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BACK from VERDUN
The' Greedy Trenches of War
Send Carl Home for
Christmas
Christmas day a year ago, it was,
that Carl, the stalwart son whose
noble valor on the plain of the terri
ble battle of Verdun, made his name
the cheer on ten thousand tongues,
heard and heeded the call of the fath
erland. I saw Carl that gray, chilled morn
ing as he pressed the last kiss upon
the lips, of the little woman. She
stood at the station as the puffing
train clanged its farewell greeting to
the Teuton settlement where Carl had
found happiness through the labor
of his hands and his great love.
The little town was out en masse
to cheer its favored sons on their
journey toward the trenches and the
cheering almost drowned out the
sound of sobbing from the little lady
beside me. Yet, bravely she held up
to the uniformed Carl the little bun
dle of babyhood that was to comfort
her in the lonesome hours Until the
war should end and father should re
turn to the home hearth and to the
broad fields, where the sun over the
rim of the eastern hill saw him of a
morning. In its Sunday best the
bib and tucker that made the day
bright for the baby, though a long,
sad hour for the loving mother the
urchin-in-arms waved a tiny paddy
to lather Carl and the train was
gone.
Slowly the little woman turned as
the troop train steamed out 6f sight;
sadly tigtening the shawl about her
shoulders while she snuggled the tiny
thing in her arms closer to her bos
om, she plodded off the platform tow
ard the lonesome home. Her young,
trim figure sunk under the weight of
the cruel war as if she bore the whole
burden of its frightful cost; her
shoulders drooped and her eyes
searched the ground she walked upon
perhaps she thought there to find
some grain of hope for the, life she
must live. I'll venture to say too,
that her heart was heavy with a pray
er for forgiveness for the curse that
it carried; the curse that was upon
the monster Mars the demon of
hate that had torn Carl from home
and love and had sent him to fight
to fight that some man's hate might
be satiated, might be glorified in the
trickling blood of his brother his
enemy.
I know the little woman loved Carl
for his bravery she wept because
she was proud of him as he strutted
in his new and unfamiliar uniform
But she was sad, indeed, because her
man had gone to the Yes, gone!
But to what? And it was Christmas
day.
Every ' year my business took me
to that cozy town that had given Carl
as a sacrifice to the greedy conflict
of hatefulness. And it was not odd
that I should have been there on that
next bright, crisp Christmas morning
when the brave lads from the front
trenches at Verdun were to be home.
Coming home, they were, for a
fleeting love-fest with dear ones
coming to talk of the tiny tots, the
farms, the crops coming only that
they might fight the more eagerly,
once in the trenches again, for free
dom from the toils of war and for
the glory of the brutes that kept
them at it.
Oddly enough my interest called
me to the station platform again.
There, amid the mass of happy folk,
was a frail little woman, a child of
perhaps three years clutching at her
dresses. Stooped of shoulder and sad
of eye, but I knew, as I studied her,
that this must be the same Carl's
wife. Waiting only half hopefully
for the return of her man. She stood
silent, grim, yet thinking only of her
Carl. Would Carl come back to her?
The stock was gone the soldiers
had seen to that but the crops had
prospered under her care; ah, what
pleasant hours would this Christmas
bring to the little woman, restored
to the brave arms of her lover, her
husband!
The train crawled slowly to the
platform. Military men you would
little think them the same lads who
left so soon before strapping big
fellows, all marked with the brand of
battle surged over the platform.
Then the wounded, the blind a
procession of sadness that took much
of the glamor of the gay Christmas
season off the day and my sad eyed
little friend peered here and there
among the crowd. Carl must have
duties that detained him within the
cars! Then the stretchers, with their
dead and dying burden for the village
nurses and its graves. Brawny
youths carried their silent , mates;
carried them maybe to the grave,
maybe only to the rest room in the
home that grim war took them from.
My little woman shivered in the
chill air worried as she saw the last
of the human freight off the train
and the long string of cars pulled
away toward the next stop on its
Christmas journey. Straining for
ward, anxious, expectant, still hope
ful but Carl did not appear to claim
his wife and her tiny tad, who called,
"Papa, papa," it seemed a thousand
times.
"Oho, Hans! Have you seen my
Carl?" tearfully called my little wom
an. "Ya. Here he is," sadly, quietly,
a soldierly youth, engaged at one end
of a passing stretcher, answered. I
And his battle marked head nodded to
point to his burden a tear drop
dampened a spot upon the blanket.
Carl had died on the train, plead
ing for life that the tenderly loving
arms of wife and babe might ease the
pain of his wounds.
Hysterically my little woman
shrieked, "Carl dead!" and collapsed
in my arms. .
I waited over the next day, though
my business at Berlin was pressing,
to pray with the saddened village as
my little woman was lowered into the
simple grave beside her Carl.
It was Christmas day and an an
them from the little church herald
ed, that all might hear,
earth, good will toward i
Peace on
IF THIS BE ALL
If this be all, and when we die, we
die,
Then life is but a wanton, monstrous
lie;
And of the hapless creatures that
draw breath,
We, who seem flower and crown,
rank far below
The least of living things that does
not know
The dread of loss, the certainty of
death.
If pain and sorrow are without a
scheme,
Dealt out by chance, then like an evil
, dream
Of some dark fiend, this smiling
gracious earth;
If we that hunger never shall be
filled,
The sooner that our empty hearts are
stilled
The better for them and their ach-
-. ing dearth.
Yet close I feel there wraps us all
j around
Some mighty force, some mystery
profound,
And through my doubts and ignor
ance, I trust
The power that bound with laws
the moon and tide
And hung the stars in heavenly spac
es wide
Must, by their witness, be both
wise and just.
North American Review.
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About the State
Resume of the News of the
Week from All Parts
of Oregon
Another campaign for an open
river between Salem and Albany will
be made by the Albany Commercial
club. If Corvallis wants in on the in-
terprise she will be welcome, but
there will be no more fussing with the
proposition to open for navigation the
Willamette up to Eugene. This idea
has proven a failure so many times
that it will not be attempted again as
far as Albany is concerned. The re
ports of the government engineers
show that the Willamette from Salem
to Corvallis can be opened at a cost
of not to exceed $30,000. The plans
and surveys call for four wing dams
which could keep the river automati
cally dredged at the shallow bars.
There is but one bar between here and
Corvallis. Albany Democrat.
Cottage Grove has an albino robin.
It has several times made its appear
ance in the city. The bird is not en
tirely white, but is nearly so. It as
sociates only with robins and has the
clearly defined robin characteristics
which are practically impossible to
mistake. The fall of snow followed
shortly after the appearance of the
white robin. A few years ago a
white blackbird spent the winter at
Cottage Grove and was seen frequently.
A summary of the road work done
in Linn county for the year just clos
ing reveals the fact that 70 miles of
new road have been made, graded,
gravelled or rocked. Twenty-six
miles have been put up to grade, but
no rock was put on. There were 30
miles of old grade regraded. These
figures do not include patch work or
culverts. Neither do they include
the large amount of volunteer work
done in the county in 1916, which was
worth at least $15,000, and equal to
another half mill on the tax roll. The
total amount spent in Linn county
for 1916 on roads and bridges was
$120,000.
More than seventy-five alumni rep
resenting over thirty colleges and uni
versities of the United States and
Canada were present at . a luncheon
at Eugene on Saturday, when a Eu
gene University club was formed. E.
O. Immel, University of Michigan,
acted as chairman of the meeting.
The officers elected were: E. O. Im
mel, president; Lee Travis, attorney
and graduate of the University of
Oregon, vice-president; O. R. Bean,
architect and graduate of the Uni
versity of Oregon and of the Massa
shusetts Institute of Technology, sec
retary and treasurer.
Governor Withycombe Saturday
appointed E. C. Kirkpatrick of Dallas
judge of Polk county succeeding John
Teal, who resigned. This will be ef
fective immediately. Mr, Kirkpat
rick is mayor of Dallas. He was
years ago a printer, and will make a
competent judge as well as a popular
one, say his friends.
The budget for Coos county's ex
penses for 1917 will include $25,000
for court house expenses. This will
include the sum needed to cover the
small amount by which the contract
for the .court house annex exceeded
this year's appropriation, the $13,387
required for furnishings and fittings
for the offices and jail in the annex,
and the extras, like the bridge "con
necting the new building with the old.
Horace Pelton of Sams valley has
sold the record car of hogs at the
Portland market, seventy-four hogs
bringing $1991, or an average of $27
a hog. Mr. Pelton's livestock always
tops the market, and this particular
carload broke all Portland records.
Ashland Tidings
Thirty-five miles from the city of
Klamath Falls, in a direct line, and
within two miles of the Oregon bor
der, a great work is in course of con
struction, which, when completed,
will develop thousands of horsepower
of electrical energy to fill adequately
all present and future demands with
in the territory contained in southern
Oregon and northern California. An
enormous dam structure is being
thrown across the Klamath river at
Copco by the California-Oregon Pow
er company in its work of installing
a grtat hydro-electric development to
to meet the requirements of the grow
ing community.
The location of this big power
plant will be in 'the center of the dis
tributing system, covering 450 miles
of territory and- giving electrical ser
vice to thirty-four cities and towns in
southern Oregon and northern Cali
fornia. This dam, when completed,
will be 90 feet thick at the water line,
125 feet high, 20 feet thick on top
and 400 feet across from one side of
the canyon to the other.
Willamette valley sawmills will
continue to enjoy the same rate on
lumber to points in Idaho, Montana
and Wyoming as Portland hf,s, ac
cording to a decision of the interstate
commerce commission on Tuesday,
when it dismissed the complaint of
the Eastern and Wetern Lumber com
pany, of Portland, and others, against
the O. W. R. & N. company, and held
that existing rates to these states are
not unreasonable nor unjustly dis
criminatory. , The Willamette Valley
Lumber Manufacturers' association,
the Hood River Lumber Manufactur
ers' association, the St. Paul and Ta
coma Lumber company and other
lumber manufacturers iii western
Washington intervened in this ease
in support of the present relationship
of rates.
In the case of the city of Woodbum
vs. Western Telephone company, the
decision of Judge Galloway in favor
of Woodburn wBs reversed in an opin
ion handed down Tuesday by the state
supreme court, which ordered the
case dismissed.. The outcome was of
vital interest to every municipality in
the state. The city entered into a
franchise agreement with the United
Telephone company ' with specific
maximum rates for .service. The tel
ephone plant; and franchise were later
transferred to the Western Telephone
company, which raised the rates over
the maximum with permission of the
Public Service commission to do so,
The city council brought suit to en
join the company from increasing the
rates over the agreed maximum.
Despite rumors that have been cir
culated recently to the effect that the
$4,000,000 option taken by the Oregon
Lumber company on timber of John
Dubois had fallen through, it is
learned upon good authority that the
proposed deal is very much alive and
being considered seriously every day.
The timber is mostly in Clatsop county-
.
Emil J. Hansett, manager of the.
Turner flax plants of the Oregon Flax
Fiber company, a Salem concern, has
announced that the company has an
offer r $700 a ton for its flax fiber,
but that it expects an offer of $808
a ton before January 1.
Brownsville, by a vote of 189 to 90,
has decided to purchase 20 acres from
the estate of the late O. K. Coshow,
Sr., for a city park. For several
years attempts have been made to
purchase, through private subscrip
tions and otherwise, this tract of the
late Oregon pioneer, but all previous
attempts have failed. The descend
ants of the family have reserved the
right to erect a monument to the
memory of their parents in this park
at a site yet to be chosen. Immedi
ate work will start toward beautify
ing this tract, that the city may bene
fit by the voters' actions by next summer.
'. Notice '
Mr. Farmer, we want your horse
shoeing and have made the price as
formerly, four new shoes $2 to and
including No. 6; No. 7, $2.25; No. 8,.
$2.50, resetting $1, to and including
No. 6; No. 7 and 8, $1.25.
We are prepared to sharpen your
disc harriws. Give us a call and be
convinced. Satisfaction guaranteed.
SCRIPTURE & MAY,
108 Fifth St.
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A Willamette valley corn show will
be the outcome of the Marion-Yamhill-Polk
corn show if a proposition
now before the Salem Commercial
club can be brought to a head at a
meeting of interested representatives
to be held at Salem on December 16.
This date is the final one of this
year's tri-coulity show. It is pro
posed not only to enlarge the scope
of the show, "but to include in it dis
plays by both the grownup farmers
and by their sons, by the simple ex
pedient of inviting the participation
of Boys' Industrial clubs of the state.
After an almost continuous shut
down of over two years the large saw
mill at Falls City will resume opera
tions about the first of the year, ac
cording to the latest authentic report.
The plant, together with the thou
sands of acres of standing timber
west of Falls City, was formerly own
ed by the Falls City Lumber company.
The old company has ceased to exist,
all its holdings having been turned
over to the new organization the
Falls tCity Lumber and Logging com
pany. Hunters and trappers near the
Chewaucan section come in daily with
reports of good catches. Coyotes and
bobcats are thisk in the nearby hills.
The prices of all kinds of fur are very
high this season, and consequently
this sort of work is well paid. There
are more than usual engaged in it in
this vicinity, and before .the winter is
over the great majority of these
predatory animals should be killed.
Beautifying Washington
Nearly every president of the Unit
ed States since the city of Washing
ton was laid out has endeavored in
some way to leave the capital better
and more beautiful than he found it.
President Wilson is no exception. He
is said to have ambitious plans for the
improvement of the city, and it is be
lieved these will be carried out during
his second term. Development of the
Great Falls electric power, and the
establishment of a new and magnifi
cent public park are said to be in
cluded in Mr. Wilson's program.
Christian Science Monitor.
R. L. Holman, Leading Undertaker,
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