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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON SEPTEMBER 6, 1929 Curiom Reflection "Hart you seen the Museum ghost f asked my friend, an Egyptologist, when with him Id the Egyptian gal lery of the British museum. We hail Just passed the empty black busuli coffin of a' priest of Ptah, but. on 'looking through the glass case thui contains a statuette of Isls, he point ed out that the previously empty cot fin now held a mysterious figure) My companion's explanation of this some what disturbing apparition was that the reflection of an efflgy in a coIIin on the other side of Isls' case was caught by one glass of the case and thrown by the other glass right Int.. the vacant coffin of Ptnh's prleM The Illusion Is certainly remarkable London Mall. - " Knotty Legal Point Whether the son of an American ambassador, born In a foreign cnun try while his father was on dut would be eligible for the Presidency Is a debatable point. The situation lias never arisen. Under all the laws of the United States, the child oi American parents, born abroad. is considered an American citizen In cx actly the same status as one born In the United States. On the othei burnt the Constitution expressly states the President must be American born It would probably require a Siipreint court interpretation to settle the niai ter. Great Cuban Harbor Guantanamo bay, Cuba, the winter rendezvous of the navy ships stationed on the Atlantic side of the United States. Is on the south coast of Cuba, about forty miles east of Santiago. This bay ts about four miles wide by ten miles long, baa deep water and Is sheltered by hills from hurricanes. This bay was for a long time a rendezvous for pirates and buccaneers, who lay In wait for the galleons coming op from the Spanish main and merchantmen bound from Santiago, Cuba. In Oil Little five-year-old Betty'a grand mother had received a post card from Betty's aunt and uncle, and was dis cussing it with the little girl's moth er. Betty overheard some conversation about their having visited the Holy land and now being in Greece, When Betty's fatbei came home In the evening she ran up to him and cried: "Oh, daddy) Uncle and aunt are In oil." Silver to Purify Water By Injecting -silver in a special!) prepared form. Dr. George Kruuse, an, engineer of Munich. Oerinuny, say he has found a new wa to purify drinking water. Ahoui a twentieth ot an ounce of silver, he gays, Is sulB clent to disinfect trillions .l gallons of water. Popular Science Monthly. VEGETABLES . . . -And'.':."' FRUIT Fresh from Garden and Orchards to you at " Lowest Prices See Our Window The Quality Grocery Phone 561 , ' Alice Eager, Prop. 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Limited space permits only briefest mention of a few cardinal points In its history. Of first importance, the parent In strument was a set of pipes fastened together In a row and made to sound by the direct force of the. breath. Later some 200 years before Christ, there came the water organ, -which, In turn, gave pl-ce to the bellows type of luauument that was first used in the church about 430 A. D. It ts the bellows type, highly perfected, that is In common use today. . In this country, our strait-laced Puritan ancestors opposed music as an Invention of the Evil One himself, so its acceptance enme slowly, and up to the middle of the Seventeenth cen tury, only that of the crudest kind was heard. The real history of the pipe organ in America began about 1713, with the importation from England of what ; has come to be known as the Brattle organ, ft came to Boston. Mass. as the property of Thomas Brattle, a prlminent man, of the time, and was set up In King's chapel. Other organs were Imported In the years that followed, until John Clemm produced the first American-built in strument In 1737. i Dread of Evil Spirits ' Inherent in Papuans .f Papuans are pagan, and largely gov jerned by superstitious belief handed .down from generation to generation. The Papuan cautiously approaches the .rocks on the shores of the ocean and inland streams lest a spirit that abides there stir up a storm. A spirit in the clouds destroys their children, but the strongest spirit lurks In the forests. For this reason tribesmen seldom venture out at night Papuan villages are built more for protection than comfort Near the sea coast and rivers many of them are Duilt over the water, while In the interior they occupy the hills where the tribesmen can survey the neighborhood for en emy invaders. If a village ts In a valley, it is usually protected by a jhigh stockade or the huts are In the 1 tree tops. Tree platforms are the tribal watch-towers. Trumped Dropping ' into his club, a thirsty member ordered a bottle of beer, but before he could enjoy It he wns called laway to the telephone. In order to protect his . property he seized the top card of a pock it happened to be the three of diamonds, and, writ ing his name upon it, leaned it ugnlnsi t lie bottle and went to answer the coll. .......... ' When he returned his beet hod gone. "I say," he complained loudly, "wiicre'M my dilnl;5" "Oh, didn't you know?" chuckled a neni'hy denizen of an easy chair, "Old Jenkins enme along with the ten of diamonds iind took the trick." Weekly Tehwipli. London. Device That Measures Temperature of Moon Modern observatories are equipped with instruments whereby the temper ature of the moon can be measured. The temperature of the moon depends upon the amount of beat it receives, Hie amount it reflects, and its rate of radiation. It is easy to measure with some approximation the amount of heat the earth receives from the moon, but it is not easy to determine what part is reflected and what part radi ated. When the moon passes Into the earth's shadow so that the direct rays of the sun are cut off, then all the heat received from the moon is that radiated and this can be measured, and from the amount received and the rate at which it decreases as the eclipse continues, it is possible to de termine approximately the rate at which the moon loses heat by radia tion, and from this the temperature to which it has been raised. Observa tions show that the amount of heat received from the moon diminishes very rapidly after it passes into the earth's shadow. This indicates that its radiation Is very rapid. Short "Sob Story" of ( Two-Wheeled Tragedy The flames shot upward; the smoke curled in clouds around the doomed building. Suddenly a young woman rushed up to one of the firemen., - "Oh," she cried, "save It for me! Save it I" , She pointed to a second floor win dow, and without a word the fireman rushed to do her . bidding. "How old was it?" asked one of the bystanders. "Only a month 1" sobbed the wom an. "And look ! as the figure of the fireman could be seen coming down the ladder again. "He has failed I He's coming back without itl Oh, what shall I do?" The fireman approached. "rm sorry," he said, "but I could find no child." "Child?" cried the woman. "I said nothing about a child I" - "Then what was it?" they asked her. "It was my b-b-blcyclel" she sobbed. Td only bad it a month on the in stallment plan, tool" London Tit-Bits. If They Had to Try It I am tired. of hearing our clever young men and girls say they would rather be living in the Eighteenth century. Like children, they imagine they would all have been fine ladies and gentlemen, Horace Walpoles and the like. It Is more likely they would have been Spltalflelds weavers, gren adiers with the lash waiting for them, footmen and maids sleeping In dark holes, ragged and starved ushers, some of Squire Western's oafs and, slat terns, A day of what was ordinary life to the average man or woman In the Eighteenth century would prob ably reduce them to screaming im becility. No, we move on, in spite of all our stupid people and our clever people. London Saturday Re view. - Rupture Shield Expert Coming to PENDLETON on Friday and Saturday, September 20 and 21 at , DORION HOTEL from 10 a. m, to 4 p. m. Evenings by telephone appointment only TWO DAYS ONLY .,. No Charge for Consultation Mr. C. F. 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Correct A teacher In one of the fashionable Westchester schools in ordinary rou tine requested that the children put on a card certain information which Included the occupation of the father. This particular thirteen-year-old boy put down "Expressman," which caused a question on the part of the mentor because of the general type of chil dren who went to the school Tak ing It op further It was found that this particular lad was the son of the president of the American Express company. Forbes Magazine. Indian Relics fa Germany Europe's finest collection of mate rial on the North American Indian Is said to be that at RadebeuL Germany, near Dresden. It Is a replica of a block house beside the home where lived Earl May, European writer of blood-and-thunder Wild West thrillers, says the Living Age. But, the maga zine declares, the bulk of the collec tion of arrows, headdresses, eta, was brought to Europe by Patty Frank, a Viennese who toured America with Buffalo Bill and other showmen as an acrobat Laws That Lad to War The acts passed by the British par liament In reference to the American, colonies were: Navigation acts, 1660, 1663. 1672, 1606; Molasses act, 1733; Sugar act, 1764; Stamp act, 1765; Quartering act 176S ; Townshend acts, June and July, 1767; Act Imposing Duties on Paper, Glass and Other Ar ticles Imported to Colonies, 1767; Bos ton' Port bill, 1774; Massachusetts Government acts, 1774; Administra tion ot Justice act 1774; New Eng land Restraining; act 177& Probably Only "Ghost" of Island on Record I was staying In Orutuvu, Tenerlffe, with the family ot the English chrtn lain there. One very sultry t'. ' in 'asked rue to come up to tin toot of the house, as he wished to show 'me something very remarkable. Find ling I had strong and far eyesight, be 'asked me to count the Islands 1 could see round the coast of Tenerlffe, and I found that, with Grande Canary, they . numbered seven. , : He then requested me to look ! through the telescope and name what I could see on the Islet beyond Palraa. And after I had specified u small palm tree, some low-growing trees and a small white hut, he showed me the latest mnp of those islands which did not include tin; Island we had remarked ; there were six only with Tenerlffe. , ' The old charts guve this island when Portugal ceded these Islands to Spain In 1470, but several years later surveys sent out to locate this island had failed to llnd it.' Yet It reap peared from time to time In some par ticular state of the atmosphere and is, in fact, the ghost of a submerged Island. London Tost ' It Pays to Look Well! To look well you should keep your hair properly cut your face shaved and massaged In fact everything in the Barber line. 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Page boys are in structed to shout important names in the lobby and dining rooms even if the owners of those names are in Eu rope. All these tricks help. Disappearing Gulf ' However slow and imperceptible the process may be, It Is a well-established fact that the contour of the earth Is changing constantly. 'Sea captains frequently note the presence of islands In mlilocean where no is lands were ever seen before and Just as often nole Is made of the total disappearance of points of land In the sea, The peninsula of Lower Cnl ifornla, In the western part of Mex ico, Is, ns most persons know, a long tongue of land following the coast line and forming t lie elongated (iu!l of California. Uecent observations show that the land of Lower Cali fornia is raising and accordingly In creasing In width and at the same time the gulf is narrowing so that in the .course of time the land of the iPenlnsula may be joined to the main land of Mexico and water now sep arating them will disappear entirely. 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