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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-01-07
Only Way to Know Dogs.

The only true and thorough straight
way to know the dog IL to own one. A
common residence under the same roof.
tree, he II animals or humans, Is the
sure test OF personality. To own the
dog IN TO comprehend him IN his faults
and virtues. to protect his weaknesses,
he anxious at his vagruncies, to catch
the cOntagion Of his love and to agonize
II II so be that he die. Our Dumb An
lmals
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-01-07
NnLuI Salutoa.

Originally town or warsnlp fred
" it's guns Oh the approach Of friend.
~ strangers to show that they had
mch faith IN the visitors peaceful In.
tentions they didn't think II necessary
to keep their guns loaded; hence the
naval salute.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-01-07
Word From Br'sr Williams

Lightning don't bit twice In de same
place. an right dar is q lesson fer you
wild de fust lick II tends ter all de
business II went after. Atlanta Con
stitution.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-01-07

''ls there an old maid in your fam.
nyT
"Yes; my husband. detroit Free
Press.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-01-07
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OREGON WEATHER 4

\ Sunday generally fair south 4
= and east. unsettled. probably
\ rain northwest portion; winds,
= mostly southerly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28

receives the chickens. High-grade
,dry-packed, dry-picked birds are
commonly sent to market in boxes
not in barrels. Twelve birds are
packed in box which is neatly lined
with white parchment paper. Each
individual head is wrapped in paper.
The feet of the birds are clean and
the entrails are always in place. Wet
packed chickens are shipped to mar
ket in barrels holding goo pounds
or more. The birds in the bottom of
the barrel soak in water that is filthy
with dirt washed down from the feet
and heads by the melting ice.
MANY persons who have found q
bird dry and without flavor attribut-
ed this lack of quality to cold stor-
age, whereas the probability is that
wet packing is responsible for the
fact that most of the appetizing
flavor has disappeared. Usually cold
stored poultry which is thawed in the
dry, cold air of the ice box is much
superior to the water-logged So
called Fresh Chicken
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28

no other part of the house in sight
except the barn, which was merely
a large hole filled with hay farther
up the cliff. Sometimes we would
pass whole villages built this way,
with ladders leading up to the diff
ferent levels, which reminded one OF
pictures of Pueblo and Navajo VIII
lagos in America. Did l tell you
about the beds? You know we
have double mattress affairs with two
clean sheets and two blankets. They
are very warm and comfortable, but
If it keeps on getting colder l fear
we shall have snow. Another night
like last night and I'll need more
blankets. However, / always have
my bathrobe and "poilu" overcoat
to use in a pinch. Fortunately. l
have hung onto that bathrobe and
you never thought, when you bought
it that it would travel so much, did
you?
Darn the music! They're playing
Hawaii stuff now and my feet are
getting itchy for dance floor
and a girl.
Chased me out this morning at
to help line up the machines out
side the hangers. To hear some of
my comrades whining about the job,
one would think it was hard work,
so I was surprised to find the job
very easy indeed, just hard enough
to warm me up, which was good
thing as the morning was very cold.
Ten of us must help do this work
every morning. The airplanes are
morning, you know, and they pre-
sent a very pretty sight thus ar
ranged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28
Do Not Purchase
Water-Logged Poultry

Washington, d. c. = when you
buy poultry which is packed in ice,
you probably are paying poultry
prices for from to IA per cent. of
water soaked up by the bird" ac-
cording to statement issued by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. This means paying from
25 to so cents pound for from to
IA pounds of water in every hundred
pounds of chicken purchased.
Moreover, a broiler allowed to
soak in water or ice will lose about
one-third per cent. of,its edible SUD-
stance while roasting chickens and
fowls lose as much as 1 per cent" "
the statement continues. Along
with the edible materials, water dis
solves and washes out from the bird
substances on which the fine flavor
of the flesh largely depends.
The purchaser who wishes to
avoid watersoaked chickens and to
make sure that the money is paid
for poultry and not poultry plus
added water. will do well to insist
on buying dry packed and dry chilled
birds. 1t is always advisable to see
the package in which the butche
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28

had nothing to do here for two days,
l spent my time looking around,
noSins into hangers. The third day,
these excursions were made a prison
offense.
Planes Carry Cannon
However, l saw some new type
machines, one being so large that q
ladder was required to get into the
seat, 1t was armed with several
young cannon and the wind from the
propeller would blow a man over.
Ils needless to give the name of
TINS machine-It would not do you
any good anyway and might cause
the letter to be held, which l know
would cause you anxiety. We re-
ceiVed absolutely new clothing here
with thick wool sweater and heavy
gloves, and its surprising how heavy
clothing l wear around here, con-
sidering it's the middle of August and
swimming weather. SWIMMING
places there are, for / saw a number
where / was aloft, but being strapped
in couldn't very we'll drop in.
The first day we came here it was
very windy. No student work being
in order, a moniteur went aloft with
double motored machine and show
ed us the evolutions this type air.
"oS NoPshpiS W. 1AGu Odllle
down and explained to us how easy
it was.
Not Letters From Home
1t seems to me its about time
got few answers to these letters
as L sent you my address a montf
ago. Did you receive them?
We can get permission to Tours
every day if we wish. but sleep is sc
important and money so scarce il
my case that I have not availed my.
self of the privilege. Besides it /!
not whole lot of fun going alone
and If you go with a party, the only
thing they go for is a drink anC
what goes with it.
incidentally, it don't require a 10
of French to pick up one of thes,
French James" 1 have not yet seer
pretty one, which probably ac
counts Tor my noninterest. They sa!
| they have the luxury of hot bath
here. VIII investigate this after
noon.
WALTER.
Lectures and Flying
Monday, Aug. 81, 1917.
Tours, France
IL Noon
Dear Mother
Am tired of studying French ir
regular verbs and trying to remem
| Der what I heard of lectures, so
turn to you to write about it. An
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28
Mrs. Biddle's $4,000 Ring
Is Recovered by Diver

Beauchmont Point. Me. - Mrs.
Alexander Riddle, of Philadelphia,
stood on the wharf here recently
waiting for the boat to take her TO
Rockland. A diamond ring, valued
at $4,000, slipped from her finger
and dropped into the water, twenty
four feet deep at that point
Mrs. Biddle appealed to Bob
Chase, an expert diver, who came
from Portland at her request.
Chase let himself down into the
water, CROPPED around in the Shiny
mud four fathoms down and in just
four minutes reappeared on the sur
face with the gem.
Mrs. Biddle was returning from
her cottage here to her home in
Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28
Letters Fromthe Front
EXPECTS TO BE IN THE.
lair FIGHTING THE BOCHE
WITHIN NEXT SIX WEEKS

Walter Shaer additional letters from flying camp in
France his parents Mr. and Mrs Charles E. Shaer that
expects to be battling the Boch from the air within the next
Eix weeks.
Young Shaffer after completing in aviation at Es
sngton Joined Lafayette corps He is learning the
Ehiq spiral dives and other eats used outwttng the
erman FLYERS tells briefly, the will allow
H monster new arplanes that armed with young
1.-Two letters from him follow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28

CURED on July 23. when Ludvina
Rosloski found similar pencil,
which exploded in her hand, causing
the loss of two fingers. Police spent
several weeks investigating. but to no
purpose. and the story was not given
much credence. The second occur
renee compels the citizens to take
the affair more seriously, and strict
surveillance of all doubtful charac-
ters Is being kept.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28

for higher wages be refused by the
sugar planters. Preparations are
now BEING made by the laborers for
a conference with the planters. A
sp scial committee of Japanese ts to
be appointed and the proper requests
for higher wages will he thoroughly
discussed before they are presented
to the planters. 1t is planned to or
ganiZc n society, to be known as the
Association on the Higher Wage
Question:" and its object will be to
see that laborers receive adequate
wages.
The association will not be a strict
ly japanese one, but will be open to
al classes of laborers, regardless OF
nationality
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28
Exploding Pencil Tears
Fingers Off School PUBL

Green Bay, Wis.--F'or the second
time this summer a child here has
been manned by an exploding PEN
Gil. Saturday Charles johnson, aged
IL. found metal pencil while on his
way home from the Norwood school,
He picked it up and when he went
to examine 1t two pellets came out
of the inside, one of them exploding
in his hand. Three fingers on his
right hand were torn off.
The first accident of the kind oc-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28
NASTY M EDICIN E S
BAD FOR CHILDREN

1t Is not often n child requires
medicine of any kind. IL the bowels
are regular and promptly dispose of
undigested matter discarded by the
stomach, the general henlth Is very
apt to be excellent. In any case, pills.
pOwdcrS, md nauseating or unpalat-
nbIe compounds. should never be given
TO children. Any therapeutic virtue
such remedies may possess is largely
nuIIIfied by the youngsters natural
For most children a mild laxative,
administered occasionally, is all that
is needed to assure normal regularity
and good health. DIR. CRldwelFs
syrup Pepsin is pleasant-tastinR
combination of simple laxative herbs
with pepsin, free from OpIate or mar
cOtic drugs, and acts gently yet effec-
lively, children like Ii and take II
readily, so that 1t is the ideal remedy
for the family medicine chest. 1t is
sold In drug stores for fifty cents a
bottle. A trial bottle, free of charge
can be obtained by writing to DIR. w
ID. Caldwell, 456 Washington ST., Mon
ticeIIO, Illinois.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-28
MEN
WANT HIGHER paw

Honolulu. Hawaii.-A meeting of
the leading Japanese of Honolulu
voted recently against assisting plan
tation loborers in any attempt to go
on Il strike, should their demands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15

ment. There were cups urns. today
ladies and plates of a pattern and
weight that rejoiced his connoisseur's
heart.
It's splendid" he cried. Whose
was it? Where did it come from?
never saw anything like it,"
The silver is mine, all l have. But
the boys must go to school, and it must
go. 1 won't let any one else sell it,
That was one stipulation L made to
Berni, that ! must approve the pur-
chaser When any one else comes
along 1 double, treble the price"
But 1 must have it, Do you approve
of me?'
She nodded. You know better than
do what it's WORTH
But the collection isn't complete.
There is something else that will have
to go with it before take it,
What is that?"
You. 1 always know what 1 want
instantly. and I could have told you
that last night. You're the loveliest
girl I've ever known" He reached for
her hand.
Dorothy did not draw it away. but
instead a deep, steady light dawned in
her eyes and the dimple Alex so long
ed to see appeared in her cheek.
Il wonder if this is really true, or
if I'm Just thinking it isl she said.
Il hope it's true for US both,' he
Whispered q opyrieht, 1917, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
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THE CANADIAN PLAN.

Ralph NJ. Easley, formerly of
Hutchinson and now secretary of the
National Civic Federation. has pre-
scented to the Newlands committee an
analysis of the Canadian compulsory
investigation law with reference to the
adoption of it as a remedy for such
strikes as that now occupying the at
tention of congress
Mr.. Easley reaches the conclusion
that the act is of doubtful utility in
Canada. and would be even more I'M
desirable for the United States. Its
chief defects are that it is too cum
brous for application to small strikes
and ineffective in the case of large
strikes. When workers wish, they
strike anyway. and more lawbreakers
are made by the application of the
law than the jails can hold The rail-
way men who now are threatening a
strike have always said the same
thing. Almost daily they declare that
they are thinking only of their inter-
ests, and that the right to strike shall
never be controlled by law with their
consent.
apparently congress sees no way ex-
cept to meet compulsion with COM
pulsion. Having gone too far to pac-
ify labor it is now considering going
too far in the other direction to euro
the appetites which it has aroused.
A new law is under consideration
which will compel employers to full
fill awards against them and compel
the strikers to work against their
wills. Thus the prospect is that a
strike against the railways may be
converted into a strike against the
law, and the public will not be pro-
tected at all, however savage the law
is made.
Mr.. Easley laments that his criti-
cism is destructive and adds nothing
to the settlement of the dispute. Nav
that not be because of all who at
tempt the subject, says the New York
Times, select the hardest way? Might
not it be easier to substitute induce
ment for compulsion? The contro-
versy is so old that there are plenty
of presidents, some of them supplied
by the supreme court, which will be
called upon to interpret any law
passed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
FARM LOAN BANKS.

According to all indications, the
farm land banks. to be established un-
der the rural credit act will soon
be organized. When placed in opera
ton they will make loans to farm
loan associations which are likely to
be so composed that the land itself will
be the chief. if not often the only,
protection to the mortgages evidencing
the advance of the funds. This fact Is
now better and better understood, as
the problems involved in working out
the farm loan system are studied and
es efforts are made at their solution.
Out of such a clearer comprehension
there is developing a good deal of anx-
iety on the part of some lest the farm
land banks may not be wisely man
aged.
One good feature of the new banks
is, however, evidently overlooked, says
the New York Journal of Commerce,
not only by critics but by friends of
the rural credit system. This is that
the land banks are strictly on their
good behavior. and if not well man
aged from the very outset will find
themselves brought to a sudden stop.
The act which has provided for their
organization furnishes but little as
sured capital for the institutions, and
makes the rest depend, as it should,
upon public favor. Investors at large
will not be likely to take out stock I'M
less they see a profit to themselves,
and such a profit, as in every new en-
terprise, will be slow in developing
Fundamentally, therefore, the farm
loans to be made, beyond the basis
provided by the limited capital of the
new banks, must be effected with
funds to be obtained thru sale of bonds
to the public. It is the underlying
notion of the rural credits act that
farm loans can be made to real pro-
ducers, the mortgages representing
them used to secure or protect issues
of bonds, and the bonds themselves
sold to good advantage to buyers who
thus become joint owners of the I'M
DERIVING mortgages. The working
funds of the banks are thus turned
| over and over, and more and more
loans secured by mortgages are rem.
dered possible. If the bonds are un-
salable, however, a very different con-
dition will exist, and the process OF
lending on mortgage will come to al
| abrupt stop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
WHAT THE WAR HAS DONE.

The situation in which the United
States finds itself after thirty months
of the great war, says the Bache Re-
view, is a remarkable one. This has
not been the result of any manage
ment on our part or of any voluntary
operation. We have literally been
lifted up by the great economic forces
released by the war and been borne
along irresistibly on road to riches
beyond the conception of any one be-
fore the war. A billion dollars in
added gold has been swept in to us.
Two billions of our own securities
have been paid for and are now owned
and drawing interest over here. We
have practically paid our foreign debts
either thru the purchase of these Sc
curities or by loans to foreign borrow
ers.
The work of thirty years has been
done in two. But we can take no
credit to ourselves for these gigantic
transformations. The nation has been
an unresisting instrument, completely
under the influence of almost prefer
natural powers and carried forward to
unbelievable economic accomplish
ments, almost without volition and
certainly without any Commanding di-
rection on our part.
And yet, looked at broadly, if the
operation had been planned and car
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.1

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Popcorn is more of a habit than
food.
Some who are easily shocked seem
to enjoy the shocking sensation.
Church women can say some very
unchurchly things to a church jauitor.
Much hard work is done cheerful
ly because it happens to be labeled
sport"
Politeness is what enables a wom-
an to appear charmed when she is
really being bored
What has become of the old-fash-
toned boy whose trousers were made
of dads old ones?
Surgery has become quite fine as an
art, but seems unable to do much for
bone-headed men.
Don't blame others. Your success
or your downfall depends on your own
efforts or your own weakness.
Youngsters are most inclined to
think they are Overworked; as a man
grows older, he gets used to it.
The courts realize the difference
between accusation and guilt, but the
world is less charitable in that re-
spect.
Admitting that the telephone is a
great convenience, it is something else
when central tells you the line is
busy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15

Writing of American society" as a
Eoman-controlled caste. Elsie Clews
Parsons says in The New Republic
that it is going out of date. I'm early
Societies changes in life are met with
ceremonials-with maternity, birth,
adolescence, mating and death rites.
IN modern life this crisis ceremonial
ism is passing, much of it has passed
Coming-out parties are society events,
weddings are described as fashion
able, funerals as representative.
During the last few years, however,
debutante entertainments have been
considered rather ridiculous affairs,
and fashionable weddings, a little vul-
gar. Funeral rings and scarfs and
gloves are no longer presented to the
mourners, mourners are even asked
not to send flowers. 1t will not be
long before a wedding breakfast will
be as bourgeois as throwing rice in a
Railway station or as a funeral feast.
and standing UP all afternoon with a
bud as antiauated as sitting up all
night with a corpse"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
SIDE T ALM S
Smiles Versus Laughs.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Smiles Versus Laughs.
why did you laugh when I said
that?" accused Molly. 81 didn't" said
the Wants-to-be- Critic, Il smiled
What's the difference" asked Molly.
''All the difference in the world,'' said
the Cynic. And he was right.
A smile and a laugh are as totally
different in character as kitten and
a cat. Cats aren't just kittens grown
up. And neither is a laugh a smile
grown up.
Smiles, when they are not merely
mechanical, almost invariably denote
a pleasant, friendly state of mind.
Laughs do not.
There are many kinds of laughs and
they express a range of emotions as
wide as human experience.
We are apt to associate happiness
with laughter, but is it not really the
concomitant of pleasure rather than
happiness?
The happiest people do not usually
laugh. They smile. Their faces light
up with an inner radiance, or perhaps
in the great moment they find them
selves nearer still to tears than
laughter"
spoke of the mechanical smile. 1t
has its counterpart in the nervous
laugh, that most foolish habit that
nervous people permit themselves to
fall into. In young girls it takes the
form of giggles, which we forgive, as
we forgive many things to youth. In
older people it becomes a nervous
cackle, an empty she'll of real mirth.
Could anything be more exasperat-
ing than a mocking, superior laugh
which is first cousin to a sneer? 1
once lived in a house with a man who
had a habit of laughing that way at
his wife, and tho it was none of my
business, had hard work to keep my
temper. The same man used to laugh
to express irritation-a hard, disagree
able little laugh that made you want
to throw something at him.
OF course, one should not forget in
any discussion of laughs that famous
laugh of Dicks picture of melancholia
in 1.-The Light That Failed" the like
ness of a woman who had seen all the
sorrow in the world and was laughing
at it,
What a dreary list I have made!
One would think to glance at it that
laughter was one of the ugliest instead
of one of the most blessed things in
the world. But 1 have painted only
one side of the picture. apurpose, be-
cause everybody knows the other side.
"A good laugh is sunshine in the
house." said Thackeray.
Given that qualification, certainly
agree with him. Copyright by
George Matthew Adams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
BED TIME TALES
BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON
THE JOURNEYS END

Did you ever start off for fine, long
journey and then have to turn back
when the journey was only begun?
If you have, you will know just how
flat and forlorn Bushy Beaver felt
after Branching Horns talked to him
1t he hadn't had great faith in Branch
ing Horns good sense and kindness,
l expect he would have gone right on
down the creek after all But he did
have good faith in Branching Horns SO
he turned back.
Bushy was not one to do things half
way. If he started on quest he
wanted to be a fine, wonderful quest;
if he turned back home, he would go
straight back home and do a good job
of hunting for Redhead right there
that's the way Bushy was. He reached
his home in a short time but he didn't
stop to find his father. No, he wanted
to find out something about Redhead
first So he climbed out of the water
and started toward the woods.
It'll do no harm to look around
where Redhead usually stays" he
thought. (And isn't it a wonder that
sensible thought hadn't occurred
to him beforeY But when sensible
thoughts are sometimes slow in COM
ing to you, and SO we mustn't wonder
at Bushyio He ambled over to the
very tree where Redhead was most
often seen and what do you suppose
he saw?
OF course, you've guessed it. Maybe
you guessed it at the very beginning,
even before Bushy started on his
questi He saw Redhead. Yes, he
did
why. Redhead,' he exclaimed,
'.where've you been all this time ~
'.All what time p asked Redhead in
surprise. I've been right here in
Shadow Wood all the summer and
autumn"
You have?'' cried Bushy, and he
was getting a bit excited by now, I
can tell you. I'VE haven't heard you
for a long time, not for a long time!"
That doesn't surprise me-" replied
Redhead easily, because I've been
storing up my winter supply of nuts.