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PING This Game la tlie L>t?at A mu.eirient. Little More Thun u Thousand of Ihese Animals in I xlitcnce. A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME. Form of Do you ping pong? It's the latest game. Ping pong is a game for those who like an indoor recreation to re mind them of their favorite outdoor game, lawn tennis. Ping pong apes lawn tennis and seems to be trying to rival it in popularity. What is ping pong? It has another name, and that is gossima, and gos- slnia gives a due to its identity. Trans late the word Into gossamer, and you have the net that is stretched across the table at a height varying from eight to six inches. Instead of tennis rackets you have battledores, and for balls small things made of white cellu loid, .wherefore it is well to learn speedily to aim straight over the net, and not at the tire. But the balls are quite a cheap Item. and. indeed, the whole game can lie purchased now at prices varying from 25 cents to $5, though tlie cheapest “regulation” game on«the market is about $1.50. It is sur mised that an epidemic of ping pong is imminent. Ping pongers play in twos, one at one end of the table, the other at the other. The server Is the man who first BUFFALOES ALMOST EXTINCT. The American buffalo Is fust disap pearing from the earth. It Is estimated that there are now remaining alive In the world only 1,024 of these noble beasts, 684 of which are in captivity. But it is not possible to be exact In such a statement, inasmuch us the wild survivors cannot be rounded up and counted. In the densely wooded re gions between the Saskatchewan and Peace Rivers, in British Columbia, are several hundred buffalo; there are twenty or so perhaps In the desert Pan handle region of Northwest Texas, and in the Yellowstone National Park there are fifty or sixty more, It is believed. There are none at liberty anywhere else. These few remaining wild bison are being steadily reduced in number. In British Columbl: hey are being killed off, gradually by the Indians, while those in the Yellowstone Park are pot ted by poachers whenever the chance offers. A mounted head of one of these animals is to-day worth from $150 to $200 and a skin brings a good price. Ten years ago there were nearly 400 buffalo in the park, and it is thought I that tlie survivors can be preserved | The space where It should have been was occupied by the second hand. "The second hand,” continued the Jeweler.” Is to be found in exactly that place in almost every watch that is made. Whether your dial was regis tered In Arabic or Roman numerals there would lie no six on it. It is only on a few of a very cheap sort of watches that the second hand is omit ted and the 6 or VI. stands revealed.” PONG. only by corraling them and reducing them to captivity. C. J. Jones, better known as “Buf falo" Join's, of Oklahoma, has a herd of over 100 full-bred buffalo, which he wishes to sell to the government. Aus tin Corbin was the possessor of ninety bison, which have been more or less scattered since his death, some of them the work in hand. In a very few min utes Jack was as deeply Interested as Who’ll prww for gold this crowded street, If lie were building a sure-enough hotel, A hundred years to come? Who’ll tread yon church with willing and Gus watched with admiration. Presently lie tried to put in place an feet, arch that was in two pieces and needed A hundred years to come? two other blocks to be placed beside it Pale, trembling age and fiery youth, Ami childhood with its brow of truth. in order to hold tlie pieces in place, but The rich and poor on land, on sea. In doing so he knocked a corner out of Where will the mighty millions be, the building with Ills elbow. A hum I red years to come? “You clumsy boy!" exclaimed Etliel. who had been watching with tlx1 ut We all within our graven shall sleep, most Intense Interest. “Here—let me A hundred years to come; hold them,” and a moment later she No living soul for us will weep, wns sitting on the floor with them. A hundred years to come; Jack patiently rebuilt tlie damaged But other men our land will till, corner and then Ethel held the areli And others then our streets will fill; And other birds will sing as gay. until he had built around It. Ami bright the sunshine as to-day, “Now make some bathing houses on A hundred years to come. the beach." commanded Gus. Jack obeyed, and then Gus brought out some men and women cut out of cardboard and set them around to re THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. ;; present the guests. "Here’s you and Ethel. I’ll Introduce you. for yon weren’t acquainted then,” ♦+4-;-4'++4-4'-i,4,+++++++++4'++"{,+'i • said the young rascal, as lie placed the tigitre of a man raising liis hat before ACK WARING was bashful, but that of a young woman with a parasol. It win a question if In* was any “All right.” said Jack. “Hut I am more bashful tlinn Etliel Tulcott. not raising my hat nt her as I should. 1 They could not speak to each other on am raising It at tlie tar corner of tlie even the most trivial subjects without building. Here, let me set them right." stiiinmering ami blushing, but Jack Saying tills, he readied out and turn persisted in calling, despite tile appar ed the figure representing himself so | ent discomfort Ills visits caused both. I that it faced tlie figure representing Every laxly could see that lie was des Etliel. Immediately a white hand shot perately in love, and It was a saying out and turned tlie back of the paste among their friends that If Jack could board belle toward the bowing figure. ever summon up the courage to pro "Snubbed!" exclaimed Jack, having a pose. Ethel would be too bashful to re I boldness for Ills pasteboard repreaeiUa- fuse him. whether she loved him or not 1 five that lie never would have presum She had Just come out at the beginning i ed to have for ldiuself. of tlie season, about the same time that "But you don't know him yet. lie's Jack who had Just graduated from col 1 the cheekiest man on the beach, at | lege and entered his father's business, heart;" and he moved his representa i of with It lie win the prospective heir, five with his bow in front of tlie maid first lagan to attract tlie attention of w itli the parasol. designing mothers and attractive “And she's the haughtiest girl nt tlie daughters. I'erluips It was while avoid beach." said Etliel. ns she again snub- Ing them that lie met Etliel, who had lied lier cavalier. found that there are ways of keeping "Try them behind the hotel where the out of sight when a ballroom was hammock is and folks ain't lookin'," < rowded with other girls who were en volunteered Gus. joying themselves. Anyway, some “Great head!" exclaimed Jack, pick i otniimn chord of sympathy made them ing up the two figures to make the embarrassed friends from their first change. meet Ing “Take care whom you're handling Although Jnek was bashful, he called like that!" exclaimed Ethel, grasping on Ethel ns often iis lie dared, but in him by tlie wrist and striving to pry spite of all resolution to overcome Ills his fingers loose from her figure. dlindeiice lie made little progress with T here was a struggle full of the aban Ills »nt They could get along fairly j dim gnyely of tlie nursery, to which well «.icn there were others in tlie the blocks hud brought them back far room with them, but when left to them from the formalities and embarrass selves they suffered. I'nllke most ments of social life. Gus Jumped Into voung people In a similar case, they tlie struggle to help Jack, and In the courted rather than avoided tlie com general lillxup the hotel was wrecked pany of Ethel s little brother, Gus, and worse than any house that was ever Ja,ck soon became stall friends with built on sand. The clatter brought him that In* felt called upon to remem them back to themselves again, but the Is r Ills birthday. T his he did by send nursery spirit remained with them. ing him an elaborate box of building They once more had the frank fearless blocks. which Gus dragged Into the ness of children and could look one an parlor on the occasion of Ills next visit, other In the face without blushlug. ami Insisted thut the donor teach him "Now, you must build me something bow to build with them. else, you two,” whined Gus. over the ruins of his hotel. lait shall 1 build?" Jack asked. For an hour they built and rebuilt “Build me a big hotel like the one all kinds of houses to the Inflnite de- 1 Ethel and I were nt last summer." Jack obediently drew Ida ehair to the light of the boy, who watched and eritl j middle of the room and began on a vised. At last they disagreed about ' suit al e design. But he soon found what ahouhl be built. “Let'fc build a cottage," said Jack. that building while sitting on a chair “No. let's build arhurvh," said Ethel [ wns difficult. amt ns Gus was sprawled “I want you to build both." said Gus. | comfortably on the floor watching the So, as there were plenty of blocks to i work, he presently sllpissl down lie- aide him Now It la a peculiar thing build both, they startl'd a race to see about building block« that although who could finish first. Hut It was a 1 they are always Isiught for children, peculiar thing that Jack built with his very few children can work out the left hand and Ethel with her right, i designs that go with them, and con- while each leaned on the band that was ,<x|uentl.v they are forced to call on supposedly disengaged. But an ob their elders to help them. Moreover server less Interested In building than their ehlers usually take kindly to the Gus might have noticed that the two (ask. ami are apt to get cross If the hands not used In building were trying child interferes In any way and delays to rest on the same spot of floor, and One day a good-looking colored man, who had appeared rather prematurely in a loud spring suit, entered one of the down-town telephone stations and asked for Joliet. He was compelled to use a wire that was in the open office and as he apparently lalmred under the impression that the person whom he called up was rather deaf, every word he said was audible to all who were within ten feet of him. After the necessary connections had been made, tlie young mau smiled gen ially and said: “Dis Mrs. Williams, the mother of Miss Lucy?” Apparently it was, for in a moment he added: HERE'S IIOW PING PONG IS PLAYED INDOORS. delivers the ball, and the striker-out is the other. At the end of the first game the parties change, the striker out becomes the server and the server the striker-out. The player who tots up six games to his credit first wins the set. The game can be extended to take in several more players, just as bagatelle can, and battledores can be passed from one player to another. Then, to make it a more scientific form of amusement for the dining room table, which is usually converted into the lawn, there caw be substituted a board surface, painted black, with a narrow white boundary line at the edge. Ping pong clubs anil pjng pong matches are springing up all over the country, and ping pong tea parties are rivaling play teas among the fair sex. “Fo' de good lawd, yoh voice 'pears so natural-like, yoh done scade me! Then, after a short pause, “Reckon you all's kinder sprized to heah frum me. What’s dat? No, suh, I hain't seen yob all sence New Yeah's. I reckon yoh don't have no idee what foh I wants to talk with yoh. but, Mrs. Wil Hants, I wants de proud honor of bein' yoh son-in-law.” Both expectancy and trouble shone on the young man’s face and the re ceiver shook nervously in his hand. "Oh, yoh go 'long Mrs. Williams, you jest tryin’ fer to tantalize me. Wliat's dat? Oh! Golly! Yes'tu 1 got a stiddy Job an’ I got er house done picked out. What, ma'am? Wliat fer I didn’t ask Lucy New Yeah's time? Why. why. I done gone clean fergot to." Evidently Mrs. Williams looked fav orably on his suit, notwithstanding ills absent-mindedness, for in a few mo ments he rang off and with his face radiant with joy and his eyes sparkling witli emotion, lie stepped out of the telephone booth and up to the opera tors' desk. "What's ma hill. Mr. Operator? 1 done won de prize!” he announced. Then lie buttoned his plaid coat over ills swelling chest anil marched out with a triumphant gait.—Chicago Inter Ocean. THE FACE OF YOUR WATCH. You Think Yon Know XVhat It Looks Lik , but Do You? “1 will wager,” said a Broadway watchmaker to a customer the other day. "that you cannot correctly put down the numeral» on the dial plate of your watch.” •Done,” said the other. And he wrote down L, II.. III., IX----- “Wrong,” interrupted the watch maker. "How wrong?” “Pull out your watch and look at the figure four.” Sure enough the figure was IIIL. not IV. "Are all clocks and watches made FORETELL COMING STORMS. that way?" asked the customer, as he Telegraph Wire« Are Said to Be Un put his watch back in its fob. "AU that have Roman figures ou their failing We (tiler 1 rophets. According to Dr. Eydam. a German dial.” “Why?" physician, there are no more reliable “Well, there is a tradition which ac weather prophets than telegraph wires. This novel discovery was made by him counts for the custom. The first clock in tlie following manner: As he was that resembled the ones now In use waiting for a train at a country station was made by a famous French jeweler he heard a shrill sound, which was named Henry Vick in 1370. He made made by the wind as It passed through ¡1 present of it to King Charles V„ stir- Now Charles was a network of near-by wires. At onee named the Wise. the doctor remembered that he had fre wise in many ways, but he did* not quently heard a similar sound either know everything, though having a repu immediately before or after a stifrm tation to sustain he pretended to om or a heavy fall of rain or snow, and it niscience. When Vick brought him the naturally occurred to lilm to try and as clock lie examined the works very at certain between the sound and such tentively. seeking a flaw somewhere. ‘Yes.’ he said at last, 'the dock works changes la the weather. As a heavy shower of rail fell within well, but you have got the figures on 'Surely not, your forty-eight hours after he had heard the the dial wrong,’ sound at the railroad statlou he con majesty.' demurred the Jeweler. 'Yes. 'You cluded that there was such a connec the four should be four ones.' tion. and he then determined to inveatl- are wrong, your majesty.' 'I am never 'Take it gate the matter thoroughly. As a re wrong.' thundered the king. sult lie now maintains, first, that any away and correct the mistake.' Vick unusual disturbance In tile telegraph did as commanded. Tlie fashion was And so to this wires Is an Infallible Indication of bad followed by others. weather, and. second, that the nature of day we have 1111. Instead of IV." “But supimse my watch bad Arabic the changes in the atmosphere may be learned from the sound which the wind and not Roman numerals?” “I took that chance, of course, be makes when pawing through the wires. Thus a deep sound, he says, which Is cause the larger proportion of watches of considerable or medium strength, have the Roman numerals. But even indicates that then« will be slight show then I'd have had you in all proliabill- For there is another peculiarity ers of rain with moderate winds within ty. from thirty to forty-eight hours, and. about the figures which la almost uni- But I will show on the other hand, a sharp, shrill sound vernal In watches. Go on writing the rest of the Is the sun« token of a heavy storm, you. which will tie accompanied by much figures.” So the customer continued and wrote rain or snow. down V., VI.----- “Wrong again." interrupted the (Ttlseiiship tn Hwltserland During the last ten years there were watchmaker. “But"----- 10.024 requests for citlxenshlp In Swlta “Pull out your watch and see," calm- erland. of which 7.833 were granted. ly retorted the other. Onee more the watch dial was ex- Economy supplies old age with an j posed to view. There was no »lx on it. easy chair. Aqueduct. Doubtful. HE DONE FORGOT TO ASK. That Wa« the Beason a Cotore i Swain Hud tn I’»« t*?e *• enhnne. having been presented to New York City. The animals, when kept In cap tivity, show a tendency to Increase In numbers, and Buffalo Jones hits pro duced thousands of desirable cross breeds from his herd. It is stated that there are not 110 pure-bred American bison outside of this country. occasionally the Angers intertwined in a way that brought the color to the cheeks of the two young people, whose faces were carefully averted. “Jack’s cottage is done first,” cried Gus, sprawling forward witli ids card board figures. "And here you both are j going in the front gate.” “But we should go to the church be fore we go to the cottage,” safvi Jack, gallantly. “Don't you think so. Ethel?” 1 A gentle squeeze of the hand was the only response. "Then It's settled,” he exclaimed, in i a trembling voice, glancing at tlie back : of an averted head. "First to the | church and then to ttiy cottage.” Atiother pressure of assent. Just what would have happened next, in spite of the presence of Gus, will never be known, for Ills mother, who had entered the room unnoticed, suddenly exclaimed: "Well, bless my heart. Is this a nurs ery? Bless you. my children.” They both sprang to their feet In con fusion. lint Jack still clung, to Ethel's hand. Her mother looked from one to tlie other, and then Jnek managed to stammer: "That's right—we want your bless ing.” “Engaged!" exclaimed the mother. "Well. I never. And that boy In the room all the time! Talk about bashful people!" "Never mind that,” said Jack, sud denly grown bold as brass, as he plant ed his first kiss on Ethel's lips. “The question is. do we get the blessing?" “You'll lie aide to tell better after you are married." said the mother, as she pushed them ahead of her toward tlie study, where her husband was sit ting. pretending not to overhear.— Ledger Monthly. Ancient Roman Recent discovery in Jerusalem proves that the ancient aqueduct which brought water from Bethlehem through the Hinnali valley, was built by the emperor Severus, 195 A. D. Inscriptions to that effect have been found. I First Crony—Let me see, didn’t Strickland marry one of Old Smiley’s girls’ Second Crony—Yes. First Crony—By the way, though, isn't Smiley dead? Second Crony—He was the last I heard of him. GRIP'S RAVAGES After-Effects Are Often Worse Than the Trouble Itself—How They May Be Avoided and Good Health Restored. From thf. Journal, Kansas City, Mo Following every epidemic of the grip there remains a trail of after effects which are often worse than the trouble itself and which seem to baffle all efforts of physicians. A specific, however, has been found which not only will quickly restore the health after an attack of grip and expel the lingering germs, but, working through the blood will ren der the system proof against the dis ease. In hundreds of cases it has been shown that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People have accomp lished this result. One of the many recent cures is that of Mrs. J. B. Shaw, of 2101 Bellefontain avenue, Kansas City, Mo., who says: "When the grip was epidemic here I .was one of its victims and t he disease left me in a bad state. I formerly had an excellent memory, but after the attack I could scarcely remember anything. I had severe pains in the top and back of my head and was dizzy by spells. I would lie awaek until nearly morning and then fall into a sleep that was not restful. My heart action was weak and I was a victim of nervousness. In fact my health was shattered by the attack of the grip and recovery seemed hope less. “After being afflicted in this man ner for several weeks, I happened to read an advertisement of Dr. Wil liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Thinking they might do me good, I began taking them at once. In three days I was much better and could sleep like a child at night. After using a box of the pills my memory was restored and I felt greatly en couraged. I continued taking them until I had used three boxes and was in better health than I had enjoy ed for several years. "If a stamped envelope is sent for reply I will gladly answer all inquir ies relating to my case." Signed, MRS. J. B. SHAW. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of February, 1901. LIONEL MOISE, (Seal) Notary Public. At all druggists or direct from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Price 50 cents per box; 6 boxes, $2.50. A Reasonable Inquiry. "Have you heard from ‘Old Boom erang’since she went home,” asked Mr. Tucker, putting his feet on the table. "I want you to stop calling mama ‘Old Boomerang, ’ said Mrs. Tucker. “What makes you call her that?” "Why, I was just wondering when Where Beggars Can Itiile. she was coming back, that’s all,” an Horses are so cheap in Auckland that swered Mr. Tucker. “You needn’t pedestrlanlsm bids fair to become ex get sore about it.” tinct. The postman does his rounds on horseback. The butcher, a huge basket slung over Ills arm, canters up with ordered provender. Schoolboys, two frequently sharing a mount, ride to school, where a padflock Is reserved for their ponies. Even the lamplighter performs ills duties perched on an ambling nag, while the droves of live stock passing nlong tlie roads are al ways under the care of a mounted es cort. When an outdoor man is sent on an errand that would entail walking a quarter of a mile he invariably spends ten minutes in catching a horse that lie may ride. But more ludicrous than all else was It to see a sween. his at tention to the kitchen chimney com pleted. canter off on his nag. with the bag of soot perched on the saddle be fore him. As an instance of the topsy-turvy state of things antipodean it may be mentioned that It is considered smarter to drive in a hired carriage than in your own trap. Work Their Rrains Hard. j , i | ! ! ' | , | j A French investigator has fome to the conclusion that the brains of mili tary and naval men rive out most quickly. He states that out of every 100.61)0 men of the army or naval pro fession l'.*9 are hopeless lunatics. Of the so-called liberal professions, artists are the first to succumb to the brain strain, next the lawyers, followed at some distance by doctors, clergy, literary men and civil servants. Strik ing an average of this group. 177 go mad to each 100.600. Domestic serv ants and laborers are far behind them: the professional men supply 155 out at each 106.660 as candidates for the lunatic asylum. Next, but with a long Interval, come the mechanics, of whom sixty-six In each HMM<60 lose their wits. Wonderful to relate, commercial men retain their sanity the beat of the whole group, ns they send only forty two out of 100,006 to the madhouse. COME AND GO la many forms Rheumatism Neuralgia Lumbago Sciatica makeup a large part of human suffering. 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