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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-12-10

The HiIdebrand farm a mile and a
aaif north OF Alta was sold for $225
an acre. II was the top price for
the community
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18
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A Mild Protest
Il don't quito SEQ the point OF
that remark OF yours" said Mr.
skinner, the grocer. as he tied up
tho package OF sugar.
What remark was that7" asked
the customer.
You Just remarked that some
men had an off-hand way OF doing
things. And you wished was
one"
Yes: wished 20 remind you
that your hand was on the sugar
when you weighed H."
The Opposite
Are you saving up something
for a rainy day7"
NO" replied Farmer Corntossel.
What we're troubled with out this
way IL an annual drought II We
had moro rainy days everybody
would have money"
Pet Names
Al home often have 20 slap
Ny ssuoy younger brother.
think III call him One Good Turn,
For no always deserves another.
My dentist cures my aching Jaws.
NY teeth he ysnks or fills.
I call him "poy Scout" Just because
He dearly loves hls drills.
An OenaaIonaI VIaltor
A notable housekeeper OF the
past generation. before the days OF
screens, had Just announced that
she never had any flies.
But. Aunt Augusta" faltered
the umid visitor. 1T seems to me
that ! saw a few in the dining
ROOM"
"oh, those,- replied her aunt,
with majestic wave OF tho hand,
were the neighbors' flies. They
come IN occasionally. But, MS |
was saying. we never have any OF
our own"
DellberatIng.
Mrs. Crawford-Why don't you
ask your husbands advicep
Mrs Crabshaw-I intend 10. my
dear. just ms soon as I've made up
my mind what I'll do.
Conserving Him.
Dudley Ia on the boom! The new
policeman was on duty Saturday
and the mayor deputized Andrew
Hargrave to put him In the new
guardhouse for safe keeping
Mount Olive IN. c. Tribune.
Suspicious.
What makes you think the new
soprano won't dot At first you
said her voice was good"
Il know did. but mono OF the
other sopranos seem TO be Jealous
OF her"
The Music Of the Road.
Along the road / hear
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

been made to provide for increased employment. moro
trade for the butcher baker and clothing maker easing
OF the strain for all.
The banking system which has just become op-
eratve has appreciaby relaxed the money tension bat
II has taught, and IL alone will not teach John Smith,
thrifty wage with few dollars of savings. where
how invest his little egg TO the best advantage
1t Is we'll that he-it Is not well that any OF
should learn gamble Most OF will have the
special knowledge OF financial conditions make keen
deectors OF good from questionable worthless mis-
eellaueous Securities"
Yet with the big destroying for generations
former chance to get working capital from Europe for
the business needs OF America and with the increasing
necessity therefore OF finding this capital among
people to have the prosperity which need
becomes doubly important that the savings OF John OF
Johns grown and daughters. and all of their kind
should be coaxed into activity. without however sub
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

jecting John the others to undue risks.
Can this be donef
IL has been done in France. When the German
legions of Bismarck in 1870 crushed the armies OF Ma
poeon III. and levied a indemnity OF 81 0O0O00OOO
Il was paddy whoml Not by the rich and mighty Of
France but by the small farmers the peasants the toers
for humble wages.
From a million unexpected sources in small amounts
representing the hidden of lifetime OF thrift there
poured forth stream OF wealth in aggregate large
that il treated the Iron Chancellor the surprise OF his
life
Today great proportion of the bonds which have
helped make Paris the wonder city Of the world
owned by the walters. mliners and shop and factory
workers OF Paris and OF France So this that they
have come TO be known among disgrunted bankers
"servant-grl bonds"
They aren't issued in big. almost prohibtve, denom-
nations, be sold wholesale privileged bankers
thence to be reailed at profit to the public They
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

WE HAPPEN think OF two places in particular wnere
w Santa Claus is going to have busy time
Since Henry Ford his melon for labor year ago.
the men in employ have been sailing savings at the rate
OF nearly $50 month.
Maybe that won't lot OF happiness among sew
<ral thousand Detroit kddes on Christmas morning.
OF course the circle doesn't end there.
Those S5aday Ford last year contracted Tor homes
81 their own worth 100000 and actually paid SlzOoOoo
account.
Which means lot OF work for masons, carpenters,
Numbers etc and work. too for old Santa Christ
=.
The other pIacewoud you guess tits in the big
prison Sing Sing
Now that Tom Osborne has been made its warden the
men have been their honor and are
free to- receive visitors Sundays and holidays
Think OF t-theyrc last to be treated not as beasts
but as human beings they're have chance TO start over
again.
Santa very much fault if he doesn't remember
Sing Sing.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18
How TO Get Working Capital for the Public Business Needs

In amounts as low as $40 and buyabe in any number
"over the counter" first come, first served
There distinct advantages connected with NUM-
cpal bond with a county state bond Generally speak
ing the investment is safe Cities counties and states 90
not bankrupt or default their debts
Then too. if you city bondholder, you become
unusually interested in how the city is runs tonic Tor
civic carelessness, popular bond issues are fine.
The thing has been tried in a small WY, in Seattle.
II should be tried frequently and larger scale
BY letting the people buy public bonds directly, you
provide incentive for the habit of saving; you let
citizenship in the ground floor; you insure against
speculative teups Of public improvements and you tree
the bankers to give attention 70 the tremendous
needs OF commerce. task for which the banking
system has greatly strengthened them and in which they
have ample opportunity for profit
Let the John Smiths of America therefore provide
the working capital OF the future but pay them for by
giving them interest rates. all that the money worth
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18
ORDER NOT A Union

Editor The Star: read in your
paper n letter written by an EN-.
ploye OF the 8. r.. Co.. stating the
8. II. Co. had discharged 40 mon.
giving them no reason why they
we're discharged.
As | am one OF the 40 fired. ]
want to state that since then the Of
ficials OF the 8. Y. Co. have given
the reason as being the Joining OF
the Order OF Railway Employees.
am member OF the order OF
Railway Employees. and have been
for the past three ,yeara and wish
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

THE time of greatest business depression In one
"A of our largest industrial communities. when the
working force in the mills had been cut to 40 per cent OF
normal the savings in the banks showed an
actual gain the average in prosperous times
This money lying inactive in the banks at be
tween and per interest AT the same time I'M
poant public improvements, city, county and state were
being held up for lack of capital"
Inquiry brought that much OF these savings had
been banked because the did not feel equal 20
making personal investments They their friends had
been so often stung that they preferred low bank IN
tcres with promise of safety. higher interest with
feeling of risk.
II needs no argument TO establish that such a
don is bad for everybody 1t of little advantage
10 the banks for they using the money IL hurt
the business activity of the community which depends on
active not passive dollars Had there been chances for
safe investment at fair return this money could have
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

to state that the Order OF Railway
Employees 10 not labor organiza.
ton. az tho officials OF the s.. E.
Co. claim. but Is a fraternal society
for railway men and by railway
men. paying an accident. sick and
a death benefit.
ONE OF THE FIRED FORTY.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18
Sounds as If 1t Was

m HE original Gardner resolution for special committee
on investigation Of army and navy quiet courteous
modest gentemanly little compared the present
universal the army and navy wasn't it, Woodrow
When going into hollow log for yelow-ackets' nest,
always back in
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18
Knocking Seattle

TN pamphlet the country, advertising the
advantages Seattle the Chamber of Commerce has the
following paragraph under the head City Of Cheap Power
The mountain supply Seattle with abundance
Of cold pure drinking Harnessed the waterfalls give
Seattle cheap light and manufacturing power Coming as
praise does from conservative body as the Seattle
Chamber OF Commerce municipal ownership OF the water and
light plants fairly be assumed have made good abso
lutey who knocking the light and the water
plants knocking the city itself They Seacs enc
mics who endeavong give the city black without
Justification
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

President will reconsider pardon
OF w. Burt Brown. former secretary
OF iron workers. convicted In "dyna-
mite conspiracy" case.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

THE INTERNATIONAL Sunday School assoca-
ton plans to Bible every soldier OF the war
ring armies See Exodus XXX Is: Thou shalt no, kill
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

LUMBER MANUFACTURES says the aeerer should bear .ne
nothing surel Let the
crippled
ders actual money 80 tnat sn
fat and permit the employers 70 u
fine alaees and abroad
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

ITO CURE COLD: Throw the cough medicine
out the window and let fresh air in remarks DR. Harvey
w Wiley You said something doc
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

popular habit as ever WAS seeodn
which made things lively In downtown ssAs
oiuh
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

CAPT whole afternoon fishing IN Elliott bay arc
counterfeit money mat doesnt msAn "'"ese ~ VIZ
seattle hartor isn't goods.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

WHY is it we slip dime to the fellow in summer
suit who trembling tells he's Of work and lend
SIS to the wedressed fellow who laughs he tells
the boss fired him for being stewed'
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

The Vfgn .s;:s:. ;::: II. S (: 6:
hotel ::..: Il: !. ',.' T: '' 90 Il
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18
Just as of Old

ETROGRAD strategists already dscounting the Rus
sian evacuation OF Warsaw saying that the lombard
cnt Of cities has tendency demoralze armies, any
how
Napoleon proved that the Russians greatest
earth take licking and still look pleasant History
often repeats itself.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

m ODAY ZOO German sailors, who were TO days ago ceI-
ebrating victory the dead sailors OF the British
cruiser Good Hope al the bottom OF the
Such is Yesterday, you hero. Today you're
ghost And IL you're neither hero ghost in particular
world will hear Of YOU You do the shooting and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

"HUNTSMAN, spare that skunk" say
States bureau of biology. "The polecat
useful of mammals; he destroys the catcrpil
Dor, we prefer the caterpillar
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18

The Music Of the Road.
Along the road / hear
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21
THIS MA Y ENTERTAIN
BREAD AND BUTTER AND MEAT

Bread and butter and meat,
Sugar and milk and clothes
Tides Of toilers filling the street,
This is the way life goes.
Grind and gather and keep,
Grieve and barter and trade
a little song and a little sleep
And a heart that is unafraid.
Bread and butter and meat,
Needles and thread and clothes
Labor swinging on weary feet,
Dreaming the dream OF rose.
Rent and butter and bread,
The ache Of the never done.
YEARLY weaving the thread
Where the spindles wearily run.
Bread and butter and meat.
Care and burden and woe
Bitter and hard and sweet,
Hope and the will to go.
Then. when we've done our best,
Triumphed and tasted pain;
Then. when our hearts would rest,
Bread and butter again!
Bread and butter and meat.
Pepper and salt and coal
Battle Of hurrying hearts that beat
Under the tides that roll.
Adam began II, and still
over the world II goes
Factory. field or mill,
Song. and the dream Of rose!
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21
ONLY ONE.
The Record in Pendleton Is a Unique
One.

II the reader has a bad back" OF
any kidney ills and is looking for an
effective kidney medicine, better de-
pend on the remedy endorsed by peo-
pie you know. Doan's Kidney Pills
have given great satisfaction in such
cases. Pendleton citizens testify to
this. Here is case Of 1t:
Joseph E. Maggert. s15 Lewis St,
Pendleton, says: II felt quite miser-
able from a dull. dragging backache
caused by heavy lifting A friend said
that perhaps my kidneys were caus-
ing the trouble and told me to try
Doan's Kidney Pills. used three
boxes in all and was completely
cured" Statement given May IL
1900
OVER TWO YEARS LATER Mr.,
Maggert said: "A short time ago
when I again needed a kidney medi-
cine. I took Doan's Kidney Pills and
one box fixed me up in good shape.
Ny health is now excellent"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Maggert had. Foster Milburn
Co. Props, Buffalo, n. Y.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21
Astounding Raid Planned.

ROME, Dec. 1s.-On his arrival at
Rome. Prince Won Buelow. the ex-
Imperial German chancellor. now am
basador TO Italy. was informed Of the
bombardment Of the English coast
by German ships. but showed no sur
prise. He said this achievement had
been arranged prior to his departure
from Berlin and added:
This is simply the prelude to what
the German fleet is soon to undertake.
which may astOnish the world"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
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THE BRorHERLEss SWORD.

= II draws FOR keeps. it strikes I
for blood
. Against the shield OF Brother
hood.
. A relic Of the ancient times. Z,
. II revels in the clang Of 4
y crimes. 4
. The crash, the sting. the foam.
the jar.
= This Damoclesian seimitar,
This motely blade Of venge- 4
ance dire,
y That eats OF wrath and feeds
on fire.
. That hunts the heart its burn
ing breath
= Red with the appetite OF Death.
= II strikes no blow for human
fun,
. 1t wants the shadow, not the
= sun.
. It fights for darkness, not for
. light.
. 1t laughs at talk OF human
right.
. It nouts the creed Of broader Z
. love.
. It courts no truce with twig or
= dove: Z
. Il cleaves straight onward
y through the heart
y OF human things TO play its =
. part
y In rendering in its own crude =
. way =
y OF brutal right the things men =
y pray. =
. Boston Post. =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21

installed in office. The ceremonies
Intentionally were made imposing
as a means OF impressing the native
population.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21
Ncm snItan Installed

CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 1s.-Prince
Hussien Kemal. named by the Brit
ish on Friday as the new sultan Of
Egypt was formally and elaborately
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21

erica and will give us a merchant
marine one OF the measures complain
ed about?
Is our president hurting business
when ne turns his back firmly on jim
soistc elamor and insists this com
try shall keep out Of war thus re-
naming in the ways OF peace and
Industry and saving our commercial
life from paralysis and ruin?
The howl about the government
hurting business is becoming an awful
chestnut. The government OF this
country has never hurt big business
one thousandth part as much as big
business has hurt our government II
the captains OF industry with their
lawyers and their bootwiping news
papers and their political manipula-
tors and their legislative boodlers
would so sit down for a few months
this country would make great ad.
vancement.
A dictum attributed TO one famous
physician. DR.. osler. was that by the
time a man was 40
Fifteen More years Of age he had
Years OF Life. attained such success
as he would attain
In life and that at 60 a man should
be chloroformed.
However. that was some years ago
Now comes another famous physici-
an, Dr. Victor c. Vaughan, president
Of the American Medical Association.
to give US sciences latest deductions
as to potential possibilities Of those
who are no longer young men.
Age as expressed in terms Of years
does not mean at all what it used to
mean. says DR.. Vaughan The aver
age length OF life has increased. A
man now is as young. has as many
possibilities before him at so as his
father had at IS.
Doubtless the osler theorem ex-
pressed a truth. Being. however.
based on the experience OF former
years. it does not fit present conditi-
ons with exactness. and to be brought
up to date requires some slight modi-
fication to adjust It in conformity with
the data on what the Vaughan theo-
rem is based. Making the changed
needful to fit the new terms in which
age is expressed. it appears that the
man who has not by the time he is
55 years old-formerly it was 40
years old-made a success Of life.
never will make a success. And the
age at which chloroform must be or
iered is IS, not 60.
Il is a pleasant thought that the I
man Of 35-new reckoning-has now
adays all the experience, the sound
judgment. the wise maturity Of the |
man Of so. With this great advant-
age. why should not he make a sue
cess OF his life. especially as he has
many more years in which to win
success than his father had?
We not only have a better equip
ment than men used to have. but
things have been showed along so as
10 give US at the time when men are
At the fullness OF their power Is
more years in which to do our work.
What use are you going to make of
.hese is years?-st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21

NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-The Green
point section Of Brooklyn boasts Of a
priest who thinks as much Of pre-
serving the body Of man as he does OF
saving his soul. Rev F. J. Dillon.
who Is connected with the Church OF
st. Anthony Of Padua takes time
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21

from his ministerial duties to train the
athletes in his parish. He has organ
lied an athletic branch OF the Knights
Of St Anthony in his church and per-
sonally trains the men how to run,
jump and do other athletic stunts
Father Dillon is himself an athlete Of
no mean ability.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-21

Since the five per cent increase was
allowed the eastern railroads some big
orders for steel have
IL Should been placed and il Is
Help Locally. evidently the purpose
OF the roads TO abate
to an extent at least their policy OF
making no Improvements. That the
decision viii hasten the completion of
the Coyote cutoff and the establish
ment OF the freight terminal here l.
reasonable TO suppose. The railroad
situation is improved both from a fl
nancial standpoint and from the
standpoint Of profit making. 1t will
be natural IL the cutoff work is fin
ished next spring because the grad
ing is all done and much. II not all
Of the steel. is on hand. When that
work is completed and the terminal
established here there viii be more
prosperity for an already prosperous
Pendleton.
The appeal Of the Associated Char
tiles for funds with which to carry
on the organizations
Help This work here should meet
Work Along. with generous re-
sponse This organi-
zation is proceeding upon sane and
effective lines It is not making the
maximum amount Of noise and doing
the minimum amount Of good. II is
striving TO do the very reverse. 1t
is avoiding all brass band tactics and
is taking steps 10 learn about people
who may be temporarily in distress
and who win appreciate a helping
hand. There are such cases here.
Generally the suffering is among
women and children and quite often
the trouble Is entirely beyond the con-
troll OF those concerned. There should
be help for such people and the work
should be handled tactfully in a spirit
OF human fellowship. Join the or
gsniEation that has been formed and
help the cause along.
S-S~~Oz-S-S$
James J. Hill is again busy saying
the government should leave bust
ness alone. Whenever a
''HnrtIng captain OF industry
Business" wakes up before noon
and the weather is so bad
he cannot play golf he devotes an
hour to complaining that the govern
ment is hurting business and should
stop IT,
How is the government hurting
business? Was the five per cent rate
increase a body blow at the railroads?
Was President Wilson's earnest ef-
forts to avert that threatened strike
last summer an assault on business ?
L. the new currency plan. pronounced
by most everybody as the creates,
constructive achievement FOR business
IN SO years. a menace 70 industry?
Il the proposed shippins bin which |
looks TO building up a profitable bus
iness for this country IN south Ann |
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-04-30

Why should he do that, if miracle is to
turn it into blood?
To sane man it appears as though the
priests take all this trouble about the good
ness Of the wine, because they love to drink
the best wine.
IF what thev drink out Of the cup is Chr1st's
blood, cannot see why they should bother so
much about the q0iae.
Blood is blood: wine is wine: isn't it SO?
Yet the foot-hssers who say they drink
blood, are awfully particular about the wines