PUFFING UP T ftE OYSTER. FRAMING PICTURES. SUBMARINE OIL LINES. It I t Good as Far a t It Goes, but It Doesn't Go Far Enough. SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE SUN. furniture and girandoles down to Changée In letowglty and Quality of teetgns employed to book lllnstso- tolar Rayo Causo tffeeta That ts thar called by tbo French “ ear­ ly to Italy was the art o f pletore •apa with doors epd bad. i , no frpmea. while mir pqsce pa wa|l aa war that the custom began to prevail o f placing pictures on waits, lim y start, therefore. In tbo fifteenth century and art at tba height of. their perfection In the sixteenth. From tbo earliest times Italian art­ ists knew that for a painting to bo rightly appreciated ft was necessary to inclose it in a kind of surrounding. They knew. too. that it could never bp a matter o f caprice what that particu­ lar surrounding should be. but that ft must be chosen scientifically and with dne regard to the effect o f the painting on the spectator and o f the whole as a work o f a rt It la only necessary to study the fine examples that are still In existence from the boot period o f this art. which appears to have been exclusively Ital­ ian, to realise that neither chance nor fashion entered into i t On the con­ trary, It was the outcome o f an In- stlnctive aesthetic sentiment o f fooling fo r tba beautiful in conjunction with aa almpat scientific appreciation at what would enhance tbo Intelligent un­ derstanding of tbo picture. Whether timi, which, aro seientlflc as far aa they go. But there are elements concern ad tat the production o f weather abent which the methods of meteorology give no Information. There are Mida. Insects and toar footed animals which bava an incom­ parably greater foreknowledge o f weather changes than the entire scien­ tific corps o f the agricultural depart- When tbo predictors o f the weather bureau give warning o f an MMPtoto- log storm they act on very much too •ame principle as that on w h ich « rail­ road time table Is based. A train hav­ ing been announced by telegraph aa started on a given line w ill arrive in regular succession at certain points along that line, and a station agent at any given point can. If no accident In­ tervenes, foretell the moment o f tbo train'» arrival at bin station. 8torm centers, or cyclones, moving ■cross tbo country are in some ways comparable to trains following a time schedule. Bat unfortunately they do not ran on rails, they are not driven by an invariable force, they are subject to interruptions and obstacles o f many kinds, and instead o f always keeping the track and following the course or take an unexpected turn or else fade away like exhausted whirls la wn- In fact tbe weather bureau predic­ tors are In the same quandary in which train, dispatchers would find themselves if railroad tracks were shifting Unas, continually drifting this way and that setting crossed and entangled or stok­ ing Into suddenly formed quagmires snd thus disappearing for good. Meteorology aa a science o f weather prediction tells Just because it poe- country's good.” “ He took his own advice and never failed tp practice what be preached.” “ He psaenmed that an editor's time has a certain value, always wrote briefly and to tbe point and never stopped M b paper because be knew ft all before ft got Into print“ - A t saslds Meyer. T h e fishing fleets on the coast o f Newfoundland elect en th eir return to land bne o f their number, to whom they give the title o f “ aen- aide mayor.” H i« duty ia to pre- aide over and control all the busi- new connected with the distribution and curing o f the fish thst have been caught, to hear all cases o f dis­ pute aha to mete out punishment to offender*. This post it much goveted by the fishermen, as it car­ ries with it absolute authority, and im plicit obedience ia rendered b j a ll to the seaside mayor daring his term o f office. BILL Oftce lad bombai «* Gotdon'i bora. C olli i sad Hssoock. Phmt Black 47. Calk •*- •wefad day or nigbt. Stock isM ta d aad tuteli (orimentate Mammà. City odi 11-50; MUELLER,theTaHor’s Come early abd get first choice. Banjo stripes and totest novelty ÇHASE & LINTON GRAVEL COMPANY AU kinds of grmvel for con­ crete work, cement blocks, or wood work furnished on short notice. » there w ill appear to bo five quarto dry oysters, for tbo container will full and there will be Utile o r no iter in sigh t ft being on tbo inside the plump, succulent looking oyo- a. The average purchaser baa no mum of detecting the addition o f we- and original contribution* to tbe worMte atone o f profaao speech.----- Lock—Tbo food play o f your e— pad tor and tbo bod play o f yourself. Driver—A contrivance eonalatlng o f a long, flexible abaft, at tbo ood o f wbicb la affixed a wooden bead o f tbo thick naaa o f that o f a rural detective, de­ signed to propel a golf ban lato the nearest difficulty within reach at ¿M a­ gie stroke, whereby the Irritation of the player and tba ttofMBtiee o f thr spectators nay be materially enhanced Tee—An elevated bit o f earth upon which golfers are expected to stand and make an exhibition o f tbearestves for tbo delectation e f paaaoreby a !__ ^ . ........ Moldau Phare Ball— A small white object, some jgf Q ^\ e BQCMA9 times apberlcal In shape, manufactured and sold In large quantities at a high U. 8. Court, Oregon , buoys near by. lift tbo marked buoy price, for the purpose o f being, loot In ........ W. R. GMmt Caerá Judge............... j with a^ derrick, raise the flexible boss ...Cbm. E. Webern* ! to tbe deck o f the ship mad attach It to Datad Judge.............. toe tank openings. By means o f a «la­ nal code the captains of the ships notify toe pumping station on shore. In which Are the valves that control tba flow of ZULU ELEPHANTS ALL GONE. Not One Loft lq the .Land That Used There Is not n single elephant left In and tons undersized oysters may be the whole o f Zululand. a country that converted Into ""select.” beyond the was-onee a veritable paradise for toe detection o f any but a chemist The ponderous animals. The taut at them, purpose o f publishing these tects to once a mighty creating, was "found to make It known to all lawbreakers and oyster caterers that all sack oys­ W h e r e m e n w e a r c o m b s . dead some time ago on a term on the banks o f tbs Unfoloai river, where be ters are “adulterated under section 7 In Ceylon They Mark the Native bad lived since toe early part o f tbo o f tbe food and drags n et” which pro- Mate’s Social Standing. __ , reign o f the great Chief Cetewayo. rides that food la adulterated if a An immense herd ones roamed tbo substance has been substituted in , Ceylon Is perhaps the only country in the world where men wear combs. It Dngugugu "oreat and along the Unfo- whole or In part for the article.” Is tbe delight or tbe native males at the loM. bnt It was diminished by inces­ low country to wear tbelr heir twisted sant hunting until Cetewayo one day Into a roll at tbe back o f the bead. | finally drove It away forever. Tbe chief with a horseshoe shaped tortoise shell used to make medicine o f certain por­ comb at tbe top. Tbe women, curiously tions o f tbelr bodies. enough, do not affect this ornament ■ On the occasion referred to bo organ- When you throw a ball Into the air It appears that ooe o f the great ass- - iked % mighty drive In which two ele­ while moving your body forward or bltlons o f tbo Cingalese man o f bum Ms phant* were killed and many wbunded. backward, either slowly or fa s t the position la to possess and wear a huge One o f tbe Utter turned and trampled ball partakes of- two jeotiem o-toe ep- comb o f the fluent In te r sodm ost per on« o f bis pursuers tp a pulp. It was ward sad the forward or backward fact manufacture, and many Indicate ’this animal, which was captured th e « motion o f your body. Tbe balT possum tbelr higher social status by means of whose death marked the vanishing of od the motion o f yoor body before K « n additional comb rising to a consider tbo animate from the country. The re­ left roar hand to go up into tbe air he- «M e height above tbelr glossy coO. . mainder of tbe herd broke away, and cause your body was b orin g before The artist In tortoise shell who makes ( thereafter none o f them wan seen agate you threw it up. and tbe ball was a these combs obtains bis raw materials In Znluland.—New York Times. part o f you at tbe ttoto."” '!*, *■"* ~~ from the hawk bill turtle. Tbe turtle I f you are moving forward op to tba *• kflled-and Its carcass immediately time yon throw the bell Into the a ir tomereed In boiling w ater. Tbe Ptetes Genulne sardines are the young.of and stop as soon aa yon let go o f tba wben toe bony part ef toe pilchard. Their name cornea from ball, ft w ill fall at some distance tram *J>e animal ere very t ir ^ ln r to term tbe fact that, they are most numerous yon. Also If yon throw the ball up Being brittle, they require < * «* * » « • off tbe coast o f Sardinia. They swim from a standing position and move hlpotetion. especially as a high tom- forward aa eooa aa tbe ball teevw peratare. which would s o f t « the«», yoor hand tb T b a lf w ill teQ behind ****** to «* * U » ■*“ »• you. provided you actually threw ft * “ *"* straleht no ' heat aa la possible for tbe work. O f course yon know that the earth Tblcknera is obtained by softening to moving many miles per hour en Its — then ap p ^n g pree axis and that when yoo throw a baft *T *" V** « . y . .... . b . f t ? » . dried in tbe sun. Next they are boiled la olive oil till cooked thoroughly. Tbe a long distance before the bell comes peckers—women always—take them down again. The relative position is. now and pack them to tbe tin boxes A waterspout Is a miniature tornado however, the same We get our sense we all know, filling np each box with of motion by a comparison with other originating In n strong upward draft of boiling oO, fitting on tbe lid and mak­ air which occurs above tbe surface of objects. I f you are In a train that la ing tbe box air tight by soldering the moving sw iftly snd another train m ob a body o f comparatively warm water. Joints together with a Jet.of hot steam. Its effect first becomef visible in a by in the opposite direction, movmg Just as fast, you seem to M going circular motion at the point o f tbe A Ssat In Parliament. twice aa fast pa you really gre. I f tbe clopd to which it ascends. This be­ Lord Chesterfield in 1767 lamented comes a whirl, which condenses tbe train on toe other traek. however, la tbe Increased price o f seats in tbe Brit­ going at tbe same rate o f speed and to vapor at its center, causing tbe portion ish parliament There was a boom In of tbe cloud there to drop downward tbe same direction as yon are yon in tbe shape o f a gigantic jelly bag. At trade, and prices went np. Cheater- will appear to be standing still. field was ambitions for his son. and Going back to tba ball again, yon tod game time the «m anning upward when Chatham’s promise o f a seat draft increases the rapidity o f Its orig­ will find that it always partakes of caxpe to nothing he went marketing. tbe motion o f tbe body bolding It In inal ftwlri and tbe condensed vapor And be failed to find a .single bargain. addition to the motion given when It Is caggbt within it until the ascending “ I spoke to a borough Jobber,” be and descending masses Join to form the thrown op.—Philadelphia Press. wrote to bis son. “and offered five and waterspout. Necessarily by this pro­ twenty hundred pounds for a secure cesa tbe air beneath the spout la rare­ Old Tims CrtnoIlM, seat to parliament but he laughed at Tbe crinoline— under another name— fied. and thus where the phenomenon my offer and said there was no such was known and denounced to tbe ocean at sea the water always seems thing as a borough to be had now, for eighteenth century, as witness tbe to be sucked up Into It, although this Is the rich East and West Indians ha'd pamphlet published In England in 1745 not really the case to any considerable secured them all at the rate o f £3.000 under title of “Tbe Enormous Abomi­ extent at least, but many at £4.000 and two or nation o f the Hoop Petticoat as the three that be knew at £5.000. This. I Secret at Harmony. Fashion Now Is.“ confess, baa vexed me a good deal.” Poll together. This la tbe real secret A t that time tbs hoop, usually of o f harmony. There is a story told o f a whalebone, waa often “ so large as to Learning His Lesson. man who had committed the care of fill tbs space o f six men.” and In 1754 Tbe man whom house waa next door one o f his teams to a faithful servant a writer in tbe Connoisseur speaks of waa scraping an acquaintance with tbe "hoops" capable o f contracting or ex­ for years. At last one of tbe horses man who had just moved to. sickened abd died. While the servant panding “ from the size o f n batter “ 1 see you have an automobile.” be churn to the circumference o f three waa burying the faithful animal the ■aid. “ I suppose you will use the barn other horse came across the field snd hogsheads.” aa a garage.” stood by, watching the work aa a silent “ Yes; 1 eipect to use It as a ga­ rs hah.” responded tbe new neighbor. Qgeeffd the King’s Eyas. Tbe master said. “ 1 believe Dick When Feneloo was almoner to Louis This held him for a minute or two. loved Billy.” X IV . his majesty was astonished to and then he made another overture. Instantly the servant replied: “ In find one Sunday, Instead o f tbe usual “ Tbe man that lived here last year.” Why. they palled cose be did. crowded congregation, only himself ha said, “ used his back yard as a cat- together nigh twenty years.” —Chris­ and the priest. "W hat to tba massing tian Herald. bahah patch.” —Pittsburgh Times. o f to la r said tbe king. ‘Tcqaged.lt to Startling Information. be given ou t" replied the prelate, “that An Old Massachusetts taw. Dear Ed—The menu In one of our your majesty did not attend chapel Tbe general court of Massachusetts leading hostelries states, *Our suckling today, that you might see who It waa Bay Colony, following the example of pigs are strictly milk ted,’ which la an that came here to worship Ood and the English parliament In 1656 enact­ who to flatter the king.” important piece of news to me. for I ed a law that “ anybody who Is found waa always under the Impression that obearvlag by abstinence from labor, suckling pigs were brought up on me- feasting or any other way any such | “ I -have decided.” remarked Benato day as Christmas day shall pay for ; plq strap. C. M. 8.—Detroit Free Press Sorghum, “ to train my memory.” every each offense 5 shillings.” This “What system w ill you use?" A fte r ■ Big Haul. tew was repealed In 1681. “ Bloks used to be daft on tbe subject ” 1 don’t know. I’m looking for on at buried'treasure. What’s he up to that w ill enable me, when I am Inter Getting Inte Seoisty. now?" viewed, to remember what to forget as m have to rig up a middle “ He’s got up an expedition to Aria —Washington Star. ’ declared Flubdub. “ I never Minor to try to find tbs place where bad one. but I gotta have one Methoeelah stored his birthday pres 1 Mexico and tbe Caribbean aaa usually come up tbe coast But the official weather prognostics tors are as much to the dark as the or­ dinary dtisen concerning what Is going to happen in the atmosphere next week, and they really know nothing about any storm until after It has begun its career, and then all thst they know Is the course that It will take—to case It doesn't happen to change ita mind. A slight variation In tbe Intensity, or quality, o f tbe radiation received from the, sun might account for sodden changes or abnormal weather, and re­ cant Investigations show that such va­ riations occur, but what la needed is more accurate knowledge about them and tbelr effects. Heat and light are only two o f an infinite number of forma of vibration sent to us from the ■on. Everybody knows that when the weather records show that two days ■re precisely alike In temperature, in humidity, etc., human nerves prove that they are vastly unlike in some un­ named peculiarity which affects the springs o f Ufa. Tbe spider busily and confidently spinning her webe to preparation for a spell o f flae weather which some un­ erring mechanism o f foreknowledge within her enables her to detect Is a sorer guide than a barometer. She re­ sponds to vibrations as yet only gums- sd at by science, and so perhaps do tbs ■upersensltivt nerves of many human creatures.—Garrett P. le rriw In Hew York Journal. The first glass caps were made at Alexandria. Some were colored Ik s Bohemian glass and decorated with glass postea. Imitating precious atones and cameos. Some ware opaline, oth­ ers clear aa crystal and still others formed o f opaque layers welded to­ gether like tbe famous Portland vaae, In which tbe white upper layqr had been cat away like a ettoifto, Waving i bine ground around tba figures. ñas-a —--- 1 i w ttirvQ “ I f yon are looklng for bargains,” asid the broker, ” 1 can sult yon. I can offer yon soma stocks at 10 canta a aban.” “ Bnt why are toey so cbeapT" de­ mandad tbe lady ibopper. “Ton sea. they heve besa sUgbtiy damaged by water.” A Sable Philosopher. Don’t go {er growlin’ kaae do rotiln world don’t turn ter lo A at you. E f ll did It might fie ¿ s it P ’tntad an’ vou-d Telephone White 86 Re ÙMt Uvee Opon Mpb wfll tog.—Franklin. execution among moat o f tbe old na­ “ My w ife Inaiata upon one to print on tions. It waa to constant practice, her visiting cards.” —Louisville Cour­ especially In Assyria. Carthaglnia and ier-Journal. tbe Roman empire. * a rs a : , # Nature. “ t Joet adore nature. Don’t you?” “ Yea: la moderation, but one can’t help feeling that nature waa Intended ter the tower classes."—Browning’s Th e Exchange. “ Pa. what la the 8tock Exchanger “Tbe Stock Exchange, my son. Is a place where a man la apt to exchange n stock o f money for a stock of axpe rMnoe.” —Boston Transcript Sccrstaries State Boards Feeble Minded. Penitentiary ..................... J. W . Minto, Salem Traiuiag School....... S. Hale, Salem S o k W Home ......... R. C Market, Roaebmf T w elfth Judicial D istrict Judge............................ Harry H . Bek, Deflea ProMcutae................ R . L- C onner. M cM iaaviUe Members of Legislature Senate.................. W . T . Vinton, McMinnville Hom e........... F. L . Michelbrook, 'McMinnville Hom e........................... P . P . Oide, Lafayette County O fficers Corner J " f e ......... J- B. D odno, McMinnviUo Cnimminorr....Wifli— Gumuog. McMioaviUe Cmumkmm .................. W . S. Allan, Dundee Clcvk..................... C Ç- W ilw o. McMinnville SC® 80 aX 8 X 8 XlC 8 Â 8 X 8 MC«ï T h e N ew berg P. S. Timberlake, Prop. Office phone Black 100 Residence phone Red 79 a:>;g irffOT¥MOEKKg; J. H. GIBSON, Mgr. H m o n ly A b s tra c t B ooka in Y a m h ill C ou n ty YunhiU County Abstract Co. ■cMnmvKAJL OnoooN