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THE G AZETTE-TIMES, HETPNER, OREGON, TBTRSD 'V. OOTOTSFTt 3. lots.
NOW OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE FINDS HER POSITION CHANGED
Port Whenct Sinbad Sailed en Voyage
of Trade and Adventure
Haa Decayed.
In spite of the evidences of modern
industry, Basra was the port from
Mother of Young Girl Explain How
She la Being "Mothered" by
Her Daughter.
In an article In the Woman's Home
Companion on "The Girl of Seven
which Sinbad set out on his voyages feen" this mother says:
of trade and adventure. Siuhad was "Sne !s J"st Past seventeen years of
not a myth, but a real man with a nKe ls sweetly pretty. Innocent, re-
sailor's love for the sights of foreign """ Intelligent, talented and Is
lands, Louis A. Springer writes In' blessed with an open mind, particular
Asia. I; must have been a great event ! wptlve, just now, to all up-to-date
.l ,.. m . a ...... - t,liui. In .1 .
iii-ii ne Milieu uway witn ms neet or
dhows and when he returned with
treasures of far-olt China and the
Eastern islands. The Basra of today
is a moan liltle town In a clearing of
palm trees two miles from the river,
and at its port, instead of the ladened
dhows are rusty tramp steamers with
tawdry wares of the West. Farther
up the valley, at Kurua, where the
Euphrates and Tigris join, is the tra
ditional site of the Garden of Eden;
beyond are the ruins of Babylon and
on the bank of the Tigris is the ro
mantic city of Bagdad where Haran-nl-Rashid,
the great caliph, attracted
the v.-,"ts and the wealth of Islam and
ruled in lavish splendor. Down the
Arabian coast are great ruins, still
almost unexplored. Lovat Fraser, a
close student of this region, believe,
that some day It will be demonstrated
that here was the scene of momentous
events that determined the course of
the human race while the shores of
the Mediterranean were yet In impene
trable darkness and that here the first
dim glimmerings of civilization
dawned upon the mind of primitive
man.
JUST WHAT IS SIMPLE LIFE?
Interesting Question Often Asked Is
Here Answered by One Who
Claims to Know.
Most of us are inclined to hold to
the opinion that a man leadinsr a sim
ple life is a creature who necessarily
lias to walk barefooted or without tin
full outfit of modern clothes, and that
it Is only country folk who can, lead
' that sort of life, by virtue of their con
tact with nature. Nothing could be
further from the truth. A millionaire
occupying a mnnsion on Fifth avium
can lead the simple life, If in iiis dis
charge of daily duties he looks upcr
his fellow man as his brother, and door
not enlarge In his own eyes his impor
tance, due to his palatial residence or
his expensive clothes. On the o(hr
hand, the farmer or the mar. who
walks around barefooted from i;:-e--
sity, or who wears th simpl ,'s; kind
of clothes because he cannot afford
others, and goes nhnut with envy in
his heart toward ev ry beiir.' who pos
sesses more than h- does, ls far from
living the simple 1!,V In thought or
dress or In any other manner.
To lend a simple life one has but to
realize that if is the spirit In which
things are done, and the spirit in
which life is lived. That Is the essen
tial thing. This is applicable to dress,
to work, to education, thoughts and
pleasures and, I might say last that
which I should have snid first, to ma
terial dealings between a man and his
fellow beings. Slisha Appelbaum in
the Humanitarian.
ideas in the way of dress fads, social
stunts, ragtime melodies, jazx bands,
new dances and late coiffures. She is,
in two words, my daughter, a lovely
child of the period just arrived ut the
'know it all" age, and represents the
average daughter of this day, a replica
.of the daughters of other mothers.
"As for me, I am her mother, neces
sary to her as a housekeeper and
liursekeeper, also an admiring audi
ence of one for this very Independent
young person. A few years ago I add
ed to these titles those of mentor,
guide, teacher and comforter, but, to
be a bit slangy, within the past year
I have lost my Job and have fallen
from my high estate as leader and
manager to the second in command.
In fact, the tables have swung com
pletely around and where, only n short
time ago, I mothered my baby girl, it
is I who am now being daughtered.
who am being trained to look upon life,
not as a sedate' mother person twice
and a little more the years of my
daughter, but with the eyes of youth
ful seventeen, who am being skillfully
and tactfully Imbued, by my very own
child, with the latest Ideas ia regard
to living. I am being lovingly re
quired, nay, sweetly compelled, to
change by ideas and opinions so that
they may conform to hers."
The Reason Why.
This difference in the complexion of
people is due to the varying amount of
pigment or coloring material in the
cells of which the skins of all animus
are made. Very light people have verv
little pigment ; very dark people, those
with dark eyes and black hair, have a
great deal of this coloring material
in their ce!ls.
A great many people are neither
light nor very dark. They have less
tlian the dark complexioned people
and more than the light comp'exioned
jr. r,,,-. llwn lne nalr rums gray
u is oecause the pigment has disap
peared. As this Is due to the loss of
this coloring material, dark complex
ioned people turn gray sooner thnn
light complexioned people. The struc
ture of the skin showing how these
cells are made in layers can be seen
by examining the skin with a microscope.
Pigs and People.
So like is the pig's eye to the human
eye that fledgling oculists, learning
their trade, practice all sorts of opera
tions upon eyes of freshly killed swine,
which are easily obtained from the
market.
Even the skilled end highly trained
ophthalmologist, when he wants to try
out an idea for instance, a new kind
of operation for cataract (which means
the removal of the crystalline lens)
will get a pig's eye and see how it
works. If it succeeds, he tries It on
a patient.
All the wonderful muscle-cutting op
erations by which squint and other ir
regularities are so successfully reme
died, were worked out originally by ex
periments with pigs' eyes.
That Loose Shoe String.
Little things often lead to serlons
consequences. So it ls not surprising
to learn that recently an employee of
a large manufacturing establishment
was coming down the stairway from
the third floor of the warehouse, when
the lacing in one of his shoes became
untied. He continued to go down the
fctnirs, and when about five steps from
the landing he stepped on the flowing
shoe lace, which threw him, and he
fell, striking his head and shoulders
on the bottom step with such force
that he died the next morning. Which
teaches us that one cannot afford to
ROMANCE IN RUSKIN'S LIFE
Divergent rliligious VIewo for Long
Time Separated Him From the
Woman Ho Loved.
In r.uskin declared his love for
Hor.il? I.a Touc'.ie and told her parents
o: h:s hope to make her his wife, says
.!. Howard Whltehouse in Scrlbner's.
T.ere w.s a great difference of years
in'twivn them. Kuskln was forty-seven;
Koie was in her eighteenth year.
i'h.Mv was some natural hesitation on
the part of the parents, and it was ar
ranged that the matter should.be post
poned for three years.
But when the period of probation
"fs ended new difficulties arose.
There was hesitation not only on the
imrt of the parents, but also by Rosie.
Miss La Touehe was of a deeply re
ligious nature, but her views were or
thodox and she did not share the wider
views on spiritual questions in which
Raskin Increasingly believed.
Her love for him had never wav
ered since the days of her childhood;
but she doubted If, holding the views
she did, she could marry him. Both
she and Ruskln suffered the deepest
distress.
For a little time there was es
trangement, and there Is.a moving en
try in Ruskln's diary In the Year 1870:
"Last Friday about twelve o'clock at
noon my mistress passed me and
would not speak." In the following
year there was reconelllntlen.
The end of Ruskin's dream came In
1875. Miss La Touche's health never
strong, began to fall, and she died In
May of that year.
Various Kinds of Food.
A bulletin Issued by the New York
Museum of Natural History stated
that one tribe of North American In
dians regarded a mixture of pulver
ized ants, grasshoppers, and locusts,
dried In the sun, as a relish. Another
tribe preferred grasshoppers and
crickets with roasted ants as a va
riant. Moths, the bulletin added, are
a favorite dish In Africa, and lumber
men In Maine are said to enjoy an oc
casional meal of large black wood
ants. The beetle !s eaten in Turkey,
the Nile valley, Lombardy, Moldavia,
Java, Peru, and Valachla, and ls sulci
to be very nutritious and fattening.
In Central Ameflca the eggs of three
aquatic bugs are served as "cakes."
In Nyasalnnd a paste of mayflies and
mosquitoes Is considered a delicacy.
The Mexicans manufacture a drink
as strong as their pulque by Infusing
a tiger beetle in alcohol.
Concerning Fasting.
It is impossible to stop eating and
not feel the pungs of hunger, according
to the Popular Science Monthly. If
you have been led to believe differently
by the stories of men who have under
gone fasting tests, listen to the words
of a professor of the University of
Chicago. He found as a result of ob
servation on man during prolonged In
tentional starvation that the view that
hunger mechanism fuilM early does not
hold as a general rule. The profes
sional faster, he points out, may ignore
the pangs of hunger in a spirit of bra
vado. Indian fakers who have been prac
ticing the trick of fasting until the nor
mal cravings of the body have submit
ted to will power are said to be able
to go without food for Incredible pe
riods of time. But probably the real
truth of the matter is known only to
them.
The Quarrel.
Mrs. Willis What did Mr. and Mrs.
Bump quarrel About?
Mrs. Glllls Religion.
Mrs. Willis You don't say!
Mrs. Ulllls Yes; she wanted to at
tend a Church that hna fin nnmnrrtpit
be careless, even In such trivial de-' preacher and he wanted to attend one
tails as loose shoe strings. Scientific at has a lot of pretty girls In the
American. J choir, Judge.
LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIER BOYS
Emery Hiatt Gets Gas and Rest for Short Time From Field
Artillery WorkCorporal Frank Doble is in Poetical Frame
of Mind Walter Matteson Appreciates Home Paper.
Emery Hiatt Haa Slight attack of Gas
Emery Hiatt, Heppner boy now at
the front in France and with Battery
A, Field Artillery, has been seeing
Quite a lot of active service lately.
He recently got some German gas
and was laid up in the hospital for
a short time for repairs. In a letter
dated August 22, he writes his
brother John, of this place, concern
ing some of his experiences. He
says in part:
At last we have a little rest, don't
know how long, but at any rate I
went down to the creek, took a bath
and washed all my clothes and feel
ood, except being worn out with
audi steady work at the front, with
out rest and shooting nearly all the
time and getting very little sleep. We
have already seen results of our
work along the road as we advanced
to the front line. Our orders got
tangled as we landed in the front
line with our Battery and it is a
miracle we got out without a
casualty, but later on had several.
I don't like to brag but Battery A
surely has had a horseshoe so far.
I hope it may continue. I have been
gassed once and knocked down four
times by the concussion from the
shells hitting so close to me, but at
that I am feeling fine and will feel
dandy when I got rested up a bit.
It sure has been hot here for
several days and it will seem fine to
get back where we can lay in the
shade. I tell you another bath in
the Marne river would have been
fine today.
I crossed the Marne on the ruins
of the bridge at Chateau Thierrie
which was blown up to keep the
Germans from crossing tho river.
Gee, you talk about war sights I
have seen. I hope I may never see
anything like them again but a
person has to expect such things I
guess and become hardened to them.
They got the best of me at first.
wealth,
That Right the world may know.
The last Crusade is marching on,
Thou, Truth, shall rule, march on!
A cruel foe of God and man must
fall
E'er World Peace dawn.'
Thy many wounds, poor bleeding
France,
Columbia shall bind and heal;
nd Love shall rule the world,
The Liberty Bell once more shall
peal!
CORP. FRANK A. DOBLE,
Co. M, 23rd Inf. A. E. F. France.
on duty he lets us know that he is
the boss.
PVT. W. L, MATTESON,
Med. Dept., Base Hospital,
Camp Kearny, Calif.
Carl Yount, wheat buyer of lone,
reports some extensive sales there
the past week. Wheat ls just now
beginning to come into lone at a
pretty lively rate and the elevator
and warehouses will begin to fill up
soon. Farmers in that vicinity re
port conditions for fall sowing as
excellent better in fact than they
have been for years, all of which
promises well for next season's crop
yield.
The road crew done some mending
of the pavement at the turn of Main
street near the hospital corner this
week. The constant moving of autos
and other vehicles around this corner
had worn out the road bed pretty
badly, hence the need of repairs at
this time.
VOIX 8ALF A registered sow and
boar, also some pigs ready to wean.
26-4t A. E. PIERCE, lone, Ore.
EDITH A. THORLEY
TEACHER OF
PIANO VOICE
LESCHETISK.A METHOD ITALIAN METHOD
FUNDAMENTALS AND HISTORY OF MUSIC
Pupil of Portland Conservatory of Muic Main S3S
Morrow County Boy Indulges In a
Little Poetry.
Corporal Frank A. Doble, an Ir
rlgon boy, who has been "over the
top" with his company on several
occasions during the past nine
months that he has been in Uncle
the following verse
twenty-mile march:
while on a
Walter Matteson Is Well Situated at
Camp Kearny, Calif.
In a letter to thi3 paper, dated
Sept. 17th, Walter Matteson gives an
interesting account of his situation
at Camp Kearny, Calif. He also
expresses his appreciation of the
home paper, and says:
Received your paper tonight and
thank you very much for it. It
seems good to get the news from
Heppner. You know, Mr. Crawford
a soldier does not get much money
in the army, but will try to pay you
for the paper as soon as possible;
Will also write once in a while and
give you some news.
I am not starving here. We get
gooa eats and plenty of it. I weigh
185 pounds, so you can see starva
tion has not struck me yet, and I
feel good all the time. It has been
very hot. here the past week, but ls a
little cooler now, has been raining a
little, but you know how it rains
here, mostly mist.
I am on guard M. P. and only work
3 hours ou of every 24 from 8 p.
m. to 11 p. m. Large numbers of
now recruits are coming in for train
ing, tan't tell how many, but
several thousand.
I was in San Diego recently on
pass and saw and talked to John
Redington, a former newspaper man
of Heppner and who run the Gazette
years ago.
i I don't know when I will go
across but maybe sometime. It
j does not look very encouraging to me
I out, i am maricea ior overseas amy.
bams service in France, composed hllt T om ,nr
We have a nice Y. M. C. A. build
ing here, just finished. We also
LAFAYETTE, WE'RE HERE! j have a fine theater. It is called The
Lafayette we're here, our General Liberty Theater and the players all
cries,
Four million strong are1 we.
Bucks For Sal
e
Have some choice 2-year-old Rambouillet rams
and cross-bred Rambouillet-Lincoln rams and a few
Lincoln rams for sale.
Write or wire
PENDLETON SHEEP COMPANY,
Dan P. Smythe, Pres., or T. F. Boylen, Mgr.,
Pendleton, Oregon.
It will
We ve come with sword and ample
food
To help win Liberty!
To you and France, brave Lafayette,
a debt of love we owe.
And now we give our sons and
volunteer their services.
1 seat 4000 people.
Our officers here are all good
felows and our especial favorite is
Leiut. Taylor, who ha3 been in the
service for 17 years. He knows how
to handle his men and they all like
him fine. When off duty Lieut.
Taylor is one of the boys, but when
j , J InthcFkimeof
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Our million users 1
Hlllli lillilL recommend
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As showing a big saving in fuel
money over all stoves or costly fur
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of even steady heat day and night
as being the cleanest and most easily
cared for heater on the market. Burns
any fuel. We carry the original here.
GILLIAM & BISBEE
HEPPNER, OREGON
Mo. 70
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co
RETAIL LUMBER AND FUEL
W. L. HOLMES, Mgr.,
Years ago men asked the question: "Have you got it?"
And, It was not so long aso that the usual method of making inquiry
as to man's money was: "How did you get it?"
Today, tomorrow and for all time, the question will be: "How are
you going to spend it?"
Farmers, at least the progressive kind, will not be asked: "How are
you going to spend it?", for the years spent in earning it were ac
companied by years of planning as to how to spend it. Mature plan
ning of ones work invariably results in getting value for the money
spent.
The first and most natural call for money on the part of the farmer
is to improve the farm, for every dollar spent can be looked upon
as an investment: it Is the farmer's way of expressing his con
fidence In the soil that he has tilled.
Real estate men devoting their energies to selling farm property
will tell you that a well improved piece of farm property calls for
less salesmanship than dues the piece of property that has been
neglected, for neglect In this Instance has a tendency to create a
suspicion that the property is not a money producer.
Money that you have saved can be put to no better use than to make
not only needed, but necessary repairs. Farm machinery should be
housed properly; steps should be taken to protect live stock against
severe Winters; sidewalks of wood or concrete should be built from
barn, dairy shed and other buildings to the home with an idea of
keeping the mud out of the home.
No more worthy improvement can be made at this time than to
build a modern, up-to-date, convenient, step-and-labor-savlng home.
To delay building is to deny yourself and family the comforts and
pleasures you are entitled to. Labor should bring its fruits, and the
farmer will realize them perhaps more quickly by building than will
be the case with the average man.
Too many farmers pui. off building through tiiior falluro to realize
that, each year spent In the old home robs them of a year in the new
home. In this respect, it has been hard for us to understand why
farmers content themselves by living In the old home.year after
year, waiting until they are ready to retire, then move to the city
Lexington, Ore
or small town and build their final mansion, the enjoyment of which
scarcely ls in keeping with the many years of toil and sacrifice.
It is not our intention to discourage. home building by retired farm
ers in the town, for we must have towns since they are the salvation
of every farming community. What we believe In ls this: that
more farmers should stay on the farm, and with this In mind, their
homes should be made more comfortable, more liveable.
With an idea of helping our customers secure value received for the
money they spend in home building, we are now prepared to render
prospective home builders a helpeful service; one that will eliminate
the old idea that you have to build three homes before you get what
you want. It has come to pass that there is more truth than poetry
in this statement, but sad as it may seem, it ls due to the fact that
the average farmer goes about building without proper forethought,
which has resulted In a modern saying that hits the nail squarely on
the head, "Houses are built, then planned; homes are planned, then
built."
It is not the idea of our Service Department to completely plan your
home, for we realize that we can serve you better by incorporating
your ideas in a set of plans that will be practical in every sense of
the word. To work your ideas into the home will result in your
having a home that is yours, because it is like you and because it
feels like home,
You have home-making ideas and personality.' Still, It may be
difficult for you to express your ideas of a home to your contractor
or builder, so what we desire to do more than anything else is to
help tell you why this or that should not be done,
The important step ls to make a record of these ideas; to draw them
up in a set of plans so that there will be no misunderstanding be
tween your carpenters or contractor, which method is the only one
that can be relied upon or depended upon In giving you exactly
what you have in mind.
No charge is made for this service. The satisfaction resulting
pleases you, and, as you know, we have always counted upon our
satisfied customers to help Increase our business.
Do not wait until you are ready to dig your foundation, but come in
and talk over the building of your home in advance of the time you
' are ready to place your order for materials.
Tours very truly,
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company
RETAIL LUMBER AND FUEL
See Lew at Lexington
Bill at lone