THE EVENING NEWS MILTON J. RIIOKMAKKIt I'AItL . 8IIOKMAKKR HAM J. KHOKMAKKIt Editors and Publishers. IHKUF.I DAILV KXCK1T SUNDAY Subscription Itutes Daily Per year, by mall i3.00 Per month, delivered 5 0 Q&MhM ' M . m a Keml-Weekly. Per year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Kntered as second-class matter November 6, 1909, at lloseburg, Ore., under act of March 3, 1879. hatuhday, hkiticmiikk a.-t, mis TALKS ON ADVKIITIHI.NK. Ily Nels Dulling. A New Year's greeting In a paper during the month of August, that lias app'earofl In every Issue since th0 previous December Is mighty poor advertising. 1 saw this adv. In a paper In Iown :ast summer. In a Missouri paper I saw garden seeds advertised and the files showed that the udv. had appeared In every Is sue since the previous spring. The manufacturer can tnlk his goods lnrougnoui mo yenr, in season anuj. out, nut ine retail mercnant must tell his customer of things In sea son, of the goods on hiH shelves that, he want to sHl now, find of the commodities that the consumer 1s going to huv because hte season end his needs demand them. A merchant wnlked Into n news pnper office in his hand he held an ordlnnry Ink blotter on which was printed his nnmo and the statement thnt his store wns headquarters for hardware. lie handed tho blotter to thn editor and said "lust run this Tor my nov. tnis week." A mere business card Is very poor adver tising for any merchant. The fow linos of space used to tell tho farm- er, tho housewife, the business man thft you have something they need will bring roBiilts In time. A de scription of some article In season, a line or two about Its merits, Its salient festuros, will be sure to at tract attention. Don't give yourself and the editor TRirm wrir vu ? i? m iiMOTlij TI. OILLILAN X The Mystery Up the tall stone steps he labors to the office of the post Seeking always for a letter, like some frail and halting ehost. Crutch by crutch he struggles up ward, but to bear the kind clerk say: "Mighty sorry of It, brother, but there's nothing here to-day" Always In that tone he says it, help ing hope that dreary hope. Always with a smile the cripple hob bles down the terraced slope. To return upon the morrow with his hope-light lit anew. Years on years that human relic's done as thus we see him dol .None has ever asked tho reason ever asked what it could be That the man with clumping crutches thinks, some Joyous day, to see. But we watch and hope as he does, as we throng the busy mart. Praying that whatever letter might appease bis hungry heart May arrive. Hut oft I marvel at the people I have known Seeking always for some blessing thoy believed should be their own Going hungry through their life time, to dolusive hope a slave Doing hungry through their life timeaye, and hungry to their gravel BY WILLIAM BRADY, M.D. Health Talks II Cartoons OfTheDay The Germs On Your Hands Finnfgln Fllosofy If yoz cnll a town a "banner town" the people will shwell up an' strut. Hut If yez call it a "flag station" they'll get sore at yez! Ylt a flag an' a banner Isn't so dlffer lnt at all! Matrimony In High Circles Thore was a young lady named Dwyer Who studied the art of the fllor. She mot in the air Young Quincy Adair, And they volplaned right down to ' tho squlrol NO PERSON, says the Sanitary Code of the New York State Department of Health, than which none is thanwhicher,"noperson who resides, boards or lodges in a household where he comes In con tact with any persons affected with baclllary dysentery ... or typhoid fever, shall handle food or food products intended for sale. No waitress lamp this, little one no waitress, cook or other employee of a boarding house, hotel, restaurant or other place where food is served, who lodges or visits In a household where he comes in contact with any ' person with baclllary dysentery . . . or typhoid fever, shall prepare, serve or handle food for others in any manner whatsoever." The wherefore for which being that we are all fallible sometimes the best of regulated families will suffer, because somebody has forgotten to wash his hands. Most epidemics of typhoid fever nowadays are ultimate ly traced to a single person, or It may be a married person, but anyway a careless person, who, either sick with the disease, sickening with it, con valescent from it, or acting as a chronic "carrier" of the germs, literally hands the Infection to those wno Happen to be in contact with him. , But If typhoid and dysentery and cholera were the only diseases spread by unwashed hands we wouldn't say a word we'd leave It to the health authorities. spUnfortunately a lot of other diseases aro peddled about In the same manner, such as diphtheria, pneumonia, sore throat, "cold" In the head we alwnyB manage to ring In something about the "cold" microbes, don't we? and with the exception of diphtheria these discuses do not In terest the health authorities as yet. There are families where children sit at table and say grace with un washed hands. There are other families where parents take a squint at the children's hands, and, if they discover no microbes thereon, let the youngsters sit right down and shovel in whatever contamination may have been collected through the day. Is it any wonder grandma still has oc casional seeming vindication of her delusion that "sugar makes worms"? Worms make worniB, and children help the work along by transplanting the eggs from contaminated soil to food and from the food to their own innocent mouths. Without holding any definite opinion about the dangers of the com mon drlnklng-cup, we firmly advo cate a law requiring every person dispensing lunches or meals to fur nish suitable lavatories where cus tomers may wash their hands before partaking. Not all who say "Lord! Lord!" shall be saved, but cleanli ness is as near to godliness as any virtue which Is universally prac . ticable. QUESTION'S AND ANSWERS Here Is An Anomaly Z. E. says she reads Health Talks oeqre she gives the editorials the o.o., meaning no reflection on the editorial column. Yet she declares she has stomach trouble and has doctored with five different doctors in as many months and none of them have done her any good. Answer We hate to say It, Z. E., but anyone who changes doctors once a month is pretty sure to re main an invalid. Pick a good one and give him a fighting chance. It required several months to develop that stomach complaint, didn't It? ' "Every time I settle down Sykw la Philadelphia Leiger Peoples Legal Friend By E. R. BRANSON Vest Pocket Essays BY GEORGE FITCH tho excuse thnt you are too bimy to prepare your copy In advance. Be ' systematic select some day In the week, some hour In tho day for studying, , thinking and preparing eopv for your advertisement. You merchants who ket'o lyour books right up to the nilnuto, look of tor collections cflrofully, and pny your hills 'Promptly, usually have no regular time for attending to this Important mattor of .advertising. Hotter put this down with the ncross;ry duties mentioned kibovo and glvo It the same attention, If you wish to soo a conllnunl growth In your business. Ringing Tho Changes Our old friend, Ted Koblnson, of the Cleveland P. D. (without tho CJ.), has been romping about over the country, writing travel ogs, travelogrlthms, traveloglc, travologbooks and everything. Ted has returned from his series of travologglng camps and will, per haps, rest awhile on his laurels as a travcloglcinn. Otherwise he and we shall be at traveloggorheads. STYLE Elusive Bill Bryan (all right In his attic?) May come back don't you be too emphatic! As he's oft done before He's Just holding his roar Till he lands on some moment dramatic Talking about politics, what Is tlio matter with (ho ft no points of th0 gnmo doveloped In tho confer ence now In session here, If all re ports are correct. Some or the lrclhrnn pf (the cloth could .give old tlmo politicians cards and spades figuratively speaking of course, nnd then hnve them bent n mile. Citizens of Itoseburg will have an excellent opportunity to hear some of tho best pulpit talent In the slate who will preach at tho different churches, tho regular pastors giv ing up their pulpits for this day. In another rnlumn will bo found tho announcement of theso different meetings with the names of the wpeakors. So Many Improved Methods Dear Offagaln. I have a daugh ter seventeen years old who won't work at all about the house, and won't stay In at nights. She paints and powders nor face, nuts on pretty clothes that her father buya and I kocp laundered for her, loafs about town evenings, reads and oats candy all her Bpare time, Basses mo If I try to correct her or get her to work, and otherwise troubles me greatly. What would you advlso me to do? Mrs. R. O., Council Bluffs, la. They make a good many kinds of smokeless explosive powder now adays, but what is the mattor with your axe or a good, hoavy club, or a ploco of lnch-uud-a-quarter gas-pipe? HIn Hard-Earned Knowledge Qulzzer. When was tho first frost last year? 1 Ux-I.ecturer. I don't know. I dldu't lecture last-season at all. . In Boston Denkor. Do you know who I saw yesterday? Hobuker. N"o. I do not even know whom. STYLE is something which looks so good this year that those who use It next year will bo hopo lessly out of date. It Is a sort of bacillus which affllcti clothes, furniture, houses, automo bilos and the womanly form. When a thing is stylish, It Is beautiful for a limited engagement, llko an ancient actross with a talented press agent. Style .Is the gas which causes the cost of living to soar. It makes a groat deal of the difference between a happy, contented life on f 12 a week and an unsuccessful effort to keep ahead of the wolf on S200 a month. A well-built dining-room table will last for fifty years, but the stylo gen erally wears off In four seasons. This Is why a great many families are growing fat off of golden oak tablos which they have bought second-hand, at a great bargain, from other families who have had to sacri fice said tables in order to make the first pnymont on a now table with a darker complexion and 1915 model legs. Whon a moth gets Into a closet and rnises a happy family In a flan- , nel skirt the housowifo shouts with despair and tries to call out the in i 1 1 1 in. Yet twice a year a new stylo gets Into the show windows of tho land nnd ruins $100,000,000 worth of perfectly good clothes and nobody complains much. Even women cannot be continuous ly beautiful because of Btyles. To day the thin woman may be a wil lowy dream of grnce, but next yenr the designers will hang a new variety of clothes on her nnd sho will have to buy twenty-three pounds of excel sior In order to bulge In the right places. There are fifty-seven different lovols of style, each ne of which Is being attained with great effort by families which can't afford it. Those who are devoting their harassed UMAtoo DIM. we ami we must uY P"MJ " fiA-, A m TABLE. E tint Oio Y 9i A well-built dining-room table Kill last for fifty years, but the style generally wears oft in four seasons lives to being stylish should remem ber that just as soon as they aro rich enough to maintain themselves comfortably In Style No. 22, Style No. 23 will move around Just, out of reach In front of them and make them perfectly miserable until they got it. For this reason, American families should adopt "Let Swell Enough Alone" and live up to It, even though the family next door turns up its noses so high that they can't shed rain. "Capital" And "Capital Stock" Q. Plcfixc explain to me the dif ference between "capital" and "capi tal stock," as applied to corporations. A. The terms are often used In terchangeably. Strictly speaking, however, the word "capital" means the entire assets of tho corporation, while the corporation's "capital stock" Is the amount which Is pre scribed by the charter or by tho articles of agreement nnd which is contributed by the stockholders or which they may contribute. Married Women's Property Rights Q. Are married women's rights as to property very much changed by legislative acts in different stalest A. Statutory enactments in the various states have made Important enanges in this respect. . A Change Of Front 0. recently bought some aoods. paying for them in part. The goods vere to be delivered the next day. ','he man now says I cannot have I 'tern until they are fully paid for. I 'as he any right to withhold them Uom met A. If credit was extended to you rt the time, and if the seller did not leserve title until the goods were fully paid for, you were entitled to rsceivo the goods at once. rajinont Of Taxes 0. Is It legal for a landlord to put a clause in a lease providing that me tenant snail pay taxest A. Yes. It Is simply a question whether the tenant, after reading a lease containing : this provision, wishes to sign It. Not For Storage Q. Please tell me when a railroad passenger, after reaching his desti nation, is required to call for his baggage. A. Ho should do so within a rea sonable time after arriving at his destination. The Employer's Claim Q. I employed a man some time ago to act as my agent in a certain business. At the time I believed him to be intelligent and skillful, but have since found that he has been doing his work in a shiftless and incompetent manner. Have I any legal rcmrdyf A. It Is the duty of the agent to exercise such care and skill as tho circumstances and the business in hand demand and such as might ordi narily and reasonably be expected of an agent under the circumstances. If he fails to do so, and the employer sustains Injury in consequence, the agent may be compelled to respond In damages. Current Poetry Views Of The Press IVomen In The News Little Japan has evidently learn ed the art of saying no, for It Is reported that a request for her to furnish the allies with men to help force the Dnrdau.olUH, and face tho vhrnpncl of the Kaiser, will lie po litely, hut firmly refused. Patrol work in the fur Paelflr, powder and FhellH. will be given, hut no food fur tho cannon. Solid Front At Ills Hack We'ro aware, without discussion what all patriots hanker for. But we'ro with you, Woodle Wil son, be It peace or bo It war! The oung Lady AcrossThe Way A" The Isles of Greece seem to be nil nflnmo with the war spirit, and It may b(. hut a question of h.i'irs be fore her sons will allempt to emu late tho heroic ,lc"uH whlet I . .' . seeniled in lyric and sou;; t '..iiiu:: almost forgotten ci :it ! ri. . The Russians have at lust round' n general with the rk-ht name to w'n onttlos, and It Is strange that lie has not been brought to the front before, for his name Is (ien-j enil Kussky, at least this Is what Tne (lisatelies or today I '-j.o -t. The way of the transgrr-.-or Is 1 lird, but the bootletcer lo ,r ,.i - for him by Juries, Is the wuvj 'be r' l mm-In., carl !,. Interpreted I from the resulis of n,,. (,-lals which i liave endud hero this wiek. (mm 1 biffl v Uw- We asked tho young lady ncross the way If she believed In tho tncoiuo tax and Photnld she Btipposcd tho money had lo he raised In somo way bet It certainly must bo awfully hard wl the poor laboring classes. N INTERESTING Investigation has just been conducted by tho Christian Science Monitor of Boston, a dally paper thnt has taken high rank tor excellence In tho quali ty of tho news It prints nnd the man ner of Its presentation, to ascertain hat Influence women havo been ex erting In tho character of news printed In tho secular dally press. Tho .Von (for has discovered that not only tho great dally papers of tho country, but the Assot-iatcd Press and other ntss agencies have felt the influence of women very decidedly In recent years. Each year sees the printing of moro new3 of women's activities and news in which editors believe tho women aro interested and tho sense of news values lias been gradually changing among odltors everywhere. This Investigation Is valuable In that It has resulted in frank ac knowledgment by many editors that they havo their women readers con stantly In mind In making up their papers nowadays, but It comes hard ly as a BUrpriso to editors who havo spent nny considerable time In news paper making nnd hno kept their eyes and ears open. Any news writer who has spent as much aa twenty years In tho profession can testify to tho vastly different character of tho Important news then and new. There has been change along many lines, but the most marked change has been in two directions the activities of women and business de velopment. It was not so long ago that a crime story was considered tho big story In practically every newspaper office. It it was a murder it was sure of con spicuous display and a lengthy re port. Even tho petty offenses tried In police court wore "played up" and reported with much detail. Now only the most unprogresslve newspapers pay much attention to police court news and only when thcro Is on un usual feature docs a crime story get much sparo. In tho better class of newsrnpers a Story about some big business development or some plan of city betterment is considered a much better piece of news than a crimo story. Articles dealing with what Is sometimes cynically referred to as "the uplift" are far more wel come than those detailing the so called Interesting phases of counter feiting or some other criminal activ ity. Thnt women nre largely respon sible for this change In editors' Ideas of news values Is true, and tho busi nesa success won by publications that were quick to recognize and respond lo women's tastes is proof of their sagacity. There is nothing servile In this rntcrlng to tho women: It is but a recognition on the part of the more enlightened press of the In creasing Importance of women in the world s activities. A glance at any live, progressive dally paper will dis close that despite the more modern trend the activities of men still domi nate the news column.-". Topcka Kar.s., Daily Capital, ' When A Check Should Be Cashed ' Q. When a cheek is given to me by a person residing in the same town, how soon must I present it to the bank for payment f A. It should be presented for pay ment within a reasonable time. As a general rule, such reasonable time means the day you receive? the check or the following day. Put Them In Different Cells Q. Where the members of a part nership engage in frequent quarrels and differences of opinion, what legal remedy is there, if anyt A. If the quarrels are so seriou3 as to make a continuance of the part nership practically impossible, or if they are such as to defeat tho com mon purposes and objects of the part nership, a court of equity will decree a dissolution. Not A Legal Transaction 0. a man is occunulnn n nuM,-,. ojrice, is it lawful for him' to assign his salary before reccivinn itt A. The courts, ao a general rule, look upon such assignments as il legal and void. The Dentist The dentist bowed me to a chair In manner most delightful. He mauled me when he got me there. His cruelly was frightful. He Jacked my teeth apart and toro Off chunks of conversation. I suffered on an awful bore! In silent desperation. His kind attentions never ceased. The pain was something killing. Though not what you would call a feast His dope was somewhat filling. I saw my poor wife wearing crepe; Myself a bleeding martyr. (The dentist's in an awiul scrape! You see he's caught a Tartar!) Of little tricks at bridge he's full: He leads without permission. I rather think he gets his pull From some strong politician. Oh, maybe some day I'll be glad To get a Job as preacher, A laundryman, an errand lad, A President, a teacher. A soldier, artist, candy butch, A Seventh Day Adventist But, ah, my heart's too tender much! To let me be a dentist! ' By Grit Alexander, Pittsburgh Dispatch. The man who Is about to he hanged has one advantage over the man who is about to be married He doesn t have to worry about keeping step to the music. The Life Line By Laura Kirkman The Woman Who "Stretches A Point" She doesn't believe In rlsqud stories, yet, sometimes sny. when a wealthy hostess tells her one over a cup of tea. well. It would bo pretty impolite not to laugh. So for the sake of politeness, she stretches a point and laughs. "For the sake of politeness!" As If a rep utation for politeness was dearer, to her than a reputation for purity' And anyway, is the question one of politeness? Isn't it one of de fence? What right has any woman to assume that her listener Is " coarse and not "particular"? V hat do I owe you, that I should unguard my reputation for you'" should be her attitude toward those who essay to entertain her with ribaldry. But Instead, she 'stretches a point" and laughs' She is blind to the Insult Implied In the offer of such entertainment. She has put s higher estimate on a rule of conduct than on a principle .-uo o oi up me wrong idol. Sh ior saie at the price of woman's good nature. She's gting cheap. If a colored man can look at a coffin with nit feeling a desire to run, his reputation for bravery is After a prolonged debate, the Slx'l fiTf .c.01nvcron Club finally i,as decided that a scar on the chin Justi fies a man in wearing whiskers. Mrs. Tug Watts says the crime o: father ten times cannot be too se verely condemned. Mrs. Watts holds hat seven Is as many times as any fattier should be shot. - A good many men" who grew un confidently expecting to lose Thel? h "J1'"," '''I'ans. found out ater that dandruff j-a Uieir real foe. lies'" sof0rnrE,ninr" V0,n of troubI lies so near the surface of tha pTk intou! CaQ There are a number of rules and this is one of the best of them So not discuss your wife nor irViga a the memory f )our mother in pubu,? Now that ynur Indignation ,.. the "raw" deal handed Esau? to The milkman Is ni. outsider who ever Z "'?.. m'r vestiture. woman scenic in- he s coarse Every man who goes much to Ih, photographer's finally suceumbs t , 4