No one thing will give so much
pleasure to so many people
for so long a time as a
COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA
You can get them here on
the same terms, for
same money as
anywhere
Oscar R. Otto
Heavy Snowstorm! Often Cause Bent
and Twisted Trunks.
To the person who Is not versed in
forest lore the grotesquely bent tree
trunks that nre to be found 1u almost
all woods : mystifying, and wonder
Is often aroused as to the cause.
Foresters will tell questioners that In
the ense of trees in mountainous coun
try and other sections where the snow
fall is heavy the weight of snow Is re
sponsible in most instances for the
queer twists they assume.
When a tree is young the weight of
MISSISSIPPI HAD "MELS.
When It Was a Sandy Desert With
Tropical Climate.
The geology of mountain regions is
generally morn diflicult lo muster than
that, of plains, because the rocks have
been more broken and tilted about,
but the geology of certain parts of
Mississippi Is almost as dllllcult as
that of a mountainous region, because
certain widely distributed formations
bear few definite identification marks,
particularly remains and impressions
SEED BARLEY FOR SALE!
Hulless and Beardless i
GENERAL NEWS HEMS OF
INTEREST TO HEPPHER PEOPLE
Eoseburg Owing to several recent
incidents endangering citizens' lives,
Due to the enterprise of the Bell
system, the whole United States may
be enabled to hear President Wilson's
inaugural speech on March 5, over
the long distance telephone.
Portland Improvements on ths
North Bank, Oregon Electric, Oregon
Trunk and the United Railways lines
for the past 12 months have totaled
over $500,000.
Gresham The .fruit cannery here
is to be rebuilt and is also to handle
vegetables.
Eugene is to have a cheese factory
if the quantity of milk is available.
Astoria The port commission is
to build a new dredge, to be used to
improve the Skipanon riyer.
enow that falls on Its branches often I of I'lnnls ami animals that lived at the
bi nds the trunk over until It is flat
tened to the ground. Sometimes it is
buried under six or eight feet of snow
and held In that position so long that
when warm weather comes the tree
fails to spring back into lis normal po
sition. The summer sun causes the tip of
the young tree to tutu upward, and if
It manages to withstand the weight of
the snojrv of the next winter that por
tion of the tree will, as a general rule,
continue to grow In a normal way.
"Hairpin" bends and other odd shapes
result.
A curious tree Mauds on the top of
Tunnel hill, Johnstown, Pa., about four
miles from town. It Is a sugar maple
about 100 years old. which has pro
longed Its own life by grafting 8
branch Into a much younger tree.
Fopular Science Monthly.
VAMPIRE BATS OF PERU.
Have
STALLIONS
AT ALTA STAsLES
PENDLETON, OREGON
Imported Percheron and Belgian Stallions that are
extra good. Besides other Percheron, English Shire, and
Clydesdales with imported ancestors that are young and
good with correct pedigrees One pair extra Percheron
mares. Remember, Good Stallions and Low Prices. If
you have a stallion that you cannot use I might change.
J. R. Justice, Importer Pendleton, Oregon
These Bloodsucking Animals
Bulldog Heads.
On the morning after our arrival at
San Miguel bridge (1'cni) the pack
mules nearly all showed Monti blotches j
on their withers and backs, where they
had been attacked during the night by !
vampire bats which had fed mi their
blood. This bat, Desmodns rotumlus.
Is plentifully distributed throughout j
t'eru In allHndes below 10,000 feet. I
It Is one of (he most highly special- j
b.ed species of existing bats. The lower
Jaw is decidedly undershot, and the
head, with its short cropped ears and
broad muzzle, has a strikingly bulldog j
appearance. The legs are well devel- j
oped and rather heavy, enabling the !
animal to move fairly rapidly on the
ground, in which situation It is by no
means the sliuflllng, helpless creature
like many other bats. If molested when !
thrown to the ground it will turn and ;
bite savagely.
The teeth are a highly modified cut
ting apparatus for making Incisions In
i the skins of mammals and birds.
I In habits they are soclnble and are
commonly found living in caves or tun-
. nels, suspended from the celling In
clusters often of Immense size. Na-
i tlonal Geographic Magazine.
time the deposits were formed.
A peculiar sandstone, which geolo
gists have called the Catahoula sand
stone, has been studied with care by
U. C. Matson and E. W. Berry of the
United States geological survey, de
partment of the interior, who have
born able to identify and follow the
sandstone by means of the remains of
plants.
Among the plants found were pines,
ferns, leaves of date palms, tropical
myrtles, tigs, and a tree closely related
to the present day Mexican and Cen
tral Ameriran sapota, from which
iti"M of the material for chewing gum
Is obtained. These fossil plants show
that, at the time the sandstone was
formed- perhaps 5,0OO,(HH years ago
the climate of this region was tropical,
ami bones of camels found by .other
geologists in the region and the simi
Jarity of the sand composing the sand
stone to certain tropical desert sands
have a similar implication. Geological
Survey.
At the Eastern Oregon Jack Farm, I
seven miles northeast of Lexington. I
a few sacks of this late, improved hul-
less barley, which 1 am anxious to get I
a few sacks each into the hands of as I
many Morrow County farmers as my
limited supply will furnish. An article I
in another part of this paper, telling of 5
my experience with this grain, will eon-,;
vince all of its peculiar adantibility in S
Morrow County, where it surpasses all I
other gmin in yield and has no equal 5
made into hay. Address,
B. F. SWAGGART.
Lexington, Oregon
J. H. COX
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
THE KNOTTY FOOD PROBLEM.
Plans and Estimates Furnished for
First Class Work
All Kinds
Only. -
of Buildings.
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A Scientist Finds Its Solution In a
Nutty Proposition.
Leave it to the bewhiskered old boys
of science, they of the square specta
cles and ear muffs, and this world will
be pulled through Its rather precarious
existence. Some time ago somebody
who needed the money wrote an
alarmist article for a magazine, stat
ing that in a very short time In fact,
within 8,000,000 or 9,000,000 years the
earth's food supply would be entirely
exhnusted.
This set all the scientists going like
gyroscopes, and in the dizzy whirl of
Investigation some very interesting
things came to light. It was up to the
scientists to find something for the
people to eat 8,000,000 or 0,000,000
years hence. It was not wholly a new
j problem. Scientists long ago evolved
! the scheme of sawing up timber into
I breakfast food and said that a man
i could go forth with a bucksaw and get
; enough sawdust out of a feuee rail to
keep himself and his family supplied
for some time.
One learned scientist thinks that he
has solved the problem for all time.
He says that the nut trees could in a
pinch supply food for the entire world.
This knotty question has become a
utttty question and one which bo has
apparently solved. Those who are on
earth now should be of good cheer.
They will not have to starve 8,000,oo0
years hence. Topeka State Journal.
Make a Specialty of and Ha ve
Equipment for
ompien
House Moving
CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.
Sensation
ired enamel
Store
Blend beautifully col
ware at Case Furnitn
:u
Notice is hereby given that I will on the 3rd. day
of March 1917, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock A. M. of
said day, at the John W. Cradick ranch in Eightmile,
Oregon, sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described personal property,
to-wit:
Five Head of Mares,
Four Head of Work Horses,
Two Cows,
One Steer, Yearling,
Twelve Mules,
Three Wagons,
Two Rack3,
One Hack,
One Header and three Header Boxes,
One Steel Harrow,
One Wood Frame Harrow,
One Gang Plow,
One Disc,
One Fanning Mill,
One Chop Mill,
Three Sets of Harness,
And various other small tools
And Implements.
All bids at said sale are subject
To Rejection.
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
TERMS All sums under $10.00, Cash. Sums
over $10.00, negotiable paper maturing in six
month, bearing 8 per cent.
Like Scene From the Middle Ages.
The oldest and largest university in
the world is Kl-Azhar at Cairn, round
ed in il'o, it lias been from the start a
national institution, the khedivo being
the rector. The minimum age of en
trance Is fifteen, and the applicant
must know half the Koran by heart -If
blind, the whole Koran-and be able lo
read and write. The curric ulum con
sists of Tlrtually nothing but theology
and canon law, the final examination
fifteen years after matriculation being
upon these, together with traditions of
the prophet: firainmar. etymology, rhet
oric and logic. It. Is the same instruc
tion which lias prevailed for centuries,
and one who goes Into the great court
wber thn circ les of students are sit
ting at the feet of their (iainalicls look-
upon a scene preserved from the mid
dle age, "a perfect specimen, living,
breathing and entire."
Story of a Lucky Stone and a Trio ol
Accidents.
Cooigo F. Kunz, the well known gem
expert, relates this little story of a lucky
stone and the advent im s of Its owners:
"Some years ago u meteorite wn
given to Edward Heron Allen, the fa
mous writer on palmistry and the vio
lin, and this gifted man always wore It
about him. One morning he awakened
to find that the entire roof above him
had fallen In except Just that portion
over liis bed.
"He told the atory to one of the best
known ladles iu llostun, one who is
known for her public spirit, her love of
art and her faultless manner of enter
mining. This lady successfully urged
Allen to glvo her the meteorite.
"A few days luter while out driving a
great truck with two runaway horsos
attached to it struck her carriage. In
Htlnctively shs rained her muff to pro
tect her face. The muff wag almost cut
j in two, but Uie lady was not hurt. A
i few days later while s!ip was walking
' under Home scaffolding It fell, and the
open part where the hoists went up
: proved to be Just where hho K'.ood. Al
j though surrounded by ruin, she re
uialued unharmed."
Whether the stone was a factor hi
j averting disaster to Ha ownors In theh
i moments of peril Is, however, a matter
i apart from tint facts In tin? casc.
i Itochcstcr lirluoiTat ami Chneilole.
For subscriptions .to the "Ani.n
:an Boy" magazine, see Kenneth
Chilis, Ileppner, Oregon.
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' Professional Column $
OR. II. J. VAUGHAN
DENTIST
'"rmnnently located it. Oddfellow's
Building
i IF.PPNER.
OIIECON
VELI.S & NVS
ttoki:yk-at-i, w
lEITNEK.
OIlEtJON
- HE KEPT THE TOOL
And
A Request.
"I shall never forget." says ihe etnl
nent man of wealth during the course
of ids little speech on "Mow to l',oi-oine
as I Am," "I shall never forgel how I
saved toy first hundred dnllns."
At th' lunctnre a weary Individual
In Ihn i. ..ileiKC. who Iihh heard till
story many lime ami has read It many
times more. Interrupts:
"Well, If you can't forget it. for
heaven's fake ghc the lest of im a
chnii'-e to."
Why He Did Not Knew.
'Tap", what Is a brl UliiyerV" -kcl
Harry.
"Now, what a silly question!" said
his father. "What wake ym a-k
question like that, son"; Any fool
would know."
"Yea; but, papa." said I lurry, "I nln'l
fool."- Philadelphia Ledger. "
Prized It Because It Msd Never
Done Dirty Work.
"I was throwing up dirt from an ex
cavation in the pavement one day,"
said an old laborer, "when a little olil !
ehap wllh white ball' Mopped to look ;
on. I was as big H two of him. Aftci ;
a minute or two I tested mi my Mmvel
and looked up at 1 1 Im. Sobl I :
"'If you had to do work with a
shovel for your living you'd starve In
death before you enuld make n trench
deep enough to bury you in '
"I thought that, was a Miiart thing to
say, and I laughed. Then ho answered
inc. He vwn a Mow speaking man with
a sort if ill aw I.
I "'I might starve -as -you -say,' he
I said, 'and jet I -have -n-trade in
I whl' h I use a tool ery mm h like -jours.
In fai t many people w ho
work at my trade-use thc-lonl-ti
shovel dltt and filth wit h-a you
do - with yours. This Is the-tool.'
"He handed me a steel pen.
! "'Is It a JokeV I asked.
'it-Is -a-tool to make them -
i Willi,' be nodded. 'That - Is -part of
- my I rude. My name la Tw alu-
! Mark Twain.'
"I have the pen yet," roni lnded the
lalM'rer, "and no dltt was ever tdmi
elisl with It." New York i;M.
JOS. T. KNAITENr.EIlK
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Individuality.
ea II llllelle. t lielnngs H Kpe n ,
power. We belong to ourseHc. au.l
we be control of our own wlnu w
try to be Mime one el-e The origins.'
mind Is magnetic center for the at
trm lion of mhei minds. It'll the lode
atone loses nothing by al i r timi. It
remains the satep
0
E. E. MILLER.
:0 Auctioneer,
Minnie B. Cradick,
Executrix ol the estate ol
John W. Cradick, Deceased.
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contents)
AayS and Raise.
"Everybody emits raja.
mail emits tlolet rays; a
H-rsou emits 'lnklh rays."
"Hound liiteresiing. I wonder if m
W would emit a I '! dollar rnU of
aslarj! " V.i linnc
Oppetitet.
Wlgg t 'lpp"-e we ' illld all HiirTT
our npHMt . Wu.g but thr; 1
no re si hi h a thfin with a f'ltur
, ati'inld tnsrry a wminn Willi past
Rulers of England.
Tint lirst to rule over all Lug'and wu
Egbert, king of Weisej, win united u'l
the m Ions petty kingdoms and Ih-i nine
king of Liiu'iind In SJT Tin- greiiter
kingdom was disrupted (nun
ti'S. when the llnnes ruled liollh of the
'II, Hiins. In thn hiller year King l.'l
ear reunited the kingdom, and Mine
Unit time It da l.i-i er lu en . ti f ( II I 1
r.elweeu Ldinillid Ironside llnilii aul
Edward the CoiifessiH- (HtlJi three
Imiil-h king ruled all England -1 a
mile. Harold I and Haiilli miimim The
IIihI king of 'in al I'.iiialii was .lames
I. flOi:;i. The first king of the Culled
Kingd'tlii of Cieat Liiliiln and Ireland
K IIS IJeort'e III. I'rolil the roiles of
Ireland In 117.' by II, my II. th" khm
nf I lit' h lid Were Hljlid h'l'l "f Ireland
iiiilll the -'liii,ll"il of the title king
of Ireland bv Henry VIII., and tlirte
after this title was Used mill! I U sit
of uiili'li 111 W'l. The IiiismiiI sovi-r-l.-i.ty
of Indiu wa amiiiied by (Jnetiu
Vl torla
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