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First Museum.
The first museiO vn Iiart of the
Tnluce of0lli'xandi-l, where I'O'W'
men ere maintalnnd at the public O
fikot, just as eminent public scrvmito
nere In the IJsvtnneuni at Athi-ns. lis
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j Boys of the l'nio Flocked ta Sauyas
to Farm, but Mor. lnd Then
'j'han Now. ,
slonpf our pt,-sident, Dr. Mossman, strength is not rlglitrr ueu uen "
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8tf arednvited. to apply for iem- fellows ftrhls own solgary g.oiy.
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I PARIS GAME
ALLTHE WAY
(XNriIi;N K OKTKN WAVKHKO
JUT HI'IltlT NKVKH IIHOKi;
PeHpltn Four Year of ' AnxloitH
HI rain and MtilferltiK-' IuriM
ianN ny In Triumph
PARIS, Dec. 28. -Parla la coming
buck to 11 fo. There la peace in the
air.
The transformation of . Park be
tween June and December 1b almost
beyond belief. In Juno the boche
wan on the Maine. A thin line of
Americans stopped the enemy at
Chateau Thierry. The boulevards
of rails were all but departed,
8hops wore empty, cafes and res
taurants without patrons, ttuldlers
and war workers were the only peo
ple to he aeen on the streets. Night
was a time of torrov. As the moon
. joae the airbus aurtukod thulr turrl
flyiiiK wails oi" the approach tf (he
Oothus. liy doy the Hhella from the
big Hurl ha- landed with deadly reg
ularity every 15 minutes. There
were whispered ruimu of what had
been hit. Tho communique was
eagerly scanned daily aud a the
Americans and Freueh held, the
anxious civilian braving to remain
miked "can they continue to hold or
is Paris to fall."
They held. Tho July counter-of-fdnalve
dmplte confidence In the
ultlmute roHiilt remained. Success
'continued. Clvlllitns began to- re
turn. More' nnd mora AmericiuiK
arrived, October came aud with It
the beginning of the end. My thia
time Parts was winking at the moon.
There hud not been an air-raid in
weeks. Tho boche was too busy at
other. games. Automobiles began to
be more daring wlih their lights,
In Mead of groping down the dark
builm-ardu aud streets they winked
their big head-llghtH occulonivlly
for reassurance, HesUurants begau
to (111 up. The theatres were crowd
ed. People Ihronuecl tho boulevards
There was a conviction that (he war
was nearlng (he end.
It was such a Farlg that the rcp
resematlvea of the Allies foun.l
vhen (hey met to discuss Germany's
appeal for an amihUice. The city'
wus alive with rumors. You.com1 I
stir up any sort of a rumor desired, j
Just go -anywhere people- were con-1
grugating and listen. Mint 1'
didn't want a pienia'u'it peace. The
ptople felt the boein w.it.' whlppiit
and were eager to keep on until the
Jvb was ihilntuHl. HentlmtiiK toward
i-romcient wiiHon wait not. tiwn coiu.
lNwple wera I'linid.l. 1 w.i fiint to i,ttimnro, eipurl.inro ami .imlruv
tlk to t'ii ho.'lic-tu'j ui'i.."i. Tlfiy ,, of our ,ml!il , cifk.'iia run
iiU lilt all of. Hi. limit li."vlni! h.'rn i,,tlllu. anil Ovniialilu stimulus he
Lli-u out of Hit :r.u:ili, thi y !i--' jm,.,,, 10 ,tu, le,.iiU,uliin of tin- urUI.
imywt ui'iu'eiaro .inie mui'inj
10 iw l 1 1 or nine.
Ifut President WlUon passed the
s rm 1st Ice iMTuir over to Marshal
Foch. Generals, pi I me ministers.
Amh -sis
nb:i!-.idor8
pouira 'U-
ill. ronii-ronira ui lu.lorw Mrall-
h-i .re onuin-tl. Tho i'i' ul tlte
1 o. ld uciilii vn I'srls. il
llh .iltrr.,fnl .Uiolii Ms jiml differ.
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, r - -i ra;lons; the niyois oitil oth miih-
tCtntlntK'l from ft8,. 1 ioiiiit.i i,( Dillon cltK'; roiinty
' ' " 'T " )f()uiiii!ploiierii of Oregon, and nil
fl-mllt counlimi will l ilmlt bluw i()tll,,,, w )u) ,,v ,.ffnrt nnd In-
tfcat will llnn 'Omi of f-'KI.OOO peri,,,,,. lmlv 0.-tH rihitf to the ui of
month pn'tjftdl; that nearly I 'H0 men,
many oftbem Vith fiinlrdes to sup
port, wilt -bf (rou put of employ
ment for an aWrfimt' peruxU jind
that .me Hnescxf buiiicO may V!
0 seriously afford that ()e7iiery
will Undoubtful if iKssibIe at all. and
(?)that the pinctt-hf hutinMS will $00
this community 111 a time when U i
nouM prMpcrs never before Its f
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W-By. ' SomeUiina- must he Hone'janWai r lsl
ent
MONTANA SCHOOL
LANDS EXCHANGED
OVER 100,000 ACRES IN NATION'.
Ah FORESTS ELIMINATED
BY PROCLAMATION.
WASHINGTON, Dec, 28. On No
vember 27th the president alined a
proclamation eliminating more than
100,000 acres of timbered land from
the Blackfeet and the Flathead nation
al forests in Montana. Those lands
carry 618 million feet of timber.
On account of the establishment of
the national forests in Montana, the I state like a flood. Kansas had sent
state was unuble to secure title to the ! to the Onion army more soldiers than
unsurveyed school sections IS and .'!lahe had voters, without the use of
within the forest, liy this proclamn-
tion lands equal in area and valua to i efj jve from the sixteen Kansas reg
the timbered school sections wVrh j imonts returned they were accom-
havc become permanently part ot trie j
national forests arc made available
to the state in solid blocks. In ex
change .for the non-timbered school
sections government lands of similar
character in the eastern part of Mon
tana have been selected by the state.
The exchange of lands is advantnjre
ous both to the United States and to
the state of Montana, for the holding j
of each thus become consolidated and
easier to manage.
The eliminated lands wera selected
for the purpose after extensive co-op
erative field examination by the stnte
of Montana and the forest service with
the approval of the secretary of agri
culture. COX V KXTIOX 1 .1 ,i :i
Governor Withyeombe has Issued
a proclamation naming January 9.
10- and 11 as the dales for the "ro
ronst ruction" to bo held In the pub
lic auditorium In Portland to con
sidere means for th prevention of
industrial, depression and unein
ployment during the period of re
construction and readjustment from
war to peace butt!.. All Interests
are Invited to send ropi oHuntatlons.
The governor's proclamation Kays:
"liiHHimich ub th' .state of Ore
gon, In common with other states,
Is facing thfl vital pmhlem,nnd aa-i-red
responslbllty of proven It ug In
dustrial dupt-Otssfo'u and unemploy
ment during the period of recon
struction aud - readjustment from
war to ponce basis. All Interests
are Invited' to send i cprKent-atives.
The governor's proclamation says:
"Inasmuch its the state of Ore
gon, In common with otlur stales.
ls racing the vital piblem and sa-1
cred ' responsibility of preventing i
industrial dupruasiou and . uuem-
ployuient during tho period of re-;
construction and readjustment from
a wr to a peace bauis, and since it j
appears that . nly I.) tho iloviitioii :
.,.,,1 ,i. ,.,,.,,ui ...nlii-aiinn nf tin-
,w,nip ,) iKS,.a.vi'r Intnl. the il
loputont ol wator ihiwit, hlc.hwny I
ronirui!tlon,t ami tho tiiiiliitiMUinrii '
of proiluetlvo lutliiHliy;
"Vlltt. Iill,...r.irr. I .tm.wi Wlthv.'
"Now,
Ipnmh.i imvorni;!- of Oi 01:011. do irvi- 1
Hllm jNllUilr. 9. , un,i n. 131'J.
UN ,hr f 8 r.voiilrui'tlim ron-
n..tt 10 lis hM .In tUo puhltr
;,iii,,, n. liv of' Pniiliiml.
dro., nnd do iiiomI imrnestly Invite
the allemln'm-e or the lepiesentatlvcs
of o;rlfiilliiiit. iiiQnufuctilre. labor.
. Itmlppir 'ifl riuiimeree; iviniiwny,
port nd (look I'oimulsslyns; liusl
BAKxIR!iii'n, civic nnd professional oiKani-
jhe''4t,t.t!H Wk.'Si
j IMPORTANT!
I Here's s ihiine. for the mini who
j neds a suit. For th. next Sn dts
I we will itivtiiiin ei?rn pslr of trousers
rWfynlf nrieS with every suft Think
0f jt! You need fte eloth. Wro need
the business and will offer &fm line
ilert ffrtm
This hol'S good until
I TOlsJCKA. Kan.. Dec. 28. A he
i Kunsas boys begin tocome,back fromit)iinailt,f
j the war, and the problem .of placiit
i tlK'm on the Kansas farms, already
' pretty thickly populated, iBcon.iidere4,
the boys', fathers are telling )w
it wui done when they returned froti
the war, following demobilization of
the Union army,
The conversation usually Wads to
, the conclusion that there is no lan.d
: left in Kansaa for settlement by the
i returning soldier, who has little be-
; sides his strength and determination!
as capital
! There is some lan still unhome
i (Headed in the extreme western pert
i of the state but it is not suitable
1 for farming. Some of it might be
; mtfde suitable, by .irrigation,-but no
' young man who needs' to farm for a
. living could afford to do the irrigat
ing. ' It would have to be undertaken
,with public money, and it is fairly
certain that there won't be a lot of
public money available for the pur
pose when the boys get home as they
already are getting home.
The farms from which most of the
Kansas boys went will reabsorb most
of them without much difficulty,' just
us most of the rest of the country
will reabsorb most of its quota of sol
diers, leaving tho unemployment prob
lem not much worse than it waB be
fore the war, after peace conditions
have tuken the place of war condi
tions. The question of displacing wo
man lubor is not so important in Kau
nas as in the manufacturing states.
iWhen the boys camo back from the
Civil war, K-ansns was practically all
virgin prairie, and the homestead law
offered the returning troops such in
ducements to take up claims in the
new country that they swept into the
conscrintion. When those who were
panied b y tens of thousands of
strangers who had fought for the
Union.
The Kansas -State Historical society
estimates thero were 150,000 war vet
erans in the stnte in 1885. Other
thousands had come and gone during
the twenty years between the close j
of the war and that date. Many had
jjeen chased back east during the first
few years of their settlement by the
'armies of grasshoppers that foraged
the country much more thoroughly
than any of the boys in blue had for
aged the invaded south.
Kansas was distinctively a soldier
state. With the energy and enthusi
asm of returning conquerors who had
been given a chance, they broke out
the prairie, built roads, made their
humble homes, and turned a desert of
coarse grass into a garden empire.
The land some of the late comers
paid $5 an acre for now sells for from
$:iF0 an acre up. There were no Bol
sheviki among those returning sol
diers, and nobody worried about the
social, economic, or Industrial unrest
that might follow their demobiliza
tion. There was land enough foi all,
and the terms v?er most liberal. Their
only unrest was that caused by rain
dri nning through their shanty roofs.
in iftfli, wnen me om uiuivr iuc
wrb practically complete m ituus,
K per cent of the legislature was com
posed of old soldiers, and the siuue
class of citizens' held practically fill
the eityand county offices in the
state. The old boys have retired from
most of the public offices now, and
are ready to turn them over to the
new returning army. Meantime the
men who were too young for the first
wr nnd too old for the last one, ami
perhaps had their hands in the little
Spanish - Philippine episode, hare been
helping tho old boys hold on till the
yruinr fellows tret back from Germany.
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PARIS. Dec. 14. (United Press.
The blRtiest story In the
world In a doer skin cout stood
on the bridge of thu. George Wash,
ington as she steamed out of New
York harbor. It was president Vil
tw. The coat ha wore wag the gift
of orltt friend aid was made
of several fine deer skins. Hat in
hand, he stood Itesiie JBrs. Wilson
acknowledging the dis of wklstles,
tiirose, bells and cheeri that voiced
boo voyage, ,
The water Is getting rough early.
George" Creel retired to his state
room shortly after the vessel got
under .way. He was not available
to visitors for several days.
President Wilson rested on
the
first three days, retiring early;
Mrs. Wilson, In a long black fur
coat, promenaded on yie deck at
jugular Intervals.' -.
"Abandon ehlp-drlll" ithe second
day out gave tho passengeru their
first opportunity to try on life belts
and get their life boat' assignments.
One passenger, captain U. S. N., an
old timer, did not feel the need of
wearing his life bait out on deck.
"Ah, but you should set the ex
ample," exclaimed Ambassador Jus-
serand, exchanging views with the
captain on the subject. Thereafter
the captain wore his life belt.
Italian Ambassador Celleri ap
peared on deck in a grey solft felt
knockdown hat. .
While President and Mrs. Wilson
one day were on de;k talking witfi
press - correspondents Ambassdor
Jusserand came up. There follow
ed the following bit of repartee:
f"You, should have been to the
moving pictures lust nighty Mr.
President," said Juseerand, "they
wore very flnei The story wae,
built around a near-beer called
"Veve, you know 'Veve la France,'
add the ambassador smilingly.
"Oh yes, Uovo l'American," re
joined the President, at which there
was general laugh:er.
Thoruogh the. efforts of Admiral
Grayson,, President Wilson cold rap-
Idly Improved, Ho went to the mov
ies frequently.
Ambassador Jusscrcnd Is a believ
er In " preparedness. Ho carried a
small French vojumo in his coat
pocket to afford reading material If
by any chartce ho in forced to tnke
to the boats.
During an Inform! gathering on
deck, President Wilson told tho
following- story:
"One time during the Civil war
President Lincoln was sending a and, Ambassador and Mrs. tellerc and
messenger to Jefferson Davis. . Lin-1 cx-iAmbassador White. The dinner
coin had very laboriously explained : was followed by attendance at the reg
tho detuils of what he wished the j ular ship service's,
mpttftanrm- to nonvflv to the ronfd-'
erate chief. At the conclusion, the
messenger, ready for departure.
asked: 'Are there auy Instruction?'
"Wheroup Lincoln, somewhat
wearily responded:
'None except that I am remlnd-
C(j Qf ft atory
of a tittle girl neigh
bor buck tn Sprinirfle'ld, Illinois,
wh)i played with lettdr (blocks in
her bad at night. One night she be
came very sleepy before she said
her prayers, so, kneeling down, she
said: 'Dear Lord. I am -too Bleepy
tonight to say my prayers, there are
my bfocks, spell It out for your
self.' Saturday we got the side lines of
a real storm. The waves were high
and there was a marked falling off
In attendance at deck premenades.
NHther the I' resident nor Mrs; W(l-
Your Orders
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Mrs. Frank P. Brown of Cincinnati
la winner of National Capital Prize No.
1, offeree to war gardeners by the na
tional war garden commission. She
took fir6t prizes amounting in all to!
$100, which she-Invested In War Sav. :
inge stamps. On a plot 100 by 150 feet
she raised enough vegetables for her !
table all summer, In addition to 129
cans of vegetables ehe-put up, and 23 i
bushels of potatoes. j
son, however, failed to appear for
their daily constitutional.
.Ex-Ambassador Wh'ite, one-of the
American peace delegates, knows Ar
thur1 Balfour, British statesman, very
well. He refers to him as "A. J. B."
in conversation.
On Sunday, the president conferred
for the first time with Secretary Lan
sing and ex-Ambassador AVhite on the
peace conference program. Upon leav
ing the conference White said: , "I am
in complete accord with the president's
views.
The president attendctl a show giv
en by the crew. The first night" was
reviewed privately for expurgating
purposes before the passengers of
state gpt their glimpse of it.
The orchestra aboard was made up
of navy men, many of whom enlisted
for Uncle Sam from Chicago and Phil
adelphia symphony orchestras. Their
playing did much to soothe troubled
"innards" on stormy days and prevent
meals from hoisting anchor.
The same food served the officers
and crew was doled out to passengers
during the trip, but it was prepared
by crack chefs, contributed by the
New York hotel association.
Madame Ju3erand, wife of the j
French amhassudor, was one of thej
interested spectators at a boxing, I
wrestline and pie eatintr contest on ;
board. She like sto watch boxing, she;
says.
President Wilson gave on, dinner
party aboard ship to Secretary and (
Mrs. Lansing, Ambassador and Mrs.;
Davis, .Ambassador and Mrs. Jusser-;
M on key's. Valuable Discovery. j
A literary discovery bus jut been
made at the monastery of MeliUnrUtra,'
In the Island of St. Lamms, at Venice. J
A pet monkey had climbed to the top
of a bookcase, whore it seized hold of
bundle oV payors, and, breaking the ,
string, showered--down A. number of
utters, the uik o'f which had become i
yellow with nge. They proved to be j
n long correspondence between Lord
P,yron and tho monks of St. Lazarus, j
with whom he had once resided. I
Best o.! Rewards.
The best reward for any faithful
work Is the privilege of golnu on and
proving our tnithfulness with more
dlfllcult tasks. Lucy Larcom. '
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year. It i the system we Live that speaks lpr
itself you got the 8aiiM UuiuV- hack that yi,u
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