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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON! ' OREGON» tUpimattim Strali s r s r j T h u n ta y *t Ha». U ntatili* County, Orecoa by Crowflsr, lfditor and Maa- iterad aa second e ia * mattar, ubar l» 0 » at tha poetoffloa at H aralatoa, Oregon. Subscription lataa VW O m T s a r -------------------- ..»».o« FW SU Month« ....... .»l.oo Payable In Advance. Classified or Local A d vertisin g 10 cants per lin e for firs t Insertion. M in im u m charge 25 cent«. Subse q uent Insertions 5 cents per line. B m s T A o f L ay £gga in Brick» and W ood fla m e a of Happtnaoa Just a fancy of mine, bnt It’s as claai as anything. F ire— a lighted Or« throwing a gleam across tba grayest day,' an Indistinguishable Ore. Be cause, however It die» down, yon can find embers at tba heart of Its ashes and build It up again with what you have. Almost without knowing It. al most In spite of yourself, you do Just that, l’ ou take w hat you have: love, of course. If you are one of the lucky ones who have It, or friendship-- any thing that means happiness to you Sometimes tha fuel that comes Io your hand Is the Joy you hava in your own mind. In leariilug and thinking. In books and plays and music. Sometimes It’s religion. Most people, after they're older, keep It burning with work, hard, cleun work and the little things that make It crackle— Joke» and non sense and bits of singing and laugh ins. Now ,ind then, of course, you pile It with the driftwood of your am bit ions, and your dreams shoot up anil up. It's a Ore that costs you souse thing, happiness; but you keep It go Ing, as you keep life going. I sup Sometimes as you are looking at an old wall you will notice that the mortar between the bricks contains a number of deep pits. I f you probe Into various holes you w ill be startled eventually by the exit from one of them of a small, but very'angry bee. You have. In fact, disturbed the ma- i ; ......... ......... v ___ what’s yours.— From “T he Flames of son bee in his home. The hole In Happiness," by Florence Ward. which he was lurking wus made by his powerful Jaws. T h e female lays eggs In little recep New Light on Newton*a tacles at the bottom of the hole and Diacovery of G ravity places a store of food beside each egg. The hole Is then sealed up with Iznak Walton, the complest angler, a mixture of clay and mortar, soft should not be confused with Sir Isaac ened with the bee's saliva. The eggs Newton, the discoverer of the law ol gravity. Perhaps this little story are left to themselves, and when hatched the young bees eventually which has never been told on them eat their way out Into the open. before, w ill keep them separate In the The cousin of the mason bee Is mind ol' the student. called the carpenter bee. He bur Those two gentlemen were sitting rows into woodwork, choosing gen on a river bank one day —Izaak fish erally the underside of the beam, to ing and Sir Isaac watching him. Suit •protect the hole from rain. ilenly an apple fell from an overhang At the bottom of the hole an egg ing tree upon the head of the latter Is laid. Then comes a partition of evoking a sound which posterity If mud and wood chips; then another aware was far from hollow. After egg. and so on till the hole is filled. some language which virtually spoiled The carpenter then senls It securely the fishing, Newton remarked to Ms and leaves the eggs to look after companion: themselves, and when hatched the “ It has Just struck me that It It bees eat through each partition till very curious that apples do not fa t they get out. upward. Why do you suppose that Is not so?" “ For the same reason," laughed Artiat’a Fee Too High Walton raucously, “ that the fish bite» Even for Profiteer the w o rm and the worm doesn't bit» ¡he flsli.” One of the good stories about the Thus at one and the same time New famous painter, Meissonler, is in re ton demonstrated becoming gravity gard to his experience with a new- and Walton unseemly levity.— “ F. D.," rich gentleman who had erected a pri in Kunsus City Star. vate theater at Ids chateau. Mels aonler wna Just then at the height of hla fame and was spending months Hiatory Told by Coin» painting pictures and selling them for Homan coins Illustrate the religion about $200 a square Inch. the architecture, the games and sport« The rich man conceived the Iden historic events nnd. In a striking mar that what hla theater most needed was ner. the advent of Christianity. Th» a drop curtain painted by the famous early Constantine coins disclose th< artist, so he went to the studio and classic heathen gods; a fte r his con proposed the matter to him. version the coins bear the symbol ot "How large Is the curtain to b e f the cross. asked tlie painter. The 'diversity of this coin Informs "It will be 30 feet high and 35 feet tlon was enhnneed by the practice of wide,” was the reply. sending the mint master along with “M y friend," said Melsaonler bland (Ionian armies. Soldiers were paid In ly, "It would take me 30 years to paint the fleld with money minted In the such a curtain, and It would cost you Held, often from locally mined metals »6,000,000." In England's civil w ar Charles 1, dur Ing his refuge In castles and forts -struck off coins to pay hla troops and Counting the Coat defray hla personal expenses. These “Don't fidget!” snapped mother. arc the "slege-pleces” referred to by L ittle Bertha stopped toying with collectors of English coins. the lid of her chocolate box ami en deavored to concentrate upon the movie. But It was a very dull nffalr, All Accounted For and her mind soon cuine wandering The clergyman’s daughter was a back to (he box. good, sweet soul. She was so Inter In two minutes her smnll fingers esled In all the parishioners, and loved were busy again. to know that they w e re comfortable "Bertha, don’t fidget!" repeated her m d had all they wanted. More than mother. one lll-nntnred person had been heard Once agnln the child obeyed, hut to call It nosiness, but no matter. once more the production failed Io One morning she met little Tommy bold her fingers away from the lid of Gunter on his way home with a basket tha chocolate box. of groceries. “Now, Bertha," exclaimed her moth “ Well, Tommy," she said, stopping ar, “I warn you.” and smiling at the little fellow, “and Bertha opened her eyes wide. When how are yon all getting on?" her mother spoke like thnt she was “Nicely, thank you, miss,” answered not to be dlaregarded. Glancing Tommy, touching his cap respectfully, doubtfully at the dull screen and then "mother, she’s got rheumatism. I ’ve at the tempting lid, she whispered got a boll and father's got a moiph In “ Would It be a hairbrush, mummy, or lall."— London T lt-B Ita Just your ha ml J" The G ift Appropriate “Your daughter," said Mrs. Oldens- tle. after being conducted through the newly furnished wing of the magnifi cent palace occupied liy the new-rich Bulllngtons, “has such a splendid vo cabulary." "Do you think so?" Iter hostess re plied. "Josiah wanted to get her one of them escritoires, hut I made up my mind right at the start that a vocabu lary would look better In a room fu r nished like hers, even If It didn't' cost quite so much.” o T h a i N — d Novar Ote 1 always think of happiness as a flame. I always have, all my Ufa lt*r Probably Windieat State The weather bureau says that the question of which Is the windiest stste In the Union has never been accurate ly determined, and It la probably Ini possible to make a positive statement However, It Is quite probable tha Oklahoma, aa a whole, Is the wlndle«' state In the Union. This Is due to th- fset that the winds are rather con slant at moderately high »elodtlei during the entire year In this stale; h many other sectlona the wind may a tlmea average higher than Oklahnna nevertheless, they are not so con,tan or cover so completely the entire atati ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ d i « ■ ■ ■ ■ ! « ■ ■ ■ U U iB I WEST END FARMERS 0 Have learned that The Herald prints the beet butter wrappers. We have the large size, 9 by 12 inches. 100 200 300 500 for for for for Our prices are— $1.25 $2.00 $2.60 $3.75 Many are buying them in the larger quan tities, but we are here to serve you all. If you want only a few we have them with out the name. These we sell as follows— 12 30 62 100 for for for for 10 25 50 80 cents cents cents cents When you have a R E M O D E LIN G TIM E Zs Now Here And we want to figure your plans and tell you how much it will cost to do it. If you have to replace or build new flood gates or drop boxes, buy our Number 2 Cedar that is selling cheap while it lasts. “ The Home of Good Printing” THE HERMISTON HERALD Inland Empire Lumber Company Phons 331 “ The Yard of Best Quality ” H. M. STRAW, MGR. Legal Blanks a t The Herald Office Exclusive Representatives of National Builders Bureau »ob in our line giv it to the home pri - ¡iter. The salesman ■ ■ ■ from an out-of- 2 town concern may ■ give * you an oily *i ■ J line of “bunk” but • the ho e ■ entitled to your job ■¡work. ■you ■ 2 ■ will SO. U ■ turn t y ■ dollar yo t :2 away is ■ ■ I ever. O u bC are st J ■ is «o be . «. can do it figure with H E R M IS i L e g a l B la n k s F o r S a le a t T h e H e r a ld O f f ic e .O O •« r < ' * < V THE COMIC OPERA OF A THOUSAND LAUGHS THE MIKADO / TU ESD AY AND W E D N E SD A Y March 17 and 18 H e r m is to n A u d ito r iu m HERMISTON, OREGON Syetem Among Birda Warblers, kinglets, chickadees, nut hatches and creepers while working through the branches In quest of tiny Insect prey, keep up an Insistent lisp ing so that they need apply their sharp eyes only to the problem of catching game. T h e ir ears tell them J u t where their neatest nelghl i r Is located, la thia way much i-onfaston Is avoided. A bird does not crowd upon Ills neigh bor; he picks fresh territory to hunt and all the while he can keep in touch with his fellows. O n /y in the Willowa A characteristic distinguishing the W illow fuinlly friaa prartleally «11 others Is that both the pollen bearing and the seed producing flowers are ar ranged in drooping tassels, says "Tree Habits" from the American Nature association. Numerous other trees have their pollen-hearing flowers ar ranged In this fashion, hut In no other fam ily are the aseil-prmluelng flowers also grouped In this distinctive way. Perfectly Safe “I was afraid my sermon last Sun day would annoy some of my people, hot It didn't," said the clergyman. “What waa your suhje. t r ' asked his friend. “ T h e Duplicity of the Average Man,' and 1 spoke pretty plainly." “ You couldn't trend on any corns that way. Every man considers him self shove the average.“ Cauaea of Earthquakea It has been thought b.v some lh a the center of earthquakes and vo' canic disturbances Is always near tl, sen or other Inrge supplies of write» and that the dlsturbancea are dlrcctl. caused by the filtration of the wnte down to Igneous matter, and the eon «Olueni generation of vast quantities of steam, which frees Itself by expin slon. Others have sought to explab earthquakes ns part of the phenomen of a planet cooling at the surface o to the yielding of strata so as to till downward upon each other. Slippery Slope Greenhoy—O f course I know mat rlage Is a grave step. Oldun—Slap? My dear lad, It'» more like a flight of steps and ever, on» of 'em greased.— Pearson's M e.-» tine. Cast of Characters The Mikado of J a p a n .............. Mr. J. A. Reeves Nanki-Poo, his son, disguised as a wandering min strel, and in love with Yum-Yum Mr.Hugh Walker Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner of Titipu,__ __ ..............................................Mr. Raymond Crowder Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else............„.... ................ ...............Mr. Wallace p °;d Pish-Tush, a noble Lord, Mr. Jack Waller Yum-Yum, Ward of Ko-Ko.....Miss Bertha Compton Petti-Sing .... ..................Mrs. Arnold Gralapp Peep-Bo..................................... Mrs. Wilbur Illsley Katisha an elderly lady in love with Nanki-Poo ....— .......-.......... .................... .......Miss Lota Pierson Chorus of thirty-five voices Under the direction of Mr. Lindon Barnett Orchestral Accompaniment by McDonald School of Music, Pendleton Peat Imported in 1080 The cotton boll weevil wss original ly Mexican, having been found around Monclova, state of Coahulla. Mex. where aa early as 1856 to 1862 It did such damage to cotton that cotton growing there was abandoned In lflflh the boll weevil ernaeed the Texas bor der Into the United States. It en croached steadily from year to year until. In 1022, It Infested practically the entire cotton-growing region of the United States. The only extensive un- Inr.-sted territory Has In west sad northwest Texas. PERFORMANCE STARTS AT 8 O’CLOCK RESERVED SEATS 75c SEATS ON SALE AT MITCHELL’S DRUG STORE PROCEEDS GO TO METHODIST CHURCH '• ? HER a L
