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.
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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.
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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. An
Interesting point In such n one-day
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