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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-30
Personal Sketches Of the
Emperor Of Germany,
His Six Warrior Sons.
and the Men They Com
T1q1d
Tnand.

- INFERIOR Williams nFhting quai
- ties hre hereditary fer his eaFli-
III est ancestor. Count Thassuo, Of
%~& zailern in swabla, WAS oae o5
he generals IF Charles the Great Fl g
aoccssor. Count Friedrich J.. built
he family castle Of the Hohenzollaru
near the Danube i'm the year $50. ana
ever since that time tho family has
been known as the "Flrhtiug Huh6a-
tollerns." II was not unil the seven-
Ieenth century that the Hoheu79Uernz
bad . standing army. Friedrich Wit
aeim- the Great Elactor. was RESPONSE
bic for this. and after hts reign. which
lasted from fG40 to 1855 his son
Friedrich ]. found himself AT the head
of a Well drilled army Of 5000 men.
with such an army at that period r
was eHsF % enlarge ONES domain and
the hsBe began ACQUIRING land. aaa
when Friedrich wilhelm Ill. came
20 tho throne the area OF the Hohen-
zollerr lands was nearly. one hundred
thousand square miles with popufa
ton % nine millions. Napoleon APP
peare3 about this time and some Of
the acquired territory was taken by
he French.
Came To THE Throne In 1883.
Emperor William came 10 the
throne in 1855. and under his dynamic
leadership Germany has advanced to
the front rank aa "A military power.
His reign has been ono OF the mos.
remarkable in the history Of the
world, and Germauy's great growth Iu
population her colossal foreign trade
the development Of her merchant
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-30

The island is only one mile long
from the pier 10 the Nordcap Ga rock
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05

trade already in existence, or crrwd-
ing out the trade of some other coun-
try, the American people should be
further educated in buying only
American products. The captains
of Germany's industry are planning
movement that in effect is leaf
from the famous aggressive tactics
of the German army applied TO the
peaceful conquests of the worlds
marts. At home efforts are being
concentrated on ousting foreign made
goods and replacing them with do
nestle manufacture wherever possi-
Bile, while abroad Germany's com-
mercial guns, packed by the vast re-
sources of the empire. governmental
and private, are to be trained on ev-
cry market especially where Amen-
can, English and French trade may
now enjoy an advantage.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
AGRICULTURAL ALASKA.

Forty years ago we began think
ing Alaska good for nothing. Then
we learned it was nursery of prec-
ious furs. Afterward came the dis
covery that it produced food fish in
unlimited quantities. Low grade
mining found profit on its coast and
islands before the marvellous discov-
cries of the interior. Timber exploit
alton revealed its wealth of forests
and proof accumulates that the in
terror is full of minerals of more val
ne in industry than gold. Only re-
Gently do we come TO realize the possi-
bilties of Alaska as an agricultural
country. Men driven to regions con-
sidered inhospitable by desire of gain
do their best to live for the country
and so develop possibilities never sus-
pected. But it will aStunish many 10
hear that Alaska now grows p per
cent of its own vegetable food for
man and beast. Grain. garden vegc-
tables and fruits can be ripened in
Alaska south of the Yukon. Nutr-
tious hay aud other forage plants can
be grown on its prairies. in some of
whose sheltered hooks horses and cat
tie can even pass the winter without
forage by paving light snowfall
away from carpet of self-cured
grass. 1t is not an unreasonable eX-
pectation that Alaska will some day |
produce its own food in spite of III
creasing population drawn by the op-
portunity of mineral, timber and fish,
ing exploitation.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
THE BASIS OF WEALTH

II is today realized more forcefully
than ever before in the history of
the world that land is the solid basis
of al permanent prosperity, and there
fore, the desire to obtain 1t for farm
ing purposes or fer home, or even for
speculation is keener than ever. Land
hunger is the foundation for the pres
ent great movement of settlers into
the northwest. This movement to-
wards the land-this eagerness to ac-
quire land at present prices-is in
stinctive. The minds of men and wo-
men are turning towards the land.
They do not know just why this is so,
but the explanation is simple to the
deep student of human nature and to
the few who realize psychological
conditions and influences. This move
ment has attained by far the greater
degree of activity in the northwest.
The prosperity throughout the states
is waking people up to the fact that
land values will never be less.
Many years of uninterrupted agri-
cultural prosperity, which bids fair
to long continue. have demonstrated
that farming pays, even under shift
less management, while with expert
management agriculture pays returns
so large as to compare favorably with
banking or manufacturing, and even
if the owner does not wish to work
the land himself, it can usually be
rented advantageouSly. Besides all
this, the tremendous advance in land
values in some sections of the west
bids fair to be vastly greater in the
future than in the past. The area of
land is fixed and limited-population
is increasing by leaps and bounds.
The 1O0,000,00O people now in North
America will at no distant day be
250,OOO,OO0. Education, religion and
philanthropy are so operating to turn
people back to the soil, and thus
country life is again becoming fash
The true policy of this country
should, however, be to encourage small
holdings. A farm of fifteen acres,
cultivated, is of more in
trinsic value than tracts of 30 acres
allowed to go to waste. France is to-
day the most prosperous nation in
the world, and her people are more
contented and happy than those OF
any other country, and this is due al
most wholly to the fact that the peo-
pie own the land, each holding but a
few acres.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05

NJ. Brown is the most able, diligent
courageous and conscientious prosecu-
tor that it has been his privilege to
know, and this same efficiency would
be injected into the higher Office. For
a number of years Mr.. Brown was
district attorney in our former home
county, and we know whereof we
speak. His nomination and election
is positive guarantee that the laws
will be enforced with justice to the
weak and strong, the poor and the
rich, regardless of class or creed. His
only master would be the sovereign
state of Oregon. He has prosecuted
crime relentlessly, yet with spirit of
mercy toward the weak and the
young. George M. Brown is our can
didate for encouragement from start
to finish, and we are making no mis-
take in advocating his election.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
VERY EXACTING BUSINESS

If we are to sterilize the mouth
pieces of telephones every day to kill
the bacteria and prevent infection,
and must scrub the doornobs every
day for the same reason, why not be
consistent and go on scrubbing and
scrubbing everything with which we
come in contact? If these bacteria
must be cleaned out once a day, why
not once an hour, or once a minute
The pestiferous things are apt to get
in any second. We have all often
enough been warned that handshak
ing is dangerous and kissing deadly.
All of which warnings we have all
duly observed of course!
1t is hard to be informed by the
bacteriologists that we are in momen-
tary danger from microbes unless we
scrub, scrub, scrub. And when we
get used to scrubbing and learn to look
upon it as a matter of course instead
of hardship, may not the microbes
steal another march upon us through
the scrub brushq Maybe we shall
have to sterilize the soap and then
sterilize the sterilizer. Baeteriologists-
are Unsuitable They never know
where to stop. But their demands,
if fully acceded to, would leave us
no time to make a living. 1t would
be scrub, scrub with us all the time.
The farmer, instead of plowing, would
have to put in all the time killing
beef, would never cease to scour his
knife and cleaver. There would be
nothing produced to eat, and while
saving ourselves from death from mi
crobes we would all die of starvation.
This sort of thing may very easily
be carried too far. The bacteriolo-
gists must learn to draw the line some
where. We may soon become as ri
dieulous as were the Salemites in the
days of witchcraft.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
Cancer of Womb
Removed by
DIR. TOEL
June 9, 1913,
Stays Cured

Mrs. c. L. Hubbard, who had ~
bloodless electrical operation for can
Ger of the womb performed upon her
by DIR. Toel last year on the 9th Of
June, called at his Office today upon
his request, as the doctor wanted
to convince himself by an examination
that the cure had been permanent.
Not the slightest trace of cancer could
be found by him in Mrs. Hubbard
who herself declares that she is ex-
tremely well satisfied with his opera
ton. DR.. Toel is always willing to.
examine free of charge patients upon
whom he has operated previously,
for in case he should detect the
slightest return of the cancer in the
part from which he has removed it,,
he is always willing to remove it
again without any extra charge what
ever, all he asks is that his patients
come to his office and give him a
chance to examine them. A return
of a cancer after one of his bloodless
operations is however a great rarity
when compared to the extremely fire.
quent return after operations with
the knife or the use Of eating plasters
and salves.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
DON'T BE DECEIVED.

There are thousands of ingeniously
worded advertisements floating about
the country in cheap publications that
the public should discredit. If any
one says he will give household furni-
ture worth $40 for your services in
selling So worth of his wares, don t
believe him. He won't do it. Don t
be induced to run about the neigh
borhood panhandling your friends and
neighbors by the offer of a cheap
premium. Don't let the children
tease ten cents from friends of the
family in the hope that they can get
a $50 bicycle for selling soap to
the amount of three dollars. If your
husband looks upon the wine coax
him to take the jag cure. Don't take
a chance of worrying all your life
lest You should have collected his
life insurance through the agency of
something you cooked in his coffee.
Don't believe that while the scientists
of the world have failed to conquer
the white plague, some so-ealled medi-
cine company has an absolutely eer-
tain specific for sale at $3.50. Dom
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
Subscription Rates.
RANKS ARE THINNING.

"'They came a fragment OF what
thew were" This quotation found
mental expression as we gazed upon
the assembled ex-soldiers last Sat
urday, when by combing the commune
ty comparatively few veterans of the
Civil war signed the roster OF the
newly organized Grand Army Post.
The ranks of the survivors of that
bloody struggle grow thinner with
each succeeding year, and soon such
gatherings as these will be no more.
Near a half century has passed
away since the disbanding OF those
two mighty armies; since the vlelorl-
GUS blue and the defeated grey parted
with a handshake at AppomattoX,
The heart aches and pain of four
years of bitter strife were swallowed
up in the glories of peace and a re-
united nation. Back to the pIow and
the factory, back to the store aud
office, back to the pulpit and school
room. back to the duties of peace. to
the work of repairing the devaSta7I
tions of war went Columbia S sons,
north and south. As we gaze upon
the assembled ex-soldiers, stopped and
hoary, we reverence the heroes.
Whatever may be their place IN life,
whatever their station. whatever their
fortune, they are deserving of equal
honor.
The cannon that dealt death and de-
struction are today moss covered and
buried beneath debris of the battle
fields of old. Time has healed the
ravages of war, and covered with a
softening hand the evidences of that
bloody strife. But we have the re-
naming grey-haired veterans, and the
graves of those passed away, to con-
stantly remind us of the valorous
deeds which perpetuated the grandest
of all nations. The generation of to-
day has not forgotten, and the gen
erations yet unborn will not forget,
the valiant acts of these men. Unto
them the country will ever be CRATE
full. But the last resting places of
those who participated in the tre-
mendous struggle through purely pat
riotic devotion, shall never be forgot
ten.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
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Dallas, Oregon, May 4, 1914
Editor Observer: | know that many
of my friends over the county contem-
plate writing my name in on the re-
publican ballot at the primaries for
the Office of Legislator from this
county. l feel honored by this mark
of respect shown me, and appreciate
the motives that prompt this generous
support, but owing to my being una
BILE to give the necessary time to a
campaign, I would be forced to de-
cline the nomination if nominated.
For that reason, and in justice to my
friends, and in justice to the party,
in order that the republican party
will not be without a candidate for
this office in the general election in
November, l feel that l am in duty
bound to make my position clear in
this respect. l assure you that |
would deem it an honor to serve in the
Legislature from this county, but at
this particular time | cannot possibly
consider the matter. But the party
should not be without candidate,
and L would like to mention in this
connection one of Polk county's lead
ing citizens, one of the heaviest tax
payers in the county, a sound and
careful business man, viz: Mr.. Will
liam I. Grier of Falls City, manager
of the Falls City Lumber Company.
Mr.. Grier would give Polk coun-
ty, and particularly the tax-paying
public of Polk county, one of the best
representations the county ever had
in the Legislature. | am satisfied
that if the republicans will write in
Mr.. Grier's name for this office
that he can be prevailed upon to ac-
cept the nomination. | have asked
Mr., Grier concerning the matter,
and he assured me that if the party
wanted him to be their standard bear
er for this office, he would gladly
give his name to campaign.
would appreciate it as personal
favor if those who contemplated writ
ing my name in for this Office, will
instead write in the name of William
T, Grier. Not only this, but as
many republicans as possible write
in his name. Mr.. Grier is not
seeking the office, but let us make the
office seek him. apprehend that we
will make no mistake.
Thanking you for the use of your
columns, l am very truly yours,
WALTER l.. TO0ZE, JR.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05

The agriculturist and the artisan
are not alone developing new and i'm
proved methods in this progressive
age. The mercantile business is also
pushing forward along known lines Of
success, and this means better and
cheaper merchandise, a saving to the
frugal buyer. In every issue of The
Observer is shown up-to-date methods
of Dallas most enterprising mer-
chants, a perusal of which announce
ments will readily convince one that
the statements therein contained are
not misleading. The days of misrep-
resentation and deception in advertis-
ing are past-gone, we trust, forever.
A merchant who fails to make good
in accordance with his public state
ments will not advertise long. He
can not afford it because people upon
whom he depends for support soon
become familiar with his curve and
land on him hard.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
WILLIAM T. GRIER.

The republicans of Polk county are
to be congratulated upon securing so
able man as Mr.. William Grier as
their candidate for representative in
the state legislature. He is not u
politician, and had no thought of
aspiring to legislative honors until
besieged by his Dallas friends to carry
their banner at the approaching prim-
aries. 1t is purely case where the
office seeks the man. Mr.. Grier has
been Il resident of Polk county for
upwards of a decade, during which
time he has been quite closely identi-
fed with its growth and prosperity.
His nomination and election will
count for something. 1t will be nee
essary for republicans to write in his
name on the ballot.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
VOTERS
SHOULD BEWARE
Party Should Be Represented
on National Committee
BY a Republican

The Republicans of Oregon are en-
titled to have Republican named as
the National Republican Committee
man from this State. c. w. Ackerson.
who claims to be Republican. is a
candidate. He registered as Progress
sive January 8, 1914. Then signed petit
ton of H. w. Coe to be Progressive
National Committeeman. Then can
celled his registration as a Progress
sive and registered as a Republican
and Immediately filed his candidacy
for membership on Republican Nation
al Committee. Has been an intimate
and convenient understudy Of the Pro-
gressive National Committeeman and
seems now to be in combination with
him in an attempt to shanghai the
Republican organization. His candi-
dacy is being actively backed by par
ties hostile to the Republican party
and having personal interests and pri-
vate personal grudges to serve. His
erratic and excitable temperament has
frequently led him to flood the col
umns of the press with violent attacks
upon the Republican party and vicious
personal abuse of prominent Republi-
cans and lifelong residents of the
State
1t is a grave abuse for parties who
are not Republican to register as such.
1t is a graver abuse for outsiders to
attempt the capture of a political par
ty to crafty a personal grudge and
to promote party discord. 1t is an
abuse against which fair-minded men
of all parties will rise in protest. We
can never have a reunited party by
pushing to the front political hotheads
and men who are political reformers
simply for the sake Of office. Having
been a Republican only twenty-four
hours when he announced his candi-
dacy for the highest honorary position
in the gift Of the party. is some indi-
cation of what Mr.. Ackerson's motive
As Hon. Ralph E. Williams is the only
Republican who is a candidate for |
Republican National Committeeman.
we feel warranted in urging all loyal |
in the state to give him
their earnest and enthusiastic support. |
CHAS. B. MOORES,
chairman of Republican State Cen
tral Committee)
NJ. B. McFAUL,
president Lincoln Republican Club.)
MCKINLEY MITCHELL,
president of Portland Republican
Club.)
c. NJ. IDLEMAN,
president Multorpor Republican
Club)
(Paid ADVERTISEMENT
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05

Improved roads mean better schools
and larger attendance, better health
and quicker medical attention, better
farms and more cultivated land, bet
ter crops and cheaper transportation,
better economic conditions and less
isolation, better church attendance
and better citizens, better postal SER
vice and closer friends, better bust
ness and more consumers, better in
dustries and more employment, a bet
ter state and better nation.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
WOMAN'S PART.

While prosutfrage and antisuffrage
leaders have been sending messages
to the president concerning the Mex
lean situation, the question Of woman
suffrage is not remotely connected
with war, except III fantastic argu-
ments. The women have always
borne their full measure of the bur
den Of war. and while they have not
often been called upon to bear the
physical suffering mat falls to the
lot of the soldiers in the field, they
have endured a mental anguish incom-
parably worse, says the st. Louis
Globe. The seventeen marines who
lost their lives following the seizure
of the custom house at Vera Cruz
went cheerfully to their death. They
clamored for chance to be the first
to land. But from the time the bat
tleships were ordered to Mexico the
mothers of every officer and enlisted
man in both fleets were in an agony
of suspense. When the first news
came. without names, this agony was
increased. The list of names brought
temporary relief to the many, but
bitterness to the few. The seventy
wounded, cared for by the hospitals,
are not suffering half so much as are
their mothers.
There is one type of bravery which
to the sound of the bugle charges
foe and scales a fortress. 1t is an
other kind of bravery that sits at
home patiently waiting for the worst.
Letters are lost OF delayed in transit
and anxiety at home deepens. Thero
is battle in which thousands are
killed or injured Every mother is
certain her son is among the number
until the full list appears or she re-
ceives direct communication as to his
safety. When she hears that her son
is i'll in the hospital, stricken with
disease or wounded in battle, she
would take the wings of the morning
and fly to his side to nurse him. She
if he is neglected, whether
the surgeon is competent and wheth-
er the food if fit for his delicate
stomach. She worries herself with |
The boy himself may be
loing nicely. He may write her that |
lie is convalescent, but she does not !
believe him. She thinks that he is
ying to her out of the fullness of his
owe. So, whether matters go well or
II, the soldiers mother is never salts
led. She is always expecting the
worst. When he is reported captured
~ the enemy, every terrible story of
,rison suffering she ever heard arises
n her recollection to harrass her.
While the ministering angels that
ttach themselves to the hospital
orps and soothe the fevered brows
f the soldier sick are heroines worthy
he praise that has been showered
pon them in song and in story, the
7omen who actually suffer most from
he ravages of war are the mothers,
ives, sisters and sweethearts who
tay at home and wait for news from ,
he front.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
WAGING TRADE WAR.

Germany has launched the most
tremendous war-for-trade conquest
of modern times, and the United
States should profit by the gigantic
movement and inaugurate home
protection campaign that will extend
throughout the nation. While organi-
zation upon organization in every
branch Of trade and industry in that
country is being forced with a
definite. specific plan and purpose Of
capturing a new market. extending
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05

The people of Polk county should
be especially interested in the candi-
dacy of Ralph E. Williams for Re-
publican National Committeeman, he
being a product of 'Old Polk" and
one who is largely interested in its
progress and prosperity. Contrary
to previous custom, the National Com
is elected by popular vote,
and Mr.. Williams name will appear
on the ballot at the primaries.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05

The women of the Polk county
farms are as deeply interested in i'm
proved highways as are the men, and
in several localities they did their
share on Good Roads day. While
they did not WELD the shovel and
pick they gave encouragement to the
by bountifully feeding the
toilers.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05
GEORGE NJ. BROWN.

The candidacy of George NJ. Brown
for the attorney -generalship of the
state is one that every law-loving
voter of Oregon, regardless of party
may well encourage. The
whittier is not dispensing mere cam
paign dope when he says that George
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-05-05

believe that philanthropist who con-
ceals his identity under the pseu-
donym of dept. X" or clock Box
j" is waiting to send you diamond
ring and set of furs for the price
Of dozen eggs. just as like as
not he won I do il.