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The Washington herald., 1915-08-29

ence in the Old Mans Office, of course
He wished they'd hurry The business
of the week was being boiled down
there. Those conferences were grea,
cauldrons into which the days busi-
ness, or the weeks, was dumped, to
be boiled, stirred, SKINNED. cooled
Jock had never been privileged to at
tend one of these meetings. Perhaps
by this time next week he might have
spoon in the stirring, too
There came the murmur of voices as
a door was opened. The voices came
nearer. Then quick footsteps. Jock
recognized them. He rose, smiling.
Sam Hupp. vibrating electric energy,
breezed in.
"Oll-hello" he said, surprised.
Jocks smile widened to a grin. you
back"
Hello, Hupp," he said, coolly. 1t
was the first time that he had omitted
the prefix. "You just bet I'm back"
There flashed across Sam Hupp's
face a curious little look. The next
instant it was gone.
WELL" said Jock, and took long
breath.
"Mr. Berg wants to- see you"
Hupp plunged into his work.
"Me? The Old Man wants to see
mce"
YES" snapped Hupp shortly. Then,
in a new tone, Look here, son. If
he says" He stopped, and turned
back to his work again.
"If he says WHAT"
Nothing. Better run along"
whats the hurry? l wan. to tell
you about"
Better tell him."
"Oh, all right, said Jock stif1y. If
that was the way they treated a fel-
low who had turned his first real
trick, why, very we'll. He flung out
of the little room and made straight
for the Old Mans Office.
Seated at his great fiat table desk,
Bartholomew Berg did not look up
as Jock entered. This was character
istic of the Old Man. Everything
about the chief was deliberate, sure,
unhurried. He finished the work in
hand as though no ether person stood
there waiting his pleasure. When at
last he raised his massive head he
turned his penetrating pale blue eyes
full on Jock. Jock was conscious of
little tremor running through him.
People were apt to experience that
feeling when that steady, unblinking
gaze was turned upon them. And yet
it was just the clear, unwavering look
with which Bartholomew Berg, farmer
boy, had been wont to gaze out across
the fresh-plowed fields to the horizon
beyond which lay the. city he dreamed
about.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29

Miss Gait had a complete layout on
the desk before her-scrap books,
cuts, copy, magazines. There was a
little smudge on the end of her nose
| Grace Calf was writing about magne-
tos. She was writing about magnetos
in a way to make you want to drop
your customer. or your ironing, or
your game, and go downtown and
buy that particular kind of magnetic
at once. Which is the secretest part of
the wizardry of advertising copy. To
look at Grace Calf you would have
thought that she should have been
writing about the rose-tinted jars in
Jock McChesney's hands instead of
about such things. as ignition, and in
sulation, and ball bearings, and induc-
ton windings. But it was Grace
Galt's gift that she could take just
such hard, dry, technical facts and
weave them into story that you fol-
lowed to the end. She could make you
see the romance in condensers and
transformers. She had the power that
caused the reader to lose himself in
the charm of magnetic poles, and ball
bearings, and high-tension sparks.
"Just dropped in to say good-by,"
said Jock, very casually. Going to
run upstate to see the Athena Com
pany-toilette specialties, you know.
1t ought to be big account"
Athena" Grace Gait regarded him
absently, her mind still on her work
Then her eyes cleared "You mean at
Tonawanda? And they're sending
you! Well!" She put out congratu-
latory hand. Jock gripped it CRATE
fully.
"Not so bad, ehs" he boasted.
"Badw echoed Grace Calf Her face
became serious. do you realize that
there are men in this office who have
been here for FIVE years, six years,
or even more, and who have never
been given chance to do anything
but stenography, or perhaps some pri-
vate secretarying?"
Il know it." agreed Jock. But there
was no humbleness in his tone. Hel
radiated self-satisfaetion. He seemed
to grow and expand before her eyes.
A little shadow of doubt crept across
Grace Galt's expression of friendly
interest.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29

"Are you scared" she asked; "just
the least bit?"
Jock flushed little WELL" he con-
fessed ruefully, Il don't mind telling
you I ana little"
Good"
"Good?"
Eyes. The head of that concern is
a woman. That's one reason why they
didn't send me, 1 suppose. lid like
to say something, if you don't mind"
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29

Tell me your side of it." said Bar.
tholomew Berg tersely.
An of it," Jocks confidence wa.
returning.
Till stop you"
"Well." began Jock. And standins
there at the side of the Old Mans
desk, his legs wide apart, his face
aglow, his hands on his hips, he
plunged into his tale.
at started off with bang from the
minute ! walked into the Office of the
plant and met Snyder, the advertising
manager. We shook hands and spark
ed-just like that" He snapped thumb
! and finger. What do you think! We
belong to the same frat! He's 90. In
side of ten minutes he and / were ST.
washing around like mad. He intro
duced me to his aunt. l told her who
| was, and all that. But didn't start
off by talking business: We got along
from the jump. They both insisted on
showing me through the place. L
well, he laughed little ruefully-
there's something about being shown
through a. factory that sort of par
alyzes my brain. l always feel that
l ought to be asking keen, alert, in
telligent questions like the ones Kip
ling always asks, or the Japs when
they're taken through the Stock
Yards. But never can think of any
Well. we didn't talk business much.
But l could see that they were inter
ested. They seemed to"-he faltered
and blushed a little-"to like me, you
know. played golf with Snyder that
afternoon and he beat me. Won two
balls. The next morning found
there's been a couple of other adver-
tising men there. And while I was
talking to Snyder-he was telling me
about the time he climbed up and muf-
fed the chapel bell-that fellow
Flynn, of the Dowd Agency, came in.
Snyder excused himself, and talked to
him for-oh, half an hour, perhaps.
But that was all. He was back again
in no time. After that it looked like
plain sailing. We got along wonder
fully. When left l said. I expect to
know you both better"
81 guess" interrupted the Old Man
slowly, "that you'll know them bet
ter all right" He reached out with
one broad frcckled hand and turned
back the page of a desk memoran-
dunn. "The Athena account was given
to the Dowd Advertising Agency yes
terday."
1t took Jock McChesney one min
ute-one long, sickening minute-to
grasp the full meaning OF it all. He
stared at the massive figure before
him, his mouth ludicrously open, his
eyes round, his breath for the moment
suspended. Then, in a queer husky
voice:
D'you mean-the Dowd-but-
they couldn't"
81 mean," said Bartholomew Berg,
that you've scored what the dramatic
critics call personal hit; but that
doesn't get the box Office anything"
But, Mr.. Berg, they said"
"Sit down minute, boy" He
waved one great heavy hand toward a
nearby chair. His eyes were not fixed
on Jock. They gazed out of the win
dow toward the great white tower
toward which hundreds OF thousands
of eyes were turned daily-the tower,
four-fsced but faithful.
"McChesney, do you know why
you fell down on that Athena ae-
COUNT"
Because I'm an IDIOT" blurted
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
Some Experiences OF Emma McChesney and Her Son Jock


Creator of Emma MeChesney. one of the
most original characters in modern fiction.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
T. w. TARR RETURNS FROM
TRIP TO NEW YORK STATE
Arrowrock Dam Has Given Idaho
Some Very Desirable Advertising.

T. w. Tarr, the we'll known FARMER
of Fargo, was in the city Monday
transacting business. The Thursday
before Mr.. Tarr returned from the
east having visited Iowa, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, Canada and New York
City. He was away six weeks and
had most pleasant trip.
Mr.. Tarr states that Idaho has had
no advertising of any kind, except
that in connection with the dedication
of the Rrrowrock dam, for long
time. In consequence the homeseek-
ers of the east are not attracted to
Idaho as extensively as they should
be. A great many visitors to the
California expostions stopped off at
different points and they are now do
ing the state a whole lot Of good back
east. The good word they have taken
home should be supplemented by
some good publicity work by the
people of the state.
Mr.. Tarr is of the opinion that the
promoters who sold five and ten acre
fruit tracts have done the state in
finite harm. These tracts have been
sold in almost every hamlet through
out the east and as they are not pro-
ducing returns the investors are high
ly Disguised. He found these small
tract investors the worst knockers
with whom he came in contact.
Mr.. Tarr investigated the fruit sit
uation in New York and other points.
Idaho apples, especially the Jonathan,
are the favorites and sell at retail at
6H cents per pound. The pack and
quality of the fruit shipped from Ida
no attract wide and favorable COM
ment. However it is on the produc-
ton of grains, grasses, seed and po-
tatoes that we must depend says Mr..
Tarr. He continued: Land in Iowa
and Illinois is selling at from $4,000
to $4,000 per acre that will not ap-
proach our land in production. The
people there have the money and they
are investing it at home in this high
priced land. If we had the money that
Iowa has not an acre of Boise Valley
land could be touched at less than four
or five hundred dollars per acre. We
must devise some method of getting
these people and this money to Idaho.
This country is all right in every
respect. 1t should build up rapidly.
Good publicity calling attention to
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10

eeggs' chicken, cream, butter. Th.r
have hogs, a beautiful herd NJ 1a nneY
cows. She has her horse and ibe sy
to go any where she chooses OuS ~
told me they had just sold $ S0e
worth Of colts they had bougb, n Svv
in Idaho, and | think if am NO, w rni
taken, out of debt, and we Ot, iI,ls,
about their circumstances now '' asg
when they first landed in TTab ' ana
had only $3.50 and bsd !
wash for living or sew, anvtb;,r 70
make an honest living, when I iivaSS 10
South Dakota. | now have a con rtu IN
able home nicely furnished and I'T 4.
ing on the interest Of my money new nv. nv
Mrs. Price has plenty Her br.b ana
usually earns $500 a day WORKING U%' i.
his trade, her children were ali m.s d.
babies, they or most of them ''' srs
grown now with fine educat;ones
through the schools here, thew dToas
nice and are all civel through The eI SSs
schools of Idaho. She wrote tbe no mns
to show her talent and mischief anu oni,,
we don't need rain, the whole conn amy
try around Caldwell is watered br
the government. ~
MARTHA NJ. FULLER
Nampa, Idaho.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
IDAHO is GRANDEST STATE
IN UNION SAYS MRS. FULLER
Replies to Poem Written by Mrs.
Price and Published in East.

The poem and comment thereon
published in the last issue of The
Tribune wherein Idaho is knocked
has attracted more or less attention.
The Tribune is in receipt of the fol-
lowing letter which deals with the
author, conditions in Idaho, and her
own experiences in this state The
writer Mrs. Martha Fuller lived in
Caldwell for a great many years, and
is we'll known here.
Editor Caldwell Tribune:
Will you please publish this in
your paper, that this injustice to Ida
no may be contradicted?
we'll acquainted with, having lived on
a homestead close to her. I became
acquainted with her and her family
which consists of five or six boys and
husband, stone mason. She told me
they only had $500 and some cents
when they arrived here, l think as
near as | can remember, from Michi-
gan or Nebraska. They took up their
residence with Mr.. Morgan two or
three miles southeast of Caldwell. They
lived there, l think, couple of years
then moved on their place of 40 acres
of sage brush-the incest fuel to cut
any woman can~cut it very easily
and have their fuel free and don't
have to buy it. I love the sage brush
and buy it in preference to slabs or
any kind of kindling-since have
moved in town. Idaho is the grand
est state in the union. I have nothing
to sell that causes me to boost the
state. My homestead consisted of
100 acres of this nice sage brush land
without one bit of alkali on it. | sold
it for one hundred dollars an acre
some a little more. l took Thanks
giving dinner with Mrs. Price about
two years ago. She had all kinds of
fruit and vegetables on her table that
were grown on her place. turkey, and
ducks killed on the ponds close by;
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
Most Eminent Medical Authorities Endorse It.


DR.. Eberle and DR.. Braithwaite as
well as DR.. Simon-all distinguished
Authors-agree that whatever may be
the disease, the urine seldom fails in
furnishing us with a clue to the princi-
Piles upon which it is to be treated.
and accurate knowledge concerning
the nature of. disease can thus be OBJ
tanned. If backache, scalding urine or
frequent urination bother or distress
you, or if uric acid in the blood has
caused rheumatism, govt or sciatica
or you suspect kidney or bladder trou-
bic just write DIR. Pierce at the Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y; send
sample of urine and describe symp-
toms. You will receive free medical
advice after DIR. Pierce's chemist
has examined the urine-this will be
done without charge, and
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10

Total --.....,.-.,$57, 433,O5o $47, O48.887
Grand total ..$418,2o3,91o 434,8lo, 478
w. S. COUSINS, Editor,
The American Banker.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10

you will be under no obligation. DR..
Fierce during many years of expert
mentation has discovered a new rene
dy which is thirty-seven times more
powerful than lithia in removing uric
acid from the system. If you are suf-
tering from backache or the pains of
rheumatism, go to your best druggist
and ask for so cent box of "Anuric"
put up by Doctor Pierce. DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription for weak wo-
men and DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery for the blood have been
favorably known for the past forty
years and more. They are standard
remedies to-day-as we'll as Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for the liver
and bowels. You can have a sample
of any one of these remedies in Tablet
form by writing DR.. Pierce. 1929
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS
SEALS SAVE LIVES

Every Red Cross Seal you buv is
bullet in the fight against tuberculosis
1t helps protect your country. your
neighbor, your family and your self
from the disease and its cost.
tuberculosis is our most destrc.
tive disease. One person out of every
four in America who die between the
ages of fifteen and fifty die from
tuberculosis. 1t is a chief cause Of
poverty.
But it is preventable and conquer.
able. This war, man against disease,
is winning war-not a wasting war,
man against man. Ii is The War That
Pays-lt Brings Prosperity.
Will you not enlist in this campaign
by purchasing Christmas Sealsl
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
Business and Finances

including the North Pacific Coast. re-
port the demand increasing and prices
hardening. A special report to this
bureau from Spokane states that call
reports coming in from men who have
visited the great lumber territory, in
Guiding eastern wholesalers, indicate
a better lumber business is already as
sured. Advices from many mills say
they are running at full capacity. The
coast mills have recently advanced
prices ST to 81 per 1000 1eet Manu-
facturers there are beginning to get
more inquiries, and the feeling is
strong among them that within the
next thirty days big volume of buy
ing will be experienced and that in
all probability there will be
an advance of prices. This
improvement in the lumber business
is not confined to any one section. but
is general throughout the country,
based on buying from almost all
sources. The railroads are now heavy
buyers. Several Southern railways
have recently placed orders of from
500 to 1000 carloads each. Orders for
export have been placed in the South
and East. Country towns buying is
also brisk. A recent visitor represent
ing the Minneapolis, Omaha & St.
Louis railroad said his company had
recently placed orders for 1000 box
cars. The situation is promising, be-
cause, in addition to yard buying,
which is steadily increasing. there is
a general industrial and railroad de-
mand for lumber"
These renorts uera fur+bar s,,ho+o,,
tiated' by the increase in building
operations, particularly in the east.
The record for October in $50 cities
showeds an excellent increase. Build
ing operations in these cities for
October of this year totaled $70,OOO.-
600, compared with $51 100000 for the
same period last year. Of $50 cities.
100 mostly in the east, showed in
ccreases. The principal decreases were
IN the cities on the Pacific Coast,
where unusually heavy building for
the last few years makes a comparison
unfair.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10

our lands, climate and yields is bad
ly needed Fruit lands are all right,
have nothing to say against them.
We can and do produce the finest
fruit in the country. The trouble is
that not one man in hundred in the
east knows or cares about fruit. He
is interested in hay, grain and
grasses"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
One of the Wavs.

She-An agent was around today
with machine for aerating bread
without the use of baking powder, and
| bought one.
He-Well, of all the ways of blow
ing in ones dough!-Boston Trans
cript.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
Bank Clearings an Indication of In
creasing Business.

creasing Business.
Since last August bank exchanges
have been showing remarkable in
creases. The total clearings of all
cities reporting for the month of Oct
ober reached the astounding figure of
more than twenty billions of dollars
This is Is per cent larger than the
highest previous record in January.
1910, and this is the equivalent of
more than two-thirds of the value of
the total manufacturing output of the
country for full year. Eliminating
the figures for New York City, which
exceeded the 1910 record by Is per
cent. October clearings for the re-
naming lol cities were also the larg-
est ever reached, being per cent
higher than the record in October,
i9!I, and Is per cent Sabove January,
l9lO. Compared with the low level of
october OF last year, bank exchange
transactions for the total number Of
cities were almost double in volume.
while for all cities outside New York
the increase was p per cent These
increases are characteristic of the
great improvement in business during
the past year, and while they do not
exactly measure its extent. they are
at least indicative of its trend.
Exports show no signs of diminish
ing, and outgoing shipments from At
lantlc and Gulf ports continue to
reach high records. September set
new mark of 1901, 100000 IN the value
OF clearances from all ports, figure
practically double the total for the
same month last wear Agricultural i'm,
plements, copper and its manufactures.
lumber and wood products, foodstuffs
and naval stores, constitute the chief
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
articles of export.

articles of export.
Railway earnings continue 70 make
good showings; all roads that have
ober traffic reporting an inc. ease of
nearly IS per cent over 1914 and pet
cent over 1913 and 1912, representing
substantial recovery over the de
preston of these former wears. A
statistical study of 474 roads in Sep
TENDER indicates an increase OF D 43
per cent in gross and 20 per cent in
net. This is also a reflection Of the
effect of the increases in freight rates
allowed the roads by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
December Disbursements $147,433.05o.
Disbursements to investors in the
way of dividends and interest this
month will reach a sum of $l47,433,-
059, according to the monthly record
of the Journal of Commerce. This
compares with $l32, SASSY in Decem-
Der year ago, an increase. of $14,-
S84, l7Z. OF the grand total dividends
will amount to $57,433,059, an increase
of $l0,384,172. Industrial corpora
tons will pay out to stockholders
5000.
Interest payments will approximate
$9O,O0O,0O0, against $85, 100000 in the
corresponding month a year ago. In
addition to interest calling for l,6O0,-
900, the city of New York will distri-
butte about $21,0OOOOO, representing
the paying off of revenue and other
bonds.
A summary of the December div
idends, with comparisons, follows:
1915. 1914
Industrials $38, O46,2O1 $27.772, 374
Railroads ----------.. 16,384,217 16,3129OO
Street railways e 3,002,63l 2,963.613
Total ......--.--.$57,4 33, O5o $47, O48, 1887
Grand total .$418,2 o3,o1o 434,8lo, 478
w. S. COUSINS, Editor,
The American Banker.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
Cause and Effect.

Mrs. Casey.The doctorsays We how
appendicitis, Tim!
WI Mr.. Casey-Och, Norah, Ndtahl
,Whoy wor we so foolish as to show
him yer bank book?-Dallas News.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10
Cheap Way to Get Oysters.

Put up an oyster box on pole in
the back yard. At night two or three
dozen oysters will fly into it for shelf
err, and you can go out just before sun.
rise and shoe them into a net.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10

The Christmas Seals are sold only
for the war against tuberculosis.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-12-10

The seals you buy in your own
state support the campaign there.
The Washington times., 1915-05-14
LESSER OF TWO EVILS

1t is said the Department of JUS
tice has under consideration a sug-
gestion that writer's Of articles seek
ing to justify the destruction of the
Lusitania by German submarine be
prosecuted under the statute making
it a crime to circulate matter of a
character intended to incite arson,
murder, or assassination.
That is the wrong way to go about
muzzling Dernburg. The problem
worrying the Government is not
newspaper editorials or magazine ar
ticles, but the speeches of that men
ace, Dernburg, and his subterranean
activities as a fomenter of trouble.
He is in seclusion for the moment. A
word from the Government to the
German ambassador might keep him