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Thursday, April 15, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Italians Captured in Battle of Guadalajara X4 we : ess , Lid • UNCOMMON AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson © Western Newzroper Father of the Cattle Trails j Officers and men, members of one of the crack divisions seat by Mussolini to aia General Franco's rebel ■forces, who were taken prisoner by Madrid government troops in the bloody battle for Guadalajara mountain passes. The loyalist forces, seasoned and toughened by the long seige of this bitter war, routed the Italians completely, driving one division 30 miles back in a wild retreat. “Big Three” of Cards’ Hurling Staff air ... PARISIAN QUEEN r , Mlle. Jacqueline Jacolew, who has been named “Miss Exposition,” to rule as queen of the Paris Interna Three star pitchers of the St. T.ouis Cardinals upon whom Manager tional exposition which is to open in Frankie Frisch is basing his hopes in the National league pennant drive May. She was chosen from a num this year. Left to right: Paul Dean, Lon Warneke, formerly of the ber of beauties in a contest spon Chicago Cubs and Dizzy Dean, star of the league. sored by the exposition. t. Device Makes Mental Diagnoses ACADIAN PIONEER Mrs. Mary Desire Verett, one hundred and two, of Baldwin, La., who was born and has lived all her life in her beloved Acadian country or Land of Evangeline in south cen tral Louisiana. Four of her seven children are living. She has 152 grand, great-grand and great-great grandchildren. She has never worn glasses and can still thread a nee dle and do a little sewing. aoorrrw Miss Veronica Lavigne, nurse at the Worcester, Mass., State hos pital, is shown with the delicate apparatus now being used in making diagnoses of mental cases. The machine, it is said, records changes in the patient’s mental status and shows when improvement is being made. Psychiatrists say that development of the machine may mark the turning point in the fight against dementia praecox. Collegians Sound Eloquent Thumb’s Death Knell . g ■ ....rsnr * toppe Gone are the days when a flick of the thumb in the desired direction was the logical way to beg a lift. Here you see charter members of the National Collegiate Hitch Hikers association demonstrating the method that ousted thumbing from the repertoire of the well-bred hitch hiker. The organization started among the stu dents of Long Beach junior college. Long Beach, Calif. IF IT had not been for Joseph G. - McCoy, there might never have occurred that epic migration over the cattle trails from Texas to the north during the seventies and eighties. In that case the history of the Lone Star state—and the whole West, for that matter—might have been very different. McCoy, a native of Springfield, Ill., was a stockman and cattle buyer who went to the raw little frontier town of Abilene, Kan., soon after the Civil war was over. That conflict had ruined the cat tlemen in Texas. Shut off from the Northern markets by the Union control of the Mississippi river, their herds had increased enor mously, but without a place to sell the animals, they were compar atively worthless. Then the Kan sas Pacific railroad, which was building west, reached Abilene and McCoy was inspired with a wonder ful idea. If he could get the Texas drovers to drive their herds north across Indian territory to Abilene, grazing them on the rich prairie grass as they came, Abilene would be the market place and shipping center where Texas sellers and Chicago and Kansas City buyers could meet. Despite many obstacles, in cluding the prevalent belief that Texas beef was not as good as that grown in the Middle West, Mc Coy went about the job of making his dream come true. In July, 1867, he began raising money to build a “shipping yard,” a barn and office and to begin the construction of a large, three-story frame hotel for the accommodation of Texas drovers and eastern buy ers. His next task was to get word to the cattlemen more than 400 miles away to the south. Al though the time was short he man aged to persuade enough of them to make the experiment so that they marketed 35,000 head of cattle in Abilene that fall and received approximately $15 a head for their steers. Previous to that time steers were selling for $5 a head in Texas. The next year more than 75,000 cattle were marketed there. By 1871 that number had jumped to 120,000 and by the next year to 236,000. From that time on Texas cattle poured north by the hundreds of thousands over the original cattle trail from the Red river to Abi lene and other trails which were laid out. Other Kansas "cow towns” began to boom with activity as the railroad was pushed farther west and southwest and there was added to our history that thrilling chap ter when the cattleman was king. And all of this was due to the vision of one man—Joseph G. McCoy, the “Father of the Cattle Trails.” Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives ‘THEY gave Americans of their — day the equivalent of the news reels of today. They were the pic torial historians of contemporary American life a century ago when newspapers contained little or no picture material except an oc casional fashion print. When a steamboat blew up, a great fire swept a city or some other disaster occurred, Mr. Cur rier and Mr. Ives immediately put out a colored picture of the event with plenty of action in it. When the United States was at war, they issued splendid battle pictures with plumed generals on prancing horses (and plenty of gory detail as to dead and wounded soldiers). There were pictures of horse races and other sporting events, there were pictures of swift clipper ships and pictures of the first transcontinental trains running amidst Indians and buffalo. There were highly moral pictures there were even “comic strips” —caricatures of life among the ne groes, called "Darktown Comics.” It all started back in 1830 when young Nathaniel Currier, working as an apprentice to John Pendle ton, who had returned from Europe with the new art of lithography, be gan thinking of setting up his own business. So he went to New York and started as a lithographer in partnership with a young man named Stoddard. This partnership lasted only a year but in 1835 Cur rier began again. He soon built up a profitable business but it wasn’t until 1850 when James A. Ives be came his partner that fame and fortune came to them. For 30 years Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives were “printmakers to the American people" and Currier and Ives prints of one sort or another were to be found on the walls of virtually every American home. In 1880 Currier retired with a fortune but the flrm continued with a son of the founder in his place. In 1888 machine color printing was ap plied to their product and even greater numbers of their pictures flooded the country. In recent years Currier and Ives prints have become "Americana.” Where once these prints sold from six cents to $3, they are now sell ing for anywhere from $20 to $500. And one of them recently brought $3,0001 Items of Interest AROUND the HOUSE Removing Tea Stains—Tea and coffee stains can sometimes be removed from china cups by rub bing them with a damp cloth dipped in baking soda. • • • Use Baking Sheets — Baking powder biscuits and cookies rise better and brown more evenly on baking sheets than they do in pans. • • • To Remove a Tight Lid—Tie a piece of string round the tin two or three times, just below the lid; then push a pencil between the string and the tin, twist the pen cil over, and the resulting pres sure will release the lid. • • • A Supper Special—One cup left over cooked vegetables, four eggs, half-teaspoonful salt, dash of pep per, half-cup grated cheese. Break the eggs and beat the yolks and whites together. Stir in the vege tables. Add pepper and salt. Put in greased baking dish. Cover with grated cheese and bake in hot oven ten minutes. *** Useful Velvet—If you are mak ing anything of velvet do not throw away the pieces of material left over. Save them for using as polishers for your black-leaded stoves and for your shoes. You’ll get a real mirror-like shine on both if you rub them with velvet after the usual polish has been applied. • • • Shining Saucepans—Aluminum saucepans that have become dis colored inside can be made to look like new by boiling in them water to which a tablespoonful of vine gar and some apple parings or lemon rinds have been added. Cleaning Paintwork — Glossy paintwork should never be washed with soap and water, as it usually leaves a smeary surface. A tea spoonful of turpentine in warm water will make the cleaning a simple matter and will not scratch the paint. • * • Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb—One shoulder of lamb, two tablespoons chopped onion, three tablespoons cooking fat, two cups soft bread crumbs, one teaspoon chopped mint, one tablespoon salt and one eighth teaspoon pepper. Have the shoulder blade removed. This Who Are the Rich? CIR ERNEST CASSEL, who 2 was enormously rich and influential, left this message to the world: “Most people put too much belief in the theory that wealth brings happiness. Perhaps I, being well-to-do, may be en titled to say that it is not so. The things that are most worth having are things that money cannot buy. I am a lonely man.” This bears out the Cingalese proverb, which says, “He which is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy.”—Lord Baden- Powell. to the Housewife leaves a pocket for the stuffing. Wipe meat. Fry onion in fat, add bread crumbs, mint, celery leaves, salt and pepper. Mix well. Fill pocket with stuffing. Then roast. • • • Removing Grease Stain s— Grease stains can be removed from cement walks and porches with a poultice made by dissolv ing four ounces of trisodium phos phate in a gallon of water and mixing in whiting until a paste the consistency of mortar is ob tained and plastering a layer of this over the stained area. When dry remove with a trowel or putty knife. « • • A Mirror Brightens — Many housekeepers have found that a hanging mirror will often brighten up a dark corner. WNU Service. Haste Versus Hurry There is a distinction between haste and hurry—hurry adding to rapidity the element of confusion. The eager expectancy of youth is the source of so much enthusi asm for a better world. You can’t make dreams come true by remaining asleep. Peace, to any of the great pow ers, seems to involve its own dom ination over the others. A trained mind deserves the companionship of a cultured heart. Unsatisfying Retribution Observant men have made up their minds to this: Retribution is seldom adequate. A man of culture is respected for it. Don’t be afraid of acquir ing it, only be sure of getting enough. Good deeds are scarcer than bad ones, but one evil act will keep people talking longer than a hundred good ones. We are all busy seeing the other fellow’s duty; and generally it is a fact that he isn’t doing it. Self-denial is good for everyone notwithstanding each enforcement of it nearly ruins one’s temper. "The LIGHT of 1000 USES’, Coleman ( Mantle I dee LANTERN Cees AIR-PRESSURE I Use your Coleman In hundreds of places where an ordinary lan- tern is useless. Use it for after-dark chores, hunt- ing. fishing, or on any night job ... it turns night into day. Wind, rain or snow can't put it out. High candle-power air-pressure light. Kerosene and gasoline models. The finest made. Prices as low as $4,45. 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