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LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE Until this new "smoke" was made you could never have a real Burley tobacco cigarette. It's the best yet IT'S TOASTED The toasting brings out the delicious flavor of that fine old Kentucky Burley. You never tasted agreeable roasting does JUDGE BELTS SPEED WINS PORTLAND PRAISE The trial of "Red' Hupert, for the theft of $5000 in Liberty bonds from the Northwestern National bank, befrui Tuesday morning. It ended Wednesday afternoon. Rupert was sentenced at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Such dispatch takes our breath away. We are not accustomed to such speed in Portland. It was not a Portland judge who tried Rupert, but Circuit Judge Belt of Dallas. We hope Judge Belt continues to sit in Portland long enough to enable our judges, of all branches of the judiciary, to study his methods at first hand. Judge Belt is the master of his court. lie doesn't let the deputy di.-wift attorneys or counsel for the delense run it. He does not sit patiently while lawyers at the trial table quibble and squabble and ask silly questions and in other ways display their cleverness. One small example of his meth ods: 0 Did you on such-and -such a night visit the home of So und So? A. No. 0 On that occasion did you show So-and-So a certain paper? Judge Belt (interrupting) Wit ness has already said he did not visit the home of So and-So. Get on with the case. Judge Belt impresses us as a keen business man who knows law, and tries to get results in the short-1 est possible time consistent with efficiency and justice. We like him. ! If all our judges would follow his I methods, we would get more jus- j tiice for less money. Portland j News. i POLK COUNTY HAS ONE SELECTIVE SERVICE RECRUIT Pallas, Or., Robert Thompson and Charles Plessinger, two Polk county boys, who went to France I last summer with the regular army, j write home that they have already j had a turn in the trenches under j German fire. Both are in the in- j funtry. John Guy, the only man ; sent from Polk county under the i selective service act, arrived in , France a short time ago. Guy reg- ; istered in Seattle, on June 5, but returned to his home in this city a short time afterward. He was ! drawn in the dealt in that city and and the Polk County local Itnard ! was asked to conduct his examin- j ation and induct him into the ser- i vice. He was sent to Camp Lewis,, where he was ar-t.gned to an ehgi- net r regiment anil after a few! weeks of training was sent overseas.; Violin, banjo, and guitar strings at Kr earner's. 4fo Q) Guaranteed by. f anything so think what for peanuts. BIG HARVEST PREDICTED ! THIS YEAR IN VALLEY Albany, Or., Phil Swank, a well known I.nn coiunty farmer, Tues day sold lTt sacks or oats and re ceived a check for $i!)9.1S. Oats are bringing $1 a bushel in the local market. Buyers are also seeking hay, paying from $18 to $20 a ton. A. T. Clark, a local buyer, states that prospects for a wonderful crop of hay and grain were never blighter. Heavy acreage has been planted and all of it looks line. With no mishaps with the weath er, the Willamette valley will enjoy the most bountiful harvest this year that it has ever had. HOP GROWERS ASSOCIATION WILL PROBABLY DISBAND Salem, Or., Prohibition has made the Oregon Hop Growers' associa tion a useless organization, and an announcement was made today that a meeting will be held here Friday, March 29, to dissolve the association. Before that time the books of the association will bo ex pected as required by law. The meeting was called for today, but a quorum was not present. About .'Kill members were here. Msrchant's Wife Advises Independence Women "I had stomach trouble bo bad I could eat nothing but toast, fruit and hot water. Everything else soured an' formed gas. Dieting did no good. 1 was miserable until I tried buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL bene fitted me INSTANTLY." Because Adler-i-ka empties BOTH large and small intestine it relieves ANY CASE constipation, sour stomach or gas and prevents appendicitis. It has QUICK EST action of anything we ever sold. Williams Drug Company. ' IF O U C H WERE ALWAYS U I lis arm he drough, The rock he through; His aim was trough The bead he slough; Twms nothing nough For him to dough, lie sailed the hlough With his Imld crough, And went to wotigh A girl he knouph, Hut she vowed to sough When his love was through, And Iiis point of viougb .Much larger groiigh. Now I guess I in dough To close. Thank you.'h. -I. M. M. W hite Salmon, Wash. Dr 11 E. DtiKanne. dentist, Nation! Bank Building. DAY OF NATIVJY UNKNOWN World Has Only Tradition to Rely Upon at to Dat of the Birth of Chiist The traditional 25th of December as the date of the birth of the Savior hits no historical authority beyond the fourth century, wheu the Clu-istnms festival was Introduced first In Home (A. D 300), on the busi-- of several Ro man festivals (the Saturnalia, SiRil luria, Juveiialta. Brumnlla, or Dies natalis InvlctI Soils), which were held In the lutter part of December, in com memoration of the golden age of lib erty and equality, and In honor of the sun, who in the winter solstice Is, as It were, born anew, and begins his con quering march. The only Indication of the season of Christ's birth Is the fact that the shepherds were watching their flocks in the field at the tini (Luke 11:8), and this fact points to any other season rather than winter, and Is, therefore, not favorable to the traditional date. Besides, the ancient tradition Is of no account here, as It ! varied down to the fourth century. Clement of Alexandria relates that some regarded the 2rth, Pachon (1. e., May 20), others the 24th or 25th, I'har mufhl (April 19 or 20), as the day of Nativity. As to modern research, the only point on which divines generally agree Is that Christ was not born on Christ mas day, while numerous learned au thorities put the birth on almost every date of the yeur. HILL PUZZLE TO GEOLOGISTS Stems Columns on Eminence Near Pa chuca. In Mexico, Out of Keeping With Otrter Formations. A very remarkable geological freak In Mexico Is a mountain sltuuted near Paehuca which presents the appear ance at a distance of being covered with spikes. The sides of the moun tain are closely studded with stone col umns or palisades. These columns are five to twelve feet long and as large round as an average man's body, It Is a remarkable uplift of nature which has the appearance1, howewr, of being the handiwork of human beings. One side of the mountain is almost perpen dicular and the stone columns pro trude from the surface ut right angles, forming an. Impressive picture. Pnchuca Is one of the most noted mining districts In Mexico, and 'It Is said by geologists that this remarka ble spiked mountain' is out of keeping with the remainder of the formation of the mineralized region. The stone Is os hard as flint and has withstood the elements of ages. The spikes form a natural bottlemeut that makes the mountain appear from a distance like an ancient fort. The mines of the Paehuca district are situated not far from this wonderful freak of nature, but the formation encountered In their respective underground workings Is of an entirely different kind from that of the palisade. How Tornado Originates. The tornado of the Western plains Is Identical In formation with the sund whirl. The sun beats fiercely on a lim ited area say ten square miles of bar ren prairie and as a result the air next the earth becomes very hot, perhaps 120 degrees, and tbe mass Is constant ly Increasing In volume. Ahove the wnrm air Is a stratum perhaps 20 de grees colder. By and by a passageway Is mnde, the hot air begins to ascend and the cold upper air, pressing downward, forces the lighter air through a chan nel thus formed. It begins to whirl, It Increases In velocity, a surface cur rent forces It along, and the tornado starts on Its destructive Journey. The terrific cyclone originates In much the same way, only differing In extent. The most violent cyclones or iginate In tropical latitudes, In the At lantic ocean, to the north and east of West Indian Islands and In the Pacific, in the China sea und In. the neighbor hood of the Philippine islands. The reason they are so destructive Is because they are carried such great distances by extraneous Influences. Sheep Has Wooden Leg. Charles Kruuter, living neur liucyrus, ()., hud a lamb get tangled up .In a fence und Injure its leg. The veterin ary told him the leg had to come olT. Krauter did not want to lose the lamb, so minus the leg he nursed It buck to hcultb and then fixed up a peg leg for it. Now tbe lumb has grown to be a deep and still stmnps around oa the wooden leg. Occasionally the wooden member becomes loose und fails off, ind the sheep then hobbles over to a soft spot and waits until some one comes along to fasten the leg on again. The wooden lea; doesn't Interfere with the sheep growing wool, Mr. Kruuter eays, and wool is wool now adays. Proud Record of Marines. As the first battle of the American navy was fought and won by the marines, so, down through the years of the Revolutionary war, we find the marines at the forefront when difficult work was to be done. In fmt there were but few expeditions In whieh they did not figure In more or les strength. Thus IJeutenunt Walling ford of the marines died at the head of his men under John Paul Jones In the batUe between the Hanger and the Drake; and In th classic fight be tween the lion Ilonme Kit-hard undr Paul Jones and the Serapls, marines lost ii) out of 137 -men. the I CULTURE HERE BEFORE 1492 Did America's Pre-Columbian Civiliza tion Come From Egypt? la Now Question, Prof. Elliot Smith developed In nn extraordinarily Interesting manner the thesis' that the pre-Columbian civiliza tions of America or at least many Im portant features in those civilizations were not truly aboriginal, but came In a cultural wave from Asia across the Pacific ocean, the original starting point of the most remarkable charac teristic being Egypt. Professor Smith believes, says Sci ence Progress, that the extremely pe culiar culture of Egypt was spread eastward by mariners, mainly Phoeni cians, for several centuries after B. C. 800. To quote the author's own words, he thinks that "the essential elements of the ancient civilizations of India (the pre-Aryan civilizations), further Iudia, the Malay archipelago, Oceania and America were brought In succes sion to each of these places by mari ners, whose oriental migrations began as trading Intercourse between the eastern Mediterranean and India some time after 800 B. C, and that the highly complex and artificial culture w hich they spread abroad was derived largely from Kgypt (not eurller than the twenty-first dynasty), but also In cluded many Important accretions from other sources, and that after tra versing Asia and Oeeuula and becom ing modified on the way, the stream finally "continued for muny centuries to play upon the Pacific littoral of America, where it was responsible for planting the germs of the remarkable pre-Columbian civilization." WAYS OF KEEPING YOUTHFUL Man Who la Determined Not to Grow Old Really Has Only to "Maka an Effort." 1 see It In my chamtlng: hftlr, I see It In my growing lielr. My growing thirst for enrly news, It la a fact, 1 urn growing old. And so growing old Is Just a case of finding w hat one's looking for, observes the Minneapolis Journal. A man de cides that the time has come for him to be old, and so Instead of bracing up, Ignoring the symptoms and finding some other explanation for the change In the color of his hair, he neglects his dress, walks with a stoop, uses a cane, stops taking exercise, -eats too much, Indulges In reminiscences, retires from business, and In general acquires the f oidish habit of growing old. lie should remember that It Is possi ble to keep a youth 'nl spirit, an active mind, an Interest In current events and a purpose to serve his fellows, and that he who does these things will always be young. The fact that women generally de rllne to contract the old-age hahlt and that some men have also resisted the temptation to fall Into It would seem to Indicate that If those who do yield to It would oidy take the advice of Domhey to his wife, and "make an ef fort," they would learn how foolish and how unnecessary It Is to grow old. Henry Clay's Diplomacy. The following Is on instnnce of Henry Clay's readiness In getting nut of a difficult situation. On one occa sion a vote he had given In congress offended one of his constituents who unhrulded him for It and declnred he would never again support him for congress. Sleeting this constituent on the court green Mr. Clay said to him: "I em sorry you will not again support mo for congress because of a vote I gave on $ certain measure. When your rifle ndsses fire do you throw It BW-Hy?" "No," replied tho constituent, I do not throw It away." "What do you do with It?" asked Mr. Clay. "Why, rick my flint and try It again," re plied the constituent. "Well," said Mr. Clay, "are you going to throw ni away because I have missed fire once? Won't you let me pick my flint and try again? Won't you treat me ns you do your rifle when It misses Ore?" This ready reply satisfied the con stituent and completely won him over, und he was ever after one of Oluy's most faithful supporters In his email-, ducy for congress. Man Has Copied Nature's Work. Marble, In nature, owes Its crystal line structure to volcanic beat. liut Ingenious timn uses heat to counter feit the volcanic rocks. Hy such means, with suitable materluls, he makes bricks nnd crockery, which are arti ficial stones. The processes employed In the manufacture of chlnuwure are merely workshlp Imitations of those used In the hibiirntory of nature. VoIciMilc rock granlt", trap or what not Is the very symbol of Imperisha bility j but the artificial stones (surll as brick and chlnuwure) produced by the fusion of particles under the action of heat are among the most enduring of known substances. For Those Fond of Parrots. The voyage hy steamship Is very hard on parrots, which are stored la the holH, coiniianly In c lose proximity to the engine room. Consequently they are apt to rench their filial destination In a sickly condition. One should be careful to make sure In buying an Af rican parrot thut it Is a healthy bird. There are hundreds of species of pur rots ami the most beuullful of them all are die cockatoos, native exclusive ly of Austrulasla. Tbe giants of the tribe are the American nineuws. Neither the macaw nor the cockutooo I is ordinarily much of a talker, but occasionally specimens are very clever at conversation. WOULD MAKE IT "SOFT" TOR THE STEEL TRUST Senator Jimmio Wadsworth of New York, who is one of those who want to repeal the constitution of the Tinted States nnd sot aside the results of tho last presidential election by placing the presidential powers in tho hands of a committee of "three distinguished citizens" satisfactory to the steel trust-has revealed the real purpose of thewar cabinet bill so that even a child can understand it. Wadsworth placed in the I'.on Ki't'sMtuial llecord a series of strange and wonderful diagrams to demonstrate his idea of how the war department is at present organ i.ed. The draftsman who designed these puzzles perpetrated a geomet rical nightmare intended to denote hopeless confusion. Then Senator Jimmio introduced a diagram to show what he pit) poses to do about it. An cMimhiation of the diagram will show that the "three distin guished citizens," like the "three well known gentlemen" who are the hosts of the Mardi (Iras balls at New Orleans, are to ho Ihe whole works. Kverybody elso w ill he their ollice boys, reporting to them alone. l'eishing, Daniels, linker. Hoover, (iarlield and all the others would have to wait until they pushed the hell buttons on their mahogany desks. i Nothing and nobody could get to the president except thru these "three distinguished citizens." They would ho the whole show in tho big tent and the president wauld he oft under 4he canvas curtains or the side show along with tho freaks. lie would be immured in the White House like the late Ualai l.ama of Thibet or the old "do nothinn kings" of France, who re mained in Iheir palaces knitting with the women folks while the "mayors of the palace" ran the country. The president would lie a mum my, not a man. Payment of his sal ary would be entirely uujuslilled, as I llt Would do nothing to earn it, It would he better to tire him alto gether, send him back to a college class room, and turn tho whole thing over to the "three distin guished citizens." True, the people did not elect tho distinguished three. Hut if they suit tho steel trust why should the people worry? Or ut least so says Senator Jimmy. 1'oitland News. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, . Prank J. C'henxy makes oath that h la innlor partner of the firm of Y. J. Cheney A Co. riding buxlrinai In the City of Toll do. County hiuI Hliito afore said, and thut nnltl Htm will pav the urn of ON10 HUNl'KKl) DoM.AKH for ai-h and every rune of Catarrh thut eunnot be cutim! hy the u of IIAt.lH CATAIUtH Cl'UK. KUANK J. CIIKNKY Sworn to before me anil milurrllmd In my prcipme, this 6th day of tlprrm ber, A. I). 186. A. W. (il.RAHON, Hwi! Notary Public. Mall's Catarrh Cure la taken Intern nlly and sets throtixh tho Wood on the Miiroiia Hurfai-HH of the Syatum. Send for testimonials, free. V. J. CIIKNKY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all liniKKlats, 7Ei Hall's Family Tills for constipation BARB WIRE AND THIS NAME OUGHT TO STOP HUNS ('! e ncral Bonchbrunycvllrb is commanding tho Ilussian army ac cording to tho dispatches today. Thai name reinforced with Home barbed wire entanglements ought to stop General llindoiiburg's lo- KiniiH. Salem t.apital Journal. BLACK ROCK STILL PATRIOTIC GIRL JOINS RED CROSS Patriotism still prevails at lllack Hock. Another member lias been added to the Had Cross; Miss Ilob erts of the Hay household. Illnrk Hoik News in Falls City News. Earning The world today is demand ing of every man the maximum of his earning power. Are you keeping: your earn- I in power up to ard? There's only one way to do this H Eat Pure, Foil We have a reputation for handling nothing but the BEST GROCERIES obtainable. The best is none to good for our customers, and we spare neither expense nor trouble to proenre it. Calbreath WAR REQUIRES STRENGTH AND NOT DEPRIVATION It is the nature of Jack-in-otnce to lord it and there are divers Jacks-in-ollice rattling round now in Washington. They seek char acteristically to magnify their own importance. Thus we have nil sorts of admonitions to he frugal and to that end many restrictive regulations upon our productive in dustries. The cant of the hour dwells upon the alleged virtue of sacrifice. One might fancy that we are u nation of slackers. Again ho might fancy that we are in u slate of seige. We are pouring out billions of dollars. We are organizing to send millions of men, having sent not a few al ready. The real need is expedition. It is easy to talk about sacritlee. Hut there has been no lack of it. Have the mothers at home made no siacritices- brave tho not tearless - in seeing their sons oil to the front? They at least should not he further depressed by the eternal chatter "this is war." None of us, they least of all, are going to for get. Nor should we punish ourselves by voluntary privations. Ours is n ejvnt and fruitful laud. It still Hows with wine, milk and honey. To he strong wo must subsist well surely as well as we ran. The hmne. should not lie made a house of want as well ns a house of woe, when the awful lists of tho killed and wounded begin to come from over the sea. In short, we should lead, as far as possible our normal lives. Work should go on as usual ami likewise play. Jack-in-olllco, as we have seen, would kill the goose that lays tho golden egg by putting business in a straight jacket. He should bo called down w herever ho appears, but especially in the national capital, when1 he wanders ut largo nnd ut will, exploit ing himself and offending his bet ters. Henry Wattersou ' in Louis ville Courier-Journal. SONNIE KNOWS MA IS THERE If you bend down real close you'll SCO There just as plain us pluin can be A little birdie's tracks. Three toes! And how they got there, goodness knows; We've played and played here every day And never left our tracks that way. My father says tho walk wa'n't set lie means by that 'twas new and wet- When that young bird flew down one day And 'most got stuck. Then dewed uwayl And my ma says that I can see I low awful careful I must be When 1 am playing out around To put my feet on solid ground Or I'll get stuck 'most, any day And never, never got awuy. Hut I ain't scared; becuuse, you see She's always looking out for me. Claudius Thayer. Butter Wraps Printed at THIS OFFICE Power the high stand Strength Foods g Jones !