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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-19

did not care tor the stock" SAID wal
lingford.
his many friends in and out Of the fac.
tory and inviting them, one and all, to
move to Tarryville so that they could
vote for him for mayor on the reform
ticket in the coming fall
1t was all very reassuring to the only
man in Oak Center who could com
mand over hundred thousand cash
and when the final applause had sub
sided the three-starred one bent, with
an ingratiating smile, over the back of
Wallingfords chair.
Il have that stock for you" he hap
PLY condded, right here" and he tap
ped his buIging breast pocket
"Oh, yes, the stock" returned Wal
llngford pleasantly. "Why, Mr.. Spoo
ser, my firm has decided not to bother
with the Bessmer company" He
paused placidly to watch Mr.. Spooger
clutching at his Adams apple $50
last night before went away sold
what had purchased from you and
from others to Mr.. Daw."
Mr.. spooger gripped his cuffs wildH
in both hands and pulled them onI
arms length. "And you sold it to me-
he hotly charged Blackie. you never
said word about buying the extra
shares from Wallingfordw
Tut tutw demonstrated Blackie
kindly. You didn't tell me you in
tended to sell to Wallngford"
"You fooled me" frothed Ell, turn
ing to the representative of the trust
Il don't want this stock"
Throw it away. then" advised Wal
lingford. I'D suggest that you keep
it, though. By a resolution adopted
almost unanimously last night Mr.
Bessmcr has the right at any time
within the next ten years to purchase
it at par, and think he's going to
make some money"
THAT stocks worth all 1t cost you"
sternly declared Bessmer. who did not
yet understand how 1t had all happen
ed and never would. "lt may not pay
dividends for FIVE years to come, but
I'll bring it to par value before then"
did you help get me into this. Will
Bessmer" half shrieked Spooger.
I'll make it hot for you! Remember,
hold majority Of stock"'
You can help vote to repaper the
Office or to adopt pink stationery. but
that's about ALL" Blackie informed
him. The constitution Of Mr.. Bess
mers company, amended at our regu
lar stockholders meeting last night,
when you owned no stock. gives him
the final say in the management and
direction Of the concern for the next
ten years"
That's one Of the reasons my mo.
nopoly did not care for the stock
suavely explained Wallingford. chuck.
ling about something Or other and
pointing to the door.
IT'S swindleI" yelled Spooger, pur
pie with rage.
Blackie Daw arose and confronted
him. pale with outraged Indignation
"a repetition Of that charge and /
shall sue you for libel" he warned.
Put him out!' shouted the village
expressman Indignantly
Seven men arose to their feet, and
then the whole crowd got up. Spooger
did not wait.
Gentlemen" said Blackie Daw
bowling his thanks, "will some oUS
kindly hand me my saxophoneT"
THE End.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-19
BETTER THAN SPANKING

Spanking does not cure children OF bed
wetting. There is n constitutional cause
for this trouble. Mrs. NJ Summers, Box
W, Notre Dame, Ind, will send free to
any mother her successful home treat
ment, with full instructions. Send no
money, but write her today IL your chill
dren trouble y1u in this way. Don't
blame the child = the chances are it can't
help it. This treatment also cures adults
and aged people troubled with urine dim
cnlties by day or night
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-19

practice. Consultations are free. Pre-
scriptions are free and only regular
price for medicine. DIR. Stone can be-
found at his drug store, Salem, Ore,
from 6:40 in the morning until 8 at
night. Free delivery to all parts Of the
city and within a radius Of 100 miles.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-19
DR.. STONES DRUG STORE

The only cash
drug store in Ore
gon, owes no one,
and no one owes it,
carries large stock;
its shelves, counters
and show cases are
loaded with drugs,
medicines, notions,
and toilet articles.
DR.. Stone is a regu-
lar graduate in
medicine and has
had many years Of
experience in the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-19


Spooger slowly observed.
mind my going through your factory
unattended Ill hunt him up"
Wallngford found Blackle in over
alls, the idol of the workingmen. He
had been made assistant manager Of
the plant.
On his way out Walllngford stopped
ut Bessmers invitation to inspect the
plans for the glorious extensions.
i've dreamed Of this for ten years" "
stated Bcssmer happily. Did you Sc
cure any stock?"
"Not share" answered Walllng
ford, much disappointed. "Mr Daw
won't sell"
81 sympathlze with you" announced
the jubilant Bessmer. "The local pa.
pers are full of the extensions we're
making. l believe we have Oak Cen.
ter awakened at last to manufacturing
possibilities This stock will be worth
real money by and by"
81 believe II" admitted WaIlIngford
Il don't mind confessing now that
wished to buy 1t for another corpora
tion."
Not only Mr. Bessmer, but the two
mortar decorated contractors looked
up at him with sharp attention. The
monopoly, eh?
"Petey Wnks," read walllngford
from Blackle's list, 'the leading sport
of the village and might bet as high
as 81. Wears a gray pun tie on Sun
days and the other two on weekdays
Proprietor of fathers shoe store and
almost real devillsh, Ten shares"
Armed with that description, Wal
lingrord had no trouble in picking out
Petey in Wnks' shoe emporium.
81 believe this is Mr.. Wilks," guess
ed the stock speculator pleasantly
noting that Petey was particular
dresser and had his trousers pressed.
That's what they're talking around,
assented young Mr. Wlks, who was
strong on repartee.
81 understand you have some stock
in the Bessmer Malleable Process com
pany."
Somebody's been telling" was the
glib retort
would you care to sell III"
Petey Wilks had the chin Of an idiot
and the smile of a fool but he had the
eyes Of mlser Don't reckon | wan
to sell It," he Instantly returned The
papers are full of how VIII Bessmel
is making all sorts of improvements
you paid $50 share for youI
stock" stated Walingford. respecting
Petey's shrewdness "rm willing t
say that it's worth n little more. My
arm viii pay you SEQ"
The eyes Of petey narrowed still
more. "Who Is your 6rm?" he asked
The Omitted States Malleable Mer
ger company" announced WallIngford
creating that mighty corporation will
no effort whatsoever; "but, after all
you're not dealing with them; your,
dealing with spot cash." and he dis
played big red pocketbook 50 bulge,
With important bills that the circula
tion Of little Petey's one pint Of bloc,
Increased to n whiz. Nevertheless. h,
steered perfectly straight.
DO you see anything greeny he de
manded, laughing scornfully and pull
ing down the lower lid Of his righ
,ye. II know what II means when
uonopolys after anything, You'll hav,
to pay mo $50 a share"
Its bought accepted WalIingford
and counted out four bills. tiye hun
lred two one-hundreds and a tifty S,
promptly that It looked like the throw
"a Of a printing press. "where is you
,tock%
rCtey. whose splderlike legs Inter
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-19
STILL KEEPING IT

''I wish my wife was less firm in
keeping her New Year resolution"
''What was it -
"She resolved that l would quit
smoking. '--HOust0n Post.
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04
Couldn't Feaze Fat Man.

One OF those post-C Christmas stories
that are tola. Bene Zene.
"On a Payne avenue car, Christmas
eve, a meek looking man occupied a
front cross seat in the back end of the
car Ut can be done. Ed A $50
FOUNDER came in and slammed himself
down upon the vacant end of the seat.
Tho mcek-looker fidgeted, showed
signs Of distress, rose and crawled out,
and as he went he said: You can have
it. Help yourself. This is Christmas.
He took a side seat and said to pas
songer, He wanted my seat. He got
1t. Take a squint at him-looks like a
funny picture in paper. Some of
the passengers smiled, some guffawed,
but II didn't feaze the big fellow.
When a few blocks further or the
meek. ooker got off, the fat man gave
him q generous grin, waved his hand
ana shouted, Merry Christmas!' ~
Cleveland Leader.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04
Russia's Dous of Mercy,

A further proof of the patriotism Of
the noncombatant classes in Russia Is
offered by the assiduity and enthu-
siasm with which the proprietors OF
kennels in the capital, in Moscow, and
in other large cities have devoted
themselves to the training of dogs In
tended to be sent to the front as dumb
but noble brothers and sisters Of
mercy" 49,
: Il has become favorite occupation
of the upper classes to indulge In this
highly serviceable and humanitarian
work. The dogs are being trained not
only to search for the wounded on the
deserted battlefields and to deliver
bandage material and first-aid medical
ments, but also to warm them and re-
vive them in case of Inconsistencies.
Tho conditions of modern warfare
are such as to make 1t frequently nee
essary for the soldier to advance to-
wards the enemy's position under fire,
hiding as he advances in bushes.
marshes and glens. In these circum-
stances the tracing of the wounded
would be extremely difficult without
the aid of the canine instinct and in.
telligence. 49,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04
HAVE NEW ENAMEL PROCESS
out Injury to the Most Deli
cate Objects.

There are many small objects whose
beauty is much enhanced by the APP
plication of coat of enamel but
which are not capable of being fired.
A process of enameling these in the
cold, so simple as to be quite practica-
BILE for amateurs, Is described in La
Nature as follows: To Solution of
sodium silicate, boiled in closed YES
sci, there is added about per cent
Of sulphate Of lime. This causes a
precipitation to take place, the ute
rior effect of which is to prevent
efflorescences which would injure the
looks of the enamel. The solution, af-
ter being once decanted, assumes the
consistency of paste which is heated
to about rs deg. Cent. to apply to
the objects to be enameled. A Sec
ond decantation takes place in the
vitreous layer, and this then takes
on an unalterable translucence. 1t
may be tinted any desired shade, ell.
Their in the mass or specifically, the
colors being fixed by tannates of gel
attn and alum.-Scientific American.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04
Introducing Foreign Plants.

The introduction of foreign seeds
and plants by the United States de-
partment of agriculture has assumed
immense proportions. The total mum.
Der of varieties introduced since 1907,
when the section of seed and plant
introduction was established, amount
ed last July to more than 10000. Dur
ing the last year more than 1000 va
rieties were introduced, while 171,S31
experimental plants and 1,465 pack
cts of seed were placed with expert
mentors, and a record was Kept of
each. During the same year more
than 500 shipments of experimental
seeds and plants were made to for
eign agricultural institutions, in ex-
change for material sent to this coun-
try by them.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04

tons by railway and splendid roads.
Switzerland, also, was so placed be-
tween France, Germany, Italy and
Austria-Hungary that she was able to
take certain toll in transit upon the
trade which these lands did with one
another. Lastly 9 splendid source Of
revenue to the Swiss has been their
incompatible mountain scenery. Ac-
cording to one estimate, natural beau
ties have been regularly bringing into
Switzerland more than hundred mil
lion dollars Of tourists money. Two
OF these sources of income, that de-
rived from transit freight and that
created annually by thousands of free
spending visitors, have been complete
ly destroyed by the war; and 1t Is
doubtful that the amounts thus lost
to the mountain republics yearly rev.
enue can be made good by even stren-
uous attention to the special needs OF
the war markets.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04
Fat Woman Has Light Fingers.

Step lively. Watch your step. Also
keep your eye ON any fat woman rid
ing In the subway. To add to the yari-
Gus and extensive difficulties of SUBJ
way travel there has appeared over
the underground horizon within the
last three weeks a very stout woman
with big and light hands who Is col
lecting pocketbooks. She Is very
quick, very crafty in her general con-
duct and has been very, very success
full. Last night while one of the wom-
an passengers was absorbed in read
ing the back OF newspaper which be-
longed to a man across the aisle, the
door opened, many left and as it was
about to shut again the stout woman
leaped IN, hit the tired-looktng man
on the hat and fed, announcing that
1t was their station. Everyone pres
ent smiled and go did the woman, who
was reading the other mans newspa-
per, until she looked for her pocket
book, which had becn on her lap. The
train had left the station and there
was nothing to be done Scores of
complaints have been recorded, and
unless the stout woman exercises with
frightful energy to disguise herself
business Is going to slow up abruptly.
New York Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04

A FTER a cruise of more than A.
~ 900 miles through the Arctic
~ archipelago, during which he
placed on the map many new
islands, bays and promontories, Capt.
Joseph E. Bernier has returned to
warmer climes.
During eleven years of Arctic ex-
ploration this hardy skipper has
charted over 100000 square miles of
islands in the great northern archipel-
ago and has discovered many records
of Arctic expeditions, including docu-
ments left by Inflated mariners, and
pieces of wreckage, grim reminders of
craft that went down in the Arctic
seas, writes c. II. Dorr In the New
York Sun.
Captain Bernier has left O record of
his own work in various places to
guide future explorers. If Vilhjalmar
Stefansson, leader of the Canadian
Arctic expedition, now in the polar re-
gions, happens to reach Winter Har-
Dor, Melville island, he will find there
q substantial cache built several years
ago by Captain Bernier, and we'll
stocked with provisions, enough to last
him year or more. Captain Bernier
established many of these caches or
life-saving stations In the polar re-
gions, for he knows by experience the
needs of Arctic explorers.
Relics of Former Explorers.
On his last voyage Captain Bernier
started from Ponds inlet, Baffln's is
land, with the exploring ship Guide
and a crew of ten men and an equip
ment including forty dogs and sledges.
While voyaging through Arctic seas
two of his crew found parts of the hull
of one of the vessels of Sir Edward
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04
First Catch Your Rat.

In many places of the country rats
have been far greater pests than usual
and this has led Scranton man to
write as follows to the New York
Times:
Before coming to Scranton l was
located In a MILL situated on river
bank, and in the fall of the year we
were always troubled with rats in
large numbers, which caused great
damage and annoyance and we, there
fore, were very much interested in
eliminating the pest. The thing that
we found most efficient in this line
was bacteria called azoa, which will
not affect dogs or cats or poultry, or
pets of that nature, but will inoculate
the rats and, as the bacteria develops,
1t destroys the animal. Rats being
cannibalistic in their nature, feed on
one another, and in this way they dis
tribute this disease among themselves
and work their own destruction. In
the experiments that were made with
this bacteria in it's early stages, some
of 1t was used on isolated farms, and
later rats were found to be destroyed
by this material three to five miles
from the original place in which 1t was
fed"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04

Belcher's squadron. These relics of
Arctic disaster were discovered on
the north end of Bylott's island, in the
Arctic sea-
Captain Bernier believes that these
relics were part of the Pioneer or the
Intrepid of Sir Edward Belcher's
squadron. Three vessels in the Belch-
er squadron were not accounted for,
the Pioneer, the Intrepid and the AS
sistant. The Pioneer was abandoned
in the Arctic and all on board were
lost.
Another relic Of the Arctic found by
Captain Bernier's crew is spear from
Sir John Franklin's expedition, which
drifted in on the tide in Erebus bay,
North Devon island, the bay being
named after the Franklin ship Erebus.
It is a wooden spear with iron point
and the name Erebus stamped upon it.
The spear from the Franklin expedi-
ton was probably lost overheard In a
storm and drifted, swept on by ice
and tide. to Erebus bay. The wreck
of the Erebus was found on O'Reilly
island, south Of Victoria strait, by Es-
kimos years ago.
For fifteen days Captain Bernier and
members of his Arctic expedition on
board the Guide were caught in the ice
Of Melville bay, In latitude 10. After
battling with huge masses of ice drift
ing down from the north for two weeks
the Guide managed to get free from
the ice packs and make her way into
the open sea.
An interesting theory of a route to
the pole for a vessel is advanced by
Captain Bernier. and is based upon
deductions made from his discoveries
of relics of marine disasters in the
Arctic and study of the polar tides. He
believes that, starting from certain
point in the Arctic, ship we'll equip
ped can make the voyage from ocean
to ocean and to the Pole.
Thinks Ship Can Reach Pole.
Capt. George De Long was a pic
! neer in the field of Arctic exploration
said Captain Bernier the other day
while in New York, 'and his first ex
petition aroused my interest in voy
ages in the North Pole regions.
II followed De Longs expedition
with keen interest, and l realized thai
he was undertaking voyage almos
certain to lead to destruction. Blu
his experience pointed out route
leading into the northland, and othel
explorers have doubtless profited b,
his example. When Doctor Nanser
proposed a trip to the Arctic he plan
ned his voyage along the lines Of Doc
tor Longs trip to the polar seas.
"Diatoms found on the east coast o.
Greenland are similar to those brought
back by that great explorer Norden
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04

France. Here cotton, laces, embroid-
cries, machines, silks, plating,
ribbons, locomotives, watches, clocks
and leather wares are manufactured
for export; while in the hills and fiat
lands of the central plain are situated
the Swiss farms, many of the impor-
tant dairies, straw-plaiting, wood-carv-
ing and chemical industries. The
straw-plaiting is made by the peas
antry. 1t is a home industry, as is
that of the Swiss wood carving. De-
spite its isolation in the midst of great
Industrial competitors and its lack Of
almost all of the important raw mate
rails, it is to its mills and factories
that Switzerland mainly owes its
wealth.
The mountain republic derives less
support from its agriculture than does
any country in Europe except Nor
way, for only about one-sixth of it can
be titled Many of it's farms have
been coaxed into being on the abrupt
mountain sides, and to till them Is al
most as dangerous a task as that of
the structural iron worker on a sky
scraper. Fully half of the country lies
above the zone of agriculture, and
much Of the soil that could be made
productive is used as pasture land.
Switzerland grows hemp, fax, cara,
way, fruits (citron, lemon, mulberry,
orange, olive and pomegranate), corn,
maize, oats, peoples, potatoes, barley,
rye, spelt, saffron, tobacco and
wheat. In normal times it had to i'm
port from Russia Hungary and the
United States three times as much
wheat as it produced. 1t produces con-
siderable value in timber.
Not Much In the Way of Minerals.
Moreover, there is no important
mineral production in Switzerland, for
the mountains belong to geological for
nations unproductive of valuable min
erals. Some coal is found in the can
tons of Valais, Vaud, Fribourg, Berpe
and Thurgau and some iron in the
Jura. Rock salt and building stone
form the most important mineral prod
ucts. The Swiss have to depend upon
wood and foreign coal for fuel and
upon foreign ores In their metal work
Ing industries. Germany and France
contributed coal, metals, wool, fax,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04
CURING ASTHMA WITH EGGS
Simple Remedy That Is Well Worth
Remembering by the Mother of
Small Children.

There are many children and won.
en- who need the nourishing element
of eggs yet cannot eat them without
distress and unpleasant effort. Some
times even the sight of cooked eggs
is repulsive to these people.
The real food value in eggs Is the
proteid substance. Proteid substances
are the main fuel for work and growth.
A person to be in good health must
have a certain amount in their daily
food.
There Is q chemical condition IN
most persons at times which causes
repugnance to certain foods. 1t Is
body reaction. The doctors call 1t
anaphylaxis. It is really a suscepti-
bility to poisoning by certain foods,
or in o psychologist sense, reaction
of normal instincts.
For example, some women cannot
eat underdone meat or well-cooked
fish-any albuminous food Others
cannot bear the association of men,
while others desire to have all the
rights and privileges of the male with
none of the responsibilities of women.
DR.. Fritz Talbot of Boston has dis
covered that asthma in children is
generally due to egg poisoning" as
mothers say. That is, in these chill
dren the proteid substance irritates
the nervous system and asthma re-
suits.
! Az IN most conditions of body pol
soning SO in this, the body can be Inn
munized by the cause itself. To Inn
munize the body so no reaction will
take place from egg eating, you can
vaccinate the child with the white OF
an egg. After the skin has been
washed with soap and alcohol the
white of an egg is rubbed into a slight
scratch. One application will gener.
ally cure the asthma.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1916-03-04

and cereals to Swiss markets. Liver
pool sent the cotton to the great goods
and embroidery factories at st. Gall,
while Italy furnished the silk, straw
for plating, grains, fruits, wool, skins
and certain proportion of the cot
ton.
So 1t was upon the output of manu-
featured articles for export that the
Swiss depended for their support.
More than one-third of the people
were engaged in manufacturing in
dustry; and, in Zurich, Bern and St.
Gall, business everywhere made the
traveller from America forget Swiss
scenery and think of home. In St.
Gall the cotton industry centers.
Cloths, manufactured here, are made
of American cotton and are noted for
their fineness of texture and excel
lence of finish. Here, too, are made
the well-known Swiss machine en-
broideries and etched laces. Watch
and clock making are carried on
around Geneva and along the French
border This industry has suffered
heavily under increasing American
competition; for the American fac
tories turn out watches every bit as
good, and as reasonable in price. The
silk industry of Switzerland is found
in Zurich. Basel, upon the Rhine, is
the first customs station.
The advantages that have aided the
Swiss in their energetic strivings for
material well-beipg are, for the most
part, such advantages as can be of lit
tie use while their neighhars on every
hand are at war. One of the great
aids to Swiss industrial progress has
been the superabundance of water
power, the nearness of the French coal
fields Of st. Etienne, moderate wages
paid for labor, nearby markets for
the purchase of raw materials and for
the sale of manufactured goods. and
an excellent system of communities