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DRIVING AWAY DEMONS Walker Lake Bulletin John A. McCarthy, P-h- ancient ceremony recently HELD IN JAPAN. Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nevada Superstition Dying Slowly in the Em- BEFORE THE TROUBLES COME pire of the Mikado—Has Been an Annual Custom for Twelve the building of the Co- ment of this vast country. Crown It It for Housekeeper to Be Why Easy Hundred Years. lumbia River highway Point is where the new highway Pleasant in the Early Morn- through the gorge of the makes a turn and then drops 500 feet ing Hours. were held WITHfamous Columbia river, a in two miles, forming a perfect figure Ceremonies recently throughout the Japanese empire—in paved driveway has been provided eight on a grade not to exceed 6 per It was the first thing I noticed in I rising generation will know the smaller peaks of the Maritlmes, shrine and temple—to drive along the precipitous sides of the cent, one of the most remarkable office of the man -a little household, Ihe busy of more of geography than any of the graceful Cottlans, or recon- away the demons of ill-fortune. The gorge and making this section of Ore- feats of engineering tn the country. square of pasteboard with this state- of Its predecessors. Noth- dite Dauphlne. To each region there date corresponds to the old Chinese gon passable for the first time in his- While the highway already reaches ment: "Be pleasant until ten o'clock THEing teaches like is a charm all Its own. And as with the transition from tory for automobiles and all other ve- west from Portland to the Pacific geography In the morning and the rest of the day New Year, marking war, more than any other, this war. the peaks, so with the valleys. The to under the ancient cal- hicles. The national dedication of the ocean beaches and eastto central Ore- will take care of Itself." Pfobably the winter spring South Africa, the Cameroons, East better we come to know them the more roadway comes June opening day gon, the 40-mile stretch through the thing that made it strike in at my first endar. 7, Africa, the Slnaltlc peninsula, the Per- varied do we find them. We soon of Portland's tenth annual rose fes- gorge of the Columbia from Portland glance was the fact that it was after Tradition long observed in Japan sian gulf, Armenia, the Dardanelles learn to divide them Into two main tival. to the Multnomah line has and I had come to ask a favor of holds the demons of ill luck may be county ten, that in- and all central Europe have been the contrasting groups: Those the The building of a highway through made a view of the pictur- a busy man, a writer in the Indianap- kept away during year by pelting possible scenes of dramatic events In which cline northward, mainly into German the gorge of the river has been a from an automobile. Be- olis News says. If he stayed pleaBant them with hard beans and by hanging esque gorge everyone has been forced to take inter- lands, and those that bend south down dream of years until two years ago fore the completion of the hard-surfac- only till ten o'clock I wasn't certain outside the door a branch of holly- est. And those events have In every to the rich Italian plain, and these lat- the work was taken of in the fall of of the successful outcome of my ven- hock and the head of a herring. The up by public-spir- ing the roadway, 1915, case been conditioned by the forma- ter are far more charming than the ited citizens, with the result that the thousands of en route to or ture, but when he entered the little idea is that the herring, whose odor tourists, tion and climate of the countries in others. highway, hard-surfaced from Port- from the in room I saw at a glance that his early Is distasteful to the demon, will keep returning expositions which they have occurred. The world land to the Multnomah is new morning attitude toward life had not Are Essentially Different. the evil one from entering the house, county line, California, inspected the high- scene of warfare has become real to for the tourist off. He was and that if he succeeds in he ready and represents way and marveled at its beauties. yet worn kind, courteous, In ancient the north of entering us through the many detailed accounts days region an investment in of a gentlemanly, and I shall remember will be blinded by the beans. Each road-building Model in Road Construction. printed by the newspapers and the the Alps was mainly a dense forest. sum exceeding as to his motto. of the household takes as $2,000,000. The River is one him living up has been the member Columbia highway memory of what has thus been Im- South of them always In making passable the for But would It work under all condi- many beans as he has years, and gorge of the best illustrations of modern pressed upon us will not soon pass open fertile Italian plain. The winds there has been isn't throws them in all directions and automobiles, opened road construction to be found any- tions? I'd hate to say that it from the north were and iq away. dry cold; up a new viewpoint for the scenic true—the statement that if you're all the rooms of his house. where. Permanency, grade, location Nothing was further removed from those from the south warm and laden beauties of the Columbia river. For the essential ele- pleasant until ten o'clock the rest of moisture. Thus nature It was about 1,200 years ago, dur- and drainage were the minds of most peace-time tourists with fertilizing miles are waterfalls and cliffs, virgin ments considered in the location of the day will take care of itself—be- a different atmos- ing the reign of the Emperor Monbu In their wanderings than to look at the herself imposed forests which the through highway the With a width of 24 cause the man who said it is gone, and these two sundered re- that the first ceremony of demon re- highway. feet, countries through which they passed phere upon winds. In many places it hangs to can't argue the question with me, but was held in Japan. Adopting a maximum radius of 200 feet, bridges, as likely In their own day to be devas- gions; and though now, on both sides, moving the cliffs hundreds of feet above the of all dan- I can say that maybe he hadn't tried the forests have been driven aloft and the rite from China, the emperor in- viaducts, culverts concrete, tated by war. Occasionally one be- river, its concrete and steel bridges It out in ail trades. Tako housekeep- for It have been it with the object of stamp- ger points protected by stone and con- comes conscious of the existence of the lands suitable corporated turbulent house- spanning streams, supported crete the in ing, for instance! Nearly any forts in recondite but tamed beneath the plow, the essential ing out au epidemic that raged walls, highway, engineer- lofty positions, by artistic walls of dry masonry for keeper can bo pleasant until ten difference abides. Fertile climbs the land. ing and construction now presents these he was not permitted to ap- Italy throughout miles of its length. the of modern road- o’clock, for it Is after that time when and seldom aloft from one strenuous Ger- The recent modern celebration was very highest type proach wanted to. If he side; The was the home of Indian Who ever gorge There were things begin to happen. crossed the Brenner by railway from many from the other. The very do- like this: Toward evening house- building. many engineer- tribes in the early days, a fastness the heard of dinner burning before 10 a. Innsbruck to mestic architecture the dif- wives become for the ing problems presented, such as Italy he could scarcely proclaims busy preparing where were safe from to they enemies. from Crown Point to Latour- m ? Agents don't usually begin avoid the fortifications of ference. The Italian valleys of the beans are in descent noticing celebration; crackling was the scene of the fabled It Bridge a of 500 feet in less than ring the doorbell until about that be are old friends of the sun and of and are for elle, drop Franzensfeste, but why they should Alps kettles feasts prepared of the and around its scenic calls be- Gods, two within the maxi- time. Usually the telephone there and what were to the vine. Bacchus and Pan are there the and the Mean- miles, yet keeping they expected family god family. Indian fables were grandeur many mum of 5 cent. This was gin to come in after ten, notifying you attain—as to all that the mere tourist at home. seem to open to the the grade per They while husbands clean the shrine, drawn. Crown Point the Leaving done a of switchback that you must make your number of little and cared less. For no visitor a warm heart. Even where the by sort making thought light the sacred lights and burn in- enters the district which has church calls get some- highway a perfect figure 8, the road paralleling Immediately, landscape In the world Is less sugges- lemon cannot bloom the scent of It cense, while awaiting the beans and given it the title, "The Road of the Itself five miles fur- one to help with your table at the next tive of war than a mountain seems to penetrate.

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