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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1915)
THE 11KM), IIULLETLV, JIKNI), OHi:., WEDNESDAY, DKCKMllKIt UO, 101J5. I'AOR .1. ODDITIESIN JAPAN Natives Have a Topsy Turvy Way of Doing Many Things. BATHING IS A SACRED RITE. And Whimvir a Native Hat a Mo mnt to Opare Ha Retorte to th Tub, With Ita Peculiar Coda of Ethlis. Housee Without Windows, I just can't get used to how, turned around, upsldo down, Inaldo out, topsy turvy, things arc In Jnpan. A Japa .ueso carpenter drawn tho piano toward .lilwsclf, and n blacksmith slu down to work, A Japanese blacksmith never knows the joys of getting tickets to the circus, for bo hasn't any placo for the udvnuee man to paste up Ills thrco uticets. Tbe whole front of n Jnpaucso blacksmith .shop' Is open, with other building Jam med Up so closo on each side that tbe circus man couldn't get a poster In. A Japanese book bcelns on our Inst tiagja and llntsbcs on our first para graph. And tbctr sentences begin at the top of th'o pago arid redd down, like' long columns of figures. They wear white to funerals and judgo poetry by the beauty of tbo handwriting! Japanese bouses haven't any chim neys, so you may sec a vrbolo plateau of bouses with not a single curl of ismoke ns far as the eye can reach. 'The .Japanese cooking Is dona outside tu'e bouse In n little charcoal store. They bare no stores to keep themselves warm, only7 little blbachls, gallon Jars' with charcoal In thein covered with tine ashes. Tbcro Isn't enough beat In one to slngo a milter, and wbenerer they get too cold they take a warm Imth, Untiling la a sacred rite. Whenever they tiafo a sparo moment tu'cy run .nnd taken both. When business Is dull tbey htirry to n public bathbouao -and Jftuip In. If they miss one train tbey take a bath while waiting for tbe next. They tako hot baths atcamlng. six ,llng hot. And tho strango thing is tbey don't do the bathing In a tub. They liavo llttlo foot baths about tho size of crocks that they use for washing them oclrcs, ami when they are thoroughly clean they climb Into the tub. If you should get Into tho tub first lj the proprietor would break Into tears t .omi ten you mm you were unnitnipung hltn. for the sunie 'water Is used all cienlng. no difference how ninny guests tho hotel has. After soaking nwlitle they crawl out, steaming all over, gently blot them selves, get Into kimonos and sit n round bare nnklciL One would think that be fore the evening was over n tlcct foot il runner would Imvo to lie dispatched for medical assistance, but Instead of that they never cntcb'coldl When I gut here nnd was Invited Into n Japaucse homo I found Unit they t hadn't uny clmlrs. In fnct, then Isn't n slick of furniture n foot high In n i Japanese bonne. You Intw to sit on the floor, A iktkou of my build wns never lucuut for Mlttlug on the floor When I get d,uwu on the lloor and try to draw up to a Jupnucso table my fret ore s In the way that I lun't get tip to where tbcro Is nnytlUng dulug. The waitress lias to walk mound my feet to bring mo tho viands, lly tho time the meal Is our slw Is prclty well fugged out. A Japanese house hasn't u single f wludow. And It's only the most stylish of boutcs that have a puno or glass. A erson who has n pauo of glass somewhere in IiU house sets the social race In (hat neighborhood, lusteud of glass they have paper pasted, on sliding frames, and through tte paper the light filters. Naturally one wonders bow they keep' I lie rain out This Is llttlo trouble, for outside the paper wall aro a scries of wooden doors, which' also slide back and forth. When time come to retire you look -around for the bed. but there Isn't one In sight. It is rolled up lu a drawer, .and tbe Japanese wouldn't know a bedstead from a qulltlug frame. Mil lions of people In Japan have grown to manhood, voted, paid taxes and ,gone to their reward without ever bar s'ng clapped eyes on an American bed stead. To make tbe bed ready tbe servant -opens tbe drawer and unrolls tbo qulKs on the floor. pnUlng a tomato can look lug thing under oue end for a pillow. Then she shuts all tbe paper windows -and pu-IU to all the wooden slides so that not a breath of air can get In and lbe bed Is ready, Money In tbe palm would a' t pofeaado a Japeeto slp with ike window open. J Their theory U that durlnc the day i be air becotscs full ot duat and iters ao that If yoi) keep your windows Healed during tbe night none of tbe germs eon vet lit. Ilomer Croy In Les lie's Wekly Queer Spelling. Jack waa looking over the dictionary 'and'eace be laugbed aloud, "Why are ye InasbdigV Del. -Is ytutr bosk bttefestlngr N. Bat hitereatlaC answered Jack. -but asmMwc' It fpelU words ao Wf f crest frota tbo way 1 iill ibeM." Sacramento Union. . t , , ,., Might Take the Hawstl now do you like bum. ks funil turer T'trst rat. to fart, K baa oe areaf advaa-tage. , "And what lhtr "Iaatallsieut bicb caa'f" rone aait snore k o." Blniilngbaaa Aae-Hwr-aid. Whatever dlacrace we bare merited. H la aUausi always la ear power to rc- sticataVHak er pafHlt1a.-La MANHATTANJSLAHD. It Was Ones a Spot Apart From the Island of Manhattan. The Magazine or AmcrU-nn Ulstory has culled attention to a distinction In .New York nomenclature that, desplto Vie authority It quotes, Vevery Man Imttiuico" docs nut know. The maga zine cites the following footnote to "The Spy." by Juuies Kenlmorc Cooicr and then comments ou It: "Every Mnntinltiiiicso knows the dif ference between Manhattan Island nnd the Inland of Manhattan. The first Is applied to a small district In the vicin ity of Corlear's Hook, whllo tbe Inst embrace the whole Island, or tho city and county of New York as It Is term ed In the laws. "In other words, tbe latter Is the present borough of Manhattan. Man hattan Island wits a knoll nloug tbo old water front of tho East river about an acre In extent surrounded by creeks uud salt marsh uud made un Islund by the tide. Near It was Henry Urfcford's shipyard, mi undent landmark. It may be tdeutlfled on Ueneml, Hubert 1. V'lelc's ranp of the wutcr courses. "In the retlculatlou of the present streets It lay between Itlvlngton and rioueton. Sheriff ulnl Cnuimn xireot. "Columbia aud Slnnton streets intersect on what wuh nbotlt the center of tbo Island. Jim north of It wus one of tbe, tldul mouths of a stream that arose near P't-st avcnUe un Sixth street, flowed' thruugh Tompkins square and reached the river between Manhattan Island and Ilurnt Mill nr Itrunda Mil nab 'Point about Third and Lewis streets." ALASKA'S FERTILE LANDS. Facta About Our Vast and Little Un derstood Territory. Alaska Is the most misunderstood and misrepresented section of the Unit ed States. I'eoplc gcuerally, mid sin 'rercly, bellcro that tbe namoAlaaka 4s syuouymous with suuw ,aud leu and couple It uccurdlugly with Ire cream freezers ana cold drinks. Yet the prin cipal cities of Alaska along Its south ern roast line Juneau, Ketchikan. Cor dova, Vuldcs uud Seward do nut av erage as cold In midwinter as New York nnd are seldom us cold as Balti more aud, Washington during cold waves. Alaska Is onc-Oflh the size of the whole United State, and Its prodigious area of about ijOO.two square miles, nearly three rimes the size of tbe tier man empire. spread from the temper ute zone to the anile circle. Not one quarter or It Is lu the latter. Hcluw the clrclo lies u luugultkcut belt of fertile soil. It l estimated by gowrnment au thorities that the agricultural urea of Alaska's fertile (alleys nnd plain, un uiiitiy of which cattle can lie wlutrrcd without feeding, aggregate iiO.UOO square miles, with a climate like that uf nofllicrii Europe Norway. I'lulund uud Sweden. This laud Is richer uud more productive thnii that uf any oth er country In the world, well wittered, fulily "ell limbered, nnd ,'I'JU acres un 0-en free to the settler If he wishes to lake up a homestead. John A. Slclcti er lu Leslie's. The Otory of "Hard H.V "Mr. Urciairdioii, If i Untight that by killing yon I could pnliil u pletire like yuun I would stub jou to the heiirt." tuiii wus the remark tnudeby rollegrlnl. the famous lurlciiliirWl. to (he Itoyal uuideiulelati. Sir William Orcburdsuu. when ut n prlvute view Ue rlrt saw "nurd'HIt," the pli-mre ut the ruliu-d gambler. "It waV.' said the urtlst, "the greatest compliment I could have bud." Curiously enough. the model who sat for the ruined gumester rns rather fond uf cards hlui-ielf. One- dny the- urtlst notbvd that he looked somewhat depressed. "What Is thtviuatterV be asked, "1 was uwfully hard bit last iiIkIii." he answered. "Uy'Jove," replied tbe art- b, Juuiplng up with delight. "I've got It ut last! 'Hard lilt." of course." And that Is bow tbe picture got Its Dduie. Where Shelley Waa Drowned. 8pezla,tbe principal naval station of Italy, and about Orty miles southeast or Je nun. described ns "tbe Portsmouth of Ituly." has luteriiiilug literary us soclaltoQif. It calls up memories of Byron. Shelley, llgb Hunt. Charles Lever sud Mary Somervllle. lrrr was In residence at Sealu Intermittent ly fur some years, and there wrote three of bis book. Rut n more tragic Interest Is attarbrd to the wagnUlceiit bay, for it will bt rmler(eil that t was while sailing In a new boat acri the gulf to hU home at Lcrlcl that Shelley was drowsed. Musical Note, openl did yuii -What nljrhtr brxr last "Cecil had tbe program, and be aald It waa Libretto.-. ( , "How aoinatngr "Yes, wasnt It? rtecause It really wasa't Llbrvtto at all." Harvard Lam poon. Bullets and Snow. To test the rw-Brirmlou uf rifle shots tow walla six feVt all lor)es thick were erected In Aurlllac, France, til 6es were Bred at n distance of flfty flre yards. In earb rain.- the Kill was soped at a penetration of live sod a half feet. Essy is Guess. A woman writer Kiy girls ought to know, what their beuux make. Iunt they I'tiless lime nara rhanaed the girls get three1 imirU) of K dwiaa: lite iiirihifi unit make a clsn sweeft after iMr wcHiMtHt.-tlaxts-tatt (Vat BaaBaaaaaKaBBaBai nt .acuar Con? ?Ul cotlec Manw OfBI WR ,S .-..Aao. cn(r.t '"--- rt A "" Year At .. .v. .. tfSflS5J2feU - V.fc v (rkU. - "n"..i ".. w 4'1 v. ,ii "eS3rfe:di MM. . !. c- : "su i j:7mi ssw -si "V i J""ZIm X -. CTi. &SJS&-. T2F& 5 -. ".: e.r .. .r;7u. ,$, - FAKED .VENTRILOQUISM. The Deception Made Poss'.ble by the Loud 8ptkng Telephone. A great deal of rentriloitilsui Is not venlrlloiulsui at all. lu fact, the mod ern wonder In this line uf pleasant and deceptive art needs to have none of the Old time u'titrlloipilsts' ability ut ull He may aud often does-vtaud ou the opposite side of the stage from III manikin and pufT a cigar quite con trutcdly, to the atnuzouieut of the an dlence, Tbo dummy uusners wltb n ready line of repartee, delliercd In stentorian toues. Nor Is thai all. for he turns and twists his bead, waves bin arms, kicks up his feet nnd otherwise acts lu u very lifelike manner. Tbe secret of thu dummy's voice ! the loud sH.'iiklug telephone nul of bl actions various electiu magnets. As may be guessed, tsitb are operated by some one off the stage. In order to produraall the desired effects tbe dum my figure Is fitted luslde with a loud lieaklng telephone receiver, with tin horn or large mouthpiece Kiltitliig to ward the audience. Tbe receiver Is connected with a special transmitter In an nnferuom some distance away An ordinary operator's breast trans uilttcr Is also concealed In the body uf tbe dummy, so that whatever Is said by (be ventriloquist ou tbe stage I transmitted to tbe operator In the antr rooiu"; enabling him to speak for the dummy at tbe proper lime. Argonaut WONDERS OF THE- ALPS. Changes Nature Wrought to Uplift Their Towering Peaks. Nothing in the world's history Is more Impressive than Hie story of (be Alp Ten or twelve million, years ogo, j slbly far more, a long unseen Hue of wenkuess, a crack of Assure In 'the earth's crust, stretched away front France eastward huudreds of miles. Ou this line followed huge volcanic out bursts. Next ensued a vait slow subslience. which went ou through geologic epoch until where Jlout Blanc now rears lu summit i3.7) feet waa a sea fringing an oW continent. Large rivers emptied Into H. Deposits of mud, sand, gravel were, laid one on sootier a the sink taz,wrnt oa until lb layers became MUMH feet, nearly lea nth. tlMck Trea at last caaiaieaeeil a ajraat u l8 TfTiFsWfllMaBi1 iTTf 19Ptt teW SK" I "''' " , " ?,r.,.l '" aBl-l "". . fM"P lv:u. -"'.r;.;. " ., t.-M .' - .. .' :. .; r:v r , -ug lifting; tbe struggling subterranean forces raised n huge loid Tor ages this went ou until the rinks, crumbled, crushed, contorted, rose iiIkjvu tho wa ters uud continued to rise, forming line' of mountain chains, uud making Uwlt I. terlam) a tableland, I.very hour slnco then rain and snow, river, glacier and avalanche Imvn been sculpturing Into peaks and carving Into lakes and valleys th.it vast platform with Its recent sedimentary covering ami primeval granite core. Tbe result Is n land of uncqualcd grandeur. London Telegraph. The Old Turnpike. Tlio first great American highway, that between New York uud Philadel phia, was loiig known u "the old York road." Its conntinctloil lu 1711 was nu exutupte which led the coloulnts at other points along the Atlantic sea board to coustruct similar roads where there were no water route. They wore usually built by chartered companies and were called turnpike or full road Pennsylvania. Connecticut and New Jersey bad many road of tbe kind. The first macadam road lu America was built In 102 Iwtwecn I'hlladelphh. and Mucaslcr lu 1H11 Ibere were said to be -l-VW miles of chartered turn pikes lu New Kugland and New York. During tbe next twenty years the ns tlonal government spent many million of dollars In constructing great high ways, but the panic of 1837 and Ihe .building of railroad and cuuul put an end lo that branch uf government work CORK FORESTS. Money Making Tree That Grow In the Peoreit Kind of Soil. Tbe "irk oak U a kind of Jack at nil trade among tree, mid It service lu dlcute well the kind of now freedom that trees may give u by their new belpfulues If Kit will Just give them a chance. If Ihe garden of Kdru story ad been written In Hpaln or Portugal I think the fortunate couple would have been placed lu selon of a ' cork, forest If a man lu eliW of these countries ba a forest of good cork trees you will flud blm hi Madrid. Lisbon or Parts. IIU cork furest works tot bl, and be stays la town. Cork treaa aow ua tbf recklaet ad (Mreat Uad. JTW & the UhjJ tbe One year ago when we reduced the price on ROYAL CLUB COFFEE from 40c to 35c, we told you it waa only temporary that we were sharing with you the saving to us in an exceedingly low, "war time," coffee market that as soon as the market went up we would have to re store the original 40 cent price. We were the only coffee roasters on the coast to take the public into our confidence and share our saving with them. The public has saved thousands of dollars as a result. Now we must raise the price of our ROYAL CLUB brand. The high grade Central American and Sumatra Coffees from which it is blended have gone up are still going up. We have every reason to believe they will stay "up." UNTIL JANUARY 1ST YOU CAN BUY ROYAL CLUB COFFEE AT THE REDUCED PRICE. If you are one of the thousands who have found satis faction in this delightful coffee, you should lay in a Sup ply NOW at 'the reduced price. If you have never tried it, you should treat yourself and the family while the price is -down. Say ROYAL CLUB to your grocer today. LANG& CO. The "Royal Club" House Portland, Oregon. liner tbo iiunllty of the cork, Every eight or ten jrnrs tbo outer bark Is stripped from tbo trees lo furnUb I bo eer moro highly prized cork of cou tnorco. Ily dividing the laud up Into blocks this decennial liancit will pro duce a fairly regular Income. These same uak trccn produce acorn, often heavily, which nro sold to some farmer, who drives his herd of lean hogs Into tho forest, where lliuy bar vest the acorns nnd I urn them Into salable, meal. A Portuguese hog I ox Iwcied to gain two iounds a day for ninety days when acorns are ripe. More than this, there H beneath the oak trees some herbage ill for goats to eat. Thus the cork forest owner In Lis bon gets Income from three cootrnc tors-lhe cork strlpier, Ihe rk, raiser and the. goal rulser. And with rare Ihe forest lasts forever. The Individual cork tree I good for a hundred years or more, after which It U a lino big salable tree, with enough young ones near It to lake Its place when It I gone lo market In Portugal a cork tree, ready for Its third stripping. Is considered worth 123. When In full bearing ad acre of heso oaks will yield from one lo three tons of cork at a stripping, now worth about $70 a tori to tbs grower. Most of this Is profit Tbe pork la profit It Is the Common rule that tbe Income from (be pasture pays the small cost uf raring fur tbe rarest. J, Itusaell Smith lu Country (Jeiilleinan. CUTTING THE CABLES. How It I Don In Wartime In Deep and Shallow Water. Cutting submarine rubles lu wartime I by no uieuh su eusy a Job a It sound. HrleHy the method I as follows! The cruUer detailed for the work steam sluuly at right angle to the cable route, dragging ufler ier u K-clal kind of grapnel, like a Ute pruuged anchor wltb shears attached, wtikh grip and cut tin) table at tbe same time. This grapnel Is ouucUtd with Ihft cable cutting ship by a strung rope formed of strand of steel and hemp Interwov en, aud attached to which U au lulru ineut called a dyuumometer, that shows wben the cable Is booked. Hy i4Blig one or twice backward and forward Ike cable can I rat let"" "" ... ..i. . -, . ,..l . uti. mimt ruaes. Hfl tSLr'SavM and the setcreil Hirlliui run then drugged away by another kind uf noli cutting grapnel and left llug ou the ikciiii bed ut some dMiiuie away where It Is, of coune, linpo-mlble In lo ca I e It. remlerliig uny nllempl lo re pair tho damage a very dllllcult sud laborious uKratluu Huch I the usual method adopted for destroying tin enemy's cable in com paratively shallow seas. In the caso of ocean cable submerged at great depths, however. Hie mode of proced ure 1 somewhat different. A similar five pronged grapnel I used, but It i a noneuttlng one utnl simply grip the cable, holding It fast The fart that It bus been hooked I. of course, notified lo llio-e un board by the d)liamnuieler. "ben the ship Is Immediately slopped uud lbe cable boUtcd up inward Hie surfXre, It never reuehe the surface, how ever, for presently Ihe lifting strain becomes loo great. Hie cable snsp of It own accord, and, the two end Dy ing wide apart, the sevrred cable set ties back In the ocean bottom oblique ly, leaving a gap of Mhly a thou sand yard or more between the por tions. Pro rson's Weekly. Selling a Maiterpleee, Millet, who was a farmer's son, lui Ing In mind hi lyuocd, tenderly painted hi wonderful "Aiigvlus." IU look It p Pari end hawked It about, but ni one would have It. At last tin Ilelglau minister gate blm VUta tor It Hli year after Millet's death lbe pic ture sold for.T.'.liXi,iiid lu IKMOJsiue I-'. Hutfoii, prelilrnl of Hie American Art A-tsoclfillou. bought It fur $110,000. New York Telegnim A Finsncier. "fwk here, Juipn." said llrockle bnuk. "I'm lerribi) muriiiiul ulsiui nut having paid buik Hint ilullor I Isirrnw rd of you last June, but honestly, old man" Oh. that all right. Ilrock." saM Jlminon. "Iion'l spruk of It." -(ih, but I inii-t sM-ik of II. old man." said Ilroeklebank "I ran'l Ireat a friend that way, you know, and I I want to pay you. aud I will. Jimp sure thing, 'f you'll lend m ti I'll pay off that dollar right now. and w ran surt frrsb agalu." - tw Tort ' 1 S tww v mng mmIJ mmn m ,v w.