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CITY OF KLAMATH FALLS
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Hope Springs Eternal
: Klamath Adventurd
"Let ut hare faith that right makei might, and in
that faith let u to the end dare to do our duty we
understand it." Ahraham Lincoln.
Compiled by K. W. HARWOOD '
(Copyright hy Klurrinth Publishing Comn
, , (All Rlirhta Rcierved)
: EPISODE X.
Microbes and Us
The Social Line of Immunity
The habits of a germ are peculiar.
For instance, he is particular about the
company he keeps. He is a discriminating
character.
He will play with members of a Forum.
But he is shy about Rotarians. It is a very
fine, bit of favoritism he shows here,
'it is quite understandable, of course, that
he should gallivant around with church peo
ple. At the same 'time eschewing the com
pany of film fans. If anything, the germ is
a climber.
With deadly innocence he seeks the com
pany of school children in his idle hours. No
money could get him near a prize fight.
There are those who remember the flu.
Darned if the only place a germ wouldn't go
was into a saloon.
How ridiculous humans must appear to a
cultured germ.
Builders of Klamath
Which People Promote Progress?
The lives of pioneers in the great Klamath
country indicate that they liked it here and
honestly believed it was a good place in which
to live. They were builders, rather than ex
ploiters. Exploiters are the people of questionable
value to the life, of a community. In no wise
are they interested in its future. It is their
game to make their money and get out. True,
at times they are forced to remain, having
grabbed too greedily more than they could
readily turn to profit.
The exploiters are not builders. They are
never agriculturists. Speculation is the first
and last purpose. Buy low and sell high is
their creed. They produce nothing. They
block genuine progress by utter devotion to
the immediate present. Exploiters are an
affliction to any community.
A community over-burdened with exploit
ers does not and cannot achieve its destiny
until it throws ihem off. The advent of a few
families from Inyo has meant more to the gen
uine progress and development of the Klamath
country than a legion of exploiters.
o
In his annual report, Dr. Work, secretary
of interior, shows that the reclamation fund
of $200,000,000 intended to revolve or be
funded in ten years, has not revolved in twenty
years, despite a lump appropriation of $20,
000,000 in 1 908. And that repayment to the
government was only nine and one-half per
cent after twenty year3. Under their con
tracts water users in 1924 were to pay $3,
869,000 on construction charges. Of this
$2,066,000 is uncollected. It cost $2, 1 07,000
to operate and maintain irrigation works, of
which $959,744 was unpaid June 30.
Heart & Home
Problems
By Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson
WOMAN WANTS TO I.KAVK II Kit
Hl'SllAM) AND ( Hn.ll -Kilt
HIM
Dear Mra. Thompson: How Is
a man to know the woman of to
day. I am a man well up In
years. I married a real young
girl five yenrs ago, and I was hap
py, for I truly loved her and I
thought she loved me, but In a
couple of years we parted through
troubles and a quarrel I had with
her mother. She left me and went
back home to live with her moth
er. I was heart-broken for a time
hut when I saw her going out with
other men and having a good
time, then and only then for spite
I commenced looking around for
other company that would suit
me. Now here Is the problem.
How is a man to know? I met a
woman 29 years of age, and we
commenced going together, and
kept on until we got real friendly.
We even planned how soon' we
would get married after I got my
divorce, which I got last month.
And then a few days after It was
granted I foum! out that the one I
had been no friendly with wa a
married woman. Now, Mrs.
Thompson, please don't call me a
cad nor a prude, for I did not
know she was married, as she
lives in a smnll town near here,
and as she was over two or three
times a week I had no occusion
to visit her in her home town, fine
would drive over here to visit her
mother or sinter, nnd then she
would let me know she was in
town and then I would call on
her, and wo were, as I thought,
Iho best of friends. Hut when I
found out that she had n husband
and a dear littlo girl nearly two
years old, then I gave her up.
Hut, oh, how It did hurt. Now,
Mrs. Thompson, I want to know If
I did right. She has written mo
two or three letters saying she
cannot Rive mo up, hut, wants to
leave her husband nnd let him
get a divorce. Hut 1 told her no,
to stny with tho father of lu,r
child and I would get along some
way. Hut It hurt to love and
lose. Please advise me.
EASY COOli FELLOW.
You are taking the honorable
coarse. I)o not pay any attention
to her letters, and refuse to sen
her again. And do not lei these
two unforlunatc'experlencvs make
you a woman-hater, for you have
been unlucky In your associations
with the sex. It Is always for a
man (or a woman) to see the
home and know something about
the people of the person with
whom he Is In love, before he con
siders marrying her.
MARGIE: Your trouble, it ap
pears. Is that you are bashful and
rather "quiet." Cultivate some
enthusiasms and learn to meet
persons without shyness. Go over
In your mind the list of your ac
quaintances, pick out those whose
company you enjoy best and fig
ure out why. From this you
should be able to measure your
own failings In companionship and
be able to remedy them.
had been driven too fast; and tho
owner stoutly In.intcd that he had
been progressing at tho rate of
only sli miles an hour.
"Why. your honor." he said,
"my englno was out of order and
I was going very slowly because
I was afraid It would break down
completely. I glvo you my word,
sir, you could have walked as rust
as I was running."
"Well," said tho magistrate,
after due reflection, "you don't
appear to havo been exceeding the
speed limit, but at the same time
you must have been guilty of
something, or you wouldn't be
here. I fine you ten dollars for
loitering."
"I sen where the I'ollre Gazette
Is to start an embroidery page."
"Yes, that is becaua there are
so many women In tho barber
shops now."
1IH.-II mv 1 oil III lunum liriHIHTS, Dan Clliil
. ........ i.. I i: .l ' vllnv
rami' uht iu i.onv itivvr, wiry mailt) Ihmr home
with J. Flunk AdaniM. Ho wan fumed for hit
nnd until the Van Rrimnivr could get wititi
made tht'tti welcome,
i - . i... , f i
i mu tan iirimnit'rsj nuu enjoyed sonic of th.
irrigation. The UlK, mont of the day nnd U
iiiifht, win liriKntion. Adams soon became n J
Kuuiniem on mo mhiiiuui are warm mid dry
pn't'iptisiioil. aTersailiR iu to u
Inches. Is llihl. Kow rrops could
be rslrd for a certainty without
outer lirsln, alfalfa and Iho
hardier vegetables could bo grown
to abundanie with water.
Adiiiiis relates that his steeping
nnd waking dreams were of a
great country full uf fruitful small
farm replacing loo great rough
country then roverrd with suge
brush.
The Van llrlmmers made good
mates for Adams. They had the
money, but Adams made up the
difference with his untiring Ini
tiative and knowledge of the
country.
"Old Man" Howard was brought
In from Jacksonville Iu do soma
surveying by the Van llrlmmers.
No reclamation engineer had en
tered the country there waa not
so much as a surveyor lo be bad
locally. . Howard ran a prelimi
nary survey nu the west side of
Lost river, with Intended head
lake on the river, but gal Do
where with It,
Howard's bill was !I0. Tho
plan to Irrigate had been gener
ally discused and was no secret.
Kveryona within reach of the
ditches was to havo profiled by
water If watwr was obtainable.
The Van llrlmmsrs asked settlers
for contributions.
"What fur?" waa tho response.
"If we want to hire a surveyor
wa ll hire him ourselves." Com
munity spirit waa at Ita lowest
flight on the Klamath. The Van
llrlmmers swallowed hard, but
they paid the 1240.
They hired no more surveyors,
but want to work with a carpen
ter's spirit level and straight edge
held on a tripod. This was made
to serve their purpose.
Adams and tho Van llrlmmers
had an Idea that the "Llttlo"
Klamath, as old-timers called
Lower Klamath lake, waa higher
than Tulo lake. There appeared
to he no practl.nlilo opportunity
to get mater out of the river, he-
cause of Hie la. k ol
Jsasable ridges. I; n
In lie the rain tnit
ath Lake a. hln
lake, tbn reit Would
lively eaay.
It was a laomrslh
In the Van llrlinrntn
proved lo be tin
was the only out tak
confidence. The flBd,
spirit level were slav
able. A dlffsrem
Iween the elevsllug
Klamath and Tule Uk
Very quietly Ada
Van llrlmmers et
filings on every p!w
could find vacant,
such tracts as sou Id
eglcal for ditch build
ways.
And there was pies
public lend In thaw
Adams filed ai (hi
Ixwt river and tht Yi
filed on tbe wtst iljj
several months before
ready to show their bn
(ContlDutd toaoi
The Iter. Mr. Rail
vacations! fluhloi Irlnj
rifled lo hesr a To
using words thai bid i
blue tinge.
"My boy," k rJ
"don't you knev tiit if
never bile If Jos I
man -
"I know I tla't t
II." replied the yoituf
getlcally. "bat I Ihosrj
could get some lltllt
few words I know,
take my pole sad
can do.
A scientist on Mil
he made from nerrn
eoal dealer Jus) Uaitln
l.sSslle Tost. '
A deposit of Iroo or
discovered lit f'eylon IN
mated to contain 100.1
Dinner Stories
Tho ship dmlnr of an Kngllsli
liner ' notified the . death watch
steward, an Irlnhman, that a man
had died In stateroom 45. Tho
usttul Instructions to bury the
body were given. Some hours
later the doctor poeked Into tbo
room and found that the body was
Htlll there. Ho culled the Irish
man's attention to tho mattor, and
the latter replied;
"I thought yon said room it. I
wlnt lo that room and noticed wan
of thlm In a bunk. 'Are ye dead?'
says I. 'No,' says he, but I'm pret
ty near dead,'
"So I buried him."
In certain remote sections of
West Virginia Micro Is no liking
' for antomoblllsts, us was evidenc
ed In tho case of a Washlngtonlun
who waa motoring In a sparsely
settled region of the stato.
This gentleman was hnlcd bo
foro a local maitlslrnto upon the
complaint of a constnble. Tho
magistrate, a good natured man,
waa not, however, absolutely cer
tain that tho Wushinglonlnn's car
Some Pages from
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KPKKfT W ' IMPOKTAXT '
IVVK.VTIONH
We owo the discovery and coloni
sation cf America mainly to tho In
spiration and persistence of Colum
bus. II ii t other developments In
Kuropc also wero Important factors.
These were:
J. Invention of the mariner's
compass,
2. Invention of gunpowder.
3. Invention of the printing
press.
4. Tho desiro of a new nll-wnler
route to Indlu.
The compass gnvo greater certain
ty lo navigation.
flnnpowder provided 'an nffectlvo
means of subduing unfriendly na
tives. The printing press was spreading
knowledge nnd Information and had
aroused an enormous curiosity on
the part of the p0po as to coun
tries and lands other than those In
which (hey lived. I
Kurnpn enjoyed an extensive and
highly profitable trade, not only
with -India, but with China and Jap.
an. Precious atones, spices, silks nnd '
many other articles of commorro
were brought- by ships nnd caravans
from Aslu in Bout hern Kurnpn.
Venice and Genoa had been en
riched l y this trade. Then In 14B3
the Turks tock Ccmstnntlnople, and
Immediately began raid, on the
American History
MORGAN , ' - '
Commerce of Kuropa with Asls.
Traffic between Europe and Asia
was matin so perilous and uncertain ,
that the profits began to slip away.
That Is why Europe began to torn
Its eyes In soma other direction. II
had no thought of giving up Ihe Asi
atic trade. Hut It wanted to carry It
on by soma other , and safer route,
or course, notwithstanding the
fart that trade was carried on be
tween Kiiropo and Asia, the pcoplo
of lha two regions had only meager
knowledge of each other.
European monarch! wero con
stantly hcnrlng stories of tho fabu
lous wealth or China and the Indies.
Particularly wore there stories of a
ruler called Prestor John, who was
believed to have a kingdom ut most
Immense wealth somewhere Jn Asia.
Marco Polo, one of the most fas
cinating characters In history, hod
returned, to Europe after spending
much llino In China and Ildla. and
, his stories of the soiilth of the Kast
further whetted the desire for more
knowledge and, freer Intercourse
with theso fabulous lands.
This was the condition of the Eu
ropean mind when Columbus' ap
peared upon Ihe stage of. history
with his proposal to roach the East
i by sailing West. .,
Tho next Installment toll
' ' f Columbus before Queen J'
) ' Isabella . !i