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Til 10 TAKT SMII.K.
Much has been said about the
"Tart smile" and it was certainly
evident last night, when on the re
quest of a largo number of admirers
nf ihiR nltv. the former president up
geared at the vestibule of his car
and cordially greeted Ills tcnow cm
xens. The cx-presldent was undoubt
edly pleased at the reception, as
there was not tho least hint of poli
tics In the informal meeting. Just
the assembling of men and woi ion
who were there '.o pay their re
Bpccts to him as a strong represenla
( niiiznn nf our common country.
Mr. Taft looked well, there wa no
aemulanco of worry, hut his face 'toon
on a serious meln, and his voice be
came grave, ns ho sounded a warn
ing to bis fellow citizens that we
nniBt prepare ourselves, not lor war.
iMit to prevent war becoming por.slb'.c.
Mr Tuft Is not an alarmist, never
was one, but between the line!' of his
printed addresses during th-3 pan
,iek. and behind his carefully
cn wordB last night, ore can but per
ceive the serlousnesB of the situa
tion confronting this cuunlry, and the
true meaning of ills words of admoni
tion that we become prepared, l-'.v-ery
man and womnn who heard the
calm dlBpaHSlnnalo words hie' nlghl.
are better, more loyal rltlzei.s tod ly
from having listened to the former
head of our nation.
AM. KOADS 1.KAI) TO KIDKI H
From comments in the dully press
exchanges, It would appear that the
barbocuo to be held in our nelahbor
Inir I own of Kiddle on Labor lUy. Is
lecoinlng widely hernliVM a the lies'
thing to come off in southern Oregon
hi. 'full, nnd it will be up to the
cHlzenB there to prepare for a grar..l
rush of participants. And mere ui
bo no disappointment, for tho ar
rangements are going along mnoolh
ly and steadily, and there' will be no
bitch in the program. It Is I'ndcr
Btood thnt already fifteen big bucks
are in cold storage here In Hosenure
which will be roasted for the o" ns
lon, and more to come. No men
typical spot in all the stale could
bnvo been selecled for an event or
'this nature, It is In the very heart
of probably the best hunting sec
tion of Hie stale, and Is the home
tho most enthusiastic Hod and tlun
clubs. It is safe to say that all roads
will lead to Riddle on "the sixth d o
or September, nnd that they will all
bo traveled.
That was a smart coroner's Jury
In tleorgin Ihst found the deal!', of
l,oo Frank was caused by unkii"n
persons".
COSTA RICA MINISTER
ARRIVES IN WASH
INGTON, Wt. MANUEL castuo yn.
RADA. THE NEW REPRESEN
TATIVE OK COSTA ItK'A. WHO
ARRIVED IN WASHINGTON UK
CKNTLY TO TAKK CIIAHOK OK
HIS I'lH'NTKY'S DU'L-OMXTU'
AFFAIRS.
li Is! v l?flf
UMQinDnAoiri
RICKLANPJLGILULaM
In A Village Hotel
The man in that next room Is shoo-
lug flies
I bear his febrllo languago and bis
step
I am a Bherlockholmes, and might
surprise
This shooing gink should ho know I
uui beii!
Though not a blacksmith, yet be
shoos them still
He hopes lie may exterminate their
race.
I have no grudgo against my neigh
bor, till
With bis new shoos tbo flies walk on
my faco.
I have a swatter, which I use with
vim
My BwatH sound like tbo thud of
mufilcd drum.
Dut every time I hiss "That settles
HIM"
A score unto tbo dead one's funeral
come!
In A Manner Of Saying
"What Is the family crest of tlio
Hanluppos?"
"An empty contribution box."
"Sort of coat of alms, eh?"
rinnlgln l'ilosofy
Whin a mon ain't got much V 8a
ay, he Ba-ays ut loud!
Cantaloupes
About one cnntnloupo out of every
bo many is edible.
It Is harder to tell a good canta
loupe, from looking nt its weather
boarding, than it Is for a green hand
to tell a toadstool from a mushroom.
Cantaloupes would come under the
head of games of chance were it not
for tho fact that there is bo little
chance.
When a cantaloupe is good, it Is
a dream.
When It's bad, It's a nightmare.
There is an old proverb about
something's depending "on whose ox
Is gored."
But you can tell by studying the
faces of any herd of breakfastors,
whose cantaloupe is gourd.
Wo once saw a grocery sign in
Memphis, "Roquefort Melons."
And when we Btopped and guf
fawed loudly at it. an anxious clerk
came out and mndo Inquiry as to our
merriment.
Next timo wo went by, it said
"ftockyford."
Tho Itockyford melons raised on
clay soil In Indinna from squash
reed are of a different flavor from
tboso raised In Colorado.
Kansas City cantaloupes assay a
very high percentage, nlso.
Wo are a good cantaloupe soloist,
nnd ore tho guy that put tho Bob
In casaba.
Can fiive No Enlightenment
If you had a young lady daughter
with a tendency to bent tho whey out
of a harpsichord thnt needs tuning,
nnd If tho people who lived below
Btalrs, in tho next netwnrd flat,
were to leave a largo Blx-pound
double-bitted Llpplncott nxo bosido
your door, said axe bearing a card
reading "Try This on Your Piano,"
what would you think? A. P. L.,
Dubuque, la.
The Chnngo
A rtlp Van Winkle nf to-day awoke
and said: "I am In luck! When I
dropped off to my long sleep, tho
magazines were raking muck!"
O You Jinld!
Our old friend Judd Mortimer
I,owls of tho Houston Post once
perpetrated this:
"I wish I wero a wooden pier
A-Btretchlng out to sea.
For then a lot of pretty girls
Would come and Bit on me."
Yeah. Judd. You'd bo stretching out
to Bee all right!
Bcripturo itrversod
Suggested sign for a fashionable
tonement:
"If Yo rtecome ns Little Children,
Ye Cannot Killer." That's one rea
son why such places are bo much less
like heaven thnn like the other place.
The legillmnto business of the pres
ent generation Is to supply and to
rear the next one.
No Outdoor Or Indoor Sports Left?
With the Czar cutting off their
vodka-drinking nnd von Hlndenhurg
restricting their retreating, the Uus
alans bid fair to bo left none of their
popular pastimes with which to
amuse themselves.
Wo ftf.kiHl the youns laily across
the -way if her father was employing
moro men as business Improved and
she Raid sh guessed he was, as she
ow hoard him say that It looked as
If ho'd have to have an assignee ap
pointed fur the first Uuu In his life.
TljeYoungLfldii
AgossTfieWfli)
HEAUTJrl
1aL1c5 (S
WILLIAM
Why Fumigate?
EIGHT or ten years ago Dr. C.
V. Chitpin, Superintendent of
Health, Providence, It. I., con
cluded that fumigation after con
tagious disease was useless, and lie
discontinued the practice in Provi
dence. f Without going Into statistics
ve may simply add that the rite has
never been resumed.
In October, 1914, the practice of
fumigating premises after contagious
disease was discontinued in the bor
oughs of the Bronx, Queens and
Brooklyn, In New York City, with
the exception of smallpox. And it
has not been resumed to date.
The truth of the mattor Is, that
If cases of contagious disease receive
ordinarily good nursing and medi
cal treatment, as the community is
bound to supply for its own welfare,
then there is no good reason why tho
premises should require fumigation.
Indeed, actual tests have shown that
the customary method of fumigating
rooms with formaldehyde vapor
falls to kill known cultures of
disease germs placed In the rooms.
If that is true, what a futile effort
fumigation must be.
Hut even if the horrendous odor
of formaldehyde wore enough to kill
disease germs in the room, there is
no good evidence that thero are any
disease germs loft in tho room to he
killed, If the patient has been prop
erly cared for. Thousands of bac
teriological tests of wall-paper, fur
nlture, draperies and other articles
(excepting personal and toilet uten
sils), failed to demonstrate the pres
ence of diphtheria germs in the room
after diphtheria. Of course, articles
which the patient had touched with
Vest Pocket Essqijs
2t 6y GEORGE FITCH,
PONDEROUS PERSONAGES HENDRIK HUDSON
ir
EXDRIK IirC30:T was a fear
less navigator who sacrificed
bin life in tho interests 01
geography and died a disappointed
man because he wanted to find a
northwest passage to China which
wouldn't have been worth anything,
and Instead only succeeded in dis
covering New York, which teaches ua
thnt we should never be dissatls.lcd
with our failures until we have had
them assayed by posterity.
Hudson was an Englishman and
was known as "Henry" and "Hank"
by his boyhood playmates. He pro
pared himself to be a discoverer but
the discovery business was slow in
England, so he went over to Holland
where they changed his name to
"Hendrik," taught him to wear
eleven-ply paiits and gave him a life
job roaming around the Artitc
regions with flimsy ships manned by
dissatisfied crews.
Hudson mado four trips to Ameri
ca while hunting for tho northwest
passage. On his first trip he ac
cumulated a vast assortment of frost
bites nnd chilblains, consumed all
his provisions and returned homo
cmnty-handed.
On his second trip he landed In a
fine harbor and ascended a broad
river for a long distance. However,
when the river petered out he was
still several thousand miles from
China, so he named it the Hudson
and departed. He mentioned his dis
coveries casually on his return home
and the Dutch built New Amsterdam
In consequence. If they had not re
lied so implicitly on unpreparednesa
as a defence the English would not
have taken it from them and the
colonists would probably have had to
whip two nations to be free.
In It? 16 Hudson sailed on his
fourth trip. He forced his little ship
Religion
WE HAVE loolted upon tho
Russians ns, generally, nn ig
norant people, hunl-iirlnkilig,
sulijeet to being stirred to sueh
enormities ns the massaero of Jews,
slow In modernizing tlielr farm and
Industrial activities, slow In ninklng
prnetieal application of the results of
sriontiUc itiiiuliy. and with nn excep
tionally corrupt high soelety. it Is
possible that the last fact may go
far towards explaining the recent re
verso of Russian arms; for the en
durance and bravery of tho common
people, and their effectiveness when
well led, Is not called In question.
It is a curious paradox, yet not an
unparalleled one, that, with all their
Ignorance nnd the vices that nntural
ly accompany ignorance tho Rus
sians are very religious. The coun
try has magnificent cathedrals and
churches; there are shrines without
number, and before those the Rus
sian hnbltually uncovers and crosses
himself: Icons, Bymbols of the saints
and of God, are In every home. In
overy room la the hotels, and In tho
watting rooms of stations, and peo
ple at their devotions are among the
most common sights In tho country.
In one of his most Interesting de
scriptions In "Anna Karenlna."
Tolstoi presents tbo picture of an
old laborer turning toward the enst
and giving himself to prayer before
beginning his rude meal In the f!ch',
and araln offering prayer when ho
had finished It
YiemOfJhjEress
DRAPY. M P.
his mouth or fingers occasionally
did have diphtheria germs still on
them, but ordinary washing or boil
ing or disinfecting would take care
of such germs, all right,
Why fumigate, then?
Becauso wo haven't the moral
courage to discontinue the venerable
rites of our empirical fathers. We
know very well that the convalescent
patient, nnd not his living apart
ment or bed chamber, is the germ
carrier, if there are any germs loft.
And then, .besides, fumigation is
offensive to one's olfactory organ,
and somehow we doctors always
have enjoyed dispensing odoriferous
agents to our friends, tho public.
But anyway, dear reader, just be
tween you and yours truly, don't
Imagine for a minute that fumiga
tion terminates tho risks of Infec
tion, for it doesn't. Fresh air, sun
Rhino, soap and water and elbow
grease are indispensable disin
fectants, no matter what perfume
the health department prefers.
QVKSTIOX9 AND AXSWKKS
Tho Saewt Time To IIo Vaccinated
When is the safest time to have
children vaecinatcdt
Answer Any time when the
physician can give adeuato atten
tion to the care of the wound.
Tho Best Cold Cream For Sunburn
Please tell vie what i3 the best
cold cream to apply for sunburn.
Answer Unguentum aquae rosae,
the official cold cream of tho Phar
macopoeia. 9iP
Into the vast und silent north with a
daring only equalled by the motor
boat cranks of the present, and after
great hardships entered an immense
sea. Hound and round this sea he
"When the river petered out he was
still several thousand miles
from China
sailed, trying to find the way to
China, until his impatient crew
dumped him into a small boat, to
gether with his son nnd seven sick
sailors, and went home.
. Hudson was never heard from
again, but he has survived in history
vry tenaciously. He has had a bay,
a territory, a river, a vast steamboat,
a tunnel, seventy-nine apartment
houses, a county and an automobilo
named after him alt because he
died rather than to give up. In or
der to become immortal It is neces
sary to bo tolerably contemptuous of
life and comfort and financial re
turns. In Russia
While perhaps the great majority
of people have the conviction that
"pure religion and undeflled" is of
one sort, yet religion ns wo see It
practised is of many sorts. Groat
variety is here presented, and we
have one In the generally well-disposed,
but Ignorant, often intem
perate, and sometimes atrocious,
Russian peasant. To make use again
of "Anna Karenina," Tolstoi, In de
veloping a transformation in the sec
ondary heroine of that remarkable
book which really contains two
romances says :
She learned that beyond the In
stinctive life that had been hers
thero existed a spiritual life, into
which one penetrated by means of
religion, but a religion that in no
respect resembled that which Kitty
had practised since Infancy, and
which consisted in going to mass and
to vespers, to the Widows' Home,
where one met acquaintances, and
to learn by heart Slavonic texts with
a priest of the parish. It was a re
ligion elevated, mystic, united to the
purest sentiments, and In which one
believed, not through duty, but
through love.
Whatever Is or haa been the re
ligion of the Russians, therefore, it
Is clear that they have not been
wholly without ft sharvly contrast
Imk type. o'ie that, to say th least,
r c - -r'y tn npnrofir'i that
-"---. r.n';"ied."
CxnT Locate
hank- . a Chop 5uf
v WAWTA JOINT - MUCH
Go Home LESS China
CART0ffiTHlM
A SPANISH TIIHVHT AT
Spain to President Wilson "Have you forgotten Iio Maine?"
E.pafla (Madrid)
m PEOPLE'S
LEGALFJllENU
The Wily Agent
Q. A man with whom I have had
dealings represented himself as the
agent of a certai?i corporation. I
rather doubted whether he was
really employed by the company, but
I have reason to believe that the
company knew he was so represent
ing himself. As le was supposed to
be acting for the company and the
agreement I made with him wes in
tended to be binding upon the com
pany, I want to inquire, whether it
will really have that effect.
A. If tho corporation knowingly
and voluntarily permitted this man
to hold himself out as Its agent, it
will be bound as principal to those
dealing with him in the belief that
he was, In fact, the company's agent.
Don't Let Him Hnlly You
P. am running a small board-ijig-housc.
T seldom have more than
sir or einht boarders and in fact do
not varc )ur a greater number. A
man recently came to me and asked
for lodging and board. I put hi: t e"
till the next day. so tat I could
learn something about him. He came
back the next day and in the mean
time, as 1 had heard some things
that were not altogether favorable,
1 told him I could not take him. He
then informed me that I would be
required to do so 'under the law. Is
this correct?
A. No.
Just riain Farming
P. rrnrd a farm and the leas
contained a condition that I should
"cultivate and farm the land in a
workmanlike manner." I have since
been wondering what "in a work-
manlike manner" would be con
sidered as meaning. Can you tell
met
A. The phrase should bo under
stood as meaning that the duty is im
posed upon you, by the lease, to cul
tivate and farm the land in such a
way as good farmers usually do.
Payment Of Taxes
p. Where o man pays personal
taxes in a certain town, is sueh town
to be considered as his place of
residence?
A. It Is not necessarily his place
of residence. The fact that he pays
personal taxes in a particular city
or town Is to bo taken into consider
ation, however, together with other
circumstances, as tending to show
that such place Is his domicile. It
is one of the evidences or signs of
domicile, but is not conclusive proof.
Pepper Talks
By Georgb Matthkw Adams
To-Morrow
To the fellow who never accom
plished anything To-morrow is what
happened yesterday, but which he
seeks to make happen to-day.
Nothing ever put off until To-morrow
was ever done To-day.
The great Task FINISHED is
always -the task done To-day, while
yet there is Time, while yot there is
inclination, while yet there is life
end health while yet there is
Chnnee.
Nothing ever put off until To-morrow
was ever done To-day.
Some of the biggest things ever
Accomplished wese done in a day.
Napoleon was banished to a living
Hell on a lonely rock with armed
vatchers hedged about him for the
simple reason that Blucher decided
to do his part with Wellington with
rut any courting with To-morrow.
To-morrow for Grouchy meant De
feat for Napoleon; for Blucher "made
cood" To-day.
Nothing ever nut off until To-morrow
was ever done To-day.
It may be easier to do things To
morrow than To-day, but If you take
the Chance, the one best bet Is that
they won't get done. Money earned
To-day represents Dividends for yon
To-morrow. Work entered Into and
done To-day renders back Ease and
Satisfaction To-morrow. Records
made To-dny Inspire and lead great
armies of fighters To-morrow. But
Nothing ever put off until To-morrow
os ever done To-day.
THE TRBSIDEXT
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mi
Hadn't You Better Hide The Axe? .
?. am a landlord ind have re
cently aiven man a Ivasc for a '
small tenant-house. He lias entered '
into possession and I find that he is '
doing certain thinas ichieh are in- 1
jurious to the properly. The lease i
does not say tinythina about using ,
the premises tn n careful manner,
but I should think he ouyht io Co )
this anyway. ' ll'ftuf is your opinlonf
A. Regardless of tho written '
loaso, tho tenant Is required to use .
duo caro in the preservation nnd
protection of the property. If the
premises aro injured in any sub
stantial manner, so that tho building :
cannot be restored at the end of tho
demised period In r.s ,:ood condition
as would have been the case except
for the tenant's wilful or nesllgent '
act or conduct, tho tenant will be
liable in damages.
They're .".!1 In It
Q. A merchant built a hatch door
on the sidewalk nest to his place of
business. The door seems to have
been defective and a man who was
passing bv fell through it and was ,
injured. He brought suit against the
city and teas giver, damages. The
city authorities are now contempt- '
ing a suit against the merchant. '
Would the merchant be liable to the
city!
A. Yes. The city was liable for
failure to keep Its streets and side
walks in good repair and in a safo .
condition and tile merchant was
gumy ot a neglect of duty in failing
to keep tho hatch door In proper re
pair and in a safe condition. As tho
city was mode to respond in
damages, it may maintain a rait
against tho merchant and compel him
to answer over.
A Xon-Clorlenl Marriage
Q. I have been informed of a mar
riage ceremony that was performed
by a man who claimed to be a min
ister, when, as a matter of fact. lie
was not. Is this marriage valid ?
A. Tho statutes of the various
states usually authorize certain per
sons, such as ministers and justices
of the peace, to perform marriage
ceremonies, and as a general rule
prescribe definite formalities as to
the manner of obtaining the license
and as to tho return to be made by
tho person solemnizing the marriage..
In tiieso states, a marriage of the
kind you describe would be void un
less It is specifically recognized by
the statute. In some states a com
mon law or informal marriage is
given recognition by the law and in
this event a marriage of the kind
mentioned by you would be valid.
Names eludo us so easily. Who
was the clever fellow who described
a male quartette as a musical organ
ization composed of three men and a
tenor?
A good many men work hard and
unremittingly and achieve no dis
tinction other than that of living to
bo more than seventy years old.
A credulous man Is one who ac
cepts the theory that a boil Is worth
five dollars to its owner.
If you know a good recipe for
making raspberry Jam, keep It to
yourself. Do not let It be said of
you that you held a grudge against
the world.
Talk abonl the Intelligence of the
people Is discounted by the fact that
a great many of them believe la
madstones.
Men who are hopelessly Inefficient
In other respects are often able to
hit a cuspidor at a range of three
yards.
Another way to see the war with
out undergoing Its privations Is to
, -y ...u jut. wo
American Revolution.
pay .a ana join ine Daughters of