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doubt cast upon B enjam b Franklin's
kite experiment. 1« tbs recent dlscov
ery of « letter w ritten by Franklin on
tbe subject In a book published b
London la 1774, now in the library of
the fra n k lin Institute, Philadelphia,
says Popular Science Monthly. After
describing how to make the kite with
a pointed w ire on the upright stick.
Franklin saya:
“As soon aa any of the thunder
clouds c«>me orer tbe kite, the pointed
wire will draw tbe electric Are from
them, and the kite, with all the twine,
will be electrified, and the loose fila
ments of tbe twine will stand out
‘ every way and be attracted by an sp-
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chancellor o f England.”
The lord
chancellor, presiding officer of the
house of lordn, occupies a seat on a
H t r i i Occasion W hen
cushion stuffed with wooL I t Is a
I t R eally Was Cold large square bag of wool, without
back or arms, and covered with red
A Connecticut correspondent w rit® ' cloth. In Queen Elizabeth's reign, so
ns: Beading In the Companion recent act was passed to prevent the expor
ly of a Vermonter who invented a fly
tation of wool from England and en
Ing machine with which he Hew fr»n. courage woolen manufacture. In or-
the top of a high mountain and landed -1er that thia source of the national
on a rock w ltn such force that he wealth should be kept constantly In
drove hl» feet Into the ledge clenr U| mind, wool sacks were placed In the
to bis hips and again a little laier ol house of lords, wpera the Judges aat.
a Westerner who sawed a sleeping
gray squirrel In two one winter's day
Teaching Parrots to T a lk
without waking him reminds me of a
The bureau of biological survey says
atory told by my grandfather,
lit
no hard and fast rale can be laid
lived In a very blerk corner of Con
Becticut In tlie early days when Are down for teaching a bird to talk. Thia
Is entirely a matter of patience and
places were the only means of Ina!
Ing. It seemed Impossible for him 1« 1 perseverance In dealing with tbe bird.
warm the house. At last he became At first the bird should be kept In a
desperate, and. going Into the cellar room by Itself, and the cage covered
where there was a large fireplace, be on three aide». Do not talk to the
In
repeating
simple
packed It full with several cords ol bird except
good hard wood, set it all a tire and ! phrases over and over again. Only
one phrase should be used In a single
then went upstairs to bed.
T he next morning he got up early, I day In the early training. Oradcally
hoping to find the house warm, l»ut work until several phrases are repeat
the rooms were as cold as ever; so he ed over and over to the bird each day.
went out of doors t<> see if smoke were
Strength o f Beetles
coming out of the chimney. To hlr
Scientific observations of Ibe beetle
amazement he saw the flames standing show It hna tremendous power. So far
op out of the chimney four or five feet ‘ this power baa been set at 112 times
high, frozen solid I— Youth's Com Its own w eight A captive beetle was
panion.
.
placed under a large milk bottle made
from heavy glass In a short tim e the
beetle y as pushing the bottle ahead of
Tw ain H a d Weakness
It at a steady and good pace. Another
fo r Southern Cooking beetle was made to climb an Incline o',
M ark Twaiu, In h it Autobiography. 5 degrees dragging a weight equal to
123 grains The weight was attached
pays tribute to Southern dishes, such
as, for Instance, corn bread, hot bis to its le" by a silk thread.
cuits, wheut bread and fried chicken.
"These things," be says, "have never
been properly cooked In the North—
I d fact, no one there Is able to learn
the art, so fa r aa my experience goes
The North thinks It knowa how to
make corn bread, but thia la mere
superstition. Perhaps no bread In the
world Is quite so good as Southern
corn bread and perhaps no bread In
the world Is quite so bad ns the North
ern Imitation of I t The North seldom
tries to fry chicken, and this is w e ll;
the a rt cannot he learned north of the
line of Maaon and Dixon, nor any
where In Europe. This Is not hearsay ;
It la experience that Is speaking. In
Europe Is It Imagined that the custom
of serving various kinds of bread blaz
ing hot la 'American,' hut that is too
broad a spread; It Is custom In the
South, but Is muc> less than that In
tlia North."
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W e t Shoes
I f you are cnu.;ht In a rain and get
your alioca wet do annictliing to coun
teract the possible >-ffects If you cun
not get home to change your footwear.
Business people who are caught till»
way know how un■•omfortuhle it Is to
50 around In damp shoes and many of
them know something about the evil
effects that often result.
I t is a simple m atter to Iny a few
blotters on top of euch other and
stand on them a few minutes. You
w ill be surprised how much dumpuess
the blotters will nhaorb. Even If you
are on a shopping tour you can pur
chase blotters and take this precau
tion.
I f the shoes have become very wet
or thoroughly soaked, place a blotter
between the stocking and shoe for a
few mluutea. This la a aafety-llrsl
suggestion that may avert a cold or
more serious Illness.
WEST END FARMERS
FIGHT THE
FLY
Have learned that The Herald prints the
best butter wrappers. We have the large
size, 9 by 12 inches. Our prices are—
100
200
300
500
for
for
for
for
$1.25
$2.00
$2.60
$3.75
In waging your battle with the
house fly start early and make
it successful by using the screen
doors and window screens of
Many are buying them in the larger quan
tities, but we are here to serve you all. If
you want only a few w e have them with
out the name. These we sell as follows—
12
30
62
100
for
for
for
for
10
25
50
80
Inland Empire Lumber Co.
cents
cents
cents
cents
ä
We have just received our new
stock in and would be pleased
to show them to you.
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Empire Lumber Company
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“ Tbe Yard of Beit Quality”
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mer s, but It hag finer modulations o! '
significance. The thing Is, that Dante j
Sacred Steps
and Mtllnn, like every other printed 01
The Santa Scaln Is a (light of 28
w ritten poet, take advantage of the 1 steps of white-reined marble In the
eye-appeul without losing the e.ir-ap plaxza of the chnreli of St. John Lot-
peal.— Lascelles Abercrombie.
eran at Rome, which, according to tra
dition. belonged to the house of Pilate
at Jerusalem, and were made warred
l/ee for Old Newspapers
Merchants In the countries of the by the feet ol Christ a* he pasaed to
F a r Eust depend wholly on the supply Judgment, the Kansas City Times re
of discarded American newspnpers a* late«. Penitents are permitted to
wrappers for purchases la their shops uscend these stairs only on their knees,
Hundreds of tous of whole and rfeni sad so great hna been the number that
newspaper* are being shipped monthly annually made the ascent that It was
to the F a r East from Atlantic con* found necessary to cover the step*
porta. Thia huslncaa formerly fell si with planks of wood to Insure tlielr
most exclusively tn Pacific eoast deni ! protection. It was while ascending
ora, but with tbe outbreak of the World these steps that M artin Lather, then
war tbe Eastern Arms began p u rlin s a monk, thonght he heard the words.
Ing tho newspapers from Junkmen for T h e Just shall live by faith ." M orti
fied by the degradation ta which he
foreign shipment.
onsldered hie siiper-.utlnn had led
him. he descended and hastened from
(be spot.
an
out-of-
town concern may
give you an oily
line of * bunk” but
the home printer s
entitled to your job
work. Thr do lar
you spe d b e
will some J
turn to y ”
dollar you
e
away is
e
ever. Ou
pne
are standard. If b
is io be P
can do it L t u'
figure v -
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THE AMERICAN SHOt ¿riliP
--R E A D T H E
W A N T ADS—
I have purchased the shoe repairing
shop of Chas. Hahn’s and my years of
experience in this work assures you
good workmanship. The material I
use is the best that I can procure.
P rom pt Service W i”
G iven O ut of T ow n O ru eis
WE PAY THE PARCEL PO ^ t
ONE WAY
When Shoes are Returned
PRICES RIGHT TO YOU
Location in Building Next to Hermiston Light & Pnwt r
J. R. FARRA
HERMISTON, OREGON
Newspaper Story W ell
Worth Being Told Again
Perhaps It’s because newspaper men
nre a clannish lot of lads and prefer,
when not engaged In their arduous
duties, to he of and nuiong themselves
to seeking the company of others, but
It strikes this observer that those who
are alien to the newspaper profession
"Association Test"
hear few stories respecting the ac
It was resolved In the Continental tivities of the boys from the paper
congress, March 4. 177«, and the re
offices. Certainly the young roan—or
solve approved by the committee ot young woman—who Is engaged In
safety at Exeter, April 12, that all gathering the news of the day en
males above twenty-one years of age counter» plenty of adventure, some of
(lunatics, Idiots and negroes excepted) It funny and agntn some of It uot so
funny.
should be asked to sign the Asaocla
lion teat, whose text was as follows: . I ’ractlcnlly every newspaper man la
"We. the subscribers, do solemnly en
the world has heard the story of the
gage and promise that we will, to tin- cub reporter who, being of a timid na
utmost of our power, at the rtsk of lure, was assigned by Ills city editor to
our lives anil fortunes, with arms, op Interview the Irascible capitalist whose
pose the hostile proceedings of the 1 lovely daughter had Just ran off with
Rrltisli fleets nnd nrmlgN ngulnst tht i tho family chauffeur.
In fear nnd
United States colonies."
trembling he rang the doorbell. "Is
•Mr. Jones In i" he asked the tnnld who
answered the door. "No, he la not."
The Eye A p p e a l
she replied. "Thank God 1“ said the
One of the chief differences between
reimrter, and fell off the step*.
such an art ns Homer's nnd socli an
The story Is eo fam iliar to news
art ns Dante's nr Milton's Is that llo
paper men (In fact It is Incorporated
roer never thinks of any up],cui Inn I
through the ear; whereas I »ante anil | In many of the textbooks that now
Milton both know their verses wll i aim to teach the young reporter how
meet with eyes aa well as ears. Tlteh i to shoot) that one wonders how gen
art la. certnlnly not greater than llo I ernlly It Is known by the public.
from
H E R M I5 1 0
When Terrible Black
Death Ravaged England
One of the first places In Europe
where the black death appeared was
at a small Genoese fort tn the Crimea
ttie western terminus o f the overland
Chinese trade route.
The T artars
were besieging the fort at the time,
and Chinese merchants took refuge
there. The siege wus lifted by the
Investing army, which fled from the
plngue, thns spreading the Infection
southward Into Asia Minor, Syria nnd
Egypt. Ships from the Euxlne car
ried the contagion to Constantinople
and to Genoa, and thence It radiated,
fnnshape, throughout the M editer
ranean littoral.
In August. 1348, England's first
black death victim succumbed In Dor
setshire. By November It had reached
London. By the summer of 1340 II
had dragged its pall of putrefaction
over the entire island. Including Scot
land. Norwich, which had been the
second city of the kingdom, dropped
to sixth In size, more than two-thlrds
of Its population falling victims of the
scourge.
Cultivation of the fields was utterly
Impossible and there were not even
enough able-bodied laborra» to gather
the crops which bad matured. Cnttle
ronraed through the corn unmolested
ond the harvest rotted where It stood.
—National -Geographic Magazine.
331
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