RHINE V ftL E Y
WHITE HOUSE LADIES.
EPIGRAMS BY PR ESID EN T!
The First W i Know of Arc Thooo «#
the Anelont Egyptian«.
Plentiful In the Days of Qaeaar. Whp Th«y wieM Considerable Power, ae e
Exacted Heavy Tribute.
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Rule, “Under the Rose.*
'Hie first almanac*— that is to Bay,
In the time of Julio* Caesar the : omy chore wh<> bar« given the ntv
prolificacy of the Rhine ralley re ject wore cuu«W**ratioD and bav« been the first historical— were o f A rabian
gold must have been re ry great, for | faminef with it personally can bare origin and reflected the local genius
there are frequent allusions to gold f
• "W
üf U>® power of the of the people in a very striking way.
spoU in his aooount of the conquest i " ülil€n '•«' hr«ted with the presidential :
»o re severe tbaa of any other conntry. J
l ¡4
at admlr>Stratum meaning the wtrea of |
One of thane tests for admission to °^ ij . remittances Os J the preeidem. the rice president and
gar Naval academy omy bd taken es à 0MB «rere vammmmtrji» Sa»a were ^ nbtmM officer* Tine power ef the
to
typical example e f the thorough ¿sis very henry. The method employed . Wlimva 0nt litnmn t0 ^
with which the candidata* facoittae to obtain it was to impose a tribute President Andrew Jackson’s time, and ‘
of gold upon the conquered and on* It .has continued almost unabated up to
force it at the point of the sword. the present hour. It is an unseen
This simple bnt efficacious method
»< « * P"**m*á from the
continued in rógne for several oea- 7t*rekül mom» tre» to the .m . ir'
Juries nntil the Roman empire be- ^ cablM< otñcm to mcb a fir face
gan to decay. Aa this decay pro» tog „itbtb*
of tbc president
ceeded the vigilance of the imperial and nee president and among them
officers of the revenue became re- selves They come from different sec-
laxed, and the slavery of the Oer- Hons of the country and must> aeras-
man gold washer came to an end.
I tom thepaelree to a vastly different
Between the fifth and tenth cen- “ ^nmanL the oOctaJUfe of Waa*
times it is probable that the Rhine !Dgton '» «tbourendttttic wyaand
U. 8. Court, Oregon
In oer own. the severest rests o f hear
hut are imposed upon the man who are
to undertake submarine servire. In
this service «van an officer will net b*
washings, which bad grown to be
accepted I f the surgeon la able to And
odious from the slavery connected
any evidence that ha baa erar been af
flicted with ear trouble at any tfns. with them, were, abandoned. Dan-
Thus a alight Inflammation of the «e r bree (1846) says, that at one time
which occurred In childhood may dis the magistrates o f Strasbourg leased
qualify the officer for submarine serv out the privilege o f washing, the r ir -
ice. though bis bearing asay'be so good r
6»w.
« *• prob.hu th.t
that be would be readily accepted In
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?ll
ar
P°?r®r8..^
ere
any other branch o f mttttary rervtra^- other mumcipalitiea.
By the year
Loa Angelas Timas.
mnT o e ip ^ b u rt. bM u ? o r retardate
i>0|lcT of , presidential administration
They re l^ T o id bob to J a c k **'«
time by attempting to boycott tbs wife with water this day,
of a cabinet officer, lire. Eaton, bat
? ld ijickory. though net a ladles' man
t?
that the wlvea of bis other caw-
Det offl( erB shouldn't rale his admints-
dared
OLDEST AMERICAN STATUE.
Found Near Vara Cyus, n W as Made
Over Twenty Centuria« Ago.
A small stone statue found near
Vera Crus, Mastre, wblcb bas been in
tbe possess ton of the United States
National museum since 1908. baa been
identidad aa tbe oldest known dated
antiquity In America.
Its ancient
Mayan glyphic Inscriptions show (bat
It was made 100 years before Christ,
wblcb la tbe oldest date authenticated
in the new world
This unique Image was found in IKK
□ear tbe golf of Mexico. 190 miles
southeast of Vera Crus, and «am e to
tbe museum through R G ülbrtcbt
tbe next year It I* òr bard grayish
■-untesi form, sis sod one-half Inches
high and ibrre and tbree-fodrtba Inches
•n diameter
Tbe uppei part represents a human
bead with well detiued features The
tower part of the face la covered with
« mask, rerembttng tbs krill of a dock.
A Roman wnmea in tbs ancient time
was oot allowed te drink dine except
ft were simple ’retain whin. and. how
ever she might relish strong drinks,
she could not Indulge even by stealth
-first because she was never Intrust
ed with the bey of the wine collar and.
sebond. because she was obliged dally
to greet with a kiss all her own as well
■s her husband's male representatives,
down even to 'second cousin*, and as
she knew not when or where 'she
might meet them she was forced to be
wary and abstain aitogvtber for bad
she rusted but a drop tbe smell would
bare betrayed her. Ho strict were tbe
rain Ignatius Mercurio* lb said to bave
slain bis wife because be eaugbt bar at
Aricela..»! C e l* ......... W . J. Kan. Correlo tbe wtne <-a*k—« punishment wblcb
Nawsal Scheel....J. H. Arkansas. M oassA was not deemed excessive by Romulus,
Blred.... .................... E. T. Moores. Saleas wqo absolved tbe husband of the crime
•>f murder
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Malas...................... E. S. TOreghaW. Safare
Feeble Miaded.........J. H. Tkorepsoa. Seles.
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The Nice of Austria.
lasase
........... R .E .L. Statare, Sslew
“The She of Austria is the name
Pesuteatarêy ................. H. P. Mista, Salem by wblcb Uortxla. or Corita. Is known
Traire«« School.............Will S. Hai*. Sains among Its habitue», owing to Ita mild
Sohin.' Ho— .........W . W . Eid«. Rorebref ritmate Curiously enough, tbe city
turn tabes s link with the French Bour
Tw elfth Judicial pietrict
bons. for tn a Franclscuu convent there
lie the remains oí Charlee X. of
France, tbe last of tbe Bourbons; of
.be Duke of Angooleme. bta eon. and
of tbe Duc de Chambord, who died aa
recently as 188ft. Gortata, under Aus
trian rule, was the capital of the*crown
land of Gore Gradisca and first appears
County Officers
tenth century, when It was bestowed
on tbe church. It Is still the seat of an
archbishop, and Its special Industry,
significantly, perhaps, bus long been
the printing of Hebrew books for the
seat—London Spectator.
LfcfiesFsrsaad Msffs
refined and repadded
i MUELLER, the Tailor |
♦owo*o*o*o*c*o*o*o*o*o*o*o
BILL
Ingenious Rimes.
Sir O w n Seaman Is to be congrat
ulated on bis Ingenuity tn tinting
“Bagdad” wtth “swag, dad.’* but the
palm for audacity In riming moat re
main with Browning, who saatrlmd
“ranunculus“ wtth “Tommy make
room for your uacta as." o r1 tbs seven
teenth century bard who wrote:
The Duke of Torn a daughter had.
He gave the Prince of Oraase hen
So now your majesty win eae
I’ve frond e rime for pertnser.
-London fitaadaM.
Welcome at Tim e*
“1 wtob a doormat“ announced M r*
De 8tyl*
“Here ta a very nice pattern." said
the salesman, “with the word ’Wei
come’ woven Into tbe fiber.“
“I see. | suppose that will fin If yon
can add the words T n todays and Fri
d ay*' " —Pittsburgh Poet
F reparadnos*
“Darting, won’t yon marry ssoT l
would die for your
“How Sweet of yon: How mock are
you Insured for T’— Baltimore A meri-
Klnley. Taft and many other
tong and honorably hi public Ufa. are
devoid uf handles—not blu* to take
1846 tbe entire produce was esti-i
mated at thirty-six pounds troy. A ‘
writer of a little later period stated: **«
“Many of the gold seekers are wo-,
men.
They aeixe a wooden bowl,
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charred inside to render the glisten-
ing grains more readily visible, kick
j
off their sabots, poll off their stock- of
ings, tuck up their frocks and wade in.
into the Rhine. A fter secw ing s bet
KntberfortT R.’ Bayes gave us an*
very One thought, “Bepervs# his pasty
“ Go out hot heat » bo serves the country best.”
Jackson was forever saying “By (be
eternal!" but whejt else?
‘With maUre toWard none“ and “a
government of the people.“ etc., are
Ltocoln's master strokes. However, Ids
letters and papers are full of unique
thoughts and would afford a present
day cartoonist enormous opportunities
—PtiUmliflphtM lirtlftyr
Preparation e f. Parchment.
Parchment la the skin of dkeap or
other animal» prepared In sheets to
render them fit for being wrtttcn open.
Th« heavier parchment, used for drum
bead* la made from the skins of sane*,
older calves, wolves and goats. AJU
these are similarly prepared. The akin,
betng freed from tbebair, is placed to
a Ume pit to cleanse It from tac The
pelt If -then stretched upon a fra see,
care being taken that the aarfhte Is
free ftpun wrinkles The 8esb In pared
off with a circular kalfe. after which It
W moistened and whiting spread over
k Then the workman, wtth a bugs
pumice stone, p m the skin. Ho next
goes 'over, ft .with an Iron Instrument
names of the saints and qther reli-
i ions information. The Baltic na
tions, not being versed in papyrus
making, had calendars engraved on
ax helves, walking sticks and other
articles of personal use. The days
were notched with a broad mark for
Sunday, and the saints' days, were
m
ssag milre
awikK
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gAa^
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i t I OB Is
I I wttMs^tillw
C B ir r i u l i j W
RO w
p tw
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without chalk. Finally the akin Is
gradually dried. tightening being oces
«tonally required
the sand to. he washed off, and to settlas or C*hrlarroas flowers, for which
little by little all the sand is washed thev are •*> fsmous Tbe stem is flm
out of the bowl and the gold re- ,tnck throuf h •
f i* » * of P»P«r *°
main. , t tbe bottom.
E . f b bowl ¡ g ” ”
contains a cubic foot of sand and
cmnmtkmm.tad ebrysautbemuma will
about one-fifth o f a cent tn gold. — , keep almost twice a« long If placed in
Argonaut.
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t fresh water daily, and a small place la
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« clipped from the ends of tbe sterna
Portugal's Decline.
! each time. While cutting this piece off
Portugal has not always been the k*n> «he stem under water so that no
small affair that it is .today. The alr b“»>bies are allowed to enter the
little country once meant a great *“ lk
thu" m ,n J “ • * * * * * * > w
deal more than it does at present!
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T o Portugal belongs the honor of chry« IIX m n m s or
s ^ e be
having been tbe leader m fifteenth Mnt m * distance insure their nrrtv
century exploration and discovery, ing in auod condition by wrapping each
H er great prince, known as “ Henry blossom separately in waxed paper
«»ticat entries.
It is possible to -trace in these
ettrious records all the changes of
--------------------------
mand and to constitute a systematic'
ftory of what took p i « * »n succea-
sive periods and how knowledge in
creased with the revolving yean.
W e owe to, them most that we know
o f the people for whom they were j
made and by whom they were in
dorsed.— Christian Herald.
Tefilng Stories to Old People.
..T h e r e is one development o f '
story telling which seems to b a re,
been very little considered— namely,
the telling of stories to old people,*'
and that not only in institutions or
in quiet country villages, but in the i
heart of thé dust cities and tbe
homes of these old people.
How.
often, when the young people are
able to enjoy outside amusements,
the old people, necessarily confined
decline began.
“He ta a dand one'’ ta not stang. it
occurs In Longfellow’s “Spanish Stu
dent.“ The down Chispa says. “1 have
Much Harder.
“There I» nothing barder than get
ting out of a had habit
'Tes. there la getting Into A good
one“ — Rostun Transcript
Our duty ta to be useful, not accord-
ng to oar desires, hut according to oar
lish language is in general use.
The members of a Greek lettei
fraternity from a southern univer
sity were being shown throngh the
library of congress. They were ap
parently stricken dumb with admi
ration of the beauties of the build
ing.
But the atmosphere of awe
was dissipated when one of the par
ty, a rea headed youth, exclaimed
fervently:
“Gee, fellows, wouldn’t this make
• dandy fret house?“ — S t Louis Re
public.
Thoroughly Poeslmlatle.
than paraffin or collodion because t(
flammable, like *eeitng wax. Matches coliarly his own. H e used to drive
so treated < uu lie left In water a long his old white faced mare to the spot
that without s|K>illng.— outing
where the tautog (blackfish) might
be
depended on for any weight, from
Clover Fish Hawks.
Turks around tbe Bosporus amuse two to twelve pounds, backed his gig
themsalvas by playing pitch and catch down to the water side, put out hip
with the hungry fish hawks They line and when the tautog was safely
throw tfigh In tbe atr a lump of raw hooked started the old mare and
meat, and tbe hawks pounce upon the
meat before It strike* tbe ground and
make away with It to the little ones
In Hard Look.
Appealing t o * lady for aid aa eld
A fihort Christmas.
darky told • her that through the
“Christmas day Is only three boon
Dayton flood be had lost everything
long to the Finnish town of Tornea.'
he
had in the wbrld, including hi.«
•aid a traveler “I spent last Christ-
wnatknre- At snnrtae I got up to see wife and six children. “ W hy,” said
my presents and to read my Christmas the lady, “1 have seen you before,
nafifi aril night bad fallen before 1 got and I have helped you. W ere you
through breakfast“-Exchange
not the colorea man who told me
you had lost your wife and six chil
C y n ic a l
dren by the sinking of the Titanic?”
•omp cbeap people expect 8t Fetor “ Yes, ma'am, dat w ui me.
Mos*
» peto them throngh tbe pearly gates
unfort’nit man dat eber wuz. Kaint
bacanas they once paid 00 cents for a
fifteen cent snpper et e church social keep a fam’ly nohow.*
“W hy don’t you announce your
self as e candidate ?”
“Because,” replied Senator Sor
ghum, “ I don't believe I.coold get
nominated. And if 1 did get nomi
nated I couldn't get elected. And
if 1 did get elected I couldn’t fill
tbe position properly. And if I did
fill it properly I wouldn't get much -A tlan ta Journal
’------
credit fo r it anyhow.1*— Washington
Star.
Just Like Relativa*
"A re Belle and Barbara Mood reta
Our friendship*
a®**»?
X.
“Oh. no.
it la a purely pintóme
Our friendahipe hurry to short
and poor conclusion« because we grouch they bave for roch otber.”-
Puck
have made them a texture o f wine
end dreams instead of the tough
Pessimism.
fiber of the human heart. The lews
may ita defined aa that
of friendship are great, austere end
triced megtal vision that
to gntiri pats evils that do
eternal— of one web with the U ff«
-Hénsron Hint.
o f morels and of nature.— Goethe.
How 8ha Earned H
“Cultivate a little more sunshine
in your disposition, my dear,” said
Mr. Dubbley. “ Happiness and suc
cess in life depend npon the quanti
ty of rays one emits.
Let ’er Rain!
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