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8 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY FEB. 9, 1912, THE LOCAL NEWS. Violets are in fall bloom, not in pots In the houses but ont under the sky in Oregon's pothouse. FLANNEL SHIRTS. Rood heavy weight, all wool, speoial $1.35 at Fer mann's, Molalla. The Columbia Book & Ladder Co. are arranging for a great time at their annual dance the night of February 22. Just in, a new line of nion's and boy's suits for spring wear at lower prioes than elsewhere. Fermann's store, Molalla. A. E. Stevens of Millwaukie knows the little class ads pay. He wanted a horse, he got his pick. It cost him 60 cents. See them on page 8, and try them for anything from a setting of eggs to selling a much. Miss Kathryn Montgomery enter tatned the Patience Poker Club Mon day evening. ' The prize was won by Miss Helen Daulton. Deilcioos re freshments were served. Present were Misses Cis Pratt, Nan Cochran, Helen and Bess Daulton, Wynne Hanny and Kathryn Montgomery. The srevices to be held Sunday Feb ruary Hth, in the Congregational church have been a nounced by Rev. Edwards, as follows: Morning ser vice at 10:80 o'clock, topic of sermon A" New Life or Immortality Worth While." livening service at 7:80 o'clock, topio of sermon "Christianity of Abrhaham Lincoln. " Policeman Cooke arrested Ledwith Hutson, a ten year old Portland boy, Monday, for breaking into the law of oe of U'Ren & Schuebel, Sunday, and it developed the lad iiad run away from the aid sooicty school in Port land. He climbed over the trausom and secured about $3 in change in the office. lie was taken back to the aid society. The Qypises were entertained Sat urday eveniug by MivB Ainiie Uollack at her home in Portland. A delicious dinner was served, after which the evening was pleasantly spent playing "COO" The pirzes were Won by Miss li .. TT .11.. 1 ir. .,. ...-I..... ucbb n.unj' uuu nirs. unas. unnnn Present were Misses Zida Goldsmith, Veda Williams, Bofs Kelly, Helen Daulton, Bess Daulton, Cis Pratt Marjorie Caufleld, Eniily O'Malley, Mrs. L. A. Morris, Mrs. M. D." La lourecce ana Mrs. unaries Uriillth. Eugene Ward of the Arm of Oox and Ward, cigar store and billiard parlors, Main St., has Bold out his in tereBt to Mr. Oox, and loft the city, Mr. Ward has been in delicate health fur some time, the climate here prov In too moist and heavy for him. The dootor insisted on his speed? removal to a higher altitude and dryer climate Mr. ward is highly estoemed in thi community and his many frionds greatly regret the necessity of his de part are. Memorial Address, Rev. Ford. Rev. T. B. Ford is to deliver the Lincoln memorial address before th local post of the Q. A. R. olllcors and members of the W. R. 0 and the Bona of Veterans next Sunday morn ing at 10:4fl o'clock in the First Methodist Episcopal ohuroh. The of moors Hiid mombors of Uo. (J. of the O. N. O. are invited to attend in Doay, iu uniiorin. There will be re srved seats for all the organizations, Speoial musio will be one ot the fea tnres of the occasion. The citizens of our city owe it to the memory of Abraham Liuoolu and to the old sol diers to make this a great patriotic occasion. Extra chairs will be provided and all available spaoe will bo thrown open to the public Dr. Ford will spouk on Abraham Lincoln, the Great Amer ioan and Citizen of the World." Evening services at 7:80 o'clock Bargains at Molalla. Royal granitewaro, gray matter, gooa grade sauoe pans, long haudlo four qnarts, special at 2()o. Granite coffoe pots, four quarts, 8fto n . - . . . nermann uompany, Molalla b new store. We boy your produce at high est pricos. Cross-Burke Wedding. A very pretty wedding took place Wednesday eveniug when Miss Juliet uross, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. II a. Cross aud Mr. Thos. A. Uurke of Eugeno were uuitod in marriage at tne Home of the bride's parents, in Uladstoiie, by Rev. P. K. Hammond, or Jiugone, formerly pastor of the episcopal church m this ouy. Ihey wore attended by Miss lioorgla Cross as maid of honor aud Mr. btanley P. Young of Vancouver, ii. u., us nose man. Just before the oerouiony Miss uoorgia Cross sang very beautifully "My Heart Is Singing." Lohengrin's wuumug mroii was played by Miss vena wiiiiama, The bride wore a handsome gown ot white ohiffou over satin and a wreath of real orange blnspouu. She carried a snower bouquet of white carnations. The maid of honor wore pink mar quisette over pale blue silk aud car ried pink carnations. The houBo was beautifully dooorated iu uregon Grape and red carnations. iur. uurjte, who is a graduate of me university of Oregon, lias lived iu miih uny nearly ail Her lite and IB considered oue of Oregon Oity'B most unarming youug lames. mr. mime is a prosperous young business man of Kuiioue and is also a graduate or the University of Orogou . Arter a oriel trip, they will make their home In Gladstone, where 11. E. Cross, father of tlu bride, has pre sented them with a beauitful uew bungalow. A Emphatic Reply. Orenon City, Ore , Rt. 4. To the Courier: Allow me to reply to Itho cowardly insinuation of your correspondent from this place iu your last issue. It is unfortunate that be cause of a partial, uutaiimiudud teacher, differences among uhildren occur, iu answering him will say that all but the hoodlums are safe ou any county road, bnt that ou a publio school ground where the large girls and boys, iucludiusr his lU-year-old shining light, do as they please with the little oues. life and limb are very insecure. ROBERT GINTHER Jan. 81, 1012. BOYS' OVERALLS made for wear, double kDee, double seat, only 60o, at Fermann's, MolallH, I The Courier will stand with the man who stands with the people WONDER WMTHETRE AT. RedTAc:,vrJrcial IHA UUI VUII 1 HC&fV III Road distriot No. 13, the Redmond district, voted a speoial ten mill road tax in December, .the chairman of the meeting handed in the report to the county clerk, and the residents thought that settled the matter. Now residents of that district re port that the county clerk has never extended the assessment on the tax roll, that the papers cannot be found at the clerk's oliice, and the taxes are already being oollected, and tiiey wonder where they are at. NEWS OF THE WEEK. complaint which hag been neara from farmers in the vicinity of Klam ath Fulls that they cannot find a mark et for their hogs and that they have Lbeen unable to dispose of their pork ers is met by the Klamath Falls butch ers with the contention that the agri cultural men are trying to hold them up on the price of porkers. It has been announced by President Crooks of the Albany college that the college has a' proposed gift of $12,500 toward the establishment of a memor ial professorship. Five thousand dol lars is pledged without condition and the remainder of the $12,500 1b pledg ed on the condition that $12,500 more is Becured from certain sources. The entire holdings of the California Northeastern railroad, operating be tween Weed, Cal., and Klamath Falls, have been transferred to the Oregon Eastern Railway company, the con sideration named being $5,260,000. The railroad was completed to Klamath tended on from there to Natron and Falls two years ago and is being ex- will ultimately connect with the Des chutes river line running to Lakeview, Alturas and Susanville. In an opinion written by Attornoy General Crawford, It is held that In case a candidate for the primary dec tlon dies or is disqualified the party he is representing cannot choose an other candidate if disqualification or death occurs after the date set for Iho filing declarations and before the primary election. In this event, the opinion holds, the voters must write in the name of a candidate on the ballot to take the place of the one dropping out Brakeman Slashed In Fight. Albany. As the result of a cutting affair. In this city Harry Halkyer, a brakeman, 1b in St. Mary's hospital with a bad gash across his face, and Frank Patton Is under arrest. The cutting was the result of a gambling dispute. Sawmills Resume Operations. Cottage Grove. One by one the lum ber mills in this vicinity are resuming operations after a shutdown of two months. It Ib predicted that every one of tho 31 mills tributary to this city will be in operation within a short time. Mabel Young Warner Held Not Guilty Pendleton. Mabel Young Warner, on trial since Monday on a charge of forgery In connection with the estate of her uncle, J. W. Young, of Waston, was acquitted. QUICK RESULTS. Little Fellows that Everybody Reads, and that Bring Kesulta. j.ry a local iu nils column at one oout a word. It is quick, cheap and will hit the spot. This oolumu rwill hereafter be given a prominent noBi- uon in cue uourier, aud it will be found an effootive moans for qniok results. Real estate men will find it of especial value, aud it is a medium through whioh yoa can soli, bnv. rent. or oxoliango Tor very small price. Flue yoarliug trees, annle. near and encrry, iuo eaoh. Also berry plants. Anuress a. j. walfcer. Milwaukie. Or. LOST A set of falso teeth, ou tho Abornethy road. Address O. A. Hubert. Srpringwater, Route 1. FOR SALE L. O. Smith type writer good as uew. Mav be had for 110 dowu and I per mouth. Call at tiie Courier oliice. FOR SALE CHKAP-Imiiortod Eel- giau Btalliou. Address Uox 41, R. F. u. a, woodburn, Ore. FOR SALE Thoroughbred loosters or tne lol'owing breeds: Rhode Island Hens, White Wjandottes, Black Min- oroas, Ruff Orpingtons Plvuionth Rocks and lirowu Leuhorna. Kolouhofer Rros., Oregon Git v. Route rUH BALK A well matched team or gray Dorses, weight about 1800 lbs. "in. Moehnke, Rt. 4, Oregon City. uome none. FOR SALE No. 1. Star A win Moehnke, Kt. 4, Oregon City. 11UI11H pilOUH, 1UK oALli Now. modern lmnm. low at Seaside, about two blocks from enaiucuin station, near rirer fnr huu. Will sell on easy terms. Wm. Moehnke, Rt. 4, Orouon Citv. H.ihib pnono. SPRAYING.-Get Vour nrriera early aud avoid the rush; gas engine lunui i urm BlUUUUIl, to 1. A. U. Stevens, Gladstone. Notify at Mil waukee, ure., li, U. 1. MARE WANTED About 1800. net m Broom years old ; must be souud ; iu worK eitner single or don hie. A. u. Hteveus, Gladstone, Milwaukie iti,. i. iwn n&Ai rour room house, fur- uisneo, located iu Wlliaiuotte. City jmr mum (l. Apply to J. v . Alderman. See the Courier's display ad for big campaign reading bargains. mm m N0TES of general interest Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Big -Area to be Watered. La Grande. With capital stock $50,000 subscribed and engineers of in the field running the final line for ir rigation ditches to water 10,000 acres of semi-arid lands lying between La Grande and Cove, completion of ar rangements for extensive Irrigation in this valley was reached when the pro-' moters formed the La Grande Irrlga-, tlon company. The company will irrl gate hundreds of acres owned by members of the company and pave , the way for cutting large semi-arid tracts into well watered small farms, i Extensive Wo, I; on County Roads. Eugene. Comprehensive plans for the permanent improvement of Lane county roads were announced by the county court, with the statement that this year's programme called for the construction of seven miles of macad am road in different parts of the county, but all In such places that it will be a component part of the sys tem, Lunatic Leaps Into Fire. Salem. Nora Maellor, an inmate of the asylum from Multnomah county, made an effort to commit suicide when she rushed from a band of pa tients with whom she was walking and hurled herself into a blazing brush pile. She was not burned seri ously, attendants dragging her from the fire. 230-Foot Flagpole is Gift. Astoria. The Astoria Centennial committee has decided to present the management of the Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco with the largest flagpole In the world. The stick is 230 feet long, and was given to the committee by the Whitney company to be erected in the city park at Astoria. Mining Congress Holds Session. Medford. With nearly 300 delegates present, the semi-annual session of the Southern Oregon and Northern California Mining Congress was held in this city Friday and Saturday. The exhibit of ore from this district was the largest and most, comprehensive ever gathered in this section and rep resented nearly 200 mines. TO RECLAIM WASTE LAND Completion of $150,000 Dam Marks Era in Declaiming Vast Tract, Klamath Falls. Water Is now flow ing over the Lost River diversion dam, constructed to reclaim particularly the bed land under Tule Lake, and to send Lost river's pour into the Klam ath river, eight miles distant. The scheme worked was by building a dam which would back the water in the low Lost river until it flowed over the dam into a high-level canal, which would carry it about ten miles distant to the higher level of the Klamath river, thus keeping the water from spreading off toward the Tule Lake country. While the water is being thus di verted Tule Lake will have a chance to evaporate. The water is now going over the dam to the extent of about two inches in depth, or about 200 min er's Inches per second, and the canal dug to curry It is running about a foot deep with water. The reclamation en thusiasts in the Klamath basin are exultant over the completion of the $150,000 dnm, as it is believed to murk an era of development In the work of bettering the land conditions in this section, and Is the start of a solution of making tillable 40,000 acres now waste. Dallas Armory Dedicated. Dallas. Tho National Guard Asso ciation of the state of Oregon held a convention in this city Monday and Tuesday. Monday saw the official dedication of the new armory building and Tuesday evening a military ball was given. Many prominent persons addressed the meeting. has helped countless thousands of thin, weak, delicate children made them strong, plump and robust. It creates an appetite, aids digestion, fills the veins with rich red blood. After illness or loss of weight from any cause, it brings strength and flesh quicker than anything else. all DHuaaiari 11-16 Try the Courie for printing, S3 OLD TIME MIDDIES They Were Tots of Schoolboys, Some Not In Their Teens. TOO YOUNG TO WEAR SWORDS So the Midgets Were Armed With Dirk Knivea Instead They Were Fighters, Though, Sarragut and Porter Being In Battles t the Age of Twelve. Something more than a hundred years ago the midshipman was, Indeed, the "mldshlpmite" that he was popularly called, for be was but a mite of a lad, usually receiving his appointment be- fore he reached bis teens. Admirals Farragut and Porter were midshipmen, afloat and in pitched buttles, nt twelve years of age, and Goldsborough was appointed when only seven years old. Nowadays, however, the midshipman Is quite a different person. He cannot enter the Naval academy under fifteen and is therefore when on a regular cruising ship after completing his four years' academic course usually n well developed man, physically mature and athletic and with a trained mind. He is far better equipped mentulfy than the lieutenants and many of the cap tains of even seventy years ago. The old time middies were mere schoolboys. All the warships of any size carried in their regular comple ments a schoolmaster, whose duty it wus to give the lads as liberal an edu cation as possible in the odd periods between strictly professional duties. This rating of schoolmaster was abol ished, in fact, only nbout twenty years ago, but after the establishment of the Naval academy, in 1841, these officials devoted their energies to the sailor up' prentices only, the enlisted boys of the forecastle. Even these now obtain their education on shore. There is a tradition that the three brass buttons the midshipman wears on the sleeve of his full dress coat dur ing his four years at Annapolis origi nated a century or more ago, when their presence was needed to discour age the youngsters from brushing their noses with their sleeves. This is prob ably a base slander, modern research indicating that the buttons are relics of the days when there was a cuff flap on the sleeve. At all events the extreme youth of the mldshlpmite used to be his most conspicuous characteristic. Insteud of the full sized regulation officer's sword that bo now carries, he wore a little straight bluded dirk about a foot long, lie was to n largo extent a messenger for carrying orders about the ship, but he also took charge of boats and com manded men despite his youth. lie wus frequently placed in charge of a prize captured in war. taking her into port, and not Infrequently suppressing mutinies among the prisoners on board. Farragut was a prize master at twelve and got his prize safely in. The title "midshipman" is an ancient one. He Is above the seamen and the petty officers forward and below the commissioned officers iu the wardroom aft; hence "midshipman." There was formerly a higher grndo culled passed midshipman, but this was abolished be fore the war between the stutes. Then tho grade was restored, but called mid shipman, the former midshipman be ing designated as a cadet midshipman. In 1882 the title of the latter was changed to naval cadet, which it still remains, and the midshipmen, were merged with the ensigns. Accordingly the time honored title of midshipman no longer exists officially in the United States navy. While officially a naval cadet, that young officer Is still regarded and often referred to verbally as n midshipman, for he Is the same crenture as of old as far as his duties go. But by the side of his earlier prototype the twentieth century "middy" is a savant. Trigo nometry was about ns high up In math ematlcs ns the old timer ever went. The twentieth century lad goes far be yond. He goes through analytical ge ometry of three dimensions, differential nnd Integral calculus, applied median ics. Gunnery a hundred years ago was little more than loading, aiming and firing at short ranges. It now Involves metallurgy, theory of the combustion of powder gases, stress and strain, me chanloal engineering, manufacture nnd preservation of complex explosives and other abstruse subjects, in all of which the midshipman of the present day must bo proficient. Midshipmen were conspicuous in ail our early wars, notably those with the Rnrbary States, with the West Indian pirates and with the British in 1812. They were equally conspicuous during our conflicts with the Spnulsh and Fili pinos. Midshipmen, naval cadets, had charge of the extremely hazardous picket duty in the Santiago blockade, close under the Spanish batteries and often under musketry fire from shore. Cadet Powell ran his opeu launch right Into the harbor of Santiago after the Merrlmac, remained nil night under the menacing puns of the luner batteries and steamed out again under their fire In the morning. New York Press. Blood and Fire. A French editor, anxious for sensa tions, came into his office and asked his deputy what had happened. "Noth ing," he was told, "except that a man's nose bad been bleeding in the riuce do la Concorde and a chimney Is on (Ire in Montmartre." "Euougb," snld the other and wrote the placard "Blood and Fire in Paris!" Hurry nnd cunning are the two ap prentices of dispatch and skill, but neither of them ever learns his maa Uvs' trade. -Coltoa. 1 1-4 ACRES 8-Room House; Darn, Chicken House; Wood Shed; all kinds of Fruit, Well and City Water; street, improvements and sewer paid. Only $2300, half cash. CLYDE tt SURF US I Oth and Main Oregon City Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc.. are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bi iters is cleansing blood tonio. - Makei yoa clear-eyed, clear-brained, ietkea ned. RECKLESS SPORT. Rock Rolling Feats of Mark Twain In His Boyhood Days. A BAD SCARE ENDED THE FUN The Final Prank on Holliday'a Hill Was In l Fair Way of Ending In Tragedy Whan the Danger Was, by a Bit of Good Luck, Narrowly Averted, Writing on "Mark Twain" In Har per's Magazine, Albert Itlgelow Falne recounts some of -the scrapes of the youthful Sain Clemens. Sam was recognized ringleader amoug his play mates, and one of the pranks they played nearly had a fatal termination. "One of their Sunday pastimes was to climb Holllday's hill and roll down big stones to frighten the people who were driving to church. Holllday's hill above the road was steep. A stone, once started, would go plunging aud leaping down and bound across the road with the deadly swiftness of twelve inch shell. The boys would get stone poised, then wuit until they saw a team approaching aud, calcu latlng the distance, would give it c start. Dropping down behind the bush es, they would watch the dramatic ef fect upon the churchgoers as the great missile shot across the road a few yards before them. This was Homeric sport, but they carried it too far. Stones that bad a habit of getting loose so numerously on Sundays and so rarely on other days Invited suspicion, and the 'pat- terollers' river patrol, a kind of police of those days were put on the watch. So the boys found other diversions un til the palterollers did not watch any more. Then they planned a grand coup that should eclipse anything be fore attempted in the stone rolling line. A rock about the size of an omnibus was lying up there in a good position to go downhill, once started. They de cided It would be u glorious thing to see that great bowlder go smashing down a. hundred yards or so in front of some unsuspecting and peacefuf minded churchgoer. Quarrymen were getting out rock not far away and left their picks and shovels over Sundays. The boys borrowed these and went to work to undermine the big stone. It wus a heavier Job than they had count ed on, but they worked faithfully Sun day after Sunday. If their parent a bad wanted them to work like that they would have though! they were be ing killed. "Finally oue Sunday while they were digging It suddenly got loose nnd start ed down. They were not quite reudy for 't Nobody was coming but an old colored man in a curt, so it was going to be wasted. It was not quite wast ed, however. They had planned for a thrilling result, aud there wus thrill enough while it lasted. In the first place, the stone nearly caught Will Bowen when it started. John Briggs had just that moment quit digging and houded Will the pick. Will was about to step luto the excavation when Sam Clemeus, who wns already there, leaped out with a yell: " 'Look out, boys; she's coming!" "She came. The huge stone kept to the ground at first, then, gathering a wild momentum, it went bounding into the nir. About bolfway down the hill it struck a tree several Inches thick and cut it clean off. This turned its course a little, and the negro in the cart, who beurd the noise, saw it come crashing in his direction and made a wild effort to whip up his horse. It was also headed toward a cooper shop across the road. "Tho boys watched It with growing Interest. It made longer leaps with every bound, and whenever It -struck the fragments uud dust would fly. They were certain it would demolish the uegro aud destroy the cooper shop. The shop was empty, it being Sunday, but the rest of the catastrophe would Invito close investigation 'and results. It was making mighty leaps now, and the negro bud managed to get directly in Its path. They stood holding their breath, their mouths opeu. "Then suddenly they could hardly believe their eyes the bowlder struck a projection a distance above the road and, with a mighty bound, sailed clear over the negro uud his mule nnd land ed in the soft dirt beyond, only a frag ment striking the shop, damaging but uot wrecking it Hulf buried In the ground, that bowlder lay there for nearly forty years. Then It was blast ed for milling purposes. It was the last rock the boys ever rolled down. They began to suspect that the sport was uot altogether safe. "Limelight and the center of the stage was a passion of Sam Clemeus' boyhood, a love of the spectacular that uever wholly died. It seems almost a pity that iu those old furoff, barefoot days he co ' not have looked down the years to a time when, with the tvorld at his feet, venerable Oxford ihould clothe him In a scarlet gown." Her Resentment. Alice It's mean of you to tell people that when Jack kissed me I didn't re sent It. Maud-I didu't, dear. On tbe contrary, I said thot when he kissed you on the cheek you held it up against him for quite awhile.-Boston 'Iran- script Our Language. ' 'Now you know you're all wrong about that" 'Oh, yes; If you say so, I reckou I'm all wrong, all righf-Chlcago Tribune. Watch the begiuuings. (Ireat floods have rome through little leaks. Send For This Seed Annual-Free Ulri wA tHted t of pmity and tmninitk. No Mk tre packed ty M urdrfti thcat two oualitiefihow tttttrrrhifKrtt uiud. Owhtlbr equipped Ubetatoiy nadet the dimttc el a aciearl and caperl etrd teeter temovee ail fueav work. W ban burins Lilhr'lienksrou i iDaeaard ctopa. Seed fat cabloe. TheCWH.lJlrCoSeenle Ill .Si m "FIGHTING BOB" EVANS. Hi Meeting With His Confederate Brother and the Result. Tradition has tt that ufter young Robley D. Evans went to Annapolis he wasn't long iu showing bis mettle. The story of his first assertion of his personality runs after this fashion: When he left for the Naval academy his mother gave him a framed copy of the Lord's Frayer and Instructed hlra to hang It over his bed. He complied, notwithstanding the fact that the rules of the academy forbade the placing of decorations In the rooms. An Inspec tor remonstrated with him and ordered him to remove the pruyer. Evans swore that he would smash the face of the first man who touched it. The In spector referred the act of insubordi nation to the commandant, who took It up with the secretary of the navy. Evans wrote home about the episode. It got into the papers. An Indignation meeting was held In his borne town and a protest made to the president. In the end a special dispensation was granted, allowing the cadet to keep his "decoration." Being a Virginian, young Evans was urged by his mother to throw in his lot with the south when the civil war come. This he declined to do, so it fell out that he and his brother fought on opposite Bides during the civil war. On oue occasion Robley Evans entered a restaurant In Washington and ob served his brother eating. "An exchange of glances between us was quite enough," said Evans after ward. "Not a word was spoken by either of us. He paid bis bill and has tily left the plnce, knowing very well that I would report his presence in th city. I ordered more oysters than I wanted and took plenty of time to eat them. He hud come across the Toto mac in a skiff, I was joio. and had tied it to an old sycamore tree near the spot where we used to swim. I want ed to give him a brotherly chance to get back to Virginia soil. He gained his boat and escaped, though a soldier fired at him in the darkness. On leav ing the restaurant I met an officer of the provost guard and informed him that there was a Confederate soldier in Washington. " 'How do you know?' he asked. " 'That,' I replied, 'is none of your business.' 'I was arrested and taken to the provost marshal, who, on bearing my story, let me go." Chicago Record-Herald. Germs Spread in Skin Eczema, Psoriasis and other skin troubles are caused by myriads of germs at work In the skin. Unless these germs are promptly destroyed they rapidly multiply, gnawing their way deep into the sensitive tissue. This Is what causes that awful itch, and what seemed a mere rash may grow worse and develop Into a loathsome and torturing skin disease With its years of misery. Don't take any chances! Destroy the germs at the beginning of the trouble with that soothing and cleansing wash, the D. D. D. Prescription for Eczema. A 25c bottle will prove this to you. Jones Drug Co., Oregon City. D. C. LATOURETTE, Presided THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of OREGON CITY, OREGON (Successor to Commercial Bank) Transacts a General Banking Business The Courier's Ad. For the benefit of particular, and for the Courier's bene fit on the side, we offer to Clackamas County, or any other old county, the following big combination bargains FOR THE CAMPAIGN OF 1912 The Oregonian, Daily, and Courier The Regular Pi ice of the The Journal. Daily, and Courier, both Weekly Oregonian and Courier, both Semi-Weekly Journal and Courier, both Bryan's Commoner a a and Courier tlU JSTThis offer holds good during February Read Both Sides. Keep Informed OREGON CITY COURIER SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT BATTLE OF THE KEGS. A Bloodless Naval Conflict of the Rev olutionary War. All wars have their humors and Jokes, and the Revolutionary war was no exception. Jan. 5, 1777, figures in history as the date of the battle of the kegs, and, though bloodless, it has been celebrated In verse. Six months after the Declaration of Independence, while the British fleet was stationed at Phil adelphia, the Americans undertook to destroy the ships by means of Impro vised torpedoes, which, set afloat in the river above the city, were to carry death and destruction among the en emy. The alleged torpedoes were shaped like kegs, and when the British land forces discovered them floating down the river they were drawn up and or dered to fire on everything that came within range. The officers remembered the Trojan horse and feared every keg might contain an armed rebel. As the kegs came floating down there was great excitement and much firing, but no casualties. The only explosions were from the British guns, for the torpedoes were a failure. The Incident furnished much amuse ment to the patriots and was cleverly versified by. Francis Hopkinson, a prominent lawyer of the day, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- ' pendente and the first district Judge of Pennsylvania by appointment of Washington. He was one of the most popular writers of the day, and "The Battle of the Kegs" had a great run among the patriots and distinct influ ence In the way of military Inspiration. Francis Hopkinson was the futher of Joseph Hopkinson, author of "Hall Co lumbia." Indianapolis News. The Boy. A writer in the Biblical World, speaking of "The Minister and the Boy," says: "To behold In the boy a rough summary of the past and to be able to capitalize for good the suc cessive instincts as they emerge is to accomplish a fine piece of missionary work without leaving home. The fire worshiper, the fierce tribesman, tbe savage hunter, the religion making nomad, the daring pirate, the elemental fighter with nature and rival of every kind, the master of tbe world in mak ing, comes before you In the unfolding life of the ordinary boy. He Is an abridged volume ou ethnology." The little class ads' on page eight do the business. We have had experience with many remedies for skin trouble but have never seen such remarkable cures as those from D. D. D. Prescription. In stant relief from the very first appli cation. We are so confident that D. D. D. will reach your case that tt will cost you nothing if the very first full size bottle fails to make good every claim. If you have skin trouble of any kind, we certainly advise you to drop In and investigate the merits of D. D. D. anyway. We know that D. D. D. will help you. F. J. MEYER, Caih Open from 9 a. m. to 3 p.m Courier Readers in $6.00 Cregonian is $6.00 5.40 2.00 200