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THK GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPN'ER, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 88, 1918.
rAUE F.WH?
IVHY SHE BECAME CHRJSTIAH
Religions of Orient Make Slaves o
Women, Says a Japanese, and
Rebelled.
"And how li 1 you happen to be
come a Christian?" I asked Mme. HI
moka. a widely known Japanese,
writes Tyler Dennett in Asia.
"I wanted women to lie good and 1
banted to help them to imprcve tl'sit
lot," she replied tersely. "I fi.jnd thai
1 Could not accomplish what I de
fired without Minion. That eonelu
:ou son tin' to study religion from
the wiwan's point of view. I found
that lii.'!.' is no hope for women' in
nny of the regions of the Orient.
They teach Miat from the cradle to
the grave women are inferior to men.
They regard women as evil. Confu
cian ethics, for example, teach thai
lools and worn- -i cannot he educated.
A woman caiiii.it he a 'heavenly cro.i
tttre.' It teaefses that it is better to
Fee n snake than a woman, for the lat
ter aroii-vs passion.
"Japanese women have heen so long
Oppressed liy this kind of teaching tluu
they no longer stop to ask why. They
are afraid like slaves. Then I began
to read the Bible. 1 did not like some
Iarts of it any better than I like the
religions of the East, i dM not see
vhy an woman slionld call her litis
and 'Lot I and Master.' St. P.itu
made me very angry. He was an old
laclnlor; any one can see that. He
didn't know much about women. But
Peter? He was fine. He had a wife,
lie understood women. One can 6ee
Ibat from his epistles.
"When 1 read the gospels I found
that Jesus made no distinction between
the sexes. I liked that. We are all,
r.'omcu as well ns men, children of
Clod. I came to hc conclusion thai
I lie, only hope for the women of the
Orient to alt tin their true position U
through Christianity."
ENGLISH ONE-MAN COLLIERY
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should be dressed, up in. true
Hoi iay style.
The Gazette-Times Printery
has a very pleasing assortment of Holiday Decorators and
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you hi preparing
Individual and business greeting Cards
, Holiday oJ-.lvertising Matter .
MIXOR MV81NGS.
If you were to go about for a day
with a note-book and pencil In hand
land mark down every good and evil
thing said and done by those ' you
met you'd be surprised, at night, how
greatly the good had overbalanced
the evil.
If it be true that you cannot take
out of life more than you put into It,
a pill-box for baggage is all that some
folks will need on their last journey.
There is a small class of mothers
that regards children as ornamouts
to the home like the piano or paint
lugs or the phonograph.
At which tiinu do you feel better:
After you've made a sum of money
by a shrewd deal, or after you have
helped somebody that needed help?
"Kickers"' have their places in the
economy of things and we couldn't
really set alms well without them.
They're a good deal like castor oil,
that way.
Why worry about the future when
nobody has ever agreed with anybody
else about what it is going to be,
Anybody can get you "in bad" but
who's ready when you want to get
out?
A dime in time saves about everything.
The Lord that loves a cheerful
giver probably examines the motive
for the gift.
The only person that actually cares
about how you live is your creditor.
We sometimes talk slightingly of
old-fashioned people, but in our
hearts we love them, every one.
The reason that about everybody
Is more Interested in weddings than
war is that without weddings none
of us would be here and without war
more of us would be here.
A genius by any other name would
be just as difficult to get along with.
It's terribly hard to convince a
man who is all bunged up with the
"Bu," that he Is only mentally
afflicted. And besides it's likely to
make blm fighting mad.
Unique Industry Is Matched by Rail
road That Is Operated in the
United States.
One-man businesses are many In
these drys of depleted staffs, but a j
worKing coat mine, conironea, super
Tlsed, and staffed entirely by a single
Individual is something of a novelty,
tays London Answers.
This one-man colliery is found at
Hether Heage, Amhergate. The own
er works the mine every day and all
day to secure an output of 1,000 tons
of coal a year. The mine Is small, end
the produce near the surface, while
the coal is smut used hitherto In the
manufacture of blacking, but thought
of greater value in war time.
The other side of the Atlantic can,
however, match us in one-man Indus
tries. There, on the Idaho Southeru
system, Is found a road run solely by
one man. '
The track was once a portion of an
Irrigation system, long since abandon
ed ; and a high-powered motor.car with
fU.r.;;r" jeels has been built to run
along the rails. It carries 16 passen
gers, and In the two light trailers go
tL? freight and luggage. TU'u quaint
railrcu d has neither guard nir porter,
yet it has a printed time table of its
tiv.n, and runs its trains strictly ou
time.
and all printi:
i o
you
may
desire for
the
e season
Send your friends a remembrance of
distinction and individuality
LET'S HOPE SO, ANYWAY
When the Kaiser fled to Holland,
E'vry Dutchman held his nose;
For the Dutch don't like Llniberger,
Just about to decompose.
Wilhelm begged of Wllhelmina,
Who's the queen of all the Dutch,
"Make me safe from democratic
"Revolutionists and such.
"I'm not safe at homo or elsewhere,
"For this bolshevik! bunch
"Have no love for me whatever;
. "I'd be cheese for them at lunch."
"Now you're wrong," said Wilhel
mitia, "If yen think you're safer here;
W'e'vo no place for cheese la
Holland.
"Do I make my meaning clear?"
So the Kaiser doffed his helmet
When "To hell mlt!" said the
queen, .
And proceeded then from Holland,
Seeking refuge more serene.
But there was no place for Wilhelm;
Ev'ry place the Kaiser fled,
He could hear the cry, "Let's hang
him
By the neck until he's dead!"
"By the neck!" The clamor smote
him
As he hurried on again;
He could feel the rough knot
tighten;
And a mob cried: "Vive Lovaln!"
Till at last he found a refuge,
And perhars it's Just as well;
For he took his Hun Ci'.i with him,
And they settled down In just
what you'd say yourslf under
the samo circumstances.
SEES LITTLE IN ALHAMBRA
1 Hsd First Call on Dance.
Down at Quantico one night recent
ly t!:cre was a dance for the men
flf a certain company, who were to
leave for France the next morning.
Of course, other marines than those
about to go were on the floor. There
was one nmn who was a mighty good
dancer, and all the girls liked to dance
with him.
There was a very popular girl there,
too. She. had her dance program full.
There wasn't a dance left.
A murine enme up.
"May I dance with you?" he asked.
The young woman said she was sor
ry, but her program was full.
"I am so sorry," she said.
"I um sorry, too," replied the yonng
man. "I just came into the hall, and
I did want one dance before I leave
tor France."
He s.arted to turn away.
The suliU -r who had the dance grab
bid Jiim by the shoulder.
"You take my dame," he said.
Evidently Had Wrong Girl.
Eounctr was distinctly irritated
when he bumped .Into somebody along
the street, until he found that it was
til) old acquaintance of his.
"Hal Just the fellow I want to
K'e," he remarked. "I wanted to ask
yon v ! u -. 1 1 r you ever hear anything
cf I' '"I'm nowadays. Hid he marry
tii ! '-ii'l lie wag so kei'ii on?"
".", 1 d'.n't think so. In fact, I've
fc-n.'d lb:;, lie' ratlr fond of going to
In i' ii-c and putting the gramophone
on ii. "t .f slip evening, and cv ry time
K? .;..-; is uimi-d to put a fresh rec
ord i n. M - s i;iadi ye moves the hands
of tile on anywhere from ten
minute: to a quarter of an hour."
Writer Says Famous Building Ex
presses Mere Beauty, Without Any
Sense of Power or Vigor.
The Alhambra Is on the shoulder of
a mountain. It overlooks the town.
Hart Kennedy writes in the Wide
World. It was built by the Moors, and
I take it that it was built overlooking
the town for the usual reason. The
ruling Moors lived therein and they
wished to be In a position to ir've the
nonrttling Moors "what for" when they
became too critical. There Is a lot of
human nature in ruling people Just as
there Is In ruled people. A beautiful
place, this Alhambra. Rut to me its
architecture expressed decadence and
weakness. There was nothing strong
or massive about it. Whether a race
expresses truly its churacter in archi
tecture or not Is not for me to say. To
be able to give u reliable opinion ns to
this would necessitate the living of a
life" that lasted through a couple of
thousand years." But certainly the Al
hambra did not suggest power and
vigor. Beauty, yes, and also fancy,
but nothing more.
But on the Cuesta de los Muertos
(the hi'.l of thv deaiH, which was out
side the actual palace of the A'.ham
brti, were three massive square towers.
They expressed strength. In them hud
lived centuries before the Moham
medan soldiers of the guard. These
towers Impressed me and I often went
to see them In the moonlight, for then
there seemed to te In" their strength
and power some. weird effect
girl of aTicmTlnirteen. Slie was TasTc
fully dressed, but had obviously been
crying. She said she was wishful to
adopt the profession of the stage. Had
she ever played in amateur produc
tions? No. Were her parents pre
pared to pay the fees? She had neither
father nor mother. "Well, what are
you?" he inquired. Then she sobbed.
She was a housemaid in the service of
a crochety old lady. When the pro
fessor advised her to return to her
mistress, she exclaimed : "1 can't bear
'er! I'd sooner go on the stage than
stand her any longer."
Perfectly Innocent Fun,
"Willie, are you anil Hoy in any mis
chief out there?"
"Oh, no, ma," came the reply. "We're
just playing with some eggs the grocc
left, to see how many times we can
catch 'them before they break." Bo.v
ton Transcript.
FIRST. RECORDED AIR FIGH1
Sun Lifts Much Water From Lake.
Kvaporatlon of water from Gatun
lake, canal zone, reached a new high
record during the mouth of March,
this year, says I'opular Mechanics
Magazine. Calculations show thut the
Miu withdrew 3.24.S,(KH),000 cubic feet
of water from the body, the equivalent
of 1,213 cubic feet a second for the
period of 31 days. This was one cubic
foot a second in excess of the volume
of water passing through the pen
stocks of the Gatun hydroelectric sta
tion, which, during the same month,
produced 4,081,000 kilowatt hours of en
ergy. This In turn shows the loss of
potential current due to the' sun's effect.
Sappho.
Suppho's fragments are redolent of
flowers; her woven verse, a "rich-red
chlamys" in the sunshine, has a silver
sheen- in the moonlight. We hear the
full-tlin.ated sole,' of Hie "herald of
the snritiL'. the nightingale ;'' the breeze
moves the apple bou-lis, the wind
shakes the oak trees. I'cr allusions to
the "hyacinths, darkening Jhe ground
nherr trampled undor foot of shep
herds;" the "line, soft bloom of grass,
trodden by the tender f. ..-t of Cretan
women as they dance;" or the "golden .
pulse growing on the shore" nil these
seem Inevitable to one who has seen
the acres of bright flowers that carpet
the Islands of the nearby litioral oft the
Asian coast. ... In her L' sblan
orchards the sweet quince-apple Is still
left hanging "solitary on the topmost
hough upon Its very end;" and there
Is heard "cool murmuring through up-
pie' boughs while slumber floatoth ,
down ff om quivering leaves." Francis
G, Alllnson and Anna O. E. Allinson.
Frenchmen, Rivals in Love, He
Strange arfd Fatal Duel More Than
One Hundred Years Ago.
The first battle in the air and th,
strangest duel in the long history ol
the field of honor was fought 110
years ago near Paris. Two Frenchmen
were ardent rivals for the affection
of a woman, and so bitter did their
quarrel become that only blood could
wipe it out. Ordinary methods wen
too tame for these fiery spirts, so it
was agreed that the duel should be
fought from balloons. The cause ol
tin; trouble agreed to marry the vic
tor. When the selected day arrived tin
two fighters find their seconds repaired
to the meeting place, only to iind a
great crowd assembled, for word of
the strange encounter had spread
broadcast. The principal, however
were undeterred. Two balloons, pre
cisely alike, bad heen prepared, and
Into these they stepped. To each was
handed a carefully loaded blunderbuss.
The word was given and the moor
ings cast off. Slowly tlie balloons as
cended, almost side by side. At tin.
height of about half a mile, when the
great hags were hut 80 yards apart,
the signal was given and both men
opened tire. Soon one of the balloons
collapsed, and crashed to the earth.
The record says the woman kept her
promise and married the victor of the
aerial battle.
Matter of "Two Evils."
A Londoner whose business Is
coaching stage aspirants tells this
one:
"One day my work was interrupted
by a weak-featured but rather pretty
Dog Recognizes Portrait.
In his reminiscences "Spy" sketches
my credulity. He had painted a full
length portrult of his host at a country
bouse. When It was just finished he
came down early one morning to in
spect It and found Ids host's dog sit
ting up begging before the portrait of
his master.
ILwag ApeHes, the ancient ..paloter,
I think", w'ho BeplcteTgrapes siTFerills
tically that the very birds pecked at
them. But in a long association with
dogs I have never found one who could
recognize a figure or a landscape in a
picture.
The nearest approach to such intel
ligence is wlten I have set a looking
glass on the floor and confronted a dog
with his own likeness. He growls sus
piciously, uncomfortably, until he
walks behind to find the other dog
that isn't there! London Chronicle.
Easy Way to Measure Distances,
Boy scouts who are interested In
emulating deeds of their older friends
nre practicing many engineering
stunts. One of the most interesting Is
to measure distances without instru
ments and where the travel from point
to point is impracticable. The method
followed Is one employed by' Napoleon
when his engineers sought to learn the
distance across an unforduble river.
The little corporal took a position
on the bank at the water edge, gazed
across the Stream until the opposite
shore line was Just discernible below
the visor of his cap, then turned on his
heel and spotted a point at the same
level up stream. After this he paced
off the distance and had It approxi
mately correct
Common Heather Dying Out.
In the case of .such a plant as the
common heather of England and Scot
land, found growing wild in Nova
Scotia, it is a mutter of curious Inter
est to determine whether it Is nntlve
to the soil or has been Introduced from
Europe. Lawson decided that the plant
hud Its home here. There was a time,
It is thought, when the plant was abun
dant in our northern lauds, and its
present rare occurrence marks a dying
out of the species on this side of the
ocean. lis vigorous grow th In Europe
Is duo to the circumstance thai, there
It Is u young plant on virgin soil.
Discovered in 1735.
Platinum w as discovered 'in what Is
ndV Colombia In 17:15, by a Spaniard
named Ion Antonio de Ulloii, who ac
companied n French scientific expedi
tion, mid his account of It was the lirst
Information regarding the mcl to be
brouglft to the attention of Europeans.
In the placer mining of gold In Co
lombia It was formerly thrown away
as wnste, and when the rise in price
made It 'more valuable than gold the
ground on which the waste had been
thrown becume In Us turn a field for
mining operations, and even the
streets of the principal center of gold
refining in Colombia, -Qdlbilo, were
torn up and the soil washed for par
ticles of the new treasure. One man
tore down his store In order to get at
the ground beneath, and found to
much platinum that he was enabled to
rebuild and make an extra $4,000 for
bis trouble, ....
The Bans
oAre Lifting
No license is now necessary, regardless
of cost, for the erection of farm buildings,
flour and feed mills, wheat warehouses and
grain elevators, according to an announce
ment from' the non war construction sec
tion at Washington, D. C, received by the
State Council of Defense.
The telegram reads: "War industries
board has removed, effective at once, all
restrictions on all buildings including
houses and garages costing not more than
$10,000. Between $10,000 and $25,000
State Council of Defense can issue licenses.
Above $25,000, Washington approval nec
essary. No license necessary irrespective
of cost on farm buildings, flour and feed
mills, railroads and public utility work,
highways, streets and bridges, wheat
warehouses and grain elevators. When
schools, churches, hospitals and municipal
buildings do not cost over $25,000 they can
go ahead."
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