miy t tr ma anted desperately.
I he
O b s e rv e r
MORO. OREGON.
Happen Inga That Foretell Comlnfl Good
FRIDAY................ June 11,1920
Fortuna Are Worth Keeping
In tha Memory.
SI .50 pe;
«ear 75 cent, for six m onth*. 5« cent. Io
tour m o n th .-b u t i f nsid in -dvance w<
accept $2.50 io full ‘or 2 y e a r..
Shorter
te rm , than one year 12% cent, per month
A Blue M a rk here w ill an.w er an in-
query, when entered upon our calendar,
¿¡ring »he ¿ate of the oanar • • he ¿«te *
w ch y
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JOY’S CO M ING
We must all have noticed how many
unlucky omens there are, and how few
signs that foretell gbod fortune. It
has been well explained that we need
to be prepared for bad luck, but that
good fortune does not require to be
guarded against.
All the same, It would certainly add
to the cheerfulness of life In general If
lucky omena were more widely known,
says London Answers. How much
brighter things look to us If we have
reason to hope that something good la
coming to ua I
Everybody, of course, knows that It
la lucky to pick up a bit of Iron or
coal. So It Is to pick up a pin If Its
head Is toward you; if not, let It 1*«! •
It Is, of course, a sign of good for
tune to put on some garment Inside
out. but only if Jt Is done by accident,
and the garment is allowed to remain
reversed during the day. William the
Conqueror put on his moil-shirt hack
to front on the morning of the battle
mf H astlnga>m d we ajl know what
fuck he had on that occasion 1
If you find your keys or other steel
articles rusting, do not he annoyed
abotn tt; It only shows that somebody
is putting money by for you.
It is lucky to be followed home by
a fctrny dog. Still better It is If a
strange cat comes to stay at the house.
Speaking of cats, pessimists, of course,
assert that, when they tear the furni
ture with their claws, It Is a sign of
rain ; hut others hold that they are
‘‘scratching luck" to their masters.
»
Í
"Why, yei,*’ Maid the man thought
fully. “Thera la a party who might
conflder It. Ha has talked about buy
ing It, but. Ilka your father, I Imagine,
thinks the market la not very active
nnd that there Is no great hurry."
"Oh, If only you could sell It to him
first I” cried Christine. " I hardly dare
By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD
suggest it, but for mother’s sake— and
for his. too, I would be glad to do any
thing to prevent their plana 1”
«£). 111#, by M oC iur« N e w s p a p e r S y n d ic a te .»
"I understand,” said Barry Nichol
son,
sympathetically. “And I ’ll tell
“Yes, we aim to go the first week
In May," said Mother Burgess, smooth you whaj I can do. I ’ll call up thia
nnd tell him there’s another bid
ing her starched white apron with man
der for the boat That w ill hurry up
wrinkled hunds.
his decision. I f he decides In favor,
Christine, home for the Christmas
holidays, regarded her mother Tlth you can tell your father It Is sold.
How about my coming up tonight and
consternation.
“I don’t believe it,
giving you the results?" he asked
mother," she declared. "Of cotvse.
eagerly. Pretty, browa-eyed girls with
•11 my life 1 havg heurd father say
dlhat when we children were grown lilting voices did not kuppen In his
,
up he was going to sen ngntn, but 1 office very often.
Mother and the
Solomon Islands
.
...
Many There Are Who May Be Unat
tractive, but Not a Lot Defin-
/
Italy Ill-Looking.
H EM # NEWS NOTES
OF GEiERAIJNTEREST
The department of teolocF’of the
VaJveraltY of Oregon announces that It
will establish a field camp In the
vicinity of Oold Hill about June 10,
and expects to make detail maps of a
region lying eant of Oold Hill, nnd
will investigate various local geologic
Principal Events of the' Week problems.
* .
Filing on the a
grant lands
Briefly Sketched for Infor
continues brisk at the U. 8. land office
mation of Our Readers.
In Roseburg. ▲ large part of the land
was filed on before May 14. but the
Robert Florer, 68, committed suicide remainder la being Inspected by •
In Baker by shooting off the entire top great many ex-soldiers each week and
the majority ef them are taking np
jf his head.
Looking for beauty In the faces and
forms passed on the street Is such a
fixed habit with people In general that
It was a bit startling to hear o f a man
In London who was looking for some
one ugly—the ugliest female, In fact,
that he could find. This mnn was an
American theatrical man and he de
sired the ugliest womln to contrast
her In a production with a girl said
to be beautiful.
The Lane County Holstein Breeders homesteads..
The state forestry department decid
The showman found his ugliest association was organized at a m eet
ed definitely to go before the emerk
Ivoman after looking over eight con ing In Eugene.
_
testa nts. The prize winning "clock-
ency board and ask for approximately
The state fire marshal will m ik e an
\-
stopper” was thirty-two years old and
$6000 to defray the coat of operating
6y MILDRED WHITE.
a music teacher. She entered the con Investigation of the recent fire at Ore the airplane forest fire patrol until
test because hei mother told her gon City, which destroyed property to such time aa Oregon’s share of the
“there would he no harm In 4p d n g.” tlie value of $76,000.
V’ic oc
pending government appropriation la
Aud Christine, after saying that she
(Cupyriabl 1.20. W ssisrn N ew sp aper Unt»«»>
Oregon Du roc-Jersey breeders from
On winning she at once Inslstiff! on
never thought It would actually bap-
available.
would expect him, walked home, won
taking a stage name, as she “did _f^ot all sections of Marion county gathered
pen.”
Big Torn stood gazing absent If
The state flab and game commission
dering why, all of a sudden, saying
want all the neighbors to know jb I iou I at Salem Saturday for the annual plc-
"Yes," continued her mother, “he’s
through the window of hla crude office
has offered a reward of $200 for the
“yes” to pleasant but elderly principals
It.” The runner-up In the contest, nic of the organization.
going to take his money out of the
In the wood. Hla mother had distin
seemed so out of the question.
arrest and conviction of persona plac
whose name was not given out, had
hunk this week ‘and buy the Mary
guished him by this name, from the
The public service commission has ing explosives In the rivers of Marion.
Next day Christine was able to seek • an unfortunate nose and an "out
Lee
that’s
down
by
the
dock
of
frail Tom, who was his father. Now
Increased from 10% to 25 per cent the Polk and Yam hill counties. I t la said
her father. “You’ve »hqard about the
size” In mouths.
Nicholson’s boat yard."
that both were gone, the falihful son
Mary Lee. dad?" she began tentatively.
rates of the Idaho Power company for that explosives have been planted in
•"But the Solomon Islands 1” groaned
uwakened bitterly to a sense of It's
The contest reallv whs of concern
No," said her father, concealed be
electric
service In Oregon.
the North Sagtlam r iv e t ncai S
own loneliness.
With the cheery
Christine. "Why does he luslst on
to the theatrical producer, but It
hind the local paper.
A force of 128 men la‘at work In the ton, with the result , that many fish
mother awaiting blip each evening In
going there?”
served to Impress upon Londoners In
"It’s sold!” sold Christine. ,
the neat cottage home, tills busy^ life
"Well, mostly,” answered Tier moth
general the old truth that few people, river bbttopiB of Lane and Linn coun- have been killed.
“Sold I” cried her father, laying
among rough lumbermen bad seemed
er, "because It’s about the only place
after all, are Yeallv u rly /iifo t every titB, cutting balm, or cottonwood, for
Tha Oregon Agricultural e xp erln rr*
d o wn his sheet and eyeing his guilty
neither profiTTeSTTfOr' drrtf. Big Tom
he’s never been.”
the manufacture of excelsior.
•
V
Individual looks good to some one.
aUtlon and the United States b u ra u
daughter over the top of his specta
dreaded poignantly his evenings. He
Moved by a sudden Impulse, the girl
Two people, who carfie upon the ad
The first forest fire of the season of soils working co-operatively are map-
wondered, If be might not arrange to
rose from her chair, went over to her cles, “sold?"
vertisement of the ugly contest, began In the north end of Jackson county bas»hnK the Rolls of Benton and ¿3acka
Yes,”
nodded
Christine.
"Will—
leave the work here, and go to a more
to amuse themselves In the genial way started In the timber qn the head of mas counties, work on the survey of
mother and placed two Htrong young
will It make any difference about your
companionable Held In the city. But
arms on the other’s thin shoulders
of human naturb by examining their
the W illamette valley having been re
Kane's creek, south of Oold 11111.
whom could he I rust to carry on his
“Tell me the truth, mother," she de trip?”
friends nnd acquaintances to discover
Her
father
wrinkled
his
brow.
"I
sumed.
It Is hoped to complete the
Seven
persons
were
Injured
and
prop
great Interests, which had grown to
manded fiercely. “Do you really want
which 6f them had the best claim to
suppose,”.he said slowly, "I could look
Benton county survey and start the
remarkable success? No, the life which
erty
valued
at
$30,000
destroyed
In
a
to go, or nre you doing It Just to please
the Job.
around for another boat.”
map of Polk before the, close of this
he bad been obliged to take up when
dad?"
To their (11 sap" ointment, says y fire that swept «Halfway, a mining
Christine’s
heart
sank.
bis father’s declining health made
For an Instant her mother looked
season.
town
37
nillea
southeast
of
Baker.
work no longer possible, must still be
But—“No, no I” her father was thun writer In the London Telegraph, they
Persons arriving In Salem from vari
nt her with eyes that were defiantly
Eight events will be contested in the
could not think of anybody, not even
the life which would hold his fretting
dering,
pounding his fist on Hie table.
stcadflnst; then, beneuth the girl’s
ous parts of Oregon have reported to
first
of
a
series
of
three
firemen’s
tour
their
pel
abomination,
who
was,
con
spirit. And as he gazed with somber NOT ALL INDULGE IN KISS determined gaze, her own glance “If I can’t have the Mary Lee I won’t
Governor Olcott that the gasoline sit
eyes through the opening between the
go at all. She w as the only boat In sidered Impartially, very ugly. Plain naments to be held by the departments
wavered and fell.
ustión is aerlous. In the southern
people—oh,
yes,
hosts
of
them;
dis
of Albany, Corvallis aud Lebanon.
trees, he beheld au unbelievable th in g, Many People Know Nothing of Oscu
"Christine,’’ she said, "I dread the these parts for such a trip. But," he
part of the state the supply haa been
agreeable-looking
people—quite
a
lo
t
;
lation, a t Least a r Masculine
‘81xteen
cows
registered
In
the
Smith-
a girl’s figure advancing rapidly to
thought of It. I knAw I’ll be seasick lowered his voice, “your poor mother.
silly-looking people—any amount; hut Umpqua cow testing association pro entirely exhausted, according to re
Form of Greeting.
I’m
sorry
for
her.
It
will
break
her
ward him.
and I’m scared to death of the snv
people definitely and conspicuously
The girl, dropping her suit case be
duced more than 40 poudds of butter ports reaching the governor, while In
ages, and I don’t want to leave my heart.” -------:--------------------
The
kiss,
which
nppeara
constantly
eastern Oregon, »tractors have been
A week later Barry persuaded Chris ugly—not one.
fore the office door, and sounding «
fat each during the- month.of March.
home and my white Wynndottes, nnd
In Semitic nnd Aryan antiquity, as In
tine
that,
knowing
each
other
as
they
tentative knock answereddhe question
Marshfield’s armory, built with local, compelled to cease operations because
the quilt I’m tuuklng-for the county
To Tom’s astonished stare, she gave the Book of Genesis, “The Odyssey,” fair and
had for years, they were foolish to VANISHED WITH THE BUFFALO county and Btate funds, was dedicated of the shortage of fuel.
and In Herodltus’ description of the
a wistful smile. “If ydu please,
What Is said to b? the largest single
"I understand,” said Christine waste any more time In becoming en
Friday with a grand military ball given
asked the wonder-girl, “will you direct Persians of hfs time kissing one an soothingly. "Won’t you let me explain gaged. And, oddly enough, Christine Few L e ft of the Pronghorn Antelope,
deal
In eastern Oregon range land,
by the second company, Coast Artillery
me to a hotel—or boarding house?’ other, and which la »till prevailing to father?"
agreed with him absolutely. And as a
where tha».purchase was xnade by a
T h a t Once Roamed the Plains in
The
20th
annual
convention
of
the
she added at his evident glance of even among men In France and the
"Don’t yon say a word to hlin, not prospective member of the family, she
Vast Numbers,
Qfregon Federation of Women’s clubs single stockman, was consummated last
dismay. "I left the train at the last Slavic countries, relates a writer In a word!" Insisted her mother. "Why confided to him a secret she had had
the
Louisville
Courler-Jçumal,
seema
closed at Enterprise, after one of the week when R. N. Stanfield purchased
atop, and have walked, searching upon
I should be so ashamed to have him locked In her heart.
Next to the buffalo, the rtiost nu
my way. The place Is less populated to he unknown over the entire world, know I was afraid. Ever since hi
"Barry, dear," she whispered, "1 merous animal In th$ United Slates most delightful gatherings of Its his for the Malheur Land A Livestock com
pany 80 sections In Harney . county
where the prevailing salute Is that of
don’t think that I would ever have not more than 50 years ago was the tory.
than V thought.”
luul to give up going when you chll
“Come In,” said Big Tom, cordially. snuffing or smelling which belongs to dren were horn, he plqnned to tpke dared block father’s plans If I hadn’t pronghorn antelope. About half the
The annual Union livestock show is from the Western Colonization com
Before this girl’s diffidence his self- the Polynesians, Malaya, Burmese and
this trip, and It would simply break had a feeling that he was aching for size of a deer, hut a hit irfore com- pronounced the best one ever held In pany. The price was understood to
other Chinese, Mongols, etc., extending
consciousness vanished.
an excuse to get out of It all. Things
•anged the plnlus f from 1 union county. A feature was a dally be in the neighborhood of $160.000.
his heart to give It up. Promise!"
pactly built, It ranged
“Why did you cotue?" Tom asked thence eastward to’ the Eskimo and
Taxcg estim ated at $5,878,587 IR.
Christine did so reluctantly. Not that you plan when you’re young and the Missouri river westward to the
panje between Boise and Spokane
westward to Lapland, where Lynnaeus
energetic may lose their charm when
based on the prospective property valu;
abruptly.
until
bedtime,
in
the
quiet
of
the
low-
Pacific
In
places.
.lea ma.
The girl’s crystal clear eyes met saw relatives sa lu png by putting their eaved room which had been lierk since you get old. Airtway, he would never
Antelopes were dry-country animals,
When the various u!tlts of the Ore •tlo n s of the state for the year 1920,
have
given
In
himself.
He’s
full
of
ills frankly. “I came to hide away noses together.
childhood, did she turn from contem
and
were
always
found
wherever
gon National Guard are recruited to will be due and payable In the year
Among the mnnners and customs of
from a man,” she replied, “and I left
plation of her mother’s problem to stubborn pride, If he Is a perfectly
sagebrush,
bunch
grass
and
the
short,
their full strength there will be dls- 1921, as the result of the passage of
the train at the most Isolated spot I the French allies In France, which
consideration of her own. She bad dear parent But between us we gave curly buffalo grass existed. Their fa
most
American
soldiers
"over
there"
trlbqted annually $100,000 of federal the higher educational measure, ele
him
Just
the
proper
shred
o
f
an
ex
could lijpl. I hoped,"—Impatiently she
agreed, when she returned to the city,
vorite
range
was
the
plains
country
mentary school bill, blind Institution
.,1 the tears from her fringed saw for the first time, nothing prob to say “yes" or "no" to the middle* cuse 1"
brushed
' money.
act and soldiers', sailors’ and marinea*
And when they went to share their Just east of the Rocky mountains,
l^ls,—“to find work here. Stenogra ably seemed stranger to them than the aged principal of the school where she
On
Saturday
and
Sunday,
June.
19
where they migrated with the Reasons,
educational aid law, at the recent
happiness
they
found
the
old
people
practice
of
kissing
among
men.
phy perhaps, and support myself."
will he host to about 600 -----------------
taught—and she didn’t think she want “l t t l n ? ~ n t « ^ ^ ^
from A,berta t o JMeX,C° ’ and ? etWeen and 20, Salem enthusiasts,
representing special election In Oregon, according to
As for the custom of kissing men on
IWg Tom whistled. “Yon know your
ed to sny "yes." ;
the lid-cloth table—the captain plot- • the Rocky and the west coast ranges motorcycle
own business of course," he said, "hut both cheeks, that has come down from
But, on the other hand, neither did
from tha Big Bend of the Columbia In practically every motorcycle club In figures compiled.
According to the^report submitted by
don’t you think you’d better go back. the days when young Frefich noble she want to wjjtch the years creep ting his annual garden with the help Washington, southward to the Gulf the northwest
men, about to be knighted for some by, each one a little gayer, bringing of several of last year’s seed cats
the
arbitration com m ittee appointed
Surely there Is some other way—.”
Mexican
west
Lane
county
has
2367
farms,
of
which
valiant deed, spent 24 hours In soli with them no home of which she could logues, Ips w ife placidly placing h e » of Callfotgila and the
by the chamber of commerce to fix ,
“This Is the only way,” the girl an
1889
are
occupied
by
the
owners
and
tude aud prayer and then camd forth, he mistress, no little children to wash quilt.
/
the value of the various tracts In
•wared decidedly.
After the news had been told Capt. the plains animals, nnd had endurance 478 are rented, aocordlng to the sum
knelt, received the stroke of the sword
nnd dress, nnd, very, very occasionally,
for long-distance running, being well
"Jf It’s the only way," he said brisk
mary of assessm ents In the office of cluded In the site of the proposed naval
across their baoks Hnd were kissed by scold. After all, wasn’t a pleasant, Eric looked across the table. "Mother,"
able to take care of Itself when In dan
ly, "and you nre determined In It, why,
base at A sto rls this property will cost
the knight who was conferring cultured, elderly husband better than he said, "It looks as If the last of our
ger. ^Its meat Is not very attractive to the county assessor.
you may become my typist, tills min
the citizens o f . Astoria and Clatsop
knighthood. Napoleon, when he formed one room in n boarding house, meals children was being taken off our hands.
The
date
for
the
annual
encamp
the white man’s palate, being stringy,
ute, I’ll he almighty relieved to find
cou n ty $96,094.71. The chamber of
Now
when
we
want
to
go
to
the
Solo
thq Legion of Honor, eliminate^, many
tough and dry,'and having somewhat ment of the Wheeler County Pioneer commerce board of directors will call
one. Even In this wilderness I’m a busy
out?
mons,
there’ll
he
nothing
to
keep
us
of the old customs keeping the touch
During the next few days Christine
the tnste o f goat meat. Some are still association has been set for July 16-18
man. Anti there’s my mother’s cot
of the sword and the kiss.
managed several clints with her father. home. For we’re going some day,
found, but only In widely scattered at the Julia Henderson grounds, 13 a mass meeting of the people to sanc
tage. nil M ody for you to keep house
mother
and
I,"
he
assured
the
young
tion purchase of the property pending
And if at times It did seem that he
In. It will be plqpsnnt to think of
areas.
m lk s south of Fossil.
an election In November to Issue bonds
overemphasized the desirabilities of couple. “Mother Just eats adventure,
History of Brooklyn Bridge.
you there, sort of keeping things go
Representative
Hawley
has
nominat
don’t you, mother?"
•
Warning was given by the Lans
the
voyage
and
minimized
Its
draw
Brooklyn bridge, the first bridge to
ed three cadets to Annapolis naval acad
in g ”
Fishes Figure in Miracles.
And mother-nodded gayly.
county grand Jury before It adjourned
"And you?" nsketj the girl breath span the East river, Is over a mile In backs, Christine nt first accepted It
There are many legends phrallellng emy as follows: Wallace Walsh, New that future violations of the corrupt
all as merely the enthusiasm of a man
length and cost to date more than
lessly. “where will you be?”
Clarue.
the
Gospel story of Peter's finding the port: Geor.-e Winfield Scott, Yamhill, practices act in printing election 'ad
who
sees
about
to
he
accomplished
a
$25,OtX),000, estim ates the Automobile
“V/hy, right here," Mr. Tom, replied
Clarus
Is
one
of
the
comparatively
and Ralph E. Wilson, Salem.
piece
of money-In the fish’s mouth.
Blue Book. It has been numbered project anticipated for many long
vertisem ents In newspapers on the
•*I bunk here now half the time.”
new metals, or alloys, an amalgam of
A cJR-ner’s Jury at Corvallis haa de
St. Benno, bishop of Meissen, In Sax
years.
among
the
seven
wonders
of
the
world.
So the plan worked out like a happy
ony, on June 16, 1100. left his see nnd cided that Ludwig B. Elie, whose body morning of the election and of violar
True, she noticed n very decided aluminum. It Is made commercially
fairy tale, and the new arrangement Designed by John A. Roebling, this
In
Birmingham,
England.
One
claim
went to Rome to avoid the persecu was found hanging to a .tree on the-1 tlons of the act In other ways, which
shadow cross the rugged fuce when
of affairs ran smoothly, as affairs were masterpiece In engineering was started
for It Is thnt it Is 00 per cent stronger
tion of Emperor Henry IV nnd or Oregon Agricultural college campus It Is alleged took place In Eugene May
her
mother
asked
what
h
e
proposed
January,
1H70,
and
opened
to
traffic
trotH to run, with Big Tom’s planning
2i, will be prosecuted, but that be
than
aluminum,
while
Its
weight
la
dered thnt the keys of his cathedral hang«-d himself while Insane.
to
do-with
tin-
exiierlmental
stand
of
May, 1883. During t h e . preliminary
Tlie girl I . h ’ ? him call her “Joy:” "Be
but one-third that of brass. It will
cause of misapprehension of the law In
should be thrown Into th<\ sen when
alfalfa
in
the
field
next
to
the
wood
work
John
Roebling
met
his
death.
Audit
of
the
books
of
O.
P.
Hoff,
cause she had put her sorrows behWid
take
a
high
polish,
equal
to
that
which
Henry
was
excommunicated.
When
he
regard to printing advertisem ents no
lot.
Also,
when
she
remarked
ensu
His son, William A., took up the task
state treasurer, In the recent grand
her." she said-
returned he found the key« in a fish.
ally thnt for the first tUne In twenty may be obtained with sliver. ’ It has
Indictments for that offense were ra-
of
completion.
He
was
subsequently
His love for her grew to a sort of
St. Egwln, bishop of Worcester, on Jury Investigation of his office, cost turnad at this session.
years the county fair prize for thi the merit of- keeping Its luster, even
reverence. In Joy, was personified all seriously Injured by fire while In one
$3600,
according
to
figures
presented
best thoroughbred heifer would go to when exposed to the most trying at January 11, 720. wanted to punish him
The senate confirmed the following
the beauty and truth and purity of of the caissons and became an Invalid.
Unlike many
self for his worldly life when n youth to the state emergency board..
somebody else than Captain Eric Bur mospheric conditions.
In
compliance
with
his
wish
he
was
Oregon postmasters: Oscar Kendall,
the hook women whom Tom had wor
metals It Is not brittle when cast and
With
the
exception
of
a
short
stretch
and put fetters on his feet, throwing
ahipped; almost the only women stationed In a home on the heights of gess.
the key Into the sea. On hl«i way back of a few yards where a sharp turn Richland; Joseph Lyons, Reedsport;
“llave you nought the Mary Lee yet In that form It can he bent cold and,
Brooklyn,
from
which,
with
the
aid
of
that he had cared to know. And ev
moreover,
the
castings
are
sound
and
from Rome the seamen caught a huge was cut off, the pavement on the Pa Frank H. Lalghton, Seaside; James W.
dad?" she asked one morning.
ery day. little Joy, singing about her a telescope nnd the’ assistance of his
free, from blowholes. This alloy Is
fish, in whose Inner parts was the key. cific highway between Eugene and Dunn, St. Benedict; James A. Wat
••No—I
haven’t,”
said
her
father.
neat cottage, or over the books In the wife, he directed the work from his
said to he suitable for motorcars,
kins, Philomath; Walter L. Hembree,
which the saint considered n sign that Junction City has been completed.
"But
I
don’t
Xtllnk
there’s
any
great
Cabin office, grew more an d Pmore Into window until the last riv^t was driven,
electric railroad and airplane trim
McMinnville; Homer S. Wood, Inde
his penance was »bridged nnd there
hurry.”
After
four
days
and
nights
chiefly
the very spirit of her name. It was
fore he released himself.
pendence; W illiam P. Qulnland, Grants
“Mr. Nicholson owns It?” asked mings.
chiefly given over the transaction of
Canin» Curiosity.
then that Rawlings of the city end of
Paas; Robert P. Wlrtz, Forest Grove;
Christine.
business of the organization, the Ore
•the business came out to the forests
The curiosity of th e dog Is pro
Haw She Hsard.
"Yes," replied the captain.-
Cheater Noland, Creswell; ’Katherine
Soap Bubbles Puzzle Dog.
to consult personally with Tom Here nounced If observed for a few min
gon
State
Grange
concluded
Its
47th
Mrs. Fluthush—I am -certainly very
Christine remembered Mr. Nichol
v«u*.
a - ,,
ford. And when Rawlings faced Tom’a utes. It Is quick to notice a strange
A humorous happening Is to get n
son very well—a kindly old man. And glad to meet you. I have heard so
Leneve, Coquille; Warren A. Ileylman,
little stenographer he stammered In dog or person and the value of the
dog
to
chase
soap
bubbles.
He
will
he
George
T
Baldwin,
stale
senatoejun!
she remembered Ids son, too—a tall, much about you.
what he was saying and left the room watchdog comes from the fuct thnt
Mrs.
Bensonhurst—Oh,
Indeed I highly Interested if one Is placed on delega*e-elect to the democratic na Estacada; Fitzhugh O. -Lee, Junction
slim, young fellow with attractive eyes
(latently
perturbed.
Big
Tom’i i r wants to Investigate every tiolse.
the ftbor, nnd If the breeze forces It Jo tional convention, died at Klamath City.
Then
you
nre
the
woman
who
haa
who had graduated one class ahead
troubled eyes noted Joy’s sudden pal
move he will follow It, keeping a re
In answer to a protest of the Ameri
It Is very Interesting to watch a dog of her from the high school.
been stealing my servants from me!
Falls. He had been IU tea days. Death
lor, and when Rawlings had gone she when It meets a beetle. At first he
spectful d is ta n t, however, nt first.
can
Iseglon post at Klamath Falla,
That afternoon Christine wandered
came to him with > gesture of reslg
After several bubbles nre blown he was due to premie poisoning. He was Secretary John Barton Payne of the
seems to he shuttle afraid of the tiny
The New Competition.
down
by
the
river
to
look
at
the
Mary
nation. "I will have to leave you. Big creature, hut finally he can’t resist any
will gradually'draw closer, and jery 65 years of age.
Interior department, denied that the
"Competition Is the life of trade.
Lee. There she was, her gray hulk
The taxpayers of seven school dla
soon will touch hts nose to one of
Tom," she said wearily.
longer, so lie plucks up enough cour moored out beyond the rise and
government had contemplated leasing
“I suppose so," replied the weary-
them. Then Is when a genuine look triéis in the ’ western part of Lane
' '“Rawlings Is not the man you are age to touch It with his paw. Then,
of the tide, her gaunt masts slllm^iet looklng woman. "You ought to have
of astonishment comes over his face county w ill-vote at the annual school 2<V>00 acre» of land on the Klamath
I hlin ; from?" he asked sharply.
realising that It has not hurt him, he
ted against the somber winter sky seen the competition I got Into to
as the bubble vanishes and perhaps he meeting In each district Juné 21 on reservation and 90.000 acres of land in
joy shook her head.- "He will send sm ells It and rolla It over and over Christine shuddered, picturing her day for'a chance to Wffv what I want
gets a tiny bit of soap In his eye? The the question of establishing a union Big Marsh to the California-Oregon
rhe other man to find me,” she told with hla nose. Then, ¿fter he has sat rheumatic father mid her frail old ed at the bargnln counter."
Power company. Secretary Payne In
dog
gives ample evidence of his per high school at Florence.
isfied his curiosity, he walks aw ty and
• •*
him.
mother careening over the billowing
hla letter, which waa aent to Senator
plexity whenever he sees anything that
leaves the beetle to go It» way If he
Suddenly, »he was sobbing.
George L. Burtt, the California pota
Pacific, hound for tropic Isles and
Sweet Thing.
jexcltes
his
curiosity,
for
who
of
us
has
Chamberlain, disclosed, however, that '
has
hot
put
It
out
of
commission
with
“You don’t understand, Tom dear,
to broket, has notified the Bend Com
coral-reefed lagoons. Such wnhderings
Mrs. Flatbush—How many lumps of
pot sf>en them pucker up their fore
a lease on 8620 acreT had been made -
the »trenuousne»» of the Investigation
she cried, “the man 1 ran away from
igere for the young and strong.
sugar shall I put Iqgyour coffee this
heads nnd sthre In a quizzical manner mercial club that no effort will be to the power company by former Seo-
was my promised husband.”
made
to
d
velop
lands
until
an
under
And yet she could not imagine her morning. Henry?
• t something they had not seen be
Instantly his arms released her, ac
Pennsylvania’s Blue Law».
father voluntarily turning hack, oncg
standing has been reached regarding rstary Lane.
Mr. Flatbush—Oh. have your own
fore ?
cusingly his eyes held hers.
Pennsylvania’» venerable blue law,
he had put his hand to Hr? plow. Onlj sweet way as usual, dear
the employment of Japanese.
“Listen." the girl went. on. "I wa
enacted April 22. 1794. and entitled
fate could alter his plan»—and she d *
The halibut banka o?f Yaqulna bay,
Beliefs Concerning 8a p ph I re.
Reason
for
8nake’a
Hissing.
for years seerdarv to n wen Mo v worn
"Alt act for the prevention of vice and
dded to play fnte.
discovered
In 1912, are now laden with
Spontaneous
Combustion.
To the sapphire has been ascribed
an who hocil mid trtv.Ld uiv. I’cior«
The
hissing
of
a
snake
Is
enused
by
Immorality and for Other good pur
Picking her way over tarry hnwsers
Becnuse the hollow fibers of-cotton
halibut. The fishing schooner Em Wicked thoughts; that It Is such an
she died. she begged me to marry her poses,” has survived
the long, sac-llke lung being Inflated
the assault»
and empty cAsks, she found her way are loaded with oxygen they hum with
enemy to poison that If put In a glass
only »on. that I might guard her for
with air, which is forcibly expelled pire, In charge of Captain Anderson,
of those who would destroy It. The
to the dlngy,pfflce with Its door let n quick flash. When you add to cot
lirrivfd nt Newport with 14,000 pounds with a spider or venomous reptile It
tune and convert him from reckless legislator» of 1704 regarded It as being
through
the
glottis
and
nostrils.
The
tered Nicholson*A Son. Not without ton. which Is already loaded with oxy
will kill It 8t. Jerome In his ex
ness In wisdom. I agreed, only when vastly m ore'wicked to shoot a rabbit
puff udder makes the loudest nnd most of fish following two days’ fishing.
hesitation she entered.
gen, oil, which Is also loaded with oxy
I thought that He loved me. He was on Sunday than to drink a hot toddy.
With a view of exterminating coyotes position of the nineteenth chapter of
prolonged
hlRS
of
any
snake.
When
At her entrance arose a tall young gen. the excess of 6xygen Is likely
wlnnltigly attractive in a young girl’s One offender was tagged with a fine
alarmed, snakes hiss with the object between the John Day and Deschutes Isaiah says that the sapphire procures
man with deep, attractive gray eyes.
sooner or Inter to make the cottou
eyes nod I also thought—Oh! Tom of $25, the other a shilling BTid a half.
of frightening off their enemies. • If I rlverB by formation of a trapping dla favor from princes, pacifies enemies,
Christine, tnken aback, could only burst Into flame: J l* t la bow spon
frees from enchantment and obtains
how could I ever have thought—that It was Impossible under a strict en
snakes were not able to make their , trJc( profeBSOr O. N. Nelson, In charge
I eared for him: we agreed before forcement of that la w -to operate a murmur: “I—expected to see your taneous combustion'occur» among oily
presence known they would be fre |
’
„heep department at Oregon releasq^from captivity. This gem was
of the sheep
father."
raga.—Youth’s Companion.
witnesses that we should he married canal boat, a railroad train, a street
quently trodden upon and Injured b> Agricultural college will visit Antelope sacred to Apollo and was worn when
“I have had the business for sev
Inquiring of the oracle at his shrine.
as soon as the requirements of the railway car, a cab or sell any commod
the various creatures of veldt, foresi
era! years now." explained the Other
It was esteemed a remedy against
June
10.
will were adjusted.
insist
on
Recognition.
•
and mountain.
.
ity from a loaf of bread to a package
Will H. Bennett, state superintendent fires.
pleasantly, then stretched forth his
1
The
best
Ideas
In
the
world
will
not
Dazedly Big Torn turned to answer of chewing gum.
• *
' ,
of hanks, was elected chairman of
band. "Why, Il's Christine Burgeasl’’ vork ihemselvea.’ 1 .Usunlly the best
the telephone. When he repla« ed the
The 8«y Bean.
the Itate Irrigation securities commis
receiver, he swung almut and held
liliur»
have
to
be
Impressed
upon
he
exclaimed.
Ths Alban Calendar.
The soy beau, almost since Its Intro
W arblers of A ll Kinds.
After a moment* of recalling rautunl
oiks. Tl»ore> apmethlag In human
out his arm».
In the ancient Alban calendar. In slon. Percy Cupper, state ‘engineer,
duction Into America, has been ex
Not taking Into account the human
inture
that
seems
willing
to
flgll
w
was
named
secretary
of
the
body.
At
acquaintances,
*T
have
come
on
a
pe
“Joy of my life.” cried Tom exultant
ploited at different times as "coffee
which « ye»\r wns represented ns con
beings who are sometimes referred to
ly. “yon don’t have to go back. You berry,” "coffee bean,” “new coffee culiar errand," confessed Christine ths nuns. OW of Ilfs much more readily sisting :of ten months of Irregular torney General Brown Is the third
as warblers, you will find th ^ there
In n ,1 tskea on life’s responsibilities,
"No doubt you know about the trip
•re not going hack, until you go, ns plant.* “domestic coffee berry." and
length, April stood first with 36 day» member of thescommlsslon.
are many kinds of warblers. 'I f y o u .
’»ill it what you will. The name you to Its credit. In the calendar of Rom
my wife. That was Rawlings; he "new domestic coffee berry.” For many my father Is planning.
Elimination of pleasure riding, or had a collection of them all together
He nodded his head gravely not gfr» it won’t alter the facts. So the ulus It had 30 days, while Numa's any unnecessary use of cars, and strict
called to say thnt the man yon ran yeurs (be aoy bean has been nsed to
they would take In about all the colors
thinking It necessary to add that every inly thing left Is to g*< under ,b* 1 . twelve-month calendar assigned Jt (<*
•w ay from Is married and already he a slight extent In Europe, «specially
consetvaVion of gasoWne are urged in of the rainbow, yellow, orange, cheat-
inil
carry
It
to
success.
You
must
not
person
within
a
radius
of
thlfty
miles
has taken steps to secure his moth
Switzerland, ns a substitute for coffee.
fourth place, with 29 d nyspam l so 9 a public statement Issued by Governor nut. black, white, green, gray, browp
or*» money.”
In Japan and southern Russia the doy knew of Captnln Eric’s contemplated get tlm l. Let others grow weary and remnlne<l until the reformation of the
lu ll
As Hie les<irr and reformer you calendar by Julius Caesar, when It re Olcott as a solution whereby the es and other color», With numerous
voyage.
“H e can have It all.” said Joy
tiean Is prepared ns a coffqr substitute
must
trudge
on and by four dogged covered Its former 30 days, which R •entlal and productive Industries of •hades entering Into their beautiful
"I know my father has not bought
eagerly
and placed on the m arket Thia prod
the atate thoy ooptlnua la opmMow« pi utiiage.
♦he
Mary
Lee
y
a
t
And—oh,
Isn’t
there
-,enl
compel
recognition for youraeu haa since retained.
Big Tom laughed. "Reckon Tve uct Is ground very fine and baa much
À
anybody else you know that wants to aqd wbnt fou itand for.—Qfll-
got ¿bough for jrotF honov.” ha sold. the aowe appearance ga coffea. ,
be price of T h e O bserver
The
t
OMENS SAID TO INSURE LUCK
FEW REALLY UGLY PEOPLE