cointnun |M<»ple did hot B*c tl«-
worti, which m - cufs mainly in
("»-try. It «• « -«> usctl by Acs hy-
lua about 175 B C. and in leitin by
Virgil a few years before th«» Chris
tian era.
When the writers of good Tallin
wi»l.f‘d t<> convey the id«-u uf
*ic.-l they were apt to u*<- the word
"a< I***.’’ w: n li m.-an* a sharp edge
or a »burp p ent. In the third cen
tury of OUT era we Cml the word
“acii-rs" ami later still the word
»«
»•
•
*•
f. . t
iKiKii'iui,
wucikt
mv rivutii
"a« icr,” meaning *twl.
The word “»tiel” has not been
found prior to the eighth century,
it occurs in the so rail««! Epuial
g!o*s, where “steel" is given as the
An •!<> Saxon < q i.•ai. nl of the late
I-a tm
cearium."
Al that time the word wa* com-
in -n on the com nent and had be
opcr name. both a* simple
come n
“stahal fl r in compound* like “stal
hart.” A lili i<e do not find "acier"
before t iv third century. Yet
men malie »levi m the days of
How ¡•rami before hi* time in India.
Hut eri-ii in Ilia ls’«t day* of Gr« «-.u
ami Hom«- (In-, hardly knew cast
ii >u. Their ir.»n statu.» were made
of wrought iron, cmi only trivial
examph-s of cast iron are of cla»*i- ,
cal iintiqiuty.
■
wrought iron by heating and then
dipping it in «old water, is a term
u < I by 1‘iiny, The pro- < -•* of “tern
pering," of course, is much older.
It i- mentioned in Homer and may
have hv«»n known long l<eforc.-—
I . -::i B
I ti r.f i> American iron
and Steel A»*fr i«iion.
6¡ie * in!i:iin Jims
I
L «• •
latepen'eat
p;.ih
11
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fl
Ilf’«’
Î
I
1.0 -t
t
mi
in ting ids. con'reel*
jn.
lk
ffatM nrtf it sarr it
.‘1 tV *r»ft
jrt th- be--'»’ <4 51 . * ÇÇ ,-«|f
Th* On» P*r«5n.
Tie ro u ,i» a i rtaiu old New I'ng-
Icial run.4cr who had a blunt wav
o( getting right ct the bottom of
things. With a »olemn air he an-
noum *>! from I he pulpit one day
th.it n button hud Is-eti found in tlie
■ -1
”< »i
"he in in
! in
the church could have been guilty
of tin* trick,” he said, “and I shall
•‘t tin» |M-i*"ti to replace the
button with a coin.” After service
a n '-miser of the church Owned u
to living I lie culprit and asked
"11
• I i i
I
the
mnn?” “I did not kimw,” »aid the
clergyman. "But you said only one
per* m i 'uld have done it." “Ju»t
no,” wa* the reply. “Two persons
could not have put the Mine button
on the plate,**
Het. «T
early 1 M
TììUit ÏM»
iffcÇv»
’»an
4.
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A
(»’ 4'
Several u.tic«*sof n.t rest
i
unavoidably
loft out <»( th
:da
this week,
tel irulu ling the M
•nd West S -io corr'ipiond
letter from Supt. Aldermi
Cn«k*'i Co».
Snake* may almost I* »nid tn
have glass eye», ira-tnuvli a* their
eyes never cluse, They arc Without
lid* ami each is cot end with a
tr.'i’.-o;i- nt » .de rnm h resembling
glas». When the reptile casts it*
outer skin the eye scales cutnc off
with the re»t of the transparent en
velop«» out <»i which the snake slip*
I'iu« /’.-•« ell' - ide m so tough
that it effectually proto t* the true
eye from the twig*, sharp grn«» ami
other ol'*triM*tion* which the »nakc
encounter* hi it* travel*, yet it is
transparent enough to allow the
n>'Ot f '-rfect i *i<>n. Thu», if the
snake has not a gla.-s eye it may, at
any rate, lie said to wcor eycgLisscs.
at
HAY TOOLS
YOU CAN
DEPEND
ON
Men’s and
Boys Suits
Deering hay tool» are doing good. reliable work, not
only for user* in th * country, but also m foreign countries.
Price:’ have bumped into an ice
berg and have gone to the but-
tom.
They will do goo < work for you.
machine«.
Every Suit in the store on «air.
Sale now on and will last
July 4.
The Deering line of h.iy tools consists of mowers,
sweep rakes, stackers and tedders.
not place you under any obligation to buy. isn't it to your
advantage to come in and see us?
&.
CAIN
our motto:
OSE PRICE TO ALI.
ing bu.sine ««.
1 -t. I’ i «.»•» i t»
done what work a t could on th«
paper and we h .vc had to 1 • .v •
out the rest. We are m i op
that b«'tti r arra g. d.<- < . may l>.
made in the near Tut ;ic, and in
the meantime, we trust that the
public will kindly bear with vs
in oar difficultie .
A pt.
D a -' i .1. rold h:i<l a nnv of
| :'!r ’ t li.su » to tinnì:*. One of
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- . iicn by Georg# ||rx|-
in '•\1.i:ri'r uf Mi Tirne." Jcr-
ro! I wi « nini party «>ne night whcre
i ih- ' ir. ubo «a» tuli and thin al-
-t tu ■ •
iifuit!. luid far h part
ner a Indi « ho « m «hort and sqnnrv
in hi i l Turnmg to a byMamler,
he rctnarkcd. “Thcrr ìs a nule «lanc-
ing with a milc-tonc."
A Csleesal Idei.
4
Two milca frotn Kamaknra and
altout twonty from Yokohama, m
L.p -.n, oli u t«rra«f’ m ir thè, tempie
si’s thè ti.« «t gigantic idoi in thè
world. ~ It !■- the brazen im.-.gc of a
«k-it ami date* from the n-ign of
i. .
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!>. 74S. The dii-i«,nsioua of tiiis idol
are «'«»lo^ial. Ilia he ;ht from the
Come in
and get a catalogue anyhow.
S.',OS
BL.Æ'"C
SH.LBIRN, OREGON
\¡»l rig' t pre«-» >,>«••• o'.r cr>cv
dt-psr'.ii --nt ; palar
An Actor a £|>ita»h.
Tn the churchyard of Gilhnghum.
England, 1« the following epitaph
on the tomhidone of an a- tor:
".'*..< red to the memory of |L< ma*
Jc ' -oil. < Kllled'iin, u io Ma* ell
ga„*'*d D< etnlu-r Vl»t, to play
comic cast of character» in tin
Great Th uti l. the tfoi >1. for many
of which ho uh » prompted by Xu-
lure to excel. Tic e,i»uh in-tng
ended. Ins heneflt over, the charge»
all paid, ami his account <!<•»<•< I. lie
malic bis exit in the Tragedy of
!>«-iith on the 17th of March, 1791.
in full assurance of being called
once more to a rehearsal, where Im
hopes to find Ins forfeit* all cleared,
hi» .art of part* bettered ami li *
situation made agreeable Io Hirn
who paid the great stock debt for
the love He bore to Performers in
general.*
ar«- also h<a quart rs for Dry
Goods, t’lothing, I rnnhir.-« Hai»
Shoes, Etc
Give u e ea : a-d i-e < anvi
i th.,r -v
can a i c ; i>u mone*
A Good Investment
XI) ONE that will
k* • p
ing*.
building
well paint.-«I
"A Hlitch in time save« nine.”
ideal weather for painting.
in prospect.
Real what a user «ays of the light ft
.i.MI’lltF. "In February I'.««'
I bought an F m| ire Cream Separator
and from that time until April 5, lulu,
it never miased n day, doing the skim
ming from my cows, which ranged
from six to nine. In all this time I
paid out only 75c ror repairs. I am now
trading fer one of the late improved
with more capacity. Thia is a contin
ual run for your machine for over 10
year« with an expenae of 7jc per year.
I f anyone can equal thia record 1 would
like to hear from them."
t8lgnod)
II. A. SHELL.
Custer. Wa«b.
This ia what you need a good, dur
able machine.
Ke sure and see the
Empire before buying.
is
to
No
This is
Excellent crops are
Goo«l roads are being built.
So
let ii- brighten our prosperity in this land of
fl
rose« with a coat of new paint on our buildings.
I
And rem ember LOWE BROS. HIGH
STANDARD PAINT qices best
results
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I’lease read above ad.
I hank you
PEERY DRUG COMPANY
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OREGON
Each K«.- <>f our live» ha» ita jovs. Old
people «I h . u I'1 be happy and they will lie
if Chamlwrlaina tablet« are taken to
«trenrthen the digestion and k«-et> the
bowel* regular. These tablet* are mild
and gentle in their action and espe
cially suitable for people of middle age
and older. For sale by all dealer».
NoliCi to the PoHic
The two leading magazines of the
Pacific coast, the Pacific Monthly and
the Sunset, have been consolaiated un-
dcr the title of "Sunset the Pae.fie
Monthly.”
It is the intention of the publish« rs
to «pare no money nor effort to mate
bred 1. Bilyeu, Agt.
SCIO. OREGON
your
money
property owner can afford to neglect hi« build
EM PIRE}
But th« N»r>* ct h* Product Ost*«
0-1I» F *m ths £ ghth C*ntury.
Me do not know where the word
tec!" ra ne from, m»r do wr know
c original meaning.
A leading
nthofity" chum* thr word a* hav-
i: “ «tarici m England, lie i* surely
n. ,-taken, a* the rvc« r«!s »how.
When the word first appeared in
English <i; \nglo S ix««n it had be
come a projH»r mime on tl««» conti
nent. ah ■' ?g the general diffu-ion
of the t> rm. W<- n . ■ u. lly d -ap
pnintvl in tli-> Gr i-k and Boman
cliiMi. ». They ki'“« how to harden
«.»ft iron, but had no name for the
finished product we all at evi.
The Urrek» ob ¡mil il good
bran«* of »! ., from t’a» Chalyb- • at
Sinope. T ml brand th < calk-d
“elialyba” or “ch.ilyb
und the
Roman* adopted the term. But th«»
You can’t help but get
some information which wdl be valuable to you.
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THE DURABLE®
STEEL IS VE.' Y ANCIENT.
Perhaps you
don't expect to buy. but as long as an investigation does
Regular price charged for goad«
«old on time.
”
You will be interested
in the new improvements of these machines.
Ck«rv • For Mor» Slssp.
A farmer raised hi* n«-w harvest
hand from «Itinilwr in the haymow
promptly at 3 a. m.
‘‘You can dip down and rut that
little patch of oat» before break-
fa»t,” he ordered.
“Are t
’a
ir>.|- ; < i th • hired ¡mil:
“Wild? Why, no; they’re tame
1 e
“W 11. if they’re tame maybe I
A Clack Without Work».
can slip up on them in daylight.”—
In the courtyard of the palace of- Every body’s Magazine.
Ver*•:!!<•» is » clock w.th on«» hand,
c:-ì i I. ilo' i.-i' de la Mort «In Hoi.
A Mean Man.
It contain» no works, but consists
A popular loml belle and
merely of a fa< <■ in the form of a beau li .1 a qnarrel.
*in, •urro.in■!«-«l by ray». On the
"Kiiidli return my l<> I; if hair"
<l«-uth of » king the hand was «et to
'’All right. Do you menu tie
the ....... u-nt of In* demise ami re- dark lock or the one you pave m<
imniivl t.naltcrc«! until Ins «uccrsaor then i <HI were n blond
- l,ou:*-
joined li:ui in the grave. Thia cas • ill«» I •' -r .1 •••rnnl
ti
■ ■ . i,itili uni r I "-n* Mil
and continued till the revolution.
It v. ■« r'»viii'.’ on the denth of lami«
X \ IH. limi the hand still contin
ir
A. ! «m the prvci*c moment of
that monarch's death.
- ‘
superintend -.it for the «
year. The ejuor oi *..v
baa Ix’en work tijf under great
difficulties of hi*', a i h st! real
ened with t
Io suf the sight <>!
his left eye, a .»» the d ctors tell
him he
u t get out of the ;
t-
We will be glad to etplain how they will save
you time and labor.
until
CO DAYS SALE
UJESELY
Nrxt time you are in
town, come in and let us show you the Deering line of hay
I
Sunoet the Pacific .Monthly a credit to
the W eat and a macaxine of national
value and im.iortance.
fo introduce it to new reader*, we
will make the following special offer:
Send 50 cent* in stamp«, and we will
put your name on our subscription list
for the next four months, and will »end
you free a copy of the superbly illus
trated Mid-Winter number, and also
the famous Fonset Indian poster, se
curely packed in a mailing tube It
will make a beautiful ornament for
your front room or den.
Send your order to Fred Lock ley.
Nortnwcstem Manager, Sunset the
I Pacific Monthly, Port lai .4, Oregon.