Sherman County observer., June 20, 1930, Image 4

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The Sherman County Observer, More, Oregon,
RURAL 6IRLS ARE
GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS'
Expert Find» Higher Living
Standard* on Farm.
Washington.—Girls on tb® r° ° United
«.000,000 farm homes of
8t
States are showing a been
i . th» arts of home making «ml in
S J T t a S U . - r . telling
" h o w to obtain the
’
from meager Incomes, accord £
Miss Mary Rokahr, home management
specialist of the Agriculture depart-
“ b u r n in g
from .
trip which onr-
rled her through moat of the eer or
and central states, where she talke 1
with hundreds of farm house"J^e*
and their daughters, Miss Roknhr
1
the modern girl on the farm prouably
In many cases will be a better house­
w ife than her mother.
•‘Everywhere I went I f '»’id the
woman on the farm eager
learn
how she might Improve her h ». • and
obtain a better mode of living < » the
alight means at her disposal. M et’ - .♦
the girls, however, were better In­
formed than their mothers and many
showed marked talent In restoring fu r­
niture, making clothes, cooking, and
the manifold tasks of a housewife.
Labor Saving Equipment
One of the first questions asked by
most housewives she met, Miss Ro-
kahr said, was what labor saving
equipment she ought to purchase.
Proper methods of buying what the
farm home needs was second In ques­
tions asked.
Then the farm wife
wanted to know how she most effi­
ciently might divide the housework
among the family.
“I do not wish to make’ odious com­
parisons.” Miss Rokahr added, “but it
la my Impression that the aiernge
farm housewife has succeeded better
than most city mothers In creating
the true spirit of a home. It Is on
the farm, especially In the West, that
we still find the pioneer spirit.”
The average amount of cash re­
ceived by the fanner for bis salable
products 1« 1600 annually, Miss Ito-
kahr said, while the average farm
housewife desired at least $1,200 to
properly maintain her home.
Tills
would be the equivalent of about
*1,800 In the city If allowance Is made
for the many farm products used by
the family which must be bought In
town.
L ittle Running W ater.
In the year since Miss Rokahr as­
sumed her duties as an expert ad­
viser to the farm housewives of the
nation, 12 pamphlets have been pub­
lished outlining model budgets for
different states. Miss Rokahr empha­
sized that it Is not possible to recom­
mend a standard budget for the farm
home because of varying crop, climate
and other conditions In different sec­
tions. It la planned to have a budget
adapted to each section.
Living conditions on many farm
homes are still extremely primitive
despite the inroads of machinery to
lighten the fanner’s burdens.
Only
10 per cent of the farm homes visited
were found to have running water,
and only seven per cent had elec­
tricity. Despite this lack of modern
conveniences, however, Miss Rokahr
expressed the view that the farm
housewife In most cases Is keeping
step with her city sister fn providing
a real home.
Pari* Police U»e Plane*
to Spot Red Outbreak*
Parts.—French police have added a
new trick to their bagful of stunts for
keeping the unruly elements of the
city under control as a direct result of
the latest “Red day“ manifestation,
which In Paris proved a complete
fiasco.
Two light airplanes equipped with
radio petroled the city thoroughly
and by means of coded signals kept
police headquarters Informed as to po­
sitions where demonstrators could be
seen gathering.
W ithin five minutes after their
wireless reports mobile guards were
rushed to the Indicated sector and a
cordon formed around the would-bo
demonstrators. I f they attempted to
move out of the circle marked for
them the bravest received bruised
heeds as < reward.
Find Penny a Day Too
Slow for Wedding Fund
Columbia, Mo.— Saving a cent a day
until a fund had been accumulated
for their marriage proved too big a
task for two University of Missouri
freshmen.
The couple pledged their faith and
decided to wait as they dropped their
first penny In a little savings bank
a year ago.
The fund grew too slowly, so the
couple willed it to a girl friend, who
bought a college annual with I t
Goal Tender in Football
Game Die* of Excitement
Koraorn. Cxecboslovnkla.—During a
soccer f<M>tb"’l' can. * »>’ . cd between
Kouiorn and the nearby town oi L,\>.i
the goal keeper of the Komorn team
after successfully repelling an attack
dropped dead from apoplexy believed
to have been precipitated by over­
excitement
r
T re a ty Pea S to le *
Paris.—The golden pen with which
the Ixxrarne agreements were signed
has disappeared from The Hague peace
exhibition. Police attributed the theft
to • souvenir hunter.
By G R A N T
D IX O N
LIGHTS
of NEW YORK
DESERT CHARLIE IS
TIRED OF COLD EAST
Ben Finds a
Glove
Didn’t Get the Point
A New York columnist recently ran
an anecdote—and not a very funny
one—about a movie director and a
girl who were talking over the movie
business at dinner. The director con
fessed that he was looking for a man
who was tall, blond and something
like Lindbergh. “So am I," said the
girl. The next day the columnist was
deluged with letters from young men,
all claiming to look like Lindbergh
and to he tall and handsome, and ask­
ing for the movie Job. Not one of
them volunteered for the girl.
• • •
(Ceor right.)
• i C U I t p , Honey, I ’ll tighten the
h
r n tr *
hrnkes;
want to wait?" Ben
Howard was a tall, good looking
blond garage mechanic.
“No, Dear, I must run along. You
know, mother wants me to help her
with a dress." Mrs. Ben Howard was
a tall, good looking blond. “You didn’t
hear from the motor company?" she
asked.
“I guess they are not Interested. A
poor man Is out of lu ck; I know that
clutch Is a sure thing, and It’s all
mine, but I haven’t the money to even
show the right men a decent model."
A fter Marie had gone, Ben sat down
on the running board of the cheap
little coupe and relived again that
morning In the office of the Hartwell
Motors.
„
" It looks practical, Mr. Howard, but
It ’s In the raw. Why not make «
working model, put it on a car, uni I
then show us what It will do?”
“ Where could I get this done?" Ben
had asked. “ And ’bout what would
It cost?"
Washington.—It seemed to Desert
Charlie, back wltere the solitudes gave
a man a chance to think, that the uni­
verse had been put together along fan­
tastic but logical lines.
There was the burning breadth of
the Mojave sands, distorted by up­
heavals of rock Inexplicable to the
casual traveler.
There were the serrated rims of
deu<F volcanoes, tossed up by forces no
man could explain.
' Yet all these Illogical aspects
of the desert appeared logical to
Charlie, who had slept most of his
nlghfs upon the gand and who had
lived most of his days under the eye
of the uncovered sun.
Charlie came to understand, from
drinking water spilt between the
hands and from wandering the tor­
tured hillside« with his head exposed
to the sun.
’
All 8«em:d Simple.
, It all seemed simple, as Desert
Charlie explained. There were fires
under the earth, consuming fires which
would not be -put down. Sometimes,
In ages p«st, they belched forth. *
The fires, Charlie said, were fed by
subterranean coal oil, brimstone and
asphalt Now and then, tlie wanderer
explained, sulphur must have burned,
since the broken rock of the desert
sometimes showed a yellow stain.
Charlie, who had comprehended
these things, could no longer rest con
tent upon tbe sand, eking out an ex­
istence by begging beyond the rim of
the desert only to return and sleep In
the sandy hollows.
These things, Charlie averred, were
for the 250 old men who could not
live apart from the desert, and who
could not long «urvlve Its exactmcuts.
They, Charlie said, knew nothing of
the great riddle of the universe. It
was for Charlie to explain things, and
this lie set out to do.
Last April, a year ago, Charlie pro­
cured four burros—no one could ex­
plain how he saved so much money—
and two days later he had packed Id «
worldly good« upon their backs, tied
them together In the best desert fash­
ion and set out for the East.
Charlie, as he told everyone, was
fairly embarked on a lecture tour, and
he felt that he could benefit both him­
self and the easterners once he got to
their great cities.
U*ed to Hardships.
'
It was not for Charlie, who had
learpeil fortitude and reticence In Ids
sixty-niue years, to complain of the
1 hardships which beset him on the long
trek to New York city.
Bands of arochet work made In Peru
earitar than 200 A. D. are among the
rare textiles owned by the Metropoll-
taa Museum of Art, of New York. ~
in W in te r
W h0a chipmunks hibernate during
M winter, they apparently do not
seama dormant la moot cases. Ilka
laaa; rather they store up food la
Mir borrows during tha m svsar and
U
20,
1930
By CLARISSA MACKIE
(CoprrlahL)
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aymond jerked hi« hpad out of
the engine’« vital« asd listened
Intently. •
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A queer buzzing sound smote the
languid summer ,^lr. The long coun­
try rond was empty.
A sfnall boy climbed a fence and
paused beside the stalled car. “ Some­
thing busted, Mister?" he asked.
Rnyond grinned back at the freckled
fave. “Gone dead, dead as a door
nail, son. I ’ll have to telephone for
help. Your folks got a telephoneY*
"Yes. The house Is way over there,"
pointing across the read.
The buzzing noise was growing
louder. "She’s cornin’ along some
fast," he said, looking up the road,
"Who Is? What is?’’ Inquired the
young man with a smear of grease
along Ids cleanshaven cheek.
"Miss Weed and the buzzy bee."
“The what?"
“It’s a flivver—she had an accident
once and It makes that buzzy sound.
Folks call It the buzzy bee, because
Miss Weed does so tnnpy things with
“ Well, I would think the Jackson
It—she makes lots of money—she «ell«
eggs uml chickens, owns the garage,
company would fix you up for about
l i a s been ami sells honey and flowers
three thousand dollars."
ami garden truck and milk and—“
Beu’s numbed brain kept repeat­
ing three thousand dollars. Blight as
* 1 say. son. I wonder If she couldn t
give me a tow to her garage?” Ray­
well be three million.
"Good morning, Ben." Ueggy Van
mond'*! ruined Ills eyes townrd a small
dere rolled to a stop before tbe open
»•peck approaching along the rond. In
garage door. “Nice spring morning."
M m mind's eye lie could See a large
he added. He wore a light gray suit,
boned. sunhrowned country woman
a rakish hat set at a jaunty angle,
capable, happy and with that mascu
and lolled hack under the steering
line touch that marks some success
wheel of his flashy new low swung
1 ful women lie gave one last despair
J lug glace at Ids engine— lie was up
roadster.
Style Adviser*
“ Hello, Reggy! Nothing wrong with
i against it.
The more expensive apartment
that
new
car
of
yours?"
The buzzing had become a noisy,
houses— the ones where the rent Is
“ Nothing serious, I hope. Just a
roar, ami as he turned around, tlie
$1,000 a room or more per year—are
tidin’ stoppid In a cloud of blue va
now employing women as style con­ trifle of a Jerk when I start the
pur .lust then
stepping daintily
sultants. When a teuant leases an deuced old thing."
“Carburetor needs adjusting.” Ben
across the road, came a girl—such a
apartment, he Is given the services of
girl I She wore a short skirted sports
the consultant, who tells him Just raised tbe hood and soon “the motor
was purring evenly. As Reggy drove
dress of Pine rollon, and wide straw
what he should buy In the line of fu r­
nway, Ben went back to tbe coupe
Pat sm h as farmers wear, her stork
niture and draperies. The service Is
lugs were blue likp her dress, and her
free. The consultant makes hers by He tightened the brakes, and decided
to tidy It up a bit as a surprise for
shoes were sturdy little tan oxfords.
collecting a commission from the In­
ills wife.
Raymond saw these things afterwards
terior decorators.
now all lie saw was the lovely round
He removed tbe seat and dusted
Speaking of decorating, the newest
••«I fnee, the gray eves set wide apart
wrinkle Is invisible lighting fixtures. the upholstering. As he replaced It, he
i lie tender mouth and the dimple In
Lights are recessed In the walls close found a fawn-colored glove. He picked
the w Idle chin. Perched on a charm
to the celling, and switches are hid­ It up, turning It over and over. A
lug, nose were absurdly large horn
den under rugs, where the master steps man's glove In their coupe? His heart
went cold as he saw the clasp. It
rimmed spectacles. Raymond wns eon
on them ns he enters the door.
Imre the Inltluls of R. V. “Good God!
scions of his smeared face, but the
• • •
girl did not glance at him at all hut
Reggy Vnndere." He felt weak In the
Thi* and That
knees. His hands ached to get around
bent and kissed the lucky hoy.
The pinnacle of the new ^Chrysler the neck of Reggy. He pulled the
“Well. Sammy, what nre you going
building Is made of steel, which con­ rubber mat from the floor of the
to buy today?”
denses rain from the winds that blow coupe; he went ahead with the clean­
“A settln’ of Plymouth Rock eggs
around its lofty summit even when ing. A blue cigar band fell to the
Ma can’t «pare nn.v of ours—the hens
the sky Is clear. . . . One reason ground. A llfty-cent brand.
all want to set.” .
why the streets surrounding schools
As he stepped on tire porch that
“Did you bring a basket with you?
are so much dirtier than the other night the door flew open. His wife i
No? Well, run home and get one. I
If the burros’ hoofs split on The un
thoroughfares Is that the street gje*n- threw her arms around his neck and
accustomed asphalt. It was Charlie’s
will wait,”
lng department will not operate near kissed him. “Ben. I ’ve fixed every­
Raymond glanced tit his watch. He
basinets, and tf-the populace nlong the
schools until nightfall, for fear a thing; get washed and hurry.”
! wayside was slow about paying to hear
had promised to meet Evelyn Bright
child might be struck by a city truck.
“Now, M arie; tell me how Reggy’s
CharKe’s lecture, that also was Charlie’s at the three o’clock train, nnd early
. . . And the other reason why the p!v\e got In our coupe?" He stared - business.
that morning he had looked upon that
streets are dirtier Is that the children down In her face searching her eyes .
meeting as the most Important matter
Last month, about a year after his
follow the example of their elders and He pulled the offending thing from his
nf ids life. Now. however, he placed
departure, Charlie drove Ids four bur-
throw papers away right and le ft . . , p<x kef and held It before her.
Evelyn merely as Ids slstqr’s partlcn
I ros Itdo the city of hts destination—
Reggy’s glove? 1 don’t know. Ben. ! New York. The traffic, ns Charlie , lar chum, while the most important
An architect tells me that modern sky­
scrapers are not built to sway In the hurry, a roan Is waiting to sec you!" I »¡aid, wns heavy and few had time to - person In the world was tills girl.
wind, as the Woolworth tower Is sup­ She banded the glove back to him as
“ Miss Weed seems to be delayed in
wait for hls pack train.
posed to. . . . But the vehicular though she were dismissing It from !
coming,” remarked Haymond.
Later Charlie learned that few had
’•Why, she Is here!” said the girl In
tunnels under the Hudson river swing mind. "Hurry, B en; I ’ve been playing
time to hear him explain things In
a quiet, surprised tone. "I am Miss
up and down stream w[th the tide— a checkers all afternoon with him to
hD lectures.
comfortable thought for \th e passing keep him here till you came home. .
Recently Charlie and his four bur­
Weed."
m so glad you came early!" She
"W hy*-w hy—" stammered the red
motorist
ros camo through Washington on their
faced young man. “you're not tbe Miss
dashed out the door.
ivny back to t!io desert.
Ben strode Into the living room
Weed who sells eggs and chickens,
Selling Dog*
"Since we’ve been over here,”
has bees nnd sells honey nnd flowers—
Charlie said, v ith a generous gesture
An evening’s wulk along Fifth uve- There sat a weasel-faced old man
a n d -"
which Includ’d pH the burros, “ re
nue Is sure to bring you upon a man deeply studying his next move on the
She smiled! Poor Raymond was
porters Hop u’ every time we stHrt
leading two puppies by leash. Inva­ checkerboard before him.
Mr. Vogel, allow me to present mj
completely vanquished when she In­
riably cute, the pups are. Bulldogs or
through a city.
terrupted In her cool little voice. “ You
”.\ow,. It’s n long way back to Cali­
Scotch terriers, usually. When the red husband, Ben Howard." Marie said .
T \ e heard enough of you. young
hn\e been listening to Sammy Smith
fornia and I'm In a powerful hurry,
lights stop pedestrian traffic, some one
who Is my press agent I 1 am Miss
ro If you want to interview me, do It
Is sure to stop and fondle one of the fellow, from 4 hla pretty wife of yours;
Weed of the Buzzy Bee farm and
now. became I don’t aim to be stopped
dogs. Then the man leading them and a good time we have been having
wagon—nnd If you nre walling for
when 1 leave here going West."
makes his proposition. “I want to too!" His old wrinkled face broke Into
friendly smile, and he chuckle«!
j ro e -? "
keep one of them, but I ’ll sell the other
Raymond wanted to fall on his
cheap,” he says.
And he usually heartily.
Truth of Eible Story
1 told Mr. Vogel about your In
knees and tell her that he had been
makes the sale. I t Isn’t a racket; just
good salesmanship. That street-corner ventlon." Marie said. “1 must begin
Proven by Excavations waiting for her all of tils adult life,
hut he pointed at the enr nnd Inquired
contact between dog and prospective the dinner 1 you will stay, Mr. Vogel?“
' Jericho, l ’a!<»stlne. — Excavations
“I ’ll try.” Marie left the room.
about
a garage.
owner is much more effective than dis­
around the wails of Jericho are said
“Say, Who are you?" Ben asked, s
"There. Is a coll ot rope somewhere
playing the animal in a shop window.
to
confirm
the
Biblical
story.
frown on his face and bis tone threat
<® by tb * B «ll Syn dicate, In c.)
Home time tgo- doubt was ralr-ed In hack here, hut you might let me
enlng.
as to whether the trumpets really did • look at your engine." In a moment
"Sit down, young fellow. I'm Rob­
shatter the amdcnt ramparts,
The site was beside him poking at the
Boundary Line of City
ert Vogel; live next door. Some folks
parts <»f the huge enr—she pointed
passage
from
ti
e
Bible
reads;
most every one In fact but your
mil Hie difficulty, perfectly obvious If
Passes Through Theater —
"And
It
came
to
pass
witch
the
peo­
wife— think I ’m craxy. She and lv
SomervHle, Mass.— Patrons of Loca
ple lienrd the round of the trumi**t. •; he had not been fussed.
planted my garden. She took me down
The next ..day at luncheon, Ray
telll’s Ball Square theater buy their
ami
the people shouted with a great
to my office every day last week when
• mund's sistef. and her guest came In
pickets In Somerville and are then
shout,
that
the
wall
fell
doWn
flat,
so
my chauffeur was sick; and now to­
ride.
that the people went Into the c|ty, ev- ! froth a motor
r
ushered to seats In the adjoining city
day, and lots of other days, we’ve
driving,” cried Evelyn, “and
of Medford to see the movies.
erv
man
straight
before
him
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played checkers. Bui I ’ll tell you her
nnd they burned the city with fire.” i talking to Julia, when suddenly, bump!
The city line passes directly through one fa u lt: She can’t play checkers
went the car nnd there was a fearful
the playhouse. Thus, when this city’s
Joshua 6:20-24.
worth a d a rn !"
crash—such a funny old flivver full of
mayor recently banned a certain pic­
A
section
cut
thmngb
the
mound
“You—you are Robert Vogel of thp
ture, the Ball Square theater was able Vogel Manufacturing shops?” Ben’s
under tbe city has revealed some of chickens nnd vegetables and flowers
nnd egga—all went up In smoke— I
to show It just the same because Its eyes were like saucers, his adam's
the old tfall lying flat and unbroken.
e< nld smell scrambled eggs for miles.’
screen Is located In Medford.
Pottery
under
the
walls
has
been
apple moved up and down as he swnl
Identified as belonging to 11. <’. 1400. she giggled again. “The girl was very
lowed.
stiff and ,upstage about It —refused
The city Is said to have been captured
Find V iking K nife *
"The same. And let me say Hint
the fifty dollurs I offered her and
bv Joshua about 1451 B. C.
Koeulgsberg.—Excavations in the re­ what I have heard of your Inven
would not take my card and send In a
cently discovered Viking burial ground tlon sounds good. Why don’t you put
hill. Just smiled coldly and wldtely.
near T ilsit disclosed among other It on the market before some one
Vaccination Puts Crimp
and when the funniest boy with a
things a pocket clasp knife, the blade Steals It?"
wheelbarrow came they picked up the
in Telephone Servie j odds
of which can be opened or shut like
“1 haven’t the money—”
nnd ends, but the eggs— !”
that of present-day pocket knives.
»•Oh, forget th a t; I ’ve had more
St. Louis.—Service In a SC Louis*
"Where did that happen?” demand
honest enjoyment this spring thnn I ’ve
telephone exchnngS was "awfully had."
ed Raymond.
had for years, no, to show my appre­
"What's tbe mutter with you opera
"On the hill» rood— of course 1 was
ciation, you Just come down to tin»
tors?” an Irate man caller asked,
not looking and It was all my fault.
factory tomorrow and we will start
Expert Tells Bullet
“Can’t you raise your arms?”
|»ut she would uot accept payment— ”
making that model."
"You’re exactly right," the operator
That Felled Fugitive
"Of ponrse. she wrouldn’t —money
answered, “01 of the girls here have*
“But—"
gnnnnt make good such carelessness
Indianapolis.— It took Patrol
"No buts—do you know more about
Just received vaccinations and cannot
t»P your port.” saldjRuymond ruth
mau Arch Ball, ballistics ex
checkers thnn your wife?"
raise their arms.” Jt developed that
lessty. »»Miss Weed wns right—I ’m
pert, to decide which one of four
“That’s for you to find out* lets
because one («f the operators contract­
gplpg over to tell her so—nnd apolo
officers fired the shot which
go.” Ben began putting the checkers
ed smallpox, tbe entire lot was vac
glze." After lunch be disappeared
stopped Farrell Tate, alleged
ta place. A wave of shame passed
dun ted,
and the two girls stared at each othei
auto thief, as he was fleeing. All
over his face, ss he pulled a fawn-
blankly.
four officers claimed credit for
colored
glove from
his
pocket.
Many a Hollywood star has found
"There was a look In Raymond’s
the shot until Ball Identified
“Here’s a glove of yours, Mr. Vogel.”
eye.”
said Julia, "that warns me that
out
that
she
could
not
talk,
marks on the bullet as coming
“Oh, yes; 1 wondered what become
I am soon to have a slster-ln-Inw."
1
•
from the gun “o f Patrolman
• f that glove. Have a cigar.”
“ You can nt least give m t credit for
Ben declined, but noticed It wore a C C C OOOOO O OO > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 0 0 o
Charles Peak.
helping
It along," said Evelyn with a
blue baud and was of a fifty-cent
vindictive little laugh.
Train Second Best
aa aka.
in Joust With Aute
014 Crackat W arh
June
The Buzzy "
Bee
With His Four Burro» He
Starts Back for West.
By RUBY GRUBER
Odds and Ends
The senior class at Columbia uni­
versity Is dry, and Is against swear­
ing by women. It is fifty-fifty on the
subject of women smoking, and it
thinks “Journey’s End" the best stage
piny and “Bulldog Drummond" the
best movie.
Certain
employment
agencies In town are under police sur­
veillance, because they have a habit
of obtaining Jobs for men, collecting
the fees, andvthen having the work­
ers discharged so that more fees may
be collected. A morning newspaper
carried a display advertisement of a
music critic, who 6ays he also writes
a radio department and criticisms of
the dance. He wants a Job.
The
i. rifare Council of New York sends
out warning that girls who intend
corning here to! work should be Sure
of at least $25 a w eek.. One can’t live
on less than that, except In Brooklyn,
where the minimum Is $24— if you
want to live In Brooklyn.
• • •
Friday,
I
D efining B o n ndarie*
Nnnded Tw o P«ri»be*
Jersey, Channel Islands. — Gerald
To beat tbe bounds means to trace
Heyman died with his bead In one
out by perambulation tbe bounds of
feet In another. In a
parish and his fe
parish by striking With a rod certain
house over a brook which divides St.
points In passing by way of calling to
Saviour’s and Trlulty parishes.
witness. This Is an old custom still
kept ijp 4n many English parishes by
going around the boundaries on Holy
Thursday, or Ascension day. In Scot
. O xford U niversity w ill allow one
land beating the bounds Is called rid woman student to fo u r men, which
I ng the marches.
is about the proper handicap if de­
Reading of advertising is wortl bating is to be « feature of the cur-
rlevlum .
while.
Redding, Calif.— A railroad
train came out second best In a
Joust with a small automobile
.of the vintage of 1910 here re
cently. .
Three blocks from the col
Halon the train stopped. Passers
by polled tbe ear off the cow
, catcher. The driver gave It «
crank, started tbe engine, and
was away liefore anyone could
get bis license number.
If Shakespeare Is getting credit for
plays that somebody else wrote, all we
can say Is that William was a first
cla»s executive.
' Some of our most constructive Ideas,
says a philosopher, were advanced by
cynics. We suppose he has In mind
the two-pants su it
Perhaps others have noticed also
that no matter what sort of clothes
the girls wear, a whole lot of people
consider thorn Improper.
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“ FIRST SHOT” STILL
AGITATES TWO TOWNS
Lexington and Concord - t
Odds Over Event.
Lexington, Mass.—The shot that
was heard round the world is still re­
echoing through this historic tswn
despite the fact that it was fired 155
years ago.
Long have Concord and Lexington
engaged In friendly rivalry for tbe
distinction of being the scene of that
epochal event, and, with Massachu­
setts celebrating Its tercentenary an­
niversary this year, the controversy
has been enlivened.
Despite Ralph Waldo Emerson’s
poem which described tbs firing of
the shot at Concord bridge, contem­
porary historians for the most part
appear to,favor Lexington’s claim.
The principal basis for this town’s
contention lies in the Inscription, " I’ll
Give Them the Contents of My G u n ” ,
w-hlch appears on the monument on
the grave of one Ebenezer Munroe In
an Ashburnbam cemetery.
; Men Called to Arms.
Records revealed by research Indi­
cate that It was Munroe who fired tbe
famous shot, and that at the time he
was one of a group of “rebels” who
faced the British on Lexington com­
mon.
Evidence Includes a deposition by
Ebenezer Munroe, describing the
events of April 19, 1775.
He was
alarmed, he states, at about 2 a. m.
and Immediately repaired to the com­
mon. There Captain Parker ordered
the roll called and every man to load
his gun with powder and ball. The
men were then dismissed but ordered
to remain within call of the drum.
"About daybreak, according to the
deposition, there was a call to arms,
and as the men assembled on the com­
mon the British approached to within
eight rods. A British officer called
the Americans “rebels” and ordered
them to disperse. When the command
was Ignored the British troops fired.
Corp. John Munroe remarked to
Ebenezer Munroe, who was beside
him, that the British had fired noth­
ing but powder, Ebenezer replied that
It was more than powder because he
had suffered a wound In his arm and
he added that hjs would “give them
the guts of his gun." This, many his­
torians contend, wns th«^ shot that
was beard round the world.
Ebsnszsr W ounded.------ ♦—
That Ebenezer Munroe actually was
wounded In the battle on Lexington
common has been well established by
tbe discovery of a copy b f tbe “Massa­
chusetts Spy, or American Oracle of
Liberty,” published In Worcester Just
14 days after the battle. The cusualty
list published In connection with the
report of the battle Includes Munroe's
name among the wounded.
Moreover, Isaiah Thomas, editor of
that ancient newspaper, apjiears to
have considered Is lin g to n
rut her
than Concord as the birthplace of the
revolution. Writing In the same Is­
sue, he said :
“Americans!! Forever bear In mind
the battle of Lexington!— where B rit­
ish troops, unmolested and unpro­
voked, watonly, and In the most In­
human manner, fired upon and killed
a number of our countrymen, then
robbed them of their provisions, ran­
sacked, plundered, and burnt their
houses! nor could the tears of de­
fenseless women, tbe cHIes of helpless
babes, nor the prayers of old age, con­
fined to beds of sickness, appease their
thirst for blood! or divert them from
their design of murder and robbery."
The Lexington-Concord controversy
was given Impetus recently when
Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, in
his tercentenary greeting, recognized
Lexington as the scene of the firing
of the shot that was heard round the
world, .
fe “Poetry may not support me," he
observed, "but history does."
Hangman Is Willing to
Do Stuff on Heckler
Toronto, Ont.—A rthur Ellis, Cam
ada’s executioner, did not accept an
Invitation to Join the Antl-Cnp!tal
Punishment Association of Canada. In
fact, he would willingly hang the man
who sent him the Invitation, accord­
ing to his statement In an answering
letter.
Among many abusive and some
complimentary letters which Ellis re­
ceives now and then was one from
L. P, Rees of Toronto, inviting him
to join tbe association against capital
punishment. In his letter Rees char­
acterized public executioners as “le­
galised murderers of all times."
Ellis returned the letter and added:
“You upllfters are a source of worry
to any decent law abiding person, but
If a Jury finds you at any time guilty
of murder and a Judge sentences you,.,
to death, I will willingly hang* you.
Yours.
A. Ellis."
FIND GOLGOTHA OF
NOTED IRISH KING
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Explorers U nearth Charnel
H ouse o f Conaire.
Dublin.—Tbe long-sought golgotha
of King Conaire, one of tbe greatest
Irish kings, .who was killed 100 years
before Christi has been discovered
only an hour’s walk from the center
of Dublin.
The discovery of tbe charnel bouse,
where tbe king and bis soldiers were
massucred while at a great bnnqnet.
and where their bones, treasures and
drinking goblets have lain undisturbed
for 2,000 years, rivals the discover!
of the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen
in Egypt.
American capital will be heavily In­
vested in bringing to light all the mat
ters connected with the excavation to
be shortly Instituted, according to As
sistent Keeper Grogan of the National
museum, who has been placed in
charge of tbe work.
King Conaire, who attained his
lofty role through his father and his
own prowess, was killed by men
whose own death sentence he bed re­
mitted, being opposed to capital pun­
ishment, history records.
The careers of Conaire and bis fa­
ther, King Edlrsceal, Circa 56 B. <’..
were Intimately bound up with tlie
fate of the Erneon people, a Munster
folk <»f militaristic character who lutd
overrun the central plain of Ireland
and extended tkelr dominion to tbe
north coast.
After being driven from Ulster by
the Clan Rudhralghe, they still dom­
inated Dal Rlads and there were In­
dications that even Ulster accepted
their suzerainty.
• King Edlrsceal fell In battle sgulnst
the south Lelnstermen, and Conaire
avenged his father, driving the foe
back and annexing Ossory.
As king, Conaire rounded up vari­
ous hands of brigands who had been
condemned to der.th by their own fa­
thers and deported them to England.
But the brigands returned to Ireland,
and one night succeeded in w’nylaylng
King Conaire while he - passed tbe
night with bïs rctjnue of warriors at
tbe great hotel Da Dearga
at
Gleann An Smoll, near Dublin. Here
the tin g and his followers were mas­
sacred end the famous hotel Da Dcar-
gn, which once was s shrine, w.’S
hnrr(«d. Fntll two môrths ago, Rs lo­
fait ion remained a mystery even to
scholars.
Imtrvctor Has Spent
51 Yc^ro in One S d o d
New Drlo ms. La.—Fifty-one
s
of teaching In one school have tun :4it
John Henry Srlvenhnrdt hapnlii»*..« in
the school of life.
"God has b’-en good to me,” said
the 72-year-old leecher In the St.
John’s Evangelical Lutheran church
parochial school here, who has lived
through two yellow fever epidemics,
many floods, and three wars.
“The even tenor of my life has been
undisturbed. O f all my six children
nnd many grandchildren, not one has
died. There has been nothing spec­
tacular In my life.”
But as he reminisced a monumentnl
goodness began to appear. It showed
Itself as the guiding principle of this
soft .voiced man with the faded blue
eyes.
Ills parents, German Immigrants,
scraped up enough money to send him
to school six years In Illinois. He be­
gan teaching In Indiana at 19, to re­
pay them, and to give to others what
he had learned himself.
For two years l»e taught there, then
returned to New Orleans.
He re­
members the two great yellow fever
epidemics and the Spanish-American
war as Incidents of unhappiness
through which he passed unscathed.
As for the rest, the 51 years of
teaching here are “nothing," he said.
“I give my pupils all I know," he
explained.
"When the end of the
term comes I * (m very tired.
But
when Augurt comes I am ImpaMent
to he In again, I am happy In my
work,”
American Honored by
Mexican Scientific Body
Mexico City.—Dr. William Bowie of
Washington, chief of the United
States geodetic survey, la the newest
honorary member of the Mexican
Academy of History nnd Geography.
Doctor Bowie was thd United States
representative at a Pan-American con­
vention of geographers held here last
September.
Claim« P m -B irth M em ory
Newcastle, Ind.—Edward Stlrk, New­
castle, clulms he Is able to remember
40 years before the time he was born.
Stlrk set down his age at one hun­
dred, admitting he had lived but 60
years In this world, but said he could
remember at least 40 years of exist­
ence In another p'.anet or state.
Read and subscribe fo r the Observer.
Lack* Money for Church
W edding, Kills Him self
Los Angeles, Calif.—Leaving a sui­
cide note In which be informed his
bride of three weeks that he had
“tried as hard as I could, going every
Where, but .failed" to find work to
earn money for a church wedding
ceremony on Sunday, Michael Flores,
thirty-five, ahot himself to death In
front of the house where Mrs. Flores
was living. The pair was married In
S fcivll ceremony three weeks ago, hut
Flores* note said that relatives In­
sisted they should not live together
until a priest solemnized the wedding.
F o m ttry in Europe
France took up forestry only when
the destruction of most of herlorests
was followed by heavy floods and the
washing sway of her hillsides. Need
for wood, says the American Tree as­
sociation, first caused the Germans to
think of forestry, for there, where win­
ters are long and severe, fuel wood is
Hnio«t as much a «ee<*sslty as food It
*lf
Business Mgn say: “Advertising Pays”
TH E MARKETS
Portland
Wheat— Big Bend bluestem, 11.18;
soft white, western white, $1.02;
hard winter, northern spring, western
red, $1.00.
Hay—Alfalfa, new crop, $18.50; yal
ley timothy, $20.60@21; «astern Or«
gon timothy, $22.50@>28; clover, $1?;
oat hay, $18; oats and vetch, $19,
Butterfat—?8<g>31e.
Eggs—Ranch, 19®22q,
Cattle— Steers, good, $11©11.75,
Hogs—Good to choloe, $9 75011-25.
Lambs— Good to choice, $7 75O$ V$-
Seattle
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
hard winter, western red and northern
spring, $1.02; Big Bead bluestem,
$1.18.
Eggs—Ranch, 16024c. .
Bat ter fat—34c.
Cattle— Choice steers, $11011-50.
Hogs— Priiiie light, $11011-25.
Lambs—Choice, $8@9.
Bpekane
Cattle— Steers, good, $10010.80.
Hogs—-Good to choice, $9©11.
Lambs— Medium to good, $8 ©8.25.
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