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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1912 A MAN'S DIARY FRGN DODGE, CONTENTMENT HOME The Diary of a Man Who Tried a Week of Housekeeping. "You See" in Charge Monday Morning. 7 a. m. I am glad you suggested my Keeping a diary and selling you a copy of it each day for I am , sure you will feel more content ea ana will enjoy your visit rnucn better to know how smooth things are runing and how well 1 am get ting along with the cooking and the care of the pets. I know you feel a litle nervous about leaving them with me, but when you read from my diary each day how de voted I am to them and the kitch en work, I know you will be at perfect ease. 1 know you would lot have one of them hurt or ab used for anything in the world ind when you see how kind I am to them you will be sorry you did not leave the baby witti me wnicn would have relieved you a great deal. Now I do not waul you to give yourself one moments trou ble about my being able to do the cooking for the men and Bobby or the kind care I will give Friskey and your Angora cat, dickey bird and biddy. Friskey and Anga are laying cuddled np by the stove together on the little bed you made for tliem sound asleen. I do not think they have missed you yet so contented and happy they seem to he, and lor uicKy bird I guess ho thinks you are somewhere listening to the song he is singing for it is sure one of melody and love and his voice seems sweeter to me than ever before. And Biddy, that litle pet hen ot yours is picking at tne kitchen door. I guess she wants to say "good morning" to you. 1 will go and give her a few crumbs out of my hand and see how she will take to me. And your jellies and jams I will be just as carelul of them as I can and will use your China dishes at all unles I have to So now don't wory one bit and try to enjoy every minute ol your visit so you will be refreshed and more, hopeful when yon come home. If you should feel the least bit worried aoout anytning write to me and not to BoDDy about it as he seems a little shy and nervous to have you gone anyway. You asked me beTore you left if I thought I could do. the work well you just wait and see. 1 do not think there, is much to do as you were never in a hurry and as I will have no sewing or washing to do it seems funny I can't you just watch my diary and as for the pets bless their kind, cule hearts but my I it is 10 minutes to 12 and I haven't picked up the breakfast dishes yetl By-by. Monday,2:30 p. m. Just got through dinner. It was a little late and that pudding you told me how to make I forgot it so gave them a quart of your huckleberry jam and they seemed to like it al right, maybe better than they would the pudding. I had to get out some of your China dishes as there was not enough without them as it would have made din ner late if I had wailed to wash the breakfast dishesbefore setting the table. The hired men did not seem to mind it much while they were waiting for dinner, but Bob said it would cut into the day's work quite a little but he was always a little unreasonable. Friskey will not let that pat eat with him so he had to go without his dinner for I am not going to set two tables for cats and dogs. Dick seems kind of stupid, but I have not fed and watered him yet; maybe that is the reason don't wpry one bit. Your Husband Until Tomorrow Home, 8:45 a. m. The men are just gone out from breakfast and I anvnot sorry they are gone, either. That Bill thinks he is aw ful smart. I forgot to mix the hot cake batter last night and he said they were about the flattest flap jacks he ever saw. They did not look any flatter to me than any other pancakes do, but they seemed a little heavy somehow, and I guess I did not get qttile enough saleratus in the porrige to make it raise good, but the cat and the dog will have all they can eat for once, if I get time to feed them. They had quite a row last night, and I had to put the dog out of doors. That bloomin' bird seems a lit tle dumpy and don't seem to have any tune to his song, tho' per haps he thinks I do not know what music is. I will show him. There is something on fire in the kitchen and I must go. Ranch, Friday at 11 p. m. I have not had time to write a word since Tuesday. The fire did not do much damage, a few old towels and a table cloth or two and one of the cupboard doors, my eyebrows and most- of my hair (but I don't suppose you will mind that. I saved all your pets and now I think I can easily eaten up. Don't worry. "- You know I told you I forgot to mix the hot cake batter the first night. Well the next night I mixed the jar chock full. Some time in the night I heard that in fernal cat prowling around, and I got up to see what had happened. I am sorry, but he knocked that fine lamp you got for an Xmas present off the table and broke the chimney and globe. I am sorry I had to use it, but I forgot to fill the reading lamp .But I kicked the cat across the room and she got away. If a cat has really got nine lives she may come to, don't wor ry.. But what I was going to tell you about was that stuff in the yeast, for it ran out and all over the floor, and before I got back in bed I had half of it with me be tween the sheets, for it worked up through my toes and , everywhere else it could find lodgement. It seemed to be stuck on me, and followed me all over the house. Write me how to get it off the brussels carpet before it dries on. Had to use two more quarts of huckleberry jam for supper, as there were a few things I forgot to cook. Broke four of your china cups but only two of the saucers after that infernal cat on the table. That bird has not sung a note today. He may be sick, but I think he is lonesome, and it may be that he is hungry, for I have been so busy I forgot to feed him yesterday and the day before. He can stuff now, for I just fed him. I am going to lire that cat . and go to bed. Purgatory, 10:30 a. m. Do you intend to stay forever? Hot breakfast this morning, but no body came to eat it. If they think they think they can spite me they are on. Just knocked mat .dog gone hen off the back porch with "God Bless our Home. Don't know whether I killed her or not, but she seemed a little dazed when it struck her. "God Bless our Home" is a wreck anyway, as it .glanced off the hea and knocked your live gallon pickle jar into kingdom come. . -That cur of yours, i guess he had the hydronhohia, at least gave him the remedy they use for it, for I drowned him in a tub of water, and it seemed to do him. good. 1 wish he had been 12 dogs so 1 could have drowned him 12 times. That cat you left here 1 guess will get away unless 1 snoot it for 1 cannot get near it any more. Poor Dick was dead when 1 got up this morning, hanging with nis head between the wires of tho cage. Suicide, may be. I don't know, but don't worry. Ate up the last jar of your huc kleberry jam today and have be gun on strawberries. Had tne mislortune to creak your gold- lined steak dish, with side dish to match. 1 see you want more money what are you buying" iou naa ysc. and your return ticket, and stamps to write me, when you left, and you have only been gone a week. You can do just as you have a mind to, for there won't be much for me to do next week, for what aren't dead have left the ranch. But if you want to stay longer I will v&ka oil 25 or due some day and send it to you. But there is nothing more to uiary lor this closes it. P. S. maybe you had better come home. P. S. Bob is yet alive and he sends vou his love. " With much leelmg, your nus- baud until dealh. THAT SCHOOL MATTER AGAIN. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CASE IS PRESENTED. Four Schubel Residents Present a Signed Statement. Editor Courier: Considering tne lact that you have devoted considerable space to the lament of Robert Ginther, permit us a little space in your valuable paper to state the case as it really is. Not one of the "little fellows was I brown into trie so-caueo 'oond.'The nearest approach to its being done was in the case of little boy about six years old, slopping with a family living near by. for the purpose of attending school, lie being pursued by one of the larger boys of the junior class (who had llnished their rec itations) lor the lorenoon) caught the little one, dragged him to the water's edge, and was in tho act of throwing him in, when a daughter of the family wilh whom the boy stays, saw ttie perlorm- ance and went to the rescue, ar riving just in time. W hose was the older boy? R. G's. very own. This also answers the query as to "where was tho teacher?" as everyone knows that at that hour the advanced grades are having their recitations and the teach er has something to do besides watching the "little follows" at play. 11. ti. is very well Known to tne people of this community and great allowance is made for his eratic words and deeds. The statement - that his chil dren were waylaid and maltreat ed on the school grounds is true only so far: One of his boys watched his opportunity and trip ped up a larger girl so that she leu into tne mua. mis not being enough she was spattered by him with muddy water, her companion also receiving a portion. They caught the boy and spanked him soundly. (What an outrage I) On another occasion there was some soft; sticky mud thrown (by one of his boys also) into the face and hair of the girls, daubing them in a serious way and also soiling their clothes. Another spanking bee there and then was the result. This is a fair illustration of the rouble all the way along. Other children played pranks also, but R. U s. were the only ones to take offense. It all conies from his fac ulty of being able to strain at a gnat and swallow a camel on al most any pretext. When everytning is Doneo down and the "hot air" squeezed out, all that remains is best described as a "tempest in a teapot. Primar- lally all things connected witn the affair were of trivial import ance and anyone of ordinary sense would have so considered them. Not so R. G. His faculty of making a mountain out of a mole hill is where the blame rests. The complete refutation of all harges by the teacher and pup Is would have shown most any one which way the matter stood. but u not the lindings or tne board of directors and supervis or, which exonerated tne teacner and pupils completely, and also censured him lor his conduct, would have been sufficient to have brought one to his proper senses. On the contrary it seems to have been the "good which urged him on to madness." An old proverb has it that 'chickens come home to roost." Had not R. G. rushed into the imelight and blazed his trail with printers' ink through the colums of the public press, everything would have been well and no oc casion for the parents to "take a hand." Hoping you may make room or mis letter and leaving n. n. and his brood to the just consid eration of the public, we are very respectfully yours. Ji. w. Hornsnup, r.imer swope, Chas. A. Merke, G. A. Schubel. Feel languid, run-down? head ache? stomach "off"? just a plain case of lazy liver. Burdock Blood Biters tones liver and itomach, promotes disgsstion, purifies thi blood. NEWS FRO" mm mi President Not Convinced Gov ernment Could Make Tele grams Cheaper. Washington. President Taft In formed congrens in a message that lie did not approve of Postmaster-General Hitchcock's suggestion that the gov eminent buy and operate all telegraph lines as an adjunct of the postal sys tem. Mr. Taft said that if It could be shown that the public would bene- fit bj receiving service at a less price than is now paid he might think dif ferently of the plan, but that he was not convinced that would be the ef fect. Mr. Taft approved the adoption of parcels post, recommended by Mr. Hitchcock; said the placing of assist ant postmasters In the civil service should be followed by the placing uiv der the classified service of postmas ters, and commended the postal sav ings system. Preparations are being made, he said, to establish this system at about 40,000 fourth-class offices. President Taft also approved and forwarded to congress the report of the commission on second-class mall matter, recommending that the poBtal rate on magazines and newspapers be raised from one cent to two cents a pound. Postmaster-General Hitch cock originally recommended a four- cent rate, but later changed this to two. Senate Tariff Plans Unsettled. The tariff programme In the senate will be framed at conferences which the Democrats, the "progressive" Re publicans and the regular Republicans are planning to hold soon after the finance committee concludes its hear ings on the house steel revision bill. That will be early in March. Democratic leaders virtually have decided to make a first stand for the house measure, with perhaps a modi fication that would not Interfere with party solidarity in congress, and then, having gone on record for the straight Democratic bill, to endeavor to re.ach some common ground with the "pro gressive" Republicans. "Progressive" Republican senators have talked over the situation infor mally, and while no conclusion has been reached, the plan of those not active is to make some concessions to the Democrats. The "progressive" Democrat is for reduction of duties, but not such a reduction as will carry the tariff below the protective point. Taft Pleads For Two Battleships. President Taft, speaking at the peace meeting of the Navy League, declared that the time had not come for this country to be economical at the expense of an adequate naval es tablishment; expressed the hope that the present congress would authorize the construction of two battleships, and said that: "In order to keep up with other nations, 1 don't think two battleships are too many, and I am partly respon sible for the government and I am entirely willing to meet the responsi bility by signing a bill for two battle ships." River Appropriation Bill is Completed The river and harbor bill carries the following items for the Northwest- Mouth of Columbia River, $1,- 000,000; Oelilo cannl, (600,000; Col umbia and Willamette below Portland, 1150,000; Willamette, above Portland and Yamhill, $20,080 ; Tillamook Bay, $200,000; Willamette, Portland to" Ore gon City, $10,000, and $2600 additional for maintenance; Columbia, Celilo to mouth of Snake, $30 900; Snake River, $25,600; Siuslaw, $5806; Ceos River, $3000; Tillamook, maintenance old project, $5000; Clatskanie, $1000; Col umbia, Bridgeport to Kettle Falls, $25,600; Lewis River, $,50; . Skagit River, $15,000; Puget Sound and trib utaries, $25,000; Hoquiam River, $12, 000. National Capital Brevities. Hearings will be held by the house Interstate commerce com ml t tee on March 7 en the Sulzer apple box bill, which is very similar to the Lafean bill of the last congress. With the passage of the chemical revision bill by the house another Democratic tariff measure was added to the senate calendar. The house has passed the Taylor bill, which provides that no qualified entryman, who prlorja June 25, 1910, made bona fide entry upon land in any government irrigation project and who established residence In good faith, shall be subject to contest for failure to maintain residence or make Improvements prior to the time when AFTER GRIP Look Out for Trouble The after-effects of the Grip are apt to be serious, but a normal healthy condition may be restored In a sur prisingly Bhort time by Vlnol. Watertown, Wis. "After a severe attack of the Grip my system was In a very weakened, nervous and run down condition. I began taking Vlnol with the very best results, and In a short time I began to feel like an en tirely different person, and I am better and stronger than I have been for years." Adelaide Gamm. (We guaran tee this testimonial to be genuine.) We haT never told in our store such a valuable strength creator and health restorer for the convalescent, the weak and ron-down, as Vlnol, and we people In this vicinity to try a bottle of Vlnol, with the under standing that their money will be re turned If It does not do all we claim for It Hartley Bros. Oregon City water is available lor the Irrigation of his entry. . ' A congressional investigation of the strike of textile workers at Lawrence, Mass., where men, women and child ren are being beaten and arrested by militia and police, and their constitu tional guarantees disregarded, is cer tain. President Taft and the German am bassador, Count von BernstrofT, are both Bald to be heartily in favor of the early consummation of an arbitration treaty with Germany. CONGRESSMAN M'KINLEY Photo by American Press Association. Congressman McKinley of Illinois, manager of President Taft's campaign for renomination, also chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee. ITALIANS SHELL BEIRUT Many Killed and Injured When War ships Bombard Town. . London. Sixty persons were killed and scores Injured In an Italian bom bardment of Beyroot. The custom house and several harbor buildings were damaged during the half hour In which shot and shell rained into the city, and several Bmall Turkish gunboats were sunk during the bom bardment. The populace of the city fled. No ' mention Is made of any Americans or Europeans being in jured. The gravest fear is felt here for the safety of many foreigners in Beirut, where most of the tourists en route to Jerusalem stop on their trip. The city has a population of twenty thousand. Tacoma Crime Speedily Fixed. Tacoma. Eight hours after the dis covery of the bodies of Mrs. Willis Brown, aged 23, and John Alden, aged 38, on a county highway near East Larchmont, and 14 hours after they had been killed by blows on the head from a club, Willis Brown, aged 54, the dead ' woman's husband, pleaded guilty in the Superior court to murder in the second degree CRISIS IS DUE IN TEXTILE STRIKE Lawrenco, Mass. A crisis is due In the strike of the 25,000 men, women and children of the textile mills. Fol lowing an attack by the police and militia upon the children, who were to have left the city to be cared for by citizens of Philadelphia, and Providence, the strikers feel that now something from the outBide, probably the federal government, must come to rescue them from state and civil out lawry. The city officials have given back to the parents most of the children who were, taken in charge as they were about to be placed on a train en route for Philadelphia. The strike leaders and some of the parents declare that they have a legal right to send their children away for a vacation. At the poor farm, on the other hand, the officials said that when the parents called for their children they said they had surren dered them under misapprehension. Trial of Detective is On. Los Angeles The trial of Bert H. Franklin, the McNamara detective, who is charged with having bribed m2in!:crs of the McNamara jury, be :;an TucE'l :y. This is the case in which an indictment charging a slm iltir offee h:;s been returned against Clarence Darrow, the attorney for the Mc.Njnitr: . THE MARKET8. Portland. Whenl Track prices: Club 87o; bluestem, 90c; red Russian, 85c. Barley Feed, $39 per ton. Oats No. 1 white, $33 per ton. Hay Timothy, valley, $15; alfalfa, $13. Butter Creamery, 3Gc. Eggs Ranch, 20c. Hops 1911 crop, 38c; contracts, 26c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 9$16c; Willamette Valley, 1517c. Mohair 35c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 86c; club, 85c; red Russian, 83c. Barley $40 per ton. Oats $30 per ton. Butter Creamery, J7c. Eggs,' 21c. Hay Timothy, H per torn. LOUIS NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE Disguised as Workman He Fooled the Ham Fortress Guard. From the researches umde by M. Thlrrla come some Interesting details of the escape of Louis Napoleon from the fortress of Ham, in northern France, ou May 23, 18-tti. It seems that the sole credit for the escape must lie with Louis Napoleon himself. lie made his valet, Thellu, buy a black wig, some rouge, a cap which was - scrubbed with pumice stone and a pair of sabots. Then he cut off his mustache, put ou n blue npron, a blue pnir of trousers and a closo fitting shirt of coarse stuff. Some workmen were carrying out some repairs to that pnrt of the fort ress where the priuce lodged, and this gave color to his disguise, so much so that the two watchmen entertained no suspicions rcKurilliiK the man who walked past them and out at the great gate, a pipe in his mouth ami a plank ou his shoulder. The sergeant on duty at the drawbridge was rending a letter as he passed and took no notice of him. It was then 5 o'clock In the morning. Four times that dn.v, the last time nt 5 In the afternoon, did the governor, Demnrle, send for the prince. Each time Dr. Connenu replied that the prisoner could not see nnybody be cause he had tnken medicine. When at Inst the governor lost patience and went himself to the prince's room and walked np to the bed on which the supposed Invalid was lying he discov ered that a very presentable dummy hnd taken the place of Louis Napo leon. The discovery was made too late. By Hint time the fugitive was over the Belgian frontier. Paris Jour nal des Debates. Avoid Harsh Drugs Many Cathartics Tend to Cause Injury Co the Bowels If jeu are subject to constipation, you should avoid strong orugs and cathartics, 'i'hey only give temporary relief and their junction is hurniful HUd sometimes more annoying than ooiiBtipntiou. 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Sold by JONES DRUG Or Bent poitpnlj in plain wrapper. fr) The Safety Remedy Co., Canton OnfUtCx Six Per Cent Semi-Annual Interest Coupon Bonds The Clackamas Southern Railway Company is now offering to our home people its first mortgage 6 per cent semi-annual interest cou pon bonds, and as the bonds are limited to ties, rails and equipment, and all other work, such as grading and bridges, are paid for by stock subscriptions, the bonds issued by this company are first class. These bonds are issued in the following de nominations, viz.: $100, $51 H), $1000. The Clackamas Southern Railway Com pany offers the following reasons why the6e bonds should be sold in Oregon: First It is an Oregon enterprise and owned by Oregon people. Second The country traversed by this line is thickly populated and has freight and pas senger traffic in sight to make it the best pay ing road in Oregon for its length. Third The best business men' and farmers in the county are stockholders in this road and authorized the issue of these bonds at the stockholders' meeting by unanimous vote. Fourth These bonds draw 6 per cent in terest and the holder gets his interest twice ench year. Cell on Clackamas Southern Railway Co. C. B. DIMICK, Secretary D. C LATOURETTE, Preldenf THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of OREGON CITY, OREGON (Successor to Commercial Bank) Transact enerl Banking Business Open from 9 a. u. to 3 p.tn MORPHINE and other habits are successfully treated by HAHITINA. For hypoder mic or internal use. Sample sent to any drug habitue by mail. Regular price 2.00 per bottle, at your druggist, or by r.:ail in plain wrapper. Sold by Jones Drug Co.. Incorporated, Oregon City, - - Oregon SOUTH OR EAST? 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