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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-12-31
Christmas Frohes.

A very effective aud practical u''y ', If orHs
ON Christmas morning is pyramlu =, dbssi
sprays OF holly for dolly, with a ny BIC 4
TO the corners OF the table fastener ~ esorsi
each corner. All the housekeepei ~, a pn 4
ally expended on the dinner taDle' v nv. arouni
a moment to arrange this. Place Lo'9 sers "a
bowls. by the way. dainty way IN The ~
breakfast is TO have the Juice saueel'1 4 Late
served In little glass which siahas y" seres .,
In the dining room that has to h"'s s,,,ne ssi
the kitchen. there may BIO very ,r,tons VI
addition made 20 the Christmas IT,, H. CONFESS
holly 10 Il, covering the original sur - make =
curtains may be treated In this way ..onad ~ 4
OF color In the room or form baoA'
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Before the end OF the old pine are set
up by the gaeways shrnes of GODS hearth well and 9th
or places These pine branches sgnifying constancy
are hung with straw ring made initiate Jewel with
rays OF light radiatng from it, and stuck with dried
sardine leaf OF evergreen pieces OF paper and bit
edible seaweed These rings also put on almost all
representative articles of furniture and kitchen imple
ments and this is said TO let them one year (This
suggests that these articles believed have
had life and SO have felt the advance Of age.
The festival Of going the year" or "Toshikoshi"
sometimes called Toshori" taking the year" and
is busy time for the housewife She has to cook many
different dishes, all OF which have prosperous signin
canoe. besides her regular rice and bean soup
Let enumerate some Soup OF clam. which opens
when cooked signifies the opening OF the good for
tune. Roe OF herring. which is called "kazunoko"
numerous children forms dish whose meaning Is OBJ
yious Health in Japanese is "mame" beans must
be eaten. these happen to have the sounding
word for their Salt salmon fish cake, picked
radsh and many others must be prepared this
fl eve going TO add whole during the
night The kitchen is full of life. with kettles whstling
and pots seaming. plates and trays all spread out Chill
dren and even very apt to be mischeyous at
such times but they receive scodng the fes
Iiyal should not marred by discord and irritation
when food ready gods served first with ali these
ashes but only In miniature. Lights put before
hich nv the way ! have often used for flowers
,ih,.-coIered leaflets each with lucky meaning One
=. H., GOD Of fortune under suspicious gem with
- a,, ~ cold coins coral and other precious things
ah has humble Of edible seaweed. which is called
.roh,, The phrase ito rejoice IN Japanese Is Tyoro
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E deeply pity the superstition
Of the Japanese. Yet there Is
something very beautiful in
the archaic simplicity of their
faith. Lafcadio Hearn found
in Shintoism Greek religion
transplanted in the midst OF
this material century. What
he read and imagined in an
cient literature he really
found in this Land Of the Ris-
ing Sun. For all the modern
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-12-31

oniaprcad. on her tecu a
with rigging and oars "a
poem IL also printed o. o.
Ma IA NJ 20 10.
To no ne ~ ma
MI ma me an ne
Ma mi nu u 10 tea
q 20 no 20 NJ ha
Translated roughly thh -
After a sound sleep q sal
Resting awake 10 BID,
I hear n cheerful sound
or n sailing vessel
Gliding over The hl'0ut
The poem IN irans.a'is b
power Of calling up assoc'ia'u
onc can imagine himself -
an inland SEA With 10 90
and orinEs' pine groves ~
blofsoms hanging over iro7
shores. the sun as ye, beies
ron. and In the mist he CA .
vessel gliding smoothly avg
songs Of sailors behlnd % =
away by the spring erei.
considered an approprii's -
think over IN the calm q -
night. hut this aesiheie -
IL little appreciated BY "
They rather wonder At he
utruction Of tins poen. ~
rus, alike from either end
the end and 90 back to "
.yIrable BY syllable you siE
same result as n you rad
beginning
Now. wha, Kind Of dreia
h-st' First. Fun mo1allh
eagle: third. eggplant
al: nth. snake these ~
,c.t ones. To dream Of u
also auspIclous ia l'p,'S
happen to dream he Is CURE
me matter. These peoPs
are not without the meAa
out Of this misfortune ny =. =
the, had a bad dream. -l'-
90 the baku." Nov they ~
What "baku" was meg -
thai this mysterious ahlaA
a dreamy land lived on ls
man. aud bad dreams
,Se haiku. It was a shock .
fashioned people when 'l'.
,olS them thar the teacher
told the Chllul'u
hippopotamus and lived wed. : I,
,iai green leaves. and i POI
such a revelation. 'l'- :,
change the supcrs'l'lou
am say: ITO the baka
their minds after a bad 49, ~,
There Is a record 10 20 -
shows that there was : -. =.
OF selling and buying Nv
upon a time there vas
a famous house. lie va s,s.
court a maiden. and s y, - - u
dream. which she cou,d ~
She called In the he'p ~, y
sister. The latter .'. a
omen Of the dream on nv "a
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spot where the hand of the dissecting
science has done but little damage.
Visitors from civilized and enlightened
lands can go deep into the real life of
the archaic society in Japan, and In the
twinkiing of an eye they can come back
10 the luxury of the twentieth century.
and this archaic. society is a living one
and not an artificial miniature. Sympa-
thy Is aroused. as the faith is the only
surviving remnant OF the time-honored
Old religion. Political sentiment is
touched. as Shintoism peoples woods.
mountains. trees. rocks. rivers and sea
shores with gods and goddesses. Com.
passion is kindled as it is by a beautiful
dawn slowly dissolving before the on
slaught OF the fierce daylight. No wonder
then. that Shintoism finds many lovers
among westerners.
would like to introduce the reader not
Indeed to the stately mausoleum and cere.
mony of Shintoism. but TO the humble
household OF the common folk of Japan
January In Japan is a month of rest
and festival; rest after hard work and
harvest; festival as an auspicious begin.
ming of tho vaar
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ca NE cSYYZWTO TEMPZE G

kobu:" so seaweed 81
i Iss'' rn means las, '''s sss &
under II a lobster. A
person doubled up with age
reminds one OF lobster
with its doubled up waist.
So the lobster quite often Is
tnresnnelY renresentatiYe OF the
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15
CHOW AN ASTONISHING POWER,
Growing plants Capable o. Lifting
fons OF Welaht,

Experiments OF a peculiar character
have been carried out al several OF
the noted agricultural colleges OF the
United States, the object being 10
ascertain the lifting power OF grow.
Ing plants OF different species. Farm.
ers are well acquainted with the fact
that the roots OF trees will disrupt and
sometimes overturn stone wall, but
the lifting power Of tender vegetables
is equally surprising.
The one result which has, perhaps.
attracted the greatest attention is the
discovery that a weight OF az tons
can be lifted by the common Yankee
pumpkin In the course OF It's develop.
ment.
DR.. Carpenter relates the story Of 4
paving stone, Weighing SO pounds, that
was raised from It's bed when Joined
by others on all four sldes) by such
a soft piece OF fungi as the common
mushroom. And still another and
more remarkable story is added to the
above.
A man having a cask OF sweet wine,
placed II In an empty cellar to mature.
When examined several years later Il
had risen from the floor Of the cellar
TO the ceiling, having been borne up-
ward upon the tender shoots OF vine
fungus, with which the cellar was
filled.
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15
Ornamental street Llnh.lno.

Not many American cities pay the
attention TO beautiful effects in their
street lighting, and they are in this
respect far behind foreign cities. A
superficial observer will think that
the foreign city is not 50 we'll lighted
In its business districts as the Ameri.
can city, but will not notice that this
is due to the fact that the American
business man Is lavish user Of cleo
trio light for advertising purposes not
often with good results from the artis
tic point OF view, while In foreign
cities minimum of this sor, of bill
posting Is permitted, When the pri.
vate lights are extingulshed, late at
night or on holidays, the plackness O,
the American street Ia felt rather than
seen. and does not compare favorably
with the well.arranged lights of the
foreign city In attractive groups Of
handsome characterization En-
cheering MagasiiA
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15
SUGAR FACTORY BEGAN
CAMPAIGN YESTERDAY

The Lehi sugar factory began its
( all campaign Monday. The
farmers will begin digging beets on
this date and by Wednesday the
entire machinery Of the factory will
be in operation.
During the summer many inn
provements have been made in and
around the mill. New beet sheds
with capacity Of 10000 tons Of
beets have been erected; a carload
of pipe has been consumed in in
stalling a fire system which is so
perfect in its operation as to make
the factory practically fre-prooi,
and four miles of pipe line which
connect the cutting stations with
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15
ANGEL P. HARMON PASSES
AWAY AT VERMILLION.

Sheriff Jesse NJ. Harmon was in
formed Sunday of the death Of his
uncle, Ancil Z. Harmon, which oc-
CURED at Vermillion, SEVER coun-
ty, last night. Mr.. Harmon was
about II years old, and was one Of
the very earliest pioneers Of the
state. Mr.. Harmon was captain Of
several companies ofemigrant trains
that crossed the plains in the early
fifties, and was prominent in the
development of the country. lie
died of dropsy at the home Of his
daughter, Mrs. Jacob Stringham.
Mr. Harmon was a devoted father
and an honorable citizen. lie
served in the bishopric at Holden
for several years. Mr.. Harmon
leaves six children, Mrs. Jacob
Stringham, of Vermillion; Mrs.
Mary Seegmiller, Mrs. Lucy Jen-
sen, both of Richfeld; Mrs. Emma
Reeves and Mrs. Jane Pratt, both
OF Abraham, Utah, and Milo Har-
mon of Holden.
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15
HAFEN'S PICTURES
EXHIBITED IN CHICAGO

Utah's artists are receiving recog-
milton in constantly widening field.
While Lon J. Haddock, secretary
Of the Manufacturer and Mer-
chants association, was walking
through the streets OF Chicago a
few days ago, he passed the store OF
Marshall Field q Co. In one OF
The big show windows, he saw dis
played some paintings Of scenes in
the west and he joined the crowd
that was gazing at the works OF art,
Then he thrilled with pride on dis
covering that the paintings were the
works Of John Haien Of Springville,
Utah.
"The store was making a feature
of Hafen's paintings" said lIaddock.
"rhere is crowd constantly about
the show windows"
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15
the factory have been pulled up and
replaced with new pipe.
Knocking a Theory.

They stood before a reproduction Of
the Venus OF Melos.
Her hands must have been beauti-
full" said one.
Very" assented the other. IL won.
der what position they were INF"
IL have a theory that she was
represented as busted at her toilet
One hand probably held a small
mirror"
"And the other a powder pun, eh7
But that theory won't work."
"And why not?"
"Had she been at her toilet her
mouth would have been full OF hair.
nina
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15

Denver and return. Sept 25th,
26th, $3.50 via the Colorado Mid.
land Ry,
Anything you have 10 buy OF
sell in buildings, real estate, farms
or homes consult Provo Realty Go.
For your weak eyes, see DR.
Heindselmen, Graduate Optician al
Taylor Bros.
UTAH Is FOR BRYAN.
Teachers excursion to Castillo
VIA the ID. u X. q. Sept 10th
Train leaves Provo si55 a, IN,
Round trip fare so cents.
Annual outing Of the Utah coun.
ty teachers at Castillo, Sept. 10th,
Round trip fare 80 cents, Train
leaves Provo sos a. M.
For your groceries, meats, veget-
ables and fruit, 60 to the Hines
Grocery q Meat Co., 432-4Ss
West Center, or phone your order
In. Il
The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-15
Sam Schwal
GRAND MILLINERY OPEN.
ING BY DAVIS co.

The Davis Millinery Co. announce
their Fall Millinery opening Fri
day and Saturday, Sept. 18th and
18th. A complete line Of the very
latest styles in Millinery will be
shown, bl2
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
LEGS FROZEN: CRAWLs ON ICE
Thrilling Experience of Prospector IN
Alaskan Wilds.

]. r. Thompson yesterday limped
down the Folsom street wharf from
the transport Crook with story of
suffering in the far north that makes
Jack London's tales of the arctic
seem tame, says the San Francisco
Examiner
Thompson came on the Crook from
Nome.
Last New Years day he started from
Fairfax on prospecting tour He
was caught in blizzard 400 miles
from his base. 1t ragged three days,
During 1t Thompson awoke to find
that his foot had frozen. He vainly
attempted to treat the nerveless limb
and then started for Innoce, the
nearest town.
He toiled on, growing weaker, un-
til finally he was crawling on hands
and knees through the snow. Then
exhaustion came.
Next morning Thompson was found
by a prospector driving a dog team
and carried into Innoce, Here 1t
was found that his right leg was
frozen. In Innoce Thompson lay for
weeks. and finally he was sent to
Nome, where the Crook found him
and brought him to this city.
Thompson had mother In Oak
land.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06

Los Angeles, Aug. 6.-Judge Parker
of New York, opened the Bryan cam.
paign here last night with an address
to 1000 He eulogized Bryan and
Kern and said:
How is it that against the interest
Of the people, the party in power fol
more than so years, has been able to
shut its eyes to the fact that the
people have been systematically rob-
bed by means of a statute enacted by
this party, which did not have the
courage to change it?"
He was speaking about the tariff.
He continued: There is one grea,
question Of all questions to be solved
by the electors
MANY years ago a small black
cloud appeared on the horizon A
tariff was imposed for the ostensi-
Bile protection of the infant indus
tries, which was extended and enlarg
ed until under it there has grown up
a system which has the country COM
pletely in its grasp.
"The party in power is allied with
the protected interests. These inter-
ests have furnished money to the re-
publican party at the request of the
national committee and everybody
knows that for years the leaders of
this party have been engaged in fry
ing the fat out of the manufacturers" :"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06

Hot Springs, Va, Aug. 6.-Taft to-
day addressed the Virginia Bar asso-
| citation, stating that the present court
system while not perfect, is not so
far from producing proper results that
It calls for anxiety. He said the inc
quality existing in the administration
of justice will soon give rise to call
for popular condemnation and reform.
II know delays have induced mer-
chants and commercial men to avoid
the courts altogether, and to settle
their controversies by arbitration
Such arbitration is only possible be-
tween litigants who are members of
the same commercial bodies. Boards
of arbitration offer no relief to liti-
gants with wealthy opponents, hence
the results in the cost of litigation
to the poor being greater than to the
rich, assuming the poor more often
Interested in small cases, and the rich
in large ones.
one season for a delay in the lower
courts is the disposition of the judges
to await an undue length of time in
writing opinions. I speak with con-
fidence, because 1 was one of the sim
ners.. l believe a great reform could
be eff c;ed with certainty in the fed
eral and state courts by a mandatory
reduction in court costs and fees"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
OREGON WOOL
MEN ROBBED
SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED
$3.50, 900 MORE FOR CLIP.
Recent Sale at Miles City. Montana,
Emphasizes Statement That Clip Of
Beaver State Should Have Brought
-Four Cents More Per Pound
Umatllla Growers Are Heaviest
Losers.

That Oregon woolgrowers were lit
orally robbed" out of approximately
$3.50, 900 this year, was the statement
made to an East Oregonian reporter
this morning, and the report of the
wool sales held at Miles City. Mont,
July %, was cited as evidence. This
report shows the following sales. $50
sacks, or near a half million pounds,
at is rs cents; 261 sacks at 1873
cents. 404 sacks at II S-S cents;
495 sacks at from 16 to II cents, and
9S sacks at from 10 to 16 cents.
When it is remembered that the
average price paid for the oregon
clip was but - cents, glance at the
above figures will lend credence to the
statement made by an informed Port
land man this morning. who says Or
egon sheepmen were entitled to APP
proXimately four cents more per
pound. This man has followed the
situation carefully, not only this year.
but for a number of years and is
probably as well posted as to the
facts as any man in the northwest
The prices for the oregon clip was
IL cents, while that for the Montana
clip is probably above 16 cents, GER
tainly not below that figure, showing
difference of four cents, which on
this years 100000 pounds clip,
means loss to the state of $6SO,O
This loss is distributed principally
among a few eastern Oregon coun-
ties.
1t now seems apparent that the
buyers came into the field this year
with determination to take advau-
tage of the uncertain market and
SLUMP the prices as much as possible.
The Oregon fleeces, being the first
clipped, were put on the market first
and were therefore made to suffer.
That the local growers made big
in allowing the sales to ne
held here when they did is universal
ly admitted and thsat they will make
a worse one next year If they allow
their sales to be held before the ques-
tion of tariff revision is definitely
settled, is also generally believed,
While all eastern oregon flock
owners were heavy losers this year.
those of Umatilla county suffered
more than any of the others, because
the very first sales were held here
and ~ cents was close to the top
price here instead of the average.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
CARRIES WOMAN TO
LICENSE COUNTER
Seattle Man and Legless Sweetheart
Are Welded in Kentucky Town.

Chicago, Aug. 5.-A dispatch to the
Record-Herald from Cincinnati, o.,
says:
a pathetic sight was seen in the
county clerks office in Newport, KY,
yesterday, when a young man carried
IL his arms legless young woman
to the license counter and applied for
a marriage license. The pair gave
their names as John b.. Bapp of Sc
attic, Wash, and Pearl Ruppell of
Portland, Ind. They went from Gin
cinnati in cab to the city across the
river and when the man stepped from
the cab with the young woman in his
arms he attracted crowd. In the
clerks office he placed her on the
counter while the document was being
prepared. The young woman's legs
were amputated as the result of a
railroad accident. After securing the
license the couple went to a parson-
age and were married.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
run DOWN AND
KILLED BY CAR
C. II. SCHNASSEE GROUND
TO PIECES UNDER WHEELS.
Wife and Daughter Are Passengers
on the Interurban Car which Did
the Work-Walking Along Track
Deafness Prevented His Hearing
MotOrman's Warnings-Drawn Be-
meath Pilot.

Walla Walla, Aug 6.-The firs
death cause by an electric car since
the lines of the Walla Walla Trac-
| tion company were completed more
than q year ago was recorder short
ly before Z o'clock yesterday even
ing, when the Milton-bouEd interur-
ban car struck C. II. Schnassee. a
farmer living near Meador park.
Death was instantaneous. the head
of the dead man having been crush
ed to a pulp and his chest horribly
mangled.
Schnassee, who was almost totally
deaf, had been to College Place dur
ing the day and was returning to
his home walking down the car
tracks. When first seen he was to
one side of the track, but a moment
later stepped to the center, and before
the car could be stopped he had been
stricken down and was ground be-
meath the pilot.
The accident occurred on a sharp
curve just above the Whitman cross
ing, which fact accounts for the fall
ure of the motorman to observe the
person on the track before the car
had almost reached him.
Mrs. Schassee and her daughter,
Clara, were passengers on the car,
and when 1t was learned that a man
had been killed, Mrs. Schnassee i'm
mediately asked if the injured man
was her husband. Her agitation and
presentiments were verified when
she left the car and looked at the
PROSTATE figure beside the track.
According to Motorman w. C. Will
kins and Conductor ]. r. Harper.
who were in charge of the car,
Schnassee was seen when he was
about the distance of four telegraph
poles away,
The warning was sounded, and the
speed of the car, estimated at about
u or Is miles an hour, was slacken-
ed moment later when 1t was seen
that the man was not aware of its
Mothorman Wilkins was
coasting, and as soon as he could
do so the brakes were applied and
the motor reversed, with the result
that the car was travelling about fivp
miles an hour when it struck the
man
Although everything possible was
done to bring the heavy machine to
a sudden stop, it slid along the rails
for probably 30 feet, dragging the
PROSTATE body with it. When OK
tricated from the pilot the body was
found to be horribly mangled, maxi
ing Identification almost impossible.
Death was instantaneous.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-06
BRINGING WATER II MILES.
City Of Medford to Install New Grav-
ity System.

A special meeting of the city coun-
Gil was held Wednesday evening to
entertain a proposal for 500 miners
inches of Little Applegate water from
the Sterling Mining company says
the Southern Oregonian of Medford.
The proposal was presented by j.
c. Blakeley of Roseburg and as ex-
planned by him was merely in a has
tily prepared form and did not enter
into details. If the water committee
would seriously entertain the propo-
sition, he would go into details and
specifications which would be agreed
upon later by the city's engineer and
his own representative.
He agreed to install filtering
plant If desired, and put in any kind
of pipe to the city limits from the
reservoir above Jacksonville that the
city might designate. He stated there
would be 21 miles Of open ditch and
a mile and half tunnel from the Lit
tie Applegate. The pipeline, reser-
voir and filtering plant is to be deed
ed to the citw for maintenance.