THE
Reduce the high coat of living by buying now. Dur
ing the month of January we will sell this $1.35 worth of
goods for $1.10.
STAMP CANCELLING
MACHINE INSTALLED
There is a decided difference between
a postoffice that sells less than $20
worth of stamps in a month and one
that uses a machine to cancel its
stamps. Yet that distinction has been
the lot of the Hermiston office in the
past eleven years. The stamp sales
for Decern be.- 1905 were 919.85. To-
day the stamps on letters sent out
from our postoffice are cancelled by
machine.
The new machine was installed
Tuesday and works fine. It is a small
affair but is guaranteed to handle 280
letters per minute. The Hermiston
office also has the distinction of being
the only one in the county outside of
Pendleton with such a machine. Citi
delivery will be the next step forward.
During
Jan
coLANG&CO:
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3 lb. Can Royal Club Coffee
2 oz. Can Royal Club Cinnamon..
2 oz. Can Royal Club Pepper ....
ALL FOR $1.10
$1.10
.15
.10
OREGON FRUIT CROP
SAVED BY STATION
Boycott the High Prices
“If il had not been for the bulletins,
demonstrations and instructions given
on spraying for codling moth the ar pie
crop of the State of Oregon, worth
$5,000,000 last year, would not have
been worth 50 cents, because it would
have been absolutely eaten up by the
worms
If it had not been for the in-
f rmation furnished on spraying for
San Jose scale, there would not be an
abple tree left today in the State.”—E.
H. Shepard, Editor Better Fruit, Hood
River, Oregon.
By buying at Right Prices
B. S. KINGSLEY
Phone 171
Hermiston, Oregon
EXCHANGE OF RECIPES
A column open for the exchange of
recipes, to which all are asked to feel
free to contribute. Recipes printed
under this head are all tried and in
many instances have been requested.
to Crane, 127 miles; Cal. & Ore. Coast
R. R. put in operation 15 miles pro
posed Grants Pass to Crescent Citi
line; Portland & Oregon City have 15
mil s in operation and Valley & Siletz
complete 13 miles
Stayton is becoming a prune and
potato center.
Coos Bay may be chos n for aviation
FIG OK DATE PUDDING
or submarine base.
Mrs W J Warner
Donald is shipping about 17,000 of
2 eggs well beaten.
hogs each wee«.
1 cup scant full sugar.
Oregon’s Public Utility commission
1 cup dates or li s, cut up not very
is as ing no radical legislation at the
small.
hands of legislature but advocates con-
1 cup chopped nuts
servative
polie es helpful to industries.
I tablespoon fi ur
Its report shows considerable loss io
1 teaspoon baking powder.
Bake 30 minutes in a slow oven, net operating revenues for railroads in
Serve with whipped cream. All right state from 1914 to 1916.
Roseburg wi I ship 150 cars broccoli
to make the dav before.
thi season. Also 50 cars to go from
MINCE MEAT
Riddle. All g ■ direct to Chicago.
Mrs. S. S. Palmer
Junction Citv - $5.000 community
4 lb. boiled le in beef, n c
ed, chopped tine
-- uiiding permits f r the
8 lb. green tart apples, chop pec fi
tea. number 243 and t tal $198,953.00.
2 lb. suet.
•
Rosebu g—Platinum ledge discover
3 lb. raisins.
ed east of city , ausiug great interest.
2 lb. currants.
I lb. citron, cut fine.
Saiem agrees to furnish required
1 lb. brown sugar.
acreage tu any firm that will establish
2 qts. sliced ineapple with the jui e. 11 • X products manufacturing
plant
2 qts sweet cider or the vinegar off
of fruit pickles.
Reported that Oregon Power Co.
1 pt boiled cider or strawberry will make improvements in Willamette
juice.
vail y to extent of $300,000 or $100,000.
1 tablespoon each of -alt, pepper,
Marshfield— Smith-Powers Logging
mace, allspice
Ry. gr died franchise along coanty
4 tablespoons cinnamon.
1 oad bet ween Bu ker Hill and Summit
1 tablespoon nutmeg.
distan e of 11 miles.
1 tablespoon cloves.
glasses currant jelly O" any tart
Corvallis Sixth street to be paved.
Property ow era will select quality.
j i’y-
Juice and grated rind of 6 lemons.
O-gun C y—Paper mill p'ans an-
1 pt. good brandy or 1 qt vineg >r
other addition similar to 91,000,000
1 pt maderia wine or use any b rry unit about completed. Woolen mills
juice.
to build big «ddition.
Put io a crock and cover w th
Portland—Forecasted that S. P. Co.
parafilo. This is not to be cooked
is preparing to go ahead with former-
This makes live gallons
ly planned double track electric sys-
tem to Salem.
in Flournoy
Roseburg— 5,000
valley pooled to drill for oil.
Eugene--State highway
planned
from Florence to Klamath Falls.
Railroad construction in Oregon dur- ! lone to bave modern store building.
North Bend men start new shingle
ing past year includes S 1’. Co. com
plete Coos Bay line, 118 3 miles;O. W. mill on Larson inh t.
I A N complete Eastern Oregon line Sate sold 25 tons of flax at 7 certs a
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
NOTES OF THE STATE
There's nothing of guessing or speculation ir regard
to Foni cars. Their practical value is being daily
demonstrated by more than 1,750,000 Ford owners re
presenting every phase of human activity. Ford Ser
vice for Ford Owners is as universal and reliable as the
car itself. Dependability and economy in ear and ser
vice Better buy your Ford today you want it and it
will serve you every day, boh summer and winter.
Toaring car $360, Runabout $345, Coupelet $505, Town
Car $595, Sedan 8645 f. o. b Detroit. We solicit your
order
Sappers Garage
NEWPORT BLOCK
HERALD,
pound to California mills. Same « as
produced with convict labor. State is
handling 750 tons.
Gresham—New garage is largest in
Multnomah county.
The third sawmill for Bend bis
begun operation.
You’ll Have to Hurry!
During
Jan
HERMISTON
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FOOLING THE BATTER,
Tactics and Tricks Used by the Big
League Pitchers.
In the Woman’s Home Companion is
an article on pitching baseball curves
by C. H. Claudy. In it he says:
“Few big league pitchers depend on
many varieties of curve to ‘fool’ the
batter. No matter what the effect of a
wide and sweeping curve may be upon
□ne of your teammates, a curve ball
in the big league is as easy to hit as a
straight one, provided the batter knows
It is coming. But when a good pitcher
gets to work on a batter he doesn't
let him know what is coming.
“With three balls and two strikes al
most any major league batter is enti
tled to believe that the next pitch will
be a 'fast one splitting the plate.’ But
If the pitcher has his nerve with him
It may be a sudden Inshoot Expecting
the natural straight ball and finding
about a tenth of a second before the
ball gets to the plate that it Is jumping
In toward him, the batter has no time
to change bls ’set’ and strikes out.
"The essence of any 'fooling' deliv
ery, then. Is its unexpectedness. To
make use of this feature control of the
fooling' delivery Is necessary.
"And the easiest curve to control Is
the curve which is pitched most natu
rally.
"That is why the big league pitcher
doesn't try to master the curves of
every other pitcher, but sticks to those
he can do best. The greatest pitcher
of the game won fame for his ‘fade-
away,’ the ball that withers and dies
at the plate after starting like a cannon
ball. But for every 'fadeaway' Matty
ever threw he pitched a dozen straight
fast or slow balls, and they all came
from the same motion. It Is not know I
ing until the last fraction of a second
whether the ball will go waist, high
plump into the catcher's mitt or weak
ly drop off to one side which makes the I
fadeaway' a terror."
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
Life That Looks Like Real Death, Yet
Revives After Many Months.
One of the most extraordinary mani-
festations of life is a condition quite
common among the lower animals and
known as anabiosis, or suspended ani
mation. The creature Is to nil appear
anees dead. The most refined means
of observation cannot detect a sign of
life. The blood has ceased to flow,
The nerves no longer respond to any
stimulation. There Is neither respira-
Hon. elimination nor sensation. This
state may last a long time, but given
the proper conditions the creature will
come to life again.
The lower we go In the scale of life
the more pronounced Is this state of
neither life nor death.
Some remarkable experiments con
ducted by E. Shultz and A. Singol of
Petrograd are described by the Berlin
correspondent of the Scientific Amer-
lean. The experimenters dried round-
worms till they were as thin as paper
strips, then cut them Into thin slices
When placed In water the tissues
swelled to their normal proportions,
and the pieces of worm resumed their
life just as do those of any worm that
is cut up.
They took some threadworms, roti
fers and microbes and dried them
thoroughly, kept them thus for eight
months, then locked them In an air
tight box from which all oxygen was
removed and through which a current
of pure hydrogen flowed
two
weeks. Thu* they were not only dried,
but effectually deprived of oxygen.
Yet on being moistened they "came to
life” again quickly. Strangest
those that had been locked
hydrogen chamber revived In
minutes. « hile those that had
of all.
In the
fifteen
merely
been dried needed forty minutes.
HERMISTON,
OREGON
We are Here to Serve You
and when you need anything in the
Hardware, Implement and Furniture
line come in and get our prices and learn
the quality of goods we carry
Oregon Hardware & Implement Company
MONEY IN SALONIKI
Why the Merest Glimpse of It Will
Produce a Near Riot.
In normal times. If Saloniki is ever
normal, she has a population of 120,-
000, and every one of those 120,000 is
personally interested in any one else
who engages or may be about to en
gage In a money transaction. In New
York if a horse falls down there is at
once an audience of a dozen persons. In
Saloniki the downfall of a horse is no
body's business, but a copper coin
changing hands Is everybody’s. Of this
local characteristic John T. McCutch
eon and I made a careful study, and
the result of our investigations pro
duced certain statistics.
If in Saloniki you buy a newspapei
from a newsboy, of the persons passing
two will stop; if at an open shop you
buy a package of cigarettes five people
will look over your shoulders; If you
pay your cab driver his fare you block
the sidewalk, and if you try to change
a 100 franc note you cause a riot In
each block there are nearly a half
dozen money changers. They sit in lit
tle shops as narrow ns a doorway, and
in front of them is a showcase filled
with all the moneys of the world.
It Is not alone the sight of your 100
franc note that enchants the crowd.
That collects the crowd, but what holds
the crowd is that It knows there are
twenty different kinds of money, all
current in Saloniki, into which your
note can be changed. And they know
the money changer knows that and
that you do not. So each man advises
you-not because he does not want to
see you cheated (between you and the
money changer he is neutral), but be
cause he can no more keep out of a
money deal than can a fly pass a sugar
bowl.
The men on the outskirts of the
crowd ask, "What does he offer?"
The lucky ones In the front row
seats call back, "A hundred and eight
een drachmas.” The rear ranks shout
with indignation: “It is robbery!” “It
is because he changes his money In
Venizelos street!” “He is paying the
money changer's rent!" “In the Jewish
quarter they are giving nineteen! "He
Is too lazy to walk two miles for a
drachma ! "Then let him go to the
Greek l’apanastassion!”—Richard Har
ding Davis in Scribner’s.
Languages In Switzerland.
Both French and German are the
“official” languages of Switzerland.
Publie signs, such as those of rail
roads, are printed In both languages.
Italian Is also spoken In those parts of
Switzerland which are closest to Italy.
As a matter of fact, the country is,
however, quite definitely divided as to
language. The cantons of Vaud, Neu
chatel. Geneva, Fribourg an-J most of
Valais apeak French. The canton of
Ticino speaks Italian. The rest of the
country speaks preponderantly Ger-
man. The canton of Valais has differ
ent districts, where each of the three
languages Is spoken.
English Injustice.
FRANCE IS VERY GREEN
Every Possible shade Ie Shown In Ite
Amazing Vegetation.
It might fairly be said that the gen
eral Impression France as a whole
leaves upon the beholder Is—green.
Perpetually moist of climate—except
in the south—endowed with heavy and
continuous rainfalls and having a tem
perature which is astonishingly even
year In and year out the country is
like an enormous hothouse.
The result Is a study in greens of
every conceivable and inconceivable
shade. Verdure and foliage range
from greens that are gray or black to
greens that are hardly more than yel
low. From the hardy pastures high
upon the sides of the towering Pelvoux
range, thousands of feet above the sea,
to the cactus and agaves and olives
that grow at the water’s edge the ver
dant nuances are a revelation In rural
coloring.
But France is not all green either.
That is only the background, the filler,
as it were, for a warm toned picture
full of high lights, touched with the
gold of grain, the ruddy tiles of an
cient roofs, the fiery spatter of pop
pies. the tawny flood of a river or the
steely thread of a brook, and on the
glistening southern shore, with cliffs
as red as any soil New Jersey boasts,
water like melted sapphires, villas cov
ered with majolica tiles that make the
beholder rub his eyes and wonder if he
is dreaming the amazing inebrities of
style and color that strive to but can
not shatter the harmony of creation.—
National Geographic Magazine.
A Miniature Holland.
It was a New England parson who
announced to his congregation one
Sunday. "You’ll be sorry to hear that
the little church of Jonesville la once
more tossed upon the waves, a sheep
without • shepherd "—Christian Regis,
tar.
Our life Is not a mutual helpfulness,
but rather, cloaked under due laws of
war. named “fair competition" and so
forth. It is a mutuai hostility.— Car-
lyle.
Happiness holds on to what ft hap-
pena to have; discontent wants all the
Stationery
adds distinctiveness
not to be obtained
in any other way,
This is true wheth
er your correspond
ence be personal or
of a business nature
England has a Holland in miniature
near the mouth of the Thames. Can-
vey island, beloved of holiday mak
ers. was until three centuries ago al
most submerged, but in 1622 a Dutch
dyker named Croppenburgh erected a
high sea wall and eut drains, which
converted it into rich and arable land.
Many of the Dutch workmen engaged
In the work settled on the reclaimed
land, and the Dutch aspect of the is
land Is preserved until this day.—Lofi-
don Chronicle.
So Shy!
'That's a nasty cut on your temple,'
an employer said to his clerk. ' “How
did It happen?"
“I had words with my wife, the
clerk answered.
Your wife gave you that?" exclaim.
ed the employer. “And she used to be
such a shy girl!"
“So she is now." said the clerk,
"She’s always shying, and she never
misses.”—Washington Star.
Set Her Thinking.
"I dress expensively. Do you think
you could do as well for me in that
respect as father does?"
"Perhaps so.” said the young man.
’Still, I shouldn't like to go around
looking as shabby as he does.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
We are equipped to
handle anything in
the printing line.
We take pride in
the class of work
sent out and confi
dently believe bet
ter cannot be had
At the Boarding House.
“Is this beef too rare for you. Mr.
Simpkins?"
“Well, since you ask me. Mrs. Skin-
tier, I would like ft a little oftener.”-
Baltimore American.
An Australian tourist traveling In
the west of Ireland asked an old wo
man how far it was to the nearest
town. She sadly looked at him. then
sighed and said:
Dad— No. 1 won't have my daugh
"It was five nice miles two years
ago, but some English brute enmeover ter tied to a stupid fool for life! He—
with chains and made It seven, and Then don't you think you'd better let
our hearts are broke walking it ever hie take her off your hands?— Pennsyl-
rania State Froth
since." Bad luck to them!”
And she disappeared Into the bouse,
leaving him there.—Illustrated Bits.
She’ll Finish Him.
Patience—Is she going to marry that
man?
Patrice—I believe so.
"He’s a self made man. Isn't he?"
"Yes. but she Is going to put the
finishing touches to him."—Yonkers
Statesman-
Printed
Our Candies
have a well earned
reputation for al
ways being fresh
and nice.
When you want an
order try us for a
box or in bulk.
Good printing is a
wise investment
Poor, cheap print
is expensive at any
price and is false
economy
We make a special
ty of orders for so
cial affairs.
P. B. SISCEL
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