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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-04

"Is your bureau of any practical ser
vice to farmers?"
by means of the system of rural
free delivery of mail our forecasts &C
each day into the homes of 1000, ,000
farmers. AS many more farmers get
our forecasts by telephone. AS a mat.
ter of fact, thousands of farmers put
telephones into their homes for nc
other reason than to be informed about
the weather-our forecasts, you un.
derstand, being for the day on which
they are made and practically for the
day following. We have been Of great
service to the cranberry growers Of
Wisconsin. the cane growers of Louis
lana and the orange growers OF Flori-
da In giving warnings against frost.
Cranberry marshes are flooded, cane
is quickly cut and piled in windrows
and smudges are started in orange
groves as effective measures of pro-
lection. Let me add" Professor Moore
went on to say, that the train dis
patchers of all the railroads in the
country get our morning and evening
forecasts, and thus are enabled to
know about the coming cold waves in
winter and each year to save millions
Of dollars worth of perishable mer
chandise such as fruits, vegetables
certain kinds of chemicals and other
manufactures"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-04
The Zuyder ZeA

The Zuyder Zee was formed by an
inroad Of the sea, which broke down
the protecting sand dunsA
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-04

You cannot dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and
forge yourself one.-Carlyls.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-04

1t may not be possible for you to
be agreeable to some people, but you
can keep away from them.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-04
WEATHER BUREAUS VALUE
DESCRIBED BY ITS CHIEF:
- INCE the year 1895 Will!

lNCE the year 1895 Willis
l.: Moore has been at the
head OF the United States
weather bureau, the
greatest institution Of
its kind in the world.
Under HIS diractinn the
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-04

that West Indian hurricane-which
by the way, Is the most dangerous gen.
eral storm we ever have-sweeping the
Atlantic Coast without warning would
destroy property to the value of from
| S3,OOO,000 to $5000,000. | send ten
men to different points in the West In.
dies each ear just before the hurri.
cane season opens, where they remain
| until all danger Is over. They report
to us daily by telegraph. At the end
OF the season they nail up their sta
tions and come home.
While we are on the subject" Pro,
fessor Moore continued, Il would like
to say, in order to clear up the confu,
sion Of the public mind which leads to
an absurd mixing of terms, that cy-
clone has an area Of 1000 miles, a
hurricane an area from 100 to 800
miles and tornado, which invariably
occurs in the southeast quarter Of a
cyclone and is an incident of the cy.
clone, an area of from 1000 feet to
1000 yards. The velocity of the wind
during a cyclone is from fifteen to
twenty-five miles an hour, during a
hurricane it varies from fifty to 100
miles an hour, while it is so
great during tornado that no in
strument can measure it. In all three
kinds of storms the wind, of course
Is rotary, or twisting, as it is com
monty described
But the weather bureau" Professor
Moore went on to say, "is not alone OF
value to people in the matter of wind
storms, but is of tremendous service in
foretelling periods of flood. Twice we
forecast the height of the Mississippi
River at New Demonstrating the
flood five days in one instance and
week in the other. On both occasions
our mathematics covered a tremendous
area Of the United States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
A SIMPLE MILK TEST.
Anybody Can Determine in Few
Minutes Quality of the Fluid.

From the Scientific American
The following process for the detection
of added water or of skinned milk In
ordinary milk is more accurate than the
simple use of a lactodensimeter without
the creamometer check The whole test
can be made in five minutes
The result does not show whether the
adulteration consisted in the addition of
water or in the subtraction of cream, but
as rule this matters little to the con-
sumner What he wants to know is
whether or not he got what Me paid for.
The suspected milk is stirred with a
sooon in order to disseminate into the
whole LIQUID the cream which may have
come to the surface. Then one volume of
milk is poured into fifty volumes of wa
ter-one fluid ounce to two and one-half
pints.
A candle is lighted in a dark room. The
experimenter takes an ordinary drinking
glass with a fiat and even bottom and
holds it Immediately above the candle at
a distance of about one foot from 1t. SO
az to be able to see the flame of the
candle through the bottom of the glass.
He then pours slowly the diluted milk into
the glass.
The flame becomes less and less bright
as the level of the liquid rises into the
glass. The flame is soon reduced to a
dull white spot. A little more liquid
slowly added so as to avoid pouring an
excess. and the flame becomes absolutely
invisible. All that remains to be done
is to measure the height Of the liquid
in the glass, this being most conveniently
ascertained by dipping into 1t strip OF
pasteboard and then measuring the wet
part 1t should measure not over an inch
il the milk is pure.
With good quality milk diluted and
tested as stated the depth will be about
seven-eighths Of an inch before the fame
is lost to view. A mixture of one volume
Of milk and half a volume OF water
should show a depth of one and one-half
inches. A depth OF two inches indicates
either partially SKINNED milk or a mix
ture of one volume OF good milk with one
Of water
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
SACRED MONKEYS.
Hindu Fakir Who Lives in Comfort
With His Charges.
From the Wide World Magazine.

From the Wide World Magazine.
In the very top of Jakko. the hin that
rises above Simla. there lives a solitary
Hindu fakir. an old man clothed in VEL
low. with saffron-plastered cheeks and
caste marks on his forehead. He's the
guardian priest OF the sacred monkeys
Like the Inhabitants of ancient Egypt.
who worshiped cats and crocodiles the
Hindus OF today hold many animals in
Hindu of today lis even more fanatical
than formerly. and resents more pas
sionately the smallest injury insult
offered TO the creatures he worships.
Among the hierarchy OF animals the
monkey holds a place of honor second
only to the cow: for in the "Ramayana."
the sacred epic of the Hindus. it is written
how Hanuman, the monkey god, allied
himself with Nishnu the Preserver. help
ing him to overcome his enemies and re-
cover his lost wife. Sta.
So the money. especially the common
red monkey is worshped throughout
the length and breadth OF India. His
images in brass are sold I'm every azaar.
and many shrines are dedicated to his
worship.
People say that there has always been
a fakir on Jakko. and il Is possible that
one has lived there ever since the hill
tribes were admitted within the very
elastic limits of the Hindu religion. Priest
has succeeded priest. living alone on the
mountain top, and sharing with his little
red gods the food which pious worship
ers provided.
In former times there must have been
little enough for either gods or priest
for the hill folk In the villages around live
poorly even when the season is good
and nearly starve when there is famine
But now he lives in comfort. Not only
has the number of Hindu merchants In
the bazaar increased but many English
visitors come to see his charges and give
him money when they leave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
Culture and Climate.
Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The busybodies who look after chill
dren's bare legs might as we'll under
stand that we have got TO have cul-
ture. and culture knows nothing abou,
climate Culture originated in Greece and
never got very far away, possibly because
people north of Greece would not sacri-
flee comfort for it by giving up garments
of barbaric warmth. and people farther
south felt no need of any clothing. There
fore. culture was limited to the genial
climate of Attica, Lacedemonia and espe-
cially of Boeotia Even in that favored
land culture has declined and people wear
trousers and skirts.
Culture Is a matter of chitons and pep
elements of the ancient Greek costume
the draperies of real culture, have es-
capped us. but probably not for the items
in the wardrobe of cultivated Greek
We're not numerous. "Ah. take the clothes
and let the culture 60, wrote Josephine
Daskam several years ago In some lines
entitled "Omar for the Ladies'" At that
time the advent of a highly cultured and
therefore lightly clad family of more OF
less Hellenic character had not raised the
issue of the amount of clothing consistent
with true culture. But Miss Daskam
felt instinctively the antithesis between
clothes and culture. We are bound to
have culture regardless of the difference
in the climate between Athens and Phila-
delphia, and We can only have culture by
dressing like Greek statues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
TABLE GLASS.
Present Taste Demands Beauty of
Form. and Simplicity.
From The Gentlewoman.

TOtn Enc GeHtleWOm1u
AT one time, not SO very long ago, either,
English cut glass was almost sold by
weight. At least, any one buying cut
glass would be impressed by the weight
of the decanter in the hand. There is no
special value in mere weight: indeed.
very heavy decanter is something of a
nuisance, and the thickness of the glass
led to its being very deeply faceted, quite
regardless of beauty of pattern.
This heavy, ponderous glass was very
rarely turned out in any beauty of form;
it only exhibited extraordinary skill IN
the making, very much as those huge
opalescent, trumpet-lke glass tubes, some
OF them five feet long. which are sold now
adays for the purpose of holding reeds
and grasses. They are testimony to the
ability of the blower. but as furnishing
accessories they are neither beautiful nor
very useful.
At the present time there appears to be
a tendency for fewer glasses to be used
at dinner than formerly. People drink
less and very seldom indeed use all the
glasses placed for them. The use of col
ored glasses is on the decline. for. as
noted before the wine itself should pro-
vide the color just as the huge glass bot
ties in the windows of chemists shops are
filled with colored water for brilliant Ell
feet No colored glass can quite equal in
depth and transparency a beautiful blown
1
gundy.
AS decoration the glass flower vases
now made in such wonderful variety are
Of the greatest assistance in arranging a
dinner table. Even here it is far too usual
to see highly ornate centerpfeces used
which swamp every other effort at en-
bellishment of which the table may boast !;
but engraved glass may be used with
more fitness for this purely ornamental
purpose than for anything else.
| Several practical considerations arise
when glass has to be purchased for the
household For one thing. the very deli
cate stems of many winegasses are a
source of positive torture to the woman
who is unfortunate enough to be served
by clumsy domestics. They break with
alarming frequency.
Another point worth thinking of is the
stability of tumblers. Those with heavy
bases are best. Narrow 'tumblers are in
variably difficult to clean. Fairly wide
shapes in the simplest forms are to be
recommended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
EXTENSION OF STREETS.
Two Bills Empowering the Com
missioners to Condemn Land.

According to bill which has been sent
by the District Commissioners to the Dis
trict committee of Congress. authority Is
to be given to the Commissioners to con-
denim streets in subdivisions of lands in
the District where such streets have been
outlined on the plat. but not dedicated
by the owner, and to assess the cost of
condemnation proceedings upon abutting
and adjacent property owners.
The purpose of the hill is TO save the
District the cost of opening streets after
The property in the subdivision has been
sold.
Another bill from the same source pro-
vides for the extension OF streets in the
vicinity of the Connecticut Avenue bridge.
The Commissioners wish authority to ar
range the highways in the eastern side
of the valley so as to eliminate the posi-
biiity of houses being constructed that
would mar the beauty of series of
arches spanning the valley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
WHERE p1NEY BRANCH WILL RUN.

he was never idle, devoted as he was to
biblical study or within the precincts OF
the hospice to the tendance of the flow
ers, which soon made his garden point
of pilgrimage for the bOtanlst from
every cline. Zoology. too, had a special
charm for him. shown in the confidence
he could inspire in the steinbok or the
channels. which would in stress of weather
come and take bread out OF, his hand, or
in the birds which would fly to the hos
pice from the pursuing storm or the pred
atory eagle. In midsummer. when for a
brief space the access to him was COM
paratvely easy. he was sought out by
relays of visitors, from the Queen of Italy
to the italian or Swiss professor; from the
nature student. whether hailing from the
British Isles or the British colonies, to
the poet or the missionary eager to listen
to his narrative of life and adventure
above the snow line.
Pastor and Rescuer
His experience as a pastor and as a
rescuer of the imperled wayfarer, taken
down from his lips. will doubtless see the
light some day: but the few publications OF
his own authorship with which he enriched
his library of 1000 volumes are but the
foretaste of what his writings, left in
manuscript. will ere long reveal For one
thing, he was an accomplished meteoroio-
gist, so much SO that the Parde Deuza
of the Vatican observatory in acknowledg-
ment of his contributions to the science
called the attention of the Order of st.
Maurice to his observations. and an OPP
perfume enrichment of his "armamenta-
rum meteorologicum' was the result. He
had just completed his half-century OF
life at the hospice when a brief illness
carried him off February last. Still
active in mind. he had begun to fail in
body, his eyesight in particular having
been injured by the constant glare of the
snow, and amid the sorrowing demonstra-
tons of the poor families to whom he had
been refuge and strength" he EN-
tered into rest felix opportunitate
morris.
Proud of their compatriot and custodi-
an, the Order of ST Maurice at once took
steps to do honor to his memory, and
commissioned the sculptor, Signor Tan
credi Pozzi. with the design and work.
The able, his long robes fluttered by the
mountain breeze and his white beard
waving i'm sympathy. is represented
picozza (spud) in one hand and an alpine
flower in the other-a felicitous work OF
art. On the pedestal runs the inscrip-
ton: Here for fifty years the Able
Pietro Glamour, rector of the Maurician
hospice worshiped God i'm the poetry of
sky of snow and of flower: meditated
and labored with ardent amiable soul for
science and for charity. His spirit keeps
watch inseparabe from the Little st.
Bernard"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
REALTY MARKET ACTIVE.
Conditions Here at Close of Year
Best in Long Time.

The Christmas season finds the real es-
tate market In healthy condition and in
consequence the average broker is feel
ing that he can enjoy the spirit OF the
occasion, which is one of thankfulness as
we'll as of good cheer. The tide of BUSH
ness has continued in volume and
steadiness during the past year that has
surprised nearly all the active operators
in the market and certainly has been
gratifying to every one.
The approach of winter and the last
month of the year. when it is expected by
| those who have experience in the market
that there will be a let-up in the activ-
ity, has been this year time of
varied experience. according to the state
ments made by different brokers. For ex-
ample one of the leading dealers in the
city finds that the month now coming to
close has been the best December he
has had for years, and compares favor
ably in the amount OF business done with
the other months of the year.
On the ether hand, one finds men who
say that business is dull. but that II is
| always that way at this season OF the
year. 1t is Derhaps impossible to find
unanimity among those actively engaged
| in business as to the condition Of the
market. But, generally speaking. 1t may
| be said there is no real occasion for
| complaint of the realty market during
the past year. The sale market has only
| been second TO the building activity. the
one serving TO stimulate the other.
In addition to the demand for land for
| building there, has also been good invest
ment buying. 1t may be said that the
past twelve months has witnessed quite
! a rapid progress in the revival of inter
est in G street property, as we'll as the
beginning OF movement toward prop
erty along II street. The expansion of the
business section OF the city is apparently
going on. and much Of the buying and
| selling of centrally located property has
been due to the desire Of enterprisins men
| to anticipate the future and to be at
the head OF the procession when IL
| reaches the apparently destined point
1 in any Cfveu iOcaltfv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
WORK OF Able GLAMOUR
SAMARITAN AND SCIENTIST OF
THE LITTLE ST. BERNARD.
Monument to q Man Who Lived
Without Sin and for Good
of His Fellows.

From the London Lancet.
The unwilling of a monument has re-
Gently taken place to one who had
"scOrned delights and lived laborious
days in the region of perpetual snow.
Pietro ChanOux lived not only without
sin" but In the service of man and in the
cause of science, at height compared
with which the column of his ascetic
counterpart was as the Tower of Sloan
beside the snow peak of Mount Carmel
1t was in 1859 that the hQ6pice of the Lit
tie St Bernard, as the last phase of a
history that dates from Roman times, 90
ceived from it's patrons, the Knights of
ST. Maurice, a new superintendent in the
Able Glamour. A proficient scholar, the
your nominee was an ardent nature stu
dent passionately fond of mountain soil
tude. in which the companonship OF
books and the flora and fauna Of the
region were indeed the society of his
choice. Add to this philanthropic spirit
which found it's special qualification in
rescuing the strayed "alpinista'' and In
ministering to the wants of the poor fam
lilies maintaining struggle for existence
under the sternest conditions, and YOU
have an ensemble of qualities that made
the appointment to the custody of the hos
pice nothing less than ar inspiration"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-25
WIDENING 10TH STREET BRIDGE.
CITY'S BUILDING LINES
NEARING DISTRICT LIMITS
Extension of Operations Northwardly on 18th and
Parallel Streets-Smal1 Zone Remains.

cupied by the District tuberculosis Hos
uital. which. of course. will always re-
main an open place. In addition. this is
the region of the valley of the Piney
branch. which. in it's way. is quite as
broken and diversified as that of the val
ley of Rock creek.
But typographical difficulties never put
q stop to the progress Of population, and
there is no reason to suppose they will
have that Influence out the 18th street way
1t Is probable that as soon IS the definite
plan for the use of the land just north of
the Spring road is determined upon
something will be done toward opening
18th street through. The property lying
subdivision of Fourteenth Street Heights,
and also one adjoining on the south.
Saufs subdivision, is still what is known
as acreage property.
There is quite a good deal of it, and it
is understood that plans are being made
to acquire some of it for the purpose of
continuing the building of houses, which
now ends at the south side of Spring
road The building of houses along
Georgia avenue and in its vicinity has
nearly reached the northern point that
has been attained along 14th street 1t
Is probable the broad acres where the
golf course of the Columbia Club lies
will fall into the hands of the subdivision
maker in the near future. and when that
is accomplished and houses are built
there. then point will be reached that
will be as far north as Sauls subdivision
and the new one adjoining on the north,
which is just being opened up by a Vir-
ginia syndicate.
Extension of the City.
1t should be borne in mind when not
ing the progress of the city in this direc-
ton that it is just four miles north of
the White House. q long distance in most
any city for houses to extend in rows in
a direct line from the center. This is not
merely the diameter Of the sweep of the
limits of the city, but of the extension
Of city-built houses or houses in rows.
II 1t was the former, then several miles
would be added to the distance above
now passes beyond the bounds of the
original ten miles square of the District
of Columbia into the adjoining states of
Maryland and Virginia.
In fact, it is questioned whether or not
the movement of the city's population to-
ward the adjoining states has not at
tanned such proportions as likely to have
an important bearing on the development
of the District. II it is argued that peo-
pie are going beyond the limits of the
District and buying their homes. what
ing width that now lies unOccupied and
unimproved between the outskirts of the
city and the bounds of the District?
1t is pointed out that now this zone of
land extends completely around the city
within the District, and whether or not
the tide of population is going to jump
it or to occupy 1t, Is a question that pos
sesses some interest at the present stage
in the material progress of the District.