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La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sixtoy years ago, a little boy, an
only child, lived in Edinburgh. His
father came of family of great en-
gineers, the Stevensons. His mother
was of Covenanter stock, brave and
good. But Robert Louis Stevenson was
such a puny, delicate child, that it did
not seem as if he could ever do proper
credit to his ancestry. He had one i'll
ness after another. Every winter and
spring his mother had to take him
away from the cold Scotch climate, so
that his schooling could not go on
regularly. When he was eight years
old, he was an ailing, white-faced boy,
not even able to read. But he loved
books, and his mother and his old
nurse Alison read aloud to him con-
tinually. He dictated to his mother,
too, when he was six years old, a
history of Moses, founded on the
Bible story. He drew pictures for this
story himself
At eleven, he was doing fairly well
at school, when his work was again
interrupted by illness. A boarding
school near London did not help his
health. At last he was put in a small
Edinburgh school intended only for
backward and delicate boys, and there
he was able to keep up his lessons for
several years, though every now and
then he had to go south on account of
his frail lungs. At fourteen, so an old
schoolfellow tells, "he was assuredly
badly set up His limbs were long and
lean and spidery, and his chest flat, so
as almost to suggest some malnutri-
tion, such sharp angles and corners
did his joints make under his clothes"
He was never precocious, but always
persistent and hard-woriling. He loved
languages, and had made up his mind
to be an author. He laid out plans for
educating himself in style and express
sion an dthose who knew him best, say
that he toiled like hero to fit him
self for literature. In the midst of III
ness he was always cheerful and
plucky. "Quit you like men, be strong"
was the text he always remembered
and followed. Manliness was his aim,
and he delighted in hard tasks, Health
of body he could not have; but he was
determined to have health Of mind;
and he did. "True health" he once
wrote, sis to be able to do without it,"
When he grew up and began 10
write in earnest, he always took the
valiant and wholesome side of things.
He tried engineering to please his
father; he tried the law, but his health
threw him back more and more upon
writing, and he loved it better than
anything else. All the power and the
courage that was in him, famed out
in his work. A London critic objected
to some of his essayes, because they
treated life from the standpoint of
careless strength. 1t was all very well,
the critic said, for this new author,
who was evidently splendidly
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05

healthy, powerful young man, to talk
about fortitude and achievement.
What did such writer's know about the
struggles Of the weak and suffering?
Stevenson, when he read this, wrote a
personal letter to the critic and told
him what the truth was, and they be-
came great friends. When they met,
the man who had imagined him as q
young athlete, was shocked at the
frail, delicate individual whom he saw.
But Stevenson was not weak, except
in body. He was like a sword, strong
and valorous in frail scabbard.
He lived much of doors, canoeing
and camping, and Travelled about
good deal, and lived in the south of
Europe, in Switzerland and in Cali
fornia. He had terrible hemorrhages
from the lungs, and more than once
seemed to be dying but he never was
daunted. A great Scotch critic has said
that to understand Stevenson, zone
must have put up a little blood" To
realize fully the quality of his brave
gayety, we must know how he faced
death and yet smiled. When he could
not write, or even raise his head for
fear of bringing on fresh hemorrhages
he would dictate - and dictate me-
mOrable pages, too, 'His life seemed
to hang by thread for years. The
slightest exposure or exertion was apt
to bring on prostating attack Of
cough, hemorrhage and fever, He
was rarely out Of the Doctors hands,
and often forbidden to speak. Yet the
torial was manfully borne; his pre-
sence never ceased to be sunshine to
those about him; and in every interval
of respite, he worked with eager toll
and in unremitting pursuit of the
standard he had set himself"
What he accomplished, all the world
knows, from the boy who devours
Treasure Island" to the man who is
deeply stirred by "Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde" Stevenson was a true novel
list, standing always for purity and
righteousness. His essays are among
the choicest treasures Of English Ii
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05

schi 81 sono riservati il diritto di
viaggiare gratis sui tram spes-
so requisiscono lie vetture intera-
mente a loro prolific con danno
della popolazione borghese che
costringono ad andare piedi.
Gil ufficiali che hanno il bigliet
to d'alloggio nellie case 81 riser
vano lie camere migliori e scom-
bussolano mobili ed appartamen-
ii a loro capriccio."
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terature.
Stoevenson's health exiled him to
Samoa, and the people there honored
him as a beloved chief When he died,
in what would have been may mans
prime, the whole world mouned for
one of its strongest souls. Out of
weakness, Robert Louis Stevenson
won abiding power.
By John F. Daniels
in Kings Treasures.
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05

vano lie camere migliori e scom-
bussolano mobili ed appartamen-
ii loro capriccio."
LA SIRIA DELE CROCIATE
La Siria la Palestina, i fa-
mosi paesi della Bibbia, del van
gelo, dele crociate, ritornano a
vivere nella vita moderna, e Pat
tuale guerra resuscita il loro no
me. Intorno ALA Siria Franca, la
Siria dele Crociate, parlo con
grande competenza nellultimo
Inumero della "Revue de deux
Mondes" 10 storico Louis Made
lin. Erano crociati tutti ed e.
sclusivamente mossi da un ideale
ireligioso? II Nadelin non 10 Gre
de. Alcuni avevano pei capo ben
altro che la liberazione del sepol-
GRO di CriSto. Lo steSso Tancre-
di, che nella "Gerusalmme" il
Tasso ci rappresenta come il IT,
po perfetto delleroe cristiano,
prima di occuparsi di Gerusa-
lemme ha tentato di tagliarsi
fuori per Sc un principiato mel
Tarso, sulla costa di Cecilia. Be-
monde, suo zio, altro noImanno
di Stella, giunse Panno seguente
a farsi principe d'Antiochia, men
tire inoltrandosi nei paesi dell'Eu-
frate Baldovino di Boulogne vi
diventava conte di Odessa. 81 vi
de persino Raimondo di Saint
GILES insediarsi sovrano di Tri-
poll, Gerusalemme rimaneva 10
scope supreme ella erociata,
giacche sarebbe grave errore spo
glare interamente la spedizione
del suo carattere idealista, ma
tuttavia per ottenere Jerusalem
me 81 doveva "organizzare la
conquista". Gil ecclesiastical che
accompagnavano la spedizione,
intendevano che la Terra Santa
diventasse una colonia della Chic
sa. II patriarca doveva essere pei
papa una specie di vice-re. II pa
triarca stesso, Daimberto, fino
dial primo eonsiglio ne formula la
pretesa. Non ci vuole nessun re
egli proclamaya, la dove Cristo
aveva predicate il vangelo, nes-
sun re pure volevano i feudatari
crociati, ma in pari tempo non
intendevano essi essere sotto-
messi al preti. Essi pensavano di
fare della Palestina una specie di
"Repubblica feudale" per POGO
Pideale non fu raggiunto. In ogni
case, essi seppero, fin dallinizio
dopo aver eliminate lie pretese
del patriarca, impedire che un
"re" fosse dato ALA conquista.
La leggenda vuole che Goffredo
di Buglione abba "rifiutato per
modestia cristiana di portare la
corona d'oro la dove Cristo era
state coronato di spine. L'esame
del testi infirma questa pia ira
dizione. Sc, riconosciuto capo del
la citta, non prese che il titolo di
"difensore del Santo Sepolcro" e
che signori preti erano d'accor-
do fra loro, almno su questo pun
to, mel non ammettere nessuna
monarchia in terra santa. Goffre-
do, dopo aver assicurato la sua
conquista, 81 addormentava nella
pace del signore al piedi del Col
gotta. Senonche accadde questo:
lie sue virtu ed i suoi servizi gil
valsero tale autorita che basto al
suo letto di morte che egli desi-
gnasse come suo successore, suo
fratello Baldovino conte di Edes-
sa, perche questi fosse sui punto
di imporsi. Ma aBldovino era am
bizioso quanto Gofredo era mo-
desto. Egli prese il titolo di re;
ed il "Regno di Gerusalemme"
veniva cosi fondato con una spe-
Gle di supremazia sulle attire cit
ia della Siria.
La rassegna. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1917-????, 1917-05-05
Banca COlOniale
Frank Cerceo, Prop.
700 Christian st. Philadelphia

Trasmissione di danaro a mezzo
vaglia postal telegrafici nell
lie principal citta d'Europa
ed in toutti i comuni d'Italia,
CambiO in ragiOne del prezzi
cOrrenti in piazza
81 rilasciano tratte a vista sulle
principal citta del monde
specialmente d'Italia
Biglietti di passaggio da e per
PEuropa dele principal COM
pagnie di navigazione allie mi
gliori condizioni = =
UfficiO POstale Sub-StatiOn lat
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11

their grandmother, Mrs. Mary F. Hop
kins. Mr.. Tryon said upon his return
that il is thought by attending physi-
clans that an operation will not be
necessary and that Mrs. Tryon may
return to Mosier within compara-
lively short time.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
Tax Leyies for County and County

For the benefit of the taxpayers in
Hood River county, the undersigned
has made an investigation of taxes lev
led in 1915 in county and city as com.
pared with the 1916 levy in county and
city.
1915 average rate per 81, 900. districts
outside of city. $40; city. $26.2O.
1916 average rate per $1,000. districts
outside of city. s2l; city. $685..
1t will be seen that the tax rate in
the city for 1916 is almost double that
of districts outside of the city. The
great increase is due to the fact that
the county court has decided that the
city should pay road tax for mainte.
nance of county roads outside of the
city, aside from the fact that the city
has bonded itself for street improve.
ments, the owners paying as high in
some cases as $500 lot extended over
period of 10 years. payable 10 per
cent year. with per cent interest.
L. A. Henderson, City Treas.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
Carson Family a Remarkable One

The family of MIR. and Mrs. J. X.
Carson is a record one, not only for the
county of Hood River, but for the
Northwest. Mr.. and Mrs. Caron have
l2 children, six boys and six girls. The
oldest, j. X. Carson. Jr.. student of
the University of Oregon law school in
Portland. is rs years old. while the
youngest two children, James and Jen-
ME. twins, will be seven next April. !:
MIR. Carson is chief of police of Hood
River. He is So years of age. Mrs.
Carson celebrated her 49th birthday
Monday, January s. MIR. and Mrs.
Carson have never had the misfortune
to lose a child. Only one of the chill.
dren, Charles, is married. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Carson are natives of Ken
lucky.
One of the daughters. Miss Elizabeth,
is student of the University of Ore
gon, Ewhere she is a member of the
Delta Gamma sorority. During the
recent holidays reunion of the entire
family was held and photograph
taken.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
Butterwrappers at Glacier office.
Library Notes

You are paying for the services OF
your public library through taxation.
In return it offers you:
The best of recent fiction, auth0rta-
tive books on..the present war, bulletins
and pamphlets on agriculture, works
of biography, travel and adventure.
the classics, and reference material for
study clubs and debating classes.
Magazines on practically every sub
ject-current events. literature. arts
and crafts. science and inventions, do
mestic economy.
Picture hooks and easy reading for
the tiny tots fiction. travel in other
lands, biography and nature study fol
the older boys and girls.
Telephone service for answering
questions and renewing and reserving
books.
An auditorium for public meetings
small room for committee meetings,
etc.
The advantage of obtaining free OF
charge books, fiction excepted, from
the state, Portland and University OF
! Oregon libraries.
The opportunity of using the library
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
CRAMPS WRITES
ABOUT SKOOKUMS

The following letter, dated Decem-
Mass. has been received by Kenneth
Mckay from E. v. Cramps. the latter
chief inspector of the Fruit Growers
Exchange, who had charge Of the
special train of apples recently shipped
east by the Exchange:
"You no doubt wonder why ] do
not write. but am not going to try 10
explain at this time. We arrived here
December l8 with six cars and the fol-
lowing day Gibbons and Arnold arrived
with the four U. p. cars that were d.
verted around on account of the tun-
nels that were too small for them to
go through. Hardman was held up at
Winson, Michigan. with the two cars
he had needed to repair. but arrived
safe at Boston today. 1t was nothing
but hell from the time we left Chicago
on the Grand Trunk until we arrived at
Boston. No accommodations whatever.
If | had not been along with the train
We would not have arrived here until
January /.
~ called on MIR. Anderson, the
Northwestern representative at New
York, and asked him what the general
report was regarding our grading at
Hood River. and he said il was very
good, that he had had no bad reports,
but ! am satisfied ii can be improved
upon after what have seen here.
"Skookum Spitz are selling from
Sl.S5 to S2.25 and retailing at fruit
stands at five cents per apple for l5Os
to ll3s. and two for FIVE cents l50s and
smaller.
81 asked a dozen or more people
what apple they bought to eat, and
nine times out of ten il would be Skoo-
KUN. They did not know the variety
but called them Skookum, which goes
to show the Skookumlis coming TO the
'front.'"
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
WeSterburg Victim Of Serious Accident

. Gust Westerburg has been seriously
i'll at st. Vincent's hospital in Portland
suffering from bad accident on DE
cember 10, when he was hurt whil,
working in the woods near Castl,
Rock, WASH. where he and his famil,
recently moved from the Summit dis
trict. Several of Mr.. Westerburg'
ribs were broken, puncturing the lungs
Others were pulled loose from th'
spinal formation.
Pneumonia set in and Mr.. Wester
burg was hurried to the Portland hos
pital. At first his life was despairet
of. but Mrs. Westerburg writes that a
present his condition is slightly i'm
proved.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
Our Jitney Offer This and SC

Don't miss this. Cut out this slip and
enclose with SC and mail it 10 Foley &
Co., 1886 Sheffield Ave-, Chicago, Ill.
writing your name and address clearly.
You'll receive in return trial package
containing Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound for bronchial coughs, colds and
Group; Foley Kidney Pills for pain in
sides and back, rheumatism, backache,
kidney and bladder; and Foley Carthar.
tic Tablets wholesome and thoroughly
cleansing cathartic, especially comfort
ing to stout persons. Sold everywhere
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11

Go to Law, The Cleaner.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
Lybarger Fine Suspended

The case of Joe Lybarger, charged
with having resisted Alva L. Day. dep,
uty game warden. was compromised
last week. A fine of $50 assessed
against Lybarger, was suspended and
his hunting license for the year was
revoked.
According to the complaint Lbyarger,
when asked by Warden Day to display
the contents of his hunting bag Oh
New Years day refused and drew his
gun on the warden.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
APPLE MEN ANTICI-
PATE CARS A PLENTY

With the freight embargo placed on
Christmas eve by transcontinental rail-
way systems lifted Friday and avail
able refrigerator cars more than equal
to the demand of shippers, local apple
interests anticipate no further trouble
in the transportation of apples held in
storage.
The Apple Growers Association still
has on hand 27h. 900 boxes of late keep.
ing varieties of fruit. a little more
than 25 per cent of the concerns total
tonnage for the season. The Fruit
Growers Exchange which has shipped
1870 cars of apples, has an approximate
20 carloads in storage.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
Bad Habits

Those who breakfast at eight O'Clock
or later, lunch at twelve and have din
ner at six are almost certain to be trou.
bled with Indigestion. They do not al.
low time for one meal to digest before
taking another. Not less than five hour:
should elapse between meals. II you
are troubled with indigestion correct
YOUR habits and take Chamberlain
Tablets, and you may reasonably hope
for quick recovery. These tablets
strengthen the stomach and enable it tc
perform its functions naturally. Oh.
tainable everywhere.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
Eighty-seven Years Old

Backache, sore muscles, stiff joints
dark puffs under eyes and bladder dis
orders are symptoms of diseased kidneys
H. II. Adams, Springfield, No., writes
81 had very severe attack OF kidney
trouble. l am getting cid, eighty. seven
| tried different treatments, but none
did me so much good as Foley Kidney
Pills. consider it the best" Foley
Kidney Pills are tonic in action, and
quick to give good results; sold every
where.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
The Habit of Taking Gold

With many people taking cold is a
habit, but fortunately one that is easily
broken. Take cold sponge bath every
morning when you first get out OF bed
not ice cold, but temperature OF about
800 F. Also sleep with your window up.
Do this and you will seldom take cold.
When you do take cold take Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy, and get rid of it as
quickly as possible. Obtainable every
where
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11
COMMERCIAL CLUB
WILL LIFT OLD DEBT

According to an announcement of
Secretary Scott the Commercial club,
a subscription having been raised
among business men and orcharidsts,
has the assurance with the beginning
of the New Year that before 1918 the
organization will he freed from the
81, 700 balance of a heavy debt incurred
by the club in 1910 in preparation OF
carload exhibits of apples for the Spo.
kane national apple show.
During the year 1910 the club in.
Cured an Indebtedness of more than
So 600
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11

lively snort time.
On Monday night, seventy five people
gathered in the building formerly oecu.
pied by the Mosier Valley Bank and
DIR. David Robinson in response to In
vitations and the evening was spent In
card playing and dancing. The invita-
tions stated that this was the first
meeting of the M. Z. E. club, and
after the crowd had gathered J. N.
Mosier addressed the audience to ex-
plain the object and purposes of the
proposed club. He stated that men,
bership was solicited from local people
and that the plan of the committee
was to keep the rooms for club pur-
poses, for the purpose of holding
dancing and card parties: that the
dues proposed would be Sl.50 per
month for all men members and that
parties could be held as often as the
club desires. At the next meeting,
Monday night. formal organization
will be effected. Nearly everyone
present signed up for membership last
Monday night and enthusiasm over the
prospects ran high. Plans for the en-
suing year will be outlined at the
next meeting.
The building had been artistically
decorated with fir and cedar boughs,
two stoves were set up, one upstairs
and the other down stairs, tables and
rugs in the card rooms on the second
floor and at the head of the stairs. a
big punch bowl filed with delicious
grape juice punch awaited the pleasure
of the guests. A room in the rear on
the second floor had been fitted up as a
rest room for the ladies, while hooks
and nails were provided for the men
both on the second and first floors.
To the strains of an Edison phono-
graph the dancers two-stepped and
waltzed iD the former bank quarters.
The floor had been cleaned and waxed
and was in good condition for dancing
for the first time. Long benches
against the wall were provided as
seats. When the party broke up at a
late hour, the expression generally was
highly Iaudatory for the committees
efforts in providing for very enjoy.
able evening, and promise to enroll
as members in the organized club.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1917-01-11

Franz Annual Clearing Sale of Fur.
niture and Rugs now on. Savings of 10
to 20 per cent. jlS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-31
MILLER's PROFIT FIXED.
Agreement With Food Board Gives
Them Is Cents a Barrel,

CHICAGO. August 81. F. Bell.
chairman of the United States millers'
committee, has issued the regulations
governing the profits of the millers, in
accordance with agreement made with
Food Administrator Hoover by the mill
ers' committee organized last week.
A profit of % cents barrel on -four
and so cents ton on feed are to be-
come effective September /. In the
purchase of wheat millers will be per-
mitted to buy at the customary transit
points and be governed by the terms
of their agreement with the food ad-
ministration grain corporation the gov
ernment's buying agency.
In order to bring about a fair distri-
button. of wheat among the various
millers, the food administration, acting
through the committee of mfllers and
in conjunction with the grain corpora
ton. will establish the normal amount
OF wheat ground by each mill on the
basis Of the three years prior to Janu-
airy l, 1917.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-31
RED CROSS TO AID CAMP
CITIES TO GUARD HEALTH
Sanitary Units to Help Municipal
Authorities to Prevent Spread
of Disease.

Further plans of the Red Cross for
CO cooperating with public health au-
thorities to safeguard the health of
civiliar populations in the areas sur
rounding the National Army canton
ments. announced today. include rhe
dispatch of units of the bureau of sani-
tary service. with full compliments or
psychologists and sanitarians. TO as
sist in establishing proper sanitary con-
troll adjoining seven army camps.
Cities which are, 70 receive Red Cross
cooperation in preventing the spread OF
diseases or epidemics from the camps are
Little Rock. Ark; Louisville, Ky; Des
Moines, Iowa; Leavenworth. Kan Hat
tiesburg, Miss; Petersburg, Va. and An
niston. Ala.
Problems in which the sanitary, units
Of the Red Cross will particularly AID
city and state health officials are lnsur-
ing the purity Of milk and water supplies
for the civil population and in cleaning up
insanitary places near the camps winch
might serve as breeding places for germs
Surgeon w. H. Frost of the pubiic
health service has been detailed to the
Red Cross as director of this sanitary
work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-31
Date of Departure Not Fixed.
CHILD LABOR ACT VOID.
FEDERAL JUDGE HOLDS

GREENSBORO. N. c., August 81
Federal Judge James E. Boyd today de-
clared the Keating-Owen child labor
law unconstitutional
Injunction proceedings which resulted in
Judge Boyd's ruling were brought by
Robert H Dagenhart and his sons. Reuben
and john. against the Fidelity Manufac-
turing Company to prevent the company
from dismissing the two boys, minors from
the company's cotton mill at Charlotte
The law, which becomes effective
September l. prohibits the employment
of any child under fourteen years of
age in any factory, mill. workshop or
cannery whose products are to be
shipped in interstate commerce, and
requires that the working day of chill
dren fourteen to fifteen years old shall
not be longer than eight hours. Reu-
ben Dagenhart is under sixteen and
John Dagenhart under fourteen. The
father contended he has a right to
their wages until they are twenty-one
and that as the North Carolina law al
lows eleven hours a day, Reuben has
a right to work more than eight hours
day, while John has a right to work
in the mill. although under fourteen
because the state law permits il