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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1928)
HTOAxaJ. miiuAOBTOX OBBGOY. Some Good Bargain» Odd Trinket» Sealed Made by Adventurer» in Statue of Buddha Probably the world's best bargain was made by Peter Mlnult, a Dutch man, who bought the whole of Man- hattan island from the Indiana In 1026 for goods worth $24. Almost ns good was that of Simon Van Der Stell. one-time governor ot Capetown, who bought .he hay of Port Natal for £.’41 worth of gooila The East India company made a gt gantlr bargain In the year IfliiS Charles I] had Just been given the Island of Bombay as a dowry at his marriage with Infanta Catherine of Portugal. The king thought the plnce worthless—as the Portugese had done —and allowed the company to rent it for £10 a year. In 1041 an agent of Lord Stirling's sold the whole of Nan tucket Island to Thomas Mayhew for £40; eighteen years later Mayhew sold- a Joint Interest to nine partners for £30 and two beaver hats! The Island Is now a separate county of Massachusetts. A worth while sale was effected by linger Ludlow, a year before Mayhew bought Nantucket. Ludlow gave the Indians six fathoms of wampum, 6 coots. 10 hatchets, 10 hoes, 10 knives 10 pairs of scissors, 10 lew’s harps, 10 fathoms of tobacco, 3 kettles, and about 10 looking glasses for all the land between the Norwalk and the Saugatuck river In Connecticut, ex tending one day's walk from the sound. Use of Superlative» Mara Modern Speech A tornado may be awful, an earth quake terrible, and a sunset splendid, hut those words are used every dny to describe the most ordinary things. A had shot In tenirls Is ‘‘awful," a dis appointing meal at a restaurnnt Is "terrible," and a cocktail Is splendid I Nobody today Is Just tired. It Is ‘dead heat," “knocked out,” “absolutely flat," "done for," “unable to wink an eyelid." This Is the language of ex aggeration. The word "so” Is “fearfully" over worked todny. Nothing is merely “beautiful," or "plensnnt,” or "charm- •ng*'—another overworked word. They must all be “so beautiful,” “so pleas ant.” Recently the word “quite” wns the most overworked word In the lun- guage, A man listening to and ap proving the course of a frltnd's argu ment would ejaculate “Quite!” after every half-dozen words. Why the word “quite” should stand for . “I agree with you,” or why It should he necessary to say It fifty times In ten minutes, no one knew. But there It was—and Indeed, still Is. A bronze «tatué of a seated Buddha at the Neward museum was found to I have a round place in the bottom, eel dently for the purpose of reaching the interior. This cover was removed re cently, revealing a great collection ol small articles which bad been sealed up In the statue, ceuturies ago. Eacl trinket, aocordlng to Albert B. Andre, orientalist on the museam stuff, repre sented a real sacrifice on the part of some native of the Interior of T ib et Articles found In the figure Included a heavy, well worn Jade ring of a size to fit a feminine finger, a wooden comb, a wooden bowl. Ivory chop sticks and knife with scabbard, a tower carved from wood about 14 Inches high, several piece« of home spun cloth of various colors, silk and cotton scraps, several manuscripts written on parchments and wrapped in silk, a silver image of a seated Buddha, tiles, beads, a piece ot rock salt, heads made of human bone col ored red and strips of copper, tinfoil silver and gold. Mr. Andre said the statue bad come to the museum about ten years ago According to the records. It was In the loot taken from the temple of Tsando In Tibet when Chinese soldiers sacked the temple In 1910. The exact age of the statue has not been determined. Heroic Remedie» for III» of Human Body Thomas Beddoes, an alert physician of 12.1 years ago In England, noticed there was something peculiar about the breath of a cow and decided that It must lie a good medicine for hurnun beings. For some time he adminis tered this remedy In large doses by tying up a cow and standing the suf ferer In front of her to Inhale the cow's exhaltations through a large funnel. No great cures were record ed hut the unique treatment recalls the Baltimore physician’s patient, who, according to a tnle of pre-CIvll war days, became discouraged with the lit tie progress being made In banishing Ids tuberculosis and asked the doctor tor permission to try a treatment he had thought of. The physician, believing the case hopeless, told his patient to go ahead If the method required no great exer tion and wns much surprised when, six months later, the man came hack the very picture of health. Asked what he hnd done, the patient said that each morning he had risen and with nothing but a bathrobe around him hnd run a mile to an Ice-cold spring, leaped In and stood there im mersed to his neck for 15 minutes. The story, a writer In the Detroit News comments, has few believers 4n medical circles. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS * FARM REMINDERS The utilities of a city are combined in your motor car ♦ Nicotine sulfate, commonly known as black leaf 40, which can be ob tained from the poultry feed dealer, is a simple and effective means of controlling lice on poultry. I t is ap plied along the roosts w ith an oil can In tbe evening. A laying hen on a commercial poul try farm In Oregon costs each year about »2.70 to feed and »1.00 for labor, according to a survey made bj the eperiment station. Nearly all the feed fed is purchased while most of th e labor is furnished by the care taker a n j his fam ily. YOUR autom obile is som e thing lik e a m iniature city. There is an electric light and power system , a water sys tem , a fu el system . In the new Ford, you will find each o f these system s o f the latest design and best m aterials. Every part has been m ade to serve yon faith fu lly and w ell at a m inim um o f trouble und expense. T ake, fo r exam ple, the generator—-one o f the m ost im portant parts o f the elec trical system w hich supplies the current fo r ligh tin g and fo r engine ignition. In the new F ord, the gen erator is o f the power-house type and is distinctive in m any features. It has been specially designed to pre vent m ost form s o f trouble. O iling is necessary only once a year. A bout the only thing you need d o is to have the charging rate changed as the seasons change. In rain y weather it is advisable to keep hens closed In. D irty eggs and wet litte r are the result If hens are allowed to run on wet yards. SPECIAL BOXES of CHRISTMAS CANDY Christmas candies in special boxes that breathe the spirit of Christ mas. The quality of the candy adds to the pleasure of giving it as a gift, sinoe you know it w ill please. Lighthouse Centuries Old At the most northerly point of Jut land. where the North sen and the Kattegat meet, Is an ancient light- house. The waters there have a bad* reputation among seafnrlng men, but the men who have manned the beacon have Just the opposite, most of them having been heroes of a high order. Many centuries ago, says tradition, this lighthouse was built by a peasant, Thorkel Sknrpa, and his shepherd clan. A .fishing village In time grew up around the beacon and King Erik of I'ommern, as he was cnlled, though king of Denmark, granted It a town charter In 1413. The shifting dunes have so burled the church of this vil lage that now only the top of the tow er Is to be seen.— Detroit News. ♦ The Pennsylvania railroad Is to elec trify its entire freight and passenger service between New York and W il Honey in Oregon is stored in n mington, D el, at a coat of »100,000,000. More and more folks are stepping warm place for best keeping quality, says H. A. Scullen, bee speciallsat at ou the gas. The National Automobile the state college. Honey so stored chamber of commerce finds that pleas w ill keep for months, even years. ure oars and trucks produced in this I t w ill not keep well, however, if oountry the Brat ten months of the stored in a cold, damp cellar. The year totaled 4.068,727. Enoch Broyles McIntosh, chief avia cans rust and, i f it is comb honey, it is lik ely to draw moisture and granu tion pilot of the U. 8. Navy, flight in late much more quickly than when structor at Corry Field at Pensacola, kept In the pantry or other warm Fla., was killed recently when his plane .crashed into another 200 feet plaoes. above the field. Secretary Kellogg in a conversation Farmers desiring to grow more a l fa lfa had better buy their Grimm from the state department with Dr. a lfa lfa seed supply early as the crop Ignats Selpel, the chancellor of Aus In Idaho is reported short. Several tria, at Vienna, Saturday inaugurated trans-Atlantic telephone service be Oregon farmers In U m atilla, Union M alheur, Crook. Deschutes and Linn tween the United States and Austria. Dr. Edwin C. Broome, superintend counties w ill have certified Grimm ent of schools at Philadelphia, was ap a lfa lfa seed for «a Ie- pointed chairman of a committee of A number of men having certified ten of the National Education associa potato seed have accepted fa irly good tion to investigate the use in schools offers and sold the potatoes as table of publicity materials supplied by pro stock. In a year like this when pota paganda agencies and organisations. to prices are low, many others are lik e ly to do the same thing. These lots of potatoes are usually attrac t ive because of considerable freedom from disease. Best selection of seed Christmas Cards at The Herald Office. stock is In the fall. ♦ Closely allied to the elec trical system is the ignition system . It, too, is o f new m echanical design in the new Ford. T h ere is but one h ig h tension cable and that con n ects th e coil with th e d is tr ib u to r . E v en c a b le s fro m the distributor to the s p a r k p lu g s h a v e b e e n e lim in a te d . Special care has also T h e entire electrical and ignition system s o f th e : Ford are so sim p le in «" and so carefully, m ade that they w ill give you surpris in gly little trouble. Y et that doesn’t m ean they abavld be neglected. Certain little attentions are n eed ed from tim e to tim e. T h e s to r a g e b a tte r y should b e given water and the connections kep t clean. T h e generator Charging rate should b e «hanged as indi cated. Spark plugs be cleaned at regular v a l s . D i s t r i b u t o r p o in t s should also be k ep t d e a n a n d t h e d i s t r i b u t e r earn given a light film o f vaseline every 2 0 0 0 m iles. T h ese are ju st little things, but they m ean a great deal to your car. Y on can have th em looked after at very sm all cost by tb e Ford dealer w hen yon take th e car in fo r oilin g and greasing. A thorough checking-up a t r e g u la r in t e r v a l s w ill lengthen the life o f your ear and give you m any thou s a n d s o f m ile s o f carefree, econom ical m otoring. F ord M otor C ompany HITT’S CONFECTIONERY Gradation of Heavens been taken to m ake the dla- trihutor w a ter-p ro o f, thus p r e v e n tin g s h o r t c ir e n its from rain, etc. To he In the seventh heaven means to he supremely hoppy. According to Mohammed, there are seven heavens. The seventh, says the Koran, 1« formed of divine light beyond the power of description. Each Inhabitant Is bigger than the entire earth, and has 70,000 heads, each head 70,000 mouths, ench mouth 70,000 tongue«, and each tongue speaks 70,000 lan guages. and all of them a rt continu ally engaged In chanting the praises of the Most High. It was In the sev enth heaven that Mohammed met Ahrnhnm. The Caballsts also believe In seven heavens, each rising In hap piness nhove the other, (he seventh being the abode of God and the high est class of angels. T h e B est In C O M M ER C IA L PRINTING Quite Impossible It was the Inst night of tils holiday — the most glorious holiday of Ids life, for he hnd met the oue girl In the world who seemed to matter Stand Ing with her now on the veranda out side their hotel, he gazed up at the heavens. “Darling," he whispered at last, "wouldn't you like to sail away on a silvery moonbeam—Just you and me together—toward those twinkling stars where all Is Infinite, even level And we could dwell in eternal bliss far from—" “Oh, Freddie," she Interrupted. “1 couldn’t I I’ve got an appointment with my hairdresser at three o’clock tomorrow." This Is the most Important lesson that a man can learn—that all men are really alike; that all creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere re suit of a clinnce and temperament; mid thnt no party Is. oa the whole, better than another; that no creed docs more than shadow Imperfectly forth some one side of the truth; and It Is only when you kegln to see this ilint you can feel thnt pity for man kind, that sympathy with its dlsap polntments and follies nnd Its natural human hopes, which have such a little lime of growth, nnd a sure season ol decay.—J. II. Short house. To Their Credit W hat Became of That? Elizabeth was a spoiled girl, snd An Interesting list of tbe things when she married the celebrated rity England has spread through the world ■otton magnate all her friends de was given by Mr. II. A. L. Fisher re elded that It was Just a means ol cently. They are: Parliaments, rail Ritllsfylng het «xtravagnnee. ways, factories. co-operntlve soviet kn, They had not been married very safety bicycles, tobacco, afternoon ten. athletic sports, aseptic surgery, child | .ong before the husband found that Elizabeth wns spending a great ileal welfare work. Boy Scouts and girl more money than he allowed her, guides. Jury system. Salvation Army, “Do you know. Betty," he said one high-class tailoring, and Gilbert and day. “yout dressmakers hills eat up Sullivan. neurly three quarters of my InvouwT Germany takea the honors In beer. * “Itenlly? Do they?" replied his music, and disciplined knowledge; extravagant wife. "And what do you France In taste, and tbe United Stntes do with the rest of your money In brilliant mechanical Inventiveness Monty 7" —London T lt-H Ita Names for Left-Handed I should like to know how many equivalents for this term are now In use In tills country. The vllluge school, or, rather, playground, la where they would be heard moat fre quently. All ball games from time to time dlsclo«« a left-handed player, and rarely would school children apply the formal c o m p o u n d levin of left handed to bins. "Wacky" Is the wore in nee round Evesham. “W atty" near Ited dlwh, “Neggy’ ot "Neggy anded" at t ’astle Browmlch, and Klsw»rthv In Us “West Somerset Word Book" giiee "hefty."—London Time«. At The Herald A ll Menace A kin Oregon Rose Butter FROM CONTENTED COWS THIS BUTTER IS A HERMISTON PRODUCT OF WHICH WE ARE PROUD YOUR CREAM MAKES THIS POSSIBLE YOUR WANTS KNOWN------ TRY THE HERALD WANT ADS— Hermiston Creamery Co. WE SHOES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AND M a k e this a X m a s o f U se fu l G ifts USX MODERN MAHCINERY AND W e have so many, many items that are suitable for g ift giving that THE BEST OF MATERIALS. we cannot begin to ltat them a ll, hut we do welcome yon to coma here shopping and see them. These few items may give you an Idea. O y a ta rs of Old Times The suggestion made Io tranaplani the large oyster of Europe Into Amei lean waters where II Is thought they will thrive has called for the follow ing from a scientific w riter: Perimps «•areful cultivation of oysters might bring back. If we desired It, such oya I ere as grew In tbe Oltgocene ano .Miocene periods 19.01JU.U0U to SU.tMHk UUO jeers ago. If we had lived then we should have asked h»r a plate el oyster, not a plate of oysters. Fuastt shells have been found from 6 to 12 Inches acmes and weighing as mtech us Id pound« Oysters «erg oysters In those days. MATTE YOU ARE ASSURED OF THE BEST OF SERVICE Ol OUR SHOP. JEWELRY SMOKER SETS NECKWEAR FANCY DRESS SHIRTS HATS. CAPS. RAOS. SUITCASES, OAYTEES, GLOVES, SILK AND WOOL HOSIERY BLANKETS AND IIAJY OTHER ITEMS FOB THE WHOLE FAMILY BOWMAN SHOE SHOP CH AS. G . BURK
