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EARLY CLUBS IN AMERICA.
The Fire. One Was Founded In Phils.
dslphia In t7f7.

The First One Was Founded In Phils.
delphia In 17t7.
The two earliest clubs In America.
according to Colonel Henry watterson
in his History of Manhattan Club"
were the Fish House club OF Philadel.
phia, founded In lTlI. and the Ho-
boken Turtle club of New York. which
was started In 1871 Then came the
Sons Of Liberty and the Sons of 81.
Tammany, which originated In .he
brain Of one william Mooney, an up
holsterer Of % Nassau street.
A The Sons of ST. Tammanv. Colonel
watterson finds. were so called after
an Indian chief in derision Of Eng
lands patron. st. George. and one Of
their main objects was not, as some
have supposed In the case Of the Tam
many organization. TO put good Demo-
Gratis into every job that paid any
thing. hut -to arouse anti-British feel.
ing and to discriminate knowledge
concerning the principles Of true po-
litical liberty"
The Sons of ST. Tammany. later the
Society OF st. Tammany. was opposed
to all trends of aristocracy. and It
counted as its natural enemy the So
ciety of the Cincinnati. whose mems
'bership was originally designed TO pass
down by Inheritance.
! The, first club OF New York founded
on the lines of the London social In
stitutons was the Union. in 1896
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thought we heard 1.-THE other
morning, but the stage driver
informed us that it was only
rfriend, James Stewart,
taking his morning nap after
a hard days work on the
fam. We hope TO see the
realization of Fossils dream,
but when we remember that
so years have already passed
over our head, we are inclined
to loose hope,
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
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ExrcurIvE DEPARTMENT.

ExEcuTIvE DEPARTMENT
President, Woodrow Wilson, OF New
Jersey; Vice President, Thomas Mar
shall, of Indiana; Secretary OF State,
William Jennings Bryan, OF Nebras'
ka; Secretary Of Tesasury, William
G. MeAdoo, Of New York; Secretary
Of War, Lindley NJ. Garrison, OF New
Jersey; Attorney Generai' MI
Gregory, Of Tennesseei Postmaster
Geuetal, Albert S. Burleson, OF Texas
Secretary Of Navy, Josephns Daniels
oil North Carolina; Secretary OF inte'
rior Franklin X. Lane, of California;
Secretary of Agriculture, David A.
Huston, Of Missouri; Secretary oi
Commerce, William C, Rediield, OF
New York, Secretary Of Labor, viii
liam B. Wilson: of Pennsylvania,
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SWISS DIVORCE CASES.


The Court Always Tries 10 Settle
Thorn BY Reconciliation.
In ono important respect the Swiss
surpass other nations In the manage
ment OF their divorce cases. says en-
English correspondent
In every town there II = kind Of Off.
cial paper known as the Fsuille davis,
IN which one may read daily tho fol.
lowing announcement;
"M. and Nine. X. who are In In
stance Of divorce, are requested to ap.
pear privately before the judge, alone
or with their lawyers. In order to come
70 a reconciliation II possible"
Before the beginning Of every d..
vorce case In Switzerland this notice Is
published and sent out TO the interests
ed parties. leaving the eorple. OF course.
free to attend before the judge or not
as they wish. Often the couple meet.
Although there are no statistics pub;
lished on the subject am told by d
leading lawyer In Geneva whose spe.
cialty Is divorce cases that at least 30
per cent Of divorce cases--'mnch to
my loss, unfortunately" the lawyer
added, with smile-are settled by the
paternal advice OF the Judge, at these
meetings ont OF court.
In fact, Swiss lawyers will not def
nitely take mp divorce case until It
has passed through the reconciliation
process.
II one OF the couple does not attend
the rendezvous this means that the az.
fair Is to be fought out. but In any case
Swiss divorces are not expenslve.--S
Francisco Chronicle.
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wha. .carbIor. oncs Meant.

"Garble," "garbled." ''garbler." are
words which nowadays convey quite
different meaning from that which
was formerly accepted. "Garble" orig
ihally signified simply ito select for a
purpose" At one time there was an
officer. termed '.tbe gartler Of spices .
whose duty 1t was ~ visit the shops
and examine the spices. ordering the
destruction OF all impure goods. His
duties were similar 10 those OF the in.
6pector of the modern health depart
ment. who forbids the sale OF decayed
vegetables or tainted meat. The word
comes from a root meaning ITO sift"
The Impurities sifted out have in the
course of generations corrupted the
term till ..garbied report" is no long.
er report wberefron all uncertainty
has been removed, but one that is full
of Misrepresentation and made mis-
leading with deliberate intent.
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aoIIcg FOR PUBLICATION
Isoletei tract.
Department of the interior,


U. S. Laud Office, The Dalles, Ore.
Dec. 4, 1915
Notice is hereby given that. as di-
rected by the commissioner Of the
General Land office. under provisions
of Sec. 3455, r. s., persuant to the
application of Jane X. Donnelly, Sc
rial No. OI4450, we will offer atpublic
sale, to the highest bidder, but at not
less than $1.25 per acre, at l0-15 O.
clock A. M. on the 9Th dey ofFebru-
ary, next, at this Office, the following
tract of land: WaSE4 Section 81,
Township 8, South Range 23, East
willamette Meridian $50 Acres).
This tract is ordered into the mar
ket on a showing that the greater
portion thereof is mountainous or too
rough for cultivation
The sale Will not be kept open, but
will be declared closed when tho e
present at the hour named have ceased
bidding The person tuaking this
highest bid will be required to iiilliie
diately pay to the Receiver the "a
mount thereof.
Any person claiming adversely the
above-described land are advised to
file their claimes, or objections, on or
before the time. designated for sale.
l.. A. Booth, Receiver
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.foutlawry In Scotland.

/. The unusual sentence Of, outlawry
recently pronounced BIZ the Scottish
courts is relic Of the days before ex-
tradition existed. For It was the usual
punishment Of those who wilfully
avoided the execution of legal process
and was inflicted upon the criminal
who fed the country and could not be
brought back. In the old days to be
outlawed-in the case Of women they
called 1t waived-meant that one could
be knocked on the head by any passer-
by, and outlaws In fact were said to
be caput lupinum-that to. they had u
VOLTS head and .colld be treated as a
wild beast.--I1ondon Mail.
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Mitehe. and Fa;riaa.

Belief in witchcraft, still an article Of
the popular creed in Essex and NAV be
elsewhere in England, isi not the only
survival Of the kind. In the south Of
ireland are still TO be found people
who believe in fairies. The writer
knew an Irishwoman. one Of thou.
sands of her class, who would not
travel a country road after dark for
fear of them, though what they
would do deponent sayeth not.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
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NOTICE OF CONTEST.
Department of the Interier
United States Land Office. The Dalles,
- ~. n tatr

United States Land Office. The Dalles,
Oregon. Dec. 8, 1915.
To John II. Mohs of Fossil. Oregon.
Contestee: YOU are hereby poti fed
that Edward f. Mathews who gives
Winlock, Oregon, as his postoffice
address. did on Nov, 2, 1915, file in
this Office his daily cofrpbefated ap
plication to contest and secure the
cancellation of your homestead Eutry
Serial No. 0S7S3 made April "a. 1911,
for SW4SE4. sE4SW4, Sec. 10, NE4
NW4. NW4NE4, Section IL, Town
ship s., Range 2aE., Willamette
Meridian. and as grounds for his
contest he alleges that said john Nj.
Mohs has never established residence
and the six months period tor estab-
fishing residence has long since passed
You are, therefore, further notified
that Inc Sdiu fdhS Sdllono VIII - 'NNN"
as confessed, ard your said sntry Will.
be Cancelled without further right to-
be heard, either before this cfiice or on
appeal, if You fail to. file in this office
within twenty days after the FOURTH
publication of this notice, as shown
below, your answer, under oath, spe
officially responding TO these allega-
tions of contest, together with due
proof that you have served copy OF
your answer on the said contestant
either in person or by registered mail.
You. should state i'll your answer the
name ofthe post office TO which you
desire future notices to be sent 10 you
H. Frank Woodcock. Register,
Date of first publication Dec. 23d 1915.
- "'second " = 30th
2 "i.hifd jan 9Th 1916.
= I fou-th = 18th
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WHEELER CouNry

Attorney; Joseph X. Stan Judge;
Henry y. Keyes. Commissioners NJ,
Dukek and>R. +, Wright ClesR;
Scott Sasser Treasurer; A i Lamb.
School Superintendent Henry J SIM
mons. Sheriff; Oscar Helsay Asses
sor; Peter Hartman surveyor H. I
C.. Heidtman
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literary.

"Oh. simply adore Meredith and
Browning and Henry James" said the
gushing young person.
80 do l." said Little Binks. ''rhey
are perfectly delightful. It's Ike send
ing your mind to a gymnasium, Err
do you read them in the originalY-
buffalo News.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-12-30

Again the people Of Vince
ler County are anxiously ex-
pecting to hear the whistle
blow on the extention 5f', the
'O.' W. R. & N. Rail Road
rom Condor to Fossil. We
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Very Probable.

Bibbs-What has become Of the fool
killer? Gibbs--I can't guess. Bibbs.
unless he quit because he couldn't get
extra pay for working overtime
Judge.
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The power Of applying attention to a
single subject Ia the sure mark Of a
superior genfus-Chesterfelas
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Colonel Rooevelt follows
Justice Hughes and Mayor
Thompson in asking to have
his name removed from the
Republican primary ballot
in Nebraska. And all the
quidnuncs are trying to read
some cabalistic meaning into
the Colonel's action. Our
guess is that the Colonel is
more anxious to see Wilson
beaten than to accomplish
anything else in 1916 and
that his withdrawal of his
name in Nebraska means on
ly that he has no intention
of cumming the game.
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EDITORIALS
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A report from New York
City on holiday buying OF
Japanese goods gives a prac-
ticle demonstration of how
two Of the Democratic meas
,lres, inclued by President
Wilson in his category" Made
in America" idea. They are
the Democratic tariff, which
broke down our protective
WALL and the seaman's law,
which has driven our yes
sells from, the ocean-carrying
trade. The report says:
while some difficulty had
anticipated in obtaining a
sufficient supply Of merchan-
disc from Japan and China
to meet the holiday require
ments, owing to lack ofship-
ping facilities and high
freight rates. trade factors
said yesterday that importa-
tions had beer on asufficient
scale to care for the larger
demand. i 1t was pointed out.
that Japan had done every
thing toencourage the trade,
even to the extent of finan-'
cling agencies of American
houses when exchange rates
were prohibitive, and, con-
trary to expectations, the
manufacture Of products for
this business had not been
restricted by the develops
ment Of new industries and
expansion Of old ones under
war conditions in Japan.
AS a consequence Of this pol
icy importers do not antici-
pate any serious difficulty
with freight rates, as the
ships carrying the business
are owned by Japanese and
will probably De regulated
with the idea of extending
trade IN so far as possible"
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Thursday. Dec 3o,l9l5.
Published Every Thursday by
r. ID. PRICE Editor and Publisher
Subscription, Sr.oo per year. II
advance.
advance.
NJ

Entered ~ second-class matter April
O., 1914, a, he post-ofiice at spray, Oregon,
Under the Act OF Congress OF March 8, 1879,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

subtle apologists in Europe cannot eA-
lain away certain u~ndoubted offen-
eac against civilization in the present
war.
The Battle Song OF victory.
Like SO much OF the Bible, the song
OF Deborah is best Interpreted IN inc
1iyht of the usages OF the East. Once.
down along the Tigris river, I had put
TO confusion a petty Turkish o1lclai,
and my old raftsman q called MN
"Hamlet," because he was such a mel
ancholy Dance lifted up his cracked
voice and III q long and boastful reclt-
tative tune sans the triumph as II II
had been one OF A~lexanderS victories.
That is the custom in Bible ana TO-
day, as for thousands OF years past.
Every Arab skir1nish produces a CROP
of epics. Your western poet must chew
q penhOlder for a line ere ne can
produce a little verse; but your Arab,
with the swing and Vlgor ana staeell-
ness of Deborah's pean, Will lmpro-
| wise his poetry for every occasion.
Every village and tribe has it's poet
| laureate whose efficiency, relatively. Is
| greater than that Of Brltaln's.
A stately, noble song was that OF
| Deborah, and worthy OF close study
In it she not only sounded h note OF
triumph, and eXllted In the fall OF the
foe, and rehearsed the events OF the
battle, and derided the craven Israel
tiles who had skulked at home in the
hour Of need, but she also, and chief
ly, set forth the majesty and might
Of jehovah, as the real victor. The
poem, like all rue poetry, penetrated
straightway to the heart of the mat
ter. and in lofty strain, exalted the
God who gave the victory.
Aside from it's inherent interest
this great conquest over the Canaan
ties helped determine the solidarity
Of the Hebrew people. The event wa!
a turning point in the history of Is
rael. Deborah stands, a regal figure
at a crossroads in the life Of her ma
ton; and she upholds and represent
the twin truths Of patriotism and re
ligiOu
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05
PRICKLY CONSCIENCE EASEn.
"Neycr Built for a Criminal" Says
Man Who Asserts He's q Thief.

Kansas City Star.
DO I feel sorry that l gave myself
up to the police to atone for my past
crimes? Well, l should say not, !
have felt better the last few hours
I've bee in Jail than I have felt in
the past ten years."
That is how a young man who gave
the name OF Charles Flax feels since
he walked into police headquarters
and told Capt. Thomas P. Flahive that
he had led a life Of crime for ter
years.
Il was never built for q cri1ninal.'
he said. "The first otfense | ever
committed hurt my conscience, and !
gave myself up. That was ten years
ago when l was only Is years old. |
stole some money from my father and
ran away. When the money was spent
L felt sorry and told the police about
1t. l would not tell my name untli
L mad served two months in a reform
atory. [ felt better the and told
them who my father was. He immc-
dlately took me home.
l nave held up men, both on thg
street ana IN stores, stole money from
INJURED persons while an orderly at
the General Hospital, robbed the men
TOT whom | worked, and even stole
from my friends. While engaged II
the commission of the acts my con
science did not bother me, but after
Ward--then is when l suffered. !
would become Respondent after COM
nlltinC q crime and want to give my
sell up to atone for my wrongs, buC
usually my love of liberty would get
the better of me"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

The late John Alvah Blaisdell. %
East Lebanon, Ne, lived on his farm
without a human companion for moro
than 40 years, but had, at times, 10
or 20 cats. He read every n~eWspape.
he could get, and is said to have read
every book in the East Rochester
Drary and some OF them three o.
fouF times.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

the larger concerns Of the kingdom
The two principal qualifications AIT
sincere and intelligent Interest
Christ's work in all its aspects: AMI
quality of sober Judgment, fired -
zeal.
Boards are bridges across the en>.
of isolation which surrounds man
Christian lives.
Through his church boards. a Chris
tan speaks with authority upon lyino
questions Of social service, national
welfare and Christian needs.
4 group Of suggestive Thoughts .2.
On the topic is h following from
Amos z. Wells:
"Our board Of foreign missions
enormously heightened our arm. ana
enables US to work at the same time
in many distant parts of the earth.
His board Of home missions stands
at the right hand of every Christian
| patriot, and does what he longs Ii do
fcr his dea country.
"Your denOminational Sunday
! school board enables YOU to pay Your
| debt for all the Sunday school has
meant to you.
"Your denominational publication
board spreads the truth for Which
YOUR UNCONVENTIONAL stands. Il yo1
believe it, you want others to believe
it.
What banks and checks do for The
transmission of money n the spread
Of our denominations
boards do for the transmission Of in
fuence and the promotion OF III.
Kings business.
"You remember the fable OF III.
sticks hat could De broken easil
when separate, but not at all vhel
tied together in a bundle. Our de
nominational boards tie us into
bundle.
"As a disease hal will spread owe
the entire body may start in a Yer
small part OF the body, SO an insight
cant member of a denomination ma
start a malady that will spread Ok
the entire body Of the churches.
"a country store may be manage
by one man, but q big city depar
ment store must have boards Of MAJ
ayers. To object to denomination
' boards is to wish for g very little a
nomination.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05
SEVEN SENTENCE NJ

He who has not been q erva car
not become a praiseworthy master
Plato.
We need to guard against making g
show of u praying, talking about i,
j. B. Hitler.
Zeal and duty are no slow, but on
occasions fOrelock Watchful wait
Milton.
In the deepest night Of trouble and
sorrow God gives us SO much to %
thankful for that we need never cease
our singing.-Coleridge.
The sacrifices Of God are a broken
spirit: A broken and cOntrite heart
Q God, thou wilt not despise.-P8. 13-
II.
Less, less Of self each day,
And more, my God, OF Thee:
Oh, keep me in the way,
However rough it be.
--Bonar.
lie who freely praises what As
means to purchase. and he who enume
crates the faults OF what he means e
sell, may Set up a partnership With
honesty.-Lavater.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05
1 WONAN'S WAR SONG.

TIE International Sunday school Les
son for january 10 is n
Barak Deliver rae - JudS'
1923; 5:t-22.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

and religion. She lighted anew II
fires Of loyalty to the dream OF AoIa-
ham and to the cOvenant-keeplng Je-
hovah. By lifting aloft the common
ideals. she created once more some
thing akin to q true national sent-
ment.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

Terse Comments on the Uniform Pray
er Meeting Topic of the Young Poo
pies Societics-Christian EndeaVOr.
etc.-Eor January 1O.-'Our De-
nO1ninatiOnai Boards, II Our Kela-
ton t. Them" ? Cor. g: SIS,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-05

subtle a~pologists in Europe caIlios eA-
- aoainsf civilization in the present
The Washington times., 1915-07-03
WILL
CONTINUE TO FLOW
Only a Few Wine Cellars Near
Rheims Have Suffered Dam.
age.

Although German shells fly daily over
the wine cellars of Rheims. the cham
pagne merchants have been able to
carry on business almost as usual, re-
marks the London Times.
A special correspondent Of the Wine
Trade Review says that the smashing
of few bottles by a stray shell Is all
the damage that has been done at the
cellars.
The champagne firms haye turned In
energetic fashion to holding their bust
ness together" says the correspondent.
There Is quite decent output from
Rheims itself. even under the greatest
danger. The cases arc carted to Eper-
nay, whence they are sent Off by rail.
and one of the leading carriers of the
district told me that he wished he
could get twice the number of horses.
80 that he might fulfll all the cartag ge
orders for champagne that he has.
Several of the leading firms are in
stallng cellars at other and safer
places in the district, notably at Eper-
nay"
Speaking Of the 1914 vintage, the
correspondent says:
without being anything OF an ex-
ceptionai year, such as 1866 or 1897. 1t
Is Of distinctly high class. It will be
a wine of a bouquet above the average.
with considerable character, comparing
perhaps more to that Of 1904 than 1906.
As regards the losses to the vine
yards owing to the war. these are very
The Washington times., 1915-07-03

he says they hurt hisSfeet, and- besides.
what's the use Of being professor IL
one has to wear shoes7 ..
= Tells of Adventures.
"Ishis" lectures tell of the mode of
life of his people. of whom he Is the
last. He tells of his explorations In the
hills and of his hunting and fishing.
He never tells Of those who went before
him. because he believes that to call
them by name would mean that they
could come back and ask who called,
and his religion won't permit him to
speak OF the dead.
"1shi" was. and perhaps still Is. the
most ''uncivilized' man In the world.
Until he was captured by the uni
versity scientists In 1871. none of his
tribe had been seen since 1860. The
little tribe lived near Mill creek. in
the forests, where thev stayed In hid
ing. avoiding traders, and keeping
away from the railroad tracks where
engines rumbled by them. They
thought the locomotives some strange
sort of demon-in fact. "Ishi'' Is just a
little nervous about 1t yet!
The Washington times., 1915-07-03
.|SH|, LAST CAVE MAN,
NOW IS A PROFESSOR
Rounded Up as Curiosity, He
Lectures on Extinct Tribes
In California.

OAKLAND. Cal, July "a naked
half-starved Indian, knowing less than
the children In the first grade In Oak
lands schools. and captured only when
trecd by dogs In the wilds OF the hills
near Oroville, is today a college pro-
fessor. Ho can't read-in fact, he can
hardly speak--but he's taught scientists
something they have been cropping for
through many years. and ''Ishi," rs he
Is called, is now one OF the notables of
the University Of California, one Of the
most famous OF professors. and. prob
ably, will g'veA lessons to- boys and
girls at Oakland when they grow up
and 60 to college-that is, " they take
up tho study of snthropology.
Shows How Cave Men Live.
"Ishi'' Is employed daily as an in
structor at the affiliated colleges-the
medical school OF, the unversitS-and,
besides teaching men bow the Indians
chopped wood and rubbed sticks to
He's gentleman now. and In HIS
make fire. he has shown them how men
lived long before they knew the things
we know now. for |'1shf' Is the last OF
the cave men. or the men who in ages
past lived in caves. almost like the
beasts Of the field.
''Ishi" isn't a cave man any more.
store clothes" and with his top hat
he's very proud hf himself-all except
the feet He wont wear shoes because
The Washington times., 1915-07-03
PRISON CALF LOST; .
NURSES SUSPECTED
Reasons to Believe Sing Sing
Convicts Sold Charge and
Bought Liquor.

OsSINING. N. Y. July 3.-The Sing
Sing calf Is missing. The calf. which
was a comparatively recent acquisition
and about the only thing that ever
arrived at sing Sing without being sent
there by fudge. resided in a barn out
side the walls. Inmates we're detailed to
plav nurse to the calf. and 1t was a
popular lob.
Two days ago two OF these men re-
turned to quarters evidently having had
too much Intoxicating drink. and had
to be taken to the hospital. 1t was
about that time that the calf disap-
peared.
The coincidence Of he disappearance
OF the calf and the drunkenness of the
men seemed to be more than a COIN
cidence. and It Is suspected that the calf
was sold by some OF the nurses and that
the where withal served to procure
whisky. Anyway. different men ars
now doing the barn work.