Vernonia eagle., April 03, 1925, Image 4

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Biggest Little City in Oregon
though only six were conspicuous then
ag now; hence the suggestion of a lost
Pleiad. In mythology the Pleiades
were said to be the daughters of Al­
isa and Pistons, and were named AI­
MS— Merope, Celaeno, Electra, 8ter-
ope or Aaterope, Taygeta and Mala.
Ne Change in Status
A man ran away with the wife of a
neighbor. The local cisrgyman called
-Upon the deserted husband to attempi
go console him, but the man seemed
Singularly cheerful considering the nH
hire of hie lose.
“It’s too bad; too bad!’’ suld the
clergyman.
“I understand thut tliu
man who persuaded your wife to elope
With him was your beet friend."
The husband smiled.
“Yes,” he said, “he was- and he la!“
Good looks that last!
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“Loan" as a verb is extensively used
in the United States. There is some
authority for such usage since it has
so appeared from time to time in lit­
erature over the last four or five hun­
dred years. Such usage, however, la
frowned upon by grammarians who in­
sist that “loan’' is a noun only, says
the Literary Digest.
Dictionaries, which must be simply
recorders of the language as it Is used,
recognize “loan" as a verb, meaning
"to lend money, especially on lnter-
< d," and Doctor Vtzetelly In his
Desk Book of Errors in English" rays:
"‘Loan, lend'; one may raise (put an
end to) a ’loan' by paying both prin­
cipal and interest, and another may
‘lend’ money to do so. The use of
’loan' as a verb, meaning ‘to grant the
loan ol or lend, as ships, money, linen,
provisions, etc.,’ dates from the year
1200 and is accepted as good English.
Some purists, however, characterize It
colloquial.’’ To some ears “lend'” may
be preferable, but “loan" Is not incor­
rect, ami has the support of Acts 84
and 35 of Henry VLII (1542), Langley
(1044), Fossenden (1729), Calhoun
(1834), Brownson (1847), Bonamy-
I’rlce (1800) the North American Re­
view, February, 1901, etc.
Spiders in Amazon
Big as Small Rat
A traveler who has recently returned
from an exitedition into the forests of
the Amazon tells that he was much
more frightened by the huge spiders
he encountered than by the jaguars,
according to London Answers. There
Is certainly something awe-inspiring in
his description of a species of Amazon
spiders as creatures with long legs,
fat, black bodies, about the size of a
young rat, and the wickedest, most
fiendish eyes Imaginable!
These spiders make “trap doors" on
the ground, beautifully camouflaged,
and so perfectly balanced that they
shut by their own weight. Beneath
them are tunnels or pits In which the
hnge spiders watch for their prey.
Another spider Is spotted like a
leopard and spins a web quite a yard
across. The strands of this huge web,
suspended between two trees, are so
strong and tough that if a small bird
files into them It Is unable to escape
before the arrival of the spider, which
makes short work of its struggles.
Poetic Language
How then do we distinguish poetic
language? The fact Is, I think, that
there is no hard and fast distinction.
It bus often been asserted that by
poetic language we mean the presence
of metre. Now, as we shall see, metre
Is, beyond doubt, the kind of rhythm
most suitable as a rule for the pur­
poses of poetry. But metre is simply
one of the devices available to poetic
expression; and If it happens that
some other kind of rhythm will do just
as well or better, and if everything
else we require is there. It seems mere­
ly arbitrary to withhold the title of
poetry. A definition of poetry would
surely look very foolish, If it would
exclude the “English Versions of Job"
or the “Song of Songs.”—Lascelles
Abercrombe, in “The Theory of Poe-
try.”
To Withstand Cold
The tiny needles of evergreens have
different appearance In winter and
are darker and more shriveled. The
chlorophyll granules have withdrawn
from the surface as far as possible,
and the water content la greatly re­
duced, says Nature Magazine of Wash­
ington.
In this condition the alter­
nate freezing and thawing of winter
days seein to do no harm, and the
leaves are ready In the spring to re­
sume their work of starch making. But
even evergreen needles do not live
long. They die and drop as new ones
cense, and the average tree baa its
needles replaced in from three to five
years. So gradual is this process, how­
ever, that the tree always appears to
be well clothed.
His Own Fault
Little Johnny went to church and
seated himself just in front of the
pulpit.
The clergyman took as bls text: “I
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Under the auspices of the Wom­
en’s Business Club of Vernonia, a
Home Cooked Food Sale will be
held at Brown’s Furniture Store,
Saturday, April 11, 1925. beginning
at 10 a. m.
Cakes, pies, cookies,
bread, salads, in fact everything
good to eat will be sold, and
pre­
pared ready to setve.
Modei Louer a BricMayer
Come early in order to have your
Oemnxm brick bas always played ah
choice of the good things, This is
Importent part lu the building Indus­
tries througbout tbo World Volumes a splendid opportunity for buying
hâve been writtee on the hlstory and your Easter dinner.
Colored Eggs by the score will be
usa» te wpich bricks hâve been put,
but asc «a thetr romance, aays the on hand for the kiddies. ,
New Jufla Herald-Tribune.
” la ttrn tmilan ctty of Bologne there
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tewers of brick, soie sur
(Insured Carrier)
vivors et approximatif 180 aUullar
«mes sald to bave been orected be-
Portland to Vernonia and
tween the Teuth and Tblrteenth cen­
Way Points
turion. Lefloadi say It waa the custom
to k»lghu to WU tbetr ladies fuir by
VERNONIA OFFICE
•rectlng brick tewers, tallsr tban the
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shall come down and dwell «mM.pi
you.” He had repeated the words sev­
eral times, when, without any warn­
ing, the pulpit col lapsed.
The clergyman extricated Johnny
from under the wreckage and re­
marked: “I am so sorry. I hope you
are nqt hurt.”
Johnny replied, “I
prepared.
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In the comer and on the square
Put Naturalist Down
as “Poor Innocent*
The patient devotion of the nab-
urallst to observations that seam to
the Ignorant onlooker trifling and
meaningless often creates In the minds
of . these onlookers a reasonable doubt
of the scientific man’s sanity. In the
“Boman Side of Fabre," by Mr. P. F.
Bicknell, there is an amuslag incident
In point that the groat French natural­
ist was himself fond of relating.
Ever since daybreak, be says, 1 had
been sitting In watchful waiting
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stone at the bottom of a roflas. The
digger wasp of Languedoc was the
subject of my morning's study. Three
grape-pickers, passed
their way to the vineyards. (
at the man sitting then api
loot In thought, they gave him a
lite good morning, which he as polite­
ly returned. At suneft tbo same three
grape-pickers passed again on
homeward way with their hoa,
bassets on their hoadfl. Tbo ass
still there, sitting on the same
his eyes were turned upon the
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My Immobile attitude and
continued station on the om
alone must have struck them as
thing extraordinary. As they j
me I saw one of them touch het
head with her Anger, and I heard
whisper to the others In their
“A poor Innocent. Oh, poor
Then they all three
seivoa.
An Innocent she had
innocent—that la, an idiot, a
devil, harmless but bereft of his
son—and they had all three a
sign of the cross, for In their
Idiot was marked with the
God.—Youth’s Companion.
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