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The Parker post., 1918-07-27
When the Doctors pespalred.

There have been recorded during the
war many being cured by accidental
means, such as sudden noise or an
unexpected visitor, or as a startling
question, and in one case at least a
midnight fall out of bed. But one Of
the strangest cases belongs to for
mer war, observes a correspondent,
where a soldier lay Is months under
the influence Of catalepsy. Finally, in
despair, the doctors ordered the bag
pipes to be played near the patients
bed. That did the trick.
There is a story told of skipper
who had q medicine-chest containing
cures numbered one to seven. For dys-
pepsia he administered a stiff dose Of
No. Z. BOr sprains, No. was the bot
tie, and for rheumatism, No. 5 seemed
to work the oracle. But on a lengthy
voyage the skipper ran out of No. T.
so when next member of the crew
had a pain in his middle he dosed him
with mixture Of 2 plus 5. Nobody
had another pain during that voyage,
or, at any rate, confessed to having
one,
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
MADE Big MISTAKE.
OF Course They Had Plenty of
Money Now, But
Farmer Had Forgotten That Time
Was Robbing Him and His Wife
Of Youth While He Was Pill.
ing Up the Dollars.

The farmer sat in the circle Of light
shed by the lamp on the reading table.
His brow was Wrinkled as he ran over
the figures in his handbook with q
stubby lead pencil. While he figured,
his wife sewed steadily and the old
clock on the mantel counted the sec
onds under it's breath.
At length the man placed his spec
tacles in their case, put his claspedI
hands above one knee, smiled slowly
and said: 1.-THE last payment on the
Dawkins farm has been paid. Jimmy, an
I've got right smart balance left in
the bank. That last bunch of shoats
l sold brought more money than 4
thought they would"
For time he sat evidently waiting.
for his wife to make some remark, but
her needle clicked steadily along hem,
while her eyes appeared glued to her
work. The farmer leaned forward.
touched his wife upon her knee and
continued: Don't you remember, jim.
ny, ever so long ago, l told you that
just as soon as the Dawkins place was
paid for you an l would take a trip,
great big trip, anywhere you wanted to
go?"
yes" the woman answered without
taking her eyes from the hem, ''yes, I
remember very well. 1t was just Is
years ago that you said we'd take that
trip, John"
"Well-but-say, jimmy, amt you a
bit glad it's come at lastw the man
asked.
II don't know, I don't know. You
see, John, when we planned that trip
I was just little bit~over thirty. I
hadn't got into the rut like l am now.
Honest, I've stayed out here in the
country year after year by myself un-
til I'm sensitive. When l go to town
look an act like was from the coun-
try. Maybe l don't look that way, but
might just as we'll look that way. II
the trip had come sooner it'd been all
right, but it's too late now."
But, Jimmy, you know was payin'--"
"Never mind that, John, I've heard
that same OF story Of payin' for more
land for years now. You've done 1t
all for the best, but 1t has been for
the worst. We've got money to spend
an we've gotten plumb by the time
Of life when we can get any pleasure
out of it, I believe in putin some
thing by for rainy day all right, but
I hn1 In
youth an pleasure. I'm sorry as can
be, John, but don't want the trip
Farm and Family.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Gold in Montana.

The first discovery Of gold in Mon
tana is accredited to a halfbreed IN
dian, who in 1852 found "coIOrs'' in
gravel near the mouth of Col creek,
small stream that rises in the north
east corner of the Philipsburg quad
rangle, and the first workable places
discovered in Montana were found on
this creek in 1862, recites the GeOlOgi-
cal Press Survey Bulletin. A small
quantity of gold was taken out of
these gravels by means of sluice boxes
on the creek near the present site Of
Pioneer. The deposit afterward ex-
plotted by the Hope mine was discov-
cred In December, 1854, and In 1865
Philipsburg was founded just south
Of the mine. Since that time the Phil
ipsburg district has produced about
$4,000 900 in gold and silver.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Fine Example for Others.

The manager Of an English north
country firm, Joseph Thomson, J. P,
was one of the few who, in the early
days Of Ruskin's social reform
schemes, put Ruskln's ideals into prac
tice in the organization of his wo0len
manufacturing business, observes
Christian Science Monitor. A definite
minimum wage was fixed for the work
ers, and they were given shares which
carried full voting powers at company
meetings. Both men and women en-
joyed this privilege Ruskin, on hear
ing of Mr. Thompsons experiment.
wrote to him expressing deep appreci-
alton. II cannot sufficiently thank you"
he said, "for the completely founda-
tional step which you have taken in
the establishment of just and right re-
!atiOnships between yourself and your
employees" The experiment gave
most satisfactory results.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Effects Of the Sun.

City dwellers and those who do not
lead a constant outdoor life should
avoid exposing unclothed portions OF
their bodies to the bright sunlight for
prolonged period. According to tha
Journal of the American Medical Asso-
citation, German specialists who have
investigated the subject say that the
damage that frequently follows tn"
popular pastime of lying for hours ia
the sun on the sand at German beach
es is not merely sunburn, but head
ache and often meningitis. Those who
are inclined to be nervous are more
quickly affected by undue exposure to
the rays of the sun, and the anemic
and nervously predisposed city indoor
workers are the very persons who are
most fond of sun baths. A tanned and
vascular skin offers better protection
against the suns rays. but the city
dweller's skin is neither pigmented nc,
vascular. Instead of being benefited
the nervous are rendered more nery-
GUS, and when the summer is over they
are tanned, but otherwise ia poorer
condition than in the spring.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Curious WaIkino Feat.

The most curious walking feat In
Scotland dates back to a former CEN
tury, when Sir Andrew Leith Hay and
Lord Kennedy did great walk for a
bet Of f4,5OO. Hay said he could walk
from Blair hall in Kincardineshire to
Inverness In less time than Kennedy.
They started off that very night at
nine O'Clock, in their evening clothes,
with their shoes and silk stockings. Sir
Andrew took the coach road via Hunt
ly and Elgin. Lord Kennedy, with Cap
tain Ross as umpire, went straight
across the Grampians in pouring rain.
They walked all that night all next
day, and the following night, and Lord
Kennedy got to Inverness at six o'clock
in the morning of the third day, and
won his bet by four hours.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
South African Shoe Trade.

Cape Province has numerous firms
which manufacture boots and shoes
Many of these are engaged in the pro.
ductiOn Of high-class footwear though,
as q rule, the better class of footwear
that iS~pOpular in this country, Is OBJ
tanned from overseas, writes Consul
General George Fl. Murphy, Cape Town.
The foreign producer, with his highly
specialized factories, is able, with the
aid of the importing merchant, to flood
the market here with enormous guam
titles of boots and shoes, either made
for the South African trade, or form
ing a part of his surplus output. The
result is chat the South African pro-
ducer is unable to command a suffi-
cient market to warrant extensions of
his plant to meet large calls which
may be made by the wholesaler. He
must content himself with producing
high-grade footwear in small Quanti-
ties for the retailer.
Large quantities of boots and shoes
are being received from the United
States, partly as result of the inn
possibility of obtaining adequate sup
plies elsewhere.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Sounds Battling Science.

Mystery still attaches to certain ex-
plosiye sounds, heard in various parts
of the world and known to science as
i'brontides." On the coast of Belgium,
says Popular Science Monthly, these
sounds seem to come from the sea,
and are called locally "mistpoeffers."
In the Ganges delta of India similar
sounds are called "Barisal guns"
BrOntides are Well known in some
parts of Italy, where they bear great
variety Of names. In Hayti a sound of
this character is known as the "gouf-
fire." while In parts Of Australia it is
called the desert sound" Brontides
mostly take the form of muffied deto-
nations, Of indefinite direction. Prob
ably they are of subterranean origin.
Studies Of eccentricities in the trans
mission of sound through the atmoS-
phere lead to the conclusion that some
Of the sounds hitherto reported as
brontides were really due to cannonad-
ing or blasting.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
FINDING A DESIRABLE WIFE
Lonely Young Pioneer Who Did Not
Know How, Found 1t Was Really
Rather Simple.

In a new settlement in the thick
forest, 20 miles or more from q city
and ten miles from a railway, were
located a sawmill and few scattered
homesteaders who worked at the mill
when it was running and attended
their little clearings at other times,
relates writer in the Chicago Trib-
une.
One day in the cooks camp, connect
ed with the mill, the man and his wife
in charge began joking the homestead
er about being the only settler in the
whole community without a wife and
family.
"HOw can help it?" said he. "There
are no marriageable women that
know"
"Oh, there are lots of them that would
be glad of good home such as you
could furnish" said they.
"Well, you just find me One," said
the hOmesteader, 'and will make you
a present of the best cow on the
place."
Not to be bluffed, they accepted his
proposition. Then they got busy, run
ming over their list of acquaintances
in the city, finally selecting, for their
matchmaking expedient, an estimable
lady of their acquaintance, living with
her married sister in the city.
The victim selected for the sacrifice
had reached that age when unmarried
women cease to celebrate birthdays
and begin to regard the tapering end
Of statistical possibility with more or
less concern. The hOmesteader was
about the same age, and, evidently,
just as much concerned about his fu-
ture on earth. A friendly invitation
was forthwith extended to the lady to
spend a week with the cooks family
at the camp. 1t was innocently ac-
cepted
The hOmeSteader was conveniently
invited to a Sunday dinner with the
cooks family, and the tragedy was
staged.
A case of love and desperation at
first sight. In the afternoon, chap
eroned by the cook and his wife, the
party casually strOlled over to the
homesteaders bungalow, where they
found everything "spick and span,"
with just enough incongruity in the
arrangement to make the fingers of an
orderly hOusekeeper tingle with ambi-
ton to put things in their proper cor
nerS.
A few months later the records in
the county clerks office gave hint
of further developments, which were
staged at the sisters home in the city.
The happy couple at once settled In
their new home land lived happily
ever afterWard."
In the excitement the poor COW was
crowded off the stage and forgotten
by the matchmakers, but short time
later, looking out one morning, they
saw Mr.. HOmeSteader driving cow
into camp--as good as his word.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
THINGS THAT WE LAUGH AT
tnaninate Objects, Because of Asso-
citation, Used by Comedians to
Cause People to Smile.

The intrinsic humOr possessed by
inanimate objects Is study in itself.
A person has but to lift up a string
OF sausages to make us smile. There
must be some curious association Of
ideas, writes Rob Wagner in the Sat
urday Evening Post, that has always
made of sausages favorite prop for
the comedian. The popularity of spag-
hetti as laugh provoker probably
lies in the great difficulty of eating it
with dignity. Because of some strange
significance, laWnmowers and baby car
riages are potential of much mirth.
Inanimate objects are not the only
facetious things in life; among the
fruits and vegetables we find are COM
edians. We have a complete flora and
fauna Of comedy that every director
is supposed to know. The edible props
Of pleasantly are the cabbage, prune
and onion; while among the animals,
the jackass and the mule get the long
est laughs, though I believe the goat
produces the strongest.
We had stupid director who
thought because a Shetland pony Of
fered such tremendous contrast to
a mule he could hitch the two to-
gether and get lot of laughs. It cost
a bunch OF money to convince this
unanalytical chump that people regard
these diminutive horses much as they
do beautiful children; they are too
sweet and cute to be subjected to the
slightest indignity. Sheer beauty is
never funny.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Common Sense Plus.

The class In Commercial English
was studying the parcel post system.
The subject being discussed was the
size Of admissible matter under this
class, to be sent in any zone. The cor
rect rule for this Is to measure the
parcel from end to end with an a.
inch tape measure, and then use the
rest of the measure to stretch around
the circumference Of the parcel. II
any surplus inches of tape come
around, then the parcel Is Of correct
size.
Suppose" said the teacher, bring
ing forth a practical example, shat
were to have an umbrella, Louise, how
could tell whether or not 1t could be
sent"
Louise arose reluctantly and studied
for q moment In silence. At last she
answered, "Well. think I'd close the
umbrella first"
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Will Purchase Foreiun Hides.

II Sole, published at Milan, contains
an article on the formation of an as
sociation for the purchase of foreign
raw hides. The directing committee,
it states, met at Rome and nominated
as president Commentators Gennaro
MatfetOne of Naples. The seat of the
association in Rome was fixed at the
Hotel Splendid, where the wool asso-
citation is installed. 1t has been possi-
bic to enable the office to begin with
out delay the admission of associates.
and the organization of purchases
finances, insurance, freights, etc.
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Khaki Colors Differ.

Considerable comment is being
aroused in official circles and else
where over the disparity of the khaki
uniforms worn by officers and privates,
Some Of them are so faded that they
look almost white. while others retain
original colOring. A few cases have
been noted, states the Pathfinder,
where the coat and breeches Of uni
forms have developed different hues.
One excuse offered is that the khaki
cloth is acquired from many manufac-
turers and the grades of it differ wide
ly sometimes. Thousands of young
men entering the officers training
camps purchase their own uniforms,
and this provides an opportunity for
g difference in the quality Of the
goods
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Gets Brass in Ordnance Equipment.

Included in the equipment furnished
each infantryman by the ordnance bu-
reau of the war department are 62.7
ounces of brass. This Is exclusive Of
the uniform equipment provided by the
quartermaster corps.
Used in the haversack are 1.8 ounces
of brass in the bayonet scabbard, 0.5
ounce; in the canteen cover, or ounce;
cartridges (10O), 47.4 ounces; caxt-
ridge belt, 10 ounces; gun sling, l
ounce; oiler ard thong case, 1.5
ounces; pouch for first-aid packet, 0.3
ounce.
Equipment fr0~l the ordnance bu-
reau for 100 O0G itfAntrymen contains
almost 100 tcn3 - -,..:-
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Mean Comment

"What do you think Mr.. Blunt sale
to Miss Oldgirl when she remarked
she would prefer TO be spring
brideT
"What did he say?"
"That he advised her to selest
April for any date of the kind, for
1t would be such good joke on the
man."
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Forgotten.

Il thought you said he was strict
ly honest?"
$50 he Isl
'But / loaned him so month ago
and he hasn't returned It,"
THAT'S all right. / still think he is
honest. Perhaps 1 forgot to tell you
that his chief trouble Is that he has a
poor memory"
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
These CoaIless DAYS.

These CoaIless Days.
Patience-Is your friend who got
married happy?
Patrice-Oh, no.
"Why, she married money, didn't
she?"
"Oh, yes, but she's dissatisfied"
"GOod gracious! Why"
"Oh, she wishes she'd married a
coal man."
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
After the Lecture

"1n his lecture he gave some bare
facts
why, | thought his words were
clothed with beautiful ideas"
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Natural PrncAedinn-

"PoOr old Grimes So he's gone 1T
last. What man he was to run after
widows!'
'Yes, after everybody's but his own"
The Parker post., 1918-07-27
Not the OnIv One

My rich relations seem to be
Not up to par.
For none of them has handed nae
A cast-off car.
Louisville Courier-Journai.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-10-31
So head Of Short Horn
Cattle
Hay and Grain.

About 80 tons of clover hay in stack and some
in barn. 35 acres of corn in field sold by the
bushel. 40 acres stalk field pasture. Abou
400 bushels Yellow Kersian Oats
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-10-31
Sc head Of Poland China
Hogs

Farm Implements: Success spreader, 2 steel
water tanks one twelve barrel and one six bar
rel, bundle Of binding Irvine, 2 pump jacks,
Fairbanks Morse Y h. p. gas engine, tank
heater team truck for gas engine, John Deere
cultivator, Black Hawk planter, IA inch Moline
gang pillow, 18 foot harrow and cart, Portland
sleigh, set of " inch harness, Charter Oak
wagon, endgate seeder, sweep rake, Dain load
er. These implements are all good stun.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-10-31

good milk; year
White spring
These bulls will
flu Horn
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-01-25
BOY SCOUTS At WORK
GIVING OUT PACKETS

Boy Scouts OF Grants Pass, rs per-
sonal messengers OF the president,
are distributing so packets OF infor-
nation on the war. Their work Is
part OF national movement to uti-
llxe the Boy Scouts for constructive
work during the war. and they are
directly commissioned by the com-
mittee on public Information.
ID. d. Reynolds, scoutmaster. an
nounced that 80 boys we're WORKING
this week distributing the pamph-
lets. The distribution Is, perhaps,
the most systematic OF Its kind ever
done. Every boy Is instrusted with
packets OF information, containing.
among other things. a copy OF one OF
the presidents recent addresses and
cards OF various dates bearing on the
war. The name and address OF every
person receiving packet at the
hands OF the boys Is taken.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-01-25
ANOTHER WAR WORK
DRIVE NEXT WEEK

The war drive that will occupy
the attention during the coming
week viii be that OF the Young
women's Christian association,
which organization is seeking funds
for the equipment and conduct Of
the hostess houses at the training
camps throughout the nation. In
these home-like buildings women
relatives and friends OF the soldiers
find pleasant surroundings In which
to meet and visit their soldier boys,
These buildings are presided over by
tactful and experienced women,
when II Is understood that these
hostess houses are the only places
where soldiers have any facilities for
meeting their women relatives and
friends the Importance OF this work
will be readily seen,
Josephine county has been asked
for $500 and II Is confidently ex-
pected that Josephine county will
top the list as usual, Workers FOR
this cause should meet with ready
responses.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-01-25
BElG|ANS REJECT
FLEMISH LANGUAGE

Amsterdam. Jan. 25.-After more
than three years OF EFFORT the Ger.
man authorities In Belgium have to
admit the failure OF their attempt to
drive wedge between the two
races and languages in Belgium. The
unity OF Belgium still exists. and
there are signs that the Germans
have given up. ut least for the time
being. their attempt to break II up.
The authority for this statement
Is the German propogandist weekly
In Holland. the Toekomst. which
states that the present policy OF the
governor-general In Brussels IL
more moderate and that Berlin
approves this policy as means of
gaining peace" The article con-
cludes by advising the advocates OF
the former German policy to steer
q middle course and give up their
flourisher OF rhetoric"
The attempts OF the Germans 10
force the Flemish language on Brns-
sells and Antwerp are declared to
have completely failed and the gov
ernment has had to confess itself
beaten. The supporters OF the Ger
man scheme among the Belgium
are known as ''Activ-
ists." and are very unpopular among
the majority Of their fellow citizens.
An Activists demonstration" was
arranged In Brussels recently and
was much exploited In the German
Press at the time. But according to
the Echo Beige. the demonstration
was fiasco.
Instead OF 5000, the audience
was only 1000" says the newspape
Moreover. one third Of these were
Dutch and another third Germans,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-01-25

partly In uniform. The procession
to the market place was attacked as
soon as noticed by the crowd. not
wlthstanding the protection OF the
local police. Next time there may be
riot. Now the Activists are be-
ginning to divide into Maximalists
and MinimalIsts and are becoming
very difIicult for their German bosses
TO handle"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-01-25
THIRD ARREST MADE
FOR SED|T|0US TALK

sheriff Lewis and Deputy Sherln
Lister returned late this afternoon
from Takilma with Charles Gibbons.
who was arrested. charged with too
much pro-German talk. This man
Is said to have been talking freely
for some time. hut no real evidence
of sedibious talk had been presented
until recently. Gibbons has been a
resident OF the Takilma section for
several years and at one time con-
Quoted a barber shop there.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-01-25
cats Of Japan and Cubs.

A statement Is mnde by Professor
Morse concerning the cats Of japan
which we do not remember to have
heard before; namely, that all the cats
there are Of the Manx breed. or mt
least tallless. A eats tail ls used
like that Of Kangaroo, to balance the
body when the anlmnl renches up with
lts forward limbs; hence. we are told,
the japanese believe that the cats
tails In their country were originally
cut of to prevent them from standing
on their hind legs to pull things down
to the floor. '"Thls idea" says the
author, rs pnrnlIeled in Cuba, where
the ears Of cat are cut Off to prevent
It from roaming In the cane fields.
The sudden showers that fall In the
tropics nre annoying to cats innsmuch
as the rain gets lnro their ears, and
this they particularly lonihe.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-01-25

Basketball tomorrow night. 81
T. P. Cramer went to Central
Point this morning to spend the day
on business.
See the basket ball game at the
Central school tomorrow night. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. A. Thomas re-
turned this morning from Los An
seles. where they spent the past two
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Hobart went
to Portland last night. where Mr..
Hobart win spend few days on
business.
We will pay you as cents cash for
fresh clean eggs at the Cooperative
Creamery. II
Mrs. w. A. Fern left this morning
for Eugene to join Mr.. Fern. who
has position with N. veach. the
undertaken.
The basket bail game tomorrow
night will be a hummer. Be sure
and see it. Central school. 81
Mrs. l. W. May and two children
arrived this morning from Philo-
math to visit Mrs. Mays father.
Charles Smith.
o. F. Carson. Of the Carson-Fow-
ler Lumber company. Ashland, was
In the city today.
Mrs. Clifford Jenkins and two
children, who have been visiting
here for a week past. returned to
Ashland this afternoon.
Medford VS.. Grants Pass in bas-
ket ball tomorrow night. Central
school. You should be there. 81
Mrs. A. H. Gunnell. accompanying
Helen Fifield and Max wilkins. the
Grants Pass high school debaters.
went to Central Point this after
noon.
Herman Horning returned last
night from visit with his parents
at Otter Rock. He also visited sew
eral other coast points.
See the game tomorrow night. 81
Mrs. Fred Mensch left this morn
ing for Portland. where she will
spend several weeks with Mr..
Mensch. Mr.. Mensch has been in
Portland during the winter. engaged
In writing up field notes Of the sur
vey of the Warm Springs reservation
boundaries. which survey occupied
his time during the summer past.