SAILORS HOLD ODD BELIEFS
Salt-Water Mariner# Cling With Tew
nacity to Many Superstitions at
Which Landsman Laughs.
Nearly all ships carry a horsesho®.
Usually It Is nailed somewhere iu the
•teru. The horseshoe has been u fe
tish with sailors ever sine* Nelsou
called one to the mast of the Victory.
Sailors have tuauy superstitions. A
sailor who wears a baby's caul feels
himself immune from death by drown
ing. Ami after a Ioiik trip the sailor
who first sights laud will have a good
voyage home. Jack becomes decided
ly uneasy If he hears 'Maud-tul>ber
lingo" on the ocean. Therefore, If
ever you are a passenger don't let him
hear you refer to the deck of a cabiu
as the "floor," the companion as the
"stairs" or the alleyway as the "lobby"
or "passage." It U bad form, ami un
lucky. Whistling at sea stirs lip evil
wiuds. A cuttlefish swimming on top
of the waves also betokens a storm.
A squall may be expected when an al
ba tress alights on the deck or when a
seagull tiles between the foremast anil
the mainmast. ISut if the seagull Hies
between the mainmast and the mizzen
mast fair winds wilt prevail. Cats are
considered unlucky to have on board
ship. Up t» the las: twenty years
most sailors wore earrings for luck.
No sailor »iil shoot at birds to. tear
of destruction of his ship, it is unlucky
to kill a petrel. These birds, called by
sailors "Mother Caryl's chickens"—a
corruption of "Slater Cara" (mother
dearest)—are the sailor's friends.
They give warning of an approaching
Sturm. Legend lias it that each of
these birds bears the soul of a dead
eeauian.—London Times.
Baseball might start now and bei{tu j
eliminating the mistakes It might oth- j
wrwl.se i-nu.i'-it n»-\t siiuuurr.
CUTICURA „
PREVENTS FALLING HAIR
If your scalp is irritated, and your
hair dry and falling out in handfuls,
try this treatment: Touch spots of
dandruff and itching with Cuticura
Ointment and follow with hot
shampoo of Cuticura Soap. Abso
lutely nothing better.
hapUbc&rmbTlbU A.ldrM'"CnnnLsb
artw*U».D*p* UG " Soldiery.
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" luticur* So«p ibafM without do&
De Luxe Tour
|of Easterners
Coming to West
Portland. May. 19 —That Port
land will be the objective In June of
one of the finest and must compre
hensive scenic tours ever planned for
eastern visitors to the west. Is the
news received in a letter from Dear
Vincent, who is in tho east conferr
ing with officials of the national as
sociation of building owners and
managers, which will hold its annual
convention in Portland in June.
"One hundred and tiftv or more of
our convention visitors will coi-ie i>n
a de lux special train, v./.'ch wi"
leave Cleveland on June said'Mr.
Vincent in his letter. "This special
will go via the Grand Canyon of the
Colorado and California points, with
side excursions to points of interest
including Catalina Island and the
Santa Cruz big trees, arriving at
Portland on the morning of Juiu> 21.
the day the convention opens."
For their four-day stay in Portland
an elaborate entertainment pro
gramme is being arranged, including
a cruise 011 the Willamette and Co
lumbia rivers and a trip over the Co
lumbia river righwaw, with a lish
and wild game dinner at Eagle ere*?k.
The special train will leave Port
land on June 25. returning by way of
Seattle, with side trips to Rainier
national park and Glacier park points
and several days will be used in the!
Yellowstone national park, the trip
to be completed at Cleveland on July
9. The special will carry three dining j
cars, five drawing-room cars and :
three compartment cars.
In addition to this de lux sp< rial 1
Mr. Vincent wrote that there will lie
another special leaving on June IS I
bringing delegates direct to the con
vention. There will also In- a Cali
fornia special and one from Seattle,
bringing delegates from all points.
—:
Washington, May !M.—The East
ern city, of the Russians was captur
ed liy Kappel troops according to an 1
advice received by the state depart-1
ment. The Kappel forces are the
remants of Kolchaks antf-belslievik
army. These forces have been con
gregated between Vladu-ostock and
the Mauchuriau border.
Replenish tlie leu its m your Ever
sharp pencil. Keller ISros. have a
ful stock.
Philadelphia Bird Seed is the pro
per feed for your Canary. Fresh
supply just received at Keller P.ros.
'—
Package is
germ proof
The ends are sealed ^
by electricity -so that all
the goodness and flavor
are retained for you.
Each stick Is separately
wrapped, to keep it fresh and
clean till you need It —after
every mea! or cigar.
Whitens festh. clears
throat, sweetens breath,
aids appetite and digestion
— gre3t benefits for a
small price.
And the Price
Is Still 5C
Korean Women
Refuse to Mix
in Marrying
Honolulu, T. H., Apr.—The Haw
Han race which with the Polynesians
In general, has been regarded as a
dying people is being re-born and re
invigorated by infusion ot alien blood
according^to statistics just complied
by Louis R. Sullivan of the New York
museum of natural history, now at
tached to the Bishop museum in Hon
olulu.
Mr. Sullivan has Just completed
analysis of 14,509 marriages in the
islands, solerted at random and his
in some cases have been sur
prises 10 science.
' According to the tables, more-Am
erican men in the territory marry
women. The Japanese are not as hr.s
been supposed the most prolific race
in the islands, but are surpassed in
this regard by Portuguese, Porto P.i
cans, part Ilawaiians and Spanish.
Of American women more than one
in every six living in the ialtMid.-: mar
ry llawaiiaus, part Hawaiiaus and
.others of blood strange to their an
cestry. Of all the racial ."roup", the
Korean women represent ihe only
one which refuses to mix hi #od, not
a single case of a Korean woman
marrying a man other than a Kore
an having been discovered
As a whole, the tables indicate, the
part Hawaiian group has a tendency
to consolidate, rather than scatter,
since of Caucasian-Hawaiian males
who marry 32.T per cent, marry
buck into the full blooded Hawaiian
strain while only 13.S per cent, lake
white wives and the remainder, eith
er inhreed among their own kind or
marry 4<i.4 per cent, niarrv hack in
to the Asiatic strain and a negligible
proportion into the Caucasian strain.
The result so fur as the Hawaiian
race is concerned is said to be a new
racial group, fecund to a high de
gree. still abnormally susceptible to
civilization's diseases, but with much
higher resistance power.* than the
old Hawaiian stock and visibly add
ing to its numbers.
While the women of Korea lead all
other males and females in the is
lands in marrying within their own
race, there are oih-»r (.-roups which
are a dose second in this respect. On
ly 0.3 of the one per cent, of Ja;'i.n
rse women contract out marriages or
unions with men of other races, w'li'?
n.7 of one per cent, of Japanese men
so pick their mates. The percentage
for the Chinese is G per cent, for the
women and 41.5 for the men; Amer
icans 17.9 for the women and 51.7
for the men; Portuguese 32.3 worn
en; 13.0 men; Hawaiian 40.5 womeo
19.5 men.
The pure Hawaiian death rate is j
the highest in the islands, 13.4S per:
thousand annually, altho the pure
Hawaiian birth rate is nearly twice
as high as American, British and oth
er whites. Scientists recognize that
susceptibility to diseases of civiliza
tion is responsible for the disappear
ance of the pure Hawaiian race, but
the figures just made public by Mr.
Sullivan are the first to show that In
ter-niatriage is rebuilding the old
race into stronger, more hardy peo
ple.
Jay Williams
Billy Brown Kill
Grizzly at Takui
A big grizzly was killed by Jay j
Williams, forester, and Billy Brown,
engineer, of the Banger IV. while
the forest ranger was doing survey
work at tho mouth of the Taku river.
It took eveven shots to stop Mr.
drizzly, says Jay Williams, and Jay
is one of the best rifle shots in Ju
neau.
The first shot crushed through, in
back of the left shoulder and should
have brought him down, but instead
the bear merely reached out one paw
and steadied himself: the second shot
brought him«down, but up he bound
ed again and the remaining nine
shots were fired as lie came for the
foresters in a blind fury.
The Banger IV. returned from a
three week'/ trip on Saturday.—Ex.
Chicago, May. 9.—Although Babe
Ruth and George Kelley, of the New
York Giants, are tied for the sea
son's home-run record with seven
each, Ruth leads his rival in Ihitting
averages, owing to his high liatting
average of .3SS for fourteen games
to Kelley's average of .354 in seven
teen games. Miller of Philadelphia
tops the National league sluggers
with an average o£ .444 fend Harry
Heilman of Detroit leads the Ameri
can league hitters with Vhe high av
erage of 521. v ^ v . £
Teutons Are
Getting Back
to Normalcy
New York, Apr. 28.—Ger
many, thru the economy and
sacrifices of her working people
has settled down to real produc
tion anl is outstriping the Unit
ed States and allied nations in
the fight toward normalcy Chas.
M. Schwab declared here today
In an address before the cham
ber of commerce of the state of |
New York.
Mr. Schwab was the guest of the
chamber at a reception given in rec
ognition of his services to the coun
try during the war. He recently re
turned from Europe.
"Germany today can put a ton of
steel in England at a price $20 a ton |
cheaper than England can make it." !
lie said, "and Is selling pneumatic
tools in Detroit where formerly we
shipped such machinery to Germany j
and sold it cheaper than she could |
make it.
"Tho difference is solely a matter
of labor-costs.
"It is estimated that 5.000,000 men
are out of work in this country. It
is accordingly of supreme importance
to the working man as well as tOHhe
capitalist to restore our prosperity.
"It is possible that after having
won the war, we of the allied nations
with everything in our hands, will al
low Germany to win tho peace thru
the efforts of her labor.
"I understand that our railroads to
day pay to labor over sixty cents out j,
of every dollar received.
"The labor cosl of making a ton of
steel today is 85 cents out of each
dollar of total cosl.
"Railroad cosls must come down
and it is in the interests of national
prosperity that our government, act
ing through the railroad labor board
and every other agency, should re
duce railroad wages and bring costs
down to a living point.
"The same situation confronts our
merchant marine.
"Insofar as our people in America
are prepared to go ta work at reason
able wages, insofar as we are prepar
ed quickly abandod the artificial ex
travagances of the war. will we lay i
the foundations for n new prosperity
such as wo have never enjoyed be
fore."
The chamber presented Mr. Schwab
with a bronze tablet, at the top of
which was inscribed:
"Hero's a voucher stronger than
ever law could make."
Stolen Canoe
Is Recovered
at City Float
N'o further duos to the where
abouts of Ray High tower, alias "Kid
Gleason," and Frank Neil who sawed •
their way out of the federal jail j
Tuesday afternoon, wore found by
the officers during the past 24 hours. |
The only new development is the |
finding of a canoe at the city float
which answers the description of one
supposed to have been stolen from a
warehouse on the Pacific Steamship
dock, and missed the next day after
the men escaped jail.
Other than the canoe, no small
boats have been reported missing,
and the belief prevails that the men
are hiding out in the city, waiting for
a chance to get away.
On a report that It. Brown, who es
caped the time Neil escaped on a pre
vious occasion, and who was not re-'
captured, was seen on Douglas island
deputy marshals yesterday afternoon
scoured the island and seached cab
ins along the shores to Fish Creek,
without, however, finding and trace
of Brown.
Hightower and Neil have $9 be
tween them. Before they can leave
in a small boat it will be necessary
for them to gel provisions, which
may furnish a clue, unless they are
outfitted by some "friend."
Squabs for Arm/.
The soldier in these days Is n mar
of varied occupations. Indeed, there
Is hardly a trade known to civil life
that is not practiced in tiie I'nited
Stales army. For Instance, in the sig
naJ corps a feature is made of raising
homing pigeons-, to serve as curriers
of Intelligence, and tlv> duty of breed
ing and training the birds is assigned
to a section of that !>~awh of the mili
tary service in which officers and men
are specially educated tor the i>tn>
nose
France is considering legislation tc
niake marriage easier. We do not
D,ted to smooth the way to wedlock
1 In the United States.
C. P. R. Decides
to Purchase Road
At Stewart, B.CJ
Confirmation of the story appear
ing in The Empire several weeks j
ago that the Canadian Pacific Kail-'
way had taken an option on thej
Rear River railroad running out of |
Stewart, 13. C., is revealed by the I
statement recently made by the
Financial Times of Montreal to llie
effect that "the •uniouiicwient that
the C. P. II. has (leddfd to take un
i;s option 011 the Mackenzie- and
Mann's Stewart short lino railway is
of interest lo the entire Canadian
Pacific Coast." Thd Times goes Oil
to say:
"This will msuk the lint slep in
the building of :i railway from tide,
water into tha l'eaca River country
and the oil field* of the Mackenzie
River. If these latter are tapjed !'•>'
a lind"running from Fdr.io iton north
it is a foregone conclusion tha" tiie
bulk of the trade will go to eastern
points, whereas, if the road is built
to the coast Lite trade will conio this
way. While the lino now said to
|iave been secured by the C. 1*. R.
is but a few miles in length, it j
should be borne in mind thni.^tl
forms but a very insignificant por- [>
tion of a large scheme which had i
for its objective the tapping of
the Groundhog coal areas and the
vast Peace River country itself.
, To Tap <J i! Fields.
"The oil strike at Fort Norman
lias been Instrumental in turning the
attention of the public to the vast
practically unknown territory in
which the oil fields lies, and as tlie I
utilization of this oil will depend j
upon the feasible routes being found
for its transportation lo commercial
renters, authentic information in re
sard to these probable routes is now
iif great interest, especially in view
if the fact that geographically British
Columbia offers* the,logical outlet
for the oil men from Fort Norman
ind also from the Peace River dis
tict if the oil iu commercial quan- (
titles is discovered there.
"Fort Norman is about 400 miles
from the mouth of the Mackenzie
river, which is frozen up for the
greater portion of the yeaj. and
Is thus precluded from consideration
:is an all Hie year round shipping
point, which is the principal desider
ata m.
"Skagway is roughly TOO miles,
from Fort Norman by a probable
railway route, hut it must be elim
inated as a possible outlet for the
oil owing lo it being in American ter
ritory, as must also Wrangell, at the
mouth of the Stikine river."
Juneau People Interested
James J. Connors of Juneau owns
a half-interest in the Red Top group
of silver, lead and copper claims
which are cut at one corner by the
old survey of the Mackenzie and
Mann road. 20 miles from Stewart
and six miles from the end of steel.
The property is now under bond to
Gus Selffcrt and associates, among
whom are a number of Juneau peo
ple.
Mr. Connors said today that ex
tension of tl e present railroad, now
only 1-1 miles long, will prove a won
derful stimulant to mining activity
in the Rear River district, which
contains a number of very promis
ing properties now handicapped by
a lack of proper transportation fa
cilities.
Jack Johnson
Not Penniless
Altho in Pen:
Now York, May 19.—According
to advices that havo just been re-'
ceivcd from the Middle West, instead
of being "flat broke," Jack Johnson
is a wealthy man and it is roinored
that he tnay reap considerable addi-l
tional coin of the realm from two
automobile patents he has perfected
during his stay in prison. The re
port says that the former heavy-'
weight champioh has a ?li>,000 auto
mobile in a Chicago garage, and that
he has more than $ 100,000 deposited
in bank. Elmer Tenley, who will
manage Johnson when he is released
from Leavenworth, recently paid a
visit to him there, and found him
sparring with another prisoner.
Johnson plays on the baseball team
and goes thru a course of training
every day. Tenley tells a funny story
about a recent exhibition in which
Johnson boxed another negro. Jack's
oponent refused to get up after be
ing knocked down.
"Why didn't you get up liefoah de
count oh _ ten?" Johnson asked.
"What do I care fo' ten seconds," re
plied his victim. "I dftne forgot all
about time. I'm in heah fo' life."
Now York, May. 19.—Zeigfeld's
Follies on the, Amsterdam roof an
nounce that they will close at the
end of this week, on the ground that
they are losing money. The Century
Roof Garden haB been closed already,
in both cases it is said that prohibi
tion has made it impossible to run
these institutions at a profit.
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