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Augut 24, 1917
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MAY HAVE FOUND' THE CAUSE OF "GRAVITY"
THE STATE FAIR BEGINS
Professor J. T. See, director of the naval observatory,
at Mare Island, has discovered, or thinks he has, the rea
son of the fluctuation of the moon in its orbit, which has
puzzled astronomers time out of mind. He regards his
discovery as also explaining the cause of gravitation. If
so he has performed a valuable service. The fact that all
things fell toward the center of the earth being explain
able in no other way it was called the attraction of grav
itation, and even the wisest let it go at that. There were,
and are, a number of things about gravitation that were
never understood, and it may be Professor See has hit
upon the solution. When the matter of weight is con
sidered, the books tell us that it is the attraction of gravi
tation, and the reason one object is heavier than another
is accounted for by the unsatisfying statement that this
was due to "density." ( We have always had a notion this
was correct, but the density was in the understanding of
the wise ones, bo far as "density is concerned, a piece
Margaret Garrett's
Husband
By JANE PHELPS
ELSIE' E PHILOSOPHY
The Fifty-sixth annual state fair began today under
rather uncertain weather conditions as the weather man
has predicted: "probable showers." Let us hope he will
think better of it and give us a week of blue skies and
bright sunshine. Everything else to make a perfect fair
is on hand. The exhibits while perhaps not unusual in
Oregon are such as to make eastern visitors sit up, rub
their eyes and wonder if they are really awake. The live
stock showing is an unusual one even for Oregon, and not
the least of these exhibits is that of a local bank's pig club,
composed of a lot of Oregon's bright eyed youngsters,
each with his or her "favorite pig." Among these is
General Pershing who although born last February
weighs 464 pounds and is still growing. There are others
that will prove a revelation to visitors, but the best ex
hihit nf all is the little members of the club. They will be
elad to tell you just how they managed, how the bank
dealt witn tnem just line it aoes wiui gruwn j.uia., wuucu
them the money for their venture, taking their personal
. notes for the sum advanced. They will tell you where
they purchased the pig they had contracted to bring up as
well regulated pigs should be. They will be able to show
you something their respective parents cannot do about
most of the stock they raise, that is, just what it cost to
turn a little piglet of last winter into what the Irishman
called "the gentleman who pays the rint." Besides a
finp nrop-ram of races for each day has been arranged, and
there is music, shows, merry-go-rounds and the countless
amusements, not the least of which is an abundance of
dancing room where John can place his arm around Mary
Jane's waist, and walk a few stately measures and turn
around and walk some more. Yes everything necessary
for a record breaking fair is there, and its success or fail
ure is up to the weather clerk.
NOT CROP, BUT TRANSPORTATION SHORTAGE
It seems there is not a shortage of wheat as a world
crop, as India and Australia have a surplus of 350,(XX),000
bushels which would more than make up for the short
crops in the United States and Canada. The trouble is not
shortage of crop but that of transportation, ships being
in such demand that there are none to spare lor so long a
haul. This should be a further inducement to shipyard
workers to get busy at once and keep that wav until the
ship shortage is overcome. A strike now is deliberate aid
to our enemies, and no American with red blood in his
veins will hesitate about getting busy to help win the war.
American labor can depend on one thing and that is if the
war is lost through its criminal idleness and Germany
wins, conditions under which it will work, when that day
comes will be such that it will not dare strike. The kaiser
will see to that, and he will also see that the laborers serve
their time in the army at practically nothing a day as a
wage. The labor of America is more profoundly inter
ested in the result of the war than any other class. Once
under the domination of the kaiser and the free speech
and freedom to strike will be as extinct as the dodo. It is
up to every man to do all he can, and the man who shirks
any duty he can perform is as much of a traitor as the
soldier who runs away in the midst of battle and doing so
jeopardizes the safety of his fellow soldiers.
CHAPTER XIII.
I realize now that my constant repe
tition of "I love you" and "you love
me don't you dearf" must have over
irritated Bob. But as it was sweetest
music to my ears when he admitted that
lie loved me, I judged it must be so
to bun when x told of my love for him.
Bob frequently spoko of his mother
und I ould see that the band between
them had been very close. Ones when
something wan said anent my house
keeping qualities he remarked:
"Mother would have delighted in
your kuowledge of cooking, etc., Mar
garet. 8he always was afraid I'd marry
someone who would ruin my digestion
because of not understanding how to
of steel or lead is just as "dense" as. a piece of. gold yetTnn Tai: Z
well fed."
Something very like resentment flash
ed over my mind, Resentment against
his dead mother. She wasn't looking;
tor him to darry a girl he loved and
who loved him, but a good cook, Then I
HUBBARD NEWS.
the latter is attracted by gravity in such a way as to make
it several times as heavy as the steel. Copper, silver, most
of the metals are as "dense" as gold, and gold is as dense
as platinum, yet it does not weigh as much. In other
words this inexplicable gravitation has a greater attrac
tion for platinum than for gold and a varying attraction
for most metals that are just as dense as it. We know
Mrs. H. C. Colvin came home Friday
for a visit with her mother after an
operation for appendicitis. She is stead
ily improving.
Miss Henrietta Wolfer has written
her parents that she is nicely located
for her school work near Klamath Falls
and likes it very much.
Hops at thirty five cents with indica
tions of a higher price causes Jake
Chung, Hubbard's veteran hop grower
to say, "all time goin' up, no tell
where can ketchem."
Frank von Westenhoe, for many
years a resident of tins section, died
Tuesday morning at the home of his
son-in-law, Mr. McCormack, northwest
of Woodburn. Funeral Thursday at St,
Taul. Deceased was a brother-in-law of
the late Alex Coyle, and a pioneer of
Oregon.
Miss Goodnough, a graduate of the
Salem high school, has been elected
to teach at White school the coming
term, which opens Monday, October 1.
with an enrollment of about thirty.
Miss Goodnough spent last Wednesday
with Miss Stauffer arranging to make
her home at the Stauffer home for the
term.
During the past months the Honor
Guard girls have been receiving instruc
tions in first aid work from Dr. Schoor
and in appreciation of his services they
called at the hospital Monday evening
And He Did I
I've jrusT inventeb a
SUBSTITUTE- Fbf? fqASOLINE
so III invite three
F"RIEN2IO TO(jO UJiTiME'-
WHILE I TRY IT IN MY
Automobile!
Wasn't that one of the very thines
ujjuu wiucii a priueu myseu DCing a
good housekeeper. Hadn't I said to El-
there is such a thing as we for lack of something better ' attractive: cater to him in suchTwa'v
call gravity, but what it is has never been satisfactorily he wo"ld c" fo' nothing outside of
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Of course I expected Bob to attend
faithfully to his business. I was old
enough not to expect him to neglect
that but I did expect him to devote
himself entirely to me out of business
Hours.
If I had loved Robert Garrett when
I married him, I was aware that had
not cared as I did now. Now that he
was mine, I loved him better than any
thing and everything in the entire
world. My heart was "full of joy such
a joy as a woman only knows when
she loves and is sure that it is returned.
There were no shadows on my hori
zon. I saw life before me as one long
happy dream of bliss. A dream that was
to grow more and more wonderful as
time went by, because it would bind my
husband closer to me.
"I did not know anyone could be so
happy!" I often said to Bob.
"Would you rather be miserable? " he
teazed. ,
"Oh, I couldn't be miserable now
that we are to be always together,"
Then I would life my face for his kiss,
and if he put his arms around me, I
would forget everything but our love
MY love, and be happy for hours think
ing of his caress.
That his love for me did not fill his
his life in the same measure that my
love for him did mine never once oc
curred to me.
Elsie made me very indignant one
clay, fcne bad been reading some book
which seemed to have made an impres
sion on her. She quoted several pas
sages to me, but there was only one I
remembered. The one I resented.
"The writer said," she quoted,
" 'Women are like cigarets to you. You
light us, use us a little, and then we
ore dead forever and the only joy we
must find is in the short time we are
being smoked I ' "
I was horrified and scolded Elsie
roundly for reading such trash.
I'You don't look at life as I do," I
said in return to a remark she made
about being happy while wo could. "I
don't see why you. women, should look
to tragically at the future. Happily mar
ried women I mean. Bob adores me in
the same way I do him. If Tom doesn't
feel the same toward you why, appear
ances are deceptive. "
les but how long shall I be able
to keep him adoring?" she asked.
' W henever I think that he may stop
caring I am so frightened that I will
I smiled to myself at my foolishness, and presented him with a beautiful elec
tric study lamp. The members of the
class were: Misses Mae and Ruby Crit
tenden, Frances and Pearl Yoder, Ruth
Calvert, Marie Byers, Edith Stoddard,
explained. Why is it not possible that some attractive
force such as the magnet has for iron, for instance, is the
cause of all, and this force has an attraction for the var
ious minerals and other objects in varying proportions?
We made a poor guess a few days ago when we sug
gested the Southern Pacific might not leave the shingles
on the roof of what it calls a depot, for fear they might
be damaged by exposure to the weather. It has evidently
concluded to let them stay regardless of ther expense.
When first put on the light colored shingles dotted here
and there on the most leaky places, made the old pest
house look as though it had really broken out with small
pox. Fearing, perhaps, folks would be afraid to come in
contact with it, the company blew itself for a quarter's
worth of paint and used nearly all of it with a recklessness
that makes one almost forget that paint is high "on ac
count of the war." But the S. P. doesn't care for expenses.
The price of wheat in Portland has " been . fixed by
Hoover at $2.05 a bushel. This is some gain for the wheat
growers though as we understand it adds but five cents
to the Portland price. The saving in freight, providing
the wheat is sent by way of Portland will however make
the growers of the Inland Empire considerable more than
that, as the price before this change was made was 30
cents under the Chicago price. It should give the grower
about $1.95. The Willamette farmer should get about the
same price, or at least $1.90. This should be additional in
ducement to plant every available acre to wheat, and to
fall wheat at that. n -
Mrs. Henry Scholl, Mrs. L. A. Beckman
and Mrs. Sarah Hinkle.
On October 3, the Pythian SlBters
will have their annual banquet. The
lodge at the beginning of the fall work
is divided into two teams, each having
a
points, eats at the expense of the side
which does r.ot hustle quite so much.
This year the winning team, Miss Marie
Byers, captain, did excellent work, put
ting in 14 new members and doing ail
kinds of work for the good of the or
der. The losers, under Mrs. deLespin-
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Mrs. 8. R. Taylor living in the Elliott
Prairie community has been sufforing
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captain. The side winning the most.for 8omf tlme from the bad effects of
uiimouduou uiuuu. ao overcome tnis
condition it became necessary Satur
day to tranfuse new blood into her
veins. Her grandson, Walter Hudson,
tared his arm and from it was taken
twenty-one ounces of arterial blood,
which passing directly into the circula
tion of the aged lady, caused a very
noticeable improvement in her condition
Dr. Eugene Rocky of Portland perform
ed the operation. Enterprise.
lose my happiness, that I am miserable
for hours."
I was astonished at Elsie's confes-
It is still hoped the bridge may be completed before the
fair closes, but about all there seems to be to it is "hope."
The ferry has been doing splendid work and can be de
pended on to get as many over the river as the capacity
of the boat will permit, and that is a good many though
not as many as will want to cross.
Colonel Roosevelt is now a full-fledged newspaper man.
He has taken a look at his desk. Tonight he is due for a
speech, but the subject will perhaps not be "How to run a
newspaper successfully." It may be a week or two before
the colonel tackles that as a subject for a public dissertation.
An exhibit of more than usual interest especially to
farmers who visit the state fair this year is the plowing
machinery. It is claimed from eight to eleven ucres can
be plowed in a day with the smaller sized machines made
for use in the valley, and at a cost far below that of plow
ing with teams. The scarcity of the latter is one of the
great problems the farmer is facing and the gasoline
driven, or pulled plows, will solve it. Every farmer who
has land that may remain idle because of shortage of
teams, should make a special trip to the fair to see these
labor and time savers.
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 18G3
CAPITAL
$309.000 00
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Rippling Rhymes
by Walt Mason
TIMES GOES ON
Another summer's looped the loops; now
Autumn round the doorway snoops. Now,
Autumn's strictly a success, and all her
golden days I bless. She brings a soothing
balm and sweet for people wearied by the
heat; she veils herself in purple haze, and
brings cool nights and pleasant days, and
gives the woods a crimson tint, and hues too
wonderful to print She is a daisy while she
lasts, but soon she lets in wintry blasts, too
soon, too soon she wilts and droops; another
summer's slipped away! And we have
grown a bit more gray; we've traveled
further on the read that leads to where
we Jl drop the load. I take my mirror and behold fresh
svmotoms that I'm waxing eld. My eye tint once shed
sicciy stares that tamed the hearts of grizzly bears, no
mere- serf's forth a dazzliner dance, no more it gleams like
polished lance, cr like a fplchion from its sheath, and I am
wenrinp ceden treth. So fast the seasons scamper by!
While we're complaining of July, we hear November at
the door, end winds pre thill and frost is hoar. Time hur
ries en rnd scatters yens; perhaps our wailing voice he
hears, but doesn't care for it three whoops---another sum
mer's loored the loors.
I VWLI WAX i
"Why think of it then? I never once
have thought there would ever come a
time when Bob wouldn't love me just
as much as I love him."
"I wish I had your faith in men
but oh, well, they are nothing but big
children, Margaret, great big careless
boys. Don't expect too much of them;
nor make a fuss when they slip a lit
tle," and she laughingly dismissed the
subject and began to talk of something
in which I was interested. A new recipe
for a salad.
But afterward all she said came back
to me. All that about a woman being
like a cigaret and the rest. Suddenly
I felt a spasm of fear. Suppose she
could be right, and Bob were like that.
There really was no reason for ME
to be afraid none at all, l oeciaea.
sie was a featherbrained creature for
all that she was the mother of three
children. I knew Tom adored her, w.hy
he couldn't pass her Without giving her
a little pat, or pulling a jock oi ner
hair, or dropping a kiss on her cheek
Silly thing, she had nothing to worry
about. Then 1 wished that Bob was as
demonstrative with me. But he was
quieter, a d;fferent disposition from
happy-go-lucky Torn Barton; and ho al
ways told me he loved me when I ask
ed him; always kissed me when he left
and when he came back. No I'd rather
have him as he was, I decided. Tom was
continually having to stay out on busi
ness; often called out of town unex
pectedly. I Bhould be SO happy to have
Bob away from me so much. Real estate
was a comforting sort of business. The
hours were nearly always short, and
I knew that Bob would be home early
to spend the evening with me.
I had almost forgotten the night I
waited until three o'clock, almost not
quite.
(TomorrowTime for Reflection) ,
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ONE A MINUTE.
Triggorfingor McGore, champion cat
tle and check raiser of the middle west,
was slowly but noisily consuming an
oyster stew in Yeka Laley's bivalvery
in New York City, N. Y., when sudden
ly he unleased an outburst of anguish
and a roar of rage and clapped a hand
to nis moutb.
"Wassalluh commotion," demanded
Laley, striding over.
"There's a rock in this here stew,
that's the commotion!" roared Trigger
fuiger McGore, "Almost blew up one
cf my favorite teeth, it did!" And re
moving his hand from his mouth, he
disclosed a round, gleaming object,
which the practiced eye of Yewka La
ley spotted for a pearl immediately.
"Well, well, stranger, I'm sorry for
the accident," he said soothingly, "an
I'll see as i. don't occur again. Jest
to show there ain't no hard feelin's,
I '11 give you five dollars all in one bill.
and you can hand me ovor that there
rock and I'll hold it up in front of the
cook in one fist while I'm a-licking
him with the other."
"Glad to, pard, elad to." responded
Triggerfinger, completely placated. And
he handed over the shiniue obicct aud
pocketed the five spot.
Half an hour later, after sending in
an order to the Blowhard Glass Co., for
another peck of beads, he was sitting
in Castaway Cullen' oyster stewery
and fryery, again clapping his hand to
his mouth and roaring ragefully.
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