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Helped Through Day
by Thing» of Beauty
He apologized for leaning across tbe
man in tbe comer seat to look ont of
the railway carriage window.
“I never miss that little glimpse of
tbe canal,” he added. “I t helps me
through the day.”
He sat back satisfied and for a few
moments kept his eyes shut He was
going over the details of the quay-side
and the warehouses and the barges
with their brown sails and the men
carrying piles of bricks. They “helped
him through the day.”
It Is a tine thing to have some help
of that kind. The more the better.
Everywhere there Is beauty, if we
only keep our eyes skinned to dis
cover it.
Some of us find a garden where at
all seasons there is something to re
joice us. Some get their help from a
noble building. Some like to walk
every day through a park and enjoy
the trees in their changing aspects,
different every week in the year.
Others draw their daily inspiration
and encouragement from art, a pic
ture, a reproduction, a piece of sculp
ture.
Or It may be that literature provides'
the needed help— verse treasured in
the memory or the haunting beauty of
exquisite prose.— Philadelphia Record.
Experiment in Cross
Breeding Is Success
A new animal, designed to combine
the milk-giving abundance of the South
with the hardiness of the North, has
been raised In the farm attached to
Alaska college, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
This animal has been developed with
Galloway cows as the mothers ami
yaks from the snowy fastnesses of
Tibet as fathers. Their name as well
as their breed has been crossed, and
the have received the name of gaiio-
yaks.
The galloyak has Inherited the long
shaggy hair of his father, but the
placidity of the mother has evidently
been responsible for the reduction of
tbe paternal Imtnp. The animals are
hardy, and are well adapted to the
extreme cold of the North.
The value of the new animal Is
great. Its meat Is of excellent flavor,
and is extremely nourishing. Its hair
has a high commercial value, and first
quality leather can bo made from Its
hide.
M onopoly Not P ottible
The Columbia State offers this:
“When the Hebrew minor prophet
Joe' wrote the lovely saying that Dry
den hammered into an heroic line—
T o u r old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions*—
lie was probably—we haven’t the He
brew text before us—trying to round
out what Is known as a Hebrew ‘paral
lelism,’ saying one thing In two ways,
rather than two things in a kind of
formula. He was saying that every
body, with due illumination, would
dream dreams and see visions, as Job
dreamed and saw them in the dead
watches of the night. Neither old
nor young has a monopoly of dream
and vision.”
W orld’» L arge* "Port”
Montana has had a good year and
the people are much pleased w ith the
Mrs. F ran k Helms of Echo was in return« from th eir crops,” said M r
Schilling. He also stated th a t the
town the first of the week.
thermometer showed 22 below when
he le ft th at part of the country.
Mrs. F. B. K n ig h t of Irrig o n was
here shopping Monday.
F. B. Stuart, F. A. Baker and D.
Shumway of Stanfield were here the
firs t of the week.
J. M. B urnett, signal man for the
O. W . R. & N., has rented the house
at Ridgeway and Fourth.
M r. and Mrs. Leo H u rly have the
house on the highway form erly oc
cupied by A. H. Norton.
The Port of New York is a district,
created by compact or treaty, between
James M cK ittric k of gpkane
is
the states of New York and New Jer
sey and comprising the territory with here this week on business connect
in a tine drawn from Port Chester, ed w ith Federal bank loans In this
across through White Plains, over to district.
Yonkers, across the Hudson river to
Piermont down on the New Jersey
M r. and M ra George Slagle of
side, passing beside Passaic and Pat P ilo t Rock were guests Wednesday
erson and taking in the industrial night Of M r. and Mrs. B. S. Kingp-
territory west of and including Ho ley. Mra. Slagle and Mrs. Kingsley
boken, Jersey City, Newark, all the
w ent to school together ag girls and
way to South Amboy, across again to
the New York side, taking In tbe com have been lifelong friends.
plete area of the city of New York.
The population of the port district is
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fishbeck of
approximately 9,000,000.
Montana, who have been visiting Mrs
C. C. Durfey, left Monday morning
for Los Angeles. They are driving
Famous Painting
The painting of “The Last Supper" and w ill stop a t San Francisco and
by Leonardo da Vinci Is recognized Sacramento for brief visits.
as one of the world's masterpieces. It
was originally painted by order of the
duke of Milan on the walls of tbe
Dominican convent of the Madonna
del Grazie. The picture is now in a
state of decay, but several very fine
copies have been made. One of them,
at the Royal academy In London, 1»
considered worthily representative of
the original.
The "Mona Lisa" of
the same painter, now in the Louvre,
is also rated among the greatest paint
ings.
Making Safe» Safer
A new safe that has an almost bu
man power of giving warning should
any attempt be made to rob it has
been Invented. Should burglars at
tempt to break It open by the usual
methods of using heat, the material
of which the safe is built gives off a
series of loud reports.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
The new material Is In the form of
plates, one inch thick, applied Inside
LOST— Collie dog. answers to name the safe. Up to the present no meth
of Pat.Rrward. Dave Mlttieedort.' od has been found for melting,
X f - l t t * lng or destroying the material.
Mrs. W . T. Lam bert, a former res
ident of the project, was the guest
of friends here Saturday. Mrs. Lam
bert w ill leave for New Y o rk short
ly after the holidays, m aking a num
ber of visit« w ith friends and rela
tives en route. A t New York she
w ill take passage for Buenos Aires
where she w ill pay an extended visit
to her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Shot well.
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FROM POST IR M0RTARA
H . M. Schilling, former project man
ager here, who has been stationed at
Ballantine, Montana, for over a year,
returned the firs t of the week to
Hermiston, where his fam ily has been
settled since early fall. M r. Schill
ing has resigned from the govern
ment service, but has made no plans
fo r tbe Immediate future.
Caruso’s Loyalty to
Hi» Queen Pcthe'ic
Cnrnso bad one old friend to whom
he was devoted and whom lie wor
shiped from afnr with a pathetic sort
of adoration. This was Marla Sophia
of Bourbon, the former queen of Na
ples. She had been his benefactress
in the early days of his career.
Even though her reign was over and
she lived In exile In France, she was
still his queen, the sovereign of his na
tive city. He never failed to visit her
when he went abroad, and on Ills last
visit site presented him with a scarf-
pin, a medal carved with the head of
a Madonna encircled with rubles.
Through her secretary, Signor Bar
celona, Caruso received regular re
ports of her, and each month he wrote
his queen a beautiful and ceremonious
letter, addressing her with all the for
mality due her former rank, to which
she clung pathetically even in her old
age.
The exile of this venerable
queen was one of the things he would
brood over with tears In his eyes, but
he would never discuss her with any
one. To him she was the sacred em
blem of royalty.—Dorothy Caruso, In
the Saturday Evening Post.
Chair Too Valuable
to Consign to Attic
T h * guest sat down In a comfortable-
looking rocking chair, but Immediate
ly his feet flew up In the air. "Tuke
another chair, take thia one." urged
his hostess. “That chair Is very un
comfortable."
“Why in the world do you keep that
chair In this room y growled Friend
Husband. “No one can sit In It with
ease. Why don’t you put It in the at-
tlc r
“Because no one can sit In It with
ease," replied Friend Wife. "You’ve
given the reason yourself. I t ’s for
those guests, callers, whom I don't
wish to be at ease. I engineer It so
they'll sit there and their calls are
much shortened thereby. I f anyone I
like happens to get into that chair. It
Is an easy matter for me to Insist
that he or she change for a comfort
able chair. Oh. my, yes, that uncom
fortable chair has saved me many
hours of boring talk."— Springfield
Union.
Freedom Bring» Light
Montana Rancher Named Wheat King.
There Is only one cure for evils
Chicago.— E. E. Edson-Smlth, a 65-
which newly acquired freedom pro year-old Corvallis, Mont., farmer, is
duces, and that cure is freedom. The the new wheat king of North America.
bluze of truth and liberty may at first Competing against the best wheat pro
dazzle and bewilder nations which
ducers of the United States and Can
have become half-blind In the house
of bondage. But let them gaze on, ada at the International Livestock ex
and they will soon be able to bear IL position, Smith wrested the prize title
In a few years men learn to reason, from the Canadian Herman Trelle of
and the extreme violence of opinions the Peace River district of Alberta,
subsides. The scattered elements of Canada. It was only the third time
truth cease to contend and begin to I In 17 years of competition that Uncle
coalesce. And at length a system of Sam’s rural sons have been able to
Justice and cyder Is educed out of the win the huge cup, emblematic of the
chaos.—Macnuluy.
championship.
Originated in Error
Another Burbank
An explanation of the origin of the
word “hoodlum” has been given in the
following tale: Out in 8nn Francisco
a great many years ago there was a
man named Muldeon, who was the
leader of a band ef boy rufllans. A
reporter who had been assigned to a
story of this gang attempted to coin
a name for them and transposed
the name Muldoon, calling the gang
noodlums.
The typesetter mistook
the letter “n” for “h" and made the
word "hoodlum.” It passed the proof
reader and became a recognized word.
A little four-year-old girl had been
playing with a boy of the same age
when she spied a dead bird lying In a
neighbor's backyard and persuaded the
boy to get IL They immediately be
gan examining It, but wished to know
something about It, so a member ef
the little girl's family was called and
several questions were answered.
Finally the little girl, with a puzzled
look on her fnce, turned and asked:
“Jf you planted it, would It grow Into
a bird'"
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Ancient W edding Gown»
Most of the I’iantagenet and Tudor
queens were married In that vivid
hue which Is still popular In parts ol
Brittany, where the hrlde is usually
dressed In crimson brocade. It was
Mary Stuart who first changed the
color of the bridal garments. At her
marriage with Francis I I of France
In 1558, which took place not before
the altar but. before tlie great doors
of Notre Dame, she was gowned In
white brocade, with a train of pale
blue Persian velvet six yards In length.
Seemed Too Much for One
A little girl was traveling In a street
car with her mother, a woman of very
slight build.
Presently an extremely stout woman
boarded tbe car, and sat down oppo
site the little girl.
The car started off with a Jerk, and
the little child contemplated the wom
an opposite her for some minutes,
then, turning to her mother. Inquired
In a loud voice:
"Mother, is that all one lady?”
K eep Bright
Keep yonr mind bright and you
won't get blue.—Forbes Magazine,
t J E MARKETS
Portland
Wheat— B. M. bluestem, $1.36; hard
white, 11.2854; federation, <1.26; soft
white, western white, <1.2554; hard
winter, <1.23; northern spring, <1.24;
western red, <1.21.
Hay — Alfalfa, <16.60917; valley
timothy, <16.60®17; eastern Oregon
timothy, <20.
Butterfat— 4#c.
Eggs— Ranch, 34c.
Cattle— Steers, good, <10®10.76.
Hogs— Medium to choice, <8.2600.60.
Lambs — Medium to choice, <11®
12.60.
Seattle.
Wheat— Soft white, western white,
<12854: hard winter, <1.26; western
red, <1.23; northern spring, <1.26;
bluestem, <1.3 6 54;
dark
northern
•prlng, <1.46; dark hard winter, <1.39.
Hay — Alfalfa, <26; timothy, <28;
P. S„ <22.
Buttertet—64c.
Eggs— Ranch, 26 0 36c.
Cattis— Steers, cnolce, <100 10 76.
Hogs—Prime. « .6 O 0 I.M .
•pekane.
Cattle- Steers, good, « 60910.
Hogs-Good, <9.3601.36.