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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.”
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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
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size, 9 by 12 inches.
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500
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$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—
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10
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50
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cents
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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.
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THE COMIC OPERA OF A
THOUSAND LAUGHS
THE MIKADO
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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.
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SEATS ON SALE AT MITCHELL’S DRUG STORE
PROCEEDS GO TO METHODIST CHURCH
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