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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
Beating the Shifting Sands.

Confronted by the task of building q
highway over desert of constantly
shifting sands, which in a few years
might cover and render useless a road
bed of macadam or concrete, the Cali
fornia highway commission has intro
duced type of paving which is port
able, so that 1t can be easily moved to
conform to the changing topography of
the country. Popular Mechanics Maya
zine describes the paving as made of
plank, built In sections u feet long
and feet wide, and hauled by wagons
to the points where it is needed. This
unused thoroughfare extends six miles
across a portion of the desert
lying between Yuma, Ariz, and
Holtville, Cal. The plank sections
are built on by 6-inch stringers. The
units are bound together by iron
strips placed over rows of spikes, one
either side and one along the center
of the road. Roundheaded bolts run
ming through the planks and stringers
are used to hold the strips down. The
latter, in addition to joining the units
together. keep the spikes from working
out Of the lumber.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
PROVED EQUAL TO OCCASION
Super's Blunder Merely Served to
Show the Resourcefuiness Of 4
Hamilton Footlites.

Dewey, discussing the naval battle
of Skagerrak, said at a Washington
luncheon:
"A naval officer, to succeed, must be
very quick-witted and resourceful. In
fact, he must be like Hamilton Foot.
lites.
Ham Footlites leaned on the rail OF
his sea-going yacht soliloquizing about
love while the blue waves rolled and
heaved splendldly, each blue wave
being super under roll of canvas.
But the waves were here and there
threadbare, and suddenly wave
ripped and head bobbed up in the
midst of the heaving sea and stared
around in bewildered fashion.
Ham Footlites silenced the audi.
ence's filters with one stern glance.
"Man overboardr he yelled in
stentorian tones.
'"Then the super, managing to draw
back his head through the hole in the
wave, disappeared. Ham Footlies
heaved a stormy sigh.
"'Another victim seized by the re-
lentless sea, alas he said"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
Kidney Disorder
(By DIR. V. NJ. PIERCE)

The most simple methods are usu-
ally the most effective ones when
treating any disorder of the human
system. The mere drinking a cup Of
hot water each morning, plenty
of pure water all day, and little
Anurics before every meal has been
found the most effective means Of
overcoming kidney trouble. Death
would occur II the kidneys did not
work day and night in separating
poisons and uric acid from the blood.
The danger signals are backache,
depressions, pains, heaviness, drowsi-
ness, irritability, headaches, chilllness,
rheumatic twinges, swollen joints or
govt.
Since 1t Is such a simple matter to
step into your favorite drug store and
obtain Anurlc, anyone who earnestly
desires to regain health and new life
Will waste no time in beginning this
treatment.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

<<Y SEEN b. Sipkin this morning
getting out of a new twin six"
Louis Birsky the real estater
said to Barnett Zapp the waist manu-
facturer. "That Teller goes from a
pushcart to ottomobeel in less than
five years."
LESS than two years, you mean,"
Zapp said. "What was the price ticket
business before the war started, Biz
sky? And since then he's been work
ing day and night manufacturing
tags for Tag Days. He told me he
could of sold twice as many tags If it
wouldn't be that it's SO hard to get
red ink for putting red crosses on
EN-"
"The war amt been so bad that
way" Birsky said. "Its done good
deal to make people give to charities"
"War charities" Zapp corrected.
"Charities oder war charities" Bir-
sky said. "What's the difference?
"There's q whole lot of difference"
Zapp replied. "A business man which
gives away his money to charity may
| Il
victims ever dry out or not, just so
long as the newspapers don't spell his
name so badly that his customers
couldn't recognize it, understand. At
the same time, Birsky, he's got the
satisfaction of knowing that he amt
helping out the Teller which caused
the flood and who has got plenty of
money to assist the flood victims If 1t
wouldn't be that he is saving 1t to buy
dynamite for blowing up more dams.
Yes, Birsky, giving to some war re-
lief funds means relieving them gov
ernments over in Europe from the ex-
pense of caring for their wounded sol
diers and widows and orphans, so that
they can use the money they ought to
spend that way in buying ammunition
to make more wounded soldiers and
widows and orphans for the Americans
to raise relief funds for"
well, anyhow, Teller that gives
money for war charity is just so kind
hearted as Teller which gives money
to charity" Birsky said.
'That depends on his intentions, u
Zapp replied. "There is some French
er-Americans and German-Americans
which has got a pretty good idee that
war charity is a matter of bookkeep-
ing, and you couldn't call it kind
hearted exactly if such Teller would
Inclose with his check a letter saying
Gents: Inclosed herewith please find
check for five hundred dollars fol
wounded soldiers. Would be obliged
If you will transfer the sum Of five
hundred dollars from your hospital
account and credit same to your liquid
fire and SIS account and oblige yours
truly"
an that case" Birsky commented
''if such a Teller thinks he's going tC
make a hit with the recording angel
understand, he might just so wei
save his five hundred dollars and ge
the same amount Of credit by black
lacking a couple Of perfect strangers
on dark night"
"Them fellers amt looking to make
a hit with the recording angel" ZapI
continued. "They'l be perfectly sat
isfied with a Double Cross Of tb'
Legion of Honor or a Red Eagle q
tho Serond Glass, Blue Eagle Of tn,
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
Why the Caby Cries.

Now we know why the baby cries.
For a long time the cause was yelled
In obscurity. 1t might be an inaccessi-
bic pin, or it might be the helpless dis
crepaucy betwixt the heavenly king
dom aud this world, or it might be a
plain case of collie, called by what new
tangled term you please. 1t has re-
manned for George B. Hotchkiss of the
University School of Commerce, adj
dressing editors and publishers of
trade journals in New York, to dis
cover that the baby cries in order to
advertise. 1t is the baby's effective an
nouncement, in the imperative mood
that he wants to be taken up and
petted, or he wants the moon, or he
wants something else, and "he won't
be happy till he gets it." There Is no
denying that for an infant industry the
baby's advertising is a great success
Nearly every time he gets results, and
the most astute and alert professional
solicitor cannot show higher percent.
age of success.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

er, and If he gives to war charity, he
expects to get an Order from the
Kaiser"
''For my part" Birsky said, 81 would
whole lot sooner get an order from
a customer as from the Kaiser, be-
cause If you should get Black or q
White Eagle of, the Second Class
what are you going to do with it?'
"Wear it on the outside of your
overcoat, l suppose" Zapp replied.
"And get arrested for impersonat.
ing an officer!" Birsky said. 81 would
as lieve go to the German bazaar and
buy them vulcanized cigars"
THAT amt so foolish neither,
Zapp concluded, III you carry along
the exact change"
Copyright, New York Tribune)
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
Touch Luck.

"Van Cush is an extremely unlucxy
chap"
"He isn't usually considered So"
II know, but you ought to hear him
talk about his misfortunes. Six
months ago he decided that he had
made all the money he could possibly
use, so he bought farm and retired.
He started to sink an artesan well In
order to insure supply of pure wa
ter. And what did he do but s.rike Oil 7
Now he's got to get back in harness
again and make whole lot of money
that he doesn't need at all out Of that
oil well. Don't you pity him freAi the
bottom of your hearth"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

neighbor told my mother about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
! took it. and now l feel like q new
person. l don't suffer any more and
am regular every month. Mrs. HAZEL
HAMILTON, 822 South 18th St.
When a remedy has lived for forty
years, steadily growing in popularity
and influence, and thousands upon
thousands of women declare they owe
their health to it, is it not reasona-
BILE to believe that it is an article Of
great merit?
IfyOu want special advice write
to Lydia Il. Pinkham Medicine
Co. (cOnfidentiaD, Lynn, Mass.
Your letter will be opened, read
and answered by a woman and
held in strict confidence.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

refused TO pay any attention to the
complaints of the other tenants In her
apartment house and they carried the
matter to a Magistrates Court"
"Sure l know" Birsky said. "There's
many Teller has sit through one Of
these here benefit concerts thinking
of them poor wounded soldiers laying
comfortably in hospitals somewheres
in France and has said to himself
after all what is it so terrible that
a Teller should lose a leg or an arm.
Am l right or wrOngT
'Listen, Birsky, you are talking
now from concerts" Zapp said, "aber
the time when you really begin to
figure that maybe if you'd stayed in
the old country you'd of been a whole
lot better off even reckoning Zeppelins
and liquid fire and everything, Birsky,
is when you go once on war benefit
bazaar. What some kind hearted
ladies will do in the way Of making
change for the sake Of them poor
wounded soldiers would be consid-
cred already rough work by Coney
Island waiter"
"Don't I know itf" Birsky said. "If
der lieber Colt would of took my
wife's sister a cousin by the name
Mrs. Gvornik seriously, understand,
they would Of been obliged to call the
police reserves, on account she stands
in the middle of Madison Square Gar
den the day before the war bazaar
closed and says she should never stir
from that spot If 1t was a five dollar
bill I gave her. So what could 1 dor
l took the cigars she sold me and
change for a two dollar bill, and
assure you, Zapp, l would as lieve
have smoked the change. Some Of
them rough stogies which they sell by
tobacco and cigar booths in war bene-
fit bazaars acts like they were fuses
manufactured for the Canadian Shell
Committee and timed to light in thir-
ty, sixty and ninety days"
"Them cigars was probably donated
by the Makers" Zapp said. "If a
Teller donates merchandise to war
relief bazaar, .BirslSy, he don't take II
so particular that it's good, up-to-date
stuff. When l was on the donation
committee of the Fifth Grand Annual
Fair Of the /. o. M. A., Birsky, ]
thought / done wonders to get hun
dred decks of cards out of Lurie the
stationery jobber. even bought them
from the sporting goods booth myself
at five dollars for the lot, Birsky, and
every deck was perfect excepting for
couple of missing high spades and
the joker. SO you could take it from
me, Birsky, If some one donates
cigars to a Charity bazaar, If they
amt exactly fireproof they're anyhow
of slow burning construction, and in
trying to smoke boxfui you could
take off a couple pounds In weight
principally around the cheeks"
'Even So" Birsky said, "a feller
stands a better show to get his
moneys worth by buying articles al
bazaars as by taking chances on
things. l bet In my time I've took
chances at bazaars on everything from
! oitermobiles down to pianos, and It's
my opinion Zapp, that before the
oitermobils company allows the car to
be put on exhibition at the bazaar tbs
! donation committee has got to executs
surety company bond in twice the
: amount Of the list price Of the cal
tha' the winning number S1418 will
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

be pasted to the bottom OF the HIT and
the car returned to the company upon
the presentation OF such number with
in twenty-four hours after the close
OF the bazaar and that this agreement
shall apply to and bind the parties
hereto. their heirs. executors. admin
istrators. successors and assigns. Yes,
taking chances on that oitermobile,
Zapp, but the oitermobile company
amt, you can bet your sweet life"
swell, If the common people was
more charitably inclined" Zapp said,
'there wouldn't be no necessity for
bazaars. Former times people used
to was charitable just for the sake of
being charitable. The way they fig-
ured was that If they wouldn't be
charitable, understand, maybe they
would be Jonahed with a little bad
business or they would break n leg
oder something, but nowadays when
everybody knows about cost book
keeping and reckons the overhead and
| loading, understand, you couldn't
fool business men that way no long
err. Either they want merchandise for
their charity like rotten cigars and
other stuff, or you must give 'em pub
licity."
"Say!" Birsky exclaimed, at don't
harm business man that his custom
ers should see his name down for ten
dollars or so in the annual report of
an orphan asylum or hospital"
"Sure, / know" Zapp agreed. "If a
business man gives to charity he ex-
poets to get an order from a custom
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

bertS name figures twice, whereas
she only mentions the wounded sol
diers once In the letter and once later
when Mr.. Van Rensselaer-Zwiebel
kicks that he has got to pay a bill for
five hundred newspapers and she says
amt he got no heart ON account she
is doing 1t all for them poor wounded
soldiers, Birsky."
Don't say a word" Birsky said,
Tapping the fingers of his right hand.
"Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bublick, which
is kin to my wife's brother julius, has
got a daughter Miss Bertha Bubliek.
Zapp. which she has been taking voice
production for years already, and
every time she opens her mouth, Zapp,
1t goes through you like knife.
Three times already on account of
that woman my wife drags me to bene-
fit concerts for them poor wounded
soldiers. / tell you, Zapp, it brings
the war pretty close home to you.
amt suffered so much with my ears
since l got mastoiditis that time with
a private room in Doctor Eichendor-
fer's sanitarium."
"And people has the nerve to say
she's kind hearted too, Birsky," Zapp
said. II don't suppose that woman
wishes them poor wounded soldiers
any harm, Birsky, but l bet she hopes
the war would last anyhow through
the concert seasons of 1867 anC
1917-1S. Yes, Birsky, before these
here war sufferers concerts was
pulled off the only chance such n sing
err would got to figure in the newspa
pers is in case the Board of Health
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
DON'T LOSE YOUR HAIR
Prevent It by Using Cutieura Soap and
Ointment. Trial Free,

II your scalp is irritated. itching and
burning and your hair dry and falling
out In handouts try the following treat
ment: touch spots of dandruff and
itching with Cuticura Ointment and
follow with hot shampoo of Cuticura
Soap. Absolutely nothing better.
Free sample each by mail with Book
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept I.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
Youth the Loser.

J. p. Morgan, the famous financief
was talking at dinner In New York
about n young banker who had failed.
at was his youth that made him
fail" he said. youth is always falling
failing in business, failing In love.
"Remy de Gourmont tells us truly
that in the game of life youth has all
the trumps-all of them-but plays
recklessly, and invariably loses" =
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
Irresistible.

$50 Maude, is charming girl, chr
"Charming2 l should say so.
never saw but one man hard-hearted
enough to resist her"
"Who was that?
"The marble statue in the park
Florida Times Union.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

teen l suffered each
month so / had to be
in bed. / had head
ache, backache and
such pains l would
cramp double every
month. l did not
know what it was
to be easy a minute.
My health was all
run down and the
doctors did not do
me anv good A
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

of doctors without receiving any
benefit. then began taking DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Before had used half a bottle 1 no
ticed improvement and when / had
taken three bottles / was entirely
cured, and~have been In good health
ever since."-MRS. N. FUNSTON,
131 N. Jackson.
Liquid or tablets. All druggists
Adv.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
The Result.

"The tall, handsome policeman yon.
der does not seem to be doing much"
Indeed, he is. He is arresting at
tention."
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
y DON'T SUFFER
ANY MORE 1"
Feel Like a New Person.s
says Mrs. Hamilton.

New Castle, Ind" From the time
Twas eleven years old until was seven
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22

Sympathy is two hearts Juggling at
one load. Selected.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-12-22
IDAHO FOLKS SHOULD
TAKE THIS ADVICE

4 was In a badly
rundown condi-
ton. II a d n o
appetite, b loOd
was bad, causing
erup tt 0 n s and
pimples, and I
had a sharp pain
ov er m y heart
and a dragging.
tired feeling. I
a II 4 4
The sun., 1916-11-05
FLASHLIGHT STARTS
HUGHES BOMB TALE
Can E.NplOdeS Close To Nomi-
nee's Motor Car. %lnjmriny
Two Photographers.

Flashlight powder exploding within, -
few feet OF Charles T.. Hughes AZ
Worth street and Broadway las, nIynt
frightened the vanguard Of his parad.
into the belief that u bomb had been
hurled ~ him.
Charles II. sheriff. grand marshal uf
the demonstration. stundiu. Within
thirty fee, Of the candidate at the time.
held to the bornb theory FOR a long time
aud his belief spread disnay all through
the line II was not until half an hour
afer the explosion h- learned II han
I-ued through the premature dischare.
Of photographers powder
Mr. Hughes. soon after . c,ock. stooJ
In the door ~ the store ~ NJ . -
Borden n son, near Worth STREET. CA
Broadway. waiting with 4 Barton Hen
burn for the start uf the inrtd-. ~ IN.
march-rs fell into lin. he en'-rrd ms
open automobile. which stood at III.
h-"d of the pIucrSsiuu
lust rs he settled himself th-r. wa,
an explosion IN bach ~ the men and
women AT the cuih. Two men Nrr,
seen Ia stax--r. holding their hands to
their eyes and policemen crashed through
the lines toward them. As the men were
led away the procession started with
Sheriff. In front.
The men led to IN. ambulance are
Frank Murths Of 1872 First avenue and
John A. Walsh OF 20 East I2Sth street.
employed by Paul Thompson. 10 Spruc.
street. They were taken by Or. Bidwell
Of the Hudson street Hospital To- IA.
Manhattan Eye ami Ear inhrmary.
Thirteenth street and Second avenue.
They explained that the> had taken
one fiashiight picture Of the parade a
few seconds before Mr.. Hughes entered
his car. A spark from the previous ex
plosion probably fingered In their powder
pistol, they said. so Il ignited with the
steam Of powder that was poured from
a can. The container exploded in their
faces.
II was feared at first they would lose
their eyesight but afterward. when they
were transferred TO Bellevue Hospital. II
was said that no serious injury would
res
The sun., 1916-11-05
$4,000 IN GARDEN
ACCLAIM WHITMAN
Tumult Of Cheers When GOV.
rrnor Repeats His Challenge
to Seabury.

" WAS a rlproaring greeting tina.
went up from 1900 voices when Gov.
Whitman entered Madison square Gar
den at i5 O'Clock last niYht. Cheers.
whistles. catcAl's shrill-d through the
bulldins and then the entire crowd
jumped NJ. waving flags and hats.
Oscar :. Strsus WAS speaking when
the Governor arrived g. the entrance to
the Garden and Mr. Whitman. not wish
ing 10 interrupt the speech In the slight
est. remained outside until Mr.. Straus
had finished. The reception was the h,g-
grst thing ~ his campaign FOR reelection
aud /; showed how keen Is the sentiment
n this city for him.
When he was introduced rs 'the GOV
-rnor that Is and that II to be- h. as
greeted again with prolonged che. RS
When the cheering ended the Governor
said:
The people have already decided how
this election * going. and IN next Tues
day the peopl. will show by their ballot,
their objection to the kline OF men whC
have been running our national Govern
ment to the discr-dit Of the country fol-
the past four years"
The sun., 1916-11-05
The Sweater Department

Con the Third Floor is displaying a nunr.
Der of novelties i'm Sweaters for Won1er
and Misses, including a s~Nip-over mode,
made of wool or silk, which is winning wide
popularity.
There are ALSO HAT and Scarf Sets, made Of
velvet and brushed wool; Caps and Ia"
O'Shanters of wool; and Scarfs i'm ever!
wanted style and color. Suede Coats am
Vests for motor and sports wear, and Shaw.S
i'm many varieties. Also contribute their quO.@
to tine display.
The sun., 1916-11-05

said we couldn't enter the cities we
should have answered think again and
that when he told us to keep of when
We were getting too nea villa. we
should have given our trops the order {:
Don't ask why. It's the bandits you're
after. Smash them.
Restoring Peace Ia Mexico.
Friends. I have In view the state Of
absolute starvation I'm which the Mexi-
cans now are. The peoples who have
suffered most from Mr.. Wilson'S policy
are the Mexicans themselves. II the
curse that | outlined had been followed
the mines thrown open and the people
toii that they could come to work for
pay ment and food. | can pretty nearly
"iu,ntc. YOU that M per cent. OF them
would have laid down their arms and
gone to work.
There IN Mexico the job Is up to us.
Therefore let us go into Mexico. restore
peace to Mexico and then restore Mexico
to her people. But friends. you ant do
that and keep in the While House an
apostle Of eloquence. A. for swapping
horses while crossing the stream we did
that at the beginning Of the civil war
when we changed from Buchanan Ia
Lincoln. M we wouldn't have got
through the war II We hadn't. When a
horse refuses to start. balks. turns
around and refuses To go ahead when 1t
finally does get into the water. it's some
times the best thing to swap horses. my
friends"
Col Roosevelt said In the beginning
'of his speech that the term the man
who kept us out OF war couldn't he ap.
piled to either Wi Washington or Lincoln.
He also attacked the Democratic