THE HERMIsTOit HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
GUEST CHARGED FOR INSULT
This French Hotel Proprietor Surely
Went the Limit In the Matter
of Extortion.
YOUR SILENT
SALESMAN
“Many stories are told,” said Col.
Elliston P. Masters at a Fort Sherl-
dan tea, “of French extortions. But
the wont I have heard was related to
me by an army friend.
“He went to a hotel In Parla with
out making a bargain about ratea and
dined altogether at restaurants with
friends.
“One evening, as he was starting
out as usual, the proprietor accosted
him In the hall and Inquired :
“ 'I hope you’re dining with us to
night, monsieur 7*
“‘No,’ my friend answered, 1 have
an engagement’
“The proprietor, with a despairing
gesture, exclaimed:
“ ’It is an Insult to the establish
ment, monsieur, never to dine here.’
“ ‘Not at all,’ my friend answered,
and thought no more of the matter.
“But when he came to pay his ho
tel bill, although he had not eaten
any meals there, he found this Item:
“ Twelve dinners—350 francs.’
“‘But I took no dinners here,’ the
guest protested to the proprietor;
‘you remarked about that to me your-
self.’
“T know you didn’t,' was the re
ply. ‘Had you taken those dinners
the price would only have been 250
francs.”
“ ‘And what are the extra hundred
francs for?’
" ‘For the Insult, monsieur—for the
Insulti’”
duce prices is to reduce them; and
the ones to begin the reduction are
the ones who began the increase.
Leaders must
Hush Money.
Caller—Well, you ere a good little
boy. Are you always sa quiet as thlaf |
Johnny— No; but mother's going to
give me a quarter If 1 don't say any- I
thing about your bald head.
lead
the
procession
both ways, going up as well as com
ing down, or their leadership may
be called in question.
From a pure
ly human point of view, the burden
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your silent sales
man. Business men
and business institu
tions form opinions
- about you and your
business from the ap
pearance of your sta
tionery.
Good stationery,
well printed,. com
mands attention; de
mands respect.
North Africa—Morocco, Algeria—
comprises, according to Louis Bert
rand, writing In L'Illustration (Paris),
a storehouse of historical and arch
eological treasures unsuspected by the
great majority of Frenchmen. France's
tricolor floats over these storied lands
washed by the Mediterranean.
M. Bertrand concludes that most of
his countrymen visit the colonial pos
session much as they would visit a
spectacular review or something of
the sort, as a bizarre experience of
strange sounds and colors and muscle
dancers ; whereas, If they would but
open their eye», they might behold
dead cities raising up their heads and
almost hear the echoing footsteps of
the Roman legions.
He points, in
fact, to North Africa as the richest
museum of Latin antiquity In the
world, where the ruins of the Imperial
occupation are thickly strewn for
leagues, crying out for the pick and
spade of the excavator. “From Volu
bilis In Morocco to Gigth! In Tunis,”
declares the writer, “on a line 2,000
kilometers long, the Roman ruins are
landmarks In Africa. With their tri
umphal arches, colonnades, pngan tem-
plea, basílicas and Christian burial
places, they outline a shattered royal
road without a peer.”
Expected It White.
“Americans traveling for the first
time in Europe,” said Senator Bran-
degee at a Hartford dinner, "display
provincial crudeness In many ways,
but the faux pas a Boston leather prof
iteer made lu a fashionable Parisian
restaurant was pardonable. Thanks
to prohibition be was quite uninitiated
In the matter of table wines—ho had
mude hla plie after we went dry.
"‘Holy smoke, waiter,' this profiteer
exclaimed haughtily. 'Look wbat you’ve
brought me—yellow wine when I asked
you for white I'"
There are
no two ways about it: the way to re
French Writer Declares Land Ie a
Storehouse of Historical and
Archeological Beauties.
Washington at Forty-four.
The authenticity of a portrait of
Washington at forty-four by John
Trumbull, painted on a mahogany
panel eight by teu Inchea in size, has
recently been established under pe
culiar and Interesting circumstances,
writes William II. Shelton, curator of
the Jumel museum, In the Internation
al Studio. This picture has hung In
the museum of Jumel mansion for six
years In the collection of William
Lanfer Washington.
The head is Interesting as showing
Trumbull’s recollection of Washington
nt forty-four, and his recollection was
seconded by pen drawings made while
on his staff in 1775. General Washing
ton waa forty-three years of age when
he took command of the army at Bos-
ton.
fumbling round for some excuse to
postpone the reduction.
TREASURE IN NORTH AFRICA
Challenge to Thought.
When you can't do what you want to
It’s a challenge to think. If you can’t
do It, why can’t you7 The chances are
you will find It Is not .right that It
should he done at all. Or It may he
that you are not the one to do It.
You may want to swim the Niagara
just below the falls so you enn boast
of doing what has not been done. You
may want to fly to the moon so you
can write of experiences never yet
felt by man. You may even want to
play the Jonah game so you can give
your experiences of a few days In the
deep. But you can’t do It. The why
Iles in the fact that you are not made
for such exploits.
To attempt any
one of them would be to tempt self
destruction. The crowd might stand
by and watch you make the effort and
when you failed they would call you
a fool. When you can’t do what you
want to—think.—Grit
• FUCH of the talk about price re-
IVI duction Is merely a mental
of any period of change ought to be
borne by those most able to bear it.
Losses always follow wrong economic
conditions, just as gains accrue dur
ing wrong economic conditions; those
must endure the one who have en
joyed the other.
And it is not loss
at that; it is wise investment.
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