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The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
By GEORGE L. LOUIS.

The bumor and story element Of tbs err
sode prompted .he telegraph operator to
write a story with this as Its plot. Its ac-
ceptance and a ruSsequent small check were
incentives to further effort In this direc.ion.
For three years he used his "by-product
!" side money" time In this way. Now ne
Is writer with princeiy income. whote
stories are universally read and enjoyed.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
Make q Graceful Exit.

Then Hendrickson tried to nnd work He
got something to do. partly on the strength
OF his recommendation. but It wasn't what
he wanted. month later he received let
ter from his old boss. In surprise he went
to see him. His former " chief had an Of
FER for him. a splendid offer, too, to take
charge Of small office In another town.
Not much technical knowledge was neces-
sary' and the chief requirements were truth
fulness. honesty. and a love OF hard work.
Hendrickson had all of those points The
chief told Hendrickson that he had hated
to fire him, but that ne couldn't use him at
the time. for he couldn't find q place for
him, but he had kept him in mind. One rea-
son why he had received the new offer was
because he had made a "' graceful exit"
1t isn't hard to do. to make a graceful
exit" 1t is just being a gentleman at the
hardest time. when everything seems to 20
wrong and when it doesn't seem to pay to be
gentlemanly. But it does. II you are fired.
don't lose hope. There are lot of other good
Jobs and you are as likely as any one else
to land them. But start before you leave the
old job by making graceful exit"
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22

ne had been before. wrote asking for ref
erence. The old employer. who had liked
Williams personally until he found out about
that last weeks work. would have given a
good reference II he could. But he didn't
He was angry and showed It Williams didn't
get the new Job. and It was a couple of months
before he landed anything.
Hendrtckson was fred. too. He had had
Job that he was not capable OF holding It
was technical Job. and Hendrickson had
not had SUFFICIENT technical training When
he was fired he was sorry, OF course, but he
didn't feel core " at the mar, higher up.
He had been given two weeks notice. He
did his work as well as he could those last
two weeks and when the new man came on
he assisted him with the work until he could
step right into the Job.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22

~ UCCESSFUL business life depends on
the achievements Of a few brilliant
master minds who plan and direct
and the general competency of many
comprising the rank and file. The
spirit Of the hour is efficiency and 1t should
be applied to the Thousands who do the work
as well as to those who plan A general
can't depend upon q poor army.
Touns men should understand in the be-
ginning that success In life does not mean
money accumulation or success in busi-
ness. Success lies in what you are, not
who you are or what you've got. You have
achieved success II you are gentlemen.
In a business career it il important that
you should start right Some are forever
starting and never finishing. An employer
looking over the history Of an applicant will
learn that he has worked a month in this
place and another month in that and two
months in some other place. A six months
record Of employment Is unusual. You can't
earn your way shifting about. Find the
work you are fitted for and stick to It.
Choose House with Right Methods.
It is important that you go to work for
some house OF character. You can't afford
to work for a house whose methods are not
right and then find out after eight or nine
years that You can't approve those methods.
don't think much of the expressions born
salesman" '' born credit man, or being born
into any other variety OF employment.
Mighty few Of us are born for any par
ticular thing. I believe that a good seller
Of life insurance would make a good sales
man in any line to which he might apply
his capabilities. But you must be salts
nd with your work. so select good house,
something you think you are fitted for
and stick. 1t is important to stick, for It
must be said in the end that promotions
usually come from length Of service
What does the business world expect Of a
young man who seeks employment? 1t ex-
poets little. but it hopes for much. 1t
has greater hope that you will prove COM
petent than you have yourself. Don't for
get when you apply for a Job as stock boy
that you are putting in an application for
the best position in the house some time,
for 1t follows that you are a possibility for
a position Of trust and responsibility in the
future.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
Couldn't Get Recommendation.

The new man was competent fellow. He
spent weeks of hard work Strengthening
things out He didn't want to complain. but
several times he was compelled to ask the
boss about things, and then the boss found
out about Williams and how he "balled
things up"
Then Williams got chance at another job.
1t was work that he was capable of doing.
His prospective employer, knowing where
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
Your Future and Ideal Are One;
Try to Make Most of Yourself.
Bv S. MADDOCKS.
By C.. S. MADDOCKS.

uE uyora :. $u,u-is, has he~onA a hy.
- tn. ,sc,urss tbs, IN. fu-
turists have presented to us a re mostly
r,6tc,,Ious and utr,h provobdng. II
has hesn said that tbese artists are
futurfsts becap.e tb.y are failures. Perhaps
This "a tru. n.rhans n t.no, Pres.nt tudg.
mani. are ortar rsx,er..d in q short number
of years DirnIy nsrbsps for who really
krovs-tbsse man are leading in . rnodern
f6sa in a time that believes itself TO be til a
most rnodsrn Of am. Motto, however
that our presumntton that we are the most
modern ha. onlv one sure base-that is. wa
ara latest IN IN. ,Ie. Of tine
b..- r.o.,,,x, ,.,d chs, Alfred a.-r-
hard Nobel. the Norwegian maker OF dy.
nar,.. vho GOV. The e,sst bnIt q, hys
wealth to benett mankind through the offer
i,g ., rr,zss FOR The noh,s.t AZ scoor,nl,sh-
nents In several lines. ia the first pnfIan-
,h-o-,s, rso h.. s..,rs-, 70 bsn.f, ths fo-.-
r,..- -, 49,. 80 a.. wall ,b. ,...,rS
and who has seen that in benenting them he
would bepeft all the rest" Others have
left money to care for the poor, the sick. the
defecuye, He gave money to the most eff
cient 10 encourage them in their great work.
TO help them to work out their ideals to
make a nobler future not only for them
selves bur for the whole world, and he wished
these prizes 10 be distributed REGARDLESS Of
nationality
This phiianthropist died in 1895 By his will
his fortune was divided into ffve parts. This
money was left to those who " shall have
made the several discoveries he mentions.
Notice that this expression is in the future
tense.
Outside of natural phenomena, all that is
noble that exists in the world today was
once in the future All that we work for to-
csy Is in the future. A man recently talked
a whole long book full Of talk in order to
define the word ideal, while French philos-
opher has just said that the ideal is nothing
less than the future itself. All the life that
remains to US from this minute must be
future life. yet man never really gets into a
future unless he gets beyond the present In
something else than time. in something else
that is wholly dependent on what his IDEAL is.
s.
Man Must Have an Ideal.
Everyman-even the most despondent-has
some prophetic vision Of an existence better
than that Of the present. Seeing that better
thing ahead Of him, IL he has any will, any
energy, he is bound to work for 1t. Since he
realizes that 1t is better than the present
he must II he is a reasonable creature. real
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
How to Win Nobel Prize.

Through long and patient, IL not painful
hours, the men who win the Nobel prizes
make the wonderful future for themselves
that the winning means-honor and esteem
and the recognition Of the whole world He
shall have, because he shall have made" /"
as the conditions read: One share to tie
person who shall have made the most i'm
portant discovery or invention in the domain
Of physics; one share to the person who shall
have made the most important chemical dis
covery or Improvement; one share to the
person who shall have made the most i'm
Dor ant discovery in the domain of physiol-
ogy or medicines one share to the person who
shall have produced In the field Of literature
the most distinguished work Of an i6ealist
tendency; and. finally. one share to the per-
son who shall have most or best promoted. the
fraternity Of nations and the abolition or
elimination of standing armies and the forma-
tion and increase Of peace congresses
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
Good Workers
the Great Need
By T. S. WINSLOW.

E: ::=:
ing to do good work because you
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22

pull a struggling idea out Of his mind. Men
will. resist bodily WEAKNESS hour after hour,
but the moment the mind Ii weary over q
task. even though deliberately SET they
give up. But pulled out Of the mind ideas
must be, even though the process be as slow
as that of cutting a figure out Of marble.
The young artist cannot with his pencil or
charcoal make a finished drawing. 1t Is
considered mistake for him to try TO do So
But the lines he made with dificulty and but
poorly the first time. he makes better and
with greater ease the second time. leaving
him an excess OF energy with which to do a
little more. His hand has gained by doing
HIS eye sees a little more certainly what
his hand must execute. His vision is not
only more explicit. It is larger, and as he
sees more he tries to draw more.
q +
Ocu1ist Ruined Many Eyes.
Repeated actions. plus little that is new.
not only develop an ease In work which IN
creases tnsensibly, but augments his power
Of doing until one day the great piece OF
work Is done We have an ugly but vivid
illustration of this fact in the statement that
the great oculist ruined a bushel Of eyes 10
become what he is. thing which may not
be true OF the new oculist Each little ad-
vance, each little victory made by man.
whether it be OF hand or brain. consolidates
what has been previously gained. and gives
power and ease for new and great accom-
plishments.
A French philosopher has recently COM
pared the results Of repeated actions TO a
matrix. something productive Of the hap
piest OF consequences. There is both a good
and bad suggestion in this. II We can make
a thing 30 intangible as the will into some
thing that will always produce a certain form.
at eommand-wella and good. but men often be-
come discouraged producing the same thing
over and over. A man doing the same thing
over and over has no future to live in except
in his Dreams
man OF real and genuine capacity Is
deeply unhappy and deeply dissatisfied II
circumstances reduce him to an automaton.
But more dissatisfied yet are the people who
never go to the place Of even that low kind of
success which comes to the man who has
gone so far as to perfect a matrix in which
he makes the selfsame images, to be sure.
but images that have a perfection Of their
own, even though It be OF a low sort.
The only thing that saves the reason Of a
man who has not disciplined himself, who
has made no future for himself, since he will
always be just as he Is today, no matter how
many years pass over his head Is usually
and often his colossal conceit; for often as
a mans will fills less and less part of him,
instead OF greater and greater, conceit
rushes in to take it's place-mercifully for the
man. but unhappily for the world
u
The Washington herald., 1913-06-22
Clerks May Be
Too Technical.
By c. R. COOPER.

n NEW neid in commercialism recently
~ began in a western city when one Of
- the largest concerns OF the town de-
\ cided to instiu into its institution
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21
SWAT THE FLY THE RIGHT Way

The iavorite breeding place
of flies is the manure pile; the
great majority Of these pesky,
dangerous insects come into life
in our stable wastes.
Until recently there was no
simple, efficient and inexpensive
method known whereby maggot
life (the early stage OF fly liie)
could be destroyed in manure
without injuring the fertilizing
value of the manure.
Paris green in watery solution,
| pound to 20 gallons OF water
appears to be the solution OF the
problem. IL proves to be highly
efficient rs maggot killer, it is
easy oi application, comparative.
ly inexpensive and, in mega
tive way, increases rather than
diminishes the fertilizing quail.
ties OF the manure.
Take Il common garden water
ing can, ill it with water, add
IA teaspoonful of Paris green and
stir until dissolved. Use this
daily on the fresh manure and
you will swat the fly in the most
effective way.
This weak solution is not
dangerous to stock; they would
have to eat large quantities of
he bedding to be affected.
A can of this solution should |
Dc kept in every barn. Label
I "poison."
It's all very fine to go away
or rest and recreation-but it's
mighty unpleasant to return
'ome with typhoid fever and
egrets, Many do, None should.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21

There are several young boys
around town, belonging to good
families, people who are well
able to buy them what they
need, who persist in destroying
fruit and other things around
town, One family that has
been prosecuted to the limit by
petty thievery and vandalism
has determined to stop it and
will have the youngsters arrest
ed and prosecuted. They have
gone into the yard and stolen
apples by the sack and basket
full and the same with green
grapes that they could not pos
sibly use. II you do not abso-
lutely know that your boy is
above such acts do not be sur
prised to find him locked up
and a fine assessed against him.
The boys are known to the
people they are stealing from.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21

lie. There was an individual
here last week who introduced
himself as Owen Wister, the
novelist who wrote The Virgin
ian and other popular books
and on the strength of it got
many free drinks. There is a
merchant here who has met
Wister several times and knows
him fairly well, so the story Of
the false one was soon exploded.
Near Weiser is a man who
claims to be Death Valley Scotty,
an individual who was in the
public eye about five or six years
ago, hiring special trains over
the Santa Fe and flashing thous-
and dollar bills over bars. He
claimed that he had mines OF
wonderful richness near the
head Of Death Valley, but when
the high grading in the mills
and mines OF Southern Nevada
was stopped Scotty failed to
bring out any more wealth. He
was never known to make a
shipment of ore or nuggets.
The man near Weiser does not
furnish a very accurate descrip-
ton of Death Valley and is n
much smaller man than the or
iginal, but he probably thinks
he is far enough away from Me-
vada to get away with that story.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21

Sixty carloads OF hogs, bring
ing to the community over
100000 have been shipped
from Parma during the past
twelve months. The number OF
hogs Oh the ranches in that sec.
tion at the present time is twice
what il was a year ago and it is
conservatively estimated that
the shipments from that point
in the next year will aggregate
in value $250,000. The hog
was introduced to make home
market for the hay and grain
raised.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21
Notice to Taxpayers.

Notice is hereby given, that
the board OF Equalization, OF
Malheur County Oregon, will
meet at the Court House in
Vale, on Second Monday, being
the Sth day OF September, 1913.
for the purpose of Examining
and Equalizing the Assessment
Rolls, OF Malheur County for the
year OF 1913.
Louis +, Hill,
County Assessor.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21

There is little actual news a
this season, so the space writers
are compelled to resort tc
politics to I'LL in space for theil
meal ticket. The Bull Mooser's
are on the job OF advertising
themselves and showing up tn,
weak spots in the administration
and some OF the old stand. pat
leaders are putting out ieelors
to find out just where the pub
lie is, but the public is also
quiet and there is no headway
being made toward reorganiza.
tion. The tariff bill being
framed by the administration is
going to be the most unpopular
measure ever forced on the
people and when il is all fixed
up and presented for the
guidance OF the public will be
the proper time for the leaders
to get together and frame u bill
that will give all classes and
sections equal protection, the
farmer as well as the manuiac-
turer, and it will be no trouble
to get the majority OF the
American people to support a
good man on that platform.
The present bill gives the Cana.
dlans many moro advantages
than the reciprocity bill OF the
TAFT administration, which was
so unpopular and it exacts
nothing from the Canadians,
purely one sided affair and
other nations are treated with
equal consideration, at the ex-
pense OF the American public. |
Pinchot and Roosevelt are doing
much advertising to keep their
names before the public, but
they will hardly be able TO fool
the people again, even ii they
have the money OF the Harvester
and Steel trusts back OF them.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21
CORVALLIS NAN IS CALLED
TO INVESTIGATE FIRE BLIGHT

IL. s, jackson, who is in charge Of
plant pathology at the Corvallis col
lege. was called To Brogan TO inyesti-
gate some tire blisht that has appeared
in some of the orchards. lie says
that the blight is germ disease aud
that the diseased part should he cut
sway aud sdsstroyod aud spray of
corrosive sublimate, one part 20 1000
Of water, used. The use Of kerosene
does no good, The blight usually
appears where the growth OF the tree
has been forced aud weakened.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21
Train Service.

West bound.
No. IL Oregon Wash Ltd Bad N
No. rs Huntington Pass 9.40 m
No. Fast Mail 6:l5 p m
No II Huntington Pass 6:33 p m
No. Oregon Wash Express 6 $50 p m
East bound.
No. Is Oregon Wash Ltd 2:51 m
No. 76 Boise passenger $3.50 a m
No. 6 Fast Mail :57 m
No. 78 Boise passenger $3.50 p IN
No. 10 Oregon Wash Express 4 40 p m
Vale train leaves at 9:40 a. m. re.
turning at 3:30 p. m.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21

There seem to be a number of
men in this section who believe
they can tell most any kind OF
a story about their past and get
away with it, but there are men
here who have in most sections
and when one of these roman.
GERS tries to slip one over it
does not take long TO nail the
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-21
Local News

We have recently added to
our stock Of variety goods large
line OF laces, embroideries, ladies
neckwear and stamped embroid-
cry patterns. Look our line
over at the Cash Variety Store.
A. p. Jarvis returned last
week from trip to Meadows,
Mccall, Cambridge and Ontario,
Oregon, where he went to size
up the business outlook. "Pap"
had his billiard and pool hall
burned out in the recent fire
here, and not finding a desir-
able location to resume busi-
ness, has about decided to loc-
ate at Ontario, where be has a
deal on a pool room. His any
friends in Grangeville will re-
gret to see him and Mrs. Jarvis
leave here, should they finally
decide to do so.-Grangeville
Globe.
Mrs. Louis Hurtle was a Pay
ette visitor Saturday.
Mrs. Thomas Jones and
daughter, Maurine, Of Vale, re.
turned to their home from Star
key on Friday.
Lockett Griffin, formerly OF
this city but now OF Shoshone.
was here on a visit last week.
A. A. Hall made a business
trip to Vale on Saturday.
Mrs. Ben Brown and children,
OF Vale, came down Sunday for
a visit with friends and rela.
tives.
Mrs. +. O'Conner was a Vale
visitor Sunday.
Miss Harriet Huffman, came
home Sunday from Baker, and
will visit couple OF weeks be-
fore returning to school in the
city.
w. ii. Doolittle returned Sun
day from two weeks vacation
at Ketchnm, Idaho. He re-
ports catching many large trout
as fishing was unusually fine.
o. IL. Lawson, formerly of
this city but now OF Parma, was
here Friday on business.
Henry Blackwell made trip
to New Meadows last Saturday.
Rev. Johns will leave Mon
day morning for the conference
at LaGrande. A petition
has been sent in from the mem.
bers OF the church here to have
him sent back for another year
Us he is very popular and sue.
,essiul in this field.
Miss Leila Jones, who has
been spending her vacation at
'tarkey, returned to her home
n Vale last Saturday.
Mrs. Robert Odell left last
friday evening for Prineville, |
where she was called by the ser
Gus illness OF her mother.
That Oregon pears are meet.
ng with an enthusiastic wei
ome in Eastern markets is in
Heated by the sale of 10 cars of /
Rogue River Bartletts at the
'est price received since 1907
2 per box f, D, b. Mediord. |
'robably the highest price ever
eceiyed for pears in quantity
'as that paid to Medford /
rover in 1910, when car
'ad OF Anioy pears brought a
)taI of xo Dos 90 IN the orowar
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16
Denied Health; Wins Fame
Gibbons s9Rise and Fail of Roman
Empire Written During IS
Years of Suffering.
By Madison c. Peters

II DWARD Gibbon, author of The
Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire" was the son of a small
consumptive, and only for the extreme
care of Catherine Powers. his mothers
sister, he would have died in infancy.
He was so weak and puny as a child
that he could not be taken out of doors,
and he became a chronic invalid. He
was born April p, 1877, at Putney,
county of Surrey. England, in an un-
healthy neighborhood, which contrib
uted to the general illness of the
family.
Gibbons father was N fairly com
Portable circumstances, and was for
several years in Parliament, as an op
ponent OF WalpOle, but he was seldom
in his seat owing to his lung troubles.
Unable to ATTEND school.
Edward was sent to Westminster
school, but too frail to stand the wear
and tear OF school life, he was brought
home and cared for in the nursery. his
aunt teaching him. He entered Mag
dala college, Oxford, but here too the
routine OF the place proved too much
for his frail body and he had to be
Withdrawn Too sick even to take eX-
ercise he spent most Of his time read
ing, especially history, growing very
fond of BOssUets controversial writ
ings he astonished his family by the
declaration and intention to become a
Catholic. As his parents were of the
stern school Of CalTinism, the sick boy
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-16

, have cost an average of so human lives
per aunum In 1910, owing to a great
catastrophe in Montana and Idaho. the
death list ran well up into the hun
dreds
vast Area Destroyed Annually.
The forest area annually burned over
in the United States averages about
1865 square miles. Up to the present
time, according to official figures, we
sawed up" That is to say, in the last
century as much Of our natural wealth
in the shape Of trees has been thrown
to the flames as has been utilized for
all purposes. including building, fire
wood cooperage, pulp, and everything
else.
When Clifford Pinchot, ex-forester in
chief of the government. was in Europe
recently he came across a party or
students Of forestry, who were being
taken by their instructor to see most
interesting phenomenon. The curiosity
was a patch Of a few acres of wood
land which had been burned Is years
ago. 1t afforded 8. rare chance to see
the effects of a fire in a forest.
Why Forests Burn.
Why do forests buTn2 The answer
is, because there is lack of men and
lack of fire fighting outfit and faciIi-
ties. Congress has persistently refused
to give the money needed for the pur-
pose
Consequently, the forest service finds
itself in a position like that of a munni-
cipal fire department which is obliged
to protect a city with a village out
fit It is as if New York or Chicago
were so handicapped by lack of horses
and proper apparatus that the firemen
could not arrive on the scene of a. blaze