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VPJ3spqndence BUENA VISTA Mrs. John Sutton, who has been in poor health for some time, was takeno Salem for treatment. It is hoped she soon will be able to return home. Most everyone that went away for the Holidays has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Valent ne of Dallas were week-end visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bevens. Perry Well returned to Salem Sunday to resume his attend ance at school. Mrs. N. E. Tyler accompanied him, as she was going to Woodburn to spend New Year's day with relatives. Gay Prather spent Saturday in Independence, returning home Sunday. There was a party at James Reynold's Saturday evening and a good time was enjoyed by all present. y Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Anderson pent Sunday and New Year's day at Suver with Mr. Ander son's sister, Mrs. Gobetz. Martin Prather spent Christ mis vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Prather. 'lr. and Mrs. Fred Cameron an 1 family of Westfall, Malheur c unty, arrived at the home of BORDER GUARjS.V.EN WILL BE GOfsiFOHTABLE Record Order of Lumber Will Pro vide For Flooring and Walling Their Tents. Fort Saw Houston, Tex. It Is stated ) at the otilee of the quartermaster's corps of the southern (lciinrtmeut at Fort Sam Houston that the receut call for bids to furnish 7.ix.000 running feet of lumber that was Issued by Major William KUiott, depot quarter master at El Paso, Is a separate order from that which Is soon to lie placed ; for lumber aud other materials for the erection of winter quarters of oIHcers and enlisted men at Fort Sum Houston -and different camps upon the Rio Grande border. Plana for the different type of build ings that are to be erected are now under consideration by Colonel H. L. Rogers, chief quartermaster. The bachelor officers on duty with the troops will be provided with a winter borne somewhat resembling a club bouse. Each married officer will be provided with a small frame cottage, to cost about Cantonments will be built for the regulars In the form of the usual tyj of barracks. The guardsmen will be made comfortable by their teuts being floored and sides built 1.) them of boards. It Is stated that an appropria tion, of $1 flooHK) for the construction 14 107 '0 108 ica 10 09 .110 ' ,0 lit 124 23 .Ml .121 120' .103 THVT a fanny looking animal dren? The giraffe is te taihst of think you'd ever finish drawing you ask? Iau-t he is obliged to -et topmost brar.- 1 ..f ".any .f th r and onnectin l.b nua.Ur. 2, I. . lieut. Fill In Picture Puzz'e No, 5 1 - LJV I Z .13 " II WwwSli ass ,A- ) f-"'9 it .511-. Mrs. Cameron's parents, Mr and Mrs. M. V. Pcather for an extended visit. Crystal, their oldest daughter, has been at the Prather home all w inter going to school. School started again on Tues day after the Christmas holidays. GREENWOOD E. F. Brown, one of our pros perous farmers, who owns a beautiful 200-acre farm, in formed the writer that he will remodel his barn, making the same an up-to-date dairy barn in the spring He will also build a large silo and expects to keep 25 head of cows. Greenwood can safely boast of having one of the very best violinists in all this part of the country. Miss Edna Dennison is an expert with that instru ment. R. W. Martin had the misfor tune to get kicked in the stomach by his oriving horse. The doctor said the injury was not si-rious, due to the fact that he was so close to the animal that he did not receive the full force of the blow. Mrs. J. It. Robins has traJ.d her eastern Oregon stock" ranch of 1G0 acres to W. V. Black for his 43-aere farm 3 miles northwest of Independence. of 1Iio:h Im'i'i i:::s wim ierinl uiudc available to Hie war department. EXchange for civil, captives British and Germans Over Forty-five Year Old to Be Freed. London. After protracted negotia tions through the medium of the Unit ed States arrangements liuve been made for the exchange of (iernian and British civilian prisoners over forty five years old. About 4,(HK Germans are interned In the United Kingdom, and 7X1 Hrltish civilians are Interned in Germany. Whether the prisoners will resell their respective homes de pends on the success of the admiralty In finding u neutral steamship on which to make the exchange. Preparations are being made to break up the cam pa for Germans on the Isle of Man and those established for Brit ish civilian prisoners In Germany. Only 2.-00 of the Germat.s Interned in the United Klueilom expressed a desire to return to Germany. If the oppor tunity offered many would prefer to go to America, It Is snld. Finde Dime In Fieh't Gill. Wichita, Kan.-W. E. Smith was re cently Ashing In the I.lltle Arkansas Just below the Central street dam nnd landed a bin channel cattish weighing one and a half pounds. The catch was a beauty, and Mr. Smith hurried to ex tract the hook from Its mouth. As be ran his finger through the fish's left gill he found something metallic ard upon extracting It found It to be a bright shiny ten cent piece. & jo i ."35 40 41 42 ,36 .37 J9' ?3 .80 ( 39 62 -fi-nyy 445 3. ,(V.73 Al 973 4 V9 )u drew the last '-. thr living m:a. I . hi- . k Why ' - - M ' " i u" ' r"" ' m Afr..a H :. ur pencil . .68 V 55 .54 ,,fl PORTLAND PRESS COMMENT ON McCALL MURDER If McCall, the harber',who shot his fellow worker, W. A. Shaner, to death, had not possessed a re volver, Shaner would not novvjbe dead, McCall would not now be facing a long life behind prison bars, and his little boy would not have been left crying in the blood of his father's victim. Journal. The usual outcry that the pistol and not McCall was primarily to blame for the murder of his fellow-barber and former friend, Shaner, is being raised. But the indictment lies against the mur derer and not against the weapon. It is shallow to say that if Mc Call had not had a revolver Sha ner would not have been killed. There are a thousand "ifs" which miifht be suggested as preventive conditions. The only "if" worth serious or thoughtful consider ation is that if McCall had not sought to kill Sha .er he would not have been killed. The motive for the homicide seems quite inadequate; but even more perplexing and astonish ing is its method. J'he slayer appears quite deliberately and e-lmly to have gone to the bar ber shop and, after tle usual tonsorial service by a friendly attendant, to have approached his quarry without the slightest sign of passion or excitement and to have drawn a pistol and to h i e murdered him. Then he undertook immediately to slay a colored porter, who was discreet and scared enough to run. - There was no quarrel, no ab vious preparation, but there is now every evidence of premedi tation. The murderer manifests no contrition or alarm, but says his victim deserved death for offenses vaguely suggested and obviously of small provocative consequence. Clearly tho man is irrational, if not insane. But all such crimes have a phase of abnormality which does not excuse, while it may explain them, and acquittal on any such ground is itself a crime against society. Clearly, a McCall, brooding over personal affronts, who woull kill once for vengeance would kill again. Mc Call ..-u notion that it is no crime to slay anyone who de serves it. Where di. 1 he get that idea, except from the frequent acquittal of men and women accused of crimes of blood? Oregonian. The Oregonian, springing to the defense of the revolver, con tends that the barber McCall is a deliberate and cold-blooded homi cide, that he is clearly irrational, and that he is the cause of Sruntr's death, not the revolver. Sure. Hut why allow it to be possible for cold-blooded, pre meditated and irrational homi cides to "tote a gun" until such time ls their disordered fancy ! dictates its awful use? Journal. "I told the to lay off me, and he didn't, so I killed him." A barber lost his job. Another barber in the same shep had been "riding" him. He brooded, nursed nis hate. He returned. to the shop-on Christmas morning- of all times! "Peace on earth; good will to men!" We know that men are fight ing and dying by thousands in Europe, but we are not horrified. I Europe is so far aay. i in th harder Khorj were men j being shaved. When the tragedy 'occurred they went as white as !the lather on their facet. One man murdered before their eyei I set them thaking as with an (ague, tho they could discuss 'calmly, academically, the slaugh ter of millions in Europe. Powerful are the conventions. The 1 t permit a man to walk in pub c half -shaven. So the barbers, as whit ai.r shaken as their patrons, worked on, averting their eyes from the si.ent form on the tiled floor. That barber shop is the world in small. News. Statt of Ohio. City t.f Toledo, Lucas County, as. 1'ratik J. t'h.-ney ninksi oath that h is senior partner of ttie firm of K. J. Cheney & Co. 1vinjt business In tha City of Toledo, County and State afore said, and that said firm will pay tha sum of ON K Hl'SbRKU IXH.I.AKS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot he cured bv the use of H ALL'S CATAKHH Cl'llK. FRANK J.CHKNET Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 6th day of Pecein ber. A. D. ISStS. A. W. (TLEASON. tSeal) Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Intern ally and acts throtiKh the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Snd for testimonials, free. K. J. CHKNKY A CO., Toledo, CV Sold by all liruKuisls. 75c. Hall's Family 1'ills for constipation ONLY WHITE HORSES ARE SEEN IN GERMAN CITIES Dark Animals Used For Army. Four-fifths of Taxis In Berlin Electrified. Berlin. Almost nil tlio horses you see working la the towns tunl flVUla In (oruiuny ttro white or Ilea hltten gray. AH tlio other colors mo usel for army work. The whiles are not, their eolor hehiK too emisplt'itoua. Hut the ileiiiiiinl for horses luis lieen so (treat Unit even tho whites nro used when the' are ycniuc lieiiiK imlule.l tluik The bows left for eivllliin inii'iioses are the old ones. Most of those you find iittnehed to tho nie'letit diosliUles ui t iller den Linden look us if they were cousins to the eohrnnis that Noah took with him into the ark. The ne of tho drivers corresponds to the antliuity of their Bteeds. Most of them nro mnyhefirds, but by way of paradox tlielr (firths nro as great as those of their horses nro anialL Four-fifths of the taxis are cleotrl tled, which enables them to proceed at a slow, (lli.'iillled I'tiec for short stretches. Tho few internal coiubua tion motors left use benzol In place of gasoline, which ls sharply restricted to olllclal need - military, Industrial and those of the hliili personaiies. Iu gplto of the leather shortage, the German soldier still cllnfrs to his boots. The bulk of tho German soldiery is re cruited from the an' ieultural class, which has been accustomed to boots aud does not willingly use other foot wear. SHARK GOT HALF HIS CATCH. Sudden End of Fisherman's Grsat Ex pectations. Honolulu. What promised to be one of the bluest ulna catches of tho sea son for Tux Collector Charles T. Wild, er w as sollf:d w hen a big aliurk took half of the fish's body as Wilder was pulling: it In with his reel. Wilder whs havltnj a Alio tussle with what seemed a mighty Kiinie tlsh. Ills lino Micged, mid ho felt only a slow iimvliu' weight at the end of It When ho lifted from the water he found only half a INIi-the head and fore jsirtlon of tho body. The tail and hind part were entirely gone. Scratches on tho side of the lish showed that the shark had made two grabs, the second being successful. This seems to put an end to the theory that a shark cannot bite under water or upright, for nothing else could have bitten off that tall. LINK BOYS IN LONDON AGAIN. Fog Said to Hivf Been the Worst In Fifty Years. Loudon. A fog which settled over Loudon recently is described as being Die most dense in lifty years. From early morning until a late hour Iwiiidon wus a city of K'retual night. The Inconvenience was greatest In the evening owing to the light restrictions. Omnibuses stsd running ami taxi cabs disapiKHred from tho streets. Pe destrians In the street curried torches. In the Slriind torches were lighted aud soldiers new to the metropolis bad to be led about like blind men. PLAN TO STRENGTHEN ARMY FLYING SERVICE Couraa of Instruction For Fisld Officers at 8an Diego. New York.-rians have been practi cally completed for the establishment of additional army aviation stations ami schools. Htatious and schools hsve already been liistlluN-d at Mlneola. N. V.; Chicago, Kan I 'logo, Cal.; New port News, Kan Antonio, Miami, Fla., and Columbus. N M. It is exited that Mullein will oo" I established at 1'hliailelplila and Memphis. A corps of Instructors will be maln !.iwl t each station, and classes for national guard officers and reserve avt ators will 1 held. It la planned to cover toe entlro country with stations and schools, and It Is believed that they will serve to develop an efficient corpe of active and rerve aviators. One of the latest features Inaugu rated by tha aviation section of the sig nal corps is a o'jrse of Instruction for lieid ollicers. It will be conducted at Ban Lilego. rVveral officers hsve al ready been detailed to take the course offered tliere. The signal corps has now purchased or let the contracts for machine. nti,i.tT nf which are water tuacbliies. About $7,W0 will be required to purchase all the material which baa been contracted lf bj Cil CHRISTIAN F. Claude Stephens, Pastor Important Services, Lord' Day, Jan. . Bible School at 10 a. m. Divine service 11 a. m. Theme: "A Student in tha Sehoo' of Life." Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. Evening service, 7;30 p. m. Theme: "An Ideal Citiren." With tlu new year so full of spark line resolutions, let's see to it that this year Is started right, as righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a ra roacn to any pe ple. Public welcome to attend. 13 ARTIST W. S. STEWART, Pastor. Let's begin the year by attending ch'jrch. The church Is the only insti- tutum on earth hat was founded by Jesus, and that has so sacred a rela tionship to Him. Therefore, stand by the church. The Baptist church sends everyone a Happy New Year. Sunday school at 10. Preaching at 11. The subject of the sermon will be METHODISTS MAY UNITE CHURCHES Union of Branches Would Glvo Nearly 6,000,000 Members. SLAVERY CAUSED THE SPLIT Msthodlst Eplsoopsl Churoh, Metho dist Episcopal Churoh South and Msthodist Protsstsnt Church Now Have Total of 27,426 Ministers and 47,619 Churches. The prospect of Methodist union, pos sibly us early an 1018 and In any case not later than I'.'.o, has u roused wide spread lute rest anions' the members of Protestant churches as to the size and rank of tho Methodist church wheu re united. The union proposed la of these two denominations nod one other, the Mtehodlat Protectant church. The nu merical res nits will be Imposing. The uew Methodist church, for that will probably be the name, will have al most exactly one third of the 17,742,- &o communicants of the thirty church bodies w hich are now uieinbeiin of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. It will have more than n third of their 13!,C01 churches and more than one-fourth of their 103,- 113 ministers. The next largest body will be the southern Baptist conven tion, and after that will come the ne gro Baptist, with the Presbyterians fol low lug Some 8tsitlos. Here are the figures for 101B, the most recent obtainable, as given In the Churches of tho Federal Council, edit- ed by Charles H. MacFurlund and Is sued only a few weeks ago by the Fleming U. Ilevell company: MlnlstiTS Mpttwxtlst Knlscopul church 1MI3 Methodist Kiilscrjpul Church BoUID. 7,ioJ sjetho.lui l'rotoittaiit church MiO Total Churchsa Methotlut KiIco.hI church Methortlst Kltc"lnl Church Huuth. W,7l Msthodlst Protestant church XJ0 Total 7,61 Communicants. Mfthollst Kilscoal church l,Wi".M Methodist KiIschI Church Bouth.2,W2,i) Msthodlst ProteHiant church. JO1.U0 Total .W),7W When It Is added that neither the southern Baptist convention, with 2,6:ri217 coiiimtinlcanls, nor the 1'res- hviartan Church In the United Htates or America, with 1. 1!.'i.l"7 couimuiilcanla. approaches In hl.e the Methoaist Kpts roosl hiin h the iiumerlcal greatness of the uulletl Metlesllst church will be readily appreciate. 1. Caused by Slsvsry Issue. Hlavery, which also divided the Bap ttot and Presbyterian churches, was the cause of the division of the Metho dic Kplscopal church. Among Met ho l!st tiie schlm took p'ace In 1H-I4. t.-lsina from tii.' cae of li iliop James (isiKxl Andiew of Oiirgla. whose wife wan s slaveholder. The Metho Hir I'rntestunt hnrch was the out growth of a xtlll earlier dispute over ilu. niiiCiiil rights of the mUilHtry suu isitv. It was formed alxtut 1H30 aud was Itself spdt In 1HSH by the slsvery question. In 1SJ the portUeru bajf of 'The Real Vocation of the Church Member. " After the service the Lord's Supper will be celebrated. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30. The pastor intends to preach a ser mon of a very unique nature. Come and hear it. Music by the choir. A warm welcome for all. METHODIST Thus. D. Yarnes, Pastor. 10 A. M. Sunday School. 11 A. M. Divine worship. S P. M. Loyal Temperance legien. 6:30 P. M. F.pworth League. 7:30 P. M. F veiling service. All are cordially invited to these services. PUESm'TERIAN Dr. H. C Dunsmore, Pastor lOja. m. Sunday school. 11 a. m. ( Public Worship with 7:30 p. m. ) Sermon. We invite you to all our services. , Strangers cordially welcomed. the MVtTiodl-d I'rolesfant church fused with the Wesleyan MethisHat church, and In 1S77 both parts of the Metho dist Protestant church were again brought together. Tho coming union of Methodists will create a denomination as pre-eminent In missionary work as In membership. Ttie three churches when fused win have atsmt 1,700 forelgu tnlsstonarlea as against 1..1(H) missionaries of tha rresbyterlan Church In the United States of America and 8-5 foreign missionaries of the Presbyterian Church In the United States South. The reunited Methodist will have about 0,200 home missionaries. North ern and southern Presbyterlana togeth er have not many more thsu 8,000. THE ROSES. A white roaa bloomed In brautr, A red rose Mushed In prIJs, Ths white rose drooped and faded. The red rose taint arid dld. Hut In the quaint old siirilon Ths sun held buth as dear. And, pHMMlna In the evrn. Ttie dew fc-ave each a trio 4 A white rose sent her fniKinocr To cheer a wrnry hraln. A red nee amllwt to Rlsdden A soul that slKhcd In vuln. And when the nioonliesins scattered 4 Their srold upon each bresat Alike sliadowerod the roses Hlnce each had done her beat. 4- 4 4'4 Go East Union Pacific System OREGON-WASIIINGTON LIMITED Leave Portland Union Station 10 A.M. Daily via thi Famous Columbia River Route The only Throuh-to-Chlcago train electrically lighted, autoiiuttkally proUxted. 'WM.McMURRAY General Passenger Agent ' PORTLAND
