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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1908)
liEWS OF THE WEEK F. B. Golden was a Condon visitor a few days this week. J. El Hunt returned ' Monday evening from a few days busi ness visit in Portland. Wm. Head of Rock Creek came up Monday evening to attend to some business matters. Mrs. Edward Matthews of near Fossil is visiting this week with her sister, Miss Simmons of the public schools. Dave Hardie of Trail Fork was in town this week attending to some business matters. While here his case with Geo. C Myers over some sheep was settled in a satisfactory manner. Mr. Hardie paid this office a call. Ed Palmer, who formerly con ducted the harness shop at the south end of Main Street, arriv ed Saturday evening from Mal heur county for a few days' visit with friends and relatives. Ed has sold his sheep there but still runs some cattle and horses. Since going to Malheur county his health has improved and he also reports that his father, who now lives with him, is feeling better. His ranch is sixty miles from town and the winter range is very good. Before leaving for his home he called at this office and subscribed for the Globe. Elmer Hall returned Saturday evening from a ten days' visit with his brother, E. S. Hall, at Albany. Hugh Hogan, an old offender, was arrested here yesterday morning by the officers on a war rant from Condon. His arrest wa3 for leaving an unpaid board bill at a Condon hotel. He was released because the authorities did not come for him. The Dall es Chronicle. Chas. Hein of May ville attend ed to business matters in Condon on Monday. While here he made a few minutes call at this office and renewed his subscription saying that he has been more than pleased with the paper dur ing the past nine months. Mr. Hein is a rustler and is fast be coming one of the prosperous farmers of the Mayville country. Jas. -McCrae, who has been working near Antelope, sustain ed a very painful accident on Fri day last, while leading a horse behind a buggy in which he was riding. The horse suddenly pull ed back and it seems that the rope became twisted around the end of Mr. McCrae's finger, tat ing it completely off at the first joint, He came to Condon and the wound was dressed by Dr. Wood. F. M. Pliter left Thursday morning for his home in Port land. He expects to return about the middle of next month. SWEET-WHITNEY METHOD OF MUSIC. A special feature of the course of study pursued at the St. Thoirae Aquinas' School will be the intro duction of the famous Sweet-Whitney method of music. It will be taught by a teacher who studied it under the personal instruction of the author, Gertrude L. Whitney of Ann Arbor University. At the completion of the course students will be granted a certifi cate. Class and entertainment days will be given by the pupils at regular intervals by which parents and visitors can convince themsel ves of the merits of the method now introduced into the leading schools of music and having the approval of our most eminent mu sicians. LET AN EXPERT Do your repair) on Watrhei Clock! or Jewelry. Williami tbe Jeweler and Graduate Optician. X. Main Street Artesian Walt. Th theoretical explanation of the ibouiuma at tally utxterstood. Tlx secondary and tertiary gvologtcal for matloua ofteu ptvernt the appearand of Immense; basins, the boundary or rim of the basin having been formed by an uiibearal of adjacent at rata. In then formation It often happen that pomu stratum, coualstlut of. sand, aandatoue, chalk or other calcareous matter, la Included between two Imper meable laj era of clay so as to form Bat porous V tube, continuous from tide to side of the valley, too outcrop on the surroundlug hills forming the mouth of tb tube. The rain Ottering down through the porous layer to the bottom of tb basin forma there sub terranean pool, which, with the liquid or seiulllqukl column preeolug upon It, constitutes sort of huge natural hy drostatic bellows. Sometimes the pres sure on the superincumbent crust Is so arest as to cause an upheaval or dis turbance of the valley. It Is obvious, then, that when hole Is bored down through the upper Impermeable layer ro the surface of the lake the water will be forced up by the natural lawof watei seeking Its level to height above the surface of the valley, greater or less, according to the elevation of the level In the feeding column, thus forming a uatural fountain on precisely the same principle as that of most artificial foun tains, where the wster supply come from a considerable height above the Jet. . , A Perfumed Caravan. Everybody knows how subtle, pen tratlng and permanent la the rich per fume of attar of roses. The larger part of the world's supply of this delicious scent Is made In Tenia, where then nre many hundreds of acres devoted ti the cultivation of roses for this par pone. At certain seasons of the yeai long caravans of donkeys, laden wltl: attnr. aud under guard of soldiers t protect the rich booty from attacks b robbers, journey from central Persia to the little port of Busblre. whence I. la exported to Bombay. Other donke; trains similarly escorted proceed to porta on the Caspian sea. which, after Hindustan, are the Isrgest consumers of the costly luxury. When the wind Is In the right direction the approach of on of these caravans Is announced by the scent long before It can be seen, and the lino of Its progress can be traced by the odor for days after It has passed by. Firsts of the Caspian. Tb Turcoman dwellers In central Asia are terrible robbers. They are also slave dealers, selling all tb pris oners whom they make in war or In their thieving raids. Besides plunder ing by land, they carry on their evil work by ws'er, for tbey bar a num ber of pirate ship on the Caspian sea which lie In wait for Russian and Per sian reesels. Tbey seise all the goods on board these ships, and tb unfortu nate crews are sold Into slavery. The chief markets for slaves are Khiva snd Bokhara. Sometimes they have a difficulty In finding purchasers for all their captives If these have been nu merous, and they have been known to dispone of a Persian prisoner for a sum equal to 13 pence of British money. They keep many slsves to till tbelr fields and treat them most cruelly. London Answers. ,- ! I - The Crsek In the Piste.! There was company to dinner at Nellie's house in ,8outh Broad street snd the diner were enjoying the first course, which consisted of oyster soup, Nellie made away with hers for lomo time in silence until she bad nearly cleaned the plate, when she suddenly paused snd, looking at her mother across the table, said In a stag whis per: "Mamma, what yon fink? Dere's a hair in the soup!" "Hush, Nellie," said mamma, frown ing. "It's nothing but a crack In the plate." ; Nellie moved the bowl of ber spoon back and forth over the supposed crack and then exclaimed triumphantly: "Kin a crack mover St Louis Re public. i A Diplomatie System. "To what sir," we asked a inlddle aged, happily married man recently, "do you attribute the success yon have made of your married lifer" , " Tls a bit of elementary wisdom, my son," be replied. "When my wife Is In the wrong, I agree with ber, and all Is well. When she is In the Mgbt. I argue against her; she emerges tri umphantly, proves me foolish, feels good all day and again all Is well. Learn this, my son, 'ere you marry." Cleveland Leader. ; An Oversight "I want to pay this bill," he said at the bote) bar, "but I think yon have made a slight error here in my favor. I've been reading over the extras, and I cannot find that yon have charged anything for telling m you thought It might rain.1' Probably. "The ldeaT exclaimed Mrs. Kadley. "I wonder why that woman Is watch ing me so?" "Probably," replied ber husband, "she's trying to find out why you are staring at her." Exchange. The Time to Call. Mrs. Dunlelgb It is very singular that your mother always happens to call on me when I am out Little Flossie Dlmpleton Ob, we can see from our front window whenever you go away. Is not every day the two confluxes of two eternities for every man? : Line of Influences from all the past and stretching onward into all the f iture do Intersect them.--Caxlyl. 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