THE JONAH
John Stark Points out Why Cost of
Living is So High
Do you know
That everything in this world
changes ? i
That there is no such thing as any
thing being eternal ?
That when wo speak of the eternal
hills we but use a comparative meta
phor? That yesterday was the old year
and today the new ?
That while we now use January
one as tho beginning of the year, it
is not so many years since New Year
came on that day?
That with the change of time, laws,
customs, habits, environments and our
concept of many phases of life's prob-
lems change?
That at present our attention is
centered upon the high cost of liv
ing? That there are ever so many so
lutions offered as to who or what is
the cause of the high cost of living?
That among one of the' most pop
ular themes of the day is to lay it
to the "middle man?"
Oh yes, the middleman is to blame,
is the response of a chorus.
Well now, will you gentlemen of
the class define who this mysterious
and mischievous middlemen is? The
answers come thick and fast. Every
one knows who the middleman is in
this case, as easily as in a minstrel
show, but listen while each is posi
tive that he can tell, each has a dif
ferent answer. One says the retailer
and one the wholesaler; another the
commission man. One says the broker
and so on to the last one each strikes
hard at the middle man but all hit a
different person or occupation.
All are agreed that if we could but
shorten the trail from producer to
consumer we could reduce the cost
of living, but ail are not agreed who
the middle man is, consequently the
Jonah is not thrown overboard.
Now if you will all sit up straight
I propose to show you who this man
of mystery is. He is none other than
your placid and much sought after,
the deity you all worship, to whom
you strive so hard to pay homage
have you your feet braced? the con
sumer. Throw your stones at snakes, but
not at prophets. I know the idea is ri
diculous, but you can't choke an idea,
for you hung John Brown, nor can
you kill an idea, for you shot Lin
coln, Nor can you imprison an idea
for you jailed; Bunyom You can'l
burn an idea for you cremated Bruno.
Nor can recantation stop an idea for
you forced Gallileo. Neither will an
idea be poisoned for you pressed hem
lock juice to the lips of Socrates.
Neither could the combined power of
priests and politicians with ridicule
and ignomious death sun ice to crush
the idea of Christianity from this
planet.
During the dark ages when the
church ruled Europe possessing all
powers, temporal and spiritual with
enforced ignorance, and tho the soil
was saturated in blood in spite of the
(.,ui,,i,j i,..i,i :, v.:
tianity survived somewhere and bids
now again to be the beacon light of
the toilers or this ever vigorous world.
- Again it will be the guiding star to
workers at their task. It will not be
proclaimed from Saint Peter's or St.
Paul's, nor will it be heard in Trini
ty. No, in none of these structures
will the glad tidings be announced but
the message will again be delivered
in its olden time way, from the soap
boxes in the highways and byways.
For an idea once spoken to the world,
someone will hear and will remember
enough to repeat enough of it to pre
serve it and that idea, if founded upon
truth, will, no matter how often re
pulsed, go forward to its logical ul
timate. As an illustration of the vitality of
ideas, an instance being recent, is fa
miliar to us all. A judge dumps all
the ballots on the ground and in less
than a month these same boxes are
again filled to overflowing, and now
these educated idiots propose to kill
the idea with an injoction of judicial
cocaine. What fools!
Nearer home tho election judges
throw an idea out of the ballot box
as they needs must do the task for
which they were hired, and beinir
hirelings proved worthy of their hire.
Perhaps tney burned this little paper
but the ashes spread the idea over the
county. Had anyone of them but thot
it worth the while he could have pre
served it in his homo and it would
have served as a recipe for making
rabbit pie. ideas arc immortal.
But let us return to that worship
ful doity, the consumer, and remem-
uer uiu iuuu ul wits uiusuuuve nuuuie-
man. If that lunacy commission you
have hunted up while I was rummag
ing the musty hallways of fragmentry
history will pmsue its usual pastime
or mumble-de-peg a while longer, 1
propose to throw a hnrpoon in the
whale and land him.
I am aware that you have heard
and have been carefully schooled into
grading your farm products and of
lute have been cautioned to seek a
swift and short route to the all-dc-vouring
consumer, but I am going to
preach deliverance from the fulse god
and if time and the editor's patience
will permit, will, like Elijah, apply
the fire test.
This false and ferocious god has
many heads and mouths and a rapa
cious maw and is never satisfied and
yet we foolishly feed it.
In former days it was customary to
drag a big wheel, something like the
steam roller used at conventions, thru
the streets and all who wanted sal
vation would permit themselves to be
crushed. Not so much different from
us taking tho food out of our own
mouths to appeaso the hungry god.
The consumer is tho middleman.
He comes between the producers and
eats all about him, forever dipping
out of the dish but never putting any
thing in the pot.
One head is the useless politician,
another is the army, another is the
interest taker and another eats hous
es. Another bits off great chunks and
calls it profit. We are now many bil
lions in debt, and tho we feed ail our
crops, the appetite of your god grows
more and more.
Do you not think that if there was
no consumer there would bo no high
cost of living problem? If we were
all producers surely living would be
cheap. Look at the hordes of idle poor
swarming our cities. All must con
sume something in order to exist, yet
these could all be turned into produc
ers and not be a burden. Under our
false economic Rystem they are de
nied the right to employment. The
governor proposod to employ a few
but it was called illegal and perhaps
he knew it was but was playing to a
popular house.
It certainly seems that it Is better
to employ them at honorable labor
than to drive them to desperation and
crime.
How is it that it is always unlaw
ful to employ useful workers but
some bum graft like the commission
sent to Europe last spring to merely
enjoy themselves, is always lawful?
The right to employment must be con
ceded to every person or your state
will get a shaking, up before long.
Again, of what us 3 is it to grade
your products when people are penni
less? How can you sell your product
when the workers aro out of a job?
Your idle plutocrat is a consumer,
yes, everyone of them consume. What
they waste would keep several people
in plenty, but they are "clogs upon
the wheels of time." They do not pro
duce but must be fed and the charge
is laid against the producer. No, get
rid of the consumer and you will
find the cost of living will be small
indeed. Many persons who pretend to
be busy are not producers, but must
be fed. They must be given useful em
ployment. All these real idlers, whether rich
or poor and all persons employed at
useless occunations. are the middle
men which we must get rid of. Find
them a place where they may serve
society in useful capacity and the
hours of labor will be reduced as well
as the cost of living. That is the idea
I would turn loose without a muzzle.
"God, give us men! A time like this
demands
Great hearts, strong minds, true faith
and willing hands.
Men, whom the lust of office does not
kill:
Men whom the spoils of office cannot
buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will
Men who have honor;; men who will
not lie.
For while these rabble with their
thumb worn creeds.
Their larere professions and their
little deeds,
Wrangle in selfish strife lo!
Freedom weeDS.
Wrong rules the land and waiting jus
tice sleeps.
John Stark.
WHEN DOCTORS FALL OUT
A. M. Turner Proves Druglcss Me
thods by the Drug Doctors
Conducted by Dr. W. A. Turner, Nat
uropath (I will answer questions pertaining
to health matters if addressed to me,
care of Hotel Edwards Portland Ore.)
When Doctors Disagree, Then What?
The Milwaukie (Wis.) Journal a
few days ago published a long inter
view with Dr. John B. Murphy, ex
president of the A. M. A. and said to
be the leading surgeon in this coun
try, who said: That the chief aim of
the medical fraternity now is to break
away from surgery, that it causes un
told misery and suffering and does not
answer the purposes lor which it was
intended; that "preventive medicines"
in the shape of serums and vaccines
is the real and only thing for the fu
ture. On the contrary Dr. Simon Flex
nor, head of the Rockefeller Institute,
the "discoverer" of nearly all serums
and standpatter of the serum theory,
has confessed practically that serums
in general and anti-toxin for dipther
ia in particular are failures. Exactly
so. Take your choice. This is another
confirmation that medicine and sur
gical practice is wholly experimental
and ever changing built on the sands
and totally unreliable. Still, people
are foolish enough to keep on being
doped and carved, while drugless
methods are harmless and cheaper.
Expert Opinion about Quarantine
Dr. L. M. Holm, State Bacteriolo
gist of Michigan and Professor Clyde
Newell of the University of Illinois,
at Champaign, 111., an Dec. 15, both
denounced fumigation and quaran
tine as relics of a barbarian age and
said that pest houses were an out
rage; that quarantine works needless
hardships on those quarantined, de
depriving them of their means of live
lihood and does no good. This decla
ration by two eminent members of the
medical profession is entirely in line
with my views expressed here prey
iously.
The "germ" theorists claim that di
sease germs are carried in the air,
Can they quarantine against the air?
Why does the doctor never "catch"
any of these so-called "contagious di
seases ;
It has paid to keep the people in
ignorance and superstition and work
on their fears and this will continue
until the people take a hand in the
gume and wipe some of the fool laws
requiring these superstitious rites, off
the statute books und the monopolis
tic allopathic health boards, who en
force them, out of thur jobs, and put
in mixed boards containing drugless
doctors who can and will easily dem
onstruto the fallacy and rotteness of
such luwa.
Another Sad Confession
Dr. W. A. Evans, the political doc
tor, who for years has been a leading
agitator m trying to get Congress to
puss that pet scheme of the A. M. A.,
tho infamous Owen bill, to create a
department of public health with a
political allopathic doctor in the rres
nient's Cabinet and to fasten com
pulsory allopathic medicine on all the
people and who now is the medical
editorial writer on tho Chicago Trib
une, lie says on Sept. 7: "The bill for
a national department of health for
reasons 1 shall not enter into, has
not made headway'. Tho neorj o
themselves have not recognized that
tins is their measure and that it will
never pass until thev nnss it."
There you are. Still the Doc Sim
mon's gang of medical highbinders
have for years hollered themselves
hoarse thru their subsidized daily
press that "tho people" demanded this
legislation. Thanks to the National
League for Medical Freedom and
some good honest men in Congress,
this measure has been repeatedly
bi'am for 20 years past. It has bob
bed up again this session. Write your
congressmen ana senators to vote
against it.
How Would You Like This?
During the recent Ohio river flood,
when thousands were made homeless,
the U. S. government ran relief
steamers to carry food and other
necessities for the sufferers. Tho U.
S. Public Health Service posted signs
on the government boats which read
"No Vaccination, No Rations."
Medical School Inspection a Failure
Chicago shows more complete re
cords than any other city, from 1908
to Aug. 1, 1013. Under this inspec
tion the death rate among school
children has steudilv increased. They
were 1,222 deaths in 1008, 1918 in
1012 and 1G88 for the first seven
nionths of 1913. The eases of dipther
la, scarlet fever, mumps, whooping
cough and chicken pox were 20,242 in
1908, 31.005 in 1910 and 32,979 in the
first seven months of 1913. This enor
mous increase of death and disease
under the beneficent good of allo
pathic medical inspection will give
you something to think about and
shows that inspection does not bear
out the claims made for it. The in
creased fatalities is due chiefly to
vaccinations and serums. Stamp out
this inspection in the Oregon City
schools and those of your county and
save the lives of your children. There
is no law requiring this inspection.
To Keep Well
Eat slowly of substantial food both
cooked and raw, omitting the starchy
vegetables, hog meat, pastry and
sweets, tea, coffee and milk. Take
plenty of exercise and work in the
open air as much as possible. Sleep in
well ventilated rooms and bathe in
tepid water when necessary. Cut out
tobacco and liquor and do not wear
wool next to the skin. Keep your
teeth clean and in good repair. These
are simple rules that anyone can fol
low and good health will result.
Why Drugless Methods are Best
Drugless methods seek to assist
Nature in curing disease by striking
at the root of the disease, removing
the cause. When this is done the ef
fects of sickness quickly disappear.
Nature gives you pain when you are
sick and is trying to expel morbid
poisons from your system by giving
this warning. Drugless methods assist
Nature in expelling disease while
medicine drives it back, keeps the
poison in you and makes it harder for
nature to do her work. Hippocrates,
the father of medicine said "Nature
cures, not the doctor." When ill try
some reliable drugless doctor and you
will never have any other.
Sterilization is Illegal
The Supreme Court of New Jersey
recently declared the sterilization law
of that state illegal. This decision is
in line with common sense and hu
manity. The medical fraternity at the
bidding of the A. M. A. is now "Eu
genics" mad and the measure has
been demanded by the allopathic doc
tors, not by the people, in order
that human vivisection might be put
into practice and the state compelled
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to pay the bills. Another step to fas
ten stuto medicine on the people.
Notwithstanding the efforts of such
moss-back, pro-medical sheets as the
Oregonian and the Journal who sup
ported this infamous, unconstitution
al measure, it was badly defeated by
the' people of Oregon recently in a
referendum election, nfter having
been passed by the last legislature
and signed by that high moral re
former, Governor West.
A Nice Salad for Winter
Green leaf salads are nutritious,
particularly in winter when green
vegetables are scarce. An excellent
salad can be made as follows: Take
lettuce or cabbage, celery, dried on
ions and canned tomatoes. Chop fine,
and add California olive oil and lemon
juice, no vinegar. This tones the stom
ach and bowels, is easily digested
and makes good blood as these vege
tables contain much iron, phosphates
and calcium. Eat this combination at
least once a day.
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OREGON CITY COURIER, THQRSDAY, JAN 1 1914
DOVER
(Omitted from Last Week)
From the appearance of the last is-
sue of the Courier a person would
think that the people of Dover, Fir
wood and Sandy were all dead, but
that is not the case, ine trouble was
that the correspondents from these
places were so busy that they did not
have time to put anything in tne pa
per. To show you that the county is
not dead just read the following news.
Last Saturday night there was a
big house-warming and dance given
at Jim DeShazer's, which was attend
ed by over fifty people from the Do
ver and Firwood neighborhoods. By
the showing made by the young peo
ple there it is seen that the girls will
cease to be in the minority anymore
around here. There were several more
girls than boy, however some of
them were small, but then they will
grow.
John and Lula Roberts returned
home from Corvallis last Saturday to
spend a two weeks' vacation. Lula is
a Freshman in the Corvallis high
school and John is a Senior in the
college.
A. Hess, a Portland man, moved
into the house vacated by Mrs. LeRoy
on the Magnolia place.
Another Mr. Hess, who bought th
Sawtell place, has purchased a new
team and is clearing several acres of
land.
Walter Kitzmiller went down to
the coast last week to hunt ducks and
he reports having a very successful
trip.
Mr. and Mrs. V. Bodley and Mr.
Andy Morrison spent last Sunday at
Ed Hart's.
Last week the connecting link was
laid between the Dover and Firwood
road districts when the neighbors vol
unteered to plank the half mile of
muddy road between the two districts.
This piece of road has been the worst
in the county for years and both dis
tricts unite in heartily thanking all
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mixiure of water and dirt.
lurs. cooper and Dave Miller had
a smash-up on Deep ureek ma in
whicn Dave came out on the worst
end of it by having the top of his
new buggy caved in.
O.UAUTKKLY EQUITY MEETING
Starkweather and U'lien Will Talk.
In Oregon City January 10
The quurterly annual meeting of
the r unners Society of Equity will
convene on Jan. 1U, rJ14 at tne W.
O. W. hall in Oregon City at 10 A. M,
sharp.
Several important propositions are
to be discussed. Also the election of
officers occurrs at this meeting.
Hon. H. G. Starkweather will be
present in the afternoon and will de
liver a lecture on the observations of
the recent Kural Credits Commission
of which he was a member. Mr.
Starkweather will speak from 1:30 to
2:30 P. M. and will confine his talk
largely to the co-operative methods
as seen in the different countries oi
the Orient. All producers and consu
mers whether members of Equity or
not, are urged to attend this lecture.
Immediately following this lec
ture Hon. W. S. U'Ren will speak up
on a proposed State Public Market
Bill, which he will advocate and which
he intends to introduce or have intro
duced, to the next state legislature.
All citizens are also requested to be
present at this time.
It is very important that all locals
send full delegations and that all del
egates be on hand early, as it is de
sired to begin tho meeting sharply at,
Officers of State Union
Pres. Wm. Grisenthwaite, Oregon
City, R. 3
Vice-President. J. Schmitke, Banks.
R. 3.
Sec Treas. F. G. "Buchanan, Oregon
City.
Directors: A. R. Lyman, Gresham;
S. M. Hall, Clatskanie; E. L. Hellyer,
Beaverton, R. 2; P. H. HcMahon, New
berg, R. 2; J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
Officers of Clackamas Co. Union
Pres. S. L. Casto, Oregon City, R. 3.
Vice-President, J. H. Bowerman,
Clackamas, R. 1.
Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon
City.
Directors: W. J. Bowerman, Clacka
mas, R. 1; J. C. Royer, Clackamas R.
1; Wm. Grisenthwaite, Oregon City,
R. 3.
Sec. of Washington Co. Union, T. J.
Elford, Hillsboro R. 3.
Sec Yamhill Co. Union, H. E. Crow
ell, Dundee.
Sec Columbia Co. Union, Henry
Kratse, Clatskanie.
Sec. Multnomah Co. Union, A. R.
Lyman, Gresham.
Officers of Clackamas Co. Locals
Damascus: Pres. J. C. Royer; Sec.
H. T. Burr, Clackamas.
Clackamas, Pres. J. N. Sieben;
Sec. W. S. Daywalt, Clackamas.
Eagle Creek: Pres. J. T. Rowcliff;
Sec. C. C. Longwell, Barton. .
Beaver Creek: Pres. Fred Kamrath;
Sec W. W. Harris, Oregon City, R. 3.
Maple Lane: Pres. H. M. Robbins;
Sec. G. F. Mighells, Oregon City R. 3.
New Era: Pres. Aug. Staeheley;
Sec. G. F. Knowles, Oregon City, R. 1.
Logan: Pres. W. E. Cromer; Sec.
P. M. Kirchem, Oregon City, R. 2.
Canby: Pres. Geo. Koehler; Sec R.
C. Brodie, Canby, R. 2.
Macksburg: Pres. C. D. Koesling;
Sec. J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
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Sunnyside, J. M. Besseler; Sec. E.
E. Oeschlaeger, Clackamas, R. 1.
Alberta: Pres. Jesse Mayfield; Sec
Ferris Mayfield, Springwater, R. 1.
Stone: Pres. T. E. Brown; Sec. M.
J. Byers, Clackamas, R. 1.
Clarkes: Pres, Albert Gasser; Sec.
John L. Gard. Oregon City. R. 4.
Shubel: Pres. Chas. A. Menke; Sec.
Elmer Swope, Oregon City, K. 4.
Mt. Pleasant: Pres. P. W. Meredith;
Sec. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon City.
Carus: Pres. A.' J. Kelnhofer, Ore
gon City, R. 3; Sec. S. L. Casto, Ore
gon City, K. 3.
Colton: Pres. E. F. Sandall; Sec. C.
A. Branland, Colton.
Wilsonville: Pres. M. C. Young;
Sec. R. B. Seely, Sherwood, R. 6. .
West Butte ville: Pres. James Par-
rett; Sec. J. R. Woolworth, Newberg,
R. 2.
Needy: Pres. J. D. Rider; Sec E.
Werner, Aurora, R. 2.
Highland, Pres. M. E. Handle; Sec:
N. E. Linn, Estacada, R. 1.
Viola: Pres. J. A. Randolph; Sec
F. E. Cockerline, Springwater, R. 1.
Molalla: Pres. J. W. Thomas; Sec.
I. M. Tolliver, Molalla.
Springwater: Pres. J. M. Moger;
Sec. C. F. Aue, Springwater.
Crescent: Pres. F. A. Jones: Sec N.
J. W. Eichner, Oregon City, R. 2.
10 A. M. in order to finish our work
before the noon-hour.
S. L. Casto Pres.
CUT FLOW ERS and Potted Plants;
also all kinds of Fruit Trees, Roses
and Shrubbery for sale at the new
green houses on Center and Third Sts.
Funeral work done at lowest possible
prices. Urders received over puone
Main 2511. H. J. BIGGER.
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EQUITY WAREHOUSE MARKET
Selling and Buying Prices Quoted
Weekly tor tne Public
Dec. 16th, 1913
We submit selling prices on the
following articles, as per present
market:
Potatoes, Early Rose, ?1.25; White
Rose, $1.25; American Wonder, $1.00;
iiurbank, .75 to ?1.00.
Unions, fancy, $2.50; choice, $2.00
to small, $1.50.
Parsnips, $1.00 to $1.25.
Beets, $1.00 to $1.25.
Turnips, White Egg, $1.00.
Cabbage, $1.00 to $1.50.
Beans, small white, 6c to 6c;
large, $4.90 per cwt.
Apples, 50c to $1.50; dry, 10c per.
lb.
Prunes 434 base.
Veal, 15c to 15.
Hogs, 9c to 11c.
Beef, 9c to 12 c.
Calf Hides, 18c.
Pelts, 12c.
Hens, 14c to 15c.
Springs, 14 to 15c.
Geese, 12 c.
Ducks, Indian Runner, 12c; Pe
can, 14c.
Turkeys, live, 20 to 21c; dressed,
23 to 25c.
Eggs, 38 to .40c. s
Pop Corn 4c to 4c. .
We also submit the buying prices
of goods now under contract; and
which we can furnish you on short
notice :
Shorts, $22.50.
Bran, $20.50.
Flour, $4.20.
Pearl Oil iron bbls., 10c; wood bbls
14c; case, 17c.
Gasoline, tank, 16c; case 23c.
Head Light Oil, tank, 11c; bbls.,
15c; case, 18c.
Red Clover Seed, 16c; guaran
teed purity test 99 per cent; germina
tion test, 90 per cent and over.
Alsike Seed, $18.00. Guaranteed
purity test, 99 per cent; germination
test, 90 per cent and over.
Timothy Seed, $5.50. 98 per cent to
99 per cent pure; germination . test
92 per cent.
Seed prices fluctuate daily and are
subject to change without notice.
Equity Warehouse Co.
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He emigrated with his parents to Io
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the age of 10 years. He enlisted in
the 8th Iowa Infantry, 1861; was sent
home on account of sickness and be
ing too young; served three months;
enlisted March 1862 in Co. H. 13th,
U. S. Infantry, served full time per
iod of three years.
After the war he engaged in drill
ing for oil in Pennsylvania for one
year. From there he went to Minne
sota and took up farming, and for a
time studied and practiced surveying,
from 1871 to present. time. He was
elected county surveyor of Morrison
County, Minn., in 1886 and was re
elected five times. He waa city engi
neer of Little Falls, Minn and resign
ed to go to Alaska. He was appointed
Deputy Mineral Surveyor by Presi
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I
HUNTING A POET.
In Shelley's Case It Was Fun, In Joa
quin Miller's Dead Earnest.
Mr Steiiheu ColuridgH. greut-great-nephew
of the Coleridge Who wrote
"The Auclenf Mariner." hns fmbljshed
a volmm'' of "MfnioriHs." In which n
tells some luti'ivsllng imi'idotes o?
poets not In the family Both bl
grandfathers were sclmolnnites of Shel
lev. mid one if tlit'in "swl to miy that
I be hail riv,,ilrlitl.v J"I'1 I", t"- aiver-
slim known us a "Slii-lle.v mint, mis
Hlinplf sWt nslslH(f in -"chivying
iiLo-if from ivnitJf to refuge the too
ptietle vonii'-'stfr iiml In gleefully pelt
ing him vvllli whii lever missiles came
handy. i
A lesser purl than Shelley, however,
the lute J'Hiiiiln filler, was once more
eagerlv. If less hill ilonsly. hunted. It
was nut. as "the Met of the Sierras" j
related It. a si IkkkIhiv affair, but a ,
dead In earnest inn n hunt In the wild
est and wcuiliest nesi. He had had the
misfortune t" buy "i"'cl horse from
a man who had uo rto.t to well the an-J
Imal. lie was mistaken im mo uunr
thief, pursued and overtaken.
There was a convenient cottonwood
branching bandlly across the trail and
lariats In plenty. It was a question of
his neck. He argued, explained and
grew sj'loquent in vflin, when at the
most critical Instant a witness to his
Innocent purchase of the benst came up.
"He ain't a thief." the newcomer ex
plained. "He's only a poet."
"It's an awful pity to miss extermi
nating a poet when It can be did." tn
leader of his captors remarked thought
fully after a disgusted pause. "Ever
hear any of bis poetry? Ever see bun
write any?"
"No," admitted the witness.
"Then." declared the self appointed
Judge with regret "there's proof he
ain't a thief, but only hearsay he's a
poet. We got to let him go. but ir he's
got any sense he won't commit poetry
agin till he's out of my jurisdiction."
Do you begin to cough at night
just when you hope to sleep ? Do you
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Tar Compound. It will clieck the
cough and stop the tickling sensation
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To prevent grippe from being fol
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jfi rt
dent McKinley in 1900 and went to
Nome, Alaska and in 1903 settled in
White Salmon Wash; engaged in the
strawberry culture and surveying,
and surveyed the city of W. S.
While here Mr. Clyde organized
J. R. Warner Post 117, G. A. R., and
was commander 3 years. He organized
White Salmon Lodge 163 F. A. M.,
and was first and second W. M.
He removed to Oregon April 1909
and engaged in the general merchan
dise business, also real estate and be
came a member of Mead Post No. 2,
Dept. of Oregon, G. A. R. Mr. Clyde
was its Adjutant and Patriotic In-,
structor 4 years, during which time
he was elected J. V. Commander of
Dept of Oregon G. A. R. He was
elected commander of Mead Tost No.
2 G. A. R., Department of Oregon,
Dec. 1913.
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