AH WONG WAS BORN TIRED By JAMES D. ELLilWORTH Hi , l by Hhort Btury fub. Co.) T' 1110 Pacific Mull Btt'Biiiahlp Pe king, wliU-Ji lulled for Hongkong luat Uiontli, carried thre hun dred mid fi-rty-Mvrn paasongi-r of various nulloiiulltlvi. In lliut whul Dumber tli it wu una,' a Chlnumaa, Who litrt no friend behind, mid yet he wilt to missed, frum Main to Cullfur Dla. Ah Wong, tli exceptional man Huong mveral hundred ocean voynii'T. would lie exceptfoiiul In my minima titty on the fuct of lit globe, llti cur ried Willi lliut, In letter! of credit, fortune tliut will keep lilm In luxury fur tlia rest of bit duyt, turned with out work In a unlqu profession Which tin Invented hlinaelf. lis belong to rue Unit till long been credited With pecullur nptlludu fur wayi thut ar dark und trick thut nr win, hut Ah Wong'i way Imn been to luiwh dark cr tliun thoa of lilt fellow-countrymen that 'ha It the most cordially bated mail thut hut ever been smuggled, over tht Cunitdlun border, . Ah Wong It tht ton of an actor, tine dead, who performed "" ' tht minor theater of (.'union Inmull tnent iinyt thut luated for a month. Ah Wong I alto- the grandson and great gmndaon of actors, anil from hit earliest youth hut shown inurked abil ity In the limit line, aa he made devil fare at lilt mother, frightening her half out of her diminutive tliort, be fore he wat a year old. He toon be came unoiulur with hit funilly, who regarded him a having heen bora tired, hut It wat thought that bit In herited tulenti could be counted uHn to provide hindaoniely for hit parent In their old age. Hut disappointment attended their eiwtutlona at every atep. When the hoy wit old enough to go to tclioyl he begun to limp to badly thut he had to be carried In the anna of a tervaut. Hoon afterward he appeared to be tubjeet to tuddi attackt of Mlndueaa, to thut all thought of providing Mill with a reg ular education had to he Indefinitely postponed, Then lib) father, In hit lelsUr time, undertook to teach lilui by Dot the text of the ancient (V leatlul tragedies, and would harnngua at tli top of hit vole for hourt to gether. It wat all breath wealed, for after the flrat wordt Ah Wong't bear ing would become blunted, and he would tit In paaalv somnolence, with a curtain of alienee between himself and the nolso of talk. Ah Wong't ttoinacll teemed to b the only part of hi anatomy Hint re mained In good working order, aud In thl th family rejoiced, believing that If hla upix-tlt remained good, the llm would coma when lie would outgrow hit phyalcul defects. Many yeura passed, the actor father wat giithered to hit futhera, and Ah Wong, Instead of being a prop for the lupport of hit widowed mother, waaa troubletoma burden. II vi'ua now be lieved to hav been Ixirn (any. lie wat more unpopular than when he made devil face at her at a bnby, o hi mother, exrrclalng her right a head of th house, .culled a family council to tit upon hit cut. Th wle old ludy itrongly hinted that It might b well to put him out of hit nilacry permanently, i'o ilbly ah might have found oin one to hold a sword. If he would content to fall upon It, but th uncle and couttna had another plan. They took up a collection among Iheinsi-lvea. and with thlt money Ah Wong win tent acroat the ocean to America, pouht 1pm h would be Well cured for there, and In any event he would be unable to return. It all turned out at they hud tnld. Ah Wong wat unloaded In Itoaton from th "underground railway" Ilk a lump of lead Taken to turn diatiint rel ative, he at their rice, drunk their tea and amoked their tobacco for lev erul yean, and earned th title of the Jutleat man In th world. When told that he muat go to work he wat too luty to refuac, but somehow he never did th work, When he wu kicked out of one atore lie quietly settled hlm aelt In another, and when hla dlatant relutlvea wild Ulaagreeuble things, hit heurlng became dulled to that h wna not disturbed, Hit needl were few and the burden of hit food and tobac co win not a heavy one, hut hit per petual Idleneat win a constant annoy ance to hit coualna, who at luat loat pntlcnce and began to talk of tending hint hack to Clilnu. Then the deafness left Ah Wong. II did not want to hear Hint talk, but In tplte of hit Inllrmltlei be could not help It. With China came thoiighit of fulling on twordt and all that tort of thing, ao he promptly told hit coua lna that ho would ion he able to do something for hlintelf, but he did noth ing until Para Cliln got caught pound ing a neighbor with a flat-Iron and wat aura to get ill month In the houte of correction. Bum Chin could not af ' ford to wail 10 much time, iia It would menn the loat of all hit laundry customer, While he wat out on bull, twnltlug trial, lie wild thut be would rather pay a buy Chliiamun flv hun dreds dollar to go to Jul I thnn go himself. With luughl and Joert Ah Wong wat advlaed to apply for the place, and when h gravely nodded hit heud lilt coumIih laughed till they dou bled up Ilka Juck-knlve. Ncvertlie leaa, It wat oil arranged, though th price wu only half of what Bum Chin bad Jokingly ottered. When the 'Jay of Ol trluf cmue, Ah Wong wut In th clothe of the other th painted face of Ah Wong wua like, th fac of Sum Chin ind th decep tion wat not discovered. Ah Wong wat pleated with hi burguln when the money wut paid and securely hidden, for ill tnouthi It not lung In a mun'i Ufa aud h wit told thut In lb houae of correction a good bed and plenty of , food ar provided. II hud not been told that 8am Clilu'l tenteiic demanded hard labor, aud for th Drat time In hi life, to hit dlagutt, Ah Wong hud to work, From thlt work cum thought, angry thought at flrat, but calm aud tutlafylng afterward, beraut before the til montht were Up h hid Invented t new prufeaalon, When released, h aiked hit coualna to writ to New York, Han Kranclaeo, Denver, and other cltlet, to lay to the leading Chinamen that Ah Wong would go to Jul! In th place of other men for not lea than a thouaiind dolluri and expense. Ill coualna laughed again and taid that Ah Wong had learned to work, but h tald nothing about hit lecret Invention, In two month h went to Provi dence, where Ye (let wut arretted with tinuggted opium In hit Jacket. The aentcnr wat a year at hard labor, but when It wat Interpreted to Ah Wong h only milled broadly. He did not tuille at the Jail, but when the lltn cim0 for hlin to go to work, he wat found all doubled up with tome it rung dlaablllly, and both wrlal and on ihoulder were out of Joint. Th doctor reduced th dlalocttloui and tent th prtaoner to th hoapltal to recuperet. Th food wut better In the hoapltal, th bed wut better, and Ah Wong recovered at alowly at he could. When at latt h wat lent back to work tit itrung tlckneat attacked him again and th Joint of bit armi wer again dislocated. II never left th hoapltal after that, and, at be had become a burden upon th authorltlet, h wat releaaed In nine months, en ru ing hit thoueund dollirt nior easily ven thin lit hid expected. Thlt time when b ret unit d to hi coualna he found tint b wat wanted In Philadel phia and Ban Francisco at th tain time, and h kept both men walling until th prlc au bid up to three thoutand dollar. At th beginning of hi profeialonal career he waa to thin tint he could only Ink th pluc of laumfrymen and luborer In th peni tentiaries, but with arm out of Joint h lived on the fatteat of boapltal fare, and aa h gained weight he look the tenttneel of rich merchant who were able to pay more. II permitted him self to be tried for any crime, only drawing th line 'at murder cases, be cause, at h nld, h waa now a rich man and could not afford to leave hi money, Laat fall h decided that he wa rich nougb to retire. He had served In twenty Jail aud a h could not do hla contortion ipeclalty In any on of them a Second time, hla Held of useful nest bid become restricted to clllea where ther wer but a few, and thus generally law-abiding, Chinamen. Therefor h decided to return to the land of bl father to enjoy th fruit of bla lailneaa, and wai planning to reach ther In time for the celebra tion of th Chines New Year. At the last moment, however, he wa sum moned to New York by a letter from a man who wit about to be deorted for being Illegally In th country and who rich friend wer willing to pay liberally for a auhatltut to he sent back to China In bl place. The new arrival, then out under heavy ball, wua a comparatively thin mun, but Ah Wong agreed to take hla pluc for two thouaand dollar and reduce hla weight till b Otted the other clothes. So Ah Wong enjoyed th New Year' festival on a narration diet of rice and water. When, with hi mug fortune, he tin. burked on the I'eklng, hla paasage pnltl by- tli government of th United States, he wa awaited by a patient llttl almond eyed bride, secured through - th good o dices of his re pentant fumlly. Petroleum Fir it Taken From Water$ Surface Th earliest system adopted for th collection of petroleum appenra to hav conslated In tklmnilng th oil from th surface of the water upon which It had accumulated, and It I fated on good authority thut at Point Creek, In Johnaon county, Kentucky, that a man named (!orge, and hi as sociate collected oil front the aunda ''by making ahallow cunult 100 to '.no feet long, with an upright board and a reaervolr at one end from which they obtained aa much at 200 barrel! per year by ttlrrlng tht tindt with pole. Th Pennsylvania Hoik Oil com pany waa formed In 185-1, but Ita -caution wer uuiiicceaaful, and In 1857 certain of the member of thut company founded th Seneca Oil com pany, under whoae direction K. U Druk started a well on Oil creek, in northweitern Pennsylvania. This win th first well avowedly drilled for the production of petroleum, After drill ing hid been carried to i depth of (III feet, on August 20, lft.M), th tools sud denly dropped Into a crevice, und on th following day th well wna found to hav "struck oil." Thlt well yield ed 23 barrel a tfhy for tome tliuo. The Wlte Raconteur Two men were talking at the club. "When I am tolling! man a story," aid on of them, "I Hop abort If I tea a peculiar gleam In hit eyes.". "Poet It mean that he hat heard th ttory bforet' Inquired the other, "No," anawered th flrst, "It means that ht Itn't listening, becatit h It thinking of th on h Intend to tU ni." George O'Brien OOCXXXMOCXXXiOOOOCOOOCJOOOOC 7 This popular "movlt" star hat been n In a number of motion pictures, much to th satisfaction of nit many admlrtrt. O'Brien wit kern In San Franelste. H I flv fast, 11 Inehe tall, welghe 180 pound and ht brown hair and blu eye. CTHE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRVINQ KINQ DEVIL'S DARNING NEEDLES tKW peojil real I re what a great mass of penlatent tuiierstltloo underlies our modern culture how. though th temple of lals and Osiris are crumbling by the bunk of the Nile; the "stars glimmer through the loop of time" m the Itoinan coli seum, Tlior ind Odin relgu no longer In th Noraeman's heaven and Ktone beng lie Itruldles upon Xalisbury plain, th auieratltlina evolved In the day when these thlnge belonged to a living .present and not to a hoary pa at remain at 111 w ith ua, descended from all these various sources, ap parently Indentrurtlbte and forming a part of the lives of the people In the present day. Th superstition regarding the dragon fly or, as It la popularly called, the dertl't darning needle. It ao In heritance from Norse mythology. In Scandlnavli the dragon fly It culled th troll'a nfalle, or troll's spindle, tnd I regarded by Norwegian chil dren as It I by the American child, la our name w have simply suhatl tuted "devlf for "troll." Who has not, when a child, brushed away with fear a hovering devil' darning needle lest It should "new hla mouth up," or "sew hi ear tip"? The niieratltlnn differs but It I generally the mouth. Th mouth I the original form of the tuperstltlon and (he rvuon for this Is apparent. The trolts hated nolae above all things It reminded them of th days when they fought with the gvHla and Thor threw his hummer after them. Children ar apt to he in) lay and thus awaken unpleasant recollections; wherefore tha troll's needlea sew up their mouths to keep them quiet. In Icelandic literature the troll were giants; but In None literature they Inter became dwarfs, which was probably the result of their unaucceasful attack upon the god. A belief In the trolls still ling ers ,ln the Scandinavian peninsula. They are the "hill people," the "little neighbors who live In the Interior of hill and correMnd somewhat to the "brownie" of Scotland. They are In general well illmed but eually of fended, oneclully by any noise, and tadly given to petit larceny. In America thf' devil's darning needle superstition I con lined entirely to f children, hut among them Is universal. ,1 ev McClurs Niapr trnsicau.) , Complimentary? He Your cousin refused to recog nil nie at the hop lust night. Thinks I'm not Ills equal, I suppose. Blie Itldlculotn! Of cnuise, you are. Why, he Is nothing hut a con ceited Idiot. Stunford Chupurrul. I ? v W 4 f )' )' -' JPII ,10 r MaClura Nawiyaiitr Iradlaata.) ALFALFA HAY. BEST -FOR DAIRY. CATTLE " Alfalfa hay proved superior to tu dan hsy at a fetd for dairy. cattl at tha Ilayt (Kim.) experiment station in th third trial comparing th merit! of the two feedt, according to th re port given by Prof. 3. B. Fitch at th annual Kantut roundup. Thlt trial, conducted during th past year at th Hsy a station, gav result agreeing with those obtained In th flrat trial when cow fed alfalfa hay, kaflr tllag and grain In proportion to milk production produced 13 per cent nor milk each day than th same cow when tudan bay wat substituted for alfalfa hiy. In the second trial, however, th cow fed atidaa hay, kaflr tllag tnd a liberal grain ration produced tllghtly mor milk each diy than th same cowl when alfalfa bay wat substituted for th tudan hiy. Eight Ilolstcin cow were rtsed In th third trial. They averaged S79 poundt of milk and 21.S pounds of but terfat dally while fed alfalfa hay at compared with Cll pounds of milk and 10.7 pounds of buttcrfat on sudan bay. , "Cow fed alfalfa bay, kaflr silage, and a liberal grain ration, produced 8 per cent mor milk and 10 per cent mora butterfut than the sum cowt when fed tudan bay," aald Professor Fitch In auiiimarlzlng th results of th third experiment -Th body weight of tli cow wer practically constant during tha three period. Tht alfulfa bay wat consumed In larger amounts than wst the sudan hay. "In two of th three feeding trial comparing alfalfa bay and sudan for dslry cuttle at th Hay station, al falfa hat proved to be better than tu dan. In lh trial where tudan proved better than alfalfa, th alfalfa bay waa of Inferior quality. In all thre trial th liberal grain ration and th relatively abort feeding period! appar ently have reduced th difference be tween alfulfa hiy and audan hay. Thl itatement la nad th result of a large number of feeding trial with dairy cowt comparing feedt ilmlltr to those naed In this experiment Alfalfa bay and audan hav practically th asm amount of digestible protein baiiudun. The quality of the protein In alfalfa ta alio superior to that from other bay crop and grain that hav been compared experimentally to data. A a source of minerals for dairy cow a th legum bays, and especially alfalfa, are of special Importance To maintain milk production and body weight over a lurg period of Urn when nn tudan hay cow must b fed a grain ration containing a protein supplement. In region where alfalfa cannot be grown and where It la high In price It i deal ruble to feed three or four pound of alfalfa daily, to dairy cow at an additional tource of min eral and for th protein It contains." Soy Bean3 Are Superior as Protein Supplement Cracked toy been a are equal or allghtly superior to Unseed ollmeat it a protein supplement for dairy cowt. After thre sepnrat trials with tblt new feed, Invetttgttora at th Iowa ex periment station hav reached th above conclusion. Furthermore, they demonstrated that any beitnit do not causa tcourt under th conditions existing In tht experi ment Th basal ration consisted of corn silage, alfalfa bay, cracked corn and ground outa. Boughage wat fed according to the capacity of the cowt and th grain mlxtur according to production. No tendency In th beans to becom unpalatable over long feeding period! wa observed to long at a dally allow ance of four poundi wai not exceeded. When th prlc for oy bean aeed geta lower and reasonably large acre age are planted, soy bean can b ex tensively used. Soy bean oil meal, which It the prod uct left ifter oil extraction, wa also teited at the Iowa elation. It valu wa fotmd equal to that of ltnieed oil meal. The relative price of th two feedt wU determine whlcb It th bet ter to buy. Planted with cornfor tllag, toy beana did not thow any value, accord ing to th Iowa teats. Work dont so. far tndlcatea that corn allage 1 of practically the same valu a corn-bean allage for tht production of milk ami butterfut The tonnage per acr ahoweJ an Increase of 800 per cent where the two crop were grown together, cotm pared with corn alone. Th cost for teed and seeding largely offset the ad vantage In tonnage, however, making straight corn illage practically at eco nomical at corn-bean silage. In the flrat trial th percentage of benn In th illaj,' wa about 8 and th lecond S3. No advuntag wat noted In the Increased percentage. There wa practically no difference In th palatn bWt. . Producing Green Ducks Th I'ektn breed of duck I kept al most exclusively by produce of green ducks. It It estimated that the cott of raising a ten-weekt-old Pekln duck la from S to 0 centa a pound. In th market when marketed from April to November, they bring between 13 and SO cents a pound. Th cott of picking them It pluced ut from 5 to 6 cent each, but thlt I practically cov ered by th valu of the feathers, which bring from 40 to DO cent! pound when cured. PHR TI A MTV 1 Jl i M-itUms Portland, Oregon. EH.Mallory Select Residential & Transient' Uth ta TmiSIU. Portland. Onm. Modrti Fireproof American Plan RATE! MODERATE Ship Your Cream Often MUTUAL CREAMERY CO., Portland. Better Frasklin Service-Storage and General Repairing ANDERSON & RICE, W, Portland, Ore Argentine 8nta Claua. The American consul general to Ar gentina tayi that "they do not bare a Santa Claut In thlt country a wa practice It is 'he United State,, but on each 6th of January they drett up to a very limited extent what they called 'Lot IUcV (the Kings), wear ing a Santa Claui beard and a red or colored coat but ths performance I very tarn and not at all general." Consult! Many Pin 8ecd. Government experiment with tha appetites of ground squirrel! and chip- taunki In an endeavor to determine what damage they 4a to the teed crop of our conifer tree showed that the ground squirrel averaged 340 pine teedt In 24 bourt while the chipmunk got away with 237 over the tame period. Uses for Jetties. A jetty Is an embankment whlcb ex tendi Into a lake or ocean for the pur pose of controlling the tand drift that would otherwise aboal up a channel or encroach on the thore. Jettlct are usually built of large broken atone, or tlmberwork; concrete blocks, etc, can be used. Planta and Animal. ' The fundamental difference be tween plant and anlmala are that aa a rule animal! can move from place to place, and planta cannot; plant make their own food from sunlight and com mon chemical while animal depend on eating other anlmala or plant. Practical Ideallim. One ahould keep one' eye raited to the mountains, and refuse to lower ona'a Ideals. All th tame, one mutt not ignore lb road one la traveling along, or one will trip. Ideallim must be translated Into the practical term of everyday life. Son Was Interested. Old RIchleigh (In lecturing mood) "I well remember the time when I hadn't shirt ot my back." Ilia Son "That must have been a hot old foot ball (tame, dad. What posts h did you play?" Boston Transcript Scourge of th Sea. Montbars, a French pirate ot the Seventeenth century, wa called, on account of hit ferocity, the "Extermin ator." When eighteen he went with hla uncle, a naval officer, to the West In dies, and there joined the buccaneers. Th Call. Josephine Mother, I mutt go home sooner than I expected. I just bad a letter from Edward telling me to stay aa long at I wanted to! South Carolina Took Lead. South Carolina waa the leader in advocating end fighting for the doc trine of ttate'i right. It waa the first slate to secede from the Union, De cember 20, 1S60, and it opened the Civil war, April 12, 1861. Haa Been Held Monster. Kubla Khan, tha grandson ot the great Cenghlt Khan, who completed the subjugation of China begun by his grandfather, haa been described by Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler, at an able and enlightened ruler. Fortunately for Humanity. There It in the heart ot woman such a deep well ot love that no age can treete It. Bulwer Lytton. Unlike Humanity. Animal! are such agreeable frlonds; they ask np questions, pass no criti cisms. George Eliot. You Want a Good Position Very wall TaVe th Aeeettntaney an Bualnaas Manaa;ment Private Bacretmrl at. Calculator, Comptotnater, a)tnor phlfl, t'annvanahlB, ur CeaaiawrOisl Taatsh ra' Cours at Behnke-Walker Th foremost 3ualnf"J Collate of th Northwest whlctf has Wbn mors Accuracy Award and Gold Medals than any tthar achool Id Amdrli-a. jand foe our ftnceaa Catalo-. Fourth Btreat near Morrlaon, Portland, Or. lasae M. Walkar, Pras. p. N. u. No. 27, 1925 OFFERS A MARKET FOR YOUR PRODUCE VAUDEVILLE PHOTO-PLAYS Carrtplela Changi Silurdir Adults, Week day Matinee 20c; Evenings, 86c Continous 1 to U p. m. Children 10 cent all timet INFORMATION DEPARTMENT DBS. CHAX LAM CRINIBI MEDICINI CO, UCEHacO PHYSICIAN. KtSMdla lea stoaaeh Slaoritn, kaaaer, klaUar tmblM, gall stesaw sasatipaUoa, aesaadidU ta tit iaaala seaplaiaM. Tm aa Uks trastaaate at koae at rw larra. 142 Mea4 BV. m saff Aldtf. Faritond, Ora. CUT FLOWEii I FLORAL DESIGNS Clark Brsaw Harts t. Stt Mai if a X. FOR SALE Country iton kandllnr eraml Una. Will aril ptupwrty and Bilurva includinr alt or any part of stock. Writ fur complete Inform ation. No tradca will b comMotm!. , Lindley and Jfihnaon. Apploton. Waahinirton. On Absoluts Rul. It it easier to adopt oursolvei to the world around us, than to change It, to do what we, can with the tooli we hv, than to force circumitancea to give ua what wa viuld choose. How ever much we may with to climb, one thing It ture we must begin where we are. ' Expresses Perfection. The "T" square, or rule, I aa in strument used , by mechanic and other when great exactness la re quired, therefore, "it tulta to a T,'" that Is, It it correct in every way at a piece of work would be if measured by the "T" rule. Could B Sure of Him. "One thing that I Ilk about our new ledger clerk," tald a member ot a firm to hit partner, "la that he'a re liable. You can alwayt tell what be it going to do next" "And what ia that?" asted the partner. "Nothing," waa the reply. Pearton'a Weekly. Appropriate Arch. A gardener who recently waa mar ried at Edinburgh, Scotland, decided to vary th old army custom of march ing out ot the church under an arch bt swords. Hit arch wat formed with hoes, rakes and other garden tooK Striking Effect of Diet. Our Unci Abner tayt that, aa be looks around among mankind in gen eral and a few that ha might mention In particular, he ia more than ever con vinced that a man it what be eata and that a large percentage of them eat prunes. Liberty Press. Won't Go That Far. Howsoever every man may complain occasionally ot the hardships of hi condition, he la seldom willing to ehanjo It for any other on the aame level. Not Missed. "Conversation at breakfast." says an essayist, "have become a loat art." Well, a lot of it waa pretty loud any way tor those porosknlt apartment houses. Detroit New. It Menac. The worst thing about golf la that It It uselessly prolonging the Uvea of ao many tuperfluout citizen. Us Flashlight. , When threading a tewing machine needle. It tha light Si poor, a flashlight I most effective. sa f 'V IM i Willi tH-trM tolas Bt 1 and fwtl ruulm tiuwiM giivNit lliti-hr i'uili I will Mtn Uul k, I'n.ltt-. 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