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.
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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.
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