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Saturday, September 13,1919 SUPPLEMENT TO THE HERMISTON HERALD No. 52 Hoss-shoes. The custom of using horseshoes in- stead of the large flat, metal rings with which the game of quoits Is pro- fessionally played was ancient when Joseph Strutt wrote his "Sports and Pastimes of the People of Englana." well over a hundred years ago. and. according to a traveler In modern New England, they are still so used in that part of the world. The trav eler tells of seeing two Maine farm ers meet early one morning in the road in front of a farmhouse. "1 II play you a game of hoss-shoes." sug gested one. "I'll play yon Just one game." said the other. “I’ve got a lot of work to do today.” So they be- gan playing, and when the traveler passed that way again late In the af ternoon they were still at It. 'I hey hud been playing horseshoes nil day. and the farmer’s wife confidili to the traveler, not altogether with adinir- ation, that they hadn't stopped even for dinner. ZCZCOFE- ASI Big Thirty-Day Offer We have just made arrangements under which readers in this region can secure at a low rate The Hermiston Herald and The Portland Telegram Life's Damage. It Is much easier to die than to take a vacation. A man who Is sum- moned to his last long voyage may set his house In order In an hour: a few words, written or dictated, will dis pose of Ids possessions, and his heirs will gladly attend to the details. This done, he may fold his hands on his chest and depart this vexatious life in peace. It Is quite another matter to prepare for a few weeks away from town. There are bills to be paid: the iceman, and the milkman, and the laundryman must be choked off nnd the dally paper restrained from ut tering the doorstep. There Is hair to be cut, and teeth to he tinkered, and so on In short. It takes days to stop the machinery of living for n fortnight. ■ nd days to start It going again But. my dear, one must have a change.— Chicago Tribune. Nothing to Do But Eat In Haiti. You can keep alive, after a fashion. In Haiti without doing any work at all. Nature will take care of you. She provides you with sugar cane, which will sustain life hy itself. If it doesn't bore you to death. Then she offers you coconuts, bananas, breadfruit, mangoes, nnd a dozen other edible fruits. They nil grow wild—so does coffee, though, of course. If you want to use that you have to get the berry nnd ronst It, and grind It, and take a certain nmount of trouble In brewing your drink. But it Is quite literally true that it's more trouble to starve to death In Haiti than to stay alive. Living off the country is not a phrase of the republic; It’s an exact descrip tion of a very common process.— Wil- liani Almon Wolff. In Collier's Weekly. Round the World in a Day. 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Address ............................................................................. New subscriptions start at once — old sub- seriptions extended one full year. Thumb-Print* Used Centurie* Ago. The use of thumb-print* as a mentis of Identification was the method used In China hundreds of years ago. The merchant* of those days made Impres sions with their thumbs In lieu of sig natures. In the Interior of China to this day the thumb-print Is used on legal documents, especially wills, in place of the written name. The use of finger-prints was transferred from China to India, where the British adopted the system as a mean* of iden tifying troops. From India the Idea was taken to France, where It was used by the police In the Identification of criminals, and since that time It has been taken up In nearly all countries. Scientists claim the finger-print system to be Infallible. Fire Worship. The worship of fire, or of the god of fire, or of the divine as typified by fire; also, the ceremonial cult of a public or a family hearth, as practiced for Instance, by all Aryan people, by all ancient Greek communities, by the vestal virgins of Rome, nnd In each ancient Greek nnd Roman family. The term fire-worship, as specifically applied to the religion of the ancient Persians taught by Zoroaster, and practiced by their descendants, the Guebers and Parsis of Persia and In dia, Is, If taken literally, a misnomer derived from the Mohammedans, the fire being with these peoples merely a symbol of divinity and a visible sign of their religion. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. On June 5 In 1851 the first install ment of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," by Hae riet Beecher Stowe, appeared In the National Era, an anti-slavery paper, published at Washington, D. C. Mrs Stowe received $300 for the serial. The following year the story was brought out In book form. The book, on ac count of its subject, had a great vogue. It was translated Into 19 languages More than 3,000,000 copies have been sold and the dramatisation made of the novel is still being played throughout the country. the effect that In the near future there will be airplanes capable of traveling 800 miles an hour, a possibility that makes the Idea of crossing the Atlan- tie seem almost insignificant. And If this prophecy Is fulfilled we may look forward to a race among airmen to be first to circle the earth In a day. To fly around the globe In a day over the latitude of London would require a speed of less than 700 miles an hour, while over the equator the speed would have to be 1,050 miles per hour. 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