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T g B HEBMISTQIT jn r o A i.n , m m y ra T O K , OREGOX Punctual Monarch gip Vmntston tyraffi 5 »vary Thursday at Um atilla Ooonty, Or Raymond Crowder, Kdltor Coal Consumers : ■kitarad aa ascond class matter, December 1»OS at the poetofflce a t Hermiston. Oregon. Take Notice Subscription Rates For One Tear -------------------- For Bln M o n th * ---------------- Payable In Advance. : The UNIVERSITY of OREGON » 1 .00 ' *• We have taken the exclusive agency for the Fam ous U tah Aberdeen Coal. Classified or Local Advertising 10 cents per line fo r firs t Insertion. M in im u m charge 25 cent«. Subse quent Insertions 6 cents per line. Mocking Bird and Robin To the South the mocking bird Is what the robin Is to the North. He Is known as fa r north as British Colum bia, but Is seldom found nesting there, while those found In the southern United States live there the year round, writes a contributor to "Bird Lore.” The female builds her nest the la tte r part of March, lays her greenish-blue eggs, speckled with brown, early In A pril, and by May the eggs are hatched. A second brood Is often reared by the same pair of birds. The mocking bird’s hack la nshen gray, his wings a brownish tinge with a large white patch, and his throat Hnd outer ta il feathers are white, with the under parts brownish white. I t Is when the mocking bird works himself up Into a passion of song that one realizes the wonder of his voice. H e Imitates the sounds of the woods and the other birds, but he Improves on them. The College of Literature. Science and the A rts with 22 departments. i ■ Tbs tiili Year Opens September 25,1924 Able to Endure Long Periods of Fasting Let us know your needs Inland Empire Lumber Company P bo ae 331 « The Yard of Best Quality M. M. STRAW , MGR. Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau then the goat (fo r Its domestic value), • and after that the donkey as n fine olfslder. The camel performs won ders In endurance and reliability amid big distances. The Importance of the goat Is great In the scheme of things. There is no fam ily without a goat herd. Like the camel, It Is marvelous what they live on. Amusing Incidents often occur connected with the ex traordinary appetite of the goat, which, so far as food is concerned, has no fastidious habits. I «‘TH R O U G H TIC K E T S” FOR M OTORISTS! Like a “through ticket,” one or tw o Standard Oil Scrip Books w ill do for your entire summer m o toring. Just present your Book to dealers, or at Standard Oil Company Service Stations whet' ever you motor—don’t bother w ith cash. Sold in $5, $ io and $ao denom inations. Oet one. Quite a Bright Idea A well-known author on leaving hl« house one morning forgot a letter he had Intended to mull. During the a f ternoon something reculled It to Ills mind, and ns ll was of considerable Importance lie hurried home. The letter was nowhere to be found. H e summoned the servant. “Have you seen anything of a letter of min« lying about?” "Yes, sir." "W here Is It?" "Mailed, sir." “M ailed! Why, there wss no name or addreis on the envelope." " I know there wasn't, sir, hut 1 thought it m.1st be In answer to one of them anonymous letters you’ve beet get.aig lately." Old American Roadway The old Hpanlsli road, built across Mexico In the Sixteenth century, la be lieved to be the oldest road on the North American continent. I t was built In the form of a letter “T ," with the lower point of the steam atartlng at Vera Cruz on the gulf. The north ern prong touches the Pacific at San Bins and the southern tip at Acapulco. Because of this road the weal-hound convoys from the Philippines were spared the dangeroua navigation around Cape Horn. There la still evi dence that this old trull was used by the Indians before the Spaniards broadened It from a pack-mule path to a highway. Don’t Be Too Hasty Courtesy Among Kaffirs Africa when one hears n nntive say to Ills departing guests: inha garble" (On In |>enee) nnd respnnae of the guest. ‘ Lula le" (Ke«t In i<eace) It Is lisrd to line on« self siuoag untamed sav- — If one keeps ones eyes closed, courtesy jM-cullar to the native ran Is hla manner of receiving Ihe most trilling gift. No mat- how small the object, he receives i both hands cupped together like wl. T l i B. Jt Is mtf’ I cxpresilve. The prem ium list for the 1114 D a iry and Hog Show la out and dis trib u tio n w ill s ta rt soon. Certain plants, like certain people, require strong foods. Not satisfied | with the nourishment derived from th e , soil, they require flesh and blood. Such plants exist by the consumption of In sects and small animals, and are to be found In bogs and marshes In tropical countries. All carnivorous plants are endowed with a sense of taste, and a tasty morsel of meat Is speedily d e-, voured ! The side-saddle plant, found ' In parts of America, sets w ater traps for its victims. This plant holds up I to the sunlight vase-llke leaves, around ' the mouths of which are glands thnt secrete honey. Tempted by the scent, the Insects make their way across the leaves to the mouth of the p la n t; far ther and farther they wander down the tube, looking for the honey. Detentlve hairs prevent tlie lr exit nnd, tired and weary, they eventually fall into the pool secreted at the bottom of the leaf. The common sundew captures dragon flies and ants. Attracted by the gum my appearance of the rosy leaves, the feet o f the visitors become securely fixed to the gum, and the red tentacles close In on the unwary Insects. N orthern Lights When you have a ’ob in our line give it to the home prin ter. The salesman from 1 ' ! STAND OIL COMPA A L ItO S H IA ) ! I i Writer Would Welcome Mine Ifrought Wealth Return to Simplicity to Fortunate Mexican Pacliucn, capital of the state of H i j ! dalgo, Mexico, la one of the world's greatest nnd most famous mining ren ters, according lo a bulletin of the National Geographic society. One of Pnrhuca's silver lutnes, the Heal del Monte, contained the counterpart of Nevada’s famous Comstock lode. > An Inconspicuous muleteer bemme the owner of the Paehucs’s mine In 17.30, when Its value was unknown. Ills pick opened np a bonanza vein ' snch as seldom has been uncovered. ’ Bonn he wss n m ultim illionaire. In a | day when even millionaires were rare. He presented several fully equipped war«hl|>s to the king of Spain and for his happy thought was made a count—Conde de Manta M arla de Regia. The famous mine came to a tragic end so«>n a fter the count's rise to for- tnne. by Ihe bursting Into It o f a sub- terra nisi n river, its drowned rlrhea remained untouched until near the middle of ihe Nineteenth century, when efforts to reopen It by British engineers led to frenzied speculation and n crash among London Investors rivaling Ihooe nt Ihe .Mississippi huh hie. Ix x a t Pachncnn» bought up the bankrupt company nnd promptly found a second bonanza vein even richer than the first. M A IS T O O WATTS SHOWS— 1 — TKT THE HEKALD WART ADS— People who complain about the In crenslng burdens o f life do not always use plain, common sense to ease them selves of these burdens. W e do not have to have many of the things thnt we now enjoy nnd pay for. It might not seem easy or pleasant to sacri fice some of these encumbrances, but we could do It. More frugal fare at the table, with t smaller variety of viands, la one way. Another Is the wearing of clothes a little longer than the arbiters decree Then there are the places of amuse men! that claim our too-frequent at tendance. And how many other form« o f In dulgence there are that have no real purp«»ae to serve, the lack of which our fathers never seemed to find a dep rivation. Sim plify your life. Quit paying the tax on exeesa baggage that adds no single benefit. Ik i It openly and above hoard an a frank confession that you cannot afford to do otherwise, and not with the half-nshsmed s ir of one who Is apologising for being alive.— Roches ter T lm es-l’nlon. Legal Blanks for Sale at This Office an out-of- town concern may give you an oily line of ‘ bunk” but His L a te st IN EIGHT the home printer is 10 Cents entitled to your job « 1 n -Admissi work. The do'.lar you spend here will some day re Ws live In the sun and on the sur face— a thin, plausible, superficial ex istence— and ta lk o f music and prophet, of art and creation. But out of our shallow and frivolous way o f life, how can greatness ever grow? Come now, let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, aus tere, Pythagorean lustrum. L et us live In comers, and do chores, and suffer, and weep, nnd drudge, w ith eyes nnd hearts that love the Lord. Silence, se clusion, austerity, may pierce deep Into grandeur and secret of our being, and so «living, bring up out o f secular dark ness the sublimities of the moral con stitution. How menn to go blazing, a gaudy butterfly, In fnshlonnble or po I litical salons, the fool of society, the fool o f notoriety, a topic for newspn pern, a piece of the street, and for feiting the real prerogative of the rus I set coat, the privacy, and the true nnd warm heart of the citizen ¡— Emerson. turn to you. The dollar STANDARD SEPT. 19-20-21" Prof. I-nrs Vegard, attached to Christiania university, by assuming that frozen nitrogen is responsible foi the beautiful greenish hue that pre ceded any outbreak of the northern lights, has dissipated the mystery ol the green hue that has always been unexplained by scientific men. The scientific world has not entirely ac cepted his assumption, but regards It ns more satisfactory as an explana tion than the old theory that certain luminous gases caused thia exception ally beautiful effect just before the fantastic flashes. Superficial Existence Silly Idea, Don’t You Know I The trouble with the mentality tests Is that they g:n.l.« intelled according to menial agility and cunning. Outside of geniuses, the highest grade of brain Is slow thinking. I f you have ever consulted a white-bearded philosopher, you know that the oracle hears your cnee, ponders It with deliberation, Tlews It from ell nnglee. then in a terse sentence utters the decision of wisdom. The fust thinker arrives at wrong conclusions o fb uer than the alow thinker.— Topeka Capital. Plants Set Traps for Unwary Insects Friday :: Saturday :: Sunday Pepsin Has Rival Oregon. Eumene. O r efan 8ome curious facta with respect to the capacity for fasting as exhibited by various animals are cited by Sleg- mund Crabin In the Umchau (F ran k fu r t), according to the Detroit News. He begins by observing: “The power of the camel to do with out taking food Is regarded In most works on zoology as representing sci entific peculiarities of animals. But If there were a general knowledge of the ability of many animals to fast for very long periods of time these In stances would not be so overem phasized. It Is, Indeed, generally known that even mammals are able to fast for months during their w inter hi bernation, but It seems to be almost unknown that the same power exists among the lower animals. The power of fasting Is much more widespread In them than was formerly supposed." M r. Crabin then refers to an experi ence of his youth when he put certain snails which hnd already withdrawn Into their shells and closed the opening thereof, as Is their custom. Into a box, whereuixin he forgot them for a period of more than a year and a half. He supposed they were Inevitably dead, but when he put them Into a vessel filled with water, much to his surprise, they came out of their shells and crawled gaily about on the table. PL A Y H O U SE Pepsin, the digestive substance de rived from the pig and largely used by medical men In treating cases of di gestion. finds a rival In pharmacy in “papain.” a digestive ferment isoliited from the Juice of the half-ripe fru it of the papaw tree. This substance ts said to digest fibrin and albumen more readily than pepsin docs. The fru it Is sometimes made Into Jam, though the necessary boiling would probably kill the digestive ferments. Anglo-Indians say that a tough steak becomes tender when placed for a few minutes be tween two slices of papaw fru it, or even placed near a papaw tree. F o r a catalogue o r a n ÿ in form atio n tonte The R eS u tra r. UniO ereitff o f ORDERS SOLICITED « I I I « a a 8 a ,a : a a Camel’s Croat Value a Conditions In central Australia are a said to be more prim itive than those ■ of the rural world during the time of a Abraham. It Is a roadless country a traversed only by camel caravan and a yet a land of great possibilities. It a has been the camel which has held a a central Australia— the camel tirst, and a The man in the dock was a regular customer at the local police court and he hnd spent quite ns much time In- aide Jail ns out. His particular line was breaking Into shops of the small- er tradespeople In the early hours of the morning. On this ocrnslon he was charged with breaking into a Jewel- er'a shop, and ns he stood In the dock with a constable on either aide the maglslmte asked: “Any witnesses?" “ •Course not!" replied the accused with a sneer. “ Why, you silly old fool, do yon think tbet when I goes out lo crack a crib I takes witnesses with me?" bond m T l! Bits. The t-rofraaiors1 schools of A rc h i tecture and A llie d A rts — Business Administration—Education—G rad u ate S tudy— Jo urnalism — L a w - M edicine— M u sic— Physical Edu cation— Sociology— Extension AH the clocks at the royal estate at Bandrlagbain for more than half a century have been kept half an hour fn advance of standard time. The idea was Introduced by the late King Ed ward V I I when he was prince of Wales, and was borrowed from a neighbor, the late earl of Leicester, to whom at Holkham. In the early days of their married life, the then prince an 1 princess of Wales were frequent vis itors. I t was the earl’s custom to keep all the clocks at Holkham hall h alf an hour fast to secure punctuality. So punctuul was King Eihvard in keeping his appointments that he gained the reputation of “never being late.”— Lon don MalL you send away is gone for ever. Our pric?s are standard. If it is to be printed we can do it. Let us figure with More hunting for farmer and sportsman! D o n ’t fa il to sen d fo r th is free b o o k , “H u n tin g P osted P rop erty”. I t sh o w s y o u h o w farm er an d sportsm an can g et togeth er to th e ir m u tu a l advantage. Sp ortsm en sp en d m ore tim e h u n tin g fo r sh ootin g grannA» th a n t h e y d o h u n t in g gam e. M ore p m n errv 1« b ein g possert e i: T h is b o o k w ill h elp yo u fin d m o r e a n d b e tt e r sh ootin g. W rite for y ou r cop y to d a y — i t ’s f r e e . E L DU PONT D E N E M O U R S « C O „ In c . S p o r tin g P o e rrie r D ie it io n W iL a iu g to u , D e l. you. Birds of the Night Nighthawks nnd whippoorwills work chiefly at night, when most other bird« are off duty, and at daybreak theli work Is tsken np by the swifts nn«1 swallows. These birds are provide«! with big scoopnet mouths, and as they swing through the a ir over wide area? of country they aeoop up almost un believable number« o f Insects. Homing pigeons probably are closet lo the human fam ily than any other form of winged life. The birds have re markable Intelligence. They mate It pairs and the female of each union hat exercised her right o f suffrage to th< extent that the male helps her In hatching out the eggs and In caring foi and feeding the young. Traced Tropical Scourge The first Intim ation we had that yet low fever was not a contagious dis esse and that Ihe Infection wns dot to some external cause, appeared dur Ing Ihe occupation of Cuba. It was In 1900 that surgeons ant ! soldiers of the United States army at the risk of th eir lives, proved tha: yellow fever, the supreme terror oi the tropica, was not a contagious or I flltli disease, but waa transmitted iron one humaa being to another stdeiy bj a niosquito of a particular type, Un stegvmfta. , . .... HERMISTON Subscribe for The Herald~$2.00 HERALD Why Ship Cream Away W e give full weight of cream. We give “exact” test of hutterfat. W e pay for cream promptly. Hermiston Creamery Butter has a good reputation which ALL Dairymen profit by, and we need the cream to fill our butter orders. H ER M ISTO hTC REA M ER Y C O M PA N Y
