where lep e rs are carefully kept, are from pulmonary tube rculosi*. The disease most commonly makes its appearance either npon the face, the hands or the feet, which fact suggested the theory of ita transmission by the bite of in sects or through house or soil in fections or through vermin. It pro duces either fissures or tumors, breaking down into deep and slowly progressing ulcerations, which g ir dle and finally amputate fingers, toes and segments of limbs. B u t it is exceedingly alow in reaching or seriously affecting any of the great vital organs, and, by a most mer ciful clemency of fate, it attacks the nerve trunks of the arms and limbs at a very early stage— in deed, travels up them toward the body and blocks them off or para lyses them well in advance of its ulcerations. It numbs in advance the parts which it ravages so e f fectually that its progress is sur prisingly free from pain. Indeed, so strong is the affinity o f the bacillus for the nerves that the earliest sign of trouble in one of the commonest forms of the dis ease, known as the anaesthetic at “ unfeeling” type of leprosy, la numbness and complete loss of feel in g in a finger or thumb or patch ,o f akin upon the palm or back of the band or forearm, or even high up on the shoulder, or in the mid die of the back. Dramatic stories are told of white residing in the tropics who ve first discovered that they were by catching a falling lamp chhnney or thrusting their hands too near or into a dim e and never feeling any pain or knowing that they were being burned until the smell o f their scorching skin reach ed their nostrils. — D r. Woods Hutchinson in N ew Y o rk Am eri can. __________________ N et Be Easy. A Scottish prison chaplain, re cently appointed, entered one of the cells on his first round o f inspection and thus addressed the prisoner who occupied it: “ W ell, my man, do you know who la m ? ” “ N o, nor I dinna care!” was the nonchalant reply. “ W ell, I ’m your new chaplain. “ Oh, ve are? Then I bae heard o’ ye before.” “ A n d what did you bear?” re turned the chaplain, his curiosity getting the better of his dignity “ W ell, I heard that the last'twa kirks ye were in ye preached them baith empty, but I can say ye will na find it quite sae easy to do the same wF this one.” — London Tit-Bits. PITCHING IN BASE B A LL task e f Central W ill Render Useless All Other Ability. “ In my ten yean' connection with the American league as umpire I have seen the fact proved again and again that control to absolutely necessary to win success.” writes BUly Evans la St. Nicholas “The more one atudlea the different features o f the art o f pitching the more clearly does be see the value that control play* in th* «access of the pitcher. “ I f the pitcher knows the weakness o f the batter and intends giving him a test bell on the Inside and then delib erately pitches to th* opposite eld* hi* knowledge o f th* batter to o f no us* to him. Lack o f control has rendered hto knowledge useless “ I f be knows the shortstop Is to cov er and then pitches a ball to th* batter that makes It easy for him to . hit through the position vacated by the sboftstop be nullifies tbs strength o f his infield. Lack o f control to again the cause. “ I f the catcher signals for a waste ball In order to be In e better position tq throw out a runner trying to steal and Instead be gets tbs ball right over the plate be to handicapping th* catcher. Lack o f control to again th* cause. “ A fter all. moat o f the finer points o f pitching are based on ability to con trol th * ball.” tend to become what IS “tubby.” The banana with whlcb w* are all fare Miff Is only oas of many useful apeclqs. Cochin China produces a single fruit that la an ample maal for tbraa man. and In JEast Africa an In toxica ting drink to mods from the na tive banana.—London Chronicle. PENS OF THE PAST. The Old Time Quill end the A rt ef Rutting a Feint *n It. Quill pens are no longer used except in rare old fashioned Instances, but people still us* "penkntvss” -y o a can see the name any day in the cutlery store windows—but they do not use them to make or mend pens, in fact, where Is there a man er woman who knows bow to put a point oo a quill? It was ones an an which every man bad to master, though women were generally bad at i t aa they are now at sharpening itencUs. la tbe old days the first question asked o f a schoolmaster was t h * on* whether be was skillful la pointing quills, for be had to sharpen th* pans o f hto whole school and Incidentally in struct hto pupils In J th* a r t Alas! There Is no modern pen o f steel or gold that to ao smooth, so s w ift so alluring as a good quill pan. The writer Is vary aura o f th a t for bis father used to tell him so. The art o f handwriting has certainly declined since th* qntU pen went out o f use. Tbe old fellows could really write. ,W* still pay them an unconscious trib ute by calling a writer a “ quill [ 8ton*heng*. No eooner had we set foot on the driver” and picturing tbe pen. when first swell of plain than I became ever we have to make an abstract rep resentation o f I t as a qulIL— New aware o f what looked like a bard of York Mall. elephants, half a mile ahead. They did not move, and slowly it dawned A Diplomatic Official. upon me that this was Stonehenge. A During the reign o f Emperor Napo few minutes later, seated within the circles o f those enormous stones, I w&a leon III. be and tbe empress visited asking myself the old questions that Normandy and had arrauged to spend so many travelers have asked. For a couple o f days at Evreux. M. Jan worship, at least, these rude masses vier de la Monte, who was tbe prefect learned that the-revolutlouarlea Intend were erected: that seems fairly certain. ed to bias the sovereigns aa they pass And to commemorate s battle. If one ed. and ao be summoned the leaders o f may Judge from the barrows that the movetneut aud told them that be crown the neighboring hillocks. Reli knew o f their plot “ I f you carry out gion and war—the two powers that your plan.” said be to them, "you will hi\ve charmed and ruled and tortured get six mouths in prison. I f yon do the world. 8o mysterious is the whole not your rriend« will accuse you of o f life, alike moral and physical, that cowardice and treaioon. Aa a Way out th* haunting wonder o f Stonehenge o f tfie difficulty. 1 propone to lock you waa neither Increased nor lessened by up at once until the emperor has what then 1 saw.—Scribner’s gone.” Tbe conspirators accepted the terms offered them, and ao the emper Many Species o f Banane. or was greeted only by cheers, as the The banana aa a substitute for tbe revolutionaries, frightened at tbe ar potato would bare one drawback. It rest o f their chiefs, bad not dared to has been found that thone who live attar a sound. pvdul.v ui»oii this article o f diet soon TO ALL OUR OLD FRIENDS I whose friendship end patronage^we have enjoyed for many years, also to all new friends whom w e shall meet Hie coming -w e extend Greetings. M ay the Coining Y ear be bountiful in its gifts to you and may old Father lim e be lenient in his dealings with you for many years to come. United States National Bank 1889—“OLDEST BANK IN NEWBERG"—1 915 When in Need of a Plumber ••■•-'-y-...... ! ------------ ?■ C A L L ............. ....... and ambition. Applied Chemistry. F or an hour a teacher had dwelt with painful iteration on the part played by carbohydrates, proteids and fats respectively in the upkeep o f the human body. A t the end of the lesson the usual test questions were put among them. “ Can any girl tell me the three foods rsquired to keep the body in health r There was silence till one maiden held np her hand and replied: “ Yter breakfast, yer dinner and yer tea.” — Exchange. The sound nourishment that gives “punch” to wade right into work, is richly supplied by the field grains. But some grain foods are lacking in certain mineral elements which are all-import ant for physical and mental vigor. « Grape-Nuts / FO O D jr — made of selected whole wheat and barley, furnishes one all die nutriment of die grain, including their vital mineral salts— phosphate of potash, etc. — neces sary for the balanced rebuilding o f body, brain and nerves. Grape-Nuts is easily digested; has a delicious nut-like flavour; is ready to direct from package; and with cream or goad milk is a splendidly U a n c ff l “There’s a Reason” for GRAPE-NUTS So ld b y G rocers E. L. EVANS, 501 1st St., Newberg Phone Black£23 Residence Blue 6 Pure M ilk and Cream is conducive to good health. The Strongest Creature. In proportion to its sire and weight the beetle is probably the strongest o f all known living things. I t is claimed by the authorities that if an elephant were as strong in proportion to its weight h - h male beetle it would easily be able to overturn the biggeet skyscraper in the^ world. T h e beetle is followed closely by some ants, and the mole is not fa r behind. Made Her Mad. “ I th ough t.I overheard von and your wife quarreling a little while ago. W hat was the trouble?” “She brought home s new h a t and after putting it on she turned to me end said she didn’t believe it wee becothing.” “ W ell?” “ I agreed with her.” — Chicago Herald. This is the kind w e supply our customers. Our D airy is frequently inspected by the State D airy find Food Commissioner and has been highly com mended by that official » G iv e us a trial. Phone Red 66 R. B. LYLE J. L. V A N B L A R IC O M Staple and Fancy Groceries Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Wa aaa If the particular. Phon# as a grocery *t surprise yhn. We want
