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A PLAGUE OF FEM
Vague Terrors Bar Lots of Folks
From Living on the Land.
OREAD SNAKES AND INSECTS.
Ttisy I m Dangers and Perils In Coun
try Life That Do Not Kxiat, and So
Prefer Crowded Cities—The Truth
About Animal Bitoe and Poison«. 0
Bm TH PLACEO FJASEBALL.
STARS IN BA SEB A LL
THE CAMERA AS A DETECTIVE.
And the Diamond as First Laid Out by
Abner Deubleday.
In the new Delaware and Hudson
station at Cooperstown, N. Y., hangs an
oil painting with an inscription that
runs thus:
THay Are Raally Saaantial to tha Sue-
oaas of a Club.
*
It la abaolutel.v necessary for each
and every major league club to have
at laaat one unusually brilliant par-
former on its roster to be a good gate
attraction, and more often than net
these stars are pitchers.
* Remember tbe Chicago White 8ox
o f 10OU7 Ed Walsh was the star wbo
did moat to place that team in baseball
bistory, though he received not a Ut
ile assistance from Doc White. W bo
made the Giants o f a few years ago
the most talked o f team In baseball?
Why, Christy Matbewson, to be sore.
H e was a star o f stars, and In fa ir or
fool weather it was be whom the root-
era paid to see. Plank. Coombs and
Bender did more to make the Athletics
famous than did all o f tbe other great
players on tbe team put together,
though tbe $100,000 Infield, consisting
o f Mclnnia, Collins. Barry and Baker,
was a first class attraction In avery
sense o f the word- But few other elubs
in tbe game's history ever bad any
thing approaching this evenly balanced
outfit in its best days.,
Bill James In hia time came pretty
dose to making the Braves, and
Bill Donovan. Ed Reulbacb, Mordecai
Brown. Babe Adams, Joe Wood and
Grover Alexander aU have played lead
ing roles aa gate attractions..
. What would tbe Senators have been
for years without W alter Johnson? la
It tbe Tigers or T y Cobb whom tbe
fans want to see at play? Hal Chase
featured tbe Yankees for years, tor
many seasons Speaker has been the
leading figure with the teams with
which he played, and Joe Jackson,
Marquard and Lgjoto all had large In
dividual followings.
Today a new crop o f stars has Just
about “ arrived” and are pulling tbe
crowds.—Ed A. Goewey In Leslie’s.
Its Koon Kyo Boos Things th# Micro
scope Cannot Discover.
The comers has btoo frequently in
atromentsl In tbe detection o f criml
nolo. In asses o f forgery photography
Is invaluable, for there is no forger
ln the world clever enough to baffle Its
detective skill.
'
An interesting proof o f this was pro
vided a few years ago in the case o f a
forged will. An enlarged photograph
revealed tbe iienclled lines over which
the names o f tbe testator and witness
bad been written, although no trace of
them was visible through tbe micro
scope. This Is one o f the peculiarities
o f the camera, that it brings to light
marks which are Invisible through a
microscope, just as It has been known
to reveal tbe signs o f measles and
smallpox several days before they be
came visible to the naked eye.
Wfien 8 forged signature is suspected
the method adopted la to take photo
graphs o f tbe genuine and supposed
false signatures, magnify each a hun
dredfold or more and compare tbe re
sults. Under this careful test the slight
est discrepancy becomes exaggerated
out o f close resemblance to. the signa
ture, and every sign o f hesitancy— for
few forgers can write a counterfeit sig
nature with perfect ease and fluency—
stands revealed.
A forged banknote, however minutely
and faithfully tb f original may have
been copied, cannot deceive the eye of
the camera, which wiU show not only
tbe slightest deviation from tbe genu
ine note, but also any difference in tbe
texture o f the paper- -used,— D» a re
cent case, where a section o f a che
had been removed and another piece ln
tbe form o f pulp substituted with in
finite skill, tbe camera revealed the
fraud at once, showing exactly where
the new and old papers were Joined.
M AJOR OEN. A B N E R D O U B LE D A Y
1*19-1M
Graduated from West Point, 1MB; com
manded 78th N. T. Civil W a r Volunteers
from Cooperstown.
He originated our
National Qame o f Baseball, and It was
here In X8SB that ha laid out the first base
ball diamond.
Bo reported the special
Baseball Commission In 1S07.
The decision that Abner Doubleday
was the father o f baseball and that
Cooperstown was Its birthplace fo l
lowed a thorough Investigation o f many
clews. The commission, which num
bered among its members tw o United
Btates senators and several high offi
cials o f the National and American
leagues, spent a long time In complet
ing the research. '
A t the time o f the Investigation A b
ner Graves, one o f the original piayera,
was a mining engineer at Denver, Colo.
He proved to be the only survivor
among those young Cooperstown boys
who played so long ago in a village
field, conveniently near Greene’s se
lect school. H e reported that he saw
Doubleday mark off the lines and place
the bases and piayera virtually as they
are la baseball today.
The game bad previously been noth
ing more than the English rounders, to
which baseball, as now.known, bears aa
little resemblance as drafts to chess.
Abner Doubleday, who was then twen-
ty. received bt» Inspiration one day
whlle be was playing rounders, and
he lost no time In marking out a dia
mond with a crooked stick. Later he
blocked out his new scheme on paper,
hot it la interesting to remember that
he tried It first on Mother Earth.
The diamond he drew was thirty
yarda square. Players, amateur and
professional, have come and gone; rule
after rule has been modified; -Under
hand throws and curved deliveries have
arrived; a change has come In the slxe
and weight o f the ball, which originally
was tw o and one half ounces o f rubber
covered with yarn and leather, weigh
ing six and one-half ounces and meas
uring ten and one-half inches In cir
cumference; In the wake o f the ball
have followed padded gloves, catchers'
mitts, breast pads and masks, but the
diamond o f today still njpasures ninety
feet along each side.—Youth’s Com
panion.
Fears o f Injury and even death from
anake bite, terror occasioned by dangers
imaginary and unseen, keep many nerr*
one people from living on the land, and
theoa senseless fears play a larger part
than most people Imagine In keeping
people huddled In apartment bouses,
crowded lntb towns and cities. And
the cost o f living soars and soars.
Snake and Insect poisoning terrorises
millions o f well meaning men and wom
an, when, as a matter o f fact, dan
ger from falling-, while running the
lawn mower Is much mpre real. Fear
seems to become a obsession, and the
word “ deadly” creeps into conversation
at every verse end. The rattlesnake la
% “ deadly.”
The copperhead and- moc
casin are “ deadly." So la the wholly
mythical puff adder. In hardly leas
degree la the tarantula "deadly,” while
varying lethal capacities are ascribed
to the centipede, the scorpion, the kiss
ing bug and sundry other forms o f In
sect-life.— Pseudo science to the Con-
trary notwithstanding, there la no liv
ing thing within the boundaries o f the
United 8tatea o f America whose bite or
sting Is sure death or (with one possi
ble exception) even probable death.
There are five varieties o f venomous
serpents In the country, three o f them
Our Immigrants.
Orotallds and two belonging to the
Tbe Immigrants wbo have been land
slaps family. The elaps are rare. The
ed at Ellis Island have been o f a higher
c rota lids (rattlesnake, moccasin and
THE “EROICA” SYMPHONY.
type than those o f an earlier time. O f
copperhead) are common and o f the
A Musical Portrait of Napoleon aa Bee- course there has been a wonderful
widest geographical distribution. Yet,
change in their dress. When I first
thovon Idealized Him.
on the basis o f actual evidence, the
amazing fact stands out that only
Tbe moat notable eiam ple o f a mas- went Into the work it was like going
about eighty persons, so far as Is ascer
terwork With a political origin la to the opera, tbe native costumes we
tainable, have ever died from snake
Beethoven’s “ Eroica” symphony. Gen used to see whenever a shipload o f im
bites In the United States.
eral Bemadotte during hia residence migrants landed. Now there are very
in Vienna in 1798 as ambassador from few national costumes to be seen.
Be It remembered that death follow-
the French nation suggested to Bee Christian Herald.
nlng snake bite is not necessarily the
thoven the composition o f a symphony
game thing as death from snake bite.
ln honor o f Napoleon. A t that time
Republics and Gratitude.
Error in treatment plays no small part
Napoleon was looked upon as tbe
“ Do you regard republics as ungrate
In vitiating the statistics. For “ error”
champion o f freedom, tbe savior o f ful r
read “ whisky.” Whoever is primarily
hia country, the embodiment o f re
“ Such historical reading as I have
responsible for the hoary superstition
publican ideals, with which BeetAovsn done,” replied Senator'Sorghum, “ does
that liquor in huge doses Is useful In
A CITY OF MANY SIEGES.
was In thorough sympathy, and be not lead me to think so. Sometimes
aaake poisoning has many a life to an
they are only naturally resentful o f be
swer for. A whole bottle o f raw whis Verdun Has Figured In Wars Bine# willingly accepted the proposal.
Before tbe symphony was published ing persistently flimflammed.” — Was
ky forced down the throat o f a man un
the Tim s of Casssr.
Napoleon became emperor, and when tngton Star.
accustomed to alcohol is pretty likely
The first appearance o f Verdun In the the news reached Vienna Beethoven
to kill him and la absolutely certain to
pages o f history was In the time o f was violently angered. "A fte r all.
cause grave poisoning.
Bully Solution.
Jullua Caesar, who established at Vero- then, be is nothing but an ordlnan
Professor—Fat. what Is your aolu-
Fully as much terror attaches. In the dunum, as it was then called, a maga-
mortal! He will trample all the rights :ion to the world problem? Pat—Well,
country districts, to the puff adder or
sine for bis legions.
o f men under foot to Indulge bis ambi tor. I think we should have a world
sand viper as to the rattlesnake or cop
The Germans first attacked Verdun tion and become a greater tyrant than
lemocracy—with an Irishman for king.
perhead. This Is a suggestive bit o f
In the sixth century, when the Franka any one!”
-Life.
superstition, since there’s no such thing from the northwestern part o f Ger
With these words be seized tbe mu
as an adder or viper on the western
many took possession o f the town. By sic. tore tbe title page In half and
The Repeat.
hemisphere and never has been one,
the famous treaty o f Verdun, made on threw it on tbe ground. He never
“ Is It difficult to borrow money?“
unle«i it came carefully pickled I n . ^
d
the
943 . Verdun form-
again referred to the connection be
“ Not tbe first time. The second touch
jar. What passes for the supposedly
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/,—
i ^h. i ~
ed part o f the dominions o f Lothalre. tween his work and Napoleon until
Js what calls for great skill.” —Detroit
deadly reptile is tlie common hog nosed
It was taken and annexed to the Ger news o f tbe latter's death reached him.
Free Preas.
or hull snake. It Is about as dangerous
man empire in 030 by Otbo I. and plac- i Then he said. "I have already com
as an infuriated rabbit. But It puts up
ed under the temporal authority o f the ^ posed the pro|»er music for that catas
one o f the (test “ bluffs” known to nat
Net Encouraging.
bishops.
trophe." meaning, o f course, the fu
ural history.
“ She seems to look upon my proposal
Verdun surrendered to France In ! neral march. But the whole symphony,
Diseased imagination could Invent no
1553. but was not formally ceded to ! with Its essentially revolutionary char as a sort o f flapjack.”
creature more horrific o f appearance
“ How so?”
France until nearly a century later. | acter. Is a musical portrait of Napo
than the tarantula.’ Its bristling and |
"Says she’ll turn it over in her mind."
) During the French revolution. In 1702. leon as Beethoven idealized him.
hostile aspect, the sw ift ferocity o f Its
—Kansas City Journal.
the citizens o f Verdun opened their
rush, its great size aild Its enthusiastic
gates to the Prussians after a bombard-
W h y 1881 W a s Chosen.
preference for combat as against flight
meut o f a few hours. The French com
In 1881 a so called prophecy o f Moth
are sufficient to account for the fear
mandant committed suicide and the er Shipton's was in every one's mouth:
and respect In which It Is generally
revolutionary government executed a
Tho world then to an end shall come
held. But. though several species of
In eighteen hundred and elshty-one.
number o f others who shared the re
the huge spider are native In the United
A traveling tailor denied inspiration
sponsibility for the Ignominious sur
8 tates and others frequently drop out render. Including fourteen girls wbo to thla prognostic, nor. as now appears,
Where tranc'd specialists with modern laj>
o f banana bunches from South and
bad offered flowers to the Prussian was it remarkable for accuracy. But •ratoriei and adequate equipment fiv e in*'
Central America, to the discomfiture o f
monarch. The Prussians were driven ! he went further. He demonstrated in atruetion leading to collegiate degree« in th#
the unsus]>ectlng grocer, no authentic
out after having held the town forty- ! the dust o f the road why that exact tallowing school«:
Instance o f death from tarantula poi
A G R IC U L T U R E . with 15 departments;
date was chosen. Not only was it ca
three days.
son In this country Is obtainable.
COMMERCE, with 4 departments;
The Teutonic hosts again swooped \ balistic. a multiple o f nine, etc., hut
In some sections of the country the , down
VenHin ln 1870. Unable
_____ _ to
w it was the only date available to Moth
E NG IN EERING , with S departments, in
spider hysteria prevails. People shiver j ^
fhe town by dlrect
they er Shipton which in Arabic numerals eluding Civil. Electrical. Highway, Industrial
Arts, Irrigation, and Mechanical Engineering;
m
‘ " Z r \ " "P'dT
Y* V “ Invested and bombarded It. and the was the same backward, forward and
FO RESTRY, including Logging Engineer-
all the United States there Is known but
upside
down.
Eleven
hundred
and
French, after a I wave defense, surren
la g ;
one poisonous spider. Strangely enough,
dered tbe fortress with* 4,000 men and eleven was past, and not till 1881 would
ROM E ECONOMICS, with 4 m ijor denari
the one dangerous spider on the
large stores of ammunition. Verdun the coincidence recur. The next Moth menu, including training in th« Fraction
American continent is small, obscure
was the last place* abandoned by the er Shlpton will select S008, which Is House;
and practically unknown. Latrodectus
M IN IN G , s illi three departments, ¡Delud
Germans, the troo|»s retiring in Septem not tomorrow or next day. — London
mactnns Is Its scientific name. It Is
Globe.
ing Chemical Engineering;
her. 1873.—New York World.
about the size o f a large |tea, blaek.
PH AR M ACY.
with a red spot on the back—a useful
THE SCHOOL OF M OSIC. offers instrue
Ant Strength.
Difficultiea of Mining.
danger signal—and spins a small wet»
An English scientist weighed a small Uon in the principal departments of vocal
Every time a ton of anthracite coal
In outhouses or around woodpiles. But
ant and a dead grasshop|»er which It and instrumental niusie.
few specimens have ever been Ideutl- * nd iw k *» hoisted from a mine an was dragging.to Its nest. The weight
TH E M IL IT A R Y D E PAR TM E N T, enrolled
average o f eleven tona o f water must
fled In this country.
o f the grasshopper was found to l>e 1085 cadets in 1916-17. and won recommen
dation for O. A. C. from the Western Depart
The only Insect which really kills Is tie pumped from tbe mine.
sixty times greater than that of the
ment of the U. S. War Department aa ona at
It takes about the same amount of
the mosquito, .vet less fear Is expressed
ant. The force exerted by the ant In
about Its activities than about any oth power to pump fresh air Into a mine as : dragging tbe grasshopper along the tha fifteen " distinguished institutions*' ef
higher learning. All cadets will be furnished
er (»oison carry lug Insect or snake. it does to hoist tbe coal out of It.
road was therefore pro|K>rtionatcly complete uniforms by the U. S. Government
I d some mines with long drifts the
Compared with the mosquito as a real
equal to that o f . a man weighing 130 and the junior and senior cadets, enrolled in
menace, all the combine*I brood of car hauls may lie as much as fifteen (touiids pulling a load o f four and one- tha R. O. T. C.. will be given commutation for
snakes, scorpions, centipedes, tarantu miles per round trip.—National Engi half tons or a horse o f 1.200 pounds a Subsistence, aa well as all transportation and
las and other pet bugaboos o f our child- neering.
subsistence at the six weeks' Summer camp
load o f thirty-six tons.
lab romanticism are utterly negligible
REGISTRATION BEGINS OCTOBBR g.
Preserving the Pumpkin.
—are as figments to reality, as shadow
1817.
Information ae request.
Address,
The Noblest Public Virtue.
In colonial (lays pumpkins were par
to substance.
Registrar,
Oragoa
Agricultural
Collage,
That
patriotism»
which,
catching
its
Corvallis, Oragoa. _
A clear understanding of these popu ed. cut In thin stri|»s of convenient stse
Inspirations from the immortal God and
iar fears and sur>erstltlons would aid ! and dried for future use in "punkin”
leaving at an / I in measurable distance
greatly In giving assurance o f safety ! bread and “ punkin" pie. This custom
below all lesser, groveling, personal In- Adm inistrator's Notice o f Final
to the man or woman who would till ! Is one that we should Imitate. Squashes
terests and feelings, animates and
Settlem ent.
the soli, who would work <u the open [ and sweet | sit a toes, when they show
prompts to deeds of self sacrifice, of
signs
o
f
allotting,
may
he
preserved
by
fields, who would live In the country.—
Notice
is
hereby
given that the undersqpwd
the same method. Good Housekeeping. valor, of devotion anil of death Itself—
Loo Angeles Times.
ministrator ol the estate of M ery E. Edwards.
that Is puhik*/virtue; that la tbe noblest,
dec nosed, has Sled hie final account at said ad-
the sublimest of all pnlillc virtues.—
of said estate m the County Court of
A Last Friend.
Ho Waa Pasted.
Henry Clay.
Yamhill C omity. Oregon, aad that said Court has
1 like Brown
“ How o|d are you?" asked ■ little boy
id Monday, November 19th. 1917, at I I
very much, but I see no way now to of his mother’s caller.
He Knew Better.
° clock A . M . ol said day, aa the day and hour
avoid los'ng Ills friendship.”
“ Willie.” said Ills mother sharply,
Gentleman Why don't you get out 1 ( m ^ h ^ ^ o h p b e e s lo said filial scenes«
“ What's the matter?”
"you must not ask a lady a question and hustle? Hanl work never killM
"H e has asked me to lend him like that; It Isn't |M»Hte.”
anybody.
Hustus
You’re mlstooken * Now therefore, all persons interested m die es
money I f I refuse he’ll hate me: If I
"Why. ntainma.” returned the young dere, boss. I ’se Inst font» wives dal tate of said dec idee« are hereby notified and re
quired to appear at the County Court room at
lend It to hlm I -hull hate him."—De ster. “ slie Isn't supiNwed to tell the way.” — Boston Transcript.
me Court House at McMinnville, said County
truth.” —Boston Tronsrrlpt.
troit Free f’ress.
ned Siele, el mid time, lo then and there show
She Knew.
ere be,
cause, if any there
be. why said account should
Alt He Could Stand.
Real Nerve.
Mother -O b. Mary, why do you wipe M l be settled, allowed and am
approved,
oved, and said
W ife—Tom I WHiit 82» for pin mon- | "Matt sure bus got nerve, hasn't he?" your mouth with the hack o f your ■tste forever and finally settled end sai
ey. H y b -llr m ' Nn>tt! Here It Is. but f “ I guest yes The oilier day he asked ha ml? Mary 'Cos It's so much cleaner ntmtor discharged.
I'm dinned gtiii! you don't wsnt to buy an automobile salesman for a sample.” than the front. Isnntrtn Punch.
Dated October Ifitk. 1917.
J. S. E D W A R IiS .
spikes Host on Trails rlpi
j —Lninli.
Administrator o( the Estate of Mary E. Ed-
A commonwealth ought lo l*e imtnoi
, wards, deceased. •*
Pessimism Is productive o f paralysis tal anil forever renew Its youth.
Friends tie o;*ie foes and foea are
Clarence Butt, Attorney (or Estate.
sud stagliili Ion
reccaclled. I.n tln .
Cicero.
Fire pub. October 18. Leal pub. November 1 ) I
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