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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1917 A CITY OF SILENCE. Conditions Tht Make Santa Cruz do la Sierra Noiseless. Amid gusts of Scotch mist and under heavy skies we drifted inertly Into a sand pared, silent, tropical city street, past rows of languid stares, and on the last afternoon of the year, with Co chnbamba (a town in the center of Bo livia) 335 miles behind us, ve sat down, dripping and sunburned In th central plaza of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The capital of all the vast tropical department of eastern Bolivia owes Its fame largely to Its isolation. Far away one bears much of it; once there, he finds little. Lil; the eminent men of many secluded corners of South America, it is important ohJv through the exceeding unimportance of its neighbors. , It is a city of silence. . Not ony its bare feet, but its primitive fx carts make not a sound In the sand streets. There is no industry to add its strident voice, and every Btreet fades away at each end iulo the trackless, whisper ing, Jungled montana. In this rainy season, which begins in earnest with the new year and lasts through April, it had ninny muddy pools and ponds, along the edges of some of which the streets crawled by on long heaps of the skulls of cattle bleached snow white by the sun. The larger ponds were almost lakes and carried the mind back to Kiindy Ceylon. Frequently the streets were flooded deep for an hour or more until the thirsty snd had drunk up the trop ical deluge. For these eventualities the town has a system of its own. At ev ery Btreet corner four rows of weather blackened piles protrude a foot or more above the sand, and along these step ping stones the shod minority passes from one roofed sidewalk to another. The houses invariably consist of a large room, by day opening directly on the porch sidewalk, though the best of them are rather bare in appearance, despite a small forest of frail cane chairs, blade In color, as the best pro vided Cruceno family is not rich by our standards. Henry A. Franck, in Century Magiziue. A BIG NAVAL EVENT Launching of the First Warship of Our Young Nation. GAUDY PAUPERS. SHE WAS THE UNITED STATES It Was a Great Day In Philadelphia When Our First Naval Vessel Built Under the Constitution Slid Into the Water on May 10, 1797. RAGAMUFFIN ABYSSINIA. Its Descotio Rulers Descend From Menelik, Son of Solomon. Abyssinia Is the Ethiopia of the Bible, and It Is almost unchanged since the birth of civilization. The Hue of despots that rule Abyssinia today are the lineal descendants of Menelik, the son of the nueen of Shcba and Kln' Solomon. They seem to have inherited very little of the well known wisdom of their famous sire, however, for Abyssinia is today the unrcgenerate ragamuilln among nations and also the picturesque remnant of the world's oldest civilization. For Abyssinia, surrounded by trop ical wilderness and without a seaport, Is a country apart from the modern world a country of turbancd and san daled men, of veiled women wearing silver anklets, of mighty hunters who - still take their game with leopards and hawks as in Biblical days; a land where gentlemen live by plunder and monks by alms and a man has as many wives as he can buy or steal. Abyssinia is a fortress of antiquity, defying the world by .Its sheer physical impenetrability. But a few degrees from the equator, it Is a grout mass of igneus mountain ranges flung down upon a tropical plain. Lower Abyssinia is burning desert and fever ridden Jun gle. The interior is healthy upland cut by grent gorges, many of which are wholly impassable. In the midst of this wilderness is Lake Tsann, forty seven miles long and more than 5,000 feet above sea level. It is the source of the Blue Nile. Exchange. Electricity In the White House. The White House Is said to have the most intricate and complete electrical system installed in any building In this country. There are in the mansion nearly 170 miles of wires providing for 8,000 incandescent lights, a bell system, a private telephone syskmi for the president and his family exclusively, burglar alarms, Are alarms and a pow er system which supplies current to ventilating fans and an automatic ele vator. Niagara by Electrio Light. Generally speaking, it is hard to iin prove on nature, but thoso who have seen Nlugara fulls lighted at night by electricity are agreed that the effect is fur more impressive and beautiful than anything that daylight affords. The lights are of more than a hundred million candle power Youth's Com panion. The P. P. "I put my faith in the wisdom of the plain people," said the statesman. "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. "The wisdom of the plain people la all right. The only thing I fear Is thut some of them are getting so that they know too much." Washington Star. lu the long list of splendid vessels which in a hundred combats have maintained the honor of our national flag the United States stands at the head. After three years of unavoid able detention the first naval vessel built by the United States under the constitution was to be committed to the waves. The day chosen for so great an event hi our history was May 10, 1iU7. The hour for the launching was set for 1 in the afternoon, and the whole city of Philadelphia, it is said. went down to Southwark to behold such a rare show. One estimate puts the number, pres ent at the launching at 30,000 souls, a goodly number for that period. An other authority declares that an hour after the launching took place the streets of Philadelphia near the river front were still choked with people going home. It was feared that a strong northwest wind, which for several days had kept back the tides of the river, would make the waters of the Delaware much too shallow to permit the launching. Yet at sunrise on the morning of the 10th the best poiuts of observation began to be occupied by an eager throng. By noon every hilltop and every housetop commanding a view on each side of the river and every Inch of space on the stands put up about the vessel and before the houses on Swan ston street was covered with human beings. In the river a hundred craft rode at anchor, gay with bunting and richly dressed dames. At 1 precisely the blocks were knocked from under her, the lashing of the cable cut and amidst the shouts of the great multi tude the United States slid gracefully down her ways. The builder of this first naval ves sel of the United States was Joshua Humphreys. The launching was wit nessed by the president of the United States and the heads of the depart ments, who were stationed in the United States brig Sophie. Commo dore Barry was in command of the vessel. The figurehead on the vessel was carved by William Rush and repre sented the genius of America wearing a crest adorned with a constellation. Her hair escaped in loose, wavy tres ses and rested upon her breast. A portrait of Washington was suspended from her neck, and her waist was bound with a civic band. In the right hand the figure held a spear and belts of wampum the em blems of wur. and peace. In her left hand was suspended the constitution of the Union. Above was a tablet on which rested three books, to represent the three branches of government, and the scales of justice. On the base of the tablet were curved the eagle and national escutcheon and the attributes of commerce, agriculture, the arts and sciences. Scarcely was the frigate In the water than the journals of (he country who were in favor of the French republic and took exception to the class rule of the country, as they designated it, be gun to scoff and to jeer. "What would the executive do with his navy of one forty-four gun ship? Seud her to hunt up the Africa and demand satisfaction for the insults heaped upon the town of Newport and the French Minister Fauchet? Send her to avenge the flog ging given by an Englishman to the captain of an American ship? Would ho use her to stop the Impiessment of our seamen and the plunder of our merchantmen? Or would he use her against the French?" These radical Republicans noted that Talleyrand himself had been heard to say thnt France had nothing to fear from a nation of debaters that had been trying for three years to build three frigates. The United States was one of the first vessels to do service In the War of 1812, with that brilliant Boa captain, Stephen Decatur, in churgo,' nnd the most remarkable of the engagements lu which she fought was with the Macedonian. Of all the battles between American und British ships there was none so ofteu discussed and so well enienibored up to our civil war as this sea fight, for the reason that the vic tory was well won for the Americans. and the Macedonian was brought iuto port, and for many years she carried the stars and stripes. Philadelphia I'ress. Beggar Women of Vigo, Spain, Sport Elaborate Gold Earrings. rurhaiH you labor under the delusion that the principal vocation in life of a handkerchief is to attend at discreet intervals the nose when that necessary feature indulges in a little Marathon. Not so in Vigo, Spain. Yet handker chiefs are much more in evidence in this quaint Spanish seaport thuu in our nasal Yankee midst. Here, however, they are raised to an exalted position far abeud of their plain usage of the western world. In Vigo they cover the head of every peas ant. woman and even the Infants in arms. What matter if the child lacks shoes, if even a scanty slip is Its sole surtorlul effect? Always Its head is carefully muflled from any advances of the sun by a bright hued handkerchief carefully knotted under its tender In fantile chlu. A Paisley shawl and a pair of elabo rate filigree gold earrings are the two other necessary adjuncts of 4 .typical VIgoosque toilet. In the eurrlng fash Ion us well as the handkerchief one the Infants of Vigo invariably share. The toddlers not only have big ears, but they are also gold trimmed. Even pauper women in filthy rags begging by the roadside have ears or nate with golden baubles flaunted in the face of poverty. The tatters of these few beggars are the surprisingly few evidences of dirt you detect In this picturesque little fish lng village. With its steep, stragglin cobble streets climbing up characters tic Spanish utcps to the top of its for tress topped mount it seems almost a spotless town after the unspeakable sights and smells of Bahla Pittsburgh Press. 1100 FIRES IN DISTRICT CALLED THEM INDIANS. How the Red Men of This Country Came to Get That Name. "But," said the little girl who has now reached the dignity of owning geography, "why did they call the peo ple they found lu this country 'Iinli aus?' The people who live in India ought to be called by that nunie." Now, that was a very appropriate question for the little girl to ask. And the answer to the little girl and to any other little girls and boys who may be puzzled by the same thing is that Co luinlius and his men didn't start out to discover America. They didn't, of course, know there was any America here. What they did believe wus th.'i the world wus round and thut by sail ing far enough they would come up cii the other side. You all know now thai what they believed is true, but in those days most people believed that the world wus flat and thut if u ship suiled far enough out Into the ocean it would fall off the edge. -Columbus said that if he took a ship and sailed and sailed he would at' lust come to India. Now, India was a very rich country, and for hundreds of years Europe had been trying to find an easier way to get there, so what Co lumbus said appealed to a good many nierchuiits und traders, and Spain final ly fitted out some ships for Columbus. You all know that Columbus finally did reach America, but he believed ho had sailed clear around the world and had come to India from the other side, so he named the people he found on the shore "Indians." And after It was found that ibis was not India, but a new world, people went on calling the people Indians because that was as good a name as any for them, they thought, Kansas City Star. English Is Bad Enough, "Why talk of the difficulty of pro nouncing Polish, Austrian, Russian or Roumanian names," says a writer in the Sun Francisco Chronicle, "when ninety-nine out of eve(y hundred can not pronounce scores and scores of English names? Just think of Bertie pronounced as Bnrty, Dllwyn as Dillon, Belvolr as Beever, Featherstonhnur;li as Festunhaw, Dalzell as Dee-el, Ruth- ven as Rlvven. And these are by no means the worst cases !" Man's Perversity. If the law were to edict that man and wife should never be together for more than six months in the year it would bo broken every day and men and women would stand hunger and stripes to come together for twelve months In twelve; If love of home were made a crime a family life would arise more touching than anything Queen Victoria ever dreamed. W. L. George lu Atlantic. ' Small Comfort. "Never despair. Somewhere beyond the clouds tho sun is shining." "Yes, and somewhere below the sea there's n solid bottom. But that doesn't help a man when he falls overboard." Baltimore American. Smart Girl, Teacher Now, Nellie, would It be proper to say, "I can't learn you noth ing?" Nellie Yes, muni. Teacher Why? Nellie 'Cause you can't Lon don Telegraph. His Job. "It takes two to make a bargain," "Yep; my wife and the storekeeper. But I'm paying the bills single bunded." Detroit Free Press. Few Norwegians Can Swim. It is a curious fact, says the London Lancet, considering the geography of the country, that the proportion of Nor wegians who can swim Is small, the number of deaths in Norway from drowning being about 000 a year. Only about 12 per cent of all the school chil dren between the ages of twelve and fifteen have learned lo swim. Norwe gian sailors say the extreme coldness of the waters that hive their shores accounts for this. A Quick Decider. Clerk The firemen turned the hose In our basement, sir, and drenched two piles of that silk dress goods. Mer chantAdvertise a big sale of watered silk right away. Boston Transcript. It is pointed out by various papers throughout the state, says the Gold Beach Reporter, that at the recent election, Ben W. Okott, for secretary of state, received about 20,000 more votes than were ever before received by any candidate for office in this state. Wait till the next gubernator ial election and it will be seen that Ben W. Olcott for governor will re ceive more votes for governor than even Ben W. Olcott for secretary of state received. Coquille Sentinel. Long nilments wear out pain and long hopes joy. Stanislaus. Petition for Probate The estate of Alfred Gersten, who died at Mandal, Norway, on December 113, includes a tract of two and one half acres of land in the George and Marietta Crow donation land claim in this county. The property is left to two sisters in Norway, according- to the petition for the probate of the will filed here Wednesday by Carl L. Oberg. The Courier $1.00 ier year. The Courier and the. Daily Jour nal $4.75. Happily Disposed Of. "Mr. Bents," the grocer snld wearily, "I ask you ror the last time, will you pay that $20 you owe me?" For the last time?" Beats replied cheerfully. "I'm glad to hear you say thnt. old man. You know. I was get ting awfully tired of hearing you ask that foolish question!" New York Times. An Old Coat. My coat and I live comfortably to gether. It has assumed all my wrin kles, docs not hurt me anywhere, hiis molded Itself on my deformities and is complacent to nil my movements, nnd I only feel its presence because (t keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. Hugo. . Too Few. Hub (during the spat) I don't be lieve in parading my virtues. Wife I don't see how you could. It takes quite a number to innke a parade. Boston Transcript In Oregon There Were 683 Forest Fires During Past Year Eleven hundred seventy-six fires on the national forests of Oregon, Washington and Alaska burned over 9,000 acres of timberland, destroyed 25 million board feet of merchantable timber worth $23,000 and young growth and forage worth $12,000, and cost the forest service $19,000 to sub due during the fire season of 1916, ac cording to a complete report just com piled in the office of District Forester George H, Cecil, Portland. In addi tion to the timberland, more than 10,- 000 acres of open country was also burned over. The fires on the national forests of this district for 1916 were designated as follows: Alaska 28, Washington 465 and Oregon 683. In number of fires reported, the Siskiyou national forest in Oregon leads the district with 243 gres. The Snoqualmie for est in Washington stands second with a record of 177 fires for the season. The least number of fires occurred on the Tongass forest, Alaska, where three were reported. Sixty per cent of these 1176 fires were discovered and put out before they had gained headway enough to cover a quarter of an acre. Thirty two fires, less than three per cent of the total number, burned over more than ten acres and did damage to ex ceed $100 before they were put under control. Any one of the 1144 other fires, if left to itself, might have be come a large forest fire, says District Forester Cecil. Campers caused 23 per cent of all the fires reported. Lightning was re sponsible for 19 per cent, railroads for 8 Vi per cent, logging operations 6, brush burning 6. The remainder were from miscellaneous and un known causes. These figures do not indicate that campers are becoming more careless with fire than formerly, but that there was a great increase in the number of tourists and campers visiting the forests, according to Mr. Cecil. ' Nearly $3,000 of the $19,000 spent by the forest service in fire fighting in this district last year was used on private land within or adjacent to the national forests, to subdue fires which threatened to enter the forests. Tim berland owners furnished co-operation to the amount of $5,264.63. Ex cellent co-operation was given by the state foresters of Oregon and Washington. POWER OF FROST, Fall of a Fifty Ton Bowlder of Granite In the Yosemite. Delicate frost tracings on the win dowpanes seem to be the work of fan ciful anil harmless sport Iveness, l.i.t the hand that forms them is capable of greater deeds and other kinds. An official of the geological survey tells of aa experience that must have been . wonderfully Impressive n the spectator. He had lieen sprit j o:h weeks in exploring the Yo.sem.. valley and the "great rocks," like TBI ('upiliiii, that wall It in. Standing one day of lute autumn about the middle of the valley, he was startled by a report like a cannon shot, which filled the whole valley with echoes that roared and boomed, re plied and multiplied, In a long continu ed, glorious tumult. As the deafening sound died away in sullen mutferlnps under the visor of El Capltan the spectator was able to dis tinguish the point of attack by the long, cluttering descent of a vast quantity of rock. The night had been a cold one in the valley, and on the 7,000 and 8,000 foot Jjevels of the upper rim the temperature nuist have dropped almost to zero. Frost, working quietly with his Archi medean lever, had just succeeded in shifting from the shoulder of the senti nel a trifle of fifty tons or so of granite. For near a thousand feet the bowlder fell sheer, swift and silent; then, strik ing the cliff, It burst like a bomb, shat tered into a myriad flying shards and splinters ami dislodged a smother of fragments that trickled down to the .valley in a stream that lasted for min utes. Then from the spot where, the bowld er had struck dust began to rise into the sunny air, slowly building up like a summer cloud aud every bit as snowy. It was the flour of granite, powdered Instantaneously by the terrific shock. NERVE OF A STEEPLEJACK. B. N. HICKS NAMED Former Oregon City Attorney Will Aid in Dry Law Work B. N. Hicks, an attorney of Port land and formerly of Oregon City, has been made superintendent of the law enforcement department of the Ore gon Anti-Saloon league and will be gin his duties when the new bone-dry prohibition law goes into effect. Attorney Hicks has had wide ex perience in the work such as is con templated in Oregon under the arid measure. For two years prior to the admission of Oklahoma into the union Mr. hicks conducted the campaign for the dry clause in the constitution and immediately following that had charge of the law enforcement de partment of the anti-liquor organiza tion, and as legal alviser. It will be Mr. Hicks' purpose to work as an aide to the district attor neys throughout the state, assist in compiling evidence and in offering free legal advice to the various com munities where' there is a suspicion of law infraction. The department, of course, will make no effort to usurp the powers of prosecution of the var ious unit officers, but it will give them aid whenever possible. Mr. Hicks conducted the legal work in connection with the dry campaign of Clackamas county, when Oregon City was made dry, and carried the fight to the supreme court, where he won the case. In his new office he will be associated with R. P. Hutton, superintendent of the Oregon Anti Saloon league, and will have offices adjoining. Rev. Philip Deschner, who has been acting as field secretary of the Anti Saloon league, and who has been in Oregon City many times, left Tues day night for Dallas, Tex., to become professor of theology at the Southern Methodist university there and to as sist in starting a drycampaign. G. A. R. Veteran Buried R. O. Woodward, father of R. E. Woodward of Oregon City, was bur ied at Mountain View cemetery Fri day. Mr. Woodward died at Los An geles on January 20 at the age of 84 years. He was a veteran of the Civil war and a member of Meade post, G. A. R., of this city. Mr. Wood ward was a survivor of the battle of Gettysburg. Six children and 25 grandchildren survive. His Coolness and Resource In a Time of Extreme Peril. Ordinary people standing on a nar row ledge whence they can Bee down 200 or 300 feet are so appalled by the danger of fulling that their nerves give way, their bodies flinch and' there comes to Some at least an impulse to end the mental strain by a leap iuto the gulf. But the steeplejnck Is indif ferent to height and proximity to the abyss. The coolness and resource of these meu were never better shown than In a case which happened in upper New York state a few yeurs ago. A steeple jack had flown bis kite over u chimney aud subsequently drawn himself up to the top. He was Just beginning his in spection of the work when by some mishap he dropped his rope and was left, like St. Simeon Stylites, alone on bis pillar. Attempts were made to fly another kite over him, but the wind had drop ped. There were iron ladders inside the chimney, but the fires would have to be drawn and the chimney let cool for hours. The steeplejack was then seen to un lace one of his shoes, take off the loin; blue stocking worn by such workmen and set to work carefully to unravel it, knotting the pieces of yarn together when necessary. He then fastened a stone to the end, plumbed th depth, picked the other stocking to pieces und added it to the first length of yarn nnd let it down far enough to meet a tall ladder, from which he drew up first a piece of strong strltg, next a rope and then after completing his inspection of the chimney top lowered himself to the ground. Los Angeles Times. 55555Sa e's'tj'tiwi!; ' it. up I : ilS Puritan Undermuslins '"pHE dainty laces and embroid 1 eries on our Puritan Under muslins are more beautiful and durable than you have ever before seen on undermuslins at so low a price. The high types of laces and embroideries are characteristic of the thorough goodness of Puritan Undermuslins in every way. In every branch of merchandise there is one great line that is recognized everywhere as the standard for high quality Puritan stands for that line in undermuslins. BANNON & GO: Sell for Less PrcHidloe squints when it looks and lies when It talks. It is estimated that four-fiftHs of the water available for irrigation and domestic use in the state of Oregon comes from the timber clad slopes of the national forests. The average acre of national forest land in the state sends to the streams sixteen times as much water as does the av erage acre of land outside the forest boundaries. County Clerk Iva Harrington Sat urday issued a marriage license to Lillie Schlickeiser and Hais Schroe der, of Sherwood, route 5, Social is Success A pie social at the Presbyterian church last evening was a great suc cess. Mrs. Anna Schneider and Mrs. Verne dinger assisted in a delight ful musical program and a large gathering enjoyed a social evening. Those in charge of the affair were Mrs. F. W. Gaghagen, Mrs. W. C. Green, Mrs. E. L. Shaw, Mrs. Frank Schoenborn, N. W. Rowland, F. W. Gaghagen and C. F. Romig. A Sub: From Texas Moulton, Texas, Jan. 20, 1917. Enclosed please find money order to pay for my subscription for the year 1917. I am always glad to read your vau uable paper. Very respectfully, EMIL GIEPTNER. I Origin of an Old Saying. Many think that the saying "Blood is thicker than water" originated with Commodore Tatnall of the United States navy, who assisted the English In the Chinese waters, und, in his dis patch to his government, justified his interference by quoting the words. It is, however, an old English proverb and is to be found in Ray's "Collection of English Proverbs," published in 1672. Walter Scoit, too, makes Dandle Dln mont say : "Weel, 'bluid's thicker than water.' She's welcome to the cheeses and the hams, just the sa me." Phila delphia Press. An Offensive Cravat. A man once called upon Whistler with a letter of introduction, and an amusing scene followed arising out of the fact that the visitor was wearing a red necktie. Whistler declared It in terfered with the color scheme of his room and "put him off" a picture he was painting in quite a different "key." Finally he obliged him to take off the offending cravat before ho would con descend) to exchange another word with htm. Faulty In His Diagnosis. Mrs. Malaprop Young Sharp will have to apologize to me before I speak to him again Miss Interest Did he Insult you? Mrs. Malaprop Did he? The last time I met him I tokl him that my un cle had locomotor ataxia, and he asked me if he whistled at crossings. Stray Stories. Rather Demoralizing. "Are you still thinking about buying a motorcar?" "Yes. It doesn't cost me anything to think about buying one." "Don't you fool yourself. When a man gets an Idea like thnt he's liable to neglect his business." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Insure Against Scale by Spraying SAN JOSE SCALE a a factor that nearly every orchardist, farmer and fruit grower has got to reckon with. As a progressive grower you must fight the scale until you have it under control, for when it has once infested the trees in your orchard, if left alone, it will never let up until it has killed every tree. The one sure way to control the scale is to sotav while your trees are dormant with some effective inaieaai Lime -Sulphur Solution can be 'used successfully as a spray for fungus disease and for sucking insects, It mixes readily with Arsenate of Lead and in this shape is especially effective as a combination insecticide and fungicide spray. If you have any scale in your orchard or any fungus troubles, come in and tell us and we will give you all necessary information. Prices of Lime-Sulphur Solution $ 9.50 per barrel($l returned for barrel) 1.25 per five gallon can (container free) .25 per gallon (container extra) We also have the agency for SHERWIN-WILLIAMS DRY LIME SULPHUR. It is not a substitute for Liquid Lime-Sulnhur. hut is exactly the same thing with the water evaporated; it is drawn from the same tank. ' j We offer S-W DRY LIQUID LIME-SULPHUR to orchardists as being more economical than the liquid, and more efficient. o4sk us to tell you why. Huntley Drug Co. The $GXcdH Storm STATE AID DENIED Laurgaard of Multnomah took the floor in the bill's behnlf and Pitnoi. Sectarian Institutions Cut Off State moved for the consideration of the Aid List by House Bill previous question. This accelerated State aid was withdrawn from sec- mattfrS a. Uf, bit' but almost every tarian institutions so far as the house , "T PPy t0 say of representatives is concerned, for , 10 Pn ms vote ana the members passed Bowman's house the Plllng Was fraueht Wlth delays' bill No. 4 Tuesday morning, 38 to 20, The bl11 w,i11 S to the senate at with two members not voting. once, where the fight is expected to Alter a lively scrimmage Monday be even warmer than in f Via Vinnau afternon between Mueller of Colum- Those who voted for ft m bia and Bowman, he bill was made . , , a special order for 10:30 Tuesday Anderson. Barber, Bean, Bowman, morning and the tilt started anew Brand, Cartmill, Childs, Cornelius, when Mueller took the floor. When Crandall, Dedman, Elgin, Elmore, Mueller had finished, Stott of Mult- Fuller, Goode, Gordon, Gore, Griggs, nomah took up the fight against it. Seymour Jones, Walter B. Jones, The two attacks consumed almost fcubii, Latterty, Laurgaard, Lumreiv an hour, and then Forbes, of Des- Mackay, Mann, Martin, Meek. Por- chutes, Jefferson and other eastern ter Rwe, Sheldon, Small, Stafrin, Oregon counties, declared that he Stephens, Sweeney, Thomas, Mrs. would opose the bill because it was Thompson, Tichenor and Speaker not complete. Clark of Wallowa and &tanneld, d8, W. APJones of Marion declared that the withdrawal of state aid from sec tarian institutions would necessitate the construction by the state of schools for the children, which was impossible at this time because of Willett, 20 the 6 per cent tax limitation. Lewis absent: Peck excused Those who voted against the bill were: Brownell, Burdick, Burton, Callan, Clark, Corbett, Eaton, Forbes, Hodgen, W. Al Jones, Matthieu, Muel- er, fortwood, Kitner, Schimpff, Stott, Stona Wall. Novice Why do they call it Wall street? Loser Hump up against It and you'll find out. New York Times. Demurrer Sustained A demurrer filed by Anna and E. M. Howell to the complaint of Bertha M. Hosford was sustained in Judge Campbell's court here Monday and Mrs. Hosford was allowed 10 davs in which to enter further plea in the case. A. W. Meyer Will Leave As soon as the Western Union com pany can place a man in the field the resignation of A.' W. Meyer, present manager of the local office, will take effect. Mr. Meyer, who has been in charge of the office here since Decem ber, 1914, sent in his resignation that he might accept a position with the Columbia River Shipbuilding Co. as a draughtsman. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer will make their home in Portland when he is relieved here. BY OUR BLOOD WE LIVE If you tire easily, are subject to cold hands or feet if you catch colds readily or have rheumatic pains your blood or circulation is probably at fault and you need I nil 14 It ffll JUJ 3 m OF NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL which is nature's easily-assimilated food, to increase your red corpuscles and charge the blood with life sustaining richness. Scott's creates warmth to throw off colds and gives resistance to prevent sickness. No Alcohol in SCOTTS. Every Draggitt hat it. swwii BUwni.BiMofMld.N.J,