FORETOLD I T DREAMS.
Canes In Which sleep
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"I dreamed that the ship win in
• heary aea, that a big wave came
otar her bo we, pressed down upon
her, and than she rolled over on her
starboard aide and disappeared.”
Thia is not an extract from a
sterj. It in evidence, given on oath,
during the inquiry at London into
the myateriona disappearance of the
Waratah, the vessel which on her
aooond voyage myaterioualy disap
peared in July, 1909, and haa never
bain heard of since. And so im
pressed was the passenger with the
vision that be left the vessel at Dur
ham, from which point she contin
ued on her ill fated voyage. Thus
one more arsis added to the extraor-
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unary coincidences in wnich «reams
have figured.
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The third Lord Waterford was
able to verifyva story of an extraor-
dinarv dream eoming true. Talking
one day with the landlord of the
inn in the village clone to Curragh-
more, a man rushed no and mid
there had been a murder on the
hills. “Then it must be the little
onq,” said the landlord, at which
Loid Waterford, not unnaturally,
became very suspicious. The land
lord proceeded to explain that in
the night he dreamed that two men
had come to the inn and that the
taller of the two had murdered the
shorter with a vary curious knife.
He told his dream to his wife,
who laughed at him. But, to his
horror, tne men he had teen while
asleep came to the inn, and one
used the curious kniffe to cut up his
food. They left, and soon after
ward news of the murder arrived.
Search was made for a tall man an
swering to the landlord's descrip
tion, and one was quickly arrested.
In prison he confessed he had mur-
dered hia abort companion.—Pear
son’s Weekly.
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THIS BIRD LIVES ON FISH.
but Beautiful, and Only Mil- Amé Ha Dareaft Build a Neat, but Uvea
In a land Tunnel.
Anelrea Can Live Thus.
The belted kingfisher baa a greet
* I’m afraid that I shall have to tell taste
for fish. Every day Is Friday
my great-grandchildren that the with him,
ao matter b w bon
Caspian is retv little to look at, at gry be gets, because
be
will
nothing except
lasst from
color, fish. Wherever there eat Are
It
creeks, riv
and it smells outrageously of kero ers. ponds or Inks* the kingfishers
are
sene, writes H. 0. Dwight in the to be found.
Century.
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His principal business In Ufa aaeme
Baku, however, is something to to be diving Into the water for fish.
From hia parch on a dead branch or ns
look a t (Baku is the Russian Trans ha
ovar tha water this sanaos!
caucasian seaport on the Caspian bird hovera
aptos
a amall fish. With a swoop
•aa.) It is a kind of Pittsburgh and a splash
n dive he goes Into
dipped in Asia, and it tickled me be the water and and
la
out
aa gutykly with
yond measure. Not ao '
the fiah firmly held In tala stout bask.
was a wretched fishing
Aa he emerges from the water a quick
habited chiefly by Peruana
•hake “of the body sends the water
tare who were too stupid t6 sell dying from hie oily feathers, and he la
In abort order. The fish la tossed
their lapd to prowling oil prospec dry
Into the air. caught again la tha beak
tors. So those same Persians and and
swallowed band first
Tartan now roll ia gold. And they Unlike
other birds, the king
don’t know what on earth to do Haber does moat
not
build
hie neat In tress,
with it The consequence ia that but seeks 'a sand bank.
which he
nobody but a millionaire can afford digs n tunnel several feet In straight
In
to live in Baku.
At the far end a little room la hol
and there on the sand ther
But what a fantastic hodgepodge lowed out
eggs are laid. *
of civilization and barbarism! What glossy
belted kingfisher A recognised
! What costumes! What mor- by The
hia fluffy crown and hia breast hand.
ST
arelé has a blue-gray breast hand,
Above all, what motorcars, satin Tha
back
and, aldea, while the female has
Humbug.
lined,
emblaxoned,
gilded,
jeweled,
chestnut
Ados and breast hand
The word “humbug” had its ori- •kitchen ng there on the edge of In addition colored
to
a
gray
breast hand.—Ex-
as follows: Among the many is
sues of- base coin made from time
to time in Ireland there was none to
worthless as that made by James
II. at the Dublin mint. It was
made of whatever metal was the
easiest to get, lead, copper, pewter
or brass, and so low was its in
trinsic value that 90 shillings of it
eras worth only twopence sterling.
The soft mixed metal of which that
worthless coin was composed was
known to the Irish as “uimbog,”
pronounced oombbg, meaning soft
copper or worthless money. Thus
the phrase “humbug” originated by
a person saying: “Tnat is a piece of
aim-bog.” “Don’t try to pass off
your uim-bog on me.”—Exchange.
A Big DifUranc«.
Frwp the parlor there came a
crash that brought the careful
housekeeper downstairs at unusual
speed.
“Sarah,” she said, “did you break
something f”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“What was it?”
“One of those green vases, ma’am.
But it only broke in two pieces.”
“You stupid girl,” said the care
ful housekeeper. “It is gone, so
what difference does it make wheth
er it is in two pieces or two hun
dred?”
“All the difference in the world,
ma’am, as yon would soon find out
if you had to pick up the pieces,”
said Sarah.—Exchange, l -
Whan Lovu Oat a Chill.
“Chriasie and me have had a
row,”
said the young man, murder
lAm rih ~
ing grammar in the intensity of his
grief.
“Why, what’s up?”
“Well, you know Christie's a
schoolteacher, and—I mean I can
stand a bit, but there’s a limit.”
Ib tifirE ip o s tfio n T
“I don’t understand. What’s the
w a 3 ^ m n ^ t/^
trouble exactly?”
“Why, I promised to meet her
W EB ST E R 'S
last night at 7 under the clock, and
NEW INTERNATIONAL
I couldn’t get there till 7:30. And
woa
riarity
of Edaratiaaal Merit when I arrived—would you believe
■ am creation answers with it?—she asked me if I’d brought a
Anef authority all kinds of puzzling written excnae from my mother.
questions such as “ How Is Pnemytl Isn’t that enough to put anybody
pronounced?" “Where is Flam-
d in t ” “ What b a amthtuoua vou- off ?”—Exchange.
moat” ‘‘WhatiaaAaritwrf’' "What
b tMU coalf” “ How b skat pro
nounced?” and thousand* of others.
FANTASTIC BAKU.
Laka In m VelJaniie~Ring.
On the island of Ninafow, half
way between Fiji and Samoa, is a
volcanic ring inclosing a crater con
taining a lake two miles in diame
ter. Toward the sea the ring i>
bordered with walls oi black cliffs
200 to 300 feet in height. An erup
tion in 1886 formed a peninsula on
the eastern side of the lake. While
the ocean outside ia trembling and
thundering nnder a heavy wind the
lake remains smooth or is simply
wrinkled with ripples or wavelets.
DU Him Hwwr.
“Did yon read that interview with
Dubwaite in the morning paper?”
“Yea. Ifs positively brilliant I
had
idea Dubwaite was such a
[ ai * • « H i al imac B. R u » , smart no man.”
n.n.iui, U » Had hi Fiaal AcceaW m ■ b ia .
“Neither did he. I hear he wants
M H «f A* «atatc ai mid deeund, k A*
to
present the reporter who wrote
2 ¿m Ä ai Jmeary,
<ä tJ r 191 S Y. 2 « n II L «dock
£ 7 A a. i m. 8A ai it with
a suit of clothes.”—Birming
ham
Age-Herald.
aami de m Aadap^ajdû r iH jb
Twe Visiting Carda.
In
1844
when
M. da Legraos waa
HtSevi aid duriui an k m b as
under
Louis
ruilppe
as minister ex
m ead la aaanr S Aa Ci t y C—S
traordinary to China the courtesy e t
Aa Court Haaaa, at Mi MbuvNi, Yi
the ambassador greatly Impresssd the
m statesmen, particularly
srLSTVüt:
After the negotiations
Ä2LX3 “doyen.“
AaaUaal ka
completed and M. da Legrase
ready to embark a delegation brought
him a great roll of papor. The a ateas-
7A. 1916.
•ador
seeing this parcel at once thought
S. A. MILLS.
thA was a pres sot. knowing Cklnaaa
1 ai Aa Mala ad baaa B.
methods, but to hA surprise they start
ed to unroll the cylinder, which attend
Part una Dac. 7 . 1916 . U * mama ¡am. i , 1917 102 feet. Then be Aeread that it was
the vAttlag card of tha “deyen.“ In re-
J . H. GIBSON, Mgr"
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which read, T b s
of Frailea regrata that ha A able to
only these almpA words to your
YamhiO County Abstract Co.
Asia!
Ifs too good to be true, but
shan’t tell yon about i t What
want to tell yon about is a park the
Russians have made there on the
shore of their Caspian They al
ways do those things well, you
know. No green thing will groi
for miles around Baku, but those
Russians have coaxed a few trees to
sprout in turn in that tidy little
park, and bends far better than I
ever heard in Central parkplay yon
Tschaikovsky and Rimsky-Co irsakof,
not to say Wagner and Verdi and
Bizet. And youjihonld see the ex
traordinary crowds that listen—the
Russians, the Peipiafis, the Arme
nians, the Georgians, the Leeghians,
the Tartan, the wild, Hie swarthy,
the fiery, thfc rainbapr colored! My
•on, when in doubt go to Baku.
I sat there in their park one aft
ernoon sniffing their
ping by foot in time io
“Glinka,” when I suddenly.made a
discovery:
That coon song we used to sin
when we were young, “Lon, L<
Love Yon,” canne ont of “Life For
the Cxar.”
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The "Third Degree* In Japan.
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Medieval torture for securing
confessions from criminals ia, it
seems, dung to by random polie
men in Japan, although distinctly
against the law. It ia recorded in
the daily papers that two Japanese
detectives, Jihei Fujikura and Ku-
mataro Takedo, who extorted a
false confession of murder from So-
suke Komori by means of torture,
were each sentenced to three
months’ imprisonment in the Yoko
hama district conrt recently. They
were given one year’s postponement
of the execution of the sentence.
After being imprisoned for many
months Komori, the victim of .the
overzealous “bulls,” waa recently re
leased.—East and West Newt.
h alt See Superstitions.
Iceland fishermen considered
sneezing a sign that some evil was
about to happen to the ship and
used to salute the man who had
sneezed to atone for his act.' Spit
ting to the windward, which if un-
seamanlike for a very obvious rea
son, was also considered as a sign
of ill omen. A reasonable explana
tion for this superstition is that no
ship was safe as long as ahe had
members of her crew who were ao
ignorant in such an elementary
principle of seamanship. Chinese
sailors consider it good luck to cross
the bows of foreign ships, and in
seeking good fortune cause a great
deal of trouble in narrow channels
and congested waters.
Qlaaa Raam In a Hospital.
The hospital of the Hebrew In
fant asylum in New York contains
a room built entirely of glass. It ia
divided into twelve compartments,
each having glass -tides, through
which the nurse can see tbs baby at
all times without going in. Each
compartment is ventilated sepa
rately, states the Southern Hospital
Record. A child having a com
municable disease can be cared for
in one of these little compartments
without spy possibility of infecting
the baby in the next one, although
it may be only three feet away, and
the children smile at each other
through the glasa.
Harbor* Sponsor's O N I imo .
Herbert Spencer hated clocks
which strike, especially out of door
clocks. When staying in lodgings in
a Berkshire village he tent a re
quest to the owner of the principal
house there that the stable clock,
which struck the hours, might be
•topped. He was not a good com
panion to go out for a drive with,
aa, if he did not feel well, he would
ascertain how fast hia pulse was
beating and if it was not satisfac
tory would instantly give the ordor
to return home.
ONE WAY TO PAY.
Hew the Artist Raphael Settled HA
Bill at an Inn.
Raphael, the great Italian painter,
whose celebrated Biblical pictures art
worth fabulous auma of money, was’
oot a rich area when young and ext
countered some of tire vicissitudes of
Ufa llko many another genius.- " — -----
Once when traveling ha pot up at an
Inn and remained there, enable to get
away through Ack of funds to aettlo
bla bUL The landlord grew auspicious
that such waa the case, and hA re
quests for a settlement grew more and
more pressing. Finally young Raphael
In desperation resorted to tha following
device:
He carefully painted upou a table top"
In hA room a number of gold coins,
and, placing the table in a certain tight
that gave a startling effect, ha packed
hA few belongings and summoned his
“There." he exclaimed, with n lordly
wave of hA hand toward tb# table, “U
enough to settle my tell and more. Now
kindly show the way to tha door.”
The Innkeeper, with many smites and
bows, ushered hA guest out and then
hastened back to gather ap hA gold.
HA rag# and consternation whan he
discovered the fraud knew ao bounds
until a wealthy English traveler, recog
nixing the value of the art put In the
work, gladly paid him ffiO for the table
-Stray Stories.
A Famous WoAH Fortress..
Carnarvon castle A tbs moat apian
did specimen of medieval military
architecture surviving In Britain, not
excepting Alnwick. Art and beanty
were combined with Strength by De
Elf reton, the architect, who had been
commanded to construct a palace
within an Impregnable fortress
Whether the mean little passage chain
ber in the Eagle tower was the birth
place of the Infant prince whom Ed
ward 1. made the medium of such a
grim practical Joke upon the Welsh
aeems doubtful, but tbs main story
may still bs true. Every famous mo I
dler who helped to make history In
this corner of Britain haa played some
part within or without the welA of
Carnarvon castle. It baa been starved
Into surrender, but never captured by
force of arms and can therefore claim
to be considered a “virgin fortress.*—
Westminster Gazette.
Proverbs of the Highway.
Thank the Lord that most of the
deep rivers to cross are those we see
In dreams.
Don't want a world so bright that
we won't enjoy the glory that’s wait
ing for as hereafter.
We spend lots o' time praying for
Providence to help us. and It never
occurs to ns to surprise Providence by
helping ourselvss.
It's too great a, compliment to trou
ble to be always bunting It—especial
ly when you know the old fellow will
come to'yon If you only wait for him.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Filling a Seek.
The clumsy performance of holding
a reck and filling it at the same time
can be simplified if the reck A hung In
a barrel Four curved nails are placed
at equal distance« In the rim, and the
reck A suspended from three. When
It A filled the reck can be easily re
moved. _______________
Question ef Credit.
“Do you think the world owes you a
Bring r
"Tea. But the world’s Ilka a bank.
You’ve got to go to some trouble to
get yourself Identified as the person to
whom the living Is due.”—Washington
Star.
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Like a Wet Blanket
Hokaa—1 never knew such a wet
blanket as Flubbub. Pokes—That’*
right If that fellow should Jump from
the frying pah Into the fire be would
put the fire eat
The Rossen.
•That young fellow A always com
plaining be cannot find an opening.*
“That A why be to always la the
bote”—Baltimore American.
Give ao rein« to roar Inf
Iona Take tius aad a ttttte delay.
Impetuosity manages all things
i«“ GROWING !2îs
A* evidence of th* progm » math by this bank tine* ttt organ-
iwation. the following table is submitted showing
each of the foe year periotls preceding the date of th
No«. 17th 1891........................... $ 72,132.60
Nov. 17th 1896 ....................... 5g.f0S.73
No©. 17th 1901........................ 102,506.31
No©. 17th 190fi.......................... 221,545.2«
No©. 17th 1911.............
447,668.96
N ob . 17th 1916......................... 572,50043
Farm hang, on approood security, will b* mods thos* detir-
tng to make permanent improvements or enlarge their hards
or planting*. This bank it large enough to accommodate
you in any legitimate demand bat not too large to appre
ciate your business, however small
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Capital and Surplus $75,000
Spend the Holidays
at Home
The economical time of the jeer to travel. Holiday
round-trip feres allow longer return Umita then et
eny other time of die jeer.
New Year’s HoHdays-
Christmas Holidavs—
Between all points in Oregon
Dec. 80 to Jan. 1st inclusive.
Return limit Jan. 3rd. Oregon
to California points Dee. 26 to 28
inclusive. Return limit Jan. 16.
Between all points in Oregon; al
so f r o m all Southern Pacific
points to Washington and Idaho
Dec. 22 to 26 inclusive. Return
limit Jan. 3. Between Oregon
and California points Dec. 21 to
23 inclusive. Return limit 16
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