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EPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
; j INVESTIGATES FARM.
'4 igeetione we Given for Succesaful
1 1 ;; Marketing by Parcel Post.
Washington, Feb. 10. The Depart-
4: nt of Agriculture, after investigat-
-fi :? : v-j families in ten different
;.' : v aiea in an effort to get a correct
jj . ; ' I wer for the puzzling question,
' i low much does the average farmer
4. iwr has reached the conclusion
at the annual value of the food,
,, . el, oil and shelter enjoyed by the
i, J i erage farm family is 506. What-
"i ' ; i er the farmer makes over this
-j lount he puts in the hank or spends.
'i ; 5 Of the $606, the farm furnished
5 j meetly $429, leaving only 70 to be
g'S id for with farm products or out
s ' ,.- tthe money obtained from farm pro
S: , eta. . Food was, of course, the prin-
i de item. This amounted to $401.93.
L which $330.66, or 83.3 per cent, was
! C j 'd n the farm.
y ., ' j The investigators found that on the
: -m examined the average cost of
'j. : .intaining each grown person was
;H' ! a a year, divided as follows:
i iry Products ...... I 21
r .
12 !
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ultry and eggs , , 12
rden ,. . , , ' 10
kt ........i.i. 6
jit .-,... 6
od and coal .'. ' 13
jcerieg 22
:use rent 28
,pr 4i
'.i' " v.".-,..',.v $176
i t this sum only r.bout 28 per cent
, f i paid out in cush. The remuiniior
j t furnished by the farm, not in the
j m of money,, but in thone-thingi
I ; which the money would have been
. nangea. un a certain nrcnJiff'
j .... V..U,.,,, MUUUUUJJ, gCope
-j Vh '"""KntiiWirwas found that
;, iS.nau no'Ceen for such articles
' teaNtoffee, sugar salt and other
-ceHes impoBsible to produco at
! ie, the farms would have been self-
:.: -taininif.
;The bulk of groceries are bought,"
:l the investigators, " but the total
ntity consumed depondoj to a
t extent ' upon the quantity of
nal products and vefft-.tables raised
the farm. Where these abounded
? consumption of grocorics dimin
rd. From this it would seem tht
.ibvious way to effect an important
: ng in expensos is to raise more
3tables and animnl products on
farm. . Whether it is bettor to
, down expenses in this way or to
ease receipts by concentrating at
lon on ; cash crops is one of thf
,nt problems in farm mamuoment,
. answer to which in each Tndivid
case depends upon loeel condi-
,ia Pepai'tniei) t of Agriculture
just iwued these flve suggestions
irnners on Jf ,0 uoeafully eon
I marketing by parcel post:
,-A start may be made with an
i.aintance in town or city, or such
- or city ac-, mtty pui
, Jl'odUcer llllo touch with nommnt
, Hjlf to mai-klit by parcel posti
i -It is i suggested Uvat many
and city physiclons have many
; mts who oneed strictly fresh' eggs
1 larly and by making inquiry of
mber of city physicians arrange
: doubtless could be made not
1.' for sale of eggs but for many
articles as well; ..
!, A arnall advertisement ill a
i paper might produce satisfactory
; ta. A number of papers are
j ng a specialty of a parcel post
rtising column or section, which
i it be tried. 1
, -The PostofBce Department has
ucted the postmasters in a num
. of cities' throughout the country
sue a list of producers, showing
; i each one has to offer for salt
a reel poBt, these lists being dig
: ; ted free to patrons of the office,
i .cities in which this is now being
s? are: Athens, Ga., Atlanta, Aus
:5Tex. Baltimore, Krmingham,
1 J Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cin-
U, Cleveland, Dullas , Denver,
Jit, Galveston. Hartford, Conn.,
napolis, La Crosse, Wis,, Law-
, , Mass., Los Angeles, Louisville,
;fi, Mass., Nashville, New Orleans,
delphia, Portland, Ore, Provi
de, R. I., Kichmond, Rock Island,
- U. Louis, San Francisco, Seattlo,
iVashington, D. C.
xlucers who desire to develop
1 eting by purccl post on more
- a small scale might And ,it de
le to go to the city, select tlm
tr kind of a residential section
, a personnal canvass and arrange
rial or ample shipments. -
rtter from a Childless Wife.
the January Woman's Home
. tanion appears n pnge devoted to
hildlcss wife who wishes to nnd
i way to spend time profitably,
wing is a letter form such a wife
duccd in connection with the dls
)n: ' y education was quite compre
ve. I am fond of good music
tood literature. I am never at a
to amuse myself.
liat I crave is work which would
?y tny existence. I do all my own
keeDuur and scwInHr, and
i prefer something in a differen'
I am not interested in church
! ties, though I have considered
do consider, Y. W. C. A. work.
' 1 there, however, that they have
en trained for each department,
h olmost leaves me out as far as
serious work is concerned, and
l duties wouldn't answer.
i my life the child problem is
natcd. None have been given us
though they would be. more than
whUaih. anil flnunMallv ftf flVABfint.
L. A n 4ma 4..K4i4tAj In nlnntinv n !
Child. What is left? :
"I weald give myself gladly to a
purposeful work. It could not inter
fere: with my home duties, but these
are so few I am free nearly all day
or could so arrange it. What every
one, consciously or ' unconsciously t
craves is serf-exoresslon. and I sup
pose that really is my problem. I
am sure that somewhere in my make
up I have capabilities, something
worth-while to express. But the an
swer is far from clear',
LUMBERMEN MAY,
Eastern Oregon ' Interesta
Demand
Fair Treatment from Associates,
Spokane, Wash., Feb. 8, Hoping io
heal threatening breach m the mem -
bership of the Western Pine Manu-
facturers' assocUtion, njembers ff
Eastern Oregon, representing the targ-
est lumber mills of that district, met
with representatives of the Spokane
district last week to secure an agree-
ment on a pending rate case affecting
Fhipments from the districts into Mon-
,tana through the Silver Bow gatewsys
Charging that Spokane district ship-
ners had . combined to prevent on
couivalent of th nreaent iratewav ar.
rangement under which Oregon mah-
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oradoZeTsd Sf -
orado, Joseph Stoddard of Baker. Or.,
letiring president of the association.
stated before the annual convention of
the organization that Eastern Oregon
.. ...U I llJ a- j-lll-Tll
nuum uc cuiupciiea io wunurnw un-
!es fair treatment could be received
from fellow members.'
The two districts considered all
phases of the case in a private meet
ing. The caso under discussion win
heard before the Interstate Commeri:i
commission at Portland a few weeks
ago, the Eastern Oregon shippers np-
pearing with the petition that the 5i!
ver How (rateway.be opened tpJJigia- j
tne same milagebajusrTenjoyed by
(he shippers trthTSpokane district;
,itr-tr. Keizer,, Spokane representa
tive of the Blackwell Lumber company
appeared in behalf of Spokane ship-
pers as interveners forUhe transitu'
tation companies. A. W. Cooper, sec
retary of the association, and E. M.
Fronk. traffic manager, also appeared
as witnesses;
to Make Bread' Gr.'ddle Cakes.
In
the January Voman's Com-
punion rannie Merrit farmer, cook.
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ery editor of that publication, pre-
?h ..f i wk ."f W rcelptS , r
'W,haL erVM ? 'Ja.n;
F0.row?n1. I t tt0 ?kf !h
1 ap6 fr bre"d 8Tid"
"Add two teblespoonfuls butter and
one and oneJha f cupfuls hot milk
WeaTcrmbralskr01 8T
LTlrLUnJi.rU;
beaten, one-half teaspoonful of salt
an , L .."'J
and S"ed with teaVponful "of "X ! ?Z We,e
baking powder. Drop by spoonfuls lg') to adoPt the same plan,-but
on a hot greased griddK CoTor i ""4 It'T a
one .id., when puffed full of bubbles nfiJ rJe,"v t. T mtroduced,
and cooked m edgi? turn and cook "f?tt r' Z.Zht V ""l Under'
ntheii sido,' neath our trenches and blew them up,
ne.,-"'fl ... . , from below. It took us weeks to git
ni i 7 r " .i Jith? .W!? for burrowing. We do as
p"I n ,Me0lu,eo' Gm'" Up 1 , burioUghing now as they do;
Pendleton, Feb 9,--No more buck- ' the Germans startwl out with a whole
ing bronchos for Blanche McQaughey, ,baa. of new triek. ..j it thSv .ij
HO more the followlna; of wild resl
comd With tne applause of the multU.been so slow that we've Jearned their
tude at the sight of a pretty girl defy- new ci!vemes and, as times goes oh
ing the contortions of a plunging out-
law mustang. It's the quiet life for
Blanche from now on. The Pilot1
Rock girl who has won prizes at the
Kound-up and other frontier shows u ,ooks ,ike 0ne greater murder. '
and who has toured the country with', You civilians miss the point of it,"
wild west attiactions is going to con-;sai1 the Belgian with earnest sin
tent herself with cooking three meals cerity. Let me give you an example,
a day and doing the washing for a I've done a lot of big game shooting,
young farmer of The Dalles. For be because I was stationed in Belgian
it known that the happy-go-lucky Congo for many years and after I had
Blanche yesterday afternoon at high killed a lion or an elephant I used .to
noon became Mrs. T. A. Snmmis, the watch with fascination, the faces of
wedding ceremony being performed in tne neKi"o bush-beaters. I used to see
The Dalles. ion them a brutal animal leer that
The wedding notice comes ns n K,rew out lu8i for killin8-
surprise to her many friends here .!H "fe Zl y "T
t trordZTt "r 8UrPri8d 10 n btVme TuJ AtS
?:' iTp ii . r BdM,iou' shudder at that smile at killing. But,
itne left Pendleton only a few days now, I think, thnt same smile of kill
ago Tor San h rnncisco where she was ing must have been on my face, even
to join the "101 Ranch," a profession- as I watched the natives, because I've
al wild west road show. She stopped seen it on the faces of ray soldiers and
off at The Dalles for a short visit and f my fallow officers, after we've killed
there Cupid wooed her from the paths a batch of Germans. They look at
of fame to the sedate life of house- dyinfe" Germans with that same kind
wife. - ,of a lecr that I used to see on the
The announcement of her weddingu?.l?n?thf 6 African-. .T .
came lnit evonimr bv letter to H W ."Killing is a game," he continued,
rnTJ 1. Vy lettei to n. W. with the game earnestneg8 ..Men K
Collins, director of competitive events u An mo,, iit u i i,,i .?,
of the Round-up. She had no inton-
...... ... v,K iiwmra unni next w
tober, she snid, but the young farmer
would not hear of her joining the "101
Ranch." "Men will have theirwny,"
she wrote, "nnd I decided I wouldn't
tiifle with our linmiimvss Iiv iminir on
to San Fiiuh'mco." Her husband is
connected with the Mt Hood Orchard
Co.. owns f,ii fo nA i. .i.. I
, ..... H mini OHM IB illC 4111-
in he o e1 " rh;"Llr, 3, I
ir..A ij i- r .
H, ",,d wanted Mr. Collins .to car.-'or
or.
" "r,u,' "a f no win nnve no use
lor it. Her husband doesn't farm
with horses, she writes rather regret-'
limy, .un uses a caterpillar nnd gaso-
lii,e instead.
Do You Find Fault With Everybody?
An irritable, fnu t-f nd nor d nnnsi.
tion is often due to a disordered
stomach. A ninn with good digestion
is nearly always good natured. A tnnt? a" vfry wcli and very t.n,e
great many hnvo been normnnentlv B"? do'' Hn.ow- that most soldiers
benefited by Chamberlain's Tablets
was snSf! t
1 J . Ohmabv everywhere.
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LUST FOR BLOOD
COMES HAL
i hat rniS ni nnn My unBtatoiwm. :
DESIRE TO KILL GROWS AS THE
: WAR GAME PROGRESSES.
Correspondent Givea Gerauns Credit
for New Ideas In Warfare.
WITHDRAW"''' ' ' ') l-
! By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.
Dunkirk, t France, Jan. 28. (By
mail to New. York.) "Wftiafs golttg
to happen when spring comes T".
, A ten gtralght from
" sm.-j... ..w.
que8tion for me thus- Nothing in my
opinion. : The army boards on both
sides have got a puzzle to work out
that no military men have ever faced
in the world's history.. Did you ever
see two prizettghters go into a cllncn
and refuse td break apart for fear
the other would get the advantage of
hlm m the breakaway? V ; - :
-wen inai is ine snuauon :aiona;
the line In landers today. And.; 1
i u ...k.i. Uow.
'"b
are the two armies, nose to nose.
K "nd S'ttsrl
u-.--. w-. w- iw
f - u.-j i,m.
armi . Knw hnw r we ro.
to break apart? You must
. . . . . if r i
realize tnai Denino our lines ana oe-
hind vm German lines, for many
miles, the arth has been torn up by
trench-makers. You can't drag ar
tillery over trenches. You have to
bridge each trench and the more
trenches the Germans dig now, the
harder it will be for either side to
move its artillery in the spring and
neither side can adyan 'WitiMHrtrmSV-
i& JAfi-B-4fin8i Its eoing to De a
terrible and perhaps an impossible
iob for the artillery men on either
side when spring breaks,- : ineyii
have tc bndge the trenches under ter
rifle lire. It will be worse than
bridging rivers. It's a new problem
for tha army engineers, but only one
that this war has brought out.
i "You know," he said, "it was the
2?.?
when this war started. We've found
out that years ago they .threw away
all their old ideas of warfare and
started new again with new ideas and
new principles. The Germans from
iL .1 u i m
new Di'iuciuies.
readv for us. 0f course, their hu
were new. But their trench-
makinff new. For instance,
the old f trench-making was to
throw the earth up in a high bank be-
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i(W wnR f u:,,B thBir trenPt, Bnrf m
from their trenches in such
T that i Wu imPosa,D' to locate
German trench until you had almost.
'hav gotten' to Paris their tricks
w" k"w everytning tney do aoout a
twentieth century war. '
",an old ea,me P!aod .in ? new
EX'."" 80un"nea UP' at.i.?nt
don't think of their flag or 'their!
country or the right or wrong of their
cause. . They only think of killing;
the thought of dying never enters
their heads. You'd be the same. Any
normal man would be the same. As
long as you're well and sound and have
plenty of food, you'll have the time qf
But haven t (
you ever seen men run
"Nv ttle, They away,
on ,onB marenes, wnen iney are urea,
use they're sleepy or hunmV.
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Some of them, a few, very few, run
away, because they can't stand the
anticipation of danger. But, I've
rever seen n man run away under fire
las long as his ammunition held out
! and he had a chance to kill. It's verv
.terrible isn't it? But I fear the good
Arou nas innoe us that way. You hear
a great deal about the hardship of
u "len 1,1 l"e trencnes, nonx you 7
:."8,"eI5T' ,r.n,Ber and 8lee1'
- rsitia srai r.s
brother, and I know that once they
"erB repaia ior weexsor sutrenng for
mito ton minutM of rood tlBM. A
litt! later all their hardships were
atoned, for by twenty minutes good
time. ' .
"What do you raean by good
Pir,tv of Jcilled." said the sheriff,
"mtiA tiiiui watch the enemy run. Do
you know what strikes me as fun'
niest of all?" he concluded.
... amit
- liftla the women of the world
know of their men, and how little the
men know of themselves until they
get a chance to kill.
MESSAGE FROM HOME.
TMtlmonv of La Grande Citizens
Statements that May Be Inveatigated
,
When a La Grande citizen comes to
the front, telling- his - friend and
neighbors of his experience, you can
rely on his sincerity. The statements
of people residing in far awsy plaeea
do not command your confidence.
Home endorsement is the ..kind mat
backs Doan's Kidney Pills. Such tes
timony is convincing, s investigation
proves It true. Jieiow is a soKemenc
of a. La Grande resident. No strong
er nntof of merit can be had. '
E. u Bussey, prop. caD service,
1521 Madison Ave.. La Urande. says:
"I had attacks of kidney trouble, and
they were always worse . when I
caught cold. I had dull pains in my
back and my kidneys got- badly out
of order. I began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills, and from that time to this
I have relied on them. - Whenever my
back has. bothered e, Doan's Kidney
Pill have fixed me up all right in
a abort time.. 1 never used a better
kidney medicine." .
Price 60c, at all dealers. Doat
simply ask for a kidney remedyget
Doan's Kidney Pills the same : that
Mr. Bussey had. Foster-Milburn Co..
Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv. .. . r. :
High. Grade Job frintingcosts no
more than the other kind. Observer.
Don't Buy Glasses
As You Would Shoes.
They should be fitted by a
specialist.
You may select a pair that
aids your vision for the time
being, but they may prove
MOST INJURIOUS
DON'T buy cheap glasses. V
DONT read in bed or . on a
moving train. , ' .
DONT read without your
glasses.
DONT read with . someone
else's glasses.
DON T continue wearing your
OLD GLASSES.
When you feel that the laire
- NOT JUST RIGHT.
It's so easy to -
HAVE THEM RIGHT.
Any lens duplicated in. a few
minutes . " "
I GRIND ALL MY GLASSES,1
HE ACOCK
EYE : SIGHT SPEOAUST
3rd Floor of New Foley Bldg.
A'TaCamUle" model that'
S will positively improve the
i lines of the average figure,
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i Material, a beautiful brocade,
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priced at $5.00. Other models !
$2.00 up.
Mrs. Robt Pattison
Corsetiere
S Phone R. 3221 . Res. 1702 Oak ,'
Misses' Storm RubbersSizesl0y2to2
39c
Child's Plain Rubbers Sizes 4 to 10
Men's Storm Rubbers 1 4 v .
49c
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I Foley Hotel Building. J
ELECTRIC LIGHTS WERE INVENTED TO SUPPLY
A NECESSITY. ALL OTHER METHODS Of CREAT
ING ARTIFICIAL light were unsatisfactory. Candles
wer dim and unreliable; gas, dirty, and dangerous) kero
sent, dull, smoky, odorous and' alo-dangeious to health'
and property.. .When elctric lights were introduced there
.,wai but one drawback. They cost considerably more than
other lights. This objection has been overcome andelec-
, trie lights are now' the most economical as well as the
most satisfactory light. - ,v,
Eastern Oregon light &Power Co.
V Telephone Main 34
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