«-•V THE TIL LAMOOK PAGE SIX 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«. 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