The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-10-14
Underwood Bouquets and BriCkbatS

James Morby has contract for clear
ing four and a half acres on the DR..
Manners place. MIR. Morby is an eX-
perienced hand at clearing and does
some very good work of that kind.
The lady teacher at Chenowith, after
only few weeks of teaching, resigned
aud gentleman teacher from CalifOr
aa has been engaged to take her place,
Emile Walthers has recently killed
some young heifers and supplied good
beef to the neighborhood.
Mrs. Val Sandal has been absent for
some time at Occur d'Alene, lda.,
where she has been engaged in hospital
work. Mrs. Sandal is a skilled trained
nurse and her services are much sought
after.
Quail have been appearing in consid-
cradle numbers in the orchards on the
Underwood Heights. They increase
rapidly with the clearing up of the land
and would be of great value to field
ard orchard if the pot hunters and
other vermin would let them alone,
But with the open season for shooting
now on the determination of these use
full birds began. Firearms in the hands
of boys and irresponsibles become not
only a nuisance but a danger. The
other day one of these gunmen was
shooting quail on the Haskell Marsh
place, when the shot not only killed the
poor bird, but also struck Mrs. h. l..
Hope, who at the time was gathering
some cabbage in the garden. 1t came
near being a serious accident. Better
look out or some one will get into seri-
Gus trouble.
! What destructive animal man is.
| He has exterminated the buffalo and
the passenger pigeons and is now doing
his best to eXterlmnate the quail. BY
the destruction of these and other use
full birds the farming industry of the
United Stses annually suffers the loss
of millions of dollars from insect pests
which multiply as the birds are killed.
The government has been building on
the Alaska railroad all summer, and
this great government work. which will
rank in history with the building of the
Panama canal, has almost escaped no.
tice. The newspapers have given more
attention to the trial, doings and say
ings of the ThaW lunatic and degener-
ate than they have to this great ma
tional work. The man who raises a
few beans or a peck of potatoes is
worth a trainload of Harry Thaws.
Any good domestic animal is worth
something to the world, but, as Carlyle
says, there are some human beings who
are not only worth nothing to society,
but to whom society could afford to
give something to get rid of them.
With the son a fool and the daughter
married to the decayed ignobility of
Europe there would seem to be ground
for Carlyle's grim sarcasm.
Private enterprise failed in building
the great ditch at Panama and Uncle
Sam had to do the job. Private enter
prise had the opportunity TO develop
Alaska, but the millionaires refused to
build railroads and open up the country
unless given everything in sight, and
so Uncle Sam had again to undertake
the work, and now the railroads in
Alaska will be in every sense public
utilities and not private perquisites.
But if this is a good thing down in
Panama and up in laska, why not in
the whole country? The great work
now going on in Alaska will open up a
new empire for settlement and be of
vast importance to the Pacific coast.
1t ought to outrank in significance the
building of warships and organizing
armies to kill others, which will soon
occupy the attention of congress and fill
the newspapers. But nation which
has a Roosevelt and a Hobson is surely
not unIrepared for war.
Thistledown.
P. S.-Thanks for J. P. Scott May
| his tribe increase.