Tfflfl gEBMlSTOK ITERALI), HERMISTON, OREGON.
Hipe ^rnotato» E rra li
Sea Horror Captured
Unlettered Mon Boot
After Long Struggle
at Coinage of Worda
We reached the pool, at « h a t « •
Antiquity of A lphabet
B B U U U I1 I
The Phoenician alphabet, ancestor | ■
of all the alphabets of modem • eet-
The best of all word makers are ern civilization, has had over seven
was dead low tide, writes tbe
unlettered.
Professor
Glider- ceaturtes added to Its known period
W illiam B t-b e la the Mentor Maga
sleeve said that the messes own the of existence as a result of recent dis
zine, and made the moat of every mo
coveries In Asia Minor. Prof. James
Entercd aa second class matter, ment. We had been working about an language. Malherbe, the exquisite | A. Montgomery o f the University of
Parisian poet and connoisseur of
December 1108 at the poetotflce at hour when I straightened up to ease i
words, frankly owned that Ills mas Pennsylvania told at a gathering of
Hermiston, Oregon.
an aching back. Almost at my aide 1 I
ters o f speech were the porters In members o f the American Philo
saw what w ill be ever to me the 1 tbe H a y m a rk et
sophical society recently. Inscriptions
Subtcnption Bates
made by the H lttltes and Cretans,
most remarkable Bight In the animal i
When
Roosevelt
was
a
ranch
own
For One Year ____________
8J-M world. Frightened by our long-con- I
and also others found In Sinai, which
er
and
had
been
felling
trees
with
tils
F o j Six M o n t h s ___________
-81»8 tlnued splashing and tramping, a big :
date back to the Fifteenth century
men, he happened to overhear ode of
Payab
able In Advance.
B. G , cause this revision of Ideas on
octopus had crept quietly out of a
them say. "B ill cut down fifty-three, I
antiquity of our letters. Previously
i crevice Just behind me snd was mak- ,
Ing his way a . rapidly a . ptwslbl. i
,h!
boM he the earliest known Inscriptions in
DECLARATION SIGNED over
the seaweed shelf down to deep
' Pn PPn'
these characters was the so-called
Roosevelt, who always enjoyed a “Moabite stone" discovered In 1868, '
B Y MEN OF ALL AGES water. Nothing animate Is compar-
good
Joke
on
himself,
went
on,
“Those
and generally believed to have been
able to this sight. The bulging mass
of the head or body, or both, the I who have ever seen the stump of a written about 860 B. G — Science j
Few G ray beard i Among the round staring eyes, as perfect and ex tree gnawed down by a beaver will Bervlce.
pressive as those of a mammal, and , understand the exact force of the
Nation’a Foundera.
comparison."
the horrible absence of all other bod
Home of th e Violin
, We have always needed a word for
ily
parts
which
such
an
eyed
creature
Many people think of the signers of
M lttenwald, Bavaria, ts the home of
mistake
as
applied
to
action,
and
the
the Declaration of Independence as should have— nothing more but eight
Maine guide has coined it. When he some of the most famous violins of
graybearda, old In years, ripe in wis horrid cup-covered, snaky tentacles,
I runs his canoe upon a rock or chooses the world. It Is the Cremona of Ger
dom and endowed with the vision reaching out in front, splaying side
a channel with Insufficient water, he many. W alking down a street of M it-
which decades o f experience Is sup ways and pushing behind, while one
tenwald, one begins to believe that
makes a "tnlsgo."
or
more
always
waved
In
the
a
ir
In
posed to bring. None of the 56 men
| A homespun New England philos violin making Is the only thing that
the
direction
o
f
suspected
danger,
as
who finally affixed their signatures to
opher In southern California coined goes on there at all. As a matter of
this Im iw rtant declaration, pledging to If In some sort of Infernal adieu. This
an excellent verb. H e was arguing i fact, It Is this Industry that keeps
octopus
was
over
two
feet
across,
Jet
Its support their lives, fortunes und
that sterling qualities of heart art- M lttenwald alive. Its violins are ex
sacred honor, was old enough to be black when I first saw him, but turn
rarer than those of head. “Oh, h- 1,” ported to all the countries of Europe
suspected o f senility, though a few ing to a mottled gray when we en
he exclaimed, “why, you can Just go and America. This Industry was es
were so young that they might be gaged In our struggle. When I headed
out and huckleberry for bruins, but a tablished In the early part of the
Hable to a charge of Imm aturity of him off he stood on defense and did
Eighteenth century when M lttenwald
not retreat. A fte r much feinting and heart of gold Is as rare as a dlng-
Judgment.
was in a most Impoverished state as a
rnaul.”
slipping
and
unpleasant
pulling
away
John Hancock, president of the con
! result o f the T h irty Years’ war. Since
gress, something of a “blade" and none from the myriad suckers, I got the
1 then it has prospered and flourished
beast
Into
a
snake
bag
and
tied
It
too conservative In his attitude on
Freedom From Duty
and tbe Inhabitants of* M lttenwald
some Important matters, was only firmly.
good reason to be grateful to
Eaaence of Leiaure ) have
th irty nine years old when the general
M atthias Klotz, founder of Its violin
Leisure means real freedom.
It Industry.
congress assembled In Independence
Name “Canada” Said to
means freedom not only from technical
Be of Spaniah Origin "working hours,” but nlso from any
Famous E arly Physician
There la an Interesting legend con thing like compulsory social demands.
Hippocrates was a Greek physician
cerning the manner In which Canada It should spell a time sacred to the
got Its name.
Spanish adventurers Initiative, the bent, the mood, even, of nicknamed the “Father of Medicine.”
were the first, so fa r us Is known, to the Ind ividu al; a time wherein he gets He was born on the island of Cos, 400
visit the American shores In search of elbow room to search and find himself B. C„ died In Thessaly, 357 B. C. He
booty. In the north they found the renewedly, a Boston Transcript w riter was tbe author of mnny valuable
country disappointing. The soli was says. Even If, by way of a silent writings on the science of medicine,
ctertle and unyielding. The Spaniards declaration of Independence, the In and wns the first to put aside all tra
were henrd by the natives to make fre dividual shall loaf a little during these ditions and superstitions and base the
Ph on . 331
quent use of the expression “Acs, hallowed hours of relaxation, the loaf practice of medicine on the study of
naila," meaning " It Is barren.” It was ing may have Its uses. Fam ily duties nature, without reference to religion
“ The Yard of Best Quality ”
Ion to ' •‘xrrpted, these hours belong to one or other matters. He was said to be
noted that a fter giving expri
H . M. S T R A W . M G R.
their dissatisfaction they Invariably self, not necessarily for fostering a master of clinical research and the
selfishness, but ns a chance to get one’s originator of a system of diet and
departed to another place!
Exclusive Representatives of National Builders
When the French explorers arrived bearings and to “Invite one's soul.” It regimen for the cure of Illness. He
on the scene, the Inhabitants gathered Is the freedom to use this time as one was also a great believer In benefits
on the shore and yelled “Aca nails,” lists that Is the very essence of from climates suited to the tempera
ment of the patlenl._______________
hoping to drive them away.
The leisure.
Freedom of any kind entails corre
French took this to be the name of
the country, and they called It Can sponding responsibilities, no doubt, but
John Hancock.
due freedom Itte lf must not be ques
ada.
The Spaniards also named Florida, tioned. Yet moral or social coercion Is
hall, Philadelphia, to consider the word
always powerful enough to coerce ac-
ing of the historical document. The meaning Land of Flowers, and Vene-
zucla, so called because of Its resem- t,on’ an<1 ,f B «'»“"«unity be bent on
oldest man in the congress was Ben
coercion of that kind, tbe Individual*!
blauce to Venice.
jamin Franklin, who had passed his
either becomes a slave or Is made
seventieth birthday only six months
pretty miserable by the assertion of
before.
The youngest was Edward
T he O bstinate M an
Ills Inalienable right to due leisure.
Rutledge of South Carolina, who at
An obstinate man does not hold How much does each of us really get?
tained his twenty-seventh birthday In opinions, hut they hold him ; for
the November following the fntnous when he is once possessed with an er
Fourth of July; Thotuns Lynch, Jr., of ror, It la like a devil, only cast out
P r e tty R ebuke
the same stute was his senior by only with great difficulty.
Sir James Barrie In his younger
H e delights
T p ays to get the miles
a few months.
’
most of all to differ In things d iffe r days was much Interested In amateur
o u t o f “R ed C row n”
O f the whole number but seven had | ent. He Is resolved to understand no theatricals.
On the stage he usually
passed their sixtieth year; nine were man's reason but his own, because he took the part of a woman.
th at the Standard Oil
In a re
between fifty and sixty years old, 11) llmls no man can understand his but cent address he said: “On one oc
C o m p a n y ’s yea rs o f
were between forty and fifty, und the himself. His opinions are like plants casion when the curtain rose on iny
gasoline-m ak ing ex
same number, 1», were between thirty that grow upon rocks, that stick fast husband and me ubout to partake of
perience h a v e pul in
and forty. The first mentioned were though they have no rooting. The breakfast, my husband. In his stage
the only ones under tlilrty years of more Incompetent Ills views are, the fright, pulled the table cover und Its
it.
age. The average age of the members faster he holds them, otherwise they contents to the floor. How would a
R ed C row n is sim ply
of the general congress was 43.87 would fall asunder of themselves, for superb actress have risen to tlint emer
c r o w d e d w ith m iles
years. It has been remarked Ihnt opinions that sre false ought to he gency? I have asked some of them,
there were enough young men to fu r held with more strictness than those and none of them conceived anything
—see the records b e
nish enthusiasm, enough middle-aged that are true, otherwise they w ill be equal to what Adele did— Adele was
lo w that th is y e a r ’s trophy w in ners m ad e in
I went behind him, and,
apt to lietrny their owners before they my name.
the b ig annual L o s A n g eles-Y o sem ite E co n
putting my arm around his neck, I
are aware.— Butler.
o m y R un. T h e y p r o v e i t !
said: ’You clumsy darling’ I ”— Youth’s
Companion.
every Thuraday at Her-
mtaton. Umatilla County, Oregon by
Raymond Crowder, íd lto r and Maa- thought
When you have a
job in our line give
it to the home prin
ter. The salesman
from an out-of-
town concern may
give you an oily
line of “bunk” but
the home printer is
entitled to your job
work. The dollar
you spend here
will some day re
turn to you. Th*
dollar you send
S away is gone for
ever. Our prices
are standard. If it
i is to be printed we
■can do it
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John Hancock’s Tomb and Monument.
It Is stated a fte r a long series of ob
servations and tests that one-fourth
of our dally task of talking Is ac
complished by the use of nine words,
the longest of which has but four let
ters. These nine are: and, be, have,
It, of, the, to, will, and you. It need
hardly he said that these simplejvorda
are all pure English.
It Is also asserted that these nine,
together with 34 additional words,
form a full h alf of the words we use
In conversation every day.
The 84
additional Anglo-Saxon words alluded
to are; about, all, aa, at, but, can,
come, day. dear, for, get, go, hear, her.
If, In, me, much, not, on, one. say, she,
so, that, these, they, this, though,
time, we, with, writs, and your.
Famous Spot in India
The Vale of Kashmir is an elevated
valley In the Himalayas, north of the
Punjab, through which flows the river
Jhelum. I t Is about 120 miles long,
with a mean breadth of 75 miles,
and Is famed for the beauty of
Its scenery and the charm of Ils cli
mate. Ita altitude varies from five
thousand to seven thousand feet, and
owing to Its altitude and conseq :cnt
coolness, It Is visited during the hot
mouths of summer. It is said that the
natives o f the Vnle of Kashmir de
rive the peculiar pattern that murks,
all India shawls from the graceful
curves of the Itlv e r Jhelum as It me
anders through the valley— Kansas
City Times.
men to check Indiscreet action and
enough well-matured men to bnlunce
this most Important conference.
The first of the signers to die was
Button Gwinnett of Georgia, who lived
Divisions of th e Z odiac
only until May 27 of the following
C attle in London Streets
The zodiac Is an Imaginary belt ex
year. Charles Carroll of Virginia was
The custom of driving pigs, sheep
the longest lived a fter that memorable tending around the celestial sphere, and cattle tlireugh ihe streets, a prac
date. He watched the new states grow I within which lie the orbits of the sun, tice begun centuries ngo when M ndnn
In power and Influence until November moon and planeta. It extends eight was a village, Is still being carried on
18, 1832; so that some persons still degrees on tach side of the ecliptic, However, It Is seldom that the public
living might have touched a hand , or apparent path of the sun, and Is generally witnesses the sight, ns the
which held tile |>en while signing the divided Into twelve equal parts, each work Is done during the enrly hours of
one of which Is marked by a constel
Declaration of Independence.
the morning.
A herd of cattle, de
lation.
The names of these are as layed on Its way to the market, got
follows: Arles (the R am ), Taurus
Into t traffic Jam recently In llnthnrn.
(the B u ll). Gemini (the T w ins), Can
one of the city’s main thoroughfares,
cer (the Crab). Leo (the Lion), Virgo
and extra policemen had to be called
(the V irgin), Libra (the Balance),
I Scorpio (the Scorpion), Sagittarius to assist the drivers In their tnsk of
getting Ihe anltnnls started ngaln. The
j (the Archer), Caprlcornus (the Goat),
present-day city regulations provide
Solemn Tribute Paid
i Aquarius (the W ater Rearer) and
that live stock can be driven through
to Old Liberty Bell Places (the Fishes),— Kansas City the streets only between the hours of
“John Marshall, then chief Justice Star.
midnight and five In the morning.
of the United Slates, died In I ’lillailel-
P' : i on July 0,
H ard R oad to Paradise
Cost Was High
1336,” says an old I
In
the Mohammedan tradition the
A certain gentleman of good posl- .
newspaper account. 1
Al Slrat Is an Imaginary bridge be I tlon, but rather Irascible tempera 1
"On July 8, exactly j tween this world und the next.
Il ment, wns repairing his motor car on j
50 years to the day !
extends over the abyss of hell, and the road a fte r a breakdown, and using 1
of the anniversary J must be passed by all that would reach
of the proclamation ! the Mohammedan paradise. It Is very language during the process scarcely 1
A lady ac- I
of the Declaration i narrow, and l i a s been likened by some becoming a Christian.
qiialnlnnce, who was passing, stopped i
of Independence to I
writers to the thread of a famished
the people, big re Bidder, and hy others to the edge of to exchange greetings with the Irate
motorist's wife, and during the con
mains were borne
a razor blade.
In crossing, one’s versation that ensued took occasion
from Philadelphia to
speed It proportioned to one’s vlrtne. I to a i k : “Can you rell me how much
his native state, V ir
Some pass with the rapidity of light
It costs your husband to run his car?”'
ginia,
for
burial.
nlng; others more slowly; while the "Indeed. I can,” said the w ife ; "It Is
During the funeral
wicked, on account of the weight of going to cost him Ills Immortal soul
solemnities the Liberty bell, while
their sins, are precipitated Into Ilia If he doesn’t Improve his language.”
slowly tolling, cracked through Its
gulf below — Fjanaas City Star.
—Victorian.
aide, forever silenced but not less elo
quent In Its mute patriotic appeal. It
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It had rung out lie clamorous defiance
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Send us the price o f a year’i nlng meeting first Wednesday each ,
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