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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1915)
THE EVENING NEWS MIIiTON J. SHOKMAKKK CAItL I). 8HOKMAKKH SAM J. HIIOKMAKEIt Editors and PiibllNhorH. ISHUEl) DAILY KX0K1T SUNDAY Subscription Itales Dully Per yoar, by mall .M OO Per month, delivered. ........ .50 Scml-Weekly. Per year 2.00 Six months Entered as second-class matter November 5, 1909, at Roseburg, Ore., under act of March 3, 1879. SATLItDAY, HMTKMIIKK 1H, IMS SIIOl'M) iO TIIKKH Sl'HE Considerable discission wis heard on the fair grounds nnd over In the city regarding the shipment of the exhibit ')f the industrial work of tho vi'rlrius a.h.iels 'a the state full at Sulom, next week. While Dis till t Al'onviy George Neuner was not prepared lo gtnlo that the roun'y nurt could legally draw a warrnnl to cover ibe expense, he was of the opinion that tfuch action would meet, with fnvornhlo opinion, and bo justified as nn expense Incurred for the benefit of the county at large. It Is certnln that the ex hibit will (jo there, and It In also tho 'general opinion that liho ex , penso should not fall on one or two persons. Everyone who look Ihe pains to carefully Inspect the vnrlous articles were loud In praise o ft bo crcdltnblo showings, and It was tha unbiased opinion of a state expert who was present, thnt It could not bo excelled any other place. WMIOHU WKIIU 11 mo noitsi:s? The evolution In tho niothud of travel could not ho better demon strated thnn Ihy n .comparison of vehicles that wero banked around the fair race tracks yesterday1 and every afternoon. It does not t qulro a very long Journey In the pnst to recall mo time when such .nn would have boon shown that horse drawn vehicles nut nil in hered tho gas driven ones twenty or more to one. Tho teams of fine matched horses nnd smart equl pnges would have been seen hitched In an almost completo circle around the rnco track, whllo tho shndy placos undor the treoa wero filled with otherB, and tho auto was Ihe novelty of tho day. Tho change lo tho lipposlto has come apparently with a rush, for nn ncttial count from an elevated position, showed that as far ns the rnco track por tion of tho fair ground wns Includ ed, the Autos outnumbered the bug gies fifty or moro to one. A mental calculation of the average price of an auto, and tho value of a horse nnd buggy, may give some Idcn of where tho money Is being spent. THE IMtl'XE CHOI'. Next week will practically see the prune crop of this county taken caro of, and while It has not been a record year by any means, the sum total rer.ll7.ed by growers will t:lve proof again that this Is one of, if not Indeed the first, asseta of the county. Prunes like are raised in Douglas county, are unlike apple-i nd pears, or peaches, for there art very few parts of the United States where they can be grown, Besides they nro not a crop Ibnt must be disposed of within a very short per Jod after maturity. In this respect they pariako more of the stability of corn nnd wheat. It Is little won der thnt growers have pimp b:uk to their first love and taken up llio Idnnttnir of tho fruit for wl''v ' -j state Is famous innd 'iV e , more so. There are thousands upon' thousanda of one. 1, a;.. j yenr old treep, nnd other ;h u of first nnd second yenr hearing! trees within a radius of twenty i miles of Itosehurg. and when these: nro all In steady bearing, their pro durtlon taken nbuig with that of thi "hundreds of acres of old produits will mnke nf Hoyeburg one of t'--centers of the prune parking ludiw try the world Thin is no dream It will be a reality, for Hie clluinli nnd soil of the.,- valleys hi IViimin; rountv " i.ot be sampled In !h world In the growth of iht delect nhle fruit, the prune. I '.v Ml UMqinUnMin STRinn.ANnTwrriii 1 u ,k tl"xw' "'"M. ' '! V"rVlM"'' r The Cat! Bhe gave a party and did not Invite Young Mrs. Brown. Bhe said: "I'll show that cat I've not forgotten her historic, alight Of me when she received for Mrs, Pratt." Bhe had the house all decorated up, With canvas stretched above the walk, and ail Now maybe she Just wouldn't fill the cup ' Of cattish Mrs. Brown with bit. t'rest gall! Tbe great night came, and so did (not) the guests! The village folks seemed other wise employed. Instead of coming In their evening boats. They stayed away the hostess was annoyed. Next day she found that hateful woman Drown Had spread the thrilling tidings that she might Have two new discs shipped In from Dlggcrtown. Bhe did! And played them both, that very night! Not To Bust Vp Our W. K. Neu I trallty, Itub-r- With the elimination of vodka and tbe strengthening of their lines, tbe Russians scera to have been , stopped from both treating and re 1 treating. The Near-Bright Guy Thore are certain people we meet i who have had a narrow escape from bolng bright particular stars. i They onco had a talent, and Im mediately wrapped It In a napkin ' and Interred It with proper cere monies. The graveyard whore that napkln-Bwaddled talent was buried has never been disturbed by ghouls. ' The napkin is still thero, under Its little hero lies, and always will be. The Creator gave the fellow a Btart In life, filled his tank with gasolino, 1 and gave him a shove. He could have gono far, If he had opened the throttlo, cut out the muffler and steerod properly. Instead of that, he promptly nppllcd the brakes, do clarod that destination was satlBfac , .' tory, and pulled in by the side of tho road to ball people na they wont by, going somewhere. People In buggies, on horseback, with prairie-schooners and on foot, passed him. Folks who bad been given Iosb thnn half as much ability outstripped him. After awhile he begnn to note this, and then he be gan blaming the Creator for not giv ing him a squaro deal and a half a chance and good luck and O what's tho use? You know a lot of thoso ncnr-hrlghts. And nearly every one of them uses nn alcohol mixture In his radiator. To meet ono of thorn Is a pain, and to be one of them Is a tragedy ten i times worse than any form of death : Imaginable, (josh, yos! jf t .. ' No Surprise " I rule tho roost f At home," he said. "I do not bow ' My kingly head . For any skirt ' No, not at all," . Tho hotel cleric , Said: "Brown, a call." Brown stopped his brag, Stepped to tho 'phone. Bald, "Coming, dear," ( In meekest tone. i Tho crowd nil know 1 JtiHt what that meant. Urown Rrabbed his hat And homeward went. Tho Worst Thief Tho dip who steals a dime from you Fop him let not your anger burn! Hut he who stcalB your time from you And pives you nothing In return He Is the Rink To swat, 1 think! Had Omen For Wet Ami Pry Kiev t Inn "Archie Booze smiles all the ttmo." ll Is a new girl that nunc to their liov.e tho evening of the 2d. Pulas ki Items in Union Itcaistcr, ML filcad, O. 1 trow n tightwad Ilrown Hero In our town, I rlso and simply say this much: Vhouph very "near" Tls likewise clenr lie's never close enough to "touch." ThYoung Lady AcrossThe Way j yivrng lady across the way s site baw in the paper that sixty fp.T (,il. of our P.nglish words are of Tv-.mIc origin nnd she supposes V.c .t uf tl-o lost cuiee from the 0 Health Talks BY WILLIAM Marks 0 DEGENERATION, In the medi cal sense, means a distinct deviation from the normal or ' . usual. It is shown by faulty or un balanced development of the body, ' and by nervous and mental peculiar 1 ' ties. Neurotlo Individuals, those with hereditary tendencies to Insani ty, alcoholism, drug habits, and tbe like, are most likely to exhibit the stigmata or marks of degeneration. ' However, anatomical stigmata are very often seen in absolutely healthy stock; most of us can boast some lit tle freakish trait if we will. Indeed, the medical conception of Insanity permits no fast drawn line between sane and Insane; there are very vague gradations, eccentricities, pe culiarities, monomanias, between the frankly sane and the theoretically normal, Tbat Is why medical ex pert witnesses and criminal very criminal lawyers have such difficulty in reaching conclusions In court. The legal conception of insanity is an arbitrary one; the medical con ception recognizes the resistance to classification offered by human nature. Asymmetry of the skull, very small head, very large head, peculiar shapes of the skull, excessive prog nathism and very large Jaws are In cluded In the list of marks of de generation. So are projecting teeth, very irregular teeth, double teeth; very thick Hps or very thin Hps; narrow palpebral fissure (the width of opening of the eyelids), and shaky, Jerky eyes; projecting ears, too large and too small ears, ears too high on the head or too low on the neck, floppy ears, ugly ears, ears without lobes or with lobes adherent to the cheeks. , Supernumerary fingers or toes, webbed lingers or tots, excessively long arms, excessively long logs like the swell fellers In the fashion plates and, last buLnot least, gos sips will plonse takoTioticc, an exces sive amount of tongue. Dr. Brady will answer all q:n:sllons pertaining to Health. Jf your ques tion is of general interest it w'.U be answered through these columns; if not i it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr. Brady will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnoses. Ad dress all letters to Dr. 'William Drady, care of this newspaper. Vest Pocket Essays IJY GEO TY TY COBB Is Henry Ford's as sistant In tho job of keeping Detroit In the head-lines. However he does not make auto mobiles. Ho merely wins one now and then. Ho Is a soloist by profes sion the highest price swat soloist t in the world. There Is no sweeter music to a Detroit citizen than a harsh note from Ty Cobb's bat in the seventh Inning with three men on bases and the other srtle a run or two ahead. Caruso couldn't till De troit's ball park once in a Hfe-timo, but Cobb has been doing it for ten years. Cobb Is a very young man, not yet old enough lo bocomo a senator. Ho was born in Goorgta and spent his youth butting bum bio bees with a broomstick. Later, ho practised hitting horseflies with a curtain rod nnd gradually bre.amo eo proficient that ho could pick up a slim-walstcd walking stick nnd bank two bases out of a rltlo ball most any time. Ho then joined the Detroit baseball team nnd began to upset statistics on bat ting averages. Cobb has been almost as disastrous to pitchers as that other great base ball character, Charley Horse. lie not only bats spit balls, stow balls nnd serpentine twists with groat oaso nnd tluency.but he is distinguished for his restlessness on baaes. A ilea is phlegmatic beside this eminent young cxamplo of southern languor. His most permanent address is halt way between first and second bases mak ing faces at the pitcher. Ho can run faster than a darky chased by a gruveynrd and has a way of ly ing down when approaching second nnd feeling for the base with his versatile and prehensile foot which The Hackman, MANY people returning from a summer outing can tell boiiio Btory about their misadven tures at the hands of tho trlbo of hackmon encountered during their travels. Tho cost of getting haggugo carted is getting to be a very stzablo ' Item, and tho huckman hns a devious strategy by which to augment It. In towns like ours, tho men who pursue this calling are as dependablo nnd faithful as mechanics and trades-people. They can earu a liv ing only by doing faithful work for a fair price, and must make and keep friends by honest treatment. Hut In tho larger cities and popu lar Bummer resorts, n tril-o of vul tures haunt the railroad stations. Their call of "Keh, keb, kob, keb,H assaults arriving tourists, on whom they pounce with hungry eyes. Their unshorn and weather-beaten faces suggest that they need all tho money they can get. Often their appear ance suggests that their families will not get all of their revenue, howevor. Views Of The Press BRADY, M.D. Degeneration Physiological stigmata Include tremors, tics, shaky. Jerky eyes, de fects of speech, exaggerated emo tional characteristics. Mental stigmata are egotism, ec centricities, emotionalism. If any one can conscientiously go over the list and declare himself or herself free from every recognized stigma we vl'l present his or her name to the next legislature for a suitable memorial resolution. But any reader who finds a great collec tion of these stigmata about his per son would do well to make quite Bure he is competent and responsible. Just another way of sipresslng our favorite slogan: See your doctor. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS His Features Are Plastic Several years ago, deplores if. R., I had some paraffin injected in my face to fill out hollow cheeks. Now it has all gone to lumps. Is there any. help short of surgical operationt Answer We fear not. But you ought to go back and exhibit your face to the operator who injected the paradln. Footstraln Tired Bu-lness 'Woman What shall a perfectly healthy, normal business woman do to stop the tired, aching misery in her fectf She is much on her feet, and from the prints on the bathroom floor she imagines the arches are partly brok en down. Answer She must wear shoes with straight Insido sole lines that is, shoes whose toes do not diverge. The soles must bo as broad as the naked foot under the weight of the body. The heels should not be more than ono and a half Inch high, and broad as tbe naked heel Is. Perhaps she should have her feet strapped with adhesive plaster by tbe physician. Then sho could find relief and still not put the muscles and ligaments out of business. KG Li FITCH COBB la very corrosive on the nerves of the opposing cntcher and baseman. Cobb steals twice as many bases as any other man In the business. This is because, like every other Georgian, he Is passionately fond of Jic practised hittintj horse-flics with a curtain rod home and begins suffering from nostalgia whenever he g2ts on first base. Cobb Is a quick-tempered young man and break into tho police re ports now and then by messing up n spectator who has called him names. This Is considered to be a great fault. However the bascball-gofng public needs more Cobbs on the diamond. The spectator who throws his good breeding away with his cigar stub when he enters the bleachers needs moro strenuous education than can be given him by a million editorials on good sportsmanship. A Modern Type Hero Is a typical experience re lated by one traveler. The tourist and his party camo In with five trunks and a suit case. A hack man told him tbe price for carrying the baggage without passengers about 300 yards would be $1.50. The traveler said it was too much, where upon tho hackman offered of his own uccord to carry U for $1.25. Wliea the hackman turned up, he had but five pieces, and claimed the other trunk could not be found. Ho refused to accept less than $1.25. Then tho traveler returned to the station, found the missing trunk In plain sight, where the hackman had no doubt left It, and which then had to be carted to the destination at the cost of added expense and In convenience. The hackman had pot tho Job for what seemed a good price, and then was unwilling to fulfil tho contract bo had himself proposed, and no doubt chuckled at the annoy ance he had v'sited upon the travel er. The Quincy Daily Journal. Cartoons Of TheDay OXLT NUMBER OXB a ii i... ,n lii Best New Books IiY CATHERINE COOK "K.," by Mary Roberts Kinehart. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.35 net. In this invigorating story, tho ad ventures of life have for their setting tbe scenes in and about a surgeon's hospital. Here youth and love make close harmonies with life and death. The interest centres about a man of mystery, "K.," who drop9 Into the closed life of a small city. There is but little plot In the narrative, but it is rich in incidents true to life. The characters are all persons we have met and bated or loved or pitied. IIInal.n-1 l,on tt.a rnn..lt.r .,f bringing into her stories the subsoil of human passion without going into revolting details. When poor Tillie defies the world for love of Schwit ter, instead of seeing her as a de praved creature, one sees only her tragic eyes as sho lies mutely watch ing tbe babe at her breast, and a sigh of relief welcomes a telegram bring ing news of the death of Schwitter's Insano wife. This may be melodrama for the reader, but it Is heaven for Tillie. We shamelessly rejoice with her for tbe baby's sake. Though but a hum ble chapter in the main story, for compelling pathos and a big lesson for moralists, nothing better has ever been written. One finishes tbe book with solid satisfaction, as " 'K.' stood In the hall of the little house with the letter in his hand. Just beyond on the door step was Sidney, waiting for him. His arms were still warm from the touch of her. Beyond lay the Street, nnd beyond thnt lay the world and a man's work to do. Work nnd faith to do It, a good woman's hand In the dark, a Providence that made things right In the end." Tho Itoso Garden Husband, by Margaret Wlddemer. J. J. Llppln cott Company, Philadelphia. ?l.uu net Love In a garden is a hardy peren nial. Its blooms are health and joy In living. This pretty fairy sweetheart story tells how wishes can be made to come true. The love and marriage .day dreams of a young girl float far nway Into a dusky room where Al lan Harrington, a hopeless invalid, hiy inert and white, "looking like a wonderful carved statue on a tomb." Tho incidents that draw these two young pocplo together to spend their lives in a delightful rose garden where life nnd health return to the lover-husband, are a little fanciful, but altogether charming, as true love stories should be. It is a book for sweethearts, young and old. Pepper Talks By Guorcb Matthew Adams Your Size There Is nothing thnt makes one appear so small and helpless as to lie on the sand at the edge of the Ocean and hear Its roar. To that Ocean we all appear but a little big ger than tho billions of grains of 6and that its waters wash and kiss. It is well thnt we frequently get away from ourselves and the con templation of our little bits of selfish interests long enough to realize the enormity of Life and the appeal that it makes directly to each of us. Tha Sea Shore, the great Forest, the Country, tho Crowd go far toward bringing a man back to his human self. For humanly speaking, no man is blcger or more important than any other man except ns he dct-s. That is the test of Size Your Size! Much of the world mistakes great ness. It Isn't Power It's Worth. Most people look right over Worth. But Power wanes. Worth does not. That Is why the real great grow greater after they are gone. And that Is why many who seem to bo overlooked while they live loom up grand and wonderful after they have died and their actual Worth their Siae has been measured. Your Sire right now, or later, can only be determined by what you do. It matters little whether your work is performed in public or private It's the Work that counts. How big are you? Think It over alone. You are the one most coucerned. J. H. Casseil in Lincoln Daily Xckb How it Feels to bo tho Husband of a Suffragette, by Him. George H. Doian Company, New York. 60 cents. Tho author sayB with some feeling, "It takes a good deal better man than I've met yet to face the mirth of a mob without some of It getting under bis hide." Husbands will read this hook with trembling, but the trembling will come from a good laugh. Wives will smile too and say that a bit of truth lurks in this satire on the man who has the courage of Ids convictions and marches with suffragette parades down Fifth Avenue "tagging after the girls entirely surrounded by emp ty asphalt with two or three hundred thousand people earnestly cracking their larynxes calling us 'sis,' or 'henpeck.' " Tho illustrations by Mav Wilson . Preston complete tills delightful sketch of the attitude of the averaae American husband on the question of Woman Suffrage. The Harbor, by Ernest Poole. Tho Macmillan Company, New York $1.40 not. Wall Street and New York Harbor and all that comes between woven Into human fabric is the background of one of tho best novels of the year. It Is -")t just a story, it is a revela tion cf tho human cauldron that un derlies modern life. In the first charters, The Harbor and all that it stands for is intro duced by a bit of child psychology. It points out evil like a leak In the social sewer and children of the rich are as exposed to its infection as are those of the poorer districts. It is a book to read and to ponder. Socialism and labor strikes are not tho only signs of an impending change In world policies. Exposure of children to vicious surroundings, the drying up of women's hearts by economic pressure these are the real issues made , clear in this splendid story of home and civic life in a great metropolis. One lays the book down with a smothering sense that life has be come a sort of mania, llig ships big harbors hi? moncv and Oh1 such rushing and sweating and driv ings nnd all for what Power and tho great game of overcoming. And to what cud? The authorities all are In error as to tho relative values of a flush and a full house. The relative values of the two bands are determined by has little bearing on your standing as a clt sen in your community, it S f,?"'' l"at tender cigar's 0U s,;t "P ' Kvery divorced man appears anx i0emence.8erV0 "n0th"r '"rmiaStV Imosene Wattleich wears so mi. ', scenery when she comes ,lw5 that strangors ofien mistake Zr n musical comedy. 6 her f"r Vhen a man iio amateur show, i", niJ " eng. to the lodge, or has a re' in the cast. rc.ative Women often n,.is,v-r.,.i Kut no man seen,, ,, .", whi.e to niasun1' .-'I. h.m.teb object of' The smaller 7hM rortant an egg w , e m"r" " comes. '"' two JolUs be- P.efnre a man hire, a te . be asks to s, . ; , . , . ",'"crt :. mendaimn. Uut'he m,'4 11 ;' ticular with the won, I, V ? ' " Kvery man cnn.hie. s to s.-..r he. tw,, ,, , ., n 'Vie aw ":t. b-tilng stmd ror jt