PESTS OF DOMA
I am . fully convinced that a
warm climate is the greatest breed
ing place for Insects of all kinds
and descriptions, and "too numer
ous to mention.” 1 wish to speak
of some, and give a few notes on
seek. I believe that I can say that
OREGON. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1919
NEWBERG, YAMHILL
VOLXXXI
or what not, according to the
length Qt their star,. Thor eaa
ran or fly Hk* a flash.
Their
whole body la so frail that when
one ia crushed there la nothing but
a a pot loft.
The moths eat our
paper, and one has already made
a good meal off of the back of Mr.
Jackson's cost, a perfectly new one.
One little scorpion, bolder than
others of hla race, came out on the
white wall in our bath room; and
as soon as he was discovered, ’we
loot no time In giving him a quick
exit from life.. This la the first
and only one I have seen so far.
One night while we were at din
ner. the white winged 'ante came
in around- the lamp on the table
and literally piled themselves up a
half inch deep for some little area,
and hosts more were on the floor
|Snd some seemingly everywhere.
We scooped what we could up in a
bag and Mr. .Jackson drowned them
in a pool of water, and those that
were left shed their wings and the
Mg black ants came in droves and
carried them home for a late din
ner .for which we rejoiced. All
that wah left the* next morning
were the number!
wings strewn
everywhere that had been loet in
the fray.
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At night when we want to read
or writs» the millers and Spanish
file« and “ hard shell bpffl? fly In
our faces and on our clothing till it
“ takes all the Joy out of llte,” and
we are driven to bed.. only tA .he
attacked by mosquitoes, while the
gnats sing their dismal, busting
“ sleepy song,” and we endeavor to
compose ourselves enough to get
to sleep before midnight The mos
quito nets over our beds give us
aofa was ettraad with thsm during
the great plague times. At any
ruts, since the rains have threat
ened and finally come, we have
been greatly annoyed wKh theee
creeping. erawUag, flying fleeing
vielten.
The -ether day Mr, Jackson was
trying to do soma reading.
His
book was propped up in front of
him, leaving both of hla hands free,
waving in the air like the arms of
a windmill, vainly trying to get
some peace— and the tiny black
guato out of bis eyes, ears and
mouth.
When I discovered him
thus I took / good laugh, though
1 was at that same thee Inflicted
with the Mme kind of tormentera.
Now there is another larga, sleek,
fgt bug. that Plaited our chupper
which we nicknamed “ the chupper
bug "
He liT perfbctly harmless,
aad ws usually saw him sitting ou
a small ltm b»«f tha side walla o f
the chuppor, boldly looking about.
He is also a non-combatant. Baal-
ly he seemed -to be a very religious
bog tor he never ones offsrsd to some protection
; the big long black ants corns In by
the mllloins, not stopping to be po
lar on bts hack slightly moving his 1'ts, but foraging every part o f the
Aon when the next blow TOOKt ublegt dresser, etc.. Included,
it to come, he never flinch- upon investigation we discovered
seldom started away, but n u p place o f abode and found the
it r ilg h t at his murderer ground outside
literally
covered
lie end.” -
with them. Some were coming out
crickets permeated
every o f the mud walls o f the house and
r the chupper. got Into the others were descending from the
id our clothes, and every trees, all bearing down on us like
►ok. and then sang very some innumerable army in array
id shrilly. “ In tune and out for battle. ' Strange to say. there
” aa long as w s stayed were some little black winged cuts
> bear them.
who did all the commanding o f the
Ight a fir e fly got la and forces and they were so successful
t find Its way out. H e ran that there were places In our room
r and that, hla llttlo ligh t that w ere black with these desper*
g and fluttering, and then «t e foes. W e had brought some In-
the grass o f the roof snd M et powder 'w ith os from home
i candle soon expired. H e that when blown on them and their
very fiery that I actually beaten paths, rendered them stun-
I I f he wouldn’ t set the ned. silly and so weak that at JJrst
i a fire, but he didn’t.
they ran riot trytng to escape, and
there are the flies.
They in the midst o f It their legs gave
» real American fllss. fo r way and they could only crawl on
bits are much the M m e as their bollies. and they lay down
have known and seen.
I and kicked as long as they had Ilfs,
can M y that Y have not W e stepped ot\ all w e eonld to put
icm so plentiful bora as I them at rest.
The next m orning
*tsd .
. whan the boy swept the room there
caterpillars and graashop- w« * fu lly a h a lf gallon o f dead
re shown themselves, but «nta.
I could hardly believe my
teed w ell behaved.
Aa a
w hen I saw so many,
LEGION TO BK
A meeting for the purpose of oj
ganislng a local .branch of tfc>
American Lagisn was held at
Commercial Club rooms Tuepde
-night, and while the attendant
was small there was an abundant -
of enthusiasm.
Every Indicator
points to the organisation of »
strong and active branch of
American Legion at the next E|tet
ing to be held at the same hubn
and place on Tuesday. October I t
We expect to have our charter ,b>
that time and everything In read!
nass to complete the permanent e>
Dent Mowrey. pianist .presented
Mias Blythe Owen in a recital In
his studio In the Ellers building
last Sunday afternoon. Mias Owen
delighted a large audlenee with her
beautiful program.
She is both
young and petite, but her playing
contains the intelligence and force
of maturity. Mias Owen has ac
quired a remarkable cleanness of
teohnique and an amastng strength
of tone . Particularly notices We
was her fleet clean octave wash.
She claimed the enthusiasm at her
audience from /ho beginning la the
end of a delightful but taxiugPprn-
the Rattle field of France.
The following temporary
and committee were selects
lude.” C. Cul; “ Italian Concerto,"
Bach; Preludes 1«. 11, 1«, ( M i n t
Etudes Noe. B and t. Op. lb. Men.
1 and 11. Op. I f . "PsUcheneUn,”
Rachmaninoff.
- Miss Owen left the d ty last Mon
day t? taka a position in the Rteno
department of the White fflUte col
lege. The college Is to bo congratu
lated on the addition to Its faculty
of this brilliant new member— Sun-
nard Groth and Arlie Evans.
It le.to be hoped that all
October 14
BEW ARE 07 TBUABT
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for
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a program from tbs works o f Carrie
Jacobs Bond.
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F ollow in g Is the program for next
Sunday:
M orning service, 11 o’ clock—
Prelude, Voluntary— Jackson.
O ffertory,
Andaatlnograsloeo Mo-
«a rt.
.
. _;*v
Soto, “ T h e Lord Is M y L igh t,” Allet-
eeon— Wm. Y , Arthur.
Sermon.
“ Th e
Soul
W inning
Church” —-R ev. W. R. Jewell.
Poetlude by H. F. Baird.
E vening service, 7:30 o’clock—
Prelude. Voluntary, Lechiner.
Old fashioned song service, singing
the old fam iliar songs In the old
fa m iliar way.
O ffertory, Voluntary, Bath.
8olo, “ The Publican,” VanDeWater
— W . Y . Arthur. (B y request)
Sermon, "W h a t It Costs to Become
a Christian“ — Rev. W. R. Jewell.
Poetlude. Selected.
FRIDAY MORNING AT
K E EN LIU MUSIC ST0RB
k This is the time fo r selecting
your reserved sent fo g; the lyceum
course, tbs opening number o f
which w ill be given on Saturday
evening o f this week at Wood-Mar
Hall.
’ As you may know, w s never get
Six big attractions for |3.00. Do
lonely for this sort jo t company nor not delay gettin g your tickets. No
languish fo r lack of lig h t excretes, raise in price .notwithstanding tha
fo r we have some o f those Insects high cost o f everything else tha*
glways w ith us. and they seem you buy.
to- sue Htele tetlwr. w it h - « « o ver to-t iro snff tcr Herat iHBe ffiotr
ly snd a copper colored «c tlv lty . I think I have never seen
N E W VOCAL STUDIO
1 he Is a had on# . Th e
many in all m> life, and 1 am
uta and dried fru it th at' *ur" this Is not all, but It Is all I
Captolla
Angere
Oriasen
an
its gave us on lM v In g the haT® experienced “ lir four months’
nounces the opening o f a vocal
1. were found fu lly pos- residence here.
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studio In Newberg.
theee little weevils. Th ey
F. Luclle Jackson.
Mrs. GrlaMn has had ten years
o f teaching and concert experience,
having studied w ith soma o f tha
foremost teachers of* the vocal art)
The tegular mooting was hold at
In N ew Y ork and elsewhore.
tho public library October’s at 1:30.
Mrs. Griasen w ill be in Miss Jes
A brief talk on tho topic, "The Na
sie B ritt’s ’ studio on Fridays, (O S H
tion Tomororw,” was given by Rev.
First attest, Edwards building, op-
K. N. Slckafoose. Although a mast
pohtte postoffice.
Watch for program later.
The undiscovered continent Is South
America. It Is ter Jess known geo
graphically then Africa, and much o f
what appears oa Its maps Is derived
from the Imagination of the cartog
rapher.
Most o f the Interior of South Ameri
ca has never been explored. Civilisa
tion might be said to occupy not mods
more than the edges o f the continent,
which, as a whole, is sparsely populat
ed relatively to Its vast area.
'• From this time on, however, a flood
o f people from overcrowded parts at
the. world will doubtless pour Into I t ;
for It has n#t only plenty o f room t o
offer, but also fabulous wealth. Th e
natural resources o f other terrestrial
areas have been to a great extent nsedi
up. but those o f South America arw
virtually untouched.
Its tropical regions no longer defy
settlement by white men. because o f
deadly fevers. We now know how to
dean them up aqd make them health
fully habitable. The Jungles of the-
Interior hart>or many tribes o f savages,
some of them reputed cannibals, but
those o f them who do not accept con
trol will he qnickly wiped out.
The most highly developed country
to Routh America Ja Argentina. I t »
heart (meaning the state o f Buenos
Aires and adjacent territory) is a good
own
grsssy and tr«»el***s. Farther to the
west and northwest is s region-resem
bling'A riz«na. Still farther, along the
foothills o f the Andes Is a very rich
agricultural belt, much like southern
California.
The River Platte affords n mora ex-
tngly thought-provoUm
eophlc discussion of du
fading child Ute. Som
portene«« ate baaooros
showing aa they do the
Inst tact of the child.
New berg has a numbsr of young
people who will come under the
new provisions, and for their own
good they should enter school at
ones. The truant officer will soon
tion than any other stream In the
world. It offers a greeter number o f
an evening of music free to the clt-
Sen« ofN sw berg. and~ will render
ory tew fleas have mads
nalntance. fo r which w e
n thankful, but what have
ft tbs usual marks and
prophetic subject, was handled ,n *
most profound manner. , ^ , , r ,
Mrs. W. N. Coffee was to baud
spoken on "Our Relationship to Our
School,’’ but Illness prevented. ~
The year’ s program aa announced
to be in this issue of tho Oraphle
was deferred owing to rearrange
ments.
Ream There, and Natural Wess e n
ts Furnish Living for Millions
Now in Overcrowded Parts
o f the Qlebe.
OFFICER
The new school law says “ all
children between the ages of « t i
teen and eighteen years must be in
school or legally employed.” I f em
ployed, they must attend a part
timé school, or s night 'school, un
less they have finished the eighth
On last Sunday the new. c l
the Baptist church rendered
Much of South American Conti
nent Unexplored.
FRED 0. BALE SATURDAY
DAT NIGHT— WOOD-MAR ‘H ALL
On Tuqpdcy evening o f next week
the entertainment,
"Some
Early
Recollections o f James Whitcomb
RHay.” by A. W . Macy, o f Chicago,
which was announced for an earlier
date and had to be postponed on
account o f the illness o f Mr. Macy.
w ill be given.
Mr. Macy covers an earlier period
In the life o f the Hoosier poet than
any other speaker and he Is well
worth hearing.
(Mevee ef.an Age Gene By.
Somebody interested in antiquities
has asked in print whether soapstone
stove« are now purchasable, snd al
though the question will puzzle moat
Of those who read It even to know
What such a stove looks like. It will
remind others, of an older generation,
that the soapstone stove has not so
vary long vanished. People used such
Stove*, and burnt wood In them, no
touger ago than ihk time when man
sard roofs were admired; and aa some
mansard roofs "till remain In Amer
ican cities so. doubtless, do some
soapstone stoves. Most o f them, how
ever. are gone, like the earlier cast-
iron stoves that had neither door nor
stove pipe, hut'hacked up against s
fireplace In the next room and both
took In fuel and sent -out amoks
through a hole Into the fireplace. Tn
fleet. It would take a sizable hook to
describe and picture the family trow
o f the modern kitchen stove and h a s »
■toot furnace.—Christian Science Mow
New Heat-Resisting Stent.
The heat-resisting building stone o f
Charles tngvaldsen. a Norwegian, Is
made by mixing ground mica with just
enough da y or like hinder to form a
coherent mass. The mixture
be
shaped Into blocks, pistes or other
forms o f any size, and la fired at a
temperature Just high enough to fuaa
the mice. The stone has essentially
the aim« properties .as natural mien.
Fur withstanding very high tempera
tures. equal parts o f mica and quarts
arc used with the binder, and this
Mixture la fired at a- heat sufficient to
fas* the quarts. This stone la claimed
to be not only s very refractory snd
durable material but to offer other de
sirable qualities, such as effective elec
tric Insulation.
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NIGHT AT W00D-MAR H ALL
This will be tbs opening number
of tip lyceum course for the season
find seats may be selected Friday
morning at Klsnls’s Music 8tors.
Vlslcnt Deaths in India.
Basks bites caused 28,918 deaths la
British India In 1917, nearly 800 more
thaa In 1916. There wars 2,170 par-
seas killed by wild animate 102 I s m
than I d 1916.
Tiger* got 1,009;
to« 9 M d|».M 0 ; wolras and bear* 280;
M t down til “ other animate” 89 are
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rivers o f Europe combined. Steamers
o f aW ool draft can go 2,700 miles Into
the interior, those loading fo r Europe
being able literally to enter the wheat
Helds and ranches to take aboard their
cargoes.
From the Rio Negro south to Ma
gellan straits stretches an enormous
territory— 1,000 miles in length— called
Patagonia, the Interior of which 1»
mostly unexplored desert. Wandering
tribes, semi-civilised. Inhabit It— the
ta I lest people in the world, whoso
stature (the men often exceeding six
feet by several Inches) caused Magel
lan to describe the country as the home
of giants.
South o f Magellan straits is H errs
del Fnego. a triangular - Island nearly
aa large as New York state. Though
In s frigid latitude, the Interior Is now
largely fenced off Into great sheep
ranches. The aborigines— whose smoko
signal« caused Magellan to bestow tbs
name Land o f Fire— have been either
killed or reduced to servitude.
Paraguay (not far from the middle
o f the continent) has the most valu
able forests In the world, called the
Gran-Otaco, or Great Woods. Full o f
pumas and other huge cats, monkeys
of ever so many speetes and gorgeous
birds, they are composed largely o f
precious woods, particularly those that
will not flopt In water, such as Iron-
wood snd black palm.
In the very far north of South Amer
ica la the Orinoco, one of the great-
rivers of tha world. From It there arw
waterways through which vessels can
actually make their way nearly 3.001»
miles southward Into the River Platte.
Or a much shorter trip will take them
Into one or another of the affluents o f
the Amazon. In the mouth of which lies
an Island as large as Dt>lrtfiT&flr.'
South America t^lav invlt»* the cn-
trrprlsing young mnn ns does no other
part of the world. But he will make a
mistake to go there unless he lias some
and enough Spanish to get
•a»>MW«ti K M A r t k i t i O a i .
The American Museum o f Natural
History has issued s bulletin giving
many interesting facts relating to
platinum, one o f the most striking of
which relates to Its ductility.
The
marvelous ductility of platinum may
be conceived when we consider that
out o f a single troy ounce of the metal
It would be possible to make an al
most Infinitely slender wire that would
reach from Santiago, Chile, «cross the
continent to Rio Janeiro, a distance of
about 1,800 miles. To draw out plat
inum Into so exceedingly fine a w ire It’
Is covered with a thin layer o f gold.
This wire Is drawn to the thinness of
the former one. and the gold is dis
solved. A small section of ibis sec
ond wire Is then j'lven h coating of
gold, redrawn and the gold covering
dissolved. After this process has been
repeated several times the wire finally
Is still intact, but virtually Invisible.
England’s “ Mad Poet.”
The name “ Mad Poet" was applied
to Nathaniel Lee, an English dram
atist who was bom In Hatfield,. In
1068. He was the son o f a Presbyte
rian minister of Hertfordshire who
conformed to the Reformation.
He
was educated at Westminster school
and Trinity college. Cambridge. For
a time he was on the stage, bat Inter
devoted himself to writing tragedies,
of which he produced about a dozen.
His first successful play was the “ Ri
val Queens’’ (1681). known afterwards
as “ Alexander the Great." in wbteh oc
curs the famous line. “ When Greek
joined Greek then was the tug o f war.”
He collaborated with Dryden In “The
fluke of Guise,” (1682). Lee became
iusana in 1684, and was oonflnedjn
the asylum for five years, hence he
‘w jtsryrw "T»« m « a ten*.“ h »
In a fit of Intoxication at Ixmdoo tn
Swift-Moving Creatures.
Leaping on skla is doubtless the
swiftest method of locomotion yet
practiced by man. But even that Is
slow when compared with the speed
of some other creatures. It surpasses
the hare and the deer, and far out
distances the comparatively slow kan
garoo. But there is a jumping mouse
In the African deserts which Is cred-
Iltty said to make eighty leaps a sec
ond, o f 10 feet eoch. That means VUU
fact a second, which is mdre Hum four
ttinea the speed of the airplane and
three times that of a swallow.. Nor Is
even this amazing creature the swiftest
known, for the common flea has tn
his leaping a velocity of 8.V1 f»««t a
•w-cond. which apt*r»ximat»* ten mile«
a minute.
Careless Man.
Smith—I am getting pretty
Jone«—How M l
RmltTI^T haven’t dipped my pen In
the mucilage bottle this wcH.
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