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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1912-01-25
WEEKS NEWS.
Local and Personal
Happenings.


on Saturday evening.
r. B. Rice and wife, of Sand
Hollow, were visitors in this city
Saturday.
House for sale or rent with one
acre ground. Inquire 1st Nat
ional Bank. If
A high grade Piano to trade
for a good team and wagon. Call
at this Office. If.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. F. Hynd de-
parted for their home in Portland
on Saturday morning.
No disappointment this time;
Reno will be here on Saturday
evening without fail.
Ray Huddleston was over from
Lone Rock this week looking
after business matters.
Born = in Heppner, Oregon,
this a. M, to Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo
Vincent, a 9-pound daughter.
Grain Of any description taken
in exchange for Waitsburg and
Idaho flour. Call on Phil Cohn.
Rev. w. A. Pratt, the new pas
tor of the M. E. Church, will
preach next Sunday morning and
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Dutton
departed for Portland, Tuesday,
and will be absent for month or
six weeks.
The Morrow Warehouse Milling
Company wants your hides, pelts
and furs, and will pay cash for
all they are worth.
Mrs. Robert F. Thompson de-
parted for Portland on Saturday
morning where she will visit
with relatives for short time.
No better meals served in
Heppner than at the O. K. res
taurant. Times are close. We
serve meals at Is cents.
We carry fine line of box sta
tionary from Is cents to o$2.50. A
special double box only 45 cents.
See our window. Slocum Drug Co.
Mrs. Oscar Davis and son have
returned to their home in Hepp-
ner after an absence of a couple
of months in the Willamette Val
ley.
A pair of gold bowed spectacles
was picked up on the streets of
Heppner a few days since and
are at this office. The owner
may have the same by calling
here.
Mrs. Sadie Riggs who has been
visiting for some weeks at the '
home of her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. GOWNS in East ,
Heppner, departed for her home {
at Haines, Oregon, on Monday. ,
One of the social events of the l
week was a party at the home of I
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Blahm.
There was a large company of r
neighbors and friends present, 4
quite number going down from Ii
Heppner. e
Our society editor overlooked L
the class party at the home of
Mrs. Cameron last week in honor e
of the eighteenth birthday of her Il
daughter Minalena. He said that r
the exams at school put him off b
his job as reporter. Y
H. S. Neel, stockraiser and
Lone Rock booster, was in Hepp- d
ner, Tuesday. He says they eX- OF
perienced a big snow over that OF
way that disappeared into the d
ground in good shape. Stock are v
doing fine and prospects for crops
we're never better. r,
Arthur DAILY suffered a sink It
ng spell on Thursday evening al
asst, and since has been in an un- 4,
state. He rallied some bl
IN Sunday and was able to recog-
1ize those about him. but this
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1912-01-25

| ANiiSN NllSiOj VI DSoAhOlliCos
Iowa, and good music and good
preaching is promised. Mr.. Wright
is an evangelist of wide reputa-
ton, and the people Of lone and
vicinity will have the opportuni-
ty of hearing the gospel well
preached.
Dist. Attorney VanVactor de-
parted for Pendleton on Tuesday
morning to take up court duties
again. The famous Mabel War
ner will bribery case comes up
for trial in the circuit court over
there this week and Mr.. VanVac-
tor will have to represent the
States side of the case. He
was accompanied by his stenog-
rapher, Miss Josephine Cameron.
Minor Brothers have taken a
five year lease on the j. M. Hager
ranch just above Heppner, with
an option of buying the same, so
this paper has been informed. It
is the intention Of the Minors to
dispose of some of their hold
ings nearer the mountains, and
when this is done they may ulti-
mately purchase the Hager ranch.
Frank S. Parker and family
arrived from the Seven Devils
country in Idaho on Friday even
ing, and are visiting at the home
Of Mrs. Parker's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. V. Crawford. They
are on their way to the William
cite Valley where they have pur-
chased a home in the vicinity Of |
Philomath in Benton county.
Thos. E. Chidsey arrived home
on Friday evening after an ab-
sence of about six months, dur
ing which time he has been writ
ing life insurance contracts for
the residents of Grant and Baker
counties. He reports business as
being fairly good but money is
pretty tight at all points where
he has been at work.
Reno will be here Saturday eve
ming. He will make good his ap-
pointment with the Heppner Ly-
ceum Course this time, so get
your tickets ready. Those who
have not purchased tickets for
this number should do so at once.
If you do not see Reno, you will
miss one of the very best numbers
VI UllC COuIS
President Gurdane, of the Nor
row-Umatilla Poultry Association
departed for Pendleton on Satur-
day morning to prepare for the
coming chicken show to be pulled
off in that city during the week.
Our section will be represented
there by some prize-winning
birds.
Drs. H. E. Pinkerton and j. O.
Wilson, of Pendleton, arrived in
Heppner on Tuesday evening and
will spend a few days in Morrow
county. These gentlemen are
yetrinarians and are here in the
interests of the u. S. Bureau of
Animal Industry.
Mrs. Carrie Patterson, of Teni-
10, Wash, and Mary M. Hughes, !
Auburn, Wash, daughters of the
ate Mrs. R. A. Summer, attend
d the funeral of their mother at v
lexington on last Wednesday.
Sol King, of Corvallis, a broth y
r of Mrs. Summer, is visiting
he family at Lexington. He ar II
ived too late to be present at the
urial of his sister. He made a Ia
isit to Heppner on Friday.
ALFALFA SEED. Guaranteed cl
ure and free from Dodder and ir
ther foul seeds. Put in your
rder early as the quantity of w
ure seed is limited. Morrow r.
Iarehouse Milling Co.
Heap big wind struck the .,
.eppner hills on Tuesday night. E,
is reported that quite consider
Die damage was done about Con-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1912-01-25
A Sketch Of
Opie Read

NPlE READ, who comes to
" Heppner on Saturday evening,
February 3, has we'll been called The
Charles Dickens of America He
was one Of the first American novelists
to write about the commonplace life Of
everyday folks, whose struggles, with
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Plan to Stop Cats Midnight Opera

law for the impounding of dogs pro vides that the animal may be recover ed upon payment by the owner of two dollars, but no such leniency is extend ed to the cat.
 Nine cats have been inpounded since July 1 last year, the commission CTS say, and each of the pets" is ac- cused of being afflicted with rabies. They also were accused of biting Il persons. It is to prevent a spread of the dread disease, the officials declare, that the amendment to the police reg ulations is made
 The term running at large" is held by the authorities to have the same meaning as in the proclamation re- lating to the muzzling of dogs.
 This is not the first proposition to place a tax on cats. Such a measure was under consideration by the board of commissioners several years ago, but it met with serious opposition by the Washington Cat Club, of which Mrs. Henry L. West, wife of former Commissioner West, was president. No action was taken at that time.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
The Oldest Eqo.

Not so long ago party of explorers, members of the Archaeological society of Mayence, found, during their exca- vations in the ancient Moguntiacum, a hens egg which was estimated to have been buried for something like nine teen centuries.
 Moguntiacum was built by Drusus, the son of the Roman Emperor Angus tus, in the year 14 B. c. Upon the site of the ancient Roman castrum or en- campment near the city the excava- tions in question brought to light many interesting relics, including some water cisterns of Roman make. It was in one of these, which was To- cated twenty feet below the ground, that a damaged Roman clay pot was found containing the shell of a broken egg and also a whole egg that had been kept from being smashed by a shred of the damaged pot, which GOV cred it. The ancient egg was turned over to the municipal museum.-Harp- CTS Weekly.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
The cure for peasneratIon.

Attention is just now rather too much concentrated-with tn, most humanitarian motives, to be sure-on that kind of social perfection which consists in bringing everybody up to an average. It is time to emphasize also the importance of producing and making the most of the few really great men through whom the world mainly progresses, the pioneers and the prophets of civilization and the arts. Of degeneration we have a nor bid and needless fear; the best cure for it is not medical science, but so- cial justice. Break up the slums, take the boys out of gangs and find them clean sport and congenial work. Pull down the rookeries, let in the sun and air, keep human life from fes- tering in rotten places and nature will do the rest. Breeds and races may die out, but there are always new ones being created, and nature is her self the greatest of regenerating forces, destroying the decadent even a she checks the superman before he becomes as the gods.-Springfeld (Mass.) Republican.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06

which congress finds itself unable to even give away. Yet these documents have cost millions of dollars in the printing, and these millions, accord ing to congress itself, are absolutely wasted.
 Every day through the congressional season there is mailed from the capitol and the house and senate office build ings an average of 20 tons of printed matter. The men who mail it confess that the vast majority of it is intended to have no more effect than would postal card which reminds the con- stituent that he is remembered. The cost to the postofice department in sending this matter through the mail amount to $3,200 day.
 Every year the federal government sends out more than 5OO,O0O expensive books to certain designated libraries in different parts of the country. Very few of these libraries use the books.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Strange Carriage Has All Guessing

l front window, which is of glass. This continues for four or five hours at time some days, and it is almost too much for the curiosity of the Six teenth street people, who have noticed it. A good many thought it must be an invalid, or maybe an imbecile, while some suggested dogs, cats, or even snakes.
 Finally one day an enterprising young resident of Sixteenth street, on her way home, decided that she would at least get a peep inside, so ac- cordingly she went to the curb and nearly lost her balance in the attempt as the carriage went by, but the empty seat only greeted her eye, and no queer face or form.
 ''He must be on the other side" she said to herself. "I'n get him when he comes back"
 So when it returned she was there ready, but not sign of life was to be seen within.
 Probably he has moved over," was the young lady's conclusion, and she pursued her way, but on reaching home another girl was seen on the op- posite curb, staring down the street.
 Did you see that carriage?" she called 'I'm dying to know what's in it!"
 When next it came up, girl moved toward it from either curb and took look.
 Empty!
 The mystery is still mystery, and will be until some clever person finds the solution. According to Sherlock Holmes process of elimination, if there is no one inside, they must be outside Is it the coachman? Who knows? Sixteenth street would be grateful for any light on the subject.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Fruits RIpened by Drug vapors.

Horticulturists have for some time been experimenting on the effects to be obtained by subjecting plants to the vapor of ether, chloroform and other volatile substances. They have found that the growth of many fruits and flowers can be forced by this method and have obtained particularly striking results with lilacs, which they have thus been able readily to obtain in winter. An American agriculturist has experimented more particularly in the effect of these and other sub- stances on the ripening of fruit. His observations have shown that in the majority of cases the more volatile the substance to which the plant is treated the more rapid is the ripening. In forcing the ripening of dates, for instance, he found that the best re suits were obtained when he employed acetic, proprionic, tactic or salicylic acid. Heat powerfully stimulates the ripening process and one of the pecul- iarities of fruits thus forced to ma turity is that the- are generally found to keep better than those which have ripened naturally.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Your Uncle Sam Has Books to Burn

THAT you, MT. Voter may get just I the government publications that Ire Of interest to you, and that you nay be spared the expense of printing costly books which serve no further purpose than would a friendly postal :ard, congress is strenuously attempt ng to reform itself with relation to the business of printing. To accomplish his congress has appointed a joint commission to investigate it's monster printing bills, and that commission has 'eported that the wastes in this direc- ion amount to tens of millions, and hat, despite the great expense, the snd aimed at is not accomplished.
 Uncle Sam has, the commission Itates, a gang of laborers at work reg Ilarly destroying books which 1t has cost him millions of dollars to print. Almost any day these worknnen may ,e seen with axes choppiag vigorously nto great stacks of leather and cloth bound books such as would be an or lament to any library.
 Every few years the government inds itself the possessor of vast Cuan- 1ties of printed matter stored in many easements as is grain in granaries. In he vaults under the capitol 1t is no uncommon matter to find a thousand .ons of worthless public documents
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
LEFT WORK UNFINISHED
AUTHORS CALLED FROM THEIR
 MANUSCRIPTS BY DEATH.
Some of the Greatest Have Literally Died "In the Harness"-Nathanlel Hawthorne's Pathetic Forebod-
 ings of the End.

Robert Louis Stevenson's story Weir of Hermiston," was left mere fragment. Another romance, "St Tves," by the same pen, was running In a monthly magazine at the time of stevenson's death. Here, however, readers were not deprived of satis. factory ending, for the story was brought to a conclusion by Quiller- Couch.
 q hardly know what to say to the public about this abortive romance, though I pretty well know what the :ase will be. I shall never finish it, {" wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, with ref srence to "The Deliver Romance" ]" which he had undertaken to write for magazine.
 This foreboding was soon verified, Or Hawthorne had scarcely time to To more than lay down the ground york of the story and write the ini- ial chapters before he died. At his uneral in Concord the manuscript lay ,n his coffin. Soon afterward @ irst chapter appeared in the Atlantic, md subsequently the second chapter, which he had been unable to revise, vas published in the same magazine. Several years elapsed and then third fragment, revised and copied by the lovelist's wife, was placed in the pub isher's hands. The original manu- Icript is now preserved in the Con- :ord public library.
 Another serial that was being writ en when it's author laid down his zen forever was Denis Duval" Thack- gray, indeed, was already in his grave when its publication commenced. Three parts, and portion of fourth were all that appeared, and 'the Jtorys' wrote the editor, breaks of IS his life ended-full of vigor and blooming with new promise like the Lpple trees in this month of May" With the fourth part was given a set ,f notes, taken from Thackeray's own papers, elucidatory of the subsequent development of the plot
 Thackeray's great contemporary, Charles Dickens, also died in harness. For long time his health had been in- different, but he stuck unfinchingly to he work he had in hand. On June }, 1870, he died. The morning and part of the afternoon of that day were devoted to completing the sixth num- Der of "The Mystery of Edwin Brood" put scarcely had he finished work and rat down to dinner than he was seiz- ed with convulsions. After lingering Jome hours without regaining con- Bciousness he died at six the same lay.
 q shall publish late in this year." wrote Laurence Sterne, land the next 1 shall begin a new work in four vol nmes, which, when finished, I shall continue "Tristram' with fresh Ipirit." This new work here re- Ierred to is "The Sentimental Jour- ney," one volume alone of which was ever given to the world, nor, by req son of the authors death, was Iris tram Shandy" ever continued.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Pantheon and Parthsnon.

The Parthenon, or what is left oi it, stands upon the Acropolis of Athens. This most famous building on earth was erected under the ad- ministration of Pericles about B. c. G42 It's present ruinous condition was caused by the explosion of bomb during the war between the Venetians and Turks in 1887. The Pantheon, at Rome was built by Agrippa in B. c. 27, and, unlike the more beautiful temple at Athens, is still in fair state of preservation. The Pantheon is, of course, well worth seeing, both for its own sake and on account of it's historic inter- est; but 1t does not hold the fame belonging to the incomparable build Ing on the Athenian Acropolis
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Stray Yellow Dog Finds Good Friend

EVEN in staid and sedate Washing E ton an amusing scene will occur md a stray yellow dog will find a riend. The gallant Ambassador Jus Ierand Of France, in faultless attire, was returning from a hall where he lad delivered an address. A liveried 'ootman was holding open the door of lis carriage, and the coachman, sitting stiffly on the box, was the very picture )f convention. The chivalrous ambas- Iador was lowing right and left, when lis eye fell upon a little dog who had made his way through the crowd and Stood in front of him. The little ami nal looked beseechingly up into the syes of the great diplomat, who for got his white gloves and stopped down o pat the dusty head. But the sud- len motion frightened the dog, who vas used to being kicked and beaten, md with his tail between his legs he Icampered away.
 The ambassador thrust away all dig uty of diplomatic custom, and to the
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Red Tape in Action.

An American, in visiting the London postofice, observed that the newspa- per box had large mouth, and, with the curiosity of the average American tourist, he stood gazing into it. Sud- denly a bale of newspapers struck him and he fell into the box.
 His companions hurried to the coun- ters to rescue him, but owing to the red tape of the English postof1ce the clerks disregarded their appeals. The American was in the mail box and would have to be treated as a mail matter. They therefore stamped him and threw him into compartment containing provincial newspapers.
 The unfortunate mans friends there upon went to the chief, who listened phlegmatically to their story, then asked if their friend was addressed. On being informed that he was not, the chief said:
 'The matter is simple. The man will remain for six months in the bureau. At the end of that time, if no one ap- plies for him, he will be burnt as a dead letter.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
pream Youreelr to sIscp.

When you retire to bed. go there t, sleep. And sleep. Don't think, d0n' plan, don't worry. Shut the door firm ly upon all thinking. Open the mint to fancies, never mind how vague and fantastic, If they are but pleasing; and let yourself drift about in this sea O. fancies until sleep comes-you know not when. So by acquiring the power of dreaming while awake you gain the ability of dreaming yourself into sleep Health Culture.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
Must Keep Hens Of Streets.

Bangor now has a Then law" The city government has enacted a new ordinance which prohibits hens from running at large within a mile and three-quarters of the postofice. This was apparently a joke when it was introduced, but it developed that the city government was alive with suf- ferers from foraging hens, and the measure went through amid much ap- plause. People who do not look after their hens are now subject to prose cution and fine, upon complaint.-Ken- nebec Journal.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
DREAD DEATH COMING
FEAR DEEPLY IMPLANTED IN THE
 HEARTS OF ALL.
some More Effected by Loss of Honor, a Visit to a Dentist, or Bank ruptcy, but Few DeIiber-
 ately End 1t All.

Probably the first thought of ever reasonable man in reading the dreary details of the disaster to the Titanic was: What would I have done in the same circumstances? Probably his second bore the hope in all humility that if such circumstances should arise for him he would behave without too much of the awkwardness of panic. Only a fool would haphazard a predic- tion of his conduct in the face of a peril so unexpected and attended by the terrors of midnight and the sea. It is no discredit to the human race to say that cowardice is a gift from the devil which has been impartially dis tributed among mankind.
 Every man who thinks at all is afraid of death. He may be more afraid of something else, or loss of honor, health or money, or going to a dentist, or, like the man in Pickwick, of life without buttered mullins, but he chooses death only as bad alterna- tive for worse. If he is not afraid of one thing you may be sure he is afraid of another.
 A man will go up to the clouds in a balloon who wouldn't go down into twenty feet of water in a submarine. A steeplejack may be afraid of dogs and lion tanner of riding in an eleva- tor. We know man who has made a great reputation for coolness under fire in battle, who gibbers with fear when ever he has the stomach ache. One man fears fire, another burglars, an- other railway trains, another measles.
 Conduct in an emergency depends on many things besides those abstract qualities known as "cowardice" and courage" A man is apt to act calmly when his surroundings, at the time the peril presents itself, are customary and familiar, when his nerves happen to be sound, or when he has time to mediate on his action and weigh care fully it's consequences.
 Again a man may be persuaded to shame or glory, as the case may be, by the example of his neighbor. One per son afflicted by blinding fear may turn a hundren men into a panic stricken mob or he may convert them into a throng of heroes through their very horror of his conduct. And one man who has established his moral equilib- rum quickly can instantly convey for titude to the others. Courage and cowardice both like company-F. P. Ounne in the American Magazine.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
The ~WorkIn, stiH.D

He is one of the army of unskilled laborers easily mobilized on any of a variety of industrial frontiers" write Charles Phelps Cushing and Arthur Killick in the issue of Harper's Week ly-"an army estimated now at half a million, content to do the hardest sorts of toll at wages so low that not more than one man in thousand saves anything" When he gets into trouble the "stiff's" hands are his best credentials. Look at his hands, ser geant," the magistrate says. 'The police court bailiff feels their palms and makes one of two permissible an- swers, Soft as baby's, yer Honorr or Hard as nails, sir"
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-06
rh.I.tter of the LAW.

A mother led her six children to the Gpple-tree. It had borne but single apple-no longer visible to the casual observer. 'T told you not to pick that applei" she said, sternly. We aidn't p.c'7 itl" the children answered ln chorus. And the oldest girl added. tn an injured tone, You can see your self that it's still on the tree. Fl mean-the core is! We only climbed up an'-an' took a bite once in . while-we didn't pick it!"