SHAKESPEARE WAS
Ruthtes« Buccaneer« of the MM*
de Sahara Desert
Tha moon baa no light o f Its awn
and ahlnaa through being Illuminated
by the ■ on. What sort o f surface
moat tha mooa hare to reflect the light
eo whltely ea It does) A l l question
la put forcibly in a letter to Natnie
(Tom J. Bverahod o f 8rtnagar. Kash
mir. who describee the moon as far
whiter and more brilliant than tha
snow clad summits o f the Himalayas
" nen t o w srs stilt iifu itu d j u m s o b .
Ha writes:
"W hy does tha mooa appear so white
If It la composed o f rocks similar la re
flecting power to those on the earth!
The rock surface of the mooa should
reflect far leas Ugbt than tha cloudy
surfaces o f Venus and Jupiter, and It
would be o f Interest If these who knew
would explain the apparent whiteness
o f the moon as seen la daylight.
but Pané af LKigatia«.
Oaa reaaoa may ba siren (Or «> ««»■
apeare not publtatalns hie playa, and
era bara raaaon to think It yea a f a
kind to appaal to him. Thera was
no copyright, and to pabtteh tha playa
erma to laaaan their financial rmlaa to
hla company. Thla “ santi# W H " Ufi»
country Is probably the most Inaccessi
ble an earth. Even before Egyptian
civilisation began to leave coherent
records o f Its history the Tuaregs, or
Barbara, were long established along
northern Africa. Tha great Arab In
vasion o f the eleventh century dis
placed then! from their possessions
upon the seacoast nod drove them Into
the savage area of the Interior Assert,
re ere five mala tribes In the
: confederation, and they Inhabit
wert from Tust to Timbuktu
’em Ferian to Zinder.
Tbelr
n i» reared In the beert « f arid
, where vast solitudes, unaat-
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a a
m m
a
The only way to tell If a lobster ft»
In really good condition, is by Its llveli-
neaai I f it struggles vigorously, flops
Its tall and “ nmkas wide open m il Its
daws.” It Is all right; if it la lethargic,
opens Its claws wearily and shows ne
sign o f fight. It is dying and should ba
let alone, for it te not cheap at any
price.
“The lobster,“ writes lira. Pickett,
“should be boiled In the morning for
nee at dinner and kept In a very coin
place, but not In direct contact with
the ice. and It is better not to remove
the meat from the shell until just be
fore preparing it in any desired way.”
9 a 25.
“ Being Musical.’’
Shall af the Snail.
“ From Morocco to Tripoli the relent-
laaa ferocity, tbe cunning and tha dar
ing o f tha Tuareg are mingled te all the
paai a fill natives along the const. Thu
Tuaregs meanwhile openly spy upon
tea caravans la course o f outfitting la
the coast citlM aad thrive upon the
tribute they are able to exact.
“ Tha Tuaregs are of the purest Bar-
bar stack, tha noble families unmixed
with other Mood, and in tbelr own lam
guage they call tbemaelvas th e noble
people.’ Nominally they are Moham-
The snail’s horny shell serves to pro-
tact its soft body against numerous
foes. Slugs are simply snails that live
s retired life and consequently need no
covering at all. Tbe shall o f tbe snail'
la built up from lima In tbe plants oa
which it feeds, sad they are never
found on soil which contains no Urn»
A Tightwad.
“ I understand that Mr. Pinch penny
has bean operated on for appendicitis.”
remarked Mias Cayenne
“ Yes, It’s tbe first time any one was
known to gat anything out of him*
“ And even than they had to chloro
form h la to gat th at“ —Philadelphia7
Inquirer.
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- R a g carpet and rug w eaving
by Joseph Stephens. On Dayton
road, opposite the David M artin
Larkin-Prince H ard w are C o.
are headquarters for good law n
J. W. Henry is here for the
3000 raspberry plants tor sale, son with his well known coach
in lots to suit. Wm. Kincaid, horse, which he will be glad to
Springbrook.
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25-7 pd
show to interested parties if
they will call at the Commercial
F o r Exchange— A new piano
barn.
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tor a need Ford machine by
Kienle & Sons.
27-28 pd
Ezra Hayea will give special a t
$10.00 takes full blood pointer
pup, 6 mo. old, a beauty. 209 tention to Pension business, 24-
years o f successful practice.
W . Hancock street.
Indian w a r claims a feature.
File your claims now .
Office
next door east ot Electric light
office on First Street, N ew b erg
der, 5-passenger Mitchell auto
mobile. Phone W hite 164. Ip d
F o r sale at y o u r ow n p r ic e -
buggy almost new, and single
harness. Bine 23 o r Red 200. i t
Russian-American Calendars.
The Buaaian calendar is thirteen days
behind the calendars o f other Ubrla
tian conn tries, and unless this fact is
fSmlliar to correspondents la tha Unit
ed States considerable confusion arises
over the dates o f letters, telegrams,
etc. Usually in Russian business cor
respondence both datee are used, the
Bnasisn date baring after It the letters
O. B-. meaning old style, and the date
e f foreign countries. N. A. meaning
sew style. For instance, the Russian
Christmas occurs on Jan. 7 N. A and
the Bosnian New Tear's day ea Jan.
14 N. A —Commerce Reports.
“ ‘No. unconditionally.’ says the
young and self elected mouthpiece of
public opinion.
_ .
“ Would yon believe It ! O f all who
were congregated around tha royal
person Placatory alone said: *Go down
and bead your troops. Fight for your
crown and your dynasty.’ He was
Aa English tourist was being taken
overruled, and they all marched out
through tbe country by an Irish Jar-
a f tbe palace except the Duchess,
d’Orleans, her children and tbe Due de vey. They were traveling along tbe
mad whan an am put its bead over tbe
Nemours.”
fence end began to bray with all Us
What is called "being musical" can
not ba passed on to some one else or
to something else You cannot be mu-
steal vicariously—through another per
sen. through so many thousand dollars,
through civic | ride, through any other
o f tbe many means we employ. Being
musical does not necessarily He in per
forming music. It is rather s state of
being which every Individual who can
bear is entitled by nature to attain to
In a greater or less degree.—Atlantic
"Wen. Pst.“ said tbs Englishman, “la
that the ‘Wearin* o f tha Green? ”
Arrak, mo . yer honor,’* mid Pat;
“that’s ‘Johnny. I hardly knew yon.'
Glaciers Are Brittle.
A s authority on the subject saya that
the substance of a glacier Is brittle,
though solid, and that its descant down
a valley is caused by Its constant frac
ture produced by gravitation and tbe
sliding forward o f tbe wbola mass, the
surfscaa a f tha fractures speedily re*
Halting by regulation.
M oney furnished prom ptly a l
In addition to his Coach horses
w ay s on real estate at 7 and 8 per
Frank Osborne has jtist received
ct. Atty. B.A.KKks, McMinnville.
a Percheron stallion from Indi-
F o r Sale—Jersey cow, good ana, which may he seen at the
milker and 3 months Holstein C o m m e r c i a l barn during the
heiler for $50.
Graphic office.
Inquire a t the
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Wanted— About 50 head calves,
2 or 3 days old. W ill pay $ % per
head delivered to Arim a Bros.,
Lone Fir Dairy— F o r sweet and
sour milk, buttermilk, skim milk
and cream.
Delivery made of
mornings.
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A man may disagree with his neigh-
bur aa rellgloa and ba merely a foot
I f It ba a political différence, then It la
«tear ha la a scaondraL— Houston T e a t
CHASE & LINTON
GRAVEL COM PANY
AU kinds o f gravel for con
crete work, cement blocks,
or wood work furnished on
short notice.
Telephone White 85
F o r 45c a gallon yon can buy
a first class w ood preserver and
vermin killer at Larkin-Prince
.Hardw are Co. T ry it.
For Sale— Incubator, good as
new.
Rubber tire buggy, set
single harness. Justin L .. Ha-
worth, Springbrook.
I t pd
W atch for the demonstrator at
"T b e B ig H ard w are Store” on
April 29 and M a y 1. She will
show you h o w to use Chi-Namel.
F o r Sale or Rent—Six room
house and lot 100x110 feet at
about half price. Small barn.
J. M . Rittenhouse, Dayton,
Old Mrs. Blunder by was teilte« bar
(Her shout a play aba had baas to tha
rasing before. One o f tha characters
Farm ers w h o appreciate good
-ms aa EngHehman o f tha “silly a waa"
rpa. “ Ha did look aa awfully ridJCu- implements a lw a y s make tbeir
us with that monologua la his ays” w a y to Larkin-Prince H ard w are
Co, where John Deere g o o d « are
sold. ,.
When yon need cràde carbolic,
acid, aheap dip«, carbolinenm
creosote and other dope in this
line, call on na. Oregon H dwe.
& Imp. Co.
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F o r Sale Cheap—One and a
quarter acre* o f ground and
6-room houae in d ty limita.
Price $1400 port terms. Inquire
o f New bety Land Co.
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It la asolar to ascend to tbo cioody
aoven without a ladder than fee fie
n d su tirs! y on m lf.—Japsasea
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Dahlias, w e harp them in N ew -
Riverside Dairy for pare milk berg as good as the be«t. P a n
sies, M astodon, g ro w a in Ore-
ad cream. C all W bite 168.
Rose
gon, from Oregon seed
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D. Barber.
bashes, strong plants.
■ P o r Sale—10 horse gas engine-
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John G<
by Charles Crater. Telephone “ TheHome o f Flow ers,” N ew berg
s
T b e king retreated precipitately
with his eons, end a sublieutenant o f
the national guard rushed Into tbe pal
ace asking to see him. He eras admit
ted and in tbe greatest agitation said:
“ ’Your majesty must abdicate.’
“ ‘Very well.’ says tbe king. ’In fa-
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Field and garden seeds tor sale
at Chehokm Valley MUls.
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with extensive snow fields. These
anowa are pesbapa fifty miles distant
and there le a considerable amount of
blue scattered tight superposed on the
snow, although lees than on the moon.
Also the light absorbed by the atmos
phere la approximately and may be ex
actly the same for e tc ü T f one consid
ers the whole path o f the light from
son to snow and thence to the ob
server. When the air Js transparent
enough to see the moon dearly It ap
pears to me to be distinctly whiter standards o f conduct One gathers
than the snows, which seem dull and that tha chief Interest o f hla la tar years
was to live at ease as a gentleman and
yellowish In comparison.’* ;
Mr. Evers bed thrown out the sugges provide well for Ms family. It te re
t s » that the moon’s surface may be lated OB' pretty good authority that be
covered with Ue.
meeting” at Stratford with $te et|
friend Ben Jonson and the poet Dray
PICKING A LOBSTER.
ton. Bat It Is not unlikely that'th e
true cause o f bis fever was not drink,
but the Insanitary condition o f the Ton do but sit quietly
street in which be lived.—John Oorbta
in Hew York Tim es._____ _____-, ^
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Monthly.
compoee tbe &>oet Intolerant ami w ar
like sect in Islam, the fienusrita sect
Their hatred for tbe foreigner Is «rast
er even than that bred by their re
ligion. and so they are more exclusive
than ever were the Chinese or Jape
name. Tbelr eoctal organisation di
vides them Into five classes tha n r
Mae. the priests, tbe. serfs, the cram
breed» and the staves. All af these
dames have this that is demoeraOa
ths/ form together tha Tuareg family,
which balds Itself superior te all the
ether peoples a f the earth.”
The Cheba lem Valley M illais
in the market for w ool and mo
hair. It will pay yon to call
brewing malt liquor for hla prtapts
use. belag In his way a moonsJUmtr.
Liberal In giving aid and hmfilai
money to Ms friends In need. , be was
^^besfiuaa I
I
A
KS
A A * lu M ih S h A
strict in cm I I me S ting
aeots.
At
snout tne
time he wrote the fine) version ef
-Ham let" he sued the village apothe
cary a t Stratfbrd to recover e small
loan, nod while he wee at work <m the
world tragedy o f “ Antony sad Cleopa
tra’" be engaged la litigation that
brought him In conflict with the vil
lage bLickamltb. aetata o f affairs that
Emerson relates with something akin
to horror. He conspired with Ms fa
ther to secure from the conniving Bar-
aids’ college a shady coat o f arms and
the right to subscribe himself “goat."
end. while apparently not actively aid
ing an attempt to Inclose Stretford
common lands In defiance of tbeiMhts
o f the people, be at beat remained
strictly neutral toward the project.
Careless as he seems to have been SB
feo Ms fame as s~ dramatist be was te
Baroness Bond# wrote in her dUtty
the following account o f the abdica
tion o f Louia Philippe o f France ea the
day e f that remarkable occurrence: ‘
“ An aid-de-camp o f the minister o f
war who was In tha ktag*e inlfinlft
whan he abdicated gave me e fists flag
account o f tMa moat signal place e f
cowardice.
He bed reviewed th$
troops in the Carrousel «a horseback^
highly rouged, when a cry was n k f i(
■Void lea faubourgs!* No one bed
any orders: no one gave nay. The mob
rushed forward, shouting. ’Vive In
garde nationals— vtvent lee troupes!*
and also probably sa as
benring tbe mystery of their life for
they seldom or sever remove these
emets. whether roving over the desert
of visiting is tbe cities on tbe coast
Dee to these cloths they are celled
masked Tuaregs, while tbe Arabs cell
them “people o f tbe veil.’ Tbe masks
ere dark blue and white, the former
being worn by Tuareg nobles and the
latter by tbe serf# and staves.
“Some. centers for trade. Tuareg
towns, are situated in tbe middle dee-,
art These are Wargta. Timbuktu.
Ghat Ghadamee. Muyxuk and Insalah.
However, tbe Tuareg ban little care
for trade and Industry. He Is a fear
leas, enduring, bard fighting adventur
er along tbe merchandise trails that
cross the desert. Two important trails
leave T ripoli on the coast, and trav
erse 8.000 miles o f sands and barren
wastes to tbe Sudan, where rich car
goes o f skins, gold. Ivory and other
interior African products are loaded
upon camels and brought northward.
Sometimes a single Caravan consists
P o r Sale— M ake me an offer on
your own term« on 100x100 tret
on corner of Center and Hancock
streets. Also new bun galow and
tw o lots on corner o f Sheridan
and Meridian— paving all paid
tor.
W . M. Craw ford,
28 pd
Dayton, Oregon.
A rea." was an admirable man a f bast
ases. i f we had only the leeeefla e f
the law 'courts. In fa c t we Blight get
be able to tbtnk so racy well o f him
He bad a keen ucee for litigation which
he seems feo hare Inherited from Mi fa
ther. Aa a taxpayer he was alow, tf
not positively e n fiv i. B e waa appar
ently negligent o f a debt contracted by
hie w ife Like many men o f property.
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almost pure white.
“On several occasions in this valley
1 have compered the waning .moon,
netting behind the Ptr Panjal moun-
dope o f ail kind» now ready. See
fleeced and Ponrtb Saturday
onr line before you bay.- Oregon
»venings o f each month.
H ard w are & Implement Co.
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Vtoáttag brothera ahraye welcome.
By order George Larkin, W. 1L.
We give oar aaaal 10 per cent
diacount on all moke« of auto-
mobUt tire«, tubea and «applied.
Oregon H ard w are Ac Implement
Com pany.
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