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The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

After the marriage or Edna May,
the beautiful American actress, to Os-
car lewiston, son of the New York
millionaire, at the registers Office at
Windsor, England, the couple went to
a beautiful vineclad villa which the
groom had prepared for his bride.
There, shortly after their arrival, they
were photographed standing together
on the porch, handsome pair in
framework of ivy leaves and flowers.
In 1896 little girl with parted hair
and wise, demure eyes went from Syra
cuse, where her father was, and is to-
day, letter-man, to New York, where
she asked for a position in a chorus.
She was made understudy to Lucille
Saunders in Santa Maria. She was
recognized as type of girl which is as
rare on the stage as a rose in field of
Haunting poppies. That winter was
uneventful and Miss May did no more
than get nice little start. After
brief American tour she went to Lon
don, where for several years she was
in mediocre plays which caused little
or no comment. In 1904 she was at
Days in New York In The Schoolgirl,
and the next year she appeared in The
Catch of the Season. Since then En-
gland has been her field Of action.
For almost ten years the little ac-
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

So many school children have been
found with defective eyesight that the
school committees Of several cities have
considered furnishing eyeglasses free.
1t Is question how far government
should 20 in supplying citizens with the
necessary things of life. Most Ameri-
can parents will prefer to pay the ocu-
list. In many cities are free dlspen-
saries where poor children can be treat
ell and receive free prescriptions for
glasses. Parents should be warned
against Incompetent ocullsts who take
advantage of the reports OF the boards
Of education on the matter of eyesight
In the schools, and try to get business
for themselves by exaggerated warn
ings to the parents of school children
Threatened with blindness"
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07
A GOOD PIPE.
shape Has More to Do with Insuring
Success Than Has Material.

shape Has More to Do with Insuring
Success Than Has Material.
Pipes are smoked by millions, and
always will be, yet not one smoker in
a thousand knows the elements of a
good pipe. Engineers have been known
to talk by the hour over the draft of
their fire boxes and never once in half
a lifetime think of the draft in their
pipes which they smoke hourly.
Sage attention is paid to the pipe
material. all of which has little If any
thing to do with the qualities of pipe,
and generally nothing whatever is
thought of shape and proportions, the
two things that make a pipe good or
bad. A two-cent postage stamp spent
with intelligence will buy as good a
pipe as there Is in the world every
thing added to that price Is ornament,
vanity and especially ignorance.
The corncob holds high place
among pipe smokers and deserves this
the best OF scien-
tific reasons. When pipe is built on
right principles the bowl is as narrow
and deep rs Is convenient to fill; the
hole In the stem meets the bowl at the
very bottom and in the center, thus in
surlng a perfect and even burning OF
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07
SEARCHING SEA DEPTHS.
Places Where the Longest Soundina
Line Does Not Touch Bottom.

where the Longest SOundinR
Line Does Not Touch Bottom.
The little German man-of-war Planet.
OF $50 tons, is at Manila, about wear
out from Germany, sailing around the
Cape Of Good Hope to Colombo and
thence to German New Guinea, says
the Los Angeles Times. After this
voyage Of about 10000 nautical miles.
during which more than 200 deep-sea
soundings were made, the ship was oc-
cupied some three months on survey
work around the Bismarck archipelago.
on the east coast Of New Guinea. She
came to Manila from Yap island.
among Germany's possessions in Oce-
anica, having followed a very irregular
course westward to the Philippines, in
close study Of the oceans profile be-
tween her point Of departure and the
Islands.
The most interesting result of these
soundings she has just completed In the
Pacific to the eastward of the Philip-
pines Is the discovery of an unusual
depression In the oceans bed off the
east coast of Mindanao. About thirty
two miles north, 104 degrees east of
Pusan point, Mindanao, all her sound
Ing wire was in the water, showing a
depth Of 4,67S fathoms and no bottom.
Ninety-two miles due north of this spot
she sounded 464S fathoms Later Off
the northeast coast of Samar depth
of 4,9o1 fathoms was discovered in a
spot twenty-five miles Off Tubabat ISL
and and In north 81 degrees east bear
ing.
According to Commander Kurtz these.
are very remarkable results, as the ex-
istence Of such deep Philippines de-
preston has hitherto not been suspect
ed, and, moreover, suboceanic slopes
showing such steepness as these are
quite extraordinary.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

In many educational institutions Of
the country the students seem to he
allowed too much leeway In attempting
to dictate to the faculty how the in
stituton shall be conducted. This
probably originated In the institutions
where the support of the parents Of the
pupils, as somewhat and in some in
stances influenced by the pupils them
selves, was depended upon for their
very existence. 1t Is conceivable that
In such cases timld faculty may have
been weak enough to allow students to
dictate what should and what should
not be. But such an attitude is not
compatible with dignity, even when
adopted as matter of self-preserva-
tion.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07
BERLIN'S POSTAL SERVICE.
Connect the Central Omce With tn.
Principal stations.

Connect the Central Office With the
Principal stations.
The Berlin postal authorities are
-revolutionizing the conveyance of let
ters and parcels
The Idea on which they are expert
menting Is to have an underground
tube with large enough circumfer-
ence to admit a man in a STOPPING po-
stion. These tubes are to connect the
central postoffice with the principal
stations and with the district Offices
Two sets Of rails are built in this
tube or tunnel, one over the other, not
side by side. The upper set OF rails is
supported on the sides Of the tube,
thus practically dividing it in two.
Small carriages, running on two wheels,
are automatically driven by electricity
along these rails
No locomotive Is used nor Is there
any attendant with the carriage. As
many as six of these carriages can be
run together for conveying letters and
parcels from the arrival station to the
central postotfice and thence to the va
rious districts, or vice versa.
BY this means letters can be deliv.
cred In any part Of the city in less
than fourth Of the time formerly re-
quired So far the scheme Is not be-
yond the experimental stages, but 1t
promises to be success and to Danish
from the streets the mail van, with all
its poetry and romance.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

ditlon of Salt Lake City men visited
them in company with an artist and a
surveyor. Pictures OF the bridges have
lately been published. The Augusta
bridge, with a span of three hundred
and twenty feet and height Of two
hundred and sixty-fve feet, Is the
largest, and so far as known there is
none larger in the world. The Caro-
line bridge has a greater span, three
hundred and fifty feet, b,l. is smaller
in other ways; and the third, the Ed
win bridge, although not so high as the
bridge in Virginia, has span several
times as large. AS one has to travel
about hundred miles over a barren
country to reach these marveis Of ma
tlre, the summer tourist will not visit
them very frequently.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

tress has been besieged with the atten.
tion of England's titled sons, and her
name has been in the papers constant.
ly. That she Is wise to retire in the
height of her popularity cannot be
doubted. Edna May did quite the
proper thing to wed, and the simple
little ceremony which united her to
Mr., Lewiston puts the finishing touch
to her wonderful career. She and her
millionaire husband are going to live
simple life in manor house.
whatever that may be, all ivy-grown
and with the conventional swans in
the lake and hungry deer in the spa,
cious park.
Oscar Lewiston is the fourth and
youngest son of Leonard Lewiston
once well known as copper king
Mr.. Lewiston, Sr., and his brother
Adolph were both poor when they
landed in New York from Germany
many years ago. Their first business
venture was made under the ALIEN.
bracing heading of general mer.
chants but they soon began to spe.
cialize in two things only-coffee and
copper. BY degrees they became the
largest operators in coffee and with
II. II. Rogers, of Standard Oil fame
organized the memorable coffee corner
in 1901.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

Those familiar with the results Of
American exploration have known for
q few years that there are three nat
ural bridges In Southeastern Utah as
much larger than the Natural Bridge in
Virginia as Pixies Peak is than Mount
Washington. 1t Is only within short
time, however, that much accurate In
formation about these Utah wonders
has been accessible. In 1905 an expe-
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

In opposition to the suicide clubs,
race or individual, which have de-
manded the attention of the country,
several attempts have been made to
organize hundred year old clubs, or,
more explicitly, clubs composed of
members who will endeavor to round
out century of human existence. To
a club of this nature belongs Chief
Chemist Wiley, and while he is merely
in his sixty-third year he expresses the
opinion that no man should live to be
less than a hundred, which is in truth
scarcely more than a ripe old age. 1t
must be admitted at the outset that
there are many reasons why human
life should be prolonged beyond former
limitations. Sanitation and hygiene
have done wonders. Diseases that were
considered incurable a few years ago
now yield readily to treatment or have
been practically stamped out. The art
of living nationally and well has be-
come more generally understood, the ex-
treme luXuries Of a former generation
are now the common, everyday accom-
panlments of life, and If the simplicity
of the fathers and their regularity of
living are not quite so strongly in evi-
dence the eXtravagances are possibly
more than offset by the discoveries and
general advance in the medical world.
On the other hand, 1t Is not to be over
n1 hat DO
spread Of medical knowledge have ar
rested or averted disease, other perils
threaten the would be centenarian. He
must take into account railroad acci
dents, the electric cars, and other perils
Of city streets, and, not least of all, the
operations 30 eloquently urged by the
ambitious surgeon. If he escapes these
and conforms In his mode Of life to the
careful hygienic directions, he may live
to be hundred. But what avails 1t to
Mr.. Wiley or to any other simple liver
that he reaches the century mark If his
friends do not accompany him the
whole Of the way? Who cares to be a
hundred, or even the greater part Of 1t,
If his children and grandchildren, the
friends of his youth, and the sharers Of
his greatest joys. drop off at 65? What
excesses of pleasure are there at the
disposal of the centenarian that the
sprlghtly young fellow of 60 should
yearn to emulate his example? What
assurance have we from the honorable
president, secretary, or member in good
standing of the Hundred Year Old Club
that after we have conformed to all the
rules and regulations of sanitary sci
ence and turned the hundredth mile
stone, there will be anybody on earth
who will give us more than a passing
thought or even glance at our picture In
the papers? A record Of living simply
to show that Methusaleh and old Parr
do not enjoy monopoly is hardly worth
the while The pioneer In longevity, in
tentlonally or accidentally, is not hap
py person. Let us live to be hundred
when living to be hundred is the fash
inn
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

1t Is the modern theory of education
that the best way to teach good man
ners to the young Is to be polite to them
from the beginning. Possibly some
thing Of the kind may have been in
the mind of Massachusetts woman
who advertlses eggs for Matching. Her
advertisement says: One hundred
eggs sure to hatch for three dollars, II
called for VIII hatch IL requested in
incubator"
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07
An Odd Business,

In France at this season the banks
OF streams are yellow with bonfires
every night. About the fires loaf meas
ants, men and women, smoking, chat.
tering, spooning.
They keep the blaze going all night
and at dawn the ground is an inch q,
two deep with May flies, firefles, moths
little creatures that few out of ths
darkness into those clear and gem-lIke
flames, fiuttered forth again in agony
fell and died.
The tiny corpses are sold to the
French bird dealers at FIVE or six cents
pint. aud are resold for food to the
owners of pet birds, tinches, thrushes
canaries, nightingales and the like.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

the tobacco. The cake prevents the
fire from burning the bowl, thus pre-
vents making its bore larger or un.
even, which would in proportion spoil
the draft The sides of the bowl are
thick to keep in the heat, thus making
the burning at the same temperature
at the edges of the tobacco as at the
center. In this way a clean, sweet
smoke is assured.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

With one fell stroke of his anthro-
biological snlckersnee Prof. Starr am
putates eight or nine centuries from
the proud record of the late Mr.. Me-
thuselah. VIII Methuselah's descend
ants stand for this?
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

We have 2-cent postage and the cry
is for penny postage" This may be
one reason why the railway people do
not enthuse over the 2-cent fare
proposition.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

Mrs. Howard Gould wants $4,0G0,000
drop out Of the Gould family seem to
have an idea that they ought to get big
prices for so doing.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

DR.. Reitman asserts that hobos nelth-
er carry tomato cans nor wear long
boards. Does that accord with your OBJ
servation, Mr.. President?
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

An Usage Indian baby In Indian ter
ritory Is worth $4,000 as soon as it Is
born. In lieu of the conventional sill
yer spoon the Usage baby is born, fig
uratively speaking, with a few sec
tions Of land in its mouth.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

Just as the rest of the world Is con-
sidering a proposition to give up fight
Ing China begins to arm herself for
war. The Chinese always have had
habit of doing things backward.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

There seems to be no chance that the
written life story of the Standard OIL
Company will ever occupy place in
the Sunday school libraries.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

"The wheat crop Is the vehicle of our
prosperity says a Kansas exchange.
Translated into plain United States,
this means that dollar wheat will soon
enable all the farmers to buy automo-
bileS.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

1t Is said that the King Of Italy Is
unhappy because his wife's relatives in
slst on making long visits to Rome. If
even king has to submit to that sort
of thing what's the use Of being
king2
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07
Pins.

The number Of pins manufactured
1aily In England is 100000; In
France, 100000; in Germany, TO-
100000. 1t Is estimated that about
5000 worth of pins are daily lost In
Europe.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

How Inconsistent your neighbors are
They refuse to say that you are a good
man, but after the undertaken gets you
they delight In saying that you were a
good man
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

King Edward is going to build a
castle in Spain. But it will be one of
the real kind, with roof that won't
leak,
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07
Topics of
the Times

Souvenir fiends stole medal from q
Jap officer. Why not take the whole
Jap?
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

Dr. Long will have to admit that the
President has helped him to good
big slice of publicity.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-09-07

It's to mans credit If he can truth.
fully say that his credit is good.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19
Diphtheria.

A few years ago this was one of the
most fatal of the diseases of childhood,
and was frequently the cause Of death
in adults as well, but to-day, thanks to
the discovery of antitoxin, 1t has been
shorn of many Of it's terrors, although
it is still disease to be dreaded. In
the early days from one-quarter to one
third of those attacked died, but now
the mortality has fallen to one In ten.
The first sign of the disease Is usual
ly a sore throat, although this symptom
may be preceded for short time by a
slight fever, headache and general las
sltude. The mucous membrane of the
throat Is first reddish and swollen, or
1t may be paler than usual, but In a
few hours, or sometimes day or two,
whitlsh specks appear on the tonsils or
the palate. These specks soon increase
In extent, and form a membrane cover
Ing a greater or lesser area.
The throat alone may be affected
This constitutes the mlldest form.
Again, the Inflammation with the for
nation of membrane may extend to
the nostrils or to the larynX. The parts
beneath the membrane are swollen,
sometimes enormously, and an abund-
ant discharge covers all the surface
Any of the mucous membranes Of the
body may be affected, but the parts
mentioned are those which are most
commonly attacked.
At the same time with the formation
Of membrane general symptoms occur,
showing that the poison absorbed into
the blood stream has caused serious
changes in the blood and nervous sys-
TEN. A special danger in diphtheria Is
heart failure. The poison of the dis
ease seems to have a special affinity for
the heart.
A common sequel of dlphtheria is a
temporary paralysis, involving first the
soft palate Generally it goes no fur,
ther, but 1t may attack the arms OF
legs, or any of the muscles in the body
The usual treatment of diphtheria is
by the injection Of antitoxin. In add
tion to this, measures have to be taken
to prevent failure of the heart and tc
keep up the general strength. When
the disease involves the larynx, death
may threaten through choking, and In
this case It Is necessary to insert a tubs
between the vocal cords to allow the
patient to breathe.-Youth's Compan
ion.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19
VAST IMPORT OF DIAMONDS.
One Billion Dollars of the Gems Now
Owned In This Country.

One Billion Dollars of the Gems Now
Owned In This Country.
Upward of $43,000,000 has been paid
for diamonds and other precious stones
imported at New York in the year re-
Gently ended, as shown by figures COM
piled by the customs authorities. This
total exceeds that of the last calendar
year by $6,000.000 and that of two
years ago by $17,000,00o. In 1900 the
valuation was about one-quarter OF
what it Is this year, the greatest In the
history of the business. The record
imports were possible because of the
general prosperity.
Since 1868, when the first gem was
exported from the Cape of Good Hope,
the United States has paid about $685.
100000 for diamonds, or one-half the
amount which South Africa has obtain
ed for its entire supply or precious
stones the world over. The figures
represent what the importers pay and,
according to the trade, the public pays
twice as much.
Taking into account that the value
of diamonds has been going up steadi-
ly, being now about 200 per cent higher
than eight years ago, some dealers say
that the gems brought into this coun,
try in the thirty-eight years must now
be worth more than $1000,000,000
Nearly all the gems are In existence
as the percentage of loss is so small
as to be unimportant
The damond-cutting industry In
New York employs 500 men, who cui
about S11,0OO,000 worth of gems this
year. An officer of the Diamond Manu-
facturers' Association said yesterday
that New York cuts as much of the
best grades Of rough stones as all the
rest Of the world and the finished gems
/ turned out in this city in the larger
sizes are of higher average quality
than those cut in any other city.-NeW
i York Times.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19

A committee of English and Ameri-
can admirers of the poets Keats and
Shelley have purchased the house In
Rome In which Keats died, In 1921.
Shelley, who occupied a house oppo-
site, was drowned In 1922. 1t Is plan
ned to make the Keats house a memo
rial Of the two poets, and to gather in
1t collection of books, manuscripts
and portraits relating to them and their
works. The memorial association also
purposes assuming the care Of the
graves of the poets at the Protestant
cemetery In Rome.