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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1918)
r; i ALL PREPARED FOR MEASLES Indianapolis Newspaper Treat Ad vent of Disease aa Something of Which to Make a Jett. Have you had the measles yet? Well. Just h patient. It la only a matter of time. A physician wiis asked how lie ac counted for the great number of cases of measles this year, iind he smiled und said that the old germs were all frocen during the very cold weather and that tlioy were trying out the new supply, rrofesslonnl men have such 'harming manners, which lnvnrlnhly iiccompany those evnslvo answers. One never knows whether they are afraid of disclosing state secrets or whether the sweet smile and graceful how are serving In an armorial ca pacity. So, If you awaken some morning and your forehead Is a mass of little patches of carmine and your throat feels dry and your head feels hot, don't he alarmed. It simply means that you have heen chosen to hecome a niemher of the Ancient Accepted Or der of Measleltes, and that the Initia tion has begun. A five days' vneatlon Is about to be thrust on you, which you will enjoy, more or less, probably less, particularly If you have the "Hun" variety, which is as treacher ous as the name Implies, Of course, if you are pressed for time, there is a 24-hour kind which Is very good. It has all the appearances of the genuine article without any of the disagreeable features. The doc tors call it "Duke's disease," but It he longs to the measle family, and you will be perfectly safe (and considera bly more comfortable) in selecting that kind. Indianapolis News. PROOF THAT WORLD MOVES Simple Little Experiment Will Con vince the Skeptical of Fact Pretty Generally Conceded. Take a good-sized bowl. All it nearly full of water and place It upon the floor of a room which Is not exjiosed to shaking or Jarring from the street. Sprinkle over the surface of the water, a coating of lycopodlum powder. Then upon the surface of this coating of powder make, with powdered chari-oul, a straight black line, say, an Inch or two in length. Having made this little mark with the charcoal powder on the sun .ice of the contents of the bowl, lay upon the floor close to the b"w. a stick or some other straight object, so that it will be exactly parallel with the murk. If the line happens to be parallel with a crack In the floor or with any sta tionary object In the room, this will Kcrve as well. Leave the bowl undisturbed for a few hours and then observe the po sition of the black mark with reference to the object with which It was parallel. It will bo found to have moved in the direction opposite to the move ment of the earth on Its axis. The earth In limply revolving has carried the water and everything elc In the bowl around with It, but the powder on the surface has been left behind a little. The line will always he found to have moved from east to west, which Is perfectly good proof that everything Joe has moved the other way. In and Out. There is some talk among n number of the women folk of Woodruff place of organizing a club to he known as "The Ins and Outs." Not thut they wish to be marked aa gad-abouts or anything of the sort. The proposed club title refers solely to a recent pamphlet issued by the authorities of "the town within a city," which con tains the directory of the 1,800 Inhab itants. The booklet is neatly arranged, is embellished with pictures of the town's beauty spots and contnlns plen ty of advertisements as all good direc tories should. But somehow In the course from census taker to printer the names of about twenty-five of the good wives of the town were omitted. The little club idea has been proposed with one requirement for membership, which Is that the member shall be "In" the town and "out" of the directory. Indianapolis News. Perfect Confidence No other words can describe the relation! that i should exist between a Hunk and Its patrons. If you haven't confidence in the soundness of a bank, you certainly will not trust your money to it. This Bank invites careful inspection of its financial strength and sound business methods. We know they are above criticism, but the noint in, we want you to know it When yeu have learned, then we solicit your business on our merits. CRANE STATE BANK CHANF. 0REvN e U II 'I French Labor Shortage. The lack of labor has hecome morn acute In almost all the vital Industries of France. There aro many soldiers of the old classes In the French army, men 40 years of age or more, whoso usefulness at the front Is a question open to debate. Agitation has heen going on since the time when American participation In the war made the de mand for men less acute at the battle front to relieve the old 1'ollus. Early In 1017 the doubtful privilege of an honorable discharge was granted to carefree fathers of six or more chil dren. The real problem before the chamber of deputies Is whether to take up the question of the old classes In a large spirit or whether to continue to male slight concessions to the demands of their constituents. Adjustable Support for Broken Limbs. "Tests fif a new limb support which have been made In a hospital In this country have proved so satisfactory that a Ited Cross unit will take one of the devices to France, together with specifications for making others, If de sired," says Popular Mechanics Mugn r.ine. As described and Illustrated, It consists of "a hatnmnckllke sling sus pended from a steel arm that can bo attached either to a bed or a wheel chair. Its special feature Is the free dom of movement that Is affords the patient. By means of a rope and pul leys the sling can be raised or lowered, while the supporting arm permits It to swing from side to side." A New London Drink. An American In a public bar in Lon don was mystified recently when cus tomer entered and sang out : "l.ORfi hop, please." At first the man from the State believed the newcomer was seeking to telephone, hut the bar maid put out a drink, the thirsty one drank and paid for It and then left without laying another word. Of course, Amer ican Inqulsltlveness had to be satisfied. Investigation developed that the latest beer price order In Kngland fixes the maximum price of beer at lower gravity fnan 1,036 at eight cents a pint and beer at gravity of from 1.0.10 to 1.042 at ten cents a pint. Montreal Star. Grocer Had Nothing to Say. The grocer thought one day that he would like a steak for his dinner as u change from the bacon, so he sent his little girl across to the butcher for one pound of steak. On receiving the steak. Ik- thought he might satisfy his curiosity by weigh ing It, and in so doing he found it to be four ounces light of weight. He brought It across to the butcher : in I said: "What Is the meaning of only giving me twelve ounces of meat instead of one pound?" The butcher calmly replied: "I lost my ooe-pottnd weight, .so I hail to use your one-pound packet of tea." Use of Torpedoee In Warfare. Between 1878 and lSliS, when the Spanish American war broke out, there were only twelve instances In which the torpedo had been used In actual warfare. The Uusso-Japanese war In 1!sH afforded many opportunities for the use of (his deadly weapon of de struction, and Whitehead's Invention caused great huvoc. The combination of the submarine boat and the torpedo had Its first real trial in the present war. An Education. "Did you manage to give your boy much schooling?" "Finest possible," rejoined Farmer Corntossel. "Josh Joined the army and la being educated abroad." HLY PAMJuT.Y CHURCH (Catholic) Cor Millar and C. Sts. Sunday High Maes at 10:30 o'clock Week days Mass at 7 o'clock. Instructions for children Satur days at 9 A. M. Rer. Father Frauds, O. F. M. Rector. We will do jour Job priming. , gJgggaBSBSJSSSSSBSSBJSBS REMINDS SOLDIERS OF HOME mall Qoddess of Liberty In Parle At. tracks Americans to Bridge Yhore he Stands. There Is a little old bridge In Tarls. In an out-of-the-way part of the city, that Is being trod by many Yankee feet these days. The Rlffel tower Is about three fourths of a mile away, and the dis tance between the tower and the little bridge Is about as unattractive as you could And In Paris. Nor does the bridge called the pont de Crenelle lead you across the Seine to any light see! ng place. But that bridge supports In Its center a statue of the (loddess of Liberty, the spine glorious lady who ho'ds aloft her flame of rlKhteotmness In New York harbor. A great many Americans hare learned on this bridge that the (ioddess of Liberty wns a gift from France to America. The description on the ped estal records this fact, and there fol lows In French an exerpt from the let ter of acceptance of Vice President Morion. The figure Is only shout 1.1 feet tall, but the disparity In slr.e as compared with the original permitted one Imag inative Yank to close his eyes half shut today and declare that the effect was of steaming Into New York bar bor with the gigantic goddess looming up in tlie distance. And while he was looking up. enjoying this mid effect, several large gulps could he distin guished as they passed down hla throat. MELTING POT FAILS TO MELT Trouble la, According to Writer, That the Stoking of the Fires Is Neglected. This melting pot of ours has been asked to melt up more different kinds of stuff than the department of min eralogy ever beard of. It's got more things In It than a New Knglnnd boiled dinner, or a rummage sale. Porter F,m erson Browne writes In MeOure'e. And to have gotten all these Ingredi ents properly melted would have meant that every second msn was a stoker and every first a coal miner. Hut Instead of that, every second mart bus been a motorcar manufactur er and every first an open market. And the result has heen that so far from melting these different Ingredi ents, we haven't done anything with them at all. They have Just been dumped In and lain there, here a pile of Armenians, there a bunch of Ger mans, over yonder a pile of Jews, and hcjnnd that a chunk of Chinese. And New York, which has been our biggest receiving station, has come to take on ! the appearance of one of those dishes of bor d'oeuvres that you strike In j Italian restaurants sardines In one compartment, olives In another, sail- ' sage in a third, anchovies In a fourth. ajid so on, all separate, distinctive and I Individual. And as the United States comprises 48 states, so does each of our states comprise 48 or more cities, snd each of our cities 4h different colonies of un mixed und often uiimixal'le national ities. Dog Hair Wool Substitute. The keeping Of dogs ,na he i-'rnrd-ed as a patriotic duty Instead of a wasteful luxury, If the dog be of fhe long haired species. It has been demonstrated that an exceptionally high-class wool can he spun from the hair of all breeds of long-haired dogs. Samples from Chows, Pekingese, poodles, Hergers d'Alsace and sheep dogs have been submitted to wool experts, who are emphatic In their commendation. To popularize the discovery and turn It to good account the British Dogs' Wool association has been formed with the countess of Gosford as president and Lady Algernon Gor don Lennox as chairman. The dogs' wool, so far as the association can control It. will be turned over to the British Red Cross. Meanwhile short-haired doga are dis credited and in peril of destruction unless it can be proven that they, loo, may be utilized to help win the war, otherwise than as camouflaged sausage meat, Yours Is Coming, William! Bad as things are. If Is impossible not to smile at William lloheiizollern. Of the Russian peace he said: "The complete victory (Ills me with gratitude, II permits US to live liell ill one of those great moments in which we can reverently admire God's hand In history." Did a more sanctimonious scoundrel ever cut a tlironi? Ah, William Von rest on the knees of Ihe (oils, and far from safely. Any moment, oxer you may go. face down, and our turn will come to admire God's hand In history, applied w-;. em phasis where It will do luust good. Life. Hard for the Stork. One Sunday afternoon when Jones, who had been visiting the zoo, MOM home, he unuouiiced to the family: "They've got a new huh) lilppota mils." Whereupon his daughter, about fif teeu. burst luto a fit of uncontrollable laughter. When she had subsided somewhat the father grewled: "What are you laughing at?" "I was Just thinking," giggled the girl, "that that rather kills the stork story." Harper's Magazine. T ejufelo Enough. Swerves s flgggsag Hlhb lie no Myasg ate i eld debt. jsm gBM BB cJBBBsW WBIIBHEs W NOT BOTHERED BY WORRY Trouble In Colored Man's Case Moat Certainly Old Not Induce Insomnia. Representative Carter of Oklahoma was telling some of his colleagues in the cloakroom of the house the other day a story of a negro In his state who, under persuasion perhaps, had for saken the Republican party and cast hla fortunes with rhe Democrats, aays the Washington Post. He gained a lo cal reputation and soon his former as sociates In the old organisation began to talk among themselves. Finally they determined to get the deserter back, If possible. A committee went to the re calcitrant and urged him to come back, but the Democrat was stubborn. "Well, If you don't give up the Dem ocrats we're goln' to tie your hands and feet, put a gag In your mouth and take you down to t In- old cave you know about ami drop you in," they threatened. The threat had Its effect to the ex tent that In confidence the deserter told a white friend, a lawyer, of what he had been told. "Don't pay any attention to them," advised the lawyer. "They wouldn't attempt anything like that." Hut the negro wasn't satisfied. lie continued talking about what his brethren were going to do to him. "If they were to do anything like that," -said the lawyer, "they would be arrested, and If you should be found dead they would be hanged." That's all right." said the negro, "but It wouldn't do me no good to have 'em hanging If I wns dead." "I knew there bad been something wrong with you," said the lawyer. "I have seen you brooding for some time, and If yon don't slop It the first thing you know you will go out nnd commit suicide over your troubles." "Naw, Indeed," said the negro, "'taln't no chance of datl Whenever I gits to worryln' 'bout mah troubles I Jes' nachllly goes to sleep." ONLY MADE MATTERS WORSE tkomin Might Better Have Refrained From Attempt te Relieve an Embarrassing Situation. The conversation In the lobby of a Washington club turned to the way In which we occasionally sink deeper and deeper trying to extricate ourselves, when Senator William P, Dillingham of Vermont recalled a little Incident along that line. One of the features of an entertain ment that was given for charity some time since was a vocal selection by a woman. Midway in the audience a meek-looking little tnau listened at tentively. "That Is the most atrocious singing I ever heard," remarked a woman to the meek little man. "I wonder who the vocalist Is?" "She Is my wife," was the startling rejoinder of the meek little man. "Oh, I beg your pardon!" responded the other, greatly flushed. "The fault may He with the music, which Is really harlairous. Have you any Idea who Composed ItV "Yes, madam," replied the other, ad ministering yet more eiiiharrassineiit. i did." -Philadelphia BvenJng Tele- graph. Pathetic War Incident. I.leufeuiinl Turner Of Saskatchewan lost his eyesight at Yprca. Home time ggU he was taking his coat from the j checker In a prominent London restuu ni'it when a man beside him, noticing bis blindness, took It gently from him and held it while he slipped his srins I Into the sleeves. Believing Ihe service was rendered by an attendant, Lieu tenant Turner offered him a shilling as a tip. "That won't lie necessary," kindly said a friend of the lieutenant, with nn apologetic nod to the man who had held the coat. "The man who helped you was General " The blind soldier bluahed and asked the pardon of the general, but the lat ter was equal to the occasion. "I won't accept your apology, hut HI accept your shilling and I'll treaa ure It as a souvenir of one of the best soldiers who ever fought for Canndn and the allies." Fish Wear Out Bridge Piles. John Sbnfer, Jr., deputy In the office of County Surveyor Frank Haycock of Hennepin county, New York, says that flsh have hutted and ruhhed up against Ihe pll"S of the bridge at Oronn. Lake Mlnnctniilui, until that aged edifice has hecome weakened, necessitating Its closing. Sluifer and Kdwitrd Terrell, another deputy, were aent out to Inspect the span. "Yes. sir." said Sluifer. "ihose fish kept on hutting up against ,hat pier until the wood was almost wot-n away. In order to (ret there we had to pound the water around the place to keep I lie finny things away until we could Jlnlstt our Inspection. Why, those flsh are so numerous at Mlnnetoukn this year that they get pushed through the nnrrow passage so swift that I bey simply wear out the wood." Trophies ef German Airman. Prom an Illustration appearing In a' recent Issue of l.a Guerre Aerleune It is gathered that Raron von Klrhthofcn. the well-known German In eemmand of a German fighting squadron or "fly ing elreus," hna a epeelal hehhy for souvenirs ef his eamhatt. The walls of his "den" nre deeeaaasd with the numbers dlsMagtitahad mark ef machines he bus shot desse. vhRe rhe i ehandeller eeantnes if jl aeanaf pngJae taggg ,jn Tleerat'a sssesrMe Curious Food Supplies. Heeding the Puget sound call for food from the deep, a '"do regimen' of patriotic seals offered themselves for slaughter In the Seu Islsr.d. Ber ing sen. and a largo supply of their meat was brought gown hi January by the United Rtates teajn!ilr Itoose veil, for scientific teat of lt food value, Phil Norton writes Ifl Leslie's. Officers of the bureau ef fisherle ami new dish connoisseurs at Seattle sum pled the seal mast at sundry feast' Tt gave them a grand and glorious feel Ing. they said. It makes the stom ach feel slick snd efficient. It Is bet ter thsn the meat of the burly whule. It Is dsrk red In color, rich and Juicy, stripped of blubber, ss good s flf" herf. In fact. The north 1'aclfic Is full of them. Only three year-old mflte1 are slaughtered. Little pieces of pork are cooked with fhe seal roast, to give It flavor. The walrus, adorned with val'H'ble Ivory tucks, also is being mobr'y.er! One of these fat and bulky ercs'iirc would feed n whole troop or Hum i'e "Not so," say I'uget seunders: "weT eat the walrus and send our beef across." Waited Long for Order. The German soldier dots exait' what he Is told, und no more. A German ofllrer was drilling r emits, and had Just given them the i r der: "Quick march!" when he no ficed his sweetheart coming across the barrack square. Forgetting all about the recruits, he entered Into conversation with the girl and went away with her. Six months later th same officer was walking down Ihe main street of the same town when he ssw some tat tered and tired soldiers approaching htm. One of the soldiers, recognising the officer, went up to him and, salut ing, said: "Please, sir, what about a halt?" Effect of War on Birth Rate. In bis recent presidential address to the Royal Statistical society Sir Ber nard Mallet declared the United King dom has lost by the fall In births dur ing the war more than MKl.tlUO poten tial lives. 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