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Œlp 9 matalón Wrralh Published every Thursday at Her miston, Umatilla County, Orason by Joseph 8. Harvey, editor and man ager. ever seen, returned .-\etvan. “Ten dollars extra for contempt o' Court.” demanded the Justice. “But 1 haven't raid anything about you. Judge,” protested the culprit. “Oh, yes. ye hev I I ’m road com missioner here as well as Jestlce o’ the peace.” Humming Bird Small W onderful Tale» Told but Famed a» Fighter of Monster Serpents A man’s bravery can never be Judged by his size. Frequently the midget has the spirit of a raging lion while the big, hulking 2U0-ponnder has the timorous heart of a rabbit. The same law of nature applies to birds, Kendrick Kimball writes, in the Entered aa second class matter Detroit News. The P erfect Picnicker December, ItO f, at the peatotflee at The bumming bird, sometimes called Hermiston, Umatilla dnin ty, Oregon. Saw (t teamster at his midday meal. I ills table was the earth and Ills cut- I the "Jewel of the air” because of his flashing luster, Is only three Inches in tlery a rather battered looking ax length, but'his courage knows no boun Subscription Hatea The menu consisted of a tin of bully One Tear ................ ..................U -0* beef, a bottle of tomato sauce and a daries. Humming birds are fearless. They will attack a hawk, a crow or an 8tz Months .................................. » 1 .H loaf of bread. The beef was hacked open with the eagle, and against such a nimble ad versary the bigger bird would have no ax, the neck of the sauce bottle was chance. knocked off. also with the ax, and “To thine own self be true, and it With his rapier bill, which he thrusts most follow as the night the day, the bread was torn Into lumps In his Into (lowers for their nectar, the hum A billy of cold water washed thou canst not then be false to any hands. ming bird Is capable of dealing an ad It down. For simplicity and an entire man. versary a sharp prick which would dis absence of fuss or frill I ’ll say that courage further aggressiveness. Among the teamster's methods take the bun.— themselves, the humming birds fight Sydney Bulletin. frequently. Like skilled fencers, they Ant» Never Found at thrust at one another with their long, Lost in Finding W ater needle-like bills, ducking and darting 458 Year» on One Farm In a thirsty land where, as some I so fast that the eye can hardly follow In Warwickshire, England, the Neale times happens In South Africa, a them as they maneuver for openings. three-years’ drought dries up every family, of Exliall grunge, a few miles blade of grass, the white ants always from Nuneaton, has for the uninter have water. The reason has been rupted period of 458 years farmed this H ere Endeth th e Lesson found by M. Murals, a South African particular land, and the connection A thrifty Scotch farmer started off wns severed recently, when there was naturalist The atits are water-tlnd each day by reading a chapter from a sale. ers and well-Hnkers. the Bible to Ids field hands. One On a Transvaal farm while a man's morning during the harvesting season, well was being sunk the borers came he struck the sixth chapter of Chron First M aple Sirup upon a tiny two-inch shaft running in icles, which consists of 81 verses of Maple sugar making is an ancient to the earth. The ants had been genealogical names. He droned on art entirely confined to the North there before them! They had sunk until he came to: American continent Before the ad an unt well 05 feet deep to where “And Shallum begat Hllklah, and vent of the white man, the Indian had water was to be found. Hllklah begat Azarlah, and Azarian Up and down this shaft, night and learned to extract and concentrate the begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Job day, water-carrying ants went, each sap of the maple tree. On the ap bearing its drop of water. It took proach of spring the trees were gashed ozadak." Then he paused and looked over the each ant half an hour to get down to with the tomahawk, and a wooden the reservoir, draw its water, and chip or spout Inserted to direct the leaf. “Weel, my friends,” he said, “they bring It up to the nest. Then down fluid drop by drop Into a receptacle begat ane anlther rlcht down to the aguln It went. There uppeared to be on the ground. The sap was caught end o' the page and a lang way ower night shifts and day shifts, and the In a birch bark dish and bolfed In earthen kettles. The small quantity on the lther side, so we’ll Jlst leuve night ants worked the hardest. of dnrk, thick sirup thus made was them to It. Off wl' ye to yer work." It may be true, as declared by M Forel, the greatest living authority on the only sugar available to the In —Boston Transcript. ants, that they are creatures working dians and Is stated by early writers to almost wholly by Instinct, and only to have been highly prized. N ature A lw a y s Fair the extent of about 2 per cent by In How Just is Nature In distributing telllgent or reflective observation; but Feu) L eft-H an ded P eople her gifts. As a tribute for the gossa when It comes to water finding, their From the meager Information ac mer skin she doles to the true blondes Intuition makes them hard to beat. cessible on the subject It appears that and the Titian blondes, she Is greedy primitive peoples are os predominant In the coloring pigment, for eyelashes ly right handed as civilized peoples. and eyebrows. With the stirring, vi Napoleon Untiring in Any theory which seeks to explain the vacious beauty of the Bluck-eyed-Su- W ork He Set Himself origin of right handedness must go san type, she mingled a nice brownish back farther than civilization. Accord skin, none too delicate perhaps, but Many witnesses have testified to Na poleon Bonaparte's amazing powers of ing to the bureau of American eth which Is fur more resistant to sun continued work. Itoederer, who wus nology, there arc very few cases of and wind than that of the fairylike blondes. To the face that is not per his close companion during the consu left handedness among the present- day Indians. It Is supposed by that fect in any sense, she adds the body late, wrote: "He ran work 18 hours at a stretch, authority that the Indians were pre silhouette of a beautiful dryad. In each case, there is sure to be one It may be at one piece of work, It may dominantly right handed before their feature, fact or figure that Is nearly be at several In turn. I have never contact with Europeans. n t i fu l T h o h n t i f a n <v«»w{no seen his mind without a spring in it. not when he wus physically tired, not when he wns taking violent exercise, not even when he was angry.” Napoleon robbed hundreds of hl» fellow workers of youth and health because he demanded too much ol them when he demanded from them what he extracted from himself, says Emil Ludwig In his biography of the Corsican. His private secretary woultl be sent for at a late hour and would get to bed at four In the morning! at seven the poor man would find new tasks ready for him and would be told they must be Qnlsbed within two hours. During the consulate he would sometimes begin a sitting with his ministers at sis In the evening and keep It up until five the nest morn In*.—Detroit News. Insect Hunter» Giant hunting grasshoppers nearly five Inches long, that prey on small animals such as mice and the young of ground-nesting birds, are found in ' the Congo. They rival the kangaroo as Jump ers and can leap a considerable dis tance on to their prey. The hunting grasshopper la not so great a leaper In proportion to Its size as the king grasshopper, the young of which, even before Its wings are developed, cun Jump a hundred times Its own length Very few men can cover more than twice their own leugtb in a Jump. The hunting grasshopper Is the larg est of all grasshoppers. Its great from Up hides a pair of Jaws as effective ns a hay-chopper, and Its appetite makes it a plague to mankind. From time Immemorial the sea ser pent has figured In story and legend. Pliny, till* Koitlan natural;-t (-' 71» A. D.) tells of enormous water and land serpents, some so large that whole armies were sent against them. The hardy Norse fishermen gave thrilling stories of sea monsters. Olaus Magnus, a Swedish bishop, wrote of ”a very large serpent of length upward of 200 feet and 20 feet in diameter, with a row of hairs 2 feet in length hanging from the nick, sharp scutes of durk color, and bril liant, naming eyes. It attacks boats and snatches away the men by rais ing itself high out of the water, and devours them.” Hans Egede, a Nor wegian missionary to Greenland, tells of encountering, on July 6, 1734. "a very terrible sea animal, which raised Itself so high above the water that its head reached above our maintop. It had a long, shnrp snout, and blew like a whale.” The oarflsh, with u body from 25 to 30 feet long, and al most as thin as a ribbon. Is believed by some naturalists to be the creuture which gave rise to many remarkable yarns, told from ancient days until now, of “sea serpents.” The silvery body, crossed with dusky stripes, the grotesque head and face, with en larged tins tipped with red, waving above like a horse's mane, might well give foundation, It Is said, to almost any story. Still no one can definitely say that the eea serpent does not ex is t C orrect Little Betty was bragging about her ahility to add. Her uncle gave her a problem to solve. " If 1 gave you two rabbits In the morning and three rabbits in the af ternoon how many rabbits would you have?” Inquired the uncle. "Six,” cried little Betty. “Just as 1 thought Two and three are six,” answered the uncle. “Iiut uncle,” said little Betty earn estly, "I already have one.” Education for Reality I “T o the extent that college« and uni versities fit youth for the realities of our own day, the more who attend college the better.” —President W. J. 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