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The Abolition of Slavery
The Electric Washing machine is the proclamation of freedom from the slavery of the washtub.
Modern invention has contributed nothing so beneficial to womankind as the Electric Washer.
The rubbing over a washtub is banished. The tiresome wringing of clothes with the hands is
gone to stay.
* The Electric washer does the work while the mistress of the home can engage in pleasanter and
less tiring endeavors.
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The all-metal-washer of the oscillating or swinging type has proved to be the most effective
method for removing soil and dirt from the clothing. The swinging motion of the tub forces the
hot soapy water through the clothes which gives the soap full opportunity to dissolve the dirt and
grease in the fabric. Then when the water rushes away in the opposite direction a vacuum suction
is developed which completely extracts the dirt The rubbing of clothes on a corrugated surface is
unnecessary as the action of the soap and water passing through them is the real cleansing process.
The swinging wringer, electrically driven, does away with one of the hard duties incident to
washing. We carry a line of the best washers manufactured and sell to patrons of our service
cheaper than one can buy elsewhere. We shall be pleased to show you our washers and will make
terms to suit the convenience of those who buy of us.
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The cost for electricity to operate a washing m achine is neglible. This cost for the
largest o f fam ily washings for a month will not exceed 35 cents.
W e sell M A Y T A G , wooden machine, BLUEBIRD and APEX, metal machines. If
our customers desire any other make o f machine we will secure them and save you m oney
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THURSDAY,
JULY 29.” 19»."'“” '
The fine weather we are having
Is putting weight Into ripening
grain.
We have failed to notice any call
Car a reunion of the Johnson family
since Jack came across from Mexico.
Chautauqua going, coupled with
the antics of a balky linotype
machine, has cut the editorial note
a bit short this week.
It seems too bad that Thomas
U p to n , the game old sport, could
not win that cup this time, for he
plays the game like a hero.
The increasing number of fatal
accidents at railroad crossings tend
to hasten the day when practically
all H'ich crossings will be made over
head or underneath the tracks.
The murder of Sheriff Til Taylor
In the Jail-break at Pendleton has
aroused the whole state, for Taylor
was widely known as a peace
officer, and there will be great dis
appointment if the guilty parties
succeed in making their escape.
Capper's Weekly Is authority for
the statement that while sugar is
being sold in Detroit at 32 cents a
pound the pries Just across the
harder in Canada Is only 10 cents.
W ill
somebody who is good in
figures explain the why o f the
wherefore ?
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Los Angeles would stand an or
dinary shake-up almost any time If
It took that to get first page notice
la the newspapers, but since the
tremblors are coming so thick and
fast o f late that tourists and others
auce drawing out their bank deposits
apek other pastures, the boosters
admit that tbs thing is being over
done.
WON
FAME
EARLY
IN
UFE
Precocious Yputh. Hava Given to the
World Many Works That Are
Classed as Remartoeble.
Mile. Germaine Sabi In, the French
girl of ten summers, who wrote a novel
o f which the critics declared “ Victor
Hugo might be proud,” had many pred
ecessors In precocity whom she her
self might almost envy. London An
swers states.
Torquato Tasso was famous through
out Italy before he was nine years old,
an accomplished Greek and Latin
scholar and the author of clever and
polished verses. At eight Louis de
Bourbon, prince of Conde. was a per
fect Latin scholar; three years later
he published a work on rhetoric, and
at seventeen he was appointed gov
ernor of Burgundy. Fenelon displayed
so much precocity that he won fame
as a preacher of rare eloquence when
he was but fifteen years o f age. Pas
cal wrote treatises on acoustics at
twelve and at sixteen be published his
treatise on conic sections, which Des
cartes refused to believe was not the
work of a great master.
Of more recent and familiar feats
of precocity It may be sufficient to
mention that John Stuart Mill was
studying Greek at three, had practical
ly mastered the language at seven and
a year later was acting as schoolmas
ter to his younger brothers and sis
ters; while,
give but one other ex
ample. John Ruakln actually produced
a manuscript work In three volumes
before he reached his seventh birth
day.
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Punch lie exuumeu wuler coioi
sketches.
Late in life he began writing novels.
“ Peter Ibbetson” and “Trilby” were
especially well received. ‘Trilby” was
dramatised and produced In 1893. a
year before Du Maurler's death, by Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
Lately It
has been revived with immense suc
cess.
Like his pictures, his writings were
graceful, humorous, too fanciful to be
true, yet written with an air of great
truth.
Squirrel Will Put Up Fight
When surprised in the woods, the
behavior of the fox squirrel is quite
different from that of the gray species.
As a rule the former will put forth his
best endeavor to reach some hollow
in a tree, and into this he quickly
scrambles to avoid his enemy, says the
American
Forestry
Magazine
of
Washington.
One ibay often see
them stretched out on a limb as flat
as possible, and they will, thinking
themselves unpercelved, remain a long
time in that position as quiet as a
mouse. If cornered and there la no
hole handy for him to get Into, and
the limb he is on la too small to hide
him, he will begin barking at the
hunter or his dog in the most defiant
manner possible. It Is aald that a fox
squirrel can beat off a small dog, and
will put up a hard fight if one attacks
him.
FORBIDDEN TO WORK SUNDAY And especially that auto norn.
Ban Placed on Various Tradesmen
and Laborers by Old British
Laws, Seldom Obeyed.
Now and again we read of a trades
man who. to help his own pocket and
oblige certain customers, opens his
place of business on Sunday and
trades. Some tradesmen have been
summoned and fined scores of tiroes,
according to London Answers.
The Lord’s day observance8 act for
bids—note the selection—any trades
man. workman, artificer or laborer to
work on Sunday, except for works of
charity or necessity. Further, the
above four classes are not to use any
boat, or barge, or sell goods, cooked
food excepted, under a penalty of 3
shillings.
If a horse denier sella a horse on
Sunday he cannot. In law, sue for Its
price; hut If neither party to the
equine transaction is a horse dealer,
then the contract Is perfectly good!
And If any ordinary trader sells
goods on a Sunday In the ordinary
way of hla business he cannot only be
summoned, but if he has given credit
he cannot sue the purchaser! If, how
ever, the purchaser keeps the Sunday-
bought goods, and afterward—on a
week day—promises to pay for them,
then he can, on default, be sued.
But—a wonderful act—farmers, at
torneys, surgeons, cab drivers, coach
proprietors and Jews are exempt.
Why the act. which we see broken
In hundred* of places each Sunday, is
not often Invoked. Is because proceed
ings cannot be taken without the writ
ten consent of the chief constable of
the district, two J. P.’s, or a stipen
diary magistrate.
Many decline to move in the matter.
Otherwise, tradesmen, workmen, artif
icers and laborers would have a hot
time. Professional men would be ex
empt
There seems - to be keen rivalry
among dealers to market the horn that
can split the most ears, as you can see
by a few ads which I quote:
^Loudest signal of Ita kind."
“ Hus the quick, snappy shriek."
“Clears the way half a mile ahead."
“ It makes the pedestrian Jump.”
"Jolts the air with a threat of dan
ker.”
“ Ha* a piercing get-out-of-the-way
sound."
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The Flag of the Mayflower.
The proposed celebration In Man
chester of the tercentenary of the
sailing of the Mayflower may render
It of Interest to direct attention to a
curious anachronism. In the magnifi
cent fresco In the palace of Westmin
ster, In which the departure of the
Pilgrim Fathers la depicted, the May
flower Is flying a Union Jack. The
Union Jack, aa every one knows, did
not come Into existence tfll the pass
ing of the first Act o f Union In 1800—
one hundred and eighty years after
the departure of the Pilgrim fathers
One of the formalities connected with
the Irish Union was a new standard
combining the three orders of St
George, St. Andrew and St. Patrick,
which was hoisted In the capitals of
England. Scotland and Ireland.—Man
chester Onardian.
There can be no permanent success
In the world of art without a deep soul
development. One goes to a concert
not so much to be thrilled or startled
but to he soothed. An artist may strike
a phenomenal or unusual note which
may give a momentary thrill, but
which when heard once or twice no
longer Interests, If that la all the artist
haa to contribute to his art Where,
however, there Is spiritual and ethical
development behind that alnglng. the
art carries a new message. If a sing
er—any man for that matter—Is kind
ly. thoughtful and unselfish It shows
In his life and actions, and to an on-
NOISE HARSH AND CONSTANT thought of degree In the quality of hla
voice, and consciously or unconsciously
Impossible for Any One to Eecape he draws men to him. — Morgan
Kingston.
From tho Din That Marks
Modam City Ufa.
Foresf fire patroi performed by the
air service of the war department
with its personnel and equipment and
at the expense of that organization In
three months unlnterruptel service
made 743 flights, covering 92,006 miles,
MAN OF SUPREME TALENTS says the American Forestry Magazine
of Washington. Many fires were dis
Georg« Du Maurier, Whose ‘Trilby'' covered, located, and reported. Six
patrol routes, covering national for
la Immortal, Celebrated as Mas
est areas of high value were followed,
ter of Throe Arts.
and twice each day six airplanes cov
George Du Maurier was singularly ered the better part of 9,000,000 acres
talented. He could have made a last of rough, mountainous, heavily tim
ing reputation as an artist, a writer bered country. The average nonstop
or a caricaturist—he atande Immortal run was 160 miles; the average round
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as a master of all three arts. He was trip, 320 miles.
bom March 6, 1834, and died lu 1896.
Taft's Unique Walking Stick.
He waa the son of a naturalized
Englishman—a man who had left
Former President Tsft owns a walk
They say that a canary bird intended
Eance to eecape the reign o f terror. ing stick thnt Is 230.000 years old.
He himself was born In Paris and When Prof. W. 8. Foster of 8[>oknne by nature to live in the quiet woods
much of hla early youth was passed was Investigating the geological his suffers constant torture while In cap
there. Hia life wgfc Ideally happy. His tory of southern Alberta n few years tivity from the harsh noises ail around
“ gay and Jovial” father brought him aifb he discovered, a stump In a peat It
But before the Anticruelty society
up in a charming home; his pretty bed amid glacial drift In the valley of
wife was an object of adoration to Old Man river. The age of the stump starts In to turn loose all canaries for
him; hie success was certain from the was estimated by geologists at a quar that reason it might take up the case
ter o f * trtiHtgn years.
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Mart ...........
Professor
Foster
took
the
stump Philadelphia Press. r
Intending first to be a chemist be
The motor boAt on the stream and
soon found that hla real vocation waa home to Seattle with other souvenirs
art so be went to the Latin quarter of the glacial epoch and when the the airplane In the sky. the auto horn's
In Paris and later to Holland to study. Spokane |>eople on one of Mr. Taft's piercing scream and the choo-choo
In London he Joined the staff of Punch, visits wanted to give him a unique rushing by, are only a few of the ear
a connection be kept for 34 yean. Be present they had a cane fashioned drum swatters whlrh put us all In a
Inea w ith the bird In the elided care.
sides the light and w-iceful cartoons from the w«>od
Unfortunate Sermon«.
A prison chaplain, new to hla duties
congratulated hla audience In the
prison chapel upon the largeness of
the congregation. Still another prison
chnplnln, known for his hluntness of
speech, began hla address—It wns care
fully typewritten and had been deliv
ered In a federal prison In a southern
state— by apologising for hia absence
the Sunday previously, stating, ” 1 was
bnsy performing the last offices to a
person who occupied a place lu thla
congregation a few weeks ago, but now
haa passed away, via the chair, to the
presence of his Maker.”
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PREYS ON HARMFUL RODENTS
According to This Writer, the Owl la
Really a Good Friend of the
Agriculturist
Superstition still clings to tho owl.
due largely to Ignorance and lack of
discrimination.
When twilight falls the owl comes
forth from some remote recess where
It has spent the day In sleep, and ut
tering a peevish cry. hurries out upon
Its foraging expedition. As the tired
farmer Is lost In refreshing sleep, this
bird, against which the hand of man
has been raised for centuries, com
mences Its beqfflrla) work which only
ceases when the first rays of the
morning sun come slanting over the
hilltops, blinding its eyes and, sending
It quickly to cover.
The great orbs of the owl are re
markably developed and are keenest
In the early hours of the night and
morning, when many harmful rodents
are most active. Mm-veloun, Indeed. Is
the sight that enables It to strike the
tiny mouse In the dsrkness.
Owls are the natural check upon
this multitude, and thus are of Ines
timable value to agriculture. From
an economic standpoint, it would be
hard to find a more useful bird.—Low
Angeles Times.
England's Gleaning Ball.
Oleanlng went out of fashion with
the disappearance of the old windmills
and watermills, because cottagers can
no longer get their gleaned corn
ground. But the “harvest hell," which
notifies the villagers when they may
begin gleaning anij when they must
cease, Is still rung in some rural par
ishes within reach of London. At one
place the “ gleaning hell" rings from
the tower of the parish church at 9
a. m. and 3 p. m. as soon as the har
vest Is sufficiently advanced. One I
penny Is paid to the hell ringer by each
family that gleans, so he can hardly;
be called a profiteer.
Bird« That Dig.
We are not accustomed to think of
bifds as burrowing animals, hut the
puffin nnswers to that description. It
Is a chunky little fowl, less than a
foot high, with a large and powerful
beak. For a home, It ecratehee a hole
In the ground sometimes as mnch ns
four feet deep. To capture a puffin
one must go digging. It Is rather a
Job, and. Inasmuch as the bird bites
a*4 clews fiercely, one la likely to
suffer in the process. Thus the crea
ture has maintained lu numbers on
many a lonely rookery, where other
speclee of wild fowl have been killed
off and exterminated.—Philadelphia
Ledger.