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Some of them, probably those who are par ticularly violent, are fastened with a heavy chain to a ring in the wall of some house or public building. There they sit upon the sidewalk day and night, covered, If at oil, from the blis tering rays of the sun or the dews of evening, by a little awning of burlap, almost naked, gnashing their teeth, or perhaps with a stupid, dull Indiffer ence in their eyes, depending upon the charity of the passers-by." "The last spot we can visit," Doctor Clark says In concluding the chapter, "Is the ancient wall through whose windows It Is said that Saint Paul es caped. Here Is his brief account of this adventure: 'In Damascus, the governor, under Aretas the king, put guards about the city of the Damascus, thinking to arrest me, and through a window, In a basket, was I let down by the wall and escaped his bands.' "We looked with Interest and rever ence upon the ancient wall, which very likely was standing In the apostle's time, and at the window, from which it Is possible, but by no means certain, that he was lowered In a basket." OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENEM!. INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readere. MARBLE STONES ABOVE PETS Grieving Owners Erect Costly Monu ment In Dog Cemetery Near Cen ter of London, England. It may not be known to everybody that In London there exists an exceed ingly pretty cemetery devoted princi pally to man's best friend the faithful dog. Near the Victoria (lute, Hyde Park West, stands the gatekeeper's lodge, attached to which there Is a fair-sized garden, the last resting place of mnny a favorite pet. Several years ago a favorite dog ("Poor Little Prince"), which belonged to the duke of Cambridge, was run over In the park, brought to the lodge and afterward buried In the garden. A marble stone shows the place where he lies. After this many who had heard of the event requested to have their dogs laid to rest In the same plot of ground, and thus It came about that the permission of the duke and the deputy runger was obtained to al low the garden to become u cemetery for dogs. It has now been In existence many years, and there are several hundred graves, all beautifully kept. Some people pay a certain amount per an num to have the little graves properly nttended to; some only pay when the dog Is hurled; many call regularly. The tombstones are pretty nearly all of the same size and mostly of mar ble. London Graphic. ranch. These large blocks of land ure ' being dissolved, ho to speak, Into farms of ordinary size. "Today," writes this correspondent, "thousands upon thousands of acres of land, vast stretches of clean prairie that have for a quarter of a century known little more than the trample of the herds and the swish of the cow boy's lariat, ure blossoming out into golden wheat fields and neatly plotted farmsteads, and the tlmcworn romance of the cowboy and the corrnl Is giving way to the modern romance of the reaper." Montreal Herald. family of Fighting Men. Nelson A. Miles was the first man not a graduate of West Point who ever held the position of command er of the United States army since the earliest days of the republic. An ancestor, Rev. John Miles, who emi grated to this country from Wales In 1(103, commanded a company In King Philip's war, and his house was known us "Miles' garrison." Daniel, the great-grandfather of Nelson A. Miles, and Daniel's three sons, of whom one was Joub, the gen eral's grandfather, served la the Rev olutionary war. Ranches Converted Into Farms. A correspondent In I lie West writes that the most notable Change now tak ing pluce In that country, especially In the southern parts of Alberta and "m iiii n tha i,.,. t9 ,ho Taught English to Use Thimble. Thimbles seem to have been Intro duced Into England as articles of com mon use by m man named John Loft ing, who came over from Holland at the end of the seventeenth century and established a thimble factory ut Isling ton. The word thimble Is said to be de rived from the Scotch thummel or thembbnll, a sort of shield. St. Louis OIobe-Democrat. DO SOMETHING WORTH WHILE Much Benefit Will Come From Deter mination to Make Each Day Record of Accomplishment. The one who starts out In the morn ing with a determination to do some thing during the day that will amount to something, that will be distinctive, that will have individuality, that will give him satisfaction at night, is a great deal more likely not to waste his day in frivolous, unproductive work than the one who starts out with no plan. Begin every day, therefore, with a program and determine that, let what will come, you will carry It out as closely as possible. Follow' It up per sistently, day after day, and you will be surprised at the result. Make up your mind at the very outset of the day that you will accom plish something that will amount to something; that you will not allow callers to fritter away your time, and thnt you will not permit the little an noyances of your business to spoil your day's work. Make up your mind that you will be lnrger than the trifles which cripple and cramp mediocre lives, and that you will rise above petty annoyances and Interruptions and carry out your plans In a large and commanding way. Make every day of your life count for something; make it tell In the grand results, not merely as an added day, but as an added day with some thing worthy achieved. Difterences in UOatf u The line of the Atlantic coast Is largely of mud and sund, and has very little elevation. On the other hand, the Pacific const line of Washington, Oregon and California Is almost entire ly rocky nnd precipitous. While the Atlantic and Gulf consts are dotted with numerous hurbors where ships may seek safety In time of storm, very different conditions exist on the Paci fic, where there are few hajberts, and these at long intervals. Warmer Clothes We have plenty" of warm Clothes for you at prices you are able to pay. These frosty mornings sure make you long for warmer clothing. 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The annual meeting of the Oregon Irrigation congress will be held In Portland on January 9, 10 and 11. The service of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company has been dis continued at Brooks, Marlon county. Milliard Bailey, son of Mayor Harry Bailey, and Lane Thornton, son of A. L. Thornton, of Lakevlew, were drowned while fishing In Goose Lake. A recent ruling of the War depart ment prohibiting fraternities from holding social meetings and initiating or pledging new members, has been re scinded. The fourth Oregon state officers' training camp, which was to have opened at the University of Oregon November 23, has been indefinitely postponed. Regardless of the fact that 140 con victs at the state penitentiary at Salem were Inoculated for the disease, 125 of them are suffering from the Span ish influenza. According to the figures of the city budget Klamath Falls may have a drop of 3.2 mills in its tax rate. The adop tion of an occupation tax by the city is considered. Storm and high tide last week re sulted in greater damage on Coos bay than had occurred in a number of years. The principal damage was to industries, including sawmills, ship yards and allied lines. A big convention of the Oregon But ter and CheeBe Makers' organization will be held In Portland December 11 and 12. In connection with the meet a butter and cheese exhibit will be held In which prizes totaling $350 will be awarded the winners. Several hundred Oregon trappers al ready are at work, according to Carl Shoemaker, fish and game warden, who has issued more than 200 licenses since the trapping season opened the first of this month. The season will close February 1, 1919. In an effort to provide Jobs for sol diers discharged from the United States army upon demobilization, the war department has requested the state highway commission to provide It with information an to how many men can be provided with jobs In Oregon. As a protest against what they term unsatisfactory wage adjustments by the Macy commission, the boiler makers' union of Portland will con tinue to declare Saturday afternoon a half-holiday and quit work at noon, as the men have been doing for a month or more. Fourth-class postmasters have been appointed in Oregon as follows: Col ton, Clackamas county, Charles P. Hunter; CryBtal, Klamath county, C. O. Brown; Odessa, Klamath county, Miss May Kinkaid; Redne, Marlon county, Mrs. Marie E. Parker; Three pines, Josephine county, Mrs. Flora A. Corliss. Sheriff Chrlsman and Deputy Sher iff Jarvls made an important arrest at The Dalles when they captured three convicts who escaped from the Sho shone, Idaho, jail November 6. The convicts are C. W. Darcy, Frank Sul livan and Edward Miller. They are said to be three of the moat dangerous criminals In the country. Power extended to the supreme court to call to its assistance three circuit judges of the state to sit as r. part of that court when It Is deemed neces sary and also power extended to the chief justice of the supreme court to direct circuit judges to ait In any county of the state will be asked by the committee on law reform created by the last legislature. Small railroads are denied 24 hours' tree time on Interchange of cars with larger lines In a letter received by Public Service Commissioner Corey from Regional Director Alshton. Mr. Alshton states that he thinks the small roads are given very favorable con cussions now, considering the tact that they own no cars and what cars they use are turned over to them by the larger roads. , Marlon county boasts of about 1200 acres planted In English walnuts, ac cording to a census made by County Fruit Inspector Van Trump, and 10 per cent of these are either yielding or paying big returns to their owners. Many trees thla year yielded 150, pounds, the product selling on the mar ket at as high as 30 cents. The wal nut Industry In this section Is steadily; forging ahead as a money-maker. I Totals compiled by Henry E. Reed, associate director of the state war sav ings stamp campaign, Indicate that; Oregon counties for the most part are veil up In their war stamp purchases. Eight counties are "bver the top." More than half the remaining coun ties are in such position as to Indicate that they will make the goal oa sched ule time, December Si. Aroused over the proposed Increase In telephone rates, a mass meeting of business men was held at Albany and a committee was appointed to Investi gate the possibility of consolidating the two systems. The annual meeting of the presi dents and faculties of the Independent colleges of Oregon will be held at New berg November 29-30. Faculty mem bers from eight Institutions of the atate will be present. The Rogue River Valley Canal com pany, of Medford, recently enlarged its main canals and laterals In order to cover 1000 acres more farm land for next year's crops. The Medford Irri gation district board, which recently voted 11,500,000 for the Installation of an Irrigation system to cover 20,000 acres adjoining Medford, is prosecut ing the work of preliminary surveys . for its main canal from Butte creek. Plans have been made to obtain 300 goats to be used in connection with the new milk goat project which is being added to the boys' and girls' club work department of the Oregon Agricultural college extension service. Mr. Seymour has made arrangements with the Portland clearing house to loan to every boy and girl fn the state wishing to ,be a member of the goat club, money with which to purchase an animal. Pressure from two sides Is being vigorously brought to bear to prevent the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company from increasing telephone rates. Through the public service commission, which threatens criminal prosecution, steps are to be taken to declare an increased tariff invalid. The Portland oity council is taking drastic action which may result in the revocation of the company operating license in Portland. In line with the general letting up of restrictions following cessation of hostilities, the capital issues commit tee has given its sanction to the sale of $590,000 worth of state highway bonds. Already ?2,190,000 worth of bonds out of the 6,000,000 issue has been sold. The state highway com mission will take under consideration the question of whether or not the bonds will be sold at a meeting to be held in Portland Friday, November 22. The work which the state highway commission plans to complete with the proceeds of the Issue of bonds, the Bale of which has now been approved by the capital Issues committee, is chiefly the Pacific highway In the counties of Douglas, Josephine and Jackson, and the Columbia River highway in Hood River and Wasco counties. With the exception of the sectfon of the Columbia River high way between Hood River and Mos'or most of the work will not bo under taken until next spring. A mixture of barley and cottonseed meal 'is an excellent substitute for bran and shorts mill run so exten sively used as stock feed and now dif ficult to obtain, points out E. B. Fitts, extension specialist in dairying at'the Oregon Agricultural college. "This mixture costs more than the wheat feeds but its feeding value, pound for pound, is 18'j per cent greater," Bays Professor Fltts. "It also provides greater certainty of securing uniform value than the mixtures of bran and shorts sold by the flouring mills as mill run." Finis was written to the part that spruce and fir forests of the Pacific northwest have played in the war, when orderB were issued by the spruce production division to cease at once practically all activities In aircraft work among the camps and mills. All shipments of spruce and fir cants to the huge cut-up plant at Vancouver, Wash., were halted by the order, while no more airplane material shipments are to be made. Similar orders stop ped nearly all logging operations, and instructed that falling of airplane timber was to cease at once. Housewives and all consumers of flour and sugar are elated at the Issu ance of orders from the food adminis tration, which lift the edicts against these commodities and restore them practically to a pre-war basis. The flour order becomes effective Immedi ately, while the new sugar regulations Bill bq in force December 1. Under the flour order, the four pounds tc one rule, of white flour and substi tutes, Is cancelled, and consumers are now permitted to make their purchases without the handicap of substitutes j The sugar order provides for an add!-' tlonal pound in the per capita allot-; ment, or four pounds per person each I month. Five fatalities were reported to the Itate industrial accident commission tor the wek ending November 14 : among a total of 522 accidents, and in I addition there were five fatalities re-' mlting from injuries previously re-j ported. The fatal cases resulting from I accidents during the week were: frank E. Baldwin. Knappa, logging: Pharlea A. Brooke, Astoria, ircn n-orks: Bay Norton, Coqullle, logging; Bills Ptnkerton, Klamath Falls, lum bering; Benjamin L. Ward, Astoria, ihlpbuiltling. The deaths resulting Irom accidents previously reported were: Prank Dempsey. 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