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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1914)
T h e Observer BOTH W ERE STUBBORN. » iiin n » iiiii)M > im « w » ; A GIRL GENERAL MORO. OREGON. F R ID A Y .......... January 30, 1913 She Displayed M ilitary Gan lu» U nconsciously The Rapid Reader’s Review of Recent Reports Rewritten R? .ÇLAILI5SA MACKIB By TIMOTHY L. DODGE f i l i n i i m u i 11 U H “ It ’s all very well to educate a mau in the science of war,” said the old veteran, “but If ha hasn’t got the Portland baa a population of about faculties in him that go to make a polnt I came to a river. I crossed It rich 143J27, according to figures presented leader bla education won't do him by a ford and had ridden another mile the by Commissioner Dleck. any good. We bad a lot of book gen when I struck a crossroad by which long The Oregon State Hardware Men’» erals In the w ar between the states, I intended to proceed eastward and orcli assoolatlon met In Portland for a four and we had some bora generals. The then northward. 1 had just turned tree days’ session beginning Tuesday. former did a lot of harm, and the latter I when 1 heard a voice behind me Waa calling on me to throw up my hands. «mN Dust Man os, a Greek, who killed -w e ll, the latter did a lot of harm to I did so at once, and three Confederate Wltl B ill Karahallos, a fallow countryman, the enemy. * _ , - cavalrymen in charge of a corporal 0TC] at Philomath, was arrested near Cor “Too wouldn’t expect to find m ilitary took me In. , ,‘brld vallis. talents In a woman, would you? Well, “ A fter questioning ma they decided jjUri The milk and cream teats being con I spent four year« under generals of that I was the man they were look- q , ducted In various rural schools of all kinds, and the genius for war that lng for and started with me for the to c Polk county have proven to be helpful came most particularly under my ob camp of th e force to which they be- to the dairy Industry of the county. servation was displayed by a girl. longed. wkl "The road struck the river nt the ford T “In the spring o f 1862, when tbs army Thomas B. Kay. state treasurer, has announced his candidacy for rweleo- I was with was at Shelbyville, Tenn., and we started In to cross it single my captain told mo that there was a file. Two of my captors preceded and mo, u rn,,m « m i n i headauartera fo r two followed me. There was a ledge just below the ford which my girl ln ( im<i cautioned me against calling a y j( attention to the fact that the running we< w ater would deceive me na to the rlr< i direction I needed to take. Bhe told Or g me that If I didn’t keep well upstream Q I would go over the ledge Into deep water. t»Qt a bill In congress authorising m u iu io - “I soon saw that the first man In a(M mah county and Clarke county, W ash., line, the corporal. was beading too far to construct an Interstate b rid g e downstream. When he ranched the mfl across the Columbia river at Vancou middle of the river be went over the ver. ' » 1 ledge and I saw him no more. The Senator Chamberlain has referred next man was frightened, bnt beaded his horse farther upstream. I wished M r to the house committee various pro I could go over the ledge and be tests by salmon packers against Rep drowned, to save myself from a hang resentative L afferty’s hill, requiring lng. I was turning my horse In that the data of the pack to bo placed on direction when the man next In my j the cans. rear, who had come up beside me, p Farmers are finding good use for seized my bridle rein. the oyster sheila being dug out of the “When I was looking him ln the face I I saw a round hole appear In bla fore channel by the government dredger at work at Coos Boy. A large bed of ] head. He fell from his horse and was the shells has been struck and the swept away with the current He had been shot but who had shot him was sheila are exoellent for a fertilizer. a mystery. I glanced to the opposite In view of the protests by north bank and saw a little cloud of smoke. * western apple growers and shippers I b u t no one who bad fired a^shot against the McKellar cold storage bill “Tw o of the four men’ were now J Congreasman McKellar Informed Rep I eliminated. The man behind me was resentative SInnott that his hill a brave fe llo w .. He spurred forward I not Intended to apply to fruit. and, drawing his revolver, ordered me A law, and order league, having for to proceed. Bnt we hadn’t gone six Its object “the enforcement of all laws yards before I beard a crack, and at I the same time my man fall from his t. of city, county and state, and especial saddle. Where be was hit 1 did not ly those pertaining to gambling and know, but If be wasn’t killed he was Im morality.” has been organtoed to I I doubtless drowned. Bend. ~ _ “T u rning my heed, 1 saw the fourth SO US BBroBB.” Logging operators to Coos county ua and come back with the In fo rm s-1 man urging his horse as fast as be their landings clear and 11,000,- could through the rapid current toward I I waa a private to those,day a 000 feet of logs have come out on tho tkm the southern shorp. H e had evidently and anxious to do something by which I high water to the last few daya Ona bad enough of trying to run me into I might gain promotion. I thought jam of 3,000,000 (oat occurred la the camp and was trying to save himself , that If I gained the Information to South Coos river, hut they were re- enable the general to carry out any 1 from the Invisible marksman. “I waa now free as a bird, and it - plans ha might have I could count on James E. Godfrey, of Salem, has hla Influence. Bo I volunteered and didn’t taka long for me to gather my faculties sufficiently to understand that boon appointed Income tax agent to waa ordered to import at headquarters some one had saved me from my cap the Internal revenue service on rec The general questioned me, and evi ommendation of Collector M illar and dently making np hla mind to try ma tors, though 1 was not quits sure but that I would be the next victim. How Bnnr*—nr Chamberlain and Lane. Hto told ma to scout aouthward and learn ever, I lost no time ln pushing forward oompenaation w ill he |7 per day and •o far aa I could Just what Confeder I to the northern aide of the river, and I ate forces were between him and the 34 per day to lieu of »ubalatence my horse carried me np the steep as- I W ith a declaration against It by At- Tennessee river. He was Intending cent on to the bank. There I looked to make a forced march with a view to about ma and at the base o f a tree saw J toraey-General Crawford, all members cutting a railroad. Ha left me free to of the state desert land hoard, with go to uniform or ln citizen’s dreea, as 1 a girl lying on the ground, with a rifle the exception of Secretary of State pleased. I concluded that I could get beside her. 1 spurred toward her, dis Olcott, have gone on record against farther south and learn more by aa- mounted and recognised the girl I bad Governor W est’s plan of Irrigating i sumlng to ba’ a southerner, so I chose left not an hour before. “She was in a dead faint, but I pick- i public lands by state and federal co to go to citizen’s dress. I ed her up and kissed her back to con- I “1 confess 1 didn’t like the proepect operation. I aclousness. The good roads convention held at I I “Bhe had seen me captured and my j Independence declared for the Pacific I I captors start for the river. Her mill- 1 Highway being built on the west side I I tary eye had taken ln the situation at < of the W illam ette river, or for twa I I once. Running home, she had got a i highway. If neceaeary. It also want on reoord to favor of constructing per manent hard surface highways on all main traveled roads ln Polk county to connect with the Pacific Highway on | the north and south. la John Lytia, under arrest to Grand Island. Neb., tor criminal as sault upon a young girl, which ho has oonfeeeed. Detective Sergeants Day and Hyde, of the Portland police, be hove that they have at last caught the murder of five-year-old Barbara Holsman and cleared up a mystery which has baffled the police since March, l f il l. W ith a capital stock of 3441. the Cor vallis Cannery, operated by the Ben ton County Growers' Association, did a 335,006 bualaeea ln 1313. The can nery peeked 17,340 caeca of fruits and I I I I rifle, and returning lay ln concealment < with a view to attacking tbs enemy while crossing the stream. Seeing the leader heading too fa r down, she bad waited till be fell over the ledge; then. I racing advantage of the confusion, she I had opened Are. I “There are many Instances In history I where generals have seised upon Just I such a moment to rout an enemy, but I thia la the only affair of the kind that I came under my own personal observa tion. Besides. It saved my life. “1 got the girl back to her bouse and I I then pushed my horse to his utmost ‘ I to place as many miles as possible be- f I tween me and that region. Fortunate- I I ly I eluded those on the watch for me I I and got my Information ln to the gen ’ I eral. He commended me highly for I my work and recommended me to the » | governor of my state for a commla 1 I »Ion.” 1 “W hat became of the g irl7” asked I I one of the listeners. I I “Our force advanced as soon as I get 1 J to camp, and I saw her again frequent- i I ly. A fter the war I went down there R I and married her.” 11 p I Alum inium W e’de. r I The soundness of an aluminium weld t I saay ba tested xln water I f bubbles o I accumulate on the surface within for- d I ty-etght hours the mend Is defective. • I ........... * Fait and Fash ¡enable. ie | According to the Moorish Idea of [>.1 beauty, the chief charm <rf a beautiful d (woman la that aha can only waddle, not walk. The fatter aha la the more ■k I beautiful aha la considered. I f she can r-1 attain two or three hundred pounds of ig flash aha la the envy of all her aex. r- The Moorish s h a p e -lf shape It can m be called—approaches the perfection of st feminine beauty when It rueemblee, or j . rather exceeds, the circumference ef • *• »- In ’W w. mb tin on «• in« tar W het a paradise for the fa t woman 1 There she can sat and drink and feast to bar heart’s content denying herself nothing, living an easy, indolent luxuri- ous life, w ith no horror of accumulat ing fat. but rather rejoicing ln I t There the ambition of a woman la to acquire bulk. Physical culture she would regard aa an enemy to beauty, and to take Turkish baths and diet herself would be considered the height of tolly. Bbe wants to be beautiful, and to bn beautiful aha meet ba f a t - SIEGES OF. PERONNE. he dropped Into the river tfee monster1» tall con Id catch him ere he fell, and L o t. ef Good W ill Fewer Wee Wasted falling In that, the deadly water ser They Wen For the Town the Creee «* la Mere Obetinaoy.j ' the Lsgien ef Henar. pen to would put him out of existence. • How much perfectly good, service The town of Herouue, not fa r from Already the body moved nluggisbly. able w ill power people waste In mere bnt bis faxclnuted eyes did not leave Amiens, has bad the distinction of ton obetineey! Martha Malone, after work the bldeon* head among the orchids. ing decorated with the Legion of Ho» ing three years for Mrs. Bixby, ap The flat eyes regarded him with cold or and can place the croas so mucs peared one moraine at Mrs. Wilson’s «ought after by every Frenchman w hatred: the ugly mouth grinned. back door and applied for a place. He hoard the distant shouts of his Its coat of arms and on its seal. “W hy,” said the surprised Mrs. W it- Peronne has two memorable sieges Indians. Even if they bad come to son, “I thought yon were waking foe to Its credit, the first In 1536 and the him .they could not help him. Mrs. Bixby!” His flirt dow n w ard movement would other during the Franco-Prussian war. “I was, mom. Bnt I’ve quit” During tbs siege of 1536 Estournel. he the signal for the beginning of the “Is that ao?” Mrs. Wilson could act end. : ___ J . __ governor of the town, held out for conceal her surprise. -**1 thought yon He closed hl* eyes and prayed. Me lilted her." th<r:gl»t of his mother sod of Alice ‘*T-dried I do, mum.” Blake, the girl he was' to marry. “And I'm ears she liked yon.” ■Hl« grip loosened on the twisted “ I believe she did, mom. Leastwise vine, so dreadfuHy Imbued with life; she always seemed to.” • hto feet, «lipped. • “WeU"— Mrs. Wilson was still won The vine moved. dering what the trouble bad been. H e looked up and saw that the ugly “W ell,” said, Martha, seeing that head was lowered. some explanation was expected, "yon . Again he slipped down and again see, it was like this, mom. I always tba vine moved. pot the bine china plates on the right Cold sweat broke out on bla body and band side of the cupboard, end this bla face dripped. morning the missus comew along end Now bo bent bla body and looked moves ’em and says, ‘Martha, every down at the tall of the serpent It mornln’ for three years you’ve pot the bad loosened from the vine and waa pistes on the wrong side and I've had moving to and fro like the pendulum to come along and move them, and I of a dock. I can't stand It any longer.' Death above and death below! Well, “ And.” said Martha, “I says to her, ba would die fighting. ‘Mrs. Bixby, every mornln’ for three H is hand found his revolver, and year« Fve put them plates la the right ha wriggled around until be could see place and you’ve come and moved the head again. them, and then 1 had to come along FIRST IROQUOIS TREATY, I t had flattened Itself among tho or and move them back, and I can’t stand chids and was regarding him coldly It any longer either.’ as before. H e would w ait until It lift It W as Made Between ths Indians “And so I quit" — Youth’« Compan ed again, and when Its throat was and English In 1M4* • ion. presented to view he would try to The first treaty between the English blow the head off. I t would ha diffi and the Iroquois was made on Sept. Cough Medtolue tor Child»"- 1 cult at that distance with a single 24, 1664. and ushered ln a friendship gw . ,«MU • ■hot, and the death agonies of tho rep that continued for more than a cen J tile might involve bla own death. tury. The Iroquois had been alternate Gooden closed his eyes again and | ly at w ar and peace for sixty years, muttered a prayer es the strongest and the English found their dusky si men do In momenta of danger. The llas valuable In the war w ith the bend was lifting again and resumed Its French for Nortth American suprem swaying movement. Higher, higher It I acy. went, until the mottled throat waa ra The treaty with the Iroquois was one of the first official acts of tho English ven led. | Spat! governor, who earlier ln the aame 1 W h y T h s ir Clothes Didn’t F i t The bullet went over Its bead. His month had taken over the Dutch poe- The late Admiral Robley D. Bvnng arm waa unsteady; he must try again. i neeslnns and changad the aame of New during hto visit to Japan waa received Again he raised the automatic revolver, I Amsterdam to New York and that of by Mutonhlto and bla empress at a and again It sounded on the heavy Jun 1 I Fort Orange to Albany. In 160« and court ceremony. In speaking of the again three year» later the French In Japanese court be said: gla air. “Hand klmtlng was not the thing. In vaded the Iroquois country, and the ■ The head of the reptile wagged vio redskins lost half of their warriors. stead. I received a handshake from a lently sad all outlines were lost aa the In 1713 tho French gave up all claim very shapely and beautiful band. I bullet found Ito mark. The great body to the Iroquois, and peace reigned for found the empress a woman of great trembled violently, the toll lashed to a tima, but ln 1756 ths warriors Joined refinement nndyParfect eaae of man and fro, and the vine slipped down the English In the war for the conquest ner. ao delicate in appearance and so small to stature as to remind you of ward.’ . of Canada. Charles Ooodell slipped down, his W hen the Am erican Revolution broke I some fine piece of Dresden china. She I eyes ever on the horrid specter of the out the Iroquois adhered to the crown. was attired to a Paris gown of helio I descending head. I the conclusion of the w ar most of trope brocade, the bad fit of which 1 Ones b> <1 rbc ©<1 below bd O tost the Iroquois took refuge ln C a n a d a - aecouuted for Just as I accounted for the t>aggy trousers of the emperor. I the tall waa lashing the water. He Philadelphia Ledger. A fter I bad been a year ln Japan I took courage and slipped farther do« n waa Mttotied it waa owing to the fact that n tnllor would not permit himself I to touch the persona o f their mnjeetles, Three feet above the nver uans ™ I bnt J»«t looked at them and guessed could stand the horror no loufbr. and wbat the measurements should be ” he dropped, clutching at a young green vine that swung harmlessly near. The green vine held and broke hla fa ll H e swung violently to and fro, and when a favorable opportunity pre- f seated itself he leqaened kto bold and fell upon the ground close beside hto heap of specimen eases. T h en he fa in t ( •fi away for the first time In hla advan-1 turoua Ufa. *, i’ , (i He recovered consciousness almost l ( immediately, for the shots had b ro u g h t , back hto frightened Indians, and they gathered about him with scared looks 1, and pointing fingers. (* Long Lived Spaniards. Though the average age o f Spaniards la among the lowest to Europe—th irty - tw o years and four months, against fifty years to Sweden and N o rw ay— yet Rpalu remains the land o f hundred- year-old people. South of the Blerra M orena there are fifty to slzty a hundred years old to every million Inhabitants. In M a laga am i other parts of Andalnqto 100 hundred-year-old» are reckoned to every million Inhabitant*. And when a 8panlurd once attains th at age he uRuafiy bang* on to life for ten to fif teen yeurx longer. ♦ One o f the famous long lived men o f Spain wax Dr. M anuel Barca, who lla« He took out hto emergency flask and restored to a measure hto shattered nerves. Ha sent them to the river to look at the dead carcase of the boa constrictor, but always they came back nnd gazed at him as though upon a Youth’s Companion. at Seville, having 121 years to ma spirit from another world. credit, according to the cbnrch ree- . Catohing a Bride. Looking at bla watch, he found that ord. H e U f t 300 descendants.—Boston Among certain Siberians the Bride j three hoars had passed since he- hnd ’ (•oat. climbed the twisted vine. It had seem groom la not permitted to have a wife ed like fifteen minutes. No wonder he until he can catch her. Bnt they do D anger* o f a Cold. I felt like an old man under the conaum- not give him a fa ir race to the open. Do you know that of all the minor all- I lng fear of those three horrible hours. The bride, surrounded by her female meat» oold» »re by tor the mort dangerouef The continued wonder of hto guides friends, awaits him in a big te n t Aa It is not the eolda themselves that yon need excited hto impatience, and he drew soon as zhe sees him she runs off. to tear, bnt the eerioai diseame that they no I out a pocket m irror and looked at^blm-1 He follows like Hlppomenee after Ata- often lead to. For that reaeon every cold be gotten rid of with the least pos lanta. But Instead of obstacles being •hould I sible delay. To aooomnlbh thto you will thrown In the way of the bride they Hto face ¡»eered at him pale and hag find Chamberlain’» Cough Remedy of great gard. Hto abundant hair was white are thrown across the path of the help to you. I t loosen» a cold, relieves the bridegroom. The pursuing groom falls longs, aid» expectoration and enable» the I aa snow. ayrtem to throw off the cold. For aale by The wondering Indiana now climbed over old women, chairs, tables, stones and fishing rods or to tripped up by all dealers.— Advertisement. the tree without protest and the mauve , ropes. Only when it to feared be orchids which had blanched Goodell’s Bc'.h V/ant Under. might give np and sulk and go away , hair to obtain were packed away In without the fleeting lady to he permit I “1 was once a prosperous merchant, ’ the specimen cases, and the little expe w ith a good business and aeroplane,” ted to overtake her. Then as abe falls dition turned down the river. , Into hto outstretched arms It may be explained the tram p. Many weeks later Charles Goodell Imagined she utters some equivalent “W hat happened?" asked the woman appeared to Philadelphia and delivered “I ran them both Into the ground, •f “This to so sudden!” , Ms consignment of valuable orchid» to mum.”—Buffalo Express. hto employer. But the case of mauve One I orchids came last Ne Proofs Needed. Frederick Townsend Martin, w riter J “H ow about these?” demanded Mr. Penley—I ’ve written a new novel and social leader, waa asked at a din Clay eagerly. ner ln New York If be could account Come op to my apartment, and I ’ll ■ I “Those,” said Goodall slowly, “are for the enormous number of bachelors. show you the proofs. I the price of my nerve and a portion of Mr. Martin stroked hto mustache and Friend—Proofs! Why, old chap, I , my youth. I shall never hunt another don’t doubt your word ln the least— smiled. , _ 1 orchid. Mr. Clay. The price of the "Well,” , he said thoughtfully, “a Boston Transcript bachelor, yon know, la a man who nev- “1 w ill pay I t ” «aid the rich man er has to answer questions that be quickly, “nnd afterward yon may tell doom’t want to answer.”—Washington me the reason why you value them ao Star. highly.” So Charles Ooodell told him the sto Embarrassing. ry of the twisted vibe aa I have told It “Mamma,” said Mary, eight years old, T m glad I ’m not a bey.” to you ______________ _ “W bat makes you feel that way?” Old T im e Doctors’ Fees. ■aid mamme. Army doctors* fees In the seventeenth “Well, I think if I were a boy it Globular Lightning. century In Europe were rather modest | would be so embarrassing to propose,” According to Professor W . M- Thorn, Daring the civil war. tor Instance, the the replied.—Indianapolis News. ion of Armstrong college, globular physician general of Cromwell’s army lightning descends slowly from a | received 10 shillings a day. the apothe Pees i mist io. elond, generally after a violent clap of cary general 6s. 9d., the chlrurgeon “I suppose your bqby sister cries thunder. In the form of a brilliant general 4 shillings and hto two assist bluish ball, it bounds from the enrth ants half a crewn each day. Then some, don’t she?” “Cries! Why, she Just seems to look when it touches and then moves off a came the inevitable economist, whose on the dark side of things all the few yards horizontally. These balls depda C. H Firth summarised thus in tlme ”-Philadeiph!a Record, readily follow an electric conductor— a Oornhtll article of March. 1901: “In & gas pips, for Instance — and burst 1«B1 the surgeon’s, pay rose to 6 shil Many a great effort In life owes its when they touch water or sometimes lings a day; In 1666 It waa fixed at 5 shillings, and the economists cut off final success to the sound of a faint In the^opeu air. The ball then disap I on* of hto mates, in 1657 bis pay yaa cheer. pears Instantaneously with a violent 1 again reduced to 4 shillings a day. explosion, which may do damage and J Monck considered the sum ao Insuffl- which produces a strong smell of Vague. | dent thnt (In 165» lie ordered the aur- “My husband to really very atten oaone. .. 7 I geon* to be entered «* private« on the tive. Yesterday ba bought ma a dosen Thornton believes with reason that I msyrer roll o f their regiments In order velto.”-M eggendorfer Blatter. globular lightning to made up princi I to give them sn mid tlousl ulnepence pally of’ a mass of ozone. Thto hy- I s dav “ -T.m:** »H Stttiid trd I potheeto explains why the color of the m oveneoe and C onstip ation O w e d . ball to usually bluish, why the lumi If yon a n ever troubled with hlliousne« nous mass descends slowly through thé Easy. tconstipation yon will be interested in ths air, ozone being of a density about 1.7 Clergyman (visiting prison!—I bo;u »(«ment of R. F. Erwin, Psni, Ind. . A that when you are released you will on* ago last winter I had an attack of Indi- times that of air. and finally Why the live ao that yon can look your fellow ■tioa followed by hiliousneas and constipe- Instantaneous disappearance of the ball to accompanied by an explosion, man straight la the eyes. The Bunco for the transformation of oaone Into Man—That to the almplaat part of my oxygen literal«« « grant qnanOtjr « ■ r
