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RIDE HAD THRILLS
New Zealander Probably Broke
Many Speed Records.
ODD BELIEFS OF JAPANESE
Popular Superstitions Have Mostly
Sprung From Moral Precepts
and Are Quite Harmleaa.
IS OLD NEWSPAPER
Baltimore American’s Long and
There are many popular, as distin
Eventful History.
guished from religious, superstitions
In Japan. These originally sprang
from mostly moral precepts and are First Issued In 1773, the Newspaper
Fortunate to Live to Write of Mad
quite harmless. They prevail more
Has Continued Without a Break
Journey Acroee Precipice, and a
widely among people in the rural and
Until the Present Day.
Night of Terror.
mountain districts than among city
Many people find a fascination In
A thrilling adventure in the timber dwellers and among the older and ig
lands of New Zealand la related by norant classes than among the young old newspapers. They like to read
Mr. David Blake, who met with it as a and educated groups. Some of these that such and such a paper Is the old
are:
est in the country, or the first one
result of a quarrel with a man named superstitions
At u marriage ceremony a dress of published In such and such a city.
Bruertz. Do you know the great divide
purple color Is taboo, lest the mutual
Oil Mount Siberia? asks Mr. Blake In love of the bride and groom be soon And when a newspaper changes own-
the Wide World Magazine. I had the lost, as purple is a color most liable i ers, says a writer In the Christian
Science Monitor, It Is always sure of
contract for cutting out and sending to fade.
finding interested readers for the
down the timber from the upper
If while a person Is very 111 a cup
slopes. Across the gulch, taut as a of medicine be upset by accident, It scraps of its own history which It
bow-string, a steel cable stretched for Is a sure sign of his recovery; he prints along with the announcement
of the change. Thus when Frank A.
eight hundred feet. The kauri logs, needs medicine no longer.
I Munsey’s New York Herald, in an
slung to an underhung trolley running
Fire Is the spirit of the god Kojlin.
on huge sheaves, were sent over the It Is supposed to have a purifying ef nouncing recently Mr. Munsey’s pur
wire to the other side. A guide rope, fect and must be respected. To step chase of the Baltimore American, re
hooked to the trolley, served to check on fire, to throw refuse in it, will ferred to the American as "older than
the run and ease the timber to the cause the wrath of the god and hence the government of the Unlte«l States
ltse’f," and as the “second oldest news
landing stage below.
a calamity. The bore is not unknown
Rod McKenzie, Duncan and Smertz tn Japan, and the Jnpanese are pes paper In America." many who saw the
worked In my gang. It was the end of tered with visitors who sit their wel Item found their thoughts turning
the day in late autumn. The last log come out and drive their hosts Into back to the days when newspapers '
—a monster twenty feet long by thirty a frenzy of eagerness to get rid of were far less common than they are j
in girth—hung ready for launching. I them. The Japanese recipe of getting today. But presumably none were
was on the point of giving the signal, rid of them Is as follows: Go to tne misled into taking that statement to
when, fancying I noticed a slackness kitchen, turn the broom upside down, Indicate that the American was the
in one of the slings, I mounted the put a towel over It and fan It lustily. second newspaper established In the
United States. Of course, there were
log.
The tedious visitors will soon depart. many before it. The Baltimore Amer
This was Smertz's moment for de
Japanese babies and children are
ferred vengeance. As quick as light not allowed to look Into mirrors, for ican was first Issued on August 20,
ning he swung his ax and sprang the If they do, when they grow up and 1773. Its founder was that William
Goddard who was at the time editor
hook of the guide rope from the sock marry they will have twins.
of the Pennsylvania Chronicle of Phil
et. On the Instant the huge log gath
When measles, chickenpox or whoop
ered headway down the taut wire. ing cough prevails In a neighborhood adelphia, and who, on the occasion of
Borne one screamed, “Jump, Dave, and parents do not wish to have their a visit to Baltimore, was urged to un
dertake a publication there. The Bal
Jump!" But there was no time.
children become infected they put a
All this happened in a flash. I threw notice on the front door stating that timore American was not specifically
the paper which Goddard founded in
myself face down upon the log and their children are absent.
Baltimore. His first issue there ap
gripped the sling chains with a grip
peared under the title of the Maryland
of death. Bushes, ground and tree
stumps flew backward beneath me In HILL RICH IN HIGH-GRADE ORE Journal an«l Baltimore Advertiser, and
continued under that title until an
a mad blur of speed. The racing
sheaves, in their iron block casing, Mound In Mexico That la 8ald by Ex other Philadelphian went to Baltimore
perts to 0« Werth In Neighbor
and. purchasing the newspapers,
screamed and shrilled. Fire flashed
hood of $5,000,000,000.
changed Its name to the Baltimore
from them. Fire run along the wire,
___
',J
American and Commercial Intelli
Showers of sparks flew out upon the
Primitive peoples hnve an uncanny gencer. Thus .the name Baltimore
wind.
Suddenly there wits a Jar, the grind Instinct for naming things accurate American first served as the heading
and shriek of metal on metal, I ly. Centuries after the natives had for the newspaper in 1795.
screamed and closed my eyes, There named a hill outside the city of Dur
But William Goddard was already a
was a Jerk that wrenched my arms ango, Mexico, "The Devil’s Finger newspaper man of demonstrated en
Tip,"
scientists,
came
along
and
sol
in their sockets, and the mad rush
terprise and ability, even before Ills
stopped. The strained wire above emnly announced that It was formed experience with the Pennsylvania
sprang, bent again and hummed like of hematite, and had apparently been Chronicle. Apparently he hnd served
a twnnged bowstring. The log, hang Jabbed up through the earth's surface as an editor In New York, ami cer
ing beneath, leaped up and down, up from molten masses far below’.
tainly he had had newspaper experi
This Iron hill rises for 700 feet sheer ence in Providence, R. I., where he
and down. I was Jolted from my hold
and, for a horrible minute, with one above the surrounding plain, and Is established the Providence Gazette and
hand clutched in the chains, hung over said to contain 000,000,000 tons of Journal In 1702. Thus Goddard him
the abyss. Slowly, painfully, I dragged high-grade ore rated at 70 per cent self appears to have had some connec
myself up again. |Iy nerves were In in Iron content. In a report made tion with at least three newspapers
rags, my limbs shook, and my teeth Just before the World war a British before he ever thought of the one
chattered. I took off my belt and, ex|>ert said that the iron In the hill which eventually beenme the Balti
reeving It through a chain link, shift Is worth $5,000,000,000, or would be more American. Anti Journalistic his
ed position; then I rebuckle«! the If so located as to assure protection tory brings up a number of newspaper
In the operation of the property.
strong leather round my waist.
titles which were antecedent to his
Put In another way, Mercado moun
This Is whnt had happened. The pin
Baltimore foundation. There was the
tain,
for
the
hill
Is
so
named
after
In the lower block had worked loose.
New England group, of which the
The wire hnd jumped the groove In the NiHinlsh explorer who was the Boston News-Letter first ap|>enred on
first
white
man
to
see
It,
contains
the sheave wheel, becoming Jammed
April 24, 1704, and early found rivals
between It and the iron casing, and Iron which, If marketed today, would In the Boston Gazette, Initiated De
the log had braked Itself by Its own bring more money than the entire cember 21. 1719. and the New England
sum represented by nil of the gold and
weight.
Courant, appearing on August 7. 1721.
A stiff wind hnd blown during the silver taken out of Mexico between The first newspaper In the middle colo
lOtCl
nml
1803,
when
the
exploitation
afternoon, and with night It hardened
nies, the American Mercury of Phila
Into a gale from the southeast, It of Mexican mines was nt its peak.
delphia. began publication on Decem
roared, swooping through the defile.
ber 22. 1710. The Pennsylvania Ga
Rain and wind-driven hail hissed True Trachoma Easily Tranemitted.
zette, with which Benjamin Franklin’s
across tlte darkness In fierce gusts.
At a recent meeting of the Ameri nnme wns associated, appeared on De
Flannel shirt and trousers, which rep can Medical association Dr. John Mc cember 24. 1728. Ahead of Goddard
resented all my clothing, were little Mullin, surgeon, U. S. Public Health In Maryland, William Parks, who had
protection against the fierce cold. I service, started a lively dettate In the been made public printer there, es
could not move to ease my position. section on preventive medicine by tablished the Maryland Gazette at
Ice formed on the chains and on the reading a paper In which he asserted Annapolis, on September !9, 1727. But
wood ; my clothing froze hard and stiff. that much of the so-called trachoma the Baltimore American gained Its
The plght was as dark ns the mouth which nflrilcted tha eyes of American temporary precedence over newspapers
of a pit. A single big star broke Ht children Is not trachoma and not con now In existence and clnlms Its title
Intervals through the wrack of flying tagious.
as the second oldest in America, for
scud. I watched it idly as I lay In a
The original cause of this Inflamma continuing Issues without break from
sort of trance.
tion of the eyelids is unknown, but the day when Gixidard first Issued the
I awoke in a warm bed. It IK as It Is known with certainty that It Is Maryland Journal In 1773.
Dick, my close companion, that bad transmitted with ease from one eye to
come out along the wire In the morn- another. There Is another type, called
Thrilling Slide for Life.
Ing after the storm. He had brought folliculitis, which Is not contagious
A slide for life was made by two
with him a sort of chair of strong and can easily he cured, while the
rope running on n pulley; but how he true trachoma necessitates a slight workmen In New York city. A huge
hnd mannged on that swaying, slippery surgical operation and careful treat- derrick, which was 1>elng dismantled
log to get me, helpless and uncon- ment; and. even with this. It la by on top of a 25-story building, crashed
tflous. Into the «hair I do not know nn means cermin that It Is ever per to the street and burled itself In the
pavement, tearing a hole 30 feet
timerti? The boss got him away manently cart'd.
wide In Seventh avenue. The two
frApi the boys, locked hint Inside his
men were clinging to the top of tlie
ofilt’g nn<l stood guard over hint until
Paderewski’s Descent In Life.
derrick when It started to fall. They
the police* came.
Otherwise they
Jo Davidson, the sculptor, who re- seized a rope and slid to the roof as
would pave kllle«l him,
cently returned to the I'nltml States the machine went crashing over the
after many months in Europe, where bnlldlng’s stde. The accident occurred
Famed Memorial Trees.
nian.v great men posed for him. relates during the noon hour when the street
. On the beautiful capitol grounds In tlte following passage between Cle wns crowded. Workmen In each of
Sacramento. Cal., there Is n group of menceau and Paderewski, which, Da «»>«. 05 floors shouted warnings as the
trees set out because of their historical vidson says, occurred In his presemv:
Interest, «ays the American Forestry
"Clemenceau 1« a gruff old sort of
Magazine of Washington. There la a fellow," Davidson relates. "11,> was
red maple from Antietam, Md.; a risi'lvltig Ignnce Paderewski,
white elm from near McKinley's tomb.
“’Are you Paderewski, the great pi
Canton. O.; a white ash from Vicks anist ?’ he asked.
burg, Miss., and many others from
"‘Yes,' replied the artist, honing.
equally distinctive points. These
“ ‘And you bare Just been elected
trees are studied with surpassing In premier of Poland?’
terest by visitors from many states
"Again Paderewski bowed and an
and foreign lands. Could anything swered In the affirmative.
be more tiefitting to th«* memory of a
“Clemenrenti looked at hitn n mo
fallen soldier than to plant a walnut ment and then shook bls head sadly,
tree grown from a nut produced nt saying: ‘My God, what a coma
such historical points as these?
down!'”
< -yw~
Reaping Up Appearance,
Preserving the Salmon.
"Is the rivalry between Mr*. Gad-
Completion of nn Improved $40,000
spur and Mr*. Jibway as to which Minion hatchery ut Madison, Conn.,
can have the finer car still going on?" for restocking eastern strewn» with
“No, It wns suddenly Interrupted." the valuable food fish that disap
Tohiml
"What happened?"
peared from that region practically
"Bankruptcy proce«Mlngs. It lo«iks a century ago. Is awakening renewed
•hall Be
as If they would have to start all over Interest In th«» «11118« of that early de
th» BtblksU version of our
again."
pletion, according to Popular Ms
modsrn mytn* : “ Nothin* sno-
1 Panics Magazine. The too coramen
llks tarM»" So It WM
construction of «lama without proper
with Dr. Fir-roe, of lluiMo, NT.,
Wouldn’t Depend on the Girl*.
who, over So years ago, gave to
“I think you could make a lot of fish ladders, blocking th«« seasonal as
cent of the salmon from the sea. ex
the world a Prescription which
money out of this play.**
plains the impending loan of this
ha« never
eqnalM aa a
"That so?”
toBle for the weakness«« of
“Yes. The writer has worked out great natural resource, a condition
women. Many women In every
a good plot, and It wouldn't take often technically difficult of correo
hanilek town or city will <lad)y
more than a few tongs and a dozen ’.ion because many of the streams are
not natoci aa navlgablt waters.
»«llfy that Dr. Pierce'» Favorite
chorus girls to put It over."
Prescription did them a world of
<<*xl. Ask your neighbor.
Another of thl» great physL
This Woman Stwtervd
elan's successful remmii«« Is
Mrs. H. A Leaman, Stargtn, Coin ,
SijJT® .*?.
f)r Pierce's ~ioid»n
known
as Dr.
Golden
write«: ’’1 suffered with bladder and
M«*ilcal LHsowtq-y and, like the
kidney trouble for years. Foley Kid- I
'Prescription,« Is now «old
•o'4 by
‘’i
druggists everywhere. In both
Dey Pilla helped me ao much I feel .
L liquid
‘’“53J and
‘*d tebieta"Thii'
tm-dg
tablets.
Tbl»
medi»
fine now. Suffered no It oeemed I i
ein« *•* * success from the
Plenty of 'Em
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PIGS
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FOR SALE.
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hardly could live I recommend Fo-1
ey'a Kid neg Fillo to nil who sutler
rom kidney trouble as I did.
Adv '
Hold Everywhere
IdWre your order« at
DR. REEDY’S
CATTLE EXCHANGE. I
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■ten, lag
lor WkMwi
the list of men
um aM
and
»omon »II
al! over the universe
universo
,
»ocwsfulty used it
AS
An anraatng
antMtng total of thorn
thousands.
HEADLIGHT
derrick ten. ano men. women and cml- BACHELORS KNOWN TO FAME
dien scattered In all directions. The
only persons Injure«! were four work List 1» Not Overlong, but There Have
Been €cme Great Men Who
men who got hurt by a port of the
Remained Single.
machine, which plunged down eight
floors within the structure and wedged
Who is the most famous bachelor
Itself among the girders.
la history? While, as Is natural to
expect, a large majority of the
Turning to Water Power.
French and British commissions are aotables of the past have been mar
giving most serious attention to water ried men, there have been a few who
power a« a substitute for coal. Britain's have attained prominence in the
coal, though still plentiful, Is within world of art, of science, of states
measurable distance of exhaustion. manship and In war without the uid
France never has hnd coni enough. of a “better half.”
One who had ns much claim as any
Both, therefore, are making every ef
fort to develop a form of power which other to the distinction of most emi
can not he exhausted. Extensive nent bachelor is Michelangelo, one of
works are projected to utilize the the greatest figures of the past. Vol
waterfalls of the Jura mountains and taire, scientist and statesman, is an
the French side of the Pyrenees, while other great man who remained single.
In the realm of warfare few of the
a British group of Investigators has re
ported that In one district of Scotland really great have remained bachelors.
water power can he developed suffi Perhaps the most eminent Is Lord
cient to take the place of nearly 2.000,- Kitchener, who was so laregly re
sponsible for Enjfland’s military
000 tons of coal per year.
strength In the World war.
Eliminating these few the list pre
Complicated.
"I should think your three daugh sents a more complicating problem to
ters would solve the servant girl one who would pick the greatest.
There are several others of about
problem for you.”
“Solve it. They complicate It It's equal prominence. Among the paint
almost impossible to get a girl to werk ers Raphael stands out as one of the
greatest to die unmarried. Chopin
with five In the family.”
and Beethoven achieved fame in the
Sell Many Door Locks.
realm of music without the inspira-
The crime wave is resulting in much tion of a helpmate.
new business for the hardware store
Several modern writers, poets and
man these days. Padlocks, heavy essayists achieved prominence by
chains and burglnr alarm devices are themselves. Charles Lamb, Alexander
being sold like hot cakes, and persons Pope, Walt Whitman, Phillips Brooks,
who never before thought to lock Henry James, Whittier and Swinburne
their doors are now taking double hetjd the list.
measures against intruders.
Petrarch was an unmarried histori
"Until a few months ago," said a an, and Cecil Rhodes, also single, at
hardware man, “we sold door chains tained great prominence. Few men have
only occasionally. Now we can’t sup become famous as statesman without
ply the demand. New Yorkers, as a marrying before the end of their ca
rule, are careless, but I think that the reer.
President Buchanan
piesent activity of the crooks will notable exception.
teach them a lesson. My advice to
persons living In apartments Is to
keep their doors well chained. Pro
fessional crooks will get into almost
any place, but extra precautions on
hall doors will keep the sneak thief
out.”—New York Sun.
Women’s Hair Price Increases.
The price given by hairdressers for
women’s hair has Increased enormous
ly during the last 12 nffinths. While
some women In America and Britain
sell their hair, the real trade in this
commodity Is done In Continental
countries. Peasant girls tn France,
Belgium and Italy sell their hair at
regular periods to deniers. This hair
Is mostly of the fair and black vari
ety, while most golden Italr Is ob
tained from Scandinavians.
WITH COMFORT
PORTLAND
IN
7 HOURS
By Steam and Electric Trains
Leave Tillamook Southern Pacific Station 8:25 A.M.
Arrive Portland City Station 3:19 P.M.
Direct connection is made at Hillsboro, Main street
at 2:25 P.M., with Electric train for Portland.
Inquire of local Ticket Agent for
further particulars.
S outhern P acific L ines .
JOHN M. SCOTT. General Passenger Agent.
GOLDEN ROD DAIRY
Quality Dairy
Products
PASSION
IS AT THE
REX
NEXT WEEK.
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Bell 6F13
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DON’T READ THIS I
GEORGE HANSLMAIR
Wants to repair your Auto at
his new location in the Martiny
Garage. He's all ready; Just
drive in
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