several new member* were admitted
to the club.
FIRST REAL “MONEY WIZARD"
SQUALID PORTO RICAN TOWN
Mine Rets Btrtow was s visitor at
the
W. A. Parrish home Saturday
M H c r a a d F u b lu k a r
night
and Sunday
H er parents.
P s M te h rt >T»r j Thu rad* y B o rn ia «
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Bristow and
Graphic Bu IM in «. No «M P in t auso«
; (H ie *. W h it* M : R otid o a««. Bluo «7 , other children spent Sunday there
tarad at U m p ortan te« « t Naw- ' also.
Oregon, m second e i n « metter.
John Law May Well Bo Called Aha
Daddy of All the Oot-Rick Quierf
Scheme« Floated.
Boeid« Superb Soonary, Ponce Would
Boom to Have Little to Attract
the Tour I at.
Two centuries ngo there “ reigned"
la Paris a greater persons«** than the
young king, Louis XIV., or his regent
the duke of Orleans*—a money wlsard.
whose operations are rt*«nlli-«l by the
Ponal speculative scheme In Boston.
He was John I. mw r S c o isiiih ii , who
through hi* friendship with the duke
of Orleans, established a credit hank
oa the theory that money Is the cause
not the result of wealth. He obtained
for the bank a monopoly of the nn
tlon’a foreign trade, the orotlt* of
which would repay the Investor*.
In 1716 I j iw established a private
bauk with a capital of fi.ta»D»»i llvres.
with power to Issue notes. It become
an Instant aucceM. and his |>a|*er cur
rency became more valuable than the
minted currency of the government.
Then he formed his company of the
west, developing l<nul*iann territory
with a capital of 100.000.000 llvres.
New Orleans was built. Trade ex­
panded. Shares In the company rose
In value until first Paris and Ihen the
whole of Europe went mad. Every-'
one was growing Mch.« Law became
director general of finance for France.
But the height was reached In De­
cember of 1719, when his enemies, by
aide schemes, began to break him. He
suddenly found hltnaelf bankrupt. H e
escaped from France, became a wan­
derer and died In poverty.
Ponce, a city no tho south coast of
Port** Itlco. gives the false lio p r o M lo u
of tx-iog a larger city than the capital,
buitody Htrewn aa it Is over a dusty,
fiat p la in and overflowing In hovela of
d e c r e a s in g else Into tho tow foothills
b e h in d .
It Is the moot extensive town
In Porto Rico, and. like many o f those
around tbe coast, lies back a few miles
from the aea. for fear of pirates In
the olden days, with a street-cat serv­
ice to Its shipping suburb of Pouce-
Playa.
Alrplanta
festoon
Its
Mepltone
wires, and Its mosquitoes are so ag­
gressive that to dine In Its principal
hotel la to wage a constant battle,
while to disrobe dtnl enter a bath­
room Is a perilous undertaking, ao
cording to Barry A. Franck In tba
Century.
Puerta de Tierr*.
once nothing
more thao the “ land gats" Its name
Implies, Is almost a city o f Itself, a
pathetic town o f many shacks built af
tin and dry goods boxes, spreading
down and a e r o « the railroad to tba
swampy bay. Naked babies play la
tbe mud. and mother« with pitifully
small cups scurry to-mllk shops In an
effort to get tbe precloos food fo r tbelr
Infanta.
Newberg* G ra p h ic
*. H. W O O D W A R B
$2.00 P e r Y e a r in A d v an c e SONGS THAT ARE IMMORTAL
TetJBSDAT. NOVSMBI
11.
Cabinet makers are busy these
days with plenty o f suggestions for
Harding. He w ill have his M y later
j
and the country is hoping that he
may suround himself w ith the big­
gest and brainiest men that may be
found for filling these very important
position*.
The big stock show w ill open at
Portland Saturday, l a s t year the
show was such a success, with the
nsw buildings a ll filled with fine
stock o f all kinds, that a wonder­
fu l impression wsa made on Jhe
visitors and everything points to
even a larger showing o f blooded
stock this year.
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)
When the w riter was in Seattle ip
A vgu st the municipal docks o f that
c ity were pointed out to him. w lflt
the assurance that there were none
brtter in the United States, and when
Portland got busy w ith the "P o r t of
Portland'* proposition we hoped' that
It would be put through. Portland
and the state as a whole needs a re­
v iv a l of her water shipping interests
and all should unite In the effort to
Improve her harbor facilities.
W ith war taxes for the year
mounting up into the billions o f dol­
lars It seems almost inconceivable to
think that anybody would favor pil­
in g on several millions more for the
establishing o f universal m ilitary
training, but there are some who
are w illin g to back up the munition
manufacturers in their plans for
TtorfebfcaltThg the United States by
.th is means
W ill the people stand
to r it?
Qraatast Minds of A ll the Ages Be­
stowed Thsir Labors on tho
Poems of Homer.
The nilad sod Odyssey were prob-
ably sang by Homer about a century
and a half after the destruction of
the town of Troy following the ten
years o f war that was waged In tho
cause of Menelau*. king of Laceda-
mon, whose consort bad been carried
away by the son of tho Trojan mon­
arch. The two poems are as old as
David’s psalms Originally the lit lad
would appear not to have beeo a sin­
gle connected poem, but to have at­
tained at a later period its present
complete stats.
About one hundred yea n after Hom­
er, Lycurgus, the lawgiver of Lace-
demon. brought these poems into
Greece, and two centuries and a half
later Plsistratus la supposed to have
given them their perfect form. His
son Htpparcus Introduced the custom
of reciting rhapsodies at the Pans-
thenaia. or festival o f the tutelar god­
dess. A more complete edition of the
Homeric poems, from which the mod­
ern ones are taken, was prepared for
Alexander the Great by Aristotle,
which the former used to keep under
his pillow In a golden case. Also
Arstus the astronomer, Aristarchus of
Samos, and Aristophanes, libnrlan at
Aiexendrls. bestowed tbelr labor on
these Immortal songs. Because of the
fine moral sentiment, Homer became
t&e pattern of Thucydides, the favor­
ite author o f the greatest and nobleat
men, and one of the best teachers of
the wisdom of human life.— Detroit
N ew *
is —
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First Failures Net Fatal.
How often have we beard people
say that it they had their lives to live
over again they would do very differ­
ently at certain points ! And. -though
we could see that they thought they
meant what they said, we understood
that they did not mean it very seri­
ously, and that a second chance at life
F E R N W 00 D
would probably not yield a much bet­
ter result than the first one had. As
Owen Baker is sick with paea
# matter o f fact not many o f us have
made such fatal mistakes In life that
month.
Wendall Boyes has been on the we have not had hundreds o f second
chances o f overcoming very largely
Mck list bat Is able to be out again.
the handicap and disadvantage that
Mr. and Mrs. Irv in g went to Grand they brought us. Indeed, the pathway
Ronde. Sunday to spend the day o f life fo r every man of us is strewn
with second chances and new opportu­
w ith her parents.
nities
o f making good. There is this
Mrs. H arry Baker, who has been
to be said, however: a second chance
slow ly recovering from an opera­
may be s little harder to realize on
tion is able to be out again.
than a first sue would bare been. But
Mrs. H. Ross and daughter. Miss to M y that a thing in hard Is not to
Ethel, were at Am ity, Saturday and say anything about Its possibility. A
first mistake or a first failure may be
Sunday visitin g the Judy fam ily.
ba<1, but does not decide a life unless
Mrs. Hobson is here from Wasco,
we > t It.— Montreal Family Herald.
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Cora
Jones, and expects to remain for
Needn’t Worry A bort That.
some time.
“ Wbat am 1 to talk to my lady part­
Wm . Boyes and daughter. Miss ner about r asked a young man about
to go to bis first party, o f an elderly
Pearl, are expected to he here from
friend.
-Corvallis Thursday, to visit his
“ Surely you’ll talk nbont the most
brother, Wesley Boyes and fam ily. pleasing question o f all— her beauty."
“ Bat If sbe doesn't happen to bo
A meeting of the Fernwood club j
was held last Thursdey evening when j beautiful?"
plans for the w inter were made and J “ No matter, she’ll take y e w word
for I t ”
Breakfast Foods
and Cereals
L i t t l e bodies
must have
the best
\
of nourishment to make
them strong and healthy
build then up to
robust manhood and
w om anhood
And grown folks need
it to sustain their vitality
and energy.
T h e popular
breakfast foods and cereals
meet the needs ot both
young
and
old
W e have them in all
their tasty goodness— the
wheat foods, corn, oats, rice,
barley etc
Include one or
more packages in your
next
older
Telephone Orders G iven Prompt Attention
K e n d r ic k s G ro c e ry
- Cor. First and Meridian Sts.
FLOWERS HIDE GREAT GUNS
FEW ESCAPED TAX GATHERER
In Old "Merria England" Hla Nat Was
Wltfa and Its Msshea Bat
Especially Cl ooe.
Entire Stock
of Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats, Suits, Skirts
and Dresses are now offered at a sacrifice.
Tailored and fancy suits at 25 per cent
discount
Fancy suits in all colors, reduced 1-3.
Tweed-0-Wool suits reduced 20 per cent
Dresses, coats and skirls at 20 per
cent discount
All plaid skirts reduced 25 per cent.
Remember everything in the bouse is
reduced during this Price-Lowering Sale.
Whatever wd advertise, yon know is
true— we deliver the goods.
Monster Weapons of War at Gibraltar
Covered by Beautiful Cluster* ’
of Acacia Blossom*.
The Bulgarian bachelor who flow
groans under an annual * » « equiv­
alent to 8a 4d a year, has lem cause
to grumble than many a British celi­
-White the rock o f Gibraltar, viewed bate who ahled at the altar a couple
from the ocean, la Impressive, strong, o f centuries or more ago.
gloomy sod forbidding, flowers grow
During the 18 years from UW6 to
about the steep walls, snd the great 1708 the man over twenty-five who
Victorian batteries, occasionally fired, shirked hla matrimonial dnty waa
are screened and sheltered by acacia called on to pay £12 10a ($02.30) for
blossoms. Here are concealed 100- a duke, a tax which yielded to the
ton guns sinister and threatening, revenue about £1.000 ($5.000) a week.
marking the highest achievement In
More than this. In those good old
gun development by British engineers. times the Briton had to pay a tax
The north and northwest aides of when he took himself a wife, and an­
the rock are honeycombed fey fortifi­ other every time he' qualified as fa­
cations. There Is a town and harbor ther.
Thus, a duke's nuptials cost
on the west protected by batteries and him £60 4s ($252): hla heir. £80 2s
forts rising from the bane to the sum­ ($152). and for each later male addi­
mit o f the rocks. Modern guns of the tion to the family hla Joy was discount­
meet formidable pattern frown from ed by a payment o f £25 2s ($127).
the height* The town Is inhabited
The benedict w h o « Income waa l a «
by a British colony o f about 25.000 than £50 ($250) a year bad to pay 2a
persons, according to the 1911 census. fid (00 cents) for hla bride and 2s (48)
Everything Is under strict military cents) every time be became a father.
regulations.
Daudet on Gambetta.
Frequently the great man Is w m e
thing o f a boor, but It Is probable that
Daudet exaggerated a trifle when be
wrote the following o f Gambetta. the
great French statesman: “ 1 can still
see Mm entering the dining room, hla
back bent, his shoulders swaying, bis
face aflame and one-eyed also. As soon
as he appeared all the other equine
heads around the table were raised and
he was greeted with' loud neighs of
'Ah. ah. ah ; here’s Gambetta P
He
aat down oolalty. spread himself over
the table, or threw Mmself In his
chair, perorated, struck the table with
Ms fiats, taagbed loud enough to break
the windows, polled all the table cloth
toward him. got drunk without drink-
tag. snatched the dishes away from
you. took the words out o f your mouth.
aDd after talking all the time went
off without having said anything.”
Student's Bookcase.
An excellent bookcase for students
Is made dn the following w a y : Pro­
cure for shelve* four smooth boards,
20 inches loeg and 10 Inches wide,
and’ .about two-thirds Inch thick.
Screw a slat on to the extreme ends
of the sides of the shelves to accom­
modate the text-books. Screw the
other slats to the shelves ooe and
one-half Inches apart. This will leave
an open apace of seven Inches In the
middle of each shelf. There are no
slats on the ends o f the shelves. Take
the long screw from the top o f a dis­
carded piano stool and fasten It to
the center of the under side of the
lowest shelf. Screw the bookcase Into
the piano stool. The revolving book­
case may be stained to match the stu­
dent’s furniture.
KiMing to Cure.
"Come to mother, dear, aba’ll kiss It
and make It better."
Isn’t this the regular thing when a
child sustains an injury, real or
Imagined?
*
Little do they realise, these Indulg­
ing mothers and husbands, that In this
mock ministration they are but Imi­
tating the practice of old time sorcer­
ers who pretended to cure diseases by
sucking the affected part. In their
superstitious, myth-tenanted age they
found tbe people easy prey to their Im­
positions, but today even the baby la
skeptical of tbe curative powers o f a
klM on a bruised kneel
Quaint Industries.
Observation of the world's Industri­
als reveals some very quaint callings,
for there are queer bablta and strange
desires on the part o f various races,
and always there are those who cater
to thoee custom* or undertake to sup­
ply tbe wants. As queer a trade or
profession aa any la that of “ tooth*
Stainer," which flourishes In parts af
Asia, where the natives regard black
teeth •• «^crowning beanty. The tooth-
stalner. equipped with little brush«
and boxes of coloring matter, calls on
Ms customers at regular Intervals. Is
general, the operation la not unllka
that o f blacking a
Musical 8tract Crier*.
In Charleston, even tbe chimney
•weeps are musical, and aa tbelr tiny
face* appear at tbe top o f tbe chlm-
aey they are «weeping, yon bear:
“ Roo roo" sung out over the aounda
o f the street below. Also to this tribe
the charcoal boy belongs.
Ha drlvee
Into town a tiny donkey hitched to a
tiny two-wheeled cart. The cart and
load are black, tbe donkey la black,
tbe boy ts black ant? the only other
color that you can tee In the whole
outfit ts tbe whites o f the boy's eye*
as be rolls them around and calls tbe
eerie.
long-drawn-out
"Char-coal P
Too wonder which Is tbe u d d er and
blackest, the driver, the drlveq. cart
or content», as they weod their aoll-
tary way onward, crying ever that n d ,
minor wall o f char-coal 1— Charleston
News sad Courier.
Oldest Confection In the World.
The greater pan o f the black stick
licorice consumed la derived from
Spain, where It ts made from the Juice
of the pHtnt aod mixed with starch to
prevent It from melting Ip hot weather.
Tbe licorice plant la a shrub that at­
tains a height o f three feet and It
grows wild where Its roots reach the
water. It flourishes especially on the
banks of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers.
Since the valley of the Eu­
phrates contained one ot the earliest
civilizations la tbe world, tbe prob­
ability la that licorice la about the
oldest confection In the world, and the
taste which tbe boys and girts o f to­
day like so well was enjoyed by the
youngster* of 8,000 year* ago.
Armenian an Ancient T on go a.
The Armenian tongue, however, much
It baa changed In the courae of centu­
ries, |* descended from the language
that Priam and Hector spoke. The Ar­
menians hall, like the Homeric Tro-
jana. from Thrace, which anbsequently
became Incorporated In the Byzantine
or eastern Roman empire. Erzerum,
capital of Armenia, haa retained the
deathlesa name o f Romo.
It waa
founded In the year 416, by Theodoal-
ua. a aehastos. that la. emperor, of
eastern Rome.
He called It Tfeeo-
doslopolla; but its native name la Erz­
erum, or Armenian Rome.“ Krneat
Bartwltz In Asia Magazine.
A Fix Indeed.
She— I’m In an awful fixl Just fan­
cy!
My husband has received an
anonymous lettar Informing him o f
something I did before marriage I
He— Tbe beat thing you can do la to
confess. *
She—That’s Just It I Ha won’t let
ma read the letter—and I don't know
srbnt to confesa!
Not a Mattar of Relief.
“ Music speaks a universal
lan­
guage." Mid the enthusiast.
"1 have board so." replied Mr. Oum-
rox. "But Judging by the programs,
the word« o f B universal language are
Just as hard to apell and pronounce
D. M. Nayberger
Oregon
McMinnville
TO THE THEATRE GOERS
OF THE CITY OF NEWOERG AND VICINITY
Today * e make the moat interesting announcement we have ever
made In our career as theatrical managers.
W e believe the information contained In the follow ing statement
w ill be read with Interest by all who value the..beet and moat
artistic in the world o f amusement.
W e have always flath fu lly endeavored to bring to our patron*,
the biggest and the beat theatrical attractions o f all time*, fo r wo
know that only the biggest and the beat appeal.
Now we are happy and proud to announce that we have contracted
with F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest, producers o f the world-
famous “ Chu Chin Chow.” whereby that brilliant and gorgeous
spectacle of ancient Bagdad, the worl'B moat beautiful production,
w ill appear at the H eiiig Theater, Portland, four days, commencing
Wednesday, Nov. 24. with matinees Thanksgiving Day and Saturday.
t'Chu Chin Chow” Is a gigantic and gorgeous musical extrava­
ganza, in fourteen scenes, with 18 musical numbers, produced on a
scale o f colossal grandeur, em ploying the services of 300 people. It
was originally presented in London at His Majesty's Theater, nearly
four years ago by Oscar Asche, In association with the late Sir
Herbert Tree, and is still playing there to capacity.
The American production of “ Chu Chin Chow” was made by
Messrs. Comstock and Gest. after the payment o f the biggest royalty
ever known In the theatrical world. In New York more than two
years ago, the scenery and costumes being imported from England
and being exact duplicates of the originals.
"Chu Chin Chow” ran one entire season In New York at the
Century Theater and then played an entire season In Boston. Phila­
delphia. Chicago, and several other big cities.
This great production, once more presented in New York at the
Century Theater In August, for a return engagement, and now em­
bellished with many additional scenes and new costumes, comes
here dlrect from Its second engagement on Broadway.
Owing to Intense interest In the engagement. M A IL ORDERS
for this Important theatrical event w ill now be received. Send re­
mittance with self-addressed stamped envelope for safe return of
tickets, and as there w ill unquestionably be an avalanche of mail or­
ders, pleas« name choice of two performances to insure gettin g seats.
Prices: N ights -$4. $3. $2. $1.50 and $1. Thanksgiving and Sat­
urday matinees, special price»— $3, $2. $1.60. $1. Add 10 per cent
war tax to price of ticket desired.
W e believe the engagement o f "Chu Chin Chow” w ill be the most
notable event ever known at this theater.
W. T. PAN G LE.
SPE C IA L
Manager H elllg Theater.
T H A N K S G IV IN G
Portland. Oregon
M A TIN E E . 2 P. M.
NEWBERG DRAG SAW
PORTABLE— L E V E E
C0NTR0LED
Moves to and from work same as a wheelbarrow. . Reversible track
wheels— to move forwards or sideways. .When rig is set and log
hook fastened— engine is started. Then pash in dutch lever to
start saw— poll on dutch to stop... To stop engine shut off fa d .
Equipped with Bosch magneto
Arm Swing is the fast and free catting motion.
This oombined
with Force Feed gives oorreot amount of pressure on saw blade.
Log Hook holds saw on level with skids when moving rig— Lower
Control works automatically if saw binds. This outfit w ill do the
work of several men— earn its oost in a short time. .W rite ns for
prices and description.
NEWOERG IRON WORKS, Newberg, ' Oregon