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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-12-18
HARD TO RE7RENCH.
Problem That confronts the Ad,,
mlnistration.
Situation Created by Years Of Repub-
lean MisruIe Can Not Easily Be
Met-What Economy Might
B Have Accomplished. 7

We may as well recognize now as at
any etinte. that retrenchment is the
hardest thing. government can ao-
complish. Economy Is easy compared
with retrenchment. They are not in
the larger sense Synonymous terms,
by any means. Economy might have
been practiced in the building UP OF
the pension system, but it was not; re-
trenchment would be to go back over
the job and make it right by purging
the rolls and getting the fingers of
frauds and takers out OF the treasury,
and giving the governments bounty to
the deserving only, but any suggestion
Of that character would never be &C.
ceptable to the Republicans.
Economy might have kept a world
Of unnecessary and indefensible ext
penses out of congress, but retrench-
ment would be to 60 back and abolish
extravaganza, free seeds, mileage
graft, abuse of the Thanking privilege
and others of minor character, But
no Republican would listen to such q
proposition
Economy might have prevented the
packing of the executive departments
with clumsy administrative systems
which necessitate the employment OF
thousands Of clerks that are not really
essential to the public service; re-
trenchment would mean to install COM
nonsense business methods, minus
red tape, and dispense with the serv-
ices Of unneeded employees. No Re-
publican would ever consent to that.
The Republican wants his public
buildings or his river appropriations
Just as the Democrats do, and he will
raise sand unless he gets them.
All this being true. and it likewise
being true that the business of the
government continues to grow as the
population grows, as the business and
industry Of the country grow. naturally
the governments expense will grow.
II the government were not extrava-
CANT in any respect, If its financial
operations were exactly right, every
year would mark some increase Of the
appropriations, because as the country
develops and the population increases
the governmental machinery will have
to increase. Therefore slight in
crease of expense from year to year is
not Objectionable.
What is objectionable are the top
heavy systems, the pension abuses and
the numerous other extravagances
which the Republicans have Installed
and for which the Democratic admins
tration must now provide because Il
cannot at single blow dispense With
them. -
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Political Possibilities.

In view of sufficiently self-evident
facts is not a very considerable flock
ing Of Progressives to President Will
son among the political possibilities
Of the next two years? in connection
with this possibility another thought
suggests itself:
! Has not President Wilson great
opportunity in this situation to gain
useful. and not unneeded, recruits by
somewhat broadening his position and
attitude-by becoming somewhat less
the leader of q partisan organization
and somewhat MORE the representative
of all voters who cherish the wider and
newer thought Of governmental activi-
ties. duties and responsibilities? Mr..
Wilson stands for that thought in the
Democracy. Could he not, and should
he NOT, welcome the ProgressiYes as a
great body Of voters available to sup
port policies on which he and they are
SO largely in agreement?
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Democrats Sustained.

The Republicanism Of protected in
terests and high finance Is entitled to
all the satisfaction 1t can extract from
the fact that the voter has given the
Democracy of Wilson safe working
majority in the house and a quadru-
pied majority in the senate.
In making its appeal to enlightened
public conscience and thought the
craftsmanship and high-minded patri-
otism of Wilson and Bryan need enter
tain no fear of such reactionaries as
Penrose, Cannon, LongWorth, ct 81,
Who are again in evidence.
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It has already been proved that the
United States can withstand the
shock of a foreign war far better than
it can Withstand the devastating as
saults of harmful legislation from with
in our own borders. The firm convic,
ton already held and now REINFORCED
by President Wilson's statement that
these assaults are over is all that
jaded business. required to make it
move onward with a rush.-Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.
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Call for Cooperation.

The way to- bring about good times
Is clear. 1t is necessary, however, for
everybody to cooperate in his
sphere. BY talking good times and
working in that direction the United
States will have the factors of halcyon
prosperity operative when the war
closes.
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Majority Is Large Enough.

The Democrats came out as well in
the congressional elections as they
could reasonably expect in an "of
year." The Democratic majority in
the Sixty-fourth congress is quite
large enough for efficient party
work.
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TO Our Subscribers,

We arc. sending out your subscription
BILL Kindly tend to your subscription
This is the time of the year when they are
welcome and we are contemplating adding
more material, etc. we ask YOU to aid BY
ending IN your Subscriptions promptly.
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Who Wants pianoi

Watch sos our big Piano offer We will
show YOU how YOU can secure $3.50 piano
free. Watch the Star for particulars. Piano
will be or exhibition n Company Store.
for severri days and alsc At C. +, Morlison's
slothing Steye.
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New Fall Suits

and oyercoats are in, also very fine line of
Rain Proof Goats Just the thing for this
weather It will pay you to get acquainted
with the new styles, so we urge you to call
in LEW ANDERSON & sens, Ashland
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TORPOR OF THE TURK.
Shown In Quaint Reason For Not
Delivering a Message.

An interview in the New York Sun
between one of its reporters and Mr..
Bedros Keljik bears humorously on
the Turkish situation and seems to in
dictate that what is needed is not in
creased political activity. but more at
tention to business. AS an illustra-
ton of the everyday torpor one of the
experiences of DR.. Ria Tewfik. mem
Der of parliament for Adrianople, with
a Turkish official may be cited.
DR.. Tewf1k was visiting a friend at
Kade Kony. across the Bosporus,
About 10 o'clock at night he heard
the Waterman call, "Yangin var. Gaia
tada yangin war; t"There is fire. there
is fire in Galatav), the usual alarm
given when fire breaks out in an
quarter.
1t happened that DR.. Tewfik's own
home was in Galata, and he rushed
to the nearest telegraph Office to in
quire concerning the safety of his
family. He received no answer to his
telegram, and his fears were reused.
But as no boats cross the Bosporus at
night he was obliged to wait till morn
ing
He got home at last to find every
thing safe. When he asked why his
family had not answered the telegram
he was told that they had not received
any So DR. Tewfik went to the tele-
graph Office and demanded an explana-
ton.
One Osman Agha. to whom DR. Tew-
6k's telegram had been given for de-
livery, was called.
where is the effendi's telegram"
Osman Agha fumbed in his pockets
and drew forth the message.
why did you not deliver it?' de-
manded DR. Tewfik angrily
"Oh. effendi." answered the imper-
turbable Osman Agha who had evil
IDENTITY perused the telegram to his own
satisfaction. lit was needless. knew
that your house was not ON fire."
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CHAPTER III.
A jungle Battle.

"HE pictures in the books which
Tarzan found in the cabin in
terested him greatly.
There were many apes with
faces similar to his own. and farther
over in the book he found under M
some little monkeys sucn as he saw
daily fitting through the trees of his
primeval forest. But nowhere was pic
tured any of his own people. In all
the book was none that resembled Ker-
chak or Tublat or Kala.
At first be tried to pick the little fig
ures from the paper, but he soon saw
that they were not real, though he
knew not what they. might be, nor had
he any words to describe them.
The boats and trains and cows and
horses were quite meaningless to him,
but not quite SO battling as the odd lit
tie figures which appeared beneath and
between the colored pictures - some
strange kind of bugs he thought they
might be, for many of them had legs,
though nowhere could he find one with
eyes and a mouth. 1t was his first in
PRODUCTION to the letters of the alpha
bet and he was over ten years old.
OF course he had never before seen
| print. or never had spoken with any
living thing which had the remotest
idea that such Il thing as written Ian
guage existed and never had he seen
any one reading.
So what wonder that the little boy
was quite at loss to guess the mean
ing of these strange figures.
Near the back of the book he found
his old enemy. SAILOR, the tiger, and
| just above him. cOiled Mistah. the
snake.
Oh. it was most engrOssing! Never
before in all his ten years had he en-
| joyed anything so much. So absorbed
was he that he did not note the ap
preaching dusk until it was quite upon
him.
He put the book back in the cup
board and closed the door. for he die
not wish any one else to find and de
stroy his treasure, and as he went Ou
into the gathering darkness he CLOSED
the great door of the cabin behind hin
as it had been before he discovered the
secret of its lock. but before he left hi
had noticed the hunting knife lyinl
where he had thrown it upon the floor
and this he picked up and took will
him to show to his fellows.
He had taken scarce dozen step
toward the jungle when a great form
rose up before him from the shadow
of a low bush
At first he thought it was one of hi
own people, but in another instant b
realized that it was huge gorilla.
So close was he that there was n
chance for flight. and little TarZal
. knew that he must stand and fight TO
lis life; for these Great beasts We're tn
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ed Ia discover the Back line It left be,

ed Ia discover tie Back line It left be
hind it.
He worked 50 assiduously with this
new toy that the table top was soon Il
mass of sCrnwly loops and irregular
lines and his pencil point worn down
tn the wood. Then he took another
pencil. but this time he had a definite
object in view.
He would attempt to reproduce some
of the little bugs that scramble over
the pages Of his book
1t was u difficult task. for he held the
pencil rs one would grasp the hilt of
dagger. which does not add greatly to
ease In writing nor to the legibility OF
the results.
But he pcrsevered for months, at
such times as he was able to come to
the cabin, until at last by repeated ex-
perimenting he found position in
which to hold the pencil that best per-
mitted him to guide and control it, so
that at last he could roughly reproduce
any Of the little bugs.
Thus he made beginning at writing.
Copying the bugs taught him an
other thing. their number; and, though
he could not count as we understand
1t. yet he had an idea of quantity. the
base of his calculations being the num-
Der of fingers upon one of his hands.
His search through the various books
convinced him that he had discovered
all the different kinds of bugs most
often repeated in combination. and he
arranged them in proper order with
great ease because of the frequency
with which he had perused the fasci-
mating alphabet picture book and the
huge illustrated dictionary.
BY the time he was seventeen he had
learned to read the simple child's
primer and had fully realized the true
and wonderful purpose of the bugs.
No longer did he feel shame for his
hairless body or his human features,
for now his reason told him that he
was of a different race from his wild
and hairy companions. He was a
MAN." they were APES" and
the little apes which scurried through
lHe forest Top were M-O-4N-N-L-1 %
He knew. too. that old SAILOR was q
''T-I G Err and Histah ''S-N-A-K-E'
and Tantor an "E-L-E-P- H-A-NT."
From then on his progress was rapid
With the help of the great dictionary
and the active Intelligence of healthy
mind endowed by Inheritance with
more than ordinary reasoning powers
! he shrewdly guessed at much which
he could not really understand, and
more often than not his guesses were
| close to the mark of truth.
There were many breaks in his edu
cation, caused by the migratory habits
of his tribe. but even when removed
from recourse to his books his active
brain continued to search out the myS
teries of his fascinating ayocation.
Nor did he neglect the sterner duties
of life while following the bent of his
inclination toward the solving of the
mystery of his library.
He practiced with his rope and play
ed with his sharp knife, which he haG
learned to keep keen by whetting upor
fiat stones
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D. A. R. WILL ENTERTAIN

A special performance will be
put on at the Princess Theatre next
Friday afternoon, Jan. 10Th, at 2
O'Clock under the auspices of the
D. A. r. The entertainment is in
celebration of the wedding day OF
George Washington, and will be. in
the nature of lecture ILLUSTRATED
with lantern slides on the Old Trail
Roads, Kearneys Route, Oregon
Trail, Sante Fe to Monterey, Mon
terey to Olympia. These old trails
are of special interest now, and the
D. A. R. are using every effort tc
urge the building of an ocean te
ocean highway over the trail:
travelled by the pioneers who blazec
the way to the west.
The invitation list will include
the friends of the d. A. r.. thu
Woman'a Relief Cprp-, the u. A. Il
and the high school and 9Th grad'
pupils.
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CURIOUS BREADS
Made In Chains In the Balkans and
Laundered In China


Bread is made in different shanos
and III different ways. according to the
taste of the various nationaities. MIR
L. Lodian in Forest and Stream saws.
The bread of the Balkans, curiouslv
made in the form of chains, is sold
from the arms and neckS of itinerant
pedlers. In tent life in Bahama the
detached links are often used for fun
at quoits or serve a more useful DUR
pose in suspending temporary curtains
and awnings Then when the CAMPERS
run out Of provisions they literally eat
their curtain rings! The Japanese
bamboo bread. so named from its
shape. is a somewhat similar product
1t is sliced and sold in strings.
THE sun dried bread sheeting of CEN
trail Asia looks much like channels
leather and is made up in pieces of
bed sheet size. 1t is compounded from
-four and raisin sirup and is highly es-
teemed by coffee drinkers. In the
bazaars of the caliphates it is fire.
quently seen hanging in place of avn
ings to shield the stalls from the sun.
"One of the strangest crackers comes
from Russia 1t is known as fit the
mouth begl and. besides being much
appreciated as tea biscuit. is quite
commonly used by merchants ignorant
Of the three RS as a makeshift abacus
in counting money, d lower string Of
ten serving for kopecks and an upper
string of the same number represent
ing roubles. More picturesque still is
it's usage as an extempOre ring for
marrying poor peasants with whom
the gold is lacking
Most singular of all. however. is the
peculiar pith-bread of China, which. in,
stead of being baked. is Numbered out
in narrow strips with hot iron. much
in the manner that collar receives
its finishing. 1t is made from the cen
trail tissue of the fatsia trees and is
valued highly by the citizens of the
'fowery republic as dainty cracker
to eat with their little cups of watery
unsweetened tea"
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YAKIMANS invent
AN APPLE SIzER"
Machine Sorts Fruit According to
Weigh and Runs 1t
Into Bins

An apple sizer," which sorts the
fruit according to weight instead of
size and runs the apples into bins
for wrapping and packing, which
has been invented by Kelly Price
and his father, w. G. Price, is on
exhibition at North Yakima.
The machine works on the prin-
cipleof a mechanical baseball pitcher.
Three arms worked by springs, throw
the apples one at a time with abso-
lutely the same impetus. An apple
weighing 10 ounces will fall in a
sack three feet away, while one
between one and two ounces will
travel 10 feet before it drops into
a sack.
The sacks are supported by springs
and prevent bruises. The apples
roll away in the folds of the cloth
into bins. The machine is said by
fruit packers who have seen it to
be the first practicable sizer ever
invented. 1t is declared that il
will enable fruit packers to WRAP
and pack fruit in boxes without the
skill and judgment in selecting
apples of uniform size now neces
Sary.
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Suspicious o. Bankers.

In remote farming district in which
once passed a few days | was told
of wealthy farmer whose friends.
fearing he would be murdered. sue
ceeded after an infnity of trouble in
persuading him to take his money to
a bank. When he interviewed the
manager he asked how much the bank
would charge for taking care of his
cash. The manager replied that 1t
would charge nothing. but would pay
him something Il always knew you
were raScalS!' he retOrted. and march
ed off. money and all.-London Citi-
zen.
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DISEASE GERMS STICK.
Hence 1t Is Almost Impossible to Have
Really Clean Hands.

Really Clean Hands.
That the slovenly habits or i'll health
of the cooks and walters who serve us
in dining cars. hotels. restaurants and
our own homes may be an even great
err menace to our health than defective
plumbing is the fact brought out by
some interesting investigations made
by Surgeon Cummins of the British
army
1t used to be thought that if our serv-
ants hands--and our own-were wash
ed with reasonab BILE frequency we were
safe. but Dr. CumminS shows that even
the most scrupulous cleansing will not
relieve hands that have been in contact
with disease germs from the liability
of injecting others In short, DR.. Cum
Minis declares that so long as we live
in this world of dirt and microbes our
hands can never be really clean.
To prove his contention Dr. Cummins
dipped the tip of his forefnger in a
liquid containing millions of typhoid
bacilli The finger was next rinsed in
an antiseptic solution. then in very
cold water and then in water that was
almost boiling After all this cleansing
it was washed in small quantity Of
sterile water. This water when ana
iyZed showed no less than 313 colonies
Of typhoid bacilli.
Not satisfied with this discouraging
proof of the futility of clean hands. the
doctor proceeded to soak his infected
finger tip in pure alcohol Then he
washed it again in sterile water. This
time the analysis of the water revealed
four colonies of typhoid bacilli
Another experiment made by DR.
Cummins was to rest typhoid laden
finger tip for just an instant on the
surface of bowl of soup. The soup
was then allowed to stand for twenty
four hours. When finally analysed it
revealed nearly 10000 typhoid bacilli to
every cubic inch.-New York Ameri-
can.
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Very 1houuhtful.

The clocks said the bride. "are
simply beautiful. and it was lovely Of
you to give them to us But-you won't
think me inquiSitive?-may l ask why
you gave us pair of them? OF course
1t was perfectly
Il gave you two of Them" interrupts
the friend. because I'm very fond Of
both of you. and if you ever get d.
vorced you will each have something
to remember me by."-Chicago Posi-.
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Getting Ahead of Father,

Pardon me. Mr.. Brassey. but it Is
1870. and am obliged to say good
night
"You consider 80 late hour?"
ut isn't that so much. but father is
lying awake upstairs trying to think
of funny things to say about you-like
why didn't you ask him to stay to
breakfast or bring in the milk or
sweep off the porch? and I'm not 60
ing 20 give him any such opportunity.
Good night "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Avoiding Comparison.

What is your objection to me as a
s0n-in-law? My character is beyond
reproach."
That's just it." said Mr.. Olsport
You don't suppose | want to 90
through the rest of my life having Won
held up to me as shining exampler
Washington Star.
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What She Wanted.

Library Attendant foreign look
Ing woman came in today and asked
Tor Cottage Cheese" Friend-Ha!
Did she think the library was a GRO
Gerry store: l.. A-No: after some
questioning found out that she want
Ell Scottish Chiefs = Boston Trans
t.rinf
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TO EXCHANGE-Fo alfalfa, land and
livestock, going, growing business
in Willamette Valley, earning $500
per month, net. No new capital re-
quired. Value SIS, 100000 Address
g., The Courier. g13
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Leaving Earth.

She-My husband has just left
earth. He-How's that-is he deadP
She-No: he's just gone up in an aero
piane.-Pele Mele.
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TO TRADE-Lot on the Coast for team
of horses. Inquire of Peter Lagae,
Box IS, Kennewick. II 14p
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DON'T-get stung on your wood. Phone
your order to 231 for wood that is alb
solutely dry. 1914
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never put all of your goods in tha
'front.' window they mag fade.
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FOR SALE-Campbell's Early grape
vines; we'll rooted, two years old. l.
S. Gleason. otf
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WILL BUY-15 one-year-old White
Wyandotte or white Leghorn hens.
Phone Chas. II. Collins. 13p
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FOR SALE-few we'll bred Indian
Runner ducks for a reasonable price.
j. F. Perry. l3tt
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Miscellaneous

REGISTERED Duroc Jersey Boar for
service See John Echner, Kenne-
wick Hardware 3tf
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PIANO TUNING-J. M Sch aft r
makes tri-monthly trips to Kenne-
wick. Address P. O. box 158, Walla
Walla. 631p
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FOR SALE-White Wyandotte cock
erels; an unofficial score card with
each bird; scored by competent judge.
So to S. each. E. A. Sharp, Top
penish, Wash. 12-6p
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FOR SALES heifers, good min G
strain; will be cows next summer.
500 takes the lot j. E. HAMPTON,
Hover, Wash, opposite section house.
13p
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FOR TRADE-for gentle horse, a new
Edison Home Photograph and 80
four minute records. l. Segal, R. F.
D. No. l, near Finley. 10
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For Sale

FOR SALE-A Thoroughbred Jersey
bull, two years old. Mounsey Bros. lot