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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1888)
Ttee Battleeaaaa's Awfal Ey*. Hover seeing a snake cljarm a bird ct animal, I concluded it w a a negro super- stitiun or fancy, tievoid of fact. So I con tinued to think till a few days ago, when a farmer friend of mine, living four mike south of Abilene, told me what ho had lately witness! He said he waa riding along on a prairie ami saw a prairie dog wiLliin a few feet of him which refused to scamper to hie bole, aa prairie dogs usu ally do when approached by ma®; on the contrary, he sat as if transfixed to the spot, though making a constant nervous, shuddering motion, a* if anxious to gei away. My friend thought thia was strange. an<l while considering the spectacle he presently eaw a large nt- tlwuiake coiled op under some bushes, hit head uplifted. about six or seven feet from the dog, which still Iteenled him not. bat looked steadily npou the anake. lie dismounted. took the dog by the head and, thrust him off. when the snake, which had up to that moment re mained quiet, immediately swelled with rage and began sounding his rattles. The prairie dog for some time seemed l«e- nnmlwd. hardly capable of motion, but grew better anti finally got into his hole. My friend then killed the rattler. Now, | was this a case of charming* If not. what was it* My fr.eod who told me thia ts r.xmeti John Irving McClure, a farmer, well known to me. a good and truthful • man I now giw it up that snakes do '>ERY PRECIOUS. TUE BIG NEWSPAP’ 7U-— - HAS THE LIMIT OF THE RE PATIENCE BEEN REACHE The Xew«p*F«r >f Smaller Than tUa Fwtwr« ] Prwant A Caadaaaatiaa la the J «diala«« The Plclwdl rraetlee.# When tho big newspaper becomes i ger bow is it to bo delivered! New and carriers have already complained hardness of tao task of hauuiing k pounds of paper. How will it be w| more pounds ore added! Why, it wi possible, certainly at the prevailing k The days of tbe cheap press will be The price must be very consider creased to induce the middlemen to dl Mr. Jones’ larger sheets and n ere of i The newspaper of the future will be instead of larger than the present a And it will be uo worse a newspaper account, but rather better This res be reached by condensation in the ji sense I tloa’t mean by th s “boiling everything,” so that there h little of p substance left in the article or paragr auything much but the Leading The to which I refer is condensation by ex The newspa • r of the future will only what it is really worth wnile to | Tbó newsjoner of the present prints mas of m liter upo n which space is which nobody is profited by reading < ally wants to read, or having read r »■men later. If all of this were orni newspa: vr would shnuk rapidly. IS OTHER DEPARntX.-.TS. Î j WrÒdiDg. I ret Baprrtittam tw Fair. XJRj excited I know oPnothing fa all nu- Tbc other evenin'; I went to a party and tore of so dreadful appearance as»the eye tried to find out the pçî superstition of • oi the riutlesnakk It is enough to strike «ch girl I danced* with. And they all » not only birds and little an mais, but men. havre them. One ww»;dp’t go under a j with nightmare. I have on several occa- ¡eaniug ladder, another would be sure- of ; sions examined them closely with strong incoming ill if she saw,the moon over her glasses, and feel with all force what 1 ' left shoufaen ano’bcr would not read- an ‘ stnie, and I will tell you thaVJ^ero are epitaph for fear cd losing her memory. few mon on the face of the earth who can One girl told me she could stop a dog’s look upon an angered rattlesnake through howl any time by taking off her shoe and a good glass—bringing him apparently -^rrtring « K. In drawing her kerchief within a foot or two of the eye—and stand from her besom a narrow slip of paper 1 innre thaa a momenL—Forest and fiuttrnd to the ground, on which were Stream. sinx hieroglyphics. “Ob', my charm!” KaM«an Sy*t*m of Colonixatioo. she exclaimed. I supposed she had lost The announcement that Russia has or an article of jewelry, and was searching about for it when she seized upon the dered all fertile lanas along the Murghab ■ scrap of paper as though it were a deed to river to be colonized sounds strange in _ a San Diego corner lot. My curiosity was this country, where the only colonists the ' vrouseJ. and she explained that it was a general government orders around are the x rharm insuring success in undertakings, Oklahoma boomers. When the Czar wishe* purchased by her at a great price from an ; to populate any green spot In his Central Egyptian fortunes teller in Paris, and that i Asian dominions he orders a lot "of Cos- its yosjxresion akme amounted to nothing, I Mtckx to pack up their belongings and be » but it it . qm be put into the pocket or in ' ?arted off to new homes beyond t be deserts. the bcKxm of a dress during the recital of I that, like a sea. dirive them from their an Egyptian verse. If one failed to re- • fatherland. It must be said that they menJier that, however, tbe Lord's prayer thrive well under this violent process of ! transplanting. The government feeds and might be substituted. _j,. (. I have taken ixkcs since then, and I /find .belters them until they tare taken root U m vv is not one of tbe sweet creatures that . in the new soil. The lovely valley in which ùus ' not her pM superst’t»us whim. 1 ■ naruarcand lies is filled with well tilled have a little friend rtn Via Ness «avenue ; farms, whose owners are there simply be who would go to church with her scrlfkin -muse.f*tbe little father" shaped their des- jacket wrong «de out, if by any improb- ' unies. without consulting the bumble peas ants — who al»Ctv she tapjwmed to get it o® thdt wav. ,----- — did his bidding. - It is thus. raxber than .acur the bad luék sure to ioabdesa, that tbe Czar will revive the mnake her by it off to chxnct- it. Mcrr oatix. which, irri^ted by hundreds I know * girt on Fourteenth ftraet. in' »t channel, from the M urghab. one« bkw- CtekHnd. «V- heoreres qwte rat:lent when otneJ like the rose —New York Sun. j her driwsmakrr is otJiged to rip a seam 1 I she has jest sewed, as she » sure she wUbyr*- bi««»»«« from “Ixrwrr Animal*.** |hve te» wear Tbe garment c « t . I remem The "lower animals,” as we are pleased ber voting a rztich where bees were kept A to call them, have a way of revenging and tbe bnsiess tclliag me tbe borer was Iibcmselves for s-^rne of the injuries they a failure risxi year Bcsnmt of their receive from the* higher animal, man. negiect^xg; to rxj» c® ti»e lee beese to tell . They contract diseases in a. mild form, ibe «rupiaEi« that her fatter had dievL lad communicate them as virulent epi»-. "He d>ed very snd^- my.** she said, ps- iemk> to their masters. The cow has a ihrTieally. - and m the surprise and Lurry ; flight attack of scarlatina—so slight that - aud all we fergr« all ahceri it until dzy- 3 hardly causes her ineeuvcuience—and a I Ughx. and h was too hue then, fee be d leadly infection breaks out among those I been dead f«ur hcurs. and tbe lees must who drink of her milk. From a report he Tend wixLia tbe Lc-ur or y«a'H k*e 'em which just been compiled by Dr. —we did."—Sas Fran- veorge Taraer for ¿he local government risco Post. boari. it appean tirvt diphtheria may be .line of the diseases which we catch from lmtnaLK Pigeons suffer from croup. * txirses and swine from "strangies,” latubs « 'n<n throat; all which affectKma. Dr. Purser thinks, may develop into diph- & :beria in human be:ng«. The worst of- • '’-D-lrr is the «kenesrir eat, which is very to daidb to suffer from a cold in tbe bead and be -best, and to poMB* on inn much worse p- ’orm to children.—S*. James’ Gazette. I t _________________ 1 I ♦ 1 But it is not only the literary dep that condensation is“ advantageously ] cable. The commercial department is viung u field. I doubt laat the pre teta of «»¡vertismg will lie in opcr 1987, or ♦ven in 1937 An illustrati point tha case. If all the newspapers York<jpuJd agree to double their adr rato«, and if in cunsrqueuca the ad shockl buy haif as much space as be it is, of cours?, mathematically de bio that th- newspapers would be off pecuniar, y . I think it is morali; strabi? that the advertisers wouk worse off iu resp xt to the publicity business, but that all bands by and by be a great deal better off in every way. — The mivertibeTnent wonld neariy as much attentkMi. It w quite as much if the advertisers i stami upon a level. It is the comj magnitude—the struggle for a k nouncetnent and for bigger letters, nious alphabetical blotches which so many daily journals—-that eha