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HOW “ R0M0LA" w a s w r i t t e n ftOVEL CURE FOR TOOTHACHE
XEWBERG CgU&CH SE1YICXS
Qaarge Eltefa immortal tha Result at
aa Inspiration and Much
Hart Wart.
Ana
Sunday school at 1# a. » ,
Patto a. aupartntendent.
M oraine worship at 11 o'olook.
« a r a n a subject. ’’The Uaitp a#
aha Church.”
C. ■ . at <:S0 p. m.
M a a liig meat lug at 7: St.
Sermon subject, ‘ Ta America ca
tha Era of a Revolution Δ
Thb scene o f “ Romola” la the Flor­
ence of the fifteenth cegtury, end the
plan of It came to George Eliot to the
coarse of an Italian Journey, “one of
those Journeys that seem ta divide
one’a life. In half so many new ideas
do they suggest, so many new aoyrees
o f Interest do they open to the mind.”
Having fixed oo her scheme, she re­
turned to Florence, visiting the old
streets, rummaging ancient hooka,
seeking to Impregnate herself with the
spirit of the venerable city. But aha
was still tor from her goal. When,
Church o f the Broth »
oa her return home, she at last set to
work, she saw its difficulties rtstng
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
before
her. Would oot her genius de­
Preaching service at 11 a. m.
sert her when she left the familiar
Y oung People’s Meeting at 7 p. m.
scenes of rustic life In the England of
Prayer meeting Wednesday eveu- today for foreign countries and peat
at t o ’clock.
ages? She despaired more than once,
▲ cordial Invitation la extended to gave up her task, then took It up
•D to attend theae servlcw. Loca- again, plunged (cooacieutloualy aa she
le r o f Hancock aad Waah- did everything) fnto historical studies,
and brought forth In sorrow a kind of
atoeete.
moral tragedy which even the reader
John A. Bead.
cannot behold without emotion.—Ed-
David a Click.
mood Scherer.
Elder« In Charge.
SCULPTOR’S USE OF CEMENT
B ible achool 1 » a. m.. Ethel E ld er,
i tend eat.
ervloaa. 11 a .a . aad
lamie Figure ef Neptune Is W ert
ef Art ae Well as Architectural
Curiosity.
At Monterosso, near Spexlp. Italy,
there stands an architectural curiosity
Tha publie la cordially Invitad to —a gigantic figure o f Neptune, coo-
gtrocted of cement and need to support
the extreme end of a terrace for a see*
side villa. The house Is the Villa Pee-
tine, end the statue Is the w ort o f Ar>
rigs Mloertrf, a talented sculpter of
M a r .
T . P. 8 . C E at « :* # .
Or. WMfrad T. Grenfell Tsite « f g »
paríanse With Patient m~ m n 1 i j
Powerful I magi natta».
In medicine things sometimes hap­
pen that professional man have diffi­
culty In explaining, according to Dr.
Wilfred T. Grenfell, who In bin auto­
biography tolls the following atory:
A big fisherman came aboard my
steamer one day and aald that ha had
toothache. Hla Jaw was swollen, hla
mouth «was hard to .open, sod the of­
fending molar was visible within: bat
when I produced the forcepa ha pro­
tested loudly that ha would not have
It touched for worlds
“ Why. than, did you cams to meT”
1 naked. “ Too are wasting my time.“
“ I wanted you to charm her..doc­
tor,“ he answered.
“ But my dear friend. I do not know
how to charm, and I don’t think it
would do the slightest good. Doctors
ara not allowed to do such thing»"
He waa evidently much put oot. and
had turned te go when I aald. “ If you
really think 4 t . would do any good,
come along.
Ton’ll have to pay 29
cents exactly as. If you had It polled
out.”
“Gladly, doctor. Please go ahead.“
He sat on the rail while I put one
finger Into his mouth, touched the
molar and repeated tha moat mystic
nonsense I could think of. “ Abra­
cadabra Tlddlywlnkum Umatopoga.'”
and then Jerked the finger out last the
patient close hla ponderous Jaws. The
fisherman took a tarn round the deck,
pulled out the quarter and solemnly
handed It to roe. aaytng. “ AH the pain
Is gone. Many thanks, doctor.”
I found myself standing atone In
amaxement, twiddling a miserable
■hilling, sad wondering how I came
to make each a fool o f myself—
Youth’s Companion.
CORSET FIRST WORN BY MEN
11. a. n . J : H a
segna. « :« • p. m.
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REMEDY FOR TEACHER
SHORTAGEREVEALED
INSURANCE
tonfali à.
Lai m «
Write, «sa or phone
Each Community la Ortgtn
Should Know laotruotora
of Childron Todfiy.
IB asking tha stata at Oregoa ta rota
favorably for tha two-mill elementary
school measure, popularly knows aa
tha Children's Rights Bill, tha teach-
ara of tha state of Oregon are not ask­
ing for an increase la salary. They
are merely working for a fair aad
equal distribution of taxes tor tha sup­
port of these basic schools, that tha
anttre state will be taxed and not only
tha organised achool districts, as at
present la the case.
The shortage of of teachers ta Ore­
gon Is growing so rapidly that the
situation is farm ing in the extreme.
Last year 100 schools warn closed, aad
In these 100 schools, ISO rooms were
closed and d o e s to 4000 pupils were
unable to have the Instruction that
rightly should have been theirs. What
was the cause?
It was due entirely to s shortage
of teachers. Why? Because the tehch-
era are being underpaid and ara leav­
ing the profession Jpr better-paid wort.
They have to 4 » tala Some day Ore­
goa must come to the rescue of the
teacher. Now. It la being asked to
save tha child, tha voter of tomorrow.
Do we want him educated? Sura
Only raoently la New T ort did the
question o f raising the teachers’ sal­
aries come op before the legislature
aad It was duo to a look of sufficient
Information as to the extent to which
they should bo Increased, aad the
ability of communities to pay Increases
have led the legislative leaden to de­
cide to postpone final revision of the
teachers’ ed try law antll another eee-
.
II. L t d
W .J L
STEADY,AMERICA!
Let Us Work This Oat Together
a R eel
ft Up to U b to t
Ptondont This Fall,
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Ho M oot Bo the B iggest and tho Soandoot and
tho M oot E ffoetioo Amanean W o Can Find,
Before Committing Yourself
Consider
These Facts:
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' Out o f thirteen states» where the contest was
' between W ood and Johnson for the instruc­
tion o f delegates to die Republican National
Convention, die election* have h o «
lo t W ood in nine. ■ r
Total Number o f D elegate• Pledged to Vote for
W ood at Repablican Rationed Convention, 321
follows*
t : 4 l A. M . ................Sunday achool
R l:fiO A. M . , . « .M orning worship
“ AH Far a Seng.“
P. M ......... . . . . . Y . P. 8. C. H.
has
sold his future for a song“
8 :0 0 P. M ..............Evening worship
aid o f s rich man’s sOn who. In*
W ednesday, 7:45 P. M . . .Bible hour
o f taking advantage of the un-
A ll non-chnrch-goera and all ta-
opportunltles open to him for a
cH aed to Presbyterian truth and worth-while career, was whiling away
ways, urgently Invited. ‘
O w in g tc the pastor's absence to
■ t o a d the annual conference aas-
■ina at Salem next Sabbath there
vrfll be no service in the evening.
B at tha Sabbath school will meet aa
wanal and there will be preaching at
H a m .
A ll are welcome.
W . N. Coffee. Pi
Sunday school at 1« afa
Sunday aahool at 1 :4 1
B . Y . P. U. at « :« • ». i
A ll ara Invitad to than
Saturday:
Sabbath
1 « : M a. m., preaching
1 1 :4 4 .
W ednesday:
Prayei
• P- » .
Church of God
Sunday achool at 10 a. n
Preaching at 11 a n . i
Prayer and testimony
Wednesday. 7:30 p. m.
Center C hnnh
Sunday achool..............................10:00
Preaching service.............. « . . . 1 1 : 0 0
Ohrlatlan Endeavor.................. 7:00
Preaching service...................... 8:00
P rayer meeting T h u rsd ay.. . . 8:00
Business meeting o f the church
mu last Thursday evening o f month.
Paul H. Lewis, Pastor.
Dundee K. E. Church
Sunday achool,.at 14 a u .
Preaching at 11 a U.
Evening service at 7 :8 « p. m.
Rev. J. H. Gillespie .Pastar.
Prienda Church, Sprtnfhraak
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“ All for a songf, has come to mean been a corruption, or diminutive form
of the single word •‘corps’* which wag
to us “paying too much for e whistle,”
aay undue sacrifice or waste for some­ formerly written "core," or the name
thing that Is worthless or ooly of may have been taken from ■ rich ma­
transient moment, particularly this terial known ae corse, which was at
one time extensively need for Its mak­
superficial.
It has ^ome down to os from the ing. About the year 1600 the corset
day when its significance was literal. Is referred tor as ’’■toys’’ in England.
Aa a token of her appreciation of the The word bodice was not infrequently
Edmund 8peocer. Queen Elisa- spelled bodies by eld authors and was
ordered Lord Burleigh to present used to designate the garment now
known as the corset.
bi|| with flOO. which in those days
wa# s' small fortune. Upon this Lord
Burleigh Is said to have exclaimed
Beavers’ Remarkabla W ort
“All this for a song!”
A single colony of beaver are cap­
able o f constructing a dam 12 feet
high and a quarter of a mile long,
Penn and Land Buying.
Tha «Tory that William Penn bougRt finch a dam was recently discovered
from the Delaware Indiana aa much by a state game warden. In a secluded
liad aa a. dozen bulls' bides would spot along Taylor’s creek. Bayfield
cover and then cut them Into narrow county. Wts. The beaver houee at
strips to cunningly enable him to trick the center of the dam. 16 feet high
the Indiana by encircling a vast stretch and 40 feet broad at the base, the
o f territory la not true. This la a very sleeping apartment Inside the house,
old story. It was told in remote times was exceptionally spacious for a
of Dido o f Carthage. The legend la beaver home, being large enough tor
that Dido built that city after buying a toll man to lie down at full length.
as ranch land aa a bullock’s hide would The floor was found to be covered with
cover. She cut the hldi Into strips, a dry substance and was as clean aa
getting a large bit of real estate In a whistle. Large quantities o f food
the transaction. The story reappears were found stored for cold weather
In the case of the Dutchman in Irv­ use. Nine beavers, the parents aad
ing’s “Knickerbocker.” who bought as their children, were found living com­
much land from the Indiana as Ten- fortably In the house, the result o f
breek’s trousers would cover. But their engineering feat
Tenbreek bad on pairs of trousers
enough to cover the (aland of Man ha t-
Explaining tha “ Ring Finger.*
' Of all the men. bop» young and old,
who place engagement rings on the
Pertlnsnt Question»
fingers of their brtdes-to-l>e, It la al-
Among the many Irish anecdotes iiinst an absolute certainty that 'not
told by Canon Haanay. author of sev­ • •■-.e-tenth of them knows why he places
eral books under the pen-name of the ring on the ring finger of the left
“George Birmingham,” la the follow­ htind. Of course, the answer could
ing. An Irish gentleman who heard he: “ Everybody’s doin’ It” The cus­
o f the death of*a grgat enemy of hla, tom of plsdng the ring upon the fourth
who had harassed him for many years, finger seems undoubtedly to owe Its
remarked: “ Well. It’s a comfort to origin to the fancy that a special
think that the devil’s got that fellow nerve, or vein, ran directly from* this
at last." A clergyman who happened finger to the heart Macrobltis, In hla
to be present felt It hla duty to re­ Saturnalia, alludes to the belief In tip
monstrate against this uncharitable following words: “ Because of this
view of the dead man's condition. He nerve, the newly betrothed placet the
said ha hoped that. In spite of all that ring oo this finger of hla spouse, aa
had paaarrl the poor man might have though It were a representation o f the
escaped the extreme penalty- “ Well.“ heart“ This Information, be asserts,
retorted the other. “ If the devil hasn’t was derived from an Egyptian priest
got that fellow, all I can aay la that
I don't see much use In keeping a
Preachers’ ton s
devil at all.“
1 know the age-old jibe« oncerulng
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preachers' sons and deacons' daugh­
ters, but have no great concern re­
specting them. (The writer Is one of
them.)
It la true that much, and
much too much Is axpected of them.
fested hla ship. Nevertheless, whan They are constantly la the eye o f the
la want of other food, he was glad to members o f tha congregation, and little
eat them—sometimes chopped up and allowance Is made for their Rhortcom-
frozen Into tallow balls.
logs. Trivial offenses are magnified,
He wrote: "During the long winter and they are rarely treated with real
sights Hans beguiled hla hours o f Jnatlce. Yet In a long life I tpve
watch by shooting rata with bow and known many preachers' Rons, and
arrow. The repugnance o f my com­ there have been very few “black
panions to share with me this table sheep” among them. In nine rasas oot
laxary gave me frequent advantage of of ten they have proved to be high-
fresh meat soup, which contributed no minded, honorable nod respected citi­
doubt to my comparative Immunity to zens—Melville E. Stone. In Col liar's
Weekly.
Rats aa Feod.
worship.................... ll:fifi
Doctor Kane, tha Arctic explorer,
adanvor....................4:20
■aid that one of the worst curses In
ip ...................................... T:«fi the far North were the rata that In­
ilng
RTsdnsaday.. . 7:8d
Carl P. MUlar, Pastor.
Natural
“Thay had a hard time la that pleca
rito toa actor* repreaenting tha ato-
■anta o f toe atorm.”
-H ow s o r
. T h a Ughtnlag strock.”
rrer (to tighten.
increases o f «44« over the March 1
rates ara mandated apon Syracuse aad
of «400 on Buffalo aad Rochester.
These higher sals rise will do much to
auks the teaching service more at­
tractive.
The New Y ert City rates ere to be
fixed by a committee now at work
upon the problem of determining how
the city’s quota of the direct state tax
o ( l H mills—«12.00fi.0ee—shall ha dis­
tributed among more than 24.000 mem­
bers of the supervising staff. The
average Increase ef «400 would seem
email In eomparlaon with the other In­
creases wars It not for tha fact that
tha governor last a o sth signed a bill
giving the New York City teachers aa
increase on June 1. Six thousand six
hundred and three teachers will re­
ceive from «« to 40 per cent more pay
than they received oa Dee. >1, 101».
while «,040 others of • total of 24,124-
will have their salaries Increased from
40 to 40 per cent. But the mtiflmum
■alary on Jana 1 will bs only «1,004.
In radrafting tha provisions of the
state-wide salary bill affecting New
York City the Joint legislative commit;
tee to which the task was assigned has'
raised this minimum to «1.400 and has
so revised other salaries that those
grades o f the service where the chief
shortage of teachers exists shall offer
salaries that will attract aad hold tha
beet teachers In no other way oan
the standards of teaching bo malntsln-
When the legislative committee re­
ports next year whatever other grades
of the service have not received doe
and proper consideration oan be pro­
vided for In tha general salary Increase
SCHOOLS ARE UNABLE
TO 6ET INSTRUCTORS
Superintendent Spaulding of Cleveland
Board Dseries Small notarise.
Men teachers are disappearing from
the schools of Oregon.
Thirty years ago there wars aa atony
■aa aa womaa la elementary schools.
Now tha ration Is four men to six
women.
Cleveland. Ohio, finds It impossible
to secure men teachers of manual or
phyaloal
training
for slamentary
schools because of low salaries.
These facto are presented to Cleve-
laad teachers by fiupt Prank E.
Spaulding in aa article being distrlbut
sd to them tog Information la winner
tion with their study o f the salary
questionnaire recently seat out
The reafedy la Oregoa la tha two-
mill le v y .,
Significance Is leal to too altaatloa
by a recent resolution o f toe School
masters’ Club of Cincinnati daptortag
tho oondltloa nationally aad stating
"the Influence of man Is considered
pec salary for the proper education of
American youth.“
Tha resolution asks ton National
Educational Association to bring be­
fore toe public and Its achool offl-
atela too serlooanaas of toe situation.
KEEP THE PARTY TOGETHER
WIN WITH WOOD
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J. L. VAN BLA R IC O M
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Freak Fruits and V egetables
ELECTION, MUY 21
STATE ROADS
V o te 3 0 2 X Y e s
For 4% State Road Bond Limit
BALLOT TIT L E IS AS F i i T T f r m
302 X Y n
303 Ne
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OONgymmONAL AMENDMENT—B«f«n»4 to U>.
by the
ArtfafeXloltlMl
«nation of daUss
for the DUnofifi of tmildinm an
HO PROPERTY TAX—HO DIRECT TAX
MO INCREASE II MHO LICENSE FEES
NO INCREASE Of CASOUNE TAX
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Keep theae three facta in mind. The present auto license fa g and
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* and interest on all the bonds
under this amendment, and
4us betide« for other
•tate highway work.
taxation
y kind.
FEDERAL PBNDS MOST BE MATCHED
Oregon must bare sufficient Highway Funds to match Federal aooortkwv.
menta or Oregon cannot get the benefit of Federal money for Oregon Roada
Increasing this constitutional limit is a necessity. Unless limit is increased
either state roads cannot be completed for many, many yean, or must be finished
by direct property taxation. This measure averts direct property tax for state
highways and make# early completion possible LetVget the roads built nsw.
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will be ample to pai
In the State Pam pi
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