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t h e st AYTON mail ART VS. BRICKS IN SYDNEY, TURK A P e c u lia r C o n tro v e rsy in A u it r a li« T h a t la A g it a t in g L a b o r Chas. S. Clark. Ld itor a n d Proprietor Circle«. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year in Advance Advertising Rates Made Known Upon Application Foreign Advertising Represented by Tbe American Tress Association Entered as second class matter at the post office at Stay ton. Marion County. Oregon, under the Act of Conuress ot March 3, 1 S i 9. Address all Communications to The Stay ton Mail TO THE PUBLIC ' oil undoubtedly noticed in last week s Mail that wo have purvimsed the plant, business and pood \v ill of “ The Slayton Mail. Such is the case and this week we are at the helm. W e are not a stranger to the citizens and country folk of this neck of the woods having been connected with the Mai! for about a year when it was owned by E. M Olmsted. W e are going to devote all our time to the work and will strive at all times to give the readers a live local paper. To do this we must get tlie news happenings of the town and vicinity. This we are going to try to do, and to get all the news we will have to have some help from our citizens. When you know of a news item tell it to us. phone it to us or write it in your own way and mail it to us. W e will see that it gets into the paper in a readable way. To the Red Cross and other war work societies we say: That the “ M a il" columns are open to you and we invite you to use them as much as you want to for the calling of meetings or otherwise in helping you to carry on your noble work. To our old friends we say that the latch string hangs out and we will be glad to meet and greet you in the same old way. W e trust that our efforts will meet with the approval of the citizens of Staytou and that they will co-operate in helping us to CHAS. S. CLARK. fulfill our promise. Here lx n curious point of law 01 •'»ale praacnttsl in the Sydney (N. S W .) B u lle tin . The niiixlctaux' unlor o f Sydney charge* the Melbourne eight hour«' procession with something ilk, scabbing because II ilecliled that union l«t*. even If they don't belong to tin i organization. may play Ir It* own rank* on the annual gala da) There nre argument« on both aides It seems hard (hat a union hrlcklayci shouldn't he allowed to blow Ida own cornet In his own demonstration on a holiday, yet If he found a professional < »rnet ’ dayer laying brick* on h Good Friday he micht object. Of course tin man In the proeesslon Isn't playing foi lore, hut then It wouldn’t luiprovt things much If the «»m et-player laid bricks gratis. The bricklayer might argue thui there are u certain number of brick* that must he laid, so the cornet- player would ho doing another man out o f a Job, while there Isn't uny fl\ed amount o f music that must be blown, so an amateur might blow a sample or two without depriving any other man of a crust. And the brick layer probably says that the cornet- player couldn't hie bricks decently It he tried, to which the eornet-player possibly replies that the bricklayer can't make music. To some extent It Is a struggle be tween art and mutwrinltsm. Music properly pi ay »si Is capable of arousing the hlght'st and noblest emotions of which the soul Is capable; a brick, even If properly laid. Isn’t. And soul Isn’t a thing to be lightly despised. Tat here the tnnglble humps ugnlnst the Intangible. Nobody has seen a si til. vh lle almost everybody has seen a brick. TD RECLAIM DISABLED v.'ar Is T e a c h in g a G re a t L e sso n a s to P o s s ib ilitie s in T h is Im p o r ta n t F ie ld. WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME. just as he is without one plea. Mr. Taft lately contributed a valuable suggestion to the W a r department. In his suggestion he said: " I t would he entirely practicable to place 300,000 American soldiers by rail and water at nil Alaskan port, hut a few days sail from Vladivostok If the age limit for military service were extended to 45 years it is safe to » suite that more than the number needed would volunteer in a few weeks. At Vladivostok they might he joined by an equal or a greater number of trained Japanese soldiers. This immense force could speedily reconstruct the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They would he fully equipped with munitions and provisions and, in connection with the loyal Russians, would soon smash the BoIshevik-iJerinan compact and give Germany something important to do on her eastern front. The war news of the past week has been about all some of our citizens could stand— and keep on the ground floor. They were so pleased with the way our boys have been chasing the Hun, and running them into correls that according to their way of thinking the war is about over. Not yet, boys— hut soon. P ig e o n s B ro k e U p a M o nop oly. One of the queer things about the nutmeg Is the romuntlc way In which nature thwarted the Dutch attempt to establish a complete monopoly of the spice. They own the Banda Islands, where most o f the nutmeg trees grow, and at one time they wunted to pre- vent everyone else from raising the spice. So to keep up prices and to Induce other planters on other islands to ent down their plantations the Dutch at one time burned thr«»e piles of nutmegs, each o f them said to have been as big as an average church. They Induced other planters to Join with them and It soon sceined as though they were killing all competi tion. Then nature took a hand In the game. A large pigeon o f the Islands, which was extremely fond of inace, carried the seeds to all the surround ing lands, even to the mainland of Asia. Nutmeg trees begun to grow wild In numerous places and all danger o f a monopoly was removed.— Boston lV sL T w o M istra n sla tio n s. STORES IN ONE Groceries, Dry Goods, Drugs, Hardware, Lubricating Oils We Handle Everything the Farmer Needs. If we Haven’t got What you want we will get it for you. IGHT IGHT IGHT iGHT GOODS PR ICE S SERVICE SETTLEM ENT Ì DITTER, BELL & CO. SUSLIM SUBSCRIBE NOW AND SAVE 59 GENTS I WITH FISTS' of a G a llip o li ‘‘S c r a p ” Sp e ak « W o ll fo r tbo “ U n- epeakable.” Thousands of men have chewed Real Gravely Chewing Plug for twenty-five years and more. And every time they have tried soma other brand it made them think more of Gravely than ever. The. There Is a till«» of Uiilllpoll that deals with a fight In the up»-h anil ex hlhlls the ••mi-|>eukiibh»M Turk ns a fair and worthy enemy. This Is the atory A «young English officer, doin'* ob servation work alone, was suddenly confronted by ii Turkish oillcer, sled Inrly oic'uiTvd. The Turk w »* us sur prised as Ihe Briton, hut came forwent revolver lu hand. Ttie U.ngll hinrtn had no revolver*, lie stood Ids gtound. his hands In the lnrg«> | »elects o f In* * Payton Brand I* Real Gravely Chewing Plug % tunic. Seeing licit Ids adversary was un armed. the '1 urk. much to the surprise of tie- Briton, throw down Ids gnu and put un his lists In nnprovisl prise ring style. The English man put himself on guard, uud th<» to xt moment fhe Turk fu n" hit's,*|f on him. and the pair began to fight de*;> -rutcly. T h » men were about th» same ago, the same weight and had adequate knowledge of the art of tmxlnff. They fought without stopping for about l»ui minutes. By that time each was cx- hnushMl. and then paused for a brief rest, only to continue th*»lr little (frlvata accounting when they had fhund their hr»‘ath. Hound after round the fight w«»nt on. while out In the Gulf of Snros Ihe ships fired automatically, and buck of ,*noh of them the field artillery thundered. Neither «»»emi-d to he able to get any decisive advsntng»» over the other, and at last Turk and English man rollcl over on the ground and laughed and laughed. Just then the Englishman's hand touched something. It was the Turk's pistol. He plcki'd It up and handed It to his enemy. Then the two young men shook hands and each returned to his own lines. To the Spectator thanks are due for two enterprising mistranslations, one belonging to the genus schoolboy how l er, uud the other resulting from un uttempt at French on the part of a iness sergeant. The menu one day announced “ Im becile rotl” as the piece dfc resistance, the riddle being solved by the appear- nnce o f roast goose. It Is Just possible that the sergeant nourished some re sentment against that particular goose, but I t , was generally thought that the Imbecile rotl had resulted from a half hour or so spent with a French-Kngllsn dictionary. The schoolboy added to the hilarity of nations by rendering the Horatlaa line; ‘Tost equitem sedet ntrn <’iir:." as: " A ft e r horse exercise the black lady sits down with care.”—Christian Science Monitor. Abhorred Red Tape. "A swollen organization always means Inefficient administration,” says the air minister, as he surveys the j oiT which he has taken over. I low did Napoleon manage his clerical staff one wonders. According to Welling ton there were 12,000 clerks in the Fr< nch war office. Normally wo had CO clerks with the war secretary, 40 In the ordnance, and about 50 at the horse guards. “ These 150 do the work of the French, yet the French clerks begin to write at six In the morning, and ours go down nt ten or eleven.” Of course the size of ilm urrab-B differed also.—London Chroni c le 20c u pouch — a n d worth, ii G r a v a ly lu s ts s o m u c ltlo n is r il costé n o m o t s t o c f t s u n H a n o r d in a r y p lu g P. C. G r s v . ly T o b a c c o C o e ip sn y D a n ville , V i r g h i « m fe Be Ready For An Opportunity O n » often heart, " I f I only had a little money / could make a fortune. ” MEN The reclamation of the energies of all the disabled o f the nation may be taught by the exigencies of war. a c cording to MaJ. Harry E. Mock. U. K. C„ who In addressing the National Uncle -Toe Cannon, in a recent speech in congress, said: “ W e League o f American Pen Women, ought not to forget that when the hoys come home at the close of said : “ There are In the United States the war, at a time when 1 will he wearing an asbestos halo, they will 600,000 persons who have been dis take possession and direction, ami worthily so, ot the at fairs ot go\ ci U*d In Industries— probably more ernruent. Because they will have the rare experience and taie than the total number o f soldiers who will he disabled through this war— patriotism that will come from their service. yet neither government nor Industry Not so Uncle Joe. you will not have to get measured for a halo has hitherto made thorough effort to for a long time after the war, no matter how long it lasts. And even reclaim their energy. That Is a great lesson this war has taught ns. and if you do have to have a halo it will not he an a best os one. It when we have won it we shall find should he one that will go with a harp. By that time the Huns will that, through deaths, a cessation of immigration, and other causes, we have a corner on all the asbestos, which they rightly deserve. shall face a great shortage In the la Kaiser Bill, the Brute, with his 957 different varieties of uni bor market. We shall then turn our forms alone will have the corner on all the asbestos, if that Uott of attention to the reclamation of all the disabled and thus our country will his who reigns over the resort does not go in for a little fight fulness profit by the lalmr of all her sous and sport and just for the humor of the thing turn his old pal Bill loose daughters.” 5 S to ry FIGHTS WORK OF OLD MEN IN WAR Why not be ready when op portunity knocks at your door ? G e n iu se s W h o D id N o t “L a g S u p e r flu ou s on the S ta g e ” D u r in g t h s P re se n t C o n fllc L Plan to place in the bank a certain percentage o f your sal ary or business profits. “ Old men for counsel." Is the saying; "young men for war.” But this war rather falsifies the »»Id adage. At sev- j enty-seven Clemenceau o f France re- mains so energetic that he still d»*- serves his cognomen o f the "tiger." Joffre was an old man.when he won th»- Imttle of th*- Marne.* Llovd George Is not exnctly young. Woodrow W il son Is past sixty. But none o f th»on seem* to require the Osier method <»f being chloroformed out o f existence, says the Xpokune Sp»>' -xman U»*vl*-w. These veterans do not "lag superfluous on the stage." Cato h-nrin-d Greek at eighty. Chaucer composed hi* “ Can terbury Tales” lit sixty. Goethe tolled to tin* end and his "Fnnst" was not completed till he had overlived »-Ighfy. .Simonides won a prize for poetry and Sophocles wrote “ <)»»dlpus" when ench had pussed fourscore. Theophrastus outdid them all. for he was ninety when he commenced his “ Characters of Men." Then when the main chance comes along you’ll be ready for it. Banking in every form. STAYTON STATE BANK S p y 8 y ste m O r ig in a te d by Ita lia n . Secret service organization* and spy systems, as well us detective bu- reaus as part o f municipal police forces, were originated by the Mar quis D'Argenson, a native of Venice who went to France In 1037 and be came head o f the police department. D'Argenson first achieved fume a s a state secret agent lo Venire. In Paris he organized a municipal secret agency that would now be called a de tective bureau. A fter he had trans formed tbe Purls (silice force from a disorderly band Into a highly efficient body of gendarmes, he turned bis at tention to international affairs and In augurated u system o f espionage In foreign nations likely to be at war with France. Carl Stlcher organized the Prussian ap.v system on the model furnished by D'Argenson’« force and sent thousands o f men into Austria and France be fore the wurs ugulnst those countries. Farmers & Merchants Bank of Stayton, Oregon # Capital $25,000.00 O f C ou rse. A young author said to William,Deun Howells at a reception In the latter’s honor In Miami: “ That was Astorhllt who Just usk'-d you for your autograph, sir. You don't seem much Impressed.” “ I can never understand,” said Mr. Howells, “ why people should he Im pressed by millionaires. My own ex perience has been that whenever you lunch with them they always let you pay.” The young author laughed gaily. “ That, o f course. Is how they become millionaires, Isn't It?” he suld. Up In the A ir . 4- •> 4» « ♦ 4» ♦ 4* 4» O 4- ♦ 4» ■> I * Corporal (name deleted by censor) Is Ihe champion optimist In the (de ♦ leted by censor) regiment. On his first 4* 4 visit to Paris an nlr raid was In prog- 4- rtsx, nnd a.« In- observed the Parisians, •> all Intent on tin- Tuub'-s, he said to ♦ his companion ; 1 O "Th ere'« one fine thing about this ft nlr stuff." I 4* “ And that is— ?” 4* “ It keeps you looking up." “ (Reply deleted by censor.)” — Car ' 4 f. toons Magazine. I I* Cleaning the Money. <• A “ money laundry" Is to be Installed * In the Minneapolis federal reserve ♦ bank as a pnrt o f the conservation ♦ policy of the Hines. From $11,000,000 I * to ’$10,000,000 In torn and dirty federal reserve hank not»-s 1« now chopped up annually and reissue,!. It Is proposed to save a lar—» proportion of tils re issue by th-- ib inlcnl cleaning pr ices* •li.it will be Installed. 14 * s : ¡: •> '• •> <■ v 4- •> oo o o o o o o 4* •> o 4* 4» •> 4 44 ♦ ♦ *> A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE . * o * o e We carry a large line of dry goods, shoes, notions, gents’ furnishings, hats, caps and rubber goods, etc. 4- ❖ 4 ♦ OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT * ■> e •> •> has a large line of fancy and staple groceries, canned goods, smoked meats. In fact ev erything you will find in a first-class Merchandise store is to be found here at prices that are right. ♦ « •> 4» ❖ •> •> * 4 •> 4» 4 ■> «> ♦ « ♦ 4* ♦ A ♦ ♦ GEHLEN’S STORE *•4 4 % ♦ ♦ • < ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * * * « * «444 4 4 4 * * 4 4 4 4 4 4 V 4 4 - •