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About Klamath republican. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1896-1914 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1907)
A , A PATTI f QUID TR ID Slavas *• I ILL uHlT I (111 I MEMPHIS LANDMARK. T1W Famaua Old Mart Where Ware Bought and 8old. Grim, unsightly, paintlesa, seamed amd crooked throughout Its masonry, Aore stands today an old brick build in on Adams street, mtdwuy betwean Main and Second, about which clusters ■tore of history and of change than ---- i be be compressed compressed into song or story. Is situated just 1 on the east of tbs ■Dey midway between Main and Soc- on4 streets and is used as a shelter for the city prisoners who are worked on the ruck pile. If you will take the trouble to »top to the westward Aide of this old build ing. where it faces the alley, and glance up along its second story you may still discern the inscription. "Ne gro Mart and Livery Stable." or as much of It as time has not penciled out. The last letter of the word "mart” and the last letter of the word “stable” are gone. The others are dimmed with age and might pass unnoticed unless y*u look a second time. Time was when this was a famous negro market It was presided over in tts time by no less a man than General Forrest himself. Thousands of negroes were bought and sold within its walls, ■nd hundreds of thousands of dollars passtsl there from buyer to venJer.— Memphis Commercial Appeal. r What It Means to Work Your Way Across the Atlantic. SOCIETIES OF KLAMATH FALLS A. O. U. W.—l.inkville Lodge No. 110 mwlti in the A. O. lT. W. hall every Tuesday evening. Visiting Brothers al ways welcome. John Vaden, M. W. J. W. Siemens, Recorder. Republican Hds HARD LABOR AND POOR FOOD Evangeline Lodge No. M Degree of Honor laxlge meets in the A. <». IT. W. hall every second and fourth Thuredavs Experience of a College Student Who in the month. Nancv N. White, C. of fl. Wanted to See the Old World on Jesse .Marple, Recorder. Little Money—Hie Troubles Abroad and the Return Voyage. W. O. W. Ewauna Camp, No, 799, W. A grout many college boys nud other O. W., meets every Tuesday evening youths wbo have a lot of time and at 7:30 o'clock at Sanderson's hall. All neighbors cordially invited. very little money on their hands dur C. K. Brandenburg, Clerk. I ing the summer plan to get a tine vaca tion trip with little cost. One of the A. F. A A. M.—Klamath L'.rdge No tnost popular trips is. of course, to 77. Meets second and fourth Mondava Europe, and. as very few of them are of each month in the Masonic Hull. able to stand the first or second cabin W. T. Shive, W. M. W. E. Bowdoin, Secretary. tariff and sort of fight shy of the steer age. their imaginations turu naturally toward the much talked of voyage as O. E. S.—Aloha Chapter No.61, meets cattlemen. Without knowing very in the Masonic hall every second and much about cattle or the sea or hard fourth Tuesday evenings in each mcntli, work young men often jump at the op- i Christine Murdoch, W. M. Jennie E. Kearnes, Secretary. portunity to get to the old world in this way. About this trip they know just this I. O. O. F.— Klamath Ixulge No. 137 much: First, that it costs $5 to get the meets everv Wednesday evening in the ■ O. r. W. hall. job; second, that the cattlemen must A. C. B. Clendenning, N. G. FORCE OF GRAVITY. care for the cattle all the way over for Geo. L. Humphrey, Secretary. What Our Average Man Would Weigh no pay, and. third, that the passage back is free. That looks goo«!, but on Mars and on the Sun. Ewauna Encampment No. 46,1.O.O.F. If the planet Mars is really inhabited that's only tbo bare outline. The ex 1 Encampment meets first ami third the people who live there must be an periences of a young collegian who Fridays of each month in the A. O. L'. exceedingly nimble race. The average took this trip one summer may be of W. hall. C. C. Brower, C. P. weight of a man is about 140 pounds, value to those who may contemplate Geo. L. Humphrey, Scribe. but tb^ force of gravity on Mars is so the voyage and of interest to the pub much less than on the earth that the lic generally. Prosperity Rebekah I-odge No. 104 MO pound man would weigh only fifty- When he got tire idea that be wanted I. O. O. F. meets in the A. O. V. W. three pounds if he were transported there. With such light weight and still to go to Europe, he had $20 in his I hall everv first and third Wednesdays in the month. Mary E. Fish, N. G. retaining the same strength, an individ pocket Five of this he paid to a Loriuda M. Sauber, Secretary. ual would be able to run with the speed steamship agency In an office on South of an express train, go skipping over street, where he signed a contract as a ten foot walls and do various other cattleman. A few hours before the K. of P.—Klamath Lodge No. 9« extraordinary things. On the moon a saillrd he reported on board to the meets in Sanderson’s hall every Mon Bert Bomber, v, man would be even lighter. foreman and was assigned to a smelly, day evening. John Y. Tipton, K. of R. and S. But on the sun our 140 pound man greasy bunk In the forecastle. Then would have his troubles. Instead of the foreman, who was well liquored up bring an airy Individual be would and remained ro all the way over, ex W. of A.—Lodge meets in the weigh In the neighborhood of a ton and a mined his papers, which contained a A. M. O. C. W. hall every first and third three-quarters. He would probably minute description of his person. The Wednesday in the month. have the greatest difficulty in raising foreman said they were all right W. B. .McLaughlin, Consul his band, for that member would weigh The men of the cattle crew were en- I W. A. Phelps, Clerk. ■bout 300 pounds tirply separated from the regular crew of th« vessel and seldom came In con- ! Foresters of America—Ewanna Camp, Aluminium. tact with them during the voyage. Be No. 61, meets in the A. O. V. W. hall Aluminium, it is generally known, la sides the foreman there were two paid every second and fourth Fridays in the • metallic element found in clay and men, who also indulged in liquor all month. C. D. Willson, C. R. la the same materia) of which rubies, the time and never worked, and four E. E. Jamison, Rec. Sec. sapphires, emery and alum are made. college boys on an outing. The youths * enters into the composition of a got together na soon as they were on large number of other materials, and it board and discussed the possibilities Women ot Woodcraft, Ewauna Circle la estimated that in its various com of their job. Going down the Delaware No. 647, meets every second and fourth pounds alumlniunr forms about one- there was nothing doing. The cattle, ’ Friday in Sanderson's hall. Mrs. Dollie Virgil, G. N. twelfth of the crust of the earth. Every 310 head of them, were quiet, and Wrick in every building is said to be 30 things looked rosy to the boys. cent aluminium. It is produced by They got their first jar when they Fraternal Order of Eagles meets decomposition of clay, which is a were called to dinner. This meal wan every Monday evening at 8 o’clock in ■alt composed of silicic acid combined I taken tn the forecastle. It consisted of | A. O. U. W. Hall. Henry Boivin. W. with aluminium. The aluminium is “••It horse,” "skouse.” “punk.” “oleo" P., Otto Heidrich, Sec. separated from the silica by the appli ■nd “chicory.” Translated, the meal . cation of electricity. Separation has consisted of meat potatoes, bread, but- I a*ver been successfully done in any ter and coffee. Some of the boys had other way.—Boston Globe. been camping and thought they could eat anything, but they balked at the quality of the food and the careless BlacksnakM. I have never seen blacksnakes over cooking. Then came a row. The fore ■even feet long, and I much doubt if man and the two paid men asked them they grow to a greater length. They If they thought they were going first are not hard to catch, though In an cabin and threatened to throw them open field they can run about as fast overboard if they did not eat. So they ■a a man can. When caught they ate. That night they retired early and •truggle desperately until they find there is no opportunity to escape, when were pulled out at 4 a. m. by the night they will give up fighting and may be watch and told to go to work. The handled with impunity. I have never foreman and his two paid men stood found these snakes to be vicious. They around giving orders, while the boy« can be bandied easily, and their bite is toiled like galley slaves. First they harmless. They can squeeze pretty watered the cattle. Each head of the hard if they get a turn around your 210 had to be given five buckets of waist, but not hard enough to break a water, which bad to be carried from the outlet tubs at the end of the cattle bene.—Forest and Stream. deck The boys soon began to sweat under this unaccustomed work and A Sardinian Titbit. threw off all their clothing except The inhabitants of the mountainous their trousers. In which costume they districts of Sardinia eat large quanti worked all the way over. It took two ties of a fermented milk, resembling and cne-half hours to water the cattle, koumiss or képhir. It is prepared by and then breakfast was served, the allowing the milk of the cow, sheep or same kind of stuff that had been given goat to ferment at a mo.ierately high the evening before. By this time the temperature, either spon aueously or boys were so hungry that they could after the addition of baker’s yeast, un eat almost anything. til it thickens into a more or less con At 10 o’clock the heaviest work start sistent homogeneous mass, at which ed. The hay which was fed to the cat stage the fermentation is stopped by tle had to be pulled up from the hold plunging the vessel into cold water. with a block and fall. Eighteen bales This product which has a sharp acid of 12.1 pounds each wore hoisted in this flavor, is eaten either by itself or la manner as well as ten imles weighing spread as a butter upon bread. from ?50 to 325 pounds and eighteen bags of corn of 125 pounds each. Two Improved His Opportunity. of the youths hooked the bales in the Young Mrs. Gotrox (at her first break hold, while the other two pulled. It fast with her elderly “catch")—You eat 1 did not take long for the tender skin with your knife, don’t you, John, dear? on their hands to become raw and in Old Mr. Gotrox (noticing his opportu flamed, and the hauling became a posi nity and with severity and dignity)— tive torture. No, madam; I do not. I eat with my When alJ the hay and corn had been mouth. I frequently convey food from pulled up the corn was fed to the cat my plate to my facial aperture with tle, and then It was time for dinner. my knife, but I do my own eating with This was eaten hurriedly, so that the my own exclusive mouth, and until men could get back to work. The hay further notice I will myself furnish all was split in the narrow aisles in front the instructions respecting the methods of the cattle, and after several hours to be employed. of hard work at shaking ft up the poor beasts were fed. Then the men were He Knew Better. fed with far worse food in comparison “Dis paper,” said Weary Willie, “ses than that given the cattle. By this der yer kin tell be de bark at de foot time they were tired enough to go to of a tree how old it is.” bed. Most of them revolted at the “Huh!” snorted Ragston Tatters. “I stuffy bunks and slept on the hard guess de man w’at wrote dat wuz nev deck. er up a tree under dem circumstances. This was the regular programme for Dat ain’t no way to tell a dog’s age.”— each day. On the second day out a lit Houston Post. tle relief came when a poor, starved stowaway was dug out of the hold and Wise Fritz. set to work. He could not work much, Father—So, Fritz. I’ve concluded to for he was sick most of the time, but retire from active life and turn the he helped a little. So the work went business over to you. Fritz—Say, dad, ob , and the blistered hands did not can’t you work a few yeara longer, and have a chance to heal. Before they 1 then we can retire together?—Berlin were halfway over every college boy Journal. was praying for land. There was practically no amusement > Th* Brama river. In Texas, was call I on board. Isolated from everybody on ed by the Spaniards Rio Brame de the ship, the boys had nothing to do in C Bring Results » Such is the popular verdict of our Advertisers. Mr. Business Mail, you will do well to try the Republican columns, as it is read by practically everyone in this city. Get in the game ClilMN l’ltlllllbillU* of fill le irtelo ftt LoWCrit of Price» S. B. GRIZZLE KLAMATH FAI L.A OREDON Standard” Laundry Trays H. BOIVIN, the Plumber, Agent, PttONP >»• Al«««* /ait». Onf Buy Lots in Hills’ Addition Just Hast of the Depot $125 I FOR A LOT 50x120 FEET I Can you find a better investment in the city? You are paying the present value price and will thus secure the benefit of the increase XN m , “riror of the arm of Go*" ♦heir f»w spare momenta hut gamble FRANK IRA WHITE
