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V i Pipe-Organ Evolution Vacant FTaces o f Earth of Twenty Ccntvrles Await Explorer's March | A U R O R A MEA T M ARKET A n U p-to-date Sanitary Meat M arket that handles every thing b e s t i n m e a t s fresh and cured. OPEN EVENINGS DURING HARVEST SEASON W U RSTER BROS. Aurora, Oregon If you have anything to be hauled. If you have anything to be shipped, If you have anything to be transferred to or from Portland, Call E. M. HURST Aurora Telephone 615 Portland Telephone East 8226 Will move into Portland Auto Freight Terminal Dec. 1st. Baggage at D ock or Depot in Portland carefully looked after. RATES REASONABLE _ SATISFACTION GUARANTEED More than 20 centuries ago .i barltei In spite of the popular superstition that the whole surface of the globe made the discovery that in moving hi, has yielded to the surveyor, enterpris mirror in the pursuit of bis duties ah ing explorers still continue to And was forced through the tunes of tin parts of It with all the lure of the un-1 crude contrivance, causing tt swee musical sound. So struck was he i>\ known. Within comparatively recent times: this peculiarity (hat he set about mak the mysterious oasis of Jabrln, in the ing an instrument which was the foun great Arabian desert, the remoter re-1 dation of the modem orgun. Aftei glons of Tibet and the Ituri country | several experiments he made a water of Central Africa have all been forced i flute, in which air was forced by be! to yield up a few more secrets, says lows through an- inverted cone which led to flutes controlled by a keyboard the Living Age. the pressure being kept uniform In Capt. K. E. Cheesman, an English water. After a thousand years a rirn! man, has been able to locate definite instrument made its appearan.ee. Till ly the oasis of Jabrln, whose exact was of a similar pattern, but. instead position has long been in doubt among of water, weights regulated the pres geographers. For six days his little sure. In 951 an organ was erected a expedition marched over arid desert., Winchester, England. It had 26 bel relying on such water supplies as they lows and ten pipes to each key. T.w- could carry In skins. Throughout the men who sat at the keyboard “ hlev journey he verified his position by as and sweated enormously.” Later. tronomical observations and was firm of organ makers in Germany suc thereby, able to correct such maps of ceeded In erecting the first really big the region as already exist. Instrument. The primary stops did He found a savage tribe of Arabs, not differ very much from those of to scarcely to be regarded as Moslem, day, although various novelties were but harking back to the pagan days introduced. Among the Innovation before Mohammed began his teaching, were the nightingale and cuckoo stops and possibly survivors of the earlier while others represented cock-crowins native population that is supposed to and goat-bleating. Though thes have preceded the Arabs In the penin novelties have now fallen into disuse, sula. These people are still practical an organ with one of these nightingale ly living in the Stone age. stops is still to be seen in Rome. It Captain Cheesman was able to lo was not until the Nineteenth century cate'' ruins believed to be those of .Ter that the problem of the regulation of ra, the ancient Phoenician port on the air pressures was solved by the Intro Persian gulf, as Its position corre duction of the hydraulic blower. sponds with that given by Ptolemy about the middle of the Second cen tury ; and he also made a collection of Dime Novels Brought geological specimens, together with Him Fame and Fortune desert fauna and flora, many of which Erastus F. Beadle, the originator of proved to be new to science. the dime novel, which type of publica tion occupies a chapter in Edmund Les ter Pearson’s “ Books in Black or Red,” Base Mutilation on published the first dime novel, accord Ancient Mosaic Law ing to Mr. Pearson, In 1860. It was Scattered over the market place of a small pamphlet with orange pink cov Adis Abeba (capital of Abyssinia), are ers. The firm of Beadle & Adams con the flimsy booths and open stalls of tinued their business until 1897. native hucksters, fringing it the Beadle, a descendant of American slightly more pretentious shops of pioneers and soldiers, was born In Greek and Indian merchants, and the Otsego county. New York, in 1821, says dilapidated buildings which house the the Detroit News. Working as a boy custom house and the post office. E. for a miller, he found a need one day Alexander Powell tells us, in the Cen for letters of some sort to label the tury Magazine. bags <ft grain. He cut the letters from Here murderers are frequently exe blocks of hardwood, as Gutenberg's cuted by hanging, and here also lesser predecessors bad done. This experi malefactors, highwaymen and the like, ence interested him in printing; he pay the penalty for their crimes by learned the art, and by 1852 bad a suffering the loss of a hand or a foot, printing shop of his own. In 1858 he the sentence being carried out with moved to New York to test an Idea neatness and dispatch by a local butch which had come to him; the publica er, who checks the bleeding by plung tion of books to be sold at 10 cents— song books, joke hooks nnd finally ing the stump Into melted fat. Barbarous? Of course. Yet, If you novels. The first of these hooks were express your disapproval to an Abys mainly historical novels of the Ameri sinian, he will politely remind you, can Revolution, or early pioneer life. that they are only obeying the injunc About nine-tenths of the settings, then tion of a law-giver named Moses—the and later, were American. Ethiopian penal code being based on the Mosaic law—Who said, "If thine Little Known About Saint right hand offend thee, cut it off.” Very little is known regarding Saint Soap Long Known and Used Soap both as a medicinal and cleans ing agent was known to the ancients. Pliny speaks of two kinds, hard and soft, as used by the Germans. He men tions it as originally a Gallic invention for giving a bright hue to the hair. It is probable that soap came to the Ro mans from Germany. Although soup is referred to In the Old Testament, authorities believe that ashes of plants or other such purifying agents are Im plied. The earliest kinds of soap ap pear to have been made of goat’s tal low and beech ash. As early as the Thirteenth century, however, a fac tory for making soap from olive oil was established at Marseilles. Soap making was Introduced into England during the next century. InYourfwn i-In / try the M aytag Wash toith it. I t’s the determining test o f this super-modem w ay to short M ondays and long clothes wear. N o other washing principle is so careful o f your clothes— even safer with dainty things than hand methods. N o other so thorough in its jo b — spotlessly clean wristbands, neckbands and colla rs! Gave Name to Trees The sequoia trees of California were named in honor of Sequoia, who was the son of a white man and a Cherokee woman of mixed blood. Sequoia, is famous as the Inventor of the Chero kee alphabet He was bom in Ten nessee, about 1760. and grew up with the Indian tribe. He became a hunter and trader In furs, and also a crafts man in sllverwork. In the last years of his life he became interested in tracing a lost band of the Cherokee tribe, that, according to tradition, had crossed the Mississippi river before the American Revolution, and he had wandered, to some mountains in the West. He was still pursuing this quest In the Mexican Sierras when he met his death, August 1843. So fast that you’ve got to hurry to keep pace with it. In every w ay that woman wishes, it excels. T ry it— next washday— free— no obligations at all. 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A campaign is on in the interest o f ‘ ‘ Oregon Made Goods,” and ‘ ‘ Oregon Industries.” It is more than worthy— an idea that means money to yon. Look at the label ALL KINDS OF TRUCKING at Reasonable Rates THEODORE RESCH Aurora, Ore. Phone 1115 Will pay highest market price for Hogs. LOUIS REPRESENTING Pacific States Fire Insurance Company Springfield F. & M. Insur ance Company Fire Association of Phila. A U R O R A , OREGON O . D. EBY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Oregon City, Oregon Estates, Trusts, Confidential Adviee £ J R . B. F. GIESY Physician and Surgeon Both Phones Office at Residence W EBER! N O T A R Y PUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE - B . F . L in d as W . L . M u lv e y Lawyers 10 H o g g fB ldg. A O regon C ity , Aurora, Ore* Dr. C. Am meter - - O re, Asquith & Hocken DENTIST Has established bis Dental office in the Aurora Bank Building, where he will be present each Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, from 9 a, m. to 6 p. m. PLATES A SPECIALTY | p A IN T IIN G A P E R HANGING A N D TIN TIN G S AURORA, OREGON Aurora, Ore. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« Phone 5-51 Office hours 9 a.m. to6 p.m, Evenings and Sunday by appointment DR. H. O. HELMER (VETERINARIAN) Graduate of the Kansas City Veterin ary College, 1913; Post-graduate of DR. S. J. LEVITT the Indianapolis Veterinary College, 1923; Examined and Licensed by th e , DENTIST State o f Oregon. I. 0 . 0 . F. Building Room 1 and 2 Molalla, Oregon Call, Phone or Write, Canbjr, Oregon I DOLS-SHIPLEY’S - DOLLS SALEM “ Tragedy” and “ Comedy” At first tragedies were brought on the stage as means of reminding men of the thlhgs which happen to them and that It is according to nature f<v things to happen so, and that. If thro art delighted with what Is shown on the stage, thon shouldst not be (no- bled with that which takes place on the larger stage. After tragedy, tilt- old comedy was introduced which Hah a magisterial freedom of speech, and by its very plainness of speaking was useful in reminding men to beware of insolence.—Marcus Aurelius. OREGON A ll Mother Hubbard Brand Feeds A re of excellent Q U A LITY . E very sack guaranteed. The price is less than other feeds of equal quality. Few Druses in America Famous Swiss Valley II Hard ware G. A . EHLEN Implements Druses are people of mixed origin who inhabit a -district In Syria. Their religion Is fundamentally Mohummc dan, but their faltli mingles the teach ing of the Mosaic law, the Christian Gospels and the Sufi allegories with those of the Koran. They believe in the transmigration of souls with con stant advancement and purification Their teachings enjoin abstinence from wine and tobacco, from profanity ac ! obscenity, and polygamy Is unknowi, among them. There are a few hun dred of this sect In the United States. ♦ I I $ I Phone SO i 12 t S E N S IB L E H O L ID A Y G IF T S Casts Doubt on Legend ❖ A11 Work Neatly Done Bartholomew, one of the disciples of j*| Christ. He is supposed to be also the ‘‘Science Plus Farm Practice” Nathaniel mentioned in the first chap O r e g o n A g r ic u l t u r a l C o l l e g e ter In the gospel of St. John. He Is W IN T E R S H O R T C O U R S E S believed to have traveled on a mission Eleven courses with names and dates as follows: Into Armenia, and to have there suf fered martyrdom by being flayed alive. Dairy Manufacturing — Farm Mechanics: Himself one of tbe gentlest of men. January 6-31. I. Farm Power and Power Euip- be was destined by the irony of fate to ment, January 6 to March 10 Dairy Herd M anagem ent — give his name to one of the most' II. Gas Engines, Tractors, and January 5 to March 20. frightful massacres recorded In his Equipment, January 19-23. tory, and to the London Saturnalia HI. General Farm Repair, Janu known as St. Bartholomew’s fair. This Fourth Annual Conner*’ School— ary 26-30. famous festival was celebrated an February 2-20. IV. Farm Water Supply and San nually in Smithfleld, where many itation, February 2-6. Huguenot refugees located, on August Poultry Husbandry — V. Gas and Electric Light and 24. for over 750 years, and was finally February 2 to March 14. abolished In 1855, by which ttme It had Power, February ,9-13. degenerated Into an orgy of drunken Land Classification and Appraisal VI. Farm and Concrete Construc ness and debauchery. Feb. 2-7. tion. February 16-20. For full information address DEAN OF AGRICULTURE, CORVALLIS, ORE. Mythical Snake Stories There is a snake of the South At lantic states, foolishly feared by the negroes, who say It will put Its tail in its mouth, stiffen its body and roll along, like a hoop, aiming to let go of Its sting-tipped tail and dart It Into the first person it meets. Similar stories are told of a closely related species, the wampum snake, common in swampy ground In the South, and both are called horn snakes. In fact, both species are perfectly harmless SHIPLEY’S for Women’s and Children’s Hosiery and spend most of their time beneath SHIPLEY’S for Women’s and Children’s Umbrellas the ground, burrowing deeply Into the soil. The former is blue black above, The Pay A s You Go Plan marked with three red .lines, and flesh colored below, with black spots: while the latter is uniform bluish-black above and banded with red on tbe abdomen. The summit of Mount -Ararat was first reached by Professor Parrot In 1829 after two unsuccessful attempfs. In 1850 another expedition carried a great cross to the summit, which was attained after unheard-of dangers and privation above the snow line. The cross was finally erected.- On another occasion, after spending days and nights in the snows on precipitous cliffs, an explorer named Khodyke de cided that the climbing was so difficult that the descent of the steep snow slopes “ would have proved fatal to many of the animals of the ark." The Lauterbrnnnen is a deep and narrow valley In the canton of Berne, Switzerland, inclosed by perpendicular walls of sandstone from 1.000 to 1,600 feet in altitude. From these heights descend cascades on every side, chief among which is the famous Staub- bach (“ dust-stream” ). The sun Is hardly seen at all there in winter, and even In July not before 7 a. m. Through the valley flows the Wei.-' e- Lutscliine, one of the tributaries of the Aar.—Kansas City Star. [ B uy our feeds and put the difference in a Savings A ccount AURORA FEED MILL