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Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
Ouchi

ut says here that blue Is the only
color that can be determined by tho
sense OF touch" remarked the Old
Fogy. do you believe thnt?"
Sure / do" replied the Crouch.
You have often felt blue. haven't
Enquirer.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
Offhand Comment.

"Bliggins says tobacco Is disagree.
able and unnecessary"
YES" replied the sardonic smoker.
but it's all a matter OF opinion.
should say the same thing about big.
gins. ."---Washington Star.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
How Did He oodoe That?

Designing Widow-Speaking of co.
nundrums, can you tell me why the
letter I'd" Is like the marriage service?
Slowboy-I'm no good at conun.
drums. Why?
Widow-Because 1--WE" can't be
"wed" without it.-Boston Transcript.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS

/
| Portland--Wheat: Bluestem, 81. o,
bushel; forty-fold, Sl.0l; club, $l.0l
red Fife, Csc; red Russian, 94c.
| Millfeed - Spot prices; Bran. S2'
ton; shorts, $2s; rolled barley, $2s. &c
0D29. so.
Corn--Whole, s8s ton; cracked. 500.
Hay - Eastern Oregon timothy, SIC
"a II; valley timothy, Sl5; alfalfa,
i2.60@lS.50; cheat. $ll@l1.50; oat
and vetch, S120Dl2.50.
Vegetables--Cucumbers Oregon, l6
az zoe dozen: artichokes, soc; toma-
toes, 25 40 50c box; cabbage, / a. lfc
pound; head lettuce, 81 crate; beans,
abode; pound; green corn. l50D20c
dozen; garlic. l0@l2Ac pound; pep
pers, 6@7c; eggplant. 6D7c; pump
kins, 1Ac.
Green Fruits Cantaloupes, siG12. rs
crate; peaches, 100000 box; water
melons, 1A@lsc pound; plums, 50c0D
Sl.26 box; new apples, Astrachans,
Toe a. 81; Gravenstein, $l.25 0D l. 80;
pears, $l@1.50; grapes, $i.250Dl. so
crate; huckleberries, &c pound; casa
bas, $1.75 crate.
Potatoes--New, 700D75c sack.
Onions-75c sack.
Eggs-0regon ranch, buying, prices:
No. /, 24c dozen; No. 2, l9c; No. 8,
15c. Jobbing price: No. l, 26c.
Poultry Hens, IS a. lac pound;
springs, Ice; turkeys, lS@l9c; ducks,
S6Dl2c; geese, S0ll0c.
Butter - City creamery, cubes, ex-
tras, 27c pound; first, 25c; seconds,
2tc; prints and cartons, extra; but
terfat, No. l, 2sc; second grade, &c
less; country creamery cubes, 20@2Jc.
Hops-l9l5 contracts, l3@l4c; 1914
crop, 14c; olds, l2@lSc.
Wool-Eastern Oregon, medium, 25 |
@2Ssc; Eastern Oregon fine, lS@2lac:
valley, 26@S0c; mohair. new clip, 80 |
oslo.
Cascara bark-Old and new, &c.
Cattle--Best steers, Sc. SOAR; good,
s6. 25@6.50; medium, .s6@6. 25; choice
cows, $5.35@5.50; heifers, $4.750D
$50; bulls, s3.50@5; stays, $5@6.2 |
Hogs-Light, $7@7.So; heavy, sea
7.20.
Sheep-Wethers, 81. 75@5. 10; ewes,
s3@4.25; lambs, $5@6.
Portland - At the opening Of the
market Thursday morning there were
'ver 1900 head of cattle at North
Portland and three loads arrived from
Central Oregon during the forenoon,
ays the Portland Live Stock Reporter.
3uyers from all the smaller local pack
ng plants were on hand, as we'll as
rom Puget Sound points, and trading
pened with considerable spirit. A
'uget Sound packer bought the greater
art Of the best offerings, paying 81
or the top steers, and he got some
cry good steers for $6.75. The
mailer local packers were interested
idders and each got some good cattle.
ust before noon load of fat steers of
oor type were sold to a local packer
I S6.05. Up to noon the majority Of
ne purchases had been made by the
uget Sound and nearby packers, and
early half of the stuff had been sold.
The market was practically on a
teer basis, as there were only few
ows offered and only three or four
ulls. Most of the steers offered,
owever, were of killer quality and of
eights that killers require. While
le market started out steady and
ost Of the best stuff was sold before
BON at prices which correspond with
lose of last week, the larger local
acking interests are bidding lower.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
Intense sarcaam.

What are those, girlle?'
Summer furs."
ITO ward off the scorching rays OF
sun, eh? ] suppose when you want to
keep cool at home you put on buffa-
10 robe kimono."--Louisville Courier.
Journal.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19

How do you know that Blinks has
had a raise In salary?"
He argues that the world Ia get.
ting better. that the danger from mon.
opolies has been greatly magnificd,
and that human nature isn't so bad
after all,"-Phiiadelphia Public Led.
ger.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
WOMAN IN
BAD CONDITION
Restored To Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Montpelier, VT - "We have great
faith in your remedies. was We. J If.

regular and W as
tired and sleepy all
the time, would have
cold chills, and my
hands and feet would
bloat. My stomach
bothered me, / had
pain in my side and
a bad headache most
of the time. Lydia
E. Pinkham s Vege-
table Compound has
done mo lofo of orood
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
Leave Il to a Womanl

He-As it is to be a secret engage
ment, dearest, it would not be wise
for me to give you ring at present.
She-Oh, but could wear 1t on the
wrong hand, you know.-Boston Tran
script.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regu-
late and invigorate stomach, liver and
bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules,
easy to take as candy.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
Hiah Finance.

did Swift borrow money to buy an
auto?"
mo, he is higher financier; he
bought an auto to borrow money
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19

HOWARD. l. BURTON Assayer ana Chemist,
ts Lesdvlie, Colorado. Specimen prices. Gold,
Silver. Lead, g. Gold. Silver, lie: Gold, 50c Zine
or Copper 81 Mailing envelopes d full price ilss
sent on RJplicat ion. Control and Umpire work 10
ucited. Iteference: Carbonate National Bank.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-08-19
"UsE THE RIVER"
Dalles- Columbia Line

State Of Washington. for The Dalles daily ex.
Sunday il .. m Leave Dales daily ex. Monday
II n. Steamers J. N. Teal Inland Empire and
Twin Cities for Upper Columbia and Snake river
points. Taylor St Dock. Tel. Main elS.
willamette and Columbia River lowing Co., Portland.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
MORE SHIPS FOR AMERICA

There will be an American mer-
chant marine whenever conditions
and laws hold out promise of suf-
ficient profits to induce people to in
vest in ships. Such a situation has
made itself manifest, but the laws
are not as desirable as they should
be. However, there is wide belief
that the Administration intends to
use its influence in behalf of meas
ures that will favor the creation Of
a carrying fleet, if its own scheme
fails again, and there is general op-
timism concerning the outlook for
the future of American vessels.
Shipbuilding yards in the United
States are to experience a great
boom, according to Henry S. Grove,
president of the William Cramp and
Sons Ship and Engine Building
Company. He asserts that one eff
feet of the war, beneficial to Amer
lean builders, is the material in
crease of wages in England, which
has so nearly eeualized the condi-
tions in the two countries as to en-
able American yards to compete
with the British. Mr.. Grove is con-
fident that wages in the British
yards will not be lowered after the
war sufficiently to injure to a mark
ed degree the industry in this
country.
This is only one Of the present
advantages offered to the shipbuild-
ing business in the United States.
American firms will not overlook
any Of them, and neither should
Congress. Private initiative will go
as far as the promise of gain will
lead it, and no further. But the
seas are full of gain, and it only
needs for the Government to re-
move the barriers.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
IMPORTING TO EXPORT

When the ships come into our
harbors the imports come, too,
showing that, war or no war, block
AIDES or no bio ckades, the ocean car
riers do not sai westward from Eu-
rope in mere b. allast to freight back
the munitions and other supplies
bought from uss by the belligerents
in quantities and values gigantic.
Last week the vessels Of the
world, excepting Germany and Aus
tria-H Hungary, were streaming up
the Narrows to New York with
many cargoes froi n many ports, and
they made a hu .ge custom house
record of imports. With the figures
for Saturday miss ing, the first five
business days of the week scored a
total value of impo rts of more than
$1s,500,0o0. With more ships in
ward bound than outward bound,
the imports quite submerged our
exports, which at .S16,763,OOO for
the whole week of six days were
nearly $1,s00,00O less, than the i'm
ports of five days, and were down
from New York exports of the
week before by more than $13,-
100000.
But the ships that come in today
go out tomorrow, and always they
sail deeply laden with the supplies
that we are producing, regular time
and overtime, and sellin 2 the bellig-
erents at high prices andt rich profits
to be poured into the greatest and
bloodiest war the worlo, has ever
known.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
THE WAR OF VENGEANCE

Vienna dispatches describe the
commemoration of the first anniver-
sary, which falls on this date, of
the assassination of Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand. Religious ceremonies
were held all over the empire, the
press devoted vast space 70 recount
ing the crime Of Sarajevo, and COM
manders in the field lectured their
troops of their duty to extract full
measure of vengeance for the foul
crime.
Thus is the spirit of revenge in
voked to accentuate the hatreds OF
a war which was excuseless on any
ground, and particularly rs means
to vengeance. The slaughter Of
millions, the impoverishmeng of a
world, will not accomplish any use
full purpose. Austria started this
war, at least nominally and chrono-
logically. Austria, with that mar
velous lack Of understanding that
it's ruling class seems always to
demonstrate when attempting TO
deal with world opinion, places the
whole horror on the basis of an
Austrian desire for revenge.
Were the Lusitanias passengers
and crew-not single Serbian
among them-murdered in order to
avenge a Serbian attack on Aus
tria? Have Frenchmen and Rus
slams and Englishmen in tens of
thousands been killed because Aus
tria thus highly prizes revenge?
Was Belgium assaulted by Germany
as means to avenging Austria
against Serbia?
1t is a wicked thing to stir up
such sentiments; but it is more than
that; it is a piece of peculiarly rank
folly to place the case of Austria,
which is the case Of Austria's allies
as we'll, on such grounds in the
court of world opinion.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
OUT OF MISCHIEF'S PATHS

Several cities have adopted the
New York city idea of awards and
standards in public school athletics,
in operation eleven years, ,md which
has more than demonstr ated it's
worth. The Public Schoe Us Ath-
letic League shows that 100, 1000 stu
dents took part in the acti Vities Of
the league; $4,000 in the grammar
grades, 100000 in high schools.
Twenty-four thousand badges were
awarded grammar school pu pills.
In addition to ordinary athletic
exercises, the students are taught
to swim, to save person., from
drowning, to shoot, and to do other
feats. The boys who dist inguish
themselves receive badges, but he
must have attained a high average
in scholastic work. Thus there is
design to improve body and mind
together.
1t is not the New York icea to
develop champions, but to make ath-
letics available for the greatest
number. Interest in the schem has
been so great that the board of. edu-
cation has thrown open every avail
able school yard for two hours in
the afternoon. The principal of a
school on the East Side, said: "I
hear no more of gang fights al nong
our pupils, and I am confident. that
the wholesome competition fostered
by the team work has been a great
factor in breaking up the gang
spirit"
1t is declared that this system
makes boys more sportsmmaike :;
unfair tactics and roughness have
disappeared, the boys following the
rules and respecting the decisions of
the officials. The idea is worth even
more to the-community than to the
boys, and its benefit to the boys is
past telling.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28

at a Warsaw, and secondly, that
cutting Russian armies to pieces is
more costly to the Kaiser than to
the Czar, for the reason that Rus
sia has men to spare by the mil
lions, Germany has none at all.
Every German division that is
decimated in the east makes the
numbers of the allies stronger in
the west. Every battery of guns
that is worn out, every supply Of
ammunition that is shot away
against the Russians means stout
er arm and better day for France,
England, and Belgium hammering
at the German trenches from the
fiat plains of Flanders to the high
peaks of the Vosges.
Germany, by her very victories
over Russia, costly in men, muni-
tions, and money as every one must
be, wears herself down for the real
test in the field where the war must
be won or lost.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
Favors Regulations for So-Called
Auction Houses.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Recently you printed an article by D.
l.. to which / would like to add some
observations of my own.
To the observer II must be evident
that some regulations should be adopt
ed that could compel some so-called
auction houses" to do q legitimate
business or close up. With a sign
posted reading. I'VE reserve the right
to withdraw any article" how can an
auction be carried OH legally? Accord
ing to authoritative dictionaries these
places are not doing an auction bust
ness in the accepted meaning Of the
werd, but merely opera ting under the
pretense.
Should a person bio. the slick auction
eer will call higher bid If the price
Is not suitable. and by nodding his head
to "capper" or to somebody not pres
ent, will pretend to have received u
higher bid, forcing the bidder, II he
desires the article enough. to raise the
false bid In this way the writer has
counted during the sale Of a single ar
ticle as many as fifteen false bids that
should not have taken a very bright
person to see that he was being beat.
Two other places have as their sole
occupants three-fourths of the time as
two women. These "cappers" have
been on the job for mouths. without
changing a face.
OF course a person Is not bound TO en-
ter these places. or forced to bid IL he
does butts 1t not for the weak that
restraining laws are made? There GER
tainly should be regulations compelling
these auction Ihouses" to do a legal
| business. w. r. l..
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
NEWSPAPERS AND THE WAR

The managing editor of New
York newspaper delivered an ad-
dress last evening in the metropolis,
in which he spoke on the press and
the war. He devoted himself par
ticularly to the business reasons
why the newspapers might be ex-
pected to be for or against war,
pointing out that it is quite the most
expensive enterprise that they can
be forced to "cover." War means,
not profits because the newspapers
sell more copies, but great reduc-
tions of profits because it is so ex-
pensive to get and print the wars
news.
Some time ago. in the processes
of determining the inheritance tax
to be laid on a great newspaper
whose owner had died, it became
necessary to appraise that property
in court. Its earnings were shown
for a long series of years; and the
one year in which it produced a
deficit rather than 4 handsome
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
SIR JOHN FRENCH TO
BE RETIRED SOON
British Commander in-chief Will
Be Decorated With Order
of Garter.

PARIS. June 8.-It is becoming more
and more evident that the retiremen,
of Sir John French is only a matter or
weeks.
The supineness OF the British COM
mander-in-chief has aroused much bit
ter comment here and no one will De
surprised to hear that he has been
decorated with the Order of the Gar
ter and called home to make way for
General Smith -Borrien, the hero or
Mons. of General Robertson, the only
Englishman who has risen from the
ranks to a stan position.
The recent visit of Premier Asquith
to the front It now transpires, was
made with the hope of smoothing over
the difficulties between Kitchener nno
French. 1t was a fruitless attempt
Kitchener disapproves OF French's tao
tics.
French, 1t is currently rumored, has
surrounded himself with members OF
the nobility while Kitchener believes
In picking his subordinates for efn-
cheney alone.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
Advocates Law To Protect Lives Of
CanOeists,

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
There seems to be a great ieal of
apprehension in the minds of the
more timid regarding the stability
and security of canoes after having
read of the accident last Sunday re-
sulting in the drowning of two boys
in the Potomac.
This and similar accidents are due
wholly to carelessness and inexps-
rience in handling a canoe. There are
many prejudiced people only too will
ing to blame such accidents on the
canoe and not on the canoeist. One
paper, commenting on the accident.
vert SO adr, far as o to say that both boys
had even been identified. Such state
mcnts as this give parents an err
roneous idea of canoeing and tends
to convince them that the river is
not safe place for their sons and
daughters.
The canoe Is a safe craft when prop
erly msnaged. but a novice taking O
canoe in dangerous water is parallel
to a person attempting to drive an
automobile at the rate Of sixty miles
an hour the first time at the wheel.
When an accident happens in the
latter case do we lay the blame to
the car? Why then should we blamo
accidents due to careless or thought
less handling on the canoe? The
great majority Of people who con-
denim canoeing are those who have
never been in a canoe and are ignor-
ant Of its stability when used with
proper care. Considering that there
are approximately 500 canoes on the
river the percentage Of accidents Is
very small indeed. 4,
There is apparently no law to avoid
calamity by preventing the Nnex-
perienced person from venturing into
| the most dangerous part of the riv-
er. even when high and swift, as 1t
was last Sunday. One step In the
right direction would be the enact
ing of law compelling all canoes to
be equipped with at least two life
pillows. or similar light portable life
saving apparatus. The novice could
or attach them to his person in a
correct manner, when venturing into
dangerout waters. so there would be
| no repetition of the fatality which
occurred last Sunday. . ..
CLAUDE r. BRENEMAN.
Washington, June %.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
Wants To Know Where He Has
Right To Kill Pedestrians.

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
l am writing for some information
which l think the Mail Bag authorities
on laws might furnish me. What
want to know Is whether or not am
liable to be arrested if l go out on the
streets of Washington with a deadly
killing machine and run down men and
women on the streets, killing them be-
tween the crossing and in the middle
Of blocks.
OF course know 1t is rather contrary
to law to kill children and grown people
On the crossings. but Is 1t not con-
sidered quite proper to run them down
and string their bodies along the gut
ter If we can Just happen to catch them
crossing In the middle Of block"
j have got a machine that kills them
while I am willing to pay any reason
able fine for cutting a pedestrian in two
while he Is unfaWfully occupying road
space on the Washington streets. at
the Same time I do not like to be ar
rested by the common city police. as
they are often quite inconsiderate and
] have even known them to hint that h
machine KILLER is not within his rights
places, that Is, the Washington streets.
The fact Is. / would like to have my
rights defined. Can /, or can / not.
lawfully kill OFF these street walkers
that don't pay proper attention to the
crossings? What is a street for, any
way? Is 1t or Is 1t not for the ex-
elusive use of killers with deadly ma
chinery?
II understand the city ordinances
have a right to propel heavy machinery
about the streets and no human has
any right to stand in front of me II
want TO run over the place where
he stands. That is the ordinance. Now
can't ! Just kill my man off and have
Il over with, that is just run him down
and chew him up q bit and go on about
my business? Who knows all about
this. S. NJ, JOHNSON.
Washington June H.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
Sarajepo Anniversary Finds
Nations in War DeadIOcked
Prinzip's Act Brought
. IL Nations Into War

One year ago today the Austrian
archduke, Francis Ferdinand,
and his wife were shot and
killed in the little Bosnian
town Of Sarajevo by Garvio
Prinzip. 1t was the act Of
Prinzip, a poor student, which
ultimately resulted in twelve
nations going to war.
These nations are, on one hand,
Great Britain, France, Russia,
Serbia, Japan, Belgium, Italy,
Albania, and Montenegro, and
on the other, Germany, Aus
tria, and Turkey.
The war to date, according to
conservative estimates COM
piled from the best available
reports, has caused alos S to
the various belligerents OF
more than 100000 men,
dead, wounded, and prison.
ers, and more than 500 ships.
Of these about l20 we're war
vessels.
The Washington times., 1915-06-28
DRIVING AT RUSSIA

More likely than that the Rus-
sian reoffensive has again broken
down, as the news dispatches re-
late, is 1t that the Russian retreat
from Galicia is continued without
interruption except for rear-gr.ard
stands. Russia hasn't had any Of
fensive in weeks.
AS long as they are in action with
the trained German legions the Rus
sian half-mob armies, even with
adequate supplies of arms and am
munition, must be at a disadunt-
age. Nevertheless that truth does
not solve Berlin's military problem
either in the west or in the east.
The hosts of Russia are too colos-
sal, the spaces over which they are
spread are too vast for Berlin ever
to be able to put the Cars military
resources out of the reckoning
very serious reckoning.
No matter what the Kaiser does
to the Cars armies in Galicia, how
ever precipitately he drives them
back across their own boundaries.
he can never leave them to be taken
care of by the ineffective and all nut
helpless Austrians. He must keep
many Prussian and Bavarian corps
along the Czar's frontiers to no Id
back the Russian millions or Aus
tria must see them coming on again,
innumerable and inexhaustible.
And let it be remembered first
that while in the east the Kaiser is
heavily engaged, he must in the
west be short of men Withdrawn to
take a Lemberg or make a drive
The Washington times., 1915-06-28

profit was that Of 1898. The busi-
ness manager explained that that
was the year Of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, and the war was entirely
responsible for converting profit
into loss.
"It's great thing for the news
papers, anyhow; Of course, they
want the war to go on" Is a COM
mon observation, about as far from
the facts as could be imagined. It's
great thing for the newspapers
to carry. The difficulties of getting
news were never so great as now,
because of the censorship that has
been applied by all the fighting
countries; while the costs of it are
increased by reason of the vast field
of action that must somehow be
covered, that cannot be dropped out
of sight for an hour. ..
There have been reckless charges
about newspapers being "owned" OF
Influenced" by foreign interests
but as a matter of fact it would be
difficult to find a business in the
whole country in which the proper.
ton of foreign interest is so small
Newspapers are owned in fact by
their, owners, the people who ap.
pear as their owners; they are con.
Quoted as their owners want them
conducted, not as somebody else
wants