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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1925)
T H E G A T E C IT Y J O U R N A L i Trapper M ade Sudden Change in Fight VietM Tradition hat It that moat of ths tarty trappers operating through tbs Kooky mountains were serious char acters. Such la far from the re s « though. Uuny of them took great pride In exaggerating accounts of what they had encountered on their trips A few even had a slant on Ufa that would make a Murk Twain en vloue, says a contributor to the Fron tier. Joseph L. Meek was one of the best known of these frontier humorists One of bis experiences which Is gen erally credited concerns an attack made on his party by a band of hoe- tUe Indians While stopping for a rest the Indians were sighted as they were la the act of charging the trap pers. The redskins were but a few hundred yards away and mounted. Ths whites lost no time In mounting their animals and beating a hasty retreat Meek, however, encountered soma trouble with his mule which refused to budge. •'Boys stand your ground, boys 1” he screamed. "Stand your ground I W e can whip 'em. Stand your ground 1" But the trappers failed to heed Meek and put all the territory poe- alble between themselves and the on- rushlng Indians. About that time Meek’s mule, seeming to realise Its own danger, set Its pedal extremities In motion. Within a Bhort time Meek, astride the mule, had caught up with the rest of the party. Another min ute he passed them. Then he turned In his saddle and shouted back over his shoulder, "Come on, boys! Ws can't fight 'em. Come on, boys I Coma on I” mm/ oeoroe A. BIRMINGHAM eoayjuernr dr loassM erjuei <n W N U Service trtans, alone among central, southern and eaatern Europeans, havs a good Idea of what breakfast ought to be. Except that there was no marmalade. Tommy could not have done better la a first rate London hotel. At half past ten, before he had fin ished eating, Janet Church waa shown in. Tommy greeted her with an eagef flood of questions. “ What’s happened?" he asked “ Why am I shut up? Why did that sss. Albert Caslmlr, wake me op this morning by scowling at me. Why did he shove the great dictionary wttk S id es t m , f . *• *. L asting, M ich. the word “ Impostor" In It—an enor mous dictionary In two volumes? Why did he threaten to hang me or shoot me or guillotine me? 1 don't know which he meant; but he certainly In tends to execute me In some way. And what's the Lystrian for marmalade? I ’d like some Just to finish off a really good breakfast.” “ Who are you?” said Janet. “ I'm the Reverend Thomas A. Nor- reys, M. A„ said Tommy. “ You saw my passport In Berlin, so you ought to know.” “ Not Lord Norheys?" "I've told you, I ’ve told the other Caslmlr, I've told the klag, I would have told the princess If she’d have listened to me— I’ve told every one I’ve met that I am not Lord Norheys. It would he Just ns sensible. In fact * FelcSftl f ft. h. Laming, MUA more sensible, to Insist that I’m Col onel Heard. But no matter what I COMMERCIAL CHASSIS . , , $425 said, nobody ever believed me, except ROADSTER . . . . . . . $525 T O U R I N O ................................. ..... that pompous ass, Von Stelnveldt. I COUPSTER , ................... 1595 think he did. I f necessary I ’ll swear COUPE $675 I'm not Lord Norheys. I ’ll swear It COACH , , ^ 4 , « ■ • $695 on Caslmlr’s dictionary If you like, SEDAN 4 . . . . . . . . $775 and that’s the most Impressive look- ink book I ever saw.” Inc. “ What convinced them? I’d like to know; for I never could manage to 250 West 57th Street, New York do It myself.” General Sale» Dept.— 1 8 1 9 Broadway, N ew York “ Two telegrams arrived this morn ing early,” said Janet, "one from D ta ltn s s i S ervice S tation throughout tho United Statt! Count Istvan Casimir. sent from Ber Canada and M exico lin, and one from Lord Edmund Troy- te, from London. A motorcycle brought P lavti I Eliubeth, N. J. Lanaing, Mich. Oakland, CaL Toronto, Ont. them. They said that you're an Im postor, and that the real Lord Nor heys Is In London. Lord Edmund Troyte Is Lord Norheys' uncle, so he's M a r c h o f P ro g re s s certain to know.” "What In the world are you doing “ I expect he'll be Miss Temple’s aunt soon. I mean to say, she'll be with the music room?” “ Making It over for radio." his niece, If half I’ve heard about her Is true. I never was so plagued about A Rabatnntlnl R E W A R D anything in my life as I have been Thousands o f people In A m e ric a have about that woman. How did the been lib e r a lly re w a rd ed fo r in s is tin g on h a vin g U 9 K ID E Soles on th e ir shoes. princess take the news?" U S K ID E w ea rs and w ea rs and w ears. It “The patriarch wakened her about is made o n ly by the U n ited States C om pany, the w o r ld 's la rg e s t seven o’clock to tell her. She came Rubber m an u factu rer o f ru b ber products. T h e Into my room about two minutes later m oney It saves on shoe b ills is re m a rk able. H a ve y o u r old shoes re-b o tto m ed ami I never saw a girl so pleased.” w ith U S K ID E . B u y n ew shoes w ith "I cull that heartless of her,” said genuine U S K ID E Soles. U S K ID E is fortable, h ealth fu l, w a te rp ro o f, Tommy. “ Worse than heartless, ma I com g o o d -lo o k in g. P r o te c ts a g a in s t s lip licious. I never did her any harm. ping:. L ook fo r the nam e U S K ID E on Why on earth should she be pleased the sole.— A d v. at my being hanged?" P la y in g th e G a m e “ She’s not pleased at thnt. She doesn't think you w ill be hanged. Nor "What do you do when a fellow do I. What delighted her was the starts to pet?" That’s aU B thought that you really had nothing “ I get real pettish.” to do with Miss Temple.” “ I f she would have listened to me," Watch Cuticura Improva Your 8kln. said Tommy, “ she’d have known that On rising and retiring gently smear long ago. However, I'm glad she th « face with Cuticura Ointment. doesn’t want to hang me. Perhaps 1 Wash off Ointment In five minutes she'll let me out of prison. Why have with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It they shut me up?” Is wonderful what Cuticura will do “ I ’ve Just told you that.” said Janet. for poor complexions, dandruff, Itching "They believed yoti were Lord Nor and red, rough hands.—Advertisement. heys and when It turned out you weren’t, they Imprisoned you, of Benzene wus discovered 100 years course.” I ago by Faraday. It Is now dally used Business success Is won by t brain " I don't see any ‘of course’ about I In explosives, dyes, poisons and per that does not go woolgathering In a If. They enn't mean to Imprison ev fumes. crisis. eryone who turned out not to he Lord Norheys. I f they did that the prisons would be horribly overcrowded. Don’t you think that you could explain that to the patriarch?” Perm anent Janet looked doubtful. roads are a “ It's a complex Idea,” said Tommy, good investment “ and probably quite new to him. Still, — not an expense with your knowledge of German— ” Janet had no doubt at ali about her ability to explain anything in Ger man. “ I’m afraid,” she said “ Hint the pa triarch Isn’t as good at German as he thinks he Is. He can understand sim ple things all right, hut when anything unexpected Is said to hhn lie doesn’t take It in. After the princess and 1 were dressed this morning he came In and had a long consultation with her. 5,000,000 of America’s 18,000,000 motor vehi They were still at It when I left. They cles are recognized ae an economic necessity on began In German, but the princess had the farm. to give up and talk Lystrian after half an hour or so.” Is your car giving the full efficiency of which "Were they talking about anything it is capable— and at the lowest cost per mile very abstruse? Metaphysics, for In poeeible? stance?” "They were talking about yon,” N o t if you are jolting over bumpe end ruts. said Janet. "The princess said that N o t if you get stuck in the mud. she was extremely glad to hear that In addition to the time you thus lose along the you were not Lord Norheys, because way, you also pay from one to four cente a mile nothing on earth would have Induced more in gasoline, tire and repair bills than you her to marry him. She told the pa • would pay on permanendy paved highways. triarch all about Miss Temple and showed him some letter or other.” Think, too, how many so-called improved "I know all about that letter,” said roads have gone to pieces within the past few Tommy. “ How did Hie patriarch take years, thereby piling up huge maintenance end It?” rebuilding costs. “ He said Hie princess was perfect ly right, and that no man who be Contrast all this with the record of Concrete haved as Lord Norheys did could pus j Roads— the roads that have repair built out and sibly be allowed to tie king of Lystria. maintenance built in. Firm, rigid and unyielding, I gathered that he thoiigl.t there’ll free of bumps, ruts, holes, mud and dust, they been enough o f that sort o f thing when are, in every way, the most economical roads. ilie late king was here. I hadn't dictionary said. The two soldiers C H A P T E R X V I — C ontinuer! held their rifles at the present to show Either Janet had translated faithful that they meant It all too. Count Albert took up the second ly, or the patrlurch understood this volume of the dictionary and looked Latin. H e smiled benlgnnntly. “ But,” said Tommy, “ or rather sed up another wopd. This time the Eng nolo— Oh, look here, Miss Church, tell lish translation was: "Arrested.” To him thnt I won't have Calypso driven prevent any possibility of mistake, he Into marrying me, If she doesn't want pointed first to Tommy, then the two to. She said In Berlin that she wouldn't soldiers, and then once more, to the marry me, and If she feels the same word. Tommy had no excuse for not way still, she mustn't be bullied Into understanding what his position was. Count Albert looked out a third It." The patriarch explained at some word, and once more handed the book length that the princess’ feelings did to Tommy. This was a short word, not matter in the least. He had brought consisting of three letters, one of her up himself and taught her the du which was an X, and three accents. ties of a princess. She would marry It meant: “ Place of execution," and, the man she was told to marry. This according to Count Istvan's Shake spearean tutor, might also he trans did not satisfy Tommy. "T ell the patriarch," he said to lated : "Gallows, scaffold or guillo Janet, “ that unless the princess agrees tine." Count Albert nodded grimly • f her own free will, I won’t stir a and pointed to the soldiers. Then he said, "Please.” foot in the matter.” M any Put in Work But Janet thought the conference “ But not at this hour,” said Tom on Bamboo Carving had lasted long enough and she was my firmly, " It ’s simply never done When you guxe upon a beautiful getting chilly about the legs. A stone- ns late ns this. The regulnr time for piece of bamboo carving, which Is to floored hall Is apt to be draughty at shooting a man Is dawn and that’s be seen generally In the Oriental sec sight and she had no stockings on. passed for today. There won't be an tions of the museums, you are behold She said good night to the patriarch other till tomorrow. Besides, you’re ing the work not of one man but of and walked off to bed. Tommy was hound to give me some sort of a trial.” He took the dictionary with the In many. Each workman has his spe left to Ills own resources. He got out bis notebook and pencil tention of looking out “ shoot,” cialty and when he does his share of work be passes the piece over to an again. He could not draw a picture "down," “ tomorrow” and “ trial," be other, who does tbut part which he Is • f himself refusing the hand of an un lieving In thnt wav to make his mean especially trained for. The man who willing princess In the Lvstrlun Chapel ing clear. Unfortunately, there was does the Chinese characters does Itoyal; so he wrote down a Latin sen no Engllsh-Lystrlan part of the dic nothing else. Another does mountain tence. The patriarch did not under tionary, so the hook was useless to scenery and If there are any animals stand the language as Tommy spoke him. Count Albert, with the air of a Introduced Into the landscape they are It. hut he must surely be able to read great nation which delivers an ultt- cut by another, while portraits are It. "Nisi reglna ne amat," he wrote, taken care of by a workman who does no other kind of work. Before the “nihil faclaru In re." That, If not In Ciceronian style, was work Is laid out, the surface of the bamboo Is treated by a rubbing process a plain statement of his meaning. The which proceeds with the aid of a patriarch understood It', smiled and brick of fine clay and the operation j wgved Ids pudgy hand. Then he pat 1 1 takes place under water. After It is ted Tommy on the shoulder In a most manner. curelully dried It Is turned over to the I friendly and confidential artist who marks out the design from Count Albert attempted an explana one workman to another as Indicated tion In English. “ That Is good,” he said. “ Sehr gut, above. ; right. Not true? Please?” The patrlurch ordered more wine, H o w P a in t P re s e rv e * i There was much drinking of healths. Most people paint their homes for Tommy’s health, the patriarch's, Count the sake of good looks. But houses Albert's, the health of encli attendant should primarily he painted for the priest. Calypso's (all standing), and sake of preserving the wood, which Is 1 finally Janet's. The patriarch held up very porous. When the wood was Tommy's sketch of her while he drank. still In the tree state the pores were The party broke up. all sober, but filled with sap, and when cut the sap as Tommy said afterward, "Another died out, leaving the pores open. If bottle would have finished us.” the wood should be left In the unpro The Patriarch Menelaus would not tected state, minus Its mark, fungi be happy In America. Uls strict views and moisture soon would begin to rot about marriage might get him Into and destroy It. So when painted, the trouble with the people who appreci paint penetrates the pores and forms, ate the advantages of divorce. when dry, a tough, elastic coating, which Is "anchored" to the surface by CH A P T E R X V II countless little "hooks" that extend Into pores of the wood, and this Tommy sleft soundly. coating or film preserves the wood by At six o'clock In the morning he was Count Albert ^.aid One of Hia Books protecting It from those things which otherwise would quickly and surely de half wakened by the sound of a motor on Tommy’s Bed and Began Turn cycle passing close under the window stroy It. ing Over the Pages of the Other. of his room. He fell slightly sur prised that there should he such things mntum to a troublesome little tribe, H o w to R e p la n t V in e s as motor-hlc.vcles In Lystria. But the turned to leave the room. Tommy The Department of Agriculture says subject was not Interesting enough to Jumped out of bed and stopped him. that grapevines which are ten years rouse him thoroughly. He slept again. Me could not speak Lystrian and he old may he replanted the same way At half past eight he was wakened could not use the dictionary. But he that a vine a year old can be replant ed. Dig out three our four of the again, this time thoroughly, and saw was not quite at the end of his re larger stents with quite a bit of soli ad Count Albert' standing at his bedside. sources. lie tore out a blank sheet hering. Cut back to the main stem, Tommy looked up nnd bude him a front the end of Hie dictionary and The count wrote a letter. practically leaving only a few buds on cheerful gooil morning. He held two large, “ Ad Reverendisslntum heatisslmnm. the cane to develop new growth. Do bowed stiffly. not allow the vine to produce fruit un leather-covered books, one under each exeellentlssimuin I’atrlarehum. L.vs- arm. it would hnve been difficult for trlae. Archieplscopum, cum Janetta til it Is thoroughly established. him to how otherwise than stiffly. Be Eeelesla (Miss Church) con versa rl hind the cBbnt, standing rigidly at at volo.” H o w C a m p h o r Is M a d e tention at the door of the room, were Then he remembered thnt both As a perfume, camphor has been two soldiers with long rifles on which Count Istvan and Count Albert used valued by the Chinese for centuries. the bayonets were fixed. This sur the word "Please” with extraordinary Originally obtained from gum depos prised Tommy a little, hut he hade the frequency In the most unlikely con its It Is now extracted from the wood soldiers a friendly good morning. He itself, which, after being sawed supposed that It must be the custom nections. It was evidently a word to through. Is reduced to chips and boat In Lystria to send part of the army to which the Lvstrians attached great Im portance. The ancient Romans ap ed In a still. waken an honored guest In the morn parently did not. for lie eonld not re Ing. member n Latin equivalent for It. He C lo u d ’s S ilv e r L in in g Count Albert laid one of fils hooks on added "SI vis" to the end of his let- Get Into the habit of looking for the Tommy's bed and began turning over ter, and then, In order to make It the pages of the other. It was a quite plain Ihat he wanted to he po sliver lining of the cloud, and. when Lysfrlan-English dictionary. It’s com lite. wrote, "Bitte. S’ll volts plait, you have found It. continue to look at pilation had been the life work of the please." He handed the note to Count It, rather than at the leaden gray la the middle. It will help you over many tutor who had taught Count Istvan to Albert. read Shakespeare. It had been print hard places.— Wlllltts. “ Patriarch," he said. “ Beatitude. ed at the expense of King Wlndlslaws, Archbishop, please." and s a l that monarch's solitary con Count Albert scowled, hut he took F a ir ly M e t tribution to the" cause of literature. the note. He walked over to the door, “Better look out for me," warned the Ten copies In all had been published. opened It. turned, said a farewell fair flirt. "You know I am a grass Six of them were lost. One lay on a ■please.” to Tommy, and then went widow." "Oh, that’s all right,” replied shelf In the palace of Count Istvan. out, leaving the two soldiers on guard heard It before, but frem what the pa the sophisticated male. "I am known One was In the cathedral library under Tommy got up and dressed. Thai irlarch said I understand that King aa the human lawn mower." the charge of the patriarch, yne was took him nearly half an hour. Then Wludlslaws w aj a thoroughly immoral kept by the head clerk of Hie Lystrian he smoked a pipe. Then he looked man." T o assure prompt service and quick returns house of lords. The remaining one, out' o f the window for u while. The when answering these advertisements, mention (T O a s c o n v i n c e d i the name of this paper. which Count Albert was using, was view was entirely uninteresting, for In the royal scliloss. P a st Ten se his room looked out on a small court TELEGRAPH SCHOOL Count Albert found tlie word he yard.- but It cheered him to observe The hill was Icy an I the big colored 8 1 4 3 to 8 2 2 5 M o n th ly wanted, marked It by digging his that there were no signs of the erec woman eonld not control her footing. Lm rn Teleirruphy. Great opportnnltiev Clean ettsy work. Positions aecur«!. Earn w hile yon thumbnail Into the paper, and then tion of a sea Told. In all the romances "H elp! Help! Ah’m •Ulipln !" she l*arn. Hundreds o f erjuiuBtc*. Oldest and b*»st handed the book to Tommy. Like most he hnd ever read the scaffolds for screamed, us fthe began her Involun school. W rite for free rata1n$rnr Americas Telecraph C ollefe. 1«f S. M*in. Salt Lake. Lystrian words. It was rliickly cov the execution of the heroes are put tary Journey downward. "Ah'in slip ered with accents, and the letter X up under the windows of their eells. pin'! An'ro sllppin'!" so* yelled FIXTU RES was In It several times. The Eng and they are »bilged to ilsteo to the again. For Estimates on Bank, Store. Church Fixtures. lish translation was given aa: “ Im sounds of hammering and saw-lug even A few seconds later a man wno had Show Cases and Cabinet Work. W rite postor— pretender (historical). One if they have enough strength of mind heard her cry found tier romfortahly ] Salt lake'C abinet A Fixture Co. M Richards Street Salt I^ k e City. Utah. who assumes an Identity other thao not to look ont. couched In a snow hank. “Ah® i nis nv.n !>ecelvrr." 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