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PAGE FOUR THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1925. IlLIUi MACHINE IN HARVEST Fun Bo.rd of Hf!th. Hiring ht'p it nir thn k"jmg It to ttt t.d of hsrvest! Brfskirr ,n nw orlr u'e ti tin of the inrmmn and uiutur involves ttpen? for transportation from the railway It lo down the output srd often eo,ti tht lost of a part of the scrv aff. Th Stat Board of Health wr,U tha followirr mtr"tiOn w.th thf hop that Ortfoti' farmfra may aefp tbtir harvffUra at 1(0 per cent ef flcimty. and that they may aave the tate tht eipenee of stamping out epi demic! which frequently arise in tem porary campn. The Board will issue a bulletin toon with aucftestions for the workers themselves which may be posted in camps. LOCATION OF CAMPS Should be on well-drained pround. and should be chosen after consultation with county health officer. PURE WATER SU PPLY Before water is to be used for drinking pur poses it should be analyied to deter mine its freedom from disease pro ducing germs. Vpon request the lab oratory of the Stat Board of Health will send a sterile bottle and full directions for the collection and ship ment of the water sample. There is no charge attached to this service; the only requirement being that the bottle must be obtained from the State. Laboratory. Address all in quiries regarding the examination of water to the Director of the Labora tory, Stat Board of Health. SOI Fiti- patrick Bide- Portland, Oregon. If the water comes from a well be sure there is no drainage back into the well from water used in washing hands, dishes and similar purposes. Drinking water should be supplied within 300 feet of each camp. All privy vaults and cesspools should be at least 200 feet from the water sup ply and so located that pollution is impossible. PERSONAL CLEANLINESS Make it easy for the workers to wash their hands often, and always before eat ing. A wash basin chained to the wall near a faucet, and the provision of soap will encourage cleanliness and may prevent the loss of many workers til rough illness. A camp sanitation eipert says, "The chief cause of disease in camp is eating with unwashed hands." WASTE DISPOSAL Garbage of food leftovers should be placed in tightly covered recpetacies and re moved daily, and either buried or burned. Fly tig-tit privies or water fiushed toilets should be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Toilets for women should be provided in the fields. At least one caretnW should be employed by the manage ment to keep the grounds in sanitary condition. FIRST AID SUPPLIES Increase the probability of healdth among your harvester! by getting from your local druggist a supply of bandages and simple remedies which he will suggest RAPIDS PROJECT NEED NOT WAIT (Pendleton East Oregonian.) The report upon the Columbia ba sin project by Commissioner Elwood Mead and others is that the project is feasible but that it should wait for future development. The report points out the large acreage involved, the cost per acre and the very large sum needed to develop the project. The report offers no hope for immediate action upon the project Such being the ease, the attention of the northwest may now properly be centered upon the Umatilla rapids project An economic report upon this project has been promised by Commissioner Mead and it is under stood this will be made in the near future. What the report will reveal remains to be seen. The project has obvious advantages over the larger Columbia basin project The sum of money called for ia much smaller, the pro ject will cover land in both states, it will provide river improvement, which will serve Idaho as well as Oregon and Washington, and it calls for a giant power development. The power feature is a truly vita! thing about the project because additional power is needed and here 420,000 horsepow er may be provided at a remarkably low cost In the meeting at Portland Dr. Mead expressed much interest in the power subject and the possibility that power development might be used to help make the project feasible from an agricultural standpoint. There are three or four large federal reclamation projects where much of the success is due to the fact that power is developed and the surplus power sold. Most practical men have long for seen that the Columbia basin project must wait for future development But there seems no occasion for de laying the rapids project If the peo ple of Oregon and Washington, and Idaho also, would pull together and exert in favor of this project one tenth the energy and money that has been placed behind the Columbia ba sin we would be assured of results. It is time to get busy. Pork and Vegetable Staple Chine Food$ Pork la the chief meat of the Chi ne. It ! nsex by practically all rlaswa of people In all parti of China. A meal without pork la con siiVred to t unusually simp!, acd with the nrentlon of vegetarians ! used by slaves or very poor peo ple only, the North China News say a Fresh pork It mob a common fiod that wealthy people will not even touch it. puring Sew Tear festivals and birthday or wedding oelehmtlona a whole dressed hog or a half of It It often purchased and consumed by the family and their guest a, Lsnih, however, may be substl luted for pork, hut beef la consid ered more or less sacred and la very seldom used for food. The quan tity of meat eateu Is small ; It Is usually served cm Into small piece and mixed with vegetable In a great variety of way. Vegetable are used much more freely by the Chinese people than by Americans. In addition to the common ones, such as potatoes, spinach, cabbage, radishes and the like, many plants and weeds are eaten which are not usually con sidered as food In America. Thus radleli leaves, shepherd's purse, bamboo sprouts and a large num ber of sea weeds are used aa food. Hay maws AFTER EVERY MEAL anorai benefit ai well as pleasure. Healthful exxreise for the teeth end a spur to digestion. A kmg leafing refreshment, soothing to serve and stomach. The Great American Sweetmeat, untouched by hands, full of Believed Evil Spirit Lurked in Watch Case Until comparatively modern times the wearing of a watch was con sidered a proof of the owner" gen tility, though the Invention can be traced back to the Fourteenth cen tury. Watches were worn attached to a chain suspended around the neck, a fashion which still survives with women. From the following story of on Mr. Allen, s reputed sorcerer, who died In 1830. watches must have been very uncommon in his day. Being at Holme Lacey, In Here fordshire, Allen happened to leave his watch in the chamber window. The maids entered his room to make the bed, and, bearing a cari ous ticking sound coming from case, concluded that It wa their master's devil. One of them took it up with tongs and threw It out of the window into the moat The string attached to the case caught on the sprig of an elder that grew out of the moat, and this con firmed their belief that the case contained an evil spirit Over-Long Sentence Edgar A. Bancroft the famous Chicago lawyer who has been ap pointed ambassador to Japan, said at a Blackstone luncheon: "A good diplomat can coach the truth, even the most unpleasant truth. In diplomatic language. He Is like the young beauty. "1 told Gobs Golde,' said the young beauty, that, despite hi great wealth, he was too old for me, and so I wouldn't marry him.' " hat I said her mother. 'Yon told him to his face he wa too old? My, but he must have been mad.' " "Oh, no," said the young beauty, lie wasn't mad. Ton see, I used diplomatic language. He said be'd love and cherish me till death, and I told him he wa too young.' " Had Little Part in Puritan Training "It Is not Inconsistent even with the American mind that myths should flourish among us." says Caroline E. MacUill in Scribner's ilugailne. "Perhaps the subtlest and most widespread of all our myths Is that myths cannot exist In the freedom and vigor of the "great open spacea' It Is a peculiarly dangerous myth, because of Its mind-closing tendencies, blinding us to the better concealed of the popu lar falaclea. "Many of our myth center around liberty and freedom, until one would suppose that they were something indigenous to the soli of this western world. Yet we know thst "freedom,' except for the few, was about the last thing the original settlers wanted. An examination of the records of the northern colonies will show how exceedingly little freedom there was of any kind from the ordinances of Plymouth to the famous statute of 1638, which removed the last vestige of freedom from children above six. compelling them to be employed, even doubly employed, after that age. It la very well to talk about the stern economic conditions which made It necessary for each child to be so far, as possible self-supporting, but the statute ttself. alas I make It quite clear that the real thorn wa the sight of children pre suming to play. Such lasclvlousnes on the part of the Innocents was ut terly at variance with the puritan temper." told treasures fts saltiness has caused much Inconvenience, for ninny, as Coleridi:e"s Ancient Mari ner, hsve had parched throats with Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." Although appar ently a nuisance and worthless, sea salt Is Nature" storehouse of treaa tires to the chemist, for It contains all the valuable constituents of the earth's crust that have been leached out by the countless rains of former years. Hum of Telephone Wire The humming noise made by telephone and telegraph wires Is caused by vibrations of the wire set in motion by the wind and other air current! The Intensity of the humming is determined to some ex tent by the tightness of the wires and the distance between the pole The greatest noise I heard at the poles, the wood being set In vibra tion by the wire. Baby Uielett Gift "Tee, Rupert," said mother, "the baby was a Christmas present from the angel." "Well, mamma. If we lay him away carefully and dont use him, can't we give him to somebody else next Christmas?" Her Memory Revered Lady Arabella wa the daughter of Thorns, earl of Lincoln. She married Isaac Johnson, who left his native land for New England from religious motives. Lady Arabella cheerfully accompanied him,- and tbey arrived at Salem, Mass., In April, 1630. Her exalted character and gentleness gained ber univer sal esteem, but she died In the Sep tember following her arrival. Mr. Johnson survived her little more than a month. Be I regarded as the founder of Boston, and though his time was brief, yet the good work be accomplished win never be forgotten by the people of New Eng land. But dearest still Is the mem ory of Lady Arabella. Denver New. "City" of El Dorado Nothing But a Myth Some time ago, when the ruins of an Aztec city were discovered In the Amaxonian forest they were popularly supposed to be those of El Dorado, the golden city to which Raleigh and many other adventur ers were said to have been lured, some to their death, and a few to fortune. In Elizabethan times, wben the wildest stories of the New world found credence. El Dorado sounds like the fanci ful name which the Spaniard and Portuguese gave to the cities they established, such as Buenos Aire, Santiago, Los Angeles, and so on. But the fact Is that El Dorado 1 not a city at all, and never was, al though It would make a fine sound ing name for some new capital. The story goes that Orellana, the lieutenant o; the great Pizarro, pre tended he had discovered a land of gold between the Orinoco and the Amazon, but when these high hopes proved delusive, the ruler was smeared with oil and rolled In gold dust, and dubbed El Dorado, the gilded man. Whether there Is truth In the story Is difficult to determine Had Wrong Willie If sometimes startling to be called to the telephone by an un known person. A youth In a down town office was called to the 'phone recently. "Are you William Q. Smith?" a voice asked. "Yes, sir," replied meek Willie, who is Just sixteen and Is not at all sure of himself. "Well, this Is Mr. Buzs wuzz, lawyer. Don't you know that you owe your wife ten months' ali mony? When are you going to pay ltf "But I ain't married," plead ed Willie. "What' that lying out of It? We'll send some one to ar rest you right away." "Mister," Willie almost cried, "honest, I ain't married. I'm only sixteen, and my mother wouldn't let me." "Only sixteen? I guess I must have the wrong number," the lawyer de clared. "There are too many Smiths In tjie world." Philadelphia Record. Cuffing the "Cordian Knot" This expression has Its origin In the tale of Gonlius, a Phrygian peasant, owner of a yoke of oxen, who became king. He dedicated his car and men to Zeus, anil the knot of the yoke was tied so skillfully that an oracle declared that whom soever should unloose It would he ruler of Asia. When Alexander the Great came to Gordium he cut the knot In two with his sword and up plleil the prophecy to himself. It Origin Uncertain The phrase "Lynch law" has been variously traced to a Virginia soldier and to a Virginia farmer of that name, to one Lynch, who was sent out from Kngluud about ltWt to suppress piracy, while yet an other tradition refers It to Lynch creek. In North Carolina, where the forms of a court-martial and execution were gone through ovet the lifeless body of a Tory, who had already been precipltatelj hanged to prevent a rescue. Chamber' Encyclopedia. " Waited" Medicine The particularly well-known man entered the doctor' consulting room and took a cbalr. 'Well, what can I do for your asked the doctor. "I don't think much of that cough medicine of yours," nswered the man. "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that," w the reply. "What Is the reason?" "Why," said the other. "There' so much dead waste In It. I hadn't taken more than a quarter oT bot tle when my cold disappeared, and there Is the other three-quarters Just thrown away." Mataryk Diligent Reader President Masaryk of Czechoslo vakia I an Industrious reader. His reading room Is piled with hooka newsnaners and periodicals of which he reads regularly nearly Ave hundred. These Include the Prmriie newspapers, many Checho slovakian newspapers, several newspapers from neighboring coun tries, including Russia, also Eng llsh and American dallies. Thus the Czech President keeps Informed of world events. Despite bis seventy-five years, he ride two hours nearly every dny. Loat Lady's' small cloaed ease El gin gold watch, with crack in dial; shield engraved on back of case. Val uable aa keepsake. $10 reward. In quire at this office. High grade piano near Heppner will b aold to a reliable party at a big saving, f 10 monthly will h.ndle, a anap. write at once to Taltmaa Piano Store, Salem, Oregon. Mrs. Andrew Olson of Heppner is the guest of Mrs. B. J. Wilton of this city this week. Mr. Olson ia manager of the Union Oil plant at Heppner. Condon Globe-Times. I NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY YOUR I LUMBER I Pyramid Uied at Gauge The pyramids and the sphynx were more Important a timepiece than a tombs, declare some scien tist. Originally, it 1 maintained the rphynx sat far below the level of the desert sand. By sighting across the asp on the bead of the sphynx and the use of the notched stick to get the angle the season of the year could be told, from the relation of the stick to the sun. The science was so accurate that the exact dsy of the year could be told. Similarly by studying the length of shadow cast by the vari ous pyramids other Important sea sonal facts could be ascertained. Rough lumber, at mill Shiplap, at mill No. 1 Rustic, at mill . No. 2 Rustic, at mill . No. 1 Finish, at mill . No. 2 Finish, at mill . Flooring, at mill .... . $15.00 per M . $19.00 per M .$30.00 per M .$25.00 per M .$35.00 per M . $30.00 per M . $35.00 per M Will deliver in truck-load lots of 1500 feet or more at Heppner for $6.00 per M. 1 6-Inch Pine. Wood, at mill, $4.00 Cord Pyle& Grimes Parkers Mill, Oregon 5 IlllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllM Outclatted Solomon Solomon has generally been re garded as the world's mo9t married man, but King Tchrimekundan, who lived thousands of years before Sol omon's time, had him beaten. He ruled over the land of Bhela, had 3.000 ministers and ruled over 60 little kings. In addition he bad 500 wive of noble lineage, 500 wives endowed with great rlche and other 500 perfectly beautiful wives. This Inventory Is given In one of hree Tibetan 'Mysteries" trans lated from the French of Jacques Bacot. These dramas are played In the Tibetan monasteries during the cooler weather of the sixth moon and the costumes and wigs are very accurate. There Is not much "ac tion" In the plays, but the dialogue Is Interesting. Family Herald. Treature in Ocean -The ocean appears to the trav eler to be a vast expanse of salty water valued chiefly for transporta tion and source of rainfall. Yet It Is veritably teeming with plant and animal llfet and Its dppth, hold nn- When you are ready to seed, don't forget the new SUPERIOR DRILL WITH THE ALEMITE OILING SYSTEM We have both the Superior and Kentucky Drills in both disc and hoe, also the Rotary Rod Weeder, which is sure to get all the weeds. You will surely save money by buying a new drill instead of using an old one that does poor work, and you know it does not pay to plant yur seed on weedy ground. Gilliam & Bisbee HARVEST SPECIALS Bring in a list of sup plies needed for HARVEST and get our prices. Let us have a chance to figure with you. Maybe we can save you money. We have a good line of Harvest SHOES for men and boys. Leather and Canvas Gloves, Oshkosh Overalls and Coveralls. t ? ? y r ? ? y t y y ? y y t t ? y y y ? ? y t ? ? y y ? ? y ? ? ? ? t Vanity Cases Used 3000 B. C. Scientific excavations in the ancient city of Kish, so we are told by a news dispatch, shows that women car ried vanity cases forty-nine centuries ago. Why did not the luxuries of that old civilization spread to the rest of the world? Why were the delicate and pleasure-giving things of' life buried and hidden away for so many ages? , Without the printed word, information could hardly be spread to other countries and the knowledge of events and things could scarcely be preserved. Today, if a bet ter rug is produced in Kurdistan, it is sono advertised for sale in American newspapers. If a better necklace is made in China, a printed advertisement will shortly de scribe it and quote the price on the other side of the globe. Advertising publishes the secrets of good things from one end of America to the other. The newest and best products of forty-eight states are told about, fully and truthfully, wherever the public press is read. Read the advertisements and you keep from being buried like Kish. f t y ? t y y t y y ? ? y y y f ? t ? y y ? ? y ADVERTISEMENTS TELL YOU WHAT IS BEST TO BUY WHERE TO GET IT AND WHAT TO PAY FOR IT f y y y y ? ? ? y t THE UNIVERSAL CAR Announcing Important Changes in Bodies and Chassis Added Beauty and Utility Closed Cars in Color No Increase in Prices All-steel bodies on Tudor Sedan, Coupe and open cars. Bodies and chassis both lowered. Larger, more attractive fenders, affording greater protection. New im proved transmission and rear axle brakes on all types. One-piece ventilat ing windshield on closed cars; double ventilating type on open cars. Curtains opening with all doors on Touring car and Runabout. Closed cars in colors, with upholstery of finer quality to har monize; and nicklcd radiator shells. Many other refinements now add to the beauty and quality of these cars. See LATOURELL AUTO CO. today for com plete details. I m f i? Malcolm D.Clark Detroit, Michigan ,